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MOST CHILDREN ARE DES
CENDED FROM A LONE LINE
. . . THEIR MOTHERS ONCE
LISTENED TO.
VOLUME: 19; NUMBER 47
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1957 ♦ $2-00 PER YEAR
Impressive Scene At Park
On House, Garden Tour
An inspiring scene at Margaret Hunter Park, which will
be featured on the April 26 House and Garden Pilgrim
age, is the setting for the Easter Sunrise Service held
each year. (Photo by Nichols.)
By The Way
By Doris A. Sanders
MY APOLOGIES
Once in a while, an article which
is commonly used may get to be
known by a trade name, although
the person using that name means
merely to mention the article, not
the company by which it is made.
This happened last week in this
column when 1 mentioned that my
girls asked for a certain type of
strip bandage—I won’t repeat the
name again because I have been
duly called upon the carpet for
doing so last w T eek.
What 1 should have said was
that the girls asked for a CURAD
—and I don’t mind giving you
that trade name, because Curads
are Bandages manufactured by
•Bauer and Black, a division of the
Kendall Company which spends
millions of dollars each year on
payrolls in Newberry County. My
apologies to the Kendal Company
for using that other word last
week.
SWISH BONNETS
Policeman Gene Shealy says
that if I don’t soon get my bon
net, he is going to lock me up in
the city jail for not being a loyal
supporter of Newberry College and
its Centennial Celebration. I have
been fussing about the same thing
for a couple of weeks but now I
lehrn that the bonnets will be
ready for distribution when the
Sisters of the Swish meet Mon
day night at the College. If there
is a sudden appearance of lassies
dressed in bonnets of a 100-year-
ago period on the streets next
Tuesday, don’t be surprised. It’s
all part of the celebration which
is growing by leaps and bounds.
Soon anyone who is beardless and
bonnetless will be afraid to appear
in public.
NAMES WANTED
Df. R. A. Goodman, who is in
charge of sending out invitations
to the College Centennial Celebra
tion, is sure that many Newber-
rians have friends to whom they
would like invitations sent. He
asks that you please send the
name and address of any person
you would like to invite to him in
care of Newberry College, and he
will see that the invitation gets
on the way promptly. He would
like the names as soon as possible.
Lake Hardware
Entered Monday
Sheriff Tom Fellers’ office re
ports that the Lake Hardware
Company, located on the Columbia
Highway near Boyd’s Crossing,
was broken into Monday night
and merchandise amounting to
about $100 was stolen.
There has been no arrest in
the case as yet.
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SINGSPIRATION SERVICE AT
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH
There will be a Singspiration
Service at Calvary Baptist Church,
College street extension, on Sun
day, March 24 at 2 p. m. Every
one is extended a cordial invita
tion to come out and enjoy the
singing and fellowship.
MOTHERS CLUBS HAVE
JOINT MEETING
The Mothers Clubs of Newberry
will hold a joint meeting on Fri
day afternoon of this week at 4
p. m. The principal topic of dis
cussion will be flouridation.
The Newberry House and Gar
den Pilgrimage tickets are now
available to the public at the Nov
elty Shop and Carter’s Flowers &
Gifts. The tickets are $1.50 each.
Information about tickets may be
obtained from Mrs. John Frazier
who is ticket chairman.
\
The charming residence of Mr.
and Mrs. H. A. Kemper at 1601
Circle Drive will be a pleasing
tour attraction. This attractive
home which was built last year is
typical of a large number of new
houses which are being built in
Newberry.
The center of interest in the
living room is a novel Roman brick
fireplace which has a raised
hearth and a* pink marble mantle.
Over the piano is a lovely por
trait of Mrs. Kemper when she
was a child. A unique planter al
so of Roman brick and filled with
beautiful foliage plants frames
the view of the dining area from
the living room-
In the cheertul pine paneled
den, the other side of the chim
ney features a barbecue grill. The
kitchen has a color scheme of cit
ron and red and is co-ordinated
with the den through the use of
rustic pine paneled cabinets with
antique hardware. The furnish
ings and colors throughout the
house convey the contemporary
feeling.
Margaret Hunter Park, one of
the most beautiful parks in the
county, will be another tour at
traction. This park was originated
in 1934 when a committee met in a
four acre pasture which' belonged
to the city of Newberry to mark
the location of a swimming pool.
Two members of that committee
were Mrs. Margaret Hunter and
Dr. Mamie Summer, president and
vice-president, respectively, of
the Civic League at that time.
Shortly after the death of Mrs.
Hunter, Dr- Summer became
president; and the park was nam
ed in memory of Mrs. Hunter.
Upon completion of the swim
ming pool, the Civic League be
gan the beautification of the park
area. Increasing the beauty of
Margaret Hunter Park has been
the favorite project of this or
ganization ever since. Thousands
of shrubs, quince, camellias, aza
leas, and pink and white dogwood
along with many other plants a-
dorn these grounds. The beautiful
old trees have all been preserved
and many more planted.
Every Christmas the Civic
League sets up a manger scene at
the park and sponsors annually
an Easter Sunrise service, both of
which attract thousands of peo
ple from far and near.
The trees, shrubs, and flowers
offer a haven of rest and beauty
to all who care to linger in Mar
garet Hunter Park.
The public is urged to make
plans to attend this tour of New
berry on April 26, and to obtain
tickets in advance.
Wicker, Butler
Are Elected
A special Democratic primary
was held in Newberry County
Tuesday to elect magistrates in
the Prosperity and Chappells-
Silverstreet districts.
In the Prosperity magistrate’s
race, unofficial records showed
W. B. Wicker received 228 votes,
Joe N. Wilson, 200 votes and H.
I. Fellers, 144 votes.
In the Chappells-Silverstreet
race, J. Chess Butler received
153 votes, J. Milton Pitts, 149
votes and R. L. (Bob) Dorroh, 23
votes.
The vacancies in the two dis
tricts resulted when Claud Wilson,
magistrate at Prosperity, died
recently, and Luther B. Beden-
baugh, magistrate of the Chap
pells-Silverstreet district, resign
ed.
The Newberry County Demo
cratic executive committee will
meet at 11 a. m. today (Thurs
day) in the courthouse to de
clare the results of the primary.
Committees Of
Grand Jury
The 1957 county Grand Jury
which convened on March 18th
elected as its foreman Leland Wil
son. In the Jury’s presentment to
Hon. G. Badger Baker, the fol
lowing committees were named:
County schools: Robert D. Byrd
Jr., chairman; M. O. Mayer, Ray
W. Wise, Dan F. Chandler.
County officials: L. F. Spear
man, chairman; Vernon F- Ept-
ing, Parker Martin, Berley Haw
kins Sr.
County buildings: J. H. Cook,
chairman; T. A. Hargrove, Her
bert S. Fulmer, E. O. Shealy.
Chaingang, roads and bridges:
W. B. Hite, chairma#; William E.
Senn, Aubrey Davis, Keitt Pur
cell.
Reports of these committees
will be given in a later .present
ment to the Court.
BIRTHDAY
GREETINGS
March 23: Mrs. Frank Mow
er, Mrs. L. D. Nichols, Joyce
Chapman. Larry Danielson, Lin
da Waldrop, Mrs. J. W. “Bill”
Smith, Luther B. Bedenbaugh.
March 24: Mrs. Fred Richard
son, Mrs. Jeff Waldrop, Richard
Perkins, Hayne Shealy.
March 25: Rev. M. L. Kester,
Nancy Stone, Lt. Howard N.
Parks, David H. Long, Mrs. Hel
en B. Folk, Mrs. Boyd Living
ston, Jeanette Rinehart, Mar
cus Hendrix, Janice Ringer,
Myrle Hanna.
March 26: Caroline Pool, Mrs.
E. L. Blackwell, Marvin Eugene
Schumpert, Sue Hutchinson.
March 27: Mrs. Lucy Smith .
Lambeth, Thomas Hugh Crooks,
Marvin Abrams Jr., Phillip
Earl Cromer, Mrs. -George R.
Summer.
March 28: H. O. Newman,
Elizabeth Ann Ruff, Sylvia
Shell, H. T. Lake, Johnnie S.
Harmon, Horace Cromer, Ralph
Higgins, Ruth M. Swygert,
David Leonard Turner.
March 29: Mrs. Forster Smith,
Mrs. Norma Wessinger Glymph,
Miss Pauline Williams, James.
D. Perry, Tommie Long, Rob
ert Clayton Smith, Jr., Harvey
Drawdy, E. S. Southerland,
George N. Martin..
Invalid Of 24 Years Tries For
*
Relief In Experimental Surgery
The beginning of a journey with the hope of a cure,
Claude Kyzer left Tuesday night for New York to see a
surgeon who may be able to bring relief to an affliction
he has had for 24 years. With him are Mrs. Kyzer and
Billy McSwain, whose ambulance took the Kyzers to Co
lumbia. (Sunphoto by Doris A. Sanders.)
Guilty Pleas, Jury Cases
Heard At Criminal Court
Today ,a Newberry man who has suffered for 24 years
from Parkinson’s disease, commonly called “shaking palsy,”
should know whether there is a chance for him to lead a
normal life the remainder of his days, or whether he is
doomed forever to his bed, completely helpless for the bal
ance of his life.
It all began when Claude Kyzer,
who has been unable to even feed
himself for the past 12 years, and
his wife were both confined to the
Newberry County Memorial Hos
pital with influenza in January.
A nurse on duty called to Mrs.
Kyzer’s attention an article in the
January 19 issue of The Saturday
Evening Post captioned “Daring
Operation for ‘Shaking Palsy’ ”—
with a subtitle, “dramatic surgery
has brought improvement to hund
reds of victims of baffling, insid
ious Parkinson’s disease.”
The story described experimen
tal surgery ^performed by Dr. Ir
ving Gooper at St. Barnabas Hos
pital in New York City, to relieve
the violent tremors caused by
Parkinson’s disease. Absolute al
cohol is injected through a needle
inserted deep in the patient’s
brain center to destroy the nerve
cells which cause the
crippling tremors.
Mr. and Mrs. Kyzer and his
brother, Raymond became intense
ly interested in the hope for a
cure and discussed the article
is repeated several Lmes over two
or three days.
The Saturday Evening Post re
ports that in seventy cases re
ported by Dr. Cooper in 1955,
there had been two postoperative
deaths and two cases of paralysis.
In the Spring of 1956, Dr. Coop
er reported on 145 Parkinsonism
patients: “marked lasting alle
viation of tremor and rigidity in
seventy percent of these patients ”
The mortality rate remained at
slightly less than three percent
and the rate of paralysis at about
two percent.
Knowing all the facts, the possi
bility of death or paralysis, Mr.
Kyzer was not only willing but
anxious to make the trip And un
dergo the surgery if the doctors
decide that he might be benefit-
ted.
On Tuesday night at 7:00 p. m.
7j he was carried to Columbia by
isease s j£ c g wa j n ambulance. There he
and Mrs. Kyzer, accompanied by
Mrs. Raymond Kyzer boarded the
Silver Meteor which took them to
New York. When they arrived,
•4.1. r> i u n r» i u they contacted Travelers Aid for
with Dr. Ralph P. Baker, who . , . ...
n. n .vJ;- hel P in securing living quarters,
The Court of General Sessions,
MJarch term, convened at the
county courthouse Monday morn
ing with the Honorable G. Bad
ger Baker of Florence presiding.
A new grand jury was called
into session and a number of guil
ty pleas were taken on Monday.
On Tuesday, more pleas were tak
en and jury trials began.
Coming before the court were
the following cases:
Willie Chick, driving under the
influence, second offense, one year
or $1000, suspended on service of
three months or payment of $275,
placed on probation for three
years.
George Harold Phillips, driv
ing under the influence, second
offense, one year or $1,000, sus
pended on service of three months
or payment of $225, placed on
probation for three years-
Thomas Cannon, driving under
the influence, second offense, one
year or $1,000, suspended and
placed on probation for^nvo years
Charles Gaffney, assault and
battery of a high and aggravated
nature, one year, suspended and
placed on probation for two years.
Henry Duncan, non-support, one
year or $7.50, suspended, placed
on probation three years and or
dered to pay $10 per week for
support of dependents.
Jesse Dean, non-support, one
year, suspended and placed on
probation for three years and
ordered to pay $10 per week for
support of dependents.
Bill Brooks, non-support, one
year or $1,200, suspended and
placed on' probation for three
years and to pay $20 per week for
support of dependents.
Albert Lee Gaffney, pointing
firearm, six months, suspended
and placed on probation for 18
months.
Eric Richardson, non-support,
one year or $800, suspended and
put on probation for three years,
and to pay $8 per week for sup
port of dependents.
L. W. Burton, non-«upport, one
year or $700, suspended and placed
on probation three years and to
pay $5 per week for support of
dependents.
Smith Davis, non-support, one
year or $7.50, suspended and placed
on probation three years and to
pay $10 per week for support of
dependents.
Walter S. N.‘ Martin, house
breaking and larceny, three
counts, one year on each count
to run consecutively.
Joe Ed Wicker, assault of a
high and aggravated nature, two
counts, two years on each count
to run consecutively.
David Hawkins, one year sus
pended sentence for non-support
revoked for failure to ssupport de
pendents.
Tony Rowe, violation of liqor
law, three months or $300.
Cleo Harmon, whose trial on
charges of involuntary man
slaughter found guilty and sent
enced to two years.
The case against J. P. Brown,
charged with non-support, was
continued to the next term of
court.
John Alfred Hannah, charged
with forgery, was found not guilty
by a jury, Paul Harmon, charged
with driving under the influ
ence^ second offence, was found
not guilty.
Lester E. Harris, charged
with driving under the influence,
second offence, was found guilty
and sentenced to one year or $1,-
000, suspended upon service of
three months or payment of $250
and placed on probation for three
years.
Other guilty pleas and sentences
included:
(Continued on page 5)
wrote to Dr. Cooper on their be
half. Probably because of an ava
lanche of mail following the ap
pearance of the article in the
Saturday Evening Post, there
was a delay in receiving a reply,
so the Kyzers finally decided to
make a telephone call to Dr.
Cooper. The call resulted in an
appointment for Mr. Kyzer to
see Dr. Cooper at 4:00 o’clock
Wednesday afternoon, March 28.
“While Dr. Cooper did not tell
us whether he would perform the
operation,” said Mrs. Kyzer, “he
didn’t discourage us at all. We
told him all about Claude’s condi
tion and he asked that we bring
him to New York for an examina
tion. Whether Dr. Cooper thinks
Claude can be helped depends on
the result of the examination.”
The surgical procedure describ
ed in The Saturday Evening Post
consists of making dozens of x-
ray photographs of the brain-
They are carefully analyzed and
measured by a surgical team. The
patient’s head is then shaved and
a series of guide points marked
on the scalp with dyestuff. When
the patient is ready to undergo
the “surgery,” a special jig is
used to aim the instrument down
through a hole in the top of his
skull, high-speed x-ray photog
raphy used to check, the positions,
and surgeons cautiously inject
absolute alcohol through a needle
deep into the brain to destroy one
key brain center. This is all done
under local anesthesia. The needle
is left in place, and the injection
Miss Maria Neglia, famous personality of the entertain
ment world, spent last Saturday afternoon with Mr. and
Mrs. Jimmy Coggins and family and was interviewed over
WKDK. Miss Neglia, termed tops in her line as violinist
and comedienne, is a native of Italy and has been in this
country eight years. She has been featured with the
Vagabonds on the Arthur Godfrey program and has ap
peared dn the Godfrey program as well as the Steve Allen
and Ed Sullivan Shows. She played a weeks engagement
at the Laurel Hill Supper Club in Columbia, whleh ended
Saturday night, and left immediately for New York where
she will appear at the
will go to Chicago for TV * ^
(Photo by Sims Tompkins.)
and took Mr. Kyzer to Dr. Coop
er’s office at 4:00 p. m.
Mr. Kyzer, who is a former em
ployee of the Oakland Plant of
the Kendall Company, became dis
abled to perform his job 24 years
ago. Hia illness began with a
tremor in his foot, spread grad
ually over one side of his body
and, 12 years ago, completely took
over control of his body. He is
able to shuffle along on his feet
with a person on each side to
support him. He cannot lift his
hands to his mouth or keep them
steady enough to feed or dress
himself. About all he is able to do
is lie in bed and listen to the radio
or watch television. He has lost
almost all use of his vocal cords,
is able to speak in a mumble, in
telligible only to those who are
with him at all times.
Since there has never before
been discovered any sort of cure
or treatment to alleviate this af
fliction, the only relief he gets .is
from shots which are given to him
by Mrs. Kyzer ever£ three or
four hours to calm the violent
tremors.
The good people of the Oakland
community, as well as other
friends in Newberry and mer
chants, hearing of the proposed
trip and possible cure for Mr.
Kyzer, have donated clothes and
money generously to help them
make the trip. The Department
of Public Welfare assisted, and
through the Red Cross the case
was called to the attention of the
Newberry County Chapter of the
Crippled Children’s Society, which
also offered aid. Since their
friends and fellow-workers had
been so generous, Mrs. Kyzer
stated that they had received
enough money for the trip to New
York and expressed grateful, ap
preciation to the Society for help
which will be given should Mr.
Kyzer undergo surgery.
<v We have no i idea what it will
cost. Dr. Cooper made no men
tion of money when we talked to
him, but just told us to bring
Claude on up. We know there is
a chance that he cannot be helped
and we aren’t getting our hopes
too high. As long as there is a
chance, however, we are willing
to try.”
Dr. Cooper wrote a few months
ago: “For the patient, there is
now something to 'offer in place
of a. heretofore hopeless outlook.
AH in all, there appears to be rea
son for judicious optimism.”
Baptist Pastors
Exchange Pulpits
Glenn Street ‘Baptist Church and
West End Baptist Church have
combined efforts in an Alcohol
Education Week. Classes have
been held each evening at Glenn
Street Baptist Church for all age
groups. To’climax this week of
study, Rev. Fay L.' Lanford and
Rev. J. Ed.* Taylor will swap pul
pits Sunday night and will be
speaking on the “Evils of AJeo-