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THE COVINGTON NEWS -
Walton man
Richard S. Roberts of Good
Hope, has been promoted to
captain in Georgia’s Game and
Fish Law Enforcement Section,
Joe D. Tanner, Commissioner of
the Department of Natural Re
sources (DNRI and Jack Crock
ford, Director of DNR's Game
and Fish Division, announced last
week.
Roberts has been assigned as
supervisor of the Walton Law
Enforcement District, succeeding
Captain James Riden, who has
retired.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1976
promoted to captain by DNR
Richard Robert*
Recreat ion News
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BASKETBALL
OFFICIALS MEETING
Henry Baker. President of the
Covington Recreation Officials
Assn., request that all persons
interested in officiating basketball
for the 1976-77 season please
attend an important organization
al meeting on Tuesday, Novem
ber 16, at 7 p.m. This meeting
will be held at the Recreation
Department offices on College
Street. For further information
give us a call at 786-4373.
YOUTH BASKETBALL
REGISTRATION
The Covington Recreation De
partment will be starting its
Basketball Registration on
November 6th. We will be regis
tering each day from 9:00-5:00
Monday thru Friday and on
Saturdays from 10:00-2:00.
Anyone interested must come by
the Recreation Department and
Captain Roberts was bom in
Monroe County in 1941. A grad
uate of Monroe High School, he
enlisted in the U.S. Army in
1961, and served more than two
years in Ethiopia. Discharged as
a Specialist sth Class in 1964, he
went to work for an insurance
company and joined the Game
and Fish Division as a ranger in
1966, assigned to Walton and
Oconee counties. After earning
promotions to corporal and to
sergeant, he was promoted to
captain effective October 1.
Roberts and his wife, the former
Barbara Witcher of Monroe, have
three sons and one daughter,
ranging in age from 3 to 12.
Roberts was at one time an
ardent fisherman and hunter, but
he says "There’s just less and
less time for that these days.”
From The
alion Department
sign up after November 6th.
Fee: One child — $7.50; Two
or more in the same family —
$12.50.
Age control date is January 1,
1977.
Boys leagues: Training League
— 6-7 yr. olds; Bantam League
— 8-9-10 yr. olds; Midget Lea
gue — 11-12 yr. olds; Junior
League — 13-14-15 yr. olds.
Girls leagues: Training League
— 6-7-8 yr. olds; Midget League
— 9-10-11 yr. olds; Junior Lea
gue — 12-13-14 yr. olds; Senior
League — 15-16 yr olds.
HALLOWEEN
COSTUME CONTEST
Don't forget!!!!!!! The Re
creation Departments Annual
Halloween Costume Contest will
be Saturday night at 7 p.m. in
the Conyers Street Gym. We had
a great variety of costumes last
year with a lot of participants
and hope this year to be even
better. Prizes will be awarded for
MOST ORIGINAL. MOST
POPULAR. AND THE
"SPOOKIEST" in each age divi
sion. Age division will be 3 yr.
‘olds and younger; 6-8 years; and
9-12 year olds. No fee required.
BASKETBALL MEETING
FOR LADIES
There will be a meeting of all
persons interested in playing or
coaching Ladies Basketball on
Monday, November Bth at 8
p.m. in the Court Room of City
Hall.
This will be a very important
meeting so please make plans to
attend. If you will be unable to
attend the meeting and you are
interested in Ladies Basketball
call the Recreation Department at
786-4373 before November Bth.
FOOD PRICES
Last year, according to the
Economic Research Service of
USDA, retail food prices "trotted
along at a gait” of BV4 percent
on the average, high by historic
standards, but much less than the
galloping pace of both 1974 and
1973. Price increases those two
years were 14Vi percent. ERS
says we can expect retail food
prices to creep up only 3 to 4
percent for all 12 months of
197 b.
A mobile camper can
save you money
By Ted Kesting
Sports Afield
If you are not driving or towing
one of the nearly 6-million
camping vehicles now in use, you
may be depriving yourself
through mis-apprehension. Far
from being an extravagance, a
mobile camper can actually save
you money.
“Aside from the simple pleasures
of camping, consider the economy
of traveling with your own bed
and-board,” advises Recreational
Vehicles Editor Jack Seville of
Sports Afield. “By avoiding the
uncertainties and expense of
motel rooms and restaurant
meals, a case emerges to support
a hedonistic theory of ‘travel
saves money.’ ”
Because motor camping is easy
on the budget, you might very
well offset the expense for this
mode of travel by simply turning
off the household conveniences
Astro- gRk
Analysis
By Sonia McGinnis
HOROSCOPE FOR THE WEEK OF OCT .31,1976
ARIES [March 21-April 19] - Coordinate plans
with partner; a favorable week to bring together
ideas and make them profitable. Joint ventures can
be highly successful so be open to new suggestions.
TAURUS [April 20-May 20] - Be compromising
with mate as a conflict of interests may occur now.
Try to see both sides of the situation; it’s essential
that a good working relationship exist.
GEMINI [ May 21-June 21] - An excellent week
to strengthen ties with co-workers; you can now work
your way into a more permanent and stable career.
Keep health matters tended to.
CANCER [June 2-July 21]- Social matters take
precedence now so leave time for leisure and
recreational events. Gain comes through speculative
ventures if you can remain down-to-earth.
LEO [July 22-August 21]- Ivestigate matters
pertaining to real estate or property; there may be a
worthwhile investment pending. Family members
can prove helpful in making that final decision.
VIRGO [August 22-September 22] - By
corresponding and making the contacts necessary
you may be able to promote personal interests in a
most favorable manner. Not a week for routine
activities.
LIBRA (September 23-October 22]- Be logical
when it comes to spending money; buy only necessary
items and curb the tendency to be overly generous.
Plan a new project which puts your creative talents to
work.
SCORPIO [October 23-November 21] - A
favorable week for creating new enterprises and
promoting your own self-interests. Your inventive
ideas continue to impress others so continue on a
favorable trend.
SAGITTARIUS [November 22-December 20] -
Try to maintain a fairly even-paced week; not a time
to undertake too many new responsibilities. Avoid
people who gossip; there’s a tendency for
misunderstandings.
CAPRICORN [December 21-January 21] -
Travel could prove both pleasant and useful; include
friends in your week’s plans. Hopes and wishes can
materialize into fulfillment if you show sincerity.
AQUARIUS [January 21-February 19] - Be
prepared to make concessions with superiors. Focus
on outside activities but take career plans seriously
also. Maintain a good attitude.
PISCES [February 20-March 20] - You can
successfully mix an added course of study with your
regular routine without difficulty. Being with those
who stimulate you intellectually is important.
why vote for
amendment 22?
• AMENDMENT 22 will prevent any church
sponsored. non-profit homes for the aged from
ever paying ad valorem taxes.
• There will be no loss of tax revenue if
AMENDMENT 22 is passed. None of these non
profit homes pays ad valorem taxes now.
• But. it they are taxed in the future, thousands of
elderly occupants on fixed incomes will not be able
to afford it. They will have to be taken care of by
the state. Or by their families.
• Keep our elderly people in these church
sponsored. non-profit homes independent. Look
for AMENDMENT 22 on your ballot in the big
Presidential election. Its important to you. your
family, and to our older generation of Georgians.
VOTE YES!
for amendment 22
General Election, November 2,1976
and closing up the home. It
certainly means you can go of
tener and stay longer. Look at it
this way:
Suppose you are planning a
vacation trip making 300 miles
per day and paying 60 cents per
gallon for gasoline. The difference
between your miles per gallon
when towing a small camping
trailer at say 15 mpg and
without trailer at 20 mpg (a
higher differential than you need
expect) would be only a matter
of $3. But here is what that
extra $3 will save:
For a foursome it will mean an
overnight campsite for about $5
rather than S3O or more for
motel or resort rooms. Supplying
your own food and preparing
meals at the campsite will cost
about the same as at home, $lO
per day, rather than S3O or S4O
or more for restaurant meals and
tips.
Something like 50 bucks per
day saved during three weeks of
travel can pay for a small
camping trailer. What you’ve
saved by closing up your home is
an extra dividend.
In your travels you will find
that improved campsites for
recreational vehicles are well
scattered all over the country —
along major highways, close to
big cities, at popular resorts and
. at out-of-the-way recreational
areas. Besides offering overnight
campsites for transients, many
aim for week-long stays because
they are either close to or provide
the kind of seasonal or year
round outdoor activities which
earn the designation “destination
campgrounds."
Woodall Publishing Company
sells for $6.95, through
recreational vehicles dealers and
bookstores, a 950-page directory
in which it lists and quality-rates
over 17,000 public and private
parks which provide something in
the neighborhood of a million
campsites.
Among these are franchised
campgrounds which offer the
same assurance of consistence we
associate with the motel chains.
The largest of these, Kam
pgrounds of America (KOA), is a
system of over 800 campgrounds.
Its nearest competitor, United
Safari Campgrounds, has well
over 100. You can count on
them to provide clean restrooms,
hot showers, coin-operated
laundry facilities and guaranteed
reservation service.
Southern RR
sets revenue
earning record
Southern Railway Company and
its consolidated subsidiaries had
total operating revenues of
$251,863,000 in the third quarter
of 1976, a record for the period,
and an increase of $35,157,000,
or 16.2 percent, over the 1975
third quarter. Net income of
$20.4 million, or $1.33 per
common share, increased slightly
over per-share earnings of $1.30
in the same quarter last year.
W. Graham Claytor, Jr.,
Southern's Chairman of the
Board and Chief Executive
Officer, said third quarter traffic
and revenues were adversely
affected by the coal strikes and
to a lesser extent by the Ford
Motor Company strike.
Operating revenues for the nine
months ending September 30,
1976, amounted to $758,451,000,
also a record for the period, and
an increase of $135,827,000, of
21.8 percent, over the same
period in 1975. This increase was
due in part to a more than 8
percent increase in carloadings
and in part to rate increases. Net
income of $64.6 million for the
nine months increased by 25.2
percent over the same period in
1975.
Railway operating expenses of
$183,217,000 in the third quarter
and $547,690,000 in the first
nine months of 1976 were also
the highest on record for their
respective periods. Due mainly to
an increased level of business,
general price inflation and ac
celerated maintenance programs,
third quarter operating expenses
increased by $27,585,000, or
17.7 percent, over the 1975
quarter; and for the nine months,
by $90,954,000, or 19.9 percent.
Claytor pointed out that
operating expenses for the first
nine months of last year (1975)
reflected a cutback in work force
and reduction in maintenance
expenditures made in light of the
reduced level of business activity
during that period.
4-H IN SCHOOL
Since 1905 Georgia 4-H has
enjoyed a close working relation
ship with the state's school
systems. "This is an important
relationship which we have nur
tured constantly and never taken
for granted," said Tom Davis,
acting Extension Service assistant
director for 4-H. In recognition of
the continuing support of schools,
the Georgia 4-H Agents selected
the Georgia Association of School
Superintendents to receive the
official "Friend of 4-H Award"
for 1976.
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