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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1954 nn 1218 Colleire Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Entered us second-class matter December 6. 19117 ut the Postoffice lit Newberry. South Carolina, under the Act of Conxress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Ownership Of Public Schools Is the Attorney General of the State of South Carolina on solid ground in trying to keep the State out of the Segrega tion issue as comes before us in the decision of the United States Supreme Court? 1 have great respect for Mr. Callison, our Attorney General, and for his ability as a lawyer; but l can’t see how he steers his car through the fog. As a Commentator 1 try to avoid captious observations or irritating objections; but 1 submit for the thoughtful con sideration of my fellow citizens some points that may arise. Obviously 1 am no Christopher Columbus of the law; any lawyer will study the Constitution of the State in order to understand the questions before us. And not only lawyers, although it must be difficult for a layman to understannd the law since we of the great profession can‘t agree. Are the schools of South Carolina a County interest; or are they sponsored by the State? The question before Judge Waring arose from Clarendon County. What is a County under our law? Are the schools of Clarendon part and parcel ot the State? Is the participation of the Attorney General; or will his fail ure to file a brief, or submit an argument, a subtle evasion of the Court ? Or can he evade the Court ? Are we not morally compelled to fight openly as long as possible? What do we gain by standing aloof? Our State Constitution established the free school system in South Carolina. Here is what it says: “FREE PUBLIC SCHOOLS — SCHOOL DISTRICTS — BONDED DEBT—GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICTS. The General Assembly shall provide for a liberal system of free public schools for all children between the ages ot six and twenty-one years; and for the division of the Counties into suitable school districts, as compact in fornt as practicable, having regard to natural boundaries. “SALARIES OF SCHOOL OFFICERS. The salaries of the State and County school officers shall not be paid out of the school funds, but shall be otherwise provided for by the General Assembly. “SCHOOL OFFICERS. The General Assembly shall make provision for the election or appointment of all other neces sary school officers, and shall define their qualifications, powers, duties, compensation and terms of office. “SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION. The supervision of public instruction shall be vested in a State Superinten dent of Education, who shall be elected for the term of two years by the qualified electors of the State, in such man ner and at such time as the other State officers are elected; his powers, duties and compensation shall be defined by the General Assembly. “ENROLLMENT—TRUSTEES—POLL TAX—SUPPLE MENTARY TAX. The General Assembly shall define ‘enroll ment.’ Not less than three trustees for each school district shall be selected from the qualified voters and taxpayers therein, in such manner and for such terms as the General Assembly may determine, except in cases of special school districts now existing, where the provisions of law now governing the same shall remain until changed by the General Assembly: Provided^The manner of the selection of said trustees need «4iot be uniform throughout the State. “There shall be assessed on all taxable polls in the State between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years (excepting Confederate soldiers above the age of fifty years), an annual tax of one dollar on each poll the proceeds of which tax shall be expended for school purposes in the several school dis tricts in which it is collected. “Any school district may by the authority of the General Assembly levy an additional tax for the support of its schools. “SEPARATE SCHOOLS. Separate schools shall be pro vided for children of the white and colored races, and no child of either race shall ever be permitted to attend a school provided for children* of the other race. “GIFTS TO STATE—ASSETS OF ESTATES OR CO PARTNERSHIPS — DIRECT TAX — STATE SCHOOL FUND. All gifts to the State where the purpose is not desig nated, all escheated property, the net assets or funds of all estates or co-partnerships in the hand of the Courts of the State where there have been no claimants for the same within the last seventy years, and other money coming into the Treasury of the State by reason of the twelfth Section of an Act entitled ‘An Act to provide a mode of distribution of the moneys as direct tax from the citizens of this State by the United States in trust to the State of Souh Carolina,’ approved the twenty-fourth day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, together with such other means as the General Assembly may provide, shall be se curely invested as the State School Fund, and the annual income thereof shall be apportioned by the General As sembly for the purpose of maintaining the public schools. “INCOME FROM SALE OF LICENSE FOR SALE OF LIQUORS. AJl the net income to be derived by the State from the sale of license for the sale of spirituous, malt, vinous and intoxicating liquors and beverages, not including so much thereof as is now' or may hereafter be allowed by law to go to the Counties and municipal corporations of the State, shall be applied annually in aid of the supplementary taxes provided for in the sixth Section of this Article; and if after said application there should be a surplus, it'shall he devoted to public school purposes, and apportioned as the General Assembly may determine: Provided, however, that the said supplementary taxes shall only be levied when the net income aforesaid from the sale or license for the .sale of alcoholic liquors or beverages are not sufficient to meet and equalize the deficiencies for which the said supplementary taxes are provided.” Unless we can persuade the Court to change its decision we must abide by it, or defy it, or adopt a course that com plies with the words of the decision, yet maintain by legal method the traditions of our people. Although the 14th Amendment was illegally and unlaw fully declared adopted, it'has the sanction of the Court and this Court will not consider an objection which challenges the validity of the adoption of that Amendment. In the case before us the State intervened directly from the beginning. The State retained John W. Davis to rep resent the State; the State, through the Governor, directed that the schools proceed as before; the State poured out mil lions of dollars building school-houses; the State virtually fixes teachers’ salaries. In view of all this how does the State hope to gain by not filing a brief? However, the Constitution clearly makes this a State issue. Prosperity News MRS. B. T. YOUNC, Correspondent Tht* K*w. M, (Murk, the new pastor of (Jruit* Lutheran Church unit Mrs, (Murk were honored with a reception, Friday evening. July 2. in the Parish Building. Weekend guests of Mrs. R, W. Pugh were Pvt. Robert Pugh of Camp Gordon. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Price of Cheruw. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Russell Caughnmn and son of Orangeburg. Miss Kay Connelly of Atlanta. Ga. spent the weekend with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Con nelly. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Pinson of Cross Hill and Mr, and Mrs. Ru dolph Oswald and two children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Wessinger. Mrs. George Broadway of Flor ence is visiting her cousin, Mrs. O. W. Amick. Mrs. Margaret Rawls of Miami. Florida is visiting her sister, Mrs. L. J. Fellers. Mrs. H. L. Fellers has returned from a visit in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Robert Myers in Lewistown. Little Misses Sharon Anne. Kathy and Roberta Myers came home with their grand mother. With Mrs. R. T. Pugh for the weekend were Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Pugh of Charlotte, N. C.; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schultz of Atlanta, Ga.; and Mr. and Mrs. James A. Bed- enbaugh and their two children, Jimmy and Anne of Laurens. Mrs. Charles Tyler arrived Tuesday from Jacksonville, Fla. to visit Mr. and Mrs. Pat Wise and Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Young. Richard Ross, who is working in Atlanta, Ga. spent the weekend at his home here. Major and Mrs. Ray Ohlhues and their two daughters, Kay and Jan, of Charleston spent the holiday weekend with Mrs. Ohlhues’s mother, Mrs. H. E. Counts, Sr. Mrs. E. B. Smith and her two children, Ed^pr. and Betty, of Mc Rae, Ga. spent a few days last wepk with her sister, Mrs. C. E. Hendrix and Mrs. A. R. Chappell. On Saturday, Mrs. Hendrix, Mrs. Chappell and her daughter, Averette, and Mrs. Smith jind chil dren, went to Saluda, N. C. to visit their sister, Mrs. A. W. Murray, at her sumimer home there. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Callahan spent the weekpnd with Mrs. Callahan’s mother, Mrs. P. C. Sing- ley. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Richards and their son, * A. J. Richards, Jr. of Heath Springs spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Young. Miss Margaret Wheeler, who has been with her grandmother, Mrs. J. S. Wheeler for several weeks, is at Myrtle Beach for the week. Mrs. P. W. Smith and Mrs. Frank McMillan, Jr. spent the holiday weekend in Charleston as guests of Mrs. J. C. Taylor. * Miss Suzonne Tatum of Green ville, Miss.; Miss Betty Richard son of Columbia, and Lt. E. C. Sease, Jr. of the Air Base at Greenville, Miss, spent the week end with Mrs. J. A. Sease. With Mrs. Sease on Sunday were Mfs. George Sease and her three chil dren, . Elton C. Sease, Sr. and John David Sease, all of Colum bia. Miss Trudie Coker of Turbeville spent last week with Miss Phyllis Wise. Miss Ellen Wheeler, secretary of the Music Department of Win- throp College, spent the weekend at her home here. Mr. and Mrs, Clyde E. Beden- hnugh«of Easley spent the week end wjth their parents. Mr* and Mrs, Maxcy Bedenbaugh and Mrs J. A. Counts. Mrs. Bernice D. Bjonetjud of Wilmington. N. C. is spending the month of July with her parents. Mr. and Mrs, T. A. Dominick. hfudy and Susan Marie Barnes of Columbia are spending several weeks with their grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. W, C. Barnes. Misses Susie and Mary Lang ford spent Friday and Saturday with John R. Langford and family in Camden. Their little nephew. Bob Langford, accompanied them home for a week's visit. Subscribe to The Newberry Sun Building & Loan Association Statement of Condition As of JUNE 30,1954 ASSETS FIRST MORTGAGE LOANS .156 well secured Newberry Loans beini? Retired in Monthly Pay ments. First Mortgage Loans Only, the Unpaid Balances of which now Average $3,087.00 per loan. LOANS ON PASSBOOKS These Loans are Secured by Sav ing and Investment Share Ac» counts of the Association. MISCELLANEOUS ASSETS This Item Consists of Stock of the Federal Home Loan Bank. Furniture and Fixtures Owned by the Association, and Certain Expenses prepaid. CASH ON HAND AND IN BANKS .. This is the Associations Working Funds. $1,098,881.54 21,048.77 22,528.86 LIABILITIES SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT. SHARE ACCOUNTS $1,324,059.46 Funds Paid into the Association for Savings and Investment. LOANS-IN-PROCESS 49,737.65 Undrawn Balances on New Build ing Loans. RESERVES AND UNBTVTDED PROFITS — This amount has been set aside for Contingencies after Payment of Dividends. 33,859.29 265497.23 $1,407,656.40 $1407456,40 HOME LOANS INSURED SAVINGS Each Saving and Investment Share Account Insured Up To $10,000.00 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, Washington, D. C. 3% Annual Dividends Paid On Member Share Accounts Since Organization In 1947 ' J \ v ' > Funds received here for savings and investment on or before the 10th of Each month will receive earnings from the first of that month. > OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS * ■R. B. BAKER. PRESIDENT , J. DAVE CALIJV^LL, VICE-PRES. PINCKNEY N. ABRAMS, SECRETARY-TREASURER THOMAS H. POPE ' LOUIS C. FLOYD R. AUBREY HARLEY \ You cam expect the most raiding* ‘1 You can bet your bottom dollar on it. Come next year, or the year after that, you*ll be seeing on other cars some of the styling features you see in Buick today. We expect it. It has happened before. And there is good reason for it — popular appeal. Take, for example, the car model shown here. , We call it a Riviera. Most people call it a “hardtop.” When Buick introduced this body type in 1949, it was a completely new thing. And it was an instant hit. Today, Buick “hardtops” outsell all other models in the line. It's the styling America has taken to itst heart. So today you find that every major car maker has his own version of this Buick 'original. (And we can’t blame them a bit. They know a good thing when they see it.) IVXaybe you've noticed other such bor rowings from Buick. The diagrammatic sketch shown here lists some of the Buick advances that are now In the best melon patch’’ reflected in the styling of other cars—or will be soon. For you can be sure that the great pano ramic windshield first shown by Buick this year will be copied. It's too good to pass up. And yoircan be sure that the full rear-wheel cutout now on every 1954 Buick Riviera and Convertible will show up elsewhere in the future. It’s a sports-car touch that^ hits a really popular note. We 're sure of such things. We're sure'because the tomorrow-styled Ruick of today seems to be just what people want. Because Buick sales are soaring. Because Buick now outsells every other car in America except two of the so-called “low- price three. ** • So to you we say—why wait another day to see and drive a new Buick? It's the beauty of the year. It's the buy of the times. And it’s a wonderful way to head up the parade. Drop in this week for a demonstration, won't you? © © © KIT TO SOM STY LINO “HRSTS” ST BUICK 1 Riviera "hardtop" body typo 2 Panoramic windshield 3 Vi sored headlamp grouping 41 Hqpdod tail light assem bly on Skylark S Full rear-wheel cutout 6 Fender sweep- spears 7 Ventiports (Remember Buick'm first vmntiports on front fondorst Some Folks even bought copies oF thorn chrome rings to put on falopiosf) • WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT BUICK WILL BUILD THEM GASQUE BUICK COMPANY 1305 Friend Street Newberry, S. C