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CHXHXHXHX<<HXHXHX<HX< BY THE WAY By DORIS A. SANDERS CHXHXHXHX<<HXHXHXHXHX<I MIGHT AVE BEEN In his editorial of the air on January 26th, telecast over WRAL-TV, Raleigh, N.C., Jesse Helms paid tribute to the man who might have been President. The editorial follows: By Jesse Helms Dick Russell’s death last week once more reminds us that A- merica is a nation in awesome transition. It has been interest ing to note the tributes paid him—all of them sincere, all of them deserved. The Senator from Georgia was that kind of man. Indeed, his life and ca reer were such that none of the hundreds of expressions of admiration and sadness could even come close to supplying an adequate measurement of what the Senator had meant to his country. The most melancholy game that people play is what-might- have-been. Senator Ervin, a- mong others, commented last week that Dick Russell would have been President of the Unit ed States had he not been from the South. It was not an overstatement. It is a fact. When the mid-afternoon bulle tin clacked through the tele types, we wondered how many other minds across the country were racing simultaneously backwards in time. It was, in a way, a matter of everybody’s writing a personal mental tri bute at once. In the instance of Dick Russell, this is the best kind—certainly the most appro priate kind. In both life and death, Dick Russell made men think. The Senator was, as the saying goes, an intensely per sonal man. He viewed his coun try with a sense of history, and perhaps of impossible idealism. It was a nation, he felt, that should never be allowed to transform itself into groups of clashing selfishness. No, the United States to him had to survive on the basis of indivi dualism with every man earn ing respect on the basis of purely personal traits—s u c h things as effort and attitude, responsibility and achievement. Any other philosophy, the Se nator often said, and America was through. Irresponsible behavior had no place in Senator Russell’s rule book. Neither excuses nor alibis served to satisfy his dedica tion to excellence. He was not a spiteful man, but he rejected absolutely the kind of politics that preaches that the world owes anybody anything. It’s the other way around. So, as we say, each of his friends fashioned a sort of spon taneous mental epitaph for Dick Russell that afternoon when the news of his death came. Mostly there were memories of per sonal association. Our own first thought raced backwards 19 years in time to two weeks spent with him in that hot sum mer of 1952 in Chicago. The Republicans had just completed their convention, nominating an immensely popular wartime Ge neral of the Army as their can didate for President. Harry Truman was winding up his tenure in the White House. The Democrats were unknowingly preparing to determine the phil osophical direction their party would take for a generation or more to come. Repeated polls showed that knowledgeable Americans con sidered Dick Russell the best qualified man in the country for the Presidency. It is fair to say that not one responsi ble voice in all of the republic (Continued on page 6) Vol. 34—No. 44 Newberry, S. C. 29108, Thursday, February 18, 1971 $3 PER YEAR GRAND JURY—A new Grand Jury for Newberry County was seated Monday morning as the February session of Gen eral Sessions Court got underway. Judge George Bell Timmerman, Batesburg is presiding over the term. Members are, from left, first row r , Furman Long, James W. Abrams, Harold 0. Cook, Paul M. Werts, Wilbur S. Shealy, W. C. Armfield, foreman, Carroll L. Bouknight, David L. Long, Raeford Gaffney; second row\ lola L. Clark, H. L. Hedgepath, Fred K. Moon, Doris H. Hawkins, Viola W. Anderson, Ethel L. Stone, Herbert S. Fulmer, Jr., M. Herman Morris, and Raymond L. Hawk ins. (Sunphoto) Judge raps S. C. liquor laws at court session “Under the law, you can’t buy a drink in South Carolina. You can only buy a drunk,” Judge George Bell Timmerman Jr. of Batesburg said in Gene ral Sessions Court here Mon day. Timmerman said that in South Carolina, a person can only buy liquor in quantities sufficient to make him drunk. He said that problems caused by drunk drivers are not being solved. “We’re actually manu facturing more drunks,” he said. “The police departments, the Highway Patrol and the courts have had a medical problem dumped on them,” the judge said. He said that jail is not the place for the alcoholic, and that a treatment center is one of the most vital needs in the state. Guilty pleas and sentences Monday were: Driving while under the in fluence of intoxicants—Tommy Glymph, three years or $2,000; suspended, six months or $400 and probation one year; Dou glas McArthur Goff, one year or $1,000, suspended three months or $300 probation one year; David Coleman, one year or $1,000, suspended, three months or $250, probation one year; Andrew Richardson, one year or $1,000, suspended, three months or $200, probation one year; George Raymond Hill, three years or $2,000, suspend ed, three months or $200, pro bation one year; Robert Lee Mayer, one year or $1,000 sus pended, three months or $150, probation one year; Earl Can non, one year or $1,000, sus pended three months or $150, probation one year; James D. Grice, one year or $1,000, sus pended, three months or $300, probation one year; Paul S. Busby, three years or $2,000, suspended, six months or $400, probation one year; Wesley Car- roll Griffin, one year or $1,000, suspended, two months or $200 probation one year; Clyde Mar vin Kinsey, four years or $3,000, (Continued on page 6) Miss Chapman, Miss Paris, Star Pupil, Teacher Caroline Chapman has been named the 1971 Star Student for Newberry High School, the Newberry County Development Board announced this week. The Star Student is a senior at Newberry High School. Caro line is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis E. Chapman. The Star Student then select ed Miss Lorraine Paris teacher at Newberry High School as her Star teacher, the teacher who made the greatest contri bution to the student’s scholas tic achievement. Both the Star Student and Star Teacher will now compete for the Newberry County Star titles. The announcements were made as a part of the Student- Teacher Achievement Recogni tion (Star) Program, sponsored statewide by the South Caro lina State Chamber of Com merce and in the Newberry County school system area by Newberry County Development Board. Designation of Star Students is based on top ranking scores made on the College Board Scholastic Aptitude Test and scholastic averages during the first semester senior year. Winners at the county level and their Star Teachers will be honored at a special South Carolina Chamber of Com merce Star luncheon in Colum bia in April. Following the luncheon, Con gressional District winners and runners-up—students and tea chers—will begin a four-day educational tour of the State. LONGS ANNOUNCE BIRTH OF A DAUGHTER Alison Ruth is the name giv en the first bom of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Heber Long. Ali son weighed 8 pounds and 3 ounces and arrived on February 5, 1971. Mrs. Long is the former Meeting set at Bush River “There will be a meeting of all interested citizens of this area at the Bush River Bap tist Church Sunday afternoon, Feb. 21, 1971, at 3:00. This meeting will concern the Old Mount Zion Baptist Church that is located near Silverstreet, South Carolina. The public is cordially invited to attend this meeting..” "Litter Monster” at Civic League Mrs. Richard L. Baker, beau tification chairman, will pre sent a film entitled “The Lit ter Monster” at the meeting of the Newberry Civic League at the Community Hall Tues day, February 23, at 4 p.m. Prof. F. Scott Elliott, Sr., president, urges all Civic Lea gue members and other in terested Newberrians to attend this informative program. The public is cordially invited to attend. Warrant charges J. C. Davenport J. C. Davenport has been charged with murder in the Sat urday night shooting death of Jimmy Lee Swittenburg, 43, of Prosperity, according to She riff B. Eugene Shealy. Swittenburg was dead on ar rival at a local hospital Satur day after receiving a -.22 cali ber bullet wound in the chest, the sheriff said. Shealy said the shooting oc curred at about 3 p.m. Satur day in a Prosperity cafe. Margaret Wherry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harper Wherry of Batesburg, formerly of New berry. Paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. L. Hubert Long of Newberry. STAR STUDENT-TEACHER—Caroline Chapman been named Star Student for Newberry High School award was announced at chapel exercises at the s Tuesday morning. Caroline chose Miss Lorraine I band director of the school, as her Star Teacher. (I by Martin Armfield.)