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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.
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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.)