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Vol. 36-No. 17 Newberry, S. C. 29108, Thursday, September 28, 1972 $3.00 PER YEAR County adopts insurance plan for employees County Council Tuesday adopted Plan two state insu rance coverage of Blue Cross- Blue Shield. The plan will cost the county $1,106.68 per month. Joe Clark, enrollment repre sentative for the company, re ported that the company has 104 contracts with employees of Newberry County, and 34 of these are family contracts. The family plan will cost the individual employee $14.92 per month, including life insurance. In other business, council set a public hearing for 2 p.m. Oct. 12 in council chambers to hear comments on proposed sub division regulations and on the issuance of county road bonds totaling $1 million. Council ex pects to give first reading to both ordinances at this meeting. Council authorized the Cen tral Midlands Planning Council to make a reconnaissance sur vey of Newberry County in or der to satisfy requirements of the Department of Housing and Urban Development for grant applications. A1 Harvey, of the planning council, said the survey will re port on how far the local com munity has progressed in its economy and what direction fu ture development is expected to take. Harvey said the survey will be done in conjunction with the planning commission. Council’s action was a formal ity required before the survey can be conducted. It does not involve county funds. Council signed documents completing execution of indus trial bonds for Damon Creations Inc., which is building a plant in Newberry. City council Tuesday voted to sell water to the Newberry Coun ty Water and Sewer Authority at a rate of one-and-a-half times of the rate charged inside the city. The council took action based on the recommendation of the city’s engineering consultants, B. P. Barber and Associates of Columbia. The rate which will be charged the county au thority is the same rate the city now charges industrial cus tomers outside the city. Under the present rate sche dule, this would be 30 cents per 100 cu. ft. The council, by its vote, has committed itself not to raise RECEIVES PLACQUE—Eugene Griffith, left, receives a placque from the Jolly Street community for his family’s contribution to the history of the rural area. Otis Kinard, president of the Jolly Street Community Center in awarding the recognition read the in scription, “In appreciation to Eugene C. Griffith for outstanding and and dedicated service to the Jolly Street Community Center.” (Sunphoto) the . rates charged to the autho rity unless it also raised the city rates proportionately. But the city’s engineers re commended to council that the city do just that. Harold S. Wrenn, president of the firm, presented a proposed schedule for raising both the city’s wat er and sewer rates, and recom mended that the proposed in creases go into effect no later than Jan. 1. Council voted Tuesday to pass on to the city’s customers a 10 percent of a rate increase which Duke Power Co. is charg ing the city. Wholesale cost of electricity to the city increased by 12.7 per cent when Duke put its fuel cost adjustment clause in effect in August. The additional 2.7 per cent will be absorbed by the city. In other business, the council approved bids for the construc tion of water and sewer lines to service Damon International. The city had received bids ear lier but considered them too high. Since then, the city has negotiated with bidders and low ered the price bv approximate ly $15,000. The total job cost for the water line is figured at $22,474.- 64, and $6,500 lower than the original bid during the formal bid opening. The work and equipment is to be supplied by Tom Brigman Contractors. The sewer construction cost, also to be done by Brigman, is set at $10,440.09, a figure $8,897.91 lower than the low bid originally. Council accepted a bid of $5,- 200 for a one and a third acre tract of land on Bypass 121. Sub mitting the bid were Edward Cannon and C. Otis Taylor Jr. Council certified candidates of the Republican Party for the City General Election. Republi can party chairman Ronnie Hightower submitted the names of W. Preston McAlhany, I. D. (Rusty) Wilson, and Robert K. (Bob) Cariey. They will be plac ed on the ballot to oppose De mocratic candidates Claude W. Partain, C. T. (Tuffy) Millstead and Dewey Kinard. The City General Election will be held Tuesday, Oct. 31st at the usual voting places. Order of Arrow meeting Sunday The Newberry Chapter of the Order of the Arrow will meet at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Sunday, October 1 at 2 P.M. This is an important meeting and all members are urged to be present. Officers will be elected and plans will be made for the lodge meeting at Camp Old Indian. Newberry-Saluda Fair opens for one week play Fair, warm days, and cool nights are a sure sign fair time is near. And the Newberry- Saluda fair gets underway Mon day when the gates open at 7:30 a.m. Official opening is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. with Blue Ribbon Shows on the mid way. The fair will continue through Saturday night. Thousands of dollars in prize money has been set aside for the various displays, exhibits and livestock shows as well as drawings for cash prizes during the fair. Judging > of all entries will begin Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday have been declared School Days when children will be admitted free to the grounds at 1:00 p.m. each day. Newberry-Saluda County Fair operates under the sponsorship of the American Legion Post No 24. Pete Parrott is mana ger. Serving on the advisory committee are Tom M. Fellers, Ray Hunter and Ed Wicker. Fair committee from Post 24 are Parrott, Beamon Summer, concession; Ray Schumpert, chairman; Gilder Cromer, exhi bit buildings; Alvin Jackson, treasurer, and Gene Richardson, cattle. LOCAL ARTISTS-Art classes are now underway at the Powerhouse Art Building near the Newberry water plant. A few vacancies exist in the fall art classes. Handmade pottery and sculpture classes will be taught Tuesday mornings from 10-12 by Genell Boozer. Edith Pikus teaches oil painting for beginners Monday and Tuesday evenings. There are vacancies in the Tuesday class from 7-9 p.m. Elsie Jenkins teaches adult drawing from 7-9 Thursday nights. Members of the Powerhouse Workshop are working on paintings and pottery in preparation for an exhibit and open house to be held at the building Oct. 21. This e^diibit will be open to the public. Information on classes may be had by calling the Newberry Recreation Dept. Shown with projects above from left, are Bernice Sheaiy, Edith Pikus, Genell Boozer and Elsie Jenkins. (Sunphoto) Council ups rate; consider increases UNITED WAY KICKOFF IS S£T MONDAY The annual fund raising cam paign of the United Way, pre viously known as the United Fund of Newberry, kicks off Monday, it was announced Tues day by Robert T. Brown, Pre sident of the Newberry Chapter. G. Robert Hawkins will serve as campaign chairman and H. A. Kemper, as campaign co ordinator. Plans and prelimi nary work has been underway for several weeks to make this year’s campaign a successful one and to reach the goal of $46,103.00. Chairn m of the various di visions have been selected and will be announced next week. Thses chairmen have been busy in organizing each division for the past several days. O. L. Johnson, Jr. is serving as Pu blicity Director. In order to cov er every facet of business and the residential areas of the county, there will be a commer cial, industrial, professional, public employees, educational, financial and residential divi sion. This being a worthwhile com munity project that is a respon sibility of everyone in New- (Continued on Page 8) Newberry High School Cordial editor Judy Hembree and Bill Folk look over the list of seminars at the annual High School Newspaper Day at Newberry College, held on Saturday, Sept. 16.