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Vol. 35—No. 40 Newberry, S. C. 29108, Thursday, January 27, 1972 $3.00 PER YEAR Georgia-Pacific sets plant Bloodmobile here Monday Give LIFE to a Neighbor on Monday, January 31, 1972 be tween the hours of 2:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. by giving a pint of blood when the Red Cross Bloodmobile will visit Lewis Memorial United Methodist Church in honor of Ron Ro bertson. Ron, who is a hemophiliac, is the four-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Robertson. Won’t you please give “LIFE”? Countians may get school aid Newberry, Mid-Carolina, or Whitmire High School seniors who enter Newberry College as a freshman in September may be entitled to a $400 tuition scholarship, according to Jas. C. Abrams, director of admis sions and registrar at New berry. “A student must reside in Newberry County, graduate from one of the County’s three high schools in the 1972, rank in the top 50 percent of his gra duating class, have a minimum combined score of 800 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test, and be admitted to next year’s fresh man class to qualify for the financial aid,” Abrams said. Students should apply for the scholarship through the Office of the Director of Admissions in Holland Hall as soon as pos sible. The scholarships for the 1972- 73 school year are similar to the ones received by Newberry County residents this year, the County scholarship program was announced for the first time in May of 1971. The scholarships are limited to freshman students only be cause funds are not now avail able to include students from all four classes. “Many of our present students from the county,” Abrams said, “are already receiving and will continue to receive financial aid through scholarships for county residents such as the Caldwell, Kendall, and Regnery scholar ships.” If students need addi tional aid in order to attend Newberry College, they should apply to E. D. Heyler, Director of Financial Aid. Such aid may include National Defense Stu dent Loans, Federal Education al Opportunity Grants, or fed eral and college work study aid Lumber firm studies addition Consideration is being given to the construction of a new log-handling facility and to mo dernization and enlargement of the existing sawmill from ap proximately 12 million board feet to 30 million board feet of Southwest Forest Industries Newberry Division at New berry, South Carolina, accord ing to M. B. Doyle, executive vice president and head of the company’s Building Products Group. Doyle said the contemplated expansion would include the construction of a com plete whole-log timber proces sing facility permitting maxi mum utilization of all timber sizes. The proposed new log system would have the capabi lity to chip up to 100,000 cords of pulpwood annually. This new phase in' the New berry Division’s expansion pro gram to significantly modernize its facilities follows improve ments made last year which (C°ntinued on Page 8) Plans for construction of a modem chipping headrig South ern pine sawmill in Newberry County were announced Thurs day in a joint statement by Georgia-Pacific Corp. and the Newberry County Development Board. The joint statement came from H. S. Mersereau, vice president in charge of G-P’s southern di- Senn Trucking holds safety 1 l * Senn Trucking Company of Newberry held its first Safety Awards dinner at Newberry Inn last Saturday. Although a- wards have been made for a number of years to safe driv ers this is the first time that a special observance has been held to recognize outstanding performance of truck operators. Billy Senn, vice president and secretary of the firm said it is planned that the dinner be an annual event. Leonard Hall, assistant safe ty director for the compant pre sented serivce awards to the following with the number of years safe driving following the names: Willie L. Copeland, 7 years; Edgar B. Shope, 5; L. G. Allen, 3; Hoyt A. Cro mer, 3; John R. Davis, 3; Tho mas Epps, 3; Anthony Hender son, 3; D. L. Williams, 3. L. R. Oswals was recogniz ed for 2 years safe driving, and Johnny Scurry, 4 years. One year safe drivers were Donald J. Duncan, Ulysses Gall- man, and William F. Hitt. Angus D. Senn is president of the Newberry County firm which operates trucks through out the eastern seaboard. vision and David W. Morison, executive director of the Coun ty Development Board. The sawmill will directly em ploy approximately 100 persons and an additional 75 to 100 men will be employed in logging op erations, Mersereau said. The annual payroll will be approxi mately $1 million. Annual lumber capacity for Newberry County in coopera tion with the Exchange Club of Newberry will observe Crime Prevention Week during the pe riod February 6-12. A number of activities have been planned by the club and the mill will be 36 million bd. ft., plus 150,000 tons of green wood chips for sale to area paper mills and 19,000 tons of dry shavings and sawdust which will be shipped to G-P’s Rus sellville particleboard plant ac cording to the G-P executive. “The Newberry County saw mill will bring G-P’s total capi tal investment in South Caro lina to over $90 million with an annual payroll in the State of more than $16 million,” Mori son said. According to Mersereau, con struction on the mill will begin later this month with startup scheduled for early 1973. The new mill will stress total utilization of the Southern pine log and will include an “ela borate, electronically controlled boiler system that will virtual ly eliminate smoke emissions,” Mersereau said. Morison said the mill will generate approximately $3 mil lion annually for the local econ omy in the form of payrolls and expenditures by G-P for raw materials and supplies. CHRISTMAS SEAL. REPORT GIVEN The eleventh report of the Christmas Seal Campaign thru’ January 14 is $354,798. This is 86.1 percent of the South Caro lina Tuberculosis and Respira tory Disease Association’s 1970 Campaign and is compared with $371,586 for January 15, 1971. W. Harold Koon, Program Di rector, with the Area Six Office of SCTBRDA said the eleventh report was not available at this time for Area Six. law enforcement authorities be ginning with the signing of a proclamation by Mayor C. A. Shealy Jr. calling on the citi zens to participate in activities of the week. John Campbell of the New- Mayors cite municipal difficulties Mayors from towns in New berry County gathered Tues day evening at the Newberry City council chambers to bring to the publics attention pro blems of the towns and coun ties in the state regarding fund ing for county and municipal services. Mayor C. A. Shealy Jr. of Newberry, was modera tor for the session. Shealy pointed out that towns and counties were in a finan cial plight and additional funds are needed from state sources to relieve the condition. He said cities and towns in South Caro lina play “second fiddle” to every other taxing authority and shared revenues and re bates from counties with cities and towns in most of our coun ties in this state run from limit ed to non-existent. Shealy stated that “many of our problems are strictly fi nancial and could be greatly helped by revenue sharing and proportionate allocations or re bates on the state and county level.” He said some 42 per cent of the cities in this state ran a deficit in their budgets last year. The Legislative and Execu tive Committee of the S.C. Mu nicipal Association has outlined a proposed legislative program to be presented the General As sembly during the current ses sion. Most proposals point to increased revenues for the cit ies from state income. berry Police Department and member of the Exchange Club is chairman for the week’s pro gram. On Feb. 8 two programs will be held at Gallman Junior High School. Representatives from the State Board of Education will present programs on drug abuse at 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. The same program will be pre sented at Mid-Carolina High School at 10:45 a.m. On Feb. 10 the lecture will be given at Whitmire High School at 10:15 a.m. and at Newberry High School at 1:45 p.m. by the team on drug abuse. The Hub Theatre is assist ing in the observance with a free movie entitled “It Takes a Lot of Help”. The program begins at 6 p.m. and lasts about one hour and fifteen minutes. Joe Hodge of the College of Pharmacy of the Medical Col lege of South Carolina, will be in charge. Again on Feb. 10, Philip En- low of the FBI will be in charge of a film at The Hub Theatre. Subject of the showing will be drug abuse. Mr. Enlow will be on hand to answer questions and speak on the drug problem. The public is invited to partici pate in these programs and there is no admission charge at either showing. CRIME PREVENTION—“CRIME, Don’t Let It Happen” is the 1972 theme for Crime Prevention Week in Newber ry sponsored by the Exchange Club of Newberry. Several programs will be given during the week in area schools. At left is John Campbell, Crime Prevention Week Chair man for the Exchange Club; Mayor C. A. Shealy, Jr., signing proclamation, as Chief of Police Ray Schumpert approves the proceedings. (Sunphoto) AUTOMATED SAWMILU-Shown above is the Resaw operation of Georgia-Pacific Company which will locate in Newberry County. The machine shown at the bottom of the picture converts logs into two by fours for the building industry. The plant start-up is planned for early 1973 and will employ approximately 100 men when opera tions begin. Crime Prevention Activities Planned