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*3 J » » * THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE, OF COURSE, BUT ISN'T IT A PITY THAT MOST OF THE NEXT-BEST THINGS ARE SO EXPENSIVE? BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SAID: “HE THAT FALLS IN LOVE WITH HIMSELF WILL HAVE NO RIVALS.” VOLUME 18—NUMBER 30. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1955 + $2.00 PER YEAR w&L By DORIS A. SANDERS WELL RECEIVED There have been a number of well-known individuals in New berry from time to time, making speeches at gaitherings of various sorts, but I have never heard as much favorable comment about any one individual and his speech as I have heard since the NEPH luncheon last week, when W. W. MacBride, manager of the VA Regional office in Columbia, made a short talk to those gathered at the luncheon. Everyone who heard him, and with whom I have talk ed since, had only the highest .praise for the man and for his speechT I’m sorry it wasn’t pos sible for more Newberrians to be present at the luncheon and 1 hope some other organization will see fit to have Mr. MacBride here again sometime because I just don’t think a better speaker could be obtained. It could be that I am a little prejudiced, though, for I have known Mr. MacBride for more than eight years and had the pleasure of working with him when he was assistant regional manager at VA and I was secre tary to Public Relations Officer Abe Fennell. That was a long time ago—between seven and eight years, we decided, when 1 had a brief chat with* Mr. Mac at the luncheon, hut he is just the sort of nice person that you never for get. Abe Fennell was at the lunch eon too, so it was practically “old home week” for the three of us. HTIS THE SEASON I was going to say “tis the sea son to be thankful” but I believe I’m borrowing the words from a Christmas song instead of one appropriate to Thanksgiving. How ever, substituting the “Thankful” for “Jolly” It fits just as well, and that is what most of us should be at this time of year—and at all times of the year. Almost ev eryone at some time of the other feels that he or she has the bur dens of the world to carry and that no one else could have the same troubles. However, as I am sure someone has said “things are never so bad that they couldn’t be worse” and that is the attitude I try to hang on to most of the time. As I write this, I see before me a notice that the members of the Volunteer Fire department will collect funds Friday night for the Muscular Dystrophy drive. I would like to say a word about that par ticular drive. Our oldest little one was born with a slight irregular ity in her leg and hip. It has tak- em, and will continue to take treatments for several years be fore her little leg will be com pletely normal again. But the gpod thing is that it WILL he com pletely normal, or so rajuch t so that the difference won’t be no ticed. In fact it barely. notice able now. But wfieh 1 sometime 3 wonder why it had to be. I think of a friend who had a son^ suffer ing from muscular dystrophy. The little boy, about eight years ?old at that time, was talT^n ^to Johns Hopkins, to Mayo, fore- 1 mbst muscle specialists jin^ the country and at every place the parents heard the same -answer, “no cure.” The parents of this lad could afford to take him to the best places for treatment but they were no better off than those who couldn’t afford it. The last I heard, the little boy was still living and still able to walk, but slowly weakening, unable to play with his brothers and sisters and playmates in regular childhood games. A case, even more tragic was one I saw when I was in High Point, N. C. a few years back, and stopped to visit the old Quaker Church where the Arm field clan originally settled in this part of the country. The pastor came up while I was there and invited me to come look at the new manse which the Friends of the Quaker church had just built for him. Down in the nicely finished base ment, his wife was doing the wash and on a cot beside her was their eleven-year-old daughter, suffer ing from muscular dystrophy, completely helpless. She couldn’t even turn her head without help. I believe there is now a clinic somrwhere in North Carolina for the victims of muscular dystrophy. I hope, if she is still living, she is w there where everything possible can be done for her. I hope the people of Newbrry will contribute generously to this cause. , By The Way We wish 3or Our Jriendd - - iMi M r« ♦ Christmas Club Members To Get (Checks Soon Almost 200 lucky holders of Christmas Club accounts will be mailed checks this week totaling close to $255,000. acording to Joe M. Roberts, manager of the New berry County Bank. These ac counts are in the Newberry and Joanna branches of the County Bank. On Thursday, December 1. per sons who have Christmas Club ac counts at the South Carolina Nat ional Bamk will receive checks for their savings over the past tear. Although figures from the th Carolina National bank are available, John T. Norris, ink manager, says this is by far largest club savings since the lan was starter some 25 years i **o. New Christmas club accounts may now be opened at both local banks. 43 Cases To Be Considered B\ Grand Jury Next Week mg IWi it* Vi mi. w 4?: vM?- enans ect Officers At a congregational meeting held last Sunday morning at the close of the morning service of the Aveleigh Presbyterian Church, additional elders and deacons were elected to serve on the offi cial boards of the church. Messrs. T. W. Hunter and E. B. Purcell were elected elders. Deacons elected were Russell Oulbertson, Lewis Davis, John Frazier, David 1 Neville, Keitt Purcell, and James Smith, Jr. j These men will be Installed and ordained at a future date. Fulmer Wells, Wright Cannon and Prof. T. E. Epting left Sunday for a week’s vacation trip to Key West, Fla. to by Doris A. Sanders.) — cd 7jhanlc3g.iving. United Services Mystery Far Set This Week The United Thanksgiving ser vice will be held Thursday a. m. at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer at 10 o'clock with Rev. Gordon Mann, rector of SL Luke’s Episcopal /'church bringing the mesage. Members of all churches in the City are invited to attend. The three churches of the West End community; Mayer Memorial, West End Baptist and O’Neal St. Methodist, will also hold joint Thanksgiving services Wednesday night at 7 o’clock at West End Baptist churcli. Rev. D. M. Shull, pastor of Mayer Memorial, will de liver the Thanksgiving message. Rev. J. W. Davemport is pastor of O’Neal Methodist and Rev. J. Ed Taylor is pastor of West End Bap tist. Winners Being off of a road where traf fic is fairly heavy makes identifi cation of Mystery Farms a little harder than those forms which are located on roads traveled by hundreds of people daily, but there were seven correct guesses out of those called in for last week’s mystery farm. Again this week, the TV service call goes to Henry Longshore, whose name was drawn first from the list of Also on Wednesday night, the churches of Mollohon will hold a Thanksgiving service at Glenn St. Baptist church at 7 p. m. The speaker will be Rev. Edward R. Bradham, junior, pastor of Epting Memorial Methodist church. Visitors are cordially welcomed to all of the joint services, those who correctly identified Mystery Farm 11., Tickets to the Wells Theater, good for one show during the week of November 28, go to Mrs. Ira Gibson, Florence Walker, Anne Bowers and Mrs. Harold Pitts. Tickets to the Ritz Theater, good for one show during the week of November 28, go to Mrs. Gilder Neel, Corbett Gibson, Mrs. Richard E. Mills. Winners are asked to pick up the TV Service Call Ticket, given by George N. Martin Radio and Television for free service on a call,* and theater tickets at The Newberry Sun by noon, Monday, November 28. Sunpaper readers are reminded that they may guess the mystery farm each week—in fact, they are urged to guess it each week—with a possibility of winning each week if the guess is correct and the guesser’s name among the first ten drawn. Services Today At Central For Dr. Lominack Dr. Reyburn W. Lominack. 39, died at his residence on Johnstone street Tuesday morning following several months of critical illness. Dr. Lominack was born and rear ed in Newberry, the son of Mr. aaid Mrs. Frank Lominack, Sr. He was graduated from Newberry col lege and the Medical school of South Carolina at Charleston. He was an officer in the Army Medi cal corps during World War II and had been a practicing physician in Newberry since that time, as long as his health permitted. in addition to his parents, he is survived by his wife, Mrs. Eliza beth Weiters Lominack; one dau ghter, Lisa, two sons, Reyburn, junior and Bobby; one brother, Frank Lominack, junior, all of Newberry. Funeral services will be held this afternoon, Wednesday, at 3 p. m. at Central Methodist church, conducted by Rev. H. L. Spell. Interment will follow in Rosemont cemetery. The body was taken Tuesday afternoon from Whitaker Funeral Home to the home of his parents oin Main street where it will re main until the hour of service. Forty-three cases have been turned over to Solicitor Wil liam T. Jones to be brought before the November session -f criminal court which convenes here on Monday, November 28, with Judge James Brailsford, Jr. of Orangeburg pre siding. Seven of the cases are continued from the previous court of General Sessions. Miss Elsie Gilliam, Mrs. Gurdon Counts, Miss Isterline Griffin and W. D. B«ard spent last Wednesday and Thursday in Charlotte wfcetfe they purchased spring merchan dise for their- respective depart ments at Belk-Beard company. Roy Singley Succumbs At MiU (We Roy Eugene Singley, 57, died Tuesday morning at Mills Clinic in Prosperity after a seridhs 1 ill ness of about three months. He was .born in Prosperity, som of the late Augustus and Ellen Kibler Singley. He was a fireman at Fort Jackkson for nine years and was also a farmer. He was a member of Grace Lutheran church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Vera Derrick Singley; one son, James Augustus of Newberry; one daughter, Mrs. Charles Sheppard and one brother, Jake Singley of Prosperity; also three grand-chil dren. Funeral services will be con ducted at 3:30 p. m. today, Wed nesday at Grace Lutheran Church in Prosperity with Rev. Ben M. Clark and Rev. George Meetze conducting the services. Inter ment will follow at the Prosperity cemetery. Miss Doris Schumpert, a mem* her of the Spartanburg Junior College faculty and Mr. and Mrs. Derrill Schumpert of Union are expected to arrive Wednesday to spend th* Thanhigiring holidays with their parentt, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Schumpert on Boundary St Many Thanksgiviug Mystery Farm No 12 Whose Is It ? A: Ht - *>*' W. > . *«*► i ■C.-C MYSTERY FARM No. 12—Can you identify it? If so, call -or write to The Newberry Sun, telephone No. 1. You may be the winner of a free television service Call by George N. Martin Radio and TV or a ticket to the Ritz or Wells theatres. The owner of the farm may receive the photograph of his farm in an attractive easel by calling at The Sun office. Calls and letters will be < accepted until noon, Nov ember 28. The names of those who correctly identify the farm will be placed In a hat and 11 names drawn for winners. Names of all who correctly identify Mystery Farm No. 12 will be listed in next week’s issue of The Sun. (Zekan Robbins photo.) (By DORIS A. SANDERS) The fact that Turkey Day is close at hand is emphasized by the near-empty turkey grazing ranges at the Huffman Turkey Farm, located ou the Hartford Road a few miles from Newber ry. The 6,000 turkeys left on the vast acreage would seem to most people to be a huge number of turkeys, but it is a mere handful compared, to the number which are hatched out each year at the Huffman farm. Our tour over the farm was conducted by Minor Neelands, one of the six fulltime employees of the turkey farm. Others are W. C. “Bill” Hughes, who has been manager of the farm for Mr. Huff man for the past 13 years; Elbert Bouknight, Enoch Mayer, Arthur Neelands and Harry Hughes. Mr. Huffman started in the turkey business 15 years ago with about 1500 breeders. There are now 6,- 000 breeders kept on the farm, and during the past season, 200,- 000 were hatched out. This was about 60,000 short of the number hatched out the previous season. In addition to the full time workers on the farm, there are also six other nearby farms where turkeys from the Huffman farm are bred. Of the 200,000 turkeys hatched out last , season, less than 25 per cent were grown out for the market; the remainder are sold a few days after they are hatched. • The turkey eggs are placed in the incubators for 25 days, and transferred on the 25th day to the hatchery, which is also in the incubator house, where they hatch in one to three days. The turkeys that are to be kept on the farm are transferred to the brooders within a day after they are hatch ed and remain in the brooders for eight weekks, at a temperature of about 100 degrees. At the end of the # eight weeks, they are taken out on the range. Rain sheds are provided on each range, and only a few tur keys are lost during hard rains because of crowding, according to Mr. Neelands. The biggest haz ard is the danger of foxes. A num ber of them have been trapped for th past. Stray dogs will occa- give as much trouble now as in the pasL Stray dags will occa-- sionally get into the turkey ranges and kill some of the birds but that doesn’t happen too often. ** * . * i 'JmMN** The continued cases are, drunk driving, second offense: Robert G. French. Herman J. Kinard, James Simms and Gregg Edward Counts; burglary, General Abrams, Rob ert Hodges, Jr.; noH'Mppert, Earl Sims. One case was turned over by Magistrate \Vise against Theolo- mas Eleazer, operating a public nuisance; one by Magistrate Fos ter against Randolph Thompson, non'-support; two by Magistrate Hatton, Will Suber, drunk driving, second offense, and Clifton Free, pointing firearms. The remainder of jfrfc cases turn ed over by Magisto$MtBen Daw kins are as follows: House breaking and petit lar ceny, Dave Crooks; drunk driving, second offense, Robert Cook, Jes sie Copeland, Grover Shealy. James Bimdrick; drunk driving, third offense, James Sims; com mitting an affray, Fred Haltiwan- ger, John Haltiwamger, George Helier, Beatrice Reeder, Fred Brooks, Thomas Caldwell, Ervin Swittenburg, Sims Sligh, Jr.; bas tardy, Johnny Werts, Charlie Boozer; - non-support, Thomas Crooks; violation of liquor law, Jimmie Shelton, Walter Hill, Dor othy Mae Sims, John Albert Cror mer, Eula Rice Cromer; house breaking and grand larceny, Bar nett Knight, Archie Roberts; as sault and battery with intent to kill, Charles O. Tinsley, Sanders Pal mo re, Jimbo Cook, Adam Glymph, Sr., Buddy Fields; assault with a deadly weapon, Lee Brown, .Roy Brown; slander, Simon Ble*- zer. Members of the Volunteer Fire department of Newberry will col lect funds Friday night, November 25 in the fight against a dreaded disease which cripples and kills many thousands of children each year—muscular dystrophy. Most of the 200,000 victims of muscular dystrophy are children, - and most of these end up in wheel flairs and may di~ before their teens. Until Muscular Dystrophy Assocaitions of America was form ed in 1060 these children had no oure, no treatment, no place to tpra. Today worldwide research 18 bringing hope. Muscular dystrophy is not c n- tagious, and it does not kill its victims. They usually died from ^trther diseases, primarily those of the respiratory tract. Weakness of the chest muscles makes cough ing and bringing up mucus im possible and the MD patients may die of suffocation in such attacks. The cause of this tragic ail ment is unknown. Money contribu ted to the MD association is used to advance research in order to learn the cause and cure RAY HUGHES, four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hughes, tries to decide whether the turkey in front of him will produce a big enough drumstick for his Thanksgiving Dinner. The turkey is one of the 6,000 breeders left on the Huffman Turkey Farm after the remainder were shipped out for Thanksgiving dinners the world over. (Sunphoto.) / The brooder house will accom modate 6,500 small turkeys at a time. It is empty at the present time, since the hatching season Is just beginning, but the first crop of new birds, about 40,000 of them, is expected to hatch out on De cember 1st and another year’s hatching season will begin. While most of the Huffman turkeys grown for market now are grown om the range, accommoda tions are being built to raise some inside entirely. The confined tur key dees not bring more on the market, but it is considered to be less work and more economical to raise them in this fashion. Turkeys raised for the market are sold to a dressing plant in Marshville, N. C. and sent from there to all points in the United States and overseas. The poults are sold mostly in Newberry and York counties, with some going to other points in South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia. Turkey gob blers grow to about 27-30 pounds in six months time, ready for the market. Hens grow to about 16 pounds during that time. The fields in which the turkeys range are planted in oats, barley and rye grass. Just prior to our visit to the. farm, a flock of more-than 3,000. turkeys was shipped to the mar ket, insuring a “big, big drum stick on this Thanksgiving Day” for many a wide-eyed youngster. . .. r: m BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Nov.- 25: Jimmy Clamp, Mrs. A. W. Murray, Troxelle W. Brown, Pope L. Buford, Jr., Dianne Gil liam, Mrs. B. A. Fretwell, Alan 8enn. Nov. 26: Robert Smith, James R. Williams, R. D. Coleman, Jr„ Scrappy Wherry, Henry Stevens, Jimmie Harmon, David Denning. Nov. 27: Frank Armfield, Mrs. Jake Wise, Mrs. R. I_ Lewis, Rob ert Pike Glymph, Caroline Sing ley, G. S. Parnell, Jeanette Wald rop, Mrs. Ralph Setzler. Nov. 28:- Mrs. Minnie L. Clary, Mrs. Berley 8. Werts, Mrs. M. W. (Anna Hart) Cheatham. Nov. 29: Mrs. William R. Brooks, Donald Rawls, Molly Partridge, Mary Riley,-Earl Bergen, J. L. Counts, Mrs. L. W. Bedenbaugh, Mrs. R. L. Lewie, W. H. Shannon, Wilmer M. Hite. Nov. 30: Patsy Ruth Morris, Mrs. Marion Wiggins, 8. C. Camp bell, Ella Rae Kyzer, Alice Melva Shealy, L. B. Davis, Kenny Davis. L Dec. ;1c X W. Looney, Jr., Mrs. Joe Koon, Mary Pinner Koon, Frank Stewart, Tommy Tolbert, Mrs. Lindsay Koon, Mrs. Gerald C. O’Quinn, Mrs. J. C. Pitts, Mrs. Mary Neel Boozer, Trudy Todd. ■ "4 m m O) ' *-4'