Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I BY THE WAY By DORIS A. SANDERS By JESSE HELMS The news trom Washington one afternoon last week included a strangely boastful little report that school integration has been moving twice as fast in the South as in other sections of the country. Big deal, one is tempted to say. What else is new? In the first place, the South has been a political whipping boy all along—the one section of the country selected to bear the burden of unfair and un equal harrassment by the Con gress, the courts and the fe-. deral bureaucrats. Certainly the report from Washington last week came as no surprise to school ofifcials, parents and children who have witnessed the swarms of federal investi gators descending upon the South with outrageous edicts and guidelines written in lega listic doubletalk. One of these days, if the schools are to survive, the fe deral government will have to abandon its racial arithmetic, and turn its attention to the tragic damage inflicted upon the schools by federal meddling. There is, after all, something more important than counting black faces among white ones in a classroom. What is more important is an honest assess ment, statistical and otherwise, of how far downward the qua lity of education has plunged these past several years. It would be a staggering fi gure, for example, to run a total of the countless thousands of classroom hours lost in North Carolina alone as a result of hostility and violence, actual and threatened. Equally impor tant, one must ponder in sad ness the frustrating atmosphere in which teachers are now sup posed to teach, and in which children are supposed to learn. President Nixon would be well advised to suggest that the architects of the federal take over of schools come to North Carolina and advise school of ficials how the school doors might be kept open. The federal judges, who issued unreasonable and thus far unworkable race mixing orders, ought to be sent also—say, to Warrenton, where the schools have been repeated ly forced to close in order to avoid destruction and perhaps violence. Except for the arithmetical (Continued on Page 6) U V1. utt Vol. 34—No. 50 Newberry, S. C. 29108, Thursday, April 1, 1971 $3 PER YEAR : - V: If 4 ; f» I BAG PROCLAMATION—Mayor C. A. Shealy, Jr. ex presses happiness in affixing- his signature to a document proclaiming Good Friday as “Buck-a-Cup” in the city. Chief Ray Schumpert, coordinator of the day, looks on. The occasion is sponsored by the Law Enforcement Offi cers Association and the S. C. Restaurant Association. Philip T. Kelly, is chairman of the Crippled Children and Adults Society. (Sunphoto) Alpha Xi Delta Band plans supper tonight spring concert The Alpha Xi Delta social sorority at Newberry College will serve a spaghetti supper from 5-7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 1, in the Speers St. School cafeteria. Tickets for the dinner may be purchased at the door or at the Alpha Xi Sorority House in the Carol Court Complex on the Newberry College campus. The spaghetti supper was ori ginally scheduled for Thursday, March 25. but was postponed because of the snowstorm. Quarterly Civil D- r cnse A- lert will be held Wednesday, April 9. at 10 o'clock. The 52-piece Newberry Col lege Concert Band will present its annual spring concert at 4:30 p.m. Palm Sunday, April 4, in the A.G.D. Wiles Chapel on the College campus. Under the direction of Char les Pruitt, the band will play numbers ranging from the fa miliar marches of John Philip Sousa, to the lyrics of the Nor wegian composer, Edward Greig. Soloists for Sunday’s concert include Dr. John Wagner, as sociate professor of music at New'berry College, clarinet; and students Ronnie Davis, Green- (Continued on Page 6) Anderson heads dental alumni Dr. Evander M. Anderson of Newberry, has been chosen by Emory University’s dental alumni to head the dental alum ni association representing 3,300 members. Dr. Anderson graduated from Emory’s dental school in 1947. His son, Dr. Evander M. Ander son Jr., Seneca, is also an alumnus of the dental school, class of 1967. Dr. Anderson has been active in his professional associations and in the civic life of New berry. He is a past president of his dental society and a past president of the Newberry Ro tary Club. He attended Wake Forest College 1936-1939 before coming to Emory to dental school. AT0 Fraternity honors student The Alumni of Alpha Tau O- mega fraternity at Newberry College have established a me morial scholarship for Robert Richard Rigby III, a member of the fraternity and a New berry College sophomore from Columbia who was killed in a plane crash near the Columbia Airport on February 3. The award will be given an nually to a member of the fraternity who best exemplifies love for the fraternity and man kind. States Lee Clawson, Colum bia sophomore, received the scholarship for the 1971-72 school year during a ceremony at the Alpha Tau Omega Founder’s Day Banquet. Clawson, a business admini stration major and the Worthy Usher of the local chapter of the fraternity, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Clawson, Jr., 2900 Delano Road, Columbia. I Jhf t -. . & I Thursday wreck claims life of 3 from Gaffney Three Gaffney residents were killed instantly and another in jured last Thursday when the 1967 Buick in which they were traveling skidded on snow co vered S. C. 121 and hit head- on into a semi-trailer truck. According to investigating S. C. Highway Patrolman E. B. McDaniel, the three killed were Nancy Beam Youngblood, 38, who was driving at the time of the accident; Joshua Paul Beam, 73, who was a passenger in the back seat and Daisy Wood Beam, 71, who was a passenger in the front seat. Da vid Beam Youngblood, 9 year old son of Mrs. Youngblood, was taken to Whitmire Clinic and transferred to Wallace Thompson Hospital in Union. According to reports the young boy suffered a broken jaw, cuts, bruises and lacarations and is reported in satisfactory condi tion. Mr. and Mrs. Beam were pa rents of Mrs. Youngblood and grandparents of David Young blood. Mr. Beam retired last year after serving many years as Cherokee County Superinten dent of Education. It was under stood that the occupants were going to Columbia for the SCEA Convention which was held last weekend. According to Patrolman Mc Daniel the 1969 International truck owned by T. G. Stegall Trucking Company of Char lotte and driven by Edward Lee Bennett of Washington, D. C. was traveling north on S. C. 121 (Whitmire-Newberry High way) and the 1967 Buick 4-door was traveling south on S. C. 121. The Buick skidded on ice into the path of the truck, strik ing the truck head-on. The accident happened at 4:45 P.M. Thursday, March 25, on a curve, on a grade about (Continued on Page 6) -'m* l ■ - * DEATH VEHICLES — Three Gaffney residents were killed instantly when their automobile skidded on a snow-slicked road into the path of a tractor-trailer last Thursday afternoon about nine miles from Whitmire on State Highway 121. According to the highway patrol Mrs. Nancy Beam Y r oungblood was driving the car when she lost control on a curve and was hit head on by the truck which was traveling north. Joshua Paul Beam, 73 and his wife Mrs. Daisy Wood Beam, 71, were also killed. David, nine-year-old son of Mrs. Youngblood, was taken to Whitmire Clinic with a broken jaw, cuts, bruises and lacerations. He was later transferred to the Wallace Thompson Hospital in Union where he is reported recovering satisfactorily. (Photos by Bill Armfield)