Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Higher Education Nowadays colk‘ye> ai’o emphasix- iny education. One u?d\'e!'sity has yotten so stric*. it won't yive a footindl j)’ia\'er hi.' letter u*nes< in 1 can tell which one it w. IF—If you watch a yame, its fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it. it’s yolf.—The Fall River (Mass.) Spectator YOLIMK :I0 — MM HER hi. Y THE WAY NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROTIN A, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15. ItMhi $2.00 Per Year MISCF.LLANKOIS The cemaindcr of the 'Mci- low Travelers." a speech !»y eminent author Ta\lor (’aid- \% asnmfiton, in well, will be seen elsewhere m * o 111-d m otu this issue of The Sun . . . By DORIS A. SANDERS Except, that m the case ot ills own sc (icio: - aye child. When .Mr. Howe i:i"' went to Washinyton, }ii.s son wa - en- f the District of i ('olumhia'.' integrated public | schotils wlieii- tIte enrollment in “Me)--, was on per cent white. 47 per Christmas” while watc'mny , cent Neyi'o. Bu the citild did a ; not (('main there long. Massive One wonders what has hap pened to the ‘‘merry ry the annual parade. Hardly sound was heard from the i integia.ioti in lor other child- thousands of people lining yon, not Harold Howes. Today, Main street as the beautiful j R 1( ‘ Howe child is enrolled in chool for beautiful | the Howe child is floats, livelv hands and lieauty the exclusive lull queens passed by. It really was a nice parade, the occasional marchiny band difficult to know that but except for music by the s, it would bC iwn. ( onnecti- S-J.TaO some- hoys at W aterti cut, where the tuition a yeai! Thanks to the taxpayers. Mr. Howe can afford to send hi> thing big was sun posed to own child to a private be happening. What has hap pened to our Christmas spirit? We would like to turn over a new leaf in our birthday book for next year. It is just an im- possibiIty" for us to keep up students in Hyde county, with all the births, deaths mar riages and movings, so we would ask your help. Please send us a card with names and birthdates for yourself, your family and friends—and let us know if YOl know of any name or birth date we are pub- listing incorrectly. Your coop eration will he appreciated . . . j exclusive, I have heal’d various com- , school. costing per year in tui-j lion. He can exercise HIS free-! dom of choice. But this week) lie moved to deny freedom of choice to countless hundreds j be- I noir county and Eranklinton. : In the double standards of Hat- 1 old Howe, it is quite all right j for him to accept the tax mon- j ey of parents who are forced | to contribute to his own fat : federal salary, and to withdraw his own cm Id from an integra ted public school in favor of an expensive private Council approves budget, gives employes higher pay Dr. A. G. D. Wiles, president of Newberry College, examines a rare copy of the original 1611 King James Bible, The Bible is part of a display in the New berry College library commemorating the 150th anniversary of the American Bible Society. (Newberry College Photo) Rare Bibles on display now in Wessels Library t hi ments on our “blue” Christ-i It is the hypocrisy mas lights adorning the deco- i man that offends us most. 1 he rations on Main street. Ken ! record clearly demonstrates Riche has advised me on sev- 1 that he intends to look after oral occsaions that different ; himself first, then play havoc people have different idea.' of | with the lives of others in a beauty. There’s no doubt about , p"litical chess game that thr- that. While the colors a re atens the destruction <d publu lovely, to me a “bright” Christmas—red and green—is preferable to a blue one. ALL blue is rather depressing in the city streets although it might be most attractive in a home. I might mention that I have absolutely no inkling as to the originator of the “blue lights” theme . . . BACK AGAIN A rare copy of the original completed some time in 1455. 1*111 King James Bible is fea-j To emphasize the fact that luted in ;t library display at , the Bible is printed in 1,100 Newberry College m commemo- tongues, the display features ration of tin 150th Anniversary t Bible is a number of languages, of the founding of the American including Chinese, Arabic, Pro- 1 Bible Society. i tuguese, Spanish, Russian, Ger- The samplings of Bibles in-! man, Japanese, Tshiluba, Nava- education in vast areas of the rlm led in the exhibit is indica- jo and Cubuan. Since its found- South. When Terry Sanford Dve of the progress made over ing the American Bible Society brought Howard Howe to N. (V the centuries in making a book 1 has carried on a dynamic pro- the exchange of correspondence wri tten in an ancient language | gram of translation, produc- between Sanford and Howe re- s ! )( - i ak to modern man, with his 1 tion, distribution and encour- flects the demands that Howe made of—and granted by—the thousands of languages and agement of use of the Holy dialects, in a meaningful way. ‘ Scriptures. then Governor Sanford. There | Among the volumes represent- was to be a saiary of $27,000 j ed are the 42-line Gutenberg plus expense allowances and ITT*-*, the \\ yclif New Testa- other possible fringe benefits ) nienO—English and the Sep- ,whieh, had Mr. Howe stayed ! tuagint (Greek). The following paragraph ap-; 1,1 North ( arolina long enough, One of 15(H) copies made ; ^ t ] ie wo ,.j^ c f 79 scr jbes who peared in this column on Oct-j hav, ‘ amounted to $40,-, available for world distribution, translated the Hebrew Old Tes- ober 27, 196G: <l(l() l 11 ' 1 • vea1 '- i 1 * 11 ' ,,u< “ R‘ n g James Bible h as ■ tament into Greek around 250 “Incidentally, don’t let all ^'e have no particular com-i 14G4 pages precisely reproduced B c _ This edition was a gift to this business of clamping down I^ a >nt about Mi. Howes p«t-| loni tie 01 iginal which is pre- library by John A. Aman, ’s in the way of j served in the British Museum, An interesting contribution to the display is an edition of the first translation of he Bible, a work called he Septu- ! agint because it w r as thought to on Mr. (Harold )Howe fool you. sonal demand.' i professor of economics at New- That’s nothing more than a M>™P f ’ nsation - rf a, W complaint | Size of the pages is 10 1-4” x berry ColleKe . from ' s to he registered, it should he j HI 3-8 . , ^ photostat of pages from directed at Terry Sanford’s ex-j The book, published by the 1 th historic Wvclif New Testa- travagance. What nags us j World Publishing Company, i ment ^ English > written about little political strategy the Northerners who are be ginning to get unset at th< white backlash. It’s a pretty ahout Mr - H<)we is his also captured the antiquity of ■ 1450? is included in the display. sure thing that Mr. Howe will be back in all his glory, hand ing out his guidelines, im mediately after November 8.” As I recall, it was on Nov ember 14 that the first men tion again appeared of Mr. Howe cutting off funds for some school disthict in South Carolina. And not only here, but in other states as well, as Jesse Helms, vice president of WRAL-TV, points out in the following editorial of the air over his Raleigh, N. C. sta tion: (By Jesse Helms) It was too much to hope, we suppose, wuth the November elections behind us, that ‘we should not now begin to feel the harrassing hand of Harold Howe, the dictatorial U. S. Commissioner of Education. But one fondly remembers the serenity of xne final weeks of the political season, when Mr. Howe was no doubt ordered by the White House to drop from sight and sound until the storm blew over. For weeks on end, nothing was heard from him. There was blessed peace fulness in the schools that should have continued forever. This past week, however, Mr. Howe emerged from his hide out. Down from Washington came w^ord that proceedings had begun to cut off federal funds to three North .Carolina school systems which had committed the sin, in Harold Howe’s view, of giving parents and students the freedom of choice in se lecting schools. Freedom, in Harold Howe’s vocabulary, is something to be rolled around the tongue in principle but to be spat out and forgotten in practice. Free dom is for the birds, not for school children or their parents. Children will go to school where Harold Howe chooses, by fed eral direction and dictation, or the federal purse will be snap ped shut. In name only is the man Commissioner of Educa tion. In practice he is Com missioner of Integration. pious pretense that he is per- j the actual paper used, the hind- : The original is in the Ameri- forming a service for educa- ing and the print. A rag con- ! can gjhfe Society Library, tion. The man is a destructive tent paper as nearly as possible force, and nothing else. like that used by the King’s : r ^^ ie N ew English Bible New It remains to he seen what j printer was specially made for | Testament, The Oxford Anno- will happen to Hyde and Le- j the limited edition of facsimile t a t e< f Bible Revised Standard noir counties and to the town copies. The original binding of Version of The Holy Bible, the of Eranklinton. But one thing leather with gold decoration Westminster Study Bible Re- was recreated also. vised Stardard Version, and a Unique features included in lather bound copy of a Bible this rare book are a “To the in lar g e P rint > borrowed from is certain: The rest of North Carolina should not stand idly by while Harold Howe’s federal boom is lowered on these three helpless school systems. For the freedom of choice is the official school policy of North Carolina. This State’s Superintendent of Public In struction, Dr. Charles F. Car- roll, has defended the North Carolina policy courageously and with great statesmanship. Now is no time for this state, or any. of its officials, or its people, to retreat. The three presently-designated targets of Harold Howe’s wrath deserve all the assistance and support that an aroused people can of fer. If we fail to put up now, we will have no choice hut to shut up later when resumed federal tyranny begins to rain down again upon all of us. of the Newberry College Board of Trustees. The new r budget represents an increase of $145,000 over the present budget. Additional funds are to be used princi- ^ pally for new facultv members 1L C ; : J T.'? , n ,' VaS . a E . .. and salary increases for cur- rent faculty, according to Dr. A. G. D. Wiles, president of the College. Members of the Board of Trustees also approved a re vised budget for the 1906-1967 year of $1,470,000. Three faculty members were promoted from assistant pro fessor to associate professor. They are M. Foster Farley, history; Francis I. Fesperman, Bible; and Charles P. Pruitt, music. Adolfo Francisco Leon, in structor in Spanish, was given the rank of assistant professor. ! City Council Tuesday night approved a $1,361,598 budget for 1967, which includes a sal ary increase for most city em ployees ranging up to ten per cent. First reading of the bud- ‘ get was approved at a special meeting Monday night. The budget is balanced again- ; st expected revenue for the year of $1,441,598, resulting in an anticipated surplus of about $12,000. The budget committee of the council was authorized to meet with the County Board of Commissioners to determine if the City will be allowed to use recently revised property val uations for tax purposes in 1967. ! The county is in the process j of re-evaluation of property |in the county for tax purposes i and it was reported that the j survey is completed in the city ! limits of Newberry, j No tax millage for the city ! will be set until property val- i uation under the new survey j is determined. j Also at its Monday night j meeting, Council aproved a re- tt. • T tti i vised city business license ordi- nance for 196 < on the recom- . mendations of the business li- I cense committee, of which , Councilman Jim Longshore was j chairman. ARhough some mi- j nor changes were made in li- , cense rates, the principal j change was in the method of collection of license fees. In the future, a five percent penalty will be charged each month the license remains unpaid, to a maximum of fifty percent. If A proposed budget of $1,615,- not naid by tbat time, legal 000 was aproved for 1967-1968 ac tion will be taken against the and four faculty members were business firms operating with- promoted at a recent meeting ou ^ a license. assistant librarian, arranged the display. Trustees set budget; give promotions Readers” section, a calendar, the Apocryphia, and a gene alogy of the Old Testament. The library display also con tains a reduced leaf from the 42-line Gutenberg Bible, one of 996 conies of the Cooper-Square facsimile edition. This Bible was the first major book in the West to be printed from mov able type, created by Johann Gutenberg. The printing was the Lutheran Church Supply Store in Columbia, are a part of the display. These volumes are suggested aids for study of religion at Newberry College. Objects of art inspired by the Bible, some hand carved in Germany, are interspersed in the three-level display. These include a statue of the Madon na, the Nativity Scene and a musical scene. ON DEAN’S LIST AT RICHLAND TEC Fifty-six Richland Technical Education Center students have been named to the Dean’s list for the fall quarterF’the Dean’s office has announced. Two stu dents maintained straight “A” averages: Milton D. Marshe, Columbia and Eddie L. Amick, Prosperity. ■SRvvkvlvXU.- Post Office be open Saturday The local post office will re main open and extend some services on Saturday, Decem ber 17. The stamp and parcel post section will open at 8:30 a.m. and close at 5:00 p.m. This will provide an additional five hours for the convenience of the public. The money order, C.O.P., reg istry, and postal savings sec tion which is normally closed on Saturdays, will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon. BE ENTERTAINED The Lutheran Women will entertain the Golden Age Fel lowship Wednesday afternoon, December 21 at 3:30 at the Parish House. r . - 4 City Manager Riebe got ap proval of council of a request to proceed with the purchase of three police cars, a utility skyworker and a utility truck. The police cars were listed at a cost of $6,380. Riebe said the car's, skyworker and the truck are being purchased through the state purchasing agency. Cost of the skyworker was listed at $16,798 and the truck uipment would be purchased if all required specifications are met. Sgt. Billy Fallaw, right, of the South Carolina Highway Patrol, spoke on traffic safety at last week’s meeting of the Exchange Club of Newber ry. With him are left, Johnny Stribble, city safety officer, and Jack Goree, vice president and program chairman. (Sunphoto) Taylor speaks to concerned Presbyterians All interested Presbyter ians are invited to attend an information meeting for con cerned Presbyterians Thursday, December 15 at 8:00 p.m. in the new Hartness-Thornwell Presbyterian church of Thorn- well Orphanage in Clinton. Dr. G. Aiken Taylor, Editor of the “Presbyterian Journal” will speak. Under Dr. Taylor’s editorship the publication is leading all other Presbyterian publications in growth of cir culation, and articulates the matters about which increasing numbers of leaders and mem bers are concerned. , Foremost among these are at- $4647, accor ing o ic e. concern t;ba ^ tbe integrity and The city manager said jhe eq- authority of the Word of God be upheld, and that winning people to Jesus Christ and ma turing them in fruitful faith be emphasized as the primary mission of the church rather than social, economic and poli tical matters. Upholding insti tutions of the church is cur rently of vital concern, espec ially in this area. Dr. Taylor is well known in this area as a former resident of Clinton and a graduate of Presbyterian college. A World War II infantry officer, he is a former pastor of various churches and the author of two books, one of which “A Sober Faith” is now in its 3rd printing. He was awarded the Ph.D. degree by Duke Univer sity and is the son of Mrs. Julia Pratt Taylor of Clinton. Eagle Scout The smart-stepping “Red Devil” band of Clinton High School attired in sea sonal uniforms of white and red, added color and festive music to the New berry Christmas parade last Wednesday. At left marching beside the band is the director, Harry Bouknight, formerly of Newberry. Other pictures of the Christmas parade will appear in. next week's issue.. iSupphoto) College gets Gulf grant Newberry College has recei ved a $2,000 grant for unres tricted use from Gulf Oil Cor poration. It was one of 150 such aw ards, totalling $300,000, that Gulf will distribute this year as unrestricted grants to as many universities and colleges under its Aid-to-Education pro gram. In addition to uniestiicted grants, the other phases of Gulf’s comprehensive education al assistance program include capital grants; Gulf merit scho larships to children of employ ees and annuitants; employee gift-matching to colleges; de partmental assistance grants; graduate fellowships; and also grants for special purposes such as research. Institutions eligible for un restricted grants are those which are privately operated and controlled, and which ob tain a major portion of their financial support from non-tax sources. The check was presented to B. O. Long, treasurer, by M. G. Harris, district manager of the Gulf company. COLLEGE HOLIDAY Newberry College students will begin their Christmas hol idays Friday afternoon. Classes are to be dismissed at 4 p. m. Friday, and will re-1 sume at 8 a. m. Tuesday, Jan. 3. Dormitories are scheduled to close at 10 a. m. Saturday and reopen at 1 p. m. Monday, Jan. 2. Administrative offices will be closed Wednesday, Dec. 21, through Wednesday Dec. 28, and Saturday through Monday, Dec. 31—Jan. 2. Holiday hours are listed The Merchants Association reminds the public that stores are remaining open on Wednes day afternoons from now until Christmas, and on Friday nights until 9:00 o’clock this week and next week. Afternoon closing hours are 6:00 p.m. ex cept on Fridays. The Association has recom mended that business establish ments close on December 25 and 26 for Christmas, and on January 1 and 2 for New Year’s Day. John Fraser, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Fraser, was pre sented his Eagle badge at the meeting of the Newberry Lions Club on December 6. John first became a Scout in Sumter in January 1961 and transferred to Troop 66, New berry, in August, 1962. He has served as quartermaster, as sistant patrol leader, patrol leader, and is now senior pat rol leader. He was elected to the Order of the Arrow, nat ional camping fraternity, in 1965. Troop 66 has been sponsored by the Newberry Lions Club since 1939. NEW YORK MEETING Dr. A. G. D. Wiles, presi dent of Newberry College, is attending a meeting of the Board of College Education of the Lutheran Church in Amer ica in New York City this week. He is one of three LCA coll ege presidents elected to serve as consultants for the confer ence. Schools close for holidays Newberry College, Newberry public schools, and Newberry Academy, Inc. will all begin observance of the Christmas season after school on Friday of this week. Schools will resume opera tion on Monday, January 2nd, 1967. BIRTHDAYS Dec. 17: Jack Workman, Billy Clary, Mrs. Maggie Hartley, Pete Parrott, Mrs. D. B. Sease. Dec. 18: Walter James Joye, George Heller Jr., J. N. Ni cosia, William Heller. Ada Cromer, Gene Sowell, William N. Henderson. Dec- 19: Mrs. R. C. Neel Sr., Mrs. A. N. Crosson Jr., S. R. Amick. Dec. 20: Mrs. Paul H. Long, Wallace Ruff, Sandy Fret- well. Dec. 21: Mrs. E. B. Purcell, W. E. Spearman, R. EL Han na. Dec. 22: Herbert Griffin, Mary Baker, Prof. Ralph H. Setzler, Mrs. O. C. PhilUps. Dec. 23: Mrs. Pinckney N. Abrams, Claude Buzhardt, Frank Lominack, Jr., James Henderson, Martha Jean Longshore, Mrs. Clay Ballen- tine, Angela Dominick, Mrs. A. T. Dennis.