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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.