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A man's character i" made
hy what he stands for . . .
his reputation hy what he
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They say money doesn't
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hut that doesn't include the
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VOLUME 19; NUMBER 21
By Doris A. Sanders
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1956
By.The Way Mystery Farm No 52 Whose Is It?
NO MORE SCRATC H IX(i
Postmaster Harry E. Moose
proudly announces that the local
PO has disposed of those scrmtchy
ink pens which have been irrita
ting- PO customers for as long I
as I can remember. They have
been replaced by ball })oint pens. '
which write like pencils w i t h
liquid lead. These are pretty nice
gadgets ,but I hope the PO de
partment purchased a better kind
that some I have used which, af
ter a time, begin to leak the lead
and are as much or more exas
perating than the old type. If
they work, that is good reason to
vote for the Republican adminis-
tratiion, for ridding the country
of such nuisances as the scratchy
PO pens.
TEAM SUPPORT
Three years ago we went up to
Salisbury to see the Newberry-
Catawba football game. 1 doubt
that there were more than a doz
en people there from Newberry.
Saturday night, the story was
different, for quite a number of
both students and team support
ers from the city were up there
to cheer Newberry on, and they
did a god job of it too. Among
those watching the Redskins in
action was last year’s favorite
Danny Brabham, who was grad
uated from Newberry in June
and is now coaching at Rock Hill
But to get back to the game
which ended in a 7-7 tie, I have
heard that it didn’t sound very
interesting to those listening in
on WKDK, but believe me, it
WAS exciting. In fact, I sat on
the edge of the seat so much I
didn’t know r w'hether I would be
able to stand the tension. Time
after time, those big Catawba
players marched with little hesi
tation straight down the field to
/ New T berry’s 20 yard line—and just
as often, the much smaller New
berry line held them there. Each
time I had the feeling “they just
can’t hold out much longer.”
We appreciate the hospitality
of Catawba college and are look
ing forward to the Citadel game
at Charleston at 8. p.m. See you
there— and meantime, wall you
buy a $10 ticket to the Lenoir-
Bhyne game in Newberry to be
played the night of September
29 ? Of that amount, $7.50 goes
to help pay for the new stadium.
An ad in this issue will tell you
where to buy them, and w r e hope
you will pay especial attention
to the sponsors of the ad and pat
ronize them, for they are New
berry college boosters-
(Continued on page 8)
$2.00 PER YEAR
Two-To-One Vote Defeats Bond
Issue Sought By County Board
City Precincts Vote 89 Majority For
Issue; Whitmire Is 17 To 1 Against
Postal Employee Retires;
New Carrier Takes Over
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MYSTERY FARM No. 52. 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
cr a ticket to the Rltz or Wella 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 v, 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.)
Guilty Pleas Occupy First
Two Days Of Criminal Court
The fall term of General Ses
sions court got under way here
Monday morning with Judge Rob
ert Martin of Greenville presid
ing.
Shortly after the convening of
court, the grand jury was hand
ed around 50 indictments to be
acted upon. Monday was spent in
taking guilty pleas. The petit
jury reported for duty Tuesday,
and one trial case was called, that
of Robert Franklin, charged with
committing an affray.
The guilty pleas heard Monday
and Tuesday included the follow
ing:
Rufus Griffin, drunken driving,
second offense, one year or $1000,
suspended on service of 2 months
or payment of $200, and placed on
probation.
James Cole, assault and battery
with intent to kill, and carrying
concealed weapons, 18 months,
suspended upon service of six
months and placed on probation.
James W. Griffin, drunk driv
ing, second offense, one year or
$1000, suspended upon 3 months
service or payment of $300 and
placed on probation two years.
James Willie Bowers, statutory
rape, sentenced to five years in
State penitentiary.
Donald Roy Rice, second of
fense, drunken driving, 12 months
of payment of $1000, suspended
upon service of 3 months or pay
ment of $300, placed on probation
for two years.
Mozene Gallman, Inez Young,
and Rosa Mae Wheeler, shoplift
ing, sentenced to serve 6 months,
suspended and placed on proba
tion for two years.
The second day of General Ses
sions court saw 24 cases disposed
of. All defendants pleaded guilty.
There were seven cases disposed
of for receiving stolen goods; six
for violation of the liquor laws;
three for non-support; three for
carrying concealed weapons and
intent to kill; and one each for
drunken driving, second offense;
drunken driving fourth offense-
rape; forgery; and use of a car
without the owner’s consent.
Cases involving stolen goods
follow:
Franklin D. Hughes, larceny
(Continued on page 8)
James Boyd Robertson, for the
past 30 years employed at the lo
cal post office, prepares for his
new job as rural postman on
Newberry Route 2 which will be
gin Saturday, September 22. Mr
Robertson replaces Willie Ballen-
tine, who recently retired from
the postal service.
The new rural carrier’s posta
career began when he took a civi
service examination in July of
1926, in which he topped the field
of 25 applicants with an average
percentage of 97. He began work
on November 9, 1926 as substi
tute letter and parcel post car
rier and became a regular car
rier in September 1937, beginning
his city route in Oakland village
He also carried city route 3,
which was Newberry mill village
and adjacent territory; and city
route 5, Mollohon mill and adja
cent territory.
Mr. Robertson left his bicycle
and went inside the post office as
stamp and parcel post window
clerk in November 1949, and .has
remained there until this time.
Outside the P. O., Mr. Robert
son is an elder in the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian Church,
and has been a member of the
Newberry Concert Band, of which
berry Post Office on June 30,
has been awarded honorary rec
ognition by Postmaster General
Arthur E. Summerfield. At a sup
per meeting of postal employees
and their guests held at the
Panorama lodge last Friday night,
Postmaster Harry E. Moose pre
sented Mr. Ballentine with an
honorary certificate from the of
fice of the Postmaster General.
The certificate
Mystery Fan
Wir
icrs
Mystery Farm No. 51 has
been identified as that of Os
car Wessinger, and Mrs* Wes-
singer wins a free TV service
call from George N. Martin Ra
dio and TV for making a cor-
„„— w * nc * 1 . carr i es rect guess. Also identifying the
the seal of the Post Office De- farm were Mrs. Ben Dawkins,
partment and the signature of who receives a ticket to the
With only 11 of 49 precincts in
the county casting a favorable
vote in Tuesday’s election, the
proposed $775,000 school bond is
sue was defeated by a little more
than two to pne, with 1195 voters
favorable and 2426 opposed.
Of the 11 precincts favoring the
issue, six were city boxes. Only
two city precincts, Ward 3 No. 2
at Mollohon and Ward 5 at West
End voted against the issue. The
five county boxes voting favorab
ly were Bush River, Little Moun
tain, Prosperity No. 1 and No. 2
. . vcaail, A X II,J( 1^1 U. X ailU iNO. £
— — wno receives a ticket to tne , Midwav The Bush River vote
General Summerfield reads: “Hon- Wells Theater, and Virgil Cook, w^ exceptionally *
orary Recognition is accorded w ho wins a ticket to the Ritz
Willie A. Ballentine for devotion Theater. Tickets must be pick-
to duty in the course of an honor- ©d up at The Sun office not la-
able career in the United States ter than noon, September 24.
Postal Service. This citation, ten
dered upon the occasion of retire
ment from active duty, conveys I MM ¥¥ ■ 1 •
official commendation from the 1 11111011103011
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Postmaster General and a cordial
expression of esteem from co
workers in the service ”
Accompanying the citation
Rites Sunday
light,
was nine in favor, eight against.
Many patrons of Bush River vote
in a number of other precincts
which went heavily against the
issue.
t There were several precincts
voting solidly against: Kinards,
Maybinton, Mt. Pleasant and Sa
luda No. 7. Whitmire turned in
a vote that expressed in no un
certain terms the feelings of its
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a letter from Mr. Summerfield Mrs. Lucy June Hughey* Hutch- vo ^FU : 26 for, 448 ,
expressing best wishes for a long inson, 69, died Saturday at the ^Y hl . le 6 . clt y boxe s voted a large .
and happy retirement and thank- Newberry county Memorial hos- majority m favor of the bonds,
ing Mr. Ballentine for a job well pital. She had been in ill health the combined vote of the eight
done in his more than 41 years of for a number of years and was P J e cI ncts . only , a m , y
devoted service to the Post Office critically ill for a week. ? f
Department. Mrs. Hutchinson was born in l?* 652 , 563 '
, - Mr. Ballentine first joined the Newberry county, the daughter 0ak H n ? box, which community
he is now the efficient director, postal service in September 1914 of the late Job and Sarah Eliza- be Vltall y affected by the
for 36 years. He lives at 1933 at Chapin and in 1928 was trans- beth Suber Hughey. She lived in building program m the city, tne
Johnstone street, and in addition ferred to Newberry when Lake the county her entire life and was total vote 18 bJi Ior and bJU °P~
to his work with the band, his Murray was built and covered a member of the First Baptist p03< r d *
hobbies include gardening and most of his old route. He has ren- church here- v, lhe v. ^ i j ..
cabinet work in a well equipped dered commendable service not Survivors include four sons, Ro- b as scheduled a meeting for Mon-
shop in the basement of his only to the Postal Service but to land of Right Point, N. C.; James day ni ^L ht 7 September 24, to dis-
home. his church and his community. He S. of Newberry; C. Hughey of cus ® w "at action will be taken
is now enjoying his retirement at Columbia, and Lt. Col. Earl Hut- next conceTnin g the building pro-
Willie A. Ballentine, who re- his home on Elm street in Pros- tt o a * tmtm
tired as rural carrier at the New- perity.
First Baptist Church To Celebrate
125th Year; History Is Reviewed
The First Baptist Church of
Newberry, the oldest church and
church organization in the city,
having been organized September
30, 1831, with 42 members, will
observe its 125th anniversary
Sunday, September 20 with Home
coming.
Up until 1831 there was no
church organization and no
house of worship in the town of
Newberry, then a little village of
a few hundred inhabitants, with
a few residents here and there.
The only professors of religion in
the place at the time were three
Baptists and a few members of
other denominations; probably not
more than ten or twelve alto
gether, according to the Rev.
Luther Broaddus in a Memorial
Discourse in 1882.
In the summer of 1831 at the
house of John S. Carwile, then a
deacon of Bush River church, in
a circle of three or four neighbors
reference was made of the great
meeting in progress at Edgefield
courthouse, under the direction
and preaching of some young men,
students of the Furman Theolo
gical Institution, and a desire be
ing expressed that such a meet
ing might be held in Newberry.
Mr. Carwile at once agreed to
take the matter in hand and
make the necessary arrangements.
Sometime during the month of
September 18&, four young men
—N. W. Hodges, J. M. Chiles, Jo-
t&iah Furman and John M. Barnes,
rode into the village of Newberry
and began preaching at a stand
in a large oak grove, located sev
eral * blocks from the present
church building.
'$■■■ ■ Of interest and historical value
are excerpts from an extened
newspaper account of the reli
gious meetings in Edgefield Dist-
U rict, forerunners of the Newberry
meeting, as showing the religious
fervor which was sweeping the
country in the midst of the great
political Crisis—for it should be
borne in mind that this was the
before Nullification in South
Carolina. There was published in
I# Columbia in 1831 a weekly news
paper, established in that year
by a Landrum, of Edgefield, who suits lasting and beneficient, as i newly found Saviour. The neigh-
had published a paper in that vil- those across the Saluda River at boring country Baptist churches,
lage Defore moving to the Town 1 T> '— , ' /r - ™— J 1 '’ '
of Columbia. In the September 3rd,
1831 issue of his Columbia news
paper he devoted practically the
entire first page to an account
of the Edgefield meetings written
by William D. Johnson. “The or
der of the services,” wrote Mr.
Johnson, “brought the people to
gether for prayer meeting at sun
rise, for preaching at ten o’clock,
at four o’clock and at candle
light.” As the meeting advanced
Mr. Johnson said it deepened in
interest “the meeting house was
scarcely over empty from sunrise
to 10 or 11 o’clock at night. Many
were baptized.”
The Newberry meeting •which
followed, was as fruitful, the re-
Johnstone 6
Bush River 9
Ward 3-1 61
Mt. Bethel 2
Utopia 13
Kinards 0
Mulberry 1
Whitmire No. 1 14
Whitmire No. 2 12
Edgefield and the Rev. Mr. Broad
dus this summarized them
“The novelty of the thing, and
the frame of similar meeting else
where, soon attracted a crowd,
w'hich continued to grow until
people from all parts of Newberry
and the neighboring District came
in great numbers to hear the
Word. When the weather was
such that the meeting could not
be held in the grove the congre
gation repaired to the old court
house, which stood where the
present one stands, and the
preaching went on there; but thej
house was entirely too small for
the crowd. It was not long be
fore visible results followed, and
many were made to rejoice in a
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and those of other denominations,
also, received of the fruits of the
meeting in increased numbers
and quickened spiritual life.”
In the first meeting of the
church, the constitution was
adopted, John S. Carwile, was
elected first Deacon, and John
M. Barnes, one of the four young
men who conducted the first meet
ing in the grove, was elected pas
tor.
The first church building was
completed in 1832 and used until
1907, when the building now in
use was built. It is interesting
to note that when the old build
ing was torn down in 1907, it
was erected at Mollohon Mill Vil-
(Continued on page 8)
MR. ROBERTSON
CRUM
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Crum of
Charlotte, N. C., are receiving
congratulations on the arrival of
their third son, weighing seven
pounds, four ounces, at the Pres
byterian Hospital Friday, Septem
ber 14. The Crum’s other sons
are Dixon, age 9, and George, age
8. Mrs. Crum, the former Mar-
MR. BALLENTINE
MOTHER’S CLUB
TO^ MEET FRIDAY
JLH« oiinam, Mrs. Maude
G. Ross and Miss Elsie Gilliam
^ snent ’ ■
The Mothers Club, Group 2 will
meet Friday, September 21 at 4 . . nd a sermon b y Rev -
p- m. at the home of Mrs. Edna J ^ 1 ,
Kirkegard on Boundary street. . Th ® p “ bl ' c 15 cord . laH y mvl ‘ ed
Co-hostesses will be Mrs. Peggy t0 attend these services.
Catlin and Marie Mills.
Mrs. M. E. Gilliam, Mrs. Maude
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chinson of the U S. Anny, Ite- precincts follows:
tioned in Korea; three daughters, „ U.' A c ^ ^ „
Mrs. S. E. Tindal of Florence,
Miss Lucy Berta Hutchinson, of Wele a
Newberry and Mrs. M, H. Fan
ning of Barnwell; two brothers,
W. Henry Hughey of Columbia,
and Marvin Hughey of Charles
ton; one sister, Mrs. E. N. Austin
of Greenville; 13 grandchildren,
and one great-grandchild.
Active pallbearers were Prof.
T. E. Epting, Thos L. Hicks, Her
man Langford, 0. C. Graham and
Pearce Davis.
Assisting with the flowers were
Mrs. Carolina Cockrell, Miss ‘Bet
ty Sue Hutchinson, Mrs. James
Abrams, Miss Ha Mae Suber, Mrs.
Richard Perkins, and Mrs. Larry
Senn.
Reedy River Group
To Meet Tuesday
ciation will hold its regular meet
ing on Tuesday, September 25 at
10 a.m. Morning and afternoon
sessions will be at Glenn Street
church, with reports and discuss-
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BIRTHDAY
GREETINGS
VX AAllCftlll
spent Sunday in Charlotte, N. C-
in the home of Mrs. Ross’ son,
John G. Ross, Mrs. Ross and
daughter, Marcia.
Dominick
Fairview
Jalapa
Midway
Mt. Pleasant
Saluda No. 7
Vaughnville
TOTAL
1
20
8
28
16
81
31
24
0
42
0
17
1
26
1195
2426
. Garmany
10
Ward 2
174
Ward 3-2
26
Ward 4-1
31
Ward 4-2
48
Zion
2
Oakland
39
Beth-E-LongL.
6
Ward 5
36
Chappells
5
Walton
7
Ward 6
185
* Ward 1
91
Hartford
19
Union
1
O’Neal No. 1
1
Maybinton
0
Stoney Hill
7
Little Mtn
99
St. Philips
7
Trinity
8
Jolly Street
11
St. Paul’s
0 .
Central
4
Prosperity Nol
61
Prosperity No2
63
Pomaria
19
O’Neal No. 2
21
Peak
8
Longshore
8
Silverstreet
3
Wheeland
9
Photo by Nichols.
Sept. 21: H. H. Ruff, Mrs. Eu
gene S. Blease, Margaret Har
man, Tommy Riley, Mrs. W. H.
Chapman/ Mrs. Richard L. Ba
ker, Ansel Ridgeway, Mrs. J. R.
Bedenbaugh Jr., Joe E. Webb,
Van E. Price.
Sept. 22: Mrs. Ben Stewart,
Richard Andrews, Kay Domin
ick, Betty Kay Richardson, La
mar Kin, Jr., Esther H. Coats,
Laurie F. Spearman, Lynn Mon
roe.
Sept. 23: Mrs. W. O* Miller,
Susan Hawkins, Cecil E. Kjpard,
Jackie Clarkkon, Mrs. B. B.
Leitzsey Sr., Robert Glymph,
Edward Epting.
Sept. 24: George Rodelsperg-
er, Mrs. Edgar L. Hiller, Robert
E. Wike, Barbara Way, Ton
Stuck, Joyce Ann Swygert,
Gary Bedenbaugh.
Sept. 25: Strother Paysinger,.
Pinckney Abrams, Mrs. W. B:
Goggins, Julian H. Aull, Kay
Dawkins, Tommy Lewis, Eddie
Lominack, Mrs. Clem I. You-
mans, William R. Buford, Mrs.
Grace Graham Pence, Patsy Wil
ton. Mrs. Marie Nicosia, Mrs.
Earl Bozard.
Sept. 26: J. Ervin Wilson,
Peggy Lominack, Harold Bowers,
Gail Phillips, Susan Cook.
Sept. 27: Miss Frances Jones,
Rev. Neil E. Truedale, Ruth Ro
berts, Billie Lathrop, Mrs. Car-
roll Eargle, Newton Dickert,
Malcolm Amick Sr.
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enough for books, but these youngsters enjoy their school each day any
way. They are attending playschool conducted) by Mrs. J. L. Huffman at her home on Main street.
Pictures of the children in other playschools will appear in subsequent issue of The Sun. These
children, who posed for the camera in a hot morning sun bdfore beginning their play for the day,
are seated, left to right, Betty Jane Maxwell, Jimmy Henderson, Len Weeks, Paul Folk,
Benny Bartlev. Jan ai " r ” ~
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Jones, Ellen Gist, Benny Bartley, Jan Bennett, Sloan Wallace, Connie Sanders, Mac Montgomery,
and Debbie Lipscomb. Standing, left to right, with nurse, Angie Ruff, x Sandra Wood, Flora Gil-
fillan, Linda Hazel, Linda Driggers, Hugh Wessinger, Nat Gist, Butch Summer, Mark Hughes,
Mary Baker, Johnny Windley, Nancy Floyd, Betty Douglas, Michael Cavanaugh, Deryll Setter*
white, Mike Feiker, Ralph Moyer, Sandy Fretwell, Clyde Roberts, and Billy Ringer. (Sunphoto by
Doris A. Sanders.)