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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
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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