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Council discusses code of laws Newberry City Council con ducted a variety of business during the regular monthly meeting in council chambers Tuesday night. A considerable part of the two hour-plus ses sion was taken discussing the proposed new Code of Laws for the city. Adoption of an animal ordinance accounted for the larger part of the discus sion. Due to the controversy surrounding this section, it was deleted, and was scheduled to be taken up at a later time. The balance of the Code, drawn up by the Mickey Publishing Company, was adopted. Mayor C. A. Shealy Jr. pre sented a certificate to Charles Sims, a lineman with the city utilities department for com pletion of 37 months on the job training. This training has been in cooperation with the Veterans Administration. Certificates were also pre sented to Sgts. Terrell L. Sease and Johnnie J. Stribble for completion of a course of train ing for supervisors at the South Carolina Criminal Justice Aca demy. Council dismissed a proposed increase in taxi rates requested by taxi operators in the city. Two operators appeared before council and spoke of the need for the increase. Council deem ed the proposed increases were not properly submitted and Mayor Shealy asked the ope rators to get together with City Manager Ken Riebe to esta blish a rate chart with consi deration to be given at a later meeting of the council. A water problem in the base ment of Belk store, which has plagued the city fathers for a number of years, was again discussed. A letter from Wil bur Smith and Associates stat ed that no city water from storm drains, sewer or any oth er city source was getting into the basement. The engineers said that a number of tests had been made, including put ting dye in the storm sewers, and no evidence links this source with the water accu mulating in Belk’s basement. No further action was taken on this item. First reading was held on a proposed ordinance to annex approximately 13 acres near the intersection of Johnstone St. and U.S. Highway 76 by pass. This area is a residential development, Collinswood Sub division. (Continued on Page 8) Vol. 35—No. 30 Newberry, S. C. 29108, Thursday, November 18, 1971 $3 PER YEAR AGN suggests closing hours At a meeting of the Associa tion for a Greater Newberry Tuesday morning the body dis cussed and recommended the following hours to be observed during the holiday season: Business establishments to be closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day; Beginning Thanksgiving Week store hours will be extended to six p.m. each weeknight in cluding Wednesdays. The sug gestions is for stores to remain open on Friday nights until nine p.m. The suggested hours will re main in effect until after the Christmas holidays. STATE PRESIDENT AT WHITMIRE — Mrs. W. P. Turner, Jr. of Greenwood, Pres ident of the Women’s Auxiliary to the South Carolina Medical Association was guest speaker at the Newberry County Medical Auxiliary held at the home of Mrs. Kemper D. Lake on Monday. Pictur ed with the hostess, Mrs. Lake (left), seated are Mrs. Turner and Mrs. V. W. Rinehart, AMAERF Chairman of the State Auxiliary. Standing are Mrs. James A. Underwood, President of the Newberry Auxiliary and Mrs. Ralph P. Baker who introduced the speaker. P. 0. to close Thanksgiving The Newberry Post Office will be closed Thursday Novem ber 25, 1971 in observance of Thanksgiving. There will be no window ser vice nor delivery of mail by city or rural carriers. Regular holiday lockbox service will be provided. Special Delivery , and Collection Service will be provided on holiday schedules. Holiday schedules for the re ceipt and dispatch of mail will be observed. Air mail and eight cent stamps are available from the stamp machine in the lobby of the post office. Pope elected board chairman college council Thomas H. Pope, Newberry attorney, was recently elected Chairman of the Board of The South Carolina College Council, Inc., an association of sixteen independent colleges. He re places Dr. Marc C. Weersing, President of Presbyterian Col lege, who completed a two-year term. Pope, the first non-educator ever chosen to head the group, will also serve as Chairman of the South Carolina Foundation of Independent Colleges, a com panion group of four-year insti tutions. Other officers elected include AAU women meet Saturday The Newberry Branch of the American Association of Uni versity Women will meet at the home of Dr. Margaret Buck- ley on November 20, at 3:30 p.m. Miss Margaret Paysing- er will be the co-hostess. Mrs. C. M. Smith, Jr. will lead a panel on “We the Peo ple” with several members of the league of women voters as participants. Mrs. Hart Civic League speaker Mrs. Francis M. Hart, pres ident of the Nationally Accre dited Flower Judges Club of South Carolina, will be the fea tured speaker at a meeting of Newberry Civic League at the Community Hall Tuesday, No vember 23, at 3 p.m. She will demonstrate flower arrange* ments using “Flowers and Your Horoscope” as her theme. Mrs. Hart, a native of An derson, is a popular lecturer and a noted authority on gar dening, flower-arranging and flower show practices. This master flower show judge and lecturer-instructor has probab ly won more blue ribbons and been awarded more certificates than any other person in her (Continued on Page 8) Dr. Joseph Sittler, (left), professor of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, led a series of lectures and discussions at Newberry College on Nov. 14, 15, and 16 on the Contemporary Issues in Religion. The Lutheran theologian’s campus appearance was sponsored jointly by Newberry and the Thomas F. Staley Founda tion. Before he spoke on Sunday morning, Dr. Sittler discussed the theme of the series informally with Dr. Fredric B. Irvin and the Rev. Harry Weber, the College’s prsident and the chaplain. James A. Chapman, Jr., Spart anburg, Vice-Chaiman, Gordon W. Blackwell, Greenville, Se cretary-Treasurer and J. Lacy McLean, Greenville, Executive Vice-President. The Council, which conducts a number of cooperative pro grams for the member colleges, is governed by a 57-member Board consisting of college presidents and prominent bu siness and professional leaders. (Continued on Page 8) SUPERVISORS—Johnnie J. Stribble, center, and Ter rell L. Sease, receive Certificates of Completion in a course for supervisors from Mayor C. A. Shealy, Jr, Both Police Sergeants were enrolled in a course of train ing for supervisors at the South Carolina Criminal Jus tice Academy. (Sunphoto)