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VOLUME 19; NUMBER
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1956
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By The Way
By Doris A. Sanders
SCHOOL BOND ISSUE
Now it is up to you to decide
whether the Newberry County
school building program shall be
completed within the next few
years, or whether the county
board shall jpst use the money it
has coming from the State r *-
nance Commission with the hopes
of more to come after I960. There
is little probability that theie wi
be more, at least until after 19,0,
because the building program was
set up on a 20-year basis, with
various school districts of t e
state receiving advancements from
the State Finance Commission ov-
ler a period of
I ten years. The
|m a x i m u m
lamount the Com-
Imission will ad-
Ivance is 75 per-
Jcent of a school
jdistrict’s “entit-
llement,” based on
iper pupil enroll-
iment. At the end
lof I960, each
Mrs. Sanders district should
have received its 75 percent. The
remaining 25 percent will be used
to pay interest on the advanced
money and the entitlement for the
next ten years after 1960 will be
used to repay the amount leceiv-
ed the first ten years.
This is all highly complicated
and I have a nine-page statement
on the subject issued by the State
Finance Commission. I have read
and re-read it, but I can’t seem
to find any way to condense it so
that the workings of the Finance
Commission will be any clearer
than stated above. The main thing
is that it appears that just so
much money is forthcoming and
no more during the 20 year period
and that if Newberry needs more
money for schools, the people will
have to vote a bond issue to get
it.
If the bond issue is not voted,
there will be a serious problem to
be solved by the County Board.
The remaining funds they will
have will be about $750,000. I he
new high school in the lower part
of the county will take about
$550,000 of that should the board
decide that that project will go
ahead. It will be hard to decide
otherwise, since the Board prom
ised the State Department of Edu
cation that if they would allow
Silverstreet and Bush River high
schools to be accredited one more
year, these two, together with the
three schools in the lower county,
would all close and be consolidated
next year.
If the high school is built, the
$200,000 left would not be enough
for renovations and additions to
existing schools and would com
pletely preclude building new
schools for Boundary and Speers
Street.
It has been estimated that six
mills would be required for the
next 20 years to pay off the $775,-
000 bond issue. The total school
millage then would be 36 mills,
still lower than many counties as
far as millage is concerned, but no
guide as to school income since
property assessments differ from
county to county.
On September 18, it will be left
to you. I would urge you to give
the matter serious consideration
before election day and if you
have any questions, the people of
the Newberry County Education
office will be glad to answer them
for you.
2§
District Garden
Club Chaim len
Here Wednesday
District Chairman of the Gar
den Pilgrimage Project of the
South Carolina Garden club met
in Newberry Wednesday at the
home of Mrs. Richard L. Baker,
State .Garden Pilgrimage chair
man. The meeting was held at 11
a.m. yesterday and a luncheon
was served at 1:30 by Mrs. Baker
and Mrs. Olem Youmans, E. Pied
mont district chairman. The pur
pose of the meeting was to make
plans for 1957 Spring Tours to be
held tlruout the State.
In addition to the district chair
man, others present for the meet-
ling were Mrs. J. T. Rutledge, S.
C. State president; Mrs. 1 Gordon
Blackwell, president of the New-
council of Garden Clube;
J. D. Rook, East Piedmont
chairman of Horticulture;
W. Roy Anderson, E. Pied-
dktrict chairman of Garden
py. Also invited were all
directors.
Mystery Farm No 50 Whose Is It?
MYSTERY FARM NO. 49. 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 Rltz or Wells theatres. The owner of the farm may receive the photograph In an
attractive easel by calling at The Sun office. Call* and letters will be accepted until noon on Mon
day following this publication date. The names «*r 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.)
Hospital Receives Check
From Ford Foundation
The Newberry County Memorial
Hospital announced today that it
had received a check for $11,550
from the Ford Foundation, half of
its share of the foundation’s
$200,000,000 grant program to as
sist the nation’s 3500 voluntary,
nonprofit hospitals to improve and
extend their services.-The balance
of the gift is expected to be paid
next year.
Under the terms of the grant,
final decision as to the use of
the money is left to the hospital’s
governing board. The only condi
tion made by the foundation in its
original announcement of the
grant program last December 12,
was that the funds could not be
used for repaying past obliga
tions or “operating expenses for
services currently being perform
ed by hospitals.”
Claude L. Weeks, administrator
of the Newberry County Memorial
Hospital, said that in making for
mal application for the grant, it
had informed the foundation of
possible uses of the money. These
included: a new x-ray machine to
replace present equipment which
is inadequate; additional labora
tory equipment to ' expand ser-
ices of the laboratory department;
equipment to set up a cystoscopic
room; emergency stand-by elec
tric generator for use during pow
er failures; additional tumbler for
laundry; complete the job of pip
ing oxygen to all patient’s rooms
(only 35 per cent of the rooms
are now piped); and purchase of
room air-conditioner units. A cen
tral air conditioner unit for the
entire hospital with cost esti
mated between fifty-five and six
ty thousand dollars has previously
been considered but sufficient
funds are not yet available.
The flexibility of the grant was
indicated in the foundation an
nouncement which permitted the
hospital to use its gift in any area
of hospital service, including, for
example, attainment of accredita
tion, disaster planning, mental
illness, prematurity, rehabilita
tion, handicapped children, pre
ventive or diagnostic services, out
patient care, or any other area
which in the opinion of the hos
pital’s governing board would best
serve its community.
The ways in which this goal
could be reached were stated as
improvement of or addition to fa
cilities or services, additions to
or training of personnel, or con
ducting research.
Mr. Weeks hailed the gift as
“one of the greatest votes of con
fidence ever placed in our volun
tary hospital system. It now be
comes our duty to see that this
money is put to the best possible
use for the benefit of our people.
“The modern hospital is a tre
mendously complex center of
health services. Its responsibility
is to keep pace with medical
science so that the accomplish
ments of the scientists are trans
lated into patient care. The finan
cial problems of hospitals have
grown particularly acute during
the past decade. It has become in
creasingly difficult to find the
funds to improve and extend our
services to the extent possible in
the light of our present know
ledge. The Ford gift permits us to
do things which we undoubtedly
could not have done without the
foundation’s generosity.”
Dr. Edwin L. Crosby, director of
the American Hospital Associa
tion, said in Chicago that “the
grants should be considered ‘seed
money’, money which, if wisely
expended, will bring greater com
munity understanding of total hos
pital needs and greater support
for their solution. The Ford grants
are munificent indeed but they
cannot meet the total needs of our
community hospitals.”
H. Rowan Gaither Jr., president
of the Ford Foundation, said in
New York: “The Trustees of the
Ford Foundation seriously con
sidered requiring matching funds
for the December grants, but de
cided not to do so on the grounds
that it might percipitate a disor
derly scramble and chaotic compe
tition in fund-raising and that
this might in the end delay rath
er than hasten effective results.
The foundation’s recent grants are
therefore not matching grants.
But we hope they may be regard
ed as challenge grants, by those
who traditionally support the in
stitutions receiving them.”
Caldwell Held
In Knife Death
Junior Caldwell, 26-year-old Ne
gro, is being held in the Newber
ry County Jail pending the out
come of an inquest into the cause
of death of Dan Bailey, 40, who
died about 11:00 a. m. Sunday
shortly after being cut by Cald
well, according to members of
Sheriff Tom Fellers’ force.
Officers stated that the death
instrument was a pocket knife
from which the dead man receiv
ed wounds about the neck. The
fatal cutting took place two miles
east of Newberry in a woods near
Caldwell’s home, officers said, giv
ing as the reason an argument
over one dollar which one of the
men owed the other.
Coroner Summer said today that
the date of the inquest would be
announced laer. t
Hunter Teague
Is Second Best
Tractor Driver
The State Tractor Driving con
test was held last week during
Farm and Home Week at Clemson
College. The first place winner
was Billy Logan of Greenwood;
Hunter Teague, Newberry, second;
and Ronnie Burdette of Greenville,
third. There was a total of nine
in the contest.
(Continued (Hi page 4)
Schools To Open
At Silverstreet
The Silverstreet Area Public
Schools will begin their 1956-1957
session on Monday morning, Sep
tember 3, at 8:30 o’clock. There
will be no formal school opening
exercises in the auditorium on
this occasion.
Silverstreet teachers were list
ed in last week’s issue of The
Sun. Other personnel includes:
Mrs. Ira T. Cousins, Newberry,
private piano lessons.
(Continued on page 8)
Council Defers Action On Gas
Station Corner Walnut <Sh Main
Gives Approval For Construction Of
Phillips Station On Glenn Street
Bloodmohile At
Prosperity On
September 5th
The next visit of the American
Red Cross Bloodmohile to New
berry County is scheduled for
Wednesday, September fifth and
will be located at the Prosperity
School Gymnasium between the
hours of 2:00 and 8:00 p. m. Spon
sors for this visit will be the towns
of Prosperity, Little Mountain,
Pomaria, and Peak, and the com
munities of Jolly Street, Fairview,
Stoney Hill, O’Neall, Union, New
Hope Zion, and St. Phillips.
Representatives of the above
communities met at the Prosper
ity School on Monday, August 13
with Claude L. Weeks, Newberry
County Blood Program Chairman
and Mrs. Hannah Pool, Executive
Secretary of the Newberry County
Red Cross Chapter, and elected
Mrs. Walter Hamm, of Prosperity,
to serve as chairman for the blood-
mobile visit. Mr. Murray Counts
of Little Mountain was elected as
sistant-chairman.
Persons attending this meeting
were C. E. Hendrix, Mrs. Leon
Shealy, Mrs. Bittle Hawkins, Mrs.
Isadore Ruff, Mrs. Cole S. Wes-
singer, Mrs. Vanessa Richardson,
and Mrs. W. L. Mathis, Jr., repre
senting Prosperity; William R.
Shealy of Little Mountain; Mrs.
Sam Pat Boland and Mrs. Ralph
H. Setzler of Pomaria; Mrs. M. B.
Ferguson, Mrs. H. J. Smith and
Mrs. George Stoudemayer of
Peak; Mrs. Otis C. Kinard and
Mrs. Faye E. Mac Arthur of Jolly
Street and Grady Lee Halfacre of
Union Community. A complete list
of workers will be announced la
ter.
The quota for this visit is 100
pints Persons who will give blood
on this date are urged to contact
persons from their respective
communities named above and
register to donate a pint of blood
on this date.
Nichols Rites
Held Tuesday
Funeral services for Raymond
B. Nichols, 43, who died early
Sunday morning at his home in
the Mounf Bethel-Garmany com
munity, were conducted at 5:00
p. m. Tuesday from the residence
by the Rev. Neil Truesdell. In
terment followed in Springdale
Cemtery, Newberry.
Mr. Nichols had made his home
in the Mount Bethel-Garmany
community for a number of years,
where he was in the monument
business. Although he was in de
clining health, his death was sud
den.
He was the son of Byron and
Lilly May Marvey Nichols and
owned and operated the * Caro
lina Royal Blue Granite Com
pany.
He was a member of the New
berry Exchange Club, the Wood
men of the World, Mt. Pleasant
Camp, the Builders of America,
Inc., the South Carolina Manu-
mental Association and Aveleigh
Presbyterian Church.
In addition to his mother, he
is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Shirley Adams Nichols, and one
sister, Mrs. Roland Brooks, of
Hereford, Arizona.
Active pallbearers were C. E.
Laird, A. C. Starnes, Charles
Price, Harper Wherry, William
Cromer and Cecil Williams.
Serving as honorary pallbear
ers were members ..of the Ex
change Club and the members of
the South Carolina Monument As
sociation. .
ELLIOTT TO FILL
CENTRAL PULPIT
Prof. F. Scott Elliott will de
liver the Sunday morning sermon
at Ceritral Methodist Church on
August 26 in the absence af Rev.
Herbert L Spell, who is attending
the annual conference at Clem
son.
Library Closed
During Repairing
The Newberry-Saluda Reg
ional Library will be closed to
the public until further notice
due to the repair work being
done on the Old Court House
building. The librarian re
quests that all patrons, who
have books out from the libra
ry, please hold these books
until the library reopens. The
Bookmobile will continue its
regular schedules.
Newberry Schools
Open Labor Day
J. V. Kneece and R. E. Beck,
superintendents of the Newberry
High School and Newberry Ele
mentary Schools, respectively,
have announced that the Newber
ry City Schools will open for the
1956-57 session on Monday morn
ing, September third. All students
will report at 9:00 a. m. on this
date at their respective schools.
Pupils who are planning to enter
the Newberry Schools for the
first time and have not previously
attended school in the Newberry
attendance area are requested to
enroll on either August 29 or 30.
Students who will enter grades 8-
12 will enroll at the Newberry
High School building between the
hours of 9:00 and 12:00. Students
entering grades 1-7 will enroll at
the Jr. High School building be
tween the hours of 9:0C and 12:00.
Those students who have .exam
inations to make up are expcted
to come prepared to stand these
examinations on September 3.
Books will be rvailable for rent
under the State plan if the stu
dent desires to rent his books rath
er than purchase them. These
students who made application
last May to rent books for this
session (1956-57) may get their
books on September 4 by paying
the regular rental fee.
Voters To Decide On Bond Issue For School
Building Program In Election September 18
September 18 has been set as
the date for the $775,000 school
bond election in Newberry Coun
ty. This date was chosen at a spe
cial meeting of the Newberry
County Board of Education last
Friday night. The election will de
termine whether or not bonds will
be issued up to the amount of
$775,000 to complete the school
building program in Newberry
County.
The question to be asked of
voters in the special election is
as follows:
“Shall the Newberry County
Board of Education be empowered
to isue, either as a single issue or
from time to time as several sep
arate issues, not exceeding Seven
Hundred Seventy Five Thousand
and no-100 ($775,000.00) Dollars
of General Obligation Bonds of
Newberry County whose proceeds
shall be expended to defray the
cost of making capital improve
ments to the schools in Newberry
County?”
All qualified electors, holding a
registration certificate issued at
least 30 days prior to the election
date, will be eligible to vote in.
the special election. The polls will
open at 8:00 a. m. and close at
6:00 p. m. and will be at the usual
polling places for elections in the
county, as may be seen elsewhere
in this isue in the election notice.
It has been estimated by school
officials that the bond issue, if
approved, would add six mills to
the present school levy, which was
increased this year from 27 to 80
mills. The total millage for school
purposes would be 36. The county
levy is now 17 mills, having been
increased from 16 to 17 this year.
The total millage for property
owners, should the bond issue be
approved, would in the future be
53 mills unless increased or de
creased by the County delegation.
Since the beginning of the
school building program in 1951,
$1,965,303.85 has been spent or
approved for projects now under
way. The estimated amount need
ed to complete the building and
renovation program is estimated
to be $1,555,097.00. The remaining
amount that may be advanced to
Newberry County from the State
Finance Commission is almost
$747,000.00.
Three new school buildings would
be constructed if the voters ap
prove the bond issue. They are
the consolidated high school for
the Pomaria-Prosperity and Lit
tle Mountain areas; Boundary and
Speers Street elementary schools.
The estimated cost of the high
school is $550,000; the estimated
cost of the two elementary schools
is $463,000. The remainder of the
bond issue and entitlement would
be used for renovation and addi
tion cf rooms to Gallman High,
Drayton Street elementary, Junior
High, Newberry High, Silver-
street auditorium, Bush River ele
mentary, Park Street school in
Whitmire, Pomaria Elementary,
Little Mountain elementary and
Prosperity. elementary.
The Board is planning special
meetings in an effort to inform
the public as to the need for ap
proval of the school building pro
gram.
City Council, at a special meet
ing Monday afternoon, gave per
mission to H. B. Rayfield for the
construction of a gasoline service
station on the west side of Glenn
street at the intersection of Ade
laide, but deferred action on a sim
ilar request from the Pure Oil
Company at a special meeting on
Tuesday for the construction of a
station on the northeast corner
of Main and Walnut streets, the
site presently used as a play
ground by the city. ^
Mr. Rayfield appeared before
Council Monday together with C.
D. Coleman, distributor of Phil
lips “66” gasoline and products in
this county.
Just prior to the Monday meet
ing a letter was received address
ed to the Council asking permis
sion by the Pure Oil Company for
construction of a service station
on Main street at the corner of
Walnut. Council Monday d
action on the request due to the
fact that there was no representa
tive from the company at the coun
cil meeting. On Tuesday, however,
another special meeting of council
was called and present were J. L.
Lipscomb, Pure pil Distributor in
Newberry; and D. C. Lockwood,
district manager of the Pure Oil
Company. They again placed their
request before council.
Also at the meeting was Judge
Eugene Si Blease, who stated that
he was appearing “as a citizen”
but not on behalf of any particu
lar party, although, he stated
that one person had asked him to
come before council. He did not
disclose the name of that person.
He asked that council not act too
hastily on the request, but to give
the residents of that section a
chance to express objections to
the request if they had any.
After much consideration and
discussion, council unanimously
decided to defer action on the re
quest until the next regular meet-*
ing of council, September 11.
Council also Tuesday afternoon
passed a motion that there would
be no more special meeting of
council except in emergencies.
At the Monday meeting, Council
considered plans for paving Har
ris street from Main to the exist
ing paving, and Mower street
from Evans to Harrington. Mayor
Kinard was authorized bo exe
cute the necessary forms so that
the highway department could go
ahead with these two paving pro
jects.
LEGION FAMILY
PICNIC TUESDAY
The annual American Legion
and Legion Auxiliary family pic
nic will be held at the Legion
Home Tuesday, August 28, begin
ning at 8:00 p. m. All Legion
naires and their families and
members of the Auxiliary and
their families are urged to attend
and bring a well filled picnic bas
ket. Tea will be furnished by the
Legion.
This is the 1956 Ford convertible in which Walter Easier and James Burton Boiter, both of Whitmire,
met their death on Monday of this week. A third occupant, James Hunnicutt; also of Whitmire, was in
jured and carried to a hospital in Union for treatment. According to investigating officers, the car evi
dently went out of control on a farm-to-market road between Jalaps and Whitmire nenr Indian creek
bridge, ten miles from Newberry. An inquest will he scheduled pending the outcome of injuries
e by Hunnicutt, according to Coroner George R. Summer. (Sunphoto.)
BIRTHDAY
GREETINGS
Aug. 24: Rodney Bedenbaugh,
Eugene Koon, Mrs. T S. Humph
ries, Faye Eargle, Tom Gil
liam.
Aug. 25: J. W. Earhardt Jr.,
J Boyd Robertson, Wayne Mar
tin, J. W. Warner, Ha Mae Sa
ber, Homer O Epting, Sr., Mrs.
Herbert Bedenbaugh, Miss Ami-
nee Dominick.
Ang. 26: Bobby* Summer Jr,
Faye Langford, Mrs. P. G.
Blount, Mrs. L Q. Watkins, Mrs.
Effie Hendrix, Patricia Leslie,
Charles Cromer.
Ang. 27: Jeanette Bergen, M.
L. Youmans, Sue Ward, Mrs.
J. Frank Lominkk, Mrs. W. H.
Ashbaugh, Mrs. Horace CrpuNr.,
Ang. 28: Lewis Ammons, Fos
ter B. Spotts, Louise Wicker,
Mildred Long, Jane Fellows,
Sandra Kinard, Julia Basel,
Lawrence Graham .Mrs. Mar
garet Long, Mrs. Jenny Bruing-
ton and Mrs. Allie Montes.
Ang. 29: Mrs. George Way,
W, C McGahee, Carrie WL
Whitener, Mrs. Bill Long, Mrs.
L. B. Davis.
Ang. 36: Maude Spotts, W. H.
Chapman, Ifan, L. C
David Dominick, Nancy Smi^
Harold Bieanett.