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l.uilfiin” t !i- *i v ;u a! ton tr: a --.us m a - ( a r n a ^ t-. or t no -S> -Si' L-l Li '• ij till %l(iTH \ ti> il - i i! ii-u :\ 1 Ittve. as man\ .1 run old -ul daddv and our Statu I’opaitnM have found out. NUMBER 19—VOLUME 19 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1956 $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way Newberry College $20,000 Stand By Doris A. Sanders ! r FKiHTINCi Bl 19 I> 0( * s At this season of the year U The Way” turns partially into a sports column. Not that l wouoi make any effort to jro very deeply into the technicalities ot any sport, hecau-e i don’t know that much about any o! them, hut merely to record ui .-crvation- from time to tniie. We went to the Newberry hip'h - Prosperity pame last Thursday niprit a n d were very much impressed with the work* Coach Player has done. ]t wasn’t merely the fact that the Bulldog won a jrame, but the manner in which they played shows that the coach has really “put them through the paces’ and they have taken it. They are alert and even with few substitutes to relieve the first team the boys didn't seem to tire as much as might be expected until the game was over; then they seemed to let down and didn’t have enough energv left to he too elated over their first victory in a couple of years. There was an unusual crowd at the field Thursday night. Many came, I imagine, to see what the new coach had produced, and he didn’t disappoint them. I'm sure most of them will be back and I hope many more will be on hand for the next home game. You are going to see good football, win or lose, from both the high school and the college this year. Even my three-year old didn’t take her eyes off the field except when the band was playung and incidentally the Newberry Concert band did a fine job and added much to the spirit of the occasion, so our thanks go to Boyd Robertson and the members of the band as well as to the Newberry and Prosper ity football teams for furnishing an entertaining evening. <JOOD EATING That was mighty good eating over at Newberry high cafeteria the other night when the county Board of Education met with PTA presidents and others to discuss the school bond election issue. Preparing the delicious fried chicken and all the trimmings were Mrs. Fiances McCullough, county lunch room supervisor; and Mrs. Janie Mayer, Mrs. Mar garet Harmon, Mrs. Connie Blair Continuedon page eight ' 'U kCk §1|P Shriners To Sell $10.00 Tickets To Help Pay For College Stadium On T ue.-day. September 11. members of the Newberry’ (.minty Shririf Club will begin a siU-Oo ticket sale to the Newberry-Le- noir Rhyne football game to be played at Setzler Field Saturday night, September 29. The goal of the club is to pay for the $20,- 000 steel stadium w-hich has been erected at Setzler Field, replacing the old wooden stand on the west side of the field which was found last year to be unsafe. General admission to the game will be $2.50. The $7.50 donation will entitle the purchaser to a re served seat in the steel stand. John F. Clarkson, general chairman of the College Stadium drive, stated that the Club has adopted this job as their project for 1956, and “due to the tremen dous work which the Shriners of Newberry County 7 have done in the past years, the Shrine Club is calling on all Shriners of Newber ry County to help in this under taking.” Mr. Clarkson continued, “Newberry College and its athlet ic program are a tremendous as set to Newberry County, and I am sure the few hours of work you will be called on to do will mean much to the Shriners of Newber ry County and to Newberry Col lege.” Mayor Cecil E. Kinard has pro claimed September 11 as “New berry Shrine College Stadium Benefit Drive Day-” The Shrin ers will gather at 8:00 a. m. on that date at the Community Hall for a breakfast meeting and the ticket sale will begin immediately afterwards. Over 150 Shriners are expected to take part in the ticket sale with the following as team cap tains: S. C. Altman, H. A. Kem per, John W. Schumpert, Joe H. Simpson, Heyward S- Davis, S. D .Paysingcr, G. L. Summer, Louis C. Floyd, Leroy Wilson, M urray Sheppard and J. E. Wise man. Below is the mayor’s proclama tion: WHEREAS, the Shriners of Newberry County are selling bene fit football tickets to the New berry College-Lenoir Rhyne Col lege football game to assist in raising money to provide a new stadium to be used by Newberry College, Newberry High School, and others in the enjoyment of Setzler Field; and, WHEREAS the citizens of New berry are deeply sympathetic with the efforts of the Shriners in their noble undertaking; and, WHEREAS, the citizens of Newberry are deeply conscious of the value of Newberry College and its athletic program to the County of Newberry and should cooperate in this worthwhile cause; NOW, THEREFORE, I, Cecil E. Kinard, Mayor of the City of Newberry, do hereby proclaim the 11th day of September, 1956, as Newberry Shrine College Stadium Benefit Day. City School Consolidation Planned If Bond Issue Approved By Voters (By Doris A. Sanders) People don’t like to admit that they have been fooled, but with the announcement of the school bond $775,000 election to be held September 18, the response on every side, from almost everyone was the same, “What about the sales tax. We voted in favor of it because that was going to be used to build our schools.” Yes, even a member oi the State Department of Education admitted publicly, «t a PTA meet ing in Newberry county early this year, that the people of the State had been “misled.” He said that he didn’t know whether the misleading was deliberate or not. Each of you may draw your own conclusions as to whether it was deliberate, but you thought, just as I did, that the three percent sales tax was for school purposes, principally for building, and that the money previously allotted to the schools by the state would still be used in that way. I was fooled and so were you.The salestax revenue is used for school PURPOSES, not solely for build ings. It used to pay teachers, pay transportation costs, retire bonds sold by the State Finance comm ission for school building purpo ses; used for state supported col leges as well as secondary schools. I understand it is fairly easy to trace the way in which the sales tax is spent, but what of the mon ey the schools were getting before sales tax which you and I thought they would continue to get. No one seems to be able, or willing, to furnish an answer to that one. One thing we know. The greater amount of is it NOT going to the schools. The point is that regardless of the reason, there is not enough money coming to Newberry coun ty) from the State Finance com mission to complete the building program which the County Board of Education feels necessary. TELL THE FACTS At a meeting of PTA presid ents, area superintendents, and advisory hoard members with the County Board last Wednesday night, James D. Brown, superin tendent of education, made the statement that “our purpose is not to tell people how to vote in the bond election, but to tell them the facts and let them decide.” The facts which were brought out in that meeting will be seen in a story elsewhere in this issue. I agree with Mr. Brown that all of the facts must be brought out, so I am going to mention a few which did not come to light at that meeting. PROCRASTINATION EXPENSIVE Most of the 12 projects listed by the Board to he done if the bond issue is approved need to be done. The most costly is the con solidated high school for the Pros perity - Pomaria - l ittle Mountain area, estimated by the architects at $550,000 but shown on the list distributed at the Wednesday meeting mentioned above by P. K. Harmon, director of schools, at $545,420. I am told that this fi gure was reached after estimating all of the other projects so that the total would agree with the $775,000 bond issue being sought. In 1953, it was estimated that that high school would cost $360,- 000. A site was selected on w T hich to build it. The site was not approved by the State Finance Commission because pressure was brought by individuals or groups not to have i\ approved. The SFC gave weak excuses for not ap proving it, none of which meant a thing because this year, the ex act same site was approved hy SFC after the three areas got to gether and the one area which had brought pressure to bear gave in and settled for the site. T have no proof that pressure was put on the SFC, but the fact that they subsequently approved the site seems to hear out that contention, and I do not believe you will find many, even members of the Coun ty Board, w y ho will deny it. As a result of this maneuvering, the cost of that building is at least $100,000 more than it would have been at that time. .You will pay taxes on $100,000 for 20 years because of the stubbornness of a group of individuals. MONEY NOT SPENT I was told last week that that money was not just held, waiting for those people to decide on a lo cation, but was used for other building purposes. I was sure that I had been told on several occa sions by board members, in re sponse to my question, “why don’t you release that money to be spent on other schools that need it?” that it couldn’t be done— that money had to be kept in the kitty so it would be available when and if the people of those three areas got together on a site. After a little research, I came up with the following verification. These w'ere statements made at the public meeting held by the County Board in February of this year. The then chairman, J. S. Rit chie, said “We have allotted $330,000 for that school. If you whll agree on a location the archi tect is ready to start on the plans.” School Director Harmon said at that meeting “on the proposed fu ture projects funds are available for the ’consolidated high school in the Little Mountain-Pomaria- Prosperity areas . . . for the re mainder of the projects, the Board only receives from the State Finance Commission an nually five percent of its allot ment for buildings and the proj ects will not be completed until 1960.” So if any of the money has been used, it has been since February 1956. Auxiliary To Medical Group Meeting Here The fall meeting of the Execu tive Board of the Woman’s Aux iliary to the South Carolina Med ical Association will be held on Wednesday morning. September 12 at 11 o'clock in the Recreation Hall of the Central Methodist church in Newberry. There are two preliminary meet ings of committees. Mrs. T. A. Pitts, Columbia, has scheduled one at 10:30. Her committee i s composed of Mrs. Alfred Burn sides, Columbia, Mrs- W. H. Folk, Spartanburg, Mrs. George Orvin, Charleston, Mrs. George Dawson, Florence, Mrs. David Adcock, of Columbia, Mrs. C. R. May, Jr., of Bennettsville, Mrs. B. J. Work man, Woodruff, and Mrs. John T. Cuttino, Charleston. Mrs. K. M. Lippert has called her committee on organization, School Bond Election Victory Is Asked By Education Board The other item which has jack ed up the price of that school is the change from the original plan to have a gymtorium, to build an auditorium and a gymnasium; and incidentally, the gym design ed by the architects, capable of seating 500 spectators, was not satisfactory to members of the Board and plans are made to en large that gym at additional cost to seat more spectators. NEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS The next two major proposed projects are new buildings for Boundary and Speers Street Ele mentary schools in Newberry. One of the principal reasons for these buildings, I am told, is to build facilities large en ough to consolidate the five grammar schools of the city. Should the plan go into effect, all students of the first through sixth grades in the Newberry area, including < those now at tending school at ‘Mollohon, West End and Oakland, would attend either Boundary or Speers; the 7th and 8th grades would attend Junior High and the 9th through 12th graders would go to the high school. Architects have gone over the Boundary and Speers street build ings and have found them to be safe. Neither of the buildings has ever been condemned.. The inter iors of the school houses are, of course, principally constructed of wood and should they catch fire, they would burn, just as would your home or mine. I see no more danger there than existed 25 years ago; perhaps not as much, since on both buildings, fire escapes have been added at the opposite sides or ends from where the stairs are located in side the building. I would certain ly not lead you to believe the buildings are fireproof, for they are not. They were not when I went to school at Boundary, and Continued on page five MRS. E. G. ABLE Mrs. Wayne Reeser, Conway, Mrs. John Martin, Anderson, Mrs. Jas. Allgood, Inman, to meet at 10 o’clock. At 1 p.rn. a Dutch luncheon will be served to the officers, comm ittee chairmen, and presidents- elect of the county Auxiliaries at the historic old courthouse in the Community hall. Mrs. Gordon Able of Newbefry, president of the Auxiliary, will preside. Dr. William H. Prioleau, Charleston surgeon, and president of the S. C. Medical association, will be the guest speaker. Dr. D. L. Smith, Spartanburg, president elect, and Mrs. Smith will also at tend the luncheon. Those attending the Executive Board meeting from Newberry are: Mrs. E. Gordon Able, presi dent of the South Carolina Medi cal Auxiliary, Mrs. R. E. Livings ton, corresponding secreary; Mrs. Von Long, co-chairman conven tion committee; Mrs. B. M. Mont gomery, chairman printing; and Mrs. Kemper Lake, Whitmire, county president. LEGION AUXILIARY MEETING TODAY The Legion Auxiliary will meet today, Thursday, at 4 p.m. at the home of Mrs. J. L. Boland on the Cut-off. Associate hostess will be Mrs. Russell Addy, Mrs. H. M. Hentz, Mrs. Robert Bishop, Mrs. W. M. Lester and Mrs- T. P. Crooks. Jurors Named For Fall Term The following jurors will report for duty when the fall term of the Court of General Sessions convenes September 17 with J. Robert Martin, Jr., of Greenville on the bench. Grand Jurors will report at 9:30 a.m. September 17; Petit Jurors will report at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, September 18. List of Petit Jurors: Newberry: L. J. Matthews, R. E. Taylor, Douglas Mills, L. C. Graham, H. Tom Long, W. W. Bennett, James L. Beard, Claude Weeks, W- E. Fulmer, Patrick L. Hughes, Donald L. Shealy, Car los Swindell. Newberry routes: A. L. Counts, Virgil E. Shealy, Henry A. Kess ler, Harold N. Bowers, James I. Bigson, B. C- Nichols, James P. Bishop, Harry E. Mayer, Wallace Werts, Lewis D. Martin. Whitmire: F. E. Alexander, Ed ward L. Roof, G. A. Duncan, S. B. Bailey, Francis A. Reed. Prosperity: B. Cornell Beden- baugh, George W. Dawkins, Cur tis D. Long, J. B- Livingston, Jr., J. Monroe Dominick. Little Mountain: Clarence D. Shealy. Kinards: Pinckney C. Workman. Pomaria: Lewis Ray Ringer, Marvin R. Graham. Miss Biddle Now At Aveleig*h Miss Stella Biddle of Oswego arrived in Newberry last week and began her duties as director of religious education at Aveleigh Presbyterian Church on Saturday, September first. She is the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. P. H. Biddle of Oswego, and was grad uated last June from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga. She will reside at the home of Mrs. James M. Smith Sr. on Calhoun street. Miss Biddle will replace Mrs. Marion H. Hart, who has held the position of DRE at Aveleigh for the past three years. Mrs. Hart and her husband, Sgt. Hart, a member of the local army advis ory group to the Newberry units of the National Guard, expects to he transferred from here in the near future. ATTENDING BOSTON SCHOOL OF MUSIC Bobby Gilliam, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Gilliam, left Sunday night for Boston, Mass where he will attend Berklee School of Mu sic. Mr. Gilliam will take educa tion in the professional field of composing and writing. For the past two years, he has been director of the high school bands at Denmark and Blackville. He was graduated from Newberry College, where he ifiajored in mu sic, in 1953. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Salters of North Augusta visited Mr. and Mrs. Donnie Gilliam last Wednes day. Mr. Salters is fire chief at Camp Gordon near Augusta. Parent-Teacher Association pres idents, area superintendents and advisory board members w ere handed the task of “selling” the school bui:<i election issue to the public at a supper meeting called last Wednesday night at the high school cafeteria. Acting on the assumption that those pres ent were “in favor of better schools or you wouldn’t be here,” Dan Hamm, Jr., hoard member of Prosperity and chairman of the bond issue publicity committee, told the group “this could be one of the most important elections ever held in Newberry county.” He suggested as a slogan “Better Schools Build Better Communi ties.” “Each of you represent the communities in which you live,” said Mr. Hamm- “I challenge you to inspect your schools and if you do, I don’t believe we will have any trouble passing the bond is sue. I believe if people know the facts and are informed, they will vote for the issue.” He urged the people to carry “the facts” back to their com munities and to “give it the right sort of publicity.” He suggested that plans be made by PTA pres idents to organize door-to-door campaigns, telephone campaigns, transportation to polls on election day. He also stated that aid should be enlisted from school children, ministers, newspapers and radio. He advised local ad visory boards to meet with area superintendents and teachers and “let the teachers know you are supporting the bond issue and want their cooperation,” indicat- Chalmers Brown Hurt In Wreck Chalmers Brown was seriously injured in an automobile acci dent which occured at 4 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon on the Mount Bethel-Garmany road near the Leitzsey home. Mr. Brown had been to Newberry and was re turning home, driving an old mod el Ford. He evidently lost control of the car and hit a rock on the side of the road. He received se vere cuts about the head and in juries to his side and leg. He was in the car alone at the time of the mishap. Mr. Brown is in the Newberry Memorial hospital undergoing treatment. FOSTER TO HAVE NEW INSTRUCTOR The Newberry Branch of the Foster School of Dance of Colum bia announces that Voight Kemp- son, student at the University of South Carolina, will be here this fall to teach all types of dancing: tap, ballet, toe and all forms of ballroom. Voight has recently appeared at the Steel Pier, Atlan tic City, N. J., and at top flight night clubs in New York City. He also has appeared several times at the Laurel Hill Supper Club in Columbia. Classes will begin Thursday, September 13 at the Youth Cen ter. Those interested in enrolling may call Mrs- Dick Shealy, tele phone 582. Among those enjoying the Labor Day Rally of Mollohon Local 324 last Saturday night at Mollohon Park were, left to right, C. J. Carver, recording secretary; P. E. Rinehart, president; Congressman J. Bryan Dorn; J. Ed McConnell, secretary and treasurer, and Wayne Demoncourt of Columbia, state director of the CIO. Messrs Dorn and Dernoncourt spoke to the group of 1500 gathered for the annual occasion. Following the speaking and picnic supper, dancing in the park was enjoyed by the union mem bers and their families. (Sunphoto.) ing that sometimes teachers are afraid to speak their views for fear of reprisal. The delicious fried chicken din ner, served by the lunch room supervisors and worker^ at the high school cafeteria, was follow ed with a summation by Board Chairman Hugh Epting of the work of the County Board since it was organized in 1951. He explained that the Board first set the county up in seven districts in 1951, but shortly af terwards, lawsuits and decisions in various courts indicated that a “separate but equal’’ policy would be followed. Since there were insufficient negro and white students to build and maintain high schools in each of the seven areas, Mr. Epting stated, it was decided to unite the seven dis tricts into one, with plans for one consolidated negro high school in Newberry, and three white high schools where the student potential justified; New berry, Whitmire, and a consolid ated school for the Little Moun- tain-Pomaria-Prosperity area. The chairman reviewed the building program to date. He said “there are not enough funds to go around” to complete the pro gram. Speaking of the two ele mentary schools in Newberry, he said “After personal inspection of one of the buildings, I think they need it ” “Our purpose," said Mr. Ep ting, “is to give you the facts. Personally, I would like to see it go over. I have property and I don’t like/to pay more tax, but I have children in school and will be glad to carry my part of the burden.” After Mr. Hamm addressed the group, P. K. Hannon, director of county schools,gave a summary of the past building program and the proposed projects to be ac complished if the bond issue is approved. He stated that the bonds, if sold, would not require more than a levy of six mills for 20 years. The remaining funds from the State Finance commission, $815,- 000, plus the $775,000 in bonds, if approved, would be used as fol lows, according to information given to the group by Mr. Har mon: Little-Mountain- Pomaria-Pros- perity consolidated high school, $545,420.00; Boundary St. Ele mentary, new buiiding $244,000; Speers St. Elementary, a new building $224,000; Drayton St. Elementary, addition, $143,500; Gallman high addition, $142,500 Junior high addition, $122,500; Prosperity Elementary renova tion $47,000; Pomaria Elementary renovation $38,000; Whitmire high and elementary renovation $262242 Newberry high rewiring and ren ovation, $25,500; Bush River El ementary renovation, $18,000 Sil- verstreet elementary, renovation and farm shop, $13,500. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Sept 7: Mrs. Stanley F. Baker, Miss Betty Floyd, Wallace Mich ael Dawkins, Charlie Edward Cro mer, Mrs. Howard K. Beden- baugh. Sept. 8: Rev. Cam D. Wallace, J. D. Wicker, Frank H. Ward, Mrs. J. W., Wilson, Margaret Faye Coats, Mrs. Tom Gilliam, John Marlowe, Mrs. Ace Watkins, Mike Harmon, Mrs. Wilmer M. Hite. Sept. 9: Tommy Longshore, Bu ford S. Adams, Lee Smallwood, Mrs. E. C. Rinehart, O. C. Phill ips, Margaret Wherry, Jessie Dawkins, Billie Dave Brady, E. L. Blackwell. Sept. 10: Ralph Quinn, T. Roy Summer, William Cecil Ammons, Charles H. Boyd, Jr., Mrs. C. B. Halfacre, Vickie Wheeler, Mrs. Clara Berry, Mrs. J. B. Scurry, Mrs. James Phibbs, Mrs. Alan Senn. Sept. 11: Sedley Senn, Tyrus Senn, Mrs. Jim Wheeler, Ed. Gil liam, Mrs. Roy Jollay, Mrs. Sam P. Boland, Mrs. L. A. Sease, Miss Mary Wicker, Gordon Goodman. Sept. 12: Keister Willingham, Mrs. O. O. Copeland, Mrs. Margie Freeman, Mrs. Cleo Morris, Mrs. Leone Thrift, Thomas Bradley, Mrs. Raymond B. Nichols, Mrs. Audrey Senn, Jason Ringer, Mrs.* R. Derrill Smith, David Wayne Brady. Sept. 13: Mrs. J. T. Dennis, El sie Dickert, Mrs. J. R. Metts, De- ree Abrams t\