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Friendship is immeasurable; we can't keep books on it. Friend ship thrives simply because only in generosity of mind and spirit can we sense how the other per son feels.—Edgar Dale. - A MAN’S WIFE MAY NOT BE THE ONLY WOMAN HE EVER LOVED, BUT SHE’S THE ONLY WOMAN WHO MADE HIM TROVE IT. VOLUME 19—NUMBER 25 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1956 $2.00 PER YEAR By .The Way By Dorl* A. Sander* NO IDENTITY Two weeks ago, L wrote that I had received a letter criticising me for what I had written about the County Board of Education. The writer asked that the letter he published, but did not sign it. I wrote that if he wished to make himself known, 1 would be happy to publish the letter. Since that time I have received a second let ter along the same line, also un signed. I am still holding the letters and you may be sure that as soon as the writers identify themselves to this newspaper, the letters will be published in full. FOOTBALL AGENDA The Newberry High School Bulldogs won their second game of the season last Friday night, defeating Whitmire on the Wol verines home grounds by a score of 32-6. With morale boosted by [this victory, the Bulldogs travel tonight, Thurs day, to m e e t Dentsville, near Columbia. Game time is at 8:60 [p. m. After a week I of rest from a j jgridiron battle, •^although not Mrs. Sanders from extensive practice, the Redskins of Harvey Kirkland will travel to Greenville Saturday night and hope to take their first victory of 1956 from the Furman Purple Hurricane. Good seats should be available, so plan to go to the game. More de tails about the readiness of the Indians for the Hurricane may be found elsewhere in this issue in a sports release written by Bobbie Baker, college sports publicity di rector. Negro Dies Of Burns Following Gas Explosion Baxter Cooper, 45-year-old Ne gro, was burned to death Tuesday afternoon after the explosion of a drum of gasoline at a lumber mill operated by Johnny Graham, in the Pomaria section of the county. Mr. Graham, his son, Eddie, Johnny Cooper, and the deceased had returned to the mill to begin work after lunch. Eddie, age 21, was priming the motor which op erated the lumber mill equipment while Johnny Cooper, age 28', was cranking the machine. The motor backfired, according to Mr. Graham, causing a 55-gallon drum half filled with gas to explode. The clothing of Baxter Cooper, who was working at an edger some ten feet away from the ex plosion, was ignited and burned w T hen he ran in an attempt to put out the fire. His entire body was covered with burns. He expired at 11:55 Tuesday night at the Newberry County Memorial hos pital. The other Negro man, Johnny Cooper, received numerous body burns; Johnny Graham was slight ly burned trying to remove his son’s clothing. II is son, Eddie, received serious burns about tin* face and head and on one side of his body. No inquest has ! Architect Submits Revised Plans For Tri-Area School <een smeoulee AROUND THE CORNER One of the most outstanding items I have seen in the way of community promotion recently is the brochure prepared by* the Prosperity Community Chamber of Commerce, entitled “Industrial Data, Prosperity, South Caro lina.” The cover of the book, en cased in plastic, is red and white, the design showing a map of South Carolina with the location of Prosperity, and around the map are written the legends: Lower Taxes, Unexcelled Climate, Low Power Rates, Abundant Na tive Labor, Adequate Water Sup ply, Easily Accessible. The book, most of which is excellently typ ed, other pages printed, gives in formation as to climate, recrea tion, financial, transportation, sewage and industrial waste, uni- lities, municipal water supply, la bor, state and county tax struc ture, existing industries, maps and industrial sites. The fore word contains the following state ment: “Strategically located among tremendous resources, Prosperity is one of the best examples that can be found of the remarkable opportunity for the growth of new industry, in South Carolina. Inquiring management will find in Prosperity not only physical resources such as rail transpor tation, highway transportation, together with adequate water and power supplies and good plant sites; but he will find also that unique and intangible extra for which all industry is searching— the earnest desire of a group of honest Americans to achieve a mature economy and prosperity for their community, and a driv ing determination to do every thing necessary to accomplish that end.” Members of the Prosperity Chamber of Commerce are to be congratulated for the excellent job they have done in placing the valuable information contained in the book before the State Plan ning and Development Board and in the hands of interested manu facturing officials. Three Cases Are Heard By Jury Three jury trials were called at the October term of Common Pleas court which opened in New berry Monday morning with Judge J. Robert Martin, Jr., of Green ville presiding, and closed Wed nesday at 1 p. m. Of the remain ing 12 cases on the civil court ros ter, six were continued and three were settled out of court. THE 1949 CHEVROLET shown above rammed into the rear of a 1951 Ford ice truck Monday after noon about 1:30 on the Winnsboro highway, about two miles east of Keitts Crossroads. The Chev rolet was driven by Noah Ellisor of Columbia, who told officers he was en route from Columbia to Charlotte. The truck, property of Farmers Ice and Fuel company, was driven by Jim Jones, colored emplo\ee of that company. Both vehicles were traveling towards Newberry and both overturned, damage on each being estimated at about $400. The driver of the truck received only slight in juries. Ellisor was taken to the Newberry County hospital where he was treated for cuts and bruises. He had not been released from the hospital Wednesday morning. Highway patrolmen state that he \G11 he held in connection with the accident after his release from the hospital. (Sunphoto.) Newberry Electric Co-Op To Have Annual Meet October 27 David C. Waldrop, secretary of the Board of the Newberry Elec tric Cooperative, Inc., states that the 16th Annual Meeting of the meml>ers has been set for Satur- Two of the three trials were day, October 27, at the Newberry highway condemnation proceed ings. In the case of O. O. Lind- ler versus the S. C. Highway De partment, the jury awarded Mr. Lindler $65.00; J. A. Counts w r as awarded $50.00 in the same type of proceeding. In a land dispute case, Bess Caldwell Bursinger, plaintiff, ver sus Bennie T. Cromer, defendant, the plaintiff was awarded $150.00 and the land involved, the lines of which property were established by surveyors Beden'oaugh and Half acre. High School Auditorium begin ning at 2:30 o’clock. Mr. Waldrop says that notices to the more than 3,950 members have been mailed and should, be in their hands within the next day or so. He stated that the coop- erative has more than doubled its substation capacity within the past year, and has put into serv ice many other system improve ments which were necessary to keep abreast with the ever ex panding use of electric energy in th rural home and on the farm. Members are finding that electric energy is not only a very useful servant, he explains, but very eco nomical in relation to other things they purchase. He says that elec tric power is no longer a luxury in the rural home and on the farm but an absolute necessity. “The availability of electricity in the rural areas has brought about a tremendous change in the social and economic way of rural living within the past decade and a half,” continued the secretary, emphasizing that running water- in the home and on the farm, hot water in the kitchen and bath room, preservation of food by freezing, cleaning the clothes without scrubbing, cooking with out smoke and ashes, milking with machines instead of by hand, and heating the home in winter and cooling in summer are a few o.f the things which electric pow er is making possible and thereby making rural living easier and more satisfying. Mr. Waldrop stated that a nom inating committee, headed by T. ■Blair Boozer of Silverstreet, met at the office of the cooperative on September 22, and nominated the following members as candidates for directorship to be voted on by the members at the Annual Meet ing: Zone I: Ray M. Blair, T. A. Ladd. Zone II: Clifford T. Smith, Charles R. Workman. (Continued on page 5) Pageant At Grace Lutheran Church A pageant entitled “The College of the Open Door,” written by Jane Summer Ragland, will be presented in Grace Lutheran Church on Sunday, October 21, at 7:30 p. m. This presentation, which portrays the life of New berry College, should be of much interest to all Lutherans, es pecially graduates and former students, who are interested in the progress the church college has made. , Pomaria Community, Prosperity School Rate High At Fair; Premium List Given Pomaria community took first place in Community booths at the Newberry County Fair last week. The Higgins Grange of Saluda won the second prize, and Hart ford Community, third. Prosperity walked off with school booth honors, the senior class winning first place and the tenth grade winning second. The Prosperity JHA booth also took first prize in the JHA category, with Newberry High JHA coming in second. In the Jersey Department, win ners were as follows: Grand Champion Cow, Grand Champion Bull, Junior Champion Cow - and kin; Sorghum 5 stalks, 1 and 2, E. L. Fulmer; sorghum syrup, 1 and 2, E. L. Fulmer; apples, de licious, 1, Essie Wicker; wine- sap apples, 1, Judith Halfacre, 2, Grady Lee Halfacre; pears, 1, Mrs. T. C. Rankin, 2, T. A. Ran kin; string beans and dried beans, 1 and 2, Judith Half acre; pumpkin, 1, Mrs. Willie L. Koon, 2, James Dominick Jr.; tomatoes, 1 and 2, Dorothy Nell Wicker; eggs, 1 and 2, Mrs. G. L. Halfe- acre; okra, 1 and 8, Judith Half acre; turnips, 1 and 2, Essie Wicker; sweet pepper, 1, Ira Mil ler, 2, Lindy Stuck; hot pepper, 1, Essie Wicker, 2, Mrs. R. C. Hunter; extracted honey, 1, Rev. Senior Champion Cow, W. E. Sonn; Junior Champion Cow, JoJT. B. Altman, 2, M. P. Johnson; Ann Austin. In the Gurnsey j hog lard, 1, Virgil W illiamson, 2, cattle department, T. A. Rankin I Mrs. G. L. Halfacne; lye soap, 1, took first place for Senior! Mrs. R. G. Hunter, 2, Mrs. G. L. Champion Bull and Grand Cham-1 Halfacr^. pion Bull; Alfred Boland showed CORN DEPT. the Senior Champion Cow and Grand Chamj|jon Cow; Gene Bo land won honors for Junior Cham-* pion Bull and George Coleman for Junior Champion cow. A complete list of other win ners follows: WUeat, 1 and 2, Marvin Wil son; barley, 1 and 2, Burton Sease; oats, 1 and 2, Marvin WTl- son; lima beans, 1, Essie Wicker, 2, Judith Half acre; table peas, 1, James Dominick Jr., 2, Virgil Williamson; crimson clover seed, 1 and 2, Virgil Williamson; les- pedeza seed, 1 and 2, Virgil Wil liamson; alfalfa hay, 1 and 2, Milton Boland; lespedeza hay, 1 and 2, Allan Hipp; oats hay and any other ly»y, 1 and 2, Marvin Wilson; sweet potatoes, 1 and 2, Ira Miller; Spanish peanuts, 1, Mrs. T. C. Rankin, 2, T. A. Ran kin, Jr.; peanuts any other va riety, 1, Bonnie Boland, 2, Judy Boland; pecans, 1, Mrs. T. C. Ran- 10 ears white: 1 and 2, E. L. Fulmer; 3 and 4, Mrs. E. L. Ful mer. 10 ears yellow: 1, Sidney Koon; 2, Virgil Williamson; 3, H. C. Amick; 4, Sidney Koon. White corn, 1 edr: 1 and 2, Mrs. E. L. Fulmer; 3 and 4, E. L. Fulmer. Yellow corn, 1 ear: 1, S. L. Koon; 2 and 3, Sidney Koon; 4, H. C. Amick. 50 ears white seed corn: 1 and 2, E. L. Fulmer, 3 and 4, Mrs. E. L. Fulmer. 50 ears yellow seed corn: 1, Sidney Koon; 2, Virgil .William son, 3, S. L. Koon; 4, Virgil Wil liamson. 5 stalks white corn: 1, 2 and 3, E. L. Fulmer. 5 stalks yellow corn: 1, Virgil Williamson. JUNIOR CORN DEPT. 10 ears white corn: 1, James Fulmer; 2, Jerry Fulmer; 3, Ed die Fulmer; 4, Wayne Fulumer; 5, Heyward Fulmer; 6, Diane Ful mer. 10 ears yellow corn: 1, Ray Amick; 2, George Amick; 3, George Wedaman; 4, Hervey Am- iek; 5, Leander Livingston; 6, Letha Williamson. 1 ear white corn: 1, Wayne Ful mer; 2, Eddie Fulmer, 3, Hey ward Fulmer, 4, Jerry Fulmer; 5. Diane Fulmer; 6, James Fulmer. 1 ear yellow corn: 1, Letha Wil liamson; 2, Harvey Amick; 3, George Wedaman; 4, George Am ick; 5, Leander Livingston; 6, Ray Amick. Corn sweepstakes: Best 10 ear exhibit, E. L. Fulmer. BEEF CATTLE DEPT. Agea bull: 1, L. H. Sease & Son; 2, G. H. Caldwell. Summer yearling bull: 1, J. F. Hawkins. Junior bull calf: 1, G. H. Cald well; 2, G. H. Caldwell; 3, L. H. Sease & Son. x Two bulls bred by exhibitor: 1, L. H. Sbase & Son; 2, G. H. Cald well. Champion and Reserve Cham pion bull: L. H. Sease & Son. Junior yearling heifer: 1, Da,- vid Sease; 2, L. H. Sease & Son; 3, Thornwell Farms. Summer yearling heifer: 1, L. H. Sease & Son. Senior Heifer calf: 1, Johnnie DeHart; 2, L. H. Sease & Son. Junior heifer calf: 1 and 2, L. H. Sease & Son. Two females bred and owned by exhibitor: 1 arid 2, L. H. Sease & Son. Champion and reserve' cham pion cow: David Sease. Get of sire: 1 and 2, L. H. Sease & Son. Pair calves: 1, L. H. Sease & Son. JUNIOR BEEF CATTLE DEPT. Yearling heifer: 1, David Sease. Heifer calf: 1, Johnnie DeHart. Fat calf steer: 1, David Sease; 2, David Hendrix; 3, Eddie Mills. Exhibiting best showmanship: 1, David Sease; 2, Johnnie De Hart; 3, Eddie Mills; 4, David (Continued on page 5) College To Confer Honorary Degrees On Nine In November President C. A. Kaufmann an nounced this week that a Special Centennial Convocation would be held at Newberry College on No vember 28. Dr. Theodore A. Dist- ler, Executive Director of the American Association of Colleges, will speak. Dr. Gould Wickey, Executive Secretary of the Board of Higher Education of the United Lutheran Church in Am erica, will also speak. The Convo cation will be held in MacLean Gymnasium at 8:00 p. m. Novem ber 28. In observance of 1956-57 as the Centennial Year at Newberry Col lege President Kaufmann an nounced t that nine prominent alumni, Lutheran clergymen and Amity Lodge To Fete Ladies At Annual Banquet Amity Lodge No. 87, AFM will hold its annual Ladies Night Ban quet Friday evening, November 2 at Newberry High School cafe teria beginning at 8:00 o’clock. The main speaker of the eve ning will be The Reverend H. Dwight McAlister, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Cheraw, and Junior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina. He is a native South Carolinian, laymen would be the recipients of honorary degrees, as follows: Doctor of Divinity degree: The Rev. Waldemar Hiram Lefstead of Mobile, Ala. The Rev. Moses Lee Kester of Walterboro. The Rev. Royall Austin Yount, President of the Florida Synod of the ULCA, St. Petersburg, Fla. The Rev. Fred Ephriam Dufford of Charleston Heights. The Rev. George Elias Meetze of Columbia. The Rev. Joseph Alonzo Shealy of Leesville. Doctor of Literature: Gilbert Paul Voight of Beau fort. Doctor of Science: Amos Wells of Minneapolis, Minn. Doctor of Laws: Fred Wessels Jr., of Savannah, Ga. Distinguished Service Awards will be presented to the following alumni and friends of N^vberry College: A. J. Bowers Jr., New berry; John W. Ballentine, Co lumbia; Herman W. Boozer, At lanta; Deems Haltiwanger, Co lumbia; Ames Haltiwanger, Co lumbia. . Jesse B. Ballentine, Batesburg; Herbert C. Lorick, Augusta, Ga.; Elmore Shealy, Lessville; Also, J. C. Dreher Sr., Colum bia; Walter P. Rawl, Gilbert; Mrs. J. V. Long, West Columbia; Walter Renken, Charleston; Claude Creason, OolumMa; Edgar W. Rugheimer, Charleston; The R©v. L. A. Thomas, D. D., Miami Beach, Fla. Newberry College was charter ed in 1856 and the college year of 1956-57 is being observed as the Centennial Year. Many programs and conventions have been sched uled. On October 21, all Lutheran churches in the three owning and controlling synods will observe the day with a narrative presen tation in tableau form of “The College of the Open Door” writ ten by Mrs. Jane Summer Rag land of Cayce, a graduate of the college. * a graduate of Furman University, and a member of the Cheraw Lions Club. Rev. McAlister has a long rec ord of Masonic service. He has served as Master of Hannah Lodge No. 298 and as Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina. He is also a Shriner. He is married to the former Mary Caroline Martin of Newber ry. They have two children, Mary Helen, 12, and Dwight Jr., eight. PTA Commends County Board At the request of Mrs. J. L. Bowers, president, and Everett Lake, secretary of the Little Mountain Parent-Teacher Associa tion, The Sun is glad to publish the following official action taken by that group: “At its October meeting, the Little Mountain P. T. A. voted unanimously in favor of the fol lowing recommendation: The Lit tle Mountain P. T. A. wishes to approve and commend the actions of The Board of Education of Newberry County, and has confi dence in their future efforts.” At an executive session held the first week in October, the County Board of Education gave Heyward Singley, architect of Columbia, the “go-ahead” for drawing working blueprints for the consolidated high school to serve the Little Mountain-Poma- ria-Prosperity area. The revised plans, submitted by Mr. Singley at the meeting, showed as the ma jor changes the elimination of the auditorjum and two classrooms from the original plans. Other mi nor alterations to the building were also made. In place of an auditorium and gymnasium as originally plahned, the school will have a gymtorium, capable of seating 900 to 1000 as an auditorium, and about 800 spectators for basketball games. All landscaping around the building has been eliminated from the plans, as well as the paved walks and streets originally con templated. The eliminations and changes, it is thought, will lop more than $100,000 from the $550,000 figure estiriiated for the building as the plans w r ere orig inally submitted. Mr. Singley estimates that the blueprints will not be ready for delivery to bidding contractors until about Christmas time. As soon as they are ready, bids will be sought by the county board. Plans for the consolidated high school were begun some three year^ ago, at which time the amount of $360,000 of the coun ty’s allotment from the State Fi nance Commission was set aside to do that work. The three areas had been unable to get together on a location for the building un til a few months ago, at which time the Singley property on the Columbia highway, between Little Mountain and Prosperity, was agreed upon and approved by the State Finance Commission, al though that agency had once be fore turned thumbs down on a proposal to locate the school on that site. When the site was finally decid ed upon, and the architect sub mitted the $550,000 plans, action was withheld by the County Board until after a bond election could be held to determine whether sufficient funds would be avail- * able for the building. On Septem ber 18^ the Board’s request for $775,000 in bonds was decidedly defeated, making necessary the revision of the plans. WHITMIRE GIVES 102 PINTS BLOOD Two pints more than the 100 quota were collected when the Red Cross Bloodmobile visited Whitmire Tuesday of this week. In addition, there were eleven re jections for various reasons. The Bloodmobile visit to Whit mire is always sponsored by the Whitmire Lions club of which E. R. Baker is president. James H. Abrams served as chairmari of the blood donor drive. Mrs. Robert Houseal of Colum bia was a business ' isitor in New berry Monday. MEMBERS OF MRS. P. E. WAY’S PLAY SCHOOL take time out from their play to pose for the Sun camera. They are, seated, left to right, Vicki Simmons, Craig Morehead, David Long, .Candace Ruff, Dean Coward, Mike Jordan, Becky McSwain, Debby Coggins, Jean Harmon. Standing, Linda Bennett, Mary Anna Long, Sally Attaway, Diane Shealy, Ricky Livingston, Jimmy Coggins, Mike Underwood, Christie Weigle, Caroline Smith, and Wayne Perry. Absent because of illness when the picture was made were Tyler Britt and Eleanor McCaughrin. (Sunphoto by Doris A. Sanders.) BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Oct. 19: Mrs. R. G. Carroll, John S. Glymph, Mrs. J. R. Cro mer, James Martin Armfield. Oct. 20: Kerry Bowers, James Connelly, Fronie Hendrix, Mrs. George F. Ruff, Brooks Mills, Ray Darby, L. H. Sease, Mrs. A .J. Bowers Jr., Mrs. Louis C. Floyd. Oct. 21: Floyd Dennis, Mrs. Clarence Kinard, Charles Clary, Jessie Stevens, Harper Wherry, Pope L. Buford III, Betsy Bru ner, Ann Kelly, G. E. Hitt, James Robert Neel, Miss Nan nie McKittrick, L .E. Werts, Mrs. Bergie Swindler. Oct. 22: T. Roy Summer Jr., Bonnie Cromer, John Billings ley, Mrs. Bobby Sligh, Mrs. C. D. Weeks, Tucky Neel, Mrs. Phi! Brooks, Aubrey Davis. Oct. 23: I. L. Boinest, Mrs. T. S. Riley, Barbara Frankie Joye, Mrs. Bill Hughes, Charles Epting, Jessica Senn, Mrs. CL/A. Reeder. O0t. 24: Ida Webb West, H. O. Counts, Dupree Harmon, Major James Glymph, Mrs. A. BL Morehead, Ola Norris. Oct. 25: Shelba Jane Kinard, William Cromer, George Wil liam Coats Jr„ Baddy Clark Watkins, Fred Richardson, Ted McDowelL ‘•'VT WM "Ssfi