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Amilee Williams
Service Guild salutes
Newton teachers
This week the Covington Service
Guild salutes two additional educa
tors. Featured this week are Neill
Sargent of Mansfield School and
Amilee Bullock Williams of Porter
dale School. They were chosen by
their faculties as nominees for
Teacher of the Year.
Neill Sargent, who teaches second
grade at Mansfield, is a native of
Nashville, Tenn. She received a B.S.
degree from the University of Tenn
esee at Chattanooga and has taught
for 13 years.
In Newton County she has served
on Records Committee for the reor
ganization of cumulative record
system. She is program chairman of
Mansfield PTO as well as on the
executive committee.
She says, "the trend toward indivi
dualized learning seems to be a posi
tive aspect in education and we as
Newton unemployment steady
Unemployment in Newton County
remained steady during October,
according to figures released by the
State Labor Department. The
figures show an October unemploy
ment rate of 5.9 percent, the same
rate recorded during September.
State officials said 721 Newton
Countians out of a total work force
of 12,226 were without jobs during
the month. That compares with 720
of 12,203 out of work during Sep-
Re-elect
MAURICE
GAITHER
Councilman ““
City of Covington
City Election Wednesday, Dec. 8, 1976
Active and dedicated to
serving the best interests of
the people of Covington.
Vote GAITHER...
Your Vote and Influence Will Be Appreciated!
Neill Sargent
educators have the responsibility to
look ahead and prepare today's child
for the future ".
Aimlee Bullock Williams teaches
first grade at Porterdale School. She
w as born in Dallas and received her
bachelor’s degree from Fort Valley-
State College. She has completed 22
hours on her Master’s degree from
Atlanta University.
She relates many rewarding exper
iences during her 17 years of teach
ing. She says each day in the first
grade makes her feel very humble
and delighted when she sees the
bright young faces light up when
they have conquered a task or dis
covered thev have learned to read.
The Covington Service Guild will
take pleasure in presenting to each of
these two teachers a certificate of
merit and appreciation from the
Guild.
tember.
Elsewhere in the eight county
Mclntosh Trail area, the unemploy
ment figures were as follows: Butts,
6.2; Fayette. 9.2; Henry, 7.0;
Lamar, 4.9; Pike, 5.8; Spalding,
5.9; and Upson, 3.9.
The Australian aircraft carrier
Melbourne collided with the U.S.
destroyer Frank Evans, June 2,
1959, killing 74 American sailors.
Labor situation remains stable
WASHINGTON — Both unem
ployment and total employment
were little changed in September, it
was reported by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics of the U.S. De
partment of Labor.
The overall rate of unemployment
was 7.8 percent, about the same as
in the prior two months but above
Vet pensioners will receive increase soon
A 7 percent increase in monthly
benefit rates for Veterans
Administration pensioners. plus
increases in the annual income
limits on which the pensions are
based, becomes effective January 1,
1977. The pension changes were
approved by the President on
September 30.
Affected are about a million
veterans and 1.6 million veterans’
survivors receiving VA pensions,
VA also pointed out.
The increases are estimated to
cost $432 million in fiscal year
1977.
Income limitations were raised as
follows: To $3,540 for veterans or
surviving spouses without
dependents and to $4,760 for those
with dependents under the current
program; to $3,100 and $4,460 for
those under the prior pension law ;
and for parents under the
dependency and indemnity com-
WEATHER
Covington weatherman Jack
Chapman has issued the following
information on recent weather in
Covington and Newton County:
HIGH LOW
Wed. 24th 59 29
Thurs. 25th 65 32
Fri. 26th 53 45
Sat. 27th 63 52
Sun. 28th 64 59
Mon. 29th 59 32
Tues. 30th 40 18
Total rainfall for week 1.90 in
ches. Total rainfall for the month of
November 4.12 inches.
On Jan. 14, 1969, an explosion
and fire aboaad the U.S. ship
Enterprise near Hawaii killed 27
crewmen and inflicted heavy
damage.
this year’s low of 7.3 percent
reached in May.
Total employment — as measured
by the monthly survey of house
holds — also remained at about the
same level for the second straight
month: 87.8 million persons. The
September employed total was 3.7
million above the March 1975 re-
pensation program, the limits were
raised to $3,540 for a single parent
and $4,760 for parents living
together or with a spouse.
The maximum unearned income
limitation for children entitled
under the current pension program
was increased $l9O to $2,890.
A significant addition in the new
law provides for a 25 percent
added differential to all pension
rates for eligible veterans who are
78 years of age or older. Primary
beneficiaries of this provision are
some 318,000 World War I
veterans whose average age is 80.
Aid and attendance rates for
veterans on the pension rolls were
increased by $22 to $155 and the
housebound rate by $4 to $57. For
surviving spouses on the pension
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THE COVINGTON NEWS — THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2,
cession low, an average monthly
gain of 206,000.
Nonfarm payroill employment —
as measured by the monthly survey
of establishments — did continue
to rise in September, moving up by
240,000 to 79.6 million. An esti
mated 100,000 of this increase was
accounted for by the return of
payments and surviving spouses
and parents receiving death
compensation, the aid and at
tendance rate was increased to $74.
Another new provision permits
payment of a reduced aid and
attendancy monthly allowance to
eligible veterans whose pension
payments are denied or terminated
because annual income exceeded
the statutory limitation by less than
SSOO.
Pensions are paid to wartime
veterans who are totally disabled
from nonservice-connected causes if
they are disabled before age 65 and
come within income limitations.
The pension bill also makes
permanent an 8 percent increase in
monthly pension payments enacted
last year with an October 1, 1976,
expiration date.
striking workers to their jobs. TIA
payroll job count was up 3.1^
million from its June 1975 low.
Both the number of persons un
employed and the unemployment
rate were about unchanged in Sep
tember. Unemployment totaled 7.4
million, seasonally adjusted, com
pared with 7.5 million in August.
The rate of unemployment — the
proportion of the labor force
looking for work — was 7.8
percent; it had been 7.9 percent in
August and 7.8 percent in July.
The average duration of joblessness
also showed little change over the
month.
Despite the stability in overall
joblessness, there were divergent
movements among several major
labor force groups. The unemploy
ment rate for teenagers fell from
19.7 to 18.6 percent, following a
rise of similar magnitude in
August. Countering this decline
was a small rise in the jobless rate
for adult men, which returned to
the July level of 6.1 percent. The
adult male increase was also reflec
ted in higher unemployment rates
among married men and male
household heads, as well as a sub
stantial rise in joblessness of
Vietnam-era veterans. The adult
female rate — 7.5 percent — was
about the same as in July and
August.
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