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Wm m%m" NK?H sp , ^r ? w-.' 5 T'; s ^T : t .^rW_ " 7 'r \ ' V -" ' ' ■ : f^ PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, APRUL, 28, 1955 £■> un 1218 Collegre Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937 at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. * COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS Are the courts beginnig to meddle in church affairs? Some days ago a Presbyterian elder brought me some news; he has a connection with the Baptist and had just read in a Presby terian paper something that was a puzzle to him. Frankly, it was incredible to me and I began to imagine how the courts of North Carolina became interested in a bit of dis sension in a Baptist church. Perhaps a word of explanation is in order for our friends tober, Georgia now has a sheep population of 22,000. Farmers wanting to import sheep can get a loan or make arrangements for 100 per cent of the c6st, at an average in terest rate of 6 percent with 18 months to pay. Some South ern banks have made the great bulk of $150,000 in loans so far for sheep importing. 1 About 30 farmers a day query a bank, or the University of Georgia to ask about getting into the sheep business. And several dozen farmers a week stop at the experimental farms for a closer look at sheep prospects. Besides providing a day- by-day research lab for the budding sheep industry, the farms are good advertisements for the buildup campaign. When crop restrictions first began to idle thousands of acres of land, many farmers turned to beef production. But the Georgians argue that lambs are a better bet than beef. For one thing, lambs can go straight to market from grass pastures, by-passing the costly finish feeding necessary with cattle. Also, the nation’s beef supply has been built up in all regions since the war, and cattle priqps have taken some sharp spills. Dixie’s farmers think their climate will enable them to succeed where Westerners failed. Georgia’s mild crimate and ample rainfall produces lush pastures .that will support four sheep to the acre. In the arid west, one sheep has to graze over eight or nine acres to find enough to eat. Southern lambs fatten to market weight in five to six months, eating nothing but grass and their mother’s milk. But their West ern sheep ranchers must hire extra help to watch flocks Moore-Epting Wedding And Parties bands are concentrated on a few acres where tjiey can be tended by a farmer in his spare time.” Hr' s who are not Baptists so there may be a clear understanding roam i n g across thousands of acres, while in the South, small of the issue. Each Baptist church is completely independent; there is no authority in or over a Baptist church except the membership of that church. The Baptists have Associations and Conventions, which are meetings of delegates, but such bodies have no authority over even the smallest church. In order to promote the general religious causes the chur ches cooperate; such cooperation is in and through Associa tions and Conventions and the Boards, Committees and Com missions chosen by such Conventions. But the absolute au tonomy of each church is part and parcel of th6 Baptists. Let me quote a report published in the Southern Presby terian Journal of March 10: “The N!orth Rocky Mount Baptist church, in North Caro lina, by a majority vote, withdrew from the Southern Bap tist Convention. As to the issues involved and the wisdom of their withdrawal, I have nothing to say. It is their legal right to withdraw that is the important point. The minority went to court and the court awarded them the property. The i§T- judge claimed that he did not rule on religious beliefs. But the court defined what a church is, and held that a Baptist church could not withdraw from the Convention and be in dependent/. Now, certainly, the definition of the church is a religious belief on which denominations differ. The Baptists contrary to the Presbyterians, have always held to indepen dency and have claimed that there is no ecclesiastical au thority superior to the local congregation. But the news re ports say that the North Carolina supreme court has made it illegal for Baptists to conduct their affairs in accordance with Baptist doctrine. In spite of the fact that the minority has won a legal case in favor of the Southern Baptist Con vention, we wonder whether the Convention in good cons cience can accept the verdict. Will they insist on retaining the local property at the cost of having their beliefs on the nature of the church‘settled by the civil government?” The Southern Baptist Convention has nothing to do with the property of any Baptist church. The decision of the N. C. supreme court is clearly founded in ignorance of a cardinal principle of Baptists. I know nothing about the dissension in the Baptist brother hood in North Carolina, nor am I concerned about it, be cause, as a Baptist myself, I have no right to participate in the affairs of any Baptist church except the one in which I holl membership. Very likely the learned judges thought the Southern Baptist Convention was a Supreme Court for Baptists; but they don’t know us Baptists, we have no Su preme Court except the majority of the membership of each church, present and participating. n jYea, verily! Do you know Walterboro ? Although a spacious boulevard runs through the town, one of the g?eat highways of our State, most of the retail business is carried on in a narrow street which brings to mind Charleston and the towns of Europe. i I walked the length of that street and was attracted by the handsome places of business, broad inviting store fronts. I began my little walk after calling on Editor Smoak, who had the good fortune to be out, probably getting items for his extraordinary paper. And the people on the streets spoke as though I were an old*friend, courteous and hospitable folk that they are. I had the pleasure of a few minutes with my esteemed friend, L. M. Neale, in his sanctum in the radio station. I had just passed through the splendors of subur ban Walterboro, whose multiplicity of tourist establishments make of it a white-way of its own. I did not see my old team-mate, Joseph M.’Moorer; nor did I see another former associate, Col. Heber Padgett. I wondered if the W. C. Pearcey is the man I knew so pleas antly in Orangeburg. I am planning a few more such trips—to Beaufort, Aiken, Bennettsville, Greenwood, Newberry -(most happy to have you Colonel—Ed.), Clinton and Greenville. On my way home I dropped by the sanctum of Editor Ma- gill, in St. George. And we swapped the time of day, though I had to leave before he could tell me all the great things of old Dorchester county. My occasional visits to my newspaper and radio comrades always refreshes me and renews my zeal for our fine old state, now breaking out in a new and more vigorous youth. | If we may not plant tobacco and cotton shall we raise ^ sheep? As most of you may know, farmers are given allot ments which entitle them to plant a certain number of acres of tobacco, or cotton, or both. For example, I have in mind a | farmer who bas 212 acres of cropland; he may plant y 3.1 acres of tobacco and 48 acres of cotton. What will he do with the remaining 160 acres, more or less? Shall he plant corn, oats, wheat? Even then he would have acres idle. Shall he use the land for sheep? ' “More than 100 farmers scattered across Georgia are con vinced they can make a go of sheep raising, a farm activity that’s discouraged many of their rural neighbors in the West. The Georgia farmers figure they have two big fac tors working for them: Land diverted from cotton under Federal crop restrictions and a cure for a parasite that’s kill ed sheep in the South since Civil war days. Sheep can turn grass into wool and meat, giving us a new cash crop,, explains one of the converts to sheep raising. He pastures 200 sheep in lush grass growing on a worn out hill side fields diverted from cotton by acreage restrictions. Many Southern farmers face the same problem—finding a cash crop for land they’ve had to take out of cotton. Geor gia’s 1955 cotton allotment is 950,000 acres, against 1.2 mil lion acres last year and a 1941-50 average of 1.4 millions. Thruout the South, cotton can be planted this year on only 7.9 million acres, compared with a 1941-50 average of 10.9 -Inu-n. The folks who farmed this idle land are keeping a eye on the attempt by Georgia farmers to become part-time shepherds. Here are some of the things being done in Georgia to build up a sheep industry: Sixteen experimental sheep farms have been set up in past few months. Some 7,000 sheep have been brought | the State by nearly 100 different farmers since last Oc- The wedding of Miss Joyce Moore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Newton Robert M)oore of Prosper ity, and Jerry Paul Epting, son of tyfr. and Mrs. Homer Epting, Sr., of Newberry was solemnized at five o’clock, April 10, in St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Pros perity. The church was decorated with pine, southern smilax and gladioli, with seven - branched candelabra to form an appropiate background. The double ring ceremony of the Lutheran church was perform ed by Dr. Thomas F. Suber, pas tor of the bride. A program of wedding music was rendered by Miss Mary Pat Taylor organist and Miss Barbara Hawkins, soloist. The usher-groomsmen were Homer Epting, Jr., Charles Ept ing, Bobby Sease, and Edwin Hav- ird. Mr. Edwin Havird and Mr.' Homer Epting, Jr., lighted the candles. Miss Shirley Hawkins, cousin of the bride, was maid of honor. Miss Shirley Ann Hipp and Mrs. Homer Epting, Jr., were brides maids. The attendants wore dresses in colors of blue, laven- dar, and yellow nylon net over matching taffeta and carried matching carnation nosegays. Miss Emily Moore, sister of the bride, was anl honorary brides maid. She wore a lovely dress of pink faille trimmed with rose velvet and a pink carnation cor sage. Master Keith Nichols, cousin of the bride, dressed in a white lin en suit, carried the rings on a white satin and lace covered pil lar. Little Miss Judy' Wise, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wise and cousin of the bridegroom, was the flower girl. She was dressed in a lovely blue net taffeta dress, and she scattered flowers in the path of the bride from a blue frilled basket Homer Epting, Sr., of Newberry was his son’s best man. The bride was given in marriage by her father. She wore a lovely gown of white taffeta overlaid with chantilly lace fashioned with a scalloped neck and hem line. Her veil of French illusion was attached to a halo of seed pearls and orange blossoms. She carried a white Bible topped with a white orchid and showered with White streamers. The bride’s mother wore a printed navy and white silk dress with white and navy accessories and a white carnation corsage. The bridegroom’s mother wore, an aqua printed silk dress with white accessories and a white car nation corsage. v Immediately following the cere mony the bridal party received at the door of the church. Mrs. Vi* vian Holsonback of Newberry pre sided at the register. 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The hostess presented the ho nor guest her gifts while she was blindfolded drawing a picture of the bridegroom. The hostesses assisted by their mothers, Mrs. Harvey Hunter, Mrs. Raymond Hipp, and Mrs. J. L. Koon, served sandwiches, cup cakes, potato chips, and iced drinks to abput 40 of Joyce’s friends. > Miss Joyce Moore, bride-elect was honored with a miscellaneous shower given bjr Miss Shirley Hawkins and Mrs. W. S. Worts at the home of the latter on Friday night, March 18. The chair for the honor guest was marked with a lovely corsage of daffodils and green net. After several games and con tests the honor guest was pre sented numerous gifts in a large clothes hamper, gift of the hos tesses. The hostess assisted by her mother, Mrs. Sara Hawkins and Mrs. W. S. Werts served a deli cious salad course, cake, and spiced tea. just the ticket On Saturday evening, April 9, Mrs. W. S. Werts, aunt of the bride, entertained the bridal party after the rehearsal. The party ropms were decorat ed with spring flowers. , In the dining room the table covered with a lace cloth was centered with a three tiered wed ding cake decorated with white roses and topped wtyh a miniature bride and groom and flanked by lighted candles. After the bride and groom cut the cake it was served with punch to the guests. Throughout the evening, mints and nuts were passed. fLoyd-fleMming Mr. and Mrs. Washington Clark Floyd announce the marriage of their daughter, Camilla Ancrum, to Mr. Joseph Peter Flemming, on Saturday, the second of April, 1955 at Pelham, New York. Mrs. Flemming is a niece of Louis and R. C, (Dick) Floyd, of this city. CHAIR BOTTOMS and chair re pairs. Cane bottoms in straight chairs, $1.65; rocking chairs ac cording to chair. Expert service and all work guaranteed. Also, for sale, belts and pocketbooks. Prices most reasonable. Your patronage will be greatly appre ciated. See Frank Webb, 821 Bess St. pd * . 4: ' < > -r, ■ V i*sl m OgWtffLr.: • mm f & tissue tussah soys ttsli-tish to heot and travel troubles .. . • transition-wise, too '\ A ;A \ • with the look of a flne-fmp^rt bo^h^in its sheer new fabric and its styling .. this sl^e^eless ' charmer will work double time, day and eyeing. Of fine cotton-rayon tussah, cool, crisp, if! fn black, navy, grey or brown. Sizes 10 mi ’m inter’s —— On Wednesday night, March 16, Miss Joyce Moore was entertain ed with a miscellaneous shower, in the Education Building of Zion Methodist ‘church, by Misses Alice Faye Koon, Judy Hunter and Shirley Ann Hipp. The honor guest’s chair» was marked with a yellow satin horse shoe with flowers and white net The room was decorated with spring flowers . Throughout the evening games and contests pertaining to “luck” were played. 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