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I have never been able to con
ceive how any rational being
could propose happiness to him
self from the exercise of power
over others—Thomas Jefferson.
Force without justice is tyran
nical; justice without force is
impotena..—Pascal.
Any man who is physically’ able
has no right to refuse service to
his country—Herbert Hoover.:
VOLUME 19; Number 12
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1956
4t $2.00 PER YEAR
By The Way
By Doris A. Sanders
EXCHANGE BLOOD
The Exchange club of New
berry will sponsor the next visit
of the Bloodmobile which will be
on Wednesday, August 1 at the
Lutheran Church of the Redeem
er between the hours of 2:00 and
8:00 p. m. That’s an afternoon
off for most of you so you can
get off work at 1:00, have lunch,
go by the Bloodmobile to donate
a pint then go fishing. The quota
is 100 pints, and I expect some of
the Exchange Club will contact
you but ; f not, remember the
time and place. Harold Cook is
serving as recruitment chairman
for the Exchangitea, an organiza
tion which does many worthy
things, this being among them.
At this point I would also like
to say that the
[county blood
j program chair
man, Claude L.
Weeks, has done
a fine job in
11 h a t capacity.
JfThere is a lot
of work involv-
led in planning
jfor the Bloodmo-
•bile visits, get-
Mr*. Sander# ting sponsors to
recruit donors and taking care
of the many other details, but
Claude, as hospital manager,
knows the urgency of the blood
program and not only works hard
to make each visit of the Blood-
mobile a success, but also donates
his blood on practically every vis
it.
Mystery Farm No 45 Whose Is It?
OFF TO CAMP
There will be many national
guard widows in Newberry for
the next two weeks because the
convoy to Fort Stewart will be
ready to leave Sunday morning
bright and early. Everything has
been packed and is in readiness.
I might state here nqw that those
in charge of the Girl Scout barbe
cue held last night at the armory
•were appreciative of the fact that
the 228th group loaded its vehi
cles a week ahead of time in or
der to clear the armory for the
barbecue. The batteries of the
107th Battalion meet on Monday
and Tuesday nights and did their
loading then; however, the 228th
meets Thursday night and ordin
arily wouldn’t have loaded until
tonight. It was a nice gesture on
their part to change their train
ing program about to accommo
date the scouts, and I know the
Scouts would wish to publicly
thank them.
DOWN BUT NOT OUT
The residents of Crestwood and
Oakland may have been feeling a
little bit “down” last week, but
not “out”. Already a petition has
been started again for annexation
and most of those who were en
thusiastic about it before are
ready to try again. In addition,
I’ve had several people from oth
er areas suggest that their sec
tions be included in a new peti
tion, but it doesn’t seem to be pos
sible to get any organization be
hind a real annexation drive and
what is being done is by indivi
duals.
MYSTERY FARM NO. 45. Can you identify it? If «o, 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 Rltz or Well# 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.)
Ford Foundation May Grant
$23,000 To Local Hospital
The management and board of
trustees of Newberry County Me
morial Hospital hope to soon
have their hands on $23,100 in the
form of a grant from the Ford
Foundation, “to be used for im
proving or extending its service*
to the community in any area of
hospital service which the hospi
tal’s governing authority may de
termine, within the purposes,
terms and conditions set forth
. . .” by the Foundation.
The money has not yet been re
ceived, according to Claude
Weeks, manager of the Newberry
hospital, and application for the
grant was only made last week.
However, in previous correspond
ence with the Ford Foundation, it
was learned that the hospital
should be eligible for approxi
mately $23,100 under the grant
program, the amount of each
grant being established in rela
tion to the patient days of serv
ice provided by the hospital and
the number of births in the hospi
tal. The president of the Ford
Foundation, H. Rowan Gaither
Jr., advised Mr. Weeks that
“while final determination of
Inquest Jury Holds Murphy
In Auto Collision Death
Stokes To Make
Home In Georgia
Mrs. J. E. Stokes, her daugh
ter, Clara Elwell and son, Edwin,
have moved to Decatur, Ga., to
make their home. Mrs. Stokes has
been director of Stokes School of
Expression for the past number
of years in Newberry. She is
presently employed as an examin
er in the Inspection and Rating
Bureau of the Southeastern Un
derwriters Association in Atlan
ta. Edwin, who completed his
freshman year at Newberry Col
lege last May, is employed as a
statistician in the offices of
Horne-Wilson Company also in
Atlanta. He will continue his edu
cation either at Georgia Tech or
Georgia Business College. Clara
Elwell will enter the 11th grade
of high school next year and will
continue ballet instruction.
MISS DAVENPORT
WITH PURCELL’S
Miss Winnie Davenport of Sil-
verstreet has accepted a position
In the office of Purcells, local fi
nance and insurance agency. Miss
Davenport is a 1956 graduate of
. Silverstreet high school, where
«he was an honor student, a mem
ber of the Beta Club, honorary or-
rjganization, and was active in
other student organizations. She
- was named by the faculty of the
school as the “best all-around
student” and was presented a
medal at graduation exercises in
V honor of that distinction.
At an inquest Monday night, a i
coroner’s jury found that Mrs.
Bertha Mae Richardson of Pros
perity, Route 3, came to her
death “as the result of an auto
mobile-truck collision, the truck
being driven by the deceased and
the car by Claude Jackson Mur
phy Jr.”
The jury recommended that
Murphy be held for grand jury
investigation.
The accident occured July 4
about a mile north of Pomaria on
Highway 176. Coroner George R.
Summer called several witnesses
at the inquest.
It was brought out that both
vehicles were traveling in the
same direction and that the car
driven by Murphy, who was said
to have been alone at the time,
was traveling at a fast speed
when it hit the rear of the truck
driven by Mrs. Richardson, caus
ing the latter vehicle to turn over
several times. Mrs. Richardson
was thrown from the truck and
fatally injured. Her mother, Mrs.
Lucy Graham and her sister, Miss
Bea Graham, also Wfere injured. A
10-year-old Negro girl, Bertha M.
Meyers, riding in the rear of the
truck, received minor, injuries.
Mrs. Richardson died several
days after the accident.
Murphy was said to have been
from Atlanta, Ga., and was en
route to Charlotte at the time of
the wreck. He is in Newberry
County jail where he was placed
immediately after the accident.
Both Patrolman D. A. Reighley
and Sheriff Tom Fellers testified
that Murphy was “highly under
the influence of liquor.”
J. M. Roland was foreman of
the jury.
CHARLIE EPPS IN
COLUMBIA HOSPITAL
Charlie Epps, ten-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Epps, is
a patient at the Columbia Hospi
tal where he is undergoing treat
ment after having been in an ac
cident last Thursday. He was first
taken to the local hospital then
transferred to Columbia where he
expects to be for about 3 weeks.
He is in room 342.
Final Rites For
Mrs. Kurtz Were
Held Monday
Mrs. Gladys Chappell Kurtz,
wife of Ford Kurtz, president of
the J. G. White Engineering
Company of New York City, died
early Saturday morning at Duke
Hospital, Durham, North Carolina
where she was visiting her hus
band who was a patient there.
Funeral services were conducted
at 4:30 Monday afternoon from
the home of her mother, Mrs.
Clara Blease Chappell on Main
street, with the Rev. Neil E.
Truesdell officiating. Burial fol
lowed in Rosemont Cemetery.
Mrs. Kurtz was born in New
berry, the daughter of Mrs. Clara
Blease Chappell and the late John
W. Chappell. She was a graduate
of Newberry College and taught
school in Newberry and Edgefield.
Since her marriage, she has made
her home in Hollis, Long Island,
New York. The Kurtz’ only son,
Peter, died suddenly of a heart
attack ten months ago at Harvard
University where ho was a stu
dent at Harvard Law School. He
was 25 years of age.
Mrs. Kurtz was a member of
Aveleigh Presbyterian Church of
Newberry. She was keenly inter
ested in the work of the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution.
She was at one time Regent of
the Elizabeth Annsley Lewis
Chapter of DAR. She was past
president of the Jamaica, New
York Women’s club and ex-state
chairman of the New York State
Motion Picture Committee of the
DAR.
•Besides her husband and moth
er, she is survived by one brother,
Jack Chappell, and one nephew,
John W. Chappell, both of New
berry.
Active pallbearers were Joe
Keitt, Ned Purcell, Henry Parr,
Dr. Ralph Baker, Steve Garling-
ton and George K. Dominick.
Assisting with flowers were
those hospitals which are eligible
and the establishment of the
exact amount of each grant must
be made by the Foundation at its
discretion, we believe that your
hospital may be eligible for a
grant of $23,100 under this pro
gram.”
According to Mr. Weieks, no
decision has been made as to
how the money will be used, but
no difficulty is anticipated in us
ing the money. He expects that
the grant will be made in two
payments, and there is no time
limit as to use of the money. In
Mr. Gaither’s letter, he stated “A
particular purpose of the grants
is to assist hospitals desiring to
do so to achieve full accredita
tion with the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Hospitals.” This
accreditation was received by the
local hospital . in March of this
year.
Mr. Weeks explained that the
reason for the Newberry hospital
being omitted from the list of
those receiving grants last spring
was that the Ford Foundation
was under the impression that the
hospital was county supported. “It
was necessary to furnish proof
that the only help received from
the county was a set millage for
charity patients,” stated Mr,
Weeks, “and after this was clear
ed up, the Foundation found that
the hospital was eligible for a
grant.” One of the requirements
of the Terms of Grant of the
program is that a hospital be a
voluntary nonprofit (nongovern
mental) institution.
County Crippled
Children Society
Names Officers
The quarterly meeting of the
Newberry County Chapter of the
Crippled Children’s Society was
held July 11 at the home of Mrs.
J. D. French.
The Blaster Seal committees
gave their final report which con
sisted of $1,328 from Easter Seal
letters and business organiza
tions; $294.73 from the Lily eale;
$762.69 from the schools; $82
from coin containers; $17 memo
rials; and $133.39 “Coffee Day”.
This is a total of $2617.81. Grate
ful appreciation was expressed to
Fred V. Lester for his campaign
leadership.
The new officers who were el
ected are: chairman, Mrs. Charlie
Bowers; vice chairman,- Mrs. J. D.
French; secretary, Mrs. Gurdon
Counts; treasurer, Mrs. I. N. Sat-
terwhite Jr.; and publicity, Mrs.
F. Scott Elliott.
The' next meeting will be held
on September fifth at the home
of Mrs. Charlie Bowers, with
Mrs. F. Scott Elliott as the asso
ciate hostess.
Council Approves New Budget;
Tax Millage Is Not Increased
Wreck Fatal To
Missionaries;
Rites Tuesday
■ 4?r_-
Information was received in
Newberry Sunday by Dr. and
Mrs. R. A. Goodnian advising
them of the death of Dr. and Mrs.
Harold A. Dunkelberger. The
wire received by the Goodmans
stated that the couple were kill
ed instantly Saturday in an auto
mobile accident while on a trip
en route from Gettysburg, Penn
sylvania to California. No details
were given as to the cause of the
accident or the exact location of
the fatal wreck.
Mrs. Dunkelberger lived in
Newberry for many years. Her
first husband was the late Dr. J.
C. Peery, who had served the
Lutheran Church of the Redeem
er as pastor for several years.
Following his death, she taught
school here and later took up
missionary work.
She was sent to India where
she was a teacher in a mission
school and while in India she met
Dr. Dunkelberger, also a mission
ary. They had been married
about two years and had just
come back from India.
M!rs. Dunkelberger is survived
by two eons, William Peery, a
missionary to India, and Dr.
James BVown Peery of Fresno,
California; two step-sons, Dr.
John (Jack) Peery, also a mis
sionary to India and Dr. Tom
Peery of Washington, D. C.; and
one step-daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth
Peery Gustafson of Nebraska.
The telegram stated that fun
eral services for Dr. and Mrs.
Dunkelberger were to be held on
Tuesday, July 17 at Gettysburg.
WKDK Off Air In
CD Test Alert
As part of the nation-wide" Civ
ilian Defense Test to be held Fri
day, July 20, Radio Station
WKDK in Newberry, along with
every other radio and TV station
in the United States, will go off
the air at 3:10 p. m. For the sub
sequent 15 minutes, the only
broadcasting in the nation will be
done by 1,250 stations which have
joined the Federal Civil Defense
Administration’s “Conelrad” plan
for emergency broadcasting.
All of these stations will
broadcast on one of the two civil
defense frequencies (640 or 1240).
They will use only special mater
ial prepared for Operation Alert,
1956.
Listeners to Radio Station
WKDK will leave their dials set
on the station, 1240 kilocycles, as
this is one of the defense fre
quencies, and “defense emergen
cy instructions” will be broadcast
on an on-the-air, off-the-air pat
tern for fifteen minutes. Follow
ing the drill, the station will re
turn to its regularly scheduled
program.
Bond Sales In
County $47,700
Series E and H Bond sales for
the month of June in Newberry
County totalled $47,700.00, re
ports Joe M. Roberts, County
Savings Bonds Chairman.
E and H sales for the state for
the same period totaled $2,537,-
658.92, an 11 per cent increase
over June 1955, according to Bur
nell Sloan, State Chairman of the
U. S. Savings Bonds Division for
South Carolina. Sales for the per
iod. January through June tot
aled $15,497,219.33, an 11 per
cent Increase over the same per
iod last year.
Gives Permission To Oil Company To
Build Station Corner Main & Calhoun
City Council Monday night ad
opted a $658,565.90 budget for its
next operating year and set the which was used in the past for
city tax levy at 39 mills, the same
as the past year, ending much
speculation that city taxes would
be raised. Of the 39 mills, 29 will
be used for general operation pur
poses, three mills for interest and
retirement of 1950 general obli
gation bonds, and seven mills for
Powell Succumbs
To Long Illness
Robert Ml Powell, 79, died
Tuesday afternoon at his home
after a lingering illness.
He was born in Aiken ,the son
of the late Luther and Leila Wil
liams Powell. He had lived in
Newberry for the past 45 years.
Prior to his retirement he was
employed by the Newberry Mills
and was a member of Calvary
Baptist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Blanche Stockman Powell, two
sons, John W. Powell of Buffalo
Gap, Tex., and Marvin Luther
Powell of Newberry; two' daugh
ters, Mrs. Mary Ella P. Brantley
of Newberry and Mrs. W. C.
Brown of Greer and four grand
children. (.
Funeral services' were conduct
ed at 4 p. m. Wednesday at Cal
vary Baptist Church by the Rev.
Dan Norris and the Rev. J. Ed
Taylor.
Burial was in West End Ceme
tery. { ; -
Active paUbears were Roy Cook,
and Everett Stockman.
Serving as honorary pallbear
ers "were members of the Men’s
Bible class of Calvary Baptist
Church.
interest and retirement of 1952
rety
general obligation bonds. One mill
GETTING TRUCKS LOADED ^ with equipment for two weeks active duty training at Fort Stewart,
Georgia, are the members of Headquarters Battery, 107th Battalion shown above, left to right:
Pfc Ronald Boozer, PFC Noah Rf. Hawkins, PFC William E. Riley, PFC John T. Riddle, and PFC
Howard E. Metts. (Sunphoto.)
% *
Local Guardsmen Leave Sunday
For Training At Fort Stewart
Misses Julia Kibler, Sudie Dennis,
Cornelia Mayer, Lillian ’ Kibler
and Mrs. A. J. Bowers, Jr.
Newberry’s National Guardsmen
have been making preparations
for the past several weeks for
theirannual two week encamp
ment at Fort Stewart, Georgia.
Equipment has been loaded on
the guard trucks, the advance de
tachment will leave this (Thurs
day) morning, and the remainder
of the men will leave by convoy
from the armory Sunday morning
about seven o’clock.
Those participating in the field
training from Newberry are mem
bers of the 228th AAA Group,
which is commanded by Colonel
Thomas H. Pope with Headquar
ters Battery in Newberry. Other
units of the 228th which will train
are the 678th Battalion, Ander
son. the 713th Battalion, Lancas
ter with all batteries of each bat
talion; the 383rd Signal Detach
ment and 411th Ordnance Detach
ment, Columbia, and 131st AAA
Operations Detachment, Dillon;
the 96th Army Band, Clinton and
the 246th Army Band, Newberry.
Attached to the 228th group
for field training purposes will be
units of the 107th Battalion, H
and H Battery and C. Battery of
Newberry; also A. Battery, of
Greenwood; B. Battery, of Clin
ton and D Battery, Hampton. Ap
proximately 335 men from New
berry will attend the two weeks
of camp.
Leaving on the advance detach
ment for the 228th Group are
Col. Barringer F. Wingard, War
rant Officers Floyd Dennis, Lee
Smallwood and James Clamp; SFC
Curtis Chapman; Sgt. Donald L.
Harmon, SP3 Alfred Dorroh, Pri
vates Ira Farmer and Jimmy W.
Pitts.
From Headquarters and Head
quarters Battery, 107th: Major
Jerry O'Quinn, Capt. James W.
Counts, Warrant Officer Carroll
DeVore, M-Sgt. James N. Hall
man, Pfc. Robert C. Fulmer, Pfc.
William E. Riley, Privates Rufus
P. Bedenhaugh,* and James C.
Hcvird.
From Battery C, 107th: Lt. Wil
liam M. Minick, M-Sgt. James L.
Miller, M-Sgt. George R. Owens,
SFC Benjamin T. Mills, Jr., Sgt.
Thomas R. Langford, SP3 Robei
L. Lindler, SP3 George Scarbo
rough, and SP3 Olin D. White.
bond purposes was transferred to
the operating fund for the next
year, since the bond issue t o
which it was applied had been
paid.
Revenue expected from all
sources by the city for the 1956-
57 fiscal year is $638,175,00, and
Council authorized the borrowing
of the difference of a little over
$20,000, if necessary, to meet
items set up in the budget.
The budget for the next year
remains much as for this cur
rent operating year, although 8
items in the proposed budget were
deleted, to be taken up for con
sideration in the future. The to
tal amount deleted was $36,700
and the major item was $27,000
which had been estimated as the
cost of remodeling and refurnish
ing the city offices and council
chambers.
The 1955-56 year began in the
black, but with a budget that ex
ceeded expected .revenue by some
$40,000. Present * estimates are
that the city may end the year
without a deficit because certain
projects called'for in the Dudget
were not undertaken, and parti
ally because revenues from elec
tric services were higher than ex
pected. ,
The only other item of business
coming before the special meet
ing of council Monday was a re
quest for permission to erect a
modem service station at the
comer of Main and Calhoun Sts.
the G«df Oil eompaa
is the location of Browns
house, which was sold
months ago. The letter was from
Pope and Schumpert, attorneys.
An ordinance was read estab
lishing the fact that it was nec
essary for council to give per
mission to erect the station.
Mayor Kinard recommended
that permission be granted and
Council followed his recommen
dation by giving unanimous ap
proval to the request.
R. D. Schumpert, who appear
ed before council bo make the re
quest stated tha no objections
had ben made as far as he knew
by adjacent property owners to
the erection of the station.
Matthew On Staff
Of Station WKDK
Carey Matthew of Clinton. N
C., joined the staff of radio sta
tion WKDK as an announcer a
July 6th. He replaces Steve Hooc
who resigned several months ag
because of illness and returned t
his homo in New York after sev
oral weeks in the Veterans Hospi
tal in Columbia.
Mr. Mathew is residing at th
home of Mrs. L. D. Coleman o:
Caldwell street. He attended Mid
western Radio School in Chicag
and came to Newberry from Myi
tie Beach where he had bee
working at the radio station dm
ing the summer.
July 20: A*. J. Bowers, Mrs. „
A. T. Neely, Chevis I. Boozer,
James R. Andrews, Gertice
Smith, Mrs. Cyril Halfacre,
Oscar Graham.
July 21: Judy Ann Wilson,
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sterling, «
Mrs. Christine IL Burns, Judy
Senn, Scott Boozer, Mrs. Hen
ry Mills.
July 22: Willie Robert Gil- '
Ham, Sam A. Cook, Mrs. Lily
Mae Bushardt, T. H. Reeves,
William E. Burr, HI.
July 2S: Tommy Tindall, 8a% |
dra Kay Bums, Mrs. Carrie
Kinard, Wayne McCullough,
Mrs. Homer Long, Marion WaL
ton. Jewel Waldrop, Dr. R. A.
Goodman, Mrs. Louis Brossy.
July 24: Mrs. W .A^ Attaway,
Alberta Wicker, Roy Long,
Mrs. F. C. Wicker.
July 25: David Summer, Mrs.
I. M. Smith, Mrs. R. E. Hanna
Jr.
Juluy 26: Olin Lominick,
Oxner Wilson, Joyce Jfi
Martha H. Brown, Mis.
Berley, Sylvia^ooser, Paulett*
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