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PAGE 6—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, August 31,1967 At wedding of grandson Mr. and Mrs. D. 0. Carpen ter attended the wedding of their grandson, Mark Brannon and Miss Carol Hinson at Vir ginia Memorial Methodist church, Columbia, Friday night, August 25. Also attending the wedding were Lt. Col. and Mrs. Dalton 0. Carpenter Jr., of Annandale, Va., who visited in Newberry after the wedding with Colonel Carpenter’s parents. Col. Carpenter is currently assigned to the Department of the Army’s General Staff and is Chief of the North American branch, Western Hemisphere Division, Deputy Chief of Staff Operations. In this capacity, he is the Army’s principal staff officer to the Commander in Chief, Atlantic and 2nd Naval Fleet. Charm course offered by dance school The Tommy Lybrand School of Dance announces the addi tion of a Charm Program to its Fall class schedule. Classes will be taught for pre-teens and teenagers. Gordon III, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Blackmon, of Aiken, celebrated his first birthday on August 14. He is the grandson of Mrs. Mattie Lou W. Blackmon of New berry. will be conducted over 6 weeks. Classes will begin Wednes day, September 13, at the Tommy Lybrand Dance Studio located at Bishop’s Skating Rink. For additional information and registration call Mrs. Dick Shealy, 276-4765 after 6 p.m. The instructor for the charm classes will be Miss Lynn Sims, Youth Coordinator and Director of the Miss Teenage Columbia Pageant for a Col umbia Department store. Miss Sims has instructed classes for both the pre-teen and teen age groups. Miss Sims has had a great deal of experience as a judge and Mistress or Cere- moniees for high school and Mis America Preliminary pag eants. The course offered for teens will include eight weeks of in struction in skin care, make up techniques, modeling, walk ing, sitting, posture, standing, hair care, wardrobe, and eti quette. The pre-teen classes wil be a similar course of studies but Mrs. A. M. Lake Mrs. Agnes Mills Lake, 65, widow of John Lake, died Sun day at Newberry County Mem orial hospital after a short ill ness. A native of this county, she was the daughter of the late S. P. and Minnie C. Mills. She was a member of Bethel Bap tist church. Mrs. Lake’s first husband, Oscar Boozer, pre ceded her to the grave a num ber of years ago. Survivors include two sons, 0. H. Boozer of Newberry and Wesley Boozer of Aiken; two daughters. Mrs. Ruby Lee Shealy of Newberry and Miss Linda Lake of the home; two sisters, Mrs. Mattie McCartha and Mrs Marie Stockman, both of Prosperity; two brothers, Tillman Mills of Newberry and Berley Mills of Chapin. Funeral services were held Sunday at her church with Rev. Roy A. Davis and Rev. C. B. Atkinson conducting the ser vice. Burial was in the church cemetery. ENROLL NOW SCHOOL, or DANCE ALL TYPES OF DANCING AND CHARM For Information and Registration Call Mrs. Dick Shealy, 276-4755, after 5:00 p.m. Dance Instructor—Tommy Lybrand Baton—Paula Cuthbertson Charm—Lynn Sims, Columbia, S. C. THE M ANION FORUM Bv MARILYN MANION WHY NOT FIGHT TO WIN? The letter began like a thousand others: “Dear Mom.” Another missive from Viet Nam—anxiously expected, joy ously received, eagerly opened. The writer of this particular letter had penned his message as he sat on a cot, leaning up against a hut somewhere in the jungles of Viet Nam. “I have a cold Korean Crown beer beside me,” he wrote cheer fully, as if to assure his mom that life was treating him OK, “and my tape recorder is play ing some soft modern jazz . . . Gee, I love music . . . I’ve decided the name of the house I am going to build some day will be “The House With a Song in Its Heart.” That house will never be built. For the boy who loved music was killed in action a few weeks after he wrote home. The story might have ended there, as have 12,500 other stories of men killed in Viet Nam, except for the fact that this soldier had some other things to tell his Mom in his last letter home. And so, al though Captain Brooke Shad- burne died while fighting for his country, his words live on. “As I see it,” Shadburne wrote, “what we are currently trying to do is gradually ex pand our THOR (Tactical Area of Responsibility) so that we control the people inside that area. We then give then tin to rebuild a model village and a school. Gradually the idea is to push out the VC, educate the children, prove that we are good white people, not bad like the French, and help them es tablish moderate agrarian re form. . “Sounds great—but one-half mile south of our base there is a tiny village typical of so many thousands in the area. Within the last year it has ‘lost’ two mayors. The first was kidnapped. The second was killed, along with his familly. The present one had his young son’s fingers all are broken by the VC, and the fingernails pulled out one by one. Today there was a three-year-old gir in the hospital, daughter of ex-town chief; the chief • nd his wife were b*- 1 ' ' ir 'd bill ed in view of tl h.id and then the little girl was beaten beyond recognition with rifle butts and left for dead. “How can we educate dur ing the day? How can we ex pect a stable government when we only own the day, and in the night the VC come in with a new Russian sub-machine gun to cast their own brand of veto to any local elections? They extract their rice tax, grab the youths for recruits, and by day—who is to know? They wear black P.J.’s and straw hats like everyone else. Stable, Educated, Reofrm—we can’t win hearts! Let’s win a War f “We must 1) cut off ALL of North Viet Nam’s sources of supply, sea, land, air. 2) bring them to their knees to stop the inflow of men and arms into South Viet Nam. 3) make a huge, mighty sweep through South Viet Nam to clean out the remaining die-hard guer rillas. 4) then and only then, rearm, train, and supervise the Arvin. Teach the children, aid the homeless. Only then will it do any good. ThlT'brave young flyer could not see the sense of fighting a war—unless we fight to win. He died still waiting for a policy of victory. How many more will die—still waiting? HOPE FOR THE FUTURE Every generation has glumly concluded that the younger set is going to hell in a handbas ket. The earliest comment on record was issued in ancient Greece—and for the latest, one need only read the letters-to- the-editor column in his news paper. If one gleans hi* know ledge of current event from the news media, he can only shake his head in despair. Col lege students have all but closed down large universities with sit-ins, riots and demon strations. They have attempted to block troop trains in pro test against the war in Viet Nam. The campus “Left” gives no hint of producing fu ture leaders of a responsible Republic. If it isn’t on campus, it’s off: those who don’t find school “meaningful” drop out and become hippies—“flower child ren.” Their peculiar way of life has been described as lofty prose, accompanied by full- colored pictures, by most major news magazines. Who will be left, when these youngsters are grown and are rearing their own offspring, to maintain a semblance of order ? Who, if anybody, will care enough about a free Am erica to keep her free ? For those who have been troubled by these questions, there is a refreshing answer: Young Am ericans for Freedom, popularly known as YAF. Founded in the fall of 1960, YAF is now ten times as large as the biggest group claimed by the New Left. In fact, YAF is larger than all of the ma jor young Leftist organiza tions put together. Why, then, don’t we hear much about this Conservative youth group ? “Because,” said YAF leader David Keene on a recent Man- ion Forum radio program, “you can get more publicity by lying down in front of a train than you can by solving problems. The so-called ‘New Left’ gets a lot of headlines because they engage in riots.” Keene, who is a member of YAF’s National Board of Di rectors, described some of the organization’s purposes and ac tivities for the Manion Forum audience. “We are concentrat ing primarily on the campuses and high schools,” he said, “because the average Ameri can educator is of the liberal persuasion. That is why so many college students are liberals—they’ve never been exposed to anything else. “There is a great desire amc-ng students today to find solutions to our dilemmas— solutions consistent with indiv idual liberty. And YAF has been instrumental in offering these alternatives. Many young people are seeing, for the first time, that liberal dogma does not hold all the answers. They are realizing that, in order to solve our problems, they shall have to look somewhere else.” Early in September, thous ands of Young Americans for Freedom will gather in Pitts burg for their annual conven tion. The newspapers may not inform you of this meeting, be- cause the YAF delegates who will have come from almost every State in the Union will not block traffic, or turn heads by wearing dirty clothes. You may be sure, however, that the resolutions passed by these dedicated youths will be of the sort to give heart and hope to those “old” Americans who cherish freedom. VISITED HERE Mrs. Homer R. (Helen) Wil liams of Portsmouth, R. I. re cently visited her mother-in-law Mrs. Roland C. Williams and Wyman Williams. SCOUT PROMOTIONS Peter Brown, Troop 66, Eagle. Merit Badges Steve Armfield, Troop 66, Painting. Jacob Ballentine, Troop 66, Citizenship in the Nation, El ectricity, Firemanship. Peter Brown, Troop 66, Cit izenship in the Community, Personal Fitness. Sandy Fretwell, Troop 66, Geology. Leslie Hipp, Troop 66, Geol ogy, Life Saving, Nature, Soil and Water Conservation. Jimmy Weir, Troop 66, Pets. $10.99 Little girls love to wear our shoes because the styles are so new, the colors so bright and right. And we have lots more any little girl would be proud of... come and let us show them to you soon 1 Anderson’s