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Banquet honors areascouters Dewey Kinard was recogniz ed with a special award for fifty years in Scouting last Thursday night at the annual District Awards banquet at Newberry Armory. Other awards went to G. Carter Abrams, Rudolph Cald well, and Alvin Moore, Pros perity, for distinguished service to Scouting. Caldwell was nam ed “District Scouter for 1972”. He served as vice chairman of Newberry District with Chair man Deward Brittain. Abrams, Scoutmaster of Troop 66 was named “Scoutmaster of the Year.” Moore was named “Cubmast- er of the Year” for his work with Cub Pack 349 which is sponsored by Macedonia Luthe ran Church. The executive committee of the Newberry district selects outstanding scouters for the year. Retiring chairman Deward Brittain was cited for his ser vice to the district the past year. Special awards, in addition to Kinard’s, went to Rev. Paul Hatch and Rev. Bill Stone for serving as leaders to the Phil- mont Expedition to New Mexi co. Ernest Pittman, Blue Ridge Council representative, install ed officers to serve during the coming year. They are: A1 Funderburk, District Chairman; Rudolph Caldwell, vice chair man; Joe Baker, district com missioner; James H. Davis, safety committee chariman; Joe Poole, organizational and - extension committee chairman; Fred Byrd, training chairman; and Ray Lominack, Explorer post advisor. James F. Coggins served as master of ceremonies for the banquet. Bloodmobile seek 150 pints A goal of 150 pints of blood to be given by Newberry Col lege students and Newberry area residents has been set for the visit of the South Carolina Red Cross Bloodmobile at the College on Monday, Nov. 27. The Bloodmobile will be at MacLean Gymnasium on the College campus from 12:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Although the visit is sponsor ed by the six social fraterni ties and sororities at Newberry College, Chaplain Harry Weber, the coordinator for the project, said, “It is a community-wide project, and we urge that all adults between the ages of 18 and 66 who are physically able to do so, to give a pint of blood on November 27.” Persons between the ages of 18 and 21 no longer need pa rental permission to give blood; however; Vietnam veterans must wait for three years after their return from Southeast Asia before they donate blood. “We are proud that the Greek organizations at Newberry Col lege are taking the lead in sponsoring and organizing this community service project,” Chaplain Weber said, “too many times the fraternities and so rorities are criticized for being involved only in social ac tivities. The November 27 visit by the Bloodmobile will be the fourth visit in recent years to the Col lege campus; the last visit was on March 13. As Americans throughout the nation pause this Thanksgiving Day to give thanks for the abundance with which we have been bessed, many minds will turn to those long and difficult winters endured by the Pil grims of Plymouth Colony. Vividly recalling history les sons, most Americans picture Plymouth Colony Governor Bradford’s proclaimed day of thanks being celebrated in 1621. Most of us believe that was the occasion which spawned Thanksgiving Day as we now know it. Not true, and a close historical examination reveals why. Although Governor Bradford did direct that day set aside as a day of thanks to be given, America did not observe Thanksgiving as a holiday un til 1863. That year journalist and editor Sara J. Hale suc ceeded in her persistent urg- ings to persuade President Lin coln to proclaim Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday. And, it wasn’t until 1941 that an Act of Congress marked the fourth Thursday of every November as the day. FOUNDERS OF CIVIIZATION But, scholarly studies have indicated that days of thanks stem from ancient times. No doubt from the time man first embarked on farming and cul tivated his own fields, he has probably celebrated a “thanks giving” of sorts. That early New England statesman, Daniel Webster, once said “When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.” Webster’s comments about farmers then are just as accurate today. In an age, though, when most Americans live in cities and sur- burban developments that have replaced farmlands, many peo ple have forgotten where their food supply originates. Little thought is given to the farmers and the efforts that go into producing the vast supply of top quality foods that are set before us daily. Foods come pre-cooked, pack aged, freeze dried, frozen, can ned and in a multitude of other forms that require special handling after they leave the farm and before they reach the table. Despite all this middle man work made necessary by the demands of today’s consum ers, the farmer still bears the burnt of “high” food price cri ticisms. THE GOOD OLD DAYS While many persons fondly reflect to the “good old days” of lower food costs, they fail to recognize that incomes have risen at a more accelerated rate. Kenneth F. Thompson, president of Sperry Rand Cor poration’s Sperry New Holland farm equipment division, one of the world’s leading agricul tural machinery manufacturers, cites several examples. “In 1940,” says Thompson, “an hour’s factory work could purchase 1.8 lbs. of round steak, while today the same amount of time purhcases 2.6 lbs. And thirty years ago, 5.1 qts. of milk could be purchased for the wages an average factor worker earned in an hour; to day he can buy 10.6 qts.” But despite examples such as these, many Americans con tinue to level an accusing finger at the farmer for higher food prices. While prices have risen, the fact remains, according to Thompson, that farmers them selves have not benefited. “U.S Department of Agricul ture figures,” Thompson con tends, “clearly show that the farmer has gotten a mere 6 (Continued on Pag* 4) ii* * ■ for Thanksgiving tilt with P. C. Thanksgiving Day means dif ferent things to different peo ple. When the Newberry Col lege football team thinks of Thanksgiving Day only one thought enters its mind, Pres byterian. Turkey Day is the traditional day of battle between the Indians and the Blue Hose of P. C. and the result is al ways a tough, hard-fought foot ball game. This year the game will be played in Clinton at 2 p.m. This will be the 58th time the two teams have met, and Presbyterian leads the series with 37 wins, 19 losses, and 4 ties. Newberry came out on top last year with a 34-0 victory, and therefore regained possession of the Bronze Derby, the traditio nal object of athletic supremacy between the teams. Both teams have a lot at stake on the game Thursday. The winner of the clash will have the best record in the state of South Carolina. New berry stands at 6-3-1, while Presbyterian holds a 6-2-1 mark. A win by Presbyterian would give the Blue Hose a tie with Elon for the Carolinas Confe rence Championship; a win by Newberry would give the cham pionship to Elon and send Pres byterian into third place, with the Indians holding second. Newberry’s 34-0 rout last sea son was the Indian’s first vic tory over the Hose since 1965. Since the Indians are out of the Conference race, they only have two things to work for: (1) the best record in the state of South Carolina and (2) the pleasure of defeating the Blue Hose, ranked eighth in the na tional poll of NAIA for the se cond consecutive year. Victory is always sweet, but victory over Presbyterian is delicious. It’s a long cold win ter for the loser and neither team is anticipating defeat. Christmas parade next Thursday Owen Holmes, chairman, and Robert C Farb, assistant chair man, have completed plans for the annual Christmas parade to be held Thursday, Novem ber 30, 4:00 p.m., in downtown Newberry. It will be the larg est and longest parade in recent years with at least 88 units in cluding 16 beauty queens, 7 marching bands, numerous com mercial and institutional floats, plus Santa Claus. An invita tion is extended to all persons of the community to be in attendance. The Rotary Gub of Newberry, Jack Davis, presi dent, is the sponsor of this year’s parade. A complete list of entries will be published in next week’s is sue of The Sun.