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BY THE WAY Yol. ‘M—No. 2 Newberry, S. C. 29108, Thursday. April 30, 1970 Miss Mary Baker, right, was elected president of the S. C. Divsion, (’hildren of the Confederacy, at the state oenvention held at Newberry College Saturday. Others present and taking part in the con vention were, from left, Mrs. Frank Leake, Jr. of Fountain Inn. District Director, C of C; Cordon Garrett of Fountain Inn, Pres ident General of the national C of C, Dot- tie Culp of Rock Hill, Division Custodian; and Irby Hipp of Rock Hill, outgoing state president. (Sunphoto) City Council approves Nance Street widening $3 PER YEAR By DORIS A. SANDERS IT'S APPROVED After long and sometimes bit ter wrangling, City Council has finally approved the Nance Street Project". Barring an in junction, it is presumed Nance Street will be widened and im proved as originally proposed. Unfortunately, if there is to be progress, there must be sac rifice. Newberry has worked feverishly in the past ten years or so to attract new industry but it has lagged in updating itself to accommodate the addi tional load required when in dustry does locate here. I feel very deeply for those w'ho will have to give some or all of their property to make possible the Nance Street pro ject. They will be compensated, of course but there just is no real compensation for the many hours of work put into devel oping a lovely lawn or having a portion of one's yard con sumed. I have done some work for the Highway Department, and 1 know that that is one penny- pinching outfit. The Department simply does not throw away a million dollars on a project it does not feel is completely justi fied. Nor would it proceed with a project where there is organ ized opposition if it felt some other course would serve the purpose. It is just the price that some property owners will have to pay, for the benefit of all. I hope that the bitterness which has been evidenced over this situation will be forgotten and that when the street is com pleted, it won t be nearly as bad as has been pictured. THE SCHOOLS The U. S. Department of Jus tice has decided to stop play ing around with individual dis tricts in this state and has flatly stated that ALL schools must be completely desegregated by beginning of the September term. The Department put its finger on 39 of some 90-odd districts in the state. Some of the 39 have chosen since 1904, to go along with what they consider ed to be "the law of the land ' as written into the Civil Bights Act of 1904 that is, non-dis crimination or "freedom of choice" These district.^ have known from the beginning that it would not last forever, but the> have been spared, these six years, from continued harassment by federal officials, simph by de clining federal funds and con tinning with freedom of choict Now they apparently will be forced into some sort of tom pliance. but they have s a v e d themselves, their teachers and pupils at least a few years of uncertainty and disrupted edu cation by waiting until the ax was wielded. CONTRIBUTES TO NEW BOOK Foster Farley, associate pro fessor of history at Newberry College is contributing to a new book, "1936-70, Forty Years of Crime”, which is scheduled to be published later this year For his contribution, Farley is analyzing the crime headlines in 1936 and in 1969-70 in an ef fort to compare the number of major crimes reported in news papers during the two periods. The new' book is being writ ten and edited by Patrick Kelly, a New York consultant in crim inology. City Council gave final ap proval here Tuesday in a spec ial meeting to a much-contested agreement between the city and the S. C. Highway Department for the widening and improve ment of Nance Street. Several Nance Street resi dents and others have opposed I he project since it was first considered last year A large contingent of interested persons was present at the council meet ing as tile final vote came The council voted to continue with the project by a vote of f to 2 C F Kmard moved for a referendum to determino if voters want the proposed pro jeci but council turned down the motion Voting against tile UiU entering into an agree ment with the StaU Highway Department were Kmard and Claude W Curtain The entire project will o,,vor an area from By Cass 131 at Nance Street and extend the length of the city residential and business section to the Hartford Heights area, where it will join a proposed by-pass from Boundary Street exten sion. Highway 34, to a point along or near By Cass 76. The City will be involved with nghts-of way only in the por tions which are within the city limits. The project would widen the street to a capacity of four lanes and a median in most areas, with five lanes at some places to provide for left turns into traffic. It has been stated that an overall plan of traffic tying in with the Nance street widening would be necessary to alleviate traffic problems in the business area. In other business, the council voted to accept a hid from the Shealy Flectncai Co. of Green ville for a portion of the light ing at Wise Street Park at a cost of $3,092.11. Also on second reading the Council approved changing of an area m the vicinity of Kmard Street from an R-12 residential to a B3 business district. College Alumni to establish scholarships ili< \lumni AsMieiaf mn at New burr. < ndege has Cstab- 11'died a four year scholarship . allied at $! 000 a \ ear for an us •mum, Tvahman 1 n« huiar.-diip,' .tceording ■ Cful KeiK director of alum m iffair at the Coliuge, "will i"- awaidud to a freshman ii'x f tall \ ; additional funds bo .,mt available another scho lar hip will hie awarded to a tre.-diman for the 1971-72 school year and for the two following >earc so that there eventually will be four Alumni Scholarship students enrolled at the same time " Scholarship applicants must show financial need, have pass ing grades, and be of sound moral character. They need not be children of alumni. Application for the 1970-71 Al umni Scholarship should be made by July 1 to the Alumni Office at Newberry College. NEW ADDRESS Mr. and Mrs. Dan Lyons are residing at Oak Hall Apart ments on Nance Street. College Calendar The three aids art, music, and dramatics m addition to the May Queen Festival all have a place on the week's calendar .it Newberry College. Foster Farley, associate pro fessor of history, presents the .'ceond talk m the Tricentennial History Lecture Series at 9 23 a.m today m the Wiles Chapel; he will discuss the importance ot the state's history Dr 1) Moody Smith, profes- sni of New Testament at Duke Cmver-uty, will be the "Guest" I’l eaetier in the 11 la a,in. ser- v let's Sunday in W iles Chapel. Mothers of students and the former May Queens will be the special guests at Sunday's ser vice Student leaders will be recog nized at the annual Awards Day Program following Crow- sons lecture. The College Theatre’s final production of the season, "Bare foot in the Park”, will open at 8 p m. Thursday, May 7 in the Chapel Theatre; the product ion will also be given May 8 and 9. Tickets for “Barefoot” may be purchased at the door the evening of the performance; tickets are $1.00 for adults and 50 cents for children. The Newberry College Wom en’s Club will host the annual faculty-staff picnic Saturday af ternoon on the athletic field. School Board votes repairs The Newberry County Board of Education here Tuesday auth orized funds of $12,800 for re novations and repairs at Gall- man, Carver, Reuben, Rikard and Garmany schools. Included in the renovations will be installation of fluores cent lighting. The board passed a resolu tion asking the town of Pros perity to annex the Rikard School property into the town. Prosperity Mayor W a Iter Hamm told the hoard earlier that the town is in favor of the annexation and that it could furnish police protection for the property. The Board had earlier voted on the resolution favor ably and at a subsequent meet ing, had rescinded its action. Mrs. Margery Williamson of the Teacher Welfare Commit tee, presented a statement ask ing the hoard to consider a group insurance plan for teach ers. The hoard approved the cut ting of pulpwood at Garmany with the proceeds to he used for grading the area. Also approved was a t a x sheltered annuity program for school employees. PROMOTED The promotion of Edwin T. Graham to the position of Loan Administrator has been an nounced by W J. Raffield, vice president of the South Carolina National Bank, Newberry. Mr Graham was employed by SCN in 1957 serving with the bookkeeping department and operations department before joining the installment loan de partment in 1967. He is married to the former Mol lie Dowd of Prosperity, and resides at 1104 Hillerest Road. Mr. Graham is a graduate of Prosperity High School and of Newberry College where he earned his B.S. degree in Se condary Education. The Grah ams are members of Wightman Methodist Church and he has served as chairman of the ad ministrative board, financial secretary and a member of the stewardship and finance com mittee. In addition to his church activity, Mr. Graham is an act ive member of the Newberry Civitan Club, having held the offices of secretary, treasurer, and director. Mr. Graham served with the South Carolina National Guard for ten years.