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V0L.-14—NO. 51 NEWBERRY. SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1952 + $1.60 PER YEAR State Football Coaches Meet In Annual Session Plans are completed for the annual South Carolina Football Officials Association get together to be held in the Newberry Com munity Hall Saturday evening at seven p.m. T. B. “Dad” Amis, secretary and treasurer of the association, states that an entertaining pro gram has been arranged. Reser vations now are 150 officials and high school coaches. The honored guests will include all of the college coaches in South Caro lina and the newspaper and radio sports announcers. The Rev. Neil E. Truesdale will be the guest speaker. The program will also include the Newberry High school Sex tette under the direction of Miss Betty Baker, which has been much in demand. Members of the Sextette are Molly Fennell, Mary Lee Hutto, Joann Halfacre. Susan Summer. Alice Carter and Kate Rutherford with Harriet Dickert accompanist. Another feature of the program will be dancing of several kinds, comedy and black face commedians. Taking parts in these will be Barbara Youmans, Carol Setzler, Suzie Pack. Ron nie Mills and Johnnie Hyler. The Bush River P.T.A. will serve a chicken barbecue. A meeting of the board of di rectors of the association will be held directly after the supper. President Kinard, College Singers On "Banners Of Freedom’ Program Newberry College, one of the twelve cooperating colleges in the South will be on some 300 radio stations the week of April 27 presenting one in the series of “Banners of Freedom" pro grams. The Newberry College program will be on the topic “A Christian Code of Ethics” with President James C. Kinard speak ing and the Newberry College Singers, under the direction of Milton Moore, singing a cappella, numbers appropriate to the topic. This program will be carried over station WKDK at 1 p.m. April 27. The series, “Banners of Free dom,” has been produced by the Protestant Radio Center of At lanta, Ga., in cooperation with twelve Christian Colleges in the South. Newberry College and Columbia College are the only two institutions in South Carolina represented in the series. DPW Director At Welfare Meet Mrs. Edna H. Feagle, director of the local Department of Pub lic Welfare office, attended the County Directors of Public Wel fare meeting which was held in Charleston at the Francis Marion hotel last Friday and Saturday, April 18th and 19th. MOVED TO COLUMBIA Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Taylor, who has been living in Newberry for the past three years in the Floyd Bradley home on Calhoun street, which they purchased, moved last w r eek to Columbia to make their home. Mr. Taylor is postal clerk on one of the Highwmy Postoffice trucks, with headquarters in Co lumbia. R. C. (BOB) LAKE, JR. Coach McConnell Jo Quit College E. R. McConnell, who for the past two years has served as athletics director at Newberry College, has resigned his position to enter the business field. The resignation is effective at the close of the current session. President James C. Kinard in releasing the announcement, ex pressed appreciation of the fine services rendered by Mr. Mc Connell. NEWBER RIANS ATTENDING S. C. PRESBYTERIAL Among the women of Aveleigh Presbyterian church who are at tending the South Carolina Pres- byterial which is being neld at the First Presbyterian Church in Abbeville, today (Friday) are: Mrs. Frank R. Higgins, president of the Women of Aveleigh: Mrs. W. M. Workman, vice-president of the S. C. Presbyterial; Mrs. D. W. A. Neville, Mrs. W. J. Martin, Mrs. H. W. Swindler and Mrs. C. E. Laird Dairymen Attend Saluda Program County Agent Paul B. Ezell, Asst. County Agent W. A. Ridge way with 14 dairymen and their wives, who produce Golden Guernsey milk in Newberry coun ty for Edisto Dairies, attended the annual Production and Dairy Program sponsored by Edisto Dairies in Saluda Tuesday night. Prof. Ben Goodale, specialist Clemson Dairy department w T as main speaker on the program held at the Hollywood school in Saluda county. He also led a discussion on "High Quality Milk.” R. C. Lake, Jr. In Race For House Seat Robert C. (Bob) Lake Jr., New berry county native and attorney of Whitmire, announced his candi dacy for the House of Repre sentatives from New'berry coun ty in the summer elections. Mr. Lake made the race last year with R. D. Coleman, Jr., for the unexpired term of Frank Jordan, who resigned. Mr. Lake has been practicing law in Whitmire for the past three years. He is a graduate of the Whitmire high school and received his law degree from the University of South Carolina. While at the university, he was president of Pi Kappa Phi, and member of Blue Key fraternity. He served as page to the South Carolina legislature while at the university. Mr. Lake served in the Army for tw r o years as a non-commis sioned officer. He is a member of American Legion Post No. 70 of Whitmire. Board Warns 8 Delinquents Of Federal Action Selective Service Board No. 36 in Newberry is seeking informa tion as to the whereabouts of eight delinquent registrants. Board officials stated this week that the list of names would be turned over to Federal authorities for prosecution, if they were not located in the near future. All of the delinquents are Negroes and their last known ad dress is given following their names: Arthur Kinard, Rt. 1, Silver- street; James Willie Kinard, 124 Vincent St.; James Worthy, Rt. $, Newberry; Willie Wright, 368 Boundary St.; James Crooks, NeW- berry; B. C. Cooper, Pike Circle, Newberry; Leroy Glenn, Box 131 Newberry; and Willie Walter Gilliam, 704 Coats St. Anyone having information about the above registrants Is asked to contact selective service authorities in the county court house. Mrs. Minnie Reid Dies At Whitmire Mrs. Minnie Hendrix Reid, 78, died suddenly Tuesday afternoon at the home of her son, W. H, AdaTns, near Clinton. Mrs. Reid was born and reared in New r berry county, a daughter of the late George and Addie Motes Hendrix. She was mar ried three times, first to James Reid, second to B. C. Adams and third to William P. Reid. Mrs. Reid made her. home with her daughter, Mrs. W. E. Baker of Whitmire. She was the last sur viving member of her family. Survivors include four sons, B. Frank Adams of Whitmire, George Reid and Walter H. Reid of Columbia; three daughters, Mrs. W. E. Baker of Whitmire, Mrs. H. F. Shealy of Colum bia and Mrs. Everet Bishop of Donalds. EARL H. BERGEN Bergen Enters WITH THE SICK Glenn Pope Arthur, 1412 Silas Street; Mrs. Mabel Barnes, 3-0 Gary Street, Whitmire; Mrs. Hen ry Berry, 1311 Drayton Street; Mrs. Anna Boland, Little Moun tain; Marcella Boozer, Route 1; Thomas Boozer, Route 1; Jack- son Bowers, McCaughrin Avenue; Miss Betsy Brewer, 1731 John stone Street; Mrs. L. R. Culclasure 1317 Washington Street; Welba G. Freeman, Route 1; Mrs. Norma W. Hewitt and Baby Boy, 1907 Harper Street; Arthur Living ston, 2521 Main Street Exten sion; Miss Frances Livingston, Route 1, Saluda. Mrs. Kathryn McEntire and Baby Boy, Route 4; Mrs. Estelle Marlowe, 1517 Harrington Street; Mr. Monroe Mills, Box 94, Pros perity; Mrs. Herman Pitts, Route 1, Silverstreet; Master Randall Pitta, 1615 First Street; E. W. Plampin, 2805 College Street; Heber Rister, 403 Crosson Street; Mrs. Nancy Roton and Baby Girl, 613 Crosson Street; Tom Sanders, 1900 Nance Street; Mrs. Edna Snipes, 1307 Fourth Street; Homer B. Walker, 1143 Broome Street, Whitmire. Twenty-five percent of all funds contributed to the Cancer Crusade is devoted to research, the Ameri can Cancer Society says. Dr. Nelson Attends Meet In Knoxville Doctor Alvin F. Nelson, Pro fessor of Education and Psych ology at Newberry College, at tended the annual meeting of the Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology. The meeting was held in Knoxville, Tenn. on April 11 and 12. One of every seven deaths last year was caused by cancer. Miss Cornelia Riser Of Whitmire was " h County Contestant In State Bee Miss Cornelia Riser, eighth grade student at the Whitmire high school -was first place coun ty winner in the Spelling Bee held Saturday morning April 19, at Newberry High school. Taking second and third honors, respectively, w r ere Miss Jacque line Crooks, seventh grade stu dent at St. Phillips school, and Miss May Lathrop, eighth gradei at Pomaria school. Representa tives from Newberry Junior high, Silverstreet and Bush River schools also participated in the bee. Miss Riser was awarded $5 as first prize, and will represent Newberry county in the state bee which is slated for Columbia on May 3. Second and third place winners were awarded $3 and $1. The prizes were offered by the Newberry County Education association. Judges for the county contest were the Rev. Neil E. Truesdale, the Rev. T. B. Altman, and the Rev. B. Clippard. Miss Elizabeth O’Dell of the faculty of the University of South Carolina and C. Wallace Martin of Columbia radio station W1MSC w r ill be the judges in the State Spelling Bee, it has been announced by D. Leon McCormac of the State Department of Edu cation. The Bee, an annual event in South Carolina since 1947, will be held this year at Columbia College. Miss Isla Ellerbe, al so a faculty member of USC, and Mackie Quave of the staff of Co lumbia radio station WIS, will be the pronouncers. Participants in the bee will be winners in the 46 county contests which were held last week. Scripps-Howard Newspapers are the national sponsors for the nation-wide spelling bee activities and the Anderson Daily Mail and Independent Newspapers sponsor the contest in South Carolina with the State Department of Ed- House Aspirant Earl H. Bergen, local business man and veteran of World War II, is making his first plunge in to politics in the summer pri mary. He is seeking one of the two seats open in the House of Representatives. In making his announcement, Mr. Bergen stated that he would devote his energies to giving the people of Newberry, city and county, adequate and proper representation in the state’s legis lature. He states that in this, bis first venture into politics, he finds that he is free from any form of alliance. He is married to - the former Miss Lydie Clary, herself " native Newberrian, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Hagood Clary, Sr. The Bergens have two chil dren. He is a graduate of New berry College, class of 1943. He finished high school at Georgia Military College. The candidate is a veteran of World War II, having served four Jn. ^e United States Navy, e was " honorably discharged with the rank of lieutenant senior grade. Since his discharge he has kept up his interest in vet erans and their affairs, with active affiliation in local work of the American Legion and the Vet erans of Foreign Wars. At pre sent he is commander of the VFW post. He is respected in local business circles, being presi dent of Bergen Clothing Com pany, a business which he has been connected with for the past six years. He is an active churchman, a member of the First Baptist church of this city, and is a member of the local Lions Club and Newberry County Farm Bureau. He is soliciting the support of Newberry’s voters in the coming election and states that he will discharge the duties and respon sibilities of a member of the Newberry county delegation to the best of his ability. Slipcover School For H.D. Clubs Tuesday According to an announcement by Miss Margie Davis, county home demonstration agent, a Slipcover School will be held at the Agriculture Building in New berry on Tuesday, April 29th at 3:00 p.m. Home demonstration club members and all interested persons are cordially invited to attend. Miss Portia Seabrook, clothing specialist, from Winthrop college will be on hand to conduct the school. She will discuss and show materials on market emphasizing proper selections of lines, designs, and colors. She will also demonstrate best meth ods in making slipcovers. DLE-FOR-PRESIDENT BOOM ... In New York, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge points to an eight-foot map showing locations of more than 1,200 Eisenhower-fo r-President clubs. Senator Lodge reviewed the prog- of the Eisenhower bandwagon for newsmen. ucation making all arrangements and conducting the Bee. . All particiants will be guests of the newspaper at a luncheon im mediately following the contest. In addition each contestant will be given a school dictionary. The state winner will receive a week’s trip to Washington, D. C. and a chance to enter the na tional contest scheduled for May 22. The winner and the runner- up will each be given a set of encyclopaedias. The Spelling Bee is scheduled to begin at 10:30 May 3 in the auditorium of Columbia College. Mr. McCormac has announced that the contest is open to the public. 28 Candidates Qualify For 18 County Openings City To Insist AH Business Pay The city has collected so far this year $35,671.50 privilege tax but finds that quite a number have not paid. An advertisement in this issue warns of dire con sequences unless some folding money is placed on the counter in front of Treasurer Wallace right pronto. If you would like to continue to do business the bal ance of the good year 1952 see the affable city treasurer and leave something with him to pay his help with. APR Pastor And Family Move Here The Rev. and Mrs. Paul Grier moved to Newberry Tuesday and are now residing in the ARP Manse on Calhoun street. They moved here from Louisville, Ga. The Reverend Grier, who ac cepted the pastorate of the ARP Church on Main street and the Kings Creek Church, recently, will deliver his first sermon as pastor of the churches Sunday, April 27th. The Griers have three chil dren, Paul, Jr., 21, a member of the Junior class at Erskine Col lege, Due West; William, 19, a member of the sophomore class at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Ga., and Emily who is five years of age. A reception will be given in honor of the Griers at the Com munity Hall Tuesday evening, April 29th by members of both churches. Dr. R. A. Goodman At Department Meet On Christian Ethics Newberry College was repre sented by Dr. R. A. Goodman of the department of Bible and Christian Ethics at a regional meeting of Church related col leges to study a question, What Is a Christian College? The meet ing was entertained by Queens College. Charlotte, N. C., Friday, April 18, 1952. Twenty colleges from North Carolina, South Caro lina, Georgia and Florida were represented by some 60 faculty members. This study is being directed by Dr. Raymond F. McLain, New York City, for the Association of American Colleges and the Na tional Council of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. This meet ing was preliminary to a work shop to be held at Mars Hill Col lege, Mars* Hill, N. C. later in the summer and the purpose of this study is to re-examine the avowed purpose of Church re lated colleges with reference to the education of the “whole per son” of their students. R. C. Taylor Suffers Fatal Attack Sunday Robert C. (Bob) Taylor, 67, died late Tuesday morning at the Newberry County Memorial Hos pital. He was suddenly stricken Sunday night and had been ill since that time. Mr. Taylor was horn and rear ed in Newberry County near Prosperity and was the son of the late John William and Josephine Boland Taylor. For a number of years he had made his home on Langford St. in Newberry and was employed by the New berry Mills. He was a member of Mayer Memorial Lutheran Church and was a member of Woodmen of the World. Surviving are his wife, Mrs Cora Frazier Taylor; five sons, J. W„ Grady, Carl J., Eugene and Frazier, all of Newberry; one daughter, Mrs. Clyde Werts, New berry; two brothers, Joe S, and James L., Newberry; two sisters, Mrs. A. B. A shill and Miss Sallie Taylor, Newberry, and one grand child. Funeral services were conduct td Wednesday at 5 • p.m. at the Mayer Memorial Lutheran Church by the Rev. D. M. Shull, the Rev. Y. Z. Gordy and the Rev. J. W. Tomlinson . Interment followed in Rosemont cemetery. Post-Easter Service Sunday Morning At Clayton Memorial Clayton Memorial (Universalist) church announces a post-Easter service Sunday morning at eleven o’clock. The Rev. Wm. R. Ben nett will deliver the message. His announced topic is “Choose Life.” Appropriate music for the oc casion has been arranged, also plans made for flowers to deco rate the auditorium. An invitation has been extend ed to the public generally to at tend this special service. BUILDING PERMITS Three building and repair per mits were issued the past week to Roland Williams on the 17th, for repairs to dwelling on Wright street for the amount of $200; o nthe 21st, to D. E. Schumpert for repairs to dwelling on Har rington street for the sum of $200, and on the 22nd to R. L. Hunter for one-five-room wood frame dwelling on Evans street for $6000. Candidates For Primary County offices to be filled In the summer primary and candi dates for these offices are listed below. All offices and candidates are given, but candidates having no opposition will be left off the ticket since the county Demo cratic executive committee has power to nominate for the gen eral election, candidates who are not opposed. A Congressman and Solicitor will also be nominated in the primair. W# J-. ftrya® Porn, hi' cumbent congressman, haft an nounced that he will be a candi date to succeed himself. In the race for Solicitor of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, Hugh Beasley, in cumbent, and C. E. Saint-Amand, law partner of Judge Eugene S. Blease of Newberry, has an nounced that he is in the running. Several others have been men tioned as aspirants. The County ticket: AUDITOR PINCKNEY N. ABRAMS CLERK OF COURT (Select 1) GURDON W. COUNTS WALTER T. LAKE COMMISSIONER DI8T. NO. 1 (Select 1) LUTHER B. BEDENBAUGH H. T. CARLISLE T. C. (TED) McDOWELL R. L. STERLING COMMISSIONER DIST NO. 2 (Select 1) G. TAB WERTS JOE WILSON CORONER GEORGE R. SUMMER 11 Incumbents Unopposed For Reelection A total of 28 candidates filed pledges with Mrs. A. H. Counts, secretary of the county Demo cratic executive committee, prior to the deadline Tuesday at noon, for 18 county offices to be filled in the coming primary. Eleven of the incumbents are being returned to their positions without opposition. Officials in two of the offices to be filled did not seek re-election. Dr. Hugh K. Boyd, clerk of court for the past. 28 years, did not ioffer this year and the two seats in the House of Representatives are also va cant. Marvin E. Abrams, has held the position of since 1937, is unopposed. Candidates for the House Representatives are Earl H. gen, Newberry; John 8. Ht Pomaria; Robert C. Lake, ^ Whitmire; J. Efflce Metis, Mountain; and Janfeea- N, Newberry, all of whom, with exception of Mr. Metis, tering politics for the first Unopposed candidates are M. Fellers, sheriff, comi his third term; Pincl Abrams, auditor since IS Ray Dawkins, treasurer 1941; James D. Brown, tendent of education, has office for one term; S. W. supervisor, has been in office one term; George R. coroner, has served one Walter T. Lake, Newl Gordon W. Counts, are seeking the office at of court. Mr. Lake has Newberry County .tn the House of ftte* > a*. ience in politlefcf Luther B. Bedenbaugh, H. T. Carlisle, T. C. McDowell and R. L. Sterling are seeking the of fice of commissioner of district 1« now held by J. Frank (Jack) Lominick, who is not seeking the office. G. Tab Werts, Incumbent, in the commissioner of district 2 race is being opposed by Joe Wilson. Mr. Werts has held the job for one term. In the magistrate’s race at Newberry, Ben S. Dawkins, who has held the office for a number of years, is unopposed. W. D.» Lindler, who has served one term as magistrate at Whitmire, is al so unopposed. Claud Wilson, mag istrate at Prosperity for three terms, has no opposition, nor does W. D. Hatton, who has been mag istrate at Pomaria for a number of years. Burke M. Wise, xnagis* trate at Little MounUin for one term, is opposed by Ernest A. Wheeler. W. E. Spearman, Sr„ who served several terms as magistrate at Chappell’s has op position in John M. Boozer. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (Select 2) EARL H. BERGEN JOHN S. HUGGINS ROBERT C. LAKE, JR. J. EFFIE METTS JAMES N. PARR MAGISTRATE, CHAPPELLS JOHN M. BOOZER MAGISTRATE, LT. MOUNTAIN (Select 1) ERNEST A. WHEELER BURKE M. WISE MAGISTRATE, NEWBERRY BEN F. DAWKINS MAGISTRATE, POMARIA W. D. HATTON MAGISTRATE, PROSPERITY CLAUD WILSON MAGISTRATE, WHITMIRE W. D. LINDLER SENATOR MARVIN E. ABRAMS SHERIFF TOM M. FELLERS SUPERVISOR S. W. SHEALY SUPT. OF EDUCATION JAMES D. BROWN TREASURER J. RAY DAWKINS MRS. KIRBY LOMINICK’S GRANDMOTHER PASSES IN GA. Mrs. W. M. Wheeler, grand mother of Mrs. Kirby Lomlnack, died at her home in Douglas, CNu, Monday, April 21, after ten daya illness. Mrs. Wheeler would have celebrated her 90th birthday on the 28th of this month. Funeral services were held at the Powelton Baptist Church In Sparta, Ga., Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Mr. and Mrs. Kirby Lomlnack and daughter, Marsha, attended the funeral services Wednesday afternoon. 'Mi BIRTHDAYS rm m wirv. Mrs. William Milam, April i&t; Mrs. Mabel 8. Anderson, Culclasure, son of Polleoman Mrs. Frank CulelSsurs, April Ann Bowers, daughter of Prof, and Mrs. Charlie Bowers, Ruby Evelyn Reaves and (Handy) Hancock, April 2i; Beale H. Cromer, Fredrick ner, Mrs. Richard I. Mel and Sgt. Gerald Taylor, 30; Mrs. Rosemary Bowers William Neville and Susai look, daughter of Mr. and. Bill Blalock, May 1; R. P. Mrs. Epele Buzhardt, Emits Amand and Mrs. Paul May 2nd.