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PAGE 4—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, April 16, 1970 Members of the Clean-Up Campaign Committee for Newberry County met Tuesday to make plans for Clean-Up Week, April 20-25. From left are Capt. Tuffy Millstead, city chairman; H. L. Fellers of Prosperity, county chairman; Mrs. W. C. Koon, Mrs. Sadie Crooks, James I). Brown and Mrs. W. Roy Anderson. Capt. Mill- stead urged all Newberrians to begin cleaning up around their property now, and all trash will be removed during Clean-Up Week. (Sunphoto by Steve Armfield) Vice President be speaker at Edgefield Edgefield County, the proud county which holds the record of having furnished the state with ten of its most outstand ing Governors, has been assign ed the week of April 19th-25th for its Tricentennial Celebrat ion. Plans are fast taking shape for one of the most outstand ing celebrations of any planned throughout the state, according to a schedule released by Coun ty Chairman H. Graham Rey nolds of Trenton. Opening with the Dedication of the Pottersville Museum near Edgefield at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 19, the celebration will continue on Wednesday, April 22 when the Town of Trenton will feature a tour entitled, “Peaches and Plantations”. The tour will include, among other points of interest, several of the plantation homes and is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets may be obtained from Oakley Park Mansion in Edgefield at a cost of $4.00. On Thursday the scene will shift to Edgefield when the Courthouse Square improve ments will be dedicated at an afternoon ceremony and the Governors' Beards grown by local citizens will be judged. Friday has been allocated to the town of Johnston whose cit izens will not only celebrate the Tricentennial of South Car olina, but their own Centennial. A free tour of old and historic homes will open the Johnston Celebration starting at 10 a.m. Lunch will be available in Wat son Park where there is ample parking space. Activities will be highlighted by a parade through the principal streets at 3 p.m. terminating in Mims Memorial Park. Here the Tricentennial Gift to the Town, a beautiful granite fountain, will be pre sented, accepted and dedicat ed. Several noted speakers will pay tribute to the history of this progressive community. Follow ing the ceremonies, there will be a public reception in the school gym which is adjacent to the park The County Seat of Edgefield will continue its celebration on Friday evening when there will be a Candlelight Tour of local homes. Tickets for this will be $2 available at any of the homes on tour. At 8:30 p.m. the Pres byterian College Choir will pre sent a program on the lawn at Oakley Park. Tickets for this are $2. On Saturday morning at 9:30 Edgefield will offer a tour of its most historic homes. This tour is priced at $4 and tickets are available at Magnol ia Dale just off the Courthouse Square. A barbecue lunch will be available at The American Legion Home in Edgefield from 11 a.m. on, at a nominal cost. Highlighting the entire Edge- field County Celebration will be a “Speaking” sponsored by the entire population of the county in the Courthouse Square at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 25th, at which the Guest Speaker will be the Honorable Spiro Agnew, the Vice President of the United States. The Vice President will be accompanied by Mrs. Agnew and will be presented to the gathering by United States Sen ator Strom Thurmond, a native of Edgefield County. According to advance information, t h e Vice President and Mrs. Agnew are expected to be guests of the county for the most part of the weekend. Climaxing the busy week will be two Balls. First, the Edge- field County Youth Dance at the National Guard Armory in Johnston at 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 25 and the second will fol low when the Governors’ Ball will open at 9 p.m. in the Edge- field National Guard Armory. Honored Guests at this will be Governor and Mrs. Robert E. McNair, together with the foll owing former Governors and their wives: Strom Thurmond, George Bell Timmerman, Ern est F. Boilings and Donald Rus sell. The Governors’ Ball will be a black tie affair. Topping off the celebration in Edgefield County on Sunday, April 26, many of the churches will take advantage of the pre sence of former residents to hold Homecoming with the old fashioned “Dinner on the church grounds”. Closing out the Celebration will be an Antique Automobile Show in Johnston at Watson Park starting at 4 p.m. Sunday. An attractive souvenir of the Edgefield County Tricentennial Celebration is a plate depicting the ten Governors the county has given the State around the edge with an appropriate in scription in the center. The Edgefield County Tricen tennial Committee has issued an open invitation to their fel low South Carolinians to come and enjoy their hospitality dur ing this week and share with them in their Tricentennial cel ebration. Jasper Chapter hears Miss Hitt Jasper Chapter of the Daugh ters of the American Revolu tion met April 10 at the home of Miss Grace Summer. Upon the arrival of the members, Miss Summer was assisted by the assistant hostesses, Miss Sudie Dennis, Mrs. M. F. Bowl er, Mrs. J. J. Chappell and Miss Rose Hamm, in serving delicious refreshments. The regent, Mrs. F. Scott Elliott, and the Chaplain, Miss Rose Hamm, conducted the rit ual, then Miss Juanita Hitt, the program leader, was introduc ed. Dr. James C. Kinard, head of the Newberry Academy, ac cepted a copy of The Virginia Bishop; A Yankee of the Con federacy by John Sumner Wood. This book was given by Miss Hitt and presented to the Aca demy in the name of Jasper Chapter. Miss Hitt, in keeping with the Tricentennial year, gave a discussion of “Old South Caro lina Churches’. She based her remarks on the 45 which she had visited and gave the date of establishment, the location and some distinguishing feature of each one. The speaker men tioned among other ‘firsts’ in Newberry County, Bush River Baptist about 1765; St. Paul’s Lutheran, Pomaria around 1761; St.John’s Lutheran, Pomaria, about 1750; Little River Pres byterian, about 1764; King’s ARP; and Ebenezer Methodist Creek, 1772 and Cannon’s Creek in 1784. After a short business session, the meeting was adjourned by the regent. College Singers concert Sunday The 60-voice Newberry Coll ege Singers will present their annual spring concert at 4 p.m. Sunday in Wiles Chapel. Under the direction of Dr. Milton Moore, the choral group will feature sacred songs in cluding the impressive “To Saint Cecilia’, by Dello Joio. During this number the Sing ers will be accompanied by the college’s Brass Choir compos ed of eight students and Charles Pruitt, associate professor of music and director of bands. Other numbers on the pro gram include “O Vos Omnes’, by Schindler-Victoria; “Dies Sanctificatus’, Handel; ‘Good Neighbor, Whence Came That Great Sound”, Gevaert; ‘Laud- ate Dominum’, Hassler; and How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place’, Brahms. Also, “The Gate of Heaven’, Thompson; “O Lord God’, Tschesnokoff; and ‘Speak to One Another of Psalms”, Ber ger. The accompanist for the Sing ers is Darr Wise, associate pro fessor of music. Summer study in Europe Mrs. Linda K. Waldrop, teach er of American history and gov ernment at Newberry high school, is forming a group of students for a travel-study tour of central Europe this summer. The theme of this travel sem inar, which will be conducted by the Oxford Summer Tutorial College, is “Europe is Your Classroom”. Classes will be held both formally in student Mayor Clarence A. Shealy presents certificates of com pletion of the 1969 S. C. Law Enforcement ETV Training Program to Chief R. E. Schumpert (center) and Sgt. J. J. Stribble. Also receiving a certificate, but absent when the picture was made, was Sgt. T. L. Sease. (Sunphoto) centers and informally with tour lecturers. The purpose of the institution is to train the stu dent not in what to think, but in how to think. The course outline includes European Life and Civilization, History of Europe from 1900 to the present, European Music, Art and Literature, and Govern ments of Europe. Interested students may check with their own school registrar to deter mine the school policy on grant ing credit for study abroad. Cities to be visited include London, Brussels, Geneva, Inns bruck, Porec (Yugoslavia), Ve nice, Rome and Paris. The group will leave New York on July 19 and return August 30. For further information, Mrs. Waldrop may be contacted at 276-2097. BASKETBALLER SIGNS GRANT Gary Pittman, a 6-3, 190 lb. basketball guard from Parker High School in Greenville, has signed a grant-in-aid to attend Newberry College in Septem ber. Pittman was the main cog in Parker’s race to 18 straight wins and their 21-3 record dur ing the recent basketball sea son including capturing the Con ference Championship and a trip to the State 4-A tourney. In three years of varsity play, Pittman scored a total of 1,093 points; this past season he scor ed 491 for a 20.5 average and hit for 111 of 140 free throws for a 80 percent mark. Parker’s coach, Bob Winters, a former Newberry College player, said, “Gary is a fine young man who is an outstand ing basketball player and a leader in the school.' Pittman was president of his Junior class, the Beta Club, a member of the student council for three years, and ranks in the upper 7 percent of his sen ior class. Newberry College’s basketball coach Nield Gordon comment ed on Pittman by saying, ‘We are indeed fortunate to have landed one of the most out standing basketball players and students in South Carolina. At 6-3 he will be able to play both forward and guard for us and will be a definite asset to the College’s basketball program.’ New Addresses Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Mea dows will move to 1202 Speers Street to make their home. A Musica! Comedy about Mamoqr. ( Oi l MRI \ Ul\\| i; I III NIKI ■ Ml I II.or IU K« i t .t I in n • < H . . I < »M