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* Every Week More People Read The Sun The Sun Strives To Serve The Whole People VOLUME 3; NO. 1 The Rising Sun—1856-1860 NEWBERRY, S. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1939 Slider and Greneker—1856-1860 $1 PER YEAR OUT AMONG THE PEOPLE BIBLE IN THE SCHOOLS 1 hope the ministers of the county •will not make a serious attempt to have the Christian bible taught in the schools of the county. Aside from being contrary to the Constitu tion which guarantees to everyone freedom of worship, the Bible should be interpreted by theologians and not by school teachers. The ministers will defeat the very purpose they seek if this thing becomes universal, for not all school teachers are orthodox in their beliefs and the child may be told, one thing in school, another at home or in the Sunday school. Such teaching of the Bible would not be acceptable to Catholics, Greeks, Jews, Syrians, children of which faiths at tend Newberry county schools. The Jew has as much right to demand that the Talmud be taught as the Christian has to demand that the “King James version be used. This thine- has been thrashed out in the courts and it will not hold. I am not sure that young children should be taught too much Bible anyway, aside from the moral lessons of the New Testament. A child can understand love, pity and charity for he comes in contact with these in the average home, but he may not be able to understand why David wanted to kill a man with his sling, or why there should he so much virtue in Solomon’s hair. It takes an adult with pretty good mud sills to take that on, much less a child. It seems to me the ministers have enough to do in the corral of their own flocks. I don’t see many around who appear to have their lamps trim med ready for the march thru the Gates of Gold. Maybe if the parsons would cram a little more Bible down the gullets of we church sinners, we in turn could take care of the kids. Scholarships Increased In This County The allocation of elementary and high school NY A student aid scholar ships for Newberry county schools has been increased from 116 of last year to 132 this year, according to an announcement by Mrs. J. H. Sum mer, area supervisor of the National Youth Administration. The Newberry county increase fol lowed upon receipt of a larger South Carolina state allocation which was raised from 4,434 in 1938-39 to 5,998 for the Current school year. This rep resents an increased money allotment to South Carolina for school aid, from $17,736 monthly to $159,624 for the school year in 1938-39 to $23,922 monthly or $215,928 for the school year in 1939-40. The chief purpose of the N Y A student aid program is to return to and keep in school youths who would be financially unable otherwise to at tend. Each student earns $4 a month, at the rate of 20 cents an hour, for working 20 hours a month at jobs designated by the authori ties of his school and approved by state youth administrator, Roger L. Coe, in Columbia. However, such work must not replace that done by regular school employees. To be eligible for school aid a student must be between 16 and 24 years of age inclusive and must be in at least the fifth grade. The par ticipating institution must be of a non-profit making and tax-exempt nature. POLICEMAN KILLER IS GIVEN LIFE TERM GHOST STORY apov■ - i There are ghosts at Gildercrest—] noisy, bell-ringing ghosts that send! shivers up the spine and cause the] hair to lose its curl. I had suspected ] this but the proof came Monday | night—or Tuesday morning it was— | in a way which was both real and terrifying. I had slept fitfully Monday night, not being accustomed to having ham for supper, and about four o’clock Tuesday morning was awakened by a lumbering sound on the back porch. This banging around kept up for a minute or so, and then silence, silence such as only four o'clock in the morn ing knows. Shifting his field of op eration the ghost flitted thru the 20 inch brick walls and made for the upstairs of the house. Clearly and • distinctly came his prowling—bump! bump!-bump! Then silence, followed by a sound he could have made by sandpapering the floor. Finishing his sandpapering he began bumping around again and by this time I was up, Mahatma Ghandi-like, to try to learn what it was all about. By the time I reached the hall ehe big door bell on the front door cut loose with the most weird howl imaginable. The noise echoed all over the place and was followed by absolute stillness, not even a cricket chirped. Quick investigation at the front door^ re vealed no one there and search of the house unearthed nothing that did not belong there. ^ I understand that a newspaper man built Gilercrest and the only way I can account for the strange doings of early Tuesday morning is that one of his delinquent subcribers, losing his sense of time in the spirit world, came back to pay up. Why he rang the bell when he left I do not know, unless it was to give additional color to this true yarn. Red Cross Drive Soon To Get Under Way Mrs. J. H. Summer has accepted the chairmanship of the local annual Red Cross roll call, according to an announcement made yesterday by Dr. James C. Kinard, president of the Newberry county Red Cross chapter. The roll call begins on Armistice Day and continues through November 30. Mrs. Summer had charge of the cal' last year, the most sdccessful ever held in Newberry. Dr. Kinard told reporters thh Chapter was very grateful to Mrs. Summer for taking over this year’s woik in spite of the fact that most of her time is taken up with NYA work which she super vises in three counties. “We want to make the 1939 roll call the largest we’ve ever had,” stated the college presdent as he told of plans to have the cause presented in every organization and every school of the city and county. Mrs. Summer’s NYA office on Boyce street will be roll call headquarters this year. As the call is rather late getting underway here, Newberrians are urged to respond quickly and generously when called upon. At the recent state Red Cross meet ing held at the Columbia hotel Mrs. Gordon Able, representative from the Newberry chapter, read a detailed re port of the roll call in Newberry county last year. The state execu tive committee asked the privilege of mimeographing the report and sending it to all local chapters in the state to be used as a guide for the roll call in South Carolina beginning November 11. Anderson Moon, negro carpenter and former-WPA laborer, was con victed here Saturday of murder with a recommendation of mercy in the killing of Policeman Forest Krell last August. Judge Thomas S. Sease, presiding over the general sessions court last week, sentenced Moon to life term at hard labor in the penit entiary. The verdict was reached after three hours of deliberation. J. Alvin Kinard of Pomaria was foreman of the jury. Other members included H. L. Suber, F. W. Derrick, E. S. Shealy, H. W. Thomas, B. H. Caldwell, G. B. Breh- mer, F. K. Douglas, G. E. Young, Frank W. Andrews, John Brehmer, and L. C. Derrick. Before the sentence was pronounc ed attorneys for the defense asked for a new trial on a claim “that the verdict rendered was not consistent with the charge given by the court.” The motion was overruled by Judge Sease. Officer Krell was fatally shot when he entered the house of James Moon, a son of Anderson Moon, in search of a pistol which the latter was sup posed to have used in the shooting of his wife a short time before, accord ing to testimony at the trial. Policeman J. J. Hitt, who accompan ied Krell, testified that the shot rang out shortly after Krell entered the front room of the house. Anderson Moon testified that the officer was holding and beating him when the shot was fired. Mrs. Krell, wife of the slain officer, testified her husband had told her as a dying declaration that he “could have killed Moon but did not want to die with the blood on his hands.” The defendant was represented by Gary Paschal of Columbia assisted by his partner, John W. Scholenberger, while Solicitor Hugh Beasley, of Greenwood was assisted by Blease and Griffith and Thomas H. Pope, Jr., in the prosecution. Large crowds were turned away from the courthouse during the two- day trial, intense interest being mani fested in the outcome of the case. Over two hours were taken in select ing a jury Friday morning. The ac tual trial did not get underway until about noon. Forest Krell was regarded by city and county officers as one of the best officers in this section. Moon appeared unperturbed throughout his trial, smiling as the jury filed in from the room where his fate was decided. Moon is said to be the grandson of a former member of the house of representatives from Newberry coun ty during Radical days. THE COUNTY FAIR BEQINS TUESDAY The sixteenth annual county fair will officially open here Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock, although the grounds will be opened Monday night for the midway. Wednesday is school day at which time all school children of the county will be armitted without charge. I The annual horse show will be staged on the race track on Thurs day afternoon, beginning at 2o’clock. Communities competing for booth prizes this y’ear are listed as Po maria, O’Neall, Stony Hill, Mt. Bethel- Garmany, Trinity, Bush River, Mt. Pleasant, Hartford, and Long Lane. A new feature of the fair this year will be an exhibit of beef cattle, in charge of J. L. King, assistant county agent. Indications are that the exhibits of every kind will be unusually good this year and fair officials are en couraged over prospects for record attendance. BOY SCOUTS TO STAGE MAMMOTH PAGEANT SAM WILLIAMS MODERATOR IN S. C. PRESBYTERY DISTRIST P. T. A. CONVENES AT LITTLE MOUNTAIN HE’S A THIEF x All my life I have accepted as true the virtues said to be exemplified in the squirrel. But that’s a snare and a deluison. The squirrel is a thief and a crook. We are told how he in dustriously prepares for the winter by laying up store while the sun shines, but few know he stoops to stealing the goodies he stores away to gorge on when the snow falls and icicles hang from the trees. For the past several days now I have been picking up pecans as they fall from the trees, putting them in a hamper basket high up on a shelf in a cellar house. Tuesday I spied a squirrel - just as he was emerging from the house. He stopped dead in the door with a big pecan in his mouth, and then and there my admir ation for his fine qualities fled with the wind. He didn’t even look asham ed but scampered off up a tree with my nut like nobody’s business. Now The Little Mountain Parent-Teach er Association will entertain the 3rd district of the state Parent-Teacher Association at its annual meeting November 11. The district is compos ed of Newberry, Union, Saluda, Edge- field, Greenwood, and Abbeville coun ties and members from all local units in all these counties are expected to attend. An all day session will be held and a dutch luncheon served at noon. Mrs. Pall Leonard, state P. T. A. president and a national officer of the same organization, will be the day’s principal speaker. Although the units at Little Moun tain and Whitmire are the only two in Newberry county affiliated with The National Congress of Parents and Teachers, members of all other interested associations are invited to attend the district meeting. there are a dozen pecan trees on the place loaded with nuts and he has free range, fine weather and lots of time to gather them, yet the little thief takes advantage of my labors to fix himself up for the winter’ I hope he breaks his teeth or bites a worm. Can it be possible that the New Deal idea of living without working has invaded the animal kingdom and brought low the exemplar of thrift and foresight? I am going to try to find out if he believes in a third term’ Sam Williams was elected moder ator of South Carolina presbytery of the Presbyterian church Tuesday at the semi-annual meeting of the presbytery held at Lebanon church near Abbeville, He succeeds the Rev. E. P. Moye of Watts Mill. Mr. Williams, an elder of Aveleigh Presbyterian church, serves as head of the presbytery which includes Presbyterian church in Newberry, Greenwood, Laurens, and Abbeville counties, for six months. In nine districts of the Blue Ridge Council, 1500 Cubs, Boy Scouts, and j Sea Scouts are practicing their part in the mammoth pageant, “America’s Answer,” to be presented before an expected 5,000 persons in Textile Hall in Greenville, November 11. The production, first of its kind in this section, will present the Scout pro gram as “America’s Answer” to the 'intolerance and hatred taught the youth of the dictator nations. The' Newberry district’s part in the pageant is under the direction of R. Wright Cannon. About 150 boys from this area will participate in the production. LEGION PLANNING ARMISTICE DAY CELEBRATION HERE Newberry’s Armistice Day celebra tion will be observed November 10 this year because of the ffth being on a Saturday, a date unsuitable for those taking part in the event. A Main street parade will be staged by school children, Boy and Girl Scouts, and other organizations. The parade begins at noon. At one o’clock on Friday, the tenth, a banquet will be held in the Legion hall for all members of the local Le gion post and Word War veterans. The meal will be served by the Legion Auxiliary of which Mrs. James Stewart is president. Dr. Claude Sease is commander of the Newberry Legior post, No. 24. SPECIAL SERVICES THIS WEEK AT REDEEMER Dr. E. B. Keisler is conducting special evangelistic services at the Lutheran church of the Redeemer this week. Meetings are held each evening and short periods of instruc tion for any who may desire it fol low each service. Dr. Keisler spoke Monday evening on the subject “I Am A Sinner”. His topic the second night was “God’s Search for Man” and Wednesday he spoke on “Christ Paid It All.” This evening (Thursday) the Luth eran minister will address his con gregation and welcomed visitors on “Imitating God” and his final ser vice tomorrow evening will feature his sermon entitled “The Church and I.” SPECIAL SERVICES PLANNED FOR >MT. PILGRIM CHURCH A preaching mission will be held in Mt. Pilgr ; m church, of which the Rev. D. M. Shull is pastor, each even ing at seven-thrity o’clock from Mon day through Friday of next week. Sermons on timely subjects will be delivered by the pastor. Also ques tions of interest to all will be ans wered as a part of the service. The members of the Mt. Tabor parish and worshippers in general are urged to attend. HOG SHIPMENT From the pens at Helena two full cars of hogs were shipped Wednesday purchased by the Ballentine packing company for $6.80 per hundred pounds. They brought $1,946.42. County agent, P. B. Ezell, states that shipments wll be held when a sufficient number of animals to sell are offered by Newberry farmers. Mr. Ezell urges the farmers to notify him when they have animals to offer and the number they wish to sell. The next hog shipment will probably be in three weeks. Chamber Banquet The first of the semi-annual ban quets for the Chamber of Commerce members will be held this (Thursday) evening at the Willowbrook club house at 7:30 o’clock. A turkey din ner will be served and a brief pro gram will follow. Approximately 150 persons are expected. President Hal Kohn will be presiding. C. C. Hutto, chairman of the pro gram committee, announces that Ted Bremer, new chamber secretary, will be officially presented to the members at the banquet, Short talks will be made by J. Y. Jones, E. B. Purell, chairman of the water and light commission; and T. E. Davis who will tell of the recent improvements in the Newberry Coun ty park. Music will be rendered by John Erickson, Milton Moore, and Harry Feld, all of the college music depart ment and a number of attendance prizes awarded. TO BILTMORE Mr. and Mrs. White Fant and Mr. and Mrs. Griffin Coleman and daugh ter, Joyce, spent Sunday at the Bilt- more estate in North Carolina. HAS OPERATION M. P. Henderson of the Pressley school community was brought to the county hospital Tuesday night for an appendectomy. Fire Destroys Stock Chapman Lumber Co. The Chapman Lumber company, lo cated above Jalapa on the Newberry- Greenville highway, suffered loss of approximately 850,000 feet of lumber as a result of fire of unkown origin Sunday afternoon. The loss in dol lars amounted to approximately $14,- 000. Mr. Chapman had a small amount of insurance, it is said. The call to help combat the fire reached the local fire department about two o’clock Sunday. There being no water available for a fire pump, it was useless to send the trucks. Several of the volunteer firemen went out to offer assistance and upon arrival, took charge. Demoralized labor was organized, fire .anes were cleared, bucket bri gades formed, and “water sheds” placed between the blaze and unpro tected lumber piles. The water sheds were kept wet by the bucket brigade until Newberry’s street' sweeper arrived with 1200 gal lons of water. This water was used to keep sfieds wet and cool the near est burning lumber piles. The street sweeper made three trips with water. Due to favorable wind, the untiring efforts of the organized crew, the water 1 sheds, and the town’s street sweeper, almost half the lumber on the grounds and the plant itself was saved? The fire was brought under con trol after six hours of hard fighting. To the hundreds of Newberrians who rode out to witness the spectacle, the fire appeared to take the upper hand several times and the task of saving the plant appeared impossible. The men who worked in the blistering heat moving lumber and carrying water deserve much credit for their work. Firemen in charge say this fire effectively proved the worth of water sheds in fighting lumber blazes. The sheds were the result of fire school ing here and Sunday was the first time the local volunteers had seen them in use at an actual lumber fire. 20 YEARS AGO Prosperity — Grace Lutheran church’s allotment of ten thousand dollars in the $300,00 education drive has been s«bscribed in full by the congregation. Pastor C. J. Shealy deserves much credit for it was through his untiring efforts that Grace church went over the top. Baptist Courier — The Summer brothers of Newberry haye given $25,000 to Newberry college to be used in maintaining the chair of Bible and Christian ethics in that institution. The gift is made in honor of their mother. What finer memorial could they establish than to link her name perpetually with the teacher of Bible in a Christian college ? MANY FARM WOMEN MEET AT BUSH RIVER Approcrimately 400 farm women of j the county attended the annual fall meeting of the Newberry County Council of Farm Women held Friday at the Bush River school with the Smyrna and Tranwood home demon stration clubs entertaining. Featuring the day’s program was a talk by Mrs. Landrum Sellars of Pauline, state president of the farm women organizations. She told of her recent trip to London where she attended a conference for farm wo men of the world. Following the luncheon served at thq school, the women reconvened in the school auditorium for an enter tainment program provided by WPA recreational leaders of the county. They presented a, marionette show giving a minstrel and a performance of “Ferdinand the Bull.” The spring session of the council will be held at the Long Lane school with the Mt. Bethel - Garmany and Long Lane home demonstration clubs in charge. DEPUTY QUATTLEBAUM MAKES iTWO NEGRO ARRESTS Roland Wise, negro, was arrested by Deputy Hub Quattlebaum at his home near Little Mountain Tuesday morning charged with house breaking 1 and larcency. He broke into Floyd Mayer’s chicken house and stole some eggs. Wise was taken to the county jail. Deputy Quattlebaum arrested Dave Turley, also colored, last Thursday. Charged with burgalry Turley was lodged in the county jail to be tried at criminal court next March. MISS RUTH CARROLL TO LATIN CONFERENCE Miss Ruth Carroll, professor of Latin and German at Newberry col lege, will represent the college at a conference for teachers of Latin to be held at Agnes Sott college Octo ber 27 and 28. The Latin conference which is a part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Agnes Scott will fea ture and address by Dr. W. A. Old- father, head of the department of classics in the University of Illinois. Miss Carrol! will attend the entire program and act as leader for me of the topics 0 f the round table discus- Legion Post Sponsors Horse Show At Fair T. E. Davis, chairman of the horse show to be staged at the county fair next week, announces that plans have been completed for the show Thurs day afternoon at two o’clock on the race track just in front of the Legion building. The show is being spon sored by the local Legion post and its auxiliary. No admission will be charged ex cept to the fair ground?. A great deal of interest is being shown in the children’s and ladies’ riding classes, acording to Mr. Davis. The following is a complete list of the various classifications in the. show. Class No. 1.—Stallions; Both sad dle bred and draft to be shown in same class but judged separately. First prize $2.50; second, ribbqns; third, ribbons; fourth, ribbons. Class No. 2.—Brood mares: Both saddle bred and draft, to be shown in same class but judged separately. First prize, $2.50, each type; second, ribbons; third, ribbons; fourth, rib bons. Class No. 3.—Jack: First prize, $2.50; second, $1.00; third and fourth, ribbons. Class No. 4.—Colts one year of age or under both saddle bred and draft, to be shown in same class but judged separately. First prize, $2.20 each; second, ribbons; third, fourth ribbons. Class No. 5.—Colts, one year of age to three years of age, both saddle bred and draft, to be shown in same class but judged separately. First prize, $2.50 each; second, ribbons; third, ribbons; fourth, ribbons. Class No. 6.—Mule colts, one year of age or under. First prize, $2.50; second, ribbon; third, ribbon; fourth, ribbon. Class fto. 7.—Mule Colts, one year of age to three years of age. First prize, $2.50; second, ribbon, third, ribbon; fourth, ribbon. Class No. 8.—Children’s Horse manship, 18 years of age and under. Mounts not to be considered. Judged on horsemanship only. First prize, $2.50; second, $1.50; third, 50c; fourtlv 50c. Class No. 9.—Three gaited or hack stallions, mares or geldings. First prize, $2.50; second, $1.50; third, $1.00; fourth, ribbon. To show walk, trot and canter. Class No. 10.—Walking horse or plantation horse class. Stallions, mares, or geldings. To show running walk, canter, and flat footed walk. First prize, $2.50; second, $1.50; third, $1.00;. fourth, ribbon. Class No. 11.—Five gaited class. Stallions, mares, or geldings to show walk, trot, canter, slow gait, rack. First prize, $2.t>0; second, $1.50; third, $1.00; fourth, ribbon. Class No. 12.—Ladies’ horseman ship. Can ride any tpye saddle bred mount. To be shown as directed by’ judge. First prize, trophy; second, $2.50; third, 1.50; fourth $1.00. Class No. 13.—Harness class. To be driven at walk and trot harness ed to cart, buggy, or carriage, either pairs of single. First prize, $2.50; second, $1.50; third, $1.00; fourth, ribbon. SUPERVISOR APPEALS CASE FROM COLUMBIA Mrs. A. H. Kohn of Columbia is j passing this week with her son, Hal, Kohn and family. Holland H. Ruff, county Super visor. through his attorney, Fred H. Dominick. Esn., Hju filed no tice of hLs intention to appeal to the supreme court from the de cision of Judge T. S. Sease in an order issued recently restraining him from ‘.nterferance with road work of the county.”