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BY THE WAY By DORIS A. SANDERS A LITTLE LATE It is not because of a lack of interest that I’m a little late in adding my comments to the controversy raging — at least which was raging—over the sug gested municipal parking lot at the site of what is now the Wise man Hotel. To recap a little, the City wishes to provide a parking lot in that area of the city, and there is no doubt that it is need ed. In order to make the ven ture a financial asset rather than a liability, a certain num ber of parking spaces—78—to be exact, w'ould have to be pro vided in the area. In order to obtain this many spaces, the City requested that the County grant to it a strip of land, a portion of which is already be ing used for parking, adjacent to the side of the County Court house. To make a long story short, the County Commissioners turn ed thumbs down on the propo sal with vague expressions of a possibility of the county it self using the area for parking, or perhaps someday the court house might be enlarged Neither of these arguments holds water. In the first place, there is serious doubt that the courthouse will ever be expand ed, and if it is, certainly not to the side on which the City needs the space. There is just no logical way to enlarge on that side. In the second place, while most people who work in the city have to rent their parking spaces (or spend all day feed ing meters), the taxpayers have provided, on the former Weeks property, a parking space for employees of the courthouse. There is no objection to this except that the space is not rea listically utilized. Some few of the court house officials still park on the side of the building. However, in the parking lot, spaces are provided for certain persons "during court ' which means that they are used per haps six full weeks o'.'t of every 52. Certainly this space in the lot could be made available to those now parking beside the courthouse. As far as providing parking space for jurors, this again would probably be no more than six full weeks out of 52 and what happens to the space the remainder of the time 0 It would be used, of course, by anyone who happened to want to use it and no one would be getting any revenue. Supervisor Hendrix told me he had in mind a space for per sons who wished to do business at the courthouse, and ordina rily 1 would say Amen! I know, however, that unless there was a deputy or someone assigned to be sure those parking were doing business at the court house, the spaces would never be available. 1 frequently have to be at the courthouse and most of the time it is impossible to find a parking place anywhere close by. There is seldom a vacancy even at the Martin Street park ing lot, which is the closest. But to get back to the jurors, and other officers of the court who would need space for park ing during court sessions, City Manager Ken Riebe assures me that the city would work with the county here as other cities do; provide stickers or some method of identifying a juror’s car so that he could park at a meter without paying a toll or a fine. Vol. 34—No. 19 Newberry, S. C. 29108, Thursday, August 27, 1970 $3 PER YEAR County schools open today on total integration basis Novelty team here Labor Day The Philadelphia Hobos, a no velty softball team which has entertained fans in the north eastern United States and Ca nada since 1968, will perform in Newberry on Monday, Sept. 7, as part of the club’s first Southern tour. Softball’s clown princes will tangle with the Newberry All- Stars in a Labor Day encounter at Hedgepath Stadium. The 1:30 game is being spon sored by the Newberry Recrea tion Department, and tickets will be priced at $1.50 for adults and $1 for students high school age and under. With colorful costumes to back up their nickname, the Philadel phia Hobos combine three inn ings of serious softball with four innings of comedy play which features 37 pitching and batting stunts. Leading the Hobos will be Herman (Big Bear) Skea, who has ranked as one of the na tion’s top softball pitchers over the past decade. His accom plishments include a strikeout record of 45 batters in a 23- inning game. Skea’s top stunt is pitching from stilts which make him ap pear to be 12 feet tall. He also pitches behind his back, through his legs, blindfolded and from second base. Skea is backed up by a zany group of softballers which man ages to beat the opposition 95 per cent of the time — and ge nerally by an unmerciful mar gin. The lineup includes a female impersonator, Frank McVeigh, who plays the lead role in most of the Hobo skits as Baby Jane. In addition, the Hobos have assembled the strangest collec tion of bats ever used in a soft- ball game, and the opposition is continually bewildered as to what will happen next. PAY DIVIDEND The Board of Directors of South Carolina National Bank has declared a regular quarterly dividend of 30 cents per share payable October 1 to sharehold ers of record September 15. De claration of the dividend will represent a payment of $408,- 350 70 on the 1,361,169 shares of $5 par common stock outstand ing I believe that the Commis sioners sincerely felt they were doing what the public wanted, but I believe in this instance, they misjudged public senti ment I hope that they will be willing to give another serious look at the matter, and that they will realize it would be a waste of the taxpayers money for them to create a small park ing lot, from which there would be no revenue—and probably no room for jurors to park even so—when the city is willin j to undertake the financial burden and really provide space for us who have business at the courthouse, at the same time, providing for jurors and court officials when necessary. COLLEGE CALENDAR Activity on the Newberry Col lege campus will be relatively quiet between the summer ses sion which ended August 21 and the beginning of the fall term in early September. The 58-man football squad re turned to the campus August 25 to bgein twice-a-day practice sessions to get ready for the 11- game football season w'hich be gins Saturday, September 12. New faculty members will meet with the president, Dr. A. G. D. Wiles, and the academic dean. Dr. Conrad B. Park, Fri day, September 4; a general meeting of the faculty is plan ed for Saturday, September 5, followed by departmental meet ings. Freshmen and transfer stu dents arrive Sunday, September 6, for orientation and registra tion, while the upperclassmen return September 8 and 9 to en roll in their courses. Classes for Newberry Col lege’s 114th year begin Thurs day, September 10. ARMY BAND HERE FOR JAMBOREE FT. JACKSON-The 282d U. S. Army band from Ft. Jackson will provide music for the up coming Football Jamboree at Newberry College Eight area high school foot ball teams will participate in the Jamboree at the Newberry College Athletic Field at 7:30 p m , Saturday, Aug. 28. As part of an opening cere mony, the band will play a se lection of marches and will par ticipate with the color guard in the presentation of the flag and the rendition of the national an them. AWARDED DEGREE AT CITADEL Citadel Cadet Ben Pressley Stewart, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. P Stewart, 1246 Jones St., was recently awarded a degree at conclusion of The Citadel sum mer session. Gen. Hugh P. Harris, presi dent of the military college, ad dressed the members of the gra duating class in exercises in Mark Clark Hall. Maj. Gen. James W. Duckett, president elect served as master of cere monies and Col. J M. J. Holli day, chairman of The Citadel Board of Visitors, conferred the degrees. Brig. Gen. Wallace E. Anderson presented the gradu ates for their degrees. Cadet Stewart was awarded a B. S. degree in business admin istration. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Pollock have moved to 763 Pope Street in Oakhall Apt. C-3. A unitary schoo' system for Newberry County, providing for complete integration of the races in all schools, opened this (Thursday) morning for the be ginning of the 1970—71 school year. An enrollment of approximate ly 6800 is expected in the se venteen schools of the county. Lunches will be served at all schools beginning today, with prices varying according to school attended. School hours are to be approximately the same as last year. Dr. Cooper to conduct tour A guided tour to the Orient by Dr. L. Grady Cooper, pro fessor of religion and Greek at Newberry College, will be offer ed to students and the general public during the College’s short January semester. The two-week tour which will include visits to Japan, Formo sa (Taiwan), Hong Kong, and the Philippine Islands is sche duled to leave from either Los Angeles or San Fransicso on January 11, 1971. "It is my conviction,” Dr. Cooper, a missionary to China from 1928 to 1948 said, "that we Americans know very little a- bout the culture, history, social structure, and religious life of the people of the Orient who constitute the largest segment of population in the world. "Right now,” he continued, "world conditions make it very important for Americans to learn all they can.” Persons interested in taking the Oriental tour should contact Dr. Cooper at Newberry College. WATSON WOMEN'S CHAIRMAN NAMED Congressman Albert Watson announced today that Mrs. Raye H. Holmes of Rt. 4, Newberry, will serve as women for Watson chairman in Newberry County. Congressman Watson said, "Mrs. Raye Holmes is a fine lady with a good number of friends throughout Newberry County ,and I am extremely pleased that she has agreed to serve in my campaign for the highest office in South Caro lina.” A graduate of Kings Mountain High School in Kings Mountain, N C., Mrs. Holmes is a Ro- taryann and a member of the Newberry County Historical So ciety. Mrs. Holmes is the wife of Owen M. Holmes and is a mem ber of the Ebenezer Methodist Church in Newberry. The cou ple and their six-year-old son, Mac, make their home on the old Mendenhall Road in New berry. During the meeting of the County Board of Education Tuesday night, Ralph Watkins, Superintendent of County Schools, stated that the Open House held at most of the schools Sunday was successful, and no problems are expected as the students report to class es today. He expressed appre ciation to the school mainte nance crews and to contractors who have been working during the summer to paint and reno vate schools for the current ses sion. All school buildings are in good shape, according to Ge rald Mount, school business ma nager. Portable classrooms for Newberry High School have not yet been completed and students will be housed elsewhere at the high school until the portable rooms are ready for use some time in September. Principals and assistant prin cipals of the schools arc: Newberry High, W. P. Ma bry, Hubert Long; Gallman Ju nior High, George Kinard, Eu gene Schumpert; Boundary, L. Douglas Keel; Speers and Mol- lohon Special Education, R. E. Beck; Whitmire High, Kenneth L. Coleman; Park Street, Miss Pearle Stockman; Carver, Char les Cromer; Also, Mid-Carolina, Robert C. Fulmer, Clarence C. Chick; Prosperity, L. A. Brown; Gar- many and Pomaria, W. R. Lo- minick; Reuben, James Wea ver; Rikard, Grady Lee Half acre; Silverstreet, Michael R. Huggins; Little Mountain, Char les E. Layton; and Bush River, Charles Wise. In other action at the Board meeting Tuesday night, a $2.4 million budget was approved for the coming school year. Of the expected revenue of $2,477,880, only $40,876 remains unalloca ted. This amount, according to Mr. Mount, will be used for teacher study grants, legal fees, and other undesignated expend itures. Mr. Watkins said that bids would be opened on September 16 for the construction of four additional rooms at Carver E- lementary School, and on Sep tember 29 for construction of rooms at Mid-Carolina High School. It is hoped that both will be finished by or before the end of the school year. The Board approved purchase of a milk cooler for Carver school, and granted the requests of several students who live in Newberry County near the Lau rens County line to attend school in Laurens County. Requests from some teachers to install personal air condi tioners in classrooms was not looked upon with favor by the Board. A request from Whitmire High for storage facilities for football and other athletic equipment was taken under consideration.