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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 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1946 PER ANNUM • Mark It “YES” You received a few days ago a card upon which to make known your position on the pro posed extension of the water and sewerage systems of the city. The town council did not feel disposed to authorize a debt of almost half-million dollars without some expression from the people who must pay it. Along with the card you received an outline of the propos ed improvements and water and sewer exten sions. A study of this outline shows that the blessings of sewage disposal will be brought within reach of almost every home in the city and to certain sections adjacent to the city boundary. Upon the way you mark your card hinges the fate of this undertaking. People who love Newberry and want to see it grow cannot do other than mark the card “YES” and return it at once in the envelope provided. The extension of water and sewage facilities means that our returned veterans will be able to buy and build on lots offered at reasonable prices in new developments. It will mean that our Negroes will be pro vided with an accommodation for health and convenience they have long needed. It will mean that plumbers will get extra business. * It will mean that our suppliers, hardware stores and others will sell tens of thousands of dollars worth of bath-tubs, and sinks, pipes and fittings. It will mean more money for the stores of the city from wages paid out on the big project. And jt will mean a boost to what seems a lagging- civic spirit among our people. It will NOT mean a mortgage on your prop erty, rcsAl or otherwise, as the bonds are to be paid from plant revenue. It will NOT mean tha* increased prices you wjll be asked to pay for service will remain static. The hundreds upon hundreds of homes which will take the service as soon as it is available will make it possible to progressively scale down service rates. The proposed increase of 25 per cent is based upon EXISTING service connections and not on possible revenue from new users. Newberry hajs outgrown its present water and sewerage plant to such an extent that the street sprinklers can be used only at very early hours of the morning when water consumption is at its lowest. The sewage disposal plant, lo cated just outside the city is totally inadequate to handle the large flow of sewage which en ters it, consequently—(and plainly)—it stinksl This MUST and will be rebuilt whether or not the expansion program goes thru. How much better it will be to do the whole job at one time, goes without saying. Doing the job piecemeal means increased taxes; without saying. Doing it all at once means it will be paid for out of revenue and the cost distributed over a much larger number of people. Look up your little card now, mark YES in the space provided and mail it. You’ll feel good about it when you see new homes rising on every side to house the boys who fought for us. VOL. 9; NO. 17 & THINGS OUT AT Awful Acres are in a pretty sorry state right now. I had hoped to get a few peanuts from some volunteer vines but the weeds have grown so tick and tall I can’t find them. I do have a fine crop of weeds and I hope some scientist will find that they make good toothpaste or some thing before frost falls. I gathered a few knotty apples but the blackberries were ruined by dry weather and the jay birds ate up my figs. Matters at the Acres remind me of a farmer they tell about. Light ning struck and burned his barn; his bull gored his one mule and killed him and the bull in turn broke his neck in a fence; his hogs took cholera.and passed out and his cow went dry. Then his wife ran away with the hired hand—the only thing he had to be thankful for. At that, he was better off than I am. My wife is still aroui.d. There were several buildings on the place when I bought it which maue it at lea^t LOOK like a farm. They were leaning hither and yon, however, and I didn’t like them. I wanted something modern and streamlined. I tore them down and with some of the lumber started a little buijding on an eminence fac ing a gorgeous group of red-bud (Judas) trees. As I told you in some former singing, I laid the floor first and left the roof open. The roof is still open. One of my negro helpers left me to go to Norfolk and build ships, the other fell over something and came near breaking his neck. Building operations came to a halt and are still halted. Every time I go out there I feel ashamed of myself. There the little un finished, roofless building stands waiting, patient and uncomplaining, to be finished. I feel ashamed be cause it is of the warp and woof of myself. I put something of myself into the rafters, the studding, the flooring; altho to present I have not put anything of myself into the roofing. I pictured how I was going to lay out there in front of the httle house this summer and look up at the sky and meditate upon the des tiny of man and the stubborness of women, and perhaps the cussedness of both. Woe, is me. I am a man undone. Instead of lying under my own vine and fig tree in front of my little house, I find myself stand ing before a damn printing press putting in little pieces of paper and pulling them out, putting them in and pulling them out, pulling them out and putting them in. Mhybe sometime, in fate’s own good hour, I will be able to clasp my Little bpilding (it’s about clasp ing size) to my contrite bosom and cry, “little one, your lover has come back to you.” In the meanwhile, give me an other handkerchief, Jasper, this one’s WET. MY INTELLIGENCE service tells me there i^.to be another dress shop in town. If it is another Diana Shop it can stay where it is with my blessing. Diana Shops do the city no good. They come in in flush times to skim off the cream and then leave the Ioce’ merchants to hold the bag in hard times. Diana Shops didn’t build our schools, nor pave our streets. This job was done by dress sellers such as Ernest Carpenter, Harry Vigod- sky, Jim Beard and others. These men are citizens, interested in all that is good for Newberry, and they back up that interest with their time and money. Ernest and Harry and Jim are and have been all along able to provide our ladies with smart dresses at moderate prices and they will continue to do it—IF. If the women of our town will stop and think a little when they are moved to buy from these New York or Boston stores. The owners of these stores are not interested in your children, or your town. All they are after is your money. This is YOUR town and no one is going to make it a good town except YOU. If you give your dollars to these stores to funnel off into northern banks you are cutting your own throat, for you can be darn certain that they are not going to contri bute to the dozens of civic activi ties which; our local merchants support. You women know that I am your friend. I love every blamed one of you; the fat, the lean, the bow-leg ged and the knock-kneed. So, please, when you go to buy an other dress to drape around your exciting figure, give the business to men who have made Newberry the town we are proud of. I WAS SOMEWHAT disturbed, as I know you were, in reading press dispatches about the little South Carolina negro “God” marrying a “pretty rich white girl.” Well, she may be rich but she certainly isn’t pretty. I saw her picture in Time magazine this week. She is a sort of horsy looking creature. As for me, Pappy Divine can have her, money and all, although I am sure they will not “live happily ever af terwards.” Those dusky angels in pappy’s many heavens are going to become jealous. Women, of “what ever color, are possessive, and the dark angels are not going to give up pappy wiihout a struggle. Albeit, I am sure Father Divine will be able to handle the matter. Great leaders in religion have handled such matters before. There was Abraham (Father Ab raham). His wife objected to his having another girl in the house and old Abe handled the matter with finesse and dispatch. He just told her to get out. He put the poor girl out in the heartless world with only 39c and a bottle of goat’s milk—and his best wishes, of course. And there was no Social Security in those, days, either! Those old boys high up in reli gious brackets were and are able to get by with murder when it comes to women, while we small fry have to suffer on and on and on. Why, I bet if I were to turn my wife out and give her a couple of dollars, she wouldn’t like it. The only way I know of to handle women is to become a preacher. Printing is a confounded poor way of making a living any way. ONE OF MY readers doubts a statement here last week to the ef fect that I know all about women. Maybe that was a little overdrawn but I still claim I know more than the average male. Being a philo sopher of mature years I can study woman i in a detached manner where most of you wolves would want to bite her ear off. As a re sult of my long stuay I have found out one thing for sure and certain: “the worst woman is better than the best man’’. I had opportnity to observe the truth of this old saying many years ago. I was about 16 years old at the time, moving from place to place setting type by hand in country newspaper offices. I reached Georgetown with a 5c piece in my pocket, expecting to meet a friend there who was a little better heeled. My friend was nowhere to be found and it looked like another night in the depot. I sauntered up Front street and the wind from across the water cut thru my britches which were bet ter suited to August than Decem ber. I spent my nickel for two apples in the old market house and stood by the fire and munched them. Across Winyah bay blue smoke from the supper fires set tled slowly and blotted out the wa ter and the opposite shore. The two apples whetted my appetite for the ham and buscuits I knew were cooking in many homes. I was hungry and I knew that unless some kind Samaritan came to the rescue cold would soon be added to my discomfort as night was rapidly approaching and the market man was putting his affairs in shape to close up shop. I don’t know whether any of you have even been “on the hog”. If not I can tell you there is only one thing to do in such a case and that is; walk. I walked. I have not been to Georgetown in 30 years but as well as I remem ber the “redlight” houses were then located at the end of Church street. That was a long time ago and my memory may be playing tricks. Anyway, I found myself in front of a row of houses, all of which dsplayed little red lights on the front porch. The glow of these little lights, only a few days before Christmas, seemed very warn and friendly, but I walked up and down in front of the house several times before screwing up courage enough to enter one of them. I did not know much about the “bees and the birds” at that time but I was cold and hungry and being a bum I guess I figured these were my kind of people; certainly I would never have dared to enter a high class home i.i such manner. The landlady, a hard-bitten old gal, answered my rap at the door and asked me what I wanted. I ask ed if I could come in and sit a- while and get warm. She jerked her head in affirmation and I en tered. As I followed her down the hall I heard laughter and the music of a player piano coming from a room on the right. As we reached this room she flung open the door and motioned for me to go in, leaving me in company with three or four men, each with a girl. I sat on end of a sofa next to the fire while one of the men and his girl sat on the other in tight em brace, oblivious of my presence. No one paid any attention to me and along about midnight they be gan to leave the room, paired as they had been when I entered. I stretched out on the sofa and prepared to spend the night when the landlady opened the door and looked in. She closed it again and I could hear her locking the front door and bustling about in the hall. (Continued on Page 10) McLeod In Run-off For Governor Dr. James McLeod of Florence, candidate for governor who is in the runoff for the State’s highest office, expressed his appreciation to the citizens of South Carolina for their support given him in the First Democratic primary and ap pealed to them to again study his platform, in which he advocates, “better government and a better place in which to live.” « In his statement, Dr. McLeod said; “I deeply appreciate the confi dence and trust shown by the many thousands of my friends and the friends of good gvernment who voted for me in the first Demo cratic Primary. “I have fought a clean fight; I have not dealt in personalities; I have stuck to the facts. “I shall continue to follow the same policies during the remain der of the campaign. It is my be lief that the people of this state are tired of hypocrisy, of platitutes and of false promises. “I am confident they will avail themselves of the opportunity they now have to adopt the program of action as set forth in my publish ed platform.” Dr. McLeod appealed to the citi zens to join him in his program to “bring better government to South Carolina and make it a better place in which to live.” Redskins Undertake Pre-Season Drills BY FRANK E. KINARD About 50 candidates will report to Head Coach Bill Laval and his staff to begin pre-season football drills at Newberry College Thurs day (today) morning. Included in the group will be 20 lettermen, nine of them pre-war vintage, 11 of them back from last year’s Redskin crew that annexed six wins in seven starts. The 20 monogrammers are expected to provide the nucleus around i which th/b veteran Indian chief will build his eighth Newber ry eleven. Twice-a-day, at 9:00 a. m., and 3:30 p. m., are in store for the Fight ing Redskins. Favored uniform for the opening sessions, which will consist largely of conditioning exer cises and drills in fundamentals, will be tee shirts and shorts. The wearing of pads and the accom panying heavy work are not scheduled to begin until late next week. George Fritts, Clemson All- Southern tackle in 1939 and ’40, and star performer for the Phila delphia Eagles last fall, will handle line-coaching duties for the In dians in the coming campaign. The Redskins open their season away from home September 21 against Appalachian State’s Moun taineers at Boone, N. C., before re turning to the Palmetto state for a go with the Carolina Gamecocks in Columbia, September 28. League Convention Speakers Announced For Batesburg Meet The Rev. Vernon J. Frazier of Sumter will serve as Chaplain of the State Luther League Conven- August 26 through 28th. Besides Rev. Frazier, speakers will be: The Rev. C. J. Shealy, D. D., of Spartanburg, the Rev. Ray mond R. Ellsworth, pastor of Faith Lutheran Church in Batesburg, the Rev. J. Obert Kempson of Co lumbia, 'the Rev. H. A. McCul lough, Jr., of Columbia, and the j Rev. Henry R. Wingard of George town, recently graduated from the Lutheran Seminary in Columbia. Miss Martha Barre of Lexington, State Life Service Secretary, will speak at the fourth session on the subject, “The Attack Through Life Service.” Miss Mabel Bauknight of West Columbia, State Educa tional Secretary, will speak on, “The Advance Through Educa tion.” The Convention is the 36th An nual Convention of the Luther League of South Carolina. Each Luther League is allowed two del egates. The convention will'' be presided over by Miss Jeanette Coyner of Charleston, State Presi dent. Amon H. Minick Services Held Sunday Amon Hawkins Minick, 51, died Friday night at his home near here. Funeral services were held at 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon from Cul- only Lutheran church, with the Rev. C. E. Seastrunk and the Rev .J. C. Rice in charge. Interment was in the church cemetery. Born and reared in the St. Luke’s section of Newberry county, Mr. Minick was the son of George A. and Emma Hawkins Minick. Recent visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Peterson on Nance street were Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Courtney of West Columbia and Mr. Courtney’s niece, Miss Shirley Holland of New York. Mrs. Ray Dawkins and son, Charles of Prosperity spent a few days last week in Columbia and Blythewood with relatives. Misses Cora and Mazie Dominick left last Friday for a week’s vaca** tion in Hendersonville, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Culclasure and two children, Jackie and Jerry of Raleigh, N. C., Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Gaines of Elberton, Ga., and Rev. and Mrs. C. J. Shealy and son, Charles of Aiken, were guests last weekend in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Setzler and other relatives on Harrington street. Miss Joyce Coleman and little sister, Kit, of Laurens, are spend ing this week in the home of their grandmother, Mrs. L. D. Coleman on Caldwell street. Misses Parnell Fellers, Carrie Wightman, “Lib”, “Eta” and Ana- bel Ruff, Patty Lominick and Doris Dawkins, spent their vacation last week at Folly Beach. Marcellus Renwick of Macon, G is spending his vacation here in the home of his sister, Mrs. Henry Fellers and Mr. Fellers on Harper street. Miss Ethel Jones and Mrs. T. A. Scarborough returned to their home last Friday after spending a month in Sumter county with their sister, Mrs. J. C. Brogden. Derrill Stribble returned to his home on First street last week af ter spending ten days in Pennsyl vania with friends. David Denning and Forrest Car penter left by auto on August 17 for Toronto, Canada to attend the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity Con vention there. They will visit new York on their return trip. Mrs. H. K. Boyd is spending this week at Cashier’s Valley, near Highlands, N. C. A. C. Ward, who is employed at the Anderson Flower Shop in Can ton, Ga., is spending a few days vacation at his home on Drayton street. Rev. and Mrs. M. L. Kester of Leesville, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cousins at 2107 Mayer ave nue. Rev. Kester is recuperating from a recent operation at the New berry hospital. Rev. and Mrs. C. A. Calcote and two children, Allen and Mack, returned to their home on Calhoun street over the weeknd, after two weeks visit with relatives in Miss issippi and Tennessee. Wednesday guests in the home of Mrs. J. W. Denning on Nance street were Miss Kate Wilks and mother, Mrs. S. E. Wilks of Chester and Rockingham, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mighton spent the weekend in the home of Mrs. Mighton’s sister, Mrs. M. F. Bowler on Gleen street. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Rutherford and two children, Kate Stewart and Jerry and Dr. and Mrs. Edgar Crooks, are spending two weeks’ vacation at Edisto Island. Smith Buys Valuable College Street Lot J. W. (Bill) Smith, owner of the Smith Motor company, this week closed a deal for the valuable Col lege street lot just below the Texa co Filling station. The lot runs from College through to Caldwell and takes in some tenant houses and the building now occupied by Laird’s radiator works. Mr. Smith said that work will be gin clearing off the lot at once looking to an early start of con struction. He proposes to build a modern home for Dodge and Ply mouth cars and a spacious garage. The garage will open on the Cald well street side but an entrance may be had to it from College street, through Jenkins street which is the Western boundary of the lot. The new building will be of steel and concrete with about 20,000 feet of floorspace. The cost is es timated to be in the neighborhood of $50,000. The lot upon which Mr. Smith will build is one of the few remain ing building lots close to the center of town and is said to have brought a fancy price. On Caldwell street the lot extends to Harrington. Carpenter-Brannon Mr. and Mrs .D. O. Carpenter of Newberry announce the engagement of their daughter, Mary Helen, to Rufus Hamilton Brannon, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Padgett of Co lumbia. The wedding will take place on Sunday, September 1st, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter, 2804 Fair avenue. Miss Ross Honored Mrs. J: E .Wiseman entertained, her bridge club Saturday after noon, at which time Miss Dorothy Ross, bride-elect of this' month, was a guest of the club. The Wiseman apartment was un usually lovely in floral decorations of mixed summer flowers. Mrs. Hunter Brown was high scorer of the club, and Mrs. C. L. Youmans won top place for the guests. Low prize and bingo fell to the honoree, who was also presented a beautiful gift by the hostess. After cards were laid aside, the hostess served a delightful salad course. Wilson C. Weam has resigned from his work as instructor in the Electrical Engineering Department to accept a position in the Engineer ing Department of the Federal Communication’s Commission in Washington, D. C. j* BULLOCK-HOWARD MARRIAGE SOLEMNIZED In a setting of white gladioli, palms, and candelabra, Miss Mar jorie Howard was marxied to Paul Frick Bullock in beautiful Reforma tion Church last Friday evening, July 26, at 7 o’clock. Pastor Roy L. Sloop performed the impressive double-ring ceremony. Prior to the ceremony, a musical program was given by Miss Mary A. Weidley, organist of the church, and Miss Joy Cunningham who sang “Until” and “Because”. To the strains of the Lohengrin Bridal Chorus, the bride entered on the arm of her uncle, Arthur O. Morton, who gave her in marriage. Her gown was of white silk eye let organdie and net, fashioned with fitted bodice and bouffant skirt. Her finger-tip veil of illusion fell gracefully from a tiara of seed pearls, and she carried a clustered bouquet of white gladioli with an orchid center. She wore a necklace of pearls, the gift c.f the groom. Miss Doris Howard, maid of honor, to her sister, wore a gown of pink satin and marquisette with a shoulder veil of pink net. Her bouquet was of pink roses and blue delphiniums. Bridesmaids were Miss Cleo Ho ward, cousin of the bride, from Hamstead, N. C., and Miss Vir ginia Ledbetter of Marion, N. C. Both wore gowns of blue net and lace with short shoulder veils of blue net. Miss Howard’s bouquet was of Talisman roses and Miss Ledbetter’s, of yellow roses. Sgt. Thomas E. Bullock, Jr., of Camp Lee, Va., was best man for his brother. Lee Kirby of Spartan burg, and Harold E. Simpson of Charlotte, N. C., were the ushers. After the wedding a reception was given at Friendship Hall. Mrs. Thomas E. Bullock, mother of the groom, wearing an aquamarine crepe dress and corsage of gar denias, and Donald Bullock, broth er of the groom, joined the bridal party in the receiving line. The bride until recently was from Hamstead, N. C., and was grad uated from the high school there. Mr. Bullock is from Newberry. Both the bride and groom are now em ployed with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D. C. Following a wedding trip to Carolina Beach, Wilmington, N. C., Mr. and Mrs. Bullock will return to Washington where they will be at home to then' friends at 1113 Mas sachusetts Avenue, N. W., Washing ton, D. C. TAXES CUT TENMILLS The county delegation has an nounced a 10 mills reduction on taxes due in October. This cut will be readily noticeable on the 1946 tax bills. This ten mills leaves the county only 22 mills for all purposes—16 mills for the re duction of debt accumulated in the free spending days of the late 20’s and 6 mills for ordinary county expenses, including salaries, roads, county hospital, schools and other miscellaneous expenses. County taxes are said now to be the lowest in a quarter of a century. The delegation found it possible to make the reduction without re sorting to a surplus which has been accumulating for the past few years. The delegation hopes to use this surplus in liquidating bonded indebcedness when and if outstand ing bonds are offered for pur chase. The holders of these 5 and 6 per cent bonds are reluctant to part with them as no other such investments are procurable at this time. To partially offeet the in terest in bonded indebtedness the delegation js investing its surplus in government securities. 87 YEARS AGO (FROM THE RISING SUN) Williams and Ferguson ran a store in 1859 at No. 2 Mollohon Row, which must have been some where about where “Foots” Clary now operates. They advertised among other things: “French Extracts for the hand kerchief. “Pokade Divine Lip Balm. “A large lot of fine kerosene oil. “A large lot of celebrated con centrated lye, so much used in the manufacture of soap. Directions in each package.’’ “NOTICE. Application will be mhde to the next session of the legislature for the incorporation of Bethlehem church (Lutheran) in Newberry district, S. C.” “For Sale, a valuable girl, about 18 years old. She is a very good plain seamstress, quick at learning needle work, and would become after some instruction, an excellent needle-woman. Inquire at the Ris ing Sun office.” “I hereby forewarn all persons irom trading for a note, made pay able to / S. A. McCrackin, amount two hundred dollars, date August 15, 1859, due one day after date, and signed by myself and Frederick Jonhson, as I am determined not to pay said note unless compelled by law, as the consideration for which it was given has proved un sound. Jacob Suber.” ABOUT TOWN MRS. SARAH WALLACE pass ing through the city early Thurs day morning en route to Whit mire from New York where she spent two “delightful week’s va cation” with her two brothers Frank and Pete Davis ... If you are interested in a used car see BILL BUFORD . . . MRS. J. D. WICKER, who has been ill at her home on Cline street for the past three months is now able to sit up an hour each day . . . L. G. ESKRIDGE eating and drink ing refreshments in sandwich shop . . . Birthday anniversaries thru Aug. 31: RODNEY BED- ENBAUGH, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Bedenbaugh, Aug. 24; J. W. EARHARDT, JR, and J. BOYD ROBERTSON, Aug. 25; BOBBY SUMMER, JR, (R. E.) and MRS. ANNIE B. SL5GH, Aug. 26; GEORGE L. MCCUL LOUGH and MAUDE SPOTTS, Aug. 30; THOMAS EDWARD EPTING (Dude), HARRY STONE, JR, (son of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Stone) Aug. 31. HAL'S ADLETS— Six hundred fresh indoor ever green plants for your fall and winter arrangements—Chinese ev ergreens, “snake plants”, philoden drons, pothos, peperomias, etc. We are offering at this time fifty as sorted dish gardens which will add life to any room. Come in to see them, won’t you? New and beautiful Fenton Art pieces are here. Exquisite figurines, hand-paint ed in pastels and gold. These make unusually fine wedding gifts. Roses, California asters and giant chrysanthemums, glads, dah lias and other seasonal flowers for you. We will be glad to wire flow ers ANYWHERE your friend or loved one may be. Member Florists Telegraph Delivery International— the proven and bonded service. Nice assortment of popular and durable Congress Cel-U-Tone play ing cards. Many folks are now making some of their Christmas gift selec tions, which is not a bad idea. We cordially invite you to pay our new shop a visit the next time you’re downtown. VERNA 8c HAL KOHN