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Congratulations Graduates Congratulations Graduates VOL. 17—NO. 4 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1954 + $2.00 PER YEAR First Twins 1929 - 1951 Newberry College To Hold 98th Commencement Jane 7 MRS. MAURICE MOSELY MRS. DEWITT MILLER The ninety-eiKhth eommeni-e- nient prouram will bepin at New berry Collepe on Sunday. June fi. with tlie baeea la urea t e sermon in the Lutheran Churrh of the Re deemer at 11:00 a in.. The Rev. Walter I'.itner Freed. DD.. of ('ha rlotte. N. will deliver the sermon. On Monday morning. June 7 at 10: Jo a in. in the College (lym- nasium. Doctor Jesse T. Anderson, State Superintendent of Educa tion. will deliver the address to the lh. r .4 graduating class. In the class are fifty-five young men and seventeen young women. A total of seventy-two will be candidates for degrees. On Sunday afternoon from 4: JO i r»:Jo p.m.. President and Mrs. James C. Kinard will be at home to the members of the graduating (lass and their families. At 8:00 p.m. that evening, the Newberry College Singers will present their annual musical concert in Holland Hall. On Monday following the gradu ating exercises the annual College Kin- One Set Triplets Recorded In County Hospital History Pictured above are the first sets of twins born at the New berry County Hospital and the Newberry County Memorial Hos pital after its rededication on May 30. 1951. Top pictures show Bobbe and Bette Hove, twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Jack M. Hove of 1193 Chapman Street, who were born on June 14, 1929. Dr. Robert Houseal was the at tending physician. Bobbe is now Mrs. Dewitt Miller, who with her husband and nine months old son. Dean, reside in Burlington, N. C. Bette is now' Mrs. Maurice Mose- ly, who with her husband and eigh teen months old daughter, Bette Lynne, reside in Keysville, Vir ginia. Lower picture shows the twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. Roland C. Riltard, formerly of Route Two, Prosperity and now of Coulmbia. Merrill, left and Derrill, right, were born on August 2, 1951. Dr. El bert J. Dickelt was the attending physician. Another interesting fact con cerning babies bom at the local hospital is that the only case of triplets ever born at the Newber ry Hospital were the Connor Triplets born on August 28, 1933. The triplet girls were delivered by Dr. E. H. Moore and w r ere named for the nurses who were on duty at that time as follows: Allie Amick Connor, Margaret Culley Connor, and Genevieve Kempson Connor. Information is that the three girls are now married and have children of their own. The last set of twins boru were Mickey and Rickie Farmer, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Berry Farmer of 989 Bess Street, who were born on May 3. 1954. Attend ing physician in this case was Dr. V. W. Rinehart. Twins are not born every day at the local hospital but 342 deliveries were recorded in 1953 for an average of almost one birth every day. This figure was under the total of 394 recorded in 1952. All children are invited to visit the hospital on Friday. May 28 when special arrangements are being made to permit all children to tour the hospital with their par ents on this day. The Nursery will be included in the tour. At 4:00 p.m. all babies born in the local hospital in the past three years, 1951. 1952 and 1953 are invited to meet on the front lawn of the hospital where pictures will be taken according to the three birth years. Only the three mentioned years are being used because the open-house progrom is commemo rating the third anniversary of the dedication of the new facilities which were completed in 1951. All children are invited, however, and all will be given a small favor on this day. f.UUi :■ hnon wi 11 1)0 hoi ]Mge I lining l Tall. 1 >r. ;ud will he g uosts of Alumni Gift will ho I U\ Kinard ; i s a par v nun. \ numlici ' of cl h;i vt ■ bcon ai rru ngf Ml. Si! 11 urday, J uno Gins s of 1941 at II ote S; 11 urda y. J uno Gins s of 191 ?9 at th' Hal! Sa it urday. .1 uno *>. (’las s of 1934 at th e ( Hall Satu rday. Juno 5, pro reunions p.m. 7:30 p.m.- 7:30 p.m.- 7:30 p.m.— Class of 1939 at the Wallace Home. Saturday, June 5. 7:30 p.m.— Class of 1944 (October Commence ment) at Central Methodist Church Fellowship Hall. Saturday, June 5, 7:30 p.m.—- Class of 1949 at the Newberry Ho tel. Sunday, June 6. 12:30 p.m.— ('lass of 1944 (February Com mencement) at the Community Hall. Monday, June 7. 12:30 p. m. — Classes of 1899 and 1904 during the College Luncheon in the Col lege Dining Hall . Those in the 1954 graduating class from the Newberry area are as follows: Bachelor of Arts degree: Paul Owens Slice, Chapin. Bachelor of Science degree: Ma mie Bishop, Newberry; Joan Claire Boozer. Leesville; Eunice Eliza beth Dendy. Whitmire; James Willard Crooks. Newberry; Angus Elbert Dickert, Newberry; Benja min Wesley Dominick, Jr.. New berry; Elizabeth Meriwether Floyd. New r berry; John Spearman Floyd III. Silverstreet; Bobby Gil- Prosperity Commencement Exercises Set May 28-31 Commencement exercises of the Prosperity High School will be held May 28-May 31. On Friday evening. May 28, at 8:30, the members of the graduat ing class will present a class play entitled. “Holiday in Hawaii.” The welcome will be given by Mary Pat Taylor. Other special parts will he taken by Mary Dove Boozer, prophetess; Johnny Dowd, giftor- ian; Joe Lovelace, historian; Bill Hendrix, lawyer; and Johnhy Buz hard, master of ceremonies. All seniors will be in the play. On Sunday night. May 30, at 8 o’clock the Rev. C. H. Souther land. of Spartanburg will preach the commencement sermon. Mr. J. C. Holler of the State Department of Education, will de liver the address to the graduates on Monday night. May 31, at 8:30 o’clock. Members of the graduating class are Billy Ackerman. David Amick. Paul Bedenbaugh, Narvice Bowers. Mary Dove Boozer. Rich ard Bowers. Jane Buzhardt. John William Buzhardt. Jewel Connelly, Arthur Cook, Wayne Counts, Cor nelia Dominick. Voight Dominick. Johnny Dowd, J. P. Fellers, James Fulmer. Billy Hendrix. Mary Alice Hawkins. Patsy Ann Hawkins. Reuben Hawkins, Patsy Hunter. Mary Esther Koon. Hugh Lewis. Sadie Livingston. Joe Lovelace. Myra Mills, Hugh Minick, Andrew 7 Pugh, Dale Pugh. Claire Richard son, Jack Summers. Mary Pat Taylor, Lorraine Whitman, Dovie Wise. The mascots are Vivian Lynn Wise and Stanley Kingsmore. lia in, Newberry; Barbara Frankie Joye. Newberry; Donald Layton, Newberry; Donald O. Long. New berry: Emory A. Magbee. Jr., Newberry; Winona Mills, Newber ry; John Eugene Norris, Newber ry ; Richard Harrington Ross, I rosperity; Derrill Ernest Schum- pert. Newiberry; James B. Shealy, Batesburg; Miriam Beatrice Shea- ly. Leesville; Rufus Eugene Sow ell. Newberry; Anne Marie Suber. Pomaria; James Henry Summers, Prosperity; Robert Ia>e Swygen, Leesville; and Anne Matthews Whelan of Newberry. Lewis Floyd Is New Commander American Legion Louis C. Floyd w r as elected com mander of Newberry Post No. 24, American Legion at the annual election of officers held Tuesday night at the post home on Ade laide street extension. He succeeds Russell Addy. commander for the past year. New 7 officers will be in stalled in June. Others selected to direct the legion’s work for the coming year are Felix Greene. 1st vice com mander; Carroll Eargle, 2nd vice commander; B. Walt Miller, 3rd vice commander; Holland Sligh, adjutant; C. A. Dufford. Sr., fi nance officer; Jake Wise, service officer; Henry T. Fellers, chap lain; Sgt.-at-Arms, Pete Parrott. Elected to the executive commit tee were Tom M. Fellers, T. Roy Summer, Sr., and George Half acre. Retiring officers in addition to Addy are Carroll Eargle, 1st vice commander and W. W. Bennett, 2nd vice commander; vacating the executive committee are Felix ! Creene and Huston Long. College Board Elects Harman; Honor Kinards The annual meeting of the Board of Directors of Newberry College was held on the college campus last Thursday. The directors made plans for a new dormitory for men and the renovation of Carnegie Hall were adopted to meet the im mediate needs for housing of the large enrollment of men students anticipated. A report from the committee ap pointed to recommend names of persons to be considered by the board for New'berry’s new presi dent was made, it was kept confi dential by board members. H. Odelle Harmon, superinten dent of Lexington schools, was elected chairman of the board at the session. He succeeds the Rev. Paul M. Kinports, D.D., of Clear- w’ater, Fla. The Rev. Fred E. Duf ford of Naval Base was elected vice-ch.Jrman. and the Rev. W. H. Lefstead of Mobile. Ala., was re elected secretary. Named to the executive committee of the board were Dr. Homer M. Eargle of Orangeburg, and Dr. John J. Pershing of Atlanta. Mr. Harman reported to the board that the committee appoint ed to canvass the field for a nominee for president of the col lege would meet June 29 to select three names to present to the ex ecutive committee of the board. The board will meet during the summer to receive the nominee of the committee. Chairman Harman stated that the board anticipates having a new president named be fore opening of the college for the fall session. At the afternoon session the Board of Trustees presented to President and Mrs. James C. Kin ard a pair of three-branch sterling silver candelabra. Mrs. N. E. Der rick of Columbia, made the pres entation for the board in apprecia tion and in recognition of the many years of service rendered the college by Dr. and Mrs. Kinard. Mr. Kinports announced to Dr. and Mrs. Kinard that the board had granted the month of June as a vacation. Chairman Harman then read the action of the board that upon the recommendation of the faculty, the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters would be conferred upon President Kin ard during the graduating exercis es on June 7th. Rev. Dufford read appropriate resolutions expressing appreciation to Dr. and Mrs. Kin ard for their many years of service and leadership rendered the col lege. The hoard approved the recom mendation of the faculty and will confer the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters upon Dr. R. C. Grier, the retiring Presi dent of Erskine College. The Board also approved for presentation on June 7th, the Distinguished Ser vice Award to Mrs. N. E. Derrick of Columbia, to Mayor J. Carroll Lybrand of West Columbia, and to Mr. Julius E. Schroeder of Charles ton. Legion Women To Sell Poppies The herioc dead of three wars will be nationally honored Satur day when Americans from coast to coast join in the annual custom of wearing crimson Poppies in their memory. Authentic replicas of the Flanders’ Field poppies of World War I fame are made by disabled veterans, and distributed by unpaid volunteers of the Amer- ifan Legion Auxiliary. Over the battle graves of Fland ers’ Fi°H in World War I grew 7 the bright red poppies of France. New College Faculty Members DR. E. GARLAND ROSS GEORGES S. COOKE Whitmire Meeting Attendance Light DR. T. J. ESKRIDGE JORDAN V. BOWERS, JR. Dr. James C. Kinard, president of Newberry College, yesterday an nounced the appointment of four new faculty members at the college. They will assume their duties in September when the Fall session gets under way. Dr. E. Garland Ross, a native of Virginia, has been appointed to the position of Head of the Department of English. He will will the posi tion formerly held by Dr. Gilbert P. Voight, whose retirement is ef fective at the end of this term. George S. Cooke will become associate professor of languages to succeed Bothwell Graham who died during the spring. Dr. T. J. Eskridge, a native of Tennessee, has been selected to head the Department of Education. Since 1952 he has been at At lantic Christian College, Wilson, N. C., as Professor of Psyehotofy. The fourth new faculty member is Jordan V. Bowers, a native North Carolinian. He will succeed Milton W. Moore as Head of the Department of Music and Director of the Newberry College Singers. Mr. Moore, who leaves the college this session, will work toward a doctorate degree. Hospital Open House Tomorrow A large number of visitors are expected to visit the local hospital tomorrow (Friday) for the open house program between the hours from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. All visitors will be asked to register as they enter the build ing. White guests are asked to enter the building at the main entrance. Colored guests are ask ed to enter through the colored entrance. Following registration, visitors will be taken on directed tours of the hospital by hospital personnel who will explain the activities of the various depart ments and the equipment used. Displays will be demonstrated throughout the hospital. Claude Weeks, superintendent of the hospital has requested that visitors not go into patient’s rooms during the day. He said. “The activities will be rather tiring for the patients and this request is being made so that the patients will receive as much quiet and rest as possible.” He invited visi tors to the Open House to come another day to visit with patients. Visitors are also asked not to park their automobiles in the front driveway. Parking facilities will be avail able in the hospital parking lot adjoining the hospital. The colored parkway is located behind the hos pital. The Medical Auxiliary will serve refreshments to all visitors to the hospital on this day. The garden clubs and other interested persons are contributing floral arrange ments. The entire Hospital Staff and several community groups have cooperated to present an interesting program and a large turn-out is anticipated. marking the final resting place of our heroic war dead. Next Satur day, veteran-made replicas of the little French poppy will be worn in American lapels in honor of all those who have fallen since in the Cause of Freedom. Accept your American Legion Poppy and wear it proudly. It commemorates Amer ica’s war dead from the Argonne to Korea. PROSPERITY 2ND. GRADERS VISIT HERE TUESDAY Pupils of the second grade at Prosperity school with their teach er. Mrs. P. W. Smith, visited New- bery Tuesday morning of this week. They had come up especial ly to ride the train back to Pros perity. Many of the 32 children had never been on a train the teacher said. While in Newberry they visited The Sun office. Western Union telegraph office and planned to visit other places, but found time was short. They returned to Pros perity on the 8:38 train. UNDERGOES TONSILLECTOMY Mary Fulmer Wells, six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry. Burton Wells, III, who underwent a tonsillectomy in the Baptist Hos pital in Columbia Tuesday morn ing, stood the operation fine and was able to return to her home on Harrington street Wednesday. The second campaign meeting of the current season was held in front of the City Hall in Whit mire last Saturday evening. An audience estimated at between 60 and 70 persons were on hand to hear three candidates for the House of Representatives, two who are seeking the office of Probate Judge, and two for Commissioner District 1. County Chairman B. V. Chapman presided over the meeting and stated that candidates for Magi strate had not expressed a desire to be heard. The lead off speaker was Luther B. Bedenbaugh, candidate for Com missioner. He based his remarks mainly on the condition of roads and bridges over the county and advocated the elimination of all temporary bridges on county roads and that they be replaced with permanent concrete type struct ures. He said he believed the nec essary work could he accomplish ed without adding to the tax bur den already on citizens of the county. He asked the assemblage to consider his qualification for the office, and if they saw fit to support him for Commissioner on June 8. Ted ('. McDowell, incumbent Commissioner followed Mr. Bed enbaugh. He asked for support in the primary June 8. and thanked the people for electing him to of fice two years ago. He pledged his continued cooperation and would work constantly for the best interest of the taxpayers. He declared that his experience in of fice qualified him to render a bet ter service to the people of the county. Candidates for the House of Representatives who spoke next, stuck pretty much to the same thought as they did a week ago.^t Little Mountain. J. Effice Metis spoke first and reiterated that he was for the working man, saying that if the laboring man didn’t work and make good wages, the people who operated businesses such as his would suffer. He de clared he wtould always cast his vote for the working man. Earl Bergen, incumbent house member was the next to take the stump. He expressed appreciation for the vote he received two years ago and told of his work in the house of representatives. He stated that Newberry county op erated under a close mlillage schedule, but declared that the county bad much more to offer than many counties with muc!? higher tax rates. Bergen asked for support of vet erans, saying he too was a veteran and was familiar with their pro blems. Touching on the non-seg- ragation ruling of the Supreme court, he said it was up to the level-headed men sent t to the leg islature to work out a solution, ad dine “We will not sacrifice the benefits of one group of indi viduals for those of another.” T. William Hunter was the last candidate for the house to speak. He pointed out that he was famil iar with the problems of both the farmer and the other working peo ple of the county. He said he was Maj. Hugh K. Boyd, Jr. (right), son of Mrs. Hugh K. Boyd, receives congratulations in Japan from Brig. Gen. Ralph G. Butches, assistant chief of staff for operations with the Far East Army forces, after being presented his second Bronze Star Medal for meritorious ser vice. The award was for Boyd’s “exceptional ability and sound judge ment” as operations and training staff officer at Far East Army head quarters from February 1953 to April 1954. The major, who served in Korea with the 45th Infantry Division’s 180th Regiment prior to his headquarters assignment, also holds the Silver Star, America’s third highest combat decoration for gallantry. Boyd’s wife, Dorothy, and two children are with him in Japan. ,\ actively engaged in farming now, and that he had taught school be fore becoming a lawyer. He re peated his statement made last week that Newberry County should he made more attractive to in dustry. Mr. Hunter outlined a plan he said he thought would solve the non-segregation issue. He said that each school district would become an eleemosynary corporation, set up for educational purposes. Each county would appropriate funds for the operation of the corporation on a per pupil basis for both white and colored. Board of directors of the corporations would have power to negitiate for leases or title to the school property now belonging to the county. He said such a move would, in effect, establish private schools, and that under this setup the Fed eral government would have no more right under the constitution to compel whites and Negroes to attend the same schools than for the government to tell any em ployer who he could hire in his private business. He said that the next session of the legislature wo 7, ld possibly he the most im portant one in the past 75 years, and declared. “We need level-head ed representatives” to speak for the people in Columlbia. The Whitmire meeting was con cluded with speeches for the candi dates seeking election as probate judge. Maxcy Stone, incumbent, spoke first. He thanked the people of Newiberry County for electing him to the office of probate judge for the past eight years. He told of the work done by his office dur ing his tenure of office, saying that no estate handled by his office had ever been contested. Walter T. Lake, Newberry at torney, was the last candidate to be heard. He declared he was running because he needed the job. He said he was not running to put anj’one out of office. He said that he was a graduate of Newber ry College and of the Law School of The University of South ^ar^- lina, and believed that he was well qualified to handle the job of pro bate judge. The next campaign meeting will be held Saturday night at Jolly Street at 7:30 p.m. A bar- beque supper will be cpr-^ed in connection with the mee’ing. Committee Sets Holiday Dates The Merchants Committee of the Chamber of Commerce recom mends that all places of business observe Monday, July 5 and Mon day, September 6—Labor Day, as holidays, according to Keitt Pur cell, chairman. Observe the usual Wednesday afternoon closing in the weeks in wihich these holidays occur. BIRTHDAYS " May 28: Buzz Purcell, Mrs. Verona Dominick, Mrs. T. H. Longshore, Carol Kohn, Mrs. J. W. Hicks (Mary Birge Kohn), Martin Mills, Homer Crooks and Joe Ann Kunkle. May 29: Sarah Boozer, Jane Cullum, Mrs. Allen Dominick, Wilbur Koon, Mrs. Guy Counts, Susan Kelly and Bobby Spraul, III. May 30: J. T. Dennis, Mrs. James Smith, Mrs. Ruth Long shore, Mrs. F. B. Dawkins, Linda Cole, Mrs. Ray Nobles, Jiack Lominick, Mike Wiggers and Danny Wiggers. May 31: John G. Goggins, Jr., Susan Nichols, Dr. J. C. Atkison, Mac Cobb and Harriett Schum- pert. June 1: Mrs. C. J. McWhirter, Drayton Wicker, Mrs. J. E. Crooks, Faye Hughes, Anne Walton, Mrs. J. C. Counts and Ann Beck. June 2: M. W. Clary, Mrs. Walter Hiller, Neel Long, Dolly Senn, Ann Senn and Mrs. Daisy Lee Graham. June 3: Mrs. Mae A. Aull, Arthur Jacob, Miss Lois Merch ant, Edwin Stokes, Jr., F. M. Baxter, Mrs. Melvin Hancock, Dr. P. E. Way, Mary B. Burns, Jerry Havird, Frank Stevens, Jr., Mrs. Jason Ringer, Mrs. T. Roy Summer, Jr., and Prof. W. E. Monts.