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VOL. 17—NO. 25
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1954
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Is This Farm Familiar?
HERE IS OUR “MYSTERY FARM” No. 5. It is a Newberry County farm as seen from the air. The first person
who correctly identifies it will receive two tickets to the Wells Theatre. If you are the owner, come by The Sun office
and identify the farm and receive the original photograph from which the above cut was made. (Sunphoto by
Frank Armfield made from Shealy Flying Service plane and piloted by Marion Wiggins).
Cows, Conservation, Good Business On Epps Farm
The farm of W. E. Epps was last
"Greek’s “Mystery Farm.” Mr.
Epps is in the dairy business
and the following is an account of
an interview conducted by Joe
B. Earle with Mr. Epps:
“Cows anJ Conservation are
good business” says W. E. Epps,
Rt. 1, Newberry. Mr. Epps tells
his story this way: “I have been in
the dairy business 7 years. I grew
cotton before then but couldn’t
make any money with cotton. I
•started with 6 registered Jerseys
and raised calves to the 85 cows
and calves we now have. Dairying
is better for the land and better
for 'me than cotton. We are build
ing land now instead of destroy
ing it. We didn’t have any money
in the bank until we started with
cows. We used to have washed
land but we don’t now since we
terraced it and grow grass.”
This farmer bought his farm 18
years ago. He quit cotton and sold
all of his mules 3 years ago. He
has changed to conservation and
mechanization with cows being the
center of the farming program to
consume the soil conserving crops
I and provide year-round income.
The whole farm is fenced. There
is plenty of water available on the
farm which makes it possible for
the cows to gather more of their
feed.
Mr. Epps owns and rents about
186 acres of open land. He grows
30 acres of corn, 21 acres of Dallis
and Bermuda grass, 60 acres of an
nual grazing crops such as millet,
Sudan, rye grass and crimson
clover, and 75 acres of oats fol
lowed by lespedeza. He produced
4.000 bushels of oats this year. As
to the lespedeza he says, “Lespe
deza is an all-round good crop. We
get grazing and hay from it. It pro
tects and builds land too.”
Mr. Epps has been a coopera
tor with the Newberry County
Soil Conservation District since
1948. S-CS technicians helped him
plan and terrace his land. As**
basis for such planning a land
capability map was prepared for
the farm. SCS divides land into
Classes I to VIII. Most of Mr.
Epps land falls into Class II,
with a small amount of Class I and
some in Classes III and IV. This
means he has a good farm. Grass,
legumes, manure, terraces, con
tour cultivation, fertilizer, lime,
and crop rotations are some of the
tools he is using to keep it good.
His farm is mechanized including
wise use of the tools of conserva
tion.
BREAM TO BE
DISTRIBUTED
HERE TODAY
Thirty-nine farm ponds will
have 61,250 more fish after tomor
row when blue-gill bream will be
distributed to farm pond owners
at the agriculture building.
. Cooperatore of the Newberry
County Soil Conservation district
I e eligible for bream fingerlings
ter a survey is made by tech-
picians of the Soil Conservation
Service.
E. E. Epting, work unit conser
vationist of Newberry, said tlflit
up to October first 231 farm ponds
hiad been constructed in the coun
ty, 74 having been constructed
since January first.
Mr. Epting pointed out that not
only do farm ponds conserve
water, ’ but supply livestock, pro
vide fire protection, offer recrea
tion and limited irrigation.
The following persons will re
ceive bream today furnished by
the Fish and Wildlife service at
Orangeburg, S. C.:
W. A. Ballentine, N. J, Martin,
W. C. Huffman, Mike Jenkins,
Mack Eargle, Roy Baker, W. M.
Salters, W. R. Gilliam, W. R.
Suber, J. B. Rikard. J. C. Beden-
baugh, H. H. Crisp, Milton Pitts,
J. N. Beard, M. B. Crooks, W. R.
Elrod. E. R. Fellers, Fred Rich
ardson, E. E. Piester, Ellis Glenn;
Also, C. A. Counts, A. W. Mur
ray, John DeHart, B. F. Riles, W.
O. Graham, H. O. Long Est., Fred
Weir, J. B. Scott, Adam Cromer,
E. F. Carter, David Waldrop, Hen
ry Parr, Griff Dorroh, Cay Baker,
Henry Dorroh, Carl Epting, John
Norris, and W. A. Eargle.
Water Shortage Threat Is
Talked At Monday Meeting
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Carnival Plans Set By Speers Street PTA For Oct. 27
Last week, well over forty
members of the Spears Street P.
T. A. met with the Halowe’en
steering committee and made
final plans for the highly antici
pated event.
The Carnival to take place on
Wednesday, October 27th, at the
school grounds will tak.e place
practically outside. Booths, re
sembling the County Fair, will be
set-up on the outside grounds,
while movies, eats and a magician
will have the highlights on
inside of the school building
the
j Committees
i the steering
follows:
Lunch—Mr.
as announced
committee are
and Mrs.
Joe Mc
Leod. co-chairman. Gus Franklin
and Huitt Clary in charge of drink
stand. Miss Sarah Boozer, Mrs.
Philip T. Kelly. Mrs. John Frazier,
Dorsey English. Mrs. Myra Trefs-
gar, Mrs. Tom Brigman, Mrs. Dan
Dickert, Mrs. Pauline Stone, Mrs.
i Moody Atchison, Mrs. Gloria
Parks, Miss Annie Abrams, Mrs.
Virgil Huffstetler all working in
kitchen on shifts.
Dining Room—Mrs. E. H. Phil
lips. Mrs. E. O. Shealy, Mrs. J. C.
Lee.
Coffee — Mrs. Ralph Whitaker
and Mrs. Ralph Williams.
Cake Committee—Mrs. Vernon
Carlton and Mrs. Lewis Lipscomb.
Country Store—Charlie Bowers
and Philip T. Kell}.
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officers and committeemen were installed at the regular meeting of the New-
y County Girl Scout Council last Tuesday night at a dutch supper in the Girl Scout
:abiiron Pope Terrace. They are, 1. to r. (seated) Mrs. John Felker, Juilette Lowe, Home
►gram chairman; Mrs. Frazier Lominack, program chairman; Mrs. Leon D. Nichols,
*dent; Mrs. Dan Chandler, public relation; Mrs. W. A. Ridgeway, placement chair-
(Standing): Homer W. Schumpert, camping chairman; Mrs. Frank Smith, cookie
chairman; Mrs. Felix B. Greene, Jr., treasurer; R. E. Beck, vice president; Mrs.
J. Bowers, registrar; and Felix B. Greene, treasurer. (Sunphoto by Frank Arm-
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Fish Ponds—Mrs. Duncan John
son, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Bannis
ter, George Trefsgar.
Surprise Packages—Mrs. H. R.
Wherry and Mrs. Hamilton Folk.
Comic Books—Mrs. Leonard J.
Moore.
Movies—John English and Ben
C. Chapman.
Magician—Mrs. Dorsey English
and Mrs. Kirby Lominack.
Games—B. H. Phillips, Ed. Can
non, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Mason.
Horses—Aubrey Davis, S. M.
Price, Homer Schumpert, Harry
Avedisian, Moody Atchison .Car-
roll Eargle.
Horror Room—Mrs. R. B! Bark
er, Mrs. Henry Cousins, Tom
Longshore, W. W. Bennett.
Fortune Teller — Mrs. Annie
Cromer and Mrs. Henry B. Wells.
III.
Trailer Rides — Mrs. J. B.
(Gertie) West, M. Chester Hawk
ins, Hugh Shannon, T. Roy Sum
mer, Jr., Fuller Campbell.
Bobbing Apples—'Ralph Rowe,
Robert Lister, A. G. (Red) Dwyer.
Fire Truck—Mr. and Mrs.
George Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Partridge.
Doll Show—Mrs. A. E. Moore-
head, Mrs. George Davis, Mrs. E.
L. Oxner.
Games and rides will com
mence at 4:00 p.m. in order that
the smaller children may have
their fun and be ready to take
home whenever they become tired.
The Lunch Room will be ready
for serving at 5:00 p.m.
Workers in the Lunchroom are
asked to report at 3:00 p.m.
Steering Committee — Mr. and
Mrs. Dorsey English, Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Chapman, Mr. and Mrs. Joe
McLeod, MV. and Mrs. R*, Bt
Barker, Philip T. Kelley, Ex Of
ficio.
Jr. Hi P. T. A. To
Hold 1st Meet
The first regular meeting of the
Jr. High Parent-Teacher Associa
tion, which was organized last
‘rcmth, .wiHfcfce held hi the audi
torium at 7:30 o’clock on Monday
evening, Oct. 25th. Election and in
stallation of officers will be held,
and Mrs. Philip Kelly, District
President, will officiate at this
ceremony. The nominating com
mittee is composed of Messrs.
Charles Boyd, Frank Lominack,
Jr., R. E. Beck, Mesdames Ralph
Whitaker, and R. E. Reck.
Speaker of the evening will be
Dr. James C. iKnard, popular edu
cator, whose wide experience with
parents, teachers, and students,
qualifies him as an expert in this
field.
Featured during the social hour
will be “Get-acquainted Time,”
when parents will be invited to
visit the classrooms and talk with
the teachers. Mrs. J. C. Dowd is ,
chairman of the hospitality com
mittee for this meeting.
Screen and TV star, Loretta
Young, and one of our nation’s
more than two million Girl Scouts
talk about Miss Young’s TV show
for Sunday, October 31. Titled
“Mary Vint^nt and the Convict,”
the script will show^ how Girl
Scout training helps one girl meet
an emergency. Program will be
aired on Station 10, from 10 to
10:30 p.m.
About 50 citizens of the city and county answered a call
by Mayor James E. Wiseman to a meeting held at the New
berry county court house last Monday night. Mayor Wise
man stated the purpose of the meeting was to discuss the
water shortage which threatens the city and county and to
hear suggestions of steps that might be taken to prevent the
situation from becoming even more serious.
£he suSject was mainly devoted-
Elliott Attends
Board Meeting
Prof. F. Scott Elliott attended
a meeting of the Board of Educa
tion of the South Carolina Con
ference which was held at Cen
tral Church, Spartanburg on Tues
day, Oct. 19. He is the lay rep
resentative from the Greenwood
District.
The longest street in the world
is Figueroa Street in Los An
geles, which is 30 miles long.
BIRTHDAY
GREETINGS
Oct. 22: T. Roy Summer, Jr.,
Bonnie Cromer, John Billingsley,
Mrs. Bobby Sligh, Mrs. C. D.
Weeks, Tucky Neel, Mrs. Phil
Brooks and Aubrey. Davis.
Oct. 23: I. L. Boinest, Mrs. T.
S. Riley, Barbara Frankie Joye,
Mrs. Bill Hughes, Charles Ept
ing, Jessica Senn and Mrs. C. A.
Reeder.
Oct. 24: Ida Webb West, H.
O. Counts, Dupree Harmon, Maj.
James Glymph, Mrs. A. E.
Morehead and Ola Norris.
Oct. 24: Shelba Jane Kinard,
William Cromer, George William
Coates, Jr., Buddy Clark Wat
kins and Fred Richardson.
Oct. 25: C. E. Hendrix, Dr.
Rayburn Lominack, Curtis O.
Chapman, David Or\n Shealy, J.
N. Ruff and Mrs. R. E. Hanna.
Oct. 26: Billy McSwain, Miss
Grace Summer, Mrs. Tommy
Setzler, Benjamin Lament Daw
kins and Mrs. Wilburt Koon.
Oct. 27: Mrs. Claude Sanders,
M. P. Davis, Rev. J. B. Harman,
Bobby Schumpert, Betty Joyce
Turner, Miss Cora Dominick,
Dan Lewis, Bonnie King and
Martha Sue Fant, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. P. Metts Fant, Jr.
Services For
Fire Victims
Held Wednesday
Joseph J. Kilgore, 83, and Mrs.
Alice Kilgore, 70, of Route 2,
Neberry, perished in their burning
home late Sunday night.
Mrs. Kilgore as the daughter of
the late’ Samuel Hayes Talbert
and Martha Ellen Bradley Tal
bert and was born in McCormick'
County. She was a graduate of
Limestone College and taught
music in Newberry for a number
of years. Mrs. Kilgore Y&a a mem
ber of Ebenezer Methodist Church,
where she was active in Sunday
School and other activities of the
church. She was also an active
member of the Farmer’s Grange
Association and other community
affairs.
Mr. Kilgore was the son of the
late Andrew Kilgore and Mary
Katherine Wise Kilgore and was
born in Newberry County. For
five years he was Superintendent
of the Lethe School, now known as
the De La Howe School in Mc
Cormick County. After leaving
McCormick he returned to New
berry where he was a prominent
farmer until bis retirement several
years ago. Mr. Kilgore was also
a member of Ebenezer Methodist
Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Kilgore are sur
vived by the following son and
daughters: J. Clifford Kilgore of
Florence. Wilton Kilgore of Mor-
ranton. Georgia, Lee Kilgore of
Palatka, Florida, Mrs. H. A.
Kessler of Newberry, Mrs. Earl
Bullock of Alexander, Virginia
and Miss Ruby Kilgore of Jack
sonville, Florida.
Mrs. Kilgore is survived by the
following brothers and sisters: J.
Arch Talbert of McCorirtick, Ben
Talbert of Spartanburg, David Tal
bert of New York, N. Y., Mrs.
Carlton Faulkner of McCormick,
(continued on page eight)
to the Bush River watershed from
which the town gets its water
supply, but Mayor Wiseman point
ed out that the problem also
should be viewed from a county-
wide angle.
CONSUMPTION
In his remarks, the mayor gave
statistics to show the tremendous
increase in water consumption in
the past ten years, stating that at
present Newberry was using ap
proximately 173,263,01)0 gallons per
day. The flow of Bush River is
said to be approximately three to
four million gallons a day.
Mr. Wiseman said that he not
only wanted Newberry to have an
ample water supply, but hoped
that plans could be formulated in
order that farmers along the
stream could have water for live
stock and irrigation when neces
sary. .
CONSERVATION TOLD
The Rev. Paul L. Grier offered
prayer at the beginning of the
meeting and following Mayor
Wiaeman remarks, he introduced
T. B. (Dad) Amis of the soil con
servation service. Mr. Amis i«
turn called on Joe B. Earle, Soil
Conservation Service of Chester.
Mr. Earle has been closely as
sociated with the critical, water
shortfcgfb on the upper state and
he gave revealing figures of the
amount of falling over the
Piedmont section each year. He
went im of a number of
cities and towns which were com
pletely or near the bottoni of
their water supplies. He said York
&a%uo wf^r at aU apd h^ heen
dra whig' irom farm "ponds
Mr. Safle told bow water could
be conserved through good land
use, and farm ponds to catch and
hold water when it was available.
He pointed out that agriculture
and industry were using billions of
gallons of water today and the
only way to have ample water sup
plies was through storage.
ONE WEEK SUPPLY
The meeting was thrown open
for discussion at the conclusion of
Mr. Earle’s remarks. One question
asked was how much reserve sup
ply of water does Newberry have?
It was brought out that if the flow
in Bush River was shut off, New
berry would be out of water in less
than a week’s time. G. H. Connelly,
city 'engineer, stated that there
was about a one or one and a half
day supply at the city reservior
and about the same at the'Bush
River site>’lf Bush River should
dry up as many small rivers and
streams have during the. past two
months, the city would be out of
water in a few days.
One person in the audience
stated that he was amazed to learn
that storage capacity was so lit
tle and urged the mayor and city
council to take immediate steps
toward providing for a more
-adequate reserve supply.
NEW RESERVOIR
It was brougiht out by Mr.
Earle that the Soil Conservation
ft
service could assist in locating a
suitable site to build a reservoir
and could help in other ways short
of designing the dam. He told
Mayor Wiseman that a request
for this assistance should be made,
to the Newberry County Soil Con
servation district supervisors. J. T.
McCrackin, Jr., chairman of the
supervisors assured Mayor Wise
man that they would cooperate
fully with the city in this under
taking.
WATERSHED BILL
Mr. McCrackin also spoke brief
ly on the. proposed Bush River
watershed bill which has been ap
proved. He said that plais called
for a series of dams to be erected
from the headwaters of Bush
River and would be carried all
the way to Lake Mmray. It was
felt that this was the only way in
which an adequate water sup
ply could be had at all times.
It was brought out that a water -
rights bill had been introduced bar
the legislature last year, but was
not passed. The water policy com
mission of which Sep. Marvin E.
Abrams is chairman, are now re
vising the proposed law and it will
again be submitted for action In
the coming session. The law pro
vides water to farmers, municipal
ities and others on a permit basis. .
At "present there is no adequate '
water* law In' South Carolina, it
was stated.
NAMES COMMITTEE
At the conclusion of the meet
ing upon motion by Judge Eugene
S, Blease, seconded by Alderman
was called on to Appoint a 'cottf^
mittee and study the water pro
blem from a county-wide stand-'
point, and take appropriate action.
Named to the committee were, be
sides Mr .Wiseman, City Manager
E. L. Blackwell, J. T\McCrackin,
Clifford T. Smith, Kins
S. C. Paysinger.
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Kibler, County
Native, Died
News has been received in New
berry of the "death of J. Berley
Kibler, a native of Kibler’s Bridge
in Newberry County.
Mr. Kibler died suddenly Wed
nesday of last week at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. John Park
er Jr. in Charlotte, N. C.
Funeral services were held Fri
day at 11 a.m. with interment in
Sharon Mausoleum.
Mr. Kibler was the son of the
late Jesse and Hattie Lorick Kib
ler. He married Miss Bertha Mat
thews who died six months ago.
Surviving besides his daughter
are one granddaughter, and one
brother, C. P. Kibler, Savannah,
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This group was on hand at the court house last Monday night to discuss, with about
50 interested citizens, the ^cute water shortage in Newberry county and other sections
of the state. L. to R.: J. T. McCrackin, Jr., chairman, Newberry County/ Soil Conserva
tion District Supervisors; Mayor, James E. Wiseman, who presided over the meeting;
Joe B. Earle, Area Conservationist, Chester; and T. B. (Dad) Amis, local Soil Con
servationist. (Sunphoto by Frank Armfield.)
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