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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
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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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