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Two announce for City Council on Demo, ticket Newberry City Democrats met in convention Thursday night in council chambers to set up ma chinery for the coming city De mocratic primary. The convention set Septem ber fifth as the date for the primary and in the event of a run off, it would be held on September 19th. Incumbent city councilman Claude Partain and former city employee Calvin (Tuffy) Mill- stead have announced for coun cil seats. Candidates may qua lify until noon Monday, July 31th with A. P. (Pete) Parrott, party secretary. Two other seats for couicil are to be filled in the forth coming election. Republican in cumbents C. D. (Pete) Cole man and Preston McAlhany now hold these seats. McAlhany told The Sun Saturday morn ing he plans to offer for re- election. Coleman could not be reached but he has indicated he will not be up for reelection. The Republican convention has not been scheduled, but plans are for it to be held at an early date. Retreat planned at Camp Kinard Newberry College administra tors and alumni leaders are planning a week-end retreat on July 21 and 22 at Camp Kinard to discuss alumni participation in the College’s 1972-73 Annual Fund that formally begins in September, according to D. J. Haigler, Columbia, president of the Newberry College Alum ni Association. During the two-day session the alumni will participate in sessions led by Dr. Fredric B. Irvin, president of the College; Phil Kelly, director of alumni affairs; and William Canine, associate director of develop ment. Three alumni—Clara Shealy Irick, Vance; Dr. Dorothy Brandt, Clinton; and Dr. Frank Kinard, Columbia—will also serve as leaders for a review of the book “To Turn the Tide,” by Paul C. Reinert, president of St. Louis University, which analyzes the fiscal problems facing private education. Camp Kinard, a church camp supported by the South Carolina Synod of the Lutheran Church in America, is located near Leesville. State free of traffic deaths for three days For three consecutive days, there have been no traffic fa talities reported to the State Highway Department, according to the department’s traffic re cords office. July 10, 11, and 12 were traf fic death free, the longest such period since July 1970. During that year, July 21, 22, and 23 had no fatal traffic collisions. During this three-day period the 1972 overall traffic death toll inched closer to the 1971 total. Through midnight July 9, this year’s total was 25 more than for the same period last year. Through midnight of the 12th, that plus total had dropped to 13. Vol. 36-No. 7 Newberry, S. C. 29108, Thursday, July 20, 1972 $3.00 PER YEAR EAGLE AWARD-Scout Clark I. Abrams, member of Boy Scout Troop 66, was presented the Eagle award at the regular meeting of the Newberry Lions Club Tuesday evening. Clark is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carter Abrams, 732 Amelia St. Witnessing the presentation from left are, J. B. Gowan, Lion Club president-elect; Mr. Abrams, Clark, Mrs. Abrams, and R. Wright Cannon, member of the Troop com mittee. (Sunphoto by Martin Armfield) Reservations for dinner open Reservations are still avail able for the retirement dinner on Wednesday, July 19, honor ing B. O. Long, who will retire on August 31 as the Vice-Pre sident for Financial Affairs and Business Management at New berry College. The public dinner and recep tion for the retiring college ad ministrator and his wif is sche duled for 8 p.m., July 19, in the Kaufmann Hall Dining Room on the College campus, accord ing to Phil Kelly, chairman of the planning committee for the event. A 1922 graduate of Newberry, Long joined the College staff in 1940 as the business manager and treasurer; in 1959 he was promoted to vice president. Tickets may be purchased or reservations made by contact ing Kelly at Newberry College. Contracts for road, street t . . . , . being sought resurfacing in county let The State Highway Depart ment has awarded a $257,734 contract for work on several roads in and around Nev/berry and for road work in Whitmire. Davis Moragne Construction Co. Inc. of Columbia was award ed the contract on the basis of the firm’s low bid. A total of five and half miles of roads is included in the contract. The contract calls for grad ing, drainage and bituminous surfacing of four tenths of a mile on Road S-578 on the south side of Whitmire. The road con nects with the end of Gary St. The following work will be done in and around Newberry; a tenth of a mile of Osborne Street between Pope Street and Fair Street will be resurfaced; a tenth of a mile of Road S- 610 (Oak St.) just north of New berry from U. S. 76 to Tember Lane Road will be improved; two tenths of a mile of Road S-613 (Clarendon Rd.) northeast of Newberry will be improved from Airport Road to Pine Cir cle; two miles of Road S-611, about four and a half miles from Newberry, will be resur faced from S. C. 34 to S. C. 219; and on the east side of Newberry, a tenth of a mile of the drive at St. Phillips Lu theran Church (Road S-607) will be improved. Also in Newberry, small sec tions of the following streets and roads, totaling two and four tenths miles, will be resurfaced: Speers Street between Nance Street and Moon Street; Fair and Vincent Street; Leland St between Baxter Street and Reid Street; Miller Street at Fair Street; Epting Street between Cline Street and Fair Street; Mamie Street between Epting Street and Vincent Street; Bouk- night Street between Glen St. and McGravy Street; McIntosh Street between Winnsboro Road and Myrtle Street; Bay Street between McIntosh Street and U. S. 76; Dave Drive and Myrtle Street between Bay Street and Harrington Street; Eleanor St. between Hunt Street and Wise Street; Springhill Drive just to the east of S. C. 121; Turner Street between Main Street and Johnstone Street; Garden Circle Drive just off Lindsay Street; Mayes Street between Glenn Street and Mower Street; and Gallman School Drive between Brantley Street and McSwain Street. Also under this same contract about a tenth of a mile of Senn Street between Main Street and Oneal Street will be resurfaced and equipped with concrete curbs, gutters and sidewalks. John H. Lumpkin, chairman of the board of South Carolina National Corporation, and Wil liam E. Martin, president of The Bank of Berkeley, announc ed today an agreement in prin ciple to merge The Bank of Berkeley into the South Caro lina National Bank. The agreement is subject to the approval by the stockhold ers of both banks, as well as the Comptroller of the Cur rency, U. S. Treasury Depart ment. DRIVE-IN-Mayor Curtis Shealy, of Chapin, and little Miss Jenni Leaphart do the ribbon cutting honors for new drive-in facilities for The Bank of Commerce, Chapin, while Dr. Ronald L. Crawford, Jr., local pharmacist, aboard his three-wheel bicycle, arrives to make the first deposit. Also participating are bank president, Jacob A. Bowers, left, and William H. Leaphart, Jr., vice president, Jenni’s father. Mayor Shealy praised the bank, headquartered in Prosperity, for its two major expansions since opening in Chapin 11 years ago. The bank recently announced new offices in Irmo.