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VOLUME 18—NUMBER 10.
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1055
+ $2.00 PER YEAR
By The Way
By DORIS A. SANDERS
VOTING TIME NEAR
The city Democratic primary is
less than five weeks off now. I
have noticed in years past that
the majority of eligible voters is
quick to exercise the privilege of
criticizing elected officials, hut a
large percentage of that majority
fails to exercise the privilege of
voting. Seems some people just
WON’T vote unless their ire is
sufficiently aroused. And about
the only way to do that is to have
a candidate “crammed down their
throats.” That will bring them
out.
We don’t have any such situa
tion in our city primary this year,
but that doesn’t make your vote
any leas important. Not having
a way to get to the polls is no ex
cuse. I’m sure there are candi
dates in the race who w r ill be
glad to furnish cars and even
baby-sit while you are voting if
necessary. There are a number of
civic and service clubs which of
ten take on worthwhile projects.
A “Get-the-vote-out” program
would be a good idea for every
club to adopt at its next meeting,
and then do something about it.
I recall the Jaycees did some
thing of this kind in an election a
few years back, and they were
most successful. All clubs working
together on such a plan should
bring out a record vote.
WAR DECLARED
Mayor Wiseman stopped by
Tuesday to tell me that City
Manager Ed Blackwell had been
given the go-ahead on a “War on
roaches.” The first round in the
battle took place Tuesday morning
and will continue until the city is
rid of the nuisance, if Mr. Black-
well has his w r ay about it. He
doesn’t intend to leave a roach
in the city except those with
their “toes turned up.” I told
the Mayor since the roach pro
gram had begun, I thought that
now was the time to start a cam
paign against mosquitoes, which
figem bigger and more potent this
ever before. He tells
me the spray being used for the
roaches will also be effective
against mosquitoes, flies and
other insects.
The city is going to spray every
possible breeding place on public
property and also garbage contain
ers on all property in the city.
But they aren’t going to stop
there, says Mr. Blackwell. The
spray truck will go to the home
of any individual and spray any
breeding place for these insects
at the request of the property
owner.
Please, let’s all cooperate and
see if we can exterminate these
pests. Just call 131 to have the
spray truck come to your home.
And put out roach poison your
self, if you have the varmits in
side your house.
SOMETHING NEW
Something new r w r ill be tried in
New r berry this fall, and I believe
it will work. Parents are some
times dismayed to find that their
children barely miss the age dead
line for entering the first grade
of school. This year, the children
in this age group will have a
chance to go .to a private school,
and if their work is satisfactory,
they will be eligible to enter the
second grade during the next
school term.
Mrs. Margaret Welborn Tyson
will be teaching this private
school and will be able to acco
modate 15 youngsters. They .will
receive the same course of in
struction prescribed for first
graders in the public schools. Mrs.
Tyson, who has taught in New-
.berry schools for several years,
has been certified tq conduct such
a private school by the State De
partment of Education. If you
are interested in having your
youngsters enrolled, contact Mrs.
Tyson.
Elaborate Moonshine Still Is Destroyed
Efforts Being Made To
Extend Airport Runway
LOOKING OVER THE WHISKEY STILL which was destroyed last Thursday afternoon are Deputy L. L. “Slim” Henderson and
Olin Willingham. Deputy Henderson said that this was one of the largest moonshine manufacturing set-upe the sheriffs force had raided
in some time. Six hundred gallons of mash were poured from the 12-barrel still, which was Jpcftte^Ufn the Beth Eden section, a part of
the county which has given very little trouble in the past as far as illegal whiskey is concerned. Deputy Henderson stated that the con
denser, which he is holding in the picture above, is a new type In his experience. The still !}ad |||feapacity foV producing 300 gallons of
“white lightning” on ohe run, about 90 gallons a day. Although Hhe sheriffs office has a line on the still, operator, they have been unable
to catch him with the goods, according to Mr. Henderscn ; The offlcfafa’ attention was caHeck to thl^llJI'by an unaccounted-for amount
of traffic on a small dirt road by a sawdust pile. Mr. Henderson investigated and located the still by the creek. (Sunphoto.)
Clerk Of Court Job Involves Varied Tasks
During the past month there
have been a series of articles in
The Sun about the National
guard. In each story there was a
figure showing the 1954 payroll
for each of the units. The total
1954 pay roll for the four local
units of the Guard amounts to
1113,800.35. This isn’t all the
money brought into Newberry by
the Guard, so Capt. Jerry O’Quinn
infpnns me. He was kind enough
to get up the additional informa-
v'tion on salaries of full-time em-
}■ ployees and advisors connected
with the guard here. The total,
for eight civilian employees and
five army advisors is $67,840.00.
Added to the Tegular guard pay
roll, this brings in $181,640.35 to
be spent in Newberry each year.
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Water Supply
Project Meets
With Approval
Newberry City Council has ap
proved a raw water project sys
tem on the Saluda River to quad
ruple the city’s supply of water.
The project is to cost more than
a halfmillion dollars.
City Attorney R. Aubrey Har
ley was authorized to expedite
the sale of revenue bonds re
quired according to the estimate
of the engineers.
With the present rate from the
Bush River pumping station at
one and one-halt million gallons
daily, Newberry’s supply will be
almost six million gallons daily.
“There’s only one thing I don’t
like about this job,” said Clerk
of Court Charlie Bowers when he
was being interviewed about his
office the other day, “I don’t get
to see enough of the public, al-
i though I am in public office.”
While the name of almost ev
ery citizen of the county will go
through the clerk’s office in a
year’s time, there are few' occa
sions for the citizen himself to
visit the clerk’s office, since most
of the business the average per
son would have with the clerk’s
office is done by an attorney. Mr.
Bowers and his two deputy clerks
Burke Wise of Little Mountain,
und Mrs. Mildred R. Harmon, of
Newberry, keep busy. though,
with the many tasks involved in
the office. The clerk has three
titles: Register of Mesne Convey
ances. Clerk of the Court of Com
mon Pleas and Clerk of the Court
Long Lane School
Bids Rejected
Two properties belonging to the
Newberry County School District
were sold at public auction Tues
day morning on the front steps
of the Court House. A third prop
erty, Long Lane School, brought
such low bids that all bids were
rejected.
Charles Lake purchased a bus
shed and workshop at Stoney Hill
for the price of $125.
James Suber was high bidder
for a portion of the Gladden prop
erty, a house and lot on South
Street. Suber, who has been liv
ing in the house for a number of
years, paid $3100 for the property.
This was a portion of the more
than ten acres of the Gladden
property purchased by the school
district for expansion of Drayton
Street Elementary school.
of General Sessions.
The first of these jobs is con
cerned altogether with public rec
ords of property conveyances,
mortgages, and other papers
which are recorded. The latter
two jobs are associated with the
operation of the circuit court in
Newberry county.
The clerk’s duty begins wdth
drawing the jury for courts. As
one of the three jury commission
ers (the other two are the audi
tor and the treasurer) he helps
with drawing the jury for each
term of court. In December of
each year, the office personnel of
the three jury commissioners com
pile the “box” from which the
jurors are drawn. The list is made
ted fro mjury duty are teachers,
up of eligible male voters. Exemp-
preachers, lawyers, doctors, em-
ted from jury duty are teachers,
balmers, pharmacists, dentists,
city and coun4y officials, peace
officers, and any person over age
sixty-five.
Two weeks before each term
of court the jury commissioners
advertise the time and place a
jury will be drawn. The public is
not only allowed to attend the
drawing but is welcomed. When
the venire (list of jurors for the
term) is completed, the clerk ot
court turns the list over to the
sheriff, who sees that jurors are
properly summoned to court.
In the court room Mr. Bowers
has a variety of tasks. He admin
isters oaths to the jurors and to
witnesses; he arraigns prisoners
in open court; that is, reads to
them the charge against them and
asks how they plead to the charge
—guilty or not guilty. He issues
bench warrants for witnesses or
defendants who fail to appear in
court when ordered to do so; he
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DORN DENOUNCES
AID PROGRAM
Rep. Bryan Dorn in a speech to
the House denounced the foreign
aid program. He told the house,
“Yes, Mr. Stassen and his crowd
are for it. They want to make it
permanent because they have the
best job giving away money they
have ever had in their lives. The
world is on a spree and hayride
with America picking up the
check.
CLERK OF COURT CHARLIE BOWERS looks up a record in one of the many record books on
file in the vault at the clerk’s offiqe in the County Court House. (Sunphoto.)
The Airport Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce, with John
C. Billingsley as chairman, and
the Newberry County Airport
Commission held a meeting re
cently to discuss ways and means
for extending one of the runways
at the Newberry airport, according
to Chamber Secretary L. C. Gra
ham.
The object of the proposed ex
tension is to have runways suffi
ciently long to accomodate larger
aircraft for freight and passenger
service.
There are presently two 174)0
foot runways. The committee and
commission propose to extend one
of the runways tc 2000 feet or
more. The help of the South Caro
lina Aeronautics Commission has
been promised in constructing the
runways provided the land for the
extension can be secured, said Mr.
Graham.
At the time the city and coun
ty purchased the airport property,
it was necessary to buy more
than was needed in order to get
the necessary locations for the
runways. Mr. Graham said that
efforts are being made to trade
some of the airport land not be
ing used for other lands that will
be needed to extend the runway.
The Commission also hopes to
sell some of the unused portion ot
the land to help finance the con
struction of the runway.
“We hope it will he possible to
get freight service and possibly
passenger-shuttle service to the
larger airports,” said Mr. Graham.
He visualizes the time when the
major airlines may run a shuttle
service through Newberry. “This
would require approval of the
Civil Aeronautics Board,” he said,
“and we can’t get that approval
until we *have the accommoda
tions.”
Mr. Graham stated that many
towns of this size have had to
close down airports. “We are’
very fortunate.” he controlled, “in
having a person like Glin Shealy
to manage our airport.”
Mr. Shealy became manager of
the airport at the time it was
opened. The airport administra
tion building was financed by the
South Carolina Aeronautics Com
mission, ibut Mr. Shealy built the
hangars and other buildings at
the airport.
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Crooks Rites At
Central Church
On Wednesday
Thomas Pressley Crooks, New
berry merchant, died suddenly on
Monday morning at Newberry hos
pital. He had been in ill health
for several months.
Mr Crooks was born in New
berry county, son of the late Al
bert and Arie Cromer Crooks. He
was a member of Central Meth
odist church, had served on the
Board of Stewards and was a
member of the Chesley Cannon
Bible class. He was a Shriner, a
member of Amity Lodge, AFM,
financial secretary of Mount Plea
sant Woodmen of the World, and
a member of the Newberry Ex
change dlub.
Surviving are his wife, Sadie
Lester Crooks; two brothers, Jas.
D., Pomaria, and M. Brab, New
berry; and one sister, Mrs. Jacob
A. Bundrick, Pomaria.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Wednesday at 4 p. m. at Cen
tral Methodist church by Rev.
Herbert Spell. Burial followed in
the Graham cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Henry
Hentz, Olin Layton, Ernest Mar
tin, Raymond Nichols, Jimmy Les
ter, Arthur Shealy, Dick Shealy,
and Robert Crooks.
Serving as honorary pallbearers
were: Dr. B. M. Montgomery, Dr.
Reyburn Lominack, Adger Long
shore, Pat Mitchell, Harry Domi
nick, J. W. Swindler, the officers
of the Woodmen of the World, of
ficers of the Chesley Cannon Bible
class, officers of the Exchange
club, officers of the Shrine club
of Newberry county and the offi
cers of Amity Lodge, AFM.
GRADE 2-A AT V SPEERS STREET SCHOOL is taught by Miss
Annie Abrams. Students in the claaa during the past year are, left
to right: Row 1, Linda Brown, tfarrtetta Hagood Clary, Rickie Chap-
man, Hugh Auton; R^iir Mao, 'Rpwwy Dick-
^ cai
Myrna Camp, Joan Dominick, Elaine Ellis, Mike Hamilton; Row 4,
Jeffrey Cavanaugh, Roy Mills, Betty Bowers, Philip Kelly, Louise
Cooli, Vendeze Counts; Row 5, Henry Auton, Susan Frazier, Mannie
Rowe, Robin Foy, Dale Eargle, Peggy Bannister, Johnny Cousins;
Row 6, Miss Abrams, Johnny Myers, Beverly Evans, Philip Bouk-
night, Bonnie Campbell. (Photo by Nichols.)
School Building Program
Progresses Over County
Work is progressing on school
buildings iti Newfberry County al
a cost of $406,988, according to
County Superintendent of Educa
tion James D. Brown.
Newberry High School cafe
teria is being constructed at a
cost of $172,879. The new addi
tion will also contain four class
rooms. Spong Construction Co.
1 of Columbia has the contract. The
other v school addition is at Park
Street in Whitmire, where a
cafetorium is being built. The
structure will cost $54,355, and
the work is being done by W. E.
Baker and Son of Whitmire.
A new elementary school for
Negroes, to he known as the Reu
ben Elementary School, is being
built in the county to serve the
Silverstreet and Bush River areas.
The structure will cost $179,754
and will house 16 classrooms,
cafetorium and office. It is being
built by C. G. Shockley Construc
tion company of Columbia.
Other new buildings erected
during the past two years for Ne
groes include Gallman High
School in Newberry, which serves
the entire county and cost over
$300,000; Carver' Elementary
school at Whitmire, and a new
elementary school at Pomaria
and Prosperity.
Bids will be opened Friday for
a gym and shop at Whitmire High
School.
The total cost of new schools in
the past two years for Negroes in
the county will be approximately
a million dollars.
Leopard Aboard
Aircraft Carrier
Serving aboard the attack air
craft carrier USS Intrepid is Biliy
E. Leopard, aviation electrician’s
mate third class, USN, son of Mr.
and Mrs. D. P. Leopard of Route
1, Pomaria.
The Intrepid, which relieves the
carrier USS Randolph, arrived in
Gibraltar June 8 and is due for a
six month tour of duty with the
6th Fleet in the Mediterranean
area.
MRS. CARPENTER
ENTERTAINS GUESTS
House guests of Mrs. E. A. Car
penter, employees of Carpenter’s
store, and other friends and rela
tives enjoyed a chicken (barbecue
dinner cooked and served on the
grounds of the Carpenter home on
Monday, July 4th.
BIRTHDAY
GREETINGS
Closed Next Week
The local Selective Service
Board office will be closed on
Friday, July 8; also Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, July 13, 14,
and 15. Any person wishing to
contact the*board for any reason
please take note. The office will
be open Monday and Tuesday,
July 11 and 12 of next week.
Reporting for induction into the
army on Friday, July 22, will be:
Iren Clarence Livingston, Jr., Rt.
3, Newberry, and Ricnard C. Glas
gow, colored, Newberry.
July 8: Mrs. D. H. (Constance
Armfield) McHargue, E. I. Lomi-
nick, John McCullough, Mrs. Fos
ter B. Spotts, Betty Stone, Olin
Lominick, junior.
July 9: Frank Sanders, “Rusty”
Wilson, L. Pope Wicker, Jr., Ron
nie Michael Bedenbaugh, George
W. Martin, Lang H. Ammons,
Miriam Jollay, J. H. Cook., Jr.,
Mrs. D. R. Son.
July 10: Mrs Bill (Evelyn Lea-
vell) Davis, Sara Ann Nichols,
George Senn, George W. Summer,
Louis Brossy, Jr.
July 11: Alan Johnstone, Beth
Long, Mrs. Jessie Dawkins, Mrs.
F. A. Longshore, Doris Marie
Sheeley, Ralph EL Epting, John
Grady Long,
July 12: Tabor L. Hill, Mrs. E.
W. Yates, Sr., Buddy Waldrop,
Wayne C. Spearman, Frank R.
Higgins.
July 13: Elbert Aull, Marcia
Todd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
M. W. (Jean Copeland. Todd,
Emory Hayes Bedenbaugh, Mrs.
Bennie Livingston, Mrs. C. H.
Cannon, Aubrey Wicker.
July 14: Holland Sligh, Tom
Summer, Mrs. Ralph Black, Nor
man Martin, Juanita Felker, H. E.
Thomas, Martha Lominack, Mrs.
C. L. Holloway, Mrs. W. R. Bouk-
night, Max B. McKittrick, Dr. S.
L Hunter.