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w-mz :■> The Sun can furnish printed and engraved invitations for that Spring Bride. Stop by and see samples of our quality work. LJ U ' l.l tilt News'you know may be of inter est to others. Send items and no tices to us. We'll be glad to pub lish them. VOL. 17 ; NO. 48 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, - THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1955 4 $2.00 PER YEAR * Br-v-rl SHOWN AT THE JOINT MEETING of Soil Conservation District Supervisors at the Wallace Home Tuesday night are, left to right: Dr. T. S. Buie, State Conservationist of Columbia, guest speaker; E. E. Epting, local SCS technician; Clifford T. Smith, SCS district supervisor; Claude L. Lester, district supervisor; J. T. McCrackin, Jr., chair man, Newberry district soil conservation supervisors; and T. B. Amis, local SCS techni cian. (Sunphoto.) Bush River Watershed Is Discussed At Supper Meet A joint supper meeting of New berry and Laurens Soil Conserva tion District supervisors was held Tuesday night of this week at the Wallace Home, with mayors from New T berry and Clifton, the city manager from Newberry and rep resentatives of civic clubs as spec ial guests. The purpose of this meeting was to report on the pro gress of the proposed Bush River watershed in Newberry and Laur ens counties. J. T. McCrackin, Jr., chairman of the Newberry County Soil Con- eervation District Supervisors, pre sided and introduced the guest speaker, T. S. Buie, State Conser- Tationist of the South Carolina Soil Conservation Service,"'"from Columbia. Dr. Buie has just re turned from an area meeting in At lanta with technicians of the fed eral government to work out plans for watersheds. According to Dr. Buie, there is a pilot watershed in Oconee County, sponsored fully by the federal gov ernment, but the Bush River wa tershed in Newberry County and a small portion of Laurens county is $2,500 Goal Set For Easter Seal 'County Appeal A goal Of $2,500 for 1955 for the Newberry Easter Seal appeal was announced recently by Char lie Bowers, chairman of the Easter Seal campaign. The campaign continues through April 10th and it is expected that the people of IS Newberry County will give the same splendid support as was re ceived last year. Those who contributed last year made it possible to provide an ambulance trip to the Clinic in Columbia; to provide psychological examination; books and home bound teaching for a crippled child; to provide medicine for several children for the prevention and checking of a dreaded disease; provided a lift for a needy child; provided a wheel chair and many other services. Just now there is a call for another wheel chair and for an artificial leg. With funds received from the 1955 Easter Seal drive, several teachers will be sent to school for special training in how to teach the handicapped. These teachers will direct classes for the handicapped which are to be set up under the state Board of Education. one of the first to be approved for survey, under Public Law 566, signed by President Eisenhower last August. A team of federal Soil Conserva tion technicians, including geolo gists, hydrologists and economists, will make the survey at the ex pense of the federal government, to check on the practicability of the project, which would include the construction of dams on tribu taries of Bush River and other measures to control the flow of water, to prevent erosion and to provide water for irrigation pur poses. The program is designed to fill the gap between the present work of the Soil Conservation Service and the flood control work of the Army engineers. Such a pro gram was authorized by Public Law 566. This law is being ampli fied and will be set out in a hand book being prepared by techni cians of the federal Soil Conserva tion Service. The cost of the Bush River wa tershed -would be on a share basis between the conservation district land owners and the federal gov ernment. If given approval by the team of technicians, construction of the project would have to come before Congress to be approved or reject ed by vote, or automatically ap proved if allowed to remain on the Calendar of Bills for 45 days with out action. The percentage of the cost has not been worked out, but Dr. Buie indicated that work which had already been done on the Bush River watershed by land- owners would be credited on their part of the cost. Cliford T. Smith, who had the major role in bringing about this project, as well as all members of the local Soil Conservation office and SCS supervisors, requested the cooperation of all civic and service clubs in pushing the pro ject to a successful completion. Mr. McCrackin announced that Soil Conservation Week would he held in Newberry County April 17 through 24. One of the features of the week "will be a tour on Ap ril 20, which will include inspec tion of the Bush River Watershed. Newberry and Laurens County conservation districts will cooper ate in the tour. School Bus Drivers Training Scheduled Three driver-training schools for county school bus drivers have been scheduled for next month, according to an announcement to day by James D. Brown, county superintendent of education. Driv ers will be trained by members, of the South Carolina State High way Patrol. Two of the schools will be held at Newberry High, the first on Ap ril 14-16 from 9:00 a. m. until 5:00 p. m., and the second from April 18 through April 20 at the same hours. The third school will be at Gallman High April 11 through 13, from 9:00 a. m. until 5:00 p. m. Bus driver training courses are held In the county ea«h year for school bus drivers, most of whom are boys 16 years old or older, stu dents of the various schools. * Mr. Brown stated that since the train ing course had been in operation and with the student drivers, a very good record had been compil ed and that no major accidents have occurred since 1952. Girl Scout roop 6 To Have “Cookout” Girl Scout Troop 6, of which Mrs. Sarah Nichols is leader, will have a “cook-out” tonight (Thurs day) at the Ridgeway farm on Glenn street extension. The 25 members of the Troop will assem ble at Mrs. Nichol’s home and will hike to the Ridgeway farm, where they will be assigned to groups to make fires and cook their food, in practice for a troop camp which will be held later in the spring. Molly Partridge, who will be a' counselor at the Girl Scout Camp at Timberridge, Ga. this summer, will be in charge of the cook-out. She will be assisted by Margaret Land Keitt, who is a senior girl scout, assisting this year with Troop 6. Troop 6 is composed of girls in the 7th grade, 12 and 13 years of age. Assistant leaders of the troop are Mrs. John Felker and Mrs. Frazier Lominack. Pet Company Aids In County Economy A report made by the Pet Dairy Products Company, seen else where in this issue, shows that during 1954, the Pet Company purchased 7,165,477 pounds of milk from 36 Grade A producers in Newberry County, for which the company paid $446,831.56. The Pet Company has been serv ing Newberry with a complete line of dairy products, all manu factured or processed in Columbia, for the past three years. It has been buying milk from Newberry producers for the past ten years, and is the largest purchaser of Grade A milk in NewTberry County. Pet maintains full time labora tory control with a laboratory technician in each of its plants at Columbia and Greenville. It also furnishes for the benefit of the producers from whom it buys milk, the services of two field men who are graduates of college in dairy science. These men, Charlie Cousins from Newberry and Jay W. Stratton of Greenville, work with the producers on proper feeding, breeding and quality con trol. They also cooperate in soil conservation practices and proper pasturing. , The milk purchased by Pet in Newberry is picked up from the farm one morning, transported in insulated trucks and received at the plant in Columbia at not over 50 degrees F.; processed the same day and delivered fresh to grocery stores and homes in Newberry the following morning. Flower Show Canceled Due To Freeze Of Last Weekend Due to the disastrous freeze dur ing the past weekend, the Council of Newberry Garden Clubs has regretfully decided to cancel the Spring Flower Show' w r hich was to have been held in the Communi ty Hall on April 20th. A survey of damage to gardens caused by the low r of 17 degrees on Satur day night, followed by a low of 26 degrees on Sunday night, indi^ cated that there was such severe injury to plants that there would be no specimen of flower show quality by April 20th and probably not even by the later date. Rather than hold a flower show of medi ocre quality, the Council prefers to cancel it for this spring, accord ing to the Council president, Mrs.' W. Roy Anderson. Mrs. Anderson, along with th© chairman and co-chairman of t Flower Show, Mrs. Price J. Pad gett and Miss Grace Summer, wls The six nationally accredited judges who had been secured by the Judges Committee, Mrs. Rich ard L. Baker, chairman, will be notified of the cancellation. Complete plans for the staging of the show' had been worked out by Mrs. Gurnie Summer, chairman t>t staging. Fortunately, no sup plies had yet been purchased. Sincere appreciation is expres sed by the Council to the business Jirms and professional growers iwho w’ere planning to help with ;the conservation and Educational Division of the show r : Soil Conser vation Service and Champion Pa mper and Fibre Co. for conserva- :ion exhibits; George Earhardt’s ris; Carter and Holmes orchids; iHal Kohn Enterprises for a gar- en scene. r A feature of th^ show w r as to ave been a non-competitive se- ies of arrangements symbolizing to thank all committee chairman the months of the year, to be call- and members for th© many hours «d “Through the Year in Newber- of planning and work that have |ry,” staged in the 12 window led- already been spent on this pro- »ges of the hall. They were to be * _ r-X 1 _ 1 J ‘ n V. -» i svl* 4- s-alxiVtCf ject. Schedules have already been distributed to all garden club members, who are now requested to bring them to their next gar den club meeting, where they will be collected and returned to the schedule chairman, Mrs. Thomp son Price. It is hoped that they can be used some other spring, when the weather is more suitable tor the theme, “Springtime in New berry.” The container committee, with Mrs. C. C. Duncan, chairman, has collected hundreds of tin cans and milk bottles, which were to b<$ painted. About one hundred of these have already been, painted by Mrs. Johnny Werts and Mrs. G. O. Shealy. These will be stor ed for future use. The hospital la also thanked for the large number of 46 ounce juice cans which they had collected. arranged by eight garden clubs ;and four florist firms. Sincere ap preciation by the Council to Ver na and Hal Kohn; Carlton’s Green house; Shealy Florists and the Main Street. Flower and Gift Shop for their cooperation. CORRECTION . . . i In last week’s issue of The Sun there appeared an article about William T. Shealy, Who is serving with the Navy aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge at the Tachen Islands. The informat ion sent to The Sun by the Navy was as follows: “William T. Shea ly, eeaman, USN, son of Mrs. Dora W; Shealy and husband of the former Miss Dora V. Wofford—”. This information was in error. Seaman Shealy is not married. His mother is the former Miss Dora V. Wofford. iim wm Jy.-.• kPI? ' Jersey Sale At Fair Grounds On April 1 The South Carolina Jersey Cat tle Club is holding an annual Spring Registered Jersey Heifer Sale at the Newberry County Fair grounds on April first. This sale will begin at 1:00 p. m. Twenty - seven select heifers have been consigned by South Carolina breeders. Five Newberry County breeders have consigned 13 heifers. The Newberry County 4-H Club Council will sell sand wiches and drinks at a booth. W. E. Senn, president of the Newberry County Jersey Cattle Club extends a cordial invitation for the public to attend this sale. THE BEAUTIFUL HOME of Mrs. E. A. Carpenter is one of the five homes to be featured in the St. Luke’s Epis copal Church Home and Garden Tour on April 13th. Mrs Ernest Carpenter’s lovely Georgian type home at 1103 Cal houn Street is to be one of the homes on St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, homes and garden tour. As you enter the front door you are immediately aware of two ex quisite credenzas. They are of dark Honduras mahogany. Over the left one are two Coats-of Arms; one Carpenter, one Cunningham. They are framed in matching carved ivory. The antique theme is car ried out by colorful steins, figu rines, and vases. These interesting pieces are backed by Bird of Para dise wallpaper. Sliding doors open into the liv ing room. This room charming with a contrast of bottle green walls and light Honduras mahogany bookcases. The draw draperies are a lighter shade of green than the walls, with peach shadow curtains. Mrs. Carpenter’s father-in-law, Mr. J. C. Carpenter made a simple table of dark mahogany, which is placed in the far corner of the room. A beautiful braided rug, the predominate color red, immediate ly strikes the eye. On the left of the entrance hall is the Music Room. Attractive beige draw draperies and light aqua ceiling, lighten the dark brown papered walls. On the man tel are twin crystal candlebra. (Continued on page 8) Council Appoints Recreation Director - ,v \ \\ •" ?! ' ' C 'V V . - '■ , ^ ,, -.s-SW - ax << ■m \ Z % $ u * ® % % ■ ' J*/ >\-» - ¥1 lip •. Jfe * I!' ■ m: Y mm SHOWN ABOVE VIEWING A RECORD OF QUALIFICATIONS of the newly ap pointed city recreation director are Mrs. A. G. McCaughrin, member of the City Rec reation Commission; Mayor J. E. Wiseman, Gordon Goodman, Jr., the new director. Rev. Paul E. Monroe, Jr., chairman of the recreation commission and City Manager Ed Blackwell. (Sunphoto.) College Drive Goes Over Top The Newberry CoUege Pre-Cen tennial Building and Endowment Campaign, which ended last week, is expected to exceed the quota of $500,000 when all reports are in, according to C. A. Kaufman, acting president of the Donationa to the qampaigi received total approximately $475, 000. This includes contributions from citizens of Newberry, alumni of the College in all parts of the country, and Lutheran churches in the South Carolina Synod and the Georgia-Alabama Synod. A num ber of churches in the two Synods have not reported, said Mr. Kauf man, and it is expected that when their reports are in, the contri butions will exceed $500,000. A similar campaign, with a goal of $75,000, will be held in the Florida Lutheran Synod in May. Clean-Up Week Begins Monday Most Civic and Service Clubs in Newberry have joined as co-spon sors with the Chamber of Com merce in promoting “Clean-Up Week” beginning Monday, April fourth and lasting through the week, according to L. C. Graham, secretary of the local chamber. To day (Thursday), Boy Scouts will place posters in store windows and tags on cars, urging citizens “Don’t Be Litter-Bugs.” All co operating organizations are asking members to do their .part in clean ing up the city during the drive. A list of tne organizations coop erating in the effort follows: American Legion and Auxiliary, Boundary Street PTA, Boy. Scout Council, Business and Professional Women’s Club, DAR, Exchange Club, R. E. Beck, representing all elementary schools; J. V. Kneece, representing high schools; Council of Garden Clubs, Jasper Chapter, DAR, Jaycees, Kiwanis Club, Lions Club, Literary Club; Also, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5968 and Auxiliary; Moose, Marion Davis Mothers Club, Moth- eres Club No. 1, Mothers Club No. 2, Pre-School Mothers Club, New berry Medical Auxiliary, Mollohon PTA Oakland PTA, Speers Street PTA. Junior High PTA, West End PTA, Rotary Club, Women’s Club and Civic League. Special Services At 1 Pentecostal Church The Woman’s Auxiliary Conven tion of the Newberry District will meet at the Pentecostal Holiness Church at the corner of Pope and Nance streets Friday night, April 1st at 7:30. The guest speaker will be Mrs. Lastinger of Columbia. The Children’s Choir will sing during the meeting. There will be about 15 churches represented at this 'meeting. Goodman Reports For Job At Newberry On May First A recreation director for the City of Newberry was appointed at a special meeting of City Council and the City Recreation Commis sion on Tuesday afternoon. March 2} at Council chambers. He Is Gordon Goodman.’ Jr., presently of Shelby, N. The new director 32 of age, is married and has three children. He received the degree of B.S. in Industrial and Rural Survey Being Made In County Schools - A survey is now being conduct ed in the county schools to deter mine the number of physically and mentally handicapped children of school age in the county. The sur vey is being conducted toy Mrs. Julia R. Smith, county attendance teacher, in cooperation with the Newberry County School District and the State Department of Edu cation, and the purpose of the sur vey is with view to establishing a separate school for handicapped children provided there is a suffi cient number to justify the estab lishment of such a school, accord ing to James Brown, superintend ent of education. Reports of the survey will be sent to the State Department of Education, and in the event the establishment of a school is con sidered justified in the county, it would then be necessary to secure qualified teachers before further action could be taken, according to Mr. Brown. In addition to the temporary certificate required by the State Board of Education, teachers in schools for the physi- ca'lly and mentally handicapped must also attend orientation work shops. There three such workshops held this summer, at Clemson College from June 13 through July 2; at the University of South Carolina from July fifth through July 23 and at $tate A&M College from July 6 through July 26. Recreation in June 1951 from North Carolina State College in Raleigh, N. C. and since that time has been employed in Shelby,' N. C.. Roanoke Rapids, N. C., Wichita Fhlls, Texas and Bremerton, Wash ington. He is a member of the The appointment climaxed a search for a director by a special committee of the Recreation Com mission to fill the position left vacant by the resignation of Char les Kohlbecker. Mike Maksim, graduate of Newberry College this spring, has been filling in as tern- - porary director until a permanent director could be selected. The committee, composed of A1 Weigle, chairman, W. I. Click and Wirt Jennings, studied the appli cations of 35 candidates for the * job. A number were ruled out, ac cording to Mr. Jennings, because of Having no previous experience. Others w r ould not consider the job at the salary offered, $4500. M v . Jennings stated that the committee felt that Mr. Goodman was . the best qualified applicant who would accept the salary offered. Attending the special meeting were Mayor Wiseman, City Mana ger Blackwell, Councilmen Layton, Dufford, McConnell and Holloway, and the following members of the Recreation Commission: Chairman Paul E. Monroe,* . Mrs. A. G. Mc Caughrin, Wirt Jennings, C. A. Dufford, Jr* W. I. Click, Bobby Schumpert and O. M. Cobb. The newly appointed ' director advised Council and the Commis sion that he could be released from his present job to take over his new duties by May 1st, or possibly sooner. ^ — BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Ticket Committee To Report Today L. C. Graham, secreta/y of the Chamber of Commerce, stated to day ‘ that members of the ticket committee are selling tickets this week to the annual meeting and banquet to be held on April 28th. The ticket sellers will make their report on Thursday (today) morn ing. Mr. Graham requests any member of the Chamber who was not contacted and who desires to purchase tickets to report this to him immediately at telephone 355. Conduct Services The district youth director of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, Rev. Floyd Bower of Greenville, will conduct the Sunday morning and evening services at the New berry Pentecostal Holiness Chur ch. April. 1: Jake Wise, Mrs. Ber tha D. Boylston, Mrs. C. E. Saint- Amand, Otla L. Whitaker, Mrs. A. E. Hazel. April 2: Fred Hayes, Oliver Cromer, Mrs. Sam J. Shannon. —April 3: Mary Ruth Armfield, Mrs. J. B. Harman. April 4: C. T. Summer, W. H. Dlckert, Mrs-^T. T. Abel {Pitts burgh, Pa.), Miss Rebecca Lom- inick, Mrs. Herman Halfacre, J. H. Cook, James Edward Plam- pln, Mrs. J. E. Wiseman, Anne Bruner, Miss Myra Hardy. April 5: Mrs. Arthur Dwyer, A. C. Ward, John Francis Scur- ry. • April 6: Phillip Plampin, Mrs. Jasper Amick, Constance Arm- field Sanders, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. (Doris Armfield) Sanders. April 7: Mrs. E. E. Stuck, Mrs. John (Emma Riser Nance) Thomas, Wava Billingsley, W. F. Smith, Bobby Bruner. 1 cm ■- m M m*:. ■. C 4 KCxMigm J i . fW,