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BY THE WAY By DORIS A. SANDF.RS FOR YOUR BENEFIT The well-advertised school meetings to be held tonight. (Thursday) at Newberry and at Whitmire and Mid-Carolina next week, are being held for your benefit; to advise you as to the conditions of your schools both as far as physical plants and curricula are concerned. Your tax dollars paid for the survey which was made by the State Department of Education. Your tax dollars will pay for any needed improvements to be made in the school system. Taxpayers, as well as school patrons, have—or should have— a vital interest in what will be reported at these meetings. You are urged to attend so that you will be well-informed on the present and future situa tion of the school system in your county. TAX REFORM I'd be willing to bet that at least six out of seven members of City Council moan and groan when time comes to pay their income taxes. But along comes an Adminis tration which tries to plug some loopholes so that millionaires— as well as us poor working folks—will be required to share their wealth with Uncle Sam and what does Council do'.’ It peti tions our U S Senators to please NOT plug that loophole. Let the fat cats get fatter by buying tax-exempt municipal bonds while we struggle along and give a big chunk of our puny earn ings to keep the country going. I think Council might have given a little more thought to what it was doing Tuesday night when it passed a resolution urg ing the Senators to oppose a measure which would make municipal bonds no longer tax exempt. What Council did was help assure a continuation of the high income taxes that the citizens of Newberry will have to pay. Book rental dates given All students who will attend Newberry High School for the lH)U-7() school year are request ed to rent their books prior to tile opening of school, accord ing to an announcement made by W U Mabry. I’rincipal The 12th grade students will tent books on Monday. August 18 llth grade students w ill rent book" Tuesday. August 111. loth aradt student." will rent books WedneMlay. August 20. 0th grade Indent" w in rent books Thurs (ia\. August 2! Lockers w111 also ht rented at this time Hours toi rent a in book ■ on t tiese days a re i n an 0 am to 12 noon. Eighth grade student." wri! re < eive books on the opening da'.’ of "drool. Tliursda} August 22 PLUMBLEE AWARDED S300 SCHOLARSHIP CLEMSON Thomas W Ulum- blee of Newberry Route 3. a ris ing sophomore at Clemson En- iversity. is recipient of the $300 Scholarship for the 1069-70 aca demic year Tommy is the son of Mrs. Ruby L Rlumblee of .New berry Route 3, and an agricul tural engineering major at the University He is a 1968 grad uate of Newberry High School, and is a member of the student chapter American Society of Agricultural Engineers at Clem son Vol. 33—No. 17 Newberry, S. C. 29108, Thursday, August 14, 1969 $3 PER YEAR To distribute fallout shelter directories About 50 County residents re presenting a cross-section of the county’s economic, civic and governmental life met last night to organize distribution of a fall out shelter directory to every household in the county. The meeting was held at the Bush River fire house Among those invited to attend the meeting were members of the Newberry County legislative delegation. State Senator Robert C Lake. Jr. and Representa tive Walter T Lake. They com prise the committee which gave the nod to proceed with prepar ation of a community shelter plan for the county. A copy of the shelter directory will go to every householder, along with the handbook on nu clear attack and natural disas ters. published by the national Office of Civil Defense. The dir- eetory and manual together will make up a complete emergency information package. The directory is something like a road map which guides every citizen, wherever he lives in the county, to the building nearest his home which would provide him the best available shelter against radioactive fall out if a nuclear disaster should occur Called a “survival insurance policy", the directory was pre- pared in cooperation with the South Carolina Civil Defense Agency A survey was made of all buildings in the county which might offer the best potential "belter against radioactive fall- cut These were carefully screen cd until 65 wore selected in 22 different parts, or shelter areas, of the county Each shelter area lias one or more "bolters, de- pundinu on the density of pop- motion Tin shelter " ;( hoseii are MiftlUlC it t i accommodate all ot New heir \ Uoun y A approxi mateU 31.1 5U people. included 11 the foldel ' due t u tv is a t low Up < if ■niarged mop ot ear l "helie v niT ■a show mg mu te ; i larked u itii red ar row - w i ileh rexdent " "i. aid take t 1 ' ft H h "1 miter ( dti/t. a." are told hm \ tii \ W o'ljJ 1 lie w anreii o . ,1 1 ie ie a r a!! a k. w hat to tiki with t! :em to -belt ■r what * 1 1 i! i > t ’U I )Ut,r and ft rW the\ it 1 if, t) i f . i n) t i i \ i, e .ht 11 t lit'! ■iter ,■ i! home iic unit > , . ' f , r t ' \ P ‘ 1 1 1 > re, H h ; i i')! / u ; U 1 "" I ninurnty M it iit f The < HIu t of < 1 \ i 1 1 'efeU.x 1 bundbo ik . i milled In Time of Emergt Ulr) . i." be mg distnbut ed to b mix hi ddei's a.s ; xipple- meiit t • inforinatK >n given in the dir ertoi •y It cover." pl'otec- five mi ■asu 'es one can take at home ; igait "t both nuc ear and natural disaster, including tor- undoes and hurric; mes. and m- chides a section on oarc of the sick and injured The project to find shelter for everyone, which was begun in Newberry County in November 1966. is part of a larger effort being earned on throughout the state and the United States. South Carolina, through its Civil Defense Agency in Columbia, has been a pioneer in the field. Mrs. Family Pearce, recently School meeting to be tonight A comprehensive report of condition and needs of schools in Newberry County will be giv en at three meetings to be held at Newberry, Whitmire and at Mid-Carolina High Schools on August 14. 19 and 21, respect ively. Ralph W. Watkins, director of county schools, said the follow ing areas would be covered at each of the meetings by mem bers of the State Department of Education Overview and Purpose of the Surveys, by W FT Ellis, Dir ector. Office of Research and Planning; Findings and recom mendations Concerning the Re organization of the County System of Education, by T C. Bruce. Chief Supervisor of Sur vey." and Lee Edwards. Super- vi."or of Surveys; Findings and the Organization of the Second ary and Elementary Schools by Or [truce Crowley. Director of the office of Oeneral Education. Also Findings and Recom mendations (Mneerning Vocation Edueation Need" by Dr Cecil .Iniinom 1 hrector < tfficc of Yo- i afona! Edueation. .and Signi- fieant Implications m the Find mgs and Reeommendations for each (ioocrnphn al Area of the lOrmtv. by \V E Ellis. Direct- o OMn r lit Research and Rlan- Mr Watkni" and the County Heard <>f [education have urged that ail oiti/eiis interested in the operations and needs of the rount} "vhoo!", attend one of the meotmg" Delivery of a similar informa tion paokage to 16.000 homes in Horr\ County m 1966-67 was the first "ueh operation to he ear ned out successfully in the nat ion and has become a model for other states developing com munity shelter plans. Distribution of the information packages to some 7,800 homes in Newberry County will be car ried out by volunteer individuals and civic groups. Some 21 other counties now have entered the program in South Carolina and their plans are in various stages of development at this time. n) * appointed beautification Council has short session City Council held a brief open meeting Tuesday night then vot ed itself into executive session. During the meeting, Mayor Clarence A. Shealy, Jr. present ed certificates to firefighters James R. Blackburn, David E. Whitman, Lewis B. L,ee and Earl Dominick for completion of the Foreground Skill Course at the State Fdre College and Pump School, Rowan Technical Institute, N. C. Several members of the New berry High School Boosters club with Shotsie McCutcheon as the spokesman, asked council to to provide free lighting of the high school football field for athletic practice at night dur ing hot weather. Council took the request under consideration. Council approved on second reading the adoption of the 1965 edition of the Southern Building Code, replaeing the 1962-63 ed ition now in use by the City. Approved was an appropria tion of SI.636 as the eity's share of a $4,902 federal grant to pur rhase equipment for the police department. The grant is being obtained through the Central Midlands Planning Council The money w ill tie used to purchase riot equipment and to finance training programs for city of ficer." Council accepted a low bid of $6,485 from J FTlerbe Sea.^e Co. for the purchase of a tractor and loader for use in the utility department Four bids were re ceived. A resolution was adopted to he sent to U. S. Senators Ern est 1 hillings and Strom Thur mond expressing the council’s opposition to a proposal in the Senate which would remove the tax exempt status of municipal bonds. Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Bowler have as their house guests, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bates of Tul sa, Oklahoma, cousins of Mr. Bowler; and Mrs. Joe Mighton of Wilmington, N. C., sister of Mrs. Bowler. Mrs. Mary Courtney will re side at 1116 Keroes Avenue. Inquest jury holds Langford for Grand Jury James Langford of this city was held for Grand Jury inves tigation following a Coroner’s inquest Thursday night in Whit mire into the death of Mrs. Ruth Wallen Corder. Mrs. Corder was killed, ap parently instantly, when struck by the truck driven by Lang ford on August 1 shortly before 9 p.m. Seven witnesses were called to the stand by Coroner George R. Summer. The inquest was held in Whitmire Town Hall with a large crowd present. The dead woman's husband, William Corder, testified that he, his wife and three children were walking down Highway 66 from his mother's home at the time of the accident. He said that his children were in front of him and his wife was walking behind, all of them on the shoulder of the road. He testified that after t h e truck struck his wife, it contin ued on without stopping and lat er returned. He quoted Mr. Langford, the driver of the truck saying he (Langford) did not know he had hit her, and Cord er told h m, “She’s laying over in the gulley where you hit her, where you knocked her’’. The second witness was Mrs. Lillie Mae Graham in front of whose home the woman was struck. MrsXiraham testified that she was looking out of her window and saw the three children, then the father come by. She turned from the window for a moment then, she said, she heard “this terrific noise". She ran outside to offer help, then returned to her home to call an ambulance and doctor. She said she did not see a truck or any other vehicle on the highway when she ran out of her home. Mrs. Graham estimated that 20 to 25 minutes elapsed before the truck returned to the scene of the accident She testified that when the truck returned, she heard Mr. Corder say, “Oh, yes you did know what yon done, you couldn't help but knoued it. that you bit ’tier and you kill ed my wife. She's over there in the ditch." The witness stated that stie asked Mr. Corder if he knew who hit his wife, and he re plied, “Yes, James Langford He wasn't driving straight, he was weaving in and out" Mrs Annie Sizemore was the next witness to take the stand. She said that she had heard the noise of the impact and went out to see if she could offer any help She also estimated t h e time at 20 to 25 minutes before the truck returned. Litt King, another resident of the area, heard “a terrible noise . . .1 thought it had killed one of my cows, it was such a heavy blast, and about that time, this truck come on full load. It never even slowed up or nothing, and went on out of sight the same way. . .” Mr. King stated that he was not an eye witness to the acci- (Continued on page 8) supervisor with the State Department of Parks, Recrea tion and Tourism, visited Newberry Tuesday. She is shown here at the Youth Center while the day camp for special education classes was being conducted. In the photo are, from left, P. K. Fuller, city recreation director; Mrs. Pearce, Mrs. Mary Nell Eargle and Mrs. Pearlie Mae Myers, special education teachers. (Sunphoto).