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NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1954
+ $2.00 PER YEAR
Silver street Area Schools
Open Aug. 30; List Faculty
The public schools of the Silverstreet area will be^in their
1954-1955 session on Monday morning, August 30 at 9
o’clock. There will be no formal school opening exercises in
the auditorium on this occasion according to announcement
from J. G. Long, area superintendent.
A complete list of personnel of and substitute, Jimmie Bowers, A1
the area schools is as follows:
Teachers: Silverstreet High and
Grammar School—Mrs. Sadie
McLeod. Newberry, commerce and
library; Mrs. Martha A. Young.
Newberry, home economics and
science; Earl R. Boazman. Chap
pells, agriculture; It. Frasier San
ders. Newberry, mathematics and
English; Paul S. Goethe. Newber
ry, principal, coach. English and
history; J. G. Long. Silverstreet, I
superintendent; Miss Clifford
Coleman, Saluda. 6th, 7th grades;
Miss Lillie Mae Workman. Chap
pells. 5th, 6th grades; Miss Ruth
Martin, Silverstreet, 3rd. 4th
grades; Miss Sarah Folk, Newber
ry, 2nd. 4th grades; Mrs. Mattie
Lou W. Blackmon, Newberry. 1st.
4th grades.
Teachers: Chappells School
Mrs. Irene I). Parnell. Chappells,
principal, 3rd, 4th grades; Mrs.
Popie W. Coleman, Chappells, 1st,
2nd grades.
Additional School Personnel
Veteran Training, H. B. Beden-
foaugh. Silverstreet; lunch room
caterers, Mrs. M. P. Derrick, Mrs.
J. E. Neal. Mrs. L. B. Bedenbaugh,
fred Dorroh. Garrett Bedenbaugh,
Paul Branton. David Traylor, Mad
ison Pitts. Charles Teague, Russell
Moore; janitor. Ollie Fate Nance,
Silverstreet.
NEGRO SCHOOLS
Teachers: Elisha School—W. B.
Reeder, principal; Irene M. Tyler,
Elizabeth B. Reeder, Willie Mae
Mangum, Mamie B. Gaulden, Mar-
gree Jennings, Bernice Conners.
Dan Watkins School—John W.
Rutherford, Principal; Roberta
Middleton. Annie Mae Brown. Ber
nice Brown. Ruby J. P. Giant.
Smith Hill School — Daisy B.
Gibbs, principal; Dourene Burton
Sapp.
Burton School Addie W. Broad
water. principal; Alberta Satter-
white.
Bus Drivers Principal and sub
stitute, Joseph Singley, Raymond
Longshore, Ernest Deas, Robert
Nance. Tommie Farrow.
Members of the advisory board
of Silverstreet area schools are
Jeff Waldrop, chairman. New
berry; P. T. Harris, secretary, Sil
verstreet; L. E. Worts. Chappells:
M. H. Sheppard. Silverstreet, ami
Silverstreet; bus drivers, principal | J. H. Bishop. Newberry.
Newberry Methodist Women Attend
School Of Missions At Columbia
Annual Colony
Home Coming
Set Sunday
The annual Homecoming Day of
Colony Lutheran Church, Newber
ry County, will be held at the
church on Sunday, August 22. All
members, former members, and
friends of the congregation are in
vited to participate in this annual
event of this congregation.
Sunday school will be held be
ginning at 11:00 and worship ser
vice will begin at 12:00 noon. Dr.
Karl W. Kinard, president of the
Lutheran Synod of South Caro
lina, will be in charge of this
worship service and will deliver
the message on this occasion. Both
members and friends are asked to
note that there will be no regular
9;(Ml a.m. worship service at Col
ony Church on August 22nd.
A picnic lunch will be served
on the church grounds following
the morning service. You are in
vited to bring your picnic lunch
and a drink which will he spread
together with lunches and drinks
to be enjoyed by all.
The Conference WSCS School of
Missions and Christian Service
which is being held at Columbia
College began August 16 and will
continue through August 20. Those
attending from Newberry are Mrs.
F. Scott Elliott, district Secretary
of Missionary Education; Mrs. A.
L. Longshore, Secretary of Mis
sionary Education of Central
Methodist Church, Mrs. L. G. Mc
Cullough. district secretary of
Status of Women; Mrs. L. E. Gat
lin of Enting, district secretary of
Christian Social Relations and
Local Activities, and Mrs.' Horace
Cromer Of Lebanon. Zone 3 leader.
Four' splendid courses are be
ing offered. They are: “India, Pak
istan and Ceylon,” taught by Prof.
Henry G. Barnett of Florida South
ern College; “The City” taught by
•Miss Elizabeth Stenson, Secretary
of Missionary Education of the
Board of Missions and Mrs. Helen
Browne, past president of the
South Carolina Conference, WS
CS; and “That They May Have
-Life” taught by Mrs. Ralph * T.
Wilson of Laurens, jurisdictional
secreary of Christian Social Re
lations and Local Church Activit
ies.
Mrs. R. L. Hoiroyd. secretary of
Missionary Education of the Con
ference, WSCS is chairman of the
school and Mrs. L. A. Hartzog of
Olar is the dean.
Stores To Close
On Labor Day
The Merchants Committee of
the Chajnber of Commerce recom
mends that all places of business
close Monday, September 6, in
observance of Labor Day. Also that
we observe the usual Wednesday
afternoon closing in that week.
Keitt Purcell
Chairman.
Asks Cooperation
Of Businessmen In
Hiring Of Minors
County Attendance Teacher Mrs.
Jnlia R. Smith reminded business
men and the public generally to
day of a state law prohibiting the
hiring' of minors under the age of
Id during school hours.
**We are asking that the mer
chants, golfers and other employ
ers cooperate with the schools
of Newberry county in carrying
out this law,” Mrs. Smith stated.
Violators of this provision of the
. Child Labor Law are subject to
fines up to $50.00 or imprisonment
np to 30 days.
Mrs. Keisler, 86,
County Native,
Died Tuesday
Mrs. Gussie Dickert Keisler, 86,
of 6201 Colonial Dr.. Columbia,
died at 6:30 Tuesday night at her
residence after several years of
declining health.
Mrs. Keisler was born at Chap
pells, the daughter of Dr. J. O
Dickert and Mrs. Fannie Hill Dick
ert. Her father was a prominent
surgeon during the Confederate
War and later practiced in New
berry county and her mother was
active in reconstruction activity in
the state following the* Confeder
ate War making numerous K.K.K.
robes.
Mrs. Keisler was the widow of
the late J. H. Keisler. who died
in 1929. Slip was a member of
Eau Claire Presbyterian Church.
She attended the Chappells’
schools and the Female Academy
of Hagerstown. Md. She was the
last surviving member of her im
mediate family.
Survivors include four daugh
ters. Mrs. W. E. Daughton. Mrs.
Karene Stork, Mrs. J. T. Flowers
and Mrs. J. A. Motte. all of Colum
bia; two sons. James F. Keisler
and Harry A. Keisler, both of Co
lumbia; 12 grandchildren, 11
great-grandchildren and one niece,
Mrs. William McCauley of Atlanta,
Ga.
Funeral services will be held at
9 o’clock this (Thursday) morning
from Talbert Funeral Home, con
ducted by the Rev: RJchard B.
Leaptrott, pastor of Sherwood
Forest A.R.P. Church. Interment
will be in Rosemont cemetery at
Newberry.
iby Gilliam To
•ect At Denmark
Bobby Gilliam, .son of Mr. and be converted into parking space
Legion Hears
Plans For Fair
The next regular meeting of
Post No. 24, American Legion will
be held Tuesday night at eight
o’clock at the Legion hut on the
Fairgrounds.
Adjutant Eugene Stockman an
nounced that he is now accepting
dues for the next year and mem
bership cards are on hand.
At the last meeting of the post
Frank Sutton reported on the pro
gress of repairs and changes be
ing made at the fair grounds. He
stated that this year the section
reserved for the midway will be
to the right of the exhibit build
ings. The area formerly used will
Robert L. Foy
Body Arrives
For Last Rites
Robert Lee Foy, 36, died early
Wednesday morning of last week
at the Veterans Hospital in Seat-
j tie, Washington, from injuries re
ceived from a fall last Monday.
Mr. Foy was born in Newberry,
the son of the late J. Claud and
Maude Cromer Foy. He was a vet
eran. having served as a Lieuten
ant in World War II and also in
Korea, and was discharged from
service August 1953. At the time
of his death he was employed as
a shoe salesman. He was a mem
ber of the First Baptist Church of
Newberry.
He is survived by three broth
ers, C. Cromer Foy of Columbia,
William R. Foy of Hartford, Con
necticut. and Sgt. James E. Foy,
who is stationed in Japan; three
sisters, Mrs. M. A. Allbritton of
Columbia, Mrs. Alfred Donald of
Atlanta, Ga., and Mrs. William
Johnson of Newberry, and eleven
nieces and nephews.
The body arrived in Newberry
Wednesday morning.
Funeral services will be con
ducted at 5 o’clock Friday after
noon at the Whitaker Funeral
Home on College street by the
Rev. Paul E. Monroe, Jr. and the
Rev. J. W. Tomlinson. Interment
will be in Rosemont cemetery.
The body will remain at the
Whitaker Funeral Home. The fam
ily will be at the home of the de
ceased’s sister. Mrs. William John
son. 7ii(' Cromer street.
Cornerstone
Is Laid For
Parish Bldg.
By MRS. A. H, COUNTS
The cornerstone laying of the
new $30,000 Parish building of
historical St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church, located about 15 miles
east of Newberry, was held Sun
day afternoon with an address by
the Rev. Paul E. Monroe, Jr., past
or of the Lutheran Church of the
Redeemer in Newberry.
The three-story building of
Newberry County Granite is con
nected to the third St. Paul’s
church building. The first build
ing ejected considerably over a
century ago was one of the old
est Lutheran churches in the
county. The first two buildings
were torn down for the third
building erected several years ago.
Besides the cornerstone laying
the annual home-coming was ob
served and a picnic dinner was
served. At the morning service
the sermon was delivered by the
Rev. J. A. Keisler and the Sun
day school program was in charge
of L. Berley Bedenbaugh. The
pastor, the Rev. J. L. Drafts, pre
sided at the exercises.
The new Sunday school building
contains 20 cla^s rooms, a large
recreation room and kitchen is lo
cated in the basement. The as
sembly room is bn the second floor
with several class rooms and the
entire third floor consists of class
rooms. The church is connected
to the Parish building by a cov
ered passageway.
The fine church building and
the beautiful three-story parish
building make a perfect gathering
place for a fine rural community
people. The. large congregation
appeared pleased with the impos
ing structures. The tw<o offer op
portunities for the youngest to the
oldest to attend Sunday school
and church services.
Dr. Martin To
Practice Here
Dr. Foster V Martin, native of
Newiberry, arrived in the city
yesterday (Wednesday) with his
family from Tulane University at
New Orleans, I^a. Dr. Martin will
open offices here for the practice
of medicine.
He is a graduate of Newberry
College and the Medical College of
South Carolina at Charleston. He
served his internship at Roper hos
pital in that city after which he
came to Newberry and practiced
medicine for several years prior
to accepting an associate profes
sorship in the department of phy
siology and pharmacology at the
Charleston medical school. Dr.
Martin remained on the staff for
ten years. From Charleston he ac
cepted an associate professorship
at Tulane University and while
there received his degree in phar
macology.
He returns to Newberry after
nine years at Tulane University
School of Medicine where for the
past year he has undergone in
tensive refresher training prior to
returning to private practice.
Dr. Martin, with his wife and
three children. Frank, age 16. Em
ily, 14 and Kenneth, 11 years of
age, will make their home in a du
plex apartment at the corner of
Martin and McMorris streets. The
adjoining apartment will be alter
ed for use as offices.
Number Of Consolidations
Result Of Building Program
Swittenberg
Rites Today
Degrees Given
Four Countians
At USC Finals
Four students from Newberry
county who received degrees at
the 28th summer session com
mencement of the University of S.
C., held at Drayton Hall on the
campus at 7:30 p.m. Tuesiday,
August 17, were. Acting president
of Newberry College, C. A. Kauf-
mann. who received his Master of
Arts degree; Richard Henry Ruff,
also Newberry, Master of Educa
tion; Margaret Suber, Whitmire,
Master of Arts and Daniel Houck
Sandel, Little Mountain, Master of
Education.
Daniel B. Abney,
Newberry Native,
Died Yesterday
Daniel B- Abney, 64, resident of
1200 Spcond street died yester
day (Wednesday) morning at a
Columbia Hospital after an illness
of more than a year.
Mr. Abney was born and reared
in Newberry and was a son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Belton Abney.
Hjb lived most of his life in the
dikland section and Was a mem
ber of Lewis Memorial Methodist
Church.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Della Shealy Abney; two sons.
James B. and John Ezelle Abney
both of Newberry; two daugh
ters, Mrs. Elsie Lee, now living in
Japan, and Mrs. Martha Luville
Gruber of Columlbia; one brother,
John D. Abney, of Augusta, Ga.
and six grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements are in
complete hut will be announced
later by the McSwain Funeral
Home.
Local 324 Meets
There will he a regular sche
duled meeting of Mollohon T.W.U.
A. Local Union No. 324 on Sun
day afternoon, August 22nd, at
3:00 p.m. in the Mollohon School.
All members are urged to attend
John Swittenberg, Sr., 76, died
early Tuesday night at his home
near Jalapa following a long ill
ness.
Born in Newberry County he
was the son of the late William
C. and Kate Clark Swittenberg.
He was the last member of his
immediate family. A farmer, he
was a member of St. James
Lutheran Churchs His wife, Mrs.
Mamie Sease Swittenberg, died
several years ago.
Surviving are two sons, John
Jr. and William C., both of New
berry.
Funeral services will be con
ducted at 11 a.m. today at Whita
ker Funeral Home by the Rev.
Thomas H. Weeks. Burial will be
in Rosemont cemetery.
Serving as active pallbearers
will be Griffin Langford, Pope Bu
ford, Louis C. Floyd, Marvin Sum
mer, Wilbur Long and James
Miskelly.
Honorary escort will be com
posed of William Ballentine, Dr.
Reyburn Lominack, Dr. Von A.
Long, Dr. R. M. Kennedy, and
John T. Norris.
Assisting with the flowers will
be Mrs. Guy McCullough, Mrs.
Hugh McCullough, Miss Jessie
Mary Dickert, Mrs. James Mis
kelly, and Mrs. Tom Sligh.
New Gallman High School Be Used
For First Time; Others Projected
The Newberry County Public Schools will open this year
with several changes. All the schools, white and Negro, will
open Mbnday, August 30th, with the exception of the white
schools at Pomaria, Little Mountain, and Prosperity, which
will open Friday, August 27th.
The Newberry City Schools will open August 30. All stu
dents will report to their respective schools at 9:30 a.m. The
principals of each school will meet with their respective
faculties on Monday morning, August 30 at 8:15.
Students who have moved into
Water Rights Be
Talked By Guess
Next Tuesday
C. P. Guess, executive secre
tary of the State SoU Conserva
tion committee will bring an ad
dress on South Carolina’s present
position on water rights and the
need for a water law at a meeting
of the Newberry County Soil Con
servation district supervisors next
Tuesday night. The meeting will
be held at the Hartford Commun
ity Center at eight o’clock.
No clear-cut statute has been
enacted by the South Carolina
legislature since 1837 a conserva
tion spokesman said. A State
Water Policy Committee was cre
ated some time ago by Gov.
Byrnes with Senator Marvin E.
Abrams of Whitmire as chairman.
Seth Meek of Newberry is also a
member of the group. A invitation
has been extended these commit
teemen to attend. The public is
also invited to attend the meet
ing.
Board Lists Books For New Session
Mrs. Lonnie Gillliam will be a
member of the Blackwell and
Denmark High School faculty as
, iMad director for the 1954-65
acltool year.
Bobby, a member of the 1954
graduating class at Newberry Col
lege will leave tomorrow (Friday)
for Blackwell where he will reside
for the school year.
which will about double the avail-
ablle number of cars that can be
handled inside the fair grounds.
During the meeting plans were
discussed for a supper meeting
the first meeting night in Septem
ber at which time members of
the American Legion Baseball
team would be entertained and
presented gifts of jackets.
Following is a list of books that
will be used by students in New
berry city and county schools for
the 1954-55 term. School officials
announced the books could be pur
chased at the local book stores.
For those desiring t rent text
books, application should be made
at the school where the student is
registered.
First Grade
The New Before We Read
The New We Come and Go
The New We Look and See
The New We Work and Play
Happy Days with our Friends
(Health)
Good Times with Our Friends
(Health)
Happy Days
Science All About Us
The New Fun with Dick and
Jane
The New Our New Friends
I learn to Write, Book 1 Manu
script
Goals in Spelling Workbook
Ivet’s Count
Growth in Arithmetic Number
Book 1
Second Grade
Growth in Arithmetic Workbook
Stories About Sally
Three Friends (Health)
Science Through the Year
The New Friends and Neighbors
The New More Friends and
Neighbors
The New Neighbors on the Hill
I Learn to Write. Book 2, Manu
script
I Learn to Write. Book 2, Tran
sition
Goals in Spelling, Workbook,
C.rade 2, Manuscript
First Steps to Good English
(Workbook)
New Music Horizons
Third Grade
Growth in Arithmetic
Easy Steps to Good English
Gateway to South Carolina
Five in the Family (Health)
Science Every Day
The New More Streets and
Roads
The New Streets and Roads
I Learn to Write, Book 3, Cur
sive
I Learn to Write, Book 3,
Transition
Goals in Spelling, Workbook,
Grade 3
New Music Horizons
Fourth Grade
Growth in Arithmetic
On the Trail to Good English
Your People and Mine
The Girl Next Door (Health)
Exploring in Science
The New Singing Wheels
Times and Places (Star Edition)
I Learn to Write (Book 4)
Goals in Spelling, Grade 4
New Music Horizons
Fifth Grade
Growth in Arithmetic
Pathways to Good English
Your Country and Mine
You (Health)
New Music Horizons, Book 5
Days and Deeds (Star Edition)
The New Engine Whistles
Working with Science
I Learn to Write, Book 5
Goals in Spelling, Workbook,
Grade 5
Sixth Grade
Speling Goals, Workbook, Grade
6
Growth in Arithmetic
Building Good English
Your World and Mine
You and Others (Health)
New Ideas in Science
I Learn to White, Book 6
New Music Horizons (Singing in
Harmony—Newberry)
Sims: S. C. History (Newberry
only)
Seventh Grade
Goals in Spelling, Workbook,
Grade 7
Growth in Arithmetic
Growth in Good English
Your Country and the World
Sims: South Carolina History
(not used in Newberry)
Growing Up Healthily (Revised)
True and Otherwise (Reading-
Literature)
I Learn to Write, Grade 7
New Music Horizons (Singing
in Harmony—Newberry)
Eighth Grade
Goals in Spelling, Workbook,
Grade 8
English is Our Language
Growth in Arithmetic
Living with Science
America, Land of Freedom (His
tory)
A Sound Body (Revised)
I Learn to Write, Grade 8
Adventures for Readers, Book
II (Lit.)
American Red Cross First Aid
Textbook for Juniors
Ninth Grade
Spelling Goals for High Schools
(cloth)
English in Action, Course I
Adventures in Reading (Lit.)
Using Mathematics
Being a Citizen
Science in Daily Life
Using Latin, Book I
Tenth Grade
English in Action Course II
Adventures in Appreciation
(Lit.)
Algebra, Book I, Elementary
Course
Dynamic Biology Today
The Past That Lives Today
Using Latin, Book II
Eleventh Grade
Building Better English
Adventures in American Litera
ture
Plane Gemoetry
Algebra, Book II, 2nd Course
New World of Chemistry
The Making of Modern America
First-Year Freneh (Revised)
Latin, Book 3
El Cami’no Real, Book I
Gregg :i Shorthand Manual
Simplified
20th Century Typewriting, 5th
Edition Elementary Course (Typ
ing for Business, 2 yr. Course—
to be used at Newberry High)
Twelfth Grade
Handbook of English Usage
Adventures in English Litera
ture
A Second Course in Algebra
(2nd Edition, Enlarged)
Exploring Physics
Today’s American Democracy
Getting a Living
Second-Year French (Revised)
El Camino Real, Book II
Applied Business Arithmetic
(5th Ed.)
Psychology, Its Prin. and Ap
plication
20th Century Typewriting, 5th
Ed., Adv. (Typing for Business—
Newberry High)
the district since June 2 and who
did not attend the Newberry City
Schools during the session of 1953-
54 will register on Thursday and
Friday, August 26 and 27 between
the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 12:00
noon. Students in grades one
through seven will register at the
Junior High School on Martin St.,
and students in grades eight
through twelve will report to the
high school building on Nance
St. for registration. "
NEW NEGRO SCHOOL
The new Gftllman High school
in Newberry will open for Negro
school students this year, and
Drayton Street School will be all
elementary. Mt. Bethel-Garmany
and Helena * schools have been
closed and the elementary grade
students will report to Drayton
Street school. Switzon S. Wig-
fall will be principal of Gallman
High school and Eugene S. Schum-
pert will remain principal of Dray
ton 'Street school.
There have not been too many
chapges in teacher personnel for
the coming session. The following
appointments will be of local in
terest: Miss Juanita Hitt will act
as music supervisor for the city
schools; Mrs. Josephine Layton
will teach in the city schools; Mrs.
Popie W. Golem an will teach at
Chappell*; Mrs? ’
will again be at-the Silverstreet
school.
Mrs, Myrtle M. Long and Mrs.
Ira Cousins will be in charge of
music at Silverstreet and Mrs.
Mary A. Mills will teach piano at
Bush River. Mrs. Sara B. Rucker 1
will teach piano at Ponuaria and
Mrs. Nancy Copeland will teach
the 6th grade at Pomaria. Mrs. E.
G. Cope will he a member of the
Prosperity High school faculty.
Oakland, West End, and Mollo
hon schools wil'T again have grades
1 through 4, and Speers Street and
Boundary Street schools will have
grades 1 through 5, Newberry
Jr. High will have grades 6 and 7,
und the NeWberry High school will
have grades 8 through 12.
SCHOOLS CLOSED
The Long Lane school will be
closed and the pupils transferred
to the new Carver Elementary
school at Whitmire. This is a new
building for. Negro pupils with
10 classrooms and a cafetorium,
built at a cost of approximately
$•150,000. The school will have
classes from 1st through 8th
grades and will have* a teacher
for each grade. High school stu
dents who formerly attended
Carver High will attend the Gall
man High school in Newberry.
Gallman High school will take
care of all Negro high school stu
dents in the county. The principal
Switzon Wigfall, has his master’s
degree from University of Michi
gan dnd has been principal of the
High school at Moncks Corner for
several years.
Consolidation
A new school for Negroes wih
also open at Pomaria, for primary
and elementary grades. The esti
mated enrollment will be 450 when
completed. The building will have
14 classrooms, an office, first aid
room, teachers’ lounge, and a
cafetorium which is an all purpose
room. The following six schools at
Pomaria will close and the pupils
will be transferred to the new
Garmany school: Keitt Pleasant
Hill, Leitzsey, Broad River, Mt.
Hebron. Hope, and Pomaria.
Ernest Gibbs will be principal of
the new Garmany school at Po
maria, and Charles Cromer wili
be principal of the new Carver
school at Whitmire.
PROPOSED PLANT
A third new Negro elementary
school will open at Prosperity
about the first of December, Rik-
ard Negro Elementary school, for
the Little Mountain - Prosperity
area, at' a cost of $175,263.50 for
the construction, site, equipment,
and drilling' of wells and pump.
Grades to be taught in this school
are‘the first through eighth, with
an estimated enrollment of 460.
This school will also have 14
classroop’.s, an office, first aid
room, book room, teachers' lounge,
and cafetorium. This school will
take care of the pupils from Mt.
Olive and Little Mountain schools
at Little Mountain, and Caughman,
Mt. Moriah, and Howard Jr. High
schools at Prosperity However,
these schools will remain open
until Rikard school is completed.
L. A. Brown will be principal at
Rikard school.
During the past winter new
steam heating plants with oil
furnaces were installed and put in
to operation at Little Mountain
and Pomaria white schools.
The school enrollment ratio for
1952-1953 in Newberry County was
57.0% White and 43.0% Negro.
The ratio for projects approved by
the State Educational Finance
Commission since the start of the
school expansion program in 1952
is White 24.6%, Negro 75.4%.
NEW PROJECTS '
Money available for expansion
of schools in Newberry County is
$2,483;660. Of that amount $29#,-
899 has been approved for white !
projects and $889,989 for Negro
projects. With 47.5% of the en-
tfttement already approved on pro- ’
#ct8, a balance of $1,302,862 re-
^^folAins for the progsM.
-Tips centrist vfcft be Jet for Hip , ;
addition to the Newberry High
school within the next six weeks.
This project was approved last
April. ; ,
AREA OFFICIALS
, The Newberry County Public
Schools are now operating as one
district with seven areas—New
berry, Silverstreet, Bush River,
Whitmire, Pomaria, Little Moun
tain, and Prosperity. Bach area has
an. Area Superintendent and an
Advisory Board of Trustees. J, V.
Kneece is Superintendent of New
berry High school; R. E. Beck,
Superintendent of Newberry City
Elementary schools; J. G. Long,
Superintendent of Silverstreet
Area Public schools; H. M. Kolb,
Superintendent of Bush River
schools; R. C. Lake, Superinten-
d-ent of Whitmire schools; R. H.
Setzler, Superintendent of Po
maria schools; J. H. Bedenbaugh,
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BIRTHDAY
GREETINGS
Aug. 20: Mrs. Clifton Graham,
Mrs. H. B. Wilson, Doris and
Lauris Riley, twin daughters of
Mr .and Mrs. T. S. Riley, Jean
ette H) Crooks, Virginia Ann
Blount and Mrs. T. Collier Neel.
Aug. 21: Mrs. Donald F.
Schorr (Kat Adams), Mrs. Perry
O. Wicker, Martha Bouknight,
Mrs. R. E. Green, Jim Shealy,
Mrs. Geo. Ray Richardson, Mrs.
F. C. Merchant, Mrs. J. R. Bed
enbaugh,, Mary Robins Stone,
John N. Livingston and Claudia
Setzler.
Aug. 21: Mrs. W. R. Reid, Jr.,
Ralph Wilbanks, Mrs.. Keith
Wilson, Kent Copeland,. Robert
Bouknight, Mrs. W. L. Singley
and Mrs. Oscar Jollay.
Aug. 22: Sam Beam, George
Way, Mary Sease Ruff, Linda
Ray Ruff, Barbara Faye Thomas,
Faye Davis, Caroline Wicker,
Mrs. Ralph , Lancaster, Mr*
Charlie 8. Cromer and Mrs. Pete
Parrott. 1
Aug. 23: Rodney Bedenbaugh,
Eugene Koon, Mrs. T. S. Hum
phries, Faye Eargle and Tim
Gilliams
Aug. 25: J. W. Earhardt, J. J.
Boyd Robertson, Wayne Martin,
J. W. Warner, Ida Mae Suber,
Homer O. Epting, Sr„ Mrs. Her
bert Bedenbaugh and Miss
Aminee Dominick.
Aug. 26: Bobby Summer, Jr.,
Faye Langford, Mrs. O. G.
Blount, Mrs. I. Q. Watkins, Mrs.
Effie Hendrix and Patricia Les
lie.