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The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Feb. 19, 1970—PAGE 5 over 80 percent of the Indians scoring this season by making 1,600 of the squad’s 2,000 points. Gilroy is leading the Carolinasi Conference and the NAIA Dis trict 6 in rebounding with an average of 153; Miller has been the leader in percentage of field goals made by hitting 88 out of 139 for 63.3 percent. Gilroy broke the school’s in dividual free throw record when in one season he made his 131st charity toss in the Presbyterian game last week; since the re cord breaking toss, he has con tinued to make them—through Saturday night’s encounter ag ainst Pfeiffer he has hit the bucket 144 times at the free throw line. Moore is only three away, with 128 to his credit, from the old mark of 130 that Gilroy broke. The two have ac counted for over half of the 521 free throws made by the In dians this season. Moore and Hollingsworth are neck-and- neck for the scoring honors for the dying season with Moore making an even 500 points and Hollingsworth trailing by two with 498 points to his credit. 1969 JUNIOR 4-H ELECTRIC WINNER FROM NEW-' BERRY COUNTY—Clark Abrams, son of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Abrams, is being presented a one-fourth horse power electric drill by Ollie Donkle, Associate County Agent, Clemson University Extension Service. Clark was a member of the 4-H Electric Club last year and was declared the county winner for his outstanding work in the 4-H Electric project and having the best 4-H Electric Record. Each year the Duke Power Company gives the county 4-H junior boy winner in the 4-H Electric project and electric drill. Ollie Donkle made the presentation to Clark Abrams on behalf of Duke Power Company and Clemson University Extension Service. Selected to attend Academy SERGEANT MILLS m: ’ cer (NCO) Academy at the Olympia Armory in Columbia. Sgt. Mills, a Squad Leader in the 30th Military Police Com pany and Sgt. Force, a com munications section chief in Headquarters Company, 2nd Bri gade, 30th Infantry Division, be gan intensive classroom train ing January 31 for leadc ip and supervisory duties in their Newberry units. The training will be conduc ed one weekend per month for four consecutive months. Among the subjects program med are leadership, tactics, ad ministration, drill and command and map reading and training. Two Academy sessions are sche duled annually. The students were officially welcomed to the Academy Sat urday afternoon by Major Gen eral Frank D. Pinckney, the Adjutant General of South Car olina, during orientation. Following satisfactory comple tion of the course, the NCOs will receive certificates of com pletion. WITH MEN IN The SERVICES VIETNAM — Army Special ist Four Moses Boyd, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs Bennie Boyd, Route 1, Prosperity, received the Army Commendation Med al while serving with the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam. He earned the award for mer itorious service as an automat ic rifleman with Company A, 2nd Battalion of the division’s 8th Infantry. The award was presented on January 1. VIETNAM — Staff Sergeant Charles M. Pitts, son of Mr. and Mrs .John L. Pitts, Route I, Silverstreet is a member of a unit that has earned the U. S. Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with “V” device for val or. Sgt. Pitts, a communications equipment repairman in the Tan Son Nhut AB, Vietnam, will wear a distinctive service rib bon to mark his affiliation with the unit. The 505th was cited for meri torious service against enemy forces in Southeast Asia from June 1967 to June 1968. The group is part of the Pac ific Air Forces, headquarters for air operations in Southeast Asia, the Far East and Paci fic area. St. Pitts graduated in 1952 from Silverstreet High School and served during the Korean War. His wife, Stella, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emil J. Meyer of Mount Vernon, Mo. SERGEANT FORCE Sergeant Ronald T. Mills and Staff Sergeant George C.Force of Newberry are among the 68 South Carolina National Guards men selected for the newly or ganized Noncommissioned Offi Last game for College cagers Four seniors made their last basketball appearance in Mac- Lean Gymnasium Wednesday, when the Newberry Indians played their final home game of the season against Wofford’s Terriers. The quartet—co-captains Bud dy Moore and Tommy Miller from Greenville and Steve Holl ingsworth from Riverdale, Md. and Charles Gilroy from Blad- ensburg, Md., have all had three seasons of basketball play for the local team. Newberry sports fans will still have a chance to see Miller participate in athletics this spring when he trades his bask etball uniform for a baseball uniform as soon as the basket ball season ends. The four have accounted for SAN ANTONIO — Airman Benny G. Rice, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Rice, Route 3, has completed basic training at Lackland AFB, Tex. He has been assigned to Sheppard AFB Tex. for training in aircraft maintenance. Airman Rice is a 1969 graduate of Newberry high school. OKINAWA — U. S. Air Force Staff Sergeant Jeffie A. Ruther ford, son of Mrs. Mary E. Ruth erford, Route 2, Pomaria, is on duty at Kadena AB, Okinawa. Sgt. Rutherford, a materiel supervisor, is with the 824 Ser vices Squadron, a unit of the Pacific Air Forces, headquart ers for air operations in South east Asia, the Far East and Pacific area. He previously ser ved at Cam Ranh Bay AB, Vietnam. He is a 1960 graduate of Gallman High School. LtiiJ JIlAii SENATOR STROM THURMOND REPORTS TO THE PEOPLE STOLEN DOCUMENTS The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee has just published a set of historic documents that tell how American policy in Asia was subverted. The docu ments in question—the famous Amerasia papers—were stolen from top-secret government files. They included diplomatic and intelligence reports and corre spondence. They were recovered in 1945 by the FBI from illegal possession in the office of a Com munist collaborator. SECRET REPORTS Yet the story they tell shows that subversion of policy can sometimes more eflfectively aid the enemy cause than actual es pionage. After twenty-five years, the top-secret classification has been removed. One can read the actual text of the secret reports from China, for example, of U. S. career diplomat John Stewart Service, as he glorified Mao Tse-Tung and the whole Communist ap paratus seeking to overthrow Free China. Service and his as sociates—such as Owen Balti more, John Carter Vincent. John Paton Davies, Jr., John K. Em- merson—continually told their superiors that the Communists were men of integrity and vision, democratic and peace- loving. Chiang Kai-Shek and the leaders of Free China were painted as corrupt, inefficient, reactionary, and lacking the support of the people. Apologists for Service and his group have claimed that they were merely making accurate assessments of the scene; they even argue that the collapse of Free China proved the collabo rators were right. SUBVERSION OF POLICY This defense of subversion collapses now that the texts of the documents are published. The official U. S. policy was to support Chiang Kai-Shek; yet here we read the very reports by which Service and his as sociates did everything possible to undermine confidence in the anti-Communists. Service ac tually dictated policy from his post in China, and demanded that support be withdrawn from Chiang. He worked to get him- self established as a U. S. rep resentative 1 to the Mao head quarters, thereby giving recog nition to the Communists. At one critical point, he actually disregarded the orders of the U. S. Ambassador and boldly held a special conference with Mao at a crucial moment. The cumulative effect of this skillful advocacy of the Chinese Communist cause within the ranks of the U. S. State Depart ment was to weaken the resolve of the President and his top advisors. An embargo was placed upon aid to Chiang, and Chiang was forced to accept a truce with the Communists. We abandoned Free China at the decisive moment. Meanwhile, the pro-Commu- nist magazine Amerasia was spreading the same propaganda on the home front. The editor and publisher of the magazine, Philip Jacob Jaflfe, was a wealthy businessman who gave large sums to the Communist Party, lectured and wrote for the Party, and participated in various Communist action pro grams. AMERASIA CASE When the FBI raided the magazine’s office, agents found hundreds of top-secret docu ments relating to U. S. China policy, ranging from the reports of Service to personal corre spondence between President Roosevelt and Mao Tse : tung. For reasons never fully ex plained, Jaffe was not tried for espionage; he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal U. S. docu ments, and paid a fine of $2500. Service, who had a close rela tionship with Jaffe, was ar rested, but not indicted. He re turned to the Foreign Service, and retired in due course. Twenty-five years after the fact, these documents appear at a propitious time. The Nixon Administration is reassessing IT. S. policy towards Communist China. Talks are being held with the Red Chinese ambassa dor in Warsaw. Such talks can be very deceptive. We now have the benefit of hard experience. We know what Chiang Kai-Shek has done for his people on Taiwan; we know also what Mao has done on the mainland. We should not forget that a small hand of dedicated career ists started us off on a path that has led to the enslavement of 700 million people, and to the fighting of two major wars, in Korea and Vietnam. NOTICE AN ADDITIONAL 5°/o PENALTY WILL BE ADDED TO ALL UNPAID 1969 City Taxes — on — MARCH 1st, 1970 !t-