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BY THE WAY By DORIS A. SANDERS i ■ ; s \ ( ,i. :’,4—No. Now S. ('. 29108, Thursday. October 22, 1970 Mr>. I). Alan Reiyhley, Si’, was present ed a platiue by the Newberry County Law Knforcement Officei's Association at a re cent meeting, in appreciation of her late husband’s many years service on the South Carolina Highway Patrol. Makiny the presentation is Syt. W. K. Hamilton of the Highway Patrol. Standing beside Mrs. Keighley is her son, Sammie, a hipfh- way patrolman stationed in (Greenwood; at nyht is Sheriff Euyene Shealy, presi dent of the Association. (Sunphoto by Steve Armfield) Mayor, three councilmen to be chosen Tuesday $3 PER YEAR HOSPITAL ISSUE The City General Election will be next Tuesday, and the fol lowing Tuesday. November 3. will be the day for the county and state general election. One of the issues to be de cided on November 3rd is the so-called "hospital issue" Anyone who has been a pa tient. or has visited a patient at Newberry Memorial Hospi tal in the past few years, knows that conditions are terrible at our hospital. The issue to be voter 1 on No vember .3rd is NOT a bond is sue. It is merely a matter of raising the limit of bonded in debtedness of the county so that, if the voters later decide to undertake construction of a hospital, sufficient bonds '"ould be sold to finance the venture Newberry is badly in need of a new hospital, just as ii is badly in need of additional doc tors One thought is. Why build a new hospital when we don't have doctors to staff iC". but this is countered with. “We aren t going to get any more doctors until we have a decent hospital" I don t know whether a new hospital will bring in new doc tors or not. but it is a shame that Newbernans must go to Greenwood. Columbia Green- wile or Charleston if they have anything more than an ordi nary-type illness, or if they re quire anything more than ordi nary type surgery The few doc tors we have are certainly ca pable. but they do not have the tools with which to work. I feel that we should vote favorably on the referendum November 3rd then we'll see what the Board of Directors of the hospital como up with in the way of suggestions for new hospital facilities. Remember that by voting yes" on this issue, you are NOT voting to sell bonds or raise taxes Another vote will be necessary before that can be done TR1CEN ISSUE The Sun. The Whitmire News and the Prosperity* Citizen will publish a combined Tricenlen- mal Issue, celebrating the New berry County observance of die 300th anniversary of South Caro lina in early November Tins special issue will eon lam histones of churches of the county as well as many >iihei early e\enO Most chur ches flaw submitted histones ,and pictures for publication Tho.-e which have not are re quoted to please submit this inform,tiion to u> no iatei than ( (ehiber 2o Al'O contained ;n the r sue Will tie old plot ill ex o! inbTeM We w. in Id appreciub y our going through your scrapbooks and picking ■ ui any picture- of groups meetings anything of general interest and allowing us to use them m the issue. The pictures will be carefully handled and returned to you Please identify the pictures and put your name and address on the back so hey can be re turned We would appreciate any other information you have which you think would be of general interest, concerning e- vents of by-gone days. Your cooperation in helping us to make this special issue a real keep-sake will be ap preciated <)n Tuesday, October 27. vo ters will make a choice be tween Republican and Democra tic candidates for mayor of the Citv of Newberry and three members of City Council. The polls will be open from 8 a m until 7 p m . and pro spective voters must present a valid registration certificate to be eligible to vote Voting places are a- follows Ward 1 No 1. City Hall, Ward 1. No 2 Community Building on First ‘''wo. Ward 2 Smith Motor Cm y Ward 8 V i Boundary Stre< t School. W ai U 3 No 2 Mullnhon School. W ard i No 1 »'Id < ’ourthou.-e t 'ommunity Hall 1 W ard 4 No 2 l nion Hall on 1 tray ton Street. Ward f>. Scout Cabin. Willow brook Park and Ward tl Whi takei Floor Cow ring Seeking re election a- Mayor n tti* incumbent. Democrat < lareru e A Shealy dr , wIp ha- >er\ed for a number of year.- a- mayor and a- a mem ber o! Council He is opposed by Republican liersehel A Kemper Democrats hoping to retain their seats on Council are Ce ell F Kinard and F 1).. Gard ner. dr The third seat up for election is now filled by Carmen Bouknight. who is not seeking the job C A. Dufford, Sr a former member of oouncil. is the third man on the Democrat slate. Republicans hoping to take possession of the three council seats are Ira Dunn (Rusty) Wilson, B Bernard Nichols and Roy Rodrguez. The mayor and three mem bers elected Tuesday will serve a four-year term. The remaining members of Council. C 1> Coleman. Pres ton McAlhany and Claude Par- tain are completing two years of a four-year term Homecoming plans made It's the "time to remember time at Newberry College as students and alumni are get ting ready for the 1970 Home coming celebration October 31. Preliminary planning h a s been going on tor several weeks by the Alumni Association, but tlie .-(asoti surfaced this week a- -tudents began the process e! • I re t i ii a a 1 lomecoming Qlh-'- 1! rhr\ m >ted in r fiv n sc lilul ttu iiirii i n -erv e m the Hum till! mim; ( Murt. thc> will i In>i '■ -r 1 hr Quc cn Ii um tin ■ five i i iCil 1 - 11, )(i am it In T nice t mu ( k'tn l H I Ah A > ’ m u i 1 will bn ill the .-put ucht 'll! the ,tc t (in i da iv as the} 1 fill! ■11 1 n the i aumpu- . for their time to remember The Alumni A.-soeiation will present awards to the ' Most (lutstanding Alum nus" and tfie "Most Outstanding Non-Alumnus m a special ce remony m the A. G. I). Wiles Chapel Although all alumni will be welcome on the day. particular .attention will be focused on the classes of 1925. 1930. 1931, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950. 1955, 1960, and 1965. The Newberry College Indians will entertain the Guilford Col lege Quakers in a 2 p.m. football contest on Setzler Field. The day's activities wall close with the annual Homecoming Dance Book features Newberry man A new book features the World War II experiences of William L. Donald of New berry. The book is “Typhoon of Steel, the Battle for Oki nawa " Published by Harper and Row of New York, it goes on sale this week in bookstores throughout the country. During the 1945 battle for Okinawa Donald served as a crewman on the FSS Laffey. a destroyer assigned to the dan gerous mission of act mg as .a radar picket to warn of the ap proach of Kamikazes, Japanese suicide planes, to the Okinawa beachhead (>n April 16 the Laf fey encountered forty Kami kazes Donald and his ship- ma'es -hot down twenty two in a morning long action, break ing the mam strength of the third genera 1 suicide attack aimed at Okinawa. Five enemy pilots managed to hit the ship, badly damaging it, but Donald and other crewmen overcame fires, flooding, and other da mage to bring the Laffey to a safe anchorage. “Typhoon of Steel", which de votes a chapter to the Laffey's ordeal, is the first book on the Okinawa battle intended es pecially for the general reader. Author James H. Belote heads the history department at Prin- cipia College, Elsah. Illinois. His brother and co-author, Wil liam M. Belote, is a professor of history at the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. Both are World War II veterans. Hospital Board makes stateemnt on referendum The statement printed below was released Wednesday by the N e w b e r r y County Hospital Board of Trustees. Members of the Board are Thomas Buz- hardt, Chairman; Gerald C Paysinger, A F. (Buddy) More- head, Waldo Huffman, Robert D. Schumpert, all of Newberry; Jake Bowers of Prosperity and Jim Abrams of Whitmire. “On Tuesday, October 20, 1970, a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the New berry County Memorial Hospital was held at the call of Chair man Tom Buzhardt. The pur pose of the meeting was for the Board to discuss one of the lead stories and editorials ap pearing in the issue of The Newberry Observer dated Oct ober 20, 1970. In the opinion of the Board, both the news story and editorial by innuendoes and insinuations would tend to mis lead the readers of such paper and the voters of Newberry County. At its meeting the Hos pital Board unanimously voted to issue this news release in answer to the news story and editorial. "In the spring of this year, when it became apparent to the Board of Trustees that the faci lity was no longer adequate to meet the needs of the citizens, a meeting was held by the Board of Trustees with the Newberry Legislative Delegat ion, County Board of Commis sioners and Newberry appoint ees to the Midlands Planning Council. In addition to the above named persons, present were representatives of the F. S Government who handle federal funds for the construction of hospitals. Also present at the meeting was the managing edi tor of The Newberry Observer. "At this meeting the Hospital Board advised the delegation and Board of Commissioners that they realized the need for a nett and more adequate fac ility. as well as their inabihtv to provide the same, and were calling upon the delegation to introduce the necessary legis lation to present before the citi zens of Newberry County the question of increasing the bond ed indebtedness for hospital purposes 'The Board further advised the delegation and Commission ers that they were aware of the fact that when a bond issue was passed and county funds were used in building a new facility that the present facility and operation of the hospital should be turned over to New berry County since Newberry County funds would be involved Legislation should be enacted to accomplish this change in control. “Since this information has been available to The Newberry Observer, or should have been available through its manag ing editor, for many months, it is inconceivable to this Board that the misleading news story (Continued on Page 12)