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THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER SO, 1949 Cecil E. Kinard Alderman Ward 5 Cecil E. Kinard seeks re-election to Ward 5 Post in the October 4th City Primary expressing the hope and belief that his past four years experience will permit him to be of more valuable service to the city of Newberry and his good friends. First, I want to say I am not being run by any political group or clique. Therefore, if elected, I shall go into all Council Meetings with an open mind on all matters per taining to our City Government. Always I shall cast my vote for the best interest of the majority and for the ad vancement of our City at all times. I am deeply interest ed in seeing our city continue to grow; and at all times I will exert my best efforts to make Newberry a thriving City, and a city of which we may be justly proud. I am in favor of all the minutes of all Council Meet ings being published in both our local papers in order that the people of our City can see how each and every one voted in the meetings. Since we will consolidate both de partments and will have only one treasurer, I am in favor of publishing 'in both local papers, at least every six months, what has been received in, what has been paid out, what has been purchased, and the balance we have left in the treasury. Miy past record as an alderman, I believe, speaks for it self and is open to everyone. I stood one hundred per cent for the City Manager plan and when he gets here I intend to back him up one hundred per cent. If the council and the people do not back him up we will never make any progress and we will not need him. Somebody, sometimes, somewhere, in our City has kept our City from growing. We are badly in need of some industries, enterprises, and more pay rolls in our city. I will work hard, hand in hand with the Council, and the Chamber of Commerce trying to get some here. I promise to be playing ball all the time and I will never throw a curve ball at anytime. I also promise to represent you in the Council as I would have you repre sent me if you were there in my behalf. If you place your trust and confidence in me, and cast your vote for Cecil E. Kinard, as long as there is breath in my body, I | will be fighting to give the people of Newberry the best ' there is in store for them. I believe in good sound City i Government at all times. There is not a person you ever have or ever will vote for who will appreciate your vote and support more than I. I will close with a poem: WHICH ARE YOU? I watched them tearing a building down i A gang of men in a busy town, ; With a ho-heave-ho and lusty yell They swung a beam and the side wall fell! I asked the foreman, Are these men skilled? And the men you would hire if you had to build? He gave a laugh, and said, No indeed! Just common labor is all I need, I can easily wreck in a day or two What builders have taken a year to do! And I thought to myself as went my way, Which Of these roles have I tried to play? Am I a builder who works with care, Measuring life with a rule and by the square; Am I shaping my deeds to a well made plan Patiently doing the best I can, Or am I a wrecker who walks the town Content with the labor of tearing down? Magazine Sketches Life of A Newberry Industrialist From The South Carolina Magazine for September In a stately home carefully set in the exact center of Col lege Street, two blocks south of Main Street of Newberry lives an elderly gentleman—a man well beloved by his fellow citi- xens, among whome he has lived for eighty years. On March 21, of this year, Mr. Zach Wright passed his eightieth birthday. He was a patient in the Newberry Coun ty Hospital on that day—the Hospital which largely owes its existence to him. Now that he is regaining his strength after a lingering illness, he is cared for by three nurses and his devoted brother and sister-in- law, Mr. and Mrs. Herman WVight. Soon he hopes to greet his friends along the streets of Newberry’s business district, where for more than three- fourths of a century he has been a well-known and dearly beloved figure. Mr. Wright has spent several hours of practical ly every day of his life just being friendly, interested and courteous to his fellow citizens on Main Street of Newberry. Now that he’s eighty, he is frankly sentimental; tears came to his eyes as he told of a re cent visit from a long life friend—a lovely little lady of about the same age as his, Miss Mary Burton, who also has never been married. She brought him four roses—not to drink nor to be placed in water merely to look at and enjoy. There were roses from his Christmas cards to her for the past four years. Each December fifteenth he carries 350 cards to the post office for mailing—character istically, considerately getting his cards into the mails before the heavy rush. Each card is signed by him, and on each is a lovely rose from the Ameri can Rose Society. On the back of each carefully-addressed en velope is a Christmas seal from the Tuberculosis Association. For over fifty years Zach Wright was president and ac tive in the management of the Newberry Cotton Mills. He is said to be rich—a millionaire, perhaps. But he is primarily a Southern gentleman of affairs, interested in his home, his family and friends and those who serve his needs—his nurses now, and the servants who care for the big house—and his gardens, which he tended him self in his younger, stronger days. And he is always interested in every good cause, every crusade for civic betterment, every human need of those em ployed in. his mills. He loves people, and people love him. Mr. Wbight has served his town as mayor, as a member of the board of health, and as a member of the state highway commission. He also served on the board of directors of the Commercial Bank and the Mollohon and Oakland Cotton mills. He was the first president of the Newberry Country Club; he was vice president of the Newberry County hospital from its inception and then was president for many years. He is chairman of the board of trustees of the Rosemont Ceme tery, a trustee of the Methodist church, a trustee of Lander College, and finally a trustee of Newberry College, his alma mater. How much he has given to the various instutions in which he has been interested is not a matter of record. He built the parsonage for the Methodist church as a memorial to his mother, but he doesn’t talk about his giving; he only ad mits sending a turkey out to the hospital every year for the nurses’ Thanksgiving dinner. When the citizens of New- ' berry met about ten years ago 1 to make plans for their big s e s quicentennial celebration, they elected Mr. Wright honor ary chairman. A resolution de clared that they chose him as a man whose influence and prestige would “by their very momentum carry the move ment along to success, who en joys the confidence, respect, admiration and esteem not only of the citizens of Newberry but of the people of the entire state, whose life stands as a symbol of all that is best in Newberry County.” Such a tribute from his fel low-citizens was not earned briefly nor received unde servedly. Probably no mill in the state enjoyed a finer spirit among the employees than existed in the Newberry Cot ton Mills during the long years of Mr. Wright’s presidency. Al ways he took a personal inter est in the personal problems of his employees. As a token of their esteem and affection for him, mill employees all chipped in and presented him a hand some loving cup in 1935, in celebration of his thirtieth year as president. Accompanying the gift was a booklet containing the names of more than 600, who had contributed, and more than a third of them had been with the mill as' long as had Mr. Wright. The character and personality of “Mr Zach” was summed up in the words of Dr. James C. Kinard, president of Newberry College, when Mr. Wright re ceived from him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at the commencement exercises of the college in 1938. Dr. Kinard said: “In recogni tion of your exemplary emin ence as a business executive; of. your having conclusively demonstrated, as evidenced by the esteem and affection of your co-workers that the Gold en Rule can be successfully ap plied in the realm of industry; of your living day by day the principle of Rotary, iif the high est councils of which you have sat, that, ‘He profits most who serves best’; of your devoted interest in young people and their education; of your serv ices to the church as a Christ ian layman; of your contribu tions to the state as a Christian citizen; and of your worth to your host of friends everywhere as a Christian gentleman: by the authority of the Board of Trustees of Newberry College, I confer upon you, Zaccheus Franklin Wright, the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, and bestow the hood.” ACHESON ASSUMES' SOVIETS HAVE BOMB Flushing, N. Y., Sept. 23.— Secretary of State Dean Ache- son said today he assumed Rus sia had devised an atomic wea pon and had successfully ex ploded it. Acheson told a news confer ence that there should be no great surprise in President Tru man’s announcement of a So viet atomic explosion, since leaders of the Western Powers had said repeatedly over the past four years that this day would come. He said it would not change American foreign Suits! Choose yours now, it is the most important item in your fall wardrobe. Then remember that accessories, like seasoning, can make or break the finished perfec tion of your outfit • Used astutely, ,they highlight the wearer’s personality, indicate her style know-how, her good taste—the hat, of course you think of us when you think of it These you’ll find in our new depart- * ment on second floor. The gloves* bags, scarfs, jewelry, etc., are on first floor. Come soon. Carpenter’s AHELB Bj 2W Kestmg Everybody knows how to treat snake bite: apply a tour- niquite; cut the wound so it bleeds freely; suck out as much of the poison as you can get out; bandage; give anti-venin; then get the patient to a doctor as quickly as possible. Theat’s all good advise. But Dr. Frank Richardson warns us that many victims of snake bite have suffered serious if . not dangerous results from every one of these directions. So let’s look at them; but first let’s look at snake bites. If you are bitten by a six-foot rattler it won’t matter much what you do, for the poison ■will probably ’ overwhelm you before anything can help. But if you are b'tten by a 'hon- poisonous snake, or a young rattler, or a poisonous snake that has recently bitten some person or animal and has used up his supply of venom, then your chief danger is the things your friends know about snake bite—that aren’t so! There are far more of these simple or non-poisonous bites than there are of the highly dangerous ones. Now for a look at our instructions, First the tourniquet. That’s to keep the poison from getting to the heart. But frequently there’s very little or no poison. And since a tourniquet can be an extremely dangerous device, don’t use it unless you are sure it’s needed; and then loosen it frequently. Next, open the wound and let it bleed. Don’t do any cutting unless you have reason to be lieve there’s a dangerous amount of poison to get rid of. Use a fresh razor blade that’s been carried in its original package—not that trusty but usually dirty pocket knife. Make the cut through the two bluish holes where the fangs have penetrated; and make each one lengthwise of the limb, not crosswise. Then suck the wound. Yes— that is if the mouth of the sucker be reasonably clean. Bandage the wound. Only if there’s a sterile roller bandage or sone one has an unfolded, fresh handkerchief. Otherwise leave that litle wound open to the air. It stands a better chance of remaining uninfected than if it is bandaged with the usual improper dressing. Then give anti-venin. Fre quently folks who take anti- venin have a terrifying after condition called “anaphylactic scock”; and frequently these in jections are followed by an at tack of intolerable itching call ed serum sickness. So unless you are dead sure of the danger of snake bite, better spare the victim these unpleasant possi bilities. Get the patient to the doctor as quickly as possible. If you can do it without any violent or even active exercise on his part. Remember, in snake bite we are trying to keep the poi son from reaching the heart. Anything which speeds up the circulation makes the blood carry that poison faster, whea- ther it be exertion, worry ar the whiskey that used to be urged as a cure-all for snake bite. NEWBERRY DISTRICT TRAINING MEETING HELD The Newberry District of the S. C. State Commission of Forestry held its annual district wide Fire Control Training Meeting at the Newberry Coun ty Fair Grounds September 21 and 22, 1949, according to E. L. Middleswart, District Fores ter for the Newberry DisTrict. The theme for the meeting was, “There Is No Substitute for a Trained Man”. Training was given to all unit personnel in the district, under the direstion of Mr. Middleswart. Classes were held in Estimating Damage caused by fire. Communications, Equip ment Maintenance, Public Rela tions work, Job Planning, and Tower Duties. Discussions were led by the district office per sonnel and the unit ringers. policy. If there was any surprise among delegates here, it was that the day had come this early. Nor was there any great sur prise over Soviet Foreign Min ister Andrei Y. Vishinsky’s pro posal that the big five powers negotiate a peace pact. Nevertheless, the twin devel opments set off a great stir of excitement among delegates and officials here. One fact that stood out was the determination of the Wes tern Powers to stand by their majority-backed proposals for international atomic control on grounds that Mr. Truman’s an nouncement made no dent in their validity. As for Vishinsky’s peace pact proposal, American delegate Warren R. Austin keynoted general Western reaction by saying it was too early to tell just what the Russians had in mind. I WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO MARGARINE BILL? Anderson Independent Housewives in all parts of the United States are asking, “What has happened to the margarine bill?" Things have a curious way of disappearing in Washington. Just a few weeks back margar ine people were putting on pressure. Result was that the “free margarine” drive succeeded in the House, passing there by a vote of 287 to 189. That was on April 1. Margarine is the only food taxed in the United States. The federal tax is 10 cents a pound on colored margarine, one quarter of a cent a pound on the uncolored product. The result is that most house wives in the Anderson area and elsewhere are put to the neces sity of squeezing or paddling and manipulating yellow color ing material into their butter substitute. In addition to this tax, manufacturers of the stuff pay $500 a year; wholesalers pay $480; and each retailer who sells colored margarine must pay a $48 tax annually to the government. The move to repeal these taxes probably has more unanimous support among con sumers’ groups and women’s organizations than any other subjest. Well, where is the bill today? First it was in the Senate Finance Committee,which is a strange place for such a mea sure to be. It was reported favorably. Then came a tussle over the traditional rider to the army appropriations bill specifying that soldiers shall not be ser ved margarine. The rider has received quick approval in years past. This time efforts to attach the same old rider were beaten, 45 to 31. That marked a mile stone. Amd now Senator Fullbright of the Senate Democratic Poli cy Committee promises to make margarine repeal the No. 1 or der of business in the Senate next January. If consumers’ groups keep on the job, repeal should come next year—and it will be high time. DRIVE-IN THEATRE Always a Complete Show After 9:30 P. M. — Saturdays 10:00 Show Starts at Dusk Dark SHOW RAIN OR SHINE Children Under 12 Years Free Program for week of Sept 29 THURSDAY and FRIDAY Ray Milland, Teresa Wright IMPERFECT LADY CARTOON SATURDAY Weaver Bros and Elviry ARKANSAS JUDGE CARTOON and COMEDY NOTICE TO CREDITORS All persons having claims against the estate of Mrs. Lula Smith Daniel deceaspd, are hereby notified tq file th e same, duly verified, with the under signed, and those indebted to said estate will please make payment likewise. J. McT. DANIEL SUNDAY and MONDAY Jack Carson, Ann Southern APRIL SHOWERS CARTOON TUESDAY and WEDNESRAY Marsha Hunt, Charles Winnin- ger INSIDE STORY COMEDY 1 THURSDAY and FRIDAY October 9 and 9 Dick Powell, Signe Hasso TO THE ENDS OF EARTH EXCURSION IN SCIENCE r ” Snte//s good/ KEEPS YOU FRESH ROUN# THE CLOCK THOS O. (OSSIE) STEWART City Council From Ward 6 Do you realize that the City of Newberry is a corporation with assets of approximately FIVE MILLION DOLLARS and collects each year from our citizens approximately a Half Million Dollars? THIS IS A LOT OF MONEY — You are a stock holder — DO YOU WANT MEN OF PROVEN ABILITY to handle this business for you? If you do, on October 4th. vote for the best interest of our city by supporting the best qualified candidates. This election should not be settled on the basis of personal popularity, but on the basis of TRAINING and MERIT. Newberry needs a lot of improvements—improver ments cost money, I feel that by careful management some of these desired improvements can be obtained with the present revenues. Do you know, when you go to bed at night, that our entire city is protected by only THREE POLICEMEN? Here is what takes place. Two of the three policemen are assigned to the police patrol car, that leaves ONE POLICEMAN to take care of the entire business district. If you telephone Police Hearquarters and this policeman is not near Head quarters you get no answer to your call. By employ ing one person from 10:00 P.M. until 6:00 A.M. on duty at Headquarters you will receive an immediate answer to your call, this I believe will greatly in crease the efficiently of our night police protection. What do you say? (We all want a progressive, growing city. We want a good city to live in, we want a city that a good living can be made in. I suggest that FREE CITY TAXES BE GRANTED to any new business for a term of Five Years if TWENTY PEOPLE are employed. All things come to him who waits, if he waits long enough, but here is a rule that is slicker, the one that got s for what he wants gets it all the quicker. Young enough to be progressive — old enough to be safe. If you do not know me, please ask anyone that does know me. Please investigate me. Thos O. Stewart (This advertisement written and paid for by Thos. 0. Stewart)