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VOLUME 19; NUMBER 11
NEWBERRY, SCTUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 12 1956
$2.00 PER YEAR
By The Way Mystery Farm No 44 Whose Is It?
By Doris A. Sanders
BULL SERVIM,
The general puhlic tiueoi i K‘ v e
too much thought anymore to the
“hoys in the sei-vice at least not
the way they .lid duvinc turn
■war. Hut there is still a peace to
be won and our men are .-t
training to help win it. 1 he men
who are becoming dralt-atre now | j
have a wide variety of choice- for j |.
their training; they may join any ^
one of the services for active i
duty; they may join reserve un
its and serve short terms of ac
tive duty; they may join the Na
tional Guard instead of ^.iny on
active duty, if
they meet the
necessary quali-
I fications. They
alsv> may' take
I trrininyr during
their college days
and, on comple
tion of college,
1 receive commis
sioned rank then
I serve their time
Mrs. Sanders as commissioned
as
officers. Among 1 those 1 doing the
latter is Louie C arroll Derrick
who is undergoing Reserve Offi
cers training at McDill Air k orce
Base near Tampa, Fla. He is in |
his junior year at college and will j
train actively this summer and
next summer with the Air Force.
His brother, Specialist 3rd class
Don Samuel Derrick is stationed
at Camp Zame, Japan and has
been there with 8th army head
quarters. for seven months. Fie
plans to return to the states in
the early part of 1957. Fie was
graduated from Newberry Col
lege in June 1955 and went into
the service two weeks later.
These tw\) young men are the
sons of Mrs. Louise C. Derrick of
Little Mountain and grandsons of
the late J. Kess Derrick, whom
many of you will remember as
having represented Newberry in
the General Assembly for many
years.
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MYSTERY FARM No. 43. 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 Rite or Wells theatres. The owner of the farm may receive the photograph In an
attractive ease! by oaiilng 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.)
Blood
Donor Receives Two Gallon
Pin; Four Join One Gallon Club
Voters Reject
Annexation Of
Two Communities
Voters of the City of Newberry
were emphatic in their refusal t"
allow' Oakland and Crestwood to
become a part of the city. By a
four-to-one vote, city residents re
jected the petitions of the two
areas to he included in the city,
while Oakland voted 113 to f>f> in
favor of becoming a part of the
city and Crestwood voted 100
percent, 10 to 0 to come into the
city.
The special annexation election
was held Tuesday, July 10.
The vote by wards on the an
nexation was as follows:
Fire Department Fee Hot
Issue At Council Meeting
OAKLAND
Ward 3, No. 2
Ward 1
Ward 4, No. 1
Ward 3, No. 1
Ward 4, No. 2
Ward 5 -
Ward fi
Ward 2
Yes No
10 30
20
1
4
13
30
70
59
45
44
92
25 148
17 143
TOTAL
CRESTWOOD
NOT WANTED
I wrote something last week
about our City of Friendly FYdks.
but they weren’t very friendly in
Tuesday’s annexation election at
the risk of having to pay a few
more mills taxes in return for
having the city grow a little—
something it hasn’t done much of
since it was established. There
are people in Oakland and Crest
wood who are bitter about the
results of the election. A number
of them blame the merchants of
Newberry for the defeat, and I
heard expressed in several quart
ers “I’ll never buy another thing
in a Newberry store if I can help
it.” I, too, have heard that a
number of merchants were oppos
ed to the annexation and I feel
that it must be true because look
ing at the returns from the va
rious wards, you can almost count
on your fingers those who voted
in favor of the annexation were
those relatives or friends of the
people living in Crestwood and
Oakland and very few others cast
their ballots in favor of the an
nexation.
The large vote in the city, an
unusual vote for such an election,
is enough to lead one to believe
that the merchants, most of whom
are members of the Chamber of
Commerce, which is designed to
HELP Newberry grow, are the
ones who were against the
growth.
We lost this time, but don’t
think we have given up. Before
you know it, there will be an
other petition before council for
either or both of the properties
to be annexed.
Fui.n- new members were added (\ FIvans, Rev. Thomas H. Weeks,
to the Newberry County “Gallon Mrs. Audrey Senn, Col. Ladson
Club” after donating a pint of
blood on the July 3 visit of the
Red Cross Bloodmobile to New
berry, and one donor. Charles
Paysinger of Prosperity, Route 2,
completed his two gallon dona
tion. Those receiving gallon pins
were G. B. Taylor, A. N. Crosson,
Meredith Harmon and George
Senn. »
Seventy-four pints of blood were
collected and there were sixteen
rejections. Those who volunteer
ed donations were:
Miss Eve L. Dominick, Mrs.
Mildred Cromer, Ernest Cromer,
Duane Wicker, Mrs. Raymond
Ringer, Eugene M. Cook, Dr. El
bert Dickert, Mrs. Ann Cromer,
Mrs. Tillman Wise, Claude Weeks,
G. FIskridge, Sgt. Alfred Ellisor,
G. Wayne Martin, Mrs. Evelyn
N. Long, Oscar Bowers, Mrs.
Marguerite Havird, Kenneth
Cook, Ira Kinard, M. D. Hoff-
meyer, G. L. Hill, Mrs. Janie Par-
tain, Williams H. Carter, Mrs.
Frances Lester, O. K. Shealy,
Marvin Sanders, J. Boyd Rpbert-
son, Charles E. Paysinger, Rus
sell C. Addy;
Also, Miss Cynthia Martin,
Mrs. Leon Nichols, Harvey Kirk
land, Rev. Gordon H. Mann, Mrs.
George Tyson, Coke S. Dickert,
Mrs. Kathryn Jarrett, R. B.
Creekmore, G. B. Taylor, Miss
Lois Graham, Mrs. Edna G. Lomi-
nack, Mrs. W. R. Reid, Dr. John
A. Aman, A. N. Crosson, N. R.
McElveen, Meredith Harmon,
Mayes W Derrick, S. Y. Hunter,
Fred Schumpert, E. W. Burnette,
Mrs. Rozelle G. Mills, Elton Sum
mer, Robert Corley, Leon D.
Nichols, Sidney L. Paine;
Also Ezra Rinehart, F. H. Mc
Connell, Robert L. Boozer, J. W.
Mayer, Claude Wicker, Rev. J. W.
Davenport, Charles T. Price, Mrs.
Doris Eargle, Lowell Edenfield,
E. C. Douglas, Robert Renwick,
Charles Cromer, Marion Wiggins,
Mrs. Charles Cromer, Everette
Corley, Mrs. Sadie H. Ringer,
Miss Berta Hutchinson, Mrs. J.
L. Killion, Mrs. Duris Sanders,
Curtis S. Jennings, Mrs. Willie
Mae Drummond, Mrs. Alma N.
Staub, Frank Culelasure, Mrs.
Ruby Summer, Mrs. Virginia B.
Couch, Mrs. Rosine Willard, Earl
P. Wicker, Frank R. Rice, Mrs.
Mildred Harmon, Mrs. E. C.
Ward 3, No. 2
Ward 1
Ward 4, No. 1
Ward 3, No. 1
Ward 4, No. 2
Ward 5
Ward fi
Ward 2
TOTAL
128 637
Yes No
18 28
Mystery Farm
Winners
Mystery Farm No. 42 has been
identified as the George Stone
place just outside the city on
Route 1. Mrs. Ethel Harden Rowe
wins a TV Service Call courtesy
George N. Martin for correctly
identifying the farm. Other win
ners are, ticket to Ritz Theatre,
Adella Summer and Mrs. Colie
Dowd; ticket to Wells Theater,
Mrs. Cyril Hutchinson and Tom
Clark.
26
3
14
17
32
32
70
57
35
40
91
140
24 139
166 600
Miss Spotts Chosen
Queen Of Moose
Miss Jean Spotts, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Fuller D. Spotts
of the city, was named 1956
Queen of the Moose Association
at a meeting of the state group
in Charleston Sunday.
Miss Spotts is a student
Limestone College, Gaffney.
at
M. A. Peters Dies
At Kure Beach
Mrs. Eugene Hunter, Mrs. Thelma; James Holland, George Senn, Mrs. Douglas, Mrs. William D. Horton.
Sister Of Local
Won len Succumbs
Funeral services were held this
morning (Thursday) at 11:00 a.
m. in Walterboro Cemetery for
Mrs. T. H. Caldwell of Ruffin,
who died Tuesday night at a Wal
terboro hospital. Mrs. Caldwell
had been in declining health for
several years and was seriously
ill for the last two months.
Mrs. Caldwell was born and
reared in Newberry, the daugh
ter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Hentz. Surviving her are
two sisters, Mrs. John T. Cromer
and Mrs. Herbert McGraw.
BQILER BREAK
CLOSES CANNERY
E. R. Boazman, agriculture
teacher at Silverstreet school,
azmounces that the school can
nery will be closed until further
notice, due to the breakdown of
the boiler. 1
Smokey Club
Certificates Be
Awarded Monday
Members of the Smokey Bear
Vacation Reading Club, who have
completed their reading of ten
books at the Newberry-Saluda
Regional Library, will receive
their certificates on Monday af
ternoon, July 16 at 3:30, at the
Agricultural Building auditorium
on Martin street. A conservation
film will be shown and the Forest
Ranger will make a short talk to
the members of the club on con
servation, after which the certi
ficates will be awarded.
The Smokey Bear Vacation
Club is part of a state-wide con
servation project for public lib
raries jointly sponsored by the S.
C. State Library Board and the
S. C. Commission of Forestry.
Each child receiving a certificate
will have read ten books; one
from each of five fields of nat
ural history and five of his own
choosing.
FEAGLE RECEIVES
ARMY DISCHARGE
Jim Feagle, who has been serv
ing on Eniwetok, Atomic Energy
Commission proving grounds, for
the past 14 months, was discharg
ed from the army at Fort Jack-
son on July 12 and is at home
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Feagle. He is planning to
return to his former work with
the State Department of Agricul
ture in Columbia in several weeks.
THREE INDUCTED
FROM NEWBERRY
Reporting for induction into
the armed forces on Monday,
July 16, are the following: Ellis
Harvey Dickert, Route 3; James
Byrnes Senn, 69 Player street;
and William Langford, 2020 Shel
ley street. Two volunteers are
also reporting for examination on
this date.
Mrs. Miller Rites
Held Yesterday
Mrs. Lula Goff Miller, 78 of
Newberry, Rt. 3, widow of John
Thomas Miller, died early Tues
day at the Newberry County Me
morial Hospital after a short ill
ness.
She was born in Richland Coun
ty and had been a resident of
Newberry County since her mar
riage. Shewas a member of New-
Chappel Methodist Church.
Surviving are one son, Claude
U. Miller; four daughters, Mrs.
J. Fred Cromer and Miss Iona
Miller of Newberry, Mrs. George
W. Long of Prosperity and Mrs.
Birma T. Corley of Clinton; nine
grand children; five great-grand
children and several nieces and
nephews.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the
Whitaker Funeral Home by the
Rev. Thomas H. Weeks and the
Rev. Clarence Word. Burial was
in Colony Lutheran Church Cem-
etary.
Active pallbearers were Allan
Eargle, Gilder Cromer, Olin Ad
ams, Herman Morris, Harrison
Blair, and F. O. Fulmer.
Serving as honorary pallbearers
were Hoyt Nobles, J. B. Coward,
Henry Parr, Joe Morris, V. E.
Shealy, Johnnie Dehart, Andrew
Nichols, Edd Lake, Edd McConn
ell, Lee Culelasure, Ben Vaughn,
William Ballentine, Dr. E. J.
Dickert, Jessie Dickert and
Oscar Wood.
CARD OF THANKS
We would like to take this
means of expressing our sincere
appreciation to our friends for
the many kind expressions of sym
pathy shown us at the loss of
our dear mother. We would like
especially to thank Doctors E. J.
Dickert, B. M. Montgomery and
Jesse L. Dickert for their faith
ful service and many deeds of
kindness; also the nurses at the
Newberry County hospital who
attended her.
Children of Mrs. J. W. Mack
Cromer Family
Reunion Is Held
A family reunion of the des
cendants of the late W. D. and
Sara Elizabeth Cromer was held
on July fourth at the Mt. Bethel-
Garmany Community Hall.
Mr. and Mr§. J. Horace Cro
mer were hosts serving delicious
barbecued pork, chicken, kid, hash
and liver hash, pigfoot stew and
the trimmings. About 53 rela
tives and specially invited guests
were present.
After dinner the guests as
sembled in the social hall for a
devotional period of music, song
and prayer led by Mr. Horace
Cromer.
After this the boys entertain
ed the crowd with a game of base
ball on the old school grounds
Final Rites For
C. W. Wessinger
Funeral services were conduct
ed Saturday at 3 p. m. at Holy
Trinity Lutheran Church for
Charles Wesley Wessinger, of
Little Mountain. He died late
Thursday night at Newberry
County Memorial Hospital, at the
age of 59. Mr. Wessinger had
been in ill health for several
years.
Officiating at the services were
the Rev. Garth L. Hill, the Rev.
J. S. Wessinger, and the Rev.
John Ziegler.
Mr. Wessinger was born and
reared in Abbeville but had spent
most of his life in Lexington and
Newberry Counties. He was a son
of the late Joseph and Anne
Sease Wessinger. Mr. Wessinger
was a member of Holy Trinity
Lutheran Church and a former
member of Mt. Horeb Lutheran
Church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Eva Pearl Amick Wessinger; one
son, Charles Curtis Wessinger of
Columbia; one daughter, Mrs.
Leroy Wessinger of Little Moun
tain; six sisters, Mrs. Ada Ep-
ting of Leesville, Mrs. John
Prick of Little Mountain, Mrs.
L. H. Koon, Mrs. Ellerbe Shealy,
both of Columbia, Miss Ruth
Wessinger, Miss Eloise Wessing
er, both of Chapin; three broth
ers, E. O. Wessinger of West
Columbia, Earl Wessinger, Cecil
Wessinger, both of Chapin; and
six grandchildren.
M. A. Peters, husbanl of the
former Kathleen Wendt of New
berry, died Monday, of last week
at Kure Beach, N. C. F'uneral
services were held Tuesday after
noon in Wilmington, N. C. Mr.
Peters, who was 87 at the time
of his death had been in declining
health for two years and seriously
ill for two months.
Mrs. Peters was born and rear
ed in Newberry, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wendt. She
is the niece of John T. Cromer
and has other close relatives here.
The couple left Newberry during
the First World War and lived
in Wilmington for - mmribci rtf f’ftam v '£h(f Yfro
years, spending the past 16 years
at Kure Beach. Mr. Peters was
a native of Boston, Mass.
CENTRAL WSCS TO
MEET MONDAY
The Woman’s Society of Christ
ian Service of Central Methodist
Church will meet Monday, July
16 at 4:00 p. m. in the McCullough
Bible Class room of the church.
GROUP TO ATTEND
RIDGECREST SCHOOL
Twenty-four members of the
First Baptist Church will leave
Thursday, July 19, for Ridge
crest, N. C. where they will at
tend the second training union
week. Those who will make the
trip are: Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Odell, Mrs. Howard Clark, Mrs.
Jake Fulmer, Mrs. Floyd Knight,
Mrs. Fred Hallman, Mrs. Ruby
Trice, Connie Clark, Kathy Whit
aker, Fran Amis, Mary Ann Wat
kins, Margaret Watkins, Gloria
Parks, Evangeline Lide, Jean Ros-
siter, Pam Phillips, Linda Hall
man, Sally Lester; also Kenneth
Knight, Micky Parkman, Benjy
Kirkland, Billy Brice, Mac Cobb
and Mike Click.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Dominick,
acompanied by their daughter,
Doris, will leave by air, Friday
for a two weeks’ visit with their
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Carroll W. Barlett at Rio
Piedras, Puerto Rico.
Mr. and Mrs. Clande Matthews
and son, Willie Vernon, are spend
ing a weeks’ vacation in the
mountains of North Carolina.
While away they will also attend
the pageant “Lost Colony” in
Roanoke, Va.
Mayor Cecil E. Kinard denied
at Council meeting Tuesday night
that he had told members of the
Church of God on the Greenville
highway cut-off that they would
not be charged the customary
$100 fee made by the City for
sending fire equipment to fires
outside the city limits.
The question was raised by
Councilman C. A. Dufford, who
said he understood that the mayor
Mrs. Richardson
Dies Of Injuries
Mrs. Bertha Mae Graham Rich
ardson, 50, died Sunday morning
at the Columbia Hospital in Co
lumbia. She was injured in a
truck-automobile accident on July
4.
Mrs. Richardson was born and
reared in Newberry County and
was the daughter of Mrs. Lucy
Werts Graham and the late Olan-
der B. Graham. She was a' resi
dent of the Jolly St. section of
Newberry County. She was a
member of St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church and the Womans Mission
ary Society and the Jolly Street
Home Demonstration Club. She as
sisted her husband in operating
a general mercantile store in the
Jolly Street section of the county.
Surviving are her husband, Ed
die Dunn Richardson of Pros
perity; one daughter, Mrs. Char
lie Cromer of Pomaria; her moth
er, Mrs. Lucy W. Graham of Po
maria; two sisters, Mrs. McDon
ald Rawls and Miss Olander Bea
Graham of Pomaria; four half-
brothers, Omerle Graham, Claude
Graham, Roy Graham and Vern
on Graham, all of Pomaria; three
step-sisters, Mrs. Nolan Wicker,
Mrs. Homer Bowles and Mrs. Joe
Graham; two step-brothers, Wil
lie Graham and John Adam Qra-
Funeral services were conduct
ed Monday at 3 p. m. at St.
Paul’s Lutheran Church by the
Rev. J. L. Drafts, the Rev. J. E.
Roof, the Rev. J. A. Keisler, the
Rev. E. K. Counts and the Rev
Phillip Duckett. Burial was in
the church cemetery.
Rushing Infant
Rites On Sunday
Funeral services for little Sha
ron Rushing, one-day-old daugh
ter of Mir. and Mrs. R. T. Rush
ing, who died early Saturday
morning at the Newberry County
Memorial Hospital, were held
Sunday in Ponce de Leon, Flori
da.
She is survived by her parents,
Harley T. and Valorie Permenter
Rushing, of Newberry; her grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. P.
Rushing and Mr. and Mrs. John
Permenter, late of Ponce de
Leon, Fla.
SELECTIVE SERVICE
OFFICE BE CLOSED
The offices of Local Board
No. 36, Selective Service System
will be closed Thursday, July 19
through Wednesday, July 25. Reg
istrants are asked to please take
notice of this and arrange their
business with the Board before or
after these dates.
told members of the volunteer
fire department that the oity had
agreed to exempt the church from
the $50.00 which would go into
the city treasury, and that after
being told this, the firemen voted
to also exempt the church from
paying the remaining $50.00
which would go into the firemen’s
fund.
Mayor Kinard first stated that
he contacted City Manager Black-
well who, he said, told him that
they could cut the fee by half.
Mr. Blackwell stated that a mem
ber of the church contacted him
about cutting the fee and was
told by the manager that the only
way it could be done was to bring
it before Council. Mayor Kinard
also said he didn’t tell the fire
men the City had agreed to cut
the amount until after they had
voted to exempt the church from
the $50.00 for the firemen’s fund.
A heated discussion followed, and
a suggestion was made to bring
Fire Chief Sam Beam to the meet
ing in order to clear up the mat
ter. Members of Council emphati
cally instructed the city manager
that no cuts in fees would be
made unless Council in session
voted the cut. Mayor Kinard then
passed on to the next item on the
agenda.
Manager Blackwell reported
that water is being pumped from
the Saluda River at the rate of
about two million gallons every
24 hours but that a motor on
one of the pumps was giving
some trouble and would not be
accepted by the City until the
plant was operating with 100 per
cent efficiency.
Councilman Layton advised
that the Budget and Planning
committee had prepared the 1956-
1957 budget and requested a spe
cial meeting of Counoil to con
sider and adopt the budget and
to set the tax levy. The meeting
m aebedofed : for - Monday night,
July 16, at 7:30 p. m.
A letter was read from Werts
Cemetery committee expressing
thanks for assistance rendered by
‘the City in cleaning up the ceme
tery.
The city manager read a report
from Irvine B. Leslie, architect,
giving an estimated cost of
$27,000 for remodeling, rearrang
ing, and refurnishing the city of
fices and council chambers. By
motion, this item was placed in
the budget for consideration by
council Monday night.
Council agreed to recommend
that certain streets be taken into
the highway system for paving
and maintenance as follows: Vin
cent street between Harris and
the city limits; Highland Drive
between College % and Reid streets;
Eleanor street from Glenn to
Hunt and Hunt street from Elea
nor to Johnstone.
The low bid of Kline Iron and
Metal Company of Columbia for
installing a fence around the city
reservoir on Nance street was ac
cepted, in the amount of $1752.59
plus engineering and supervision
fee of $105.16.
After a discussion of the mat-
ter of paving a sidewalk on Ade
laide street, a project which is
now in the hands of the highway
department, Council adjourned.
’’Outsiders”
Wanted In City
MRS. JOE BICKLEY, left, prepares to cast her ballot for annexa
tion of Crestwood in the Tuesday election as one of the ppoll mana
gers, Mrs. Earl Bozard, looks on. Voting was in the R. F. Sanders
hmoe. (Sunphoto by Doris A. Sanders.)
VOTING AT THE OAKLAND PRECINCT during the annexation
election Tuesday is Dent Sease. Two managers of the Oakland box
were Charlie J. Swindler, left, and J. C. Holsonback, Sr., center.
(Sunphoto by Doris A. Sanders.)
BIRTHDAY
GREETINGS
July 13: Marcia Todd, Em
ory Bedenhaugh, Mrs. Bennie
Livingston, Mrs. C. H. Cannon,
Aubrey Wicker, Tabor L. Hill.
July 14: Holland SUgh, Tom
Summer, Mrs. Ralph Black,
Norman Martin, Juanita Felk-
er, H. E. Thomas, Martha Lomi-
nack, Mrs. C. L. Holloway, Mrs.
W. R. Bouknight, Max B. Mc-
Kittrick, Dr. S. L. Hunter.
July 15: R. C. Floyd, Jim
Todd, Carolyn Murray, Mrs.
John H. Ruff, Jackson W. Tay
lor, Jr., Wally Lewis, Carrie
Wightman, Mrs. W. H. Tedford,
- Louise Heyward Dodkin, Sue
Senn.
July 16: Mrs. Pet Dawkins,
Mrs. Jim Todd, Mrs. T. S. Har
mon, Frank Partridge, J. Grady
Long, H. C.' Timmerman, Gor
don Johnson.
July 17: Mrs. G. R. Price,
Mrs. D. T. Wicker, Mrs. A. E.
Bedenbaugh, Mrs. Murray
Sheppard, Mrs. Catherine Gra
ham, Lavinia Brown.
July 18: Clayton Smith, Mrs.
F. M. Schumpert, Mrs. Ruby
Trice.
July 19: Gladys Young, Colie
B. Pitts, Judy Boland, Walter
Sheppard, Linda Faye Fuller.
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