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PAGE 8—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. €., Thursday, Nov. 14, 1968 Dr. Kinard UDC speaker Dr. James C. Kinard was guest speaker at the Calvin Crozier Chapter, UDC meeting on November 5 at the home of Mrs. William H. Tedford. He spoke in the subject, “Educa tion in the South Prior to and During the War Between The States. ” Dr. Kinard told of the almost non-existent state of education during the war. The established colleges and schools were bare of students for all who were big enough to shoulder a gun had gone away to war. The girls and children were taught at home. On the plantations the slave children were taught trades and to read and write in accordance with their learn ing capacities. Prior to the War Between The States a number of out standing colleges and universi ties had been founded in tho South. The University of Virginia founded by Thomas Jefferson had become the pat tern for the southern schools as Harvard and Yale had beon for the North. Some of the more important schools es tablished prior to the war were William and Mary, Washington College, ar^ South Carolina College. University of Georgia, Mississippi College and the Cit adel. Students at the Citadel and at the Virginia Military A- rademy formed active regi ments. Dr. Kinard spoke of some of the South Carolina schools es tablished before the war. Fur man. University of S. C.. Wof ford. College of Charleston. The Citadel, Erskine and Newberry. He interestingly told of how R1TZ THF A TRE THURSDAY, FRIDAY, The Odd Couple JACK LEMON WALTER MATTHAU SATURDAY, MONDAY TUESDAY Killer Three ROBERT WALKER DIANE VARSI DICK CLARK WEDNESDAY THURSDAY, FRIDAY SATURDAY The Parent Trap MAUREEN O’HARA BRIAN KEITH HHAYLEY MILLS Clover Leaf FRIDAY, SATURDAY Clambake ELVIS PRESLEY SHELLEY FABARES SUNDAY Hills Run Red TOM HUNTER HENRY SILVA DA NDURYEA . The Drive-In will be closed on Monday, Tuesday, Wed nesday, Thursday for the winter months. Always A Color Cartoon separate schools were establish ed for girls and that the word “coed was introduced by Miss Margaret Johnstone, the first “coed” to graduate from New berry College. He also spoke of the old Cokesbury College for Women which is now being re stored. In a most interesting manner, Dr. Kinard discussed the early schools in Newberry, both city and county. He spoke with with much charm about the “Village of Newberry”. “For, after all,” said Dr. Kinard, “at that time Newberry was only a village, a very small village at that!” The Newberry Academy was built in 1806. This was for boys only. Later it was transferred to another location and called the Male Academy. The Female Academy was built some years before the war. The building was known as the Pifer house, later becoming the residence of Dr. Robert Houseal and pres ently the residence of Dr. El bert J. Dickert. Both the Male and Female Academies ceased to exist with the establishment of the graded schools.” Delicious refreshments were served by Mrs. Tedford and the associate hostesses, Mrs. S. D. Paysinger, Mrs. W. 0. Miller, Mrs. Duncan Johnson, Sr., Mrs. L. G. Eskridge and Mrs. Geneva Bickerstaff. During the absence of the chapter president, Mrs. A. T. Neely, Mrs. Tedford presided. The historian, Miss Juanita Hitt, read a poem, “I am a South Carolinian”, by John A. May. This was written in ded ication to the S. C. Department American Legion, and read in honor of the chapter’s obser vance of Veterans Day. The chapter also observed the birth day of Gen. A. P. Hill, Nov. 9. It was announced that Mrs. John Sanders (Evelyn Half acre) has been welcomed as a new member. The December meeting will be at the Community Hall on Tuesday evening, December 10. Mrs. Archie Watson of Colum bia will attend this annual Christmas Dinner Party of Cal vin Crozier Chapter. Founders Day at Opoortunity School set The eighth annual Founder’s Day celebration at the South Carolina Opportunity School will feature an address by Dr. R. Wright Spears, President of Columbia College, a long time friend of Miss Wil Lou Gray, the school’s founder and first director. Dr. Spears will be in troduced by J. T. Willis, prin cipal of the opportunity school at ceremonies on Tuesday, No vember 20, at 12 noon, in the campus student center. The opportunity school cho rus under the direction of Mrs. Vincent Rhodes Jr., will give the choral invocation and Dr. M. B. Webb, pastor of the first Baptist Church of Ridge Spring and chairman of the school’s board of trustees, will pronounce the benediction. Dr. Gray will be presented by Mike P. Caskey, Superintendent, who will pre side. Immediately following the Founder,s Day Program, the group will adjourn to the dining room where a buffet luncheon will be served. MRS. SHEALY GIVES UDC PROGRAM The Drayton Rutherford Chapter of the UDC met at the home of Mrs. Gordon Clark son last Friday with Mrs. Thos. H. Pope, Miss Sallie Lee Cro mer and Mrs. R. D. Wright, as sociate hostesses. Mrs. Ralph B. Baker, presid- at, presided. She stated that education is the prime aim of Weapons must be registered COLUMBIA.—Detailed pro cedures for registering mach ine gun, sawed-off shotgun, sawed-off rifle, silencer, deacti- truction devices were announc ed today by H. M. McLeod, District Director of Internal Revenue for South Carolina. The Gun Control Act of 1968 requires that weapons and de vices of this type must be reg istered with the Internal Reve nue Service by December 1. McLeon said that copies of registration Form 4467 are av ailable at Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and other IRS offices. Two copies of the form should be mailed to the Director. Al cohol and Tobacco Tar Divis ion, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, D. C. One copy, after registration has been ef fected, will be returned to the owner. Firearms or destructive de vices should not be brought to an IRS office McLeod said. Under the law all firearms and destructive devices requir ing registration must be iden- Hfi°d by a serial number. If a firearm or device does not have a serial number, the owner should phone, visit or write to the nearest IRS office and a number will be asigned. After obtaining the number, the owner is responsible for affixing it to the firearm or device before completing the registration form. Additional information may be obtained bv contacting the nearest IRS office. Mrs. Nelson service held Mrs. Flora Etta St. Clair Nelson, 61, died early Monday morning at the Newberry Coun ty Memorial Hospital after a serious illness of a week. Mrs. Nelson was born and reared in Alum Creek, West Virginia and was the daughter of the late Charles and Cora White St. Clair. For the past seventeen years she had made her home at 1955 Smith Road and was a member of Smyrna Presbyter ian Church; and a member of the church circles. Mrs. Nelson is survived by her husband Louis P. Nelson, Newberry; three daughters, Miss Cora Marie Nelson, R. N., Miss June Louise Nelson, and Miss Mary Ann Nelson, all of Newberry. She was the last surviving member of her im mediate family. Funeral services were held at 4:30 Wednesday afternon from Smyrna Presbyterian Church with Rev. Charles Ga- hagan conducting the service. Interment followed in the church cemetery. Wedding Invitations at The Sun Office. the UDC and that it is the duty of all mmbers to keep up to date on all educational matters. Mrs. W. E. Shealy presented a most interesting program on “ Battlefields and Historic Shrines of the Southland.” Mrs. Shealy showed maps and pic tures of many places. Mrs. Baker reported on the State Convention, at which she was elected State Chaplain. Mrs. Ralph P. Baker an nounced that a Christmas pro gram is being planned for the children of the Confederacy, with the assistance of Miss Sal- lie Lee Cromer. Mrs. Baker ended the meet ing with a quotation from Markham: ““There is a destiny that makes us brothers, None goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.” Appears Here Brazilian guitarist Laurindo Almeida will appear in con cert at Newberry College Tues day evening, Nov. 19. The con cert, second program in the college’s 1968-69 Arts and Lec tures series, will begin at 8 p.m. in Wiles Chapel. There will be ho admission charge. Almeida’s virtuosity won him a reputation in Brazil as a youth. He came to the United States in 1947 and first attract ed attention in his performance of the guitar scores for a num ber of motion pictures. He played for three years with the Stan Kenton band, mastering the jazz idiom, then struck out on his own. Almost constantly on the concert stage, Almeida has been acclaimed for his musical ability in recitals at Carnegie Hall, the Chicago and San Francisco opera houses, and the Hollywood Bowl. He has re corded several guitar albums on the Capitol label. His Newberry College pro gram will consist mainly of ser ious musifc, including guitar transcriptions from Bach, Mas senet, Schubert, Debussy and others Chairman of Welfare Board resips Joe B. Connelly, Chairman of Newberry County Public Wel fare Board resigned as Board member efective November 15, due to his health. Mr. Connelly was appointed on the County Welfare Board shortly after South Carolina Legislature passed the Public Welfare Bill in April, 1937. The first meeting of the Board was held in July of the same year. At that time, the Board members were Bob Hatton of Whitmire. Chairman; Jerome Senn of Newberry and Joe B. Connelly of Prosperity. Since his appointment as a Board member in 1937, Mr. Connelly has missed only two meetings and one of those was because of illness. Mr. Connelly is a World War I Veteran and member of the American Legion. He is a mem ber of Zion Methodist Church where he was a Steward for thirty years. He has taught Sunday School for forty years and is now a substitute teach er. Mr. Connelly retired as a merchant in Prosperity seven years ago. He is also a farmer. Besides Mr. Connelly, the other two members of the pre sent Board are John T. Norris of Newberry and W. H. Young of Whitmire. Although Mr. Connelly has resigned as an active Board member, he plans to continue his interest in Public Wel fare. RENEW YOUR SubscripHon SELF DEFENSE (Continued from page 1) Gene Bain, also an eyewit ness, told the inquest jury, “I had just got through and was fixing to get up and then Mr. Howell, he grabbed hold to me by the shirt and I didn’t know what to think. I kind of looked at him, and broke loose and saw he had a gun in his hand, then Chief Moss pulled his gun out.” Bain also testified that there were four or five shots. Howard Dillashaw, who was seated at the table with Alex ander and Bain, stated that Mr. Howell was on a stool and that Chief Moss entered from the opposite side. He heard the Chief say, “Put that gun a- way” before firing. He did not hear any other conversation be tween the two. Mrs. Mary Gaffney, an em ployee at Rose’s Ctrfe, test ified that she heard the noise and thought someone was shoot ing firecrackers. When she re alized it was a gun, she said, she got down behind the coun ter. She said when Mr. Moss came into the Cafe, “He didn’t bother Mr. Howell at all, and I didn’t know what was going __ n on. Deputy Sheriff Charles Senn testified that he and Sheriff Tom Fellers investigated the shooting. He said that Howell was dead when they arrived on the scene, with bullet wounds in the chest and in the neck. He said that in a conversation with the Chief of Police, Moss “told me he had fired the shot that killed Howell. He testi fied that he did not see a gun on Howell. The jury’s verdict was that Howell came to his death by gunshot wounds fired by C. P. Moss in self defense and re commend that he not be held for Grand Jury.” Although Chief Moss was exonerated by the inquest jury, the murder warrant sworn out by the sheriff on Monday will be presented to the Grand Jury when it convenes on No vember 25. Hunts underway for bucks, does COLUMBIA.—«With the kill for the first week of the deer hunts on Hunt Units One and Two of the game management areas of the Wildlife Resources Department running well ahead of last year,, game men are looking for continued success during the remaining 2 weeks Nov. 8-16 and Dec. 6-14. The kill of bucks and does on the two units last year was over 1,200. There will be a limit of two buck deer for each hunt. A doe day will be held Nov. 16th on both units with a limit of two, provided a buck has not been killed on either of the previous hunts. Those who have killed a buck will be limited to one doe. Also there will be a hunt on Unit Three, located on Nat ional Forest land in Oconee county, Nov. 15-21, with a limit of one buck. All these are still hunts with the use of d'gs prohibited. Hunt Unit One takes in parts of Chester, Cherokee, Union, Spartanburg, Laurens, Newber ry, Kershaw, Lancaster and Fairfield counties while Hunt Unit Two takes in part of Ab beville. McCormick, Green wood and Edgefield counties. Still hunts are also being held on the Francis Marion ar ea, one ending this Saturday on the Waterhorn and one on the Wambaw set for Nov. 18- 23. A dog hunt will be held on the Wambaw Dec. 5-7. Small game hunts will be held on Hunt Units One and Two from Thanksgiving Day to Feb. 1, except on the days when deer hunts are being held, while all of Hunt Unit Three is open Sept. 15-March 1, ex cept for the Horse Pasture Restoration Unit.