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Ralph Stephen Witcher
Ralph Stephen Witcher, the
infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Herman Witcher of Route
3, Covington, passed away in a
private hospital on November 13.
Graveside services were con=-
ducted on Friday afternoon,
November 14, at Alcovy Baptist
Shurch Cemetery in Walton
County, with Rev. Bill Cagle of
ficiating and Caldwell and Cowan
Funeral Home in charge of ar=
rangements.
Surviving besides his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Herman
Witcher are his grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Witcher,
Jersey, and Mr, and Mrs. Thomas
E. Russell, Sr., Mansfield.
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Mrs. Daisy Durden
Funeral services for Mrs, Da~-
isy Lee Durden were held Sunday
afternoon, November 16, at the
Baptist Tabernacle with Rev,
Hudson Moody officiating,. A
member of the Trinity Method
ist Church, she was 63 years old
at the time of her death in a pri
vate hospital on Friday, Novem=
ber 14, She was a native of
Newton County and had been a
patient in the hospital for the
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CITIZENS OF COVINGTON
We requesf the co-operation of all
citizens to uphold rules and regulations
pertaining so the operating of landfills.
LANDFILL #1- Located on Jackson Rd. This
Landfill to be used for garbage only. Hours
8:00 A.M, - 4:30 P.M, Closed on Sat, and Sun.
LANDFILL # 2 - Located on Covington Municipal
Airport Rd. This Landfill to be used for trash
only. Hours 8:00 A_M, - 4:30 P_,M, Closed on
Saturday and Sunday.
Anyone caught starting fires at either
landfill-or violating any of these rules
will be prosecufed.
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past three weeks.
Interment was in Covington
Cemetery with J, C, Harwell
and Son Funeral Home in cha
rge of arrangements, Serving
as pallbearers were Mack John
son, Ralph Johnson, Jerry Lay
field, T, J, Hobbs, Huey Durden
and Harold Sockwell,
Surviving are her husband, C,
W, Durden, sons, Eugene J, Dur
den, Clarence Horace Durden,
Gerald Franklin Durden, all of
Covington; James Durden, Rom~
ulus, Michigan; daughters, Mrs,
Mildred Patterson, Ft. Benning;
Mrs, Margie Layfield, Covington;
brother, Harold Terry, Conyers;
sisters, Mrs, Gaynell Bryant,
Dublin; Mrs, Nevie Dalton, Gas
tonia; Mrs. Johnnie Kitchens,
Covington; Mrs, Florrie John
son, Milledgeville; Miss Frances
Terry, Conyers and 20 grand
children,
Oliver R. Henderson
Oliver Roy Henderson passed
away in a private hospital on
Sunday, November 16, after a
very short illness, A native of
Brevard, North Carolina he was
69 years old, He was a member
of Macedonia Baptist Church, a
member of Golden Fleece Lodge
No. 6, a veteran of World War
One and Two and operated a
Texaco Station on I-20 in Cov
ington,
Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon, November
19, at Macedonia Baptist Church
with Rev, W, C, Brumbalow, pas~
tor of the church, officiating,
Interment was in Macedonia Ce
metery with J, C, Harwell and
Son Funeral Home in charge of
arrangements and members of
Golden Fleece Lodge of the Mas~
onic Order in charge of grave=
side services,
Surviving are his wife, Mrs,
Nora Roberts Henderson, Cov
ington; one daughter, Mrs, Mary
Segren, St. Petersburg, Florida;
sisters, Mrs, Faye Pledger, Mrs,
Jewell Tyson, Mrs, Lida H, Set=
zer, all of St, Petersburg, Flo
rida; Mrs, Edrie Brown, Bre
vard, North Carolina and seven
grandchildren,
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Final Tribute
To Mrs. Rogers
Funeral services for Mrs. Em=
mett Butler Rogers, whose death
came Saturday evening at Newton
County Hospital, were held at
11:00 a. m. Monday morning at
Harwell’s Chapel. The Rev.
Edgar A, Callaway, pastor Cov=-
ington First Baptist Church, of=
ficiated in the last rites.
Mrs. Rogers, nee Natalie Tur=
ner, was the daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Snead
Turner. A graduate of Covington
High School and shorter College,
she received her master’s de=
gree at Columbia University. Pr
ior to her marriage she taught
first grade at Covington Mills
School.
She was a member of the
First Baptist Church, where she
actively participated in its vare
ious organizations. For many
years she served as a Missions
Study teacher in the Woman’s
Missionary Union; Vacation Bib=-
le School teacher; and until ill
health precipitated her retire
ment, had taught classes in var=-
ious departments of the Sunday
School throughout her adult
years. During her more active
years she was a member of the
Music Club, Covington Book Club
and a bridge club. Her physical
frailties seemed only to enhance
her blithe spirit and spiritual
stamina; and only those who knew
the benefits of her altruism,
knew the extent to whichher care
ing evolved into sharing.
Survivors include one daugh=
ter, Mrs. Robert W. Hamilton;
two sisters, Mrs. Robert O, Ar=
nold and Mrs. Robert R, Fowler;
one brother, Nathaniel S, Tur=
ner; two grandchildren, Jane and
Emma Hamilton; and several ni=
eces and nephews.
Serving..as..pall bearers were:
Robert R. Fowler 111, R. H. Pat
terson, Jr., Rucker Ginn, Moody
Summers, Bert Johnston, Grady
Hogan, Ben Banks, Philip Cohen,
Olin Weaver and Sam B, Hay,
Jr, J. C. Harwell and Son were
in charge of the services which
were concluded at Covington City
Cemetery, where interment took
place. The NEWS joins multiple
other friends in extending deep
est sympathy to the bereaved
family.
Last Rites For
Miss Robinson
Final tribute was paid Miss An
nabel Robinson, 74, who died about
11:00 a. m. Monday, at Athens
General Hospital, in 2:00 p. m.
services, Tuesday, in which the
Rev. Thomas J, White, First
Presbyterian Church pastor, of
ficiated at Harwell’s Chapel.
Miss Robinson had been
in declining health in recent
years; but had been hospitalized
only two weeks prior to her death,
which was precipitated by heart
failure. She was the daughter
of the late Dr. and Mrs. Luke
Robinson; and had moved here
with her family in pre-school
years, and had since made
Covington her home.
She was agraduate of Covington
High School and Brenau College,
where she was a member of Phi
Mu Sororitys For a number of
years Miss Robinson served as
a House Mother at Berry College,
and at the University of Georgia,
at Tri Delta Sorority House,
where she endeared herself to
the many young people with whom
she came in contact and
influenced. She had also served
as a hostess at the Robert Fulton
Hotel in Atlanta, and the New
Perry Hotel in Perry.
Miss Robinson was a member
of the First Presbyterian Church,
and for 46 years was a member
of the Sgt. Newton Chapter of
the Daughters of the American
Revolution, of which she was a
past president.
Survivors include one sister,
Miss Lucy Robinson; two
brothers, Gordon Robinson of
Atlanta, and Reginald Robinson;
a nephew and two nieces, Ernie
and Maranzs Robinson of Atlanta,
and Mrs. Billy Sims Smith; and a
great niece and nephew, Fleeta
and Chris Smith.
J. C, Harwell and Son were
in charge of the services
concluded at Covington City
Cemeatery, where burial took
place. Serving as pallbearers
were: Ray Moore, Milton
Brogdon, E, A, Crudup, Bob
Kimbrell, Franklin Anderson,
Billy Smith and Julius Johnson.
The News joins the many
friends of the bereaved family
in expressing deepest sympathy.
Elton Brown
Funeral services for Elton Br=-
own of Wheat Street, Covington,
were held Tuesday afternoon,
November 18, at Trinity Met
hodist Church with Rev. James
Wellman, pastor of the church,
and Rev, A. C, Clemens, pastor
of Wesleyan Methodist Church,
officiating at the last rites,
Mr, Brown, a native of Elbert
County, was 69 years old at the
time _of his death on Monday,
November 17, at his home fol
lowing a short illness, He was"
a member of Trinity Methodist
Church and for approximately 35
years was an employee of Cov
ington Mills,
Interment was in Covington
Mills Cemetery with J, C, Har
well and Son Funeral Home in
charge of arrangements, Ser
ving as pallbearers were Eme
ory Smith, Billy Smith, George
Studdard, J, W, Hackett, Parker
Blackburn and Tellis Austin,
Surviving are his wife, Mrs,
J. Elton Brown, Covington; sons,
John Brown, Atlanta; Will T,
Brown, Raymond H, Brown, Rus
sell Brown, Covington; Purn Br«
own, Atlanta; brothers, Julian
Brown, Walter Brown, South Ca
rolina; Wade Brown, Eatonton;
sisters, Mrs. Audrey Royal, Eat
onton; Mrs, Lizzie Orr, Mrs.
Anice Mathis, Oklahoma; nine
grandchildren and five great
grandchildren,
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Singing At
Canaan
Saturday
The November singing at
Canaan Baptist Church on Salem
Road will be Saturday, November
22 at 7:30 p.m,
In answer to the many requests
of our many friends, the Canaan
Choirs will be featured this
month, Our guest group will
be the Allen Trio from Atlanta,
Everyone is cordially invited to
attend and hear the Canaan Choir
under the direction of Mr, Paul
Long, and the Allen Trio,
Come one! Come alll Let’s
make the last singing of this
year the best.
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A gentle tongue is a tree of
life.—(Prov. 15:4).
How many times have we
wished that we could recall
words said in anger or frus
tration? Thoughtless words
and comments foster anything
but the peace and harmony de
sired. Let us be tolerant of one
another and let pleasant talk
grace our homes. The Lord,
in His love, can help us guard
our tongue, and He can and
will endow us with grace if we
but let Him.
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Groundbreaking
Held Sunday For
Parsonage Church
Prospect United Methodist
Church had Groundbreaking for
its new parsonage at 3:00 PM,
Sunday, November 16, 1969, The
ceremony was directed by
the pastor, Dr, Jack R,
Blackstone,
Alton Jolley, Chairman of the
Administrative Board, and James
Bone, Chairman of the Building
Committee, made statements
concerning this building
program,
Those leaders participating in
the breaking of the ground were:
Alton Jolley; James Bone;
Winfred Stubbs, Chairman of the
Board of Trustees; Idus Piper,
Chruch Treasurer; Mrs, Alice
Dick, Representative of the
W, S. C, S.; Walter Ellison,
President of the Senior U.M,Y.F,
and Donnie Compton, President
of the Junior U,M,Y.F,
The $30,000,00 building
structure will be a modern,
brick-veneer fully-furnished
home with three bedrooms, two
baths and 1/2 basement, It will
be located about 1/2 mile from
the Church on Oak Hill Road,
The building is expected to be
ready for the parsonage family
within three months,
Frank Christian of Covington
is the contractor,
CARE Food Crusade Drive Will
Help Feed 35,000,000 People
ATLANTA—The 1969 holiday
season CARE Food Crusade op=-
ened today with a goal of raising
$6,650,000, to complete a year
long plan to help feed 35,000,-
000 people in 36 countries from
Latin Americato Africaand Asia.
Operating support from local
governments and United States’
donations of farm abundance will
multiply the feeding programs
to a total value of more than
$73,000,000, it was announced
by Bee H. Brown, Southeastern
Field Director,
The public contributions will
provide 6,650,000 Food Crusade
packages, at $1 each. These con
sist of U, S. commodities, donat
ed after domestic welfare needs
are met, or foods bought by
CARE to match country and nut-
Batty Hospital Reports 1627
TB Victims Treated In Year
Battey State Hospital in Rome,
the state’s single tuberculosis
hospital, treated 1627 victims of
the disease in the year ending
June 30, 1969 according to the
“hospital’s “just-released annual
.report.
The report -by Battey super=
intendent Dr, Raymond Corpe=-
reveals that patients from 13
Georgia counties made up 56 per=
cent of total hospital admissions
for the year, with the largest
number =- 237 == coming from
Fulton county., Generally ad
missions were proportionate to
county populations, although Ch
attooga county in northwest Ge=
orgia which ranked 49th in pop=-
ulation during the report period
admitted 34 patients, the eighth
highest number of admissions,
“Survival 0f The Fittest”
Faces Small Businessmen
¢“COMPETE OR PERISH” is
the challenge being faced by the
nation’s small businessman, La=
rge firms and new, efficient,
small firms entering the busi
ness world are causing other
small business owners to take a
hard look at operating more ef
fectively. One of the tools pro=-
viding a competitive edge for
some businesses in the real world
of ¢‘survival of the fittest’” is
automatic dateprocessing(ADP),
The importance of ADP to the
small businessman is seldom a
matter for debate today. The
argument boils down to: In what
way and when should ADP be
applied? The smallfarmer faced
a similar problem several years
ago when farm machinery was
recommended for survival in the
agricultural community, Those
who didn’t listen are outoffarm
ing or are rapidly being pushed
out by declining incomes, Those
who did listen are considered in
the businessman categoryandare
faced with another decision on
ADP,
The small businessman re
fuses to consider ADP for many
reasons:
1. Someone told him, ¢lt
costs too much!”
2. His employees resist,
fearing displacement by
¢‘the computer,’’
3. He doesn’t really under
stand how ADP can help
him.
4, He’s just too busy to look
around the see what’s hap
pening,
5. He may lack ‘‘start-up”
money,
There are, of course, many ot
her important reasons thathe can
think of to put off finding out about
the applications of ADP, But when
the chips are down, the business
man will need to look for infor=-
mation and find away to get the
job done., The question is will
he start too late?
The previous words may sound
pretty harsh, but they express the
findings of a Senate Subcommittee
on Automatic Data Processing
and the Small Businessman, The
concern expressed by the Senate
Committee is that direct effort
is necessary now to assure that
small businesses might be:
1, Informed about ADP,
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Georgia Hospital Statewide
Emergency Radio Network Set
ATLANTA—Disaster Strikes!
Mass casualties result! The ine
jured are rushed to hospitals,
The hospitals must be ready; the
hospitals must know what to ex
pect. 3
To assist Georgia hospitals in
being ready to provide prompt
treatment and to insure that pa
tients are taken to the hospital
best able to care for them, the
Georgia Hospital Association and
the Office of Emergency Ser=
vices, Georgia Department of
Public Health, have developed the
Georgia Hospitals Statewide Eme
ergency Radio Network.
Under this system, Georgia
hospitals can know what to ex=
pect in advance of patients’ ar=-
rival and can take steps to have
the appropriate personnel and
equipment ready and waiting to
aid them.
Both simple and flexible, the
Network will operate on two ra
dio frequencies:
1) Area Communications:
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Thrifty Americans will soon
enter the 29thyearof U, S, Savings
Bonds, with a record highof more
than $52 billion in E and H Bonds
and “Freedom Shares” salted
away, The first E Bond was
issued May 1, 1941,
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ritional needs.
Malnourished children will be
the main recipients. Almost
26,000,000 boys and girls will
be fed regularly at preschool
and nutrition centers, primary
schools and other child instit=
utions, to improve their health
and learning ability.
Family aid will also stress
long-range benefits, by enlist=
ing adult members in food-for
work projects to build schools,
roads and similar community
resources to help the needy be=-
come self-sufficient. In addit
ion, emergency assistance will
go to civilian war victims in
South Vietnam and on both sides
of the battle lines in the Ni
geria conflict.
The average daily patient cen=
sus at Battey was 370 for the
reporting period with the aver=-
age length of stay 125 days,
down from a 141 day average
the preceeding year,
The report states that approx
imately 96 percent of patients
discharged from the hospital had
a successful reversal of infec
tion from positive to negative
sputum,
According to the tuberculosis
report, ¢‘Of the patients admit
ted, 66 percent were 20 years or
older and less than 60 years in
age, This points out that two
thirds of the patients were still
coming out of the main stream of
life and the productive years of
the patients,”
2. Provided access to infor=-
mation regarding private
business sources for re
quired ADP applications,
The University of Georgia’s
Center for Management Systems
(CMS), directed by Fred Wise,
provides a Federal/state-funded
direct assistance to small bus
inessmen, This Center may be
able to provide you the informat
ion you need about ADP in the
small business,
Your County Agent, Mr, Ed
Hunt, located in the Courthouse,
will put you in contact with the
CMS,
¢‘New problems and pressures
require new tools and techniques,
Government and industry must
combine forces to ensure that the
small business community not
only survives but flourishes,”
ADP lis here to stay!! Are
you??
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Participating hospitals in a geo=-
graphical area will be able to
communicate with other hospitals
in the area. In addition, indivi
dual hospitals will be able to
communicate with their own mo=
bile and portable units, such as
in ambulances and with physi=
cians and key personnel. Use of
this optional equipment will ser=-
ve the hospital’s daily needs as
well as prove invaluable in em=
ergencies.
2) Regional Communications:
Throughout the state, there will
be 36 Regional stations. In add
ition to communicating with other
hospitals in that area, the re=-
gional hospital will be in com=
munication with other regional
hospitalss The ¢‘backbone’’ of
the network, the Regional com=
munications system eventually
may connect with hospitals na=-
tionwideo
Although outside agencies,
such as law enforcement, Red
Cross, ambulance services and
Civil Defense operate on differ
ent frequencies, steps will be ta=-
ken to initiate a central com=
munications point to insure em=
ergency contact with these agen=
cies.
Equipment specifications re=-
quire that operation be no more
difficult than using a telephone
on a party line. Also, the in=
dividual hospital need not moni=
tor the equipment constantly to
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know that it is being called, as
the network features a dialing
system, permitting one hospital
to call another.
The network plan is the re
sult of countless hours spent by
the GHA Committee on Disaster
Planning, Radio Sub=-Committee,
in working with representatives
of three major manufacturers
of radio equipment.
wCost of installation of this
equipment is a small price to
pay for the life-saving prepare=
dness of emergency communicat
ions,” said Edward J, Fechtel,
Jr., chairman of the GHA com=
mittee and administrator of st,
Mary’s Hospital, Athens.
Glenn M, Hogan, GHA execu
tive director, said, ¢‘Although
other states have installed, or
are planning to install, similar
systems, Georgia is one of the
first states in the Southeast to
embark on this project. It is
anticipated that the network will
be operating by late 1970,”
Lyndon Beall, director of the
Office of Emergency Health Ser
vices, said, “When you read di
saster reports — after hurrica=
nes, tornadoes and the like —.al
most every one says that their
biggest problem is communica=-
tions.’?
«The Covington drag race ac
cident is a good example,” Beall
said, ‘‘of all the patients going to
a small hospital with all the other
hospitals sitting back and wait
ing;"
The accident claimed 12 lives
last March when a speeding car
ran out of control at Covington
drag strip.