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' PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN '<g's P .*■■'^■■‘*1... '■ K-r ■ «.« ■ . . , •' v ,!. ■- ■ v’ ■ ■ W&: [•yScf' ... v . . » . t. ^ THURSDAY, NOV. 25, 1954 - Meetings - Celebrate Anniversary w % Wi* Sssai^ ' HQ. & HQ. BTRY. Headquarters and Headquarters Battery 107th AAA-AW-Bn. will meet Wednesday night at Armory on the Cut-Off at 7 o’clock. Lt. Col. Evander R. Mclver is Battery Commander and Captain Hurbert D. Bedenbaugh is Headquarters Commander. MOLLOHON P. T. A. The Mollohon P. T. A. will meet Wednesday afternoon, December 1st at 3:30 at the school. SILVERSTREET P. T. A. The regular meeting of the Sil- verstreet P. T. A. will be held at 8:00 Wednesday night, December 1st. at the school auditorium. - *'■ PH THE HARTFORD HD CLUB The Hartford Home Demonstra tion Club will meet Wednesday afternoon, December 1st at 2:30 at the Comfunity Center. YOUTH CENTER The Yojuth Center will be open Friday and Saturday nights on Speers street from 8 until 11 p. m. ARMY BAND The 246th Army Band will meet Sunday afternoon from 2 until 4 o’clock at the Armory. Band Di rector is Charles P. Pruitt. BOY SCOUT TROOP 65 Boy Scout Troop 65 will meet Monday night at 7 o’clock at the Troop Cabin. Marvin Rucker is Scout Master of this troop. BOY SCOUT TROOP 66 Boy Scout Troop 66, with Wright Cannon as Scout Master, will meet Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the Troop Headquarters on Pope Terrace. MARION DAVIS MOTHERS CLUB The Marion Davis Mothers Club will not meet Wednesday evening, December 1st, but will meet on Thursday, December 16th at which time they will have a Christmas Party at the home of Mrs. Hugh Crooks on Nance street. LUTHERAN CHURCH BOARD The Lutheran Church Board of Stewarts will hold their regular monthly meeting at the church at 7:30 Wednesday evening, Decem ber 1st. GfeEEN TVlUMB GARDEN CLUB The Green Thumb Garden Club will not hold their regular meet ing Wednesday, December 1st, but will hold their annual Christmas dinner party on Friday( Decem ber 17th at which the members husbands are invited. The first course will be at the home of Miss Grace Summer on Caldwell street, the main course at the home of Mrs. Arthur Dwyer on College street Extension with Mrs. Guy Whitener, Jr., associate host ess and the dessert will be served at the home of the president of the club, Mrs. G. R. Summer on Summer street. HQ. 228TH GROUP Hq. 228th AAA Group of the Na tional Guard will meet tonight (Thursday) at 7 o’clock at the Armory. Colonel Thomas H. Pope is Commander of the Group and Captain Ralph P. Zoble is Head quarters Commander. BOY SCOUT TROOP 69 Boy Scout Troop 69 will meet Tuesday night at 7:30 at Willow- brook Scout Cabin. Scout Master of this troop is Dewey Kinard. BATTERY “C” Battery “C” of IQith AAA AW- Bn will meet Tuesday night at 7 o’clock. Captain James C. Lester is commander of Battery C. BOYS ARE THAT WAY By i. M. ELEAZER REV. AND MRS. J. ED. TAYLOR Winter rain on the roof had its meanings too, no less pro nounced than summer or fall, when I was a kid in the deep coun try. For the past two weeks I have touched on it for them here. Memory harbors no cozier rec ollections than the cold rainy night. Around the lamplit fire we sat until the comparatively late hour of 9, studying lessons and getting awful sleepy. Then hur riedly up the dark stairs to our half-story room. There we bounced on to that new-made featherbed and sunk' down into its softness and warmth. We could hear the gentle patter of the winter rain good up there next to the shingles. And how I’d lie there awhile be fore sleep, gentle sleep, overcame me. I would hear the winter wind blowing on the dark outside, and the cold rain come down. Then I would wonder how the wild things were faring. And wonder if they too were snug and warm in their Upb; Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S \ Day Phones 719 & 76—Night 513-R 7“ WcfMl SEAJ& / . * Jj CATALOG SALES OFFICE mm LIMITED OFFER FREE! MMAM CERTIFICATES mzk mk / v -■ ggjk v. ;• The ladies of the West End Baptist Church gave a drop-in at the parsonage lor the pastor and his wife in honor of their 25th wedding anniversary on Novem ber 20 from 6 to 10 p.m. For the occasion Mrs. Taylor wore a dress of blue lace with a corsage of white carnations and silver ribbon. She is the former Miss Alberta Hilliard of Colum bia and was married to Rev. Tay lor at the Southside Baptist par sonage in Columbia on November 15, 1929 by the Rev. ’R. I. Corbett. Greeting the guests were Mes- dames Jack Senn and Claude Wects. Mrs. Broadus Davis intro duced the guests to the receiving line composed of the honored couple, their children, Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor, Jr. of Newber ry, Mr. and Mrs. Lester E. Knox (Martha Taylor) of Columbia, and Rev. Taylor’s father, Mr. J. B. Taylor of Columbia. Assisting in serving ^refresh ments consisting of sandwiches, punch, and cake, were Mesdames Thomas Ward, Bennie Mack, Earl Singley, Ernest Ward, Maude Ban nister, Millard Wallace, Carlos Swindell, Marion Franklin, Colie Hogge, and Amos Shealy. Misses Patsy Summer, Libby Boland, and Y-Genia Hogge served salted nuts and mints. After refreshments Mrs. Roland Bobb invited the guests into the gift room which was presided over by Mrs. A. S. Bobb and Mrs. Bruner Summer with the assis tance'of Misses Barbara and Betty Warren and Brenda Wallace. The register was kept by Mes dames Louis Bobb and Ned Danielson. Mesdames Frank Ward and Handy Davis bade the guests good bye. Throughout the parsonage were arrangements of white carnations and pom-poms interspersed with green, silvered foliage and pyra- cantha berries, and silver tapers in silver candelabra. The dining room table was covered with a lace cloth over silver. At one'end was the three tiered wedding cake which was topped with silver wedding bells and based with a garland of sil vered leaves and berries. Three streamers of silver ribbon came from the cake to the opposite erid of the table where a silver taper was burning from each ribbon. On the dining room mantle was an arrangement of silvered berries with silver tapers in double silver candelabra on each side. Organ, piano, and vocal music was rendered throughout the even ing by Mrs. Alvin Hipp, Misses Joan Bobb and Faye Leapord, and Rev. Joseph E. Walker. The couple received many gifts from friends and relatives. Out - of - town guests included those from Spartanburg, Gaffney, Columbia, Campobello, Lockhart, i and Wallace, North Carolina. JUST LIKE FINDING MONEY Yes, Sears FREE merchandise certificate offer on Kenmore and Coldspot appliances in Sears New 1954 Christmas Catalog is just like finding money. Now, you can buy the Sears appliance you’ve always wanted ... . at the low, regular catalog price . . . and get merchandise certificates that you can use to do your other shopping from Sears Catalogs! For ex ample. pay onty $10.00 down on a 20 cubic foot Coldspot Freezer and get 40 one-dollar certificates . . or pay only $5.00 down on a Kenmore electric dryer and get 15 one-dollar certificates. Come in and see similar offers on many other Coldspot or Kenmore appliances. Don’t Miss This Terrific Offer . Offer Ends December 10, 1954. SEARS 1211 MAIN ST. 4 PHONE 1702 abode, as winter did its woAt. And winter rain made the icicles possible. Next morning I’d like to go out on the north side and see how long they hung from the eaves. And break the long ones off and use them for 'walking sticks. The old folks liked to see it too, specially if plenty of dry wood and kindling were under the shed, and the stock was all under the shelt ers. For it helped with ground water for the subsoil and wells next summer, when droughts often came. It meant muddy roads and muddy feet trapseing in and out of the house. But we had never • • known anything else. So these things were taken in stride. And if it rained on into the morn ing, hard enough, we’d get to stay from school! But parents hated that. For a bunch of ruffians to have to be housed up all day caused mothers to grow grey early. And we too soon tired of that. Wbat had been home soon became a sort of jail, and we were bulging at the seams to get out. But parents felt there was a duty to perform here over and beypnd taking care of their own. There were no attendance laws then. But the weeks of schooling were meag er. And they never wanted us to miss a day. And then, too, they had kept us home for a purpose. They didn’t want the occasional passer to see us out during school hours. For if we could be out of doors then we could as easily have been at school. And so the weary winter went. \ SociarSecurity By MISS MARTHA PRESSLEY ->• ' . I I spent an enjoyable hour with a 68-year-old'yesterday. He told me that the increase in his monthly benefit checks was going to mean a lot to him and his wife. I agreed with him when he observed that the increase brought about by the 1954 Amendments to the Social Security Act would help the men and women already getting th^eir monthly payments as well as those who would be getting them in the future. But I knew that there was some thing else on his mind, and I was rights He had heard that the test for earning without loss of bene fits had been changed. Of course, he ‘ realized that the test has a purpose. Without it, the cost of the social security program would be greatly increased. And people who weren't able to work at all would not be able to get the higher benefits which help them to meet today’s living costs. “Still, for some ,of the bene ficiaries who do have part-time jobs during the holiday seasons, it is important to know what that test is and how it will affect them,” my visitor remarked. Then he illustrated his comment by tell ing me this story: “I wbrk part-time for the com pany by which I was regularly em ployed before I was 65. They call me in when they are rushed on an order. Last winter they were be hind ,on their Christnias orders, and I worked for them for about three months. “In those three months I made more than the $75 a month which . a retired person can earn without losing a check. This caused me to lose the rights to my checks for three whole months. “I didn’t think that this earning test vras quite fair when I learned that my brother could have net income up to $990 in a year when he works for himself and not lose any of his retirement benefits. In addition, he could have earnings of as much as $900 a year in cover ed employment. Tell me, does the new law change that in any way ?” I was quick to assure my elder ly friend that under the new law, his brother would total his net self-employment and employment income over the year. And the 68- year-old gentleman would have the same, yearly earning test as his brother. The test has been made the same for both the em ployed and the self-employed bene ficiary. Under the new test no one will lose a month’s benefits for each month in which he earns above specified amount. Bene ficiaries who are wage earners are now permitted to add their wages over the year In Ihe same way that the self-employed people did be fore the change. \ And the earning test is now $1,- 200 a year instead of $900. Under the new law, this means that all self-employed and employed bene ficiaries may work throughout the year at $105 a month and lose only one month’s^check. The old law would have cause the em ployed workers to lose all 12 checks for that year. Or they may earn $400 in each of three months and lose nothing, whereas before, the employed workers would have lost three months’ payments. I explained to my friend that when he does make over $1,200 ip a year, he will lose his right to one month’s check for each $80 or fraction of $80i. For example, he will lose two checks when he makes as much as $1,281 in a year. But under the new law, he will lose no check for any month in which he neither earned more than $80 as an employed person nor rendered substantial services as a seif-employed person. My 68-year-old friend asked me if the new earnings test applied only to jobs covered by social security as it had under the old law. I told him that the law had changed on that point. The $1,- 200 limitation on earnings for beneficiaries applied to all earn-, ings from employment or self-em ployment whether from work covered by social security or not. But I thought that it was a good time to tell him that the law had also changed the age when the earnings test was no longer effective. The new amendment has a provision which places no test on the amount of a person’s earn ings when he is 72 or over, no mat ter what job he has. Under the old law, this age was 75. » ' ' There are other advantages for partially retired people under the new law. I*m goig to explain them in one of my later articles. The gentleman promised to read about the other provisions which might affect him. He had one other question for me before he hurried home to tell his wife about the new law and how it would af fect them. “When does this earn ings tept become effective?” IN A FOG . . . Agatha Acker, 3, and her doll don masks in pro test against smog conditions in Pasadena. Smog has hampered ^ business and social life gener- ^ ally throughout southern Cali fornia. dates on our calendar . . . October, when I get my first, increased benefit check, and January 1, 1955, when the new earnings test will apply to me.” He was smiling when he walked out of the office. It will be applied to your earn- and that smile is one of the grati- ings beginning January 1, 1955.” fying parts of my job as your “We’re going to circle those eial security representative. — «• L The father berg; (e) *. The Libya; <e| 3. Jujube refers te (a) a mmtw (b> ; - isiM! . - * w BIG OHEOl •v , - ,< •* 3 «. ■ >:l ■ k { WkSk *•: * Christmas Mary A. K eane Club .JJ TO One Hundred an< ^.^ ty . $150.00 DOLLARS '■WX s. c . NATIONAL bank. MRS. HAWKINS PATIENT IN LOCAL HOSPITAL Mrs. B. F. Hawkins who was admitted to the Newberry Me morial Hospital Sunday, Novem ber 21st for treatment is now get ting along nicely. NOTICE OF DELINQUENT TAX SALES STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF NEWBERRY To Whom These Presents May Concern: In compliance with the law, the Treasurer of Newberry County has issued in the name of the State, tax executions against defaulting taxpayers of Newberry County to the Tax Collector thereof. By vir tue of said tax executions, the Tax Collector is directed and com manded to seize, real or personal or both, to raise a sum of money sufficient to cover delinquent taxes of taxpayers hereinafter listed, plus the charges thereon, and he will, after advertisement, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the same property before the Court House Door of the aforesaid Coun ty on a regular salesday in Decem ber (December 6th., 1954) within • the usual hours of public sales. After completing these sales, the Tax Collector will give to the purchaser a receipt for the pur chase money, but will not make title to the purchaser until after a lapse of twelve months from date of sale, if property sold, is not redeemed within the year. 1 lot, one building in Tax Dis trict number 1 OS, County and State aforesaid, assessed in the name of Alma Dominick. 2 lots, in Tax District number 2, County and State aforesaid, as sessed in the name of George H. Martin, Estate. 1 lot, 1 building, in Tax District number 4, County and State afore said, assessed in the name of Alice Byrd Estate. Four lots, one building in Tax District number 4, County and State, aforesaid, assessed in the name of E. T. Osborne. 2 lots, one building, in Tax Dis trict number 4, County and State aforesaid, assessed in the name of Julius Wallace, Jr. 1 lot, 1 building in Tax District number 7, County and State afore said, assessed in the name of 7. J. Wilson. T. L. Hill Tax Collector 29-3tc. From / -ii ' i\ fjk . ' -0' •v ‘' w v . t -r . ;H THE NEWBERRY Jmm RPtil Of The 'i SOUTH CAROLINA NATION. iansK ■mm ‘■At- -a Wt •> ■- u: Everybody’s Happier When A Christmas Club Che< jl. PAYS THE BILLS nm.* -**■ ■ ™ V p: :■ • --V j. -v \ '»Y> : • • 1953-54 Club Checks Will Be Mailed In Time To ! Reach You On November 30th! w _ a When everybody’s dearest dream comes true on Christmas morning . . when nobody (not even Dad) has to worry abont paying the bills ... well, -that adds up to the happiest, merriest Christmas ever! Why not decide now to have this kind of Christmas at your house in 1955? It’s easy when you look ahead, plan ahead and save ahead the Christmas Club way. Just a little, put away every week, buys a great big load of Christmas . joy for everybody! Santa’s pack ’o gifts comes paid-in advance to every Christmas Club member. Join the 1955 Club on Wednesday, December 1st, 1954. SOUTH CAROUNA NATIONAL ' i:y. >v Y.- f%: , NEWBERRY BRANCH JOHN T. NORRIS, MANAGER ■ r.r .. L# S&'f . ..