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Vol. 35—No. 10 Newberry, S. C. 29108, Thursday, July 1, 1971 THE STAR SPAivJLED BANNER Our national anti, m was written by F' ict Scott Key in 1814. He had vit nessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry through out the night with anxiety and when he saw the Am erican flag still flying over the fortress in the dawn, he expressed his feelings in stiiring words that will live in American histoi/. "...O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!” Since the days of our struggle for freedom, "Old Glory" has been a symbol to Amer icans—a symbol of unity and independence. Let s keep the principles upon which this nation was founded before us all . . . by flying our flag oudly on the Fourth. $3 PER YEAR Shopping center sets organization W. W. Hursey is V manager W. W. “Bill” Hursey was named Tuesday as Newberry County’s first county manager. The announcement was made during a meeting of county council. Carman Bouknight, council chairman, said that Hursey, 50, of Newberry, was chosen unanimously by the council. Hursey has been plant mana ger for the Kendall Co. at Mol- lohon here for the past s i x years. He is married, and the father of two children. During his time in military service, Hursey served as a post engineer at Fort Jackson. He was responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of some 2,500 buildings, and for supervision of carpentry, elec trical work, plumbing, and wa ter and sewage plants. He has supervised men and women and has worked under strict bud gets, Bouknight said. Hursey is a member of the Lions Club, vice chairman of the board of directors of Beck man Health Center, commis sioner of Federal Housing Com mittee of Newberry County, member of Newberry Shrine Club, member of the Newberry Country Club, and a member of the First Baptist Church. He studied two years at Wof ford College and continued studies in civil engineering at Ohio State University. Hursey said in accepting the post, “I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the vote of confidence you have placed upon me in appointing me as county manager. I con sider it both an honor and a privilege to be able to work for the county council in serving the good folk of Newberry Coun ty- “I realize that this job is a first in Newberry County. I con sider this appointment to have a double significance in that I am the first county manager to serve under Newberry’s new system of county government,” he said. In other business, the council set tax millage for the county for 1971-72 at 73 mills, as com pared to 69 mills last year. The additional four mills repre sents an increase requested by the Newberry County Board of Education for school operations. The school board is authorized by law to add four mills an nually. The board did not ask for an increase last year. Other tax millage remained the same as last year—12 and a half mills for the county’s operating budget, two mills for bonds, one mill for hospital, two mills for ambulance. The school millage this year is 55 and a half mills. County Auditor Mrs. Jeanette Hamm said total assessed va luation for the county is about $14,900,000. One mill of tax will bring in around $15,000, some $900 more than last year. Council opened bids on county equipment—including a steam engine and two police cars. The council accepted a bid of $429.69 from Samuel T. Boozer of Cayce for the steam engine. Curtis Woosley’s bid of $200 for a 1968 Chevrolet used by the sheriff’s department was ac cepted. Council voted to pay $588 as the counties dues for member ship in the S.C. Association of Counties for a year. No action was taken regarding a tree be side the courthouse. It was thought the tree might have to be cut to make room for a sidewalk, but council was in formed that the walk would not come as close to the tree as had been thought. An organizational meeting of the Newberry Shopping Center Merchant’s Association was held Tuesday, with representatives of the stores and the developers of the Shopping Center present. Officers and Board of Direc tors were elected to serve and guide the organization from the opening through the calendar year, 1971. The new Newberry merchants were welcomed by Mayor C. A. Shealy, Jr. The Newberry Shopping Cen ter Merchant’s Association, Inc. is the coordinating organization for the merchants in the Shop ping Center and is responsible for the promotion and advertis ing activity for the new shop ping development. The retail development is lo cated on Wilson Road (U. S. 76 By-Pass) between S. C. 34 and the Winnsboro Road and S. C. 219 (Main Street). A grand opening was tena- tively planned at today’s meet ing, the details of this will be announced later. The new shop ping complex will include 90,- 530 square feet of building area with parking for over 660 cars and with a total of at least 14 business establishments. Tenants already announced for the shopping complex in- elude Edward’s Department Store, containing 40,500 square feet of building space; a huge A & P Supermarket, contain ing 16,980 square feet of build ing space; Sentry Drugs, con taining 5,000 square feet; the Hub Theatre, containing 4,000 square feet; a professional dry cleaners and self-service coin laundry, containing 4,200 square feet; The Wig Shop containing 1,000 square feet and a separate building housing a Bar-B-Q Pit restaurant and an additional (Continued on Page 8) P. 0. to observe holiday hours The Newberry Post Office will be closed Monday July 5, 1971 in observance of Independence Day. No window service will be provided and there will be no delivery of mail by city or rural carrier. Regular holiday lockbox ser vice will be provided and holi day schedules for delivery of special deliveries will be ob served. Holiday schedules for the col lection of mail and for the re ceipt and dispatch of mail will be maintained. CIVIL DEFENSE ALERT WEDNESDAY The quarterly Civil Defense alert to test equipment will be held next Wednesday at 1 p.m., according to Dave Mori- son, director of Civil Defense. Business and ' / set holiday hours Most Newberry businesses will observe the 4th of July holiday on next Monday. A num ber of them as well as industrial plants will close for the week in order that employees may have their annual vacation. Kendall company plants will observe the holiday schedule as follows: Oakland plant: Close 6 p.m. Saturday, July 3 and resume operations July 12 at 6 a.m. Mollohon Plant: Close 6 a.m. July 3 and resume operations at 6 a.m. Monday, July 12. Both plants will give vacation pay to all eligible employees. Newberry Mills, Inc. will cease operation at midnight Saturday, July 3 and resume production at 8 a.m. July 12. Employees there will also re ceive vacation pay. Employees of Black Rock Manufacturing Corp. will re ceive longer vacation time. Ope ration there will shut down af ter July 2nd and will resume on July 19. Eligible employees will receive 2 weeks pay. Ocoma Foods and C-P Corp. of Shakespeare Co. will close only for the Monday holiday. Prosperity Manufacturing Co. will close from July 2nd to July 12. Eligible employees there will receive vacation pay. Old School Manufacturing Co. will close after scheduled hours on Thursday, July 1 and reopen July 12. The plant will also pay vacations for eligible emplo yees. Collins and Aikmen plant near Prosperity will close from mid night July 2 to midnight July 11. Andrew Shealy graduate of FBI academy U.S. Representative, William Jennings Bryan Dorn, Demo crat of South Carolina attend ed graduation exercises Wed nesday morning of the 87th ses sion of the FBI National Aca demy at FBI National Head quarters in Washington, D.C. Andrew Shealy of the New berry Police Department was the only South Carolina gra duate in ceremonies when Pres ident Nixon, Attorney General John Mitchell and FBI Direc tor J. E. Hoover spoke. Participants in the program were from virtually every state in the union and foreign coun tries. Congressman Dorn praised Shealy on the succesful com pletion of his attendance at the FBI Academy, a three month program in which students in crease their proficiency in their respective professional law en forcement field. Congressman Dorn said, “This is a high ho nor for Mr. Shealy personally for the Newberry Police De partment and for our state.”