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PAGE 2—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Jan. 30, 1969 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in advance. Six Months $1.25. "Whatsoever Things By DONALD E WILDMON Minister Lee acres United Methodist church TUPELO. MISSISSIPPI (Got your copy of Mr. Wildmon’s new book THOUGHTS WORTH THINKING yet? For exciting in spirational reading,, get it at your book store. Or Bend $2.95 to Five Star Publishers, Box 1368, Tupelo, Miss. 38801) Largest Paper Machine runs at Catawba CATAV/BA. — The largest paper machine in the world is now in operation at Catawba. The machine, over 30 feet wide and more than a city block long, is manufacturing newsprint, the first produced in the Carolinas. The -huge machine is operat ed by Catawba Newsprint Co., owned by Bowater and the Newhouse Newspaper Group, and is adjacent to Bowaters Carolina Corp. Tonnage from the new paper mill will go It newspapers from Virginia t( Florida. Capacity of the machine it more than 180,000 tons of newsprint annually, the equiv alent of many paper mills with two or three machines, the com pany said. In one minute, the machine can produce enough quality newsprint to cover two football fields with enough left over for the end zones. Full operating speed is nearly 40 miles per hour. According to the company, the mammouth machine is op erating at 2,500 feet per min ute and will be gradually in creased to design speed of 3000 feet per minute. Portions of the machine tow er more than 30 feet above the operating floor. A full reel of paper is over 30 feet wide, weighs 26 tons and only 3C minutes is required to fill a reel. Installed along with the ma chine was a process control computer, the most sophistica ted ever placed in a paper mill. More than 200 critical points in the paper making process are either controlled or moni tored by the computer. Construction of the new pa per mill began early last year and was built at a cost of more than $40 million. Included was HAPPY BIRTHDAY Feb. 2: Peggy Sue Price, Seth Meek, R. C. Neel Jr., Lar ry A. Milstead, Mrs. James G. Clamp. Feb. 3: Bernard Hawkins, Mrs. Frank Sligh, Mrs. Clau dia Suber, Arthur Pitts, Mrs. Mildred S. Harmon. Feb. 4: A. H. Counts, Mrs. Henry T. Fellers, Mrs. Horace T. Boozer, Kay Nichols, Dianne Shealy. Feb. 5: Howard Bickley, A. T. Livingston, Tommy Long shore, Mrs. Frank Graham, Margaret Hawkins, Mrs. Duf fle Freeman, Jeff Waldrop, Mrs. Fred Hayes, Mrs. R. B. Shealy, Waties Pope Kennedy, Tom H. Westwood, Tommy- Mi ms. Feb. 6: Bessie Bradley, Pat Thompson. Feb. 7: Henry Baker Sum mer, Mrs. Ernest Long. Wil liam Thomas Warts, Mrs. J. Harold Hendrix, Lola Daven port Dale Cannon, Paul Whit aker. Feb. 8: Mrs. Dorothy Wes- singer, Mrs. G. S. Dominick, Cynthia Lake, J. A. Bundrick, Lillie Mae Workman, Tommie P. Setzler, Wayne Wicker, Frances Smith, Frank Yochem. THE PENTAGON, Washing ton D. C.—Frank V. Kelly, 26 son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy M. Kelly, Route 1, Prosperity, was promoted to Army specialist five last month, while assigned to the U. S. Army Data Sup port Command at the Penta gon in Washington, D. C-» as an administrative specialist. His wife .Martha, lives in Alexandria, Va. a new groundwood pulp mill with five grinders, each power ed by a 10,000 horsepower el ectric motor, the largest ever built for a groundwood mill. Additions were also made to the mill’s power house and He grew up down in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. When he was 12 years old he was thin and frail and had no co ordination. He was slow and weak. He said that when sides were chosen for any game, he was the last one picked. As a freshman in high school he went out for football and made third string tackle. He managed to get in a game once. The other team ran over him enroute to a 65 yard touch down. That ended his football career. He tried baseball and managed to get to play second base in one game. The batter hit a ball and it went right through his legs. That ended his base ball career. Then he turned to basket ball. This young man knew that if he was ever to excel in any sport it had to be basketball. His sophomore year he went out for basketball. He tried. He tried hard. He gave it everything, all he had. Then came the day when the coach posted the names of those who had made the squad on the bulletin board. His world fell from beneath him when his name wasn’t on that list. He was a failure. He said that for a while he just mop ed around the house. After a short time he started going to church. He took interest in his church. He san*. in the choir, served as an altar boy and took the collection at Sunday ser vices. His minister, knowing some thing of his disappointment, took some interest in him. He said his pastor was very understanding. His minister told him about the Galilean, and how He would help him when he was discour aged and would help him if he stumbl ed. Those words didn’t mean much to that 14 year old, but he said that years later he used the same words to help boys overcome disappointment. Then the minister had an idea. Why not start a church team! The youngs ter jumped at that idea. They found enough boys who had not made the high school .squad to form a three team church league. For the first time this young man was a member of a team, and, as he said, “important.” He started practicing. He took a wire coat hanger and put it over the garage door at home and shot tennis balls at it. His father, seeing his de termination, bought him a regulatior basketball and backboard. He develop ed a method of practicing that lasted for years. From 3:30 till 5:30 he w^ould practice. Then he would eat and do his homework. At 7:30 he was shooting baskets again with the help of several lamps in the window\sill facing his back yard. He was on his way! Isn’t that the work of the church? Taking defeated and disappointed lives and making them important, I mean. Isn’t that the reason He came into our world, to give us another chance when we fail? The boy thought his world was ended, but through the Galilean he found his place. The Galilean helps us do exactly that. The boy’s name was Bob Pettit. If you don’t know who he is, ask any basketball fan. —FIVE STAR FEATURES woodyard. Also included was an expan sion of the mill’s waste water treatment facilities. A clarifier and aeration basin were added at a cost of $2.5 million and brings to $4.5 million the com pany’s investment in waste water treatment facilities. In addition to newsprint, coated paper and pulp are manufactured at the Catawba mill. With the new mill in opera tion, the payroll has increased $1,5 million and now totals $7.5 million annually. Employment has grown from 370 in 1959 to 1,000. To supply the mill with wood Catawba Timber Co., the mill's woods organization, purchases nearly 700,000 cords of pulp- wood, mostly from private landowners in 60 counties in the Carolinas. The company will pay $14.5 million this year for pulpwood. A full reel of paper, weighing 26 tons, Newsprint Co. near Rock Hill, is produced in just 30 minutes at Catawba Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. ABRAHAM LINCOLN LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH “YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS” 1418 Main Street Phone 276-1422