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BY THE WAY By DORIS A. SANDERS THANKSGIVING The spirit of Thanksgiving en compasses many principles and ideals which deserve daily as well as annual tribute. Certain ly, Thanksgiving Day is a mean ingful and cherished holiday, and it is right that we have set aside a special occasion to count our blessings and good fortune. In so doing, let us be continually grateful that we live in a land where people can still laugh, dream, hope, and speak their minds and worship as they please. Our Founding Fathers had great vision. They saw for the future of our country a promise of hope, right, justice, treedom. and equality for men and wo men who braved the dangers to enjoy these blessings from God. And all but the most cyni cal would have to admit that our Nation has made extraor dinary progress in striving for these goals No other country has ever done more to promote the spiritual and material needs of its citizens A noted American author and editor once stated. "There ne ver was a land that better de served the love of her people than America, for there never was a mother-country kinder to her children. She has given to them all that she could give Millions upon millions of men have lived here with more com fort, with less fear, than any such numbers elsewhere in any age have lived. Countless mul titudes, whose forefathers from the beginning of human life on earth have spent weary lives in unrewarded toil, in anxiety, in helplessness, in ignorance, have risen here, in the course of even a single generation, to the full and secure enjoyment of the fruits of their labor, to confident hope, to intelligent possession of their own facul ties. Is not the land to be dearly loved in which this is possible, in which this this has been ac hieved' 1 " Truly, this American was imbued with the spirit of Thanksgiving Our Nation does possess a heritage which is unique in the history of man But today this heritage with its religious ideals and moral principles means practicallv nothing to many A- mencans Thev do not seem to recognize nor appreciate the re wards ot .sell-government lo them. duty, individual re^pon- sibihtv. elite! priM\ sell respect and obedience of the law are teneO of oppression 'Ihey de maud and expect the good hfo." but without personal sa ( nfice or effort. The true mean mg ot Thanksgiving, a- expe rienced in the humble and do unit tribute bv tile earl> >ot tierv is lost on them Let us earnt -tA join m the obseiw ancr ot rhanksgiving But let the spirit of Thanksgiving not be a .scheduled sentiment which we turn on once a year Rather, let it be an abiding testimony, a recognizable sym bol of our daily faith- our faith m ourselves, our faith m our country, and our faith m God J Fdgar Hoover Director FBI INITIATED INTO HONORARY GROUP Fourteen Winthrop College students have been initiated in to Archimedeans. mathematics honorary. Among the 14 is Gay Harmon Stewart of Newberry, a major in computer science b’ol. B-l—No. 32 Newberry, S. C., Thursday, November 25, 1970 $3 PER YEAR Turkey day classic set at P. C. Thursday The Bronze Derby has not seen the Newberry College cam pus since Thanksgiving when the Presbyterian team ab ducted it with a 26 7 victory in Clinton This year, following four straight Turkey Day losses, the Indians will visit Presbyterian campus to renew the annual battle for the symbolic topper The meeting will be the fifty- sixth m a series which dates back t i 1:11.1 when the Indians demolished the Blue Hose al-O Despite the initial setback. Pres byterian holds a 1116-4 edge over Newberry The Bronze Derby originated as the result of a highly-spirit ed ruckus on the night of Jan 30. 1947, following a basketball game between the two rival schools. Before the game got underway, several PC’ students put up a banner high on the wall which read "Beat Hell Out of Newberry." Sometime during the game, a group of Newberry students se cured a ladder, sol it up against the outside wall, climbed through a window, rolled up the banner, and escaped unnoticed the same way they had entered Near the end of the game the visiting Blue Hose supporters realized the banner was gone After Presbyterian had taken a 51-47 victory, the irate Hose partisans demanded the return of the banner. This prompted a scuffle, and in the midst of the general confusion, a Newberry student snatched a derby from the head of a PC student and ran During the next couple of days, the athletic publicity di rectors of the two schools no gotiated tor the return of the derb\ The\ tinalK c mie to the a grei ment that the cTrlw Hiould serve a-- a laurel of victory m athletic t f1111"sts between New berrv and 1 reHgvtt nan t on m ,ni ntlv the hat was returned In PC package i and forward ed t > a east mg < unpain in 1 >hln wilt ■re it w as bronzed ! Util 1! 'ati [ >i i - m - 'let; nf 1 he drrbv vva (let t named bv v ie tune' in 1 nut bad. ba'ketball, and ban Dial! but then the 'C.liouls ; igreei ! tu award the tfuph) u: ; tile ba.'n ■ of football 'Up u nr.! ad me Si nee then, New berrv lias won the Bronze Derlw tour tunes FOUNDATION GRANT New berrv College is one of nine South Carolina colleges to receive a grant from the Mont gomery Ward Foundation The grant is being presented to the College through the South Carolina Foundation of Inde pendent Colleges The Montgo mery Ward Foundation is dou bling its second annual grant to the 40 state and regional as sociates of the Independent Col lege Funds of America for dis tribution to tneir 542 member colleges and universities State President visits here Mrs. Thomas Parker of Greenville, President of the Auxiliary to the South Carolina Medical Association, spoke last week at the meeting 1 of the Auxiliary to the Newberry County Medical Association. At left is Mrs. Von Long, president of the local Auxiliary, and at right, Mrs. V. W. Rinehart, State AMA-ERF Chairman. (Sunphoto) Santa Claus to arrive in city December first Santa Claus will make his first official visit of 1970 to the county Tuesday and will be es corted into the City by a host of bands, beauties, floats and distinguished persons. The parade will begin its march down Main Street at 4 [) m December 1 and will end at the Community Hall, where "Miss Merry Christmas 1970" will he crowned "Spot" Coats, chairman for the Exchange Club sponsored parade, said today that 88 units are exported to participate in the parade, including, hopeful !y, the shining new fire truck scheduled for delivery to the City this week Bands taking part in the pa rade are: Mid Carolina, Whit mire. Saluda, Wirmsboro, New berry College. Newberry High, Newberry 8th Grade, Batesburg Leesville and Newberry 7th grade The following young ladies will beautify the occasion with their appearance: Miss Merry Christmas 1969, Susan Lake; Miss Columbia Teen Model of the Year, Debbie Hentz; Little Miss Newberry, Anna Ruth Dil lard: Miss Newberry College Homecoming, Connie Rickenba- ker. Miss Newberrian, Susan Little; Miss Young Republican, Ellen Altman; Miss Newberry High Homecoming, Paula Ful ler; Miss Fire Prevention, Sloan Wall ace; Miss Newberry, Kiki Kirkland; Miss Farm Bureau, Kay Bozard; Miss Mid-Caro lina Homecoming, Annette Shea- ly; Miss Mid-Carolina, Joni Lynn Rader; Miss Whitmire High, Patricia Lake; Miss Whit mire Merry Christmas, Donna Weaver; Miss FFA Sweetheart. Susan Shgh, and Miss Antioch Church. Rosemary Dennis. Non commercial floats will be eniered by Whitten Village. Bailey Memorial Hospital. Kin dergarten School, Newberry CommuniLy Flayers. Newberry Skating Rink. Little Folks Kin dergarten. Little Lolks Nursery. Alexanders Numery and Kin dergarten. Kiddie Korner Nur sen Lxrhange Club. Lorn .ria Little Mountain Brownie Float and Lureka (dub Commercial floats: Ocoma Food' (dty oi Newberry. Belk- Beard. Bankers Tnis.i. Stan dard Savings and Loan. New berry College. Black Rock Man ufacturing, Bergens, C \’ Cor poration. Newberry Federal Sa vings and Loan, Owens-Illinois, B. C. Moore. Scout Units scheduled to march m the parade: Brownie Troop 75 of Prosperity; Girl Scouts of Newberry; Girl Scout Troop 76. Prosperity; Cub Packs 342. 69. 222 and 380. Featured in the parade will be the June Buggs who appear regularly on the S. C. Educa tional Channel 35 in Columbia at 6:30 in the evening. Mrs. Timmerman is a leader in pre- at 6:30 in the evening. Mrs. Timmerman is a leader in pre- (Continued on Page 6)