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VOLUME 18—NUMBER 12
By The Way
By DORIS A. SANDERS
Half Pints Taken
In this issue or The Sun you
•will see an item about the next
visit of the Blood mobile, which
will be on August 1st. Also listed,
in another article, are the names
of those who have donated blood
four or more times in the past.
The blood program has been a
wonderful thing in Newberry.
Since Newberry has been in the
Red Cross Blood program, there
hits never been the time when
blood wasn’t on hand when the
need was anticipated in advance
and even in emergencies when
the right blood type was not avail
able at the hospital, it has been
quickly secured through the ef
forts of the blood program direc
tors in Columbia and Newberry
and the South Carolina Highway
patrolmen, who, in such times, re
lay the blood from Columbia to
Newberry.
I’m all for the blood program,
especially having benefitted from
it myself. My only regret is that,
while other members of my fam
ily have repaid the blood that
has been used for me, I personal
ly have not been able to donate
any. When the program first
started back during the war, I
was in Washington, D. C. I ar
ranged to take time off from work
to go donate blood, only to be
told at the blood center, “we
don’t take half pints.” Now' I
can’t help if I’m only five feet
tall and weighed less than 100 at
the time. It seems that at that
time, if you didn’t weigh at least
110, they wouldn’t even consider
taking your blood.
Since I have been back in
Newberry, I have found that the
Bloodmobile can’t take blood from
a mother within a year after a
baby is born. Well, that has elim
inated me until next February,
anyway, then I’ll try it again.
Mrs. Hannah Pool tells me, by
the way, that the Bloodmobile
does take half-pints now—mean
ing blood in that quantity, not the
size of the donor. The blood pro
gram is life-saving and money
saving. Please make plans to do
nate on August 1st.
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA,THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1955
+ $2.00 PER YEAR
((
Citizen Of The Year
99
Is Jesse Frank Hawkins
Dang-erous Business
Gordon Goodman, city recrea
tion director, has asked me to
mention that the manager and
life guards at the swimming
pool cannot be responsible for
fthildren left there who ?re too
f oung to take care of themselves.
He tells me that last week,
someone left a child, who was
under two years of age, at the
pool alone. The little toddler
went in the water, and a lady
sitting nearby, who was fully
clothed, went in the water to
take the baby out. I just can-
nof imagine such negligence on
the part of a mother in leaving
a child at the pool, or any other
place alone, at that age. If any
thing had happened to the child
the' person leaving the baby
should be brought into court and
tried for criminal negligence.
Heartaches Above
Much was said last week about
the C-124 Globemaster which
came 40(h miles over, the Pacific
to land safely w’ith only two 01
(Continued on page 8)
JESSE FRANK HAWKINS
Jesse Frank Hawkins, farmer,
dairyman, churchman and com
munity leader, was named the
Newberry County Citizen of the
Year in a county-wide contest
sponsored by the Newberry Lodge
No. 1718 Loyal Order of Moose.
The announcement and presenta
tion c the award, a handsome en
graved placque to Mr. Hawkins
were made at a supper Monday
night at the Newberry hotel.
Mr. Hawkins is a life-long res
ident of the Hartford community
where he owns and operates a
large dairy farm. He attended the
school of his community and was
a student at Clemson college for
one jear, attending on an agri
culture scholarship.
Without an exception letters
from individuals and organiza
tions recommending Mr. Hawkins
for the Citizen of the Year honor,
told of his loyalty to the church,
and to his neighbors and friends.
Also listed his many activities as
a community builder and told of
his outstanding achievements as
a farmer and dairyman and above
all expressed love and admiration
for a man who always extended a
helping hand to those in need and
who never wanted publicity or
fanfare for deeds that stemmed
from a heart full of compassion
for his fellowman, a compassion
that was extended far beyond the
boundaries of community and
county.
A lady a neighbor, in her rec
ommendation, wrote, “he is al
ways seeking to help others more
than himself. He is a friend to
everyone. In sickness or trouble
he is there to lend a hand, not
only’ to those in his own com
munity, but to everyone in trou
ble.”
Another wrote, “he is known to
our own city and county people
to be a very unselfish, thoughtful,
sympathetic man a, true Christian
who is loyal to his every duty. He
is among the first to reach and
render every assistance possible
to those in trouble. On one occa
sion when a tornado struck a
friend’s farm, Mr. Hawkins came
and brought help with carpenters,
( tools and men to help get the
' stock under shelter and helped
restore the buildings and cleaned
up the debris. When homes and
property are destroyed by fire
he has furnished food for family
and animals and helped in a big
way otherwise.”
Another excerpt from a letter
stated: “Mr. Hawkins’ deeds have
been done without fanfare or re
ward and to name him Citizen of
the Year might let him know that
the community recognizes and ap
preciates his deeds.”
The entire membership of the
Hartford grange of which Mr.
Hawkins is past Grand Master, in
telling of Mr. Hawkins’ life as a
community leader, church leader
and friend, said “if his friends
cannot secure his nomination as
Citizen of the Year it will be be
cause a summary of his activi
ties cannot be reduced to words.
His reward will be in the hearts
of those who know him best.”
Mr. Hawkins, a life-long mem
ber of Ebenezer Methodist church
in his community, has served as
a steward for 25 years and 10
years as secretary of the Newber
ry circuit Quarterly Conference.
He sponsored the building of an
additional Sunday School class
room for young people. He has
been a teacher of the young peo
ples class for many years. His
leadership and influence has been
greatly responsible for the pro
gress of MYF, a young peoples
group of the church. He has de
voted time and effort to the beau
tification and upkeep of the
church and also of the cemetery.
Although Mr. Hawkins and his
wife, the former Anna Dickert,
have no children, they have shown
a keen interest in the young peo
ple and their activities in the
community. They reared and ed
ucated Mrs. Hawkins’ niece Betty
Jane Lefler Wessinger who lives
with her air force husband in Wil
mington, Delaware.
Mr. Hawkins achievements in
agriculture and dairying have
been outstanding. He originated a
plan of annual grazing in 1929
that has been adopted not only
in South Carolina but in the
Southeastern states. This plan
with minor changes is now follow-
(Continued on page 4)
Committees Given Green
Light By Chamber Board
The Board of Directors of the
Newberry Chamber of Commerce
had a busy session at its regular
July meeting held Monday night
at the Wiseman hotel. Reports
were received from all committee
chairmen as to their individual
programs of work for the coming
year; all reports were approved
by the directors and the commit
tee chairmen were given the green
signal to get started on their in
dividual programs, according tp
W. H. Tedford, president of the
body. He asked the chairmen to
send monthly reports of progress
to the Board.
Other items considered included
a plan to have all types of busi
nesses and organizations repre
sented on the Board of Directors.
L. C. Floyd was given the task
of making recommendations to
have this accomplished, possibly
by changing the by-laws to allow
a longer lapse than one year be
tween the time a director finishes
one term before being elected as
director again.
A discussion was held as to
ways and means to warn people
not to sign contracts for money
raising projects. This racket
has been worked in Newberry ex
tensively, according to Secretary
of the Chamber. L. C. Graham. The
most popular of these plans is
the selling of cook books for
which the solicitor sells adver
tising to local merchants, takes
most of the money, furnishes
shoddy cook books which organi
zations must then sell to make
money. It was recommended that
letters be written to church
groups, 4’TAs and other clubs and
organizations warning those of
ficials not to sign such contracts
without first investigating. The
chamber secretary can give infor
mation as to whether solicitors are
reputable.
Among the committee reports
heard wbre Airport and Transpor
tation, by John C. Billingsley,
chairman; Forestry, T. A. Har
grove, chairman; Agriculture, J.
N. Beard, chairman; Publicity and
Public Relations. John T. Norris,
chairman. Details of these reports
were given in a previous issue of
The Sun.
The Educaton Committee, H. B.
Itirkegard, chairman, proposed'
Business Education Day to be held
sometime during the year. More
details will be given on this B-E
Day after a meeting of the com
mittee in August.
The report of the Civic Commit
tee, of which Ernest Layton is
dhairman, was presented by Mar
ion Workman in the absence of
Mr. Layton. Discussed by
this committee were the securing
of more parking lots in the city;
the congestion around the city
schools, especially on rainy days;
improvements of streets and high
ways; a campaign to clean up va
cant lots; getting baseball teams
to hold spring training in Newber
ry; approved the installation of an
elevator at the Community Hall,
a project being undertaken by the
Civic League; assisting the City
in securing an ample water sup
ply.
The membership committee, N.
R. McElveen chairman, made
plans for increasing the member
ship, hoping to get at least 300
members of the Chamber. The
number at present is approximate
ly ISO. A membership campaign
has been tentatively set for the
middle of September.
The Merchants Committee, T.
Roy Summer, Jr., chairman, dis
cussed holiday closings; a Christ
mas parade and street decora
tions; special city-wide coopera
tive events and a Fall Sales Jubi
lee. The possibility of a Trade
Area Survey in the county tfas
also discussed and* plans made to
conduct such a survey if possible.
Council Discusses Possibility
Of Swimming Pool For Negroes
OFFICERS OF THE INDIAN CLUB of Newberry, re-elected at the Monday night supper meet
ing of the club are, left to right, Harvey Kirkland, president; C. A. Dufford, Jr., T. B. “Dad” Amis,
Wayne Martin and Bryan Livingston, directors. Absent when the picture was made were Meredith
Harmon, secretary and treasurer and J. W. “Bill” Smith, executive vice president. (Sunphoto.)
Bowers Named To
FHA Committee
Jacob A. Bowers of Prosperity,
is the new member of the New
berry County Committee for the
Farmers Home Administration.
His appointment became effective
July 1, John C. Culler, Jr., the
agency’s county supervisor an
nounced. Mr. Bowers succeeds
J. Pinckney Hawkins who resign
ed to accept work with the Pros
perity postoffice.
Mr. Bowers is president of the
Bank of Commerce in Prosperity
and was formerly employed by the
S. C. National bank at Newberry.
The other two members of the
committee are John F. Kunkle a
farmer from the Silverstreet com
munity and Claude M. Satterwhite
a farmer of the Bush River sec
tion of the county.
Bloodmobile Is
Coming; Donors
Are Listed
The Newberry Kiwanis club,
sponsor for the August 1st visit
of the Bloodmobile to Newberry
county, has named Leon Nichols,
recruitment chairman, according
to an announcement from Howard
Turner, president of the local Ki
wanis club. Mr. Turner and Mr.
Nichols have named the following
team captains: Gordon Clarkson,
Bill Click, Ed Duckworth, T. B.
(Dad) Amis, J. W. Henderson, Er
nest Layton, Wayne Martin, Ches
ter Hawkins, ^Walter Ridgeway,, S.
D. (Bozo) Paysinger, Houseal
Norris, Claude Weeks, and How
ard Turner. Each member of Ki
wanis has been named to serve
on one of the above teams. Cap
tains have been asked to make the
first progress report at the Thurs
day, July 21st meeting of Kiwanis.
Mrs. Leroy Anderson will serve
as Service group chairman. Vol
unteer workers serving on Mrs.
Anderson’s committee will be an
nounced later. Persons available
to serve as volunteers are asked
to contact Mrs. Anderson.
The bloodmobile will be at the
Central Methodist church between
the hours of 2 and 8 p. m. The
need for blood is urgent. Plan now
to donate on August 1.
Donors Listed
Mrs. Tillman Wise has donated
blood to the Red Cross Bloodmo
bile 14 times in the past, Record
ing to Claude Weeks, chairman
of the Red Cross Blood Program.
Charles E. Paysinger has donated
lime*. Mis* Cynthia Martin,
Leon D. Nichols and Marvin O.
Sanders 11 times, Ralph W.
Young, ten times.
Other frequent contributors to
the Bloodmobile, whose donations
have helped to keep the blood
program functioning in Newberry,
are:
Nine times: M. D. Hoffmeyer,
Mrs. Roselle G. Mills, Mrs. Leon
D. Nichols, Garel Satterfield, John
A# Williams, Jr.
Eight times: Virgil C. Bouk-
night, Mrs. Jeannette Crooks,
Miss Lois Graham, Ira H. Kinard,
Keitt Purcell, Robert I. Wesson.
Seven times: Russell C. Addy,
Leroy Anderson, Robert E. Beck,
Mrs. Thelma Evans, Miss Ruth
Graham, Terrell Lee Sease, O. K.
Shealy, Paul E. Shealy, Mrs.
Ruth W. Stockman, W. E. Taylor,
Claude L. Weeks.
Six times: James C. Abrams,
Mrs. Louise W. Cobb, James H.
Davis, James W. Dickerson, Paul
S. Goethe, Miss Mary H. Graham,
Felix B. Greene, Jr., Grady H.
Humphries, William B. Kitchen,
Kenneth Long, Mrs. Margie C.
Longshore, Leonard J. Moore, Mrs.
Hannah R. Pool, 'Mrs. Trent K.
Furcell, Malcolm E. Shealy, Joe
H. Welborn, William W. Whelan.
(Continued on page 8)
BIRTHDAY
GREETINGS
July 22: Willie Robert Gil
liam, Sam A. Cook, Mrs. Lily
Mae Buzhardt, T. H. Reeves,
William E. Burr III, son of Mr.
and Mrs. William (Cornelia
Clary) Burr.
July 23: Tommy Tindall,
Sandra Kay Burns, Mrs. Carrie
Kinard, Wayne McCullough,
Mrs. Homer Long, Marion Wal
ton, Jewel Waldrop, Dr. R. A.
Goodman, Mrs. Louis Brossy
July 24: Mrs. W. A. Attaway,
Alberta Wicker, Roy Long.
July 25: Mrs. Dick Mims, Da
vid Summer, Mrs. I. M. Smith,
Mrs. R. E. Hanna, Jr.
July 26: Olin Lominick, Nan
Oxner Wilson, Joyce Merchant,
Martha H. Brown, Mrs. C. E.
Berley, Sylvia Boozer.
July 27: Mrs. D. D. Darby,
Annette Young, Ada Livingston,
M iss Allene Graham.
July 28: Thomas H. Pope,
Foster Smith, D. L. Nance, C.
B. Parr, Jr., Louis Ray Ringer,
Joseph Lincoln Tolbert, Jr.,
Mrs. E. E. Epting, Robert Hipp
Copeland, Neal Dickert, Clara
Coleman, Jackie Bozard.
Permit Issued For
Office Building
A building permit for $10,000
was issued by Building Inspector
Sam Beam on July 15 to R. B.
Baker, for construction of an of
fice buildipg on McKibben street.
The three-story brick structure
will be 30x40 feet, and will be lo
cated between the Firestone store
and Newberry Auto Supply.
Four permits were issued on
July 14:
Ernest Clary, repairs to dwell
ing and add one room on Lind
say street, $5,668.
Thomas O. Stewart, repairs to
dwelling on Wilson street, $450.
Simon L. Shealy, general re
pairs to dwelling on Adelaide
street, $100.
James L. Beard, add two rooms
and porch to dwelling on Adelaide
street, $3,500.
The subject of a swimming pool in the city for Negroes
was among the items discussed at the regular meeting of
city council which was held Monday night of this week. The
city has been asked, said Mayor James E. Wiseman, “to
provide the same or equal facilities,” and went on to state
that he personally felt that a pool should be provided for
the colored people in Newberry. He said that the land was
available near Gallman High School, and there would be
plenty of water available next year.
Elliott To Speak
At Church Service
Prof. F. Scott Elliott, membei
of the Newberry college faculty,
will delivery the sermon at Wight-
man Methodist church Sunday
July 24. Rev. Ray P. Hook, pas
tor of the church, is attending the
pastor’s school at Lake Junalus-
ka. North Carolina.
The cost of such a pool is es
timated. to ibe $60,000, with bath
houses estimated to run the total
up to $75,000. “The only way to
get the money for such a project,”
stated the m4yor, “would be by
the sale of general obligation
bonds, and it would be necessary
for a majority of the qualified vo
ters to approve the sale before it
could be accomplished.”
Mayor Wiseman was in favor
of having referendum ballots
printed for voting purposes at the
Democratic primary on ^ng* 1 ** 2 -
It was pointed out, however, that
before a vote could be taken on
the rtatter, it was necessary that
a majority of the property-owners
in the city sign a petition re
questing this action.
Ways and means for securing
the necessary petition were dis
cussed. A suggestion was made
to have the petition available at
the ballot boxes on August 2nd
to be signed by property owners,
so that it would not be necessary
to canvass the entire city for Sig
natures. Some members of council
objected to this method, and it
was finally decided that the may
or would discuss the matter with
the City Attorney Aubrey Harley
to see what step* could best be
taken. |§> \
Council accepted “with regret”
the resignation of T. Roy Sum
mer, Sr., as a member of the
Newberry ^Bond commission, and
requested Mayor Wiseman to
write a letter to Mr. Summer ex
pressing the appreciation of coun
cil for “his long and faithful ser
vice.” Mr. Summer has been a
member of the commission since
it was formed in 1920 and was
serving as secretary and treasur
er when he resigned. Appointed
by the mayor to take Mr. Sum
mer’s place on the commission
was one of his sons, C. Walter
Summer, a certified public ac
countant. The appointment was
confirmed by council.
S. C. Paysinger appeared .before
council in the interest of a pro
posed sewer line to serve resi
dents of Adelaide street exten-
(Continued on page 4)
What Does A
istrate Do
A,., { , ... ..
MAGISTRATE BEN F. DAWKINS, left and Constable John C. Wilson show on the map the ter
ritory served by the magistrate’s office in Newberry. This territory reaches from below the city
where Mr. Dawkins is indicating, to the Laurens County line. (Sunphoto.)
There are six Magistrates in
Newberry county, at Newberry,
Whitmire, Prosperity, Pomaria,
Little' Mountain and Chappells.
What does a Magistrate do?
In answer to this question Ben
F. Dawkins, magistrate of New
berry district began outlining the
area he serves. This includes the
city of Newberry, the Bush River
community up to the Laurens
dine, across towards Whitmire to
the “Brick house,” the Hartford
community, down to Keitts cross
roads and the Beth Eden section.
“We have jurisdiction of things
that happen in our district,” said
Magistrate Dawkins. The “things
that happen” include petty crimi
nal cases, many of them traffic
violations, where the sentence is
from one to 30 days or the fine $1
to $100; and civil cases where the
suit does not involve more than
$100. Most traffic violations, ex
cept drunken driving for 2nd of
fense or more, or violations which
result in felonies, such as reckless
homicide are tried by the magis
trate. <
“Court” is held by the magis
trate each morning at 10 'o’clock,
and a majority of the cases heard
are guilty pleas. When a trial by
jury is demanded by either the
State or the defendant, or where
a defendant or his attorney spe
cifically requests it, trials are
set for the convenience of all
parties and 18 jurymen are sum
moned by the magistrate to serve
in the case. Of the 18 jurymen the
defendant is allowed to disqualify
six and the State six. The remain
ing six men compose the jury
panel. This method of selecting a
jury is substantially the same in
either criminal of civil cases.
Magistrate Dawkins said that
most of the jurors are from the
city and that many people have
asked why jurors are not selected
from other parts of his district.
The reason, he said, is that he is
allowed to pay jurors only $1 each
and that no one wants to travel
five or ten miles to serve on a
jury for that sum.
The magistrate issues all war
rants for arrests in his area and
sets bond in all cases except fel
onies. In the event a preliminary
hearing is requested at least ten
days before a case is due to be
tried in circuit court, the magis
trate must make arrangements
and hold the preliminary hearing.
“At these hearings I act as sort
of a one-man Grand Jury,” said
Mr. Dawkins. “If I feel there is
insufficient evidence for the case
to go before the circuit court, I
dismiss the charge.” A number of
such hearings are held prior to
each term of criminal court and
there have been cases in which
MY. Dawkins dismissed , charges,
although he said that in most of
the cases sufficient evidence had
been obtained by the . sheriff's
force or other law officers before
an arrest was made. A record of
all preliminary hearings and the
disposition of the cases “ is kept
by the magistrate.
Asked where the line is drawn
between cases tried by the mag
istrate and in the city recorder’s
court, Mr. Dawkins explained that
the city court handled criminal
cases occuring in the city involv
ing penalty of one to 30 days, or
fines of $1 to $100, but the city
court does not concern itself with
any civil matters, and does not
hold preliminary hearings.
In cases of traffic violations the
magistrate issues a warrant and
tries the defendant. If he is
found guilty or pleads guilty and
pays a fine, or if he forfeits bond,
a record of this is made on a
receipt book. If it is a violation
involving the point system of the
state highway - department, he
must make three copies of a re
port showing the date of viola
tion, number of the summons,
name of the defendant disposi
tion of the case and amount of
(Continued on’ page 4)