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& Congratulations, Graduates ■r r - \ tt-tt Congratulations, Graduates VOLUME 19—NUMBER 4 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1956 + $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way By Doris A. Sanders SSS' WELCOME HOME It was with a ^reat (i* al o h pkasuie that I heard some time ajto by rumor confirmed last week that Charlie Pruitt is com inpr back to Newberry. Even while he has been director of the hitch school band at York, he has spent much of his time in Newberry meetinK drill each Sunday with the 246th National Guard band of which he is director and, during the past year, working with the newly organized Newberry college band. Plans are in the making for both a marching band and a dance band at the col lege under Char- lie’-s leaders h i p and there is no doubt in my mind but that they will both be good because Charlie, like the other members of his family, has much talent Mrs. Sanders in the field of music. 1 don’t know whether it has been announced yet, but I un derstand he will also direct the high schol hand at W hitmire. CONGRATULATIONS —to Jery O’Quinn, who was sport ing a Major’s leaf on hi.- collar at the Armed Forces Day display on the square in Newberry last Sat urday. Jerry received his promo- ion to Major last week. He recent ly received a ‘‘promotion’’ in jobs, going from adjutant of the 107th AAA Battalion, National guard,to Operations and Training officer. Jerry has more than 22 year’s ser vice with the Guard and joined the 107th when it was first organized in Newberry. He went overseas with the unit as an enlisted man & received a battlefield promotion in Tunisia. Shortly after the unit was reorganized in 1947, he became commanding officer of Headquar ters Battery, 107th and remained in that position until elevated to the office of adjutant in 1951. NAPKIN SALE The members of the Exchange Club are making the rounds this week to sell paper napkins. Pro ceeds from the sale will be used in (Continued on page 8) Mystery Farm No 37 Whose Is It? MYSTERY FARM No. 36. Can you identify it? tf 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 in an attractive easel by calling at The Sun office. Calls and letters will be accepted until noon on Mon day following this publication date. The names of those who 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.) Russell, Fritz Be Featured Speakers At College Closing Special Education Class At West End School Help To Handicapped (By Doris A. Sanders) A casual observer glancing into one of the classrooms at West End elementary school w o u 1 d think he was seeing an ordinary class in the lower grades busily engaged in lessons for the day. This, however, is no ordinary class but is representative of the for ward step being made by the Newberry school system in the education of handicapped children, under the title of “Special Educa tion.” There are 11 youngsters in this class, with ages ranging from six to 14 years. In charge of the group is Mrs. R. S. Pugh, of Pros perity, a teacher with more pat ience and understanding ,t h a n could normally be expected of any one person. I made a trip to this class room this week with Ed Beck, superin tendent of elementary schools in Newberry, and was thoroughly amazed as I watched Mrs. Pugh with the children, all of whom adore her. I thought what a wonderful ad vantage it was for those children w’ho were unable to quite keep up with other youngsters their age, to be given the special at tention of a capable, qualified teacher to help them individually as well as in a group. Mr. Beck said that there will be sufficient number to have two classes in “special education.” ^ The children lookwi as though they didn’t know what to think of a stranger coming into their room, but it didn’t take but a very few minutes for the “newness” to wear off, and they were soon showing me the pictures they were coloring, telling me of the (Continued on page 8) Seventy-Two To Graduate From Newberry High In Sunday And Excercises IMmmm ’ .5:1 Fst; Inquest Held In Branch Fatility Gilbert L. McFadden, a paint er with the Steel and Tank Serv ice Company of Charlotte, des cribed the death fall of Bobby Ray'Branch from a water tank at the Oakland Plant of the Ken dall Company, to a coroner’s jury last Friday night. The fatal ac cident occurred the afternoon of Wednesday, May 16. Asked by Coroner George R. Summer to tell what happened, Mr. McFaddin explained that he just finished painting the ladder leg of the tank and had tied his rig off to a fence near the tank. As he started back up trhe ladder, he said, he glanced up “which is usually a habit we have, looking up when we are climbing” and “that very second Branch started falling. I saw Branch fall to the cat "ailing. His head hit the railing. He Avent over the railing, made an attempt to grab the rig T had tied off the fence. He miss ed it with his hands and grabbed with his arms hut he was com ing at such a speed it broke his hold loose and he fell flat on his back to the ground.” McFaddin stated that the skin was torn from the victim’s arms where he had grabbed the rig. He stated that when he reached the point where Mr. Branch had fallen, “Mr. Branch was uncon scious then. The first thing I did, I felt his pulse and his pulse was beating. I felt his heart. It was weak, it was still pumping Ihough. I looked in his eyes. They had a death glare.” He said that he called to someone looking out Of a window in the mill to call for an ambulance. The foreman on the job, James *0. Polly, and McFaddin both des cribed the operation that was un der way at the time of the acci dent. A section of ladder about 12 feet long was being taken from the side of the tank, they explain ed, to be used with a revolving ladder on top of the tank for use in painting around the tank. Branch had taken two bolts loose on the bottom section of the lad der and was climbing to the top from which point he could reach the remaining bolts to free the (Continued on page 8) Class Reunions Are Scheduled During Commencement Week at College DR. RUSSELL DR. FRITZ exercises lewt rry high school will begin Friday night of this week with the presentation of the Senior class play “A Dance With Our Miss Brooks” at 8 p.m. On Sunday evening, May 27, at 8 p.m. the commencement ser mon will be delivered by Rev. Herbert L. Spell, pastor of Central Methodist church. Graduation will be Monday evening, May 28 at 8:15 at which time diplomas and medals will be awarded. Senior speakers will be Anna Coe Keitt, Roman Kolodij and Rusty Harley. Vocal numbers will be rendered by Misses Fay Blair and Sarah Alice Long. The members of the senior class are shown above, left to right, first row: Mary Louise Dickert, Dorothy Dale McCarty, Barbara Bedenbaugh, Jack McCullough, Tommy Fellers, Vernon Communion Sunday At Mayer Memorial The Lord’s Supper will be ad ministered at 11 o’clock worship in Mayer Memorial Lutheran church this coming Sunday. The Order of Public Confession will be used as a preparation for worthy reception of the Sacrament. The Pastor will deliver a brief meditation on the subject, “Confess Your Sins.” T^he schedule of the building program calls for this to be the last com munion service, held in the present church building. Sunday school will be held at 10 in the morning. All members are urged To be present. Visitors are cordially in vited to atend. Would Leave Schools Open Another Year The State Department of Edu cation has agreed to extend limit ed accreditation for Silverstreet and Bush River high schools to operate for one more year, with only slight revisions required in the method of operation at Sil verstreet. These revisions include removing the typing room from the library and other similar mi nor changes. The State Finance Commission also approved last week the Jake Singley location on the Columbia highway as the site for the consolidated school for high school students of the Prosperity, Little Mountain, Po- maria areas. Work on the plans for this school will begin immed iately. A Georgia churchman and a university president will be fea tured speakers at Newberry col lege commencement exercises on June 3, according to an announce ment by President C. A. Kauf- mann. Baccalaureate services will be held in the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Newberry beg inning at 11:00 a. rru, with the Rev. Charles E. Fritz, D. D., Pres ident of the Ga.—Ala. Synod of the United Lutheran Church in America, as preacher. The com mencement exercises will be held in the MacLean Gymnasium on the College campus beginning at 3:30 p. m., with Dr. Donala S. Russell, President of the Univer sity of South Carolina, as speaker. Dr. Russell attended Hampden- Sydney college at Farmville, Va. and graduated from the Univer sity of South Carolina with the A. B. degree in 1925 and the LL. B. degree in 1928. Outstanding in scholastic and extracurricular act ivities during his student days at the University, Russell was editor of “The Carolinian” (student literary magazine), junior presi dent of the Clariasophic Literary Society, and a first honors grad uate. As a law student, he taught freshman classes in history. He has done graduate work in law at the University of Michigan. He has practiced law with sev eral firms. Just after Pearl Har bor, he went to Washington to serve with the War Department as a member of the Price Adjust ment Board. When the Hon. James F. Byrnes became Director of Economic Stabilization, Russell joined him at the White House as an assist ant. When Byrnes was appoint ed Director of War Mobilization, Russell was made assistant to the director. When Byrnes retired as Director of War Mobilization, Russell joined the Army as a Ma jor and served in Europe at SH AEF. In January, 1945, Russell was appointed Deputy Director of the Office of War Mobilization Re conversion. In July, 1945, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for administration, holding office until January, 1947, when he resumed the practice of law. Since his election as President of the University of South Caro lina in 1951, he has been selected for the Secretary of State’s Pub lic Committee on Personnel ard has served as a member of the “Task Force on Intelligence Acti vities” which reported to Congress in June, 1955. Dr. Fritz is a graduate of Len oir Rhyne College in Hickory, N. C., and of the Chicago Lutheran Seminary. Ordained by the Ten nessee Synod, he has served pas torates in Indiana, Wfafeonsin, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. He was a delegate from the Un ited Synod South to the merger convention of the United Luther an Church in America which was held in New York City in 1918. He was a member of the Ways and Means Committee in the re arranging of the Chicago-Indiana and Michigan Synods following the merger convention in New York and preached the sermon for this re-alignment at the con vention in Detroit. Upon the death of Dr. Charles A. Linn, first full-time President of the Georgia-Alabama Synod, he was elected to fill out the un expired term and was then re elected in 1954 for a five-year term. He has represented his church as an official delegate to United Lutheran Church conventions from the United Synod South, the Northwest, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Ga.-Ala. Synods. At the Toronto Convention of the ULCA in 1954 he was elected a member of the Commission of Ad judication. President Franklin Clark Fry appointed him to the Committee of Twelve to Study the Policies and Procedures of the Board of American Missions which will report at the Harris burg Convention of the United Lutheran Church. For three years he served on the Committee of five from the Executive Committee of the South Carolina Synod working with the Newberry College Board during which time the indebtedness of the College was reduced from $225,400 to less than $35,000. The public is cordially invited to attend these services. Several hundred alumni of New berry college will make their way back to their Alma Mater on Sat urday and Sunday, June 2 and 3, respectively for class reunions and commencement exercises. On Saturday, June 2, the Sum- merland college class of 1926 will (Continued on page 8) Armed Forces Day Display Miller, Faye Banks, Joyce Merchant, Faye Blair, Connie Sheely, Susan An nMayfield, June Roberts, Loretta Werts. Second row: Lois Ann Richardson, Shirley Stribble, Carolyn Andrews, Mary Kathryn Dennis, Barbara Way, Cornelia Nalley, Glenda Jones Wood, Lorraine Minick, Annie Mae West, Dale Marlene McCarty, Barbara Frick. Third row: Claire Riley Nellie Joe Blanton, Mary Sue Shull, Toby Willis, Myrna Franklin, Claire Perdue, Sarah Alice Long, Peggy Bickley, Kathleen Martin, Anna Coe Keitt, Betty Joyce Turner, Hodge Harmon. fourth row: James Furman Kyzer, Ernest Werts, Ann Goff Joye Sanders Lockwood, Mary Alice Miller, Jimmy Workman, Jimmy Cromer, Wade Shealy, Reginald Brig- man, James Olin Adams. Fifth row: Frontis Frick, Gary Vaughn, Bruce Smith, Donald Satterfield, Frederick Bobb, Clive Hurt, Jimmy Dominick, Roman Kolodij, Madison Pitts, Jimmy Kyzer, Clarence Kinard, Bernard Hawkins, Russell Harley, Oku Harmon. Sixth row: Gerald Amick, Bobby Metts, George Atta- way, Blair Martin, Ray McCarley, Frank Martin, Olin Hendrix, Bob Bodie, Wayne Reaves, Irby Longshore, Bil ly Riley, Billye West, Gordon Jackson. (Photo, by Nichols) BIRTHDAY GREETINGS May 25: David Williams, Ruth Amis, John F. Clarkson, J. P. Fellers, Jr., Mrs. Nora Davis, Frank Kolb, William Wilson, Mrs. J. T. McCrackin, Mack Ashbaugh. May 26: Mrs. Della Koon, Billy Tedford, Carolyn E. Duckett, Mrs. P. D. Hollowoy. May 27: Harry H. Hedgepath, R. W. Culbertsan, Lillian Rodel- sperger, Cecil Fulmer, Frank L. King, Christy Armfield. May 28: Buzz Purcell, Mrs. Ve rona Dominick, Mrs. T. H. Long shore, Carol Kohn, Mrs. J. W. (Mary Birge Kohn) Hicks, Martin Mills, Homer Crooks, Jo Ann Kun- kle, Carl and Charles Setzler. MJay 29: Sarah Boozer, Jane Cullum, Mrs. Allen Dominick, Wil bur Koon, Mrs. Guy Counts, Su san Kelly, Bobby Sprawl III. May 30: J. T. Dennis, Mrs. Jas. Smith, Mrs. Ruth Longshore, Mrs. F. B. Dawkins, Linda Cole, Mrs. Ray Nobles, Jack Lominick, Mike Wiggers, Danny Wiggers. May 31: John G. Goggans, Jr., Susan Nichols, Mrs. J. C. Atki- son, Mac Cobb, Harriett Schum- pert. Meteorological equipment of the 228th Group, S. C. National Guard of Newberry, was displayed on the court house square Saturday afternoon as part of the Armed Forces Day observance. Members of the Met section, shown in front of the Rawin set (Ground Meteorological Detector) are, left to right, Sgt. William Merritt, section chief; Pfc. Ron- ny Livingston, Pfc FVed Riley, Pvt. Fred Clary, Warrant Officer R. F. Sanders, Met. officer, and Pvt Charles Lever. Attached to the weather balloon held by Pfc. Riley is a radiosonde, which transmits signals which are picked up by the G.M.D. (Sunphoto.) J 1 .M 'iH ■-1 ■i&s G.i Wm mm “wJL 5 Y