The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, April 11, 1952, Image 2
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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1952
What Started The Easter Parade?
Where does the word “Easter”
come from Why has the bunny
started the Easter egg custom?
Why do people send Easter
cards? What started the Easter
Parade?
It all goes back hundreds of
years. Americans, on Easter Sun
day will be continuing customs-
aside from religious worship —
which to some extent had their
beginnings with Pagan habits.
Our modern Easter Parade goes
back to the annual spring proces
sions of ancient China, when rich-
ly-gcwned mandarins haughtily
displayed their best robes. The
American Indians also donned
new moccasins and buck-skin en
sembles for their springtime cer
emonies.
Primarily, however, the Easter
Parade probably is an outgrowth
of the universal desire to “spruce
up” at a time when all nature
blooms with new life.
As for the word, “Easter,”
Christian converts in northern
Europe found it hard to give up
their belief in Eostre, beautiful
Pagan goddess of spring—whose
name survives.
And the Easter bunny? Accord
ing to ancient legend, Eostre was
especially fond of children. Know
ing that a rabbit is one animal
youngsters are not afraid of, she
magically changed her pet bird
into our familiar Easter bunny.
That’s why Mr. Hippety-Hop still
fills nests with colored eggs—as
birds do.
Easter. gifts apparently began
in the late 1400’s. The “privy
purse expenses of Elizabeth of
York,” for example, record gratuit
ies to officers of the kitchen,
saucery, and scullery at Easter in
1502. Gift-giving was also en
couraged by English maidens who
recited this rhyme to their sweet
hearts on St. Valentine’s Day—
“Good morrow, Valentine — 1
go today
To wear for you what you must
pay
A gift of gloves next Easter
Day.”
Our popular custom of coloring
Easter eggs is believed to have
begun in ancient Persia, long
before Christianity. Each year, on
Pronouncers Named
For State Spelling
Bee On April 19
Miss Isla Ellerbe of the faculty
of the English department of
the University of South Carolina
and Mackie Quave of the staff of
radio station WIS, Columbia, will
be the pronouncers for the State
Spelling Bee, according to an an
nouncement by D. . Leon Mc-
Cormac of the State Department
of Education.
The Spelling Bee is to be
held at Columbia College, Satur
day, May 3, with winners from
the county contests competing
for the first prize of a trip to
Washington, a set of encycloped
ias, and a chance to enter the
National Bee. A luncheon will be
served for all state contest par-
icipants immediately after the
Bee.
County contests are to be held
April 19 to select one person *rom
each county to enter the state
finals.
The State Department of Edu
cation in cooperation with the
Anderson Independent and Daily
Mail newspapers sponsors the
State Spelling Bee each year.
This year marks the sixth an
niversary of the Bee in the state.
Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions
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Come in for your new Spring shades of
LIPSTICK — ROUGE & FACE
POWDER
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March 21, tribes gathered on
mountain tops at dawn to cele
brate the “festival of the sun”—
a ritual curiously similar to to
day’s Easter morning sunrise ser
vices. Then they would give one
another brilliantly colored eggs
to bring good luck in the coming
year.
Eventually, the early Christians
adopted the egg as a symbol of
the resurrection. As part of their
Easter services, they stained eggs
a rich red in memory of Christ’s
sacred blood. Pope Paul V even
composed a special prayer to
consecrate Easter eggs—
“Bless, O Lord, we beseech
thee, this thy creature of eggs,
that it may become a wholesome
sustenance to thy faithful ser
vants, eating it in thankfulness
to thee on account of the resur
rection of our Lord.”
Once the eggs were blessed, it
was customary to exchange them
with friends and loved ones. Fre
quently a wish for Eastertime
happiness, or an appropriate Bib
lical quotation was inscribed on
the egg—just as they appear on
Open Vegetable
Growers Contest
To S. C. Youth
South Carolina farm boys and
girls are eligible to enter the
$6,000 scholarship competition of
the National Junior Vegetable
Growers Association, Miss Anne
Rogers, extension marketing spec
ialist, Winthrop College, stated
this week. Miss Rogers is state
adult leader for the NJVGA in
South Carolina.
She describes the NJVGA as a
nation-wide, self-governed, rural
youth organization which supple
ments 4-H and FFA programs by
offering specialized training in
efficient commercial methods of
vegetable production and merch
andising. Last year farm youth
in 44 states competed for scholar
ship grants, under a pla# that
provides a number of awards in
each state as well as on sectional,
regional, and national levels.
South Carolina youth who
shared in the scholarship fund
last year and their home counties
are—Edith Mae Godw n, Florence;
Sarah Ann Stanton and Docia
Ann Jackson, York; Adeville
Winkle and Marie Brunson, Sum
ter; Lavinia Weir, Fairfield; and
Sybil Hughes, Berkeley.
Miss Rogers points out that
boys and girls 12 through 21
years of age, with at least one
year of garden project work in
FFA or 4-H clubs, are eligible
to compete in this vegetable and
marketing contest. The contest
rules give full credit to gardening
projects also entered in 4-H club
and FFA competitions.
Other NJVGA competitions
open to farm boys and girls upon
their enrollment in the produc
tion-marketing . contest are the
demonstration contest and a judg
ing, grading, and identification
competition. These are also based
on 4-H club and FFA experience.
Adult guidance for NJVGA
members is provided by specialists
of the State Extension Service
and other organizations cooperat
ing in the program. Enrollment
cards and other information on
the contests may be secured from
county farm and home demonstra
tion agents, FFA advisors, or
other rural youth leaders.
BUTCHIE
Easter cards today. Easter greet
ings were sent this way through
most of the Christian era.
It wasn’t until the 1850’s that
the first Easter cards were pub
lished in Germany. From there
the Easter card custom spread to
the Netherlands, France, and Eng
land, finally appearing in Amer
ica during the 1870’s.
Louis Prang, who arrived from
Germany a penniless immigrant,
became the first American greet
ing card publisher. Many of his
Easter cards were mounted on
vividly-colored velvet or satin
sometimes with a silk s card and
tassel attached so they could be
hung on the wall. Surrounded
with luxurious fringes of white
silk, they had an air of delightful
springtime elegance.
Today, Prang’s first cards are
valuable collector's items, and
Easter cards have become accept
ed messengers of Easter senti
ments.
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lowing me ever since I open
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Saving & Loan
Association
Newberry, S. C.
New Flynn Hit Top
Adventure Film At
Wells Mon.-Tues.
Heralded as one of the most
spectacular action films of the
year, William Marshall’s exciting
new production, “Adventures of
Captain Fabian,” a Republic
Presentation, makes its bow Mon
day and Tuesday at the Wells
Theatre with Errol Flynn in the
role of a notorious, swashbuck
ling sea captain and the beauti
ful Micheline Prelle in the co-
starring role of an exotic Creole
girl.
New Orleans Of 1860 *
The thrilling picture has its
setting in the colorful melting pot
of New Orleans in the year 1860.
Here all creeds and classes fight
for a foothold in a new world
frontier which has become the
high prize in the clash of nations.
The plot concerns the domineer
ing Brissac family of New Or
leans and how the sentencing of
a beautiful girl’s mother to death
for witchcraft starts a series of
fateful events involving the lovely
daughter, Lea Mariotte, and the
adventurous Capt. Fabian, hand
some skipper of the vessel China
Sea.
Plenty Of Action
The story involves the sworn
and plotted downfall of the in
famous Brissac family which so
dominates Lea that her true ro
mantic inclinations for th%, heroic
Captain receive only secondary
attention. There are shipboard
fights, hysterical riots in the
streets of New Orleans, killings,
flaming vessels in the harbor and
moments of poignant and tender
romance as the stirring film
moves to its exciting denouement.
Utilizes Acting Experience
Utilizing his experience as one
of the screen's foremost actors,
William Marshall makes his debut
as a producer-director on "Ad
ventures of Captain Fabian.” Im
pressive production values have
been achieved in the settings and
the crowd scenes, with high ex
citement dominating the ship
board holocaust and the hand-to-
hand battles.
Fitting perfectly into the fab
ulous glamour of this renowned
American frontier city, are the
finely etched characterizations of
both Flynn and Miss Prelle as co-
stars and the entire featured cast
which includes Vincent Price,
Agnes Moorehead and Victor
Francen.
A woman’s protective instinct is the theme of the Carol Lane
Award which will be presented each year, along with a $1,000 de
fense bond, to the American woman who contributes most to traf
fic accident prevention. Nominations are now being invited by
the National Safety Council, which administers the award through
grant of the Shell Oil Co. Carol Lane, women’s travel director
of Shell and whose name the award bears, is shown with the
model for the bronze st&tue.
You can find plenty of people
who know all tht answers. It’s
the questions that fool them.
BOYS ARE
THAT WAY
By J. M. ELEAZER
How flagrantly we use water
now!
We turn the spigot on when
we brush our teeth and use
as much water as we used to for
our Saturday’s bath. In the sum
mer we warmed that in the sun
and used a kettleful of hot water
in it in the winter. Now we turn
the hot water on to rinse the
dishes and a dozen kettlefuls are
used to do the whole job of
washing the dishes.
But that water came hard. Now
it comes through a pipe aa by
magic.
Our well was about 70 feet
deep. We let the bucket down
to fill and brought it up with a
double windlass. We poured the
10 quarts it held into the water-
bucket and took it into the
kitchen. The bucket was of
cedar, with brass hoops that we
kept shiny. And when that water
was used up, it was quite a lit
tle effort to get more. So we
used it sparingly. We were
taught to drink what we took of
it, and never throw any out.
Soon we learned the reason for
this when we got big enough to
draw and tote water.
My job was filling the two
buckets we kept on a shelf there
in the kitchen each day at dusk.
In that way we were secure with
water for the night. Zeke, my
£olored playmate, would promise
to help me, and we would play
almost until night. Occasionally
I would forget it and he would
go. Then it was my painful duty
to draw those two buckets of
water after the lamps had been
lit and the fragrant odors of sup
per were calling. Hurrying once,
for I smelled fresh country ham
afrylng, I stumbled up the steps
and spilled both buckets of water.
Life took on a dismal hue then,
and I tried to get them to ex
cuse me for fooling with that old
water, but to no avail.
Radar Jobs Available
At the Keesler Air Force Base,
Biloxi, Miss, there is an opening
for Radar Instructor and Radar
Instructor (trainee). Entrance sal
aries $4205 and $3410 a year.
The Fifth Civil Service Region
announces that applications from
persons totally blind are being
accepted in an examination for
Newberry No. 1
J. K. Inman to J. D. Inman,
one lot 80’x80’ on Mower street,
$5.00 love and affection.
J. Ethridge Geiger to Lula
Belle Banks, one lot and one
building, 1312 Silas street, $5.00
love and affection.
Emmie Turner to Roland W.
Williams, one lot and one build
ing, 421 Wright street, $2750.
Newberry No. 1 Outside
Lindsay L. Guinn and Mildred
D. Guinn to Johnnie H. Turner,
one lot 75’xl50’ and one building
on Fair Avenue, $6250.
Charles H. Andrews to T. L.
Brown and Sallie S. Brown, one
lot and one building, 1305 First
street; $2800.
Johnnie H. Turner td Fannie
Viola H. Thomas, one lot and
one building, 1402 Second street,
$3900.
Mrs. Viola Hart Thomas to
Wm. M. Taylor and Margaret B.
Taylor, one lot and one building
on College street, $4000.
George' S. Minick to Ruby B.
Minick 10% acres, $5.00 love
and affection.
Silverstreet No. 2
W. E. Pitts to Alan Senn, 45
acres, $4000.
Bush River No. 3
V. E. Shealy to Trustees of
Beaver Dam Colored Baptist
Church, 1.23 acres, $65.00.
Daisy Kinard to Will Copeland,
two acres, $110.
Pomarla No. 5
Narvis L. Wicker, et al to
Claude C. Wickes, 46.5 acres, $1,-
500, assessed in name of Narvis
L. Wicker, et al.
Jettie L. Lominick to Claude C.
Wicker, 46.5 acres, $1500, assessed
in name of Jettie L. Lominick, et
al.
Jacob W. Livingston to Clande
C. Wicker, one-half acre, $6.00
and other considerations, (part of
lot bought from Mary H. Hipp).
Narvis L. Wicker, et al to
Claude C. Wicker, two acres and
one building, $1000, Minnie H.
Livingston house.
Ex-Prisoner Of Germans Speaks
In Support Of American Red Cross
Dictating Machine Transcriber.
Positions pay $2750 to $2950 a
year. Closing date May 1.
Also in this region positions for
Library Assistants are open, $2,-
750-$3175. Certain experience plus
a written test are required. No
closing date.
For further details concerning
these examinations call at local
post office. Ask for Miss Sadie
Bowers, the Civil Service Secre
tary.
MOTHER AND ATTORNEY . . . Mrs. Mary B. Muse, 31, plays with her five chUdren In Brookline,
Mass., after receiving news that she has passed the Bay State bar exams. A total of 536 applicants
took the stiff examination, with a hare 30 percent
(Ed. Note: The article ap
pearing below was written by
Joe C. McDaniel of Clinton,
a German ROW during World
War II.)
Because of the American Red
Cross, I am able to speak in de
fense of this great organization
today. It is so sad, but tragical
ly true, that most people have to
experience a thing before they
believe in it. Tragedy has to
strike deep into the lives of those
they love before they are brought
to realize the great work of an
organization like the Red Cross.
We, Americans, are burled in
selfishness through the great
wealth and luxuries that God has
so graciously bestowed upon us.
It is this selfishness in particular
that stirs my heart to Its very
depths and compels me to speak
out when I think of those who
criticize the Red Cross and do
everything possible to hinder It's
functions. We believe in our
church, our government and other
similar organizations even though
they are not perfect, so Why?
Why? condemn the Red Cross
for some little personal thing.
After all when we search our
own hearts, we are so miserably
wicked, how can we dare speak
against anyone or any organiza
tion.
Listen, friends, I gave a few
measly little dimes begrudging
ly to this organization once upon
a time. Before I could think, I
was a hungry, miserable, starving
Prisoner-of-War behind a barbed-
wire fence In Germany gradually
growing weaker every day. Then
out of the' sky like a shining star
a gift, in the form of a food par
cel with a little symbol, that
of the Red Cross, was handed to
me.- At this very moment thous
ands of American boys and others
are behind barbed-wire fences in
Korea. They are homesick, hungry
and lonely and their greatest
source of strength is rumors of
Red Cross coming to their aid. 1
know the feeling in their hearts
for I, too, was behind a barbed-
wire and fed upon such rumors.
I earnestly appeal to every con
scientious, unselfish American to
contribute to the American Red
Cross. It is a Christian duty. The
dime that you contribute may be
the saving of your own life and,
too, that dime again, only ten
cents out of your pocket, is worth
a thousand dollars to those boys
in Korea or any other unfortun
ate victim. Remember that just a
short while ago these boys were
walking the streets of their home
town as you and I but within the
twinkling of an eye they found i
themselves in a helpless situation,
and they are crying out so des
perately to you, who would dare
contribute one little dime!
In closing I would like to state
that there are upon the streets of
Clinton, Laurens, Newberry, or
Greenwood* and many towns
throughout the country, many
boys who owe their very lives to
the work of the Red Cross.
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BOOKMOBILE
SCHEDULE
The Book-Mobile schedule for
the coming week, for Newberry
County Is as follows:
Thurs., April 17
Speers St. School
• Oakkland Reading Center
Gause’s Store (Box Factory)
Gary Community (A. P. Ram-
age’s home)
Bush River Community (Willie
Singley’s home)
Bush River School
Tranwood Community
Rosa Johnson’s ho.me)
The stops which would have
been made Friday, April 18, will
be made on Monday, April 21.
These are:
West End School
G. Cromer Senn’s home
Ben Caldwell • ■' H
Charlton Cromer
Whitmire Library
(Mrs.:
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For Expert Repair Bring
Your Radio and Televiaion
GEO. N. MARTIN
Radio and Television
Service
SALES and SERVICE
BOYCE STREET
Opposite County Library
24 HOUR SERVICE
Telephone 311
and AW4 VS
You can dress well EASTER for less
if you buy your clothes at
CLAMPS CLOTHING COMPANY
For here you can buy suits
at thrifty prices and still be
sure of good style, fault
tailoring and superior
lies. CLAMPS carry a
selection of suits to cb
from in all sizes and year
around weights includ
hard finish worsteds,
dines and flannels priced
only $35.00 and $37.50.
Summer weights — nylon
cords — only $19.95. Rayon
tropicals and sharkskins —
$22.50 -and 100 percent wool
tropical weight just $32.50.
Come in today and
select your Easter
Outfit
■m
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(Use our convenient Lay-Away-Plan)
Clamps Clothing Co
1402 Main St.
Newberry
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