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Some cars have fluid drive— others just have a drip at the wheel. If ttti You can usually judge the wheels a main has in his head by the spokes that come out of his mouth. VOLUME 18—NUMBER 17 By The Way By DORIS A. SANDERS CONGRATULATIONS! To Mrs. D. L. Hamm, of Silver- etreet, who is celebrating her 88th birthday on Saturday, August 27. Many happy returns of the day! NEW OWNER That rural mail box mentioned in last week’s column is no longer for sale—in fact, 1 don’t believe it could be bought for love or money. It has been appropriated by one youngster who can’t un derstand why Postman Bob Booz er won’t deliver her mail in the back yard under the tree where ber imail box is located. I_UCKY PEOPLE Newberrians seem to be having their share of luck here lately. A new Ford Thunderbird will be presented to Mrs. Clara Wertz, of Wertz Music & Appliance Co. 4oday, because her name was drawn from the hat in New York ns winner of said auto. It all came about when Clara attended a meet ing of Columbia Record dealers in Columbia some months ago and her name was drawn as winner in the state to be entered in the na tional contest, bast week she was notified that Iher name was drawn from the winners throughtout the nation. Come by and take us for a ride, Clara. Congratulations also to George N. Martin who is the winner of an expense paid trip to Nassau in the Bahamas, Kingston, Jamaica, and the West Indies. Attending the 1956 TV premier at the Col umbia hotel on August 16 and 17, George qualified to have his name •entered in the pot with others who qualified. His name was drawn and on January 13, when the rest of us are here shivering from the cold (impossible to' be lieve this weather) George will be enroute on the Furness liner Ocean Monarch for a 13 day trip. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA,THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1955 + $2.00 PER YEAR . Elementary Students To Report Monday, August 29 mi t - ' JOHN T. NORRIS, JR., manager of the Newberry Branch of South Carolina National Bank, is proud of the bank’s remodeled quarters. He extends an invitation to the public to visit the bank during open house tonight be tween the hours of 6:00 and 9:00 p. m. (Sunphoto.) Public Invited To Open House At Bank Quarters Hawkins Wins Farming Award Clemson, Aug. 20.—J. Frank Hawkins, Newberry, is winner of first place in the 1954 Soutji Car olina grassland-farmer recognit ion program. District winners in the program and their home counties are: Piedmont, T. P. and D. E. Brown, Laurens; Pee Dee, Teal Therrell, Marlboro; and Savannah valley, J. D. Bates, of Orangeburg. Mr. Hawkins received a cash prize of $600, and each of the district whiners was awarded a prize of $200. In addition, silver goblets were awarded 42 other grassland farmers who excelled in their respective counties. These winners were announced and the prizes w T ere awarded at a well attended Farm and Home Week agronomy program Thurs day afternoon, August 18. T* 16 state and district awards were announced by A. H. Ward, dis trict agent, Clemson Extension Service, and the prizes were de livered by G. E. Haskins, Green wood, secretary. South Carolina Farmers Cooperative Educational Association. The county grassland awards wore delivered by Mr. Ward, L. B. Massey, leader, Clemson Ag ronomy Extension work, presided at the meeting, and the principal address was by E. H. Agnew, president. South Carolina Farm Bureau. His subject was “Grass land Farming in South Carolina.” Recent Movings Mr.and Mrs. D. M. Ward have moved to 1822 Main street in one of the R. Derrill Smith apart ments. Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Freeman are now making their home at 2019 Charles street. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Kinard have moved to Armfield Avenue, Crestwood, in the house they re cently brought from N. R. Work man. Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Rice have moved to 808 Langford street in the house formerly occupied by Guy Hanna. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Schumpert have moved to 823 Drayton street in the house recently purchased from Mrs. Judd Evans. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Wallace plan to move the first of Septem ber to 826 Drayton street in the house recently vacated by the Ray Schumperts. Open House will be held tonight (Thursday) at the recently re modeled Newberry branch of the South Carolina National Bank. Manager John T. Norris, cordially invites the public to inspect the modern banking facilities now offered. The hours of the Open House are from 6 until 9 p. m. Prizes and souvenirs w’ill be giv en, and light refreshments will be served. Among the officials of the bank expected to be present are John A. Campbell, Jr., president, Nor man J. Collins, vice president, and B. M. Edwards, chairman of the Board, all of Columbia. The face lifting of the old bank building began several months ago. On the inside, the top panel of windows was closed in and the inside has been painted in light green and white. New white Venetian blinds have been placed on the remaining windows. All wooden trim has been finish ed in walnut color, blending with the interior colors of the building. Air conditioning and a new heat ing system have been added. The lounges have been remodeled and equipped with new furniture. One of the most noticeable changes is the removal of the old-fashioned hanging lights which were re placed by three row T s of floures- cent fixtures, extending the en tire length of the banking room. Outside, the building has been given a gleaming white coat of paint, and black letters across the top of the Gothic structure iden tify it as housing The South Car olina National Bank. The South Carolina National Bank system purchased the old Commercial Bank of Newberry in October, 1931. John M. Kinard, who had beer, president of the Commercial Bank from the time it was organized in 1895, contin ued as president under the new ownership until his death. He was succeeded by J. Y. McFall, C. C. Hutto and A. P. Salley, all of whom are deceased. Mr. Norris became manager in May 1950 fol lowing the death of Mr. Salley. He had served the bank a number of years previously in various capacities. Joseph L. Keitt and Lewis J. Shealy are assistant managers of the Newherry branch. The mem bers of the Board of the local bank are: George K. Dominick, John T. Norris, E. B. Purcell and M. O. Summer. The late R. M. Lominack was also a member of j the Board at the time of his death a few months ago. Other hank employees are: J. A. Satterwhite, Gladys H. Carlton, T. P. Buzhardt, Mary S. Salley, Anna W. Monroe, Adrian M. Summer, Jr., John Earl Smith, Jr., W. D. Kibl^r, Gay- nell Bowers, Ruth C. Price, Joan Davenport and, Rob Rutherford, janitor. The South Carolina National Bank began business in South Carolina as the Bank of Charles ton in 1835. The name w ? as chang ed in 1926 to its present name. Since then, the system has growm to include 27 banks and branch offices. Fashion Show For Tots To Teens Something new in the way of entertainment will be held here on September 2, when a Tots to Teens Fashion show will be put on. Small fry, from infants to pre- teens will parade at the Commun ity hall on September 2 beginning i at '4:30. The show is being spon sored by the pre-school group of the Mothers club and more than 30 boys and girls are expected to take part. Dresses and suits will be des cribed by Mrs. Jimmy Coggins. All costumes used will be furnish ed by the Tots to Teens Shop, which will also award door prizes. Members of the Pre-school Mo thers Club will be in charge of tickets and funds will be used for the pre-school work of the club. Clarkson Heads Chest Campaign Gordon N. Clarkson has been named Newberry general chair man of the 1955 community chest drive to be conducted in the late fall. The selection was made at a recent meeting of the Board of Directors of the CountyCommun- ity chest, of which Walter Hamm of Prosperity, is president. Nam ed as countychairman of the drive is Mrs. W. C. Koon. Field chairmen are C. M. Smith, and Frank Smith, and James N. Parr was appointed to serve as public ity chairman. The various participating organ izations with the chest met with the budget committee of the Board Tuesday afternoon to sub mit budgets for the ensuing year. A tentative budget has been ad opted, but has not been approved by the cBoard. Meetings are being held fre quently to formulate plans for carrying out the drive this fall. Speers Principal Jones Resigns After 27 years as principal of Speers Street school, Miss Ethel Jones has resigned, according to an announcement made by Ed. Beck, superintendent of NewbenT elementary schools. Altogether, Miss Jones has been at Speers St for 35 years. Mrs. Annie Cromer has been selected to replace Miss Jones as principal. Mrs. Cromer has been teaching the first grade at Speers for a number of years and will continue in that capacity. Another new teacher will b« added to the Speers faculty^ but the selection had not been finally approved at press tim© Wednes day. Mrs. Hubert Setzler has been added to the staff of Newberry Junior High school to replace Mrs. Nina Brown who resigned after the last school session. The staffs of the other elementary schools in the city will remain the same as last year, according to Mr. Beck. Plans for the opening of the city elementary schools have been announced by Ed Beck, sup erintendent. All schools in the city will open Monday morning, August 29. The faculty meetings will be held from 8:30 until 9:30 in the respective schools by the principals, and students will report to the school which they are to attend at 9:30 First grade pupils who did not register at the pre-school clinics will be expected to register at the Junior High school building on Thursday or Friday, August 25 or 26. Any student who is plan ning to enter the Newberry ele mentary schools for the first time and who has not previously at tended a school in this area, is requested also to enroll Thursday or Friday at Junior High between the hours of 9-12 and 1-3. Students changing from one school to ano ther in ithet area are now required to register. Students having examinations to make up are expected to come prepared to take them on August 29th. Rental textbooks will oe avail able to those who desire to rent. Fight Is Victorious, West End School To Remain Open Griffin Succiu After Attack William Lee Griffin, 72, died Friday morning shortly after be ing stricken at his home on Col lege street. Mr. Griffin was born in Laurens county, son of the late Lafaye G. and Lula Walker Griffin. He was a former district manager for this area for the Metropolitan in surance company and later T vas an agent for the Durham Insur ance company. For the past sev eral years he was a salesman for a nursery concern. He was a mem ber of the First Baptist church, where he was a teacher and sec retary and deacon a number of years. He was twice married, first to the former Lula Lee Chandler, who died in 1927, then to the for mer Nellie Richardson, who sur vives him. Other survivors include twu sons and a daughter by the first (Continued on page 8) ' j- v, • mmT. Vi' GEORGE N. MARTIN is _ R. Hinnant, district manager ojl AJistrflwftlttg Company, after Mr. Martin won a 13-day expense paid trip to Nassau. Details may be seen elsewhere'in this issue. Bedenbftiwh At .A ^ Aveleigh Sunday Rev. J. B. Bedenbaugh, director of Religious Activities and assist ant director of public relations at Newberry college will conduct the morning worship service at Ave- leigh Presbyterian church Sun day, August 28. Commissioners Handle County’s Money A budget of more than $300,000 is required to keep the county of Newberry running for a year* Keeping a check to see that this money is properly spent is the County Board of Commissioners, composed of two commissioners and the supervisor, all of whom are elected by vote of the people, the commissioners for a two year term, the supervisor for four years. Composing the board at present is the chairman, Supervis or S. W. Shealy; T. C. McDowell, commissioner from the upper dis trict, and G. T. Werts, commiss ioner from the lower district. Mr. McDowell, a farmer city council man, is serving his second term; Mr. Werts his third, andMr. Shea ly his second term as supervisor. He previously served as commis sioner for one term. The work of the Board of Com missioners embraces many fields; the administrative work of the county, the road work, county home and chain gang, being the four main fields. Under the supervision of the Board, the various functions are handled by the foreman of the road crew, the superintendent of the county home, superintendent of the chain gang, and an admin istrative clerk. The latter job has been capably filled since July, 1944 by Olin Lommick, who is assisted by Mrs. Nina Ruff. The Board, which meets twice a month, is responsible for buying of all foods, materials and equip ment used by the county. It meets twice a month of open bids and approve claims made against the county, before such claims may be paid; and to transact other business which might be pending Water Systei In hot weather you should in crease your fluid intake—you may need 4 or 5 fore quarts of water a day. * SUPERVISOR S. W. SHEALY, chairman of the County Board of Commissioners, takes time out to discuss some of the activities of the Supervisor’s office. (Sunphoto.) concerning the operation of the county. The Board must maintain all county buildings, see that am ple insurance is held on all build ings, which are insured with the Sinking Fund commission of South Carolina. Mr. Lominick, in outlining the administrative details of the sup ervisor’s office, stated that the office was responsible for the proper bonding of county employ ees who have charge of money or property. There are about 30 such employees, whose bonds range from $1000 to $25,000. The clerk maintains all records on the county’s 78 full time employees, preparing the necessary payroll information and issuing warrants once each month for their pay, as well as issuing warrants for par tial pay to supplement state pay of three members of the County Registration Board, four employ ees of the County Home Demon- i stration Office and County Farm Agent’s office, and four employ ees of the County Health Depart ment. Salaries for employees are set by statute, and last year amounted to $94,515. This pay roll includes all elected officials as well as employees who are hir ed to work in various capacities. In connection with the pa; the clerk must keep records make proper deductions to be ported to the South Carolina •Re tirement System, Internal Reve nue for withholding taxes, social security and group insurance. Em ployees of the county went undei the social security system on July first of this year. For social secur ity and retirement, the employee pays five percent of his salary, the county 5.98 per cent. Reports must be sent monthly to the re tirement system as to employees, salaries and retirement deduc tions; to the Social Security ad ministration through the retire ment system every quarter. Money is deposited monthly in the bank for income taxes withheld and re ports made to the Internal Reve nue quarterly with a report at the (Continued on page 8) Bids for the construction of a raw water pumping station on the Saluda River, and a raw water main to furnish addition al water supply for Newberry, also for water and sanitary sewer distribution in the city were opened at City Hali Wed nesday afternoon at 3:00 p. m. Barber, Keels 4. Associates, engineers, advised that the ap parent low bids from the 19 sub mitted, were as follows: Raw water pumping station, Crosby Construction Company of Union.. $86,900. Raw water main, for steel pipe, Kahn 4 Jackson, Colum bia, $331,899.96; for loqk joint cement steel, A. Stanley Man- dy 4 Co., Woodbridge, N. J., $336,340.60; for cast iron pipe, Kahn 4 Jackson, $360,683.70. Water and Sanitary sewer dis tribution, Ballenger Paving com pany, Greenville. $46,248.90. F. E. Dunham, of Barber, Keels 4 Associates, emphasized that these are apparent low bids, but that the figures would be finalfy checked and ready for action by City Council Mon day of next week. Mayor Wise man said that council • would meet early in the week for the purpose of awarding contracts for the proposed project. Revenue bonds will be sold to finance the new water supply system. A fight waged for the peat month by patrons of the West End elementary school ended in victory Monday night, as the County Board of Education de cided to leave the school open for one more school year. The Board had decided to close the school at the beginning of the 1954-55 session, but didn’t carry out the plans. This year, it was announced that the school would definitely be closed for the 1955- 66 season. A group of the school’s patrons met with the Board about a month ago to petition for the ! school to remain open. The de cision of the Board remained un changed. A further effort of the group, meeting with 'the New-, berry Advisory Board, was J^ieo In rain. As a last resort, the group met again with the County Board Mbnday night and after lengthy discussion, the Board issued the following statement -which adopted in the way of 4.' : “Sensing the unsettled tions in South Carolina, the Board agrees to continue operat ing West End for the year 1955- 56, after which it will be closed provided conditions remain as they now are.” Representing the citizens from West End were Judge Eugene S. Blease, James Britt, manager of Newberry mills, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Summer, Tom Ward and Mrs. Winifred Culclssure. Judge Blease and Mr. Britt spoke effect tively on behalf of the school - pat rons. j. i' v Members of the County Board are J. S. Ritchie, chairman, J. L, Keitt, R. C. Neel, Jr., Hugh M.* Epting, J. Alvin Kinard, W. H. Caldwell and Dan Hamm, Jr.Also present ait the meeting were Di rector of Schools P. K. Harmon, Supt. of Education James Brown, Superintendent of. the city Elem entary schools, Ed Beck, reseatstives of the skm 7-43H m McElveen Heads mber’s Drive Members Plans for a membership drive for the Newberry Chamber of Commerce have been announced by N. R. McElveen, chairman of the chamber’s membership com mittee. The campaign will begin with a kick-off breakfast on Sep tember 12 and will last through that week. The goal, stated Mr. McElveen, is to secure 400 memberships, which will mean an annual income for the Chamber of $10,000. A/t present, the Chamber is op erating on a budget of slightly over $6000 with approximately 185 members. It is expected that the drive will greatly increase the activi ties of the local Chamber. Mrs. Ezell’s Sister Dies In Spartanburg Mrs. Alice Johnson Con tax, 62, of Roebuck died at Spartanburg General hospital Sunday morning after three weeks illness. She whs a sister of M^rs. Helen Ezell of Newberry. She Is survived by her mother, Mrs. Massie Johnson, five sisters and five brothers. Funeral services were conduct ed Tuesday with burial in Green- lawn Memorial garden-. m County Agent Looks For Dairy Heifers Many inquiries have recently been received at the County Agents office regarding heavy springing dairy heifers. Those who have heifers or young cows for sale may list them by contacting P. B. Ezell, County Agent or W. A. Ridgeway, Asst. County Agent, phone ‘248, Newberry. Please do not list any scrub or cull animals. HI ■sm BIRTHDAY GREETINGS August 26: Bobby Summer, Jr., Faye "Langford,. Mrs. P. G. Blount, Mrs. L Q. Watkins, Mrs. Effie Hendrix, Patricia Leslie. August 27: Jeanette Bergen, M. L. Youmans, Sue Ward, Mrs. J. Frank Lominack, Mrs. W. H. Ash- baugh. August 28: Lewis Ammons, Fos ter B. Spotts, Louise Wicker, Mil dred Long, Jane Fellows, Sandra Kinard, Julia Hazel, Lawrence Graham; and triplets, Mrs. Marg aret Long, (Mrs. Jennie Bruington and Mrs. Allie Moates. August 29: Mm George Way, W. C. McGahee, Carrie W. Whitener, Mrs. Bill Long, Mm Horace Cro mer, Mrs. L. B. Davis. August 30: Maude Spotts, W. H. Chapman, Mm L. C. Graham, Dav id Dominick, Nancy Senn. August 31: B. F. Dawkins, Prof. T. E. Epting, Collier Neel, v John Wainwright Chappell, Mrs. John C. Wilson, Sammie Cook Graham, Mrs. David Ringer, Mrs. J. R. Mc- Kittrick, R. Frasier Sanders, Har ry Stone, Jr., Mrs. Robert Dan iels. ^ September 1: Oapt. Powell Way, O. M. Cobb, Ann Wilson White ner, Mrs. Marilyn Pate, Carl B. Wise, Jr., Donald Livingston, Jas. Maxie Hawkins Mrs. W. P. Lath- rop, W. C. Koon, Prof J. V. Kneece. yfl ylif