The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, July 31, 1969, Image 1
Vol. 33—No. 15
Nevberry. S. C. 29108, Thursday, July 31, 1969
S3 VER YEAR
2nd SHOPPING CENTER PLANNED
Improvement of
city area talked
BY THE WAY
By DORIS A. SANDERS
STILL MAGIC?
The Kennedy name may still
be magic in Massachusetts, but
it is hard to believe that the
majority of the nation’s voters
could be talked into electing to
the presidency such a confused
young man.
Whether or not anyone be
lieves Ted Kennedy's story,
which even he must admit is
brilliant for its omissions and
filled with almost unbelievable
statements, he used the poorest
possible judgment in time of a
crisis.
It would be my thought that
the drowning of the young lady
and his delay in reporting it
was not due to confusion caus
ed by the accident itself, but
confusion as to how to handle
the situation and save his poli
tical hide.
And in this. I certainly be
lieve he was confused; anyone
who had sense enough to "dive
repeatedly", if he did. and to
swim 200 yards across a enan-
nel with a swift current, if he
did. surely had the intelligance
to pick up a phone and call
the proper authorities
\ppnrently the authorities in
Massachusetts do not operate as
ours had the drowning occur
red m this county, an inquest
would have been held and the
driver of the car no doubt would
have been held for Grand Jury
mveMigation. to determine if
the Senator should he imheted
Mr manslaughter It would be
mv bet that a Newberry County
Grand Jury would have indict
ed him ju>t as our |une- indict
negligent drivers of cars when
persons are killed in automo
bile accidents.
The whole affair m Edgar-
town smells to high heaven
Had this thing happened to Wal-
iar'e. Thurmond or Goldwater.
they would have been imme
diately crucified by the national
news media. Instead we have
the crocodile tears of self-serv
ing commentators who bemoan
the tragic occurrences in the
Kennedy family. There is little
queMion hut that this tragedy
wa> brought on hv Mr Kennedy
timwlf
The American putJic is nulor
iou> tor forgetting, and perhaps
t will forge! acam m three
vt.uw t.hat tiro young man act
■ i ,!' he did
ill' own admimiou o' eoafu
,ni, m cri.-is c enough to warn
till v otcr Mi d lie ! hot the
[il'i ipe! jtelM ih to . h i u ; >V 1 h c
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HAD TO COME
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i ijijii lor ,i lew dav' !a>t week
■i a w o! k oeat ion iiew ' w as
br- ikmg hi Newiierrv tint a
: loppi’e ecli'er w i ellil -non be
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Newberrv
Several years ago, the City
Manager, wisely foreseeing the
future, urged a one-way system
of traffic downtown which sure
ly would have eliminated some
of the inconvenience and frust
ration experienced by drivers,
trying to get through the nar
row crowded streets and into
parking lots.
There was so much opposition
from some merchants that the
plan was never even tried.
I don't want to see our Main
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A larger than usual group of
businessmen and merchants
attended the meeting of the As
sociation for a Greater Newber
ry Tuesday morning at Com
munity Hall.
Purpose of the meeting was
to rev iew the downtown develop
ment plan which has been und
er preparation for several years
and to discuss ways of imple
menting the plan.
J K Willingham. AGN Pres
ident. and Bobby Summer, who
is chairman of the AGN down
town development committee,
were m charge of the meeting
City Council's reluctance to
take official action is delaying
the development of a d o w n-
town plaza designed to help re
juvenate the central business
district, Mr Willingham said.
He stated that he has receiv-
ed no results on his requests to
city council to designate the
street area in front of Com
munity Hall as a permanent
plaza.
"We don't think we, the mer
chants, have received the coop
eration from the city that we
should get. City Council hasn’t
voted yet to make it a perma
nent plaza.
Mr Willingham said that the
('.vac League and several busi-
mosmen have pledged substan
tial funds to develop the plaza,
but "they don't want to spend
a lot of money for a temporary
th.mg
"The traffic flow m the area
i- better with the plaza and pre
-eat" 1 e"s danger to pedestrians
We have plenty of people to
-unport it
The ( itv tenceti oft the area
oarher this year and placed
piavgiomid equipment there Mr
eh.itdreu as a temporary pla/.a.
hut the equipment has been re
moved and the area is now so
parated from the stroeG by a
- ■hum
The plaza wa- recommended
in a study conducted In \dley
and Associates, planning and de
veMpment engineers, of Allan
ta. Ga Terry Love, project eng
ineer. reported Tuesday on the
total plan for beautification of
Mam street, improvement of
traffic flow and general im
provements proposed for build
ings
The AGN financed the sur
vey which was started in 1967
at a cost of $12,500. Willingham
said the plan now will have to
be put into ' a workable form".
He said the association will
decide if the engineers will be
gin the third phase of the study
for downtown redevelopment.
Willingham said a large shop
ping center will be constructed
soon outside the city limits.
In discussing the plan Mr.
Love emphasized the import-
(Continued on page 5)
School surveys
be explained
in meetings
There will be three most im
portant meetings to be held on
August 14. 19 and 21 which will
be of vital interest to all citi
zens of Newberry County, ac
cording to Ralph Watkins, dir
ector of county schools
These meetings are being held
to inform the citizens of the
county of the recommendations
made by a survey team from
the State Department of Ldu
cation concerning a school build
ing program for the county, Mr
Watkins said. Members of the
State Department of Education
will be present at each meeting
to discuss the survey recom
mendations.
Thes important meetings will
all be held at 8 P.M on the
following schedule; Newberry
High School. August 14. Whit
mire High School. August 19,
and Mid Carolina High School,
August 21
All interested citizens art' urg
ed to attend any or all of the
meetings.
Prosperity to
appeal verdict
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reme Court of an $8. Jin md '
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that
dram;
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om a
town sewerage lagoon damaged
his five-acre fish pond on his
property.
At a town meeting recently.
Mayor Hamm told a group of
citizens that the town does not
have funds to pay the court
judgment. He said taxes would
have to be raised to finance
payment.
Town council has voted to ap
peal the case if a settlement
cannot be reached.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer G. Long
announce the birth of a son
John Norris, on July 28, 1969.
The baby weighed seven pounds.
14M ounces.
Plans for a two-department
store shopping center in New
berry were revealed today. The
shopping center is to be ready
for a grand opening in August
1970 and is being developed by
Independent Enterprises. Inc .
of Chattanooga, Tenn.
The first of two planned de
partment stores will be an Ed
wards Store of approximately
50.000 square feet. Edwards, the
state's largest home-owned var-
iet\ and junior department store
chain, was founded in Charles
ton m 1926 Today there are 21
E iwards stores operating thru-
out the state of South Carolina
The chain has plans to open
five units within the next year
in addition to the Newberry
store.
The Edwards store will he a
complete, one-stop family de
partment store, selling first
class merchandise, on a "self
service" basis. Edwards will
offer a well-rounded selection of
goods and services, including 80
complete departments and an
automotive supply department,
also a snack bar will be install
ed for customer convenience at
tlie new Newberry store. Ed
wards offers a revolving or bud
get credit plan to its customers.
Newberry Shopping Center is
to he built on the Mrs. VV. E.
Matthews property The site con
tains 900 feet of frontage on
L S Highway 76 Bypass South
Carolina Highwav 24 bounds the
22 acre site 1 on the north and
South Carolina Highway 219
bounds the property on t h e
south Both of these two South
Gar.lona highways serve as cori
n' lor nsuM from Inbarstate 26
lit Newberry
i;:■ 9‘p,• nde111 Enterprises. Inc ,
a maior ."hopping center devel-
n p u 11 Tit concern operating m
So Hi: c :rolina Tennessee. (leor
Lia. Manama and Misoissippi.
aLn announce I that the initial
pti : i of Nouberrv Shopping
1 ■ Mr u ill contain npproximate-
!v 1 pl !IIMi ".quare feet building
m< o iiicluding a parking lot
a- Od'iiniodntim more than 689
. a it o; j ioi jM ■ and a total estimat
cd M n. 2(1 husnio-ises In addi
lion to thi large Edwards store,
the ■ nopp111g i'enter will eon-
! an a 17 noii .-.quaro foot nation
al onaui supermarket w h i e h
wo’, b. announced m the imme
diate future; a national chain
dm., tore and an auto acces-
. o: y "tore, dryv cleaners, etc.
• Mfieials of Independent En
terprises expressed a desire to
include many locally owned
businesses m the shopping cen
ter They stated that it was
their intention to make avail
able sufficient space for spec
ialty shops and service type
businesses, to offer an opportun
ity to area merchants to be
come a part of this modern re
tail complex.
The shopping center is being
designed to provide for the en
largement of the center at a
future date, as the Newberry
trade area continues its rapid
growth and demand for more
stores is created.
Independent Enterprises offi
cials indicated that in their
opinion, the shopping center
would serve as the "regional-
type" retail complex for both
Newberry as well as the entire
Newberry trade area, and that
its location was ideally istuated
so as to be easily accessible
from all sections of Newberry,
and also easy to reach from all
highways coming into Newberry
from the outlying area.
Architects for the Newberry
Shopping Center will he the ar
chitectural firm of Cooper. Car
ry and Associates. Inc of At
hint a Ga. This firm served as
architects for the Laurens Plaza
shopping center in Laurens, de
veloped by Independent Enter
prises. Inc. and opened Nova m
ber 1968.
Independent Enterprises has
developed and is the owner of
over 12 major shopping centers
In addition, the eompain has
shopping centers under const ruc
tion m I)aIton. (ia and Johnson
City. Tenn.. and is scheduled to
begin construction on an air
conditioned enclosed mall in
Tupelo, Miss, within the next
four weeks.
The Newberry Shopping Cen
ter will make available hundred
of job opportunities for residents
of Newberry and the general
Newberry area, and will be con
sidered a major new m'G qry
to the area. Also it will provide
opportunity f o r construction
work and the sale of building
supplies and matenaM by local
and area businesses
Any parties interested m oh
taming information on Easing
space, as a part of the New
berry Shopping (Vnh r h a v e
been a>ked to cunt act Mr <' B
Lebovitz. Independent Enter
prises. Inc 2tG Ma< Ia lkm Bldg
Ch.att tiooga. To.>a c, : :i oM
265-3689
Urges visit to
Bloodmobile
On Monday, August 4, be
tween the hours of three and
seven P. M., the Red Cross
Bloodmobile will be located at
the Mayer Memorial Lutheran
Church. This will be the first
visit of the new fiscal year.
There are eight scheduled vis
its to Newberry County this
year and the quota for each vis
it is 100 units of blood. Last
year the County reached only
51 percent of this quota.
"If we do not improve on our
record," said Lawrence Rich
ardson, chairman of the Red
Cross Blood program for this
County, "There is a good pro
bability that only those who
have given blood and their im
mediate families will be allow
ed to receive blood through the
Red Cross Program. If you are
in good health, under 60 years
of age, and have not given in
eight weeks, you will be able
to give on this visit. Remem
ber August 4 between 3 and 7
p. m. at the Mayer Memorial
Lutheran Church".