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Britian, France tour scheduled % January On January 2-25 a tour of Eire, Scotland, England, Wales and three days in Paris will be offered by M. Foster Far ley, Associate Professor of His tory of Newberry College, New berry, South Carolina. The tour will depart from New York and return from Paris for New York. An equal amount of time will be spent in each of the above countries with the last three days spent in Paris. The tour will cost $625.00 and includes round trip from New York back to New York, tips and admis sions to sites, two meals a day and lodging. The tour will concentrate on visiting ancient cathedrals, ab beys, and castles that have/fi gured in the history of the Bri tish Isles. Other sights to be visited is Stonehenge, Blarney Stone, the British Museum, Na tional Gallery, the Louvre and the Palace of Versailles. Anyone interested in going on the tour can contact Pro fessor M. Foster Farley at Newberry Colege. PCA annual meet in Greenwood The Annual Meeting of the Palmetto Production Credit Association has been scheduled for Friday night, November 10, at 7:00 p.m. The meeting is to be held at the American Le gion Home on Calhoun Avenue in Greenwood, according to Dick Suggs, President. Over 300 members and guests are expected, Suggs continued. Mr. Stan Finch, Director of Pu blic Relations and Sales Train ing for Texize Chemicals, Inc., widely known lecturer, public speaker, and author in the field of sales notivation and selling, will be the guest speaker. There will be a short business meet ing following dinner, at which two directors will be elected. In addition, there will be a drawing for several valuable door prizes. Palmetto Production Credit Association serves the short and intermediate term credit needs of both full-time and part-time farmers who live in Greenwood, Aiken, Saluda, Laurens, New berry, Abbeville, Edgefield, & McCormick Counties. Full-time offices are located in Green wood, Aiken, Saluda, Laurens, and Newberry. According to Mr. Suggs, the association’s loan volume has reached al most twelve million dollars, an (Continued on Page 6) Vol. 36-No. 20 Newberry, S. C. 29108, Thursday, Octobe "it 972 Warden Long familiar with forest firefighting Mr. Marion G. Long, Silver- street Warden for the South Carolina State Commission of Forestry, has held this job since 1968. During this time he has been on some very “hot” fires. Warden Long said, “Some years ago Newberry County had only two tractors. On bad fire weather days both tractors were often on fires. If a warden had another fire, it was necessary lor him to fight it with hand tools! We still carry some of these hand tools on the truck because it is often easier to fight a small, low-burning fire with them than it is to unload the tractor. However, we usually get the tractor on the fire line as quickly as possi ble.” Warden Long added, “The use of airplanes in detection of fires and surveillance of large fires has increased con siderably. Often wfien haze, dust and smoke build up, vi sibility from towers is reduced to two miles or less. Under these conditions, the Commis sion rents planes with pilots carrying a Forestry Commis sion observer. A two-way ra dio system on our frequency is used. The observer is in close contact with the towers and our trucks and tractors. Even though the plane may check fires in three or more coun ties, it works out well for they can check an area quickly.” “However,” continued War den Long, “perhaps the most important benefit from the use of planes results on large fires. With their .‘bird’s eye’ view of the fire they can direct the fire boss on the ground to the head of the fire or to break-overs as well as inform the fire boss as to fuels, homes or natural barriers in the path of the fire. On large fires, planes are a big safety factor for they can warn men who are about to be trapped in the fire.” Mr. Long and his wife live on their farm on Route 1, Sil- verstreet. They keep about 15,- 000 layers which, along with Warden long’s fire suppres sion duties, keep them and a hired hand busy. Mr. and Mrs. Long have two children, a daughter who lives in Mon tana and a son at Fort Knox, Kentucky. ‘Messiah’ be sung in Wiles Chapel The Newberry College De partment of Music will join with area church choirs and other singers in presenting Handel’s “Messiah” at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 10, in the Wiles Chapel on the College campus. Dr. Milton W. Moore, head of the Department of Music at Newberry, will conduct the tra ditional oratorio. “We want this to be a com munity effort,” Dr. Moore said, “and hope that all church choirs and others who are interested in singing the Christmas por tion of the “Messiah’ will at tend the scheduled open rehear sals.” The first rehearsal is plan ned for 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22, in the Alumni Music Center on the campus; rehearsals are scheduled for every Sunday afternoon until the performance. FIREMAN OF YEAR-William Felix Livingston, member of Consolidated No. 5 Fire Department, was named Fireman of the Year last Tuesday night at a banquet held at Newberry Fire Department in con nection with National Fire Prevention Week. The award is sponsored by the Exchange Club of New berry. Making the award at left is Capt. Lewis Lee of the Newberry Fire Department and Exchange Club Fire Prevention Chairman and at right, George Summer Exchange president. (Sunphoto) Bradley named nursing home ombudsman A nursing home ombudsman demonstration project, aiming to ferret out and resolve pro blems and complaints for both patients and management, is now underway, William V. Bradley, its director, has an nounced. A program of the South Car olina Commission on Aging, the project is funded in part by the federal Health Services and Mental Health Administration. An “ombudsman” is a gov ernment official designated to receive complaints and sugges tions. Headquarters of the opera tion will be at 1821 Gadsden St. in Columbia. Bradley, state ombudsman, and Mrs. Serena K. Hadwin, assistant state ombudsman, will visit nursing homes and simi lar institutions throughout South Carolina. Mrs. Brenda Truett Derrick, local ombudsman, will concentrate her efforts in the Central Midlands area. Bradley is former business manager of the Methodist Home at Orangeburg. Mrs. Hadwin, a graduate nurse, was former ly employed at Columbia Hos pital, the VA Hospital in Co lumbia, Aurora Center for the Blind, and as an instructor in basic nursing and psychiatric concepts at South Carolina State Hospital. Mrs. Derrick is a former social worker in Spar tanburg, at the S. C. State Hos pital, $3.00 PER YEAR Po closed on Veterans Day The Newberry Post Office will be closed Monday, October 23, 1972 in observance of Veterans Day. There will be no window ser vice nor delivery of mail by city or rural carriers. Lock box service will be provided as will delivery of Special De livery mail. Collection will be on holiday schedule. Air Mail and 8 cents stamps are avail able in the stamp machine in the lobby of the post office. Voting laws be talked at meet of AAU Women The Newberry Branch of the American Association of Uni versity Women will meet at the home of Dr. Margaret Buck- ley with Miss Margaret Pay- singer as co-hostess. Dr. Robert K. Carley of the Newberry College Faculty will lead a discussion on S. C. Vot er registration and S. C. Re gistration Laws as well as the nine S. C. Constitutional Amend ments to be voted on in the November 7 election. Barracks 3032 & Auxiliary meet Newberry County Barracks 3032 and Auxiliary will hold their regular meeting at the American Legion Post 24 home on U. S. Route 76, Sunday, Oc tober 22nd at 3:00 P.M. State issues 800 ii* ■ * The annual Checklist of South Carolina State Publications has been compiled and distributed by The State Library, accord ing to Estellene P. Walker, State Librarian. “Over 800 publications are is sued annually by agencies of State government to keep the public informed on many im portant subjects”, said Miss Walker. “To make these pu blications readily available, we provide this Checklist to all li braries in South Carolina”, she added. Copies of the Checklist are sent to all state libraries throughout the country as well as to the Library of Congress, major out-of-state research li braries and several overseas libraries. These lists are open to the public and may be consulted in library reference departments. Publications listed are available from The State Library on in ter-library loan to public and college libraries. Many of the publications may be purchased directly from the issuing agency.