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BY THE WAY Mrs. H. A. Kemper, president of the cer Crusade, watch as Mayor Clarence A. Newberry County Cancer Society, and Shealy, Jr. proclaims April as “Cancer Hamilton Folk, chairman of the 1970 Can- Month" in the city. (Sunphoto). School plan approved, Board commended by Federal Court R\ DORIS \. SWIM R ‘ SOCIETY'S DESTRUCTION If you want to see how the destruction of society works, then keep an eye on the left wingers m the coming months as they seek to make martyrs out of tile so-called "Chicago Seven" whose trial has just been completed If the leftwingers have their way. the country will be torn apart this spring and summer by violent demonstrations on behalf of the outrageously ob scene and violent human flot sam recently convicted in Chi cago It should be borne in ind that the convictions came after interminable weeks of con temptuous courtroom conduct by not only tin 1 seven defen- dants. but their attorneys as well The leftwing set has already begun its campaign to portray the presiding judge, Julius Hoff man as intemperate and inept Am such portrayal is utterly false The wonder, in fact, is that Judge Hoffman survived the ordeal at all endless days of shouting and list-fights in the courtroom, a steady stream of obscenities and insults hurled at the judge from both defendants and their attorneys Now the leftwing crowd con tends—with a straight face — that Judge Hoffman was too severe when he sentenced de fendants and attorneys to jail for contempt of court It re quired remarkable restraint on the part of the judge for him to wait until the trial was over, and the verdict in, before he hustled the motley crew off to jail for their outrageous con duct in the courtroom. Time Magazine, growing sil lier by the week, now implies that prosecution of the "Chicago Seven" was a "political trial" and quoted an obscure Boston lawyer as its authority for sug gesting that the "conduct" of Judge Hoffman was a "Dis grace". What, one wonders, was the judge supposed to do when defendants and their attorneys repeatedly sprang to their feet, shaking their fists and shouting threats and obscenities at the bench'.' Actually the court and the jury were lenient with the seven defendants Conspiracy charges against all of them were drop ped entirely, and two defen dants were acquitted of the re maming charge 1 crossing state lines to encourage a riot at the Democratic National Con vention of liibH The evidence' leaves no ques tion about tin 1 guilt of the live convicted defendants They did cross state lines for the well advertised purpose of crediting a riot m downtown Chicago In deed. the\ boasted ot having done so But when Chicago po! let broke up the riot and haul ed the provocateurs oil to jail, the leftwing set began to ery police brutahtv' and claim that freedom ot speech was being denied the violent mobs This is the crowd that talks so much and so often about justice It is time for the rest of the country to insist upon a two wav street for justice It is a complete injustice for roving bands of rabble-rousers to dis rupt and destroy the country m the n a m e of "freedom of speech" It would be flagrant injustice against the rest of soe- letv for the police to fail to ar rest, and for the courts to fail to convict, those who seek to overthrow the country by the provocation of anarchv and v 10- (Continued on page 8) April is named Cancer Month PROCLAMATION As Mayor of Newberry, I hereby proclaim the month of April as Cancer Control Month. This is a national project and 1 feel that our fine city of New berry would be very remiss if we do not support one of the greatest projects in existence today It is too important for any individual to neglect or overlook Kven though we have a Cmted Fund m Newberry, that does not embody the Cancer fund, and I know that the Can- eer fund is one that must be considered as one of the most important contributions toward .M h let v today 1 could give vou mam facts and tigures to support this pro i, lamation but I feel that the public is well aware of the manv dt uths that occur from canter each year in our own citv By this proclamation I solicit the support of each individual in his or her support of the Cancer Fund Drive in Newberry during the month of April C A SHHALY, JR MAYOR LEGION AUXILIARY MEET The American Legion Auxi liary will meet Thursday tto day i at 4 p m at the home of Mrs. Guy Whitener, Jr. Host esses will be Mrs. M F. Bowl er. Mrs. Ruby Trice and Mrs. Guy Whitener, Sr. The plan devised by the Board of Education to eliminate a dual school system in the county was approved on March 26 by Hon orable Charles E. Simons, Jr., United States District Judge In his Order of that date, Judge Simons noted that no ob jections had been filed with the Court to the plan submitted by the local board The Order came as an outgrowth of a suit filed by Rev David Carter and sev eral Negro parents and stu dents against the School Board Judge Simons said, "No com ments or objections to the dis tnet's proposed plan by either plaintiffs' counsel or HEW (De partment of Health. Education and Welfare i have been receiv ed by the court Neither has anv plan been filed with the court bv the plaintiffs as dir eeted in tfie court's order of September 22. 1969 Thus, it is concluded that the plaintiffs have no objections to either HEW’s or the school district's proposed plans" The remainder of the Order by Judge Simons, in which fie commends the efforts of the school board, follows: "The court has seriously con sidered and studied the school district's plan and has concluded that it meets fully the legal requirements as firmly estab lished by the decisions of the United States Supreme Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, all of which clearly mandate and require that all de jure segregation be elimi nated root and branch now, and that a unitary school system be established. The officials of the defendant school district are to be commended for the ad mirable manner in which they fiave fulfilled the obligations im posed upon them by these re cent court decisions. They have met the challenge squarely and have submitted a plan which in the judgment of this court meets fully the present requirements of the law of the land This plan is based on geographical zoning, preserves the neighbor hood school concept and does not require any school bussing for the purpose of obtaining racial balance in the schools. It is therefore Ordered that the school district's revised plan dated February 25, 1970 as sup plemented by proposals in HEW’s plan filed with the court on July 28, 1969, which is at Inched hereto and marked Ex hibit ' A . be and the same is herein adopted as the desegre gallon plan for the operation of the public schools m the New berry County School District, which shall be implemented for the school year 1970-71 and sub sequent years. It is further "ORDERED that the follow ing information be reported to the court and plaintiffs’ counsel: Not later than June 1, 1970 and by June 1 of subsequent years, the projected racial com position of each school as to students and as to faculty and staff and the student capacity of each school. Not later than December 1, 1970 and by December 1 of sub sequent years, the actual en rollment of students by race and of faculty and staff by race (Continued on Page 7) Hospital bond issue proposed A constitutional amendment which would permit Newberry County to issue bonds for pub lic hospital construction was proposed Tuesday in the State legislature. The amendment to allow the county to issue bonds up to 30 per cent of the assessed value of taxable property would be submitted to voters in the Nov ember general election. Rep Walter Lake, Democrat of Newberry, said the question boils down to whether Newber ry will have community hospi tal facilities m the future or not Lake said the present hospi tal is "completely inadequate" and that hospital officials are taking steps toward building a new one Options have already been taken on an ideal site" within the Newberry city lim its, Lake added. The minimum cost for the new hospital would be about $5 million, based on current costs. 'I personally think it boils down to the question of whether we will have a hospital facility or not”. Lake said. The pre- sent hospital is not eligible for Hill Burton funds for improve ments and the mam part has reached a state where it can no longer be repaired. "We're not worried about get ting Hill-Burton funds. If the people are desirous of providing local funds, we feel that we can get federal funds. "We know we are eligible on the basis of need at present to obtain a federal grant for the purpose of studying and plan ning. We hope to get something through assistance of the Cen tral Midlands Regional Planning Council". Lake noted that the amend ment would only permit the county to issue bonds up to the constitutional debt limit and that the people would have to approve an actual bond issue of a specified amount in separ ate legislation later College Calendar Students and faculty returned to Newberry College campus Wednesday after their spring recess to begin the last lap of the school year Very few activities are on the calendar this week. Horace Tur- beville’s baseball squad has two home games n the schedule Thursday, April 2, Vhey meet the Georgia College team from Milledgeville, and on Tuesday, April 7, they open the confer ence competition by meeting Catawba College. Both games begin at 3 p.m. Chaplain Harry Weber will be the speaker at the 11:15 a m services Sunday in the A G I). Wiles Chapel. Mr. and Mrs. Frank N. Stur geon have moved to 1206 Speer Street.