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Allowance upped for coroner travel The Newberry County Council Monday signed a resolution to appropriate $20,326.25 from the general funds to balance all ac counts for the fiscal year just ended. Council Chairman Carman Bouknight noted that the county ran over its budget by this amount. Bouknight noting that the figure is relatively small, said that in its first year of operations, he believes the coun cil came up with a good budget. In other business council vot ed to allot an additional $580 during the 1972-73 fiscal year to Coroner George R. Summer for travel expenses. Council had set up $420 in travel expenses for the coroner in its recently adopt ed budget. Council received a request from Summer that the amount be raised to $1,000. Council will use money set up for the travel allowance for the 5th councilman to cover the ad ditional amount. Presently only four members are serving on the council, since the death of one of the members. A replace ment for the fifth seat will not take office until next year. Council noted that the S. C. Pollution Control Authority has asked that citizens of the coun ty be reminded that no one is permitted to burn trash in ac cordance with state laws of the State of South Carolina. Council signed claims for county bills for supplies and material used for the month of July totaling $88,509.35. This in cludes $60,288.80 for a new bull dozer which will be used at the sanitary landfill. Council voted funds set up in its budget for the advertisement of future items of public infor mation on the air as well as in the newspapers. Magistrate Oscar Zobel asked for $50 to employ an attorney for an upcoming indigent case in magistrate’s court. A recent Supreme Court decision makes it mandatory for defendants to have the opportunity for coun sel. Zobel said that Public Defen der Richard Kenan is not set up to handle these added dut ies. Council approved the re quest. College football tickets on sale Season and individual game football tickets for the 1972 gri diron campaign at Newberry College are now on sale to the general public according to Harry Hedgepath, the execu tive secretary of the Indian Club, the College’s sports boost er organization. Indian Club members have been able to purchase tickets since July 1. Tickets for the six home games may be purchased for $21; individual game tickets may be purchased for $4 for adults and $2.25 for students. “Ticket sales to Indian Club members have been better than ever,” Hedgepath declared, but he added, “with the 700 addi tional seats in Setzler Field, Newberry’s football fans can still purchase good tickets for the games.” Tickets may be purchased by writing to Hedgepath at New berry College or visiting the Indian Club Office in Wright Hall on the cmapus. Newberry’s head football coach Fred Herren expects 65 athletes to report for practice on August 22 with a two-a-day practice sessions beginning the following day. The first home game is scheduled for Septem ber 9 against Emory and Henry of Emory, Va. Vol. 36—No. 11 Newberry, S. C. 29108, Thursday, August 17, 1972 City agrees to dismantle jail for Nance St. project Keel named to education post Halfacre named state manager Thomas Randall Halfacre has been named Assistant Account ing Manager for the State Bud get and Control Board Division of General Services, Columbia. He jointed the division as an accountant in February of 1971 and served in that capacity un til being named to his present position. A Newberry native he grad uated from Newberry High in 1966, and earned a B. S. Degree in Business Management from the University of South Carolina in 1970. Randy the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Half acre of Newberry, is married to the former Angela Simkins, Green ville. They reside at 2213 Apple Valley Road, Columbia. Registration for kindergarten set William R. Lominick, princi pal of the Pomaria Elementary School, announces another re gistration day for kindergarten students in the Pomaria and Garmany areas. Registration will be held between hours of 8 a.m. and noon on Friday at Pomaria Elementary School. It is expected that transportation will be furnished for both ses sions of kindergarten classes. Parents are urged to enroll their kindergartners on Friday. Boys football Any boy 9 through 12 years of age as of November 1 who wishes to play football with the Recreation Department may start registering now at the Re creation Department office on College Street. A check up from a doctor will be necessary. Prac tice will begin Monday August 28 at Speers St. field. Anyone wishing to help coach please contact the Recreation Department on College St. or call 276-4856. The City of Newberry agreed to take responsibility for demol ishing the Newberry County jail in regular council meeting Tues day night. Disposition of the county jail is said to be the hold-up on letting contracts for the proposed Nance Street pro ject. When completed Nance St. will become a four-lane street from by-pass 121 through the city. Parts of Nance will be re routed to go through the land now occupied by the jail. City Manager K. W. Riebe told council he expected the building would be removed with little or no expense to the city. However council authorized an expenditure of up to $1,000 if needed. The city agreed to not ify the State Highway Depart ment when the demolition con tract is let in order that plan ning could go ahead on the pro ject. Mayor C. A. Shealy, Jr. pre sented certificates at the begin ning of the session to Thompson Boyd Franklin and Boyce Lively for completion of a course of training in basic law enforce ment. The certificates were made available by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Training Council. Approval was given to an ordinance making it unlawful for any resident to operate any mot or vehicle on the streets of Newberry unless property taxes due the city are paid. Manager Riebe reported on letters received relative to the showing of movies all day on Sunday in the city. State code for cities this size to be shown allows the showing of movies between the hours of 2—7 and 9—12 p.m. Council is having an ordinance drawn to replace tne present one to comply with the State Code. Discussion was held relative to rezoning of property on Nance Street which included the Borden plant property, Kirk Pontiac-Cadillac Co. and two lots adjacent to the Kirk pro perty on Nance Street. A puc- lic hearing was held and the planning commission recom mended rezoning the Borden property- to industrial and the Kirk property remain commer cial. The two lots referred to were recommended to remain residential. Council, however, decided to rezone these lots as commercial lots. First reading was held on up dating ordinances concerning the Gas Code, Plumbing Code and Building Code. Council authorized Manager Riebe to direct a letter to the County Administrator W. W. (Continued on Page 8) City recreation day is Friday The Citywide Recreation Day will be held on Friday August 18, 9 A.M. until 1 P.M. for field events and lunch at Speers St. field. The Margaret Hunter and McSwain St. pools will be open for free swimming from 1 P.M. until 6 P.M. L. Douglas Keel, former prin cipal of Boundary Street Elem entary School in Newberry, has been named an elementary ed ucation supervisor for the South Carolina Department of Educa tion. State Superintendent of Edu cation Cyril B. Busbee said Keel will work with chief elementary supervisoi Joel Taylor and his staff assigned to help school dis tricts improve instructional pro grams in elementary schools. Keel, 29, graduated from Bam berg High School. He received his bachelor’s degree from New berry College and his Master’s degree from Western Carolina University. He is 1972-73 president of the Newberry College Indian Club. Keel taught at Buford schools in Lancaster and served as a teacher and administrator at Edisto Schools in Cordova be fore being appointed principal of Boundary Street. He was the principal at Boundary for the past three years. Wildlife food plot planting has already begun on Champion InternationaTs 205,000 acres recently put into the South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Department’s game management area program. Opened to public hunting this season, Champion’s tracts are mostly found in the Central Piedmont Hunt Unit north of Columbia. Oct to observe opera tions are (from left to right) James W. Webb, department executive director, Donald C. Powell, president of Champion’s Timberland Division and Clyde A. EHz- roth, Wildlife-Marine Commission chair man. (SCWMRD photo by Ted Borg.)