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Hedgepath fire warden for state Community carol service planned by Presbyterians A Community Carol Service is planned for Sunday evening, December 17 at Aveleigh Pres byterian Church. Singers from various church choirs including students of the Newberry County public school music program will join to gether in a service of carols from many lands. The program will be under the direction of Miss Mary Eli zabeth Fowler, organist and choir director at Aveleigh. Miss Anne Roddey, professional sing er and music teacher in the Newberry schools, and Mrs. Gerald Johnson, soloist at Ave leigh and music teacher in the Clinton schools, will assist. Singers will include young peo ple from middle school through high school as well as adults. This is an opportunity for those who enjoy singing to give expression to the wonder, love and joy of Christmas. Congre gational singing of familiar ca rols will be included. Wentz speaker for series to begin Sunday Dr. Frederick K. Wentz, pre sident of the Hamma School of Theology at Wittenburg Univer sity at Springfield, Ohio, will speak four times at Newberry College on October 29, 30, and 31 and will also lead several informal discussions in the classrooms. The Lutheran theologian will appear at the College under the joint sponsorship of the Col lege’s Department of Religion and Philosophy and the Tho mas F. Staley Foundation’s Dis tinguished Christian Scholar Lecture Series. The theme for Dr. Wentz’s lectures and discussions at New berry is “Where Does Freedom Fit?’ His first campus appea rance will be at the regular 11:15 a.m. worship services Sunday, Oct. 29, in Wiles Cha pel when he will speak on “Freedom: Who Wants It?” He will speak again on Sun day at 7:30 p.m. When he ad dresses a joint Reformative Day Service of the Newberry District of the Lutheran church in American on the subject of “Liberation and Reformation.” Dr. Wentz will also speak at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 30 in the Lecture Hall of the Science and Mathematics Building; his final public address is planned for 9:25 Tuesday in the Wiles Chapel. Mr. Tommy Hedgepath is the warden for the Whitmire War den District. Besides his work as a warden for the S. C. State Commission of Forestry, Tom my operates a small engines repair shop. Tommy said, “The duties of a warden work in well with my operation of the shop. When one of the towers spots a fire in my district, I close the shop and leave immediately for the fire. My shop work is greatest during late spring and summer months when few fires occur. During the winter and early spring months when most fires occur, work in the shop is usual ly a little slow.” The wardens operate crawler tractors pulling fire plows. Tommy said, “During the win ter and spring months the trac tors are usually used enough to keep all systems operating properly. In the summer when few fires occur, it is often neces sary to ‘exercise’ the tractor for about a half hour each week.” Warden Hedgepath added, “Since no service stations have grease equipment to fit the fit tings on our tractors, we grease them ourselves using hand ope rated grease guns. We do what we can to help these trac tors hold up under the rough condition in which they ope rate. However, when a truck or tractor needs major work, we take it to the Newberry District Repair Shop. The two district mechanics usually make the repairs quickly so the equipment can be returned to service.” Warden Hedgepath continued, “When we have major repair often the equipment must go to the Central Repair Shop near Columbia where they have the necessary equipment and know how to do these jobs.” Tommy concluded, “Repairs to our radios are made by the radio repairman located at the Newberry District Repair Shop. Except for installations, it is not usually necessary to take the truck and tractor to the repair shop for the radio re pairman makes checks on the radios periodically at their re gular standby stations. Anything that checks out weak is re- Dr. Truesdell is MH speaker Twenty-three Mental Health Pioneers who gave leadership to one or both parent organi zations of the South Carolina Mental Health Association will be honored at SCMHA’s Annual Meeting on Thursday, Novem ber 2, at 7 P.M. at the Town House Motor Inn, Columbia. According to Dr. J. 0. Kemp- son, awards chairman, the pa rent organizations were the South Carolina Society for Men tal Hygiene (1927-48) and the S. C. Mental and Social Hygiene Society (1948-54). Following a brief history of the two Societies by Dr. Neil Truesdell of Newberry, Thomas E. McCutchen of Columbia, former president of SCMHA, will make presentations to pio neers of the organizations. Also presented during the re cognition banquet will be SCMHA’s Distinguished Ser vice Award, its organization award, and certificates to coun ty Mental Health Chapters which have excelled in various projects and categories. Education Week being observed Ne w b e r r y County public schools will observe American Education Week, October 22-28. The observance’s theme is “Make Education Top Prior ity.” American Education Week has been observed annually since 1921 to encourage local citizen support and active par ticipation in the improvement of education. This year’s pro gram will stress the impor tance of giving education the priority it deserves both in Newberry Mills pledges 100% in UW drive With one more week still re maining of the United Way campaign (Newberry County United Fund), the employees of Newberry Mills, Inc. have completed their solicitation and have come up with exceedingly outstanding results. As a mat ter of fact, L. E. Gatlin, Jr., General Manager of Newberry Mills, Inc. was advised that all past records have been broken. Not only have all employees of the plant responsed 100 per cent but over $3,100.00 has been pledged to this very worthwhile cause. This is an increase of more than $400 over last years’ contributions. In the past Newberry Mills, Inc. employees have contributed 100 percent to the United Way however their contributions this year of a days pay per employee has far exceeded the past years. This is a record not equaled by another industry in the coun ty, and a record of which New berry Mills, Inc. is extremely proud. Farm Bureau sets annual meeting Farm Bureau’s annual meet ing this coming Saturday even ing at Newberry High School is expected to attract 600 or more farm family members as it gets underway at 6:00 o’clock with a turkey stew, according to Harold Pitts, President. Featured as special guests from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. will be The Ivory Keys of Saluda Coun ty, known widely for their en tertainment with organ and pia no selections. At 7:30 o’clock, a brief bu- (Continuea on page 10) placed so we do not have many ARCHITECT’S DRAWING PRESENTED-United States Sen. Strom Thurmond was presented an archi tect’s drawing of the Newberry Housing Project currently under construction during a brief ceremony Monday afternoon at Newberry City Council Chambers. Above are, first row, left to right, Bobby Lyles of Lyles, Bissett, Wolff and Carlisle, project architects; Dr. John Clarkson, chairman of the Newberry Housing Authority; and Sen. Thurmond. Standing, Dr. J. E. Grant, Clarence Chick, W. W. Hursey and Keitt Purcell, all members of the Housing Authority. (Sunphoto)