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VOL. 16—NO. 6
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1953
+ |2.00 BEK YEAK
Fund Campaign Friday To T °P Cub Scout
Continue Blood Program
The future of Newberry coun
ty’s participation in the blood-
mobile program hinges on a spec
ial fund raising campaign which
will be conducted for one day next
week—Friday, June 19.
~H. A. Kemper and George K.
Dominick, co-chairmen for this
special drive have set up plans
for a one day concentrated effort
with the cooperation of the Girl
and Boy Scouts and other Red
Cross workers. Mr. Kemper stat
ed that active solicitation will be
made only of the business houses
of the city. Mrs. E. B. Ihircel!
will be in charge of a sound truck
that will cover the city all day
Friday reminding people of the
campaign, and the Scouts will
make the canvass of the business
establishments.
Mr. Kemper urged that those
who wished to contribute further
in order that th(
Health Education
Workshop Slated
At Newherry
Newberry College will offer in
the Summer Session a Health
Education Workshop for teachers.
The Workshop will run from June
22nd to July 10th. 8:00 A.M. to
12:4o daily. Miss Alta Mae
Power will conduct the Workship.
She is a graduate in Health Edu
cation of the University of North
Carolina. She has had a number
of years of experience as a class
room teacher and also with the
Health Department in the State of
Mississippi. Miss Power is now
serving as School Administrator
blood program j of Boyd Schools in Jackson.
Addy Elected
Commander Of
Legion Post 24
Russell Addy, past adjutant of
American Legion Post No. 24, was
elected commander Tuesday night
at the regular meeting at the
Legion hut. Carroll Eargle was
named first vice commander; B.
Walt Miller, second vice com
mander; and W. W. Bennett, third
vice commander.
Others elected were: adjutant,
Holland Sligh; finance officer,
C. A. Dufford, Sr.; Service Officer,
Jake R, Wise; chaplain, Henry T.
Fellers; sergeant-at-arms, A. P.
Parrott.
Elected to the executive com
mittee were Tom hellers, Felix
Green and Houston Dong.
Aveleigh DRE
Council Gives Green Light
For New Traffic Controls
Mississippi.
The Workshop will cover
phases of school and community
health, health teaching at dif
ferent grade levels, planning the
school day from the point of view
of health, sanitation in the school
and community, nutrition, the
physical examination, and other
areas of interest in health. Ma
terials. visual aids, lectures, dem
onstrations, group discussions and
individuals as consultants from
various state and local agencies in
health, will be used in the Work-
practical and of real help to teach
ers. Three semester hours of
shop. The Workshop will be
elective credit will be allowed for
the Health Education Workshop.
Dave Waldrop who was admit
ted to the Newberry Memorial
Hospital last Thursday for ob-
Mr. Kemper declared that this j servation and treatment, is now
drive has been made necessary ' doing nicely and expects to re-
since the quota set for the Red ! turn to his home in Silverstreet
Cross drive in March w’as not met. 1 this weekend.
may be continued, to get in touch
with one oi the workers who help
ed with the regular drive in
March. Plans are being made for
several places in the city to help
by setting up collection stations
for people who wish to contribute.
Iji Whitmire, the Commercial
State Bank and Young Chevrolet
company will be glad to accept do
nations.
Chairman Kemper said that an
absolute minimum of $2,0oo is
needed to continue the program.
He brought out the fact that blood
is made available free of charge,
under the program, but that there
is a charge made by hospitals for
administering the blood.
He stated further that the mon
ey raised was necessary for the
collecting and processing of blood,
part of which cost is paid by the
National Red Cross organization.
Full Docket Faces Jurors
At June Criminal Session
A rather heavy schedule of
cases is listed for consideration at
the June term of General Sessions
court which convenes at the New
berry county courthouse Monday
morning. Judge Steve C. Grif
fith will preside at this term.
Grand Jurors are to report for
duty Monday morning at 9:30 a.
m., and under a new county law
passed during the last session of
the General Assembly, petit jurors
are required to report on the sec
ond day of court at 9:30 a.m.
Petit jurors were drawn by the
Jury commission last Thursday
morning. They are:
J. William Boozer, Rt. 2, Pros
perity.
J. O. Livingston. Prosperity.
John H. Ruff. Newbery.
Robert H. Bedenbaugh, Pros
perity.
Marvin E. Wilson, Sr.. Rt. 2,
Newberry.
D. O. Carpenter, Newberry.
B. O. Long. Rt. 4, Newberry.
C. S. Jennings, Newberry.
J. C. Holsonback. Jr., Newberry.
W. O. Hawkins, Newberry.
Andrew F. Shealy, Little Moun
tain.
Paul J. Brank, Whitmire.
John Wm. Ballentine, Rt. 3
Newberry.
Curtis O. Chapman, Rt. 3, New
berry.
A. E. Bedenbaugh, Jr., Newber
ry.
James C. Roof, Whitmire.
J. W. Cook, Jr., Newberry.
Otis Gilliam, Rt. 1, Whitmire.
Preston MacAlhaney, Newber
ry.
J. C. Boland, Pomaria.
T. L. Crooks, Pomaria, j^.F.D.
Ralph Cannon Johnson, Chap
pells.
William S. Hentz, Rt. 1, New
berry.
John R. Frazier, Newberry.
Clyde L. Amick, Newberry.
James V. Clamp, Newberry.
J. F. Stuck, Pomaria.
W. D. Montgomery, Chappells.
Harold E. Boland, Rt. 1, New
berry.
W. H. Lominick, Newberry.
Harry E. Mayer, Rt. 3, Newber
ry.
Olin Everett Graham, Pomaria.
Harold Stone, Rt. 1, Newberry.
F. V. Lester, Newberry.
Carroll A. Counts (Midway) Rt.
3, Prosperity.
Gerald C. Paysinger, Newberry.
The following warrants have
been turned over to Solicitor Wm.
T. Jones for Grand Jury action by
Magistrates of the county:
Edward Reeves, housebreaking
with intent to commit a crime.
Oilie Coleman, escaping public
works, 3 charges.
Jessie Floyd, murder.
Huston Henderson, pointing a
deadly weapon.
Huston Henderson, assault and
battery with intent to kill.
Henry Bolton, grand larceny.
Helen Henderson, assault with
a deadly weapon.
Dan Bailey, burglary.
Frank Penny, murder, 3 charges.
Ernest Berry, assault and bat
tery with intent to kill and high
way robbery.
John Amos Burton, violation of
liquor law.
Lillie Vance, violation of liquor
la w.
Lewis Trible, using truck with
out owners consent.
Thomas Hawkins, assault with
intent to kill.
West Goree, assault with intent
to kill
West Goree, assault and battery
with intent to kill.
Marion Carter, escaping public
works.
Thomas A. Gilstrap. assault and
battery of a high and aggravated
nature.
George Wyatt, housebreaking
and petit larceny, 2 charges.
Clarence Davis, arson.
Viola Byrd, murder.
Johnnie Bryant, false pretense.
Thomas Wesley Gibbs, hinder
ing and preventing an officer.
J. C. Sims and Adam Glymph,
assault and battery with intent to
kill.
George Wyatt, housebreaking
and petit larceny.
George Bedenbaugh, storing il
legal liqquor.
Dock Mayers, Petit larceny.
Dock Mayers, breaking and
entering in the night and petit
larceny.
Odell Rayford, non support.
Bobbie Inman and Jack Gos-
nell, housebreaking and larceny.
J. C. White and Ellison Dun
can, housebreaking and larceny.
Keith C. Lawson, drunk driving
—5th offense. *
Virgil Ellis, assault and battery
with intent to kill.
Virgil Ellis, non support.
The following cases were con
tinued from the last term of caurt:
James Edward Skipper, house
breaking.
Willie Lee Thacker, bastrady.
James Sims, violation of liquor |
Phillip E. Plampin, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Pete Plampin, was hon
ored at a recent meeting of Cub
Pack 6<). With the help and co
operation of his parents, Phil has
earned more badges than any
other cub during this scouting
year. Last fall he was awarded
the Bear badge and eight arrow-
points.
Last Thursday evening Phil re
ceived the Lion award and eight
arrowpoints. He has also enter
tained the membe.s of his den at
three weiner roasts this year.
On Sunday afternoon. May 31.
Mr. and Mrs. Plampin entertained
Den 5 with boat riding on Lake
Murray. The following cubs re
ported lots of fun: Lewis Hawk
ins, Bobby Carlton, Bill Moore,
Lewis Lipscomb and Phil Plam
pin.
They were accompanied by Mr.
(and Mr.-. Roland Hawkins, Mrs.
W C. Carlton, Miss Bennie Ivou
Carlton and Den mother, Mra.
L‘ wi ■ Lipscomb.
Plans For 1953
Farm And Home
Week Readied
Clemson—Plans for the 1953
Farm and Home Week to be held
at Clemson August 17-21 are be
ginning to take definite slmpe.
Committees working on various
phases of the program are plan
ning lectures and demonstrations
to emphasize “Efficiency in Pro
duction and Marketing,” which
will be the general theme of the
week.
Already several outstanding
speakers and entertainment fea
tures have been obtained for the
daily assembly meetings. Thos.
W. Morgan, assistant director,
Clemson Extension Service, and
general chairman of the Farm
and Home Week Committee, says
that reports from the various com
mittees indicate satisfactory pro
gress is being made in arranging
for speakers, equipment, and dem
onstration materials for the var
ious discussions, lectures, field
tours, and demonstrations to be
given during the week on sub
jects pertaining to the farm and
home.
Farm machinery manufacturers
and dealers and manufacturers
and distributors of modern farjn
and home equipment are already
requesting reservations for space,
either on Bowman Field where
the heavier types of machinery
will be shown or in the huge ex
hibit tent which will be used to
house exhibits which cannot be
shown in the open. G. B. Nutt,
head, Clemson Agricultural Engin
eering Department, is chajrman of
the agricultural engineering com
mittee, and G. H. Stewart, lead
er, Clemson Agricultural Engin
eering Extension Work, is chair
man of the exhibit tent commit
tee.
Several state-wide farm groups
or organizations plan to hold
meetings, short courses, or confer
ences here during the week.
Among those which have already
notified Mr. Morgan of their plans
to hold meetings are South Caro
lina Soil Conservation District
Supervisors Association, South
Carolina Seedsmen’s Association,
South Carolina vocational agri
cultural teachers, Palmetto State
Beekeepers Association, South
Carolina State Nutrition Commit
tee, and South Carolina State Agri
cultural Committee. The annual
Rural Church Conference will be
held, and the South Carolina State
Garden Club is sponsoring a con
servation clinic to be held during
the week.
V acation Bible School
At Bush River
Vacation Bible School will be
gin at Bush River Baptist church
Monday morning, June 15, at 8:00
a.m., and close with a church
wide picnic on Friday, June 19, at
8:00 p.m.
The Rev. T. B. Altman is pastor
of the church.
Faculty for the school will be:
Principal, Mrs. John Earle Smith
Beginners—Miss Louise Senn,
Superintendent; Mrs. Claude Law-
son. Mrs. L. L. King, Miss Jewel
Cromer.
Primaries—Mrs . C. T. Smith,
Superintendent; Mrs. W. W. Walk
er, Mrs. C. M. Satterwhite, Miss
Eleanor Cromer.
Juniors—Miss Agnes Davis, Sup
erintendent; Mrs. Ted Wallace,
Miss Carole Altman, Miss Joan
Vaughn.
Intermediates—Mrs. W. E. Senn.
Superintendent; Mrs. C. C. Wal
lace, Miss Alma Altman.
Handwork for Junior and In
termediate boys—Rev. T. B. Alt
man.
Refreshments—Mrs. W. M. Bu
ford, Mrs. J. R. McLeod.
Miss Chapman Is
Saluda HD Ag-ent
Announcement has been made
by Miss Sallie A. Pearce, District
Home Demonstration Agent, that
Miss Martha Carolyn Chapman
has been appointed Home Demon
stration Agent for Saluda County.
Miss Chapman replaces Mrs. Mar
garet Rhody Coleman, who has
resigned.
Miss Chapman is a Bachelor of
Science graduate of Winthrop
College with a major in Home
Economics. She taught Home
Economics at Silverstreet High
school for two years and for the
past year has been Assistant
Home Demonstration Agent in
York County. «,
Miss Chapman is a native of
Newberry county. She was reared
on a farm and has an understand
ing of rural life that will aid her
in the promotion of the Exten
sion program in Saluda county.
M iss Marshall Howard, of
Mob Me, Ala., who has been
named Director of Religious Ed
ucation at Aveleigh Presby
terian church. She took over her
duties Tuesday of Last week.
This week, she is directing the
church Bible school.
Sloan Chapman
Rites Tuesday
William Sloan Chapman, 57,
died Sunday night at his home
on College street after declining
health for one year and a serious
illness of one week.
He was born and reared in Char
lotte, N. (’., but had made his
home in Newberry for the past
32 years where he owned and op
erated Chapman Lumber Co. He
was a member of St. Luke's Epis
copal Church, and the Masons. He
was a veteran of World War I ami
a member of American Legion
Post 24. He was also a Shriner.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Mae Reed Wallace Chapman; one
step-son, Walter B. Wallace, both
of Newberry, one brother, Wood-
ley and two sisters, Mrs. Eliza
beth Wooley and Mrs. Mary Burns
Singers Be Heard
Over Army Radio
The Newberry College Singers,
under the direction of Milton
Moore, will be heard over the
Armed Forces Radio Service on
June 30th. This radio network of
sixty stations covers areas all
over the world where our Armed
Forces are stationed. Mr. Kernle
Wessinger, a former member of
the Singers, and who is now in the
Pacific Area, requested the broad
cast. The Singers’ tap recording
was sent to the Armed Forces
Radio Service by WKDK.
Kneece To Address
Exchange Members
At Tuesday Meet
The regular meeting of the Ex
change club of Newberry will be
field next Tuesday evening, June
16. at 7:30 p.m. at Hotel Wise
man.
Olin Layton, program chairman,
announced that. Prof. Vernon
Kneece, superintendent of New
berry High school, will address
the group. Mr. Kneece’s subject
will be, “Does the Modern High
School Curriculum Adequately Pro
vide for Teaching Our Youth to Be
American Citizens?”
The last regular meeting of
the club was called off due to
commencement at the high school.
All members are urged to make
special effort to attend the meet
ing Tuesday.
Operation Of Margaret Hunter
Clarified; Street Work Talked
beH
afl
Mrs. B. C. Setzler,
Dies In Georgia
Toccoa. Ga.,—Mrs. Beulah Can
non Setzzler, 88* died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs.
Claude Aiken, at 1:20 Friday night
at the home on Big A Rd. She had
been ill for some time.
Mrs. Setzler was the daughter
of the late Dr. John David and
Harriet Caroline Oxner Cannon.
She was born Jan. 13, 1965 at
Newberry, S. C. Her husband,
the late Thomas Irving Setzler,
died June 24, 1939.
Mrs. Setzler had lived at New
berry until about nine years ago
when she moved here. Surviving
are three children, Mrs. Aiken;
Mrs. Laura Dannenberg, Memidj,
Minn., and E. G. Setzler, Prosper
ity. S. C.
Funeral services were conduct-
fense Council for the town of i ed Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at Ebe-
all of Charlotte, N. C.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Tuesday at 5 p.m. at the
home, 1806 College street by the
Rev. E. B. Clippard. Burial fol
lowed in Rosemont cemetery.
Active pallbearers were: Pete
Coleman, C. E. Saint-Amand, Wm.
R. Buford, Tom Sligh, Jake Ring
er, Lewis Ray Ringer, J. Ernest
Ringer and Ellis Glenn.
Whitmire Mayor
Defense Chairman
J. A. Crosby, Jr., has been
named Chairman of the Civil De-
Whitmire, it was announced to
day by Major General James C.
Dozier, State Director of Civil
Defense and Adjutant General of
South Carolina. Mr. Crosby is
mayor of Whitmire. He and Mrs.
Crosby, with their four daughters
and two sons, live at 39 L T nion
street in Whitmire.
nezer Methodist church near New
berry by the Rev. Frank Moore-
head and assisted by the Rev.
R. M. DuBose. Burial was in the
church cemetery.
Active pallbearers were: George
Clamp, J. R. Anderson, Perry E.
West, Horace Cromer, William
Leitzsey, Jesse Frank Hawkins.
City council handled a variety
of matters at the regular session
Tuesday night in a two and one-
half hour meeting. Even with
this, all items placed on the
agenda were not acted upon.
The meeting was opened with
invocation by Alderman ‘Ernest
Layton. The mayor and all coun-
cilmen except George Martin, were
present. E. B. Purcell, J. W.
Smith, and P. K. Harmon, mem
bers of the Margaret Hunter Park
and Pool Board of Control were
also in attendance.
Mr. Purcell acted as spokesman
for the group. He declared that
the council chambers were not
unfamiliar to him since he has
served in “this room for 22 years.”
Mr. Purcell has served the citizens
of Newberry as Mayor, alderman
and commissioner of public works.
Speaking in behalf of the Mar
garet Hunter board of control he
said the board wished to cooperate
in every way with the Newberry
Recreation commission. He out
lined the work that had been done
at the park over the past 18 years
and of the hard work put into the
project by many interested per
sons. He declared that the board
was proud that the park and
pool had been operated on such a
high plane, and hoped that noth
ing in the future would mar this
record.
Mr. Purcell said that the delega
tion was there to clear up several
minor details as to the beautifi
cation and upkeep of the grounds
that the board would continue to
handle, although the pool and
eating pavilion had been turned
ever to the city. There were four
requests:
(1) . That Margaret Hunter
Park, including all Park area,
trees, shrubs be left under super
vision of The Civic League and
its Board of Control.
(2) . That $600.00 per year be
turned over to the Civic League
and its Board of Control, which
money will be spent for Park
Maintenance. Itemized statement
of said expenditures to be render
ed by our Board of Control to City
Council annually.
(3) That all water, lights,
globes, and repairs relative to
same in Park area to be met by
the City.
(4) . That operation and use of
Pool and Large Eating Pavilion
revert back to Civic League and
its Board of Control, if they wish
it, when City of Newberry ceases
to have a City-Wide Recreational
Program.”
Mayor Wiseman thanked Mr.
Purcell in behalf of council for
appearing and said that council
understood and agreed with the
41 Newberry High School Seniors Making Tour Of
Richmond, Williamsburg, And Nation’s Capital
law’.
James Sims, maintaining
statutory nuisance.
(continued on page eight)
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I I know quite a few people who
sow wild oats all week and go to
church on Sunday to pray for a
crop failure.
Climaxing a year of hard work
of special money-raising projects,
41 Newberry High school seniors
realized their goal when they
boarded the Seaboard Silver
Comet at Clinton Tuesday night
for an all-expense paid tour to
Washington.
The group, chaperoned by Mrs.
Ralph Haile and Mrs. William
Carter, will be gone four days, and
in addition to a visit to Washing
ton, they will visit Richmond, Wil
liamsburg and Old Point Comfort.
From here, they will take a steam
er to Baltimore, then by bus to
Annapolis and Washington. The
seniors will stay in Washington
for three days and two nights.
Those making the tour include
Peggy Sue Price, Marcia Haile,
Alice Carter, Molly Fennell, Ros-
ann Carlton, Frances Ann Sligh,
Ann Mills, Harriett Dickert, Jewel
McCarty, Barbara Darby, June
Moore, Peggy Shealy, Betty Brig-
man, Dolly Caldwell, Sarah Alice
Rikard, Dorothy Laird and Faye
Wertz.
Also, Bobby Chandler, David
Bishop, Larry Harmon, Robert
Berry, Kenneth Stokes, Jimmy
Britt, Tony Chapman, Marion
Hoffmeyer, James Lusk, Guy
Longshore, Ralph Neal, Charles
Wesson, Wyman Shealy, Charles
Rister, Jimmy Lee Harmon, Nor
man Beck, Hollis Harmon, Tom
my Folk, Gerald Long, Murray
Rikard, Andral Faris, Thomas
Jenkins, Roy Schumpert, and
Maxcy Mullinax.
On arrival Richmond the group
will board chartered motor coach
and will be taken uptown for
breakfast. After breakfast they
will visit the Capitol where they
will see the life-size statue of
Washington, the only one posed
from life In existence today. Dur
ing a tour of the historical city of
Richmond special stop will be
made at St. Johns Church where
Patrick Henry uttered his ringing
challenge for Liberty or Death
to the American Colonists. They
will then continue on for sight
seeing in Williamsburg, Va.,
which wms settled as Middle Plan
tation about 1633, and became the
capitol of Virginia in 1699. Res
toration of Williamsburg was un
dertaken by Mr. John D. Rocker-
feller,, Jr., in 1927. Now over
$20,000,000 has been spent. After
lunch at Williamsburg Lodge
many points of interest will be
covered, such as visiting the
Colonial Capitol, Raleigh Tavern,
Old Jail, William and Mary Col
lege, and Bruton Parish Church.
Proceeding on to Jamestown, the
tirst permanent English settle
ment in America established in
1607, they will see the Monument
of the Indian Princess Pocahontas
and the statue of Captain John
Smith. From Jamestown they will
proceed to the Mariners Museum,
which houses the maritime ac
complishments of all times and
all nations, the sea and it’s tribu
taries, the conquest by man and
it’s influences in civilization, and
thence on to Fortress Monroe at
Old Point Comfort, which com
mands the entrance to Hampton
Road and Chesapeake Bay.
At Old Point Comfort they board
the Old Bay Line Steamer for a
most attractive overnight trip up
the Chesapeake Bay. The steam
er provides statesrooms for over
night sleeping; dinner and break
fast are served on board the
steamer. There is a recreation
room with a hostess providing en
tertainment, such as bingo, horse
racing, dancing, and music.
On arrival Baltimore they
board special chartered motor
coaches and are transfered to the
U. S. Naval Academy at Anna
polis, Md., where our midshipmen
are trained for Naval Officers, for
a tour which includes the mine
mausoleum of John Paul Jones,
Bancroft Hall, Trophy Hall, Naval
Academy Chapel, St. Mary’s
Church, and the grounds and yacht
basin. They will then be trans
ferred to Washington for lunch,
and during the afternoon they
will visit Arlington, Va., Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier at the
Amphitheatre, Custis Lee’s man
sion,tour continues along scenic
Mount Vernon highway to historic
Alexanderia, Va., passing the
homes of many men prominently
identified with the early history
of the United States, then to
Mount Vernon where George and
Martha Washington lived.
During the second day they will
visit the Bureau of Printing and
Engraving where our currency is
made, U. S. Capitol, Library of
Congress, Supreme Court, White
House, 16th Street lectured tour of
various buildings, hotels, embas
sies, and legations, and the F. B. I.
if permitted.
The morning of the third day
will be free for shopping. After
lunch they will visit the Wash
ington Monument, Lincoln and
Jefferson Memorials, Smithsonian
Institute, Museum of Natural His
tory, and National Art Gallery.
We terminate our tour at the
Union Station in time to board
the Silver Comet for their trip
home.
The Senior Class members mak
ing this trip will be accompanied
by an experienced Passenger
Representative of the Seaboard
Air Line Railroad Company, who
will not only accompany them
to their destination but will re
main with them throughout their
entire trip. This representative
will take care of all details, pay
all bills, and upon their return an
itemized statement with receipts
to cover will be submitted to the
school. If there is any money left
over it will be refunded.
conditions set forth.
Councilman C. A. Dufford mov
ed that the requests be met with
the stipulation that services re
ferred to in item three be di
rected through the proper chan
nels in order that the work could
be carried out more efficiently.
Included in his motion was that
the requests be put ifi the minutes
with a copy of the minutes be sent
of the meeting, and that a letter
the chairman of the Margaret
Hunter Board of Control. Mr. Lay-
ton seconded, and the motion
passed 'unanimously.
TRAFFIC REPORT
City Manager Blackwell read a
report of the traffic survey made
by the State Highway department
engineers. Contained in this sur
vey were several changes in con
trol signals. Police Chief Colie
Dowd was present and made sev
eral recommendations in regard
to traffic control. His recom
mendation called for signal lights
at Main and McKibben, Main and
Glenn, Caldwell and Boundary,
and several lights to be moved
from the business district and be
replaced by a newer type signal.
Mr. Blackwell read an estimate
for the suggested installations,
which included a progressive sig
nal system for the business sec
tion to expedite the flow of traf
fic in the downtown section. Cost
of the system including installa
tion is $7,755.00. Council approved
the purchase unanimously and
asked the city manager to place
the order. Mr. Blackwell stated
that it would take about six weeks
to get delivery.
f An ordinance regulating the in
stallation of natural gas in homes
and business establishments pre
pared by City Attorney C. E.
Saint-Amand and Wm. DuBose of
the Clinton-Newberry Natural Gas
authority was presented to coun
cil, but due to the length of the
ordinance a special meeting was
set for yesterday afternoon (Wed
nesday) at three o’clock for a
study of the ordinance. At this
time Mr. DuBose would be on
hand to answer questions regard
ing the ordinance. Mayor Wise
man also requested that G. H.
Connelly and Fire Chief Sam A.
Beam be present.
SEWERAGE WORK
The old problem of a sanitary
sewer for Luther and Wheeler
street was brought up again. This
project has been held up since
title could not be had to one piece
of property involved. A petition
was presented council for instal
lation of a sanitary sewer on
these streets and on the motion
of Councilman Dufford, seconded
by Cecil Kinard, this piece of
property will be condemned in
order that the work can be done.
City Manager Blackwell said that
money was already on hand for
the job. He said that there was
a drainage problem also in this
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BIRTHDAYS -
June 9: Heyward G. Pelham,
Edgefield.
June 13: Robert Derrill Beat,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Beat
and Mrs. G. 8. Parnell.
June 14: Steve Griffith, Jr.,
Mrs. Maurice Moseley (Betty
Hove), Mrs. DeWItt Miller,
(Bobbie Hove) twin daughters
of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hove,
Patsy Ruth Cromer, Mrs. G. W.
Suber, Mrs. H. T. Lake, H. D.
Hollingsworth, Ellerbe Pelham,
Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
Ellerbe Pelham.
June 15: Mrs. S. C. Camp
bell, Mrs. R. R. Bruner, Jr.,
Mrs. S. Downs Wright, Judith
Edwards, Ray N. Jolly and
Dabney Bonham Timmerman.
June 16: Frank Suber, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Suber, Whit
mire, Ira Morris, Steve Armfield,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin
Armfield, Boyce Covington and
Butch Covington.
June 17: David Lathrop, Mrs.
D. P. Leopard and David Hump
hries.
June 18: Joseph E. Crooks,
Pomaria, Martha Jo Rinehart,
Bessie Boozer, Mary Louise
Dickert, D. P. Leopard, R. C.
Neel and Joby Ringer.
June 19: John T. Norris, J. D.
Bozard, Betty Walton, Mrs. H.
W. Dipner, Butch Waldrop and
Mrs. J. H. Cook, Jr.