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The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, August 17, 1967—PAGE 3 ROVING RADAR MAN—A2C Jean W. Williamson (cq) of Newberry, a radar repairman with the S. C. Air Na tional Guard, works on the radar of an F-102 Delta Dag ger jet interceptor during his two weeks active duty for training at McEntire ANG Base, near Columbia. Airman Williamson is one of at least four Newberry residents completing summer camp at McEntire Sunday (Aug. 13). Others training at McEntire include T-Sgt. Charlie C. Shealy and S-Sgt. Jerry A. Fulmer, both assigned to the 169th Combat Support Squadron, and A1C George R. Dominick of the 169th Supply Squadron. Air Guardsmen train annually for two weeks during the summer and one weekend each month in support of the Air Guard’s role as a backup unit for the Air Force’s Air Defense Com mand. (SCANG Photo by A2C Victor Barwick) not coded in magnetic ink with the routing symbols and transit number of the banks on which they are written. McNair urges South Carolinians to cooperate with their banks by obtaining properly prepared checks. Most banks in the state have been using the magnetic sym bols for considerable time but special handling is required for checks which don't for any reason carry the symbols. And after September 1 the special handling of such items will be come even more troublesome. More work will be required of the banks accepting such checks, whether for cash pay ment or for deposit; genera! processing will be slowed; and special collection charges may result. The reason for the Federal Reserve requirement is the com puterization of daily bank transactions processed through the Reserve system. Sorting of checks forwarded through the Federal Reserve by mem ber banks to other member banks is done on highspeed electronic equipment. And the checks handled by this equip ment must also be printed on paper of a quality meeting ma chine requiremehts. As a result of all this, blank or counter checks, which vir tually have disappeared from use in recent years probably now will be discontinued alto gether. It also no longer will be acceptable to scratch through one bank’s name and numbers to write in those of another. The Federal Reserve computers would still read the onginrl magnetic numbers through the ink or pencil marks. There will be extra work entailed and sig nificant delay in charging any such transactions to the proper bank. To point up the amount of checks without magnetic ink symbols of the average daily volume of 228,000 items cleared through the Charlotte branch of the Richmond Federal Re serve Bank during June a total of 9,391 lacked these characters. This was 4.12 per cent of the total volume of checks and sim ilar items handled for the bank’s Carolinas zone. HERE, YOU PROFIT WITH Forestry Board re-elects H. M. Hentz The annual meeting of the Newberry county Forestry Boa^d was recently held to re- v iL . ».e . * StaU v_,* i*.iL ion f Forestry’s program in the county, according tr< Leg- are M. Duke, District 1 orester of the Newberry District. H. M. Hentz of New r berry was re c! eted hairman of the Forestry Board for the com ing year. Highlights of Forestry Com mission actr ities and accom plishments in forest fire pre vention and control, reforesta tion and forest management assistance prpgrams during the past fiscal year were given. In summarizing the fire con trol activities, it was noted that 24 wild fires burned 3f>l acres. This compares with 33 fires that burned 100 acres last year. The large fire at Chappells accounts for the large acreage this year. During the past fiscal year Newberry county personnel presented 21 fire prevention programs to various groups in the county. Following a review of the 1900-07 acomplishments, the Board discussed plans for the county for the 1907-08 fiscal year. Members present at the Board meeting were H. M. Hentz, Newberry, and John S. Derrick, Little Mountain County Ranger James Lee Mills, Fire Control Assistant, J. T. Hance, Forester Robert E. Beach and Warden Alfred Dorroh also attended the meeting. Mrs. Perchau dies in Georgia Mrs. Ora C. Persehau, 02, died Friday at the home of her son in McDonough, Ga., after several months illness. Mrs. Persehau was born in this county, daughter of tht late James and Dollie Caldwell. She was a member of Church of God, College street. She is survived by three sons, Homer Thompson of Mc Donough, Ga., John Thomp son of Rossville, Ga. and Ev- erette Thompson of Statesboro, Ga., and Mrs. J. D. Mikell, of Savannah, Ga.j two brothers, James Caldwell and Roy Cald well, both of Newberry, a half- brother, Hobson Caldwell, ui Newberry; four sisters, Mrs. Earl Singley Sr., and Mrs. Al vin Hipp, of Newberry; Mrs. S. .M Parnell of Columbia; Mrs. B. M. Mack of Newberry. Funeral services were held Saturday at her church, con ducted by Rev. James Moore and Rev. Jarm - Wiley. Burial was in Rosemo - cemetery. County native dies Monday Mrs. Jeanette Tolbert Frank lin died Monday in Columbia af ter several months illness. Mrs. Franklin was a daugh ter of Raymond I . and Mrs. Lenora Miller Tolbert, and a native of this colunty. For several years she had made her home at St. Andrews near Columbia. Since graduating from Newberry college she had taught school. Mrs. Franklin is survived by her husband, Buford Franklin, Columbia; five children, John, Raymond, Karen, Margaret, and Loree, all of the home and her parents of Newberry. Check writing practices to be changed Columbia — Some check writ ing practices are going to be discarded September 1. Along with everyone else in the Unit ed States, South Carolina bank depositors who use blank checks to draw against their accounts or who may occasionally ink out die name of one bank for anoth er in the use of checks probably won’t be permitted to do the: any longer. If they do, they will put their banks to con siderable extra expense and troublesome special effort. President James D. McNair if the South Carolin Bankers Association is calling attention to the new Federal Reserve Bank requirement that after September 1 it no longer will handle as cash items any checks INSURED SAFETY AND A HIGHER THAN AVERAGE RETURN OF * 4 V2 ^ ^ er AmUI II The above emblem of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation means that your savings here are automatically insured safe to $15,000 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, a perman ent agency of the Federal Government. This protection is complete, protecting against loss from any cause. Should you wish to save more than $15,000 with in sured safety, just ask us. Such a program is easily ar ranged through the use of joint and trust accounts. Open a savings account today with Dividends at 4 1 //" and let us show you what it will do over a period of years. ★ tsaa COLLBOB STBBBT. NBWBEBRY, •• C. DIRECTORS John F. Clarkson J. K. Willingham E. B. Purcell W. a Huffman A. E. Morehead J. M. Rawls, Leeerille, S. C. 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