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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1953
Speechless, Deaf Worship
Weekly In Greenwood
(HOKE SMITH MAY)
In Anderson Independent
GREENWOOD, Jan. 17—A group
of silent men and women meet
here every Sunday morning to
hear the word of God with their
eyes.
They congregate in one of the
Sunday School classrooms of South
ifeain Street Baptist Church. And
although they are speechless and
deaf, they hear a rousing good
lesson from their teacher, himself
a mate.
The deaf-mute class at South
Main Baptist is one of only a few
scattered over the state where the
orally and audibly handicapped
can attend weekly divine services.
South Main Street’s class was
organized last January and mem
bers of the group and their guests
from several of the other South
Carolina classes celebrated their
first Sunday School anniversary
( Sunday with a banquet in the
church cafeteria.
The idea for the Greenwood
class came from Thomas Owens
who formerly lived in Charleston
and attended a class there. An
organization meeting was held and,
with a nucleus of only three or
four persons, the class went in
to operation.
When the class members held
their anniversary celebration Sun
day, they could count more than
20 regular participants in the Sab
bath program. Most of the mem
bers come from Greenwood and a
few surrounding towns.
Hampton O. (Hap) Johnson, the
church school teacher, is a dis
tinguished-looking man with iron-
gray hair and a flourishing and
emphatic style of manual oratory.
Even though lacking a knowledge
of the vocabulary of the fingers,
it is almost possible to understand
what Hap ohnson is saying by
watching his expressive hands and
face.
E. S. Chainey of Columbia, who
acted as interperter for the vo
cal speakers at the Sunday ban
quet, said that manual oratory can
be just as expressive as the spok
en word. Emphasis depends mere
ly upon the moton of the hands,
he said.
Chainey’s mother and father are
both voiceless and deaf and al
though he is gifted with speech, of
necessity Chainey grew up as a
fluent user of sign language.
“I grew up using both voice
and my hands,” he said, “and,
frankly, I can’t tell the difference
between the two — except, of
course, that one is quieter.”
Until recently Chainey was an
interpreter for deaf-mute worship
ers at the First Baptist Church in
Columbia. He was forced to give it
up w r hen he went to work on the
night shift at the Hydrogen Bomb
Plant near Aiken.
A principal speaker at the ban
quet was Dr. W. C. Walker, direc
tor of the School for the Deaf and
Blind at Cedar Springs, who said
that religious leaders have long
been concerned with providing di
vine services for the deaf.
In Greenwood, there is a suf
ficient number of people in the
immediate area to justify the form
ation of a regular class. In other
places the problem is greater be
cause the deaf are scattered over
wide areas and cannot unite under
a single denomination’s roof.
For this problem the Rev. Paul
Meacham believes he has an an
swer. Meacham, who hails from
Kansas City, travels over the na
tion, delivering sermons to deaf-
mute congregations whereever he
is called. A year’s work takes him
from coast-to-coast and sometimes
back again.
Rev. Meacham is spearheading
a movement to unite the deaf and
voiceless under one interdenomina
tional church spire. His idea is
not to found a new religious sect
but to provide pure gospel teach
ing for deaf persons who otherwise
would not be able to attend re
ligious services.
“We would teach no particular
doctrine,” he said through in
terpreter Chainey. “We would sim
ply present the word of God as
it is written in the Bible.”
Unfortunately, he reported, the
movement, which has been going
on for about seven years, has not
caught on as rapidly as its pro-
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NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
Test Your I. Q.
1. When did the state of Vir
ginia take back her part of the
District of Columbia?
2. What was the origin of the
Washington Monument?
3. During the Renaissance, what
invention was the reason for
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knowledge suddenly becoming a
widespread thing available to
many people?
4. What is the meaning of the
word Boer and to what people is
it applied?
5. What is the Edward J. Neil
Boxing Trophy and how did it
originate?
ANSWERS TO
Test Your I. Q.
1. In 1846 President James K.
Polk announced that 39 square
miles ceded to the federal govern
ment by the state of Virginia in
1790 had been returned. The Act
of Retrocession permitted the citi
zens to decide this question.
2. In 1833 the Washington Na
tional Monument Society was or
ganized. A fund-raising campaign
produced about $75,000. The cor
nerstone was laid July 4, 1848. In
1859 money ran out and it stood
half finished until President Grant
ordered it finished by the Corps of
Engineers. Dedicated Feb. 22, 1885,
it was opened to the public in
1888.
3. The invention of the art of
printing with movable type made
books cheaper and easily available
to the poor. Learning was sud
denly no longer the exclusive
•property of the nobility..
4. It is a word of Dutch origin
meaning farmer. It was given to
the early Dutch colonists of South
Africa.
5. It originated in 1938 in honor
of Edward J. Neil, famous sports
writer killed in Spain while cover
ing the Spanish Revolutionary
War. It is awarded each year by
the Boxing Writers’ Association of
America to the person doing most
for the sport. First winner was
Jack Dempsey.
PRIZE PHOTO . . . Internation
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scriptive class was this striking
view of a British supersonic
"Hawker Hunter” fighter plane,
snapped by Russell Adams of
London.
ADOPTS WAIF . . . Miss Ruth M.
Wysor, service club director at
Mill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah,
reads to Frances Marie, 6-year-
old Japanese orphan whom she
adopted. Miss Wysor found the
child, newborn, in Yokohama in
1946. •
ponents would wish. There are at
least two reasons:
1. Individual denominations are
not too quick to support the found
ing of a new religious group, and;
2. Many deaf persons, particular
ly those Who have lost their hear
ing after reaching adulthood, are
not immediately willing to relin
quish their old denominations.
However, Rev. Meacham said
that the idea has borne fruit in
the Southeastern part of the na
tion to a far greater extent than it
has over the rest of the nation.
The Sunday School at South
Main Baptist here where persons
of many different denominations
have joined together in a single
class is proof of this latter ob
servation.
I REMEMBER'
BY THX OLD TIMERS
From Mrs. Grace Stewart, Pekin,
Indiana: I remember going to mill
with my father as a small child.
We took com to be made into meal
and I fed the ears into the corn
sheller while my father furnished
the power to turn the mill. We
always went to Becks Mill, south
of Salem, Ind, in Washington
County.
From Mrs. Hettie Rogers, 5610
Dorcas, Omaha, Nebr.: I remem
ber when my father went to a
“turkey shoot” at Thanksgiving
time. Being a little short of am
munition he melted my mother’s
pewter spoons for his gun. He
came home with a big wild turkey.
It was so large mother cooked it in
the wash boiler.
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From Mrs. Lucy Hunt, Drum,
Ky.: I remember when I used to
work a yoke of steers named Brit
and Bully to snake fire wood for
the big fireplace in our log cabin.
I also remember when I used to
pick blackberries and carry them
three miles to Grundy, Va., to sell
them for five cents a gallon. With
the money I bought calico for three
cents a yard to make a dress.
From Mrs. Lillian Craig, Lyn
wood, Calif.: I remember when
Uncle Nick Chickodowze, who lived
across from the Craig Chapel, had
his cobbler shop in the comer ci
his kitchen. He wore a leather knee
apron and had a large wooden tray
with different compartments be
fore him. He sewed shoes with a
waxed thread by hand and used
wood pegs to resole shoes.
Dorn Supports
19-To-25 Draft
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 17—Con
gressman W. J. Bryan Doni today
backed up “wholeheartedly” the
statement by director of Selective
Service, Gen. Lewis Hershey, that
all deferments of men between the
ages of 19 and 25 should be re
moved, and that no one should be
allowed to escape service in the
Armed Forces due to occupation,
college or fatherhood.
In a statement today, Congress
man Dorn said he agreed “com
pletely with General Hershey. I
believe that much of the deser
tion in the Armed Forces today
may be laid to the discrimination
in our draft laws.”
“The way the draft set up is
run now,” said Congressman
Dorn, “is enough to destroy the
morale of our men on the fighting
front.”
“The draft law should apply to
all alike,” he continued.. “It isn’t
fair for a man to be deferred to
attend college, while his neighbor
who can’t afford to attend, has to
go off to war and fight for his
country.”
“There should be no exemptions
for any reason, except in cases
of extreme emergency. Discrimin
ation between the rich and poor,
making the poorer young men do
the fighting, isn’t democratic. I
intend to make a stand this ses
sion of Congress to have the draft
law changed.”
MY PET PEEVE
"^"ORMALLY I am a peaceful in-
dividual. I dislike fussing, fum
ing and fighting. But there is one
thing that will set me off. That’s
blowing of his automobile horn by
the fellow behind me when I pull
up to a traffic light.
The other day, for instance, 1
was driving peaceably along when
I came to a light. It flashed to
caution and I stopped. The guy be
hind me blasted away with his
horn. It was terrific! The sound all
but picked up the back end of the
flivver and exchanged it for the
front.
That guy wanted me to pull out
into the intersection when I knew
the red light was going to flash in
a second.
"This guy,” I said to the wife,
"is gonna get it.”
"No fighting,” she said. "Remem
ber you always get whipped!”
"I have other plans,” says L
The light flashed green. I started
forward and deliberately stalled th«
engine. The flivver jerked and
came to a dead stop. The guy be
hind blasted away on his horn.
My wife became nervous. "Gel
it going,” says she.
"I can’t,” says I and grinned
what I hoped was a diabolically
clever grin. "The engine is flooded."
The guy behind me blasted away
on his horn.
It was the funniest thing, but
that light changed five times before
I could get the flivver started
again. Sometime, about the third
time the light switched, the guy
behind me got the idea. If he hadn’t
stopped blowing that horn we would
have been sitting there yet and
this column would never havs
gotten written.
(If you have a Pet Peeve ad
dress them to this column Commu
nity Press Service, McClure Build-
tag, Frankfort, Ky.
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75 million years age, in the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean, is
exciting scientists. Above is model of the fish prepared by American
Museum of Natural History.
That Shy Guy
By Clarence Sydney
B TT.T. WATCHED as she moved
by in the arms of the dark
haired man. She was perfect as
far as Bill was concerned. With
her laughing pixie-like face and
her compactly well curved figure.
She was the type of girl he had
dreamed of all his life, and never
hoped to find. And now that he
had found her, there was the dark
haired man.
Bill watched them dance. He felt
rather out of place at the party,
but you can’t refuse to attend when
the invitation comes from the boss.
It was the office anniversary party,
and all the personnel from all the
departments were there.
Being new in the office, he knew
only the small group that worked
in the audit section. There was
Jack. Tony, Don, Martha, Fred an
other man named Bill—and her.
Her name was Lois, and he had
said less than a score of words to
her in the four days he hid been
with the company.
He watched her and the dark
haired man—he was named Jeff,
and he was a vice president in the
company. They danced well and
Bill was painfully aware that they
had danced together often.
Not like when Bill had asked her
for a dance. Then he felt clumsy,
Lois faltered and followed raggedly.
She was quick to learn, arid by
the end of the number, she could
follow his lead easily, but not as
she followed Jeff out there now.
The music ended, and Bill
glanced around to see where the
couple had stopped. They were
looking across the floor at him. and
talking. They started over in his
direction.
“How are you enjoying the party.
Bill?” Jeff asked.
“Fine. Just fine.”
"Why not take Lois over for
some punch? I have to see Mr.
Baxter for a few minutes.”
Bill was elated. “Would you like
some punch?” he asked.
"Very much,” Lois answered,
and her smile made her whole face
light up. When she smiled like that.
Bill thought her the prettiest girl
he had ever known.
They had. the punch, they had a
dance, and they had still another
dance. Bill glanced around and saw
Jeff • standing off to one side, talk
ing to the blonde telephone girL
Jeff smiled and nodded as Lois and
Bill danced by.
There was something in the
smile, or the attitude of Jeff that
got under Bill’s skin. How could a
man be so obviously confident of a
girl’s love to leave her with another
man so long?
Bill made a decision. For tonight,
he was going to change. He turned
quickly to Lois. "How about us
getting out of here? Td like to talk
to you. Ever since I first saw you.
I knew that you were . . .”
He broke off as a heavy hand
pounded his back. It was Jeff, his
face still wearing that aggravating
grin despite what he had heard.
And he couldn’t have mistaken
what Bill was trying to tell Lois.
“How are you two enjoying the
party?"
Lois smiled impishly. "Appar
ently Bill isn’t enjoying it too much.
He wants to leave.”
Jeff laughed. "You Aiow what
Bill means. He would rather have
you all to himself. Right, Bill?”
He nudged Bill.
Bill felt his face flush hotly. Jeff
grinned at Lois. Angrily he said,
“That’s right. I want, to tell her I
love her, and . . ."
“Hey. Jeff broke in. "Wait a
minute. Don’t go telling me that.
Get out of here. Go on, both of
you. Tell her. Bill, not me.”
Lois gripped his arm. “Gosh
sakes, yes. I want to be the first
to hear it, anyway. Then you can
go around telling other people.”
She started to lead him to the door.
Bill followed confused. "But Jeff
... I thought that he . . . you . , .”
Lois smiled and her face shown
brightly. “You tell me first. Then
we can tell him. After all. I think
the girl ought to know about it
before her brother, don’t you?”
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