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The man who ju,-t switch ed to bifocals is never loss for conversation. t VOLUME 19—NUMBER 22. Nothing separates a man and his wife quicker than be ing together. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1956 $2.00 PER YEAR By^The Way By Doris A. Sanders PRESS NOT WANTED I am sorry I l can ^ive you no more detail about the County Board of Education meeting held Tuesday night. We were inform ed that the meeting; would be at 8 p. rji. Reporters representing the three newspapers of the co unty arrived prior to that time, ' to find the board already in ex ecutive session. We waited un til 9:25, were called in for about five minutes and given the in formation you will see in a story elsewRere in this issue. We are at a loss to understand why the deliberations of the Board had to be secret. I am informed that when Mr. Singley, the arch itect, returns with the revised plans for the new building, the Board will again have an “exe cutive” session to make it’s dec isions, and will give the news paper what information it wants them to have after the meeting. While the Board declared back in January that it was delighted to have the press at it’s meetings, because they wanted the public to be informed as to it’s actions it has held secret sessions and executive sessions when any mat ter of any importance was com ing up for decision, and reporters were allowed only vchen matters were routine: re-election of tea chers, repairing a furnace at some school or installing a fiic escape. There have been very few T times when reporters have been allow ed in important sessions. I didn’t say anything about this last Spring, because I felt that the Bush River and Silverstreet situations were touchy enough as it was without adding fuel to the fire. But since the county board is spending your money, don’t you think you should be allowed to know, not only what their decisions are, but how they arrive at them ? NEED A PIPE? If you are affectionately called “Old Topper” by someone named Andy, there are two beautiful pipes waiting for you at a local drugstore for your birthday, which was sometime in August. Evidently a customer left the pipes in a box and never returned for them. The people at the drug storestore are at a loss as to whom they might belong. If you have any clue as to the identity of “Old Topper” or “Andy” will you call us ? 'Thanks. RECORD PLAYER I wish to thank those who call ed and offered to help buy a rec- - ord player for the handicapped class at West End school after the article appeared in this col umn last week. My special thanks to Clara Wertz, who has a soft spot in her heart for West End school and for children generally. I am informed by Miss Hitt that she will be furnished a new rec ord player by the school district, so we are happy to report this and very grateful for the assist ance offered by generous citiz ens. FOOTBALL AGENDA After a mighty good game against Brookland-Cayce in Col umbia last Friday night, which the high school footballers lost 13-7, they will play host to a trong Union team at Stezler field Friday night at 8 p.m. The crowds attending the local games evidence the interest in the new coach and hard playing Bulldogs. Many of the fans followed -the tea 1 ** to Columbia last week, too, +rkA saw the boys put up a good fight against a ranch higher rat ed team. The little girls both had colds Saturday so we decided at -the last minute that we had better cancel our plans to go to - the } Newberry-Chadel game in Char- leston; and of course that was probably the best game that will be played this season. The Red- gave a good accounting of themselves, ending up with a 20- . f 20 tie, and I don’t consider it a “break” that the touchdown run by the Citadel in the last five ueeonds of the game was nulli fied by a cupping penalty. Could he that the Indian who was cup- > ped would have been the one who Ijpefcled the ball carrier. Clipping, mf husband informs me, is a dan- ferous business and officials are about enforcing the rules All Day Meeting For Anniversary The First Hapti'S* ehutvh o f Newberry will observe its 125th anniversary Sunuay, Sepunnher Mo with Honiecominy Day. Members of the church, former members ami friends of tile con- ttreyation aie cordially invited to attend. The honor yuest- for the day will be Newberry collep'e Bap tist students. A picnic lunch will he served on the grounds at noon. The day’s program will include promotions in Sunday school and the Training Union. The sermon at the J1 o’clock hour of worship will be delivered by the Rev. Clar ence O. Lamoreux, pastor of the church. The younjr people of the church and Newberry college Bap tist students will participate in the morning worship, acting in the capacity of ushers, deacons, organist and pianist. After lunch a program will be given at 2 p.m. in the main audi torium by the Baptist Student union at the College with Jesse Winn, student, in charge. Four members will speak on the sub ject ‘The Relationship of The Church to the College.” Special music will be rendered by the choir and individuals. A week’s revival meeting will begin with the evening service, with the Rev. T. S. Haggai, Rock Hill, as guest preacher. A special fellowship hour will he held after the evening service at the church annex for the young- people of the church and the col lege Baptist students. Paul B. Ezell is general chair man of the • committees. ^ Ca tholic Masts Be Held Here Architect Asked To Cut Cost Of Lower County High School conference held after she receiv ed her title, it is interesting to note that one of her teachers in the 11th grade at Manning high school was Miss Betty Jo Counts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. County Fair To Open Here Monday Night, October 8 St. Mark’s Catholic Church will, have its first Mass on Sunday, September 30 at 10:30 a. m. I he Mass will he celebrated by the pastor, Father Gerald Ernst. The opening of this church marks the first Catholic in New berry and the first parish Mass to be celebrated in Newberry. The formal dedication of St. Mark’s Church will be in Novem ber. It will be dedicated by the Bishop of Charleston, the Most Rev. John J. Russell, D. D. Holy Mass will be celebrated every Sunday. The first, third and fifth Sunday at 10:30 a. m.; the second and the fourth Sunday at 8:30 a. m. Confessions will be heard before all Masses. On Holy Days of Obligation Mass will be celebrated at 7 a.m. Father Gerald cordially invites the public to attend Holy Mass and other Divine services. Counts of this city. Betty Jo is now teaching at Massey elemen tary school in Savannah, where she has been for the past several years. Cayce Housewife Author Of Play About College A Cayce. housewife has written a special program which will be presented in hundreds of Lutheran Indians Ready To Battle With Lenoir-Rhyne The 195(3 Newberry County Fair will open its gates Monday, Octo her 8th for what is considered by the fair committee to be the best community event staged in the county in many years. The fair is under the auspices of Am erican Legion Post 24 with Frank Sutton as fair manager. Serving on the committee are Garvice Taylor, chairman; W. Wilson Bennett, George E. Halfacre, Russell Addy, and Henry T. Fel lers. The advisory committee is composed of Chalmers Brown and Paul B/ Ezell. The fair will run from October 8th through 13, with Wednesday being white school day, Thursday colored school day. The midway attraction will be offered by the Ross Manning shows. More than $4,000 is being of fered in cash prizes for exhibits of all kinds. All exhibits must be in place and ready for public in spection not later than $:00 p.m. Monday, October 8th. A highlight of the week will be the awarding of a new 1956 Motoramic Chevrolet two-door se dan.This event will be on Satur day night at 10:30 p. m. On the midway, the Ross Man ning Shows, new to Newberry, will j present over 100 entertaining at tractions with thirty shows and rides. The show has been on tour through New York State and the New England states during the summer months and is now play ing some of the best fairs here in the South. Ross Manning, owner, has spar ed no money to make his show one of the finest traveling cara vans in the East. The equipment is well painted and lighted and presents a beautiful spectacle on the midway, especially at night, The show is rated as one of the best in its known territory and is modern in every respect. Over fifty big tractors and trailers carry the equipment over the highways and the show is always in on time and ready for the op ening call. The big show will puli into the Newberry fair grounds Sunday, October 7th. Mr. Sutton and all members of the Fair Committee feel that they are very fortunate in getting Ross Manning shows this year, and state that it is the best show that can be obtained for a fair of the size of the Newberry County Fair. Mrs. James C. Kinard, left, ‘Mrs. R. E. Hanna, center and Mrs. Eugenia Wise participated in the brief service when a memorial marker was placed on the grave of Mrs. Gladys Chappell Kurtz at Rosemont Cemetery Sunday afternoon at 5:00 p. m. The marker was sent to the Jasper Chapter, DAR by the Elizabeth Annesley Lewis Chapter of Long Island, to which Mrs. Kurtz had transferred her membership some years ago. (Sunphoto by Doris A. Sanders.) (By Bobbie Baker) The bruised and battered New berry Indians began preparations Churches in South Carolina, Geor- this week for a powerful Lenoir gia, Alabama, and Florida on Oc- Rhyne squad of Hickory, North tober 21. The program, “The Col- Carolina. It will be the initial lege of the Open Door,” was writ- home game for the twice-tied In- ten especially- for Newberry Col- dians of the current season. Bpd lege to highlight the beginning of weather and injuries put brakes its Centennial Year and h»s been on what Coach Kirkland hoped to scheduled for presentation in be a fast moving week for readi- every church of the college’s sup- ness against the strong Bear porting synods on the same date, single wing offense Author of the narration-tableau is Lenoir-Rhyne is the only school Mrs. Jane Summer Ragland, 2208 in either North or South Caroli- Forrest Road, Cayce, who is a na which runs from the single Newberry graduate. Mrs. Ragland wing, so that makes preparations is a member of Ebenezer Lutheran for the Bears nearly twice as hard Church in Columbia, where she as any accustomed split-T or reg- teaches Sunday School and Week- ular T offense. Walter Cornwell, day Church School. For years, the Bear’s star tailback, should she has been writing as a hobby be in good condition for the game, and is the author of numerous although he was injured earlier articles in The State magazine sec- in the season. Bear fullback Har tion and light verse in the poetry old Butler has proved himself a section of that paper. big offensive threat as he is a Lutheran pastors of the South hard runner who gave the Indi Carolina Synod have already been ans quite a bit of trouble in the mailed copies of this program and Palmetto bowl last season, many congregations have already The Lenoir-Rhyne line, is brac- begun plans and practice. Friends ed by the presence of Little All ot the college and alumni of other American guard Arden Ray, Cap- denominations are urged to keep tain Bill Dameron, Hume Collins the date of October 21st in mind and center Allan LeTorre. From and to plan to attend one of the en d to end the Bear line will av- gin of a single conversion in a Lutheran churches m their area in erage 195 pounds, but they have game which ended 14-13 in favor order to see this effective presen- proved to be hard men to move, of the North State Conference n ' T o. . Newberry injuries from the Cit- champs. Mrs. Jane Summer Ragland is ade i gam e include halfbacks Ty- a daughter of Dr. Mamie S. Sum mer and the late J. H. Summer of Newberry. UDC Chapters Will Meet On Tuesday The Drayton Rutherford Chap ter, UDC, will hold its first meet ing of the fall on Tuesday, Octo ber 2nd at 4 p.m. at the home of Mrs. L. B. Gilliam. All members are urged to be present, as there is much business to be transacted and an interesting program has been prepared. The Calvin Crozier 'Chapter U. D. C. will meet Tuesday evening October 2 at 8 p.m. with Mrs. Thompson Price, 1226 Calhoun street. The associate hostesses are Mrs. O. O. Copeland, Mrs. James Smith, Mrs. L. W. Bedenbaugh, Mrs. D. L. Nance and Mrs. Robert Holmes. ler Dufford, Bonnie Ford and Bob by Rowe. Dufford suffered a frac tured nose; Ford had his shoul der separated; and Rowe’s ankle is badly sprained. Elsewhere the Redskins are in god shape except for a few minor aches and pains. The Indians met the Bears twice in the 1955 season—once at Hickory, N. C. and at the Pal metto Bowl game which was held at Columbia. In 1954 the two teams played to a 13-13 count, and the first game of the ’55 sea son ended again in the same IS IS verdict. Lenoir-Rhyne was for tunate to break the two year tie in the Palmetto games, and this time the victory was by the mar- Heyward S. Singley. architect, who drew the plans for the $550,- 000 consolidated high school build ing for the Prosperity-Pomaria- Little Mountain area, was asked Monday night by the County Board of Education to take the plans and whittle them down as much as possible to cut the ex panse of the building. Representatives of the press, who were told that the Board would meet at 8:00 p. m., arriv ed at the Education Building prior to that time to find the board already in “executive session.” One hour and 25 minutes later, they were called into the meeting room and told that the Board had made the request of Mr. Singley. Hugh Epting, chairman, told re porters that no further business was transacted during the execu tive session. He stated that the auditorium would be cut from the high school building, and “what ever else could be eliminated” to bring down the cost. Mr. Singley volunteered the information that also to be eliminated were the football field, all landscaping, walks and streets. " The construction of the $550,- 000 building was made impossible 1^ the defeat of a $775,000 bond issue sought by the County Board in an election Tuesday, September 18. Mr. Singley stated that he hop ed to have the revised plans ready for review by the Board in two or three weeks, at which time a spe cial meeting will be called for the specific purpose of making fur ther decisions about the proposed school building. The next regular meeting is scheduled for the fourth Tuesday in October. Farm Women Will Be At Winthrop According to anannouncement nm TST ~ ~ - • when this offense occurs. H The Indians will be at home night for the first time u They will play Len- in the Shrine benefit to help pay for the new stadium. The Shriners will till be selling $10 tickets at the! »ates, so if you don’t get yours i* advance, you will be able to !etslw*ffcldT* 0re ** me ti,ne at *LUGKNT MISS cad in one of the daily pa- that the new Miss America, ian McKnight, intelligently questions at a press . —r *«*** VA V* VA VsO CL V Bobbie Baker, Sports Publicist 1 director of Christian education. Reedy River Group Re-Elects Rev. J. Ed. Taylor Moderator Eargle Services Be Held Today Mrs. Iva Hiller Eargle, 78, died early Wednesday morning at the Lakeside Rest Home near Lex ington after a lingering illness. Mrs. Eargle was born at White Rock, the daughter of the late George W. and Angella Derrick Hiller. As long as her health ~ ~ wiaunuuucement permitted she was active in j from Mrs. W. C. Hughes, County church work, having taught a Sun-i Publicity Chairman of the New- ~ « nicr. Koon l berry County Council of Farm Women, the annual fall meeting of the Piedmont district Council of Farm Women will be held Sat urday, September 29 at Winthrop college, Rock Hill. Registration begins at 10 a.m. at the Main building auditorium and the pro gram at 10:30 a.m. An inspiring program has been planned. Mrs. Clarkson Steven son, director of Chester county, will preside. Dr. Boyce M. Grier, President of Lander college will give the main address “Conver sation is My Business.” Immediately following a sym posium on theCounty Council program of Work for 1956-57 will be held. Mrs. Henry L. Parr, pres ident, will discuss the plan of work for the coming year. Mrs. E. W. Sheeley of Newberry coun ty will serve on the time and place committee. Kershaw county Council of Farm Women will serve as hostesses. All Home demonstration clubs are urged to make plans to at tend in order that Newberry county might be well represented. day School class and also been Superintendent of the Sunday School for a number of years. She was a member of Mayer Memorial Lutheran Church. She is survived by her husband, John J. Eargle of Lexington; one son, A. C. Eargle of Whitmire; one daughter, Mrs. J. J. Hughes of Newberry; one brother, Edgar L. Hiller of Newberry; two sis ters, Mrs. John P. Livingston and Mrs. Berley Shealy, both of New berry; eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Funeral services wiljl be con ducted at 3:30 o’clock today (Thursday) at the Whitaker Fun eral Home by the Rev. D. M. Shull and the Rev. J. S. Wessin- ger. Interment will be in West End Cemetery. An informal reception will be held in the Assembly Room of Aveleigh Presbyterian church on Friday evening, September 28th, from 7 until 8:30 p.m. in honor of Miss Stella Biddle, who recent ly began duties at Aveleigh as 4.^- /-VI > * • Enjoying the kindergarten classes of Mrs. Margaret Tyson each morning at the Youth Center are the five-year-olds shown above, front row, left to right, Jan Ruff, Monty Smith, Peggy Sue Wil lingham, Clifford Hickson, Trudy Todd, Cathy Roberts and George Martin; back row, Floyd Mills, Ralph Summer, Bonnie Boland, Shelby Jean Neal, Beta Burnette, Donna Woodward, Linda Ward, Kay Miller, Sally Lou Bedenbaugh, Beverley McPhatter, Susan Ward, Jim Zobel, David Hatfield, Henry Parr, Steven Bannister, Terry Dominick, Stuart Whitener and Henry Hargrove. (Sunphoto by Doris A. Sanders.) The 131st session of the Reedy River Baptist Association was held Tuesday with morning and afternoon session at Glenn Street Baptist church and the evening session at Hunt Memorial Baptist church. The Rev. J. Ed Taylor, moderator, presided and also de livered the sermon at the morn ing service, using as his subject “The Church That Amazes Peo ple.” Mr. Taylor was reelected mod erator and the Rev. J. R. Mc- Kittriok was reelected clerk. The Rev. Lamar Gamble was elected vice chairman and the Rev. Ray Lanfold, treasurer. Dr. Dotson M. Nelson, Jr., pas tor of the First Baptist church of Greenville, was the guest speaker at the evening session. “The Same Spirit,” Mr. Taylor said, that came to Pentecost is in the world today and the church that will wait for surrender to Him can still amaze people.” Reports were given on the work of the various organizations oi the association. Reports were al so heard from officials of the Be thea Baptist home, the Baptist hospital, Connie Maxwell orphan age and others. The greatest growth of any of the Sunday schools in the associa tion was noted in the report of Hurricane Baptist church which showed an increase from 36 to 128 during the year. However, all oth er Sunday schools of the asso ciation also showed gains. Calvary Baptist church, newly organized was accepted into the association. Among the business transacted was the amending of certain parts of the Constitution which will be ratified at the next annual ses sion. The next annual meeting will be held with Joanna and Enoree Bap tist churches. ... BIRTHDAY Officers elected at the meeting of the Reedy River Association Tuesday were left to right. Rev. J. Ed Taylor, Moderator; Rev. La mar Gamble, Vice-Moderator; Rev. G. R. McKittrick, clerk and Rev. Ray Lanford, Treasurer. (Photo by Nichols.) Sept. 28: Henry C. Hollowoy, Bobby Gilliam, Mrs. W. H. New berry, Joe Dominick, Harold Wicker, Mrs. Ray Doolittle, W. A. Webb, Mrs Gary Lee Ringer Sept 29: Julian A. Price, Mrs. Clarence B. 91igh, Laura N. Bow ers, Virginia Glymph, Mrs. Olin Graham, Harold Brown Folk, Mrs. Richard Caldwell, Drayton Min- ick, E. B. Carlisle, Sue Ellen Wicker. Sept. 30: Barbara Moore, Judith Amy Wise, Otto Nichols, Doris Ringer, Johnny Bowers, Jr., Mrs. EtheJ * Wicker, Miles Cheathatnf Mrs. F. J. Harmon, Chris Word. Oct. 1: Dr. James C. Kinard, Mrs. Chevis I. Boozer, Walter Summer, Mrs. Maude G. Ross, Dr. Elbert Diekert, T. A. Hargrove, Scott Elliott, Barbara Sue Long, Mrs. J. N. Nicosia, R. T. Feagle. October 2: Ralph B. Baker, Mrs. Derrill Smith Beat, Eugene Stockman, Leonard Halfacre, Mrs. Ida Clamp, Betty Boozer, Ralph C. Johnson, Elizabeth H. Shannon, Mrs. Henry Lominack, Mrs. F. A. Boland. •>■ V < U Oct. &: 87 A. Williams, J. C. Harman, James Clamp, Margaret Ann Spotts, Sally Leonard Hod ges, Guy Bowers, Mrs. John Mil ler, George Ward, Kay Beam, Aubrey Paris. , r Oct. 4: Mrs. R. H. Wright, Miss Josie Reid, Eva Jane Price, C. C. Fulmer, Mrs. R. D. fright, Mrs. J. (SI Sease, Claude J. Price, Ji mie Ingram, Diana Hunter, J* E. NeeLr J ■y.. U- . .V'■ issm Aim