The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, May 28, 1970, Image 1
BY THE WAY
By DORIS A. SANDERS
THE BEST
The best I have seen in the
way of magazine advertising is
that of the Warner & Swasey
Company which appears regu
larly in the U. S. News &
World Report, and perhaps in
other magazines. The company
devotes its ads to explaining
and defending the free enter
prise system.
A reader of this column was
favorably impressed by one of
the recent ads and brought it
in for possible republication.
Perhaps the W&S Company will
not mind if I reprint it. Entit
led “Commencement Address—
1970”, it follows:
Is it too much to hope some
college president might address
his graduating class this way
next month: —
“As you Commence your new
life I wish to remind you of
some of the things you carry
into it from your past here.
“First, you owe your parents
(or. if you were on scholarship,
you owe Society) on average
about $15,000. As you begin
earning I hope you will repay
parents or society for the things
they did without, to send you
here.
“Second, you owe to your
country the freedom which en
abled you to come here and
learn preparation for—I hope—
a full, happy life. If you want
your children to have that same
privilege you must repay that
debt—by military service, or a
life of political service, or an
earnest, honest citizenship de
voted to preserving and improv
ing this nation.
“Finally, you owe your years
here to the profit system. Peo
ple first built and now main
tain this institution out of pro
fits they have made in business
or out of taxes they pay from
business income.
“Most Commencement Add
resses are all about the glories
awaiting you. Whatever those
glories are, you yourself will
create them. And if you will
repay those debts of yours I
have listed, you will be build
ing a character which will make
your future very glorious in
deed. That, I promise. Be
on your way!"
MANY LETTERS
The Greenville News has pub
lished many letters, pro and
con, concerning the statements
made by Dr Bob Jones, Jr.,
concerning the Kent State riot
1 thought one in particular gave
a clear analysis of the situation.
It was written by Jessica B
Morris of Greenville
The statements of Dr Bob
Jones. Jr on the Kent State not
have been challenged in a num
ber of letters printed recently
in your columns. Some accuse
the president of Bob Jones Un
iversity of being full of hate,
un-Christian, or a hypocrite
None quoted this from his
speech: ‘They were comn g at
the guardsmen with iron oars
and everyting else. If you had
a gun and a fellow came at
you with an iron bar to hit you
over the head and crack your
skull and spill your brains,
wouldn’t you shoot if you were
a law enforcement officer 9 ’ Or
this equally sensible statement:
Tm sorry for those young peo
ple who are being duped and
doped and taken in; but if they
are going to set themselves
against society, they ought to
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Vol. 34—No. 6 Newberry ,S. C. 29108, Thursday, May 28, 1970
$3 PER YEAR
College to award
146 degrees Sunday
To Receive Honorary Degrees
Club presents
book to library
The county library was start
ed through the efforts of several
members of the Woman’s Club
in 1904.
Undergraduate college careers
will end for 146 seniors at New
berry College Sunday, May 31
when they will receive their
bachelor of science or arts de
grees in Commencement acti
vities at 5 p.m. in the A.G.D.
Wiles Chapel on the campus.
At the final event for the
seniors, the Rev. Harvey L.
Huntley, president of the South
eastern Synod of the Lutheran
Church in America, will de
liver the charge to the degree
candidates; he wall speak on
“Where Will You Live?’’
He and three other Lutheran
ministers are slated to receive
the honorary degree of doctor
of divinity during the after
noon’s program. The three
others are the Rev. Herman
W. Cauble, secretary of the
South Carolina Synod of the
Lutheran Church in America;
the Rev. John Milton Frick,
pastor of St. Stephen’s Evan
gelical Lutheran Church in Lex
ington, S. C.; and the Rev.
Robert E. Grefe, pastor of St.
John's Lutheran Church in
Hollywood, Fla.
The day’s ceremonies begin
with the traditional baccalau
reate services at 11 a.m. in the
Chapel with the Rev. Grefe de
livering the message.
Returning alumni will have
a chance for their annual class
reunions following the Bacca
laureate services. Special guests
of the College’s Alumni Associ
ation at a luncheon Sunday
noon will be the graduates of
1920 or earlier.
Newberry College seniors,
their parents and friends will
be honored at a reception Sun
day afternoon at the President’s
home before the 5 p.m. Comm
encement Services.
(Continued on Page 10)
Court
after trial
The May term of Criminal
court concluded here last Thurs
day with a jury returning a
verdict of innocent in the case
of George R. Wertz, who was
charged with murder in the Jan
uary shooting of Ernest “Pap”
Heller.
The jury deliberated about an
hour and 15 minutes before re
turning the verdict.
Werts, 28, father of four child
ren and proprietor of a cafe in
Newberry where the shooting
occurred, testified that he shot
at Heller three times after Hell
er had threatened him and pull
ed a knife on him.
He said he had warned Heller
several times to leave the es
tablishment. Wertz said he had
called the police before t h e
shooting when Heller aimed a
fire extinguisher at him.
He said that Heller had “got
ten mad” when he called the
police and that he was afraid
of Heller.
Dr. W. W. King, Jr. testifed
Thursday that Heller died of
two bullet wounds in the chest.
Other guilty pleas taken dur
ing the session were:
Diane Hawkins Chaplin and
Sarah Williams, shoplifting, six
months or $600, suspended on
service of two months or $250
and probation 18 months; Bren
da Hawkins, shoplifting, six mos.
or $600, suspended to two months
or $200 and probation 18 mos.
J. W. Counts, petty larceny,
30 days concurrent with another
sentence; Ernest Lyles, non-sup
port, one year suspended; Mack
Scurry, non-support, sentencing
deferred because of defendants
health;Tommie Hunnicutt, as
sault and battery of a high and
aggravated nature, nine months
suspended and probation one
year; William Sims, driving un
der influence of intoxicants, one
year or $1,000, suspended on 2
(Continued on Page 10)
Mrs. Fred H. Dominick, re
tiring club president; Mrs. F.
Scott Elliott, Sr., chairman of
the Library Committee and
Mrs. James C. Kinard, a mem
ber of the committee of The
Womans Club presented the
book, Old South Carolina Chur
ches to Mrs. Edgar Shinn, act
ing librarian of Newberry-Sal-
uda Regional Library, on May
22 This gift was the effort of
the Woman’s Club to be in
cluded in the Tricentennial pro
jects of Newberry.
The book was published in
1941 and was written by Helen
Crowson Sellers of Burlington,
N. C\, who is a native of Winns-
boro. It includes pen and ink
drawings of 61 old churches, in
cluding all denominations and
areas of the state. These
churches built before the Con
federate War include those on
the coast “half-hidden amid
moss-hung groves of immemor
ial oaks and the dignified city
churches”, with their spires
pointing heavenward. Valuable
historical information accom
panies the sketches.
Mrs. Sellers did a similar book
on churches in North Carolina,
entitled Faith of Our Fathers.
HONOR GRADUATES—Seventeen New
berry High School seniors completed four
years of high school with overall averages
of 92 or better. Those honored were, first
row from left, Diane Bowers, Mary Baker,
Caroline Smith, Karen Kelly, Karen At-
kison; second row, Dana Werts, Trudy
Force, Debbie Wicker, Connie Farb, Mac
Montgomery; third row, Clayton Shealy,
Jimmy McEntire, Paul Folk, Jimmy But
ler, Ricky Nelson, and Robert Amick.
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