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UNITED WAY CAMPAIGN IN COUNTY BEGUN The United Way fund cam paign got underway Monday morning with a breakfast for workers at Newberry Inn Res taurant. Announced goal for the 1972 drive is $46,103 to be apportion ed among 17 agencies serving the country and state. G. Robert (Bob) Hawkins is 1972 campaign chairman with Herschel A. Kemper serving as campaign coordinator. The commercial phase is un der the direction of Robert E. Summer, and industries will come under the committee head ed by Bill Smith. Other section leaders are Ken Riebe, public employees; Hu bert Bedenbaugh, schools; Ri chard (Dick) Kenan, professio nal; Steve Sligh, financial; Tom Leitzsey, eastern section, out lying, and Mrs. Dot Carter, re sidential. During the breakfast hour, Jim Rowe, executive secretary of the State United Way orga nization addressed the meeting and showed a film relative to the campaign. Agencies served by the Unit ed Way are American Red Cross (Newberry Chapter), Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Congaree Girl Scout Area Council, Re tarded Children, Newberry County Memorial Hospital, New berry County Mental Health Association, Newberry and Prosperity Rescue Squads, New berry County Council on Aging, Salvation Army, Alston Wilkes Society, S. C. Mental Health Association, National Associa tion of Hearing and Speech, U. S. 0., and S. C. Literary Association. Water authority gets use rate The Newberry County Water Authority, after many months of frustration in getting a source of water and a wholesale rate for the purchase of water from the City of Newberry, last Tues day night accepted a proposal from the city to buy water at one and one-half the cost to the largest commercial user of the city. This would be at the rate of 30 cents per 1,000 gal lons at any location on the sys tem the authority wishes to draw water for county use. It is proposed that the ser vice will be used in the Silver- street and Pomaria areas at the outset. Vol. 36-No. 18 Newberry, S. C. 29108, Thursday, October 5,1972 S3.OO PER YEAR UNITED WAY BREAKFAST-Heading the 1972 United Way fund campaign is G. Robert Hawkins, right, shown with other officials, from left Jim Rowe, executive secretary. United Way, Columbia; Her schel Kemper, campaign coordinator; and Robert T. Brown, UW president. The campaign goal is $46,- 103. (Sunphoto) County revenue share is $627,185 Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC) announced allocation of 1972 funds in South Carolina under the Revenue Sharing Act which is expected to pass be fore Congress adjourns next month. House and Senate Conferees recently agreed on the bill which will provide $81.5 million to South Carolina this year. Newberry County will receive $627,185. Of this amount the county government will receive $357,500; all cities over 2500 will receive a total of $158,000; and all cities under 2500 will receive a total of $111,685. Shakespeare to expand Seek entries for parade Individuals or organizations interested in sponsoring non commercial floats in the New berry Christmas parade, are asked to contact one of the committee members listed be low not later than November 1st: Jim Parr at telephone 276- 0811, Graham Purkerson, 276- 3871, Marvin Rucker, 276-1110, or H. E. Wessinger at 276-5320. The Shakespeare Company . has announced plans for an ex pansion of their manufacturing plant located in Newberry. The expansion, plant officials say, will double the manufac turing and warehouse facilities. Construction will start imme diately and is expected to be complete in seven to eight months. Plant officials indicate that further details will be made available later. The Shakespeare facility in Newberry began its operations in early August of 1965 in its new $1.5 million plant on High way 76 north. In October of 1965 the plant expanded to a second shift operation. The plant was opened under the name of C-P Corporation, a division of the Columbia Pro ducts Co. of Columbia, and la ter the name was changed to Shakespeare. The plant in Newberry pro duces the company’s line of standard and marine antennas, made of fibergalss, and the company's complete line of pole hardware, all fiberglass pro ducts which are used by the electric utility companies throughout the nation. Bauer speaker for 2 lectures A veteran of over 30 years of U. S. Government Service, Robert Bauer, will address the Newberry College community in two lectures on Oct. 11 and Oct. 12. He will talk to the students and faculty at a public lecture on “Student Movements and Unrest: A Worldwide Survey” at 9:25 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, in the Wiles Chapel on the cam pus; he will also speak on Oct. 11 to political science classes on “American Foreign Policy in the 20th Century.” Bauer was recently appoint ed the Director of the Public Affairs Conference Center and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Kenyon College in Ohio. He is also a cultural con sultant to the U. S. Information Agency and the U. S. represen tative of the Organization for International Economic Rela tions. Among his assignments dur ing his 30 years with the gov ernment were Chief of the Euro pean Division of the Voice of America; Counselor for Public Affairs, Cairo, Egypt; and Cul tural Attache and International Relations Specialists at the American Embassy in New Del hi, India. Common pleas court convenes here Oct. 16 Judge Wade S. Weatherford Jr. of Gaffney, will preside over the October term of Court of Common Pleas (civil) which convenes at Newberry Court House Monday, October 16. Jurors were drawn Wednes day morning to serve this term. They are to report to the court room at 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 16. They are: Neomi W. Rhodes, Cleavous O. Holman, Bobby E. Metts, Woodrow Wilson, Virginia R. Watts, Christine H. Richardson, William P. Mabry, Wiss W. Moates, George T. Riggins, Sr., Vera H. Turner, Jon E. Dickert, Mozell D. Wilson. Also Ann L. Ringer, Claude B. Suber, Fred E. Weathers, Otis K. Shealy, Mary Ellen Epps, Johnny L. Metze, Eve- rette L. Metts, John G. Haile, J. Cloyd Chapman, Robert C. Bedenbaugh, William P. Kun- kle, Paul K. Franklin. Also Daphine Haltiwanger, Evelyn S. Wicker, June H. Stepp, Robert L. Forbis, Em- mory C. Simmons, Sr., Mary B. Hawkins, Malcolm L. Kibler, Winifred S. Stockman. Also Brenda K. Lester, Cathe rine S. Hayes, Kenneth R. Long, Mildred C. Wicker, Bonita D. Kinard, Herman G. Stockman, James L. Waters, and Henry W. Lominick. The following jurors were transferred from the June term of Common Pleas Court: Larry A. Creekmore, Gene K. Shealy, Louise W. Daniel son, and G n orge G. Felker. P. 0. be closed Day The Newberry post office will be closed Monday, October 9, 1972, in observance of Colum bus Day. There will be no de livery of mail by city or rural carriers. Holiday schedules for the receipt, dispatch and collec tion of mail will be observed. Ina Marie Gumbel, a student at Newberry College from Kassel, West Germany, was honored recently at a reception at the home of Dr. __—_ an( l Mrs. Fredric B. Irvin. During the reception she had an oppor- OPEN HEADQUARTERS-Newberry County Republicans opened their campaign headquarters last tunity to meet faculty and staff members including Dr. Karlheinz week at Newberry Shopping Center. A feature of the occasion was a skydiving act by Woodrow Binnic- B ra ndes, associate professor of chemistry, who is a native of West ker who landed with the scissors for the ribbon cutting ceremony. He is shown with parachute harness Germany. After receiving his education at German Universities, Dr. among the crowd witnessing the event. On the platform is Bobby Dawkins, left, and Ronnie Hightower Brandes came to the United States to study at Tulane University who presided over the opening. (Sunphoto) before joining the Newberry staff in 1968.