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Half the so-called information you hear in a club is misinforma tion, yet they say you are rude if you refuse to say amen. Around every circle, advised the dynamic Emerson, another can be drawn. Every end, he concluded, is also a beginning. This is in spiring advice. It means: don t give up, try a new way. VOLUME 19; NUMBER 43 + $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way By Dorla A. Sander* SCOUT DRIVE The County Girl Scout Council, scout leaders, scouts and brownies wish to thank you for your genei- ous response to the Girl Scout drive which was held several weeks ago. At a meeting of the council Monday' night, R. E- Beck, president, announced that $1081.50 had been turned in and several scout leaders reported more to come. The mark is sure to pass $1700 and possibly go to $1800. This is far better than the Girl Scouts have done before, either independently or in cooperation w-ith the Community Chest. As a result of the good response to the drive, plans are being made to hire a counselor to conduct the summer camp at Ly nch’s M oods foV all scout and brownie troops, and the go-ahead was given to construct rest rooms at the camp. Much of the material for the rest rooms has been donated by busi ness firms and individuals inter ested in scouting. I hope sometime between now and summer camp time to give > T ou the names of the many, many pesons who have contributed time, materials and money to help make the day' camp a success. The council also voted to allow “Lynch’s Woods to be open for the Home and Garden Tour to be held in Newberry on April 2G. I hope that many of you wdll take this opportunity to visit the day camp so y T ou can see that your money is being used to good ad vantage. Again, thanks from the Scouts for your generous dona tions. BRUSHY BOYS Looks as though I am going to have to give in and allow my bus- hand to at least grow a mustache to help celebrate the College’s centennial year. If not, he’ll probably be the only male around here without “facial foliage,” as the Brothers of the Brush term it. “When his mustache can be seen at eight paces, as per requirement of the Brothers, I’m going to find myself a bonnet, 1857-style to •wear. After all, the women can’t be left out of this thing entire ly. If you have a 100-year-old bonnet, please let me know. I want the style to be as authentic as the whiskers. Thirsty burglars found this the most convenient way to sat isfy their alcoholic tastes when they broke into the red dot store operated by Gerald Baker on the corner of the new By-Pass and Vincent Street in the early hours of last Thursday morn ing. The break-in was discover ed about 2:30 a. m. by patroll ing city policemen. Two of the bars covering the windows had been pulled out and a hole smashed in the glass large enough to allow entry, as illus trated above by Mr. Baker. The take: Fourteen packs of cigarettes, $119.42 which Mr. Baker had set aside to pay taxes on his merchandise, one case of Imperial in pints; and 85 pints of the following assortment: Old Stag, Canadian Club, Schen- ley Reserve, Old Hickory, Bos ton Vodka, Schenley Gin, Bour bon Deluxe, Echo Springs and white port wine. Police Chief Dowd says that no arrests have been made but that his department is still working on the case. (Sunphoto by Doris A. Sanders.) Spelling Bee To Be On April 6 The Newberry County spelling contest will be held at the New- berrv High School on Saturday, April 6, 1957 at 9:30 A. M. The participating Schools are urged to send a contestant. This contest ant must be selected from the fifth, sixth, seventh or eighth grade. The county winner will go to Anderson, where the finals will be held at Anderson College on May 11th, 1957. The county winner will be the guest of the Anderson papers for luncheon in the And erson College dining hall on May 11th. He or she will also receive from the Anderson papers a paper Mate DeLuxe Tu-Tone pen. The winner of the state contest will receive a complete set of the Encyclopedia Britannica; an ex pense paid trip to Washington D. (Continued on page 8) Caldwell Named Board Chairman W. H. Caldwell w r as elected chair man of the Newberry County Board of Education at a meeting held Monday night at the education building. He succeeds Hugh M. Epting, who resigned as chairman and as a board member effective February 1st. Mr. Epting had served several months as chair man, taking the place of J. S. Ritchie who resigned last year. Mr. Caldwell is the board member from the Little Mountain area. Mr. Epting, who represented the Bush River area, has not yet been replaced on the Board. The Board is presently composed of Chair man Caldwell, Joseph L. Keitt, Newberry; Dan L. Hamm, Pros perity; Francis P. Setzler, Whit mire; J. Alvin Kinard, Pomaria, and the newest member, Dave Wal drop from Silverstreet. Dr. Summer To Participate In Program Panel Dr. Mamie S. Summer, president of the Newberry Civic League, will be one of the four distinguish ed women of South Carolina who will participate in a panel discus sion at the annual meeting of the South Carolina Conference on the Status of Women, to be held in the ballroom of the Hotel Co lumbia at 10:30 Saturday morn ing. Mrs. J. Allen Lambright, presi dent, of Spartanburg, has an nounced a program which she says will be of particular interest to members of A.A.U.W., Feder ated Women’s Clubs, P.T.A., church groups. Business and Pro fessional Women Clubs, college alumnae groups and all who are interested in better job oppor tunities for women. Members of these groups i n Newberry are urged to attend. The panel wiP discuss “Occupa tional Opportunities for Women in Science, Politics, Government, Education and Social Welfare. Dr. Rosamonde Boyd of Spar tanburg will be Moderator. Dr. Summer who will represent the S. C. Employment Security Commis sion, will discuss “Women and Employment Security.” Mrs. De borah M. Southerlin of Columbia will have the topic “Women in Public Welfare.” Dr. Maxine Lar- issey of Charleston will discuss “Women in Science.” The fourth janelist, Mrs. Belton O’Neall of Greenville, will have as her sub ject “Women in Politics.” Two women from Washington, D. C. will lend interest to the pro gram. Mrs. Hanna Keip, director of Women’s affairs, the embassy of the Federated Republic, will talk about women in foreign coun tries. Mrs. Helen Wood, chief, Branch of Occupation Outlook and Specialized Personnel Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Depart ment of Labor, will discuss “Em ployment Outlook for Women.” A luncheon will be held, to which the public is invited. Res ervations may be made with Mrs. Richard O. Carpenter, 229 Spring Lake Road, Columbia. Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Heitman of Sioux City, Iowa, friends of Dr. and Mrs. E. Bryan Keisler, were weekend guests of Dr. and Mrs. R. A. Goodman and other friends on the college campus. de Workers Hear Talk, Meeting Tuesday Night A Cancer supper meeting was eld Tuesday night in the Social [all of Central Methodist Church >r workers from throughout the junty who will partjcipate in le Cancer Crusade fund raising rive to be held during the month f April. Mrs. Parnell Ringer, junty cancer commander, pres led. About 50 persons attended le informative meeting at which [rs. Eunice Leonard of Columbia xecutive director of the South Carolina Division of the American Cancer Society, was guest speaker. In speaking of the progress made in the treatment and cure of cancer, Mrs. Leonard said “Be cause of medical advances, we have supplanted fear with hope.” She pointed out that although cancer seems to be on the increase, the facts are that the average span of life is lengthening and so many former fatal diseases have been under control, that many who formerly would have died of pneumonia, tuberculosis and many other diseases now con trolled are dying of cancer in stead. The first treatment of cancer, which dated back to before the life of Christ, was surgery. This is still the most important way of stopping canaer, although the later development of x-ray and radium treatments have been (Continued on page 8) ;v' i i Among those atttending the supper for Cancer Crusade Workers Tuesday night in the Social Hall of Central Methodist Church were seated, left to right, Mrs. Virginia Moon, chairman of the de committee for the B&PW; Mrs. Parnell Ringer, County Cancer Commander, who presided; Eunice Leonard of Columbia, executive director, S. C. Division of American Cancer Society, speaker; standing, left to right, Mrs. Thelma Gamble of Columbia, field representative, S. C. ACS; Mrs. Mittie Parr, president of the County Council of Farm Women; Mrs. Velma Neely of *, field nurse, ACS; and Mrs. A. P. Ramage Jr., health chairman of Newberry home demon clubs, which will conduct the crusade in the county. (Sunphoto by Doris A. Sanders.) BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Feb. 23: Mrs. Ralph W. Con nelly, Lawrence E. Connelly, ‘Mrs. Luther Hamm, Sanford Epps, Ann Wheeler, Mrs. Harry Kyzer, John Miller, Martha Kyzer. Feb. 24: R. A. Feagle, Doro thy Koon, Mrs. W. L. Shipman, Rey Lominack, Essie Cook, Mrs. Thompsie Summers, Mrs. Kirk- sey Koon, W. R. Lominick, Wil liam Grady Bedenbaugh, Larry Swygert, Natalie Setzler, A. L. Goff, Julia Mae Moon, Ida Hutchinson, Margaret H. Lov ell. Feb. 25: John C. Adams, Rob ert Davenport, Mrs. Ruth Wood, Willie Ann Berley, Carol E. Ept ing, Peggy Berley, Marion Long, Mrs. Elizabeth Hayes Waldhour, S. L. Waldhour, J. J. Hughes, Willie Lee Ringer. Feb. 26: Mrs. G. W Senn, Peg gie Andrews, Mrs. Mildred Har per, Mrs. Hal Kohn Jr., Carol Senn, Lowell Boozer, Elizabeth Langford, Ed Cannon. Feb. 27: H. D. Whitaker, Frances Hayes, Anne Wheeler, Mrs. Clara Ward, Elizabeth Set zler, Mrs. Jesse W. Senn, Julia Faye McSwain, Willie Jones, Ranee Miller, Sarah Franklin. Feb. 28: Walter Wallace, Mrs. W. EL Elmore, Drayton Nance Jr., Mrs. Mary Amick, Tochie Long, Charlie Crowell Jr., Ray Doolittle, Harrietta Ann Hend rix, Jack Brock, Mrs. D. W. Long. March 1: Miss Eugenia Epps, M. E. Abrams, Mrs. J. R. Swy gert, Billy Walton, W. C. Huff man, Mrs. Homer Epting, Cookie Johnson, Charles Phibbs, Forrest W Dicker!. Local National Guard Unit To Train At AEC H-Bomb Project Members of the 228ih National Guard met Saturday at the armory to discuss plans for sum mer encampment at the Savannah River Project. Left to right, seated, they are Warrant Officer R. Frasier Sanders, meteorologist; Chief WO Floyd Dennis, unit administrator; WO Drayton L. Minick, assistant raUhr officer; Col. Thomas H. Pope, commanding officer; Lt. Col. Barringer F. Wingard, executive officer; Major William K. Lowry, plans and training officer; Capt. Larry Graves, radar of ficer. Standing, left to right, Capt. Fred Weir, battery commander; WO James Clamp, personnel officer; WO Lee Smallwood, assistant supply officer; Sp3 Earl Singley, Sp3 Charles K. Cromer of the operations section; SFC Joe F. Hipp Jr., sergeant major; Sp3 Ned H. Hipp, operations section; Lt. Arthur B. Hair III, assistant Plans and Training officer, and Sp3 Mat A. Coleman, operations section. (Sunphoto by Doris A. Sanders.) SCS Supervisors Report On “Two Decades Of Progress’* Finland Native To Visit College Miss Terttu Sivia Rauto of Fin land will visit Newberry College on February 22. Miss Rauto comes to Newberry through the spon sorship of the Newberry-Saluda Regional Library and is one of a number of key foreign employees of the U. S. Information Agency being brought to the United States in order to increase their understanding of our country and to increase their effectiveness in representing the United States among their people. While at Newberry College Miss Rauto will visit some of the classes and have discussions with students and faculty members. Miss Rauto is a native of An- trea, Finland. Upon her grad uation from a commercial college she worked for the British Con sulate in Viipui. Later she moved to Helsinki and became office manager of a government office set up to distribute food and equipment to forest workers throughout Finland. She was a member of the Finnish Women’s Army Corps until it was dissolved after the Finnish-Russian armis tice in October, 1944. She joined the staff of the United States In formation Service in 1947 and her present duties consist of editing the Finnish language news bulle tin. The 1956 annual report of the supervisors of Newberry Soil Conservation District has just been released, showing great changes in the soil conservation practices of county farmers over the past 20 years, and a concen trated effort during 1956 to plan for the Bush River Watershed project. J. T. McCrackin Jr., is chairman of the Newberry SCS supervisors. Other supervisors are C. L. Lester, secretary; C. T. Smith, D. A. Bedenbaugh and George E. Young. Their report is as follows: Two Decades of Progress Through Soil Conservation Districts in Newberry County Land use and soil conservation —past and present—in Newber ry Soil Conservation District is a very interesting story. From a “Soil Survey Report of Newberry County” printed in 1921, some facts are gleaned: “The bottom lands were ex tensively cultivated at one time, but following the clearing of large bodies of the upland, floods became so destructive that much of fhe bottomlands were aband oned for crop production.” . . . “Clean cultivation has resulted in depleting the organic content of the soils over large areas, and lit tle attempt is made to build them up by turning under cover crops, sod, or stubbl! . . . No system atic crop rotation is followed in this county, and large areas have been devoted to cotton continu ally for 20 years or more,” sp reads portions of this report printed in 1921. The big change to conservation began in the thirties. The cotton acreage in the New berry SCD has dropped from the 38,100 acres of 1929 to about 7, r 300 acres. Commercial dairies have increased from the two reported as being in operation in 1921 to 83 Grade A dairies at present. There are 1,250 farmers coop erating with the Distric! Their farms contain 158,000 acres of land. Serecia, improved pastures, terraced, trees, and many other conservation measures have been pplied to thousands upon thous ands of these acres. 890 ponds have been built and stocked with bass and bream. The ponds con serve water for use for livestock watering, irrigation, fish produc tion, fire protection and recrea tion. The water stored in these ponds is calculated to be 1,248 acre-feet, or enough to cover 1,248 acres of land to a depth of one foot. The changes during the past twenty years ’are helping to conserve soil, water, and the other natural resources and to set the stage for increased pro duction and sustained abund ance. Tiie officers and men of the 228th AAA Group, South Carolina National Guard unit of Newberry, will spend their two weeks summer training period in June at the Savannah River Project, accord ing to Thomas H. Pope, Jr., com manding officer of the Group. Col. Pope stated that plans for the unit to train with the 11th AAA Group, presently stationed at the H-Bomb plant, have been under way for several years and all ar rangements, with the ‘ exception of a few minor details, have been completed for the training from June 9th through 23rd. The enlisted 1 men of the Head quarters Battery, 228th Group" and the Group’s 131st Operations De tachment from Dillion will stay in air conditioned barracks inside the Atomic Energy Commission’s Savannah River Project area. They will train individually with the men of the 11th group in their respective jobs. The 228th Group officers will stay in a location near the project as no officers quarters are avail able on the post. The 228th Group was established in Dillon in 1947 and trained one summer at Fort Jackson, three summers at Camp Stewart, Ga. before being called into active duty during the Korean War. Al though the Group was sent to De-, troit, Mich, for the defense of that city during the Korean conflict, more than half of its original members were sent to Korea where many fought until the end of the war. In 1963, the Group was located in Newberry, and Col. Pope became its Commanding Off icer. For the past four summers, the Group has spent its summers encampment at Fort Stewart. The other units of the 228th Group, consisting of the 713th AAA Gun Battalion of Lancaster, the 678th Battalion and several smaller units, will train at Fort Stewart, along with the 107th AAA Battal ion of Newberry, commanded by Major J. W. Henderson. These units will be under the command of Lt. Col. William B. Pollard, Jr. of Lancaster during the train ing period. The camp dates will be the same, not only for these units but-for every South Carolina Nat ional uni! The 51st division will be at Fort McClellan, Ala. during the same period. Advance details' for all units will leave on Thursday, June 6th to make preparations for the summer training camp. The en tire 228th Staff has made a trip to the Savannah River Project to work out details for the camp, and a number of trips have been made by various officers of the Group to complete details. On Saturday, Feb. 16, Col. Pope called a conference of his staff and the enlisted men in the operations section to further ar range for the camp. A picture of these men will be seen on this page. In- addition to those in the pic ture, the following officers and enlisted men will train this sum mer at the H-Bomb plant: Major Earl C. Hipp, Major Wil liam J. McLeod, Major J. Leland Welling Jr., Capt. James K. ' Blackman, Chief Warrant Officer Thomas W. Wallace, Warrant Of ficer Richard E. Addison, First Sergeant Thomas J. Longshore, Sgts. Pettus T. Livingston Jr., Benjamin B. Nichols, Leonard J. Perry, John B. West, Wallace B. Ruff, Harold R. Coats; Specialist 1st Class: Arthur McSwain Dominick, Jonas C. Wes- singer; Sp2C, Andrew Shealy. Sp3C: William B. Clamp Jr., Ralph E. Cromer, William C. Cro mer, Alfred Dorroh, Johnny D. Dowd Jr., Gerald Griffith, Fred erick E. Lusk, Fred D. Riley, Thomas H. Westwood; PFC; Jimmie W. Bowers, Henry F. Brehmer, John E. Campbell, Fred L. Clary, Jimmie W. Lester, Clarence L. Kinard Jr., Edward F. Lominack, Jr., George H. Long shore, James A. Longshore, John E. Marlowe, William H. Maybin, Lewis F. Sligh, William A.. Smith Jr., Alva E. Werts Jr., Thomas M. Nichols, Jimmy W. Pitts; * Pvt.: Jack H. Coats, Terry P. Davis, Lewis W. Evans, Ralph D. Griffith, Bernard F. Hawkins, Clyde L. Lester, diaries D. Le*, ver, Jacob K. Lybrand, Berley E. Morris, Calvin E. Morris, Wil liam K. Wright, James E. Shealy, Billye L. West, James R. Lomi nick Jr., and G*ry P. Smith. ‘ (Continued on page 8) Mayor Cecil E. Kinard signs a proclamation making it mandatory for M all males of the age when shaving is feasible, refrain from shaving from now until the end of our glorious Celebration Week, April 28 through May 4,” or suffer the consequences of the Kangaroo Court. Looking on are, left, “Red” Newton, chairman of the Brothers of the Brush committee, and Bob Bruner. The purpose of the committee is “to encourage mass participation in the Newberry College Centennial celebration and identify with it a large proportion of ,our men residents.” To become a member of the Brothers of the Brush, contact D. W. “Red” Newton or L. C. Graham, director of Public Relations, New berry College. (Sunphoto.)