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Mrmbers of the XowIhmtv ('oiinty J ivo I'rlcyat ion chat following- the puhlic nioctiny held at the court hoioe Saturday, h rem left they are Rep. 1). I\ Folk and Senators Kup'ene ('. Griffith and fdoyd I). Spence. (Sunphoto). Attendance light at public meeting Only about two dozen per Council approves water extension by the way.. . By DORIS A. SANDERS F I E L I) D A Y The radio, television and the daily newspapers have really had a field day this week what with Bobby Baker, Adam Clay ton Powell and Lester Maddox in the limelight. These notor ious events stole some of the thunder from the President’s State of the Union address but few people missed the fact that he is proposing a six per (amt surtax on income ’axes. Higher taxes an* unwelcome at any time, but especially at this time of year when many of us are poriny over those dreaded forms, discovering we have underestimated our tax and trying to scrape up the additional funds to send off to Uncle Sam before January 1 a lest we have to spend a while in jail. There is no necessity for ncreasiny taxes to raise four or five billion dollars. That much — and far more-—could easily he cut from the budget by abolishment of such fool ish and unnecessary programs as the so-called anti-poverty prop-rams, urban renewal pro prams, and a preat proportion of the aid-to-education pro prams not to mention the mon ey ’hat is thrown away by the povernment. for "foreipn aid" NOW is tin 1 time for you to take pen and I Kl pe r i n hand and w rite to your ('on gress- man , your Sen ators and to the Ibi- udent. Let ' hem know that you are in favor of doing away with prop-rams which benefit nobody except the bureaucrats and let them 1 mow that ; you are NOT in favor of a tax in- c rea se, but rathe r that you fa- vor a cut in govt ■rnnu mt spe nd- mg. As Jabho }■ 'oik said tlle (it he ■r day at th* public mt ■ nt- mg of the co u n ity delegation, " W. • don’t know what you are •hinking units y oil t ell us. If you wait until a bill is pHS; md, it’s too 1a t < ■. So ‘ let your i ■ep- re.-w ntatives m W ash :ng t (i n k n o ’ w BEFUEL t hey decide to rai> e y (»u r t ;t xes. d’our . n - flue lice Will be felt . IN ( OLLMBIA Thmgs are h immune' d< i w n m ( '(dumb.a this \\ e ■ k, too. 1 imtice that both our state senators had pictures ,n The (ireenvdle New- Wednesday morninp, althouph Sen. Eup- e rie U. Cnffith wa> identified a' Steve (' (iriffith. Senator Cnffith .Carted off hi> b-pis- ,ati\ i career by introduemp •'ome lulls, amonp winch was a in’ll to more fairly compen sate retired teachers. This is needed lepu.-dat nm and I hope it will he looked upon favor ably by the (ienera! Assembly. Remember that you tire rep resented in the state senate by both Sen. Griffith and Sen. Floyd Spence, and in the House by Rep. D. R. F oik. They WANT TO KNOW your thouphts—so tell them! WOULD YOU BELIEVE? I wouldn’t have believed that the arropant Adam Clayton Powell would he ousted from even his committee chairman ship, much less from the House of Representatives. Of course the latter is only tem porary and chances are that (Continued on page 8) sons attended the public meet inp of the Newberry County Lepislative delepation and the County Board of Commission ers at the court luuisr Satur day morninp, and most of those were merely in the role of observers. No complaints were voiced about past actions of the p"\ rninp bodies and few suppestions were made ’ o puide their future actions. Rep. 1). P. Folk, who has served the county six \u-aiw in the state House of Represen tatives, pre.-ide<l at the meet- inp and introduced others pres ent: Fupeiie C. Criffith and Floyd 1). Spence, both Repub licans, state -enators from District 22 which aa-inde.- Newberry, Saluda ami Lexinp- ton counties; .U r Frank 11 awk ins, ehai i man of the Board of ( on:m.eanea- and members of the board, H. B. Hendrix, Supervisor, Ben F. Dawkins and Ross Ceorpe, Commissioners. Also introduc ed were Robert C. I.ake, Jr., county attorney and Olin I.ominiek, clerk of the board of Commissioners. Mr. Lake, who is also pres ident of the Newberry County Development Board, expressed that Board’s appreciation to the county delepation and the county commissioners for their cooperation. “I think we have reached a good poal as far as the city is concerned,” he said. He revealed that bro chures are soon to be distri buted in vital places extollinp thr merits of the Peak and Ubappells areas for location of industry. "Our poal is to lo cate a sizable plant in one of the county location.-,” he said. (Continued on page 8) In a meeting of almost un precedented brevity — lasting exactly one-half hour—City Council transacted the business of the month Tuesday night. Council approved changing of budget figures to correct an error in the amount of about $r,ooo- Approved advertising of bids from cable television com panics which might wi.-h to operate in the e t y. I'll ree such companies have appeared hi‘fore council but one, Jeffer son Standard, withdrew its application for the present Jurors named Judge James H. McFaddin of Manning will preside at the January term of Common Pleas court beginning January 22 at 1L20 a.m. The following jurors will report for duty on Mon day : Horace W. Kinaid, Clem Bunch, C. H. Vaughn, Ken neth M. Haltiwanger, Reuben Horace Jenkins, Jas. E. Stone, Leland C. Epting Jr., Donald F. Boland, John David Lake, William C. Swittenherg, Her man Wicker, James W. Grif fin, Manley G. Bedenbaugh, Carroll Lester, Clyde Gaffney, Allen D. Barron Jr., Eugene Williams, J. Nelson Cotney; Also, 0. L. Cook Jr., R. M. Duckett Jr., A. L. Counts, Mal colm L Moore, S. M. Price, Maybank Bedenbaugh, George S. Williamson, Roy C. Bishop, Karl Morris, John A. Kinard, J. Madison Longshore, Vernon N. Hawkins, Clarence T. Gra ham, Jerry A. Lindler, J. EU- erbe Sease, Eeland C. Werts, Keith Gordon Jones, Glenn Stewart, S. W. Brown, Harry Sessoms, Charles W. Morris, time. City Manager Riebe rec ommended that Council hear from other companies before going forward with approving a cable television operation in Newberry. He reported that his investigation of CATV in other cities disclosed that there were some problems in "legal and control aspects" but that "once they have it, the public doesn’t want to give it up. 'I'lie manager advised euuneil that the low bidder on t he Sk yLHe r WO add b; ive the eqiiipme nt i n New ben y S; itur day for inspt ■ct ion. ( '(Hit ract b;is not been a wa I'ded t he low bidder, In ■ aid, because t he equipment die 1 not meet all specific: it i' 11 n s. He indie ated that sp eci f icat ions m; iv be * al- tered, the reby saving- the c 11 y money on J HI 1 rclmse of t h e S k y 1 i f t e r. (’ouiu ul discussed US(‘ of the county tax evaluation rec ords by the city. Mr. Riebe ad vised that the city attorney be lieved it would ho necessary to have an enabling act passed by the legislature. No action was taken on the matter. Council aproved extending a 12-inch water main across Highway 7b in the vicinity of the drive-in theatre at a cost not to exceed $5()()0. Council also approved trans fer of $10,000 accumulation in the bond fund to the gvneral operating fund of the city. Discussions wore held about the extension of water and sewer lines in the Oakland area and lighting throughout the city. The city manager advised that the "master plan” provid ed for up-to-date lighting throughout the city. Promptly at 8:00 p.m., coun cil adjourned. BIRTHDAYS Jan. 11: Paul B. Ezell, Ma bel Hiller Slaton, Mrs. Jas. Brown, Richard 1. McWhir- ter, Joseph W. Hipp, Rich ard Henry Ruff, Claudia S. Hinson, Lewis Lipscomb, Jr. Jan. 15: Mrs. Edna IT. Fea- gle, Edna Hite Ringer, T. I). Pitts, J r„ Mrs. (). A. Fel- ker. Jan. lb: James Montgomery Smith III, W. M. Buford Jr., VVynonia L. Terrell, Ellen Altman. Jan. 17: Mrs. E. L. Hart, Wilbur Long, Mrs. Alfred Ringer, Martha McCullough, Mrs. W. M. Buford, Sr., Mrs. Dick Shealy, Gloria Parks, Mrs. Kathryn C. Link, Mrs. Richard H. Ruff. Jan. 18:Mrs. Steve C. (irif fith, Mrs. L. G. McCullough, Mm. Henry Shannon, Jr,, Irvint Lee Leslie. Jan. 19: Lt. Col. Gerald ()’- Quin. Gaynelle Harmon Stewart, Buford Connelly, B. H. Hamm. Jan. 20: Donna Betts Nich ols, Mrs. O. H. Lane, Eliza beth R. Boylston, Lugenia Martin Wilson, Ervin Mer chant. Otis K. Franklin. Members of the new county governing body, the County Board of Commissioners, pose for the Sun-camera. From left, seated, are H. B . Hendrix, supervisor and Jesse Frank Hawkins, chairman of the Board; standing, Olin Lominick, secretary; Ben F. Dawkins and Ross George, commissioners. ( Sunphoto).