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A harp always reminds me of a piano with its clothes off. *■1**1 -imiffnTr Man is nothin9 but dust, and a woman sure can set tle him. VOL. 13—NO. 32. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA,FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1950 + $1.50 PER YEAR LITTLE ITEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT FOLKS YOU KNOW Mrs. Forrest Summer return ed to her home on College street Extension last Thursday night, after spending three weeks in Cocoa, Florida with her son and daughter-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Forrest Summer and two children, Charles, III, and Mahala Anne. C. B. Pierce of Honey Path spent the weekend here with his wife, the former Nancy Sum mer, in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs C. F. Summer on College street Extension. Mrs Pierce, who had been on a week’s visit with her father. C. F. Summer, while Mrs. Summer was visiting in Florida, returned to her home in Honea Path with Mr. Pierce, Sunday afternoon. Among those from Newberry attending the funeral services of H. A. Hickson, father of Jim Hickson, Mrs. LeRoy Wilson and Mrs. Ricahrd lominick, which was held in Lynchburg, Sunday were: Mr. and Mrs. Billy Beard, Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Brown, Mrs. S. W. Brown. Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hickson, George Mayer, Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy. .Wilson, Mrs. Caleb'"Buzhardt and Mrs. Julia R. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Mprgan Randall and son. Randy, of Kingstree spent the past weekend with Mrs. Randall’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Derrill Smith on E. Main street. Miss Marilyn Whitener, a stu dent at Stephens College, Co lumbia. Mo., will spend the Christmas holidays with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Guy V. Whit- ner on College street Extension. The Christmas vacation at Steph ens College will start on Decem ber 16 and classes will resume on January 4th. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Setzler of the St. Phillip’s community an nounce the birth of a daughter, born Sunday, December 10th, at .the Newberry Memorial Hos pital. Mrs. Setzler is the former Mifts.-Saiap Ruff, Only one repair permit was issued d*' ing the past weejc and no building permits. The repair permit was to W. C. Wolford for repairs to a garage, at 606 Clara street. The Helen J. Ezell class will meet Friday night at S o’clock in the home of Mrs. Olin Inabent on Cline street. Mrs. Butler Holmes. 1901 Har rington street, was admitted to the Newberry hospital Wednes day where she is receiving treat ments. ESTES ACCEPTS CALL TO SENECA CHURCH Rev. J. A. Estes, pastor of the First Baptist church, offered his resignation Sunday morning, to accept the pastorship of the Seneca Baptist Church. His res ignation is effective after Suntday, December 17. MOLLOHON T.W.U.A. MEETS There will be a regular meet Ing of Mollohon T.W.U.A. Local Union No. 324 Sunday afternoon, December 17th. at 3:00 P.M. in the school building. All members are expected to attend. CROP SMALLEST IN MANY YEARS South Carolina cotton produc tion this year is estimated at 400,000 standard 500-pound bales State-Federal Agricultural Statis tician Frank O. Black reported today. The Estimate is based on crop reports through Dec. 1. It is 28 per cent below last year’s pro duction and the smallest crop in 71 years. The smallest acreage since 1874 and heavy boll weevil dam age are responsible. Black said. Cottonseed production should total 162.000 tons if the ratio of lint to seed equals the average of the past five years, he added. Lint cotton currently is valued at $80,000,000 and cottonseed at $13.000 000. This compares with $9,562,000 for lint and seed last year—higher prices this year making a 28 percent smaller crop worth nearly three percent more. The indicated yield of 200 pounds of lint an acre compares with 209 pounds last year, the 58-year low of 140 pounds In 3922 and the record high 391 In 1944. SMITH-JUNTER Mr. and Mrs. Marlon E. ;Smlth of Newberry announce th«' en gagement of their daughter, Dorothy, to John Holland Hunt er, Jr., of Clinton, S. C. Mr. Hunter Is a son of John H. Hunt er. Sr., and the late Mrs. Hunter (Nette Wallace). The wedding will take place in Janua ry. NEWBERRIAN’S SISTER DIES IN CLIFFSIDE Miss Ada Carlisle Flkf*. sister of Mrs. G. H. Hodges of this city, died early Thursday morn ing at the home of heir sister, Mrs. A. M. Crawford In Cliffside, N. C. * Funeral services will be held this afternoon (Friday) at 2 o’ clock in the Cliff side , Methodist church, and interment •will follow In the family cemetei ry In Che«- nee, S. C. j IL of STUTTS ACCEPTS PAROLE POST Roy D. Stutts, magistrate of Newberry District 2 for the past two years, has accepted a po sition with the State of South Carolina as probation and parole officer. His work will be in Newberry county and adjoining territory. Mr. Stutts will begin his new duties on January 1st, and his office will be located in the Newberry County Court House. Mr. Stutts will be replaced by Ben F. Dawkins, who was elected magistrate of District 2 in tha recent election. FORMAL DANCE FOR YOUNGER SET ^ The young people of Newberry are looking forward with a great deal of pleasure to *he dance to be held at the Youth Center on Monday T night, ary l»t, from 8:5(1 to Charlie Pruitt> Sexto' "iah^the music and a trubution of 25c is being asked to help defray the expenses of the orchestra. Everyone is in vited to attend. SPECTATOR SEES AMERICA DUPED The military problem in Korea certainly has its problems. One trouble, though a "minor one, is the constant publicizing of every word spoken and every little act. Why do w r e publish that we have only so many men in Ko rea? Isn’t that a military secrett I’ve read It in many papers. The Russians and Chinese and North* ern Koreans don’t need a secret service, or military intelligenCNl. they can read all the facts at will here and cable the infor mation. Even if we are alert about cables to Russia and China all the Information can be sent through others. Observe our procedure: we are sending thousands and thousand* of men under arms. Since Com munist China lets the ,«o-called volunteers kill our men Why don’t we let the 350,000 Chinese on Formosa volunteer? Throw the technical objections to the winds: we must not bleed our country of Its youth while Chinese who want to fight with us stand off and look on—safe and sound. V-jT The Russians and the Asiatics respect force. We are trying.^ft argue, to persuade, to them AH this is sheer wa time and appears to Asiatics, confession of weakness. Then we could enlist many thousands of Japanese, not? Some more techn ceties, while American flow's At bottom, we should first agreed to assist those who ready to resist the mardb Communism. Instead of all the elements of resis play a sort of unrealistic sending the major force thousands of miles, flgh war that was far from afraid to commit ourselv< force for fear that Russia Invade Western Europe, did we embroil ourselves rear if we regard Europe battleground which must f * ,wui i application. THIRK'S A LANE FOR EVERY ROOM IN THE HOME! G. B. Summer & Sons -Furniture and Home Furnishings Boyce Street Newberry, S. C* COLLEGE SINGERS ENTERTAIN STUDENTS Over 700 high school children from throughout the county and from Chapin high school were brought to Newberry College in school buses Wednesday morn ing for a Christmas program, presented by the Newberry Col lege Singers. The students Join ed with the Singers in a pro gram of Christmas carols. Arrangements for this enter tainment were made by County Superintendent of Education James Brown, and George D. Brown of the State Department of Education. DANIEL L, COTNEY Daniel (Dan) Lester Cotney, 65 died late Tuesday afternoon at the Aiken County Hospital after sin Illness of five months. Bora :and reared in Newberry •County., Mr. Cotney spent most of his life traveling. For the past ■year Ihe had made his home with ibis *dtfter, Mrs. Estelle Eubanks /of ((Araniteville. Jin-iveral services were con- d*iv«fed 3 p.m. Thursday, at thQ tgraveside in Zion Methodist •Church Cemetery by the Rev. H. A . Whitten, pastor of Zion Metho- dVst Church, assisted by the Rev. James Strood of Graniteville. 1 le is survived by two sisters, lira Estelle Eubanks of Graniet- rille and Mrs. B, J. Morris of ^ewl 'erry, and a number of niec- < is ai id nephew's. FtFPOi 3TERS UEATE N UP Two Redbook Magazine staff memberf’ were reported to have been beat en up today by a group . of Ellento n, S. C., citizens, ap* I parently at about the ‘ invas ion of outsi ders.” Redbook ' Editor Wade Nichols aaid he was informed that Writer rBooton HemtJon and Photograph- •er Ike Vem ^vere assaulted near •the Ellenton Baptist Church, i shortly after the morning ser- • vic©s He said a grO,up of about 10 : Ellenton citizens were involved. . Apparently, he added, they were : resentful about the “Invasion o f • outsiders Into the area in con- rnection with plans for a new H- ' bomb project.” Booton Herndorf and Vern had ’been assigned to the section to collect material for a story on the project. “I understand that Van was pretty badly mauled," Nichols said. “He came out of it with a cauliflower ear and a black eye. Herndon got off easier, I be- * > L ^ FARM BUREAU TO MEET THURSDAY The Newberry County Farm reau will meet next Thursday, ember 21st at the. Bilverstreet h School at 7 o’clock, and «U1 white farmers of Newberry f mnty are urged to attend. E. H. Agnew, state president of the Farm Bureau, who receiuiy attended the National Farm Bureau Convention which was held in Dallas, Texas, will be the principal speaker. He will bring to the farmers of Newbeny Coun ty the high lights of the Dallas Convention. President Richard C. Neel, as sisted by the vice-president, J, W. Abrams, and Hugh E. Eptlng, PPcretary and treasurer, will be in charge of the meeting, at which time election of officers directors, and a general business meeting will be held. The Newberry County Farm on the proposed five percent In- Bureau was organized about six I crease in business licenses, years ago by H, O. Long, and at The annual audit of the city’s present 240 farmers of Newberry County have joined and are act ive members. The Bureau is composed of 12 •townships with a director from each district. The directors are Carl Setzler, Newberry; A. E Reece, Maybinton; Willie E. Pie- ster, St. Phillips; Joe M. Shealy, Peak; Carl Epting, Pomaria; ILyon C. Fellers, Prosperity; Al len Newton Crosson, Newberry; P. T. Harris, Sllverstreet; R. E. Neel, Newberry (Longshore); Harold Long, Newberry, (Kin- ards); Edward Chandler, New berry (Long Lane); George R. Lominick, Newberry, (Beth Eden) and one director at large, H. O. Long, Sllverstreet. A free turkey stew will be served at 5:30, and every white fanner in Newberry county is in vited to attend. WHEELER NAMED TO DEFENSE JOB City Council had a quiet ses sion Tuesday night at its last regular meeting before Christ mas. No delegations appeared, and only a few items were on the agenda for disposition. City Manager Blackwell read letters from officials of both the Southern Railway System and the Columbia, Newberry and I^aurens Railway Company, ad vising that investigation would he made Into the matter of put ting automatic safety signals at the railroad crossings at Glenn and Caldwell streets. This was in response to the Resolutions, sent by City Council to the rail road companies. Mayor Wiseman advised Coun cil that the merchants committee of the Chamber of Commerce re quested that action be postponed LAKE INQUEST BE HELD FRIDAY NIGHT An inquest Into the recent death of John C. Lake will be held at the Newberry Court House on Friday night, Decem ber 15, at eight o’clock, accord- R - Sum- venture and dangerously near to stand ing alone. The French and some others are opposed to German partici pation, Well can we depend on France or Socialized Britain? Why should we depend on any body? The shoe should be on the other foot: can they depend on help from us? We have become so innocently and foolishly world-minded that we shoulder the burden* of the world. Mark you, we are send ing troops and supplies to Britain and France and Western Ger many for fear that Russia may overrun them, while Russia plays with us In Asia, using her Ko rean and Chinese puppets to en gage us, and toys with us in the! West. The first obligation of our Government is. to build and con serve the strength of America. SO far as humanly possible, let us make our Nation Impregnable at home and Irresistible at sea. Yet, like a lot of simpletons, we are giving Chile two cruisers. Why? Do you know wTiere Chile is? Is Chile a dependable friend of ours? Haven’t we learned from the Chinese, from the French, that we must depend on ourselves and commit i ourselves to the Most High, that ye engage in only such military enterprises as may enjoy His guidance and favor? Let us be strong in the strength of the Lord. I am not a preacher, but as a student of history and of today’s affairs I see the bungling of men and I know the limitations of men. I was In France lecturing on the background of the War and the hope of peace through thf Convenant of the League of Na tions while the small politicians of Europe • and America blasted the efforts at merciful settlement Why'don’t we tell Britain, France Italy and Western Germany ”W< will help you with supplies I 4 ’ you organize . to protect your selves, but we are not committinp America to all-out resistance o Russia unless. Russia attacks us or ’ Interferes with us ?” This may sound like a dolefu’ croaking to you, but the truth at times Is bitter and unpala table: So far as I observed in Europe, South America, and Mexico, we Americans have dol- lar-friends; friends who profess to think much of tlS while spend our money freely. We have not won sincere regard or respect by rushing in with money and supplies, sometimes over whelming people with stuff they don’t need and don’t want. I say it most earnestly: we should strengthen America with in, so that we may always be a bulwark of righteousness, instead of enfeebling ourselves by dib bling forces all over the earth. •Um BIRTH OF A DAUGHTER Mr. and Mrs. Charles Forrest Summer, Jr., of Cocoa, Florida, are receiving congratulations - up on the arrival of a daughter, Mahala Anne, in a hospital near Cocoa, on Friday, December 1st. The Summers have another child, Charles Forrest, IIL who is two and one-half years of age. Mrs. Summer Is the former Mahala Peeples of Estill. business by J. W. Hunt and Company was presented to Coun cil. (Condensed report elsewhere in this issue.) Council passed an ordinance to regulate licenses in the City of Newberry for the year 1951; Voted to pay employees on De cember 23 rd: Voted to allow Mayor Wiseman to sign an agreement for Ira T. Cousins to construct a fense on city pronerty near the sewerage treatment plant, if leeal a^nects of agreement are approvved by the cltv attorney; Heard a letter read from Eu gene S. Schumrert of Drayton Street School, thanking the City 'or its cooperation during home coming festivities- Voted to allow the Regular 'feterans Association to displav exhibits in N^yberry during the vear 1951; ▼ Gave Mayor Wiseman author ity to name V. H. Wheeler. 1605 Main . street Newberry, Captain USN (retired) as head of civil ian defense for Newberry. L. C. 8EAVER Word has been received in Newberry of the death of L. C. Seaver, 84, who died suddenly Friday, November 27, at his home in New- Smyrna Beach Fla. He is survived by seven chil dren, one of whom is Mrs. Li. C. Pitts, Jr., of Newberry, several grandchildren, and a great-grand son. IN HOSPITAL Mrs. Minnie Alewine, Rt. 3, Prosperity; Miss Mattie Adams, 1S01 Harrington street; Mrs. Min nie Caldwell, Rt. 1; Mrs. J. F. Evans, Joanna; Mr. Willie Fuller, Strother; Mrs. Cummlng Graham, 530 Davis street; Mrs. Butler Holmes, 1901 Harrington street; Mr. Clarence Harmon, Rt. 3, Pros- oerlty; Mrs. Pat Hughes, 1321 Pelham street. Also Mrs. Nancy Hamm, Silver- street; Mrs. Tom Lewis, Bound ary street Ext; Mrs. James Long, Kinards; Mr. Marcus Lister, Prosperity; Mrs. H. P. Lindler, Tittle Mountain; Mr. Hillard Mize, 2809 Milne Ave; Mrs. John L. Metts and Baby Boy, 2308 Main street. Also Mr. Vance Miller, Rt. S; Mr. Ralnh Neal, Rt. 1; Mrs. B. F. Scott. Whitmire; Mrs. Salley W. Shealy. Chapin; Mr. J. N. Seibert. Rt. 1, Prosperity: Mrs. Frank H. Ward and Baby Girl, 318 Crosson street; Mr. Sterling A. Wallen, Whitmire and Miss Eloise Wede- man, Pomaria. BETTER HURRY Postmaster G. K. Dominick warned today that , unless Christ mas ccwSWStf “The next few days ar« criti cal,” he said. “Please mall your Christmas cards as rapidly as you can g«t them ready. If too many people wait until the week be ford Christ mas, we’tl be hopelessly swamp ed.” Holiday parcel post is jamming rail facilities all over the country, with many thousands of packages heading here for local delivery the week before Christmas, If you’re still wrapping gift parcels, the Postmaster observed, you should send them Special Handling or by Air Parcel Post to be sure of her ting Santa. Christmas cards for out-of-state delivery should be on their way by Friday, December 15. the Postmaster warned. Holiday greetings for local delivery should be posted at least a week before Christmas. Postal workers will be grateful if you’ll tie your cards In bundles, with all i envelopes facing the same way and the stamps in the same comer. This speeds cancel lation, the Postmaster explained. Clear, accurate and complete addresses will save your Christ mas cards time-consuming de tours. “And If your handwriting isn’t completely legible, please print,” the Postmaster added. DiAlH ... OF A SOLDIER From The Anderson Independent ■' v :■*$ - No campaign has been more severe, no battle so bitter, insofar as American fighting men are concerned than that now going on in Korea. Temperatures range down as low as 36 below zero, according to dispatches. from the fronL Should a man be hit and not get impiedi&te attention, he is frozen within an fcour or two. What's more, the terrain is one of the most difficult in the world, being mountainous, gully- rutted and studded with small growth trees. James R. Young who is associated with the Daily Mail, and who spent a number of years in the Orient, informs us that the reason Korean moun tains are relatively bare is be cause the trees are cut when they reach a certain size and converted Into charcoal for heat ing purposes. There Is no coal, peat or oil in Korea, and the natives arn't financially in po sition to purchase these things if imported. .> • , The enemy is without under standing of the military man’s code of life. Those Asiatics ap parently extend little or no con sideration for the wounded, ex cept on occasions for propaganda reasons. To them, life is of no value if no longer in fighting trim. It is cheaper to liquidate the injured than care for them. The nearest thing we know to fighting in Korea that Americans forces have participated in was during World War II in ■ the mountainous section* of Italy. It was then that the inmortal Ernie Pyle wrote a master-piece which deeply impressed us, and which we think is one of the greatest contributions to modern litera ture. These are Erato* wor^L' every ting* w© read them w of our lying The dead man lay all alone out side in the shadow of the low stone wall. Then a soldier came into the cowshed and said there were some more bodies outside, went out into the road, mules stood there, in the light, in the road where trail came down off the tain. The soldiers who led stood there waiting. “This is Captain Waskow/* one them said quietly. Two men unlashed his from the mule and lifted it and laid it in the shadeM^ the low stone wall. Other took the other bodies off. ly there were five, end in a long row, road. You don't cover men in Ihe combat just lie there in the til somebody else them. The unburdened mnlee off to their olive orchard, men in the road seemed^ to leave. They stood gradually one by one I sense them Captain Waakow’s much to look, I think as to something in finality to him, to themselves. 1 stood and I could hear. spa One soldier came and down, and he said out God damn it” That’s .said, and then lie Another one came. He said, damn it tqf hell anyway.** looked down for a few ments, and then he left, s Another man came; he waa an officer. It to tell officers from men half UghL for all were and grimy dirty. The ed down into the dead face and then he spoke to him. as though he MYRTINE P, HORNSBY Myrtine P. Hornsby, 72, died Wednesday night of last week at the Newberry County Hospital after a long illness. He was born In Newberry, a son of the late Jesse D. and Mary Blats Hornsby. He lived In Co lumbia for a number of years where he was In the lumber busi ness. He had been making his home here for the past year with his sister, Miss Jessie Hornsby. He was a member of the Luther an Church of the Redeemer. He la survived by two sons. Glaude and J. D. Hornsby of Co lumbia; one sister. Miss Jessie Hornsby, and four grandchildren. Funeral services were held last Friday at 11 a.m. with Rev. Paul E. Monroe, Jr., officiating. In terment was in Rosemont Ceme tery. RED CROSS BOARD MEMBERS MEET A meeting of the board mem bers of the local chapter of the American Red Cross was held last Thursday afternoon in the court house with several of the new members attending. A number of important busi ness matters were transacted. The term of service for board members was arranged in a ro tation order, the names being divided into three groups of five names. The first names drawn will serve for a year, the next group for two years and the third group In the present aiv rangement for three years. There after when new board members are elected they will serve for a three year period in the rotating plan. A committee was appointed to nelect several chairmen for com mittees and to begin mapping out plans for the Red Cross Fund Drive In March. Also among the important matters discussed was the Blood Program In which the Newberry Chapter is planning to partici- nate. A full program will be set up for this important work I* which a large number of vol unteers will be needed to carry on the Program here in New berry County. The chapter decided to send * contribution to the Fort Jack- son Hospital to purchase Christ mas article* for the patient*. were soldiers under them. But dever have 1 crossed the trail of any man as beloved as Cafttaln Hen ry T, Waskow, of Belton. Texas, Captain Waskow was a com pany commander in the' 88th vision. He had led hi* company since long before it left the States. He waa very yonng, only Iq his middle twenties, but he carried in him a sincerity and a gentleness that made peo ple want to be guided by him. “After my 'own father, he came next,” a sergeant told me. “He always looked after us,” a soldier said. “He’d go to bat for us every time, “I’ve never knqwed him to do anything unfair,” another one said. ■ - I was at the foot of the mule trail the night they brought Cap tain Waskow** body down. The moon was nearly full at the time, and you could see far up the trail, and even part way across the valley below. Boldiers mad* shadows in the moonlight as they walked. Dead men had been coming down the mountain all evening lashed onto the backs of mules. They came lying belly-down across the wooden pack saddles, their heads hanging down on the left side of the mule, their stif fened legs sticking out awkward ly from the other side, bobbing •in and down as the mule walk ed. The Italian mule-skinners were afraid to walk beside dead men, so Ameircans had to lead the mules down that night. Even the Americans were reluctant to unlash and lift off the bodies at the bottom, so an officer had to do it himself, and ask others to help. < The first one came early in the evening. They slid him down from the mule and stood him on his feet for a moment, while they got a new grip. In the half light he might have been merely a sick man standing there, lean ing on the others. Then they laid him on the ground in the shadow of the low stone wall alongside the road. I don’t know who that first one was. Yoy feel small in the oresence of the dead men, and ashamed at being alive, and you don’t ask silly questions. We left him there beside the road that first one, and we all went back into the cowshed and sat on water cans or lay on the straw waiting for the next batch of mules. Somebody said the dead soldier had been dead for four days, and then nobody said anything more About it We talked soldier talk for an hour or more. the first down, and he reached took the dead hand, ai there tor five full mini mg the dead, hand in and looked intently face, and he ' sound all 0*0 And 1 wv# , - ■Hgi&r < • -wm * ~ j* v _ j tain’s shir iar. aad then he sort of ranfert the tattered edges of untfianm around tee wound. then got up and walked the road in the moonlight i alone. Then the rest of us went , Into 'the cowshed, leaving the ■. dead men lying Ipr-Une. end end, in the shadow of the stone wail. We lay down the straw in ; the cowshed, pretty soon we were all ash CONGRESSMAN DORN NAIi R. C. SCHUMACHER SECY. Congressman elect ’ Jennings Bryan Dorn anu^u, today that his secretary for coming session will be — Robert C. (Bob) Schumacher Walhalla, 8. C. Mr. Schumacher served the ti previous years in the general sembly of South Caroline. «ir. Schumacher was not a candidate ■for re-election this past summer He is the son of Mrs. Fannie C. Schumacher and the late Otto H. Schumacher of Walhalla. Mr. Schumacher attended the public schools of Walhalla and entered Clemson College. While at Clem- son he enlisted in the Army Air Forces and served in the Europe an Theatre of Operation. Mr. Schumacher married. Miss Eloise Dillard, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. U Dillard of Six Mile, S. C. UNDERGOES OPERATION Mrs. Tom Lewis of Boundary street Extension, underwent an operation in the Newberry Me morial Hospital Tuesday, Decem ber 18th. She is doing nicely and expects to return to her home in a few days. - BIRTHDAYS Mrs. Aubrey Harley, Mrs. D. L. Nance, Mrs. Albert Ringer, Will Waters, Mrs. L. E. Wood, Marlon Wiggins and MoHett Nichole, Dec. IS; Jack Workman end Bil ly Clary, Dec. 17; Mlee Lucy Eppe, Corrle Crumption, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Crumpton, Doc. 18; Mrs. John. Glymph, Doc. 20; Mrs. E. B. Purcell, Deo. 21; Herbert Griffin and Jamee|3t|| Leaved, Dee. 22nd.