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Thursday, August 7, 1969
Jaycees Sponsor Miss Newton County Pageant
August 23, 1969 marks the day
for the Miss Newton County Con=
test sponsored by the Newton
County Jaycees, The winner of
this pageant will enter the Miss
Georgia Pageant in Columbus,
Georgia,
Fifteen beautiful young ladies
are competing for the title of
Miss Newton County, There are
several divisions to the contest:
talent, evening dress and bathing
suits, This contest will focus
attention on the high caliber of
young ladies who are residents of
this area, It will provide op=-
portunity for the young ladies
who compete to gain added poise
through public appearancesand to
gain added maturity throughpar
ticipation in a community
program such as The Miss New=
ton County Pageant,
There will be five of these
young ladies featured each week
in the Covington News, This
week Miss Martha Ann Kemp,
daughter of Mr, and Mrs, Aaron
Kemp of Route 5, Covington, is
featured, Martha Ann has been
extremely active in school and
community life, She has held
many offices in the Tri-Hi-Y
and has been on the newspaper
and yearbook staffs, - She was
selected by ¢‘The Lettermen®
What Is an Average Man?
The average man is 69.1 inches tall and 161.9 pounds in
weight.
In World War I the average adult male stood 67.7 inches tall
and weighed 142 pounds. During World War II he was 68.4
inches tall and weighed 155 pounds. Recent studies, according
to the American Seating Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan,
have shown that on the average sons are 1.8 inches taller and as
much as 10 pounds heavier than their fathers at the same age.
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for the beauty section of the year
book.
Miss Gayle Purcell, daughter
of Dr, and Mrs. Jim Purcell of
Covington, is also featured,
Gayle has been a participant in
the Miss Ram and Junior Miss
Beauty Contests, She was also
a majorette in the Blue Rambler
Band,
Miss Cathy Edwards, daughter
of Mr, and Mrs, Wallace Ed=-
wards of Covington, is employed
as an accounting clerk at
AT&T, Cathy loves to dance
and sing, She was one of the
finalists in The Miss Ram Con=
test in 1967,
Miss Brenda Herring, daughter
of Mr, and Mrs, Ralph Herring
of Covington, was Homecoming
Queen at N, C, H, S, She was
also a B Team and Varsity
cheerleader, Brenda was in the
Miss Ram Beauty Contest and
in the beauty section of the year=
book,
Miss Linda Digby, daughter of
Mr, and Mrs, Joseph M, Digby
of Covington, was a Varsity Ch
eerleader at N, C, H, S. She
was Student Council representat=
ive and active in the Pep Club
and F, B, L, A,
Tickets may be purchased from
any Jaycee for SI,OO or at the
door that night prior to the show,
State Revenue
Up 14% In July
State Revenue Commissioner
Peyton S, Hawes stated today in
his end-of-the=month report that
net revenue collections for the
first month of the new fiscal
year were $63,071,735 as com
pared to $55,240,580 for the same
month last year., These figures
show an increase of $7,831,154,
or 14,2% as indicated by the
above,
Commissioner Hawes stated he
was encouraged by this month’s
collections and emphasized: ¢“the
report indicates Georgia is still
maintaining a pace=-setting grow=-
th in the category of personal
income,” He referred to a re
cent issue of Business Week
magazine, which showed that Ge
orgia and Florida were tied for
the National lead in increases of
personal income for the first 4
months of the calendar year,
The Department’s best eco
nomic barometer, the Sales and
Use Tax, continues to show a
healthy growth of 14,7%, which
substantiates the statement that
we are continuing to lead the
Nation in personal income in=
creases,
All other major sources of
revenue show a substantial in
crease for the month, This is re
freshing at a time when the stock
market shows a downward trend,
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GROOMING PLANTS
Many gardens, patios and ter
race plantings become a little
ragged as they go into the hot
months. Troy Keeble, horticul
turist with the University of
Georgia Cooperative Extension
Service, suggests that gardeners
give attention to removing old
flower heads, dead leaves andin=-
sect control for better looking
plantings.
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Kindergarten
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Registration
At Oxford, Mon.
Opening date for the Jack and
Jill Kindergarten at Oxford will
be Tuesday, Sept. 2, During
the first two weeks the children
will attend short sessions, the
morning session hours being
from 8:30 to 10:30 and the af
ternoon session hours being from
12:30 until 2:30,
Registration for the afternoon
session will be held Monday, Au=-
gust 11, at the kindergarten, If
there are parents desiring to
transfer their children from the
morning session to the afternoon
session, it can be arranged,
Any additional information may
be obtained by calling Mrs, De=
Loach at 786-9345 or Mrs, Fin=
cher at 786-2430,
Mrs. Sams Is
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Hospitalized
Mrs. J. R, Sams, the wife o.
Covington’s oldest practicing
physician and beloved citizen, is
a patient at Piedmont Hospital in
Atlanta, She is being extended
best wishes by a wide circle of
friends for a speedy recovery
and return home in good health,
WHO ARE THE
TREE FARMERS?
Since tree farmers are ine
creasingly important to the Sou=
th’s economy, it’s timely to take
a closer look at who they are and
what they’re doing.
There are close to 48 mil
lion acres of tree farms in 12
Southern Pine growing states.
While many are owned by lum
ber, plywood and paper com=
panies, many more belong to
private individuals from all walks
of life — bankers, lawyers, doc~
tors, businessmen, laborers and
farmers — all managing timber
as a crop and selling tree har
vests to expanding forest ine
dustries.
Many have homes in cities and
lady tree farmers are not
unusual.
. B R oS e eT S
READ THE LABEL
Always read the label on in
secticide packages carefully.
Specialists with the Cooperative
Extension Service point out that,
by reading the label, you can
be sure you get the correct per=
centage of the proper insecticide.
Pay particular attention to warn
ing statements and precautions.
Underwater Blueprint
To fishermen the most impor=-
tant part of any lake is the bot
tom!
Well, not really. But it’s se
cond only to the water. Knowing
what the bottom of a lake looks
like can mean the difference be
tween an empty creel or a full
stringer. Underwater ridges are
often favorite feeding and spawn=
ing grounds. Knowing where the
deep holes are pays off on hot
summer days. Winter finds some
fish feeding along shallow under=
water banks. These are all hot
spots for anglers, and unless you
know the underwater terrain,
you’ll probably overlook many of
them,
But how does one acquire this
topographic knowledge about a
lake that’s full of water? There
are several ways say the fishing
authorities at Mercury outboards.
One method is to look at the
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CATFISH ARE GLUTTONS
Channel catfish are probably
the hungriest {resh water fish
in the United States. They'll
eat almost anything, and stay
up all night to do so.
Studies show the kinds of
food eaten by catfish number
into the thousands and include
mammals, birds, amphibians,
insects, reptiles, fruit, seeds,
leaves and oddities too num
erous to mention.
Yet, with such a versatile ap
petite, catfish are selective
about what they’ll eat — and
when they’ll feed. Successful
catfish anglers, say the fishing
‘authorities at Mercury out
boards, are just as selective in
their choice of catfish baits.
“Stink” baits are the most
common catfish lure. They’re
particularly effective in spring
and fall. Cheese is usually the
base ingredient. Additives such
as flour or corn meal provide
substance, and such things as
oil of anise, tankage, or asa
fetida join the mess to pro
vide the correct odor. Stink
bait is generally fished on the
bottom.
Chicken blood is probably
the best catfish bait of all. The
main problem is to keep it on
the hook. Blood bait is made
by letting fresh blood coagu
late under refrigeration, and
cutting coagulum into strips.
To fish blood bait, anchor your
boat, place the bait in the wat.-
er as easy as possible and
don’t move it after it has
reached bottom.
Live baits — minnows, cray
fish, frogs — are also effective
catfish getters.
OUTDOOR
FOCUS
by Vince Wood
Smokey’s Success
A recent bit of news infor
mation quoted an advertising
executive as saying that
Smokey, the publicized bear
that is a symbol of forest
fire prevention, had saved
the nation sls billion in for
est fire damage.
The executive went on to
say than an estimated $352
million in advertising space
and time had been donated
since Smokey was adopted
as the U,S, Forest Service
logo, several years ago. The
legendary bear has become
80 well-known that the name
and symbol has even been
used in connection with tele
vision programming for
which royalties have been
paid.
Probably never in our his
tory hasany gimmick been so
successful, or as deserving,
as the famous brown bear
with the forest ranger’s cap
who pleads for the public to
help prevent forest fires.
Although the story hasbeen
widely told and is partially
responsible for Smokey’s
fantastic success, here
briefly, is how the logo was
born: Following a disastrous
forest fire in May, 1950,
which destroyed 17,000 ac
res in Lincoln National For
est, in New Mexico, fire
fighters saw a small, brown
bear cub, badly burned and
hardly able to move, cling
ing tc a charred tree in the
smoldering ruins, A state
game man took the mother
less little cub to a local
rancher who treated and fed
him,
The still nameless cub bear
was flown by game wardens
to Santa Fe, New Mexico, for
veterinarian care and even
tually to Washington, D.C., to
make his home in the Na
tional Zoo and become a liv
ing reminder of whata mom
ent of carelessness candoto
our great forest lands. The
people in the El Capitan
Mountains, near the scene of
surrounding country and try to
determine how the bottom would
appear if the lake was drained.
Along the shore, cliffs, slopes,
hills, mud banks, protruding
rocks--all indicate something
about the underwater character
of a lake,
It’s often possible to obtain
coples of topographical maps
showing elevation levels before a
lake was filled. With these it’s
only a matter of drawing in the
lake at the proper elevation line,
and then reading what the bottom
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the 1950 fire, have builtalog
museum to commemorate
the birthplace of Smokey.
The National Advertising
Council, in large measure,
can be given credit for the
symbol’s success. Smokey
has achieved international
fame; his picture is an in
stant reminder to every man,
woman and child, that forest
fires can be prevented.
We have no doubt that the
advertising man who proudly
recited the estimates of
Sinokey’s savings was cor
rect, If anything, his figures
were probably on the con
servative side, Perhaps itis
the fact that Smokey has a
living counterpart or thathis
story stimulates an emotion
al reaction; there are any
number of reasons for. his
tremendous success. But,as
an aid to U.S, and state for
esters, he is invaluable.
How unfortunate that
Smokey has no counterpart
to help combat the increas
ing pollution of our rivers
and lakes; that there is no
living symbol to say, “this
air is for human consump
tion only, don’t pollute it.”
It’s too bad that a similar
1y effective symbol can’t be
created that would immed
fately remind people thatlit
ter is just ascostly,as much
a threat to the preservation
of nature as fire, It’s diffi
cult to understand how intel
ligent individuals can exer
cise the utmost caution in
drowning their campfires,
yet drive down the road a
mile or two and pitch their
sacks of trash and garbage
alongside the road or toss
them over the railing of a
bridge into a flowing stream.
People who love the out
doors are Smokey’s biggest
boosters. But — fire preven
tion Isn’t enough. The entire
concept of preservation and
conservation must become a
way of life for each of us if
we are to keep our great nat
ural resources,
looks like. Some reservoirshave
been mapped hydrographically=--
a refined version of a topogra
phical map, .
A third method is by trolling
a deep-running lure. Experienced
anglers can judge depth, and often
character--sand, mud or rocks==
by the feel of a bottom=bumping
plug. And atthe same time they’re
doing some fishing.
Improve your fishing success
the next time out. Try a com=
bination of methods and learn to
see the bottom of the lake,
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