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IX.- 19, NUMBER 36 he Way 4^orl« A. Sanders NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1957 $2.00 PER YEAR <3 HAPPY HEW YEAR from the Publisher HOLIDAYS' OVER Things are gradua^y getting, 1 back normal again, with the holida3#%vfcT, places of business i back ihi^-lfcperation, students buck at schoeLwAnd, much as I hated ! to coma^Jpck, I’m back at mj typewriUfit again. I enjoyed my vacatiotjneith my two little girls; so much that I almost threaten - 1 ■ed not to come back to work. Of 1 course I am with them almost j constantly anyway, but it makes! a difference when you can stay ! home and relax "without worry ing about a deadline to get some thing done. ^ I hope your holidays iwi pleasant and that (dll be a good one for were ju this year yon. Julian Stri Julian i Idei G affile flM-: humpert uddenly .ell Schumpert, Saturday morning at in Greer. He was cken a short time teath. was born and rear- te^ry, and was the son ~ Thomas and Mrs. Em- Schumpert. For the past he had made his home was a member of .eijhorial Chapel Church r^fltferry. r as engaged in textile the Victor Mill in Greer ing are his wife, Mrs. ■andon Schumpert of te son, S-Sgt. James V. „ USAF, Ladd Air ,se, Fairbanks, Alaska; hers, J. O. Schumpert of and J. E. Schumpert ; four sisters, Mrs. Sal ters of Saluda, Mrs. Min- ie Taylor, Mrs. Ola Smith .rs. Bertha Mayer, all of Several uncles and survive. services were held Tuesdsy Jlfd p. rn. from McSwain Funeral Home with the Rev. N. E. Troesdell officiating. Burial was in Roseuont Cemetery. iary To Meet _ Afternoon American Legion Auxiliary _,et today, (Thursday) at J. m. at the home of Mrs. W. Feagle with the following associate hostesses: Mrs. F. S. Elliott, Mrs. W. Roy Anderson, Mrs. M. F. Bowler, Mrs. W. C. Schenck and Miss Martha Bouk- nifht. At Nashville Meet Joyce Pruitt and Johnny Lee, Newberry College students, at- teiided the World-Wide Baptist Student Union conference in Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 27 through Johnny is a member of Cal- Baptist Church, Joyce a lember of the First Baptist lurch. Political H Made With Over 1,000 Voting For Ike n Wreck Near Whitmire Kills One, Injures Eight Seaboard freight train on a regular ru n from Abbeville to Monr<*e, N. C., rammed into a rail road work gang in push cars on a track Wednesday morning at 9:48 a. rm a few miles north of Whitmire, causing the death of one man and injury to eight oth ers. Dozier Tucker, was killed in stantly. L. C. Spivey, section foreman is seriously injured and is in the Union hospital. Also re ceiving treatment at the Union hospital are William Kern, Alex Jeter and H. S. DuBose, all col ored. Kern received scalp lacera tions and fractures of both legs; Jeter has a fractured right wrist, and DuBose, bruises. Treated in Whitmire for mino v injuries wine Tally Jeter, George Beasley, Je rome Beasley and Fred Dawkins, all colored. The motor car on which the gang was riding was pulling a push cai-. The train was going in the same direction ami hit the car from the rear. The car did not leave the track and both car am d train were only slightly dam aged. According to Tally Jeter, all of those on the car jumped except him. He received less in juries than the others. Jeter stat- od that he “froze” and couldn’t move. The reason for the work car being on the track at the same time as the regular freight train was unknown, hut investigations are being made by the Seaboard officials. The wreck occurred just this side of Delta in Union < 'ounty. Legion Baseball Committee to Meet There will be a meeting of the Junior American Legion Baseball committee in Columbia on Wed nesday, January at 2:30 p. m. at the American Legion Head quarters Building, according to Pete Parrott, state* chairman of Legion baseball. Plans are to or ganize and set up thebaseball program for the coming year, according to Mr. Parrott. Rites Tuesday Funeral for Robert Pearson Fair, 78, who died Sunday at the Newberry County Memorial Hos pital after a long period of de clining health, were conducted at 10:30 a. m. Tuesday at Whita ker Funeral home by Dr. Paul E Grier. Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery. Mr. Fair was the son of the late William Young and Mary Nance Fair, members of old prominent families in Newberry. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Walker Richardson of Memphis, Tenn.; one brother, James R. Fair of Little Rock, Ark., and several nieces and nephews. He was a member of the Asso ciate Reformed Presbyterian Church of Newberry, and was a long-time employee of the Indiana Refining Company of Lawrence- ville, Ind. Active pallbearers will be A. C. Garlington, Homer W. Schum pert, F. D. MacLean, Albert Mc- Caughrin, Wilbur Epps and T. Roy Summer, Jr. Ipf By MRS. A. H. COUNTS One of the outstanding accom plishment^ in Newberry during the year was the large amount spent in new buildings which will exceed a million dollars by over a hundred thousand. Many events of importance took place in New berry County. Progress was noted in industrial development and a number of churches either made improvements or erected new buildings. During the year the Republican party organized for the first time; Sheriff Tom M. Fellers’ force used a horse to track down bootleggers; a New berry mill spent a million dollars in enlarging their plant; a new water system was installed for the city, the farmers in the Bush River section approved the Bush River Watershed; Newberry Col lege opened a new men’s dormi tory; an 80 year old Prosperity dentist still in practice, though not too happy over politics, fin ally continued to vote the Demo cratic ticket and a New'berry lad after being kissed by Miriam Stevenson vowed he would not wash his face for a week. New’berry College, one of New berry’s most valuable assets, is in the midst of observing its 100th anniversary. A tableau, “The Open Door,” presented re cently in the Lutheran churches of the three supporting Synods, opened the centennial. The main event will take place in the spring and will continue for sev eral nights. A new’ men’s dormi tory, costing $200,000 was opened during the summer. Also steel bleachers were erected on Setz- ler Athletic field and other im provements were made on the field and campus. The college ob tained a loan grant of $375,000 to build a new dormitory and a stu dent union building with cafeteria facilities. The college received $23,000 from the Ford founda-^ tion and $2,000 from the Esso foundation. President C. A. Kauf- mann was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at Le noir Rhyne College. The college was the mecca for a number of gatherings during the year. Among them were the seventy-first annual convention of the United Lutheran church wo men of the Lutheran Synod of South Carolina; the State Luther League and the South Carolina Future Teachers Association. Donald S. Russell, president of the University of South Carolina delivered the commencement ad dress in June and the sermon to the graduates was preached bv the Rev. Charles E. Fritz, D. D., president of the Georgia-Alabama Synod. A new water system costing $472,000, increasing the volume of w’ater from a million to four million gallons daily was complet-{ judge does on his bench he has to ' * 1 - -i- _ . J V» ed. The water is being pumped from Saluda river to the plant at Bush river, Newberry’s source of supply for a number of years. This additional supply is expect ed to take care of New’berry’s water situation for many years. In politics the county saw the first organization of a Republi can party formed and the largest number of Republicans ever to cast a vote turned out. At the general election in November the county went Democratic but by only a small margin. The final tabulation showed: Democrats, 2,- t')24; Independents, 1,392; Republi cans, l.Odl. The election found a new state senator, R. Aubrey Harley replacing the venerable Marvin E. Abrams, who after serving the county with distinc tion did not offer for reelection. A hot race was waged by Mr. Harley, a member of the State Highway Commission and a for mer House member Earl Bergen. Mr. Harley w r as elected. The oth er county race which attracted considerable attention was that of Clerk of Court, Charles E. Bow ers, incumbent and William R. (Brother) Lominick. Bowers won out by a small majority. A fine tribute was paid Sena tor Abrams by Circuit Judge Steve C. Griffith of Newberry while presiding at the summer term of court. *Judge Griffith’s remarks were based on the auth orship of the South Carolina Pro bation Law introduced by Mr. Abrams. Judge Griffith reviewed the custom of courts in meting out punishments in time past, bringing the picture to the pres ent. “Finally the idea dawned upon people,” he said, “that everybody that comes into criminal courts are not habitual criminals and consigned by fate to a criminal future. It was a Christian Spirit that brought about this view.” %> CD ~ carry upon his heart and con science forever and into eternity. It is a serious matter.” “I thank Cod that we have men like Senator Abrams who had the feeling for their fellow- man that would help us in trying to bring about a little more con sideration for the man who may have gone wrong and try to raise him up. It is a fine duty that the state has undertaken. For my small part, I am glad to partici pate in it and I feel that after studying this question and the record that has been made under the law, Senator Abrams has made the greatest contribution that has been made by a member of the General Assembly to the administration of justice within this generation, and it ranks high among those forward steps that have been taken through all times. Senator Abrams has hon ored himself, our county and our state. He has tried to help ev erybody. He has tried to help the friendless and despised and I am satisfied in my own mind that those he has helped come within the meaning of the Master when he said ‘Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my bretheren, ye have done it unto me’.” In athletics Mooney Player of Columbia was named coach for the Newberry High school and during the year won the first game in the past two years. Coach Harvey Kirkland, whom it has been said “does the most est with the littlest” won f£ve lost two and tied two for a good season and one most saisfactory to the Alumni of Newberry Col lege. The Indians lost the serv ices of its fine quarterback, Steve Peterson of Tarpon Springs, Fla., when he was seriously injured in a game with Stetson University of DeLand, Fla. The First Baptist church of the Moose Club in Newberry; Miss Shelby Jean Whitman of Batesburg was chosen homecom ing queen and crowned at the Newberry-Elon football game; Miss Mary C. Sabonsky was nam ed May Day Queen for Newberry College; Jean Spotts was named Tobacco Queen at Myrtle Beach; Paul K. Fuller replaced Cordon Goodman as city recreation direc tor; Clifton Graham resigned as secretary of the chamber of commerce to become Director of Public Relations at Newberry College; Mrs. Celia Dodgen is now acting secretary of the trade body; Barbara Way was chosen Queen of Hearts; Miss Elizabeth Earhardt was named state win ner in an essay contest on the em ployment of the physically handi capped. Walter Regnery of Newberry, vice president of Joanna Cotton Mills company, was elected vice president of the Textile Research Institute at Princeton, New Jer sey by the trustees in New York City. Newberry was headquarters for the S. C. Employment office for operations Alert, the office and personnel was moved to Newbei^jr where it remained for 60 hours during a fictitious bombing of Aiken. The Newberry Electric Coop erative was cited for a safety rec- (Continued on page 4) BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Dec. 28: Mrs. James Smith, Jr., Mrs. Elbert Dickert, Lisa Lominack, Mrs. Fay Murray Gray, Mrs. F. Scott Elliott, Mrs. Oscar Mayer, Brenda Som mer, Dale Eargle, Gates Beck with. Dec. 29: Mrs. Dave L. Hayes, at brought about tms view. auc x-hoi, —: uec. zv: mrs. uave Li. Hayes, “T want you to tell every per- Newberry observed its 125th an-1 flj r8 , Frank Stewart, ‘Mrs. J. Al- _ L»»_ f Vi o niverfsarv ft t aonronriate services. • son you ever hear criticize the probation system, that those who passed the act, and those who are trying to administer it are doing so through a spirit of trying to rehabilitate and trying to help a person that is friendless, unnot iced, and sometimes even despis ed. It was conceived in one of the finest Christian spirits of which I know. If it were not Marvin Ab rams would not have sponsored it. So Now Mr. Foreman and Gen tlemen of the Jury, “I thought it proper that we should pause a few moments and pay tribute to this great service that our own Senator, who has served so well, has made to the administration of justice. I have thought of it a great deal. These things prey on a Judge’s mind. As I have said in court many times what a niversary at appropriate services., vin David Also taking place at that time Margaret Watkina. Langford, was groundbreaking services for an educational building. St. Paul’s Lutheran church, 175 years old, dedicated its new educational building; also the congregation of Colony Lutheran church began the erection of a new church. Mayer Memorial Lutheran church congregation is building a new church and educational building. St. Phillips Lutheran church ob served its 75th anniversary and at the meeting decided to build a new church; also Pomaria Luth eran church observed dedicatory services for its new brick church. The congregation of Aveleigh Presbyterian church dedicated its $25,000 manse. The Rev. Neil E. Truesdell was named “Citizen of the Year” by 43 An unidentified prowler, or pro- j wlers invaded the privacy of Sme- Itzer Hall, girls dormitory at New berry College, Saturday night and ransacked seven rooms. The cul prits supposedly forced their way into a third floor bathroom wind ow and left through a first floor window in the dormitory parlor. The only item known to be mis sing was a key chain, containing an outside key to the building, a key to the infirmary and one to the medicine cabinet. The college nurse, Mrs. Frazier Lominack, reported that nothing seems to have been taken from the infir mary. Whether any items were taken from the girls rooms is unknown since all of the girls were away for the Christmas holidays. The seven rooms which were entered had been thoroughly searched. Bureau drawers were left open, | clothes scattered about, and jewelry boxes emptied of their contents on the beds and dressers. Several items were sent by Pol ice chief Colie Dowd to the State Law Enforcement Division in an effort to identify fingerprints. Showp, above are architects drawings of proposed new buildings at Newberry Col- | nesdl^moralng^that^one 1 The top photo is the proposed Stude nts Union Building, the lower, the proposed was obtained but had not yet been dormitory. identified. Girls Dormitory At Newberry College Was Entered Saturday Night; Motive Is Mystery r .'m mm „ of women at Newl age done to one of the Smeltzer Hall dormitory rooms building Saturday night. (Sunphoto by Doris A. Sanders.) ho the Dec. 30: Brother Gilliam, Jac queline Crooks, Carolyn Boland, Mrs. V. V. Pearsall, Mrs. Vir ginia S. Senn, Mrs. H. O. Stone. Dec 31: 'Mrs Nat Gist, Mrs G. V. Clamp, F. B. Dawkins, Mrs. Ella H. Beam, Miss Emily Boozer, Mrs. Eddie O. Graham, Sue Stone, Mac Brooks, Clyde E. Minick, D. B. Dawkins, Leesville. January ^1: "John Harrison Ragland, Mrs. G. W. Kinard, Larry Young, Grace Reddick Joye, Rachel Werts. Jan. 2: Mary Fulmer Wells, Ben Pressley Stewart, Jr., Mrs. Mamie $mith, David Stone. Jan. 3: Carter Abrams, Kirby Lominack, Dick Neel, Wanette Walton, Sam P. Boland, Char lie S. Cromer, Mrs. Mary Rin ger. Jan. 4: Howard Clark, Mrs. John Pappas, ‘Miurray Hawk ins, Claude Sheppard, Elaine Brown, Paul Shealy, Mrs. Wil bur J. Ringer, Debra Smith. Jan. 5: Miss Juanita Hitt, Johnson Hagood Clary, Christine Livingston, William K. Lath- rop, Dianne Livingston, Jim mie Rowers, Horace Lee Booz er, Jr., Jerome Havird, Mrs. Pauline L. Sheely, J. J. Ennis, Mrs. R. B. Kennerley, D. L. Ruff. Jan. 6: Henry Edward Cous ins, R. T. Feagle, Mrs. Arthur Ballentine, Mrs. Grady Ringer, M. O. Fulmer. Jan. 7: J. D. French, John Rex North III, Mrs. J. B. North, Jerry Richardson, Virginia Jones, Ervin D. Richardson, Mrs. James D. Crooks, W. L. Shealy, Mrs. David Luther Raff. Jan. 8: Emory H. Bowman, Mrs. D. L. Adrews, D. E. Schumpert, Mrs. D. E. Half acre, P. D. Holloway, John Da vis, Glenn L. Hamm, Nellie Wicker, Mrs. Audrey Rowe, Mrs. D. F. Senn, William Leitzsey, Mrs. H. M. Harman, Mrs. J. W. Fuller, Miss Louise D. Suber, Claude Counts. Jan. 9: Mrs. J. D. Kinard, Ed ward Oswald, Mildred Boinest, Mrs. B. H. Hamm, Henry Long shore, Virginia Rose Franklin, Earl Worthy, J. D. Berley. Jan. 10: Mrs. Lucy McCartha, Mrs. H. R. Brooks, Clara Elwell Stokes, Michael Gay Dwyer, WflRm. W. Watkins, Sonjia Braswell, Martin Anthony M /•i 4 3K •ix m •ft® $0* M m LA mpfr V •; , . XVvf. ■jdS] m- V- ' ..V 'MU' m. ;V:. LX:. k'.’ .*v •< .1