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'Maybe We'll Make A Million' 5-Year Certification Gets 'Tentative' Okay Teacher Certification Proposal Is Approved 5 4' r- 1 I ali.lH Those not qualifying for regular status in the five year warrant period could continue to teach in that status but at no increase in state salary aid, provided the individual undertook additional formal in-service study to improve teaching skills. The present "permanent certificate" would be eliminated after 1975, including those certificates issued to trades and industries teachers. years has been in the cellar. Vocational education has been lower than the cellar. We have neglected it and failed to provida money.

These citizens of South Carolina have been lax and asleep. "As long as I'm on this board, I'll go down swinging to keep this money in the public school system." Transfer of the funds was directed by the General Assembly in the General Appropriations Bill. Transfer of the $1.5 million in federal funds to the State TEC Program touched off a warm debate in which board member William H. Seals of Marion expressed strong opposition. Seals, contending the funds were needed for vocational training in public schools declared," I disagree violently and vehmently with this proposal.

"Public education in South Carolina for all these many uil r- zitr Sty (Srmtutlfe Page Nine Greenville Bank Robbery Second Suspect Arrested In N.C. IV4 COLUMBIA Nick Johnson. Phil Lohr and Richard Ashley, students at the University of South Carolina, look on as C. Brian lioness, graduate student in the school of business, points to some features of the 7040 computer. The group has just purchased the forerunner model, the 704.

lioness says some people are laughing their heads off but that there are "a few who think maybe we'll make a million dollars with the thing." (AP Wirephoto) With Giant Surplus Computer Students Plan Business Greenville, S. C. was being held in the County Jail late Friday in lieu of $25,000 bond. A hearing will be held before a U.S. commissioner in Charlotte Tuesday to determine if Rigdon will be moved to Greenville for trial in U.S.

District Court. Considered J. MAC WALTERS Greenvilfian May Receive High Position News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON J. Mac Walters, Greenville, S. tax lawyer, is under "serious consideration" for appointment as assistant attorney general to head the Justice Department's tax division.

He flew to New York City Friday to talk Saturday with John N. Mitchell, the attorney general-designate. Walters has the strong hacking of Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S. for the position.

Walters would handle prosecution of all federal tax cases. lioness of Columbia. Later Richard Ashley of Van Wyck got in the act. The four decided this would be a nice thing to have, pooled their resources and submitted 25 per cent of their total bid to a federal office in Jacksonville, Fla. This week the enterprising foursome was the computer was theirs.

"We're almost certain hardly anyone bid on this computer," Honcss said. "Our bid was pretty low because that's all the money we had and yet it turned out to be the high bid. He won't say what Was paid for the equipment but The Associated Press learned it was about $2,200. "We've made a deal with By DOUGLAS MAULDIN News Columbia Bureau COLUMBIA The State Board of Education Friday approved "in principle" a new teacher certification system which provides for a single professional certificate renewable every five years. The board, following a stormy discussion, also approved transfer of $1.5 million in federal funds for vocational programs to the State Committee for Technical Training.

The new certification program, subject to further refinements by the board, would become effective for teacher-graduates in June 1970. Teachers now certified under present regulations would have the choice of remaining under the current certification system, or coming under the new plan. The board also endorsed an index-type salary scale which would base state aid for teacher, salaries on professional training and experience rather than on grades on the national teacher examinations as is now the case. The new certification program provides for issuance of a single professional certificate in separate classifications for teachers with bachelor degrees, for those with 18 hours of graduate study and for those holding masters degrees. The board endorsed the principle of issuing a "warrant" to those college students beginning teaching who have not had directed or student teaching and who otherwise meet requirements for the present provisional certificate.

The new plan was recommended by a widely-representative 40-member Teacher Certification and Salary Study Committee. The committee suggested that new regulations apply in "academic" fields with trades and industries teachers excluded. However the five-year renewal requirements would apply also to the trades and industries category. Various teacher certificates issued now have expired in two, five, seven and 14 years. The new professional certificate would require a minimum composite score of 975 on the National Teacher Examination and the Teaching Area Examination not less than 450 on each.

Teacher candidates falling short of the minimum exam ination scores but who still score a total 850-974 and not less than 400 on each part would qualify for a warrant status, valid for five years in expectation that study and experience in that time would qualify the teacher for a regular certificate. Named COLUMBIA W. Michael Chertok has joined the University nf South Carolina Division of Development as director of development. Originally from Spartanburg, Chertok was director of alumni affairs at Furman University in Greenville prior to coming to USC. He was associated with Furman for three yean.

He will he involved primarily with the gift and contribution program at USC. probably result from the survey, he said. Johnson said certain data already gathered in the health field by planning groups and others can be used in the survey. He said the survey will look at all aspects of health care, and economic factors determining population and major growth areas in the county. Johnson said it will be up to the county to determine solutions for its health problems based on the survey results.

"We are not going to hand you any solutions on a platter," he said. Pickens County's role In the fill! the university's school of business to lease the computer to it for one dollar a year in exchange for a place to put it and for the air conditioning the computer will need," lioness explained. "We'll work out a deal here to share program time with the school. The computer also can be used as a teaching instrument, and we plan to use some computer time for commerical purposes." The owners' current problem is getting the equipment to Columbia. Unwilling to trust the normal freight channels, the four with two others, will go to Florida soon with two rented truck vans.

They expect to have the computer on the campus before the end of the month. new medical technical training facility are a boon to the entire section he said. He said that Gov. Robert E. McNair is now an imoortant figure at any gathering of governors and paid special praise to the recent Moody Report which, he said, cut across all strata of government and industry, and investigated the interaction of all parts of the economic and social community in setting forth a blueprint by which the state may build.

He said results of the surveys already made by the Appalachia Commission can, if utilized, produqe the same sort of results Commission Director Says Funds Possible Jfauis Saturday, January 11, 1969 S34 Million Is Medicare Cost In S. C. COLUMBIA (AP) The Medicare bill in South Carolina in 1968 was $34 million. The figure was announced Friday by Blue Cross Blue Shield, which handles the Social Security program for the federal government. The non profit health insurance group said 173,926 patients received Medicare, of whom 118,500 were in 121 nursing homes or hospitals.

Those bills were $25.3 million and doctor bills were $8.7 million. The organization's private claims came to $23 million for the year in an overall $57 mil lion business. 'Farmer Of Year' Honored COLUMBIA The State Association of Young Farmers will recognize the "Young Farmer of the Year" at a ban quet session cf the association's 21st annual convention next Fri day in Columbia. Six candidates for the award have been announced by Don Quattlebaaim of Pendleton, association president. They are Bonnie R.

Pitts of Hickory Tavern. T. B. Huffman, (advisor; James Kesler of Silverstreet, George C. Beden-baugh, advisor; C.

P. Shealy Jr. of Gilbert, M. Dean Ganis, advisor; Leon West of Bowman, H. L.

Beach, advisor; Alvin E. De-Witt of Darlington, G. S. McKenzie, advisor; and Jerry Edge of Conway, C. G.

Hut-chinsion and J. W. Bamette, advisors. Each candidate is winner of district contests, and will receive an engraved silver tray and $20 in cash. The state winner will be presented a tray and $100 in cash.

Awards will be presented by Dr. Irvin M. Wofford of Kaiser Agricultural Chemicals Co, of Savannah, co-sponsors of the contest with the association. The banquet session at the Hotel Wade Hampton also will include presentation of awards in the Young Farmers corn, chapter and farm and home electrification contests. Similar suits have been filed in behalf of the other two slain Negroes, Samuel E.

Hammon Jr. of Broward County, and Delano Middleton of Orangeburg. All three suits name as co-defendant the National Surety Pearman's bonding company. The Feb. 8 shooting climaxed several nights of racial demonstrations which started when an Orangeburg bowling alley refused to admit Negroes.

The alley was later integrated by federal court order. Begun ton funds and funds needed for opeialion and maintenance. The system of checks and balances approved Thursday appeared to satisfy some committee members who were con corned that the survey might not be as accurate as necessary. Dr. Dexter B.

Rogers of Eas ley, chairman of the committee, told Johnson that the main emphasis cf the survey should focus on hospital bed nepds. "We are dealing in an area highly charged with emotionalism, Johnson said. "If we are not careful, we can create monstrosities that do not meet the needs of the people." A California man, the second to be charged in the Dec. 13 robbery of the Wade Hampton Mall branch of Peoples National Bank in which $21,600 was taken, was arrested Friday by Charlotte, N. C.

police, according to Roland E. Trent, special agent in charge of the FBI for South Carolina. Trent identified the suspect as Melvin Houston Rigdon, 41, of La Puente, Calif. Rigdon, arrested on a federal bank robbery warrant issued here Friday was taken into custody at an apartment on Charlotte's southside by Charlotte police and turned over to the FBI. He was arraigned before a UJ5.

commissioner and was hem in tne uiarioue jail late Friday in lieu of $50,000 bond. Wiliam Lee Freeman, 36, of N. Hollywood, was arrested in a restaruant in the shopping center just minutes after two masked bandits, arm ed with pistols, robbed the bank. i il if 1. ai me lime oi ius arrest, pouce said, Freeman was in possession of a suitcase containing more than $20,000 and a pistol.

When arrested here, Freeman was free on $20,000 bond while appealing a bank robbery con viction at Cleveland, Ohio. He A nderson Adult Classes Are Extended Anderson Bureau ANDERSON Due to the in creasing incidence of flu in the Anderson area, registration for second semester classes in the adult education program of School District 5 will be extended for one week. Persons wishing to do so may register from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights at McDuffie High School, with daytime registration at the Office of Adult Education on Pearman Dairy Road. There are openings in practically all courses, both academic and business.

Courses offered are English, math, history, science, typing, bookkeeping and shorthand. A fee of $5 is charged per course. which includes the use of books. The program is designed for adults 18 years of age and over who have been out of school for a period of at least six months. S.C.

Marine Dies In Action WASHINGTON, D. C. (LTD Marine Lance fpl. Raymond Bladin, son of Mr. and Mrs.

James L. Bladin of North Charleston, is the latest South Carolinian to he killed in action in the Vietnam war, the Defense Department announced Thursday. The Marine was on a list of 31 servicemen who d'rd recently in the war. regional concept of providing health services also will be evaluated in the survey. Johnson explained that a Health Development Plan prepared by the council for the six counties In the Appalachian Region is "an overlook at the situation, and is not intended to be comprehensive." Dr.

J. C. Brice of Easlcy, a member of the committee, at the last committee meeting in December quoted the plan and Johnson as indicating that based on hospital beds per thousand population, Pickens County had no need for additional bods. Johnson said figures used in COLUMBIA (AP) Four students at the University of South Carolina have bought a giant surplus computer and plan to go in business with it in partnership with the uni-vflrsity. The 50,000 pound machine is waiting for them, disassembled, in a Panama City, naval warehouse.

The idea to get it came when Nick Johnson Hemingway, engineering senior, was scanning surplus equipment auction notices put out by the federal government. Noticing that an IBM 1st Generation 704 Computer was up for bids, he consulted with Phillip Lohr of Charlotte, electrical engineer senior, and doctoral candidate Brian Appalachian ore By JACK NORRIS News Staff Writer The 13-state Appalachian region a new concept in politics which welds states into a region with state and local governments and private enterprise, deciding what is needed for liealthy growth and the federal government providing 6eed money is a great sue-Railnh Widner. executive director of the Appalachian! Regional Commission, said here Friday. He said the six western South Carolina counties which make up this state's part of the official Appalachia region may get additional federal money for highway improvement. The fly-in-the-ointment, said, is that this national pilot project is turning out so well that congressmen in other regions of betow-par economic opportunities will soon be competing for similar billion-dollar programs.

In the 3's years of its ex istence the entire Appalachian region has received about $H00 million of federal funds of the $1.5 billion Congress originally earmarked for the six-year program, but South Carolina has been Biven only a relatively small part of the money ad highways through inaccesable reeions got top priority, he said. South Carolina's highway system Is outstanding in the Southeast, he Raid, adding however that S. C. 11 Which will tie together much of the foot-of-the-mountain country in Greenville, Spartanburg, Oconee. Pickens and Cherokee Converse Gets Okay On Loan Of $610,000 News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Converse College at Spartanburg will receive a 1610,000 federal loan to help finance construction of a new dormitory for 120 women students.

The college will upend $212, Ooo of Its own funds on the project. The Department of Housing and Urban Develop went approved the loan. The dismantled machine packed in 13 cases, none which, Honess says, is less than telephone booth size. Another dozen or so smaller cartons contain spare parts. The quartet intends to assemble the computer themselves.

They estimate it will take more than six months to wade through the seven-foot high stack of assembly manuals before putting the wheels in motion. "A lot of computer people around here are laughing their heads off at us," Honess says. "But there are a few who think maybe we'll make a million dollars with the thing. "All I know is we have what we wanted and we all think it will be fun to put this thing in operation. We think we got ourselves a bargain." in regional growth by 1990 that the coordinated attack on space exploration has already begun in its recent manned trip to the moon.

Widner spoke to members of the Appalachian Commission from six western South Carolina counties. Present from Greenville were Nick A. Theodore, commission chairman, and W. W. Pate Sr.

W. J. Acker and H. T. Steward from Pickens; H.

Edwards and T. Keller Cogswell from Spartanburg; Col. W. Tom Raimsey and Howard English from Oconee, and Jack Moore and James Barton from Anderson were present. firm and evaluate the findings of the Appalachian Council.

The delegation has promised to finance employment of any consultants necessary for the study. Robert Johnson, executive director of the council, said his staff could do the survey in a maximum of six months at no cost to the county. He said it will cost approximately $5,000 to hire consultants to check the council's results. "We are only offering our services, and have no pre-judgement or prejudice," Johnson said. Five, 10 and 15-year plans for health needs in the county will Third Damage Suit In Race Clash Filed On Buying S.

G. Plantation Owner Says Onassis Hasn't ContactedHim WALTERBORO (AP) A plantation owner says no ore has contacted him on a rumored sale of the property to Aristotle and Jacqueline Onassis. Robert L. Hufines Jr. of Cherokee Plantation on the Combahee River near Yemassee issued a brief statement riday saying Charleston newspaper reports that Onassis is buying the property "are completely unfounded." Thursday an unnamed Colleton County courthouse official at Walterborc.

17 miles from Yemassee, said official papers on the transfer were expected to be filed any day. Huffines say3 his Cherokee plantation of more than 1.200 acres Li up for sale but no one has been in touch with him or hir broker for Onassis. The plantation includes a 32-room house. counties, has received Appalachia funds for extensive improvement. Widner said educational and health facilities of the entire regibn have also received top attention along with other projects which will bring more industry into rural areas.

Studies have shown that the 13-state area can be divided into 60 "labor-sheds" he said, industrialized communities groups of communities which actually furnish or can furnish most of the jobs of the entire region. He said that Greenville itself is not necessarily a poverty area and explained that Appalachia funds expanded here are primarily for the purpose of developing jobs end educational and health services which will serve the rural area around Greenville. Greenville has one of the most progressive technical educational centers in the United and its vocational training facilities including its Committees Hollings' Positions Switched WASHINGTON Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, got a switch In committee assignments Friday but not the ones he expected.

The South Carolinian was dropped by the Senate Democratic Steering Committee which makes assignments and from the Agriculture Committee when its size was reduced from 15 to 13 members. Hollings' was named to the Banking Committee, which he wanted, and kept his spots on the Post Office and Commerce committees. Thursday Hollings said his Agriculture and Post Office positions were "locked." They weren't. Hollings wanted the hanking assignment so "I can work on housing problems." The late Burnet R. Maybank of South Carolina formerly headed the Banking Committee.

Pickens County 15-Year Plan COLUMBIA (AP)-A third damage suit, growing out of a bloody racial clash in Orangeburg Feb. 8, was filed in U.S. District Court Friday against South Carolina's Chief Highway Commissioner Silas N. Pearman. The suit, asking $100,000 damages, was brought by Mrs.

Elizabeth F. Smith of Marion. Her 19-year-old son, Henry Smith, was one of three young Negroes killed in a shooting confrontation with State Highway Patrolmen on the fringe of South Carolina State College campus. the plan was based on utilization of beds, and were not intended as an indication of the total health picture. The Coun Legislative Dele-gation requested the medical society to form the study committee, consisting of doctors and lay representatives, after circulation of a petition was alarted asking for a referendum on construction of a county hospital.

The delegation said the study should include, but not be limited to. present hospital facilities, necessary taxes to finance a bond Issue to provide additional hospital facilities if needed, availability of federal Hill-Bur- Survey Of Health Facilities, Cost By AUBREY BOWIE Oconee-Pickens Bureau PICKENS Pickens County has launched a comprehensive survey of health facilities that is expected to project county health care needs and accompanying costs for 15 years. A county hospital study committee has requested the Appalachian Region Health Policy and Planning Council to undertake an in-depth study of all phases of county health needs. The committee, appointed by the County Medical Society at the Instigation of the legislative delegation, also voted to hire independent consultants to con v..