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7 0 wm THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1965 Jack Pruitt be conductor for Little Theatre (The following article is from the Feb. 7th issue of The Greenville News.) When the Little Theatre pre- »tnts “Stop the World—I Want To Get Off” Feb. 23-March 13, Jack S. Pruitt will be conducting the theatre orchestra. Director of music in the Green ville County School District, Mr. JPlmitt has been a performing member of the theatre orchestra fci all of the Little Theatre mus icals and has been musical direct- «r and orchestra conductor for “Bells Are Ringing”, “Damn Yan kees”, “Music Man”, “Peter Pan”, “My Fair Lady” and “The Sound ef Music”. He is now on the faculty of the evening division of Furman University and was formerly in strumental director at Parker High School. A graduate of New berry College, Mr. Pruitt received his master of music degree from the University of North Carolina and is presently a candidate for his doctorate at New York Univ ersity. Mr. Pruitt is a former member of the Southern Symphony Or chestra and a former member of the Charlotte Symphony Orches tra. Upon the recent recommenda tion of the Music Educator’s Na tional Conference in Washington, Mr. Pruitt will serve as one of a committee of five music educa tors from the nation to review and revise the music education test of the National Teachers Examina tion for the National Testing Service in Princeton, N. J. Serving as choir director for the Greer Memorial Methodist Church. Mr. Pruitt is also cur rently working as state research chairman for the South Carolina Mukic Educators Conference. Mr. Pruitt is a native of Newberry, and a brother of Prof. Charles P. Pruitt, band director and instructor of in- atrumental music at Newberry College.) A retired major of the U. S. Army, he was a member of the Retired Officers Assn., Camp Hancock Barracks No. 900, a Mason and member of Alee Shrine Temple of the Liberty Council No. 12, of the American Legion and the Veterans of For eign Wars. A veteran of World War I, he was also a member of the Odd fellows Club. He was a member of St. John Methodist Church. Survivors besides his widow in clude two sons, two brothers, one of whom is Tom Henderson of Newberry, two sisters, four grand children and a number of nieces and nephews. •••••••••• Dean Menton • • Local man's brother dies Final rites for James Foster Henderson, 81, of Augusta, Ga., who died Tuesday, were conducted Thursday morning. A native of Saluda, he had resided in Augusta practically all his life, where he was employed as bookkeeper at Babcock and Wil- cox Co. He was the son of the late W. W. and Martha Henderson. MANION : FORUM j What should we do about Viet nam? When the answer is finally given, it will have serious conse quences in the Cold War against Communism. What is happening in Vietnam now cannot be divorced from our consideration of what has al ready happened there. Some weeks ago, the Senate Majority Leader, Senator Mans field, of Montana, said: “What we are doing in Vietnam now is paying for the mistake of getting rid of Diem when we did.” It is something new for the Ad ministration to admit they made such a tragic and terrible blund er in our foreign policy. Before Diem’s assassination, ac cording to our own military lead ers and the CIA, and according to our Ambassador, the war in Viet nam had been going well. Secre tary McNamara had announced that our troops would be home by 1965 because he was sure the Vietnam situation would be well under control by now. Diem had a stable government for ten years, and it was due to Communist efforts that he was overthrown and killed. When the news of Diem’s assassination reached the Communist leaders, one of them said it was too good to be true. Even with the mistakes, past and present, in the handling of our foreign policy in the Vietnam trouble, we have accomplished a great deal. Red China has been kept from expanding. The border of North Vietnam has not been extended by the Red Chinese, who have boasted that they would ex pand into South Vietnam. If we withdrew our help from South Vietnam now, the results might be disastrous to the world. Fifty percent of all the people in the world live in Asia. China would probably take o 'er Vietnam if we pull out, and from there, it would take Formosa, and ulti mately spread over all of Asia. There is an old saying that if you do not stand for something, you will fall for anything. People who have no convictions about Communism do not see the evil in people who try to convince us that Communism is tolerable. It is only if you believe in freedom, liberty and justice that you know that Communism is undesirable. Our Founding Fathers said that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, and this is what makes the differ ence. We were near to winning the war in Vietnam a year and a half ago. We can still win it, if we have a conviction that we should and can win it, if we don’t lose it first. All we have to do is to decide that we must turn the tide and then employ whatever means necessary to turn it. Looking A bead ...by Dr. George S. Benson PRESIDENT—NATIONAL EDUCATION ?ROGRAM Searcy, Arkansas Guardian of October 3. An adver tisement states: “Police brutality must stop!” This announcement was promoting a meeting spon sored by the Emergency Civil Li berties Committee to advocate a “civilian review board” for New York City. This is the same com mittee that was cited by the House Committee on Un-American Acti vities as a front offering pro tection and defense to Communist lawbreakers. An article in The Worker of October 4 further pro motes the meeting. Promoting the Breakdown It quotes the FBI report of | course taking issue with it, that ; “where there is an outstanding civilian review board the restraint of the police was so great that effective action against the riot ers appeared to be impossible. . . the police were so careful to avoid accusations of improper conduct that they were virtually paralyz ed.” Such conditions as these des cribed by the FBI, not better and more effective law enforcement, are obviously what the Communist groups are seeking. They are sim ply opposed to law and order. With our court decisions tending to expand the rights of criminals, restrict police officers, and make conviction difficult, as well as facilitate Communist activity, we are very likely to have further outbreaks of rioting, lawlessness, and bloodshed. immmm *- i m I Snap-A-Part Forms : !v. : x':' >' Registers and Informs ;X\ ';X Xy vX xX-xxx’. Ik M Continuous Forms *1® ifiii ■:*:w i--. m fliP SaJesbooks • v - : Hasp! Call The Sun ■* Phone 276-5800 The Crisis in Law and Order It is perhaps only a matter of time and season, now that the country’s attention is turned from the elections, until reports will be coming in of rioting and other expressions of force against law ful authority engineered around the world by Communist groups. Public interest in this country was focused only a short time ago on the many riots of the summer in our cities, in which many Ne groes and various malcontents participated, along with, in some cases, the criminal elements and delinquents of the communities involved. Possibly that late September report of Mr. J. Edgar Hoover produced some public misunder standing. The FBI director re ported that he had not found that riots in several northern cities were instigated by the Communist Party. If that was the case, and we have no reason to disagree with Mr. Hoover’s findings, it does not follow that U. S. Com munists are therefore made into altogether law abiding persons who are whitewashed of all the blame, as some headlines suggest ed. Actually, the Communist re cord of infiltration and subver sion is enough to mark the Party for suspicion anytime a riot breaks out anywhere. There are ways to encourage riots without the identity of the Party appear ing. Planned Attack Readers of Mr. Hoover’s state ment may not have recalled that for several years before the riots of last summer, American embas sies were attacked all over the world. News of Communist action through riots was common in neutral countries. Testimony by a CIA representative before a Sen ate Committee in 1961 detailed the Communist plot against the free world police. In one major country of the free world with an excellent history of law enforce ment without political interfer ence, there came a thorough break down as soon as Communist poli ticians began to create trouble. The Communist technique in this instance was directed primar ily toward discrediting the police in the eyes of the people. Com munist trouble makers would start fights in public places in order to involve police. Then when the police went into action, the trouble makers would link arms and refuse to move, in an effort to make it appear that the police were being brutal. In another country, the Communist press was described as playing up and dis crediting all police action against rioters, strikers and mobs. Com munists even infiltrated police, to sap their morale. The Brutality Charge This CIA representative em phasized that the Communists in any country would exert every ef fort to prevent the development of a strong police force. He also stressed that the police must have the support of the government and the people, a fact that ex plains why the Communists work hard for this kind of sabotage. “The task is not made easier by the lack of awareness on the part of many regarding the Communist threat. Thus one of the first tasks is education—to get the word to the people about the dangers of Communism,” he told the com mittee. The extent to which Commun ists are prepared to go is illus trated in notices in the National Mrs. Castles, 33, service Sunday Mrs. Saffie Clary Castles, 33, wife of Thomas S. Castles, of Burlington, N. C., died at a Bur lington Hospital Thursday night after a lingering illness. Mrs. Castles was born in New berry, a daughter of J. Richard Clary and the late Estelle Cald well Clary. She was a member of St. Paul’s Methodist Church of Burlington. Surviving in addition to her husband and father are two sons, Richard and John Castles; two daughters, Denise and Karen Cas tles; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Riser of McGuire Air Force Base, N. J. and Mrs. Dorothy Amick of New berry; and five brothers, James Richard, Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., Ro bert of New Ellenton, Clarence of Canton, N. C., Fred of Danville, Va., and Huitt of Westminster. Funeral services were conducted Sunday at 2 p. m. from the Whit aker Funeral Home by Rev. Bobby P. Tyson. Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery. Serving as active pallbearers were her brothers and a brother- in-law, Carl Amick. Honorary pallbearers were Wal lace Riser, Clarence Wallace, Dav id Castles, Bob Castles, John Bates Carl Bates, Bailey Dixon, Bill Da vis and Charles Dukes. Document 5016, which furnishes more detailed information on this subject, is available upon request from the Internal Revenue Ser vice. Prayer for week Merciful Father, keep me this day from being sensitive and irritable. Make me ever willing to accept the honest criticism of my friends. Help me not to shut my mind to any truth that is unpleasant, for I ask in the name of Him whose truth can make me free. Amen. m iH rllilm [V To observe Beauty Week Members of Newberry Affiliate 20 of the National Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Association will observe National Beauty Sa lon Week February 14-20, with a program of bringing the new hair fashions to unfortunate wo men in institutions with no place to go. “It may sound strange to some that 70,000 members of our Na tional organization spend so much time in the beautification of wo men who may not even be allow ed visitors,” said Mrs. Martha Bowers, chairman of NiB.S.W. “However, psychologists and psy chiatrists applaud this program, because it is a successful way to give these women a real lift, to give them days of happiness and some hope for better days in the future.” Another part of the Week’s program is devoted to increasing the membership in this National Professional association. Mrs. Do ris Wise, who is chairman of the membership committee, urges all qualified cosmetologists to join, so that greater strength can be obtained in encouraging the pass age of legislation benefitting both the patron and the cosmetologist. The public is invited to join in the special festivities celebrat ing the week, and the National Beauty Salon Week theme, which is “Swing into Spring with a new hair style” at a benefit tea for mental retardation Wednesday af ternoon, February 17 from 4 until 6 o’clock at the Friendly Beauty Salon, advises Mrs. Thelma Ham ilton, special events chairman. Income Tax Tips Some payments received by a taxpayer on account of illness or personal injury are not taxable in come for Federal purposes, Har old McLeod, Director of Internal Revenue for the Columbia district said today. The law allows (subject to cer tain limitations) a taxpayer to ex clude from income amounts re ceived under a wage continuation plan financed by his employer, when he is absent from his job due to injury or sickness. In this case the taxpayer must attach a statement to his return showing computation of the amount ex cluded, the dat es of absence, and whether or not he was hospitaliz ed. Other types of payments that are not taxable are those made: 1. For damages under a suit or in settlement of a claim under Workman’s Compensation Acts, and under an accident or health insurance policy on which the tax payer pays the premiums. 2. On account of a taxpayer’s contribution to an accident or health plan jointly financed by him and his employer. 3. Under an employer-financed plan covering sickness or injury to the taxpayer or his dependents, if received as reimbursement for medical care, or as compensation for the permanent loss or loss of use of a member or function of the body, or for permanent disfig urement. 4. As pensions, annuities, or similar allowances to an individual for injury or sickness resulting from active service in the armed forces of any country, or in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, or in the U. S. Public Health Service, or to his benefic iaries by reason of his death. (ycMzri, yeaM V THE SWING OF A PENDULUM, AND A NEW LIFE AFTER 65 I t was at a motel near Omaha, Nebr. It was late afternoon. The man sitting on the bench by the swimming pool looked to be about 70, had crew-cut hair, and wore one of those noisy sports shirts that might have been handed down to him by Harry Truman. He said his name was Swanson —^Wallace Swanson. That he was retired. And that he was travel ing with his wife to Salt Lake City because — “I think every American ought to see Salt Lake City once.” He said he was making the trip because of “the swing of a pen dulum.” Then he smiled. “You see, I’ve set up a clock repair business since I retired, and it provides the extra money for Mama and me to make trips like this. But I became a clock fixer because of the swing of another pendulum—the pendulum of a man’s life that swings from non entity in his youth, to position and affluence in his middle years, and back to nonentity in his re tirement ...” ‘ This appeared to be an impor tant piece of personal philosophy want to hold their image, and they are most anxious that the people back at the company think well of what they do. But the pendulum is swinging back now. They aren’t retired veeps; they’re just retired people. And they’re moving back into a nonentity status. And while people back at the company wouldn’t like to see their president retire and become a foot salesman—next week—he could become a garbage collector the next year and they wouldn’t care. “A man must realize,” Mr. Swanson said, ‘‘that as soon as he retires he is generally over and done for, so far as former associates are concerned. They simply don’t care what he does . . . after a month or so. “Which is how I brought my self to turn my back on a career that brought me an executive title, and hang out my shingle as a clock repairer. , He inquired around business establishments in the suburb and found that there actually was nobody who wanted to bother with clock repairs. Mr. Swanson’s income from his to him. He talked on about it for business, which now includes the some thirty minutes. His think- sale of old clocks he collects, ing boiled down to this: A man nets him about $250 a month, he invariably retires to a pedestal; said. And when the fancy strikes as nearly like the pedestal of his him he and Mama close the shop career as he can. He was a general and go off to see places like Salt manager, so he tries to act like a Lake City. retired general manager. He was ! ^ golden years se-pw booklet a veep in a bank, SO he tried to now ready. Send 50c in coin (no stamps), look like a retired veep. They all | S.EX . 1 ,%. < V r “ d C ' M '“ Gen. Jeb Stuart is subject of UDC program “The Cavalier of the Confeder acy”, General J. E. B. Stuart, was the subject of the historical pro- i gram at the February meeting of Drayton Rutherford Chapt., UDC. An interesting summary of James Ewell Brown Stuart’s life was giv en by Mrs. Walter Summer, who stressed the General’s brilliant horsemanship during her discus sion. Stuart’s brilliant career as a leader of cavalry and a horseman supreme stood out clearly above all others during the War Between the States, she said. “General Stuart was my idea of a soldier,” Mrs. Summer stat ed. “He was always cheerful un der all circumstances and always reliable. He had a rich golden voice and often led out in song. He was a social man and he seem ed to have strong religious nature, a member of the Episcopal church and a consistent Christian to the day of his death.” Another admirable side of his private life, the speaker said, was his intense love and devotion for his wife and children, a love re turned in kind. “When death took him from her after a few short years of happi ness together, Mrs. Summer con tinued, “she faced the realities of the difficult life that followed with a bravery that is wonderful to contemplate. To her dying day, she cherished his memory, dear and bright, and enshrined in her heart, as he had been in her life, a fearless knight, a tender hus band and father, following convic tions of duty to his country and to God.” When President Davis visited him and asked the wounded man how he felt, General Stuart re plied, “Easy, but willing to die if God and my country think I have fulfilled my destiny, and done my duty.” General Stuart died at the early age of 31 years. The meeting was held Tuesday at the home of Mrs. B. A. Buddin and called to order by the Presi dent, Mrs. E. E. Westwood. The Salutes and ritual were led by the Chaplain, Mrs. R. B. Baker. Mrs. M. F. Bowler, program chairman, presented Mrs. Sum mer. During the business session, the president thanked Mrs. Sum mer for the talk delivered at the high school during the Lee-Jack- son birthday observance, and for presenting the book on Lee to the high school in memory of her brother, Henry Parr Baker. Mrs. Westwood also thanked members for their attendance at the pro gram, as did Mrs. Steve C. Grif fith, Sr., chairman of Days of Observance. Mrs. Griffith stated that Drayton Rutherford will pre sent the Lee-Jackson program again next year, and expressed appreciation for the cooperation of the press in publicizing this year’s program. Mrs. L. G. McCullough announ ced that members should renew subscriptions to the UDC maga zine at this time. Mrs. Westwood told the group that President- General had asked that each chap ter add at least three new mem bers this year. Associate hostesses, who as sisted Mrs. Buddin in serving re freshments during the social per iod, were Mrs. Gordon Clarkson and Mrs. J. J. Chappell. County native dies in Chester Mrs. Leverne Norris McLane, 76, widow of William Mobley Mc Lane, died Saturday at Chester County Hospital. Mrs. McLane was born at New berry, daughter of the late Jas. G. Norris and the late Emma Reid Norris. Surviving are one daughter. Miss Ruby McLane of Chester; one brother, J. G. Norris of Char lotte; and two sisters, Mrs. Ira Clamp of Newberry and Miss Lily Norris of Rock Hill. Funeral services were held on Monday at Barron Funeral home With interment in Evergreen ce metery in Chester. Bunk beds are a space saver for the average large family. You can buy bunk beds or you can build your own to fit the dimen sions of any size room. Accompanying illustration shows how a corner of any room can become A “bunk house”—to the delight of young “cowboys.” Note that space above bunks, rather than being wasted, is de voted to cabinets—with plenty of storage room for clothing, cap pistols, toys, etc. Building a “bunk house” is not too difficult a task for the aver age home handyman, and most suppliers of panel products even furnish detailed plans. ^£<#11 Off Weeh^ -MniiMjr Ijili | !§&§ “This may come as a bit of a shock, but I’m afraid we’re going to have to remove a little of yon** ~r rt lnal equipment.” by Tom Dorr FATHER, WHAT WE NEED AROUND THIS HOUSE IS ^ A MAID. ( —— x ill NOW THERE* A GIRL IN THB-NEXT DLOCK...VERV BEAUTIFUL, INCIDENTALLY... —BLONDE HAIR... A SNAPPY FIGURE. [MAMA...SOUNDS LIKE .A GOOD IDEA, PET... MAYBE WE DO ^ NEED A KEEN, FATHER.^HER MOTHER NEEDS THE WORK, TOO. 1/ HALF - PAST TEEN yauVS GOTTA HAVE FAITH /N HUMAH/Ty-/H OUR FORM OF GOVERNMENT-BUT THE TRUE TEST OF FA/TH /S WILLIE'S CHILL u itfiHswey