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SEC. A—PAGE 12 The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, December 23, 1965
Photo licenses
on the way
The jesting remark, “You •
never know how you look until
you get your picture took,” will
take on new meaning for S. C.
licensed drivers during 1966.
Starting January 2, each new
drivers license issued by the
S. C. Highway Department will
carry a color photograph of the
driver. Gone are the days of
plain paper licenses. Gone also
are the rectangular, metal lic
enses, often worn sleek and
illegible, and therefore without
value for driver identification
purposes.
Superceding both of these are
the brand new laminated plas
tic licenses which include a
miniature color portrait on the
right hand side. In addition to
the usual identification data
! such as name, address, age and
description, there is a current
photograph taken at any one
of 98 licensing offices scattered
around the state.
Highway Department license
examiners met in Columbia in
December for a one-day orien
tation course in the use of the
new Oxberry 100 cameras
which are used at all 98 offices.
No long wait will delay the
license applicant despite the
more complicated arrangement
now in vjise. It only takes about
two minutes for the photograph
to be snapped. A permit is is
sued right awuy which author
izes driving until the perma
nent^ license is received by mail
in two to three weeks. State
wide, an average of from 14,-
000 to 15,000 pictures must be
processed in the lab each month.
Other changes in license pro
cedures enacted into law June
8, 1965, include.
1. Requirement of a vision
test at. time or renewal or or
iginal application by the license
examiner, unless a certificate
of examination by an eye spec
ialist can be produced.
2. A fee of $2 to help pay
the cost of administering the
driver license program.
3. Beginner’s permits have
had $1 fee attached to help
cover the cost and provide
funds for the stepped-up pro
gram.
Other new laws were enacted
relating to Highway Depart
ment functions but not directly
related to the new driver’s lic
enses. They include state aid
to high school driver education
in the amount of $15 per pupil,
transfer from the Highway De-
• partment to the State Educa
tional Finance Commission of
the school bus driver training
program, inspection of all used
vehicles sold in South Carolina
for the first time, and making
it unlawful to carry a television
set in a vehicle where the screen
may be seen by the driver.
Danger lurks in
novelty items
Are you serving your guests
staphylococus, coliform bacilli,
salmonella or pseudomonas? It
is possible that you are, if you
are using any one of a variety
of water-filled novelties avail
able on the market for use in
cooling drinks and possibly
other foods, warns the New
berry County Health Depart
ment.
U. S. Public Health Service
tests reveal that some of these
novelties, known, among other
things as “Ice-Cool and “Ice
•Bails” are filled with water
which may contain the organ
isms listed above. Some of these
are made in the United States,
others in Japan or Hong Kong,
and come in the shape of balls,
cubes and small animal de
signs.
Dr. V. A. Long, director of
the Health Department, is ask
ing that all stores and other
distributors of these devices
discontinue their sales, and
everyone who has purchased
them is advised to dispose of
them safely and immediately.
P. W. Bickley
died Monday
WHITE ROCK.—Paris W.
Bickley, retired carpenter, died
Monday in a local nursing home
after a long illness.
Bom in Lexington County,
he was a son of Mrs. Ada
Slice Bickley and the late
Perry Bickley.
Surviving in addition to his
mother, are his wife, Mrs.
Grace Addy Bickley, three
daughters, Mrs. Doris Wal
drop, Mrs. Florine Eargle and
Miss Jimmie Bickley of White
Rock a sister, Mrs. Annie Bell
Eleazer of Columbia; three
brothers, T. Monroe and Henry
E. Bickley of Newberry and
James Bickley of Columbia.
Funeral services were con
ducted Tuesday at Bethel Lu
theran church by Rev. Guy
Cruse and Rev. Kenneth Webb.
Burial was in the church ceiri-
etery.
SAR elects
’66-67 officers
Philemon Waters Chapter of
the Sons of the American Rev
olution held its biennial election
of officers for 1966-67 at its
regular quarterly meeting on
Friday, December 17.
Those elected include W. Pres
ton Me Albany, president, T.
Roy Summer Jr., vice presi
dent; Prof. F. Scott Elliott Sr.,
secretary; J. Ray Nobles, treas
urer; F. Scott Elliott Jr., reg
istrar; Jack Chappell, histor
ian; and A. J. Bowers, Chap-
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lain.
Prof. C. Harold Carpenter of
Newberry College was elected
a new member of the chapter
at this meeting.
The next quarterly meeting
will be in connection with
Washington’s birthday, Febru
ary 22.
H. L HEDGEPATH & SON GARAGE
Cut-Off Road Phone 276-2148
ALL GOOD WISHES for CHRISTMAS
We will be closed Friday, December 24 and Saturday, December 25,
and will re-open Monday, December 27.
Also will be closed Saturday, January I, 1966
Newberry Lumber Co.
913 CUNE STREET NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROUNA
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