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TELEPHONE ONE IF YOU HAVE VISITORS OR ANY OTHER NEWS ITEM THANK YOU ALL KINDS OF COMMERCIAL PRINTING AND ENGRAVING PHONE NO. ONE VOLUME 8; NO. 51 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1946 $1.00 PER ANNUM With THE BOYS In Service T-4 JOE M. SPOTTS, Prosperity was honorably discharged from the army at Fort Bragg, N. C., Separa tion Center on April 14th after be ing a member of the armed forces since March 30, 1944. He spent one year and four months overseas whei'e he participated in the battle of the Rhineland. He is entitled to. wear he EAMET Service Medal with one Bronze service star, the Good Conduct and World War II Victory medals. CPU. COLIE SMITH, 819 Pauline street received his honorable dis charge from the army at the Fort Bragg, N, C., Separation Station on April 17th. He went into the ser vice on May 20, 1943 and served overseas two years, three months and 13 days. He holds the EAMET service medal, the Good Cnduct and the World War II Victory medals. CPL. JAMES STEVfcNS, route 4, Newberry, was separated from the Army at the Fort Bragg, N. C. Sep aration Center on April 17th after being a member of the service since August 7, 1942. He participated in the battle of Central Europe. He was awarded the Good Conduct medal the American Threaten rib bon, the EAMET ribbon and the World war II Victory medal. Mr. Epting will remain in Ger many where he has accepted a posi tion with the Post Exchange Ufc>- FET Weshaden Det. 1ST LT. YANCY T. DICKERT, son of Y. T. Dickert, 2307 Nance street, is now on terminal 1c . e un til May 25, when he will receive his official discharge at the Fort McPherson, Ga„ Separation Center, lieutenant Dickert h)as been a member of the armed forces since November 29, 1943 and weirs the American Theater and World War II Victory medals. ARTHUR WOODROW LATH- ROP, Sl-c, route 4, Newberry, was separated from the Navy in Charles ton on April 15th. He volunteered for the service in October of 1944, and wears the Asiatic-Pacific cam- paign medal and the World War II Victory medal. JESSIE PRESTON BODlE, Fire man 1-c, Fair street, was discharg ed at the Charleston Naval Separa tion Station on April 4th after being a member of the Navy since Jan uary 19, 1945. He is entitled to v ear the American Area medal, the Asiatic-Pacific anl World War II Victory medals. WM. EUGENE MAGBEE, Sl-c, 2018 McCravy street, received his honorable discharge from the Navy at ; ne Charleston Naval Separation Center on April 15. He volunteer ed for the service on December 10, 1943 and holds the American Area campaign ribbon, the Asiatic-Paci fic medal, the Philippin Liberation medal with two stars and the Vic tory medal. SGT. HAROLD A. EPTING, route 4 Newberry was honorably discharg ed from the service at Frankfurt, Germany on March 26, after being a member of the service since August 7 1942. He participated i ’ tne battles of Central Europe. was awarded the Good Conduct medal, the American Theater ribbon, the EAMET ribbon and the World War II Victory medal. 1ST. LT. CAM WALLACE, stationed at Fort Jackson, spent the weekend with his mother, Mrs. R. G. Wallace on Caldwell street, and attended the wedding of his sister, Frances Wallace, which took place Saturday evening. . S-SGT. FURMAN E. EPPS, route 3, Newberry, who has been a mem ber of the'Armed Forces since Oc tober 10, 1942 received his honor able discharge at the Veteran’s hos pital Columbia on April 10th. He served overseas four months and 1 i days where he participated in the battle of Normandy. He was award ed the EAMET service medal with one bronze star, the Purple Heart and Good Conduct and World War II Victory medals. JACOB NOLAN RUFF, Quarter- laster 3-c, Newberry, route, was rparated from the Navy in Charles- m last Saturday, April 2Q after eing a member of the service since une 23, 1944. He holds the ATO, .PT, Philippins Liberation and Vie- iry medals. CPL. BRANNON YARBOROUGH, inded in the states Monday, April 5 at New "York and arrived at the ome of his mother, Mrs. Nannie 'arborough on Main street Friday ight, after receiving his honorable ischarge from the army at Fort iragg, N. C. Corporal Yarborough was in the ervice 34 months, 26 of which he pent in the European theater as a lember of the 74th General Hospi- al in England and later stationed in ’ranee. He was awarded the ATO. 1AMET, Good Conduct and Worlti Var II Victory medals. Brannon Ians to enter college at the next emester. Four-H Members Thin Pine Stands BY P. B. EZELL County Agent, Newberry County Newberry County 4-H members have just completed their second successful 4-H Timber Thinning Contest. Twelve contestants were declared winners and share in var ious amount the $80.00 in prize money made available by the Per iodical Publishers Committee of Washington, D. C., to the Newberry County Agent, P. B. Ezell, and his assistant, Walter A. Ridgeway. Twelve year old Carroll Wessing er of route 4, - Newberry, was de clared county winner of $22 for the best one acre pine plot properly thinned. Carroll’s libolly pines were 22 years old and he cut 12 cords of wood which he values at $10.00 per cord. This young man had the help of his dad, J. L. Wessinger, for part of the cutting. Young Wessinger was determined to win. Last year he suffered a leg injury, with an ax shortly after he had started his pro ject and finished out of the running. His championship this year is a tri bute to his hard work and determi nation. Monroe Werts of the Prosperity club had the second best project in the county and /was awarded $10.00 by the judges. Monroe is in the 8th grade and has completed 4 years of 4-H club work. He cut 7 1-2 cords of stovewood from his 18 year old loblolly pine stand. This wood will be easily sold in Proseprity, his nearest town, for approximately $12 per cord delivered. Willie O'. Crumpton of route 3, Prosperity was caught by the judges putting the finishing touches on his project. He was cutting the crook ed, crowded and diseased trees pre viously overlooked in his 16-year-old loblolly pine stand. He received $7.00 prize for best project in the Poma- ria dub in addition to the income from the sale of his five cords of wood. Harvey Oxner of route 1, New berry chose as his project a ten- year-old stand of loblolly pine which had come in heavdy in an old field. $25.00 worth of low quality trees were cut for home use and the better trees were left with room to grow into higher quality and priced pro ducts. Harvey was in school but his father, W. B. Oxner, said: “It took time to cut out those trees but it was worth every bit of it. From now on we’re going to thin our trees just like we thin our row crops.” Harvey received the $7.00 award as the champion of the St. Phillips club. Bobby Koon of route 1, Prosperity, is 13 years old and is in the eighth grade. His pines are the same age. Bobby didn’t start his project until early April as he has been busy helping his father, F. O. Koon, get their farm, which they’ve occupied for only two years, in shape for crops. But Bobby got busy and cut 3 cords of wood and won $7.00 and the O’Neal club championship. Other projects have their interest ing stories, too, like the pulpwood cutting done by Charles and Hayne Stuck. These young brothers about 13 and 11 years old, thinned an acre for pulpwood and sold the 4 1-4 cords to a local producer for $31.00. They then heard about the 4-H con test, entered, smoothed up their pro ject and won a second prize of $4.00. Or like 14 year old Harry Morris of Stoney Hill 4-H club who had five brothers from 4 to 12 years old to help he contends, “some were just to tend to. Most of them just told me and D. M. Junior what to do with the 87 trees that we cut”. Six cords of wood were selected from this 18 year old stand which his mother and father tended when they had just married. Competition was keen but Burton Lewis and James Wicker of route 2, Newberry, were each awarded $4.00 along with Donald Bowers and Odel Ruff of route 4, Newberry. Billy Rawl of the 4-H 0’’Neal Club receiv ed $3.00 for his work in trimming a young loblolly pine stand. Judges for the contest were John (Billingsley, District Ranger of the Enoree District of the U. S. Forest Service; Francis Renfroe and John Clarke, District Forester and Assist ant, respectively, of the Newberry District, S. C. State Commission of Forestry; and William Barker, Ex tension Forester, Clemson Extension service. This work with rural farm youths is thought to be one of the most successful propects in the country. Cutting trees is strenuous work, es pecially for young boys. Their de termination to complete their pro jects though it took is many cases all the spare time during the winter of these young people is a tribute to their foresight, and eagerness to learn says P. B. Ezell, County Agent. LITTLE NEWS ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Reagin and daughter, Dianne, left Monday for Mobile, Alabama, where they will make their home. Mr. Reagin, who was discharged from the service about two months ago, after serving 26 months, 13 months of which was spent over seas, has resumed his work at Brookley Field in the Parachute Department where he was employed prior to going into the service. B. M. Scurry of Charleston spent the past weekend here at his home on Mayer avenue. Mrs. Harold Sunday of New Bern, N. C., spent the Easter holidays here with her mother, Mrs. B. W. Gardenhire on College street. Mr. and Mrs. Gene K. King and Max King of Columbia, spent Eas ter Sunday in the home of their mother, Mrs. B. W. Gardenhire on College street. City Provides For Free Parking Space The Town Council has rented the vacant lots on the corner of Nance and Harrington streets, opposite the Fire Department and next to Lips comb Motor company, from G. B. Summer and Sons to be used as a free parking lot for the public. The lots are now being graded and leveled and will be ready for use the first of May. Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Porter and daughter Emily, of Greensboro, N. C., and Mrs. William Brackett (Alice Porter) of Hendersonville, N. C., Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stan field (Helen Porter) and baby, Helen of Greensboro, N. C., were guests of Smiley L. Porter and Misses Kate and Georgia Porter on Harrington street for the Easter holidays. Mrs. Norwood of Marion is visit ing her daughter, Mrs. Eugene Spearman at their home in the county. Capt. and Mrs. Jim Todd and daughter, Marcia, are now making their home in Las Vegas, Nevada. Captain Todd was transferred from the Midland Army Air base in Texas to Las Vegas Field. Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Copeland spent Easter Sunday in Laurens in the home of Mrs. Copeland’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Lawes. Mrs. O. O. Copeland spent Sun day in Clinton with her sister, Mrs. W.' C. Shealy. Dr. Z. Cecil Lynch who was call ed to Florence Sunday night in ac count of the illness of his father, Z. C. Lynch, Sr., returned to his home on Calhoun street Tuesday. Mrs. R. M. Wertz of Winnsboro is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Junius Long and Mr. Long in the Tranwood community. Dr. and Mrs. H. K. Boyd and Miss Dorothy Shealy returned to New berry Tuesday after spending a week in Louisville, Ky., with Capt. King Boyd, who is stationed at Fort Knox. Mrs. Eunice E. Glasgow of Green wood, Mrs. Lois G. McMillan, Wil liam McMillan, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mc Millan of Greenville were weekend guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Smith on Calhoun street. Emma Riser Nance, Julia Nichols, Mary Ann Davis and Mary Jane Hanna, students at Winthrop, spent the Easter holidays at their homes in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Wyche Dickert and daughter, Mrs. Drayton Nance, Jr., of Columbia, visited in the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Bowers and Mr. and Mrs. Drayton Nance, Sr., the past Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Anders of Greensboro, N. C., and Mrs. Steve Burton of Thomasville, N. C. were weekend guests in the home of their sister, Mrs. T. L. Hicks and Mr. Hicks on Crenshaw street. Mbs. John Miller and daughter, Miss Julia Miller of Whitmire were busines visitors in the city Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Mims of Bel ton spent the weekend in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Dickert on Harrington street. Summer Winner In Pulpwood Contest One of the best examples of farm forestry in the south ie the work done by W. S. Summer, a Newberry county man of route 3, Prosperity. Mr. Summer has just won the $25 award and the county champion ship in the Statewide Five Acre Pulpwood Thinning Contest sponsor ed by four pulp mills and conducted by the Clemson Extension service and the State Commission of For estry. He was close runner up in the District contest which was marked by heavy competition. Mr. Summer has proven that the farm woods can contribute their share to the farm income and that his woodlands if properly managed, will give him employment during the winter months and an income each year. This 160 acre farm was purchased in 1940 and soon after that the ma ture trees on a small area were cut and sold. The money received paid a good share of the cost of the prop erty. Enough lumber however, was reserved to build a house and the other necessary farm buildings. Milking five cows and preparing the milk for sale on the local milk route and the planting, cultivation and harvesting of five acres of cot ton keeps the Summers busy from spring to fall. But when the cotton is ginned and the grain is planted, Mr. Summer turns to his ax and saw and then busies himself in making money in addition to improving his woodlands by removing the crowded, defective, mature and diseased trees and giving the better trees more room to grow into higher quality and priced products. After school the 11 year old Sum mer boy helps Dad and knows more about cutting low stqnips, utiliza tion of top, and selection of trees than most adults four times his age. Mrs. Summer often helps out, too. Mr. Summer cuts his wood in to stovewood lengths and sells it lo cally. He plans on rethinning each acre every five years, each time im proving the quality of the stand by leaving the thrifty growing, good quality trees. Each acre yields about seven cords of wood at each thin ning, each acre is well stacked, and is producing to near capacity. Most of the trees are from 18 to 22 years old, and are the fall .growing lob lolly pine. Fire has no place in the Summer woods and with community cooperation they just don’t tolerate fires in that end of the county. South Carolina has recently join ed other states in the Tree Farms Program, which recognizes good forest management on private lands. For his outstanding work it is no surprise that W. D. Summer was one of first to be nominated for this honor. His nomination is now be fore the State Tree Farms Commit tee for approval and certification. In addition to fire protection and good common sense cutting in his woods. Mr. Summer has practiced forest planting op lands not now in use. Seedings were secured through the County Agent from the State Commission of forestry at a low price and were planted at the rate of 1,000 trees per acre. This young farmer learned about forestry from leaflets and circulars- prepared on the subject and from demonstrations conducted by County Agent P. B. Ezell, and his co-work ers with the help of the Clemson Ex tension service and the State Com mission of Forestry who jointly work together on the forestry work in South Carolina. He is some what surprised at the amazed reac tion of most visitors to his farm. He feels that he is doing nothing that every landowner shouldn’t do. No doubt he is right. Others have al ready profited by his lesson. Mr'. Summer has a net farm income, from an efficiently run and balanced farm that surpasses urban dwellers of equal opportunity. 14 County Farmers In Alfalfa Contest Mr. and Mrs. Ellisor Adams of Anderson were 43aster Sunday guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Albrecht on Johnstone street. Mrs. L. G. McCullough and Mrs. H. W. Thomas attended the Mis sionary Conference of the Greenville district which was held in Goldville Wednesday. Mrs. E. E. Lewellen and son, Buddy Lewellen and daughter, Peggy Wood, of Landrum were week end visitors in the home of Mrs. Lewellen’s mother, Mrs. H. W. Thomas on Fair avenue. Guests last Wednesday in the home of Dr. and Mrs. Z. Cecil Lynch on Calhoun street wefre, Mrs. Robert Jermstad, Flint, Michigan, Mrs. Charles Josey, Indiana, Z. C. Lynch, Sr., Florence and Mrs. James Pal mer, Columbia. Heyward Pelham, Asheville, N. C., and sister, Brantley Pelham of Co lumbia spent the Easter holidays in the home of their mother, Mrs. W. E. Pelham on Harrington street. All of the fourteen Newberry county farmers who have entered the alfalfa production contest have obtained good stands and are now harvesting their first cutting of ex cellent hay. Several members of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Com merce visited contest plots with Sec retary L. C. Graham and County Agent P. B. Ezell. All directors of the Chamber of Commerce expressed praise for the splendid work being done by contestants. County Agent P. B. Ezell, pointed out that any far mer who has a mower and will fol low recommended fertilizer and seed ing practices can do well with alfal fa on their heavier soil. Anyone contemplating seeding al falfa for the first time should visit one of the following contestants: B. C. Banks, route 3, Prosperity; J. H. Bowers, route 4, Newberry; H. M. Epting, route 3, Newberry; J. F. Hawkins, route 4, Newberry; H. O. Long, Silverstreet; Horace Martin, route 1, Prosperity; Willie B. Pies- ter, route 2, Newberry; David B. Ruff, route 2, Newberry; W. Eugene Shealy, route 3, Newberry; C. T. Smith, Kinards; I. M. Smith, Kinards; J. C. Suber, route 3, Pomaria; M. J. Sober, route 3, Pomaria; and Maffett Wicker, route 3, Prosperity. NIGHT SCENES Lights blazed from windows high up in the Guy V. Whitener build ing ... a manufacturer of wooden pickles poured over his accounts and found himself in the green and plunged a dagger into his* heart, leaving a wife, eight kids and a jar of pickles . . . Across the hall a pretty stenographer bit her boss on the nose and slipped into a mink coat (the result of much biting) and jiggled down the hall like a bowl of jello in an earthquake upon the arm of a Marine just back from four years in the Pacific . . . Up the Main drag at Greasy Gus’ lunch a Moll demanding strawberry pie. “But we got no stromberry pie,” protested Gus. “We gotta do opple, da pace, but no get do sti^imberry.” “Gimme peach then, you hunk, and be fast,” she roared flinging her 45 upon the bar and knocking out her pipe on the side of her boot ... A taxi slips into gear and roars off into the night . . . “Calling all cars! Calling all cars! Girl lying beside road on cut-off—stockingless. That is all. That is plenty!” . . . Inspec tor Dowd rams the accelerator of his Ford special to the floor board and streaks thru the night . . . She lies there, her still lusterless eyes gaz ing upward, her Nylons GONE! . . . There is a rap at the door of a cheap apartment up on 86th street. “Who’s there?” “It’s me Goity, your Char lie.” The door is flung open and the gangster dashes in, pulling a pair of rumpled nylons from his pocket. “I got ’em, Goity, I got em! Ain’t they pippins, Babe? Ain’t been wore over a day” ... A sleek limousine dashes by at College and Main hand led by a livered chauffer. Inside are four girls dressed for a ball in low- cut gowns, their brests showing like little boy’s behinds as they jack knife into a mill pond . . . The big clock strikes two . , . the roar of the city dies to a modulated hum, then to a whisper ... A drunk staggers up Boyce street and slumps into a doorway . . . “Another customer for 01. Havird,” said Paltrolman Hitt as he kicked the drunk into a cell . . . The moon shines bright on the face of the Man on The Monument . . . He rests his gun at his side . . . All is quiet on the Newberry front. Resting in a grove of scrub pines at my farm, “Awful Acres” and scratching my rusty legs after a hard day in the fields, the sighing of the pines brought memory of a juvenile adventure in wood—in scrub pines to be exact. I was a town boy, a small town to be sure, but still a town, while my best friend was a country boy we called “Gobbler.” Gobbler was of a family of poor, hard-bitten, hard working people. Besides himself, his family was his old man, his moth er and an older sister. This older sister had what my mother called a “woodscolt.” I used to hear mother and other women talk about this or that girl having a “woodscolt” and in my childish imagination, I figured it was something they got in the woods. Looking back, I guess I was not far from right! But to get along with the story. Gobbler and myself contracted with a little man who laughed like a goat and gave away free bibles to cut some wood from his pines in the full of the moon. He said it burned bet ter when cut in the full of the moon. It never occurred to us that the moon was a s full in the daytime as at night, so we went forth to cut by the light of the moon. We had no more than felled a two inch pine when it seemed that every dog in Georgia cut loose at the same time. Dogs, like people, were less civilized 40 * 1 years ago and often chewed folks up for no good reason. Torn between the vision of shiny dimes and mang led bodies our legs decided the issue in no time at all and we high-tail ed for Gobbler's house a quarter of a mile away. Thus fate (or dogs) channeled the career of a great wood cutter into a third rate scribbler. And Gobbler? I would like to know! Being afraid to go home in the dark I decided to spend the night in the home of my friend. The rest of the family were sitting around the fire as we entered but no one paid any attention. The girl with the “woodscolt” was stringing and break ing beans into a bucket from a dish- pan a t her side. She was nursing her. baby completely oblivious of my presence. The baby would pop and smack and doze and his head would fall into the pan of beans. The girl would pull the beans from under his head, until he woke up again, then guide his mouth back to his groc eries. Finally she got up and laid the pappyless -little fellow on the bed and kissed him upon the head with her rough lips. That was the only display of sentiment I ever saw in that family and I have wondered since if thoughts of the day she found her “woodscolt” did not well O. G. Philipps Opens Memorial Business O. C. Phillips of Winnsboro, re cently discharged from the service, after over three years of service, 18 riionths of which was spent over seas with the 9th Air Force, has opened a place of business which will be called “O. C. Phillips Me morials” located on the Columbia- Greenville highway at the intersec tion of Johnstone street. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips and their daughter, Pamedia, are now making their home in the “Morning Side Cottage” on the highway near his place of business. Lee Carroll Derrick Dies In Columbia Lee Carroll Derrick, 42, prominent life-long resident of Little Mountain, died Monday at the Columbia hospi tal after a short illness. Mr. Derrick was the son of the late J. Kess Derrick, member of the House of Representatives from New berry County for a number of years and Mrs. Lavenia Wessinger Der rick. He was a graduate of Newberry College in the class of 1924. He owned and operated *the Derrick Lumber company of Little Mountain also large farming and other in terests. Mr. Derrick was prominently identified with the social, civil and religious life of the community. He was a school trustee, a member of Holy Trinity Lutheran church coun cil, secretary of the Lutheran Brotherhood, and also a Shriner. Funeral services were held Tues day afternoon at four o’clock from Holy Trinity Lutheran church with Rev. Albert Stemmermann in charge, assisted by Rev. W. J. Moretz of Earhardt. Interment followed in the church cemetery. Surviving’ are his wife, the for mer Louise Copeland, two sons, John Samuel and Louis Carroll Der rick. up in her. and cause this unusual dis play of affection. But if so, it was only a flash for as her father got up to go to bed she inquired if he were going to “plow in that .damn new- ground again tomorrow.” Mayor Hayes! I beseech your Honor not to go further with those awful signs. You gentlemen have made a mistake which can be recti fied now better than later and with a minimum of ill-will. Five or six of those gaudy signs along the Car penter store block will give the stranger an impression that the block is quarantined against smallpox, or something. I realize that you are trying to solve a knotty problem and you have a fine plan with the excep tion of those signs. PLEASE “don’t fence us in” with those billboards! Somewhat back, I bracketed EUer- be Sease with Dr. Zach Wright and Col. Guy Whitener, and now I have another to add to my growing list of big wigs. Fred Weir is the new comer and he is throwing his finan cial strength about in several places. He is building a filling station just below the building of Mogul Sease and “they say” will build another biulding in that neighborhood. He has a couple of farms, cattle on many hills and I don’t know what all besides. I knew Fred when he was a poor boy, just as I knw Guy and Ellerbe when their differentials were drag ging. They still speak to me, how ever; well, at least they nod in pass ing, and I do appreciate it. Well, Readers, Wilbur didn’t fix my road last week. But I’m not go ing to tell on him. If there is apy one thing I possess beside big feet it is a kind heart and charitable dispo sition. I .must, however, relate a circumstance of Sunday morning so that my commissioner will know the depths of my suffering. I dressed for Sunday and decided to make a try at that road so as to get out to “Awful Acres” for a bit of pure country air. Yes, OF COURSE, I got stuck, good and tight, up to the running boards. In trying to pull out the spinning rear wheel splashed my freshly pressed suit with buckets of red mud. From the testimony of reliable witnesses and from my own know ledge the county hasn’t spent one red cent on that road in 25 years. Why it is so bad that a buzzard won’t even fly over it. He knows that if his motor ever stopped while over that road he would never see his children again. Comes Brother Brown, who tells me he is a kindred sufferer. Brother produces good nourishing milk which he wants to deliver to town sweet. He says that his road is so bad that his milk turns to buttermilk before he gets started. But Brother is an ingenious cuss. H@ now stands in the back of his truck with a big pail in each hand while someone else drives. But that kind of work is hard, even for a poor boy—and he pays taxes, too. Oh well, I suppose we little people expect too much in the way of con veniences. After all, we COULD get a bull and a cart and go mast any place—even to my farm! Looking Down MEMORY Lane TWENTY YEARS AGO Postmaster Scott Called To Illinois Postmaster P. E. Scott was called to his former home in Symerton, 111., last Thursday- on account of the ser ious illness of his aged mother. He arrived before she passed on Tues- dav, April 20. Mr. Scott is expect ed home this weekend. J. C. Neel and Oscar Wood are the latest purchasers of Chrysler cars. Influential Member Greenwood Index-Journal. Congressman Fred Dominick of this district, has now a position of influence in Congress which is not only a position of honor for him but of value to the District and to the state. He has been selected one of the nine managers of the House to conduct the impeachment trial of Federal Judge English in the Senate. There are five Republicans on this committee of managers and four Democrats, Congressman Dominick being one of the four. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Black spent Friday with the Rev. and Mrs. D. B. Groseclose near Columbia. F. L. Hayes and A. E. Beden- baugh were business visitors to Hendersonville, N. C., during the past week. The club meetings throughout South Carolina last week developed very little of general interest. As usual, the attendance was not what it ought to have been. People take too much for granted in politics—and then wonder, afterwards, how it hap pened. Not long ago in Laurens, a Democratic nominee for alderman did not receive a vote in his ward, and it was necessary for another general election to be ordered. There is considerable danger in this kind of lossitude. Joel H. Kinard Joel Hilliard Kinard, 89, died early Friday night at his home on Cornelia street. He had been in de clining health for a number of years. Born and reared in the Pomaria section of Newberry County, he was the son of the late Frederick and Margaret Livingston Kinard. His wife, Mrs. Martha Dominick Kinard proceeded him to the grave 7 years ago. Funeral service were held Sun day afternoon at 3 o’clock from St. Pauls Lutheran church near Poma ria, with Rev. J. E. Roof and Rev. E. B. Keisler conducting the service. Interment followed in the Prosperity cemetery. He is survived by the following children: Dancey L. Kinard, Mrs. Hester Aull, Mrs. Daisy Margaret Stone; and one sister, Mrs. Trannie Morris. Also fourteen grand child ren, 16 great grand children and a number of nieces and nephews sur- ABOUT TOWN RON KOON, Constable of Pom aria, is now building a garage’ to house his ford car in, which he purchased in 1937 . . . WHITE FANT sporting his new buick and • being kidded because he has to park it at the Puroil Filling Sta tion on Main street not for from him home, and having to walk the Irest of the way to his place of business . . HERMAN WRIGHT thinks Banker A. P. SALLEY ought to give his customers a pair of sun glasses since having the bank building painted such a bright white which hurts the eyes . . . WILSON BROWN washing windows at his place of business, but trying to get through before this scribe “came along” . . . S. W. SHEALY., Prosperity, in the city Tuesday . . . Carpenter’s store getting a fresh spring coat of paint . . . MRS. F. G. HART LEY back at her desk at County Hospital after an eleven-day va cation . - . Printer’s Devil PHIL AULL, leaving Wednesday morn ing for Fort Jackson for pre-in duction . . . Only a few boys went down for examinations, but REV. J. B. HARMAN was on hand to encourage them, as usual . . . MRS. EDGAR HART leaving a beautiful vase of red and pink roses in Carpenter’s store Wednes day morning . . . DR. Z. CECD- LYNCH and MRS. LYNCH discus sing Whether to go fishing or to a ball game Wednesday afternoon . . . PETE COLEMAN erecting a filling' >sta$on opposite the Pal metto Cotton company on McKib- ben street . . . MRS. W. B. GAR DENHIRE back at her place of business after a vacation at home, “doing spring house cleaning” . . . Birthday anniversaries through Friday, May 3rd: Eddie Tolbert, April 27; Mable Summer, April 28; Ann Bowers, daughter of Prof, and Mrs. Charles Bowers, and Ruby Evelyn Reaves, April 29; Mrs. Beale H. Cromer and Fred erick Gardiner, April 30; Rose mary Bowers and William Neville, May 1.