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by the way... By DORIS A. SANDERS TRAFFIC JITTERS I’ve come to the conclusion that the only thing for me to do is to stay at home. I had just about gotten my nerves settled down from that drive over the Blue Ridge Parkway late in August, then decided to make a trip to Atlanta. I don’t know which is worse—the Park way or the Atlanta express ways. Atlanta, these days, seems to be merely a mass of express ways and, once you’re off of those, one-way streets. The stranger is completely lost, ev en those who knew Atlanta as it once was. I suppose this is the price one pays for progress and urban renewal. About the only familiar sights were the famous department stores and the Henry Grady Hotel on Peachtree street. Wonder how it managed to survive? The area near the Henry Grady is ringed with high-rise apartments, office buildings, motels, none of which I remem ber being there 20 years ago. About half the city seems to be composed of high-rise park ing garages or ground level parking lots. The heart of At lanta seems to have become little more than a convention site. We had a few minutes to walk through some of the stores—-Davison’s, J. P. Allen, Regensteins—and 1 was am azed that with Christmas so near, the stores were just a- bout empty except for the clerks. If there is any Christ mas shopping going on, it must be in the suburb shopping cen ters. But to get back to the traffic, it is so bad that a helicopter constantly roams the territory and, about every 10 or 15 min utes, advises radio listeners the direction to take in order to avoid wrecks and traffic de lays. Wrecks are so common place that no one (except those involved) seems to think much about them. The Marriott Motor Hotel appears to be the center of convention activiies of all types ami it is there that we were attending meetings of the Southern Association of to! leges and Schools. It seemed almost fantastic to walk into the Marriott’s “Hal! of Na tions” and discover chairs plac ed for 4000 persons that’s how many were in attendance at the meeting. Art Buchwald, famous col umnist who was speaker ta that particular meeting. most aptly described the place uhen he told his listeners" “This is the first time I've ever made a speech in a subway station." In addition to the 4000 chairs, there were some 50 or (>0 exh lot booths in the same hall and still plenty of room to spare There may be folks who like city life, but I’m not amonu them. I’ll take NowlrTry a- e, and hope a friend of mine is wrong when he gue e- tha‘ the population of our ’own will double by 10^0. THAT’S BETTER I was delighted to find when we returned to Newberry on Thursday that the playground equipment had been removed from the Plaza. Now it seems more in keeping with the orig inal idea—at least what I con ceived to be the original idea. I think the Christmas tr “ is (Continued on Page 4) A m 'i k* J Volume 32—No. 34. Newberry, S. S. 29108, Thursday, December 12, 1968 $2.00 Per Year—Single Copy 10c Aj $127,500 GIFT TO NEWBERRY COL LEGE—George McQuilkin, Kendall Com pany vice president, (seated, far right) presents Newberry College President A. G. D. Wiles with deed to 102-acre tract of land valued at $127,500. The Kendall Com pany contribution was the largest single advance gift to date to the college’s 1969 Second Century Campaign. Others seated (from left) are Dr. John Clarkson of New berry, a Newberry College trustee and fi nance committee chairman, and Dr. Fred PL Dufford of Charleston Heights, S. C., chairman of the board of trustees. Stand ing are three Kendall Company executives from Newberry, W. H. Tedford, H. E. Wessinger and Hart Jordan. Light agenda for council City Council voted Tuesday night to make a $20,000 plus in terest payment on the balance of a note at State Bank ami Trimt Company. The original note in the amount of $H5,000 had been reduced to $45,000 this year. The money was bor rowed several years ago by the City to clear out a sanitary garbage f;M at the (hvCns- lllinoi.s phu t site. Council heard a second nail ing. and pa -ed the 1000 bus- ine'-s lieen-O' ordinance. The ty manager and e'.ty at torn* ere given authority by ( , ,ut. ■ i x< cute a contract with 1. Riley for use of a port -n f his property a - a sanitarv fill On recommenda tmn of the City Planning Com mission, council also authorized the manager and attorney ’o negotiate further with Duke Power Company concerning been Cone Cone begins operations at Whitmire Robert T. Brown has named plant manager of Knits, Cone Mills Corporation’s new knitting operation at Whit mire, according to Lewis S. Morris, Cone president. Brown, who has been statf assistant to the Cone , Mills president holds a B S. degree in textile . ngineering from Philadelphia Textile Institute. He is mar- riod and has seven children. Hubert Greer has been nam- fd office manager of Cone Knits; Ronald Engel er, circu lar knitting superintendent and Johan Tveiteraas, warp knit- tine superintendent, as an- rnmneed by Brown Greer, a native of T’r.ion, attended North Greenville Jun- ior College. He is married and lias one child. Fngeb r is a native rf Swit- Jesse Frank Hawkins is a pa tient at Newberry County Me morial Hospital. His friends will be glad to learn that he is get ting along nicely. Technical College, Bergen, Nor way. He and his wife have four children. All of these will live in the Whitmire area. * r nta o' qit-C y Duk- w; -her- to buy the city for rabt’-of way. Clarence Shealy ad eem mb that he had been t< d by several persons Oicermng the Christmas Street •orrati ’ He noted that the - - or i a t ion for a Greatef NV\y - rry planned ami purehased decoration ami that the city only assisted by helping to put them up. M a n age r Ken R phe told council that the Corps of En gineers from Charleston has a- bout completed the survey of drainage conditions in the Scotts, Creek area and that a complete report is expected by January 15. The survey has been under way for more than a year at no cost to the city. zeriaml ami ,1 a A tin : raduate of the Text le College of Reutlin- gen. Germany. Ho ami Mm. Engeler have three rhildren. T. • ’■ r i • s. native of Nor way, is a graduate of Bt rgen Councilman Gardner remind ed council that the meeting to dismms the proposed highway construction will he held Thurs day rpght, December 19 at Speers Street school. Robert Shealy, assistant sup erintendent of utilities, and Al vin Jackson, superintendent of maintenance for the city, were presented certificates for hav ing completed a course in Su pervisory Methods and Tech niques at the University of South Carolina. College names new member of faculty Dr. E. Dale A. Randolph, now at Arizona State University, will join the Newberry College faculty next September as as sociate professor of modern/ languages. His appointment for the 19G9-70 academic session was announced by Newberry’s president, Dr. A. G. D. Wiles. Dr. Randolph has been assis tant professor of Spanish at Arizona State since 19G3. Pre viously he taught at Tulane University and the University of Virginia. His special fields are Nineteenth Century Spanish literature, Spanish-American literature, and modern Spanish drama. A 195G graduate of the Un iversity of Virginia, he earned the master of arts degree and the doctorate of philosophy at Tulane. He also holds the diplo ma in Russian language from the Army Security School at Fort Devons, Mass. Much of Dr. Randolph’s study in this country and abroad, has been on fellowships and special grants. He held a Carnegie Fel lowship at Tulane, as well as teaching fellowships and other awards. GIRL SCOUTS TO VISIT BOB JONES Greenville . .Girl Scout Troop Number 71 of Newberry will vis it the Boh Jones Uni. Cam pus Saturday from 1:45 to 3 p.m. In charge of the arrange ments is Miss Susanne Satter- white. Miss Kiki Kirkland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Kirkland, was crowned “Miss Merry Christmas” follow ing the Christmas parade last Wednesday afternoon. Doing the honors was Mayor Clarence A. Shealy. Cash Prizes at Santa’s Friday SEE BACK PAGE FOR DETAILS