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Page 4—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Feb. 2, 1967 INTRODUCING — The Firebird, Pontiac Motor Division’s new personal sports car, is shown above in the convertible model. The Firebird 400 features Pontiac’s famed 400 cubic-inch V-8 engine, special hood with dual air scoops and wide oval red line tires. The Firebird is also available in a hardtop coupe and other engines offered include the overhead camshaft six-cylinder standard and the 326 cubic-inch V-8 optional. The Firebird is named after a legendary Indian symbol which prom ised action, power, beauty and youth. It was first used in 1954 on General Motors’ dramatic gas turbine powered car, Firebird I, shown in the background. Kirkland names Heart chairmen Harvey Kirkland, campaign manager of the Heart fund announced today the appoint ment of the following officers for the campaign which begins February 1: Dr. E. M. Ander son, a member of the Board of Directors of the South Car olina Heart Association, pres ident-elect; William Kibler, treasurer; Dr. B. M. Montgom ery, medical representative; Ed. Cannon, special gifts; Hart Jordan, business and indus tries chairman; Joe Roberts, city chairman; Ralph Watkins, county and city schools chair man; A1 Busby, rural area chairman; Mrs. Mildred Holi day and Rev. John Ziegler, rural districts chairmen; Home Demonstration Clubs, rural communities; Mrs. Charles ,Vernon, publicity. Balloon day will be sponsored by the cheer leaders from Newberry High; the Jaycees will be in charge of Motorists Canvass Day. Heart-o-rama co-chairmen are Mrs. Ida Mae Longshore and Willie James Moore. This will be conducted thru the co operation of Ralph Williams, and directed thru Dr. J. E. Grant’s office. In addition to these officers, the local Heart Unit has the cooperqtion of Pinckney N. Abrams of Newberry, who is a former president of South Carolina Heart Association, and is new serving on the Board of Directors. Lake Murray recreational areas be built Construction has begun this week in six ntw recreational areas which are designed to give the public greater access to Lake Murray, according to the South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. SCEGCO will build permanent boat launching ramps with nearby picnic and parking areas at six locations around the lake, according to E. H. Crews, manager, engineering services, construction and pro duction. All facilities will be open to the public without charge. Crews said the that company workmen 'six months ago had begun to improve some roads which lead into the recreation areas from main highways. One completely new road will Leads Retreat at Lutheridge Dr. John C. Cooper, head of the Department of Philosophy at Newberry College, will lead a Spiritual Retreat for the Piedmont District of the S. C. Synod, Lutheran Church in America, at Lutheridge, N. C. Feb. 3-4. Approximately 50 persons are expected to be present. He is to speak on contem porary trends in theology, in cluding discussions of the “Death of God” Theology, the New Hermeneutic and Theo logical Naturalism. LENTEN SERVICES AT BACHMAN Lenten Services will begin at Bachman Chapel Lutheran church at 7:30 p.m. with the celebration of the Holy Com munion on Ash Wednesday, February 8. The remainder of the services in Lent will be held on Sunday nights at 7:00 p.m. Those interested are ask ed to notice the change in time. At Sunday night service, students from Newberrry Col lege will bring the message. Members of the church, visit ors and friends are invited to all of the Lenten services. be cut. This work will continue while the ramps are being built. The entire project is expect ed to be completed in early spring. “Now that the lake level is sufficiently low, we can begin the grading for the ramps,” said Crews. The six new areas, located on sites ranging in size from 1.61 acres to 8.86 acres, will be in addition to the two public recreation areas already main tained by SCEGGO at each end of the Saluda dam. There are also 35 commercial docking areas dotting the shoreline of Lake Murray. Lake Murray, one of the lar gest man-made lakes in the world inpounded specifically for the production of electric power, was created in 1930 when the Saluda river dam was built at Dreher Shoals. With a total shore line of some 528 miles, the entire project cost some $20 million. Today stretching some 41 miles through Lexington, Sa luda, Richland, and Newberry counties, the lake attracts thousands of fishing, camping, and boating enthusiasts each year. BRIDGE TO OBLIVION IN THE STATE of the Un ion Message, President Johnson laid heavy stress upon making conciliatory moves toward the Soviet Union and the Commu nist Bloc. The theme of the day is “bridge-building” to re duce cold-war tensions and thereby hopefully bring about normalized relations with the USSR. THE IMMEDIATE focal point is the Consular Treaty with the Soviet Union, which, if ratified by the Senate, would allow the Soviet Union to es tablish numerous consulates in scattered areas of the United States. IN 1965, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reported the Consular Treaty to the Sen ate by a divided vote, after one perfunctory public hearing, at which only Secretary of State Dean Rusk and one other State Department witness testified. The treaty was never brought to a vote in the Senate in the 89th Congress, because a groundswell of public opinion in opposition to its ratification succeeded in persuading enough Senators to vote against it to prevent its approval by the re quired two-thirds margin. THE OCCURRENCE which served to crystallize public opin ion against Senate approval of the Treaty in the last Congress was the testimony of the Direc tor of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoo ver, before an appropriations subcommittee of the House of Representatives in 1965. Mr. Hoover warned that “a cher ished goal of the Soviet intelli gence services” would be real ized if the Soviet Union were allowed to establish consulates across the United States. Mr. Hoover stated that the job of the FBI, that of combatting internal subversion and espio nage efforts, would be made much more difficult. These knowledgable observa tions from the foremost expert in the United States on Soviet espionage efforts and tactics could not be successfully con tradicted by the proponents of the Treaty. THE NEW DRIVE to secure Senate approval of the Treaty has resulted in attempts to ex plain away or “clarify” the earlier remarks of Mr. Hoover. Armed with a letter from Mr. Hoover, Secretary of State Dean Rusk told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Mr. Hoover was not, after all, opposing ratification of the Treaty. WHILE THIS is technically true, it merely begs the ques tion. Mr. Hoover himself noted in a separate letter to one of the members of the Committee that “The FBI is the investi gative arm of the Department of Justice and, as such, it is our responsibility to gather and report facts. The FBI is not a policy-making agency and we did not express opinions.” MR. HOOVER went on in that letter, however, to reaf firm his prior observations that the establishment of Soviet Consulates in this country "of course, will make our work more difficult.” Mr. Hoover further wrote that “The simple fact is that the work of the FBI in combatting Soviet-directed espionage activities in this country has increased through the years commensurate with the increase in Soviet represen tation here. 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