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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.
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