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FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1953
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE THREE
Coroner’s Inquest Probes
6 Tragic Deaths In County
Three inquests, involving the
tragic deaths of six persons in
Newberry County, were held by
Coroner George R. Summer at the
Newberry County Court House
Friday night, May 8.
Jurors heard testimony con
cerning the deaths of Mae F. Daw
kins and Vera Nunnery, who were
fatally injured in an automobile
accident on the Hartford Road on
December 21, 1952; Ernest Heat
on, Wallace Black and A. P. Black
of Greenville, who were drowned
on March 28, 1953 when the boat
in which they had been fishing
capsized during a storm near
Ellis’ Landing on Lake Murray;
and George Bramlett, a worker
with Howard T. Barry, Contractor,
who was instantly killed when run
over by a tractor on the morning
of May 6, while working on the
gas line transmission pipe from
Clinton to Newberry.
No one was held in connection
with any of the deaths.
A jury heard testimony of two
of the occupants of the car which
wrecked on December 21st, caus
ing the instant death of Mae F.
Dawkins and resulting in the death
of Vera Nunnery ^wo days later.
Telling of the wreck were Dray
ton Cook, owner of the car and
Mildred Farmer, the other surviv
or of the accident.
There were implications that
the wrecked automobile and
another car were “passing and re
passing” on the highway; how
ever, this was denied by Cook, who
stated that there was a car be
hind them and that the driver
of the car was Joel Bowers. Con
cerning the wreck, he said “it was
a bad curve there and I just don’-t
know what happened.” He testi
fied that Vera Nunnery was driv
ing, and had been driving for two
and a half or three miles before
the car left the road at a curve.
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Mr. 4%
represeats the
Jeffersos Stsadsrd
Jefferson Standard,
now guaranteeing
on policies cur
rently Issued, has
never paid less than
4% Interest on policy
proceeds left on de
posit to provide In
come.
Mr. 4% shows how a
Jefferson Standard Policy
paid $3300 more.
Here It on actual cash comparison...
proceeds from a $10,000 policy in another ma
jor life inrarance company compared to a
$10,000 Jeffenon Standard policy, both at the
same cost.
John Blake provided for fa-
turo income with a $10,000
lift intvranco policy.'
Chariot Whitt provided for
futiiro Income with a $10,000
Jafferton Standard policy.
4% IS THE HIGH
EST RATE OF IN
TEREST PAID BY
ANY MAJOR LIFE
INSURANCE COM
PANY.
BUT HERE'S
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received $50 monthly for 21
years and 5 months, at
which time benefits ware
exhausted. This policy paid
only interest income
on funds left in trust. BUT—
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1226 Calhoun St. Phone 274
crashing into a large tree. He
also stated that the four occupants
of the car had stopped earlier and
shot some firecrackers.
Miss Farmer’s testimony cor
roborated that of Cook, except
that she remembered passing the
car driven by Joel Bowers one
time, and that “we - were going
pretty fast.”
Highway Patrolman D. F. Smith
described the Scene of the acci
dent to the jurors and stated that
the weather on December 21st
“wasn’t cloudy, it wasn’t clear,”
but the visibility was good.
The jury found that the two
girls came to their death as the
result of an automobile wreck,
“cause of wreck unknown.” •
Deputy Sheriff Hugh Shannon
took the stand to tell of the search
for the bodies of Ernest Heaton,
Wallace Black and A. P. Black. He
stated that some members of the
Sheriff’s office were on the scene
searching from Sunday morning,
March 29, until the bodies of Wal
lace Black and A. P. Black were
discovered, with the help of the
Whitmire National Guard, on the
following Friday. Mr. Heaton’s
body was recovered some days
later. Deputy Shannon related
that one of the survivors made
the statement that a storm came
up and overturned the boat and
it went down.
The jury found that the three
men “came to their death as a re
sult of accidental drowning.”
Charles E. Johnson, superin
tendent of construction of the
main gas transmission pipe line
from Clinton to Newberry, was
the first to take the stand in the
George Bramlett inquest. He
said that he did not see the ac
cident since he was behind the
tbactor at the time it happened.
He stated that he had told Bram
lett “no less than twenty times”
that he stood a little too close
to the tractor. In response to a
question by a juror, he said he
did not know whether Bramlett
stepped in front of the tractor,
since he was not in a position to
see. According to Mr. Johnson,
the tractor was not carrying a
pipe at the time of the accident,
but was “going after a piece of
pipe” and the tractor operator,
Ralph Young Griggs, would have
been watching the ditch side since
most of the men were working on
that side.
Mr. Johnson was followed on
the stand by Joe Jones; a Negro
employee of the company, who
witnessed the tragedy. He said
that Mr. Bramlett was coming by
the side of the tractor and that
an automobile was coming down
the road. Jones testified "he
stepped just a little too close to
that right tractor. I hollered
‘look out' but quite naturally from
where I waa, he couldn’t have
heard me for the noise of the
tractor. It caught him that quick
. . . I knowed that was all.”
Jones testified that Griggs was
not operating the tractor in a
careless manner.
Highway Patrolman D. A. Reigh-
ly next took the stand and gave
the accident, the condition of the
testimony as to the location of
weather and road. He stated that
when he arrived at the scene, the
tractor operator had already been
sent to Clinton for shock treat
ment. He gave the name of the de
ceased as George Bramlett, age
56, white male of Laurens, origin
ally of Malvern, Arkansas.
Deputy Sheriff J. C. Neel testi
fied that he talked with Griggs,
who told him that he was the
operator of the tractor. Mr. Griggs
did not make a statement at the
inquest.
After a short deliberation, the
jury returned the verdict that
“George Bramlett came ,to his
death as a result of being run
over by a tractor owned by the
company by which the deceased
was employed.”
COOK, ALTMAN TO GET
DEGREES AT FURMAN
Donald Eugene Cook and Alma
Gray Altman of Newberry, will be
among the 175 graduates at Fur
man University, Greenville to be
awarded degrees at the annual
commencement exercises on Sun
day, May 31, at 3:30 p.m.
SESSIONS PURCHASE HOME
ON LAKE MURRAY
Mr. and Mrs. George Session
have purchased the Swittenburg
home at the Lions’ club at Lake
Murray.
ANDERSON BREAKS ARM
W. Roy Anderson, who had the
misfortune to break his left arm
at his home on Harper street last
week, is doing nicely and is able
to be out although his arm is in a
cast.
tkprmmtlHg JEFFERSON STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE CO.
0mt Oms Billion Dollars Lifo Insurants in Fores
MRS. W. F. ANDERSON of Sa
luda, spent Monday in Newberry
on business.
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J0HNS0N-CARTLEDGE
The marriage of Miss Patricia
Anne Cantledge, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Alexander Carl Cartledge,
to Roy Dabney Johnson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mason John
son, took place Sunday afternoon
at 3:30 o’clock in the Colonial
Avenue Methodist Church. Dr.
George W. Amos, pastor of the
church, performed the ceremony
in a setting of cibotium ferns,
baskets of white flowers and
cathedral candles. Miss Virginia
Wagner played the wedding music
and Chauncey O. German «ang
“The Sweetest Story Ever Told,”
“Through the Years” and “The
Wedding Prayer.”
The bride was given in marriage
by her father. She wore a wedding
gown by Frances Duebren of
Chantilly lace and tulle over taf
feta, styled with a portrait neck
line, lace bodice with long sleeves
ending in wedding peaks over the
hands and very bouffant tulle
skirt forming a sweeping train.
Her fingertip veil of illusion was
arranged from a seed pearl tiara
and she carried a cascade bouquet
of Canhamiana showered with
stephanotis. She wore a rhine
stone bracelet, a gift of the bride
groom.
Miss Juanita Cartledge, sister
of the bride, was maid of honor
and Mrs. Hubert Kerr Lee, cousin
of the bride, was matron of honor.
The hridemaids were Mrs. Bruce
Messick and Miss Virginia John
son, sister of the bridegroom. The
maid of honor wore a gown of
blue frost net and lace over taf
feta styled with a portrait neck
line and bouffant skirt centered
with pleated net accented with
panels of lace. Her headdress was
a matching scroll taffeta bandeau
with nose veil studded with j’hine-
stones, and she carried a powder
puff bouquet of yellow iris. The
matron of honor and bridesmaids
wore gowns and headdress styled
like the maid of honor in prim
rose yellow, orchid mist and
Georgian green, and carried
powder puff bouquets of contrast
ing iris.
Ellsworth Johnson was best
man for his brother and the
groomsmen were Willis Evans,
Walter Parker, Jr., Hody . White
and Carl Ballance, Jr.
The mother of the bride wore
a dress of heather crepe styled
with a sweetheart neckline with
accents of Venice lace, a flowered
half hat, matching accessories and
a corsage of Canhamiana orchids.
The mother of the bridegroom
wore a powder blue crepe and
lace dress with a lace jacket.
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A GOOD HOME
With his bottom smarting from
the spanking, four year old John
nie stamped his foot and said to
his riTother, “I’ll be gldH when I
get married and have a little boy
to take out my feelings on.” Later
she realized that she had been
tense ever since getting angry
when her husband did not come
home for lunch, and that she had
spanked the child viciously over
a minor offense. With this in
sight she was able to let him
“talk back.”
A good home is a place where
everyone is equal in importance
and in the right to voice his' opin
ion. Feelings that children are to
be “seen and not heard” are al
most past history, and instant
and unquestioning obedience is
no longer the mark of a success
ful home. In fact, some parents
are going to the opposite extreme,
saying, “I regret I have but one
life to sacrifice for my child.’
How much better to enjoy sharing
the one life available! A child
needs parents who participate in
his life, not martyrs to it.
It is difficult for a child to feel
equal in the family. Everyone Is
taller, .stronger, faster, and freer.
If these advantages of parents are
misused he begins to feel inadequ
ate and inferior, bringing injury
to his self-image as a worthwhile
individual, ou can re-experience
this childhood stress if vividly
you imagine everyone of your as
sociates to be three or four times
your height, door knobs out of
reach, and beds as high as your
head. You can’t tie your shoes,
get your hair combed right, nor
express adequately most of your
feelings. How long could this go
on, even in fantasy, without your
beginning to feel inferior, and
even persecuted?
If a child develops a mental
picture of himself as inadequate he
will be plagued by feelings of in
security and anxiety, resulting per
haps in a timid, withdrawn in
dividual, or in a braggart and
bully who tries to hide the feel
ings of insufficiency with a false
front.
This applies especially in his re
lationship to others. Jesus said
love “thy neighbor as thyself,” a
positive • principle that one will
have the same opinion of others
as of himself. T If one feels un
sure, he projects that onto others,
believing that they cannot he de
pended upon. If one’s own motives
are suspect, then he doesn't trust
others. If he considers his nature
base and corrupt, evil will be at
tributed to others.
It is true that a man “ought
not to think more highly of him
self than he ought to think:” but
the concept of “for such a worm as
I” is alien to Jesus’ viewpoint of
white accessories and a corsage
of Canhamiana orchids.
After the ceremony a reception
was given at the church. Later,
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson left for a
wedding trip to Baltimore, Md.,
and upon their return they will
reside in Norfolk. For traveling
the bride wore a brown and beige
wool suit with matching acces
sories and a corsage of Can
hamiana orchids.
Among the out-of-town guests
were Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Long,
Mrs. O. R. Nichols and Mrs. J. B.
West, of Newberry, S. C., and
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd R. Evans, Jr.,
of Baltimore, Md.
The above was taken from a
Norfolk, Virginia paper;
Mrs. Johnson is well known in
Newberry, where she was reared
by ^er “adopted” mother, Mrs. W.
P. Long and Mr. Long on College
street extension.
man. One ought not to think
more lowly of himself than he
ought to think, either. If a child
visualizes himself as equal among
men, neither of more nor of less
worth than they, relating himself
to others will come much more
easily.
Since a child can not equal the
achievements of adults, some
method of self-expression In which
he can have equal rights is es
sential both for its attainment
value and as a means of draining
off tensions resulting from frustra
tion. One of the best is giving
the child the right to express him
self verbably. If it is forbidden,
he will think it anyway, but then
will feel guilty, threatened, and
tense.
When adults step on little toes,
what is wrong with their saying,
"Ouch! You’re on my foot. Get
off!” Why not the right to say,
“You hurt my feelings and 1
don’t think you’re fair.” A child
may say this In many ways other
than with words, if we are alert
to him.
Given the right to express his
feelings, a child is more likely to
listen attentively to the parent’s
feelings and attitudes, and in gen
eral he will give to them the same
respect he experiences at their
hands and hearts.
More about handling bad feel
ings next week.
ATTEND MEETING
IN BALTIMORE
M. O. Summer, E. B. Purcell,
Keister Willingham, William Hunt
er, George K. Dominick and James
Smith left Wednesday for Balti
more, Md., on the silver meteor
from Columbia, where they will
attend the Southeastern Group
Meeting of the U. S. Savings and
Loan League. The meeting will
run through Saturday, May 23,
and will be held at the Lord Bal
timore Hotel.
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