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A biM has been introduced in Congress that proposes a stiff $1000 fine and a year in jail for knowingly shipping a stolen dog out of state. 'S’-. Or. . r V >/,. V . Of the 2,00-odd campgrounds in the nation’s state parks, about half charge fees for camping, us ually 50 cents a night; most grounds in national forests are free; national parks charge an entry fee. VOLUME 18—NUMBER 14. By The Way By DORIS A. SANDERS CORRECTION PLEASE In The Sun issue of two weeks 8igo was a mention that alter Summer had been appointed as a member of the Newberry Bond Commission, replacing his father, T. Roy Summer, who had resign ed. It was also stated that Walter is a Certified Public Accountant. That will happen when one takes things for granted rather than checking the record. Walter is not a CPA—yet. He has passed his examinations, which, I might say, are most difficult, to become a CPA, but before he is issued a certificate as CPA, he must have two -yeara practical experience and meet certain other require ments. Walter was graduated from Newberry college in 1951 with a B.S. degree in Commerce. After his graduation, he was connected with Baker-Summer Motor com pany, but later left this business to work on his Master’s degree at the University of South Carolina. He also accepted a teaching posi tion in the business administra tion department of Newberry col lege, and has been concurrently working on his degree, on his CPA requirements, and teaching at Newberry. At the commencement exercises of the University to be held this month, he will be a can didate for Master’s degree in Business Administration. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1955 + $2.00 PER YEAR Interviewing Elbert C. Long, a prospective blood donor, at the Bloodmobile center Monday is Miss Sudie Dennis. Stand ing are Major J. W. Henderson, Mrs. Hannah Pool and, with back to camera, Mrs. P. M. Dennis. (Sunphoto.) Bloodmobile Visit Said Successful By Chairman One of the most successful blood recruiting program; the 35 NOT IN DICTIONARY In an article elsewhere in this issue concerning preparations be ing made at Newberry college for the coming school year is a para graph that the college is being presented a “dossal.” When I read that over, I wondered “what in the world is a ‘dossal’”? I took up the dictionary and looked for the word but our of fice dictionary, which is not much of a dictionary anyway, didn’t give the word. I rounded up ano ther dictionary—still no listing of ‘dossal.” I then resorted to a lar- ;er Webster—no success. I've obiced everywhere except in the Vebster unabridged. Finally 1 tailed the college office. I am in- brmed that a “dossal’’ is a heavy relvet curtain which hangs be- lind the altar in the chapel. If the college must use such un- amiliar words, which can’t be bund* in a dictionary, I would ap preciate their adding a footnote explanation. visits of the Bloodmobile to New berry was that of Monday, Aug ust first, when 193 donors appear ed to contribute blood. Of the 193, 31 were rejected for various rea sons, 162 donated blood. Claude Weeks, county Blood Program Chairman, stated today “The success was due to the splendid cooperation of all con cerned,” and expressed his appre ciation in particular to the donors, the radio station and newspapers; the Newberry Kiwanis Club with Leon Nichols as chairman of the volunteer workers serving, with Mrs. LeRoy Anderson, chairman; members of the Newberry County Memorial Hospital Medical staff for serving as physicians in charge; Mrs. Hannah Pool, secre tary of the Newberry County Red Cross office; the National Guard for sending approximately 35 do nors; to Central Methodist Church for use of its air-conditioning fa cilities. A list of Monday’s donors will be published in The Sun next week. Britt Promoted Vice President Newberry Mills At a Directors’ meeting held in New York City on Wednesday, July 27, it was made known by Mr. Sarkis Diarbekirian, president and owner of Newberry Mills, Inb., jand William R. Beuret, executive vice president, that James T3. Britt, general manager of Newber ry Mills, Inc^wae promoted tol vice presiderfif Of 1 the company. This informflitibu Vgas contained 'in a recent : ti& New York;] Daily News Record. Mr. Britt has been general] manager of Newberry Mills, Inc. for the past six years, a position he still holds. Prior to coming to Newberry, he was superintendent of Hart Cotton Mills at Tar boro, N. C. Mr. Britt is married to the for mer Sara Tyler Clayton of Tar- boro. The couple has three chil dren, Jimmy, Frank and Sara Ty ler. They live in the home they built a few years ago on Nance street. Both Mr. and Mrs. Britt have been active in community services since being residents of the city. 2219 Voters Elect New Mayor; Two City Councilmen Unseated Taxes Be Same At a meeting of the Newberry County Delegation held last s Thursday afternoon, it waa de cided that the county tax miU- age would remain the same for the 1955 tax year aa dufing the past year, 43 mills. Sixteen mills will go to the county for ordinary purposes and 457 / for the operation of #»e school*. Court Rep Op orter Essential To The eration Of A Circuit Court GOOD DESCRIPTION A little girl I know, whose name is Connie, tasted her first water melon a few weeks ago. Her re action: ‘Daddy, give Connie ano ther piece of that juice”. There is one job about which little is heard in the operation of the state circuit courts, but it is essential to maintain the process es of law. The job is that of the Court Reporter. The court reporter for the 8th Judicial circuit, composed of the counties of Newberry, Greenwood, Laurens, and Abbeville, is Mere dith Harmon. The duty of a court reporter is to take down by some means of shorthand every word that is spoken on the record at a jury trial; without the reporter, a trial cannot go forward. There are 33 weeks of a court year in the ceedings. Tikis is in the event teem* eystera. Alee gsed an appeal later, or in case some controversy arises concerning the testimony or charge of the pre siding judge. Having only 33 weeks of court does not mean the reporter is idle the remaipder of the year. During the 33 weeks, or ders for records of trials are building up and most of his time out of court is spent typing trans cripts. Many methods of reporting are used. Some of the older reporters still use the Pitman system of shorthand; many use the Gregg system, but the method gaining Sth circuit; 15 sessions of crimi-jthe most popularity is the use of RESULTS GRATIFYING Everyone connected with the Monday visit of the Bloodmobile is pleased with the results of this trip. Over 160 donated blood, over 30 were rejected—but some 190 volunteered to give blood. The large amount of credit is due the Kiwanis club members for their efforts to recruit donors; but thanks go to the many others who also helped make the trip a suc cess, and especially to the don ors nal court, 18 sessions of civil. In each jury trial, the reporter must be there to take down the pro- the shorthand machine, the Sten ograph or Stenotype, both of which are operated on exactly the ■cW-iT; .v Lutheran Youth To Meet Here Two hundred Lutheran young people and their counsellors and leaders will meet on the campus of Newberry college for the 28th Convention of the Georgia-Alaba ma Luther League with registra tion beginning on Monday after noon, August 8. The four-day convention, centering around the theme “A Cross Within The Heart”, will be the second that the Georgia-Alabama group has held on the Newberry campus. Convention highlights include a banquet on Monday evening, busi ness sessions, workshops, Bible stndy classes, recreation, services and vespers , each night, stunt night, a talent show, films, ad dresses by Dr. Charles E. Fritz, President of the Georgia-Alabama Synod of the United Lutheran church; Dr. Wayne C. Boliek, pastor of Trinity Lutheran church in Greenville, and Rev. J. Benja min Bedenbaugh of the faculties of Newberry college and Luther an Theological Southern Semin ary; and a closing installation- communion service. Workshops w r iU deal with the following subjects: “We Bear The Cross” (evangelism); “The Cross Calls Us” (Christian vocation); music; work of Luther League (Continued on page 4) Court Reporter Meredith Harmon looks at ease as he op erates the stenotype machine, the system he uses for re porting courts in the Sth Judicial circuit. (Sunphoto.) some extent is a m*efiine called the “Dictavox.” In this system, the operator wears a mask similar to a gas mask in shape, and speaks into a microphone, repeating each word that is said during the trial. This is recorded on a record.Many reporters who use any of these systems also use some sort of re cording machine for double checks. Although recording ma chines are highly impractical on testimony in jury trials because there are often several persons speaking at once, resulting in a blur on the record; they are fine for judge’s charges, long argu ments by attorneys, or long tech nical statements by witnesses. Mr. Harmon operates a Steno type machine, which resembles a very small typewriter. Rathe r than writing in symbols as in shorthand writing, the machine re cords letters. As itwould be im- posible to spell out each word be cause of the lack of time, and there are insufficient key's on the keyboard anyway, the Stenotypist must learn combinations of letters which enable him to take testi mony at high rates of speed, some times as fast as 300 words a min ute on rapid cross examination of witnesses. In the circuit courts of this State, the reporter is not required to type the testimony of all the cases he takes, although he does keep his notes on file for a cer tain period of time for any future requests for transcripts. The only ca§es typed are those which are appealed to higher courts; for example, when a convicted mur derer wishes to appeal his convic tion to the State Supreme court, the transcript, or verbatim record of his trial, must -be typed in or der that it *may be prepared for presentation to the Supreme Court. There are frequent occasions Vhen a reporter is' asked to “read back”; some when a lawyer or witness or didn’t under stand a question, ^umetimes when juries fail to agree on a point of testimony in the ease. In the lat ter event, the judge has the jury returned to the court room and orders the reporter to read back that portion of the testimony in question. Court reporters are often re ferred to as coifrt stenographers. Most reporters resent this classifi cation, feeling the “stenographer’’ implies a person who merely takes shorthand and types letters. A reporter is required to have some knowledge of almost everything, because he has no choice about the testimony he takes. It may involve such simple things as Kinard Defeats Wiseman 129 Votes; e Losers Newberry voters went to the polls Tuesday to elect a new slate of city officials, except for the three members of city council who were returned to office without opposition. The vote was one of the largest counted in the city in recent years, about $00 more than in the city election two years ago. Cecil E. Kinard was elected mayor, defeating incumbent James E. Wiseman by 129 votes. Of the total vote of 2219, Kinard receiv ed 1174, and Wiseman 1045. Elected to council by an even slimmer majority of 44 votes was Strother D. “Bozo>’ Paysinger, who defeated incumbent Ed Mc Connell as councilman, from Ward 3. In the asme race two years ago, McConnell defeated Paysing er by 87 votes. Tuesday's vote was 1121 for Paysinger, 1077 for McConnell. By 15 votes, Cecil Mencll&nt de feated his two opponents, both newcomers to politics, and was elected councilman from Ward 5 succeeding mayor-elect Kinard. Merchant, who also ran for the office two years ago and was runner-np, received 1081 votes, S. W. “Bo” Miller 368, and Kenneth Tompkins, 698. Elected by the largest majority was Dwight W. Jones, who defeated incumbent Percy D. Holloway by 690 votes, 1444 to 754, Returned to office without op position were Councilman Frank Armfield, Jr., Ward 1; C. A. Duf- ford, Sr., Ward 2; and Ernest Lay- ton, Ward 4. It is hard for the sweltering public to believe, but July 1055 didn’t turn up with any days as [ hot as recorded in July 1954. A V high of $6 degrees waa recorded f on July 3, 1955, but on July 2, 1954, the mercury hit 101. The low for 1954 was 60 on July 12; for 1966, 58 on July 1. July 19 and 28 thia year saw the tem perature go up to 97 and sever al 96 readings were recorded by official weather observer, Ger ald O. Shealy. Although it hat been a wet July, only 4.94 inches of rain fell during the month thia year; In 1954 the July rainfall was 5.72 Inches, 3.42 ihehaa of which fell wtihin about an hour on July 16th. Total rainfall for 1955, through July, hat been recorded at 27.16 inches; total for the year 1954 waa 30.76 Inches, and the average rainfall over the past 50 years Is 46.39. Newberry is running slightly ahead of av erage thus .far. The largest rain- fatrdurtfig July was .91 indhss on the last SatY of the Wionth. Diqs At Mayor Ward 5 Ward 6 Ward 3 Ward 1 .... Ward 2 Ward 3, No. 1 Ward 3, No. 2 . Ward 4, No. 1 Ward 4, No. 2 . Ward 5 Ward 6 ... _ TOTALS t3 L. «• C c m E 2 i c c o O o t- V at c 5> >> <v c m si o t. V L- M C -X a E o >N n * o o (0 V c * Z CL 2 i 1- I o -> 112 156| 114 154 158 17 88 123 141 82 2581 64 271 172 37 120 177 161 14 831 10 88 53 7 30 57 40 320 40 j 339 21 126 106 120 19 341 37 531 24 63 43 16 25 50 36 122 791 97 99 85 39 55 71 122 379 95| 339 129 234 99 135 67 403 108 2811 90 296 210 47 125 189 200 1174 1045(1077 1121 1081 368 698 754 1444 Renovations and improvements | Arthuf Workman. 68, e underway at Newberry College f J™ 1 *? J-f** <lted f* 5 p.m. Sunday at Laurens county hospital of a gunshot wound acci dentally self-inflicted a short time earlier, Coroner Joe F. Smith, of Laurens reported. Mr. Workman had been in declining health for over a year. , Survivors include a son, Niles (Bob) Workman, of Armfield Av6. this city. • Funeral services were conduct ed Tuesday at 11 a.ro. et Kennedy Mortuary, Laurens. Burial was in Forest Lawn Cemetery. County Public Schools To Be Opened On August 29 The Newberry county public schools will be opened on Monday August 29 for the 1955-56 season, according to an announcement by P. K. Harmon, director of county schools. All schools which were open last year will be open again this year, with the possible excep tion of the West End elementary school, which will be closed and the pupils sent to other schools withjn the city. A decision was made by the County Board of Ed- “whene were you on the night of July 14” but often testimony from the witness is highly technical; such as medical testimony, legal phraseology, language pertaining to contracts of all kinds, and many other specialized fields.The reporter cannot constantly inter rupt the trial of a case to find out the meaning of a word or the spelling of it, so he must be at least a little familiar with the subject matter he is taking. Mr. Harmon began his present job in January 1951, having been appointed by Resident Judge Steve C. Griffith for an indefinite term. He is a graduate of New berry city schools and of Newber ry college, and attended Stenotype school in Asheville, N. C. before beginning work here as Sth Cir cuit Court Reporter. ucation earlier in the year to close the West End school after the 1954-55 session. A group of the school’s patrons met with the board to urge that the school be continued another year, but no further action has been taken by the board. All school faculty positions have been filled with the exception of a principal and coach for the Bush River high school, and four teachers yet to be selected for Whitmire high school. 1 are underway at Newberry College in preparation, for the opening of the school’s one hundredth seesion in September. The. number of re quests for room reserv&tione is the largest in recent years, and pros pects for a large enrollment are in evidence. Steady progress is being made in the construction oi the new dormitory for men which is being financed with funds from 4he Pre- Centennial Building and Endow ment Fund Campaign. When com pleted, the dormitory will be furished with modern equipment Wright Recreation Building is being renovated and painted on the interior. The canteen section :s being enlarged. Asphalt tile is being placed on the floor. Addi tional booths are being installed and new seats are being placed in the TV room. The athletic fields have been re-arranged and an irrigation sys tem has been installed. In addi tion to the regular football and baseball fields, when the Indians begin scrimmage in the fall, £hey will have two football practice fields. The Newberry District Luther League has announced its plan to present a dossal to the College for use in Holland Hall. This will become a part of the portable chancel equipment which can be moved from one place to another for programs on the campus. Offices are being relocated. The office of the Business Manage’* and Treasurer and the Executive Secretary of the Building and En dowment Fund Campaign are be ing moved downstairs in Holland Hall. The Registrar’s office is be ing re-arranged. The office of the Alumni Secretary and Dean of Men is being moved to the offices previously occupied by Campaign Headquarters in the Government 'Classroom Bundling. Tile Science Building and the Government Classroom Building have been repainted. MRS. JULIA R. SMITH and cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Single tary of Ridgewood, N. J. spent last week on their vacation at Pawley’s Island. MR. AND MRS. J. H. HALF ACRE and Mrs. Halfacre’s broth er-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Eargle of Parr Shoals spent last week on a tour of Florida. Ward 3 No. 2 precinct managers were kept busy,as 360 residents of the precinct came in to vote in Tuesday’s cjity Kprimary. Mrs. Lillie Attaway is shown receivng her balkft from Manager C. A. Shealy. Other managers were ~ " ^ •Hint y Yochem, shown next to Mr. Shealy, and J. H. Martin, who is not in the picture. In the background, a voter leaves the GREETINGS booth and folds his ballot to put in the box. (Sunphoto.) |NeeL August 5: Mrs. C. T. Summer, Mrs. Pearl Smallwood. August 6: Mts. Wyche Dickert, Mrs. Hugh Senn, Mrs. Harry W. Shealy, Mrs. D. F. Senn, Mrs. Roy Singley, Mrs. Mack Amick, Mrs. Malcolm Amick,, Sr., August 7: J. W. Swindler, Mrs. H. W. Swindler, Jim Wheeler, Mrs. Ben Stewart, Chris Carlisle. August 8: Mrs. Oltn Lominick, Jean Sullivan Copeland, Mrs. Os wald Copeland, James P. Fnlp, Mrs. Leland Boozer, Bill Hughes, Mrs. Eula Hendrix, William Pitts. August 9: Mrs. Jaimes S. Price, and twin sister, Mrs. O. D. Glenn, Reggie Brooke, Karen Boozer, Wilborr B)oozer, Alice Julia You- mans, Mrs. Gettis L. Coates, Anne Graham, Doris Ann Parks. August 10: Katherine Rebecca Truesdale, Tommy Chappells, Joe Roberts, Sr., Mrs. Dove P. Con nelly, Sue Harmon, Mrs. Doris Brooks, N. C. Shaver, Jessie Dandy, Linda Cook. August 11: Leonide Reagin, Mrs. Jeff Suber, Ned Danielson, Jan- elle Livingston, Peggy Bowers, Nina Ann Sheppard, Ln Ellen