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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
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