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PAGE 2 — The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Nov. 27, 1969 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina SUBSCRIPTION RATES: .$3.00 per year in advance. Six Months $2.00. COMMENT on Men & Things By J. K. BKKKDIX “There shall be Showers of Blessings”. You will remember the hymn because it is sung in almost all our Churches. I take for granted the real meaning is the constant mercy and blessings we receive from Jehovah. Even if the thought is for spiritual benefit we receive, constant benefit of things of the world. We live in a great country, blessed in so many ways; the things deep down in the ground, like coal, oil, gold and t h e thousand and one other things; and above all electricity and natural gas, not forgetting the trees and lumber Among the richest blessings we may men tion ourselves, with our brains. We may not think of Spiritual gifts but we have the promise of Eternal Life and we have the words of Jesus that when breath has left us He will meet our Spirits in Paradise. So we have the incalculabU riches of the earth and the un ending blessings for Eternity. All these blessings mean more to us than all the showers of rain. Are you an American 7 Do you know your country 7 This is a great and a rich country. Do you know why? It is not as large as Brazil and may not be as large as Canada. As to Bra zil: it has enormous resources but the Brazilians are not of the great quality of Americans. In dealing with the Pacific Coast of our own great country we must use a railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific; or we must use the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal belongs to the little Republic of Panama: and both the Republic of Pan ama and the Canal owe their life to the United States. That means that we might have to send our entire Navy to protect the two ends of the Canal, as well as all the way to each one. In view of what I have just said that less than what we have already wasted in Viet nam we could cut another Can al. Now where would you cut another canal? Geographically we might cut a route through some place in Central Ameri ca. Now what about that? Any route through Central America a Spanish country and subject to all the difficulties we now have in Panama. It seems to me that our great country has an enormous com merce from East to West and West to East and that com merce is growing. We should protect it and promote it. My mind has constantly been thinking of a route through the Gulf of Mexico and through Cal ifornia. We’ll Come To Youl Solving insurance problems right on the spot is nothing new in our business. Just give us a call. We'll be glad to talk over your needs at your home or farm. As a full service agency with the widest range of insurance services, it's our busi ness to be helpful. May we hear from you? “YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS” 1418 Main Street Phone 276-1422 Letter to Editor To the Editor: Friday, November 22, was cer tainly a sad day for many Southern Conservatives who sup ported President Nixon’s efforts to restore balance to our Su preme Court with his nomina tion of Judge Clement F. Hayns- worth, Jr. Judge Haynsworth went down in defeat not because Senator Ernest Rollings cam paigned actively or because Senator Strom Thurmond cam paigned any less actively as Senator Rollings would lead one to think when he attacked Pres ident Nixon and the GOP for the vote this past Friday. The fact remains that Rollings spent three weeks on a “junket” to India during the peak of the confirmation campaign, while Senator Thurmond, who was also invited, declined so that he could stay in Washington and campaign for Haynsworth. As always Sen. Rollings has put himself in a position of playing both sides of the fence. He wanted to take credit if the nomination were successful, and if it failed he wanted to blame President Nixon. One should not be misled by Senator Thurmond’s endorse ment of Donald S. Russel, for mer governor and primary fo€ of Rollings in the Democrat pri mary to fill the unexpired term of Sen. Olin D. Johnston. This was an attempt by Sen. Thur mond to disassociate himself from the Haynsworth nomina tion which would be revealed soon enough in the course ot the battle for confirmation. Thus it was only natural that Rollings support the nomination of Hayn sworth over Donald Russell, an old political foe. This, however, seems to have been the extent of Sen. Rollings role in the bat tle. Thus I maintain as before, Sen. Rollings did not take a firm stand but wavered as us ual while seeking to capitalize personally. I think this is evi dent when the Senator criti cizes the administration which made Clement F. Haynsworth the nominee with the President placing his personal prestige on the confirmation by not with drawing his nomination as Lyn don B. Johnson, of Sen. Roll ings’ party, did with the Abe Fortas nomination. If Ernest Rollings is earnest and wants a strong construct ionist on the Supreme Court as Senator Thurmond, let’s see him working at it here in the states where the action is and not in India for three weeks nor in head-line seeking with his con stant TV appearances while Sen. Thurmond remained out of the limelight working out the nitty-gritty as we say today, with seeking votes for confirm ation. It was balance of the Supreme Court which South Car olina wanted along with the rest of the country which supported the President in 1968. I person ally support him frankly and openly today and would hope that Sen. Rollings would decide to get off the fence to support a future sound candidate to the Supreme Court. Perhaps he can lend a hand in the homework since he feels the President was lacking in his homework for Haynsworth; that is, of course if he is at home long enough and not cruising the Indian Ocean around India for three weeks. W.Harold Koon Newberry, S. C. SERVES ON STATE FORESTRY COMMITTEE The State Advisory Commit tee of County Forestry Boards held its 18th annual meeting at the S. C. State Commission of Forestry headquarters near Col umbia on Tuesday, November 18, according to Legare Duke, District Forester of Newberry. Delegates from each county discussed the Commission’s pro posed programs, plans and bud get for the coming year. The 5-member County Fores try Board in each county serves without pay to advise and as sist the State Commission of Forestry in carrying out its statewide forestry programs, said Duke. The Committee is composed of delegates from each of the 46 county forestry boards. H. M. Hentz served as dele gate to this meeting from New berry County. College begins self-study Newberry College is in the first stages of an 18-month Self- Study under the Self-Study pro gram of the Commission on Col leges of the Southern Associa tion of Colleges and Schools. The study, which will not be completed until 1971, will give the College a chance to reeval uate its accomplishments and its educational efficiency since the first study was completed in 1961, according to Conrad Park, academic dean. A quotation from the Intro duction of the Self-Study manual explains it by stating, “The es sential purpose of the Institu tional Self-Study Program is the improving of educational ef fectiveness of higher learning. The procedures of the program are designed to help institutions reassess their objectives, to measure success in attaining ob jectives, explore ways and mean by which educational efficiency may be improved, and prepare for the ever-increasing demands by society. Members of the Board of Trus tees, administration, faculty and students are all participating in the study which will explore such areas as Newberry Col lege’s purpose, organization and administration, educational pro gram, financial resources, fac ulty, library, student personnel and physical plant. The steering committee for the 18-month long study is chair ed by Conrad Park, vice-presi dent and academic dean; Dr. Francis Fesperman, associate professor of religion, and N. K. Williamson, professor of mathe matics and physics, represent ing the faculty on the steering committee; Dr. C. A. Dufford, Jr., Newberry, the Board of Trustees and William Halsey, Oak Ridge, Tenn., senior from the student body. The 477 colleges and univer sities which are accredited by the Southern Association must conauct similar studies every ten years. Bass speaks to auxiliary The Newberry County Medi cal Auxiliary held a luncheon meeting at the Newberry Inn on Monday, November 17. Past or J. Anderson Bass of the First Baptist Church spoke on “Reli gion and Medicine”. He spoke of the need of cooperation be tween the minister and physi cian in meeting the total needs of the patient. There are in stances where a physician will feel that it is in the best in terest of the patient not to be visited, a wise minister will ac cept this without argument. Al so he spoke of confidences be tween a minister and a patient should not be divulged to th€ doctor, likewise confidences be tween doctor and patient should not be divulged to minister. Pastor Bass praised the New berry doctors on being espec ially keen in sensing the need for a minister and often calling one. Mrs. Kemper Lake, president, presided during the business session. Attractive hand-made yearbooks were distributed by Mrs. James Underwood, Pro gram Chairman. Mrs. V. W. Rinehart, State AMA-ERF chair man, had attractive stationery and note pads for sale. She also announced that in lieu of Christ mas cards the doctors are be ing asked for a contribution for AMA-ERF. Dr. and Mrs. Elbert Dicker! of Newberry and Dr. and Mrs. Kemper Lake of Whitmire at tended the meeting of Associa tion of General Practice in Col umbia on November 13 and 14. Dr. and Mrs. Dickert and Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Livingston, Jr. attended the Southern Asso ciation Medical Meeting during November in Atlanta, Georgia. Coffee house at Keller Hall Keller Hall on the Newberry College campus is getting a new lease on life with coffee grounds. “The Coffee-Grounds” is the new coffee house sponsored by the Lutheran Student Associa tion; it had its grand opening during Homecoming weekend in October. Located in the old physics lab, volunteer student help and Col lege maintenance crews clean ed the old building and redecor ated the walls of the former lab with burlap, posters and murals. The coffee house is open Fri day, Saturday and Sunday even ings. Entertainment is provid ed by campus organizations and by students from other colleges. Refreshments include tea, ap ple cider, Russian tea, hot choc olate, coffee, express© coffee, cookies and brownies. Keller Hall was completed in 1895 to house the science labor atories and classrooms and a chapel. Safe drivers given awards Safe Driving Awards were re cently awarded to personnel of the S. C. State Commission of Forestry who have completed a year or more of driving with out a preventable accident. Awards were presented for a total of 424 years of safe driv ing, according to Newberry Dis trict Forester L. M. Duke. The Forestry Commission’s safe driving program has made all of the personnel more con scious of safe driving. It has not only been rewarding in keep ing the drivers from serious in jury, but has been very instru mental in getting the lowest fleet insurance rates possible for Commission vehicles, according to Duke. Twenty-five year awards were presented to District Ranger Melton L. Wall of Newberry, and Abbeville Ranger Charlie Shaw. Those receiving awards from Newberry County were: Alfred Dorroh, 5 years; Guy Long, 1 year; Marion W. Felk- er, 4 years; Jasper D. Cromer, 2 years; L. M. Duke, 13 years; William B. Lawrence, 10 years; George Hunter, 4 years; Ed Grove, 1 year; Henry Traylor, 16 years; James Lee Mills, 14 years; and Guy Williamson, 7 years. Pointers emerge as the win ners in virtually all of today’s quail field trials open to all breeds.—SPORTS AFIELD.