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The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, March 11, 1971—PAGE 5 The Newberry College Indians open their 25-game baseball season with a home game against the Wofford Terriers at 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 17. Coach Horace Turbeville, who is beginning his fifth season as head baseball mentor, thinks that pitching will be the key factor for this year’s season. The 1970 squad completed the season with a 8-18 record. Plans for sports camp are final Plans for the sixth annual summer “Indian Sports Camp” at Newberry College have been announced by the camp’s di rector, Horace Turbeville. The month-long morning day camp for boys from 6 through 14 will begin Tuesday, June 1, and continue until Friday, June 25. “The camp helps to give young boys a summer with a purpose,” Turbeville said in announcing this year’s program. The campers are grouped ac cording to age, size, and abi lity and are given individual instruction in the camp’s va ried activities including bad minton, baseball, basketball, football (no contact), physical fitness, recreational sports, spe cial trips, swimming, tennis, track and volleyball. Turbeville is the head base ball coach and assistant foot ball coach at Newberry College; he joined the College Staff in 1960. Additional information and application blanks for the In dian Sports Camp may be ob tained by writing to Coach Tur beville at Newberry College. Gets award at Camden Military Pfc. Timothy D. Saxon, son the late Bruce E. Saxon, was one of twelve cadets awarded the Gold Star Sunday afternoon, Feb. 28 at the Dress Parade at Camden Military Academy in Camden, S. C. The Gold Star is awarded to students who maintain an above 90 average for a semester’s work. Timothy is one of three first year cadets who were a- warded this honor by Col. Lanny Risher, leader of the Academy. Timothy is a re porter on the school’s news paper and has maintained an above 95 average on all his school work. Mrs. Porter and Timothy’s brothers, Jonathan and Hayes, and his sister, Barbara were at the presen tation. Science day be held at college High school scientists and mathematicians and their in structors will learn about the science program at Newberry College and observe and parti cipate in experiments at the annual Science and Mathema tics Day on Saturday, March 20 “We have planned this pro gram,” Dr. R. C. Farb, coor dinator for the program, said, “for students and teachers who are actively engaged in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics at the high school le vels.” In addition to learning about the science program at the Col lege, the visitors will tour the College’s science laboratories and study the latest equipment from a gas chomotograph and environmental chamber to tele scopes and a digital computer. The session will begin with registration in the new Science and Mathematics Building and close with a luncheon in the College Dining Room. season now at hand A weather official here says tornado statistics indicate March, April and May as the most active tornado months in this state. “There have been 141 torna does officially reported in S.C. in the past 20 years, and 60 percent of them hit in these three months,” says H. Land ers, climatologist with the Na tional Weather Service at Clem- son University. Landers also announced plans for this year’s “SKYWARN” system, the annual campiagn by the Weather Service and its new parent organization, the National Oceanic and At mospheric Administration (NO- AA) concerned with the envi ronment. “SKYWARN” is pu blic participation in reporting tornadoes or other air distur bances so that early warnings may be effective. S.C. had only one tornado in 1970, Landers noted, but 11 were recorded in 1969. Six of those hit in one day, causing about $1 million in damage. Also costly to S.C. residents are the severe thunderstorms and accompanying damages from high winds, hail, light ning and rain. Total storm damage in the state last year was $2 million, according to the climatologist. Some 62 percent of this was attributed to high winds, 16 per cent to lightning, 13 percent to hail, nine percent to rain, and only .13 percent to the single small tornado which hit Char leston May 25. Older records show that two tornadoes, with paths over 100 miles long, struck S.C. on April 30, 1924. They killed a total of 77 Deoole. injured 780, destroy ed 465 homes and other build ings and caused some $20 mil lion in damage. “If these storms had occur- ed 47 years later, or in 1971,” Landers says, “it’s safe to as sume that the property damage statistics would be doubled or tripled because of growth and congestion. “However, with SKYWARN operating efficiently, the num ber of injuries or deaths should be reduced to less than the 1924 figure because of more rapid communications. Persons interested in helping prevent deaths and injuries by becoming a SKYWARN observ er may contact the nearest Weather Service or Public Sa fety office for details. “If people tend to be indif ferent about tornadoes and say that it can’t happen here,” Lan ders adds, “they might recall the recent headlines in Missis sippi and Louisiana where over 100 persons were killed in one day.” Violators of inspection law are warned Changing equipment on a ve hicle after it has passed in spection to include parts that would not pass a subsequent inspection is illegal, according to the South Carolina Highway Department. The vehicle owner who does this is subject to the same penalties he would have incurred had his vehicle not carried a current inspection sticker. “There have been instances where an owner has changed tires so the vehicle could pass inspection. Then once he has the inspection sticker on his car or truck, he has gone back to tires which would not meet inspection standards,” a high way official said. “There have also been cases where a stub tailpipe, which would not pass inspection was removed and a legal one substituted just long enough for the vehicle to be inspected, then the stub tail pipe would be re-installed. These are just two examples of methods used to circumvent the vehicle inspection law.” A section of the state’s ve hicle inspection regulations says “No person shall remove or ex change any equipment or parts or make any adjustment or mo dification on any vehicle bear ing an Inspection Certificate of Cancer children United States other EARLY DIAGNOSIS AND PROPER TREATMENT CAN HELP REDUCE THE TOLL . fight cancer with a checkup and a check American Cancer Society !j ji Approval that would prevent the vehicle from passing a sub sequent inspection.” Owners of vehicles falling in to this category are subject to a fine of up to $100 or up to 30 days in jail, according to law. SENATOR STROM THURMOND REPORTS TO THE PEOPLE THE REAL ISSUE When a political battle gets down to the basic issues, it is seldom a Democrat versus Re publican battle. It is more often a “liberal” versus “conservative” conflict. More and more we see coali tions between the liberal winps of both parties, or the conserva tive groups in both parties. Per haps this is as it should be. It reflects an issue-oriented ap proach to politics. It shows a philorophical difference in men’s thinking. This seems much more desirable than a blind party loyalty which binds a voter or a Senator to that party regardless of its position on an issue. But there is a danger here. What is a liberal? For that mat ter, what is a conservative? There can be as many answers to these two questions as there are people to answer. It is, how ever, a legitimate question, and it is an important one to ask, be cause a voter really knows noth ing about a leader, a Senator or a Representative, until he knows where the lawmaker stands on the political spectrum. MANY WRONG WAYS There are many wrong ways to answer the question. It is folly to label a man a liberal simply because he takes that position on one issue. He might be moderate or conservative on everything else. It is also incor rect to label a politician on the basis of what the media say about him. It is how he votes that makes the difference. It does not help to go to the dictionary either. Webster de fines a liberal as one who be lieves in progress. The problem is, conservatives believe in prog ress, too. They just have differ ent ideas about how to achieve it. Webster says a liberal is br'ad-mirded. Does this mean that a liberal Senator is broad minded, and a conservative Senator is narrow-minded? Of course not! The literal definition ef “liberal” involves many vir tues that do not necessarily ap ply to a “political liberal.” If we go by Webster al me, we get the idea that a liberal is a good guy, and a conservative is a bad nuy. Many political innocents Urm their opinions on just that basis. There is a valid way to classify a Member of Congress. It is not always 100 percent accurate, but it is the best method I have seen yet. It is the practice of scoring each Senator or Representative on the basis of his over-all voting record. His entire voting record is taken into consideration covering all the time he has been in Congress. If he votes according to the recognized liberal position on all issues, he receives a zero score, or a 100 score, depending upon who is rating him. The Americans for Constitutional Action, a conservative organiza tion, would give the consistent liberal voter a zero. The Ameri cans for Democratic Action, the liberal group, would give him 100 and apply the zero to the man who votes as a conservative on all issues. The point to re member is that both organiza tions would generally agree on who is liberal and who is con servative. COMPOSITION OF THE SENATE From this basis, one can do some very interesting research on the composition of the pres ent United States Senate. For instance, it might be surprising to learn that 53 of the returning 88 Senators have scores on the liberal side of the political center, allowing the center to be represented by a score of 50. It is interesting to note that of the 23 most liberal Senators, all are Democrats. Of the 10 most liberal Senators, only 7 are Republicans. Of the 25 most con servative Senators, only 6 are Democrats. If we divide the 88 returning Senators into three groups— liberals, moderates, and con servatives—placing the liberals in the group which scores with ACA from 0-33, the moderates in the 34-66 score group, and the conservatives in the 67-100 group, manv would be shocked at the results. We would find 23 conservatives, 22 moderates, and T3 liberals. Almost one half of all returning Senators are lib eral according to their voting record. Less than one-third are conservative. I believe this overwhelming imbalance explains why the country has moved toward the left during the decade of the Sixties. 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