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Jabs becomes student Dean Albert E. Jabs will become dean of students at Newberry College next fall, President A. G. D. Wiles announced today. He will succeed the Rev. Harry Weber, who since 19G6 has combined the duties of dean of students and chaplain. “The office of dean of .stu dents entails a heavy respon sibility which the Rev. Mr. Weber has shouldered with great effectiveness for the past three years,” Dr. Wiles said. “He has asked to be re lieved of those administrative responsibilities so that he may give full time to his work as chaplain and assistant professor of religion. We respect his re quest and grant it, with an overflowing measure of grati tude. ” Jabs’ appointment will be come effective with the open ing of the autumn term next September, Dr .Wiles said. He joined the faculty last fall with dual responsibility as assistant professor of history and direc tor of student teaching. The 35-year-old dean-appoin tee is a Cenn.ctieut native and a former all-state high school basketball player. He graduat ed from Valparaiso I’niversity in 1958 with a haehelon’s de gree in physical education, and two years later earned a mas ter’s degree in history and ed ucation at Ball State Univer sity. He has taught and coached at high schools in Illinois, Ind iana and Ohio, and was on the history faculty of the Univer sity of Akron prior to his Newberry appointment last year. His graduate studies be yond the masters level have been at Kent State University, Indiana University, St. Francis College and Purdue University. Jabs is married and the fath er of two children. An Army veteran, he is a member of the American Historical Associa tion, the Lutheran Laymen’s League, and the Lutheran Hu man Relations Association. 0* \ Dean Weber is a Newberry College graduate. He also has the bachelor of divinity degree from Lutheran Theological Seminary and a master’s de gree in education from the University of South Carolina. Before joining the Newberry faculty in 1959 he was a parish pastor at Cameron. Vol. 32—No. 43 Newberry, S. C. 29108, Thursday, February 13, 1969 W. Elmer Shealy, right, district Boy Scout Chairman, and Hal Whittaker, district public relations chairman, wore present when Mayor Clarence A. Shealy signed a Boy Scout Week proclamation for the City. (Sunphoto). Beauty awards to be presented Council considers re-zoning district On Thursday, February 20th the City and County will be honored for their participation in two important state and national programs. Allen H. Seed Jr., executive vice president of “Keep Amer ica Beautiful, Inc.” will pres ent the 19()8 “Keep America Beautiful Distinguished Serv ice Citation” to the City in recognition of its effective lit ter prevention activities C. E. Anderson, chairman of the Governor’s Beautification and Community Improvement Board, and Mrs. Peggy W. Smith, beautification supervis or with the State Department of Parks, Recreation and Tour ism Travel Division, will pre sent the Governor’s Beautifi cation plaque for the fourth quarter period to the County Beautification Committre for its outstanding achievement m improving the appearance of the county. Mrs. Richard L. Baker serves as chairman of the County Beautification < 'winmn.tre. Auxiliary has birthday party A meric an Legion Auxi liary to Post 2 I celebrated its 48th anniversa iry last Thursday af- ti■innon ; it i i meeting at the home of Mi ss Grace Summer. Miss Sui lie Dennis, Mrs. Os- car R. S ummer Sr., Mrs. May Chapman , Mrs. J. F. Hawkins and Mrs. E Imer Epting were associate ho •stesses. Mrs. Roy Anderson presided in the absence of the president, Mrs. M. F. Bowler. Mrs. F. Scott Flliott led in the pledge to the Flag and Mrs. Ander son poured tea from a prettily appointed tea table. For a cen terpiece, blue dutch iris, yellow glads were arranged in a silver howl. Camellias from the Sum mer garden were used for dec orating other rooms of the house. Refreshments were chicken salad sandwiches, cheese waf ers, macaroons and candied grapefruit peel. Realtor Board names Floyd Louis C. Floyd was named president of the Newberry County Board of Realtors at a recent meeting. Serving with him will he W. R. Reid, vice president; Earl Summer, Sr., secretary and Bobby Summer, treasurer. In addition to i.he officers, the board of directors consists of Walter Wallace, Keitt Purcell and Hal Kohn. The board was organized in 1995 and is affiliated with the South Carolina and the Nat ional Board of Realtors. All members are licensed by the state to deal in real estate and aro known as real estate brokers or realtors. The hoard holds frequent meetings. City Council moved quickly through its agenda Tuesday night and adjourned without the usual executive session. Subjects discussed ranged from traffic signals to federal housing. First considered was zoning of the newly annexed area, bounded by Smith Road, Glenn Street and Derrill Ave. Council approved a second reading, es tablishing this as an R-12 res idential zone. Council last month demand ed that all recommendations for employees incentive pay raises he brought to council for approval. It backed down last night w r ith the statement that it would be “unfair” to discuss individual employees in public meeting, and voted to have such increases reviewed by the budget committee before tak ing effect. Councilman Bouk- night made the motion. Councilman Kinard’s view was that it w T as the taxpayer’s money being spent, and they should know about it. Councilman McAlhany (R), suggested a re-valuation of job classifications. City Manager Riebe stated that he had rec ommended this, and thought it should be done by someone from outside the city. A motion carried to have a traffic signal installed at the intersection of Boundary and Drayton streets at an approx imate cost of $2350, to be paid from bond money. A letter from J. K. Willing ham, president of the Associa tion for a Greater Newberry, was read by Mayor Clarence Shealy. The AGN president stated that plans had been for mulated for the beautification of the plaza using the space now set aside for that purpose. AGN asked approval of coun cil for permanent use of the space as a plaza. Council felt it could take no action until it knew more about AGN’s plans for development of the plaza. Action was deferred on the sewer line for the newly an nexed Derrill Avenue until further study could he made. The perennial subject of a new fire pumper was discuss ed. The city manager advised council that specifications for the pumper had been prepared and were ready to he advertis ed for bids. Some members of Council felt specifications should be drawn for a standard, as well as a custom made pumper. Action was deferred until such specifications could be drawn and discussed w T ith fire department officials. Council heard first reading of a recommendation from the Planning Commission to change an area near the hospital from an R-10 to a B-l neighborhood shopping district. The area would include both sides of Hunt street from Harrington to beyond Harper; both sides of Kinard street extending behind the nursing home with the creek as the border line; the inside area of Harrington St. from the center line. Types of businesses which can be included in B-l neigh borhood shopping include auto mobile service stations, motels, eating and drinking establish ments, barber shops, auto matic laundries, florist shops, indoor amusement establish ments. Second reading will be held after advertisement. Council approved several resolutions having to do with securing funds from the fed eral government. The first involved an appli cation by the City Housing Authority for a government loan in an amount not to ex- (Continued on page 8) M iss Becky Westmoreland received the Queen of Hearts crown from retiring queen Linda Lake, following the Civic League sponsored contest Saturday night. First runner-up was Ellen Altman, left, and second runner-up was Judy Wise. (Sunphoto by Martin Armfield)