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Volume 110 No. 14
Christmas Season Highlight of School Band Concerts
The bands from H. F. Sharp
Middle School and Newton County
Comprehensive High School will
present a joint Christmas Concert,
at 8 p. m., Wednesday in the
Newton County Comprehensive
High School gymnasium.
Included in the evening per
formance is the Concert Band from
H. F. Sharp Middle School,
Charles Sims, director, and both
the NCCHS Stage Band and
NCCHS Symphonic Band, Basil
Rigney, director.
The musicians from H. F. Sharp
Middle School will open the
concert with “Orange Bowl
March” by Henry Filmore. Also
Ten Newton County Comprehensive High School
students were chosen this year to represent the
school in the Governor’s Honors Program.
Chosen this year are (I-r front) Kim McLurkin,
10 Honor Students Chosen
Ten Newton County Com
prehensive High School students
have been chosen to represent the
school in preliminary questioning
for the Governor’s Honors Program
in February.
Approximately 40 students were
chosen by teachers and ad
ministrators at NCCHS for the
program. These students were
compared before deciding the final
10.
According to program sponsor
Joanna Jackson, the students will
New Citizen 'Proud' American
Christel Foster, who has lived in
the United States for more than 10
years, became a naturalized citizen
in ceremonies last Tuesday in the
Federal Courthouse in Atlanta. She
was accompanied to Atlanta by
Janis Greer. The ceremony was
followed by a reception given by
the Peachtree Pilot Club.
Mrs. Foster was reared in Berlin.
Germany, where she studied law
for three years. Her mother and
sister, who attends the University
of Berlin, still reside in Berlin.
H.F. Sharp Band
included in their portion of the
program is “Christmas Prelude" by
John Krance; Alfred Reed's setting
of the traditional Irish melody
“Greensleeves;" concluding with a
seasonal favorite “Have Yourself a
Merry Little Christmas.”
The Stage Band will play three
selections designed to set ones toes
a-tapping. Included is one of the
all-time Glen Miller hits “A String
of Pearls;” a contemporary Bosa
Rock by Sammy Nestico “Early
Morning;" and concluding “Rock
Odyssey” perhaps better known as
“Thus Shake Zarathustra" by R.
Strauss. The arrangement is by Bill
Holcombe.
Honor Students
compete on a state level in
February. Those chosen as finalists
will be offered a summer
educational program of enrichment.
Those chosen as semifinalists can
replace anyone that drops out in
their field.
Eleventh graders representing
NCCHS are:
James M. Bohannon. Rt. 1,
Oxford, son of Mr. and Mrs. James
N. Bohannon Jr. in music.
William Donald Compton. Rt. 5,
Covington, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Mrs. Foster began procedures in
April for becoming a citizen and
during the summer took a home
study course from the University of
Georgia.
In mid-October she t<x»k an oral
examination administered by an
attorney for the Justice Department
in Atlanta.
Phillip Pruitt and Jane Abbott,
friends of Mrs. Foster, served as
witnesses and answered questions
on Mrs. Foster's suitability as a
pros|M‘ctive citizen.
The NCCHS Symphonic Band
will open the final portion of the
program with William Latham's
Processional March "Proud
Heritage." The remainder of their
performance includes “The
Universal Judgment," a 19th
Century tone poem depicting the
last day. This work was composed
by Camile De Nardis and arranged
for band by C. Cafarella.
Next played is the lovely “Irish
Tune from County Derry” by
Percy Graningle; “The Black
Troup March" by John Phillip
Sousa; Bill Holcombe’s
Kay Jones, Elisabeth Egger, Melanie Brooks and
Lisa Joyce. In the back are Donnie Compton, Jim
Bohannan, Skip Williams, Mark Cowan and Lelia
Ginn.
W illiam O. Compton in music.
Mark Randal Cowan, P. O. Box
1078, Covington, son of Dr. and
Mrs. Laverne M. Cowan in science.
Elisabeth Egger, Rt. 7, Salem
Road, Covington, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Fritz Egger in social
studies.
Lelia Ellen Ginn. 4181 E.
Conyers Street. Covington,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.
Rucker Ginn in art.
Mrs. Foster's three children are
Angela. 13. a student at Cousins,
who was born in Newton County:
Connie Lynn. 11. a student at
Livingston, who was born in
Berlin: and Steven. 8. a student at
Livingston, who was bom in
Newton County.
All her children are citizens of the
U. S.. but Connie Lynn is a citizen
of both Germany and the I . S. Her
mother plans to process the
paperwork for renouncing Connie
Lynn's German citizenship.
A prize-winning newspaper serving Newton County for 110 years
Covington, Georgia — Tuesday. December 16,1975
NCCHS Rhythm Section
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The Music Department of R. L.
Cousins Middle School will present
the band and chorus in a
Christmas Concert at 8 p.m.
Tuesday in the school cafetorium.
The various instruments in the
band will blend together to play
such numbers as; Citadel (Concert
March) by Frank Erickson;
Ploylar’s Noel Francais; Charles
Spinney's Os Festive Bells and
Ancient Kings; James D. Ploylar’s
The Little Drummer Boy.
The Cousins Chorus will sing a
selection of familiar Christmas
Carols including 0, Come All Ye
Faithful; What Child Is This?
(solo by Felicia Price); Angels We
City Employes
Get Wage Hike
By LEO S. MALLARD
The Covington City Council voted
in a called meeting Wednesday
night to give city employes a 5 to
10 per cent pay raise. It is the first
pay increase for city personnel in
28 months and will cost the city
approximately $70,000 annually.
The action came after Mrs. Melba
Williams, personnel specialist with
the Georgia Municipal Association,
presented a proposed personnel
ordinance, personnel policy, em
ploye position allocation and salary
schedule to the council. She had
been working on these policies at
the request of the council for over a
year.
Councilman Tom Wiley made the
motion, seconded by Councilman
Luke Savage, to accept the
“employe position allocation” as
presented with the exception that
all proposed salary schedules be
increased two per cent, and all
employe step proposals be in
creased one step unless individual
employes were at the top of their
grade level.
The motion passed with Wiley,
Savage, Fred Harwell, and Maurice
Gaither voting "for," and Coun
cilwoman Allene C. Burton voting
“against.’’ Councilman Robert R.
Fowler 111 was absent from the
meeting.
Mrs. Burton voted against the
motion because she felt that the
plan should be studied thoroughly
"1 owed it to myself to become a
citizen because I live in this
communitv.” said Mrs. Foster.
"And I owe it just as much to my
children. I really and truly am
proud to become an American
citizen. I think the United States is
one of the greatest nations in the
world and I really mean that.'' she
added.
Mrs. Foster, receptionist and
payroll clerk at The Covington
News, is a member of the Lutheran
Church of Our Savior in Conyers.
Have Heard on High; Behold That
Star (duet by Felicia Price and
Glenda Johnson); and We Wish
You a Merry Christmas.
The band is under the direction of
T. K. Adams Sr., and the chorus is
directed by Mrs. Etta Ingram.
The members of the Cousins
Middle School Band are:
FLUTES: Sheila Cobb, Terry
Dunevant, Sheila Kelly, Sheila
Sauls, Lindy Chester, Laurita
Johnson, Sharon Shepherd, Susan
Yearwood, Sue Austin, Tina Giles,
Lisa Harris, Jennifer Leslie, Vicky
Quinn and Jennifer Taylor.
OBOE: Laura Terrell,
BASSOON: Katherine Sargent.
before final action; that ad
justments were made that are quite
possibly not fair and just to all
employes of the city; that a plan of
this magnitude should be studied
thoroughly before final adoption
since it will have long range effects
on the city’s future personnel
policy: and because it's moving too
fast on a matter of extreme im
portance to the city of Covington,
its citizens and the city employes as
a whole.
“In no way does my vote against
this motion reflect on any given
individual and-or employe of the
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CLARINETS: Belinda Oldham,
Mike Shaw, Barry Caldwell,
Jeannie Cagle, Anita Hamp,
Carletta Gilstrap, Barbara Thraen,
Teresa Brown, Jeri Head, Joe
Neely, Mary Key, James Thrasher,
Wayne Scarbrough, Christine
Shepherd, Cynthia Blackshear,
Connie Smith, Mike Smith, Darryl
Brooks, Edward Blanton, Kim
Freeman, Diane Buchanan, Angela
Dial, Betty Perry and Beverly Dial.
ALTO CLARINETS: Teresa
Rutledge and Sharon Jackson.
BASS CLARINETS: Tammie
Sims, Janet Hull and Ronnie
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city and his or her job per
formance,” Mrs. Burton said.
Gaither said he felt the increases
were in line and that the smallest
increase amounted to $416 per
year, “a little over a dollar a day
increase in over two years."
Savage had to leave the meeting
before a motion by Councilman
Harwell, seconded by Councilman
Wiley, was made to accept the
personnel ordinance and policies as
amended and to instruct the city
manager to submit the proposed
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CHRISTEL FOSTER
Proud to be an American
Fifteen Cents
