The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, August 14, 1969, Image 1
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-
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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.
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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-
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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).