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VOLUME 5; NO. 16 NEWBERRY, S. C. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 6 1942 The Rising Sun—1856*1860 OUT AMONG THE PEOPLE STATE TO OPERATE BUSES The senate proposal that the State take over the transportation of school pupils is a good one. This has long been a problem for county school officials and a distinct burden on poor counties. The transporta tion of school pupils by the State would mean an end to contracts be ing handed out because of political pull or because someone wanting the job happened to be the czar in his community. Hundreds of children are today being transported in buses, the drivers of which are not capable of having the safety of these children entrusted to them. Newberry Is Included In Coming Maneuvers Uunion, Newberry, Laurens in Area in Which Troop Activities 'Proposed Columbia, Feb. 4.—Senators and representatives from 11 South Caro lina counties gave unanimous en dorsement today to a plan under which the army would lease more than 2,000,000 acres of land in the state for maneuver purposes. Meeting in the senate chamber the legislators heard army and defense officials ask for a five-year “maneu ver rights” lease on the land. It was estimated the proposed plan would involve approximately 15,000 land- owners. Area to Be Included THE SALARIED MAN I believe I noticed some weeks back that the South Carolina Nation al bank raised salaries of its em ployees 10 percent, thus recognizing the ever increasing cost of living. The salaried man who has been mak ing $200 a month is in reality at this time only making $176, accord ing to government figures of aver age price increase. Twenty four dol lars of the money he used to have as a safety margin now goes for the increase in the things he is forced to buy if he wants to keep eating and wearing. Some local concerns have also raised salaries, but the salaries of those in public offices, county, city, and so on have not been raised so far as we have noticed. There are some who will argue that these public officials are getting enough, even with the increased cost of living. If so, by the same logic we might say they have been long overpaid, and we do not admit that. A $200 a month salary to a far mer would indeed be a bonanza and to many of these public officials seem overpaid 1 . But when it is re membered that a house in Newberry costs $35 to $40 a month, grocery bills that much and more, light bills, laundry and many other bills, plus a hundred things to which he must contribute throughout the year, his $200 is spent before he ever gets it. And not every person serving the public gets $200 a month; In .'act only a very few get such salaries. We hope that those who have con trol of the money will not be long in recognizing that living costs are mounting rapidly. School teachers living in Newberry ark finding it very trying to live on their salaries and it seems that these could easily be increased as the district is in good shape. This newspaper does not believe that public funds should be disbursed with a lavish hand but there should be some elasticity in the matter of salaries of those who serve the pub lic. There have been times, you will rcall, when they have been asked to take cuts and they took them—with out grumbling. SLIGHT DROP MADE IN GAS TAX YIELD; OTHER TO DECLINE Columbia, Feb. 2.—State Tax Commission Chairman Walter G. Query reported today a slight down ward trend in gasoline tax revenues was revealed by January recipta of $1,436,418. Although this was 12.9 per cent above January receipts a year ago, the rate of increase showed a four per cent decline. In the months since last July, the average increase over the corresponding months of a year earlier was 16.6 per cent, the tax commission reported. A decline in gasoline tax revenues has been anticipated 1 by the commis sion since tire and automobile ration ing was begun. Other revenue declines predicted by the commission were from taxes on bottled soft drinks and whiskey. A drop of $950,000 was antici pated for 1942 in the soft drinks tax receipts, which totaled more than $2,600,000. WOOL RATIONING WILL COME SOON, MRS. FDR ADVISES Atlanta, Feb. 3.—American women who think that they need only knit to help the national defense effort will have to think again, says Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. “Very shortly,” she told a defense rally tonight, “they won’t be able to knit. . . Their wool will be rationed.” As for uniforms for women de fense workers, adds Mrs. Roosevelt, tfiey’re nice and perhi os they help the wearer's morale, but— “If you can’t afford the wool to make them—and we need it in our war effort—you get a spiritual lift some other way.” Counties in which the army pro poses to lease land are Kershaw, Richland, Lexington, Fairfield, Ches ter, Union, Laurens, Ne\. oerry, Lan caster, Clarendon and Sumter. Six of the counties in which trespass rights are sought—Lexington, Un ion, Newberry, Laurens, Clarendon and Sumter—were not used in tjie first army maneuvers last fall. Maj. Gen. Charles A. Thompson, commander of the first army corps, told the solons today that no war games comparable to those held last fall were contemplated. He said the land would be used largely to give trainees at Fort Jackson actual ex perience in the field, and that most likely no large scale maneuvers would be held. ^To Contact Land Owners Under the present plan the army would seek to secure “maneuver rights’’ in the 11 counties by April 1. An organization to supervise the signing of contracts with land own ers is expected to be established im mediately. Brig. Gen. James C. Dozier, ad jutant general of South Carolina, explained that the maneuvers would be confined mostly to wooded areas and that troops would take special precautions not to trample cultivated fields and orchards. Senator O. L. Long, of Laurens, lauding the army’s method of se curing the land, said he “was proud to live in a country wnsre military authorities sought permission to go on a man’s land rather than simply taking the right.” Gov. J. E. Harley is expected to issue a proclamation in the next few days urging farmers and land owners to co-operate with military authorities in acquiring trespass rights. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONFERENCE On Wednesday, February fourth, a special Associational Sunday School confeemce will be held at the Hunt Memorial Baptist Church. The conference will begin at 10:00 o’clock and will close at 3:15 o’clock. A fine program has been prepared by the Associational Promotion Com mittee of the Baptist Sunday School Board in Nashville, Tenn. Three visiting workers will be present to bring messages on the Sunday School work and to direct the conferences. These special associational Sunday School conferences a re the practical promotion of the Four Year Sunday School Promotional Program, 1941- 1944. This will be the second year of the Four Year Program. The objectives of each one of these spe cial associational meetings are 1. To encourage and assist in com pleting the organizatio nof the asso ciation for the promotion of Sunday School work. 2. To help the associational officers set up some essential, practical, at tainable goals for the year. 3. To present, study, and assist the Sunday School leaders from each church in setting up some reasonable goals for the year. 4. To offer every Sunday school officer and teacher the free litera ture that is available covering each phase of Sunday School work. 5. To ecognize and use the asso ciational Sunday School officers. 6. To emphsize the indispensable place of the Pastor and to magnify the work of the whole church. Each church in the Reedy River Association has been notified as to the date and purpose of this con ference, and a large attendance is urged from each church. Remember that the meeting will begin at 10:00 o’clock, the Hunt Memorial Church will serve lunch, and the afternoon session will close at 3:15 p. m. J. Aubrey Estes, Associational S. S. Supt. Miss Elizabeth Holt a teacher in the Charlotte, N. C., schools spent the weekend in Newberry with her mother, Mrs. Vanessa Holt on Bound ary street. Class Is Now Open In Civilian Training School The Civilian Pilot Training pro gram sponsored by the Laurens Busi ness league is now open to all male citizens between the ages of 18-25, in. elusive. There are no educational requirements. Applications should be filed at once with the Richardson Finance com pany at Laurens as the deadline for accepting them is Saturday, Febru ary 7th. Applicants must pass a prescribed physical examination by a govern ment designated physician before he can be considered for training. Cost of the examination is $12 which is refunded if the student is awarded free flight scholarship. Married as well as single men are eligible for this training and all those accepted who are subject to the draft will be deferred by special arrangements as long as they are ac tively engaged in the training pro gram. It should be born in mind tha» the date of the closing of this class is this coming Saturday and those in terested should go at once to Laur ens at the office of the above'men tioned concern and get detailed in formation. These training courses of ..course lead to service in the U. S. air ser vice to those showing particular aptitude. POSTOFFICE HAS SUPPLY STICKERS FOR CAR George K. Dominick, postmaster, announces that a new supply of use stickers for automobiles has been re ceived and motorists may get them by applying there. The rate is siill $2.09 and it is supposed that it will remain at that figure until March when the price will be $1.67 for cars bought in that month. The rate for cars bought in the following month* are: April $1.25, May 84c, June 42c. The June sticker is good until July first when the $5 sticker for the full year must be bought. Motorists who now own and operate cars cannot wait until March or April and buy the cheap stickers. Cars now in opeation or which have been operated since January first must bear the $2.09 sticker. 1 * New Draft^egistration Begins February 16th Some 2500 men between the ages of 36 and 45 and men 20 and 21 y -rs of age will regiajDer in New',. e rry county on Mond**, February 16, on the third registry ion date called by the President uni er the Selective Training and Sendee Act of 1940. Men who reaced their 20th birth day on or before .December 31, 1941 and men who have not reached their 45th birthday by February 16, 1942 and who have not before registered are required to report to some regis tration center on the I6th. All cen ters will be open from 7 in the morn ing until 9 o’clock at night. The county’s two local boards are handling this registration assisted by the teachers of the public schools directed by C. E. Hendrix, county superintendent of education. Centers and chief registrars have been announced. Board 58 which takes in townships 1, 8, and 4 has arranged for eleven centers in their area. Professor O. B. Cannon is chief clerk of registration in the city schools. There will be a center at the high school managed by Price K. Harmon, at Mollohan school managed by Harry Hedgepath, at West End school in charge of C. E. Bowers, and at Oakland school in charge cf E. Maxcy Stone. Coloreds will reg ister at Drayton Street school head ed by R. F. Gladden. There will be a center at Newberry college with Chris Kaufmans in charge. Both whites and coloreds may register at Whitmire where B. C. Lake takes charge, at Long Lane where James D. Brown has been named chief reg istrar, at Hartford school with N. K. Williamson as chief registrar, at Johnstone with B. B. Wilson in charge, and at ‘Ut. Bethel-Garmany with Carl B. Settler in charge. Because Board) 59 covers a larger area more center# will be used. Regis- twnta to temraahipe 8. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, arid 12 CBihe under the jurisdic tion of this Hoard. In Prosperity there will be centers at both the white and colored schools with R. M. Monts Jr., serving as chief registrar. The white and colored schools at Lit tle Mt. will be in use with J. W. Bal lentine managing. REV. GREEN VISITOR Rev. Oliver B. Greene who con ducted a tent revival here several months ago visited friends In the city last Sunday. He was accompan ied by his singer, Bennett Collins, also of Greenville. The two revival ists were on their way to Columbia where they took part in the dedica tion of the Open Door tabernacle, lo cated in West Columbia. FARMERS TO RECEIVE “LIVE- AT-HOME” CERTIFICATES On February 7th one hundred for ty-seven Newberry country farm families who made their living from the land in 1941 will be recognized apd honored by being awarded a cer tificate of recognition of their ac complishments in producing on the farm and conserving for home use 75 percent or more of their foo* *nd feed requirements. The certificates will be signed by Governor, J. E. Harley, D. W. Wat kins, Director of Extension, Verd Peterson, State Supervisor of voca tional education, and the chairman of the Newberry County Agricultural Committee in Newberry county. A program to award these certifi cates will be conducted at the New berry county court house Saturday morning, Feb. 7th, at 10:30. A radio set-up will be installed to hear ad dresses by Governor Harley, Mr. Wat kins and Mr. Peterson. The broad cast will be made on South Carolina radio stations at 10:45 o'clock. P. B. Ezell, County Agent and Ethel L. Counts, Home Demonstration Agent will make a statement and a talk by Senator Marvin E. Abrams will be given. The colored farmers who are to re ceive certificates will i-.eet at Dray ton Street high school at the same time where an address will be made and the certificates awarded. ATTEND BEAUTY MEET IN COLUMBIA Mrs. Helen Wilson, Miss Ruth Senn, Mrs. OKn Hentz, Miss Nellie Ruff and Miss Annie Hendrix, all employees of the Friendly Beauty Salon attended a denvionstration of Har-Fed hair-conditioner which was held a t the Columbia hotel in Colum. bia last Thursdoy evening. Those who attended reported a most inter esting and educational meeting. Board 69 has arranged for *ot whites and coloreds to register a at the following places: Mt. Pleasan with Joel T. Kelly, chief registrar Fairview with Grady Lee Halfacrc chief registrar; Bush River with J. H Bedenbaugh, managing; Chappells J. D. Timms, chief registrar; Joll; Street, R. H. Amick, in charge O’Neall, G. A. Lindler, chief regis trar; New Hope Zion, Balph Setzlei registrar; Stoney Hill, Jabes C. Ab rams, registrar; Pomaria, R. L. Ris er, regrista; Silvestreet, J. G. Long registrar; St. Phillips, Cecil Bowers registrar; and Peak with Miss Susi Langford serving as chief registrai Coloreds may also report to the Jal apa colored school where S. P. Har ris will be chief registrar, to Dai Watkins school with G. P. Say* a chief, or to Elisha school wher Keith Aull has been named chie of registrations. All men who are to register are dir ected to report to the center neares them. Particular emphasis will b stressed upon the registrant’s “plac of residence” this time so as to avoi any confusion about the board whic] will have jurisdiction over him. Th man registering will be warned t grive his correct home address am told that such an address will deter mine the Board which will classifj examine, and induct him. • The offices of the local boards i: the Exchange Bank building will b used on the 16th for registering onl; itinerants. NEW HOURS FOR RED CROSS With the changing of time Monday, February 9th, the Red Cross Rooms will be open from 10 until 12 a. m., until Mrs. Mims returns the latter part of the month, and more work is received. Please watch the pewspapers then for new hours. We still have wool on hand and will be glad to get work in which is out. We hope to have wool for sweaters and sox for our army and navy very soon. DR. ERLAND NELSON AT SUMMER MEMORIAL Dr. Erland Nelson of Newberry college will conduct a Motion Pic ture Program at Summer Memorial Lutheran church Sunday evening at six o’clock. This program should be interesting and profitable for all, and all members are urged to be present and visitors are invited to at tend. Rail Crossing Accident Claims Lives of Three Three members of Newberry’s home guard, Chris Athanos, Jesse B. Williams, and I. C. Layton, met in stant death Monday night shortly after 10 o’clock when the car in Which they were riding was struck by a Southern passenger train at a grade crossing on Glenn street neai the office of the Mollohon mill. The three men were returning from a drill at the armory on the cut-off road when the accident occured. Mr. Athanos was taking Mr. Layton to his home at Mollohon and from there he was to take Mr. Williams to his home at West End. The car in which the three men lost their lives was completely wrecked and some of the bodies badly mangled. The car was carried a considerable distance down the track before the train could be brought to a stop. Mr. Athanos was still in the car, slumped over on the front seat when first parties arrived at the scene. One of the men was found about two hundred feet back of where the train stopped, and the other was also thrown from th* car near the scene of the accident. Members of the train crew are reported as saying that the cai drew up on the track* and stopped. Another report is that Mr. Athanos thought the approaching train was on the farther of the two tracks at that point and stopped to awan its passing. This accident brings a to tal of seven lives lost at this cross ing in the past few years. Chris Athanos was manager of the Busy Bee cafe and had livwd in Newberry for many years. He was unmarried. Mr. Layton was a loom fixer a t Mollohon while Mr. Williams was employed as a weaver at West End mill. Both of the latter were married. Funeral services for Mr. Athanos were held from the residence of his brother, Dennis Athanos, on Nance street Wednesday afternoon at four o’clock, conducted by the Rev. C. A. Cakote, pastor of Aveleigh Presby terian church of which Mr. Athanos was a member, assisted by a Greek priest. Burial was in Rosemont ce metery. Funeral services for Mr. Layton were held Wednesday afternoon, and last rites for Mr. Williams were held Thursday afternoon from West End Baptist church. Members of the home guard at tended each funeral and fired a vol ley over the graces of their com rades, followed by the sounding of taps. ANNUAL SCOUT SERVICE AT LUTHERAN CHURCH The annual church services for the Boy Scouts of Newberry will be held this year at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Sunday night, February 8, at the regular ev ening service hour, 7:30. A union service of this nature is observed each year by the focal troops in connection with Boy Scout week at one of the churches of the city. All Scouts, Scouters, and others interested in Scouting are urged to be present. Rev. E. Bryan Keisler, pastor the the church, will conduct the services and deliver the sermon. SCOUTS’ FATHER-SON BANQUET AT WILLOWBROOK 13TH Climaxing the celebration of Boy Scout week, February 8-13, the lo cal Boy Scouts will be the guests of their dads at the annual Father and Son banquet next Friday, February 13, at Willowbrook club house. Coach Rex Enright of the University of South Carolina has been secured to speak to the group, and present also will be Mr. Horace S. Williamson, Scout Executive, from Greenville. Mr. Williamson succeeds O. B. Gor man in this position, and comes to this council from the Lonesome Pine Council with headquarters at Pike- ville, Ky. Mr. Gorman has accepted work of similar nature at Wilkes- Barre, Pa. COURTHOUSE DAMAGED $30,000 Blaze |Hits Saluda County Building Saluda, Feb. 3.—The Saluda coun ty courthouse suffered considerable damage during last night by a fire which, after being apparently con trolled, broke out a second time and brought the fire departments from Greenwood and Newberry to help lo cal firemen in extinguishing it. County officials estimated tin. damage at $30,000. The building was completed in 1918 at a cost of about $60,000. PUBLISHED WEEKLY Marines'Want Men Not_Fit’For Combat Marine Reserves Plan for Men 30 to 50 Is Announced Enlistments in the limited service reserve division of the U. S. marine corps of men between 30 and 60 years of age who are not physically qualified for combat duty is annuonc- ed by Major A. C. Small, officer in charge of the Savannah recruiting district. Men enlisted under this new plan will relieve for combat duty marines now on guard posts at various naval shores stations, Major Small said. ^ In addition to the age limits ap plicants must meet reduced physical requirements but cannot be quali fied for combat assignments, or by reason of marriage or dependents may not be qualified for general duty. Major Small said. Recruiting officers, he continued, have been advisad to use extreme care in accepting men for enlistment under the new classification. “Only men of high caliber and in good standing in their communities will be accepted,” he said. Former service men will be re appointed immediately upon en listment to the highest enlisted rank, up to sergeant, they attained during their previous service, he said, adding that in no case would rank or pay be less than that of private first class. Full pay, according to status at tained, will begin immediately wpon enlistment and in addition those ac cepted will be allowed subsistence, quarters and transportation of de pendents. Limited service reserves will be given recruit training prior to as signment to permanent posts. If possible, Major Small said, choice of station will be left up to the volun teers so long as it is within the naval district of their enlistment. NEW COMERS TO THE CITY Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Hart and family are making their home at 901 Caldwell street in the Frank Hunter home. They moved Monday of this week from Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Black, new comers to the city are making their home at 944 Cline street. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Kelly also new- comes to Newberry are living at 1912 Harrington street in the house form erly occupied by Mrs Pluma Booth Scott, before her mariage to P. E. Scott. HOUSE OCCUPIED WITH FILI BUSTER ON LICENSE BILL Columbia, Feb. 3.—Representative Grant of Chester took the floor to night to talk, he said, until he was sure that a senate-approved bill on third reading would be defeated. Grant resumed his filibuster •against the senate-approved bill which would permit municipalities to charge out-of-town wholesalers a street use tax at 8:10 p. m. and talk ed until the house adjourned at 9:03. The Chester representative’s #esk was piled high with telegrams he said protested against the bill. He read many of them which in most in stances were from small town mer chants and wholesalers. “Even the little boys back home who run the evorner grocery stores know this is class legislation,” Grant said. He resumed his often interrupted debate against this bill this morning, but the house recessed after voting 86 to 12 aganst a motion to continue (kill) the bill. FREE PICTURE SHOW “Masters of The Soil”, a sound picture will be shown at the Court house here Saturday, February 7, be ginning a t 2 o’clock, at which time free prizes will be distributed. “Masters of the Soil”, was made by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture in co-operation with the U. S. Department of Agriculture and deipicts many phases of conser vation on the farm, including the care of farm machin».y. A demon stration on the care of the tractor will be given behind the court house immedjately after the show. The picture is a part of the great national wide movement to increase farm pro duction and at the same time con serve existing farm machinery in or der to release raw material for the machines of war. Another sound picture, “Giants of the Cornfield”, will also be shown. This is a thrilling picturization of the National com husking contest held in Tonica, Illinois last year. Every thing is free and there is a wealth of information to be had from the witnessing of this picture and the tractor demonstration. $1.00 PER YEAR DOWN MEMORY LANE 20 YEARS AGO Whatever the government might do toward making it easier for the farmer financially, the farmer can get very little benefit of any situa tion that might be created withouc the expenditure of energy and intel ligence on his part. That should be accepted as a fact. But that the government did make things more attractive for the fanner during the year 1918-1919 none but a foo* will dispute, and just as certainly as the inflated condition that existed wir ing 1918 and 1919 was the result of government efforts to stimulate ag ricultural production, the subsequent period of depression has been caused by opposite government action. In the first place the financial interests sought to provide an abundance of food and clothing for the army and the people. That having been ac complished, it was necessary to with draw such financial power as remain ed in the hands of the farmers, lest the farmer become too independent of the financial interests. Mr. Baldwin, the landscape archi- techt who has been in charge of beautifying the grounds of the old court house under the auspices of the civic leagrue, has completed his work and returned to his home in Columbia. The attention of the civic league, the Rotarians, the Chamber of Com merce, the Kiwanis club, and the Daughters of the American Revolu tion needs to be called to one of the most beautiful spots in all Newberry, and yet the most neglected. It is a sacred spot—“God’s Acre”—the old Newberry graveyard. Many of the monuments are in a splendid state of preservation. Many require only a little cement to put the broken pieces together.- B«f the entire place is in a state of decay and dilapidation un worthy of a town like Newberry, it is a dumping ground for all th« ac cumulation of filth in its neighbor hood, and we understand that the old tin cans and other trash are thrown there by order of Town Council. This graveyard is capable of being made into one of the most beautiful places in town. There are magnificent trees and the plot is rolling and capable of being glassed. Oh shades of Dr. Ruff, of the Johnstones and Cakt- wells and Kinards, what think ye of the spot in which ye lie? FERTLIZER IS ASSURED Maybank Says Minimum Needs to Be Supplied Washington, Feb. 3.—Senator Bur net R. Maybank said today he had been assured by the war production board that “every possible effort" will be made to make available to South Carolina farmers sufficient ni trate to meet minimum needs. Deversion from war uses to ferti lizer production of nitrate, consid ered essential to early crop planting has been ordered by the WPD, nnd fertilizer manufacturers handling ni trate have been advised concerning quotas to be released to various farm states, Senator Maybank said. Senator Maybank explained that farmers need not expect to obtain as much nitrate fertilizer as was avail able last season and cautioned that they exert every effort “to make lit- -tle go a long way.” SEEN ABOUT TOWN Three college boys telling HEND RIX MONTS what they would do to him if he didn't pick them up and carry them to the college . . . MRS. CLAUDE SANDERS wearing a cute two color brown hat . . . MRS. GUR- NIE SUMMER & daughter MABLE shopping . . . Wonder what has hap pened to the air raid alarm this week . . . FORREST LOMINACK walking up College street with both hands in his trousers pockets looking as if he were about to freeze . . . What happened to the topcoat, For rest? . . . MRS. E. M. LIPSCOMB and MRS. JOHN EPPS walking down College street Tuesday (the day that the thermometer registered 16 1-2) eating ice cream cones . . . MRS. FURMAN REAGIN hurrying up the street waving a paper in her hand . . . Birthday anniversaries thru February 12: Gene Hendrix, three year old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hendrix, Feb. 6; Mac Calcote, little son of Rev. and Mrs. C. A. Calcote. Feb. 7; T. S. Harmon and Dorothy French, Feb. 8; Miss Mattie Adams and Mrs. J. W. Smith, Feb. 10; John James Chappell, Feb. 12.