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NEWBERRY—
is a city of Culture and offers
many advantages to parents
wishing to equip their children
to take places of importance in
society.
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NEWBERRY—
offers the investor good cli
mate, abundant water and pow
er supply and the cooperation
necessary to insure success of
a well grounded venture.
VOLUME 1; NO. 4
The Rising Sun—1856-1860
NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1937
Slider & Greneker—1856-1860
$1.00 PER YEAR
OUT AMONG
THE PEOPLE
DR. HENTZ PASSES
AT COLUMBIA HOSPITAL
AFTER PEPYS—
Out and to Belk’s store and Billy
Beard afixing a window. News that
James Beard was still abed with flu
and some banter with the salesgirls
and they requesting aid to fetch a
rich husband. Farris the AP pouring
over a copy of Thd Sun and Miss
Shealy pouring over her accounts on
the mezanine.
Ankling and to the Reagin shoe
fixery where Furman and “Mr. Bob”
were hammering away at their trade.
The elder to berate the man who in
vented beaver board and lament he
did not make his partition of ceiling.
Across the partition to find the
scribbler “Box” Counts playing a-
bout with a deep well pumping out
fit and Mrs. Counts knitting.
To Ellerbe Sease’s Ritz shop and
to find him “up street” but expected
momentarily. Consuming a drink
there and out to pat the pavement
and a genial greeting from a Metho
dist minister taking us for one of
the cloth—maybe. Past Pappas and
missed the friendly wave of George.
Dr. Edwin Olin Hentz, prominent
physician of the city, died Friday
afternoon at the Columbia hospital
following a brief illness. He had
been in feeble health for the past
several years.
Funeral services were held Satur
day afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Lu
theran church of the Redeemer with
the Rev. E. B. Keisler officiating, as
sisted by the Rev. J. J. Long. Burial
was in Rosemont cemetery.
Dr. Hentz was bom and reared in
the New Hope community of the
county. He was a graduate of New
berry college and the South Carolina
Medical college at Charleston.
This 73 year-old doctor was a mem
her of the Lutheran church and be
longed to the county medical society
and the state medical society.
Surviving are his wife, the former
Miss Fannie Caldwell; two sons, Dr.
E. O. Hentz, Jr., Anderson, and Will
iam E. Hentz, Columbia; two daught
ers, Mrs. Homer Daniel, Anderson,
and Mrs. Georgia Welborn of the city
with whom he made his home.
JURORS NAMED FOR
NOVEMBER SESSION
Into the Son shop for a barbering
and shine and Zeke the Yarbrough
dancing a jig to the Rhapsody of the
shine boy’s popping rag and withal
shearing away furiously.
Out to be followed by a small kit
ten and feeling embarrassed at his
cries and upturned face and so into
the Roy Summer place to lose him
and barter for a head piece. Upon
Seth Meek there, an affable and con
siderate fellow who tendered a dollar
for this drivel and such.
Hatted and out to find the kitten
rubbing its sides against a comer and
so along whining and trotting and
we abashed what with a peeled head
' and new top piece. Upon a charming
lady in for the day who purred a-
bout the kitten but puzzled we had
grown so eccentric and we to explain
the feline following but little con
vincing.
Across the street and a screech
of wheels. The little companion in
travel lay with face up, dead eyes
staring into space.
Home and to the grog crock, to
forget to remember.
COLEMAN ERECTS
PARKING STALLS
Pete Coleman has completed con
struction of 10 parking stalls in the
rear of his service statio nand all
have been rented. Work on his
new station at the intersection of the
Greenville and Whitmire road is near
completion, making three service sta
tions at this point. Mr. Coleman
will also begin erection about the
first of the year of a nice station
just beyond the Davis Motor company
building. The young man is spread
ing his wings and we wish him well.
'Being a sturdy sort, much given to
attending to his business he will in all
probability make the grade.
FINE WHILE IT LASTED
The little plot at the rear of the
old Ritz building so tenderly nursed
the past few months by the Civic
league is no more and the ladies who
gave of their time to it are “broken
hearted”. The little plot was rapid
ly becoming a thing of beauty. The
grass was green and a pink dogwood
was growing bravely under petting
of the ladies. Remodeling of the
building made it necessary to move
the shrubbery elsewhere and it was
transplanted at the new Scout cabin
recently completed. However, the
work was not all in vain. Many ob
served the work and it served to
show what the league can do and is
doing all over the city.
IN THE SOLITUDES
Then there’s a story by Archibald
Rutledge telling of coming upon a
lone figure sitting on a rock high up
in the Alleghenies. Rutledge tells
how he went and sat down beside him.
The mountaineer turned and said to
him, “Well I guess as how you
thinks it guare to find me a-sitting
on this rock by myself, but, I tell you
stranger, somehow I can come on God
here, when I can’t find him nowhere
else.”
EVIDENCE
“When I see his servants bending
over the sick in hospitals and read
ing to the blind and loving the deject
ed in prison and pulling up the dis
couraged and feeding the hungry and
clothing the naked and lashing out
furiously against injustice, at the
same time binding up the wounds of
the victims of that injustice, I see
Him, at work in his body!”
MATTER OF CIVIC PRIDE
A kindly farmer, observing the
gaunt features of the editor, volun
teered a bushel of spuds for the pa
per the other day. Now that the
ice is broken we hope others will fol
low his lead with edibles to give us
variety. A diet of spuds alone is
likely to give us rickets and a rick
ety editor is nothing for a community
to boast of. He must be kept fat
for the sake of civic pride.
Following is a list of names drawn
Thursday morning to serve on the
jury when civil court convenes here
Monday, November 22: A. M. Sum
mer, J. I. Boozer, F. R. Higgins, Cay
Baker, Jas. H. Willingham, C. E.
Senn, A. C. Mills,, W. W. Gilliam, J.
A. Bowers, D. M. Caldwell, H. E.
Miller, H. W. King, C. S. Wessinger,
A. M. Mayer, B. O. Lovelace, M. C.
Bedenbaugh, L H. Sease, E. H. Koon,
A. W. Murray, F. L. Evans, D. E.
Halfacre, Elmore Suber, J. L. Miller,
H. J. Leaphart, Roy E. Singley, B.
L. Dorrity, J. N. Ham, J. W. James,
J. C. Waldrop, A. B. Miller, H. L.
Boulware, George W. Senn, S. C.
Young, John Swittenberg, A. P.
Wertz, C. C. Fulmer.
MR. MAYER, ET AL
John Mayer from down Peak way
was in town Saturday, stopping in to
subscribe to The Sun. He had heard
such a sheet was being published but
had not seen a copy, a result of our
directing it to Peake instead of Po-
maria. Mr. Mayer is one of the
county’s most substantial citizens,
alert to political going-ons and much
respected in his community. Our
friend Maynard Connalley was a caller
and subscriber last week. He was
here to take in some of the Methodist
coference. Then a son-in-law called
to subscribe for himself and Mrs. Fred
Kempson who now lives at Silver-
street. Mrs. Kempson is the mother
of Mrs. Bill Martin of this city and
Mrs. T. D. Stillwell of Inman. And
so it goes. Loyal friends of this out
fit are losing no time in getting on
our lists and if we fail to make men
tion of you, and you and you, it is
from oversight and not from lack of
appreciation.
TRY IT IF YOU DARE
Those of you who have winter wife
trouble do this: When she starts to
put her cold feet in the middle of
your back just bow up like a cat on
a fence, making a noise like one if
you wish tho this is not necessary.
She will immediately get popping
mad which is just what you are after.
You go ahead now with your gourd
sawing in normal position, first as
suring her your back is no radiator.
To further agitate her you might ask
why she doesn’t hang her stockings
on your spine to dry. Little dashes
of scarcasm like this will put any
woman’s feet where they belong.
A CORNER FOR THE POOR
The Mosiac law required farmers
to leave the comers of their grain
fields uncut f*r the poor, and we
wonder if we are not witnessing a
carry-over of the old law in the
negro’s gathering of the scattered
blue cotton in the fields. The plight
of the poor has concerned the minds
of men form time immemorial. Im
providence is of course the cause of
much poverty but on the whole it
comes alone with life itself and few
ever shake it off.
J. H. Summer Rounds Out 1| I
53rd Year As Merchant
ARMISTICE BANQUET AT
LEGION HALL THURSDAY
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MR. JOHN HARRISON SUMMER
For more than a half a century, to
be exact for 53 years, Mr. J. H. Sum
mer has conducted a business in the
city of Newberry. Coming to New
berry in 1884 when the town was little
more than “a wide place in the road”
Mr. Summer began business, and
since that time he has never failed to
show up at his accostomed plr.ee be
hind the count;* except for short
spells of illneus. He is today in active
charge of his business and his health
continues good. Mr. Summer is one
of the city’s most outstanding men
and enjoys the esteem of his fellow
townsmen to an enviable degree’.
The early youth of Mr. Summer
fell in a period of trying times in the
South. His widowed mother curried
on, with the help of her sons, and
underwent hardships of which we
know little today. To these sturdy-
ing pioneering peoples the present
generation owes a debt of graiitude.
They worked and cleared, and tilled
the land that their sons and son’s sons
might inherit better than they
enjoyed.
John Harrison Summer has seen
Newberry from a small hamlet of
wooden structures to a modem small
city. He has weathered several de
pressions and sustained thousands of
dollars of losses in accounts but has
never failed to have his doors open for
business at the regular hours. Nor
has his long dealings with the public
made a cynic of him. He still believes
that people are fundamentally honest;
that most of them would pay if they
could.
With a single exception no business
now operating in the city was here
when Mr. Summer began business.
Mr. Campbell Havird was conducting
business in Newberry in 1884 and
sometime prior but discontinued his
business here for a spell, later re
opening.
The following sketch of Mr. Sum
mers life is taken from “The History
of South Carolina”:
“John Harrison Summer. A mem
ber of one of the oldest and most
prominent South Carolina families,
the founder of which helped to settle
and organize that part of Lexington
county, now belonging to Newberry
county, Mr. Summer himself was born
and has always lived in this section
of South Carolina. For almost half
a century he has been one of the lead
ing figures in the business world of
the city of Newberry, where his many
fine qualities of the mind and the
heart, his exceptional business ability
and his consistent public spirit have
gained him a position of importance
and influence.
The Summer family, of which the
subject of this article is a member,
was founded in this county by Hans
Adam Summer, who came to America
from Germany in 1743, first settling
in Pennsylvania. Later, in the same
year, however, he removed to South
Carolina and settled near Broad river,
close to the county line of Newberry
and Lexington counties. He was the
first settler in that section, commonly
known as “Little Dutch Fork”, and
as the pioneer settler he was the
prime factor in bringing a number of
other families from Pennsylvania and
other states to this part of South
Carolina. He induced the first re
form preacher to labor in this region
and helped to organize the first Luth
eran church in Newberry county. It
was established about 1760 and is
known as St. John’s Lutheran church.
Hans Adam Summer married a Miss
Jostin, likewise a German by birth and
i member of the same group, with
which her husband had come to the
New World. Hans Adam Summer had
seven children: 1. John Adam, who
was a captian in the State Militia
during the Revolutionary war and the
Colonel of his regiment after the war.
He was also a member of the first
South Carolina legislature after the
; tablishmept of statehood and a dele-
ale to Char!e*fc* hfel776. 2. Henry,
who served 1 as first lieutenant in Cblo-
.iel Water’s regiment, South Carolina
"militia, during the Revolutionary war.
■{. Nicholas, who served as a private in
the South Carolina militia and in the
Continental army during the Revolu
tionary war and was ' killed at the
battle of Gramby. 4. Francis, who
'erved as a private in the South Caro
lina militia and in the Continental
army during the Revolutionary war.
5. George, who served as a private in
the South Carolina militia in Colonel
Beard’s regiment under Captian Wil
iam F. Houseal. 6. William who also
was a private in Colonel Water’s reT
giment, South Carolina militia during
the Revolutionary war. 7. Margaret
Elizabeth, who married George Mi-
nick. It is from the fourth of these
six patriotic sons of Hans Adam Sum
mer, that John Harrison Summer is
decended. A son of Francis Summer,
John Summer, who was born in 1797
and who died in 1864, was the grand
father of the subject of this article
and was a well known planter and
merchant, owning a large estate
known as “Spring Hill”, in connection
with which he operated a large mer
cantile store. He married Cynthia
Ray who was bom in Tennessee in
1801 and who died at “Spring Hill" in
1876. John and Cynthia (Ray) Sum
mer of “Spring Hill”, Lexington
county, had nine children: John
Francis; Emanuel; Amelia; Anne;
George Walter, of whom futher;
Martha Ellen; Henry; Andrew; and
Jacob.
George Walter Summer, the father
of John Harrison Summer of this
article, was bora in Lexington county
in 1838, a son of John and Cynthia
(Ray) Summer. He was a planter
and at the outbreak of the war be
tween the states, very promptly join
ed the Confederate army. He served
with the 13th regiment. South Caro
lina volunteers, being promoted from
private to corporal and later to orderly
sargeant. He died, while in active
service, in a Confederate army hos
pital in Richmond, Va., in 1863. In
1857 he had married, in Lexington
county Martha Delila Epting, who
was born in Lexiagton county in 1838
and who died in Newberry in 1925.
George Walter and Martha Delila
(Epting) Summer had three sons: 1.
Charles Edward, bom in 1868. 2.
John Harrison, born in 1860, of whom
further. 3. George Walter, bom in
1861.
Martha Delila (Epting) Summer,
the mother of John Harrison Summer
of this article, was a daughter of Cap
tain George and Elizabeth (Chapman)
Epting and a graddaughter of Captain
John and Elizabeth (Wertz) Epting
and of John and Mary Chapman.
Captian George Epting, the maternal
grandfather of John Harrison Sum
mer, was a well to do farmer near
(Continued on back page)
Gary Paschal, attorney of Colum
bia, will be the outstanding speaker
at the Armistice banquet tonight at
the American Legion hall for the 200
Legionaires of the county.
The banquet will be served by the
Legion Auxiliary and music furnished
by the Newberry College orchestra
under the direction of Chris Caugh-
man.
Cam Wallace, son of Mr. and Mrs.
R. G. Wallace, winner in the county
declamation contest sponsored by the
Legion Friday evening at the New
berry high school will be the student
speaker at the banquet. "The Un
known Soldier Speaks” is his subject.
Contests will be held and prizes
awarded. A selection of war-time
songs will be sung by the group.
The pogram for this annual affair
begins at 7:30 p. m.
SOUTHERN WILL OCCUPY
OLD RITZ BUILDING
Contractor Wilson started work
Monday morning repairing and alter
ing the old Ritz theatre bulling for oc
cupancy by the Southern Auto stores
now housed in one of the rooms in
the new Ritz building. A partition
will be placed in the building and the
auto supply concern will occupy that
half next to College street. The rear
of the building Vs being arranged so
that automobiles may be driven in
for installation of parts the company
sells. It is not known at this time
who will occupy the other half of the
building.
DRIVE BEGINS FOR
CONCERT MEMBERSHIPS
NOTICE
The City Board of Health has de
cided, in order to carry out the
Standard milk ordinance and ac
quaint the public with th^ grade milk
they are buying from the dairies who
supply them, by publishing the
monthly reports made by the Hygei-
nic laboratory of the State Board of
Health, Columbia, S. C., who make
tests of the milk samples of the dai
ries showing the average bacterial
colony count. This will protect the
producer and consumer by making
public these reports as are given us.
Watch for them.
Newberry Board of Health,
3tc By A. F. Bush, Secy
DR. KINARD SPEAKS
AT ARMISTICE CELEBRATION
Dr. James C. Kinard delivered an
address in celebration of Armistice
Day on the state house steps in Co
lumbia this (Thursday) morning at
11 o’clock.
This afternoon at 3:30, he spoke in
Ridgeland before a gathering of the
Jasper County Teachers Association.
CONGRATULATIONS!
The congratulatory page in this
issue will come as a complete sur
prise to Mr. Summer and all
members of his immediate family.
Mechanical limitations made it
necessary to hold the space to a
single page and those who were
not given opportunity to express
their good wishes in this manner
will understand that larger space
could not be handled.
Fifty-three years of continuous
business is certainly a record of
which to be proud; a record im
possible of achievement except to
one of ability and character and
fair and honest dealings.
Miss Dorothy Simpson
Heads Young People
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Dr. Claude Pritchard, Atlanta,
Ga., educational secretary of As
sembly’s Home Missions spoke on
“Trumpet Calls of Home Missions”
at the Fall Rally of the Young
People’s League of South Carolina
Presbytery which was held Saturday
at Smyrna Presbterian church.
“Facing Home Missions With the
Living Christ” was the topic of the
day. A pageant, “Awake America”
was presented by a number of League
members under the direction of Miss
Anne Denny, of Cross Hill.
Home mission work in the South
Carolina Presbytery was presented by
the Rev. C. A. Calcote, Newberry;
Rev. J. W. Conyers, Ware Shoals;
Rev. D. E. Boozer, Goldville; and the
Rev. C. J. Mathews of the hostess
church.
After the lunch hour reports of the
Montreat Leadership school were
heard. During the business session,
Miss Dorothy Simpson, Whitmire,
was elected president. She will be in
stalled at the next gathering of the
League.
The day’s program concluded at
2:30 with an impressive consecration
service led by Miss Simpson.
250 young people of the Presby
tery attended the meeting. Green
wood was named the location for the
next gathering which will be the an
nua] spring meeting.
REV. W. F. JOHNSON
TO POMARIA CHURCH
The membership drive for the o_,-
ond season of the Newberry Concerts
Association begins Monday, Novem
ber 15, with Z. F. Wright elected this
fall as president of the local concert
group, and H. T. Fellers, membership
chairman, at the helm.
At least three concerts will be
presented by the association this year
and only those persons who join the
association will be permitted to at
tend the concerts. Last year, which
was the first year of the concert pro
grams here, three varied programs
were presented: Anna Kaskas, con
tralto of the Metropolitan Opera,
Muriel Kerr, pianist, and the Russian
Imperial singers. These concerts
were enthusiastically received.
After the memberships have been
taken the artists’ committee will meet
and make its selections for the con
certs this year. Choices will depend
on the amount of money available
through renewals and new members.
It is anticipated that the -mem
bership in Newberry will be much
larger this season. Renewals were
begun last spring. Workers will be
gin Monday morning on the drive and
those not called upon are asked to
phone headquarters for membership.
The campaign closes Saturday, Nov
ember 20, at 7 p. m.
The 23rd session of the annual
Upper South Carolina conference of
the Methodist church came to ad
journment late Sunday evening with
the reading of the appointments for
the year.
The only transfer in the Newberry
circuit will be that of the Rev. W. F.
Johnson who moves from the city to
Pomaria and the Rev. G. T. Hughes
will be located here. Other appoint
ments in this area remain the same.
They are Rev. T. C. Cannon at Cen-
Rev. W. H. * ■ ■ -
street.
Bishop Paul B. Kern of this confer
ence preached to an overflow crowd
at Central church Sunday morning.
Following lengthy debates Thusr-
day, the group voted in favor of uni-
fication. 151 ministers and lay dele
gates voted for the issus and 106
against it.
MRS. BLACK DIES
IN CHARLESTON
Farmers Entertained
By Game Association
Over 100 members and guests of
the local chapter of the Fish and
Game Association attended the No
vember gathering of the group Mon-
da y evening at the Willowbrook com
munity club house. This meeting be
gan a new year for the Association.
The, occasion being “Farmers’
Night”, the members were asked to
bring farmers of the county as guests.
Sam A. Williams, president of the
chapter, was presiding. After the
supper, talks were made by several
members concerning the work of the
Association during the past year.
The members renewed their pledge
to the farmers to help them in any
possible way in the preservation of
fish and game on their land.
The first prize at contests, a valu
able shotgun, was awarded W. C.
Scott, Whitmire. A number of other
prizes, donated by Newberry mer
chants, were awarded.
This number also marked the begin-
mg of a membership drive with a
goal of 500 members. At the present
time the Association has 250 mem
bers.
The chapter was invited to meet at
Hartford for the December gathering
and at Fairview for the first meeting ,
of 1938.
In charge of the program Monday
evening were Emory Bowman, S. C.
Paysinger, Henry Fellers, and Clifton
Graham.
REMODELING WORK BEGINS
ON SUMMER ADDITION
Work has been under way for sev
eral days on the building just in the
rear, of the G. B. Summer & Sons
furniture store. The property run
ning back to Harrington street was
purchased by the Summer’s some
months ago. Much work will be done
on the building and when finished it
will serve as a display room for cer
tain items of furniture and a store
’■“'im for other.
room for attractive display there.
The Summer concern enjoys excel
lent patronage here, and their expan
sion plans is evidence of their inten
tion to carry in stock a most com
plete line of furniture and household
goods at all times.
WHAT ABOUT BUSINESS
Mrs. Isabelle Brandon Black, 24,
wife of Rufus Black, died FYiday in
Charleston. Funeral services were
held on Glenn street Sunday after
noon at 3:30 conducted by the Rev.
C. A. Calcote. Burial was in Rose
mont cemetery.
She is survived by her husband and
mother, Mrs. J. C. Brandon; four
brothers, P. M. Brandon, Houston
Texas; A. M. Brandon, Clover;
Henry Brandon, Rock Hill; A. L.
Brandon, Newberry. One sister, Mrs.
Henry Sowell, of the city, also sur
vives.
ADDS ANOTHER LINE
In addition to his ice business, and
the curing of meat, D. W. A. Neville
of the Newberry Ice and Fuel com
pany, has recently added a line of
gas stoves. Some of the stoves are
now on display at his place of busi
ness. The stoves are fueled with
“bottled” gas which Mr. Neville also
handles. He claims for them economy
and ease of operation. Installation is
simple. •
Through salesmen we learn that
business is “slow” over most of the
state and certainly the complaint is
general hereabout.
This coqdition is unusual at this
time of year but many believe it just
one of the minor backsets common to
the emergence from the depression.
Some of the mills are curtailing but
this is due. They have been running
steadily, many of them on three
shifts, and reserves will have to be
liquidated whether in warehouses or
on merchant’s shelves. Prices on
many commodities have broken
sharply and this is a straw in the
right direction; buying will pick up as
a reuslt.
Holiday trade should pull the
country out of this minor recession,
if such it is, and sane farm legislation
before the pitching of another crop
would open the new year with bright
er hopes.
The stock market slump indicates
nothing more than a shaking down of
the suckers. Installment buying has
been brisk but has not approached
the ’-9 level. All in all there is no
grounds at present for a “scare.”
SEEN ABOUT TOWN
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Bill Turner reporting fine meet
ing of local fish and game group .
. . Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Moon having
hmch . . . Dr. C. D. Weeks eating
ice cream behind soda fountain . . .
Mrs. Hayne Shealy and small
daughter sitting in sun . . . Mrs.
Leon Nichols leaving circle meet
ing . . . Prof, and Mrs. H. B. Wil
son buying groceries . . . Mrs. C.
H. Albrecht parking car . . “Beat
Erskine” signs seen about town . .
. Remodelling job begun on old Ritz
building . . . John Taylor, promi
nent Newberry barber, winning a
shaving set at the Fish and Game
meeting Monday evening . . .
Mamie Hawkins going to work . .
. Hub Quattlebaum, John Clarkson,
and Scrap Hendrix following three
cokes and two ham sandwiches into
auditor Abram’s office, but having
to appease appetite with court
house ice water . . . Rev. M. L.
Kester visiting “Sun” office and
scattering complimentary remarks
about Newberry’s latest addition to
the newspaper field . . . Dave
Hayes seeking advice as to a sound
bet on football game.
Question:
Who do you think will win the
Erskine-Newberry game Saturday?
Mrs. George Hawkins:
‘Newberry is, of course. I’m so
sure of it, we’ve just got to win.”
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|J. C. Neel:
“I don’t know, "iou will have to
[ ask football fans about that.”
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| William Hunter:
“Oh, I guess Newberry will have to
| win.”
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Hack Wallace:
“Little mister Erskine will go to
| town, but not by such a large margin.”
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Nora Lee McDowell:
‘Newberry will win of course. The
College seems to have a much better
team this year.”
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