The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, October 12, 1967, Image 1
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- :
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tend New!
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ollege I
Newhi i ry
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sociation.
sponsoi
as of Fare a
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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.
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one to s.
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1 till
oft m
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tse w.t
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of
the Luth
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'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
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’ 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
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