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The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S 4 C., Thursday, Feb. 6, 1969—PAGE 5 The Exchange Club held its annual From left are Charles Haile, chairman of crime prevention program Tuesday night Crime Prevention Week activities; club during which it honored, retired law en- president Andrew Shealy, emphasizing a forcement officers Tom Fellers and Colie point; Mr. Moyer, Mr. Dowd and Mr. Fel- Dowd, and heard a talk by Clifford Moy- lers. (Sunphoto) ers, director of the State Police Academy. can’t say I like it but you can’t blame him too much: That’s natural.” There were 11,310 cases of V. D. in the State last year ac cording to Dr. R. W. Ball, Dir ector of the Division of Disease Control of the Board of Health. These victims were walking reservoirs of infection, spread ing disease to others with whom they had sexual contact. Dr. Ball urges all teenagers and all adults involved in pro miscuity to check with their doctors or local health depart ments for tests. “And I want to remind all these people that records of their visits are kept under lock and key at all times” he says. “They are never re vealed to anybody.” Now good for up to $500 cash at BankAmericard banks! frigid. An assistant cashier at a branch bank, Oscar contracted syphilis and gonorrhea from Charlotte, then passed it on to his girl friend, Janet, 21, Also among Oscar’s contacts was Marian, 19, who worked in the bank, and she developed syphilis. Back to James. Another of his contacts was Irma, 39, an attractive widow with 9 child ren, three illegitimate. On re lief, Irma was visited by men at all hours of the day and night; yet she never accepted money from any of the visit ors. Irma had a son-in-law, Quen tin, 28, with whom she also had relations. Her daughter, Lor raine, 17, contacted syphilis from her husband she said, “I On Dean’s List at Columbia COLUMBIA.—Three New berry County residents are am ong 97 Columbia College stu dents namea to the Dean’s List for the second semester. They are, Mary Ann Donnan and Sarah Linda Lake, Whit mire; and Frances Anne New ton, Newberry. The students maintained at least a B-plus average for 12 semester hours to obtain the academic honor. Miss Donnan, a senior maj oring in religion, is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs.. G. S. Donnon of 213 Wesley street. She is a member of Wesley Fellowship and a previous mem ber of the dean’s list. Miss Lake, a sophomore, majoring in Spanish, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert C. Lake Jr. of Whitmire. Miss Newton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Newton, 1221 Glenn street, is a senior majoring in biology. ist. Airman Harter, a 1964 graduate of Turner Ashby high school Dayton, Va., received a B.A. degree from Bridgewater (Va.) University. His wife is the former Linda Hensley of Mt. Crawford, Va. Spread of VD is illustrated Dirty stories circulate and everyone listens, but few peo ple have to deal with them. The State Board of Health does —and it feels that South Car olinians need to know some of the raw life situations that come into its county health de partments. Forty-seven people, all white, were involved in one case of venereal disease recently. The tragedy is that none of them needed to .contract V. D. A visit to their doctor or health de partment would have stopped the spread at any point along the line of contact. Here is the story: SAN ANTONIO — Airman Joseph S. Harter, son of Mrs. Doris E. Harter of 2021 Shelly street, has completed basic training at Lackland AFB, Tex. He has been assigned to Syra cuse (N. Y.) University, for training as a language special- Alice was the first to visit the clinic. Married two years, she worked in a doctor’s office to support herself and her 2- year-old son. Her husband, James, an insurance salesman, drank heavily and they had been separated several times. One of Jame’s contacts was Betty, a pretty high school girl of 16. Missing class often she spent much of her time in bars, and continued her relations with James even after being diagnosed with V. D. Of the several young men in her class with whom she had contact, one, the son of a lawyer, be came infected. James’ next contact was Dor othy, 28, a housewife with 3 teenagers in school. She in troduced him to her cousin, Charlotte, 20, and this friend ship resulted in Charlotte’s passing syphilis to her husband, a cigarette company represen tative. James also named as a con tact, Ellen, 18. Her mother was dead; her father lived out of the State, and so she boarded with a married sister. Known from early life as a problem child, Ellen passed syphilis from James to a barber, George, 28 year old. Still James’ activities had not worked all their havoc. He met Linda, 36, an unmarried 6th grade teacher, through his friend Marshall. Soon the dis ease had been passed to Mar shall. Now back to Charlotte, 20. She met Neal, 20, at a cocktail party, and they drove to a city park for a rendezvous. Char lotte also contacted Oscar, 30, who had separated from h i s wife claiming that she was Legislators took time out recently to visit the S. C. ETV network. ETV General Manager Henry J. Cauthen explains how the Network has become a widely utilized resource to students and adults. Delega tions visiting on January 28 included the one from Newberry County. Sen. Bob Lake is shown in the left foreground above. South Carolina BankAmericard 4 ATLAS ROOFING 235 pound i weight per square 4« $6.50 per square 15 Year warranty NEWBERRY LUMBER CO.