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******Hr*y-A - \by buying \ '.wr wm(- VOLUME 7; NUMBER 34 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1944. 91.00 PER ANNUM WITH THE BOYS IH SERVICE JAMES SMITH writes his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Jamies Smith from the Pacific theater of opera tions, where he has been on duty for the past T8 months, that he has been promoted from Coxswain to Boatswain 2-c. James has been in the service since July, 1942. COL. L. G. ESKRIDGE, JR. land ed in San Francisco, Calif. Sunday night and arrived in Newberry Wed nesday to spend a leave with his wife and daughter, Nancy, and his parents, Mr .and Mrs. L. G. Eskridge on Boundary street. Colonel Eskridge has been in the Southwest Pacific theatre of opera tions for the past three years. ROTARIANS TO HEAR HIGH CHURCHMAN sgt. w. l. McCullough has been missing in action in Germany, according to a telegram received from the War Department by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Mc Cullough near Whitmire, last Sat urday morning. Sergeant McCullough, a member of the Infantry has been overseas only about three months. LIEUT. (JG) MORGAN RAN- DEL, who has been overseas for the past 21 months, landed in Nor folk, Va. Sunday night and arrived in Newtoerry Wednesday to splend a 30 day leave with his wife, the former Julia Smith, who is making her home with her iporents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Derrill Smith on Main St. Lieutenant Randel went into ser vice immediately after his gradua tion at Newberry College in Aug ust 1942. PVT. FLOYD ARIAIL FULMER has been missing in action in Ger many since November 14th, accord ing to a telegram received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Ful mer, 1310 Washington street, last Thursday morning. Private Fulmer, a member of the Infantry Anti-Tank Platoon, has been in the service since April 13, 1943. He received his training at Camp Blanding, Fla., Camp Robert son, Ark., Camp Rucker, Ala., and prior to being sent to England the latter part of June, 1944, he was stationed at Fort Meade, Md. PRIVATE GEORGE J. SLIGH, JR., son of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Sligh, has been promoted to the grade of Private First Class at his overseas Mustang fighter base in England. Pfc. Sligh is on duty as chief dis patcher of aircraft in the opera tions office of his squadron. He also was awarded the Good Conduct Medal. He is a grauate of Newberry High school, and before entering the service was a student at New berry College. . His wife, Mrs. Elisabeth O. Sligh lives at 1820 Nance Stree. CAPTAIN WALLACE RISER, who has been overseas with the 8th Air Force in England for the past year, arrived in Kinards last Thurs day to spend a 26 day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Riser before reporting to Miami Beach, Flordia for reassignment. Captain Riser has been in the ser vice over three years. He was a- warded the Distinguished Flying Cross for “extraordinary achieve ment in aerial combat”, the Air Medal and four Oak Leaf Clusters for “meritorious achievement” in combat missions over Europe. Cap tain Riser has 31 missions and 1000 flying hours to his credit. THE FOLLOWING LETTER was received by the Sun this week: Chanute Field, 111. Nov. 29, 1944 Dear Sir: I wish you would give this letter to Santa Claus for me. Dear Santa: I am a little boy in the Army. I am 19 years old and have been a good boy all year. I'm not going to ask for much for Christmas this year. I can remem ber when) I would ask you for every thing in the books, but that was when I was a kid (17). All I want this year is a furlough to see Mom and Dad. That would be the best Christmas present a guy in the ser vice could have. Fourteen long months is a long time to go with out seeing them . I say it isn’t much to ask, but in the Army you just as soon be asking for a discharge. May be I am lucky to have been away from home only two Christmases. There are a lot of guys who have been overseas two times that long. If you can do anything for me I will be a good little by the rest of my life. By the way if you don’t run, short you can throw in some fruit and nuts. Thanks a lot Santa. Your best friend,’ Bill (Pvt. William C. Armfield) Finds a Bit of the Middle Ages In Heart of Modem Baris. The Rt. Rev. John J. Gravatt, D.D., guest speaker to the Rotary club meeting in the Newberry hotel, Fri day, December 8th at 1 p. m., was consecrated on May 5, 1939 in Trin ity church, Columbia, S. C. Prior to his consecration he was rector of Trinity church in Stanton, Virginia over twenty years . Bishop Gravatt is a graduate of the Uni versity of Virginia and the Virginia Theological Seminary. He served as chaplain in France in the last World War. He is a Virginian, having been born in Hampton, Va., where his father was rector of St. John’s church for many years. His uncle, the Rt. Rev. W. L. Gravatt, was the late bishop of West Virginia. Bishop John J. Gravatt is one of the beloved Episcopal bishops of the South. Paris .France November 8, 1944 Dear Mr. Ott, Some time ago, you will remember, I wrote you about London, and a little later about Cambridge. In both instances the rivers on which the two cities are located were giv en considerable prominence. This letter is from and about another of the world’s famous cities, and again it is a story of a city and a river. As you will notice from the above, we are now stationed in Paris, or rather the Paris area. We are not in town itself, but are within sight of the Eiffel Tower and thus close enough so that we are allowed to lo cate ourselves as “in Paris.” I had about come to expect that we would be in England for the duration and then some, but they disbanded the Home Guard there, and there was nothing else for us to do but leave, j I have no real regrets over leaving, j either, although I had made some ( very good friends there whom I shall probably never see again. We had to leave our print shop behind, too, although if we had been smart we could have smuggled it along with us inside a concrete mixer or some thing. But back to Paris. This is per haps the most beautiful city in the world. The town is well laid out, the streets are wide with trees on either side, and the shops very mod em looking. There are more cars on the streets of Paris than I ever saw in all of England. The city itself at once impresses you by its con trast to London. Whereas the Thames merely flows through Lon don, Paris is laid out on either side of the Seine. Almost in the geogra- iphical center of the city is Notre Dame Cathedral on its island in the river. One has only to cross the riv er to this island to get the feeling of being suddenly thrust back almost into the Middle Ages. Of course the streets are paved now and the place is undoubtedly cleaner than it was V in the Middle Ag»s, but there is distinctly the impression of a back ward movement of time. One mo ment there is the hurry and bustle of the modern city, and suddenly there is the quiet of the Cathedral. I suppose this is due to the fact that there are no automobiles on the is land and consequently no traffic, ex cept bicycles and pedestrains. The atmosphere too is leisurely and al most reverent, even in the shops, most of which are antique shops. Paris is off limits to us now, but we were allowed in for a couple of weeks, and I went in v^ bicycle one day a couple of weeks ago. I am half owner of a tendem job which we were able to smuggle over from England inside one of our pieces of heavy equipment designed for mov ing earth in large quantities. I had a friend of mine from Spartanburg along to help pedal and hold the back end steady. We even got a few pictures on occasions when the sun came out. Before that, though, I had been able to promote a consider able number of offistil trips in, so that I know my way around the place fairly well—in fact much better than I ever learned London. But Paris is easy to get around. There are more landmarks, and if one gets lost it is always easy to get back to the Seine and start over from there Personaly, though, I am handicapped no end by not knowing more than a couple of words of French, but by the application of large amounts of con centration, many signs and arm mo tions, and vast" quantities of patience, I get along fairly well. We were able to spend only a couple of hours in Paris on our bike that afternon and I didn’t get to see as much of the place as I would like to. I did see the Eiffel Tower from close range, thoiugh, and it is quite a piece of engineering. And we rode it from one and of .the Avenue des Champs Elysaes to the other, start ing from the Arc da Triomphe and ending at the place de la Concorde. PAYSINGER TO INSTALL DEEP FREEZE UNIT Edgar C. Paysinger recently clos ed a contract with the Atlanta office of the Frozen Food Locker Construc- v tion Company to install a complete and modern plant of 250 lockers in connection with the post war pro gram, which will be located at his new store on Boundary street. Under goveroment regulations it is necessary for 60 per cent of the lockers to be rented before WPB will grant a priority for erecting it. There will be two types of lockers available; one which will rent for $15.00 per ytear :and another one for $12.00 per year. These lockers will hold approximately 300 pounds. This is your chance to get a lock er that will hold your fresh vegeta bles, fruits and meats, which will in sure you a supply the year ’round, and too it will save you many hours of canning. Mr. Paysl.-.ger says that he has already rented 26 per cent of the lockers, and they will be in operation within 45 days after the alloted num ber has been rented. As you perhaps know the tomb of France’s Unknown Soldier is un der the Arc de Triomphe. I want particularly to mention that flow ers are kept thereon, fresh each day. But the thing that impressed nrs most was the attitude of the people towards it, which is one of reverence. The civiilans uncover their heads and the soldiers salute as they walk past. Unlike our Tomb of the Un known Soldier in Washington, it is not necessary for an armed sentry to prevent the spectators from chip ping bits of the monument off. to take with them a ssouvenirs. But I suppose one of the most characteris tic traits of the American people is their desire for souvenirs. I’m some what a collector of them myself. Perhaps I have given the idea that Paris shows less of the scars of war than does London, and if so it is no more than I intended. Looking at ttte smartly dressed people from the front seat of a jeep, or seeing the sights via bicycle, one does get that (Continued on page eight) LITTLE NEWS ITEMS OF PERSONAL INTEREST Mrs. Edwin D. Lowthian and son, Walter, of Baltimore, Md., are spending two weeks in the home of Mrs. Lowthian’s parents, Dr. and Mrs. R. M. Kennedy on Harper street. Mr. and Mrs. James N. Kennedy and daughter, Bessie Miller, of Bur lington, N. C., were weekend visitors in the home of Mr. Kennedy’s par ents, Dr. and Mrs. R. M. Kennedy. Mrs. Harry Hedgepath. who has been with her husband, Lieut. Hedgepath in Peru, Inda., arrived in the city this week to spend a while with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Hipp on Harrington street. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Lewis of Whitmire were business visitors in Newberry Tuesday. Miss Florence Wicker and friend, Miss Frances McQuenney of Stark General Hospital, Charleston, are spending a few days in the home of j rived Monday in the home of Miss Wicker’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. I and Mrs. C. J. Pmcell. Tom Wicker on Langford street. Mrs. Estell B. Dill of Clinton, was a weekend visitor in the home of her sister fcnd brother-in-law, MK and Mrs. J. H. Ruff. LOOKIHB D0WH MEMORY LAHE 20 YEARS AGO A little son arrived Monday morn ing to brighten the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Leslie. Mrs. Moreland Crymes of Green wood returned to her home in Green- wod Saturday after visiting her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Matthews. Many friends in Newberry will be interested in the annourteement that, a fine son arrived Sunday in the home of Dr. and Mrs. Roy Finney of Gaffney. Mrs. Finney was for merly Miss Mary Frances Cannon of this city. Dr. Hugh Boyd spent Thursday night in Columbia as tl.e guest of Mr. Sam Cannon. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Baker went to Greenville Friday, taking thteir son Ralph, Jr., to Jervey for treat ment. Louise Bayley Purcell is the name, of the permanent visitor who air-: ’ -Mr. .. Dr. E. D. Kerr, Struct By Automobile In Columbia Dr. E. D. Kerr, pastor of the Aveleigh Presbyterian church ’ in Newberry, was struct by an auto mobile in Columbia Saturday morn ing about 19:30, and painfully hurt. Mrs. J. Y. McFall has returned to Newberry to spend the winter with her sister, Mrs John Kinard on Cal-, ^ houn street after spending a month j although his injuries are not eon- in Greenville with her daughter, | sidered serious. He came home on Mrs. E. S. Toohey at 22 Highland'the C. N. and L train arriving here E >nve - j about 1 o’clock before Mrs. Kerr Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hayes, Mr. and [had learned of the accident. Dr. Mrs. Elliscr Adams and Mr. and ' Kerr is confined to his bed, and his injuries are very painful. Many friends of this beloved minister are distressed over the accident and' hope for his speeedy recovery. W. C. (BILL) SMITH, A|S, a stu dent at South Carolina University, spent the past weekend with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Smith near the city. LIEUT. OLIN B. CANNON, JR., son of Dr. and Mrs. O. B. Cannon, was slightly wounded on Thanksgiv ing Day in Germany .according to a telegram received by his wife, Mrs. Cannon in Alabama, Monday from the War Department. Lieutenant Cannon, a member of the Infantry, 30th Division, 9th Ar my has been overseas since Septem ber 1944. TROY ROGERS, \yho received an honorable discharge from the Army on November 29 has reopened his Jewelry store on Main street. Mr. Rogers was in the service 16 months an dprior to hi sdischarge was stationed at Indiantown Gap, Penn. JIMMY S. SEASE, S Ik, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Sease has been transferred from Camp Wallace, Galveston, Tex., and his present ad dress is: Jimmy S. Sease, S. l|c (R. D. M.) U. S. S. Orlando P. F. 99. F. P O New York, N. Y. NANCY L. MAYES, daughter of Mrs. Agnes S. Mayes, 1926 Main street, was a member of the final class of Women Airforce Service Pilots (44-W-10) who received their wings in a ceremony at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, on Dec ember 7. The WASPs have completed an action-packed aerial and ground school curriculum which is in every way equivalent to that given male aviation cadets. Today there are WASPs who fly all combat aircraft types including the jet plane, the fastest fighter types and B-29 Sup erbombers in diversified classes of work. Miss Mayes, a graduate of New- berry High school, and Winthrop College, was a teacher and librarian at Green Sea High school and an en gineering draftsman for the Ten nessee Valley Authority, Columbia, before joining the WASP. She be gan private flying about a year be fore joining up. Mrs .Gordon Sherard will attend the wedding of Miss Jennie Rose War ner, Lexington, and Hugh Alexan dria of Columbia, which will take place at St. Peters Lutheran church at 4:30 Saturday afternoon in Lex ington. Ellisor Adams, who has held a po sition with the Decatur Iron and Steel Corporation in Decatur, Ala., 'for the past 18 months has resigned and is now spending ten days at his home here on Harper street before going to Anderson, where he and Gordon Sherlard of Decatur, Ala., will be dealers for Plymouth and CHrykler cars'. ~~“ r ' - r 7' v Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Sharard of (•Anderson were weekend guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ellisor Adams on Harper street. FOR SALE—A set of Trap Drums in good condition. Call at 504 Drayton street or telephone 307-J. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Harman moved this week from Harper street to I Charlotte, N. C., where Mr. Harman , is an employee at Ivey’s Department store. Their daughter, Margaret, will join them there later. PATIENTS IN NEWBERRY HOSPITAL Admitted—Mrs. Harold Matthews, Mrs. Everett Longshore, Mrs. Le ft rand Fulmer, Mrs. James H. Long, Mrs. E. C. Long, Mrs. Berley Long, Mary Jo Johnson, Miss Ruby Ellen Summer, Miss Doris Dufford, Mrs. Chas. W. Rhoden, Eston Smith, Cpl. Philip M. Young, James Leigh, J. G. Layton, Loyd Houser, Mrs. Myra Beavers, Thomas James Crooks, 1 Mrs. -M. A. Coleman Mrs. E. F. Mc- Cut;hen, Mrs. J. C Summer, Mrs. Ralph Sligh, Mrs. David Graddick, Mrs. J. E. Alewine, Mrs. E. B. Stroud, Mrs. Dorothy Johnson, H. C. Ezell, D. C. Driggers, Sr. STUDENTS TO HAVE CHOICE OF 6 AND 9 WEEKS AT COLLEGE President James ,C. Kinard of Newberry College announces that Newberry will offer in 1945 a sum mer term of six and nine weeks, be-, ginning July 2. Students may sleet either the longer or shorter term in. accordance with credits desired. Courses yrili he offered., to. help teachers fneet ffie" n^W certifitffttisn requirements and to benefit college students who may wish to pursue an accelerated. THEY LIVE HERE NOW Mrs. Annie R. Harrison, a new- comer to Newberry is now 1 lying at' 1531 Caldwell street in the home she recently purchased. Mrs. Claude Summer has moved, back to her home on the cut-off from Caldwell street. , Miss Genevive Lominack is now living at 16081-2 Main street. Mrs. Oik Chapman has moved from 1702 MeCafughrin Avenue to 1224 Glenn street. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Finnell and two children have moved from the McHardy Mower apartment on Har rington street to the George Martin home at 1703 Evans street. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Buchannan and family have moved from Pope street to 1225 Summer street in the Sease home which they recently bought. ABOUT TOWN A SON KILLED IN ACTION Word has been received in New berry that Pfc. “Mac” Stuckey, half- brother of Mrs. Qyril Hutchinson, has been killed in action in the Eu ropean theater of operations. His mother, Mrs. Blanche Gallman Stuckey, was formerly of Newberry. Mr. and Mrs .Clifford G. Shull of Fishkill, N- Y., are receiving con gratulations upon the arrival of a son, born at Soaln’s Hospital for Women in New York City, on Fri- , day, November 24th. MVs. Shull i was the former Martha Nuel Sum- 1 mer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Summer. “Not now. Not while the going is toughest. Not while that extra winning punch is needed most. Not on my life , . * * * The 6th War Loan is now on! Let’s not let cny of our fighting pals down. The Japs are far from being pushovers—there are 73 million of them, stubborn, cruel, fanatically determined to stop us. To s.«\e American lives, to save time, we must over whelm them with supremacy of materiel. Our fighting men will need more and bigger planes, more ships, landing craft and supplies, more of everything than in the invasion of Europe, So let’s buy that extra $100 Bond right now to help shorten the war. Let’s save other lives by saving our money! BUY AT LEAST AN EXTRA $100 WAR B''" 1 )! This Message Sponsored by Blease & Griffith MRS. MCBETH SPROUSE (Pol ly Summer) receiving a! bracelet and necklace from her husband, LIEU TENANT SPROUSE, from France. . . . METTS FANT, SR., getting his top-coat sleeves made longer and remarking that his wife told him last year they were too short . . . MRS. J. Y. MCFALL telling some one that she had a chance to spend the winter in Florida but rather st^y in Newberry and they wanting to know if she was crazy. . . . ELIZA BETH HARMON losing her ‘specks’ and looking all over for them. . . . MISS BLANCH DAVIDSON and MISS ELIZABETH BOYLSTON do ing a bit of Christmas shopping. . . . I MRS. EUGENE S. BLEASE receiv- I ing a birthday card Tuesday from Mrs. Earl Bibgy, who underwent a 1 her son, LIEUT. JACK WORKMAN FOR SALE—One No. 9 recondition ed Oliver standard typewriter. Telephone 137-W. MRS. BIGBY UNDERGOES OPERATION major operation in the General Hos pital in Greenville about two weeks ago, was reported today to be roing nicely. ELBERT R. PARTRIDGE IN CRASH DIES News of the death in a plane crash last Thursday at Miles City, Mont., of Flight Officer Elbert ft. (Randy) Partridge, Jr., caused sad ness to many relatives here. He was a flight instructor at Camden for three years and was later transfer red to Memphis, Tenn. Randy Partridge was the son of Mrs. Atlee Coggins Partridge, a Newberry girl, and the late E. R- Partridge of Aitlanta and 'besides his mother he is survived by his wife and young daughter, Julia Lee, a sister, Miss Lois Partridge and a brother, John, all of Atlanta. His mother was a daughter of the late B. F. and Josie Langford Cog gins of Newberry, and was closely related to the Langfords and Gog- glns of this city, being a niece of Ms*. T. E. Epting, Boundary street. written from a German prison camp in July. . . . JOHN PETERSON and FITZ DAWKINS eating a late lunch after working in the county most of the day. . . .LAWYER OLI VER HAVTRD paying Santa a vieit for his grandson, PETER CARTER. . . . D. L. MCCULLOUGH, Whit mire, in the city Wednesday, . . . MRS. HARRY HEDGEPATH home from Indiana and saying that it was just as cold in the “south” as it was where she canfe from. . . . STRAW PAYSINGER and GEORGE SCRUGGS kidding each other in the P. O. ... ROBERT “BUTCH” ODELL saying that he was about to feel normal again after having his tonsils “yanked out”. . . .EARL BIGBY and SKEET MARTIN talk ing about fishing. . . . MR. and MRS. C. T. SUMMER very proud over be ing grandparents. . . . Birthday an niversaries through Friday, Decem ber 15th: Deputy J. C. Neel, E. A. Carpenter and Tom Graham, Dec. 10; Mrs. Josie McAlhaney, Dec. 11; Mrs. M. J. Carwile and Forest Lomi nack, Dec. 12; R. Derrill Smith and Thomas E. Wicker, Dec. 16th.