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Most people can keep a secret; it’s the folks they tell it to who can’t. J&B ejboiuip - UU 31 JUIBIVJI ‘UOlf, VOLUME 19—NUMBER 37 Someone has figured out that the peak years of men tal activity must be between the ages of four and 18. At four, we know all the ques tions; at 18, all the answers. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10 1957 5fc. v $2.00 PER YEAR e Way A. Sander* 4. SCHOOL TALK Someone asked me the other day *‘what ever happened about the schools? I haven’t seen much in the paper about them since the bond election.” Nothing much has happened, so far as I have been able to find out. You prob ably remember reading a few months ago that the County Board of Education asked Hey ward Singley, the architect who drew plans for the $55Q,000 con solidated high school for the low- xnuch as possible and reduce ex- muchh as possible and reduce ex penditures to the minimum. Mr. Singley told the group he expect ed to have the revised plans, with working blueprints, ready for the Board to receive bids by Christ mas. It seems in the meantime, however, there was a temporary hold-up of funds by the State Fi nance Commission and a subse quent hold-up by the architect, who now says the plans should be ready by the first of February. The next regular meeting of the Board is January 29th. If the plans are received before that time, it ijl expected that the board will^meet in special session to arrange for advertisement for bids, etc- provided the project is approved by the State Finance Commieslipn. No other work in the nature of building or renova- -tion has been, or will be under taken by the Board until the cost of the consolidated high school is determined. What money is left then, if any, will be used, I under stand, on a “priority” basis for schools #here renovation is most needed. SPRING MUSIC Spring mueic will be filling the air in Newberry about the first of April. You will see the stories elsewhere in this paper and will be reading more about it as time goes on. To me, it would seem a great opportunity for the school students of Newberry, as well as the teachers to be able to work with such an outstanding musi- { cian and teacher as Dr. Harry Robert ipilson. You will be hear ing more about the two planned festivals from time to time—and if you didn’t see the festivals last year, I hope you will make plans to attend this year. You will be sure to enjoy them. City Employees Commended For Newberry’s Financial Status Lecturer To Be At College Tomorrow At 10 speak in Holland Hall at Newber ry College Friday, January 11, at 10:00 a. m. Dr. Priestley will speak on India and Southeast Asia, two sections of the world that are very prominent in the news today. Journey to Java with Dr. Priestley to the Jungles of Sumatra, fabulous Singapore, the anti-communist villages of Ma laya, rubber plantations, colorful Thailand, Budhist temples, Bana nas on the Ganges, the birth-place of Buddhism, the villages of In dia, Delhi, and the Taj Mahal in the moonlight. He wil also conduct a Seminar. Dr. Priestley, an authority on B&PW Sponsors Bloodmobile The Business and Professional Women’s Club of Newberry will sponsor the next visit of the Am erican Red Cross bloodmobile to Newberry County according to an announcement from Claude L. Weeks, Newberry County Blood Program Chairman. The bloodmo bile visit is scheduled for Tues day, January 15 and will be lo cated at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer between the hours of 2:00 and 8:00 p. m. The quota is again 100 pints Mrs. Sadie Crooks is president of the Business and Professiona Women’s Club and has appointed a committee to head the recruit ment efforts. Each member of the club is responsible for recruit ing donors, however, and persons who will give blood on this date The City of Newberry during its past fiscal year spent $670, 053.24 in its many varied opera tions, ended the year with $2505- .52 cash, and city officials, as us ual, drew commendations from the Certified Public Accountant, E. L. McGowan, who audited the city books. In submitting the report to the council, the auditor stated: international affairs, was born in are requested to contact any club TTTT • 1 _ _ . . . " Windsor, England. He holds six degrees in history, economics, and political science. He has travel ed in 60 countries and has taught history at New York University. For five years he served as vice chairman of the Speakers Re search Committee for the U. N. He has lectured at more than 400 colleges and before numerous or ganizations in this country and abroad. Dr. Priestley is in great demand as a speaker. The public is cordially invited. 5 > 't M BLOOD MONEY Fifty dollars—that is about what you would pay for a pint of blood if you needed it and could n’t get it except by buying it. As long as Newberry County contin ues in the Red Cross Blood Bank the pint of blood would cost you nothing. We have repeated many that there is a charge for inistering the blood by the ital—but that charge would be made if you were buying blood, over and above the $50 would be paying. To stay in blood bank, both funds and must be given by citizens Newberry County. This serv- is available to you now, wheth- you are hospitalized in New- , Kalazamoo or Walla Walla, only so long as Newberry re mains in the blood bank, and that Is only so long as you are willing to donate to its operation. The Bloodmobile will be held Tuesday, January 15th at Luth eran Church of the Redeemer from 2:00 until 8:00 p. m. Donors are asked to enter the basement of the building from the 'Bound ary street side. Those who donat ed blood on the last visit, Novem ber 27th, will not be eligible to blood again on this trip, so, many of those were the "old faithfuls,” new faces will be The Bloodmobile will not tile city again, except for a visit sponsored by the citizens, for several may be of interest to you to that during a year’s time, hospital administers an 884 pints of blood. This into account blo6d residents in Co- other hospitals in this places. See you The Newberry National Guard Armory, constructed in the early 1940s was built to house one unit of about 66 men. Today it accommodates four units—more than any other armory in the state —with 359 men. Proposed enlargement would see a wing added to the right side of the building, with some additional space possibly on the left. In the lower photo, Lt. Col. Barringer F. Wingard, Executive Officer of the 228th AAA Group, illustrates the cramped classroom quarters. Some class rooms are formed from lockers arranged as in the photo above; others are held in the open drill- hall. Without the photographer in the room, this one will accommodiate six or seven men in addi tion to the instructor. (Sunphotos by Doris A. Sanders.) National Guard Armory Built For 66 Men; Now Accomodates Over 350 (This is the first of a series of articles which will appear from time to time concerning the National Guard Armory construction program and its effect on residents of this coun ty .Ed.) The Newberry National Guard Armory will be among those in- j eluded in the ories and renovate or enlarge 35 more at a cost of nearly $4 mil lion during the next two years. Whether or not construction be gins will depend on state legisla tive action on a bill asking for 25 percent matching funds to a now available federal amount of | nearly $3 million. construction pro- Plans for the Newberry armory gram aimed to build 26 new arm- are to enlarge facilities from the present 3,853 square-foot-area to 19,010 square feet, not including the drill hall. The local armory was built to accommodate one guard unit, but is presently being used to house four units in cramped quarters. Although the strength of the guard has tripled since the armory was built, only about 700 square feet have been (Continued on page 5) Moose Takes Over As Exchange Head Harry E. Moose was installed as president of the Newberry Ex change Club at a supper meeting held Tuesday night at the Wise man Hotel. He succeeds Hugh Crooks in this capacity. Other of ficers installed were Olin Layton, vice-president; Frank Gilfillan, secretary; Irvine Leslie, treasur er; and Kenneth Tompkins, re cording secretary. President Moose appointed the following committee chairmen: Audit and Finance, Jacob Bow ers; Program and Fellowship, Charles E. Bowers; Entertainment and Club House, Irby Longshore; Public Affairs and Publicity, Rob ert Odell; Lake Property, Carl Amick; Interclub and Community Service, T. H. Crooks; Education and American Citizenship, Dr. R. A. Goodman; Aviation, W. S. Hentz; Youth Activities, Harold Cook, Membership and Attend ance, Garvice Taylor. member who will gladly accept your promise to give blood. Mrs. P. M. Dennis is Service Group Chairma in charge of vol unteer workers. Persons who can serve are invited to contact Mrs. Dennis by telephone at 1510. The need for fresh whole blood is constant. The responsibility be longs to all of us. The supply is available to all of us in time of need. Your support is needed to insure that persons residing in Newberry County will continue to have a ready supply ef blood for all emergencies. Plan now to give a pint of blood on Tuesday, January 15. JASPER CHAPTER MEETS FRIDAY The Jasper Chapter, DAR, will meet Friday at 4 p. m. at the home of Mrs. H. B. Kirkegard with Mrs. P. D. Johnson, Sr., Mrs. Frank Smith and Mrs. T. O. Stewart serving as associate hos tesses. Miss Minnie Todd Services Sunday Miss Minnie Todd, 76, died Saturday morning at the New berry County Memorial Hospi tal after several weeks illness. She was born in Newberry, the daughter of the late James F. and Martha Leake Todd. She was a member of Newberry As sociate Reformed Presbyterian Church and had served as organ ist for a number of years. She is survived by one broth er, Grover L. Todd of Newber ry, and three nephews, Charles E. Bowers of Newberry; James T. and Frank A. Bowers, both o Atlanta, Ga. Funeral services were conduct ed at 4 p. m. Sunday at Whitaker Funeral Home by Dr. Paul L Grier. Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery. Active pallbearers were S. C, Paysinger, Emory Bowman, Jesse Frank Hawkins, Adam Wilson Irvine Leslie and Joe Poole. Honorary escort consisted o: F. W. Ringer, Jr., Ernest Ray Gilliam, C. B. Spinks, Dave Hayes, H. Ci Holloway, Eugene Blease,- Dr. James C. Kinard, Dr E. J. Dickert, Jimmy Coggins Walter Summer and elders of Newberry ARP Church. CALENDAR SOCIETY The Calendar Society of Central Methodist Church will meet Mon day afternoon, January 14 at four o’clock at the home of Mrs. R. M. Lominack, 2012 Harper street. SPEERS STREET PTA The Speers Street Parent- Teacher Association will meet to night (Thursday) at the school auditorium, at 8:00 p. m. An in teresting program has been planned by the program chair man, Charles E. Bowers. All members are urged to be present. ACCEPTS JOB AS BAND DIRECTOR Bobby Gilliam, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Gilliam, has com pleted a three months course of study at the Berklee School of Music, Boston, Mass. He arrived in Newberry before Christmas to spend the holidays with his fam ily, and left early this week for Timmonsville, where he has ac cepted a position as band direc- or in the Timmonsville High School. Mr. Gilliam pursued a course of study in professional music at Berklee, with emphasis on 'com posing, arranging, and profession al instrumental music. Dr. Harry Robert Wilson To Conduct School, College Music Festivals In April; Singers Planning Reunion High School Festival And Clinics Be Held April 3-5 tY v no solution to Newberry College It was found, ntan^d to or the Dr. Harry Robert Wilson, dis tinguished Professor of Music Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, will return to Newberry to con duct the second annual Music Fes tival of the Newberry City Schools on April 3, 4 and 5. Dr. Wilson is one of America’s outstanding conductors of vocal clinics and music festivals. When his professional duties permit, he is actively engaged in fulfilling invitations to participate in .vocal clinics and music festivals in all parts of the country. His compo sitions and arrangements are widely used and enjoyed by teach ers and students in all 48 states. A workshop for all teachers in the Newberry city and county schools will be an added feature of this year’s festival. This part of the clinic will be held on Wed nesday afternoon, April 3rd at the Newberry high school audi torium at 3:30. The festival concert will be presented at the high school aud itorium on Friday evening, April 5th. Participating will be the choruses from the 3rd, 4th and so be the [ 5th grades of the five Newberry Elementary schools; the Junior High girls, the Newberry Boys Choir, the Eighth Grade chorus and the glee clubs of the Newber ry High School. This city-wide festival offers every child in these grade levels the opportunity to participate in the spring music festival. Prior to last year only a select number of students were chosen to attend the annual festivals held at Win- throp College in Rock Hill. The program this year will fea ture a theme of “Folk Songs and Dances.” Mrs. Meredith Harmon will direct the dances and Miss Juanita Hitt assisted by the teaching staff of the Newberry elementary schools, is preparing the choral numbers. All types of folk music will be used, including such interesting numbers as the Jewish folk song, “Hannakah,” “The Heidi Yodel Song” from Switzerland; Negro spirituals, American Indian, Mexican, Dutch and other numbers from many countries around the world will be presented on the “Folk Festi val of Song and Dantfe.” The Spring Music Festival of 1956 conducted by Dr. Wilson was most successful, and all units par- pating were given an excel- rating by the conductor. DR. HARRY ROBERT WILSON t College Centennial Concert To Feature Former Singers A majority of the more than 2000 former members of the New berry College Singers are expect ed back in Newberry on April 7th for a Music Festival in celebra tion of the College’s Centennial Year, according to Dr. Milton Moore, head of the college music department. Letters have been sent to the former members of the Singers group, which was or ganized ip 1932, asking that they attend and participate in the Cen tennial Festival. Portions of the concert will be conducted by the famous music educator, Dr. Harry Robert Wil son, who is Professor of Music Education at Columbia Univer sity Teachers College. In special recognition of the occasion, Dr. Wilson has written a composition “To This Day” and has dedicated it to the Newberry College Sing ers. He will conduct the group in singing his composition, as well as a group of others. Also taking part on the hour and a half festival program will be The Newberry College Band, tinder the direction of . Prof. Charles Pruitt. The band will play a group of selections, and will also accompany the Singers on some numbers. Prof. Darr Wise will be organ accompanist. Selections to be sung by the group composed of former mem bers as well as current members of the Singers will be composi tions which Have traditionally been on the repertoire of the Sing* ers since the inception of' that group and which will be known to all former members. Dr. Moore is scheduling group rehearsals for various sections of the state to prepare the former Singers in those localities for their partici pation on the program. This will be the first reunion of the Newbenw College Singers since the group wae organized. The Festival will be held in McLean Gymnasium and extra seats will be provided in an ef fort to accommodate what will most probably be an overflow attendance. Dr. Moore, who directed the Singers for a nunaber of years previous to his return to ry this year, j studied «u^w Wilson at Columbia University while Dr. Moore was working to ward his doctor’s degree. More ' information the appear from fern* ; mmmm :“The financial position of the City of Newberry is very com mendable. The city officials and employees are performing an out standing service in the handling of the city’s affairs. The financial records are very adequate and are accurately maintained. We would like to express our appreciation to the city officials and employees for their cooperation and toler ance with our delay during the course of this examination.” The largest cash disbursement during the year was in the elec- trfc department, $188,146.77. Dur ing the same period of time, elec tric sales amounted to $278,210- .95. Property taxes for 1955 brought $127,220.73 into the city’s coffer, with the next largest source of revenue being water sales, $88,592.14. Business lic enses accounted for $40,167.28 of the city’s revenue, and miscellan eous other items brought the to tal revenue for the fiscal year to $669,768.64. Cash on hand as of September 30, 1955 was $2,790.12, making a total of $672,558.76 available for the city’s operation during October 1, 1966-September 30, 1956. Of this amount, $670,- 053.24 was spent, leaving the $2,505.52 balance at the end of the business year. Councilmen were given copies of the audit report at the monthly meeting Tuesday night. The City Fathers were visited by a delegation from the Mer chants Committee of the Chamber of Commerce. Gerald Paysingpr, spokesman for the group, read a letter requesting cooperation of city council on the parking situa tion in the city. The recommen dations made by the group were (1) to make best possible use of property belonging to the city; (2) to set aside a portion of park ing meter monies to provide and maintain offstreet parking and buying other properties as - they become available; (3) to look into widening the blocks of ' Main Street; and (4) other items to be discussed with a committee from council before bringing them up before the full council. Mayor Kinard appointed a com* mittee consisting of C. A. Duf- ford, chairman; O. F. Armfield, Jr. and S. D. Paysinger to work with the Chamber committee. Council approved the purchase of four motor vehicles from the Smith Motor Company, low bid der, in the amount of $5,463.30. Two of the vehicles are to be au tomobiles for the police depart ment; the other two, trucks for the street department. City Manager Ed Blackwell re ported that he was working on the job classification survey for city employees and hoped to have it ready for presentation to city council within the next sixty days. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Jan. 9: Susan Cousin*. " Jan. 11: Mr*. Can Price, Mrs. Sadie Ringer, Mrs. Hrien Mow er Suber, William R. Brooks, Martha Jean Smith, Evelyn Wright. Jan. 12: Edgar L. Hiller, Mr** Mary Parks Sr., Mrs. Nellie Stokes, Mary Willis, Linda Hawkins, Margaret Doolittle, Jerry Satterwhite, David Cov ington, Mrs. M. P. Derrick. Jan. 13: Steve North, Mrs. Andrena Oswald, Nora Kathryn Kinard, Henry Livingston, D. L. Halfacre, Mrs. J. G. Long, T, D. Pitts, Jack Hughes, Henry W. Shealy, Mrs. Thomas Booz er, Mrs. Gerald Richardson, Marion Crooks, Brenda < Bess Graham. Jan. 14: Paul B. Ezell, Mabel Hiller, Mrs. James Brown, Rich ard I. McWhirter, Mrs. Donald White, Frances E. Sims, Jos eph W. Hipp, Nathline Knight, Richard Hfcnry Ruff.' * Jan. 15: Mrs. Edna H. Fea- gle, Edna Hite P. Ringer, Mrs. C. A. Felker, Ann Workman, T, D. Pitts Jr„ Kirksey X Kooa,| Mrs. O. A: Felker. Jan. 16: Beverly Clarkson, James Montgomery Smith III, W. M. Buford Jr. Jan. 17: Mrs. E. L. Hurt, Wil- butfiXong, .Xbn.-Alfred ~~ *J. Lominick, v, 1 mi yjUjjl