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PAGE 4—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Nov. 12, 1970 Owens-Illinois corrugated box plant on County’s Tricentennial observance. A 121 by-pass opened its doors to visitors lar^e number of guests viewed the box Tuesday afternoon during Newberry making operation at this plant. Council okays land purchase City Council here Monday night gave final approval to the purchase of 1.47 acres of land near Silverstreet from James P. Livingston for $3,000. The town plans to build a water tank on the property.. In other business, council gave first reading to proposals to purchase the Baker Warehouse property for $29,950 and the Wiseman Hotel property for $44,950. The town plans to tear down the two buildings and to build a downtown parking lot on the property. Three new councilmen were sworn in. They are Cecil Kinard and L. D. Gardner, incumbents, and C. A. Dufford Sr. C. D. Coleman was elected for two years as mayor pro tern. Thomas Halfacre was ap pointed to the City of Newberry Board of Adjusters. Book Week to be observed here To celebrate National Book Week, November 15-21, the New berry Saluda Regional Library will be holding “open house' for the elementary school stu dents. A contest has been or ganized between Boundary St and Speers St. schools to deter mine which school will have the most children visit the lib rary that week. The library will be open to the school “contestants” each afternoon from 3 to 6 p.m. All children are invited to come by the library, register in the appropriate school guest book, get a borrower’s card, browse a bit, and check out some of the books. An award will be presented to the school having the most representatives. “This Is the Age of the Book” the theme for Book Week, will be used nation-wide this year. For many years schools have celebrated Book Week, stress ing the famous Caldecott Med al and Newbery Medal Books. Each year from the thousands of children’s books published, a panel of qualified judges sel ects a book with outstanding illustrations to be presented the Caldecott Medal. This is nam ed for one of the earliest il lustrators of children’s books, Randolph Caldecott, a Britisher who really revolutionized the dull books of the late 1800’s. The Newbery Medal, named in memory of a famous child ren’s book publisher, John New bery, is given to the book hav ing the most literary merit of the year, judged also by a na- ional committee of the Ameri can Library Association. “Our library has all these award books displayed on spec ial shelves,” said Miss Verna Kohn, librarian. “We hope that everyone will visit us and see these outstanding tomes. Do come by during Book Week, be cause, after all, “This IS the Age of the Book!” GIANT BURGER FEEDS TEAM OF THE WEEK David McCullough, local own er and operator of Giant Bur ger on By-Pass 76 is helping the Recreation Deaprtment pick the Team of The Week by giving each player a free Hamburger and Drink. The Team of the Week pick is not chosen from the team that makes the most touch downs or the team with the best won lost record. The team is picked to recognize each indi vidual player and coach. The Jets were picked as the first team of the week and they are coached by Frank Ward and Gerald Hester. Members of the team include Danny Lee Thacker, Carlton Jenkin, Mike Stocks, Keith Bartley, Thomas Lyles, Jeffrey Baxter, Randy Wise, Johnnie Sligh, Douglas Cook, Tony Dudley, Dalton Shealy, Chris Richardson, Ken ny Stocks, David Gilliam, and Terry Smith. The Falcons have also been picked as The Team of the Week. The Falcons are coached by Paul Shealy, Eddie Warren and Jim Franklin. The mem bers of the Falcon Squad are: Ricky Bouknight, Steve Bouk- night, Jimmie Mayes, Larry Wilson, Douglas Price, Law’- rence Suber, Randy Bates, Gary Harris, Paul Shealy, Billy Shealy, Eddie Neelands, Mack Baker, Olaf Kinard, Grady Lee, Robert Carley. Mark Lever, Tommy Price, and Duwayne Wroten. Deferments may be dropped, says board Selective Service National Headquarters has instructed lo cal boards that a young man wishing to drop a deferment in favor of a I—A classification should be permitted to do so at any time regardless of whe ther he continues to meet the conditions for which his defer ment was granted. Colonel Donald H. Collins, South Carolina State Selective Service Director, says that all local boards throughout South Carolina have received instruc tions to promptly consider for reclassification any registrant who requests in writing that his current deferment be ended and who is currently classified in one of the following classes: Class I—S, Class II—A (includ ing apprentices), Class II—C, Class II—S, or Class III—A. A young man who holds a 1970 random sequence number high er than 195, or a number higher than the highest number reach ed for induction by his own lo cal board in 1970 draft lottery, may find it to his advantage to voluntarily give up his defer ment in exchange for Class I—A, thereby allowing him to pro gress to a lower draft priority. Registrants holding lottery num bers above their local board’s “high” for the year could ef fectively limit their draft vul nerability by being reclassified I—A by the year’s end. Although most local boards have already reached their “high” number for 1970, Collins advised that it is still possible that a few boards will not know what that number will be until they have issued orders for the December induc tions. FRENCH CLUB HELPS CLINTON STUDENTS Members of Les Copains, the French Club at Newberry Col lege, are going to Presbyterian College on Thursday, November 12, to help students taking French at the Clinton school form a French club on their campus. TRINITY LADIES PLAN BAKED CHICKEN SUPPER The ladies of Trinity United Methodist Church are planning to serve a baked chicken sup per Wednesday, November 18th. Serving will begin at six o’clock. Also desserts, consisting of pies and cakes and hot dogs and cold drinks will be for sale. Trinity’s friends are requested to remember the date and are urged to be present. Permits Mrs. Waites, repairs, 625 O’ Neal St.; Mrs. Annie Martin, addition, 1607 Moon St.; Mrs. R. H. Monts, erect utility build ing, 2704 Kinard St.; T. M. Ni chols, repairs, 1325 Wheeler St.; Teresa Lester, repairs, 301 Boundary St.; Addie Suber, re pairs, 212 Boundary St.; Jack Matthews, locate trailer, Milli gan St.; Nature Reeves, repairs, 39 Player St.; Mack Suber, re pairs, 2401 Johnstone St.; Dave Hayes, repairs, 1119 Harring ton St. Total value of permits: $21,- 311. Many local and out-of-town guests for ed the Oakland Plant of the Kendall Com- Newberry’s Tricentennial celebration tour- pany at Open House Tuesday morning. Cone Knits at Whitmire was host to afternoon in observance of Tricentennial numerous visitors at open house Tuesday Week in Newberry County.