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Volume 31—Number 25. Newberry, S. C. 29108, Thursday, Oct. 12, 1967 $2.00 Per Year—Single Copy 10c One of the many outstanding units in the Fire Preven tion Parade Tuesday afternoon was the Exchange Ciub float, shown above. by the way .. . By DORIS A. SANDERS SECOND BEST In this case second best was very good. The Newberry High School Marching Band took second place in the Marching Band Contest held at Spartan burg Fair Tuesday. There were 13 bands from high schools over the state in the competi tion, and besides facing tough opposition, the band was with out its director, Miss Lorraine Paris, who became ill the night before and was unable to make the trip. Our congratulations are ex tended to this fine band, which always puts on a good show whether it wins contests or not. Only the director and band parents know how hard these students work. They deserve more recognition then they receive. WANTS HELP A member of one of the county school advisory boards wants help in doing something about increasing teachers’ sal aries. He disagrees with my statement last week about be ginning teachers in North Car olina and Georgia not making as much as beginners in this state, and cites as an example the pay schedule in Atlanta, (ieorgia. This is the whole trouble with figures put out by these education associations and ed ucation departments. People don’t seem to realize the fig ures cited are averages. My friend doesn’t have to go to Atlanta, for instance to find that beginning teachers make more money than they would in Newberry. He has only to ride 18 miles up the road and he will find beginning teachers in Laurens School District fai making more than beginning teachers in Newberry. The trouble comes in with the local supplement given by each school district. You prob ably would be surprised to know the number of excellent teachers who reside in New berry county, but go to Clin ton and Joanna to teach be cause of better salaries and working conditions. I would guess there are at least a dozen—perhaps more— all of whom could be assets to the Newberry schools. The State supplement is the same for all teachers who pos sess thr same qualifications. The competition between dis tricts for teachers lies in what the district pays in the way of local supplement, so it it not nece.-sary to go Uyomi the talc iihc.s to blame the short age of teachers in Newberry on higher salaries ••isewhere As stated be f o re, ! am rml opposing a teachei pay no so. Many teach- rs work long, hard lionrs, have extra i utie.- at football gan l e S . ' t C . - and THla should t i o l !;c 1, and tio y de serve more money. 1 am mere- iy saying that until th -r. sonu ■ leveling of salaries thru out the state, w< cannot blame our sister state s foi taking the teachers we need ; a > 'U r local school;- In Newberry , ( 1 1 i V i ‘ ' ! t U d teachers hired tins yeai -n •'mu not have been bind had a:.\ one else hern available. .s> schools opened lacking ■' 11 ’ 11 *■ teachers Cnder the presont cireum stances, if Newberry citizens want better qualified teachers, they’ll just have to pay t-r them. NYC MESS I don’t even pretend to un derstand what all the squab ble is within the so-called Nat ional Youth Corps in New berry—-one of Lyndon Johns ton’s “poverty programs” so I hesitate to comment on that, but 1 have heard, since the in ception of the program, that it was not highly successful. (Continued on page 8) Banquet for Firemen held Tuesday night Forty percent of the 12,000 deaths and more than $1 billion in damage due to fires in the United States last year has been attributed to arson and umawful burning, James R. Jamison Jr., deputy chief of the Charlotte, N. C. arson in vestigation burear, said here Tuesday night. Jamison told more than 100 firemen and guests at the an nual Newberry fire prevention banquet at the City Fire De- paitment that “no age is ex cluded from death by fire.” Miss Gmny Mills, 20-year- old Newberry College student and a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. \Y L. Mills of Prosperity, was cru ,vm d “ Miss Fire Preven tion” m ceremonies after a 70- unit parade on Main Street. Shi' wiuj the title from a field •f Id contestants. • Ummon, featured speakei a! * m. banquet sponsored by the N: i berry Exchange Club and ; it. Fire Department, said !na' /'cent U. S. Supreme "..it decisions protecting the yiit. of defendants in cnmi- ca • including arson, have made ; t almost impossibh to • nil i rugate suspects H<- aid do p. i cent of t he com, .v tioms for arson a few V' ai s ago were made possible by : ..iuessiuns. The fire invest igator aid the court decisions hav. hampered us to the pmnt where we are almost un ab.e Lo take the case to court.” L H Colv.n of Greer, presi- d' ;.t .d ihe S. C. Fin mens' As- ' .. > ■ u, p i a i s e d the N e \v - ruty Fin Frevention Week aVnit.is for “drawing utten- ; .on o ' the deadly seriousness of tin.' (’apt. Hai 1'iophet, assistant UiiectiT of fire prevention bu- jt-au at Charlotte, gave fire fightiiig demonstratioms Tues day at Whitmire High School and Mui Carolina High School at Fnmperity. Ndwberry hire Chief Ed ilazil said fire drills will be conducted in all county school* by his department Wednesday. The rural volunteer fire de partments of Newberry County sponsored a fire prevention banquet at the Newberry Fire station at 7:30 p m. Wednes day. Parents Day is scheduled at College More than 000 parents, rep resenting 19 states, are ex pected on the Newberry H diege campus, Saturday' October 2!, for the ninth annual imserv- ance of Parent’s Day. Invitations have been ex tended to the parents of all enrolled students at the college bv the president, Dr. A <1 D Wiles. The day’s program is to climax with the Newbeiry- Jacksonvilie State l uiver-ity game on Setzler Field at ^ .00 p.m. The Newberry < 'ollege Marching Hand, diiccteil by Prof Charles Pruitt, will p/e- sent a special half time show in honor of the pan nO. Awards will be j/re.^ c-nt. d during the half time to par ents coming: the greate.-d dis- tance ami to p: i rents h.vci the most chiliir- : 11 e \ t ■ ( t) tend New! -ei ry < ollege I Newhi i ry ( O i 11' g ( • A1 u m n i sociation. sponsoi as of Fare a Day, will gave th"se a war Other act i va It ICS of the < i a y w i! i imduue a prop tram .n V lb : - Chape!, 2:di).:: : Op j: m ; reception toi -1 u d i 'lit s titid par- cuts at tile ill mu- vi ; ae pi. . .- dent Wiies ; Uhl Ml: , V\ . 3:00 ■i.OO pun. . a! id a e . j U I i I the i ■ 1 i! ■. t .' C if eft .•ria, y Of tin Alumm As .‘it i a u * n, 5:30- 7:00 p.m. !• i om , ad ant 1 i i'-o. . | hri T U ' 111 s w 11! hav • t j ; e opp.a- t umt. y o t visit mg t h< doi m.'.or • l c s, class looms, lihis irv r , and 1 t I i U r i Fli 1 i vi i id ^ S tilt V * i It I [ '■ 1 < 7* . During the same pel md. they W i di h »i‘v'U a: i opportm. it y ( ,r ,. i nf< r-' la v■.-« witli If. ... _» a a’ - t-1 rs o f tiiCii so:; i and -ia . * i':. - te ! S . Di Wiles is til Webs. ■iliL t h e gr oup at th e afterrioOi pi u- gt' sum, w i t h the UcV H an y w eber , ch.apl ain, giving tht ' m- VO catii m Th e Music !Rd mrt- no 1*! 11 has si to ilu! ed a i aaef l'f ' ga a m d a i i mg this sat i - j P' r - md. FROM NEW OR1EANS (dipt and Mrs. Downs Wright have returned to New Orleans, La. after a visit here with Capt. Wright’s mother, Mrs. R. D. Wright, who c*debrat"d her 93rd birthday during the visit. Captain Wright is ( hief of Staff of the 8th Naval District, State Bank to open new quarters today State Bank and Trust Com pany will open its second New berry office to the public to day, October 12 with an open house celebration from 1 to 8 p. m. Guests will be served refresh ments and may register for prizes, one of which is a trip for two to Nassau. The new office, located at the corner of College and Tench streets, features a public meet ing room, bookkeeping office space and a drive-in window. The present facilities can be expanded for two uditional drive-in windows when needed. A parking lot with space for 15 cars is also provided for the new bank’s customers. Joe M. Roberts, senior vice president in charge of the New berry offices, said that the of fice designed by Harmon and Keenan architects was built b\ Hannon Construction and Sup ply at a cost of $95,000. Frank E. Addy, senior vice president, and executive offi cer of the territory including Saluda, Joanna, Whitmire and Newberry, will operate from the new branch. The Newberry office is the 29th in the State Bank & Trust system, and the third in Newberry’ County. D. Wellsman Johnson is chairman of the hoard, and \V. W. (Hootie) Johnson is presi dent of the organization which has more than $100-million in assets. Bloodmobile in urgent need of donors The Red Cross Blooilnt obile will be at Central Meth odist rhur< h on ruesday. Oetob- •r 17 trom 2:00 : .mtil 7:00 p.m, This visit is sponsored by the C i v i - tan (dub. The quota for this visit is 125 pints and is needed eriti- Jacob R. Wise funeral rites held Sunday Jacob Ramage Wise, 72, do d Thursday night at the New berry County Memorial hospi tal after several weeks of ill ness. Mr. Wise was horn and rear ed in Saluda county and was the son of the late George H and Melverda Ramage Wise. He was a graduate of Clemson College in the elm-• of 191H a veteran of World War 1 in 1920, he moved tu V wberry and helped organize tin- New berry County Health D' part merit and served with the unit for a number of year He also was County Si !•'nv ufm r ter the Veterans Admnustrat "ii and tendered many -ervees r.i the veterans ami - i vi. em-'ii ef Newberry county, and tlo ir families. Mi W ' ,e W , i ■ I tin -idy one to s. c r v t ■ ir 1 till oft m M r W tse w.t .1 111* 'ud'er of the Luth eran < 'hui<di of 1 he Kedeeme r, the \ no i i (ai- i eg- ion Post No. 2 1. the lO .m d s. served in the Selec \ V !(•-' Hoard during W orbl War 1 !. and for •11 yea rs iie V. t b rk for the 5 «ewbci ry < ' : .. • , ' 1 ■m ■ orial Ho:- qutal i!o.u r.; Since the -i-a 11 1 , "f f v: f,., the late Mrs .1 ilia ’ d « ! . : .1 1 Wise, he has i e ided ii i 1 Mr and Mrs . Char les Ragland Survivin are four s 1 S1 ■ U Mrs. W. N. Padg ett. Ml.- s M a 111a \\ is-', Miss i din. t in. U all of Saluda; Mr s R. ! 1’ioV den, Spartanburg. Funeral servio . w r. aeht Sunday afterne.u fr-un h:s church with Dr H \. \b ' 'ul- lough coniluiding the -.1 I' C 11 ■>'. Interment was R. i s. ■ m o n t cemetery. Active pall! h in i s u -• r -■ Harrv Ragland, D r .Alim 11 (Vise W. R. Wise, Dr ( n > U g l ■ Wise, Dr. R. E. Living t on, 1 )f r i-: Livingston 111. .1 H.irn ■y Wil- kerson and C R Wh -• rally , a-cording ■o 1 }t . ; , of f icia 1 s. Heca a.- ( of c-dv of blood donors on j a si ■ I u Newberry ' i, u: ' ■, f ble probation amt of Red Cross i dm i Julian S. Bolick of Clinton, artist and author, v Ruest speaker when the Drayton Rutherford Chapt U.D.C. held its first meeting of the 1967-68 t ear End at ARP Church educational building. Shown with A Bolick are, left, Mrs. Ralph B. Baker, Chapte r preside and Mrs. W. E. Shealy, program leader for Oetob (Sunphoto.)