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BY THE WAY By DORIS A. SANDERS MY MISTAKE Sooner or later it inevitably happens—we get the w r n n g names under a picture—and it happened last week. Our apol ogies to all involved. For the sake of those w h o might want to keep the picture for their scrapbook or for some other purpose we are again this week publishing the Girls Staters from Newberry High School with, we hope, the right names in the right order (RIME PREVENTION We hear a lot about crime prevention and I am still of the opinion that the best prevention is punishment fitting the crime. 1 would agree with what Spect ator had to say a week or so ago that a good public "flog ging" would put a stop to a lot of (lie nonsense going on in the streets and on the eollege cam puses of the country And a public hanging would probably put a stop to a good number of murders and rapes winch grow more rampant all the while, as judges give eram- mals a gentle lecture and turn them loose on the public and as do-gooders cry crocodile 1 tears for hardened criminals while giving no thought to the unfortunate 1 victims of t h e s e mcious thugs. The old and weary subject of abolishing capital punishment m again the subject of discus sion up m our sister state 1 My friend Jesse Helms of WKAL- TY has some interesting words to say about it in a recent ed itorial of the air. By Jesse Helms, WRAL-TV The furious campaign to abol ish capital punishment in North Carolina illustrates anew the political axiom that the minds of men can sometimes be more easily swayed by emotion and slogans than by logic and fact. One of Wake County's repr- sentatives in the General As sembly declared with all final ity and certainty the other day that there is "no evidnee that capital punishment d e t e r s crime" What the gentleman uas saying, to give him the benetit of the doubt, is that he lets not bothered to look tor am e\ idence. For one thing, it uouid lie interesting to have this legis lator and others who share Ills V lew . explain the enll'iail tlv n i! i!.' mine n tie 1 1, till." ' ■aunt 1 dun ng the j) a M F> u ■ a i ■ Till 11! 1 s been 111, ’ pel 'led oil. 111 u Iiiit r when ( apit a! punn ■dunel in ; id Fate.' ha- 1»e e !i all bl 11, * t’; ited t,V 1 f 1 D , 1 ! nianip' i i 111 11 i! ; 111 d eulirt d. V1M< ue Tin - -all [.< n < >d. it w (• Ml a_v 1,< j sei im tnd the intriK luetl en ot 'ii eli . , deni e also t 'iiibr a i e in, ■ Veal dun ng which the 1 S hi ;prM! f mtr! under Eai u Warn ■!1 !K brrl 1 Ml 1)U> 11 V t < iddillU; , MM 1 i < i i' at the eXp, Tim 1 of the M ! iu< t ■at and law , t b i d m e. t 111 / e! ry of tiu 1 republic 1 Hiring the past F> \rar-. there have been preciselv six executions in North Carolina and none since October Util It is often suggested with no evi dence to support it that inno cent persons" have been put to death. Is there no member of the legislature to ask Who'.’ When'? Where'.’ T bos e u ho make such declarations ought to be challenged to produce the records upon which they base such indictments of the judi cial system of this state After all. it is they who constantlv bring up the subject of "evi dence" It is only fair to invite them to present their own i Continued on Page ft > Selected Hoy of The Year and Girl of Tin 1 Year at Newberry Iligdi School were Gerry Harmon, and Car dine Smith. Presenting’ the trophies on behalf of the Hx'- (diange Club are P. K. Fuller, left, and Andrew Shealy. president, rigdit. (Sunphoto). Memorial Day Service Sunday Residents of Newberry Coun ty are cordially invited to at tend and participate in Memor ial Day services on Sunday. May 2f), sponsored by Post 24 of the American beg ion. Post Commander Price K, Harmon announced today Tile traditional commemora tive rites are scheduled to be- gill at 6 p m at Rn.MUnullt l 'el letepv w lilt Rev Jeliii 11 !\, i. ii. dr . 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May do Fact; war f 'ounpv Service ' Hficer Jeriyv () cFnnn eompiiles a list of names of Newberry County veterans and service men who have died since the previous Memorial Day The names of the deceased of the past year are published below. as a tribute to all servicemen who have waved m defense 1 of their country WORLD WAR I Clinton John Marshall Figner Asa Fellers Cheslev Spearman Franklin, Lonnie William Fulmer Matthew Stack Gary, battle Grauam, Fddie Osborne Hembree, Guy Wood Johnson, Karl Johnson. George Andrew Kirkland. Joseph lb Lewis. Bertie Avon Medloek, Louis Fdgar Neel, Thomas II Summers, bradv Swindler, charin' J Taylor Jackson Wallace Young, Sam C WORLD WAR II Vi.iU:.' FllCeUe Scott \ndta on. Benjamin T Jr Burton Kin ha 1 : 'Oh . I , 1 : 'oi t W V 11 1<I ! 1 • i• iii'. 11 William J; unities B 1 ,u mer 1 ivde Thornton Fr aiki;:, ! .outae W iluam. Jr 1- i u iaii,a: Iddw an I Mack ( I 1 \\ Cte! i 1,. 1 n:'' i i i . n i o 1 i i r ■ 'iir : ii■ii'i» r <>i \I i 1 .i. iii.,.. 1 oI..in O' t• V M, a:' u lie. 1 Bt Ui.ii in . v 1 u, t ■ r 1 no l'"W.d I'M, ! 1 Ru'd 1 ■,.iri D, w,'V Sabri Wddiatii ( Tu; ciuio D Wrikiig Julian Lei and Jr William- Ralph T Zobed, RaifJi Penyv KOREAN Abrams, Claude Maver. Johnnv W Shirey, James Franklin Strother Hubert Summers. Johnnie Gibson VIETNAM Gibson. David Sartor Leonda Trapp. Bobby Ray Williams. Carol F A( TIVE DUTY Arnold. Clifton Fdward Walker, Curtiss Fugene Newberry Co-op meeting tonight The annual meeting of mem bers of the Newberry Electric Go-operative, Inc. will be held at the Newberry Armory to night (Thursday) at 8 p.m. Business will be transacted, directors elected, and enter tainment enjoyed by members and their families. The profes sional entertainment will feat ure singing and dancing by Car ol and Bill Foster, sensational theatre size magic by Joseph Josef, and the nationally known clump. Sam. Directors will be chosen from among the following Co-op mem bers: Zone 1, George E. Stone or Carl Setzler; Zone 2, Harold F Long or James R. Bishop, Jr Zone 3, L. Berley Beden- baugh or D. 0. Lovelace Other Hearing set on Nance widening The State Highway Depart ment has announced that it will conduct a "design" public hear ing in June on the proposed Nance-McKibben Street widen ing project at Newberry, ac cording to Chief Highway Com missioner Silas N Pearman. The hearing will be held Wed nesday. June 18. at 8 pm. in the Speers Street School. Mr Pearman said Highway Department engineers will be on hand at the hearing to dis- eims m detail the design char acteristics of tin 1 proposed pro eel 'Die Nance MeKibben Street wi,iming i> approximately 2 8 miles long and extends from S (’ Route 121 near the nortli- , a t i itv limit> through the eeri- tial bu.uineus (Imtriet to Fben- M’< r Road Pioposed improvements ell- 1,oi widening to four lanes with prov mion> for left turn lanes at intoi-eetioiM in the downtown .urea All mtore>tod pemoim will b, bo,ai d concerning tlieir v low on iho Doial. ecouomie and en- v ironmeiital effects ot this pro- j,ot on the community," Mr. Pearman said Schedules for right of way acquisition and eoimtruetion will also be dis cussed at the hearing along with other pertinent aspects of the proposed improvement. A "corridor" type hearing on the proposed widening was held by the Highway Department on December 19. At that time the hearing was conducted jointly with location specifications on a proposed by-pass to be built around the south and south eastern side of Newberry. A design" hearing on the pro posed by-pass will be held at a later date. See map of proposed project elsewhere in this issue. nominations may be placed from the floor. The term of of fice will be three years. All members of the Co-opera tive are urged to attend the meeting and their families and friends are cordially invited to be present. In his annual report to the members, Co-op President Gorge E.Stone said, "We had a good year of growth both in energy sales and new mem bers. This was accomplished in spite of increased Eederal tax es, record high interest rates and higher home construction costs. We enjoyed a near re cord gain in new services for any one year since the early 1950’s. "Continued rising costs of ma terials, labor and overhead pre vented any rate revision down ward; however we have been successful in preventing a rate increase by maintaining our facilities at a high level of per formance. "A hoped-for revision in our wholesale energy rate structure did not materialize in 1968. Nei ther were we privileged t o share in the cost savings on the pro rata share of energy that is rightfully due us from Southeastern Power Adminis tration. Our wholesale power cost is considerably more than half of our operating expenses. This is a fixed cost and we have no control over it, unless, of course, we are successful in obtaining a better rate. With out a more favorable wholesale energy rate we will continue to be at a disadvantage in our ef forts to serve industrial loads. "The Board of Directors and management g r a t e full y aoknovv ledge the loyal support ot the Cooperative's employees and memberships and solicit their continued cooperation Manager Hugh M. Eptmg told members. "Your system is m good financial and physical con dition. We try to anticipate sys tem loadings at least five years ahead, therefore, up-grading ca pacity is a never ending pro cess. It costs more each year to deliver a kwh of energy, this being due mainly to rising cost of materials, labor and over head I’nit cost of construct ion has more than doubled since 1 became your manager; there fore, capital in ever increasing amounts is required to keep moving forward. Again I express my grati tude to a helpful and under standing board of directors for outstanding guidance and sup port. Also I am grateful for the privilege of working with a group of employees whose ef forts to serve efficiently and loyally is not excelled a n y- where. We appreciate our mem bers for without you and your need for service, we would not be needed.”