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A man’s reputation is a blend of what his friends, enemies, and acquaintances say behind his back. Everybody knows how to express a complaint, but few can. utter a graceful com- pliment—it’s R matter oi practice. VOLUME 18—NUMBER 21 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA,THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1955 + $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way Mystery Farm No 3 Whose Is It ? By DORIS A. SANDERS NOT POLITICAL Just in case there should be any doubt. I'd like to say here that the articles which have beeai published for the past several weeks about your county officials were intended to be informative only and by no means political. For this reason, little has been said about the office-holder him self; the principal object has beeo to describe the job. I think most of our elected county officials are efficient in their jobs, but about this week’s “subject” I am going to add a note in this column. While I was talking with Ray Dawkins about the varied and in tricate duties performed by the Treasurer, a gentleman who has spent most of his life in and about the court house came into the office. “If you are going to write about Ray this week,” he said, “I want you to tell your readers that there is no better county treasurer in the state.” REDSKIN VICTORY Anything I might say about the victory of the Newberry college Indians over Furman last Thurs day night would be old news. I think all of the adjectives have been used by now. I recall some eight or ten years ago listening to the Furman-Newberry game when the score ended up some thing like 55-7 in favor of you know who. Since that time, 1 have sort of listened to that particular game each year with one ear; wanting to hear it, but hating to hear a massacre. Last year was encouraging. As 1 recall. Furman’s margin of victory was rather slim, so this vear, during the few minutes of silence afforded by two little girls, I listened with both ears, and am glad I did. 1 would like to have been there, but since it was not possible, the kind services of radio station WKDK and the sponsors of the game made a good substitute. I might also say at this point that I listen to all the football games I have a chance to hear during the sea son, and there aren’t many an nouncers who are better than Jimmy Coggins when it omes to a play-by-play description. Any way, to get back to the subject, I’d like to add my congratulations to the many received by Coach Kirkland and his fine team and I hope Newberrians will show their appreciation by packing the stad ium Saturday night when the Redskins meet Catawba. STEAK SUPPER Another team which deserves the support of Newberrians is the high school football team—the “Bulldogs.” While the team does not have an impressive win rec ord for the past couple of years, I believe if more interest were shown in the welfare of the boys who play for the high school, they might be encouraged to do a little better. There are others who feel the same way, and they are going to do something about it. They are Roy Whitaker of Whitaker Funeral home, and Paul Whitaker of Whitaker Floor Coverings. Roy and Paul both played football for four years at Newberry high, where they were coached by Har ry Hedgepath, and they have maintained an interest in the ac tivities of the BuRdogs. Their two firms will show their interest on Wednesday night of next w r eek when they will treat the Bulldogs —team and coaches—to a supper of steak, French fries, salad and iced tea at the Lions club on Lake Murray. The program will be very informal with short talks by rep resentatives of press and radio. MYSTERY FARM NO. 3 . . . Can you identify it? If so, call or write to The Newberry Sun, Phone No. 1. You may be the winner of a free television service call by George N. Martin Radio & TV, or a ticket to the Ritz or Wells theatres. The owner of this farm may receive the picture in an attractive easel by calling at The Sun office. Calls and , letters will be accepted until noon Sept. 26. The names of those who correctly identify the farm wid be placed in a hat and eleven names drawn for winners. Names of all who correctly identify Mystery Farm No. 3, as well as the winners, will be listed in next week’s issue of The Sun. For the identity of last week’s Mystery Farm, see the 1 ad sponsored by Newberry Federal Savings & Loan Association. (Zeken-Robins photo) Turner Pleads Guilty; Asks For Mercy In Murder Of Wife State Accepts Guilty Plea Due To Mental Condition; Mercy Granted Northern District Womens Clubs Hold Meeting Here Kaufmann Be Inaugurated College Head Wednesday First Services In New Church Services in the new Calvary Baptist church an College street extension will begin with a mid week prayer meeting Wednesday evening, September 21 at 7; 30. Sunday school will be at 10 o’clock each Sunday and preach ing services at 11. The public is invited to the new church. Dedication of the new structure will be at a date to be announced later. . Rev. Dan Norris is pastor of Calvary church. The inauguration of Christopher A. Kaufmann as the tenth presi dent of Newberry college will be held in McLean gymnasium on the college campus beginning at 10:30 a. m. on Wednesday, September 28, 1055. Dr. H. Odell Harman, Chairman of the Board of Trus tees, will preside and have charge of the installation. Following the installation ceremony, the Presi dent-elect will give his inaugura tion address on the topic “Facing The Challenge.’ v (Greetings will be heard from Rev. George F. Harkins, Assistant to the President of the United Lutheran church in America; Rev Doctor Gould Wickey, Executive Secretary of the Board of Higher Education (ULCA) ; Rev. Doctor Carl Kinard, President of the Evangelical Lutheran synod of South Carolina; R^v. Doctor Chas. E. Fritz, president of the Georgia- Alabama Synod of the ULAC; Rev. Royall A. Yount, president of the Florida synod of the ULCA; Dr. Donald S. Russell from the South Carolina Association oi Colleges; Lieut. Governor Fritz Hollins; Mrs. C. E. Seastrunk from the Newberry College Women’s League; Mr. John F. Clarkson. chairman of the Newberry college faculty; Mr. Dannelly Brabham, President of the Newberry college Student body; Mayor James E. Wiseman from the city of New berry. Also participating on the pro- gram will be Professor Thomas E. Epting, Secretary of the College Faculty and Professor Jack Lee Peterson, organist. Other distinguished guests will include representatives of a num ber of colleges, theological semi naries, and universities, educa tional associations, and the United Lutheran church in America. Following the inaugural cere monies in the morning, a special luncheon will be held at the Community hall beginning at 12:30 p.m. Dr. Gould Wickey will bring the address. He will be introduc ed by Dr. John L. Yost, president of the Lutheran Theological Sou thern Seminary in Columbia. Prof. Thomas E. Epting, chair man of the Inauguration comm ittee, will preside. The invocation will be given by Rev. Daniel M. Shull, president of the Newberry County Ministerial Associa tion and the benediction will be "pro nounced by Rev. Paul E. Monroe, from the Newberry college alumni; 'Jr., pastor of the Lutheran church Rev. Doctor R. A. Goodman, vice of The Redeemer in Newberry. " Cotton Ginning Shows Increase Census report shows that 162 bales of cotton were gin ned in Newberry County from the crop of 1955 prior to Sep tember first as compared with 69 bales ginned for the crop of 1954. Tickets On Sale For Catawba Game A spokesman for the Athletic Committee of Newberry College has announced that tickets for the Catawba-Newberry game will be on sale through Saturday at noon, September 24. Tickets may be purchased at the following establishments: Gil der and Weeks, Lominick’s Drug, Johnnie’s News Stand, and Cen tral Drug. The game will be played at Setz- ler Field, Saturday night at 8:00 p. m. Mrs. E. A. Fellers and her mo ther, Mrs. Mike Price, of Bickley, West Virginia arrived in New'ber- ry Sunday for a couple of weeks visit in the home of Mrs. Fellers sister-in-law on the Cut Off road. MR. AND MRS. LAWRENCE PATRICK are now residing in ap artment D2-2 of the Carol Courts Apartments on College street. CHICKEN BARBECUE AT SILVERSTREET There will be a chicken barbe cue supper at the Silverstreet school gymnasium on Wednesday night, October oth begiruiing at 5:30 p. m. through 8 p. m. The supper is being sponsored by the Silverstreet PTA. The barbecue will be cooked by W. O. (Bill) Pitts. Plates are $1.50. 2tc Team Victory Film Is Shown The Indian Club of Newberry had supper Monday night in the college dining hall, then adjourn ed to the Library building where they were shown a film of the Newberry-Furman football game of last Thursday night. During the business session, the club members decided to be gin a membership campaign. Elected heads of the two teams were Dr. F: A. Truett, chairman of the Gray team, and Dr. E. M. Anderson, chairman of the Scar let team. The loser, it was decid ed, would buy the wiiuiing team a supper. One of the Indian Club members presented the Newberry coaches with a personal check of $50.00. Besides the 225 members of the Indian Club in Newberry, there are members in many other parts of the country, as well as clubs in Columbia, Anderson and Youngs town, Ohio. Funds derived from club members are used to help on athletic scholarships and to im prove athletic facilities at the col lege. During the evening, Coach Har vey Kirkland gave a preview of the outlook for the Redskins dur ing the season, and a summary of the Newberry-Furman game last week. C. A. KAUFMANN Mrs. Arthur Cash' of Chesnee was elected district director of the Northern district conference of South Carolina Federation of Women’s clubs, which met at the Central Methodist church here Tuesday with 72 members in at tendance. Mrs. Joel R. Griffin of Spartanburg was elected secretary and Mrs. Neil E. Truesdale, of Newberry, treasurer. Mrs. F. Scott Elliott, who was conference chair man, was nominated as district member to serve on the SCFWC nominating committee. The hostess clubs to the meet ing were the Civic league, Wom an’s club and Literary Study club of Newberry. Thirty-three mem bers from these clubs were pres ent. The conference theme, "Better Communities Through Education and Service’ ’was featured in the two panel discusions. The “Clubs Fh-oject for Community Improve ment” was the subject of a panel with Dr. Mamie S. Summer pres ident of the Civic league, as mod erator. Presidents of seven clubs participated in this panel. The other panel discussed “Your De partment Division and Special Committee Chairmen at Work,” and was led by Mrs. W. C. Flan agan of Columbia, with eleven club presidents taking part. The main speech for the occa sion was given by Mrs. Harry Lee Jones of Florence, state president of the Federation. A special feature of the pro gram was the presentation of two fifty year scrolls, one to the -New berry Civic League which observ ed its fiftieth anniversary this year. Dr. Mamie Summer accept ed the scroll on behalf of the club. The other; a belated scroll, was presented to the Newberry Wo man’s Club which was organized February 13, 1901. It was accepted by Mrs. R. D. Wright, a charter member. Rev. Herbert L. Spell, pastor of Central Methodist Church, gave the invocation, and Mrs. Edward Duckworth, president of the Lit erary Study club gave the wel come. A dutch luncheon was served by Circle No. 1 of Central Church. Mystery Farm Winners A large number of persons guessed the identity of Mys tery Farm No. 2 in last week’s issue. Thirty-two of the guess- ers had the right answer. The names of the 32 were typed on slips and placed in a hat and eleven names were drawn. The first name drawn was that of Warren Robertson, who wins the TV service call, given with the compliments of George Martin’s Radio and TV Service. The next ten names in the order di*awn were Elizabeth Sease, Mrs. W. O. Pitts, Ethel Stone, Garner Nobles, Mrs. Ernest Boozer, James Duffie, Patsy Ruth Senn, Weyman Williams, Ned Carlisle, Mrs. W. J. Swit- tenburg. To each of these will go a ticket to either the Wells or Ritz theater. These tickets MUST be picked up by 12:00 noon September 26. They will be good for one show during the week September 26-October 1st. The TV service call is good un til October 15, 1955. Others who correctly identi fied the farm were Donnie Bar ker, L. C. Fulmer, Mrs. George Martin, C. M. Smith, Chalmers Brown, Mrs. W. W. Parr, Mrs. Harold Pitts, Guy McCullough, Dave Waldrop, Mrs. Howard Turner, Mrs. Luther Folk, T. C. Workman, Florence Wal'^r, Rev. Sam T. Lipsey, David Rin ger, Mrs. Ira Gibson, Tom A. Neel, Mrs. H. L. Boozer, Jr., Mrs. Ralph Waldrop, Jerome Havird, D. P. Cook. Who owns Mystery Farm No. 2? See the advertisement spon sored by Newberry Federal Savings and Loan Association elsewhere in this issue. » Lovely flower arrangements in the church were by Mrs. W. E. Monts and the Woman’s Club, and in the social hall by the Literary Study club. Mrs. Fred Hayes was chairman of registration for the meeting; (Continued on page 4) A circuit court jury Tuesday morning accepted from Billy H. Turner a plea of guilty to the charge that he mur dered his wife, Mary Helen Wehunt Turner, at their two- room home /near Kinards last May 6th. The jury recom mended Turner to the mercy of the Court, as requested by his attorney, and Judge James M. Brailsford, Jr. pronounc ed the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment. A circuit court jury Tuesday morning accepted from Billy H. Turner a plea of guilty to the charge that he murdered his wife, Mary Helen Wehunt Turner, at their two-room home /near Kin ards last May 6th. The jury rec ommended Turner to the mercy of the Court, as requested by his attorney, and Judge James M. Brailsford, Jr., pronounced the mandatory sentence of life im prisonment. Turner was arraigned in open court Tuesday morning, and when asked by the court clerk whether he was “guilty or not guilty,” he replied in a clear voice, “I am not guilty” and chose trial “By God and my Country.” However, after a jury was impan eled, Turner's attorney, Thomas H. Pope, advised the court that Turner had change^ his pleas to “guilty” and. asked recommenda tion to the mercy of the Court. Addressing the presiding judge. Solicitor William T. Jones related that those who were familiar with the case were Convimced that ■“this a murder that called for the extreme penalty, execution.” He said that tjie State was pre pared to try the case, with view to conviction of first degree mur der, but after learning of Turner’s mental condition, the State “de cided that justice, that which is right can be best approached by accepting the plea of guilty of murder with recommendation to the mercy of the court.” Mr. Jones called to the stand Dr. G. B. Corrigan, chief of male service at the State Hospital' who testified that he, and a panel of other psychiatrists observed Tur ner for 60 days at the State Hos pital. Dr. Carrigan stated that while Turner is not insane at the present time, he is “developing a latent mental condition” which would develop into a psychosis within two years under normal stress and strife of everyday life. At that time, said Dr. Carrigan, Turner would not be able to dis tinguish right from wrong. He further stated the opinion that Turner “in my opinion may have been insane on that night,” speak ing of the night Mrs. Turner was brutally and fatally beaten. “His condition points to- the probability LATE BULLETIN Just before presstime, a jury trying the murder charge against Willie Mae Hand Springfield for the mur der of Ford B. Springfield/ re turned a verdict of “not gull? ty” after a half hour delibera tion. Treasurer Must Account For County’s Cash On the last day of this month more than 14,590 tax notices will be mailed to persons who own personal property or real estate in Newberry county. Two months of steady typing, checking and re checking by County Treasurer J. Ray Dawkins and two clerks' are required to get these tax notices in the mails, amd the money they will bring to the county totals close to $450,000. August, September and October are the busiest months for the County Treasurer. Around August 1st, he begins receiving the tax books, Auditors or Treasurer’s Duplicate, from the county audi tor, and from the information contained in !: the duplicate, the 14,500 tax notices are typed, show ing the number of acres, buildings or lots, valuation of real estate, of personal property and total valuation, taxes on property, poll tax and total tax. The original of the tax notice is kept by the treasurer to be given as a receipt when taxes are paid; one copy is sent to the taxpayer; the third is kept on file by the Treasurer. The practice of mail ing notices in Newberry county begam in 1944. Prior to this time, only about 60 to 70 per cent of taxes were collected in the office of the Treasurer, the balance be coming delinquent and winding up in the office of the tax col lector. The tax books open on October 1st, and during the month of Oct ober a one per cent discount is allowed. Mr. Dawkins said that approximately three fourths of the taxes are paid during the discount period. The taxpayer has until December 31st to pay taxes be fore a penalty is added. For the past three years, slightly less than 95 per cent of the county’s taxes have been paid names of delinquent tax are turned over to the tax col lector. After December 31st, the follow ing penalties are added to unpaid taxes: one per cent during Janu ary; two per cant during Febru- before | ary; three per cent in March and payers seven per cent from April 1 until April 15, after which date all un paid taxes are put into execution, and turned over to the tax collec tor, w r ho adds an additional three per cent for collection costs. As taxes are paid, the Treasu rer accounts for the payment on a cash book and marks charges off on the Treasurer’s Duplicate. At the time of the Treasurer’s “settlement” the amount of taxes collected and the amount turned over to the tax collector must be (Continued on page 4) CHECKING 14,500 TAX NOTICES is a big- job for anyone, but it is one of the jobs that must be performed by County Treasursr Ray Dawkins and his assistants. Mr. Daw kins is shown above in the midst of the tremendous job of getting out;'notices/to tax payers. (Sunphotoby Doris Sanders.) that he was insane,” said Dr. C&r- rigan. The other murder case on the docket of general sessions coqrt, against Willie Mae Hand Spring- field for the murder, of Ford B. Springfield several months ago, was being tried at the time The Sun went to press. George Fields e/ntered a plea of guilty of reckless homicide and was sentenced to a year and a day at hard labor. Other cases disposed of during the session in which defendants entered guilty pleas or were foiind guilty by juries, include: Read Erskin, non support; John B. Epps, alias Bill Epps, posses- vilon of illegal unstamped alco holic liquor; John Henry Cook, assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature; Walter Hill, possession of unstamped liquor; Carroll Guilder, committing an af fray; Royce Bedenbaugh, assault and battery of a high and aggra vated nature; Virgil Reed, tried in absence for drunken driving, second offense; John H. Sebum- pert, drunk driving, second of fense; John Brown, assault and battery of high and aggravated na ture; Sammie Johr.-i-n, assault and battery of high and aggravat ed nature; Cleo Miller, drunk driving, second offense; Thos. Milton Nichols, drunk driving, thiri offense; Eva Wright Reeu- er, possession of illegal unstamp ed liquor; Thos. B. Wise, involun tary manslaughter; Albert Thomp son, possession of illegal whiskey; Nathaniel Pitts, Sr., committing an affray; Alice Odom, aiding with intent to facilitate escape of a prisoner; Hope Walker, larceny; (Continued on page 4) BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Sept. 23: Mrs. W. O. Miller, Susan Hawkins, Cecil E* Kinard, Jackie Clarkson, Mrs. B. B. Leitzsey, Sr., Robert Glymph, Edward Epting. Sept. 24: George Rodelsper- ger, Mrs. Edgar L. Hiller, Rob ert E. Wike, Barbara Way, Ion * Stuck, Joyce Ann Swygert, Gary Bedenbaunh. Sept. 25: Strother Faysinger, Pinckney Abrams, Mrs. W. B. Goggans, Julian H. Aull, Kay Dawkins, Tommy Lewis, Eddie .Lominack, Mrs. Clem I. You- mans, William R. Buford, Mrs. Grace Graham Pence, Patsy Walton, Mrs. Marie Nicosia. S6pt. 26: J. Ervin Wilson, Peggy Lominack, Harold Bow ers, Gail Phillips, Susan Cook. Sept. 27: Miss Frances Jones, Rev. Neil E. Truesdale, Ruth Roberta, Billie Lathrop, Mrs. Carroll Eargle, Newton Dickert, Malcolm Amick, Sr. Sept. 28: Henry C. Holloway, Bobby Gilliam, Mrs. W. H. New berry, Joe_ Dominick, Harold Wicker, Mrs. Ray Doolittle, W. A. Webb, Mrs. Gary Lee Ringer, Sept. 29: Julian A. Price, Mrs. Clarence B. Sllgh, Mrs. Claud C. Smith, Virginia Glymph, Laura N. Bowers, Mrs. Olin Gra ham, Harold Brown Folk, Mrs. Richard Caldwell, Drayton Min* ick, E. B. Carlisle.