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Friday, feSruary i, 1946 ----- WANTED—HOGS—will pay $14.40 ceiling price for top hogs. Will buy anything from 100 to 300 lbs Price according to grade. THE NEWBERRY ABATTOIR. WANTED—Scrap iron, brass, cop per, lead, zinc, aluminum, pewter, old batteries, radiators, all kinds of rags, old waste cotton, mattress cot ton. Also old feather beds and pil lows filled with goose or duck fea thers. We also have a nice line of groceries. W. H. Sterling, Vincent street. AUDITOR’S TAX NOTICE Returns of personal property and real estate, poll and road tax, are to be made at the County Auditor’s of fice beginning: January 1st, 1946 through February 28th, 1946 All able-bodied male citizens be tween the ages of twenty-one and fifty outside of incorporated towns are liable to pay commutation tax of $1.00. All dogs are to be assessed at $1.00 each. All returns are to be made by School Districts. Y’our failure to make return calls for penalty as pre scribed by law. PINCKNEY N. ABRAMS County Auditor NOTICE FOR APPLICATION FOR NEW CERTIFICATES OF STOCK Notice is hereby given that I shall apply to the Newberry Cotton Mills for two new certificates of stock totaling eight shares. The original certificates issued to me were No. 295B for four shares and No. 2966 for four shares, they having been lost or destroyed. 1?. C. Banks. January 18, 1946 J25-6:p BRING US YOUR PECANS —ANY DAY —ANY AMOUNT —ANY SIZE NUTS. Highest Market Prices R. DERRILL SMITH WHOLESALE GROCER dse 6 6 6 COLD PREPARATIONS Liquid, Tablets. Salve, Nose Drops CAUTION—Use only as directed IFlouirrs CUT FLOWERS— CORSAGES— K I N A R D ’ S HILLCREST FLORISTS 2003 Drayton St. Phone 529W New Finance Company Personal Loans CITY FINANCE CO. Over Turner’* Jewelry CALDWELL STREET All Transactions Confidential ORDER MISTRIAL IN MURDER TRIAL OF CLINTON WOMAN Laurens, Jan. 24.—After remain ing out 14 hours, a Sessions Court jury here at 1 a. m. reported itself unable to agree on a verdict in the ease of Mrs. Olga Craig Lomminack, 31, indicted for the murder of her husband, James Frank Lomminack, Clinton insurance man. At the opening of court this morn ing Judge Steve Griffith of New berry ordered a new trial. Mrs. Lomminack went on the stand yesterday and related a story of mar- it/a! infelicity lasting over a long period of time, culminating in the tragedy last June when she said her husband had his grip packed prepar ing to leave her. She testified that she killed her husband in the defense of her life; that following a quarrel in the early morning before she had dressed, her husband beat her, knocked her to ttie floor, kicked her and threatened to kill her with a pistol in a nearby bureau drawer. She said that from a reclining position she beat him to the pistol, pulled it out and shot at him twice while she was still lying on the floor. A physician’s testimony was to the effect that one bullet struck him in the chest in the region of the heart, and ranged upward toward his shoul ders causing his death. MR. FISCHER’S MOTHER PASSES IN ORANGEBURG Mrs. Evelyn C. Fischer, 80 mother of L. F. Fischer, died early Saturday morning at the Tri-County Hospital in Orangeburg, where she had made her home for the past several years. Funeral services were held at 3:00 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Or angeburg Lutheran church, conduct ed by the Rev. A. Hayne Boozer. In terment followed in the Memorial Park cemetery there. She is survived by two sons, L. F. Fischer of the city; and Fire Chief C. A. Fischer of Orangeburg; two daughters, Mrs. George E. Cox, Nash ville, Tenn., and Mrs. G. Vernon Brunson, Allendale; also tv.o sisters, Mrs. Annie Baxter and Mrs. Lpna Cox, both of Allendale. CHARLES EMERSON RAGLAND 1st Lieut, and Mrs. Charles Emer son Ragland are receiving congratu lations upon the arrival of a son, Charles Emerson Ragland, Jr., born at the Newberry County Hospital Friday, January 25. Mrs. Ragland is the former Jane Summer, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Summer. Lieutenant Ragland is now stationed in Puerto Rico. Handling Asbestos Board 'T'HE steadily increasing use of asbestos board on the farm has aroused much interest in this ver satile material. Asbestos board is similar in character to a sheet of stone of even thickness. Its stone like qualities give it many individ ual advantages which will more than compensate for a little extra care in handling. In lifting and carrying, do not grip the board by the corners. Holding it along the side causes less strain. Avoid throwing or dropping on the ground. Use large headed nails and keep them at least half an inch from the edges of the board. Scoring and breaking is the simplest way of cutting asbt 4 os board. Place on a table large BREAKING SCORED BOARD ON BENCH OR TABLE enough to hold an entire board and score deeply with an awl or other sharp instrument. Then line up the score mark along the edge of the table and bend the sheet down. Asbestos board makes a durable, maintenance-free siding or interior lining. It has hundreds of utility uses and, like all asbestos building materials, it is rot-proof and fire- nronf Miss Mary Ann Davis and two of her college mater, Miss Harriet Hemphill of Chester, and Miss Lillian Holmes of Johnston, all seniors at Winthrop college, spent from Friday until Monday afternoon in the home of Miss Davis’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Davis, on Caldwell street. DRAYTON RUTHERFORD CHAPTER, U.D.C. Drayton Rutherford Chapter will hold its monthly meeting Tuesday af ternoon, February 5th, at 4 p. m., in the home of Mrs. P. E. Scott with Mrs. John Peterson and Mrs. George Johnstone as associate hostesses. PLANTED PINES 13 YEARS OLD AND THINNED FOR PULPWOOD Thousands of acres of worn out farm land can be made as profitable as this plantation in Mississippi. In 13 years it grew 26 cords per acre or at the rate of 2 cords per acre per year. Properly thinned for pulpwood it g lelded 7 cords per acre permitting the remaining 19 cords to grow into igher quality products at a growth rate in excess of 2 cords per acre per year. The pulp and paper industry through the Southern Pulpwood Con servation Association recommends planting of pines for profit on aban doned lands* Loans! ON REAL ESTATE AUTOMOBILES AND PERSONAL PROPERTY NEWBERRY INSURANCE AND REALTY CO. NED PURCELL, Manager TELEPHONE 197 Exchange B*nk Building FOR AUTO PARTS You May Save Time By Seeing Us First! scon AUTO PARTS Phonee: 35-W and 578-W SHOOT DOWN INSECT RAIDERS ^ Sinclair P. D. Insect Spray rates “Grade AA” in killing flies, mosquitoes, moths, gnats, fleas, ants, bedbugs and roaches. That’s the highest rating under the National Bureau of Standards, U. S. Department of Commerce Specifications. Ask for Sinclair P. D. at retail stores or at your Sinclair Dealer. .WITH SINCLAIR P. STROTHER C. PAYSINGER, Agent THE NEWBERKr aun Lively Gubernatorial Contest In Prospect Columbia, Jan. 26.—With the Gen eral Assembly in session here, there is naturally a great deal of political speculation and discussion of the coming gubernatorial race takes top place in almost any political conver sation. Although the election, that is the Democratic primary, is still more than six months off, the governor’s race is a particularly favorite topic. The situation does have unusual as pects and that may be one reason why there is so much heard about it. At one time, now a good many months ago, Governor Ransome J. Williams was considered a certain candidate for election to a full term (because he succeeded to less that a full term when Olin D. Johnston re signed to become U. S. Senator, he is not prohibited by the constitution from election to succeed himself.) He was regarded then as a likely winner, but this was based entirely on what might happen and what might develop before election time. Some Doubt Now All that was some time ago and now considerable doubt is expressed in Lie best informed political circles that he will run or that he could even be elected if he did. The best politi cal opinion is that Williams will run if he believes he has anything resem bling. a good chance; otherwise, he will not be a candidate. Naturally, Williams is not saying anything. He is watching the situa tion closely in an effort to see Which way the wind is blowing. At present, there are three pros pective candidates who are consid ered—again, in the best political cir cles—to be strong contenders of they enter the race. None of the three has officially anounced yet and they are not expected to do so until a much later date, but there is little doubt that they are definitely in the race, at least, currently. They are Representative Thomas H. Pope of Newberry, Circuit Judge J. Srrom Thurmond of Edgefield, and William C. Johnston of Anderson, brother of the senator. Pope is a particularly talented and able young attorney who has much legislative experience and who is just out of the Army, in which he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He 1 served in the African and Italian cam paigns and returned home last year just in time to (win election —without oposition—to a vacated ed house seat from his county. There is a strong political back ground in Pope’s family and he added to it by becoming the son-in-law of the late Alva M. Lumpkin, who was Federal Judge and U. S. Senator. He went both to The Citadel, where he received his academic degree, and the University of South Carolina, from which he graduated in law. He is generally recognized as pos sessing an unusual insight into state affairs and as one of the most valu able members of the legislature. He has many admirers, if not actual friends, in legislative circles and one popular report has it that he is being urged to run for governor by State Senator Edgar A. Brown and Speak er of the House Solomon Blatt in or der to be sure that he will not be a candidate for speaker at the 1947 legislative session Like Pope, Judge Thurmond was also a lieutenant dolonel in the Army. A graduate of Clemson college, he held a reserve commission and asked and obtained a leave of absence from his court duties to go to war. He served in England for many months and then distinguished him self in the Normandy invasion Thurmond, also like Pope, is young. (Continued on Back Page) TELEPHONE 269-M HOURS: 9:00 TO 12:00 1:00 TO 5:30 Dr Z. Cecil Lynch OPTOMETRIST 1304 MAIN STREET NEWBERRY, S. C. Work Wanted! Ail types of excavation — Grading lots, digging basements, clearing and grubbing bottoms, fish ponds, and drainage problems. Spotts & Company Contracting and Engineering PHONE 142 NEWBERRY, S. C. These odd-shaped storage tanks are part of the new plant operated by Sinclair Rubber Inc. for the Government. ^T<ODAY the oil industry is busy making components for synthetic rubber to meet America’s wartime needs. The mod ern plant pictured above, operated by Sinclair Rubber Inc. for the Government Without charge, makes butadiene. From storage tanks pictured above butadiene flows to a compounding plant where, mixed with styrene, it becomes synthetic rubber—with a bounce. In addition to Sinclair’s wartime job of making components for synthetic rubber, BUY MORE WAR BONDS modern • Sinclair refineries turn out the explosive Toluene, 100-octane gasoline, and a long list of fuels and specialized lubricants vitally needed for war-front and home-front use. All told, 10 great Sinclair refineries are now geared for war. • SINCLAIR DEALERS by keep ing on the job, keep war workers’ cars, delivery trucks and other vitally needed vehicles on the road. Let a Sinclair Dealer care for your car, too. AND STAMPS SINCLAIR S. C. Paysinger, Agent