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BY THE WAY By DORIS A. SANDERS NOW'S THE TIME It may seem strange to be talking about air conditioning in January, but since the new county council is officially on the job, I would remind its members that the project of air conditioning the courthouse should be at the top of its agenda for consideration. Several weeks of court were held during the hot weather of the past summer and I’m sure the air conditioning would have the enthusiastic approval of those persons who served as jurors, as well as the officers of the court. Resident Judge Francis Nicholson strongly ur ged that air conditioning be in stalled and the 1970 Grand Jury made the same recommenda tion. More important to be consi dered, however, are your coun ty officers who are not in the courthouse for only a few weeks, but the entire long, hot summer. I know' if you were to visit any of the courthouse offices on hot days, you would readily agree that relief is needed. Our courthouse is adequate for its piesent needs and there seems no need to build a new one for many years to come, so the cost of air conditioning the present building would not be money wasted. I hope that the county coun cil will get started on this pro ject so that when the hot wea ther comes, the system will be ready for operation. A NEW LOOK Downtown Newberry should have a “new look” in the not too distant future. The paper work necessary to demolish the Wiseman Hotel and Baker ware house is expected to be com pleted this week, and. if this happens, the destruction should start immediately. There is no doubt that more parking space is needed in downtown Newberry, especially if downtown merchants expect to hold their own when the shopping center on By-Pass 76 is completed: Just as impor- tint, however, is some system of traffic control so that people can get into, and out of, the parking lots. Many of the downtown mer chants in the past have oppos ed a one-way traffic system but they had better be giving consideration to changing their attitudes. Not many people are going to come downtown, W'hen they have another alternative, if they have to wait 15 or 20 minutes to get out of a park ing lot—if they have been lucky enough to find a parking space to begin with. Perhaps the Association for a Greater Newberry—the orga nization which should be the most vitally interested—can come up with recommendations to City Council for a way of alleviating the traffic jams. One-way streets are really not so bad, you know, once you get accustomed to them, espe cially in a city as small as Newberry.. You won’t have to go more than one or two blocks out of your way to get where you want to go. Now is the time to do some thing about this, unless the mer chants are content to just let downtown dry up. Vol. 34—No. 38 Newberry, S. C. 29108, January 7, 1971 $3 PER YEAR Among those present for the first quar terly meeting of 1971 of the Newberry County Beautification Committee were, from left, Martyn Cavanaugh, co-chair man ; George R. Summer, Sen. Robert D. Lake, Hubert Bedenbaugh, a new mem ber, and County Agent A1 Busby. COLLEGE CALENDAR During the January Interim session at Newberry College, basketball is the major campus activity. Coach Nield Gordon’s squad has four contests in the next eight nights with the Flying Fleet from Erskine College fur nishing the opposition in a game at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 7, in MacLean Gymnasium. The squad travels to Greens boro, N.C., Saturday to meet the Guilford Quakers in a Caro- linas Conference battle. The Indians return home 7:30 p.m. Monday to meet the young squad from Francis Marion Col lege. Florence; this is the first year that the new state college has fielded a basketball team. For the fourth game in eight nights, the team goes to North Carolina again to meet the High Point, N.C. in another con ference meet. Dr, Herman Cauble, secretary of the South Carolina Synod of the Lutheran Church in Ame rica, will act as ‘The Guest Preacher,” at the 11:15 a.m. services Sunday, January 10, in the A.G.D. Wiles Chapel. ANNUAL MEETING The fifth annual meeting of the Tuberculosis and Health As sociation of Area Six will be held at 7:00 P.M. on January 26 in the Self Memorial Hospi tal. Greenwood, according to the President. Rev. Neil E. Trues- dell. The Area Six Association was formed May 16, 1967 to include Abbeville, Edgefield, Greenwood, Laurens, McCor mick, Newberry and Saluda counties. The President also announced that Christmas Seal contribu tions have reached a total of $27,419.86. He commented, “We are still hoping to reach our goal of $36,000 set for this cam paign”, GUEST PREACHER AT WILES CHAPEL Dr. Herman W. Cauble, se cretary of the South Carolina Synod of the Lutheran Church in America, will be “The Guest Preacher,” Sunday, Ja nuary 10, in the regualr 11:15 a.m. services in the A.G.D. Wiles Chapel on the Newberry College campus. Dr. Cauble has served in his present position since 1965, prior to becoming the Secretary for the Synod, he was pastor of the Lutheran Church of the As cension in Columbia from 1949 to 1965. Newberry College awarded him the honorary degree of doc tor of divinity in 1970. Shopping Center to feature new movie theatre Plans to include a modem motion picture theatre in the new, Newberry Shopping Cen ter were revealed today by a joint announcement between National Features Ltd., the own er of the theatre chain and Ar- len Shopping Centers, Inc. the developers of the shopping cen ter. Charles B. Lebovitz, Vice President of Arlen and project manager of the Newberry Shop ping Center being developed by the Independent Enterprises Di vision of Arlen Shopping Cen ters, Inc. and William A. An- gley, Vice President of National Features Ltd. with offices in Glenside, Pennsylvania, made the announcement. The new theatre to be known as the Hub Theatre is one of 20 new Mini-Theatres under de velopment by the theatre de velopment chain. The ultra mo dern movie theatre will fea ture the latest in modern, com fortable seating. The projection equipment by Bell & Howell will be the latest and the most modern and will be fully auto mated to provide the viewing customer with the sharpest and clearest picture available.. The new automated system has been perfected in the last few months partly because of the extreme demand for this type system by such people as the major airlines. The screen will be ex tra wide and will engulf the major portion of the full width of the theatre. Plush carpet will greet the patron at the front door and will cover the entire lobby a- (Continued on page 8) NOVEMBER SAVINGS BONDS REPORT Combined E and H Savings Bonds sales for November in Newberry County totaled $13,- 143 reports Joe M. Roberts County Savings Bonds Chair man. In South Carolina, total No- vejnber Savings Bonds sales a- mounted to $2,865,889 and ex ceeded those of last November by thirteen percent and were the highest sales for any No vember since 1946, reports Ro bert G. Clawson, State Chair man of the U.S. Savings Bonds Committee. New members of County Council took their oath of office Saturday morning be fore Clerk of Court Mrs. Mildred R. Har mon. They are standing, from left, John W. Schumpert, Carman Bouknight and C. E. Hendrix. Seated are hold-over mem bers, Ben F. Dawkins and Curtis E. Shealy. The Council set two future meet ings, January 8th to approve the county payroll and possibly elect a chairman; and January 13th to approve payment of bills One of the first orders of business for the council will be selection of a county ad ministrator. , (Sunphoto)