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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.
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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
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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.
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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 ~ " ^
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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