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VOLUME 10; NUMBER 44
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1957
$2.00 PER YEAR
By The Way
By Doris A. Sander*
FAST REPORTING
Before you know it, you’re going
to be getting the news almost be
fore it happens around here. 1
was talking with Jimmy Coggins
the other day, and he tells me
that as soon as clearance can be
secured from the federal Comm
unications Commission, two-way
radios will be installed in cais
of radio station WKDK person
nel and broadcasts will be made
direct over the air from the scene
of the news-making event. WKDK
does a fine job of keeping its
public informed and we are happy
to cooperate with the station to
keep you abreast of the latest
news happenings as well as public
service features.
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NEW MEMBER
W. H. Caldwell, conscientious
county board of education member
from the Little Mountain area,
presided for the first time on
Tuesday night as chairman of
that group at a regular meeting.
The chairmanship of the board
is a thankless task and I admire
Mr. Caldwell’s courage in taking
on the job. I know he will do a
good one. It was also good to see
Dave Waldrop at the meeting as
the new member from the Silver-
street area. That position has
been vacant for some months,
since the resignation of R. C. Neel,
Jr. last year. There is still anoth
er vacancy to be filled; that of
the lately-resigned Hugh M.
Epting from Bush River area. I
understand Clifford T. Smith is the
man wanted for the job and I hope
he will take it, although I re
alize he' is busy with many an
other organization. All of the other
members are busy men too, and,
as a matter of fact, the only way
to assure that the members are
good ones, as a rule, is to get
those whose services are wanted
in so many other activities.
CENTENNIAL NOTE
The Newberry College Centenn
ial Celebration is going ahead ra
pidly with the “Brothers of the
Brush” growing rapidly.
I understand the “Sisters of the
Swish,” those bonnet-wearing
ladies, will get underway next
week. Also to open next week is
a headquarters for the Centennial,
with J. D. French in charge. This
will be at 1405 Main street, the
former location of the Dixie Home
store. Records for the centennial,
novelty sales and other such items
of business will be carried on
from this office.
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Mrs. Willie Berley was greeted on her 94th birthday anniver
sary Monday, February 25, by many friends bearing gifts, greet
ings and birthday cakes. Among them were members of the New
berry Garden Club, the members of which periodically remember
Mrs. Berley with cards, flowers and visits. On Monday, Mrs. C. I.
Youmans, a member of the club, presented to Mrs. Berley the cake
she baked. Mrs. Berley suffered a hip injury in a fall several years
ago and while she has been bedridden since, she is mentally alert and
cheerfuL taking pleasure in visits of friends. She lives with her
daughter, Mrs. Bun Shackleford at 1510 Harrington Street. (Sun-
photo by Doris A. Sanders.)
Council Upholds Recorder In
Appeal Of Timmerman Case
Lutheran Group
Holds Vocations
Conference
The Lutheran Student Associa
tion of Newberry College is mak
ing plans for the annual Christian
Vocations Conference to be held
at Newberry College next week,
March 3-6.
The conference is sponsored by
the college in cooperation with
the Board of Higher Education of
the United Lutheran Church in
America.
Members representing the Board
of Higher Education will be staff
secretaries, Mildred E. Winston,
Litt. D., Rev. Vernon L. Strempke,
Ph. D., and Rev. Robert Meynar-
die.
Others participating in the con
ference are: The Rev. Raymond
E. Davis, minister of Christian
Education, St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church, Savannah, Ga.; Hal Kohn
Jr., assistant manager of the un
derwriting department, Carolina
Life Insurance Co., Columbia; Dr.
George W. Hopkins, chief super
visor, South Carolina State De
partment of Education, Columbia;
and Coach Rex Enright, director
of athletics, University of South
Carolina.
| Rev. Davis, the main speaker of
the conference, will speak at the
chapel services on Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday. Mr. Kohn
will lead a discussion group on
business as a vocation; Dr. Hop
kins will lead a discussion on edu
cation as a vocation; Coach En
right will lead a discussion on
athletics as a vocation.'
In; the evening from 7:00 till
8:00 p. m., a panel composed of
local professional men and women
will discuss “Making a Vocation
Christian.”
Those participating will be Dr.
E. M. Anderson, Judge E. Maxcy
Stone, Professor Hubert H. Setz-
ler. Rev. D. M. Shull and Mrs. P.
T. Kelly.
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Members of City Council at a
special meeting Monday after
noon upheld the decision of the
City Recorder in the case of the
City of Newberry versus H. ( .
Timmerman, charged with cursing
and threatening Ethel Cleveland
in Timmerman’s place of business.
This case was tried by the re
corder, James E. Wiseman, on
January 22. The defendant, Tim
merman, was found guilty after
testimony by the prosecuting wit
ness, Ethel Cleveland and wit
nesses for the defense. Timmer
man was fined $40 or 30 days in
jail.
Pursuant to statutes covering-
appeals from the Recorder’s Court,
the case w r as brought before coun
cil at its regular meeting on Feb.
12. At the time, attorney for the
defendant, Hon. B. V. Chapman,
told council that the statute pro
vided that an appealed case should
be tried anew by City Council.
Council instructed the City Man
ager, Ed Blackwell, to get to
gether with the defendant’s at
torney and with the City attorney,
R. Aubrey Harley, to dispose of
the case.
The attorney, on his return from
service in the State Senate, ad
vised council that statutes per
taining to a city of this size pro
vided the council should review
the case and either uphold the
decision of the Recorder, or if
error in the law was found, to
refer the case back to the Re
corder for a new trial. In view
of this information, council was
called into session to consider the
Return, prepared by the Recorder.
In his Return, Mr. Wiseman
stated that the prosecuting wit
ness “testified that she had ap
peared at the loan office of the
defendant concerning the entry
of certain payments on the books
of the defendant; she claimed
that the payments should have
been credited to her account and
not to that of her husband. Ac
cording to her testimony, the de
fendant became angry with her
and threatened to kick her and
did curse her and ordered her
out of his place of business. Ac
cording to her statement, she
went straight from the office of
of the defendant to the Police De
partment. John Wood, one of the
city policemen, went to the office
of the defendant to make an in
vestigation. According to his state
ment, the defendant was drunk
and could not explain to the pol
iceman what had oocured and
another person, Connie Gowan,
had to explain to Policeman Wood
what had occured. Policeman
Wood testified that the reason
the defendant could not explain
the difficulty was that he had had
too much to drink.”
The information of the pro
secuting witness, according to the
recorder, was verified by Eliza
Wilson.
The Return further stated “The
defendant testified and denied that
he had threatened or cursed Ethel
Cleveland. He began telling me a-
bout the rules and regulations
for small loan companies which
are made up by th° State Bank
ing Department, and I advised him
that he was not being tried for
anything connected with his bus
iness concerning the rules but that
he was being tried for threatening
and cursing Ethel Cleveland. I
also told him I did not like the
kind of business he was in. I told
him further that this was the
second time he had been in the
Recorder’s Court Charged with
substantially the same offense.
On the previous occasion I had
found him not guilty.”
The Return stated that Claude
Werts testified that the defendant
had ordered the prosecuting wit
ness out of the office but stated
that if he cursed her, he did not
hear it.
“I was satisified then,” seated
Recorder Wiseman, “and I am sat
isified now that the defendant was
guilty. I sentenced him to serve
thirty days or pay a fine of
$40.00. He paid the fine.”
The grounds of the defendant’s
appeal were:
1. That His Honor erred in not
taking the testimony in writing
and having same signed by the at
testing witnesses, nor was same
taken stenographically as required
by law, nor was the proceedings
thereof so taken.
2. That his Honor erred in pr
ejudging the case, inasmuch as
when the defendant began his
testimony and after he had spoken
only a few words, the trial record
er stated as follows to—wit: “I
am not going to turn you loose,
that I do not like Finance Comp
anies, and never did, that two of
my boys were locked up by them”
or words to that effect.
3. That the verdict was contrary
to the evidence submitted, de
fendant being in his place of busi
ness and had a right to eject the
prosecutrix from his place of busi-
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John B. Smith, Sr.
Dies At Kinards
John (Jack) Buford Smith Sr.,
84, retired lettercarrier and for
mer farmer, died Tuesday at his
home at Kinards after a long ill
ness.
Mr. Smith was born in New
berry County and was the son
of the late J. Drayton and Kate
Summers Smith. He was a mem
ber of Sharon Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Lillian Rowland Smith; two sons,
Lucas Walker Smith of Fairfax,
and Harper Gerald Smith of Tal
lahassee, Fla.; one daughter,
Miss Lucille Octavia Smith of Ki
nards; and two grandchildren,
Miss Linda Lou Smith, whom he
reared, and Charles G. Smith of
Tampa, Fla., and one great
grandchild.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at 3 p. m. Wednesday at
Whitaker Funeral Home by the
Rev. Leland Rinehart and the
Rev. T. B. Altman. Burial was
in Rosemont Cemetery.
Pallbearers w r ere I. M. Smjth,
John Earl Smith, C. T. Smith, W.
Wade Smith, C. M. Smith and
J. W. Smith.
Honorary escort was Judge
Eugene S. Blease, Pinckney N.
Abrams, Thomas H. Pope, Van C.
Oxner, Jesse J. Johnson, W. M.
Buford, William E. Senn, W. D.
Boozer, Dr. Ralph Baker, Cyril
Abrams, S. C. Campbell, Eugene
Spearman, Wister Johnson, J. J.
Johnson and D. M. Vaughn.
Spring Program
Of Newberry
Conference Given
The Spring Program of the
Newberry Conference of the Ev
angelical Lutheran Synod of
South Carolina will be presented
in Mt. Pilgrim Lutheran Church,
Little Mountain, of which the
Rev. J. S. Wessinger is pastor,
Monday, March 4. The opening-
sennon will be preached by the
Rev. Thomas H. Weeks, president,
at 10:00 o’clock after which the
Holy Communion will be administ
ered. The Rev. Karl Kinard, D.
D., president of the Lutheran Sy
nod of South Carolina, will bring
greetings. The final address of
the morning session will be deliv
ered by the Rev. W. A. Ballentine
on “The Origin and Development
of Lent.” At the noon hour the
ladies of the congregation will
serve lunch to the members of the
conference.
The afternoon session will open
with devotions led by Robert L.
Swygert who recently completed
his course at the Southern Luth
eran Seminary and accepted the
work as pastor of Bethany Luth
eran Church, Newberry. The main
afternoon addresses will be deliv
ered by the Rev. C. Edgar Lindler
and the Rev. Paul E. Monroe.
Pastor Lindler will speak on “The
Primary Message - of Lent,” and
Pastor Monroe will speak on
“Making Lent Meaningful To
day.” The Conference will close
with the business and formal clos
ing.
Board Sees Revised Plans For
High School; Bids To Be Asked
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Heyward S. Singley, left, architect of Columbia, discusses with
W. H. Caldwell, chairman of the Newberry County Board of Edu
cation, the working blueprints for the consolidated high school for
the lower county. (Sunphoto by Doris A. Sanders.)
Pope Speaks Against Civil
Rights Bill In Washington
Ward Resigns From
Gas Authority
Tom Ward, who has been man-
agerof the Clinton-Newberry Nat
ural Gas Authority Newberry
branch since July 1954, resigned
that position last week to accept
a job with tfie S. C. Gas Sales
and Service Company of Columbia.
His resignation was accepted at
a meeting of the Gas Authority
last Thursday night.
Members of the authority also
decided to move the main service
operation of the Clinton authority
office, leaving the billing oper
ations in the Newberry office.
NEWBERRIANS ON
USC HONOR ROLL
The honor rolls and Deans list
of the University of South Caro
lina for the 1956-57 fall semester
have been released by Registrar
Henry O. Strohecker.
To make the dean’s list, jun
iors and seniors must make an av
erage of “2” (B-plus) which is
rated from very good to excellent.
On this list from Newberry were
Ted Lewis Boozer and Harriett
Dickert.
Listed on the sophomore honor
roll, with an average of “2.5”,
midway between a B and B-plus,
was Helen Kaye Ringer. ,
On the freshman honor roll,
freshmen must make an average
of “3”, which is rated from
“good” to “excellent.” This list
included Mary Louise Dickert of
Newberry.
Thomas H. Pope, Jr., of New
berry, former speaker of the state
House of Representatives, was
among the five South Carolinians
who Tuesday testified before a
Congressional committee hearing
on civil rights legislation, amid
signs that the Judiciary committee
might modify the bill.
Attorney Pope, well known as an
orator and master of rebuttal,
stirred the subcommittee by de
claring he has “no respect” what
ever for Attorney General Herbert
Brownell, who would get the tot
ally new power to sue in civil
rights cases. Rep. Kenneth Keat
ing (R-NY), author of the bill,
reddened in resentment when Pope
said Brownell “is as biased against
the South as anyone since Thadd-
eus Stevens,” author of the racial
reconstruction program.
“It is wrong,” Pope said, “to
wrap the sancitity of the U. S.
government around such suits.”
“It’s been done before,” said
Celler.
“Yes, sir,” said Pope, “ and it’s
been wrong every time it’s been
done.”
Celler and his counsel, William
Foley, had to admit that Pope was
right in saying that if the United
States is a party to such suits,
jury trial is not guaranteed.
“You state the law correctly,”
Celler conceded.
When Pope also opposed the pro
posed civil rights commission and
said it would send a “federal
gestapo” into the South, Keating
asked: “What makes you think
a South Carolinian would not be
on it?”
“Sir,” drawled Pope, “if anyone
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Blueprints of the revised version
of the consolidated high school for
the Little Mountain, Pomaria,
Prosperity areas were presented
to the County Board of Education
Tuesday night by the architect,
Heyward S. Singley of Columbia
and his associate, Roy Parrott.
The original plans, submitted
some months ago, were revised
when the request for a county
school bond issue of $775,000 was
rejected by the voters. The audi
torium in the original plans was
deleted and a gymtorium, capable
of seating 800 spectators, was sub
stituted. The estimated price of
the revised plans is $448,864.00,
according to the architect.
Included in this figure are the
following estimates: building,
$386,650; science equipment, $5,-
200; home economics, $7,500; kit
chen, $12,000; library shelving,
$3,000; gym, $11,500. All of these
items are built in equipment.
Other expenses are site improve
ments, $20,000; equipment to be
placed m the school by the school
district, $13,785; well contract,
$2,338; architect fee, $26,891.
Separate bids would be received
on the built-in equipment.
Alternates in the specifications
presented by Mr. Singley wer?
(1) omission of outside work; (2)
choice of three materials for the
corridors, quarry, terazzo or as
phalt tile; (3) omission of sound
system but leaving conduit in for
later installation of system
throughout school; (4) omission
of electrical scoreboard for gym.
These plans must be approved
by the State Department of Edu
cation and the State Health De
partment. A committee from the
county board visited Columbia
Wednesday to settle a date to ad
vertise for bids. The project would
be open for bidding for 30 days,
and an additional 30 days allowed
for the contract to be awarded. It
was explained that while money
for the project is not now avail
able from the State Finance Com
mission, it is expected that more
school bonds will be sold by the
Commission in April and that this
school is top on the priority list
for construction when money is
available.
The committee consisting of
board members J. Alvin Kinard,
W. H. Caldwell and Dan Hamm
Jr., to select a name for the new
school reported no progress. It was
decided to ask the school students
in those three areas to suggest
names for the school. The name
“Singley High School” was sug
gested at the meeting, inasmuch
in South Carolina would serve on
the commission, he’d have to be
a newcomer to South Carolina, and
not someone like the people who
have lived there for 300 years.
We’re not that hard up for jobs.”
Pope reminded the subcommittee
that South Carolina had a civil
rights law, against the Ku Klux
Klan, since 1871, and an anti-
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Members of the Newberry fire department work to get the flames under control in the apart
ment of Miss Crozier Welch on Harrington Street. The fire started in the bathroom of the apartment
about 11:00 o’clock Sunday morning. Damage from fire was limited to the side of the house shown
in the picture. The other side of the house was damaged some from water. (Sunphoto.)
as the school will be located on
property which has belonged in
the Singley family since the land
was first granted to Martin Sing
ley in the early 1800s. No action
was taken on this suggestion.
A delegation from Bush River,
consisting of Supt. R. L. Husle-
bus, Harvey Wise and Mr. and
Mrs. Herman Wicker presented to
the board a petition requesting
that the attendance route on the
Greenville highway between the
first and second overhead bridges
be left as is. Some months ago,
the line was changed on petition
of a number of property owners
in that area, so that children from
the point of the second overhead
bridge back towards Newberry*
would attend Newberry schools
instead of Bush River. The peti
tion presented last night showed
that parents of eight of the 12
children involved wished the route
to remain as it mow is. Action on
the current petition was deferred
until the matter could be discuss
ed oy board members with the
Bush River area advisory board.
A letter was read from the
Teacher-Welfare Committee, Miss
Julia Kibler, chairman, of the
Newberry County Education As
sociation, transmitting a resolu
tion by that group at its meeting
last Thursday afternoon. The
resolution asked the board to (1)
organize schools so that the
teacher load would be equalized
and that no teacher would have
more than 30 pupils per class; (2)
increase the local salary supple
ment to 25 per cent of state aid
to bring it in ine with the average
of other counties; and (3) allow
the present 7-day sick leave per
annum accumulate to 25 days.
The Board received this letter
as information, stating that no
action could be taken until some
disposition is made of the pro
posed increase in state aid bill
now pending in the legislature.
It was explained by the chairman
that the county is currently pay
ing salaries of 42 teachers for
which it receives no state aid, and
that the increase for those tea
chers would have to also be paid
from county funds. These teachers
do not receive state aid because
the schools in which they teach
do not have sufficient students
to allow state aid pay for as
many teachers as are needed.
The following superintendents
were re-elected: J. V. Kneece,
Newberry High School; R. E.
Beck, Newberry Elementary sch
ools; J. G. Long, Silverstreet area;
Robert L. Hulsebus, Bush River
area; N. P. Robinson, Whitmire
area; J. H. Bedenbaugh, Little
Mountain ;^C. E. Hendrix, Pros
perity; S. S. Wigfall, Gallman
High School, and E. S. Schumpert,
superintendent Drayton Street
Elementary School. Therq was no
recommendation for an area super
intendent from the Pomaria area.
BIRTHDAY
GREETINGS
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March 2: David Stone, Margie
Ingram, Grady Force, Ralph G.
Higgins, J. R. Nobles Jr.
March 3: James Ralph Wil
liams Jr., Wilbur Boozer, Mrs.
F • A. Truett, Janice Carolyn
Boozer, Jerome Havird, Mrs.
Evelyn Neel Long, Marcia Ross,
David Graham.
March 4: Ralph Connelly,
Crosby Lewis, Ralph Lancaster,
Phil Brooks, Mrs. Hendrix
Monts, Mrs. A. P. Ruff, Chris
tie Crowder.
March 5: Miss Ruby Kinard,
Mrs. Earl Roland, Mary Ann
Connelly, Mrs. Everette Gra
ham, Mrs. Ethel Morphy, Cor
nelia Nalley, Mrs. E. E. Hite,
Mrs. W. F. (Bill) Graham, Pat
rick Shealy, Mrs. Robert Wick
er.
March 5: Hugh Connelly, Mrs.
Charlie Bradley, David Rich
ardson, ‘Mrs. P. G. Ellesor, E. F.
Lowell III, Fred J. Weir Jr.
March 7: Mrs. J. M. Hove,
Joseph L. Tolbert, Miss Carolyn
Kinard, Linda Ann Lathrop,
Ula Jollay, George P. Boozer,
Mrs. W. D. Montgomery, Mrs.
Ellerbe Miller, Forrest E. Shealy
Jr. Cheryl Folk, Mildred Shee-
ly, Mrs. Kibler Williamson.
March 8: J. P. Moon, T. S.
Harmon, Ace W. Watkins, Mrs.
Harry Stone, Mrs. Glenn L.
Hamm, Mrs. Katherine Neel
Long, L. A. Black, Andrew
Shealy.
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