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Gift Problems? Read The Ads VOL. 17—NO. 33 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1954 4 $2.00 PER YEAR 0 • Is This Farm Familiar? THIS IS OUR “MYSTERY FARM” No. 13. It is a Newberry County farm as seen from the air. The first person in the city who correctly identifies the farm will receive a certificate for one free TV service call from Geo. N. Martin Radio & TV Service. The first person in the county who correctly identifies the photo will receive a one-year subscrip tion to The Sun. In addition 5 tickets each from The Wells, The Ritz and Clover-Leaf Drive-In Theatres will be given to five runners-up in the city, and county. For those wishing to write in their guess, five tickets are being reserved for those guessing the correct farm by letter or card. Please call The Sun office, telephone No. 1. No other calls will count in the game. (Sunphoto by Frank Armfield from Shealy Flying Service plane piloted by Marion Wiggins.) Water Storage Discussed At City Council Meeting The regular meeting of City Council which was scheduled for Tuesday night of this week was postponed until last night (Wed nesday) in order that the mem bers might meet with representa tives of the District Soil Conser vation Service to discuss water storage for the city. Council had previously request ed that the Soil Conservation Ser vice- make a survey and recom mendations for storing water to be used in Newberry in case of ■water shortages. Engineers of the Service met with Council last night to make a report of their findings. Also among the items on Coun cil’s agenda for last night was the final adoption of the business license ordinance, and a discuss- ' ion of the policy of the Newberry Fire department in handling calls from outside the city limits. Music Pupils To Present Recital The music pupils of Mrs. Henry Cousins will be presented in an informal piano recital in the Pros perity high school auditorium Fri day night, December 17 at 7 p.m. The public is cordially invited to If attend and is asked to note change of time of the recital. Roy R. Dominick Dies At Home Here Roy R.: Dominick, 66, died early Wednesday morning at his home on 1316 College street. He had been in declining health for the past 12 years and was seriously ill the past six months. I Mr. Dominick was born in Pros- j perity, the son of the late Simp- ! son and Fannie Moore Dominick. He had made his home in Newber- j ry for the past 20 years and was a brickmason by trade. Survivors, besides his wife, Mrs. Florence Reeder Dominick, are three sons, Simpson Dominick of Hiwasee Dam, N. C.; Henry and Ocie Dominick, both of Hialeah, Florida; three daughters, Mrs. Roy Peele, Laurinburg. N. C.; Mrs. Vernon Wilson, Franklinville, N. Y., and Mrs. Don O’Donell, Buffa lo, N. Y.; two brothers, Lanston and Walter Dominick, both of Chappells; three sisters, Mrs. Ma rie Barrnaue, Manning, Mrs. H. B. Dominick, Webster, Florida; and Mrs. Bessie Jackson of Georgia; also fourteen grandchildren. Funeral services were incom plete at the time The Sun went to press, but will be announced la ter from Whitaker Funeral Home. Home Decorations Awards Be GiveJEL ..... Prizes will again be given this year for the homes judged to be best decorated in the Christmas tradition, according to L. C. Graham, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. A prize of $5 will be given for the best decorated home in each of the city”s six wards. Judging will be by one of Newberry’s civic or service clubs and will be held during Christmas week. PRE-SCHOOL NURSERY A Pre-School Nursery will be held in Marion Davis Park on Sat urday, Dec. 18 and from Dec. 20- Dec. 24 inclusive from 9:00-12:00 and 2:00-5:00. A qualified person will be pres ent and anyone wishing to take their children there are invited to do so. The children will play games, color, have a story hour, and do many other things. In case of in clement weather, a .shelter with heat is available. There is no charge for this nur sery, which is sponsored by the Recreation department. JR. HIGH PTA MEET TODAY CANCELLED The meeting of the Junior High School Parent-Teacher association scheduled for tonight (Thursday) will not be h .Id die to tae amount of illness in the city. COUNTY BAZAAR PROCEEDS $2700 Approximately $2,700 was rea lized from the Newberry Coun ty Bazaar, held at the Armory on November 19th for the pur pose of raising funds to pay for the new stadium fence and rest rooms at Newberry College, ac cording to Preston McAlhaney, treasurer of the Bazaar Commit tee. x The purpose of the fund rais ing campaign was to help pay off a debt of $8,000 in notes of $100 each, endorsed by 80 inter ested individuals, in order that the stadium fence could be con structed during the past foot ball season. The total amount of the pro ject was $12,000, $4,000 of which was paid by the College. Howard B. Kirkegard was chairman of the Bazaar commit tee. Much of the material used in the barbecue supper and auc tion which followed was donat ed, making possible a large per centage of profit on the affair. Central WSCS To Meet Monday The Woman’s Society of Christ ian Service of Central Methodist Church will meet Monday after noon, December 20, in the parlor of the church at 4:00. The Young People of the church will give a Christmas program and all mem bers are urged to attend. ■ ktA " IHgni tu xuiiuuiacc piano I'll Vy V>11 1/VsX which win ue neiu au tne college Citizen School Dates Decided The dates for the Citizens Edu cation Center to be held next year at Newberry college were announc ed Monday night at a supper meet ing of the Center committees held at Newberry college dining hall. The school will run from February 7 until March 7 with two courses to be offered each night. Hours of the school will be from 7:30 p.m. until 9:50 p.m. C. A. Kaufmann, acting president of Newberry college, presided over the meeting which was attended by about 40 committee members. Mr. Kaufmann introduced Miss Marguerite Tolbert, supervisor of adult education for the State de partment of education, who dis missed other citizens education centers held thruout the State, emphasizing in particular the one held at Clemson Which was at tended by more than 1000 adults. James C. Abrams was elected dean of the school. It was an nounced that fifteen courses would be offered this year, and efforts are now under way to secure in structors. Schools Of City, County Close; Influenza Rages Holiday Schedule To Vary At Local Mills Employees of Kendall mills, New berry Textile Mill and Newberry Garment company will be given holidays next weekend in observ ance of the Yule season. Newberry Textile mills will close ' Thursday morning, Decem ber 23 at 6 a.m. and remain closed until Tuesday morning, December 28 at 6 a.m. Employees who have been with the mill a specified length of time will receive pay for Christmas Day, according to G. B. Sessions, superintendent. D. O. Carpenter, manager of the Oakland plant of Kendall, an nounced that the plant will be closed Friday morning at 6 a.m. and will reopen Monday morning at 6. Employees of Oakland Will receive pay for Christmas day. William Tedford, manager of Chamber Plans Ahead For Annual Meeting In April Many Public Gatherings Postponed To Prevent Spread Of Disease At the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Com merce which was held Monday night, the Board authorized the president of the Chamber, Richard L. Baker, to appoint a committee to select a speaker for the annual Chamber of Commerce meeting to be held in April. Other committ ees to make plans for the meeting will be named at a future date. eligible for the L. B. Dickie Mem orial Scholarship to the 1955 Southeastern Institute to be held at the University of North Caro lina at Chapel Hill in June 1955. The appointment of Mr. Graham' was made by Mrs. Jessie M. Wylie of Batesburg, president of the South Carolina association of Com mercial Organization Executives. The Southeastern Institute ,is The Board also disclosed that 1 on » of four such training schools an inquiry had been received from personnel of an industry interested in ^locating in Newberry. A com mittee was appointed to handle this inquiry. Plans are being formulated by the' Board to print folders, adver tising the city and county of New berry. These w-ould be distributed in an effort to attract industry to Newberry. Secretary L. C. Graham said to day that the Chamber will rent the film “It’s Everybody’s Business’’ a production of the National Cham ber of Commerce on the subject of freedom of industry. The film will be made available to organizations throughout the country, free of charge. Representatives of all these organizations will be asked to attend a meeting at the Cham ber offices on December 30th to work out a schedule for showing this picture. The film was pre viewed in Newberry recently and w r as received with enthusiasm. Plans were discussed at the meeting to have all directors and a number of committee chairmen and others to attend a special workshop for training chamber personnel to be held in Columbia on February 16. L. C. Graham, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, has been appointed chairman of a commit tee to select a nominee from a- mong the secretaries of Chambers of Commerce in the state to be BIRTHDAY GREETINGS held in the United States each year for the purpose of training chamber of commerce secretaries It is usually attended by more than 400 chamber secretaries each year. Ther& are 10 states repre sented in the Southeastern area, (Continued on page eight) An influenza epidemic has clos ed the Newberry City schools and some of the county schools, and many public gatherings have been cancelled in an effort to keep the *• > .• Victor Rogers Rites In Marion Victor “Vic” Rogers, 71, died early Wednesday morning at the Newberry Memorial Hospital after a serious illness of one week. He was born in Marion, the son of the late Samuel and Mary Gaines Rog ers. He had lived in Newberry for the past 40 years and before his retirement had bfeen employed by the Newberry Textile Mills. He was a member of the O’Neal St. Methodist Church and for the past few years, a member of the Ches- lea Cannon Bible Class of Central Methodist Church. He is survived by one brother Herbert Rogers of, Charleston and a number of nieces, and nephews. Graveside services will be con ducted at one o’clock Thursday (today) afternoon by the Rev. J. W. Davenport / in Rosehill Ceme tery at Marion. The body will 're main at the Whitaker Funeral Home until eight o’clock Thurs day morning. The family requests that floral offerings be omitted. ■ ■my 1 "» 1 1 1 ~ the Mollohon plant of Kendall said that his ]#aiit %oukr also be closed from Friday morning at 6 unt Monday morning at 6. The Newberry Garment com pany will cease operations on Thursday afternoon andwill re- oW according to Jameajfsmp all public B. Henderson, manager, , I for the remainder of the i hi » disease from spreading further. P. K. Hanpon, director of city and county .schools, announced Tuesday that the schools in the city would be closed that after noon and remain closed until Jan uary 3, 1955. A survey made Tues day morning showed that absen teeism in the city schools ranged * from 20 to 25 per cent. ilr. Harmon also announced f hat other schools in the county wquld continue to operate until further notice, inasmuch as ab sences in the rural schools were only half that in the city. HoVerer •a$ea superintendents were given authority to close schools in the county provided absenteeism rea- ched 20 per cent, and it was an nounced Wednesday that Silver- street and .Bush River schools would close 'after pchool on Wed nesday afternoon and remain clos ed until January 3, 1965. John Grady Long, Silverstreet area superintendent, also announc ed that the music recital schedul ed for Wednesday afternoon was indefinitely postponed; that a spaghetti supper, sponsored by the junior class to he held tonight, (Thursday) had been cancelled and that the basketball game set * for Friday night had also been called off. A little more than 30 per cent of the Silverstreet stud ents were absent Wednesday and / school officials reported that many of thoae attending clasaoa had severe colds and coughs, and that this was also a factor leading to the decision to close the school. Dr. 3. Claude Sease, the connty health officer has recommended :. that parents keep their children V % m 1 'ft* , ', ■£ 11 . i v- Dec. 17—Mrs. D. B. Sease. Dec. 1g—Miss Lucy Epps, Cor- rie Crumpton, Joan Louise Dom inick, Walter James Joye, _Mrs. Elizabeth Harris, Marion Eargie, Lorena Lancaster, George Hel ler, Jr., J. N. Nicosia. Dec. 19—Betty Jo LiVingston, Mrs. R. C. Neel, Sr., Mrs, A. N. Crosson, Jr., Judith Mills, Mrs. Claude Stoudemire, A. D. Mar tin. Dec. 20—Mrs. John Glymph, Mrs. Effle Wightman, Mrs. Paul H. Long, Wallace Ruff, ^Sandy” Fretwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Fretwell. Dec. 21—Mrs. E. B. Purcell, Thomas James Crooks, Derrill Darby, W. E. Spearman, R. E. Hanna. Dec. 22—Herbert Griffin, Jas. R. Leaved, Prof. Ralph H. Setz- ler, Janet Murphy, Mrs. O. C. Phillips. Dec. 23—Rev. C. A. Caicote, Mrs. Pinckney Abrams, Mrs. H. O. Chambers, Claude Buzhardt, Frank Lominack, Jr., James Henderson, Martha Jean Long shore, Mrs. Clay Ballehtine, Jackie Shealy. Dec. 24—Benjamin Anderson, Mrs. Mary C. Long, Ed Senn, Mrs. Ellen Abrams. SHOWN AWARDING A 25-YEAR service pin to Carrol S. Mills, member of l^rosper- ity Lodge No. 115 AFM, is .Thomas H. Pope, Senior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina, AFM. The award was made at the Lodge’s annual Ladies Night Wed nesday, December 8. Also shown are, left to right, Curtis Shealy of Baljentine, Grand Treasurer and J. Ansel Eaddy of Lake City. Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina; Mr. Mills, Mr. Pope, and Joe N. Wilson, Worshipful Master of Prosperity Lodge No. 115. (Sunphoto by Frank Armfield.) Prosperity A.F.M. Lodge Ladies Night On Wednesday evening, Decem ber 8, Prosperity lodge number 115 A.F.M. held Its annual ladies night at the banquet hall of the Masonic temple in Prosperity, About 125 Masons, their wives and guests at tended. A delicious banquet was served by the ladies of the Eastern Star chapter. Following the meal, Joe N. Wil son, Worshipful Master introduced thd Masters of surrounding lodges who were guests of the lodge and had each member introduce his guests for the evening.' James C. Abrams, Junior Grand Deacon of the Grand Lodge of S. C. A. F.M. was then presented and introduc ed the various officers of the Grand Lodge who were in attend ance, and M. W. J. Ansel Eaddy, Grand Master of Masons in S. C. who delivered the principal ad dress. Mr. Eaddy explained to the group the meaning of Masonry. He stated that Masonry was reme being. It Is in no way intend ed as a ’•eligion, but was founded by men who had a deep belief in God. In his eloquent manner, he went on to stipulate the require ments for one to be a good Ma son and to show that there Is no conflict between the organization and the church, each having its particular place in the lives of men striving to live a better life. R. W. Thomas H. Pope, Senior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina was Introduced and in turn awarded twenty-five year masonic pins to two mem bers. ' Carrol S. Mills and Graydon J. Pugh were the recipient of the awards. A note from Mr. Pugh was read expressing his regrets for being unable to attend the ban quet. The presentation of service awards, both twenty-five and fif ty year pins is an annual affair of the lodge at its Ladies Night These pins are furnished by the Grand Lodge of South j Carolina. They cannot be purchased and, therefore, only those certified by the Grand Secretary as meeting the requirements are eligible to wear one. J. Ray Dawkins, secretary of the lodge and past District Deputy, presented Mr. Eaddy with a gift as a token of the lodge’s apprecia tion for his taking time but of a very busy schedule to be In at tendance and bring a message to the group. Officers who served the lodge during the past year are: Joe N. Wilson, Worshipful Master; Ralph B. Black, Senior Warden; James E. Wicker, Junior Warden; B. Thompson Young, Treasurer; J. Ray Dawkins, Secretary; Miax Sam Cook, Senior Deacon. -Grady Lee Halfacre, Junior Deacon; Richard H. Ross and W. Lindsay Bedenhaugh, Stewards; and John W. Taylor, Tiler. founded on the belief in a Snp-