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BY THE WAY
Hy DORIS A. SANDERS
PIGS AND PANTHERS
Back in the first week of De
cember, Chicago police made
an effort—legally—to search pre
mises occupied by leaders of
the ‘ Black Panther” party. The
search turned into a shooting
battle which left Chicago minus
two of its Panthers.
Since that time the commen
tators of national prominence
have been diligently trying to
persuade you that the slain Pan
thers were nothing more than
timid kittens at the mercies of
the big. brutal Chicago police
force. Somehow they always fail
to mention that a sizeable
arsenal was found on the pre
mises. They would have you be
lieve that it would be impossible
for a Panther to have shot a
gun from his bed; rather, they
want you to believe that the
poor defenseless man was shot
in his sleep by the “Pigs”.
The National Observer in an
editorial a few weeks ago points
out that the Panthers are by
no means angels It is nice to
see that someone on a national
basis has some sympathy for
the police
The editorial follows.
Pigs' and Panthers
If the Black Panther Party is
truly being persecuted, if its
leaders and members are truly
being systematically deprived of
their life and liberty by the
nation’s law enforcers, then this
effort should be exposed a n d
eradicated. For now, however,
the sudden sympathy for the
Panthers in undeniably respect
ed quarters should not obscure
some fundamental facts about
the organization and its rela
tions with police.
To begin with, the Panthers
are more than merely “radical”
or “anti-establishment”, both
legitimate postures in a free so
ciety. The Panthers base their
radicalism on a violent philoso
phy, one that has caused res
ponsible black le iders and or
ganizations to shun them. They
have a fondness for stashing
away large arsenals of weapons,
including some specifically out
lawed. Their hostility toward the
“establishment” makes the pol
ice “the pigs” a special tar
get One chapter distributed a
c o m i c book show ing y o u n g
blacks beating, stabbing, and
shooting uniformed pigs. “The
only good pig is a dead pig.”
says the caption
It is not .surprising, then, that
the police m many cities have
an obvious anti Panther bias
The) have encountered sniping
in the ghettos, and. < onsidermg
tin.' imprev-ivo arriimulatinn of
weapons found at Panther strong
holds, have < oncluded perhaps
wiongly but not unrea.-onabiy
that Panthers have done the
firing. When sent to raid Pan
ther headquarter-, the 'pig-'
have sometimes refrained from
keeping their weapons m their
holsters again, not unreason
ably Inexcusably, -ome police
have been trigger happy and
some have overreacted to the*
mere presence of Panthers on
the scene But none of this is
unfathomable
And none of this adds up. ne
cessarily or even probably, to a
national conspiracy It certainly
doesn't add up to a national pol
icy of genocide, as some Pan
thers insist Indeed, the unoffi
cial commission of respected
citizens that set out last week
to investigate Panther allega
tions had best start out by do
ing some simple adding up
Panther spokesmen, for exam
ple, can produce the names of
19 party members killed by pol
ice in the past two years, a bit
Vol. 33-No. 38
Newberry, S. C. 29108, Thursday, January 8, 1970
$3 PER YEAR
March of Dime workekrs shown above, tional meeting Tuesday. See story on this
gathered at Newberry Inn for an informa- page. (Sunphoto).
IB Association
meeting be he!d
The fourth annual meeting of
the Tuberculosis and Health As
sociation of Area Six will be
held at 7 p.m. on January 27
in Self Memorial Hospital in
Greenwood, according to the
President. Dr Neil E. Truesdell.
The Area Six Association was
formed May 16, 1967 to include
Abbeville, Edgefield, Laurens,
Greenwood, McCormick, New
berry and Saluda counties.
Dr. Truesdell said that direct
ors and officers will be elected
during the business session to
follow a dutch supper. Herman
Allen. Executive Director of the
South Carolina TB-RD Associa
tion. will be the featured speak
er of the evening.
Invitations to the annual meet
ing will be issued in the near
future to members, volunteers,
and ether community leaders.
The President also announced
that Christmas Seal contribu
tions have reached a total of
$29,105.80. He commented, “We
are still hoping to reach our
goal of $36,000 sot for this cam
paign”
HAZEL NAMED TO
ALL-LUTHERAN TEAM
MINNEAPOLIS A Nowbor
rv Collogo' football piayor was
namod to tho I960 All Lutheran
Coiiogr football team snnounc
od m Minneapolis
Puntor Roger Hazel was nam
ed to the first team
Piavers from 28 football play
ing Lutheran colleges and um
verities are represented on
tliH vearN team which was
named m tin- January issue of
The BOND, month!} magazine
of Lutheran Brotherhood, which
i>. a Minneapolis-based fraternal
insurance society The maga
zine, with a circulation of over
J’liMiuo, has carried the select
ions since
shy of what Arthur Goldberg
calls the “sobering assertion”
by the Panthers that “as many
as a score” have died, and far
shy of the oft-cited figure of 28.
If Mr. Goldberg and his com
mission associates can’t at the
outset separate this kind of fact
from propaganda there is little
hope that it can uncover the
facts about who is to blame
when “pigs” and Panthers shoot
it out
March of Dimes
campaign
is outlined
Plans were outlined Tuesday
for the 1970 March of Dimes
Campaign to be held in the coun
ty throughout the month of Jan
uary.
At a luncheon meeting held
at Newberry Inn, Gene Tuggle,
campaign director, announced
that the main event of the cam
paign, the Mothers March will
be held on January 23.
The first event of th ; s year’s
fund drive was a Coffee held
Wednesday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Walter Regnery.
On Saturday, January 17, a
Golf Cart race will be held in
the city.
Attending the luncheon were
present and past leaders of the
March of Dimes campaign, spon
sored by the Newberry Jaycees,
and representatives of the news
media They vver introduced by
Mr. Tuggle as follows,
Grady L Carter, C h a p t e r
Chairman, Dave Waldrop, Jay-
cee president, Linda Turner,
Jaycee-ettes president; Carol
Sanderson, and Barbara Alley,
presidents of Mothers Clubs 1
and 2. respectively. Betty Wil 1 -
ingham. Jaycee-ette March of
I times (’hairman . Harold Folk,
MDD Treasurer,
Also. Elliott Thompson, past
director of the MOD campaign;
Peggy West, past chairman for
Javeeo cites MOD. Rev J A.
Holmes. Newberry County MOD;
Hugh Turner. Jayeee Road
blocks Bobb}’ Nichols, coin can
isters. Harold Dominick, Golf
Cart Race; Parker Martin, MOD
for Youth, Bully West, Prosper
ity MOD, Cindy Martin, Betty
Jean Dominick and Jackie Long,
Jaycee-ettes MOD
Representing the news media
were Jimmy Coggins, Roscoe
Bedenbaugh, Ollie Moye and
Steve Armfield.
Interim at
college finds
students afar
Newberry College students re
turned to the campus Monday
after the long Christmas break
to begin the College’s first
month-long Interim semester.
The shortened semester will
give students an opportunity for
extended work in an area of
his choice which is not usually
covered in the undergraduate
curriculum.
Although most of the 41 cour
ses offered will be centered on
the Newberry campus, many of
them will take long field trips
throughout South Carolina, the
South, Washington, I). C. or
New York
The most extensive project
during the Interim semester is
a three-week tour of Scotland,
England, France and Spain by
a class m English History and
Culture taught by M Foster Far
ley, associate professor of his
tory The 39-student group flew
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begin drug
abuse program
The Kiwanis Club of Newberry
will begin a program of drug-
abuse education, according to
Ken Riebe. president. The pro
gram, which is directed to the
community in general, but ul
timately to those in the upper
elementary and junior high
schools who have not yet been
confronted with an option of vol
untary drug use. is called
‘Operation Drug Alert".
'Hie Club has appointed a coor
dinating committee for the Op
eration Drug Alert program.
Chairman for the committee is
Andy Buss IK* and the mem
bers ot tin.’ committee. Conrad
Park, Dave Morison. James
(). Smith and Ezra Heyler, will
undertake a self education pro
gram on the extent and serious
ness ot drug abuse in general,
and m the community m parti
cular Then, an action program
will be set up to provide a sys
tem ot drug abuse education for
the community itself. The Oper
ation Drug Alert program is a
flexible one and. in communi
ties where a problem of drug
abuse is not a serious one, will
be used as a preventive-educa
tional measure Each of the
Kiwanis clubs across the conti
nent will operate in much the
same way, with variations in
its action program depending on
the community need
“Kiwanis International is well
aware that campaigns aimed at
stifling drug abuse are already
underway m many communities.
However, it (eels that, because
el thr diversity of occupations,
professions, contacts and talents
within cacti <-|ub. that in such
commumtie. . Kiwanis is in a
good position to unite various
drug education campaigns with-
to Edinburgh. Scotland Wed
in each
community." Mr Riebe
nesday from New York to parti
said
eipate m a series of seminars
The (
T'ration Drug Alert
on Scottish history and htora
progr.iin is being carried out bv
lure at the University of Edin
K i vv a n i s
Hub., throughout the
burgh.
1 nitcd
States and Canada It
The traveling Newbomans will
constitii!
U'- Kiuani ' ' major em-
also spend twelve days m Uon
pbasis"
program in eommuruty
don where they will attend lec
-ci v lie
lor m< current year.
t.ures on English history, gov
1 He Ml,
ij'T emphasis program
ernment and literature given by
asks t f i i
at each club committee
the staff of the University of
dev ote
at e i i -i ilile of its et -
Uondon
forts to
1 T^Ta'iut] |) ril g Alert.
A five-day side trip to Bans,
It aims
at enlisting the strength.
to visit the well known land-
and ;tbi!11ion ui i ,i< a (gut) mem
JASPER CHAPTER
MEETS FRIDAY
The Jasper Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Re
volution will meet at the home
of Mrs. Harry D. Epting on Jan.
9 at 4 p m. The associate hos
tesses are Mrs. P. K. Harmon,
Mrs. Kemper Lake, Mrs. Jas.
A. McKeown and Mrs. James
M. Smith, Jr.
marks m French history follow
ed by a three (lay stop m Mad
rid for a brief glimpse of Span
ish history and culture will con
clude the three-week European
visit. They will return to the
United States Jan 28
Washington, D C will be the
focal point of Finis Johnson’s,
assistant professor of political
science, class in Basic Issues
of Contemporary American So
ciety as 13 students visit the
nation’s capital to get a better
look at some of today’s pro
blems. The group will study in
Washington, D. C. from Jan 12-
27. Another two members of
the group, Harold Koon and El
len Williamson, Newberry sen
iors will spend the month work
ing as interns for South Caro
lina’s Senator Strom Thurmond.
(Continued on page I)
ber of each oi (lit .).7iiu Kiwanis
clubs in the dia. edu' .itioii pro
gram
Operation Drug Alert is the
result of a -urvey undertaken
late last year by Kiwanis which
posed this que.Mion to 501) lead
ers in : II walks of life in Can
ada and the United States;
”ln your judgment what do
you identify on our national
scene as the greatest single need
or opportunity for service to
which a men's service club or
ganization can apply itself in
the next tw r o years?”
On the basis of recommenda
tions received from this group
of leaders, Kiwanis identified
the need for a program of drug
abuse education as providing the
most significant challenge to its
member clubs. Operation Drug
(Continued on page t)