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PAGE 6 — The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, August 7, 1969 Highway Travel over 14 billion miles in state Highway travel in this state, as in other states throughout the nation, is increasing at a tremendous rate. Statistics com piled by the Highway Depart ment indicate that travel mile age in the state rose just over one billion miles from 1967 to 1968, giving the state a travel mileage total of 14,190,000,000 miles last year. Each year, the Department calculates motor vehicle travel mileage on the basis of motor fuel consumption, and deter mines travel trends by making traffic counts at stations thru- out the state. The most recent traffic survey indicates that rur al traffic volumes on the state highway system were approxi mately six percent higher in 1968 than in 1967, and motor RITZ THEATRE THURSDAY FRIDAY SAT URDAY MONDAY TUES DAY AND WEDNESDAY TRUE GRIT John Wayne Glen Campbell THURSDAY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY THE MALTESE BIPPY Dan Rowan Dick Martin fuel consumption in 1968 was eight percent higher than in the previous year. Total travel mileage last year was 14.19 billion miles, an 8.4 percent increase over the 13.09 billion miles traveled in 1967, and a 310 percent increase over the 3.46 billion miles recorded in 1941. Seasonal traffic counts reveal that summer travel last year equalled 118 percent of the an nual average, while fall travel was 98 percent, spring travel was 95 percent and winter trav el was 87 percent of the annual average figure. Travel trends were also computed by days of the week. These figures show that, on the annual average, travel mileage was greatest on Fridays and smallest on Sun days. Increases in travel on the highways of South Carolina and the nation as a whole are the result of constantly increasing vehicle registrations and an in crease in the average number of miles each vehicle is being driven. The number of automo biles on the nation’s highways is increasing by 10,000 per day, while South Carolina is gaining an average of about 127 cars per day. Increases in truck, bus and motorcycle registrations add substantially more to the ever growing traffic volumes. More frequent use of all these vehicles for both local and long distance travel produces the significant increase in total travel mileage reflected in annual traffic sur veys. The U. S. Department of Transportation recently estima ted that, within the next eight years, the volume of traffic on the nation’s highways will in crease by 40 percent. It is there fore necessary for highway de partments, both in South Caro lina and other states, to conduct extensive highway construction and improvement programs to keep abreast of travel needs. CLOVER LEAF 4.^ members DRIVE IN win trip to baugh, Clothing Demonstration, white; and Shirley Kina r d, Peach, white. Also, Albert Wise, Community Beautification, white; Boyd Pan- Dairy, Blue; Forage Manage ment, blue and member of the Dairy Judging Team; John Liv ingston, Field Crops Science, red; Dean Bedenbaugh, Poultry, red; Charles Singleton, Swine, red; Tommy Workman, Poultry Barbecue, blue. The Newberry Dairy Judging team also received a blue award. Members of the team were Jessie Folk, Andy Long shore, Charles Rinehart, and Boyd Parr. TAX ACCOUNTING COURSE AT TEC Basic tax principles and re lated subjects will be the sub ject of a nine-month night course in tax accounting at Richland TEC. The course which will qual ify a student to prepare tax forms and understand basic bus iness law principles, will be of fered with the opening of the fall quarter on September 2. The four hour classes will meet twice a week at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday. The subjects of the fall quarter will be accounting and corporate fi nances. During the winter quar ter, individual taxes and basic business law will be taught, and the spring quarter will be de voted to corporation and part nership tax and more advanced business law. The course is designed to meet requests from a number of per sons for a course to give them a background in tax procedures. Those completing the course should be prepared to prepare tax returns for individuals or businesses. Persons interested in this course may apply at the office of the extension director between the hours of 8:30 a. m .and 10 p. m., Monday through Thurs day or until 5 p.m. on Fridays. Details will be released as soon as finalized. PROFESSOR TO TEACH OVERSEAS Dr. John A. Meador, Jr., as sociate professor of history at Newberry College, will spend the 1969-70 academic year in the Orient, teaching American and European history to U. S. Air Force personnel and their de pendents. He is on leave from the New berry faculty while participat ing in the University of Mary land’s Far Eastern program, un der which the university offers college credit to students in Jap an, Thailand, Taiwan, Korea, and • Okinawa. Dr. Meador will fly to Tokyo August 25 for assignment. He will teach eight-week sessions in four of the five countries in the program, then plans to spend a month on vacation and in inde pendent study next summer in the fifth country. County native dies in N. C. Mrs. Bernice Dominick White, formerly of Prosperity died sud denly in Wilmington, N. C., July 30. Funeral services were held August 1 at Wilmington with bur ial in Sanford, N. C. Mrs. White was a graduate of Winthrop College and had been a teacher in Wilmington since 1929. She was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, of the Eastern Star and numerous ed ucational organizations. She was the daughter of the late T. A. and Alice Bowers Dominick of Prosperity. She is survived by her husband, W. H. White, two step-children, a brother and a number of nieces and nephews, among whom are Mrs. L. Hart Jordan and Mrs. Dick Shealy of this city. THURSDAY First Run THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE Trevor Howard Vanessa Redgrave FRIDAY SATURDAY THE BRUTE AND THE BEAST Franco Nero George Hilton Chicago SUNDAY THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY’S Jason Robards Britt Ekland WEDNESDAY THURSDAY THE WRECKING CREW P“an Ma^n Elke Sommer Always A Color Cartoon The Drive-In Will Be Closed On Monday and Tuesday, but will open on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Newberry 4-H club members brought home many outstanding awards from State 4-H Club Con ference at Clemson last week. Among these were five mem bers who received the highest state awards in their particular project. Libby Kibler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kibler of Newberry, was named the state Clothing winner and received a trip to National 4-H Club Con gress in Chicago in the fall. Three other club members will be attending the meeting in Chi cago. They are Donald Wise, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kirby C. Wise of Prosperity, who received his award in Entomology; Henry Parr, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Parr of Newberry, who was awarded the state award in Leadership; Bill Spearman, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Spear man of Chappells will be mak ing the trip as winner of the Cooperative Demonstration pro ject; and Ulysses Wilson, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Ulysses Wilson of Silverstreet won a trip in the Field Crops Science Pro ject. All county delegates to 4-H Club Conference are winners. The other members who submit ted records and the awards they received were Brenda Sease, Home Improvement, blue, and Breads, red; Frances Koon, Dress Revue, blue, and Food Preservation, white; Belinda Gill, Dairy Foods, blue award and $25 savings bond; Demerias Wilson, Foods and Nutrition, red; Sandra Davis, Home Man agement, white; Jean Beden- Young GOPs plan seminar The Newberry County Sum mer Young Republicans held its first public meeting at the Mid- Carolina Country Club, Thurs day evening, July 31, with Mrs. Constance Armitage as guest speaker. She is First Vice-Pres ident of the National Federation of Republican Women. Also in attendance were other party representatives: Mrs. Car olyn Savko, vice-chairman of the county Republican Party; Evan S. Wiggins, State College Repub lican chairman; and Richard T. Hines, chairman of the Spartan burg Summer Republicans. At this meeting plans were released announcing PREPARA TION ’70! This event will be a statewide leadership seminar for Teenage Republicans, Col lege Republicans, and Young Re publicans. “Preparation ’70” is planned as a weekend program Aug. 9-10, at the new Ramada Inn on 1-85 in Spartanburg. Members of Congress, State GOP officials, members of the S. C. General Assembly, and prospective GOP candidates for 1970 will be present for the weekend activities. Topics will be: the Nixon Administration- foreign and domestic, the New Left or Radical Student Move ment, and Community Action. Individuals interested in at tending may contact any of the various county organizational directors: Billy Bedenbaugh, at 364-2721, Judy Farb, 276-5291, or Harold Koon, 276-1517. Plans were released to hold a county-wide rally at Molly’s Rock honoring State GOP Sen ator Floyd Spence of Lexington in the middle part of August. AVELEIGH CIRCLES MEET NEXT WEEK Circles of Aveleigh Presbyter ian Church will meet next week as follows: No. 1, Tuesday at 10 a.m. with Mrs. E. M. Anderson; No. 2, Monday at 4 p.m. with Mrs. William R. Brooks; No. 3, Mon day at 4 p.m. with Mrs. H. B. Senn; No. 4, Monday at 8 p.m. with Mrs. W. W. Bennett; No. 5, Tuesday at 8 p.m. with Mrs. James M. Smith, Jr. MISS CLARY, MR. FLOYD TO BE MARRIED Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Hagood Clary request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter, Harriette Hagood Clary to Mr. Robert Jarnette Floyd, Jr. Sunday, the tenth of August at five o’clock at Ave leigh Presbyterian Church, New berry, South Carolina, and at the reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Westwood on Ebenezer Road, Newberry, immediately following the cere mony. with an interest in civil engi neering have a new opportun ity, with jobs assured them at good salaries. It’s the new statewide co-op program developed by Richland Technical Education Center at Columbia in cooperation with leading South Carolina business firms and public agencies. One of the principal partici pants is the South Carolina High way Department, whose officials would welcome co-op student- employees to its engineering di vision. Here’s the idea: A qualified student with a bent for engineering—one who has an aptitude for math and science— applies to Richland TEC for ad mission to the co-op program in civil engineering technology. He studies three months in the modem, million-dollar, four- story engineering technology building on the TEC campus on the outskirts of Columbia. Then, he works for three months at an attractive salary, amounts varying among the par ticipating firms and agencies, learning to apply to his job the skills acquired during the three months of school. When three months is up, he goes back to school at TEC. This alternating schedule of studying three months and work ing three months is continued through a total of 33 months. At that time, he is eligible for the associate of applied science degree in civil engineering tech nology. He would go right on work ing for his co-op employer in most cases. James C. Farley, head of the civil engineering technology de partment at Richland TEC, calls the co-op program “a golden opportunity for both the engin eering-apt student and for in dustry that needs them so cru cially”. “The sky is virtually the limit at what a civil engineering tech nology graduate can do. Right now, I could place at least 200 graduates, and the need is in creasing daily. Besides the high way department, general con tractors, steel fabricators, home builders, utility and telephone companies, and other govern mental agencies are crying for this kind of employe.” Earn while you learn pro grams of this kind are new to South Carolina, but Mr. Farley says that those in other states have produced excellent grad uates and have been widely ac cepted by employers. He cited the Georgia Highway Depart ment’s success with the South ern TEC program. Any high school graduate with a background in math and in science, with acceptable scores on either the College Board ex aminations or the Richland TEC entrance exam, is eligible. Further information may be obtained by writing or telephon ing Mr. Farley at Richland TEC, Columbia. UF DIRECTORS TO MEET TUESDAY The August meeting of the Board of Directors for the New berry County United Fund will be held on Tuesday, August 12 at 10 A. M. in the Newberry Federal Savings and Loan As sociation Community Room. Plans for the Fall Campaign now scheduled for the latter part of October will be outlined at this meeting, according to D. B. Brittain, Fund President. Work-Study program set at Richland iec South Carolina young men NOTICE TO CREDITORS All persons having claims against the estate of Carl El more, deceased, are hereby not ified to file the same, duly ver ified with the undersigned, and those indebted to said estate will please make payment like wise. Ada Hentz Elmore Administratrix R. Aubrey Harley, Attorney July 31, 1969 8-7-3tc FROM TENNESSEE Mrs. McBeth Sprouse, Knox ville, Tenn., is visiting her mo ther, Mrs. M. O. Summer this week. She will be joined here this weekend by Mr. Sprouse.