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FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1949 THE NEWBERRY SUN NOTICE OF SPECIAL * MUNICIPAL ELECTION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, February 15th, 1949, a special municipal elec tion will be held in the Town of Newberry, S. C., for the purpose of considering amend ing the CHARTER of the Town of Newberry, in the following particulars, to wit: 1. To change the name of the Town of Newberry to the City of Newberry; 2. That the City of Newberry shall be divided into six (6) wards; that Wards No. 1, 4 and 5 shall remain as presently laid out; that a new ward to be known as Ward No. 6 shall be' formed, ana shall include portions of Wards Nos. 2 and 3; that Wtard No. 6 shall be described as follows: Beginning at the intersection of Caldwell Street and Harring ton Street, and running thence along the middle of Harring ton Street to Martin Street; thence running along the mid dle of Martin Street to Cal houn Street; thence running in a northernly direction along the middle of Calhoun Street to Harper Street; thence run ning along the middle of Har per Street and into the middle of Mayer Avenue to the cor porate limits of the City of Newberry; thence following the corporate limits of the City of Newberry, in a southernly di rection, to the middle of Bene dict Street; thence in a wes- ternly direction along the mid dle of Benedict Street to the intersection of Glenn Street; It’s Here! 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That is the second one gotten out since the war. i It is also a fact that you can call us and obtain immediate protection against loss of your property by Fire, Tornado, etc. PURCELLS Your Protection Our Business Phone 197 thence in a northernly direc tion along Glenn Street to the •middle of Johnstone Street; thence along Johnston Street, in a southwesternly direction, to the middle of Caldwell Street; thence along the mid dle of Caldwell Street to the beginning corner; That the remainder of what is known as Ward No. 2, shall be known as Ward No. 2, and the remainder of what is known as Ward No. 3 shall be known as Ward No. 3; 3. The six (6) Aldermen of the City of Newberry and the Mayor thereof shall be elected on a general ticket by the qual ified voters of the said City, at the time and 'for the term now prescribed by law for the Mayor and Aldermen of the said City. Each Alderman so elected on such general ticket shall be, at the time of his election, and during the term of his office shall remain, a resident of the Ward for which he is elected. REQUISITES FOR VOTING: 1. County Registration Cer tificate; 2. Municipal Registration Certificate; 3. Proof of payment 30 days prior to the election of any poll tax due and assessed. The municipal registration books will be in charge of D. L. Nance, as Supervisor of Reg istration, and will be open dur ing the usual business hours of his office as Clerk & Treas urer of the Town of Newberry and registration certificates can be obtained at his office, on Boyce Street, from January 1st, 1949, to February 4th, 1949, both inclusive. Any person of the age of 21 and upwards, hav ing a County Registration Cer tificate, and has resided within the corporate limits of .the Town of Newberry, S. C., for four months previous to the date of election, and has paid all taxes due and collectible for the preceding fiscal year, shall be entitled to a Municipal Reg istration Certificate. The polls shall open at 8:00 o’clock, A. M., and shall close at 4:00 o’clock, P. M., at the following named places and in charge of the managers herein shown opposite the respective voting places, to wit: WARD 1—Mrs. A. H. Counts, Mrs. F. G. Hartley, John A. Peterson, Clerk, oting at Re corders room City Hall. WARD 2—John T. Cromer, Miss Ruth Feagle, Mrs. Martha Sease, Mrs. Mlarion Wilson VOTING at New Court House. WARD 3, NO. 1—Irvine Les lie, C. B. Spinks, Mrs. C. B. Spinks, Henry T. Cannon, VOT ING at Todd Motor Company. WARD 3. NO. 2—AdeUe Ful mer, Claude Jackson, S. J. Ar thur, Florence Harvey. VOT ING at Mollohon School House. WARD 4, NO. 1—Mrs. Ethel B. Fellers, Mrs. Mary E. Dowd, Miss Clara Bowers, Thomas P. Wicker, Clerk. VOTING at Newberry Hotel. WARD 4, NO. 2—Miss Come Lei Havird, Miss Minnie Hav- ird, Mrs. O. F. Armfield. VOT ING at park behind Layton’s Store. WARD 5—Sarah Rucker, Eve lyn Hendrix, Dorothy Rose, Carolyn Kinard. VOTING near Corley’s Barber shop. The said election will be held pursuant to Resolution, duly adopted by the Town Council at its meeting on Thursday, December 16th, 1948, authoriz ing said election, following the presentation to the said Town Council of the Town of New berry of a petition signed by the majority of the freeholders of the said Town of Newberry, “Man is stumbling blindly through a spiritual darkness while toying with the secrets of life and death.” STATEMENT OF CONDITION Newberry Federal Savings & Loan Association AFTER CLOSE OF BUSINESS DECEMBER 31, 1948 Address by Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Chief of Staff, United States Amy, before the Armis tice Day luncheon, Boston Chamber of Commerce, Boston, Mass., Wednesday, November 10, 1948: Tomorrow is our day of con science. For although it is a monu ment to victory, it is also a symbol of failure. Just as it honors the dead, so must it humble the living. Armistice Day is a constant reminder that we won a war and lost a peace. It is both a tribute and an indictment: A tribute to the men who died that their neigh bors might live without fear of aggression. An indictment of those who lived and forfeit ed their chance of peace. Therefore, while Armistice Day is a day for pride,, it is for pride in the achievements of others—humility in our own. Neither remorse nor logic can hide the fact that our armis tice ended in failure. Not un til the armistice myth exploded in the blast of a Stuka bomb did we learn that the winning of wars does not in itself make peace. And not until Pearl Harbor did we learn that non involvement in peace means certain involvement in war. We paid grievously for those faults of the past in deaths, dissaster, and dollars. It was a penalty we know ingly chose to risk. We made the choice when we defaulted on our task in creating and safeguarding a peace. Now new weapons have made the risk of war a suicid al hazard. Any nation which does not exert its vigor, wtfalth and armed strength in the avoidance of conflict before it strikes, shall endanger its sur vival. It is no longer possible to shield ourselves with arms alone against the ordeal, of attack. For modern war visits destruction on the victor and the vanquished alike. Our only complete assurance of surviving world war III is to halt it before it starts. For that reason we clearly have no choice but to face the challenge of these strained times. To ignore the danger of aggression is simply to invite it. It must never again be praying that an election be held for the purposes hereinabove mentioned. Additional ballots will be given to each qualified voter during said election for ihe purpose of having the voter express himself or herself on the additional following ques tions: 1. Whether or not the Com missioners of Public Wtorks should be abolished and its du ties devolved upon the City Council of the City of New- ber.y; 2. Whether or not the City Council of the City of New berry should employ a full time City Manager for the pur pose of coordinating the busi- said City. ness and departments of the The result of the voting on the two above questions shall be only for the purpose of as certaining the sentiments of the voters and shall have no binding force and affect what soever. D. L. NANCE, Clerk & Treasurer of the Town of Newberry, S. C. December 21st, 1948 3tc said of the American people: Once more we won a war; once more we lost a peace. If we do, we shall doom our children to a struggle that will take their lives. Armed forces can wage , wars but they cannot make peace— a chasm that can only be bridg ed by good will, discussion, compromise, and agreement. In 1945 while still bleeding from the wounds of aggression, the nations of this world met in San Francisco to build that span from war to peace. For 3 years—first hopefully, then guardedly, now fearfully—free nations have labored to com plete that bridge. Yet again they have been obstructed by a nation whose ambitions thrive best on tension, whose leaders are scornful of peace except on their own impossible terms. — The unity with which we started that structure has been riddled by fear and suspicion. In place of agreement we are wrangling dangerously over the body of that very nation whose aggression had caused us to seek each other as allies and friends. Only 3 years after our sol diers first clasped hands over the Elbe, this great wartime ally has spurned friendship with recrimination, it has clenched its fists and skulked in conspiracy behind its se cretive borders. As a result today we are neither at peace nor war. In stead we are engaged in this contest of tension, seeking agreement with those who dis dain it, rearming, and strug gling for peace. Time can be for us or against us. It can be for us if diligence in our search for agreement equals the vigilance with which we prepare for a storm. It can be against us if dis illusionment weakens our faith in discussion—or if our vigil ance corrodes while we wait. Disillusionment is always the enemy of peace. And today—, as after World War I—disillu sionment can come frpm ex pecting too much, too easily, too soon. In our impatience we must never forget that fun damental differences have di vided the world; they allow no swift, no cheap, no easy solutions. While as a prudent people we must prepare ourselves to encounter what we may be un able to prevent, we neverthe less must never surrender our selves to the certainty of that encounter. For if we say there is no good in arguing with what must inevitably come, then we shall be v left with no choice/ but to create a garrison state and empty our wealth into arms. The burden of long-term total preparedness for some indefinite but inevitable war could not help but crush the freedom we prize. It would leave the American people soft victims for bloodless aggres sion. Both the east and the west today deprecate war. Yet be cause of its threatening ges tures, its espousal of chaos, its secretive taatics and its habits of force—one nation has caus ed the rest of the world to fear that it might recklessly resort to force rather than be block ed in its greater ambitions. The American people have said both in their aid to Greece rope that any threat to free dom is a threat to our own lives. For we know that unless free peoples stand boldly and united against the forces of aggression, they may fall wretchedly, one by one, into the web of oppression. It is fear of the brutal un principled use of force by reck less nations that might ignore the vast reserves of our de fensive strength that has caus ed the American people to en large their air, naval, and ground arms. Reluctant as we were to mus ter this costly strength, we must leave no chance for mis calculation in the mind of any aggressor. Because in the United States it is the people who are sov ereign, the Government is theirs to speak their voice and to voice their will, truthfully and without distortion. We, the American people, can stand cleanly before the entire world and say plainly to any state: “This Government will not assail you. “You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressor.” Since the origin of the Am erican people, their chief trait has been the hatred of war. And yet these American people are ready to take up their arms against aggression and destroy if need be by their might any nation which would violate the peace of the world. There can be no compromise with aggression anywhere in the world. For aggression mul tiplies—in rapid succession— disregard for the rights of man. Freedom when threatened any where is at once threatened everywhere. No more convincing an avow al of their peaceful intentions could have been made by the American people than by their offer to submit to United Na tions the secret of the atom bomb. Our willingness to sur render this trump advantage that atomic energy might be used for the peaceful welfare of mankind spintered the lies of those world-warmakers that our atom had been teamed with the dollar for imperialistic gain. Yet because we asked ade quate guaranties and freedom of world-wide inspection by the community of nations itself, our offer was declined and the atom«has been recruited into this present contest of nerves. To those people who contend that secrecy and medieval sov ereignty are more precious than a system of atomic control, I can only reply that it is a cheap price to pay for peace. The atom bomb is far more than a military weapon. It may—as Bernard Baruch once said—contain the choice be tween the quick and the dead. We dare not forget that t]ie advantage in atomic warfare lies with aggression and sur prise. If we become engaged in an atom bomb race, we may simply lull ourselves to sleep behind an atomic stockpile. The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adoles cents. Our knowledge of science has clearly outstripped our capacity to control it. We have too many men of science; and in the reconstruction of Eu- too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Man is stumb ling blindly through a spiritual darkness while toying with the precarious secrets of life and death. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, po wer without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. This is our twentieth cen tury’s claim to distinction and to progress. In our concentration on the tactics of strength and resource fulness which have been used in the contest for blockaded Berlin, we must not forget that we are also engaged in a long-range conflict of ideas. Democracy can withstand ideal- ogical attacks if democracy will provide earnestly and liberally for the welfare of its people. To defend democracy against attack, men must value free dom. And to value freedom they must benefit by it in hap pier and more secure lives for their wives and children. Throughout this period" of tension in which we live, the American people must demon strate conclusively to all other peoples of the world that dem ocracy not only guarantees man’s human freedom but that it guarantees his economic dig nity and progress as well. To practice freedom and make it work, we must cherish the in dividual, we must provide him the responsibilities a freeman bears to the society in which he lives. The American people cannot abdicate in this present strug gle and leave the problem to their armed forces. For this is not a test of com bat strength but a contest of resolution. It is dependent less upon military strength and more upon human strength, faith, and fortitude among such citizens as you.' If we are to combat communism, we cannot oppose with anti-communism. We capnot fight something with nothing. More than ever be fore, we must alert our people —and people throughout the world—to the meaning of their freedom and stimulate in each of them an awareness of their own, th^ir personal share in this struggle. Good citizenship is the start of a working democracy. And good citizenship begins at home in the ability of every Ameri can to provide a happy and wholesome life for his family. From such simple beginnings do we create better communi ties, better States, a better Na tion—and eventually we hope a better world. To you in the greater com munity of New England much has been given in the heritage that began with Concord, and in the truths that have been left for you by your Lowells, your Emersons, your Holmes. Out of so fortunate a spiri tual start in the meaining and significance of freedom, you have constructed an industrial machine with which to nou rish great faith in it. If we will only believe in democracy, use it, and prac tice its precepts in the factory as well as the voting booth, we shall so strengthen ourselves that nothing can prevail against us—or against those who stand with us in like good faith. fLPiiilS Avnui By Tad Kest/ng I have been reading strange and wonderful things about the affects of altitude and cold on rifles, things that made me wonder why I never have sim ilar experiences. Actually, most of the strange behavior of the rifle is caused by the shooter violating some principal that every rifle shooter should know. Here are practically all the precautions you should take to insure that your hunting rifle will always deliver shot well into game, at least wKen you aim and squeeze the trigger properly. These suggestions are from' Col. Townsend Wheien. noted arms and ammunition authority. Don’t take it for granted that your rifle, as it comes from the factory or gunsmith, is correctly sighted for you, foy the ammunition you will use, and for the distance you want If you have your rifle sighted in for you by a friend who is a good shot, always verify this sighting yourself. He may not aim and hold the rifle as you do. If you change ammunition, verify the sight adjustment with the new road. Two makes of cartridges, both with the same weight bullet and same advertised velocity, may or may not shoot to the same center of impact. Never rest a rifle on a solid object, rock or log, as it will probably shoot very high and wild. Have some soft object between the rifle and -est, even the hand will do. Keep your stock as dry as you can. Most of tne complaints we hear about shooting high and th e admonitions to aim low can be traced to the open rear sight. Yet our manufacturers still persist in equipping their standard sporting rifles with open rear sights, which are re sponsible for many misses and much Wounded game. No one who has learned to use the Lyman type aperture rear sight has any of these troubles. If you will observe these pre cautions, then you must lay your misses to your aim and trigger squeeze alone. Modern American hunting rifles are re markably reliable arms, and with them yout only alibi is poor marksmanship—not the al titude or tiie weather. ASSETS First Mortgage Loans $3,935,536.31 Investments and Securities 45,900.00 Cash on Hand and In Banks 178,738.51^ Office Equipment, Less Depreciation 9,974.33 LIABILITIES Members’ Share Accounts $3,486,174.71 Advances from Federal Home Loan Bank 500,000.00 Loans in Process 18,832.16 Other Liabilities , 382.51 Specific Reserves 1,846.32 fiJ-P Tl A 1 Reserves 152,913.45 Undivided Profits __ 10,000.00 162,913.45 $4,170,149.15 $4,170,149.15 Payroll and Social Security Forms and Binders Payroll Checks Offset and Letter press printing, & engraving THE SUN AUDITOR'S TAX NOTICE The undersigned, or an au thorized agent, will be at the following places on the dates given below for the purpose of taking tax returns on all per sonal property, new buildings and real estate transfers. Per sons owning property in more than one district must make returns for each district. All able bodied male citizens between the ages of twenty- one and sixty are liable to $1.00 poll tax. All persons between the ages of twenty-one and fifty outside of incorporated towns and cities are liable to pay commutation (road) tax of $1.00. All dogs are to be taxed at $1.00 each. WHITMIRE City Hall, Monday, January 3, 1949. Aragon Baldwin Mill, Thursday and Friday, January 6 and 7, 1949. * G. ft. & R. E. NEEL STORE Monday, January 10, 1949, from 9 until 12. SILVERSTREET Monday, January 10, 1949, from 2 until 5. CHAPPELLS Tuesday, January 11, 1949. . HOLLINGSWORTH STORE Thursday, January 13, 1949 from 9 until 12. KINARDS Thursday, January 13, 1949, from 2 until 5. PROSPERITY Friday, January 14, 1949. ST. LUKES Moore’s Store, Monday, Janu ary 17, 1949, from 9 until 12. O'NEAL' Fellers Store, Mfonday, Janu ary 17, 1949, from 2 until 5. LITTLE MOUNTAIN Tuesday, January 18, 1949. PEAK Thursday, January, 20, 1949. POMARIA Friday, January 21, 1949. JAMES HOMER CROOKS STORE Monday, January 24, 1949, from 9 until 12. A. E. 8e R. E. REESE STORE Monday, January 24, 1949, from 2 until 5. F. B. HARDY'S HOME Tuesday, January 25, 1949, from 9 until 12. At Auditor’s office to March 1st, after which a penalty of 10 percent will be added. PINCKNEY N. ABRAMS Auditor Newberry County