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To keep friends, always give your candied opinion. The recipe for successful after-dinner speaking in* eludes using plenty of shortening. 4 VOL. 13—NO. 22 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA,FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1950 + $1.50 PER YEAR Junior Chamber Behind Crusade For Freedom • . Setting the “big truth” before the “big lie,’’, the Junior Chamb er of Commerce, with J. Ralph Blackwell, chairman, is sponsor ing the Crusade for Freedom drive in Newberry County. He will be assisted by R. R. Burner, publicity chairman and G. Wayne Martin, treasurer, also other members of the Junior Chamber of commerce. The Crusade for Freedom drive began in Newberry County on October 1st, and its object is to enroll the greatest possible num ber of men, women and children as individual and personal par ticipants in the Crusade for Freedom through their signatures on the Freedom Scroll. Every signature on every scroll will be permantently enshrined with the Freedom Bell in Berlin as a symfcle of American dedication to the cause of world freedom. Climax of the Crusade will come on United Nations day, October 24, w r hen the “Freedom Bell” and the freedom scrolls, bearing the names, is enshrined in ceremonies in Berlin, Ger many. To encourage signers of the scroll to back up their signatures with voluntary contributions to finance Radio FYee Europe’s pre sent and proposed broadcasting schedule to pierce the Iron Cur tin with freedom’s truth. Chairman Blackwell said that 1350 signatures and $175.00 is the goal for Newberry county. He also stated that he would like for every person in the city and county to sign the scroll, whether they make a contribu tion or not. If you wish to contribute, you can give as lit tle or as much as you wish. When a member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce calls on you to sign the scroll, don’t hesi tate to do so whether you con tribute or not. We agree with the National Chairman, Gen. Lucius D. Clary, w T ho said “The Crusade is a ‘spiritual airlift.’ ’’ By working together, we can all help to put freedom and the free world on the offensive. UTILE ITEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT FOLKS YOU KNOW WEEK’S DEALS IN COUNTY REALTY John Ross of Charlotte, N. C., spent the weekend with his moth er, Mrs. Maude G. Ross on Dray ton street. Leonard Auton of Asheville, was a weekend visitor in the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Auton on 3rd street. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rowe (Ethel Hardin) are now' occupy ing one of the apartments at Newberry College, where Mr. Rowe is a student. Miss Narvice Cousins, a stu dent at Limestone College, Gaff ney, spent the past weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cousins on McHardy street. i... Mathews, Betty Clary, Patsy Harmon and Mary Paysinger, students at Winthrop College, spent the past weekend at their homes in Newberry. Mrs. W. C. Bynum of George town, spent last week in the home of her sister-in-law, Miss Annie Bynum on Johnstone street. Mrs. Estell Dill of Winnsboro, as a weekend visitor in the ome of her brother-in-law and ister, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ruff n Glenn street. Mrs. J. P. Moon, Mrs. W. Roy inderson and Mrs.: Eugene Ipeannan, spent the past week nd in Hendersonville, N. C., at Irs. Moon’s summer cottage. Mrs. J. T. Senn of the Bush River community, was a Sunday guest in the home of her sister- in-law, Mrs. G. W. Senn on Harrington street. Mr. and Mrs. W. Roy Anderson ire planning to spend this week- >nd in Pine Hurst, N. C., where dr. Anderson will attend the iletropolitan Veteran’s meeting. Mrs. L. W. Wilson is making ana to enter the Charlotte emorial Hospital on October ith, where she w r ill undergo an r e operation. Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Jones sft Tuesday for New York and ‘hilidepphia, where they will ttend the World Series. They xpect to return to Newberry bout the first of the week. Mrs. R. A. Goodman left Sun day for Troutman, N. C. to spend about ten days with her mother, Mrs. A. D. Troutman. Mrs. Holland Wilson of the State Training School, Clinton, is spending a few days this week in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Rosine Longshore and son. Tommy, on Purcell street. Charlie Force, who suffered a slight heart attack about three weeks ago, is reported to be doing nicely, although he will have to remain in bed for about six weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Sikes and Miss Joan Goggans, of Colum bia, spent last Friday night and Saturday, with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Goggans in the Hartford community. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Schump- ert of Conway, were weekend visitors in the home of Mr. Schumpert’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Schumpert on Har rington street. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Foster are planning to move this week from an Apartment in the home of Miss Mary Wheeler on Harp er street, to their recently com pleted new’ home on Johnstone street. Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Fellers and son, Charles, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Robelot of Charlotte, N. C., were Sunday visitors in the home of Mr, Fellers’ mother, Mrs. H. C. Fel lers on Keroes avenue. NEWBERRY Elizabeth B. ' Summer and T. Roy Summer to Troxelle H. Senn and Henry D. Senn, one lot on Summer street, $1000. William E. Dunn to Alliene Dunn Sprouse, one lot and one building (His interest in proper ty on Main street) $856.16. Mrs. Ella Dunn Eleazer to Mrs. Alliene Dunn Sprouse, one lot and one building on ' Main street, (her interest), $2890.10. NEWBERRY OUTSIDE Ida Belle Counts Prater to H. E. Fuller, one lot and one build- ng. 1408 Second street,$2800. Hermie C. Wood to William E. Wood, one lot and one building, 1307 Second street, $5.00 and other valuable considerations. Henry Dawkins to Kathryn W. Whitener, one lot (1-4 acre), $500. McCullough Troy Fish to R. L. Crenshaw and Ostell Crenshaw, 1 acres, $200, and other considerations. JOHNSTONE Colie Sligh to Boyd’s Lumber Company, Inc., 32.2-5 acres, $250. (Mimie Smith, Estate). Edwin B. Sligh, et al to Boyd’s Lumber Company, Inc. 32.215 acres (Mimie Smith, Estate), $1150. PROSPERITY Horace E. Counts, Jr., et al to Mrs. Mabel M. Counts. 113.9 acres. $5.00 love and affection. S. W. Shealy to L. E. Long, one lot and one building, 25 x 100’ on main street, “Bessie Black Building,” $2000. MIDWAY Ethel Metts, et al to Ernest L. Metts, 50 aces (F. E. Metts, Estate) $1800. SILVERSTREET Eliza Marshall, et al to John C. Billingsly, 18 acres, (Amanda W. Gilliam, Estate) $550. CITY WOULD SPEND $150,000 ON PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS A budget of $494,657.92 for operating the city of Newberry for the fiscal year October 1, 1950 to September 30, 1951 was adopted by City Council at a special meeting of City Council Monday night, October 2nd. Plans were also included in the budget for disbursement of $150,000 bond issue which is anticipated to be sold should the citizens of New berry so vote. The former figure, $494,657.92 covers all operating expenditures of the city. Rough estimates were made for the expenditure of the $150,000 bond issue, as follows: Paving sidewalks, $10,000; streetpaving, $20,000; resurfacing old pavement, $20,000; storm drainage $10,000; sanitary sewer lines, $20,000; whiteway light ing business area, $20,000; street widening, $6,000; garage build ing for city equipment, $8,000; city-wide recreation program, $5,- 000; Sanitary garbage fill, $10.- 000; general improvements to electric system, $20,000; public rest room for colored, $2,000. All of these items come under the classification of permanent improvements as approved by the citizens of Newberry who attend ed an open meeting of council last month to discuss such im- for Newberry, voted by Council, the budget, are as provements Donations included in follows: Itosemont cemetery, $1200; We#t End cemetery, $300; New berry College watchman, $480; flowers, $50; swimming pool watchman, $365; Mollohon rec reation fund, $1500; youth center, $500; civic league, $380; Christ mas lights, $300; miscellaneous, $500. Other matters acted on by Council at the special meeting: (1) Voted to give' volunteer fireman a Christmas gift of $15.- 00 on December 24th; (2) Passed an ordance provid ing for the issuance and sale of $70,000 refunding bonds for the Town of Newberry, proceeds thereof to be used in the pay ment and retirement of certain outstanding bonds dated Janu ary 1, 1921 and interest on said refunding bonds. (3) Authorized the Mayor to sign an agreement with the State Highw’ay Department, listing the roads and streets taken over by the Highway Department in the city of Newberry. (4) Voted to eliminate two parking spaces on either side of the Old Court House steps. FIND THOUSANDS KILLED BY REDS TAEJON, Korea, Oct. 2—Bod ies of 1,100 Korean civilians murdered by the Red invaders had been found thus far in this ruined town as the gruesome task of opening fresh graves continued today. Thirty American soldiers were among the dead. Searchers feared 6,000 or 6,000 persons were massacred in’ this town alone Wednesday and Thursday by North Korean security police be- CLUBS HOST TO DISTRICT WOMEN GARDEN CLUB TO MEET TUESDAY The Newberry Garden Club will meet Tuesday, October 10th at 11 o’clock a.m. in the Com munity Hall. Members are asked to please keep in mind that there will be a bulb exchange at this meeting. JIM KINARD WITH S. C. STATE D. P. W. IN COLUMBIA James Efird Kinard, son of President and Mrs. James C. Kinard of Newberry College, is now serving as administrative as- sisstant to the State Director of the South Carolina State Depart ment of Public Welfare, Mr. Arthur B. Rivers, in Columbia. Mr. Kinard has his master’s degree from the University of Virginia and has completed all residence requirements for his doctorate. Mrs. D. E. Halfacre, Mrs. D. S. Halfacre and two children, Waldo Halfacre and Miss Elise Halfacre and Mrs. H. M. Hal facre, were Sunday visitors in the home of Mrs. W. C. Bald in Clinton. Sunday visitors in the home of Ir. and Mrs. J. H. Ruff on Glenn treet were, Mr. and Mrs. Julian „ Bolick and three daughters, largaret Ann, Julie and Dixie, f Clinton. Mrs. D. E. Halfacre, who has sen ill for the past four months, stving undergone an operation m her right leg, returned to her >sition in the alteration depart- ent at The Fashion’s, Monday torning of this week. Dorothy Dawkins, and ’lend. Miss Freda Sweat, both :udent nurses at the General ospital in Greenville, spent unday in the home of Miss awkin’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. en F. Dawkins on Nance street. ! v -' ; Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Sease spent Sunday in Winnsboro with their •on-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Ragsdale and son, Ed ward. They were joined in Winnsboro for the day by their son; and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mfes. James S. Sease, ahd son, flames Jr. of Florence. W. D. DiUaway and son Langdon Dilla- way, of Boston, Mass., father and brother of Mrs. James Sease, spent the day with the Mrs. Sidney Waldhour and small son Sid, of Rincon, Ga., are spending this week in New berry with Mrs. Waldhour’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Hayes on Friend street. They were accompained to Newberry for the weekend by Mr. Wald hour, who left Monday for a few day’s business trip to New York. L. M. Graham and son, Frank Graham, spent Sunday in Dur ham, N. C. with Mrs. L. M. Graham, who is a patient in the Duke Hospital. They re port that Mrs. Graham is doing nicely after undergoing an op eration on her hip, and expects to be able to return to her home on College street in about two weeks. Miss Pauline Clary, who was injured in an automobile accident in July and has been a patient in the hospital in Athens, Ga., since that time, arrived in New berry last Sunday, and is now recruperating at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Clary, Sr., on Boundary street. SHOW CATTLE MUST BE TESTED All cattle to be shown in State Fair and Newberry County Fair must be tested for T. B. and Bang’s disease within 60 days of the fair. According to W. A. Ridgeway, Assistant County Agent, this testing will be done by the State Veterinarian without charge. Anyone planning to show should immediately write or call the County Agents Office, phone 248, so that a testing schedule can be made up. S. C. FARM PRICES UP 8 PER CENT IN MONTH COLUMBIA, Oct. 2 — South Carolina farm prices took an eight percent Jump during the month ending Sept. 15. U. S. Department of Agricul ture Statistician F*rank O. Black said the level then was the high est on record, a 323 percent of 1909-14 averages. The record was 300 percent in June 1948. Lint cotton advanced 12 per cent during the month’s period, reaching a record high of 40.9 cents a pound, compared with the July 1920 record of 39.8 cents. “Incidentally, this price had dropped to 13 cents by the fol lowing January and was down to 10 cents a pound in June 1921,” Black said his records showed. Cottonseed advanced 40 per cent—from $53 to $74 a ton— but this was not even near the April 1947 record of $96 a ton. Tobacco averaged 51 cents a pound compared with 56 cents a month earlier. The season aver age has been 54.6 cents. Other price changes were more moderate and about offsetting. Sweet poatoes, getting a seasonal slump, fell from $2.50 to $1.95 a bushel, a drop of about 22 percent. The Northern District Confer ence of the South Carolina Fed eration of Women’s Clubs meet in the auditorium of the New berry County court house Wed nesday morning at 10:30. Th four federated culbs of Newberry were hostesses to the conference, which are the Wo man’s Club, the Civic League and the two groups of Mother’s Clubs' “Building WoWd Peace” was the theme o( the conference. Mrs. Allen Lambright of Spartanburg was the presiding officer. Each club president in the distret were alloted about two minutes in which to report some of the out standing achlevemenSs of her clubs for the past year and un usual plans for the coming year. yA. Dutch luncheon was served atr 1 o’clock in the Community HIJL Mrs. Walter S. Suber of Whit ts president of the South O na Federation of Women’s C ORDERED TO REPORT FRIDAY NEXT The following men have been called for induction into the Army on October 13th: John Bluford Hunter (color ed), John Alvin Hardin, Sam Ray Sharpe, Robert Mayer Monts, Broadus Washington (colored), Clyde Eugene Mih- ick, Ralph Heyward Ringer, Wade Nick Wilson (colored), Thomas Lindler Blair, James Willie Suber (colored), David Wicker (colored). RESOLUTION LAUDS LATE MERCHANT DO MINIC K-COX Mr. and Mrs. George Kinard Dominick announce the engage ment of their daughter, Mary Cynthia, to Marvin Douglas Cox of Pelzer and Newberry, son of Mrs. Toy Brashier of Pelzer and the late Floy Cox. The wedding will take place on Thursday, November 9th. KENNERLEY'S HAVE DAUGHTER Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Ken- nerley announce the birth of a daughter September 18. She has been named Ethel Leitzey for her late grandmother. The Ken- nerley’s also have another child, Francis John. MISS PADGETT PLEDGES Miss Nancy Padgett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Price Padgett, Harrington street, recently pledg ed Kappa Delta sority at North western University, Evanston, Illinois. Miss Padgett is a grad uate of Newberry high school. Kappa Delta sorority, a mem ber of National Panhellenic Con ference was founded at Virginia State Normal College in 1897. It has active chapters, 200 alumnae associations, and over 28,000 members. H. D. CLUB TO MEET TUESDAY The Mt. Bethel-)Garmany H. D. Club will meet at the school house, Tuesday October 10th, at 3 o’clock. Hostesses: Mrs. W. E. Epps and Mrs. W. T. Under ford. Mrs. Claude Price, Sec. Mrs. R. B, Nichols, Pres. QUIET WEEK FOR BUILDING PERMITS Only one building permit was issued during the past week, and that was to Leroy Wilson for one 6-room brick veneer house on Glenn street for $8500. LOCAL 324 MEETS Mollohon T. W. U. A. Local Union No. 324 will hold its regu lar scheduled meeting Sunday afternoon, October 8th, at 3:00 p.m. at the Mollohon school. All members of the union are espec ially urged to be present. At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Newberry Coun ty Bank, held October 2, 1960 with all members present, the following resolution, was unan imously adopted and ordered spread upon the minutes. “Be it resolved by the Board of Directors of The Newberry County Bank in meeting assem bled, that, S God- in His Infi- to take away our fellow citizen, Ernest A. Carpenter, we submit to His Holy will. HOWEVER, we wish to ex press our admiration for Mr. Carpenter’s many fine traits of good citizenship. We also wish to acknowledge our severe loss, as his loyal sup port, liberal subscription as one of our first incorporators, and hirf profound council are in no small degree responsible for the suc cessful opening of this institu tion.” DR. KINARD ATTENDS LUTHERAN CONVENTION President James C. Kinard of Newberry College left by plane Tuesday for Des Monies, Iowa to attend the biennial convenion of the United Lutheran Church in America. He is one of the lay delegates elected by the South Carolina Synod. President Franklin Clark Fry of the Church has appointed Dr. Kinard to serve as chairman of the Committee of Reference and Counsel. This Committee must consider all general resolutions and motions before they may be submitted to the convention, ar range special orders for the hear ing of representatives and give such assistance as may be desir ed by the President in the con duct of the general program. Dr. Kinard will also present the biennial report of the Board of American Missions, of which he is a member, now serving his second term of six years. SAYS UNRESTRICTED PRODUCTION BLOW TO COTTON FARMERS (By E. H. Agnew, Resident South Carolina Farm Bureau) Secretary of Agriculture Brannan has again succumbed to political preasure and ex-!{ pediency to the detriment of cotton producers in the South east and to the chances for a sound and workable future cotton control program. The Secretary’s announce ment that there will be no marketing quotas nor acreage allotments in effect on cotton in 1951 comes as a not al together unexpected announce ment but is nevertheless a shock to South Carolina cot ton growers WORKSHOP FOR NEGRO TEACHERS The all-day Adult Education Workshop for Negro teachers that was scheduled to meet at Gower School in Greenville will hae deemed it best tneet ing United Nations forces. Some 700 bodies ■ were' found in and near a Catholic church. Two Americans and a South Korean were buried alive, said Lt. Robert W. Shultice of Nor folk, Va. They survived, but Singers On Network Nationwide The Newbery College (Singers, under the direction of Milton Moore, will again be heard over * the 500 station network of the * Mutual Broadcasting System. The date for the nationwide broad cast will be November 12, 1960 at - 12:00 noon. The broadcast will again originate in the Newberry Community Hall through the fore the Heds fled from advanc- facilities of radio station WKDK, Mutual outlet in Newberry. Jim mie Coggins of WKDK will an nounce the program. The Newberry College Singers, an a cappella choir of fifty voices is a widely known singing group in the South and South- one of the Amercans died after eaB t. The choir makes annual Americans liberated the town Shultice, investigating atrocit ies for the adjutant-general, said the three were found struggling through the dirt for air. They had been buried only lightly. They were the only known sur vivors of the slaughter. The 30 Americans slain had been tied , by their wrists to dead men. It is feared that 13 more may be found when the rest of a trench is uncovered. ' (Associated Press Correspond ent O. H. King reported that mass graves found in Seoul in dicated as many as 2,000 civil ian political prisoners may have been* executed in a single dis trict of this capital before the Communists retreated.) Taejon’s sickening shambles of death and destruction almost surpassed belief. Yet there was a pattern to the killings. This was not hysterical butchery by a trapped and terrified enemy Each victim had been shot in dividually. parently then had bMui dnbbed to make certain none woahl survive. A hatchet protended, from the skull of one man. . Remaintpgg: $wsfulk Reds ohose thy, tours and plans call for the ehoin to appear in Washington, D. C. and New York City during the concert tour in the spring of 1951. Last year an album of re cordings was made and this has received wide distribution, albums are available the Alumni Office of the The Singers win hgaln their annual Christmas Program just prior to the Christmas. cees of the oolUge. The Newberry djollege Singers are under the capable direction of Professor Milton Moore, Head of the Department of Music at Newberry College. Dtrecqgfl Moore and his choir: have brought national recognition to Newberry College and the City of , Newberry. Profeasor T. El ing is Manager of the choir and , has serva* . in this position for a number of years. J CITY ADDS ANOTHER POLICEMAN TO STAFF The City of Newberry has added another policeman to their staff, which now makes 16 fleers for the city. The officer Is Boyd Duncan, son Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Duncan. jMjW duties on Sun- 'il*& HiNPfta) mm m 57. He WILLIE P. DOMINICK Willie Patrick Dominick, died suddenly Monday night, had been at work and was sud denly stricken. Mr. Dominick had been in declining health for the past year. He was born and reared at Prosperity, a son of the late Wesley and Mary Dom inick. He was a member of Mayer Memorial Lutheran church For the past five years he had made his home in Newberry. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 3 p.m. at the Mc- Swaln Funeral Home with Rev. D. M. Shull and Dr. R. A. Good man officiating. Interment fol lowed in Baxter Memorial Ceme tery. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mabel S. Dominick of New berry; one sister, Mrs. Connie Dominick of Columbia; and the following step-children: Miss Willie Mae Shealy and Mrs. J. E. Bodie of Newberry, Mrs. Ern est Taylor, Charleston and Tom mie Lee Shealy of Greenville. MEMBER OF THE GALLOPING GHOST Raymond W. Fowler, boat swain’s mate, first class, USN, Route 1, Newberry is serving aboard a light anti-aircraft cruis er with the Formosa Straits Pa trol. His ship was in the Far East making inspection and good will calls when the Korean conflict broke out and was ordered to combat. The ship blasted shore establishments along the North Korean coast. While there a demolition team was sent ashore with the mission of blowing up a railroad tunnel which was ac complished with no casualities. This action of hit and run bombardment gave the ship the name of “The Galloping Ghost of the Korean Coast.” Saturday, October 7, to Miss Marguerite Tolbert, Sup ervisor of Adult Education, State Department of Education. The Jeanes teacher, Bessie Goldsmith, is in charge of regis tration which is scheduled from 9:30 to 10:00 o’clock. Assisting with the workshop are Mrs. T. D. Watkins, Op portunity School, West Columbia and Miss Louise Black, District Nutritionist, of the Greenville County Health Department. Teachers from the following counties will attend this con ference: Greenville, Spartanburg, Cherokee, Union Newberry, Greenwood, McCormick, Abbe ville, Laurens, Anderson, Oconee and Pickens. Attendance on this conference is cfbligatory for teachers who develop classes. MAMA’S CIGAREETTE DANGER TO BABY WASHINGTON, Oct. 2—Smok ing by mothers ranks high among the causes of eye acci dents to very young chidren, a medical conference here was told today. Mothers were warned not. to smoke while feeding .dressing or otherwise ministering to such children—and also to keep light ed cigarette well beyond reach. Fathers were warned, too, against smoking while holding children over their shoulders. slain had been oady little prosperous than their fellow citizens, ot had in some minor way offended fhe Red police. Horrified residents began tell ing of m|UM- executions a .few minutes after troops of the U. S. 24th Division recaptured Tae- lon. The trench conaintng the 30 bodies of GIs was founds first, behind the west Taejon police station. Then a patrol came up on 400 dead civilians in Taejon prison. They had died in agony. A desecrated church gave the greatest number — nearly ,700. Most were found in a huge mass grave. An unkown number of others—perhaps 100—lay In the basement of the church, a form er French Canadian monastery. I could not bring myself to en ter the basement, past the tangle of arms and legs and the smell of death. NEWBERRIAN’S AUNT PASSES AT CONFEDERATE HOME Mrs. Maggie Bateman Harris of Bishopville died at the Con federate Home n Columbia Thurs day morning. Surviving is one neice, Mrs. Ola Rlchbourgh of Newberry.; Funeral services were held at Hancock Funeral Home in Bishop ville last Friday. Interment fol lowed in Piedmont cemetery. FLAMES DESTROY OLD LINT GIN The 50-year-old Boozer cotton gin, near Chappells, one of the oldest privately-owned and op erated gins In the country, waS destroyed by fire the past week. Fire destroyed the old gin while busily engaged in ginning a bale of cotton. The gin had been operated by P. N. Boozer and J. P. Boozer for the past 50 years. The gin was almost a complete loss as very little insurance was carried It was stated. METAL ARRIVES FOR AUTO TAGS COLUMBIA, Oct. 2—A shor tage of steel for 1950-51 South Carolina automobile and truck li cense tags was partially lifted to day. Metal for 90,000 plates arrived at the State Prison manufactur ing plant. The sale of the new plates be gan Sept. 18, with an estimated 560,000 expected to be sold. Then orders for plate metal could not be filled, and thef State Highway Department found Itself with only about 225,000 plates on hand. As a result, it has not filled mail orders, which total more than 50,000 already. The additional sheet metal for the full complement of tags is expected soon, officials said. The Rev. Francis C. Biel, a Francisan 'and an Army chap lain, said he regarded the church as no longer usable by Catholics. Every sacred image had been destroyed. A defiled cross surmounted the mass grave, which has not yet been fully uncovered. The priest of the church re mained in the town during the Red occupation, but he has since disappeared. “The natives say he was taken to Seoul,” Father Biel reported, “But I am sure I know what they did to him. He did not live to reach Seoul.” MR. STEWART IN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Thomas O. Stewart was ad mitted to the Charlotte Mem orial Hospital in Charlotte, N. C. last Tuesday, where he under went a major operation Thurs day. He is reported to have stood the operation fine and his condition is satisfactory. t HARMON TO TAKE STENOTYPE COURSE Meredith Harmon left Monday of this week for Asheville, North Carolina, where he will enter the Cecil Business College for the purpose of taking a stenotype course. Begore his departure, Mr. Harmon was connected with the Newberry County Public Health Service. The Stenotype shorthand mach ine has received national acclaim and is widely used and favored over the . conventional types of shorthand.- Court reporters in many of the courts in South Carolina and other states nse the Stenotype, and this method of taking court proceedings is pre ferred by many judges. Mr. Har mon will be training for this type of work in Asheville. Wood, two other officers, who were recently made sergeants on the . force - by Cfly Jw' Blackwell, are now proudly ing their three stripes. FOREST SUMMER WITH CIVIL SERVICE Forest Summer, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Summer of Newberry, has accepted a position as con sultant electric engineer with the civil service and is now located at the Long Range Proving 2 Grounds in Cocoa, Florida. Prior to accepting a position 3 with the civil service, Mi\ Sum mer was a member of the faculty at the University of South Caro- :: Una. His wife, and smaU son, Charles, will move from Golem-, bia to Cocoa, to join Mr. Som mer at an early date. NAMED TECHNICIAN R. M. Smith has been elected by the board of directors of the Newberry Cooperative Breed ers Association as breeding tech nician to replace Ed Freeman, who has been called into the armed forces. J. A. PRICE . J. A. ^ Jim) Price, 65, died early Tuesday morning at his home near Joanna. He had been in ill health for several month^l •v Mr. Price was originally from Lexington County, a son of the late George and Mrs. Florence Harmon Price. For the past 26 years he had made his home near Joanna. He was a member of Shady Grove Presbyterian Church and superintendent of the Sunday School. Funeral servees were held Wednesday at 5 p.m. at Shady Gro^e Presbyterian church with Rev. L W. Brown and Rev. - J. B. Mitchell officiating. Inter ment followed in Baxter Memor ial Cemetery in Newberry. > -V* f He is • survived by his wife, Mrs. Emma Lee Bundrick; Pries, ^ and the following children, Harry Price, Mrs. Helen Evans, Mra. Pauline Sease, G. W. Price, all of Joanna, and Mrs. Mae Ruff of Newberry; the following bro thers and sisters. Dock Price of Newberry, Johnny Price, Lexing ton, Earl Price of Malabar, Flgi| Mrs. Oscar Seay Lexington and Mrs. Allen Dyson of Oakl&ad, Calif.; 10 grandchildren and one great-grand child. I'W BIRTHDAYS Smiley Porter, Frank Wilson, Jr., L. E. Wood, David Sonn and Mlldror Worts, Oct. 9; Mrs. R. G. Wallace, Mra. J. D. Wicker and Goorgo Moore, aon of Prof, Mrs. Milton Moore, Dot. 10; Fredrick Gardiner, Oct. 11; W. J. Swtttenberg, Stove Griffith and Mrs. K, Martin, OcL Uth.-, Hi ..