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In term- n! tut t! a''•* ! . thf petroleum mdu>t r> i>~ th** L-.rut-t of all manufaeturint; indust rie'. and i'' yecund onl> to 1 ht foie! and he%era^e industrv in term*- of total ''ale'-. \ farmer w ith an oil-po''en- traetor can do the plowing wort of ten horses, five hand plow- and ten men. VOLUME 18—NUMBER 51 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1956 + $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way Mystery Farm No 32 Whose Is It ? NineCase^Set f wo Oistrict School System In Newberry County Talked By Doris A. Sander4 UNSUNG HEROES Sometime around 10 o’clock on Sunday nipht, the winds which had been blowing relentlessly foi several houis toppled a lar^e tree on Boundary street, felled it across the street and into the yard and porch of the Sehumpert home on the opposite side, break ing electric and telephone lines. Homes in that area were without electric service for almost seven hours. The people in those homes weren’t without “service” how ever, for immediately after the tree fell, city employees were on the job in the rain to begin clear ing the debris. Those who lived close by told how 1 the workers labored unceasingly through the night and into the morning to restore service at the earliest pos sible moment, and by daylight be fore most of the residents in the area needed their electricity, it was there for them. I know that the city employees are expected jto do such jobs I when the emerg- lency arises, but |I still think that Jthey should b e [thanked for the excellent job and that we should be thankful to have such an ef- PlPf^ j ficient city a d - .. _ -p—'" ministration to Mrs. Sanders .. , cope with such emergencies. NO QUARTER PINTS I went through the Bloodrno- bile “receiving line” Tuesday and got to the doctor who assured me they wouldn’t cut my “half-pint limit” to a quarter pint, because theydon’t take quarters. Having received his approval to lose a half-pint of blood I made my way on down the line to the nurse who takes that little gadget and sticks in your finger—the most painful part of the whole process to me. Cornering a drop of what looked to me to be perfectly healthy, bright red blood, s h e dropped it into that blue solution- whatever it is, and there it re mained, suspended. It just would n’t go to the bottom. She tried again and said “Pm sorry, no half pint today.” There’ll always be another time, and inthe meantime I would like to thank those of you who heeded my plea and the plea of others, and saw to it that the Bioodmobile exceeded the quota on the Tuesday visit. Someday you, may be extremely thankful you donated that pint, or half, as the case may be. COURSE NARROWS The course which patrons of the Silverstreet school may follow has narrowed to two paths: to consolidate with the Newberry high school or to withdraw from the county unit system and form a school district for the Silver- street area. Factors involved i n the latter course were fully and capably explained to a group of patrons at the public meeting on Tuesday night byRichard C. Neel, Jr.,member of the county board of education. To me it is com mendable that these people are evidently willing to “keep the school at all costs” as they stat ed at : another public meeting eome time ago. While I cannot go along with the idea that the clos ing of the high school will de- (Continued on page 5) MYSTERY FARM No. 32. 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 Ritx or Wells theatres. The owner of the farm may receive the photograph In an attractive easel by oalling at The Sun office. Calls and letters will be accepted until noon on Mon day following this publication date. The names of those vtfio correctly Identify the farm will be placed in a hat and 11 names drawn for winners. All who correctly Identify the farm will be listed in next week’s issue. (Zekan Robbins photo.) Henderson Now Commander Of I07th Battalion. Guard Unit Major James W. Henderson has recently taken command of the 107th AAA AW Battalion, South Carolina National Guard, with headquarters in Newberry. He succeeds Lt. Col. Evander R. Mc- I ver of Dillon, who has retired from the Guard. Other changes made in the 107th Staff as a result of Major Hen- dersonks promotion as as follows: Major Hervey M. Blalock, of Clinton has been elevated to i cooperation with the Newberry battalion executive officer; Capt. Creamery and the Borden Co. Gerald O’Quinn has been named The outstanding speakers will Small Dairymen To Have Meeting A meeting for small milk pro ducers will be held - on Tuesday night, April 24 at 7:15 in the county court room, sponsored by the extension services of New berry, Saluda and Edgefield, in Operations and Training officer; Capt. Andrew H. Gambrell, of Columbia replaces Capt O’Quinn as adjutant; Capt Glenn H. Burg- hardt of Greenwood has been named Battalion Communications direct their remarks to the group of producers in the one to ten cow category. The speakers will include R. D. Steer, Clemson col lege, who will talk on breeding; Dr. George Hopson of New York, Officer, and First. Lt. Earl L. | representing the DeLaval Separ- Gibson of Yemassee, has trans-j a tor company, will discuss proper ferred from Battery D in Hamp-J milking and care of cows; C. G. ton to battalion Motor Transpor- Cushman, Clemson, will explain tation Officer. | silage and feeding; W. E. Schmit The 107th Battalion was organ-! of the BordenCo. will talk on the ized in Newberry prior to World | advantage of more production. War II and was first under the! The meeting will last less than leadership of Col. Thomas H. three hours. Door prizes wall be Pope, who is now commander of awarded as follows: the 228th Group. Men of the 107th saw extensive service during the war. The unit was reactivated af ter the war and now consists of Headquarters Battery & Battery C, located in Newberry; Battery D located in Hampton, and Bat tery A, located in Greenwood. Missionaries Be At Bush River Dr. and Mrs. S. L, Watson, missionaries from Brazil, will vis it Bush RiverBaptist church on Sunday, April 22 at 11:25 a.m. and Fairview church at 3:30 p.m. The Watsons were missionaries in Brazil for more than 30 years. DeLaval cow-to-can milker, do nated by Newberry Creamery and Edgefield Seed Co.; one 25 pound can Kaffa, donated by Newberry Milling and Distributing Com pany; one bag calf starter, do nated by Martin Feed & Seed store; one cow bred, donated by the Newberry Cooperative Breed ing Association; two 50 pound bags cow and freshener feed, do nated by Spartan Grain and Mill company. Small milk producers are urged to attend. By volume, the four principal petroleum products account for six-sevenths of total petroleum demand. 7 M •>v ' ^ . l. HOU8EAL NORRIS, ieft and Mrs. Price Padgett, center, get information from R. J. Metts who visited the Red Cross Bioodmobile Tuesday afternoon to donate a pint of blood. Total col lected, 108 pinU; total volunteer donors, 118. (Sunphoto by Doris A. Sanders.) Bowers Reelected Polio Chairman Charles E. Bowers was re-elect ed chairman of the Newberry county Chapter of the National Foundation of Infantile Paraly-* sis at a luncheon meeting of the chapter's executive committee held at the Wallace home Tues day. Also re-elected were S. C. Altman, vice-chairman; James Clamp, secretary and Miss There sa Lightsey, treasurer. Horace B. Ward of Columbia, State representative of the Nat ional Foundation, spoke briefly to the group about the Salk vaccine program and awarded a Certific ate of Service to Bobby Under wood, who was chairman of the 1956 March of Dimes campaign. Mr. Underwood reported that the campaign brought in $5546.46. Mr. Ward stated that the state drive would amount to about $445, 000 and indications were that the national quota of over $47,000,000 would be attained. The treasurer’s report showed $1843.48 balance for the local chapter, before the current March of Dimes funds were added. Miss Lightsey stated that there was only one case of polio in the county in 1955, the victim being the young son of Mr. and Mrs. Nat Welch of Whitmire. She ad ded that insurance had taken care of costs in that case and the county chapter had not been call ed upon for financial assistance. It was also reported that the child was improving satisfactorily A report from the county health officer. Dr. J.' C. Sease, read by Miss Lightsey showed that 6510 Salk vaccine shots had been given in the county since the program began last year. Dr. Sease’e re port stated that the vaccine is now available at the County de partment of health and urged that all children between the ages of 1 through 14 get the shots as soon as possible. There are 11,- 751 children in the county eli gible to receive the shots, free of charge. Those elected to run the chap ter for the following year were: Executive committee: Dr. Harriet Pinner, Ralph Setzler, Francis Scurry, John Grady Long, Ernest Jennings, Jack Hardin, Dr. C. K. Wheeler, Ray Shealy, Rev. Garth Hill of the county; Wayne Mar tin, E. B. Purcell, Roger Sim mons, Bobby Underwood, E. F. McCutcheon, Meredith Harmon, and Preston McAlhaney of the city. Medical Advisory: Dr. Kemper Lake, chairman; Dr. C. A. Duf- ford, Jr., Dr. J. C. Sease. Educational: P. K. Harmon. Women’s Division: Mrs. Myra Addy, chairman; Mrs. Sarah Crooks, Mrs. Fitzgerald Ruther ford. Publicity: Frank Armfield, chairman; Ollie Moye. For Civil Court Nine cases have been set to be tried in the Court of Common Pleas which convenes on Monday morning, April 23 with Judge Henry Johnson of Allendale pre siding. The roster as set by Gordon Clarkson, secretary of the New berry Bar Association, is as fol lows: Monday: L. C. Caldwell versus 1955 Ford Sedan; Charles Cromer versus L. Bates Boland; W. E. Harrell versus National Security corporation and G. Herman Wise. Tuesday: J. L. Gilstrap and W T. Senn versus Ruth Erskine and Annie Belle Whitfiled; John L. Player versus J. F Coates; New Era Advertising company versus J. O. Hawkins; Universal Feat ures Advertising Company versus William T. Prince, doing business as Prince Radio and Electric Co.; Credit Industrial Co. versus Senn- Bozard Concrete Works; I. T. Timmerman versus J^ H. Bowers, Merchants Give For Ball Field Contributions to the Little Boys Baseball field behind Boundary Street School, a project which has been undertaken by several busi nessmen in the community, have been coming in at a gratifying rate, according to Don Rook, one of those interested in the project. There are still a number of soli citors who have not turned over their collections to Keitt Purcell, treasurer of the fund, says Mr. Rook, and since the committee does not want to delay the project he urges that collectors finish the job in order to get the field ready for the first game on Mon day, May 7. Among the contributors to date are: Purcells, South Caro lina National Bank, Federal Sav ings and Loan, John R. Frazier, H. M. Hentz, Sr., Mollohon Mills, Buzhardt Furniture Company and NeWberry County Bank, $25.00 each; C. D. Coleman, $20.00; State Buildingand Loan Assn., $12.50; Court House officials, $17.00; Pope and Sehumpert, Newberry Mills, H. C. Timmerman, Lee Fi nance, Local Finance, Globe Fi nance, Wallace Finance, City Fi nance, Belk Finance, Maxwell Bros. & Lindsay, Prosperity Fur niture Co., G. B. Summer & Sons, and Jimmy Wiseman, $16.00 each; Aubrey Harley, Eugene Blease, Claude Bouknight, Newberry Steam Laundry, Odorless Clean ers, T & C Cleaners, Carpenters, B. C. Moore & Son, Belk-Beard Co., Carters Flower Shop, Owen Holmes, W. E. Turner, Jevcelers, Ritz Theatre, Wells Theatre, $5.00 each; Herman Langford, Myrtle Florist, Square Grocery, Fennell’s Jewelers, Hamilton’s Jewelers, $2.00each; J. S. Hutchinson, $2.50; Also, D. R. Son, Roland Felker, $1.50 each; B. V. Chapman, Joe Boland, Roy Felker, H. E. Cor ley, Ed Adams, Charlie Brooks, Main Street Flower Shop, Rogers Jewelry Store, $1.00 each; C. D. Ringer, C. J. Zozel, Donald Wayne Chavis, 50c each. Outstanding Game Be Played Here Newberry will see its first “big time” softball game this Satur day night, April 21 at 7:30 spon sored by the Newberry Jaycees. A double-header will be played between the Champion YMCA of Canton, N. C. and the Columbia “Jqts” (formerly All Stars) of Columbia. Proceeds of the game will go to building fund for a boy scout cabin for Troop 222, which is sponsored by the Jaycees. The Canton team won the Southern Regional Crown last ; year, and has been N. C. State ! champion six times since 1949. The Columbia team has been the South Carolina champions for the past several years; traveled over 5000 miles last year, split four games with Canton last year and boasts seven standout players. This will be the first time for this calibre softball to be played I in Newberry. The game will be at the Speers Street school field. Admission charge will be 50c J with children under 15 years of | age being admitted free. Reedy Rive r Group Meet At West End The Reedy River Baptist Asso ciation will hold its Spring rally and vacation Bible school con ference at West End Baptist church on Tuesday, April 24 at 7:30 p.m. The program will be featured by conferences and in spirational talks, including an ad dress by Dr. J. H.Simpson, pres ident of the Baptist State Con vention. The public is cordially invited and a full attendance is urged. Greenville Firm Gets Road Work A contract for thegrading and bituminous surfacing of 11.534 miles of secondary roads in New berry County has been awarded by the State Highway Depart ment to Ballenger Paving com pany of Greenville. The contract was announced in a letter of award from Chief Highway Commissioner Claude R. McMillan April 13. It was based on a low bid of $106,593.34 sub mitted by the Greenville firm when bids for the work were pub licly opened in Columbia March 13. Included in the project are the grading and surfacing of 3.678 miles on Roads S-28 and S-55 from Road S-45 easterly and southerly to S. C. Route 34; of 1.874 miles on Road S-342 from Road S-56 northeasterly to U. S. Route 76 at Jalapa; of 1.776 miles on Road S-278 from oad S-276 southeasterly to Road S-49 north of Silverstreet; of 1.881 miles on Road S-505 from S. C. Route 219 east of Newberry northerly to S. C. Route 34; and of 2,325 miles on Roads S-386, S-381 and S-383, be ing streets adjacent to the City of Newberry. A petition is being circu’ in the Silverstreet school l Fred J. Weir, Jr., commander of headquarters battery, 228th AAA Group, South Carolina Na tional Guard, has recently been promoted to the rank of caiptain. Chief Warrant Officer Lee Small wood also recently attained that rank with the 228th group. He is assistant group supply officer and has held the rank of warrant officer, junior grade. a which, if signed by a majorr, of the freeholders, would give ap proval to the withdrawal of tnat area from the Newberry county School District and to its opera tion as a separate unit. This action came as a result of a public meeting held Tuesday night at Silverstreet high school. R. C. Neel, Jr., County Board of Education member from the Sil verstreet area, presided and told the patrons they had two alterna tives: one, to close the high school and consolidate with Newberry; or, secondly, to withdraw from the county system and maintain their own schools, white and negro. An increased tax levy of almost 21 mills would be necessary if the latter course is to b« followed, Mr. Neel told the group. Opera tion expense would require 17.8 mills and a bond levy to renovate the old classroom building would necessitate about a three mill levy for 20 years. The present tax levy of 26 mills would bring the total to 63.8. It was pointed out that in the city of Newberry, the total city and county tax is 82 mills and the cost to Silverstreet to operate its own schools would still be al most 20 mills less than the total tax paid in the city. The petition being circulated was signed by approximately 75 freeholders at the meeting. It re quests the County Board to take steps necessary for Silverstreet to begin functioning as a separ ate district for the school year 1956-57. The wild Turkey is our largest game bird. MRS. ORA LEE GILLIAM, left, was installed as president of the Auxiliary to Livingston-Wise Post 5968, Veterans of Foreign Ware, at the VFW hut Monday ‘night. Mrs. Ruby Trice, center, a past president and district president-elect, officiated at the installation service. Also present at the meeting was Mrs. Marguerite Gray of Anderson, district VFW Auxiliary president. (Sunphoto by Doris A. Sanders.) Polio Chapter Elects Officers HORACE B. WARD of Columbia, state representative of the National Fundation for Infantile Para lysis, presents a Certificate of Service to Bobby Underwood, chairman of the 1956 March of Dimes. With them are officers who were elected at a luncheon meeting Tuesday to serve the Newberry County chapter for the ensuing year. Left to right, they are Mr. Underwood, James Clamp, secre tary; Mr. Ward, Miss Theresa Lightsey, treasurer, Charles E. Bowers, county chairman, and S. C. Altman, vice chairman. (Sunphoto by Doris A. Saniers.) Quota Exceeded For Bioodmobile Appreciation was expressed to day by Claude L. Weeks, chair man of the Newberry county blood donor program to the 108 per sons who gave blood and to the ten who volunteered and we re jected when the Red Cross Biood mobile was in Newberry Tues day. The quota for the visit had been set at 100 pints. Especial thanks were ex -nded by Mr. Weeks to the 26 nors sent from Battery C, 107t' Bat talion of the Newberry N r >nal Guard; to a number of dor> >rs re cruited by Newbery college; to Mrs. W. H. Ted-:» L chairman, and 30 other \v i workers; to the radio and ik ^papers for publicity given the visit ard to the Central Methodist chu. h for use of its facilities. A list of donors will be g; next week’s issue of The Su Mr. Weeks stated that th* visit of the bioodmobile vvl on June 12. Volunteer workers for the Tues day visit were: Miss Theresa Lightsey, Mrs. Jeter Young, Mrs. Mecie Senn, Mrs. Bill Wright, Mrs. Roy Summer, Mrs. Roy An derson, Mrs. Tom Parks, Miss Ola Norris, Mrs. Hugh Foster, Mrs. William Buford, Mrs. Dorothy Price, Mrs. Price Padgett, Mrs. Houseal Norris, Mrs. Tom Fellers, Mrs. Eloise Dennis. Also: Mrs. Janie Davis Warren, Mrs. Charles Dukes, Mrs. P. K. Harmon, Mrs. W. O. Miller, Mrs. Mayme Fellers, Mrs. W. F- Part ridge, Mrs. Gordon Clarkson, Mrs. Von Long, Mrs. Pope Buford, Jr., Mrs. W. H. Tedford, Miss Grace Summer, Mrs. Hannah Pool, Mrs, Cyril Hutchinson, Mrs. Fred Hayes, Mrs. Bob Bruner, Mrs. Butler Holmes. :n '■Xt be More than one billion dc were spent in 1954 in expl< for new oil fields. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS April 20: Elizabeth Hargrove, Arthur George Dwyer, Linda Driggers, Jack Timmerman. April 21: Perry O. Wicker, Betty Bowers, Mickey Chapr man, Fred James Harmon. April 22: Henry T. Fellers, Mrs. George Stephens, Mrs. George S. Minick, Mrs. Joseph L. Tolbert, Mrs. Frank Mills, A. O. Livingston. April 23: Margaret Elizabeth Leavell. April 24: Gloria Cleo Hawk ins, J. Ray Dawkins, Frank Cul- clasure, Hendrix Monts. April 25: Mrs. Wilton Todd, Fred Gilbert. April 26: Mrs. William Mi lam.