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Vol. 35—No. 6 Newberry, S. C. 29108, Thursday, May 27, 1971 $3 PER YEAR
PURCHASES POPPY—Mayor C. A. to Post 24. Mrs. Frank Martin, auxiliary
Shealy, Jr. buys the first poppy to set the president, beams her approval. Poppy
pace for poppy sales in Newberry County. Days are Friday and Saturday of this
Mrs. W. Roy Anderson, left, is Poppy week. (Sunphoto)
Chairman for American Legion Auxiliary
College to award 130
degrees on Sunday
SMALL INCREASE
IN TAXES FOR
NEW HOSPITAL
The proposed five-story New
berry County Memorial Hospi
tal would cost most families
less than $10 a year, the hos
pital board chairman said to
day.
County residents will be asked
to approve a $2 1-4 million bond
issue in a referendum June 15.
Coupled with matching hospital
grants, the bond issue will pay
for a modem 100-bed commu
nity hospital facility.
“After much deliberation, it
was carefully estimated that
an increase of 12 mills is neces
sary to pay for the hospital,”
Board Chairman Tom Buzhardt
said.
Buzhardt said the board pre
pared charts to show the exact
amount a 12-mill tax levy would
mean for various taxpayers.
“A family with a home va
lued at $5,000 can expect a
yearly increase of only $3.00.
That’s 25 cents a month,” Buz
hardt said.
“The owner of a $15,000 home
would pay just $9, while a man
with a $20,000 home would pay
only $12 per year.”
If you are not a homeowner,
the tax increase would be even
less. For example, if your coun
ty taxes last year were $10,
you would be paying $1.70 a
year more for the hospital, or
a total of $11.70. If your county
taxes last year were $40, you
would pay an additional $6.80
yearly for a new hospital.
“We wanted to show each
voter exactly how little—in dol
lars and cents—he would be
paying to insure adequate me
dical treatment for himself and
his family,” Buzhardt said.
The modern, five-story hos
pital would greatly increase the
number of hospital beds avail
able in the county. It would
have 100 substantially private
beds with private baths. Plans
also call for an adjoining one-
story facility to house an Emer
gency Room, Out-Patient Clinic
and general hospital services.
Newberry County citizens pav
ed the way for the June 15
referendum when they voted
by a 3 to 1 majority last No
vember to raise the county
bonded indebtedness by 30 per
cent to help finance the new
hospital, Buzhardt and other
members of the 11-man hospi
tal board proceeded with archi
tectural plans. The major step
will be a “Yes” vote on June
15 to issue the $2 1-4 million
in bonds.
County Rep. Walter Lake said
recently: “I was real pleased
that the people approved this
increase in the last general
election. This indicates to me
that the people of Newberry
County want a new hospital.”
Lake pointed out that the tax
increase to pay for the hospi
tal is relatively small, and it
still leaves Newberry County
with one of the lowest tax struc
tures in the state.
Postal service
curtailed May 31
The Newberry post office will
be closed Monday, May 31, 1971
in observance of Memorial Day.
No window service will be
provided nor will there be any
delivery of mail by city or ru
ral carriers. Regular lockbox
service will be maintained and
special delivery service will be
provided. There will be provid
ed one scheduled collection ser
vice whereby all collection box
es in the city will be served.
Outgoing mail will be dispatch
ed as suual.
Undergraduate college ca
reers will end for 130 seniors
at Newberry College Sunday,
May 30, when they receive their
bachelor of arts or science de
grees during Commencement
activities at 5 p.m. in the A.G.D.
Wiles Chapel on the campus.
At the final event of their
college student days, the gra
duates will hear Robert Harold
Stoudemire, associate director
of the Bureau of Governmen
tal Research and Service and
associate professor of political
science at the University of
South Carolina, deliver the tra
ditional charge to them.
Stoudemire and two Lutheran
MR. STOUDEMIRE
clergymen, the Rev. James Ro
bert Crumley, Jr., pastor of
the Evangelical Lutheran
Church of the Ascension in Sa
vannah, Ga., and the Rev.
Charles Samuel Wessinger, pas
tor of St. Andrew’s Lutheran
Church in Charleston, S.C., will
receive honorary degrees dur
ing the Commencement pro
gram. Stoudemire will receive
the Doctor of Laws degree and
the ministers the Doctor of Di
vinity dgeree.
The day’s ceremonies begin
with the Baccalaureate Service
at 11 a.m. in the Chapel with
the Rev. Crumley delivering
the message.
Stoudemire, a 1942 graduate
of Newberry College, has been
on the staff of the Bureau of
Governmental Research since
1947. He has served as a con
sultant to city and county gov
ernmental study groups in the
State and currently directs the
training program for munici
pal, county, and state emplo
yees as a part of the service
provided by the Research Bu
reau. In 1970 he received the
Outstanding State Employee
Award and in 1966, the Out
standing Teacher Award at the
University of South Carolina.
He is the editor of the “Uni
versity of South Carolina Gov
ernmental Review,” and the
author of numerous books and
pamphlets on the state’s gov
ernment.
Pastor Crumley has served
his present parish in Savannah
since 1966; he has also preach
ed at L utheran churches in
Greene County and Oak Ridge,
Tenn. As a churchman and ad
ministrator he has been a mem
ber of several commissions of
the Church, secretary of the
Southeastern Synod of the Lu
theran Church in America and
a trustee of three institutions
of the Church including New
berry College. He is a graduate
of Roanoke College, Salem,
Va., and received his theologi
cal training at the Lutheran
Theological Southern Seminary
in Columbia and at the Chi
cago Lutheran Theological Se
minary.
The Rev. Wessinger began
his ministerial career in 1945
when he accepted a charge at
Saluda, S. C., later he went
to Grace Lutheran Church in
Thomasville, N. C. before he
accepted his present assignment
in Charleston in 1956. He has
served on several church com
mittees and is currently on the
Executive Committee and is the
chairman of the Stewardship
Committee of the South Caro
lina Synod of the Lutheran
Church in America. He is also
the chairman of the Board of
Trustees for the Franke Home
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Counts installed
as postmaster
T. J. Coleman, Regional Di
rector of the Atlanta Postal Re
gion announced the appointment
of James W. Counts to Post
master of the Newberry Post
Office, effective May 15, 1971.
In accordance with the merit
system selection procedure of
the Postal Reorganization Act.
Mr. Counts was nominated by
the Regional Management Se
lection Board and appointed by
the Postmaster General.
Mr. Counts was officially in
stalled as the Newberry Post
master on Friday, May 21, 1971
by Harry E. Moose, Postal Ser
vice from the Atlanta Postal
Region and former Postmaster
of the Newberry Office. The
ceremony, in the office of the
Postmaster, was attended bv
representtaives of the Craft Or
ganizations of the Newberry of
fice, Postal Employees of the
Newberry office, Mrs. Harry E.
Moose, Mrs. James W. Counts
and daughters. Mrs. R. C. Blair,
Jr. and Tracey C. Counts, and
representatives of the local
news media.
Mr. Counts was born in Po-
maria, South Carolina. He is a
graduate of Newberry College.
He entered the Postal Service
in May, 1948, after 5 years ser
vice in the Army, as a substi
tute clerk in the Newberry
Post Office and was made a
regular clerk in July, 1953. He
was promoted to Assistant Post
master in November, 1957. He
has served as Officer-In-Charge
of the Newberry Post Office
since July, 1970.
Mr. Counts has been a resi
dent of Newberry since Jan
uary 1946. He is a retired Colo
nel from the South Carolina Na
tional Guard and a member of
the Lutheran Church of The
Redeemer.
“A truly great teaching career is ending,” Dr. A.G
Wiles, president of Newberry College, said when seve
colleagues honored Dr. Nelson Van de Luyster this we
Dr. Van de Luyster, professor of Modern Languag
will retire in August after teaching college German 1
42 years, six of them at Newberry College. Dr. A1 Mati
head of the College’s Department of Modern Languag
and Dr. Wiles were two of the staff members who c<
gratulated the veteran German professor.