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The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, July 31, 1969 — PAGE 5
Homecoming set
at Bachman
Homecoming at Bachman
Chapel Lutheran Church, Pros
perity, the Rev. William H.
Link, Pastor, will be held Aug
ust 3. It is a distinct honor and
privilege this year to have as
guest speaker the Rev. Rudolph
F. Ludwig, pastor of Emman
uel Lutheran Church, Roanoke,
Virginia, who is a personal
friend to Pastor and Mrs. Link
and family.
After the 11 A. M. service the
congregation will gather on the
church grounds for a picnic. All
members, former members and
friends of the congregation are
invited to attend this occasion
and to bring well-filled baskets
of food and healthy appetites in
addition to open minds and
hearts.
Pastor Ludwig was born in
West New York, New Jersey in
1911. His parents are Rudolph
J. and Anna Truempy Ludwig.
He received his A. B. degree
from Wagner College in 1934,
and his B. D. degree from Phil
adelphia Lutheran Theological
Seminary in 1937.
Upon graduation from semi
nary he studied Inner Mission
work in the Evangelical Church
in Germany for a year. He has
served parishes in the Old New
York and New England Synod
of the Lutheran Church in Am
erica and in the North Carolina,
Virginia and Southeastern Sy
nods. He is a member of the
Committee on American Mis
sions of the Virginia Synod. He
is president of the Lutheran
Cooperative Ministry of the Roa
noke area Lutheran Churches.
Pastor Ludwig married Grace
Carol Morgan (who graduated
from Newberry College in 1938)
of Leesville, on August 30, 1939,
and they have five children, Ru
dolph of the home, Peter, Anna,
Luther, and Rebekah, and sev
eral grandchildren.
CITY IMPROVEMENT
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ance of the Nance Street pro
ject in implementing the rede
velopment of the business area.
Asked the status of the Nance
Street project, Mr Love refer
red the question to City Man
ager Ken Riebe. Mr. Riebe said
that the Highway Department
is studying its survey and re
ports, and that the city expect
ed to hear from the department
shortly.
Mr. Love commented that he
had learned in working with
the Highway Department that
it would not spend money in a
community unless it is wanted.
“Much tax money comes back
if the community wants it,” Mr.
Love said. “Other communities
will get it if Newberry is op
posed, disinterested, or can’t
make up its mind. The State is
waiting for you.”
Asked about implementation
of the plan, Mr. Love said much
of the suggested work would be
done by local, state or federal
government funds while other
parts of it must be undertaken
by merchants involved.
The planning firm has pre
oared a comprehensive b o o k-
let containing detailed informa
tion as to surveys and recom
mendations made by that firm.
The brochure was distributed
to the 50-odd attending the Tues
day meeting.
Among the reports and re
commendations contained in the
booklet are the following:
“Newberry approaches it’s
180th anniversary as a commun
ity in transition. The transition
is much like that of cities of
its population size everywhere,
the change from a town to a
city. The textile industry began
making that change several
years ago, but now industrial
diversification is bringing econ
omic growth, as well as stab
ility. At ten thousand people,
Newberry approaches an era of
development potential unpreced
ented in her history—one in
which accompanying problems
may be unprecedented as well.
“Today, Newberry has a via
ble downtown. But some deter
ioration has occurred, attempts
have been made to pull down
town merchants to the suburbs
and a regional shopping cen
ter will be constructed within
a 25-minute drive from the city.
This plan is, then, one of pre
ventative measures as well as
development recommendations.
Newberrians know that a down
town in decline rarely recovers;
they also know that decline is
the natural occurrence—econom
ic and environmental preserva
tion requires effort. In short,
just retaining what the down
town now IS and HAS requires
the program detailed here. To
truly grow Newberry must “out
grow” its development program.
The Civic Center
The plan recommends a Civic
Center or cultural complex, a
four block area containing the
Opera House, Community Hall,
the Memorial Park, Library and
the pedestrian ways connecting
them to each other and to the
rest of the downtown.
The first phase of the Cen
ter’s development would be the
Community Hall Plaza. The
Plaza is proposed as a general
use area as well as a setting
for this public building which
will be more in keeping with
its historical and architectural
significance. There would be
ample space for planting trees
which would be too large for
other downtown locations; also
street furniture, benches, low
tables and planters which will
become a shopper’s focal point
during the day, and an outdoor
“lobby” for the Hall during the
evening.
Few communities have public
buildings of the size, quality and
interest of the Opera House, the
Community Hall and Library.
The cost of “bringing them” to
gether as a public complex :s
insignificant compared to their
initial cost (and especially to
today’s replacement cost). It
must, of course, be implement
ed in stages. All of the design
proposals of the Community Hall
Plaza can be carried out im
mediately. The changing of the
parking along Main and Boyce
can be made now or as part
of the Main Street Modified Mall
development. The Nance Street
Pedestrianway can only be con
structed after the Nance-Mc-
Kibben streets improvement has
been completed. A program of
historical preservation of the
Opera House has been begun,
but the exterior of the buildings
require little work. These urban
design recommendations will
probably have the greatest im
pact per dollar expended of the
many improvements proposed
in this program.
(Ed. Note: Other details of
the proposed plan will be pub
lished at a later date.)
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