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One nice lhin£ about our local bail team you don t ^orr> about in juries. No one > pood enough to hurt the team's chances •'! be did get injured. j | | VOLUME 20; NUMBER 10 I Life’s golden age is when the children are too old for baby sit ters and too young to borrow the family car. + $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way * by ^borid Sander3 under-education Continuing this week the senes of discussions about the increas ing trend to under-educate the children of this country, those who are capable of learning, i an. quoting today from an article m the June 21st issue of l . S. New- and World Report, i his was wtit- ten by Dr. John Colbert Lynch, a professor of Education at De- Paul University, Chicago. 1 didn t see this article until last week; however, it bears out to much ex tent what I had to say several weeks ago on the subject of high school diplomas and other trends in our local schools. “For the ‘ills’ that occur at the elementary and secondary levels of American education, their causes must first be given deep consideration. One of these ‘ills or ‘criticisms’ is that we have fat too many boys and girls attend ing the various grades in our elementary and high schools who are not achieving at their grade- levels. “A philosophy of education ‘guiding’ American educators dur ing the past 50 years seems to propose in part that ‘the slow learners learn from the fast learners and the fast learners learn from the slow learners.’ “In answ ; er to the above propo sition. 1 may state that the ‘slow learners’ do learn from the ‘fast learners.’ They learn that they themselves are far less competent than the ‘fast learners’ and, as a result of so learning, they are in clined to acquire slothful habits and their synonymous behavior patterns of laziness and frustra tion. “That the ‘fast learners’ learn from the ‘slow learners’ is like wise too true. They learn that the experiences provided for the ‘average student’ become so meaningless and unchallenging to them t*hat they also become frus trated in scholarly achievement and also acquire ‘slothful habits.’ The ‘fast-J«<MTWC«V-Ht,tending in a situation which proves more un challenging each day, soon become ‘average students’ well on the w 7 ay to becoming ‘slow students’ and ‘misfits/ “Along with the competent stu dents, there are several other ‘types’ or ‘classes’ of boys and girls attending oUr elementary and secondary schools today. The majority of them are in school not because of ability, ambition or choice but because the ‘law’ re quires them Ho be there.’ Among these children, who are classed other than competent, we find (1) those who are mentally in competent; (2) those w T ho are emotionally disturbed, to a criti cal degree; and (3) those who are so socially incompetent as to make them ‘unfit.’ “This diploma has reached that ‘pinnacle’ of doubtful successful attainment that it could mean ‘anything to anyone and nothing to some.’ In far too many in stances the diploma signifies that the boy and girl ‘have completed their time.’ This time appears as approximately eight years for the elementary diploma, plus an ad ditional four years for the sec ondary diploma. No indication is given of the frustrations suffer ed by the boys and girls: the com petent student in not having been sufficiently challenged, and the incompetent ones in having chal lenged everyone and everything but scholastic attainment. “In striving to meet the de mands of the progressive educa tors of the 1920s, the experience proponents as well as the life-ad justment advocates of the same and later periods, our schools have been led into the disturbing fictional situation of ‘striving to please everyone and in reality pleasing no one.’ “We have Progressed and Ex perienced our children *to death.’ We have Adjusted and Re-Ad justed our curriculum and courses of study, until at times we won der: ‘Just what are we striving to accomplish?’ “In far too many instances, the teacher in the elementary and secondary school is faced with the dilemma of striving to teach boys and girls who are socially, emo tionally and psychologically in competent. Far too much of the teacher’s time is spent striving to make adjustments for the so cially and emotionally disturbed children, who belong in some type of corrective or restraining insti tution and not in the classroom with normal, healthy boys and girls. “The traditional eight-grade and high-school diplomas, as has been previously stated, no longer pi reser it a t.ru< < pselu , re < f the ac hie v emc nts < ! <) u r i )(.i\ " a r>c /'i in-. The t rau}t ion a i ^raced Su Him ; , with i:' ■ "pram- - tardardC J ; ; U < < ■ n ; < ( . l.\< ON MS n \ 1 I nu tue tnat if- * : f 7 : . \ 1 of • X. \\ > WUf num azn ' i edi- tc >r> ; ire eon/i at a.a!)j * U- t h * ■ X a - 11' u n a 1 Hdueatr ’>!; A ' ' ou lation on it r' entenmai uu as Ur; a 11 mi, -tat- in P “Si : is fittin a r that t he XEA st- mu Id meet in I ’h bade Td ,ia, birth- pl ace of our rat ion' s f reedom, (K icaus e for a cent un * its mem- t It ■ i s h iHYe been work] n g vigorous- i V lor f reedom a s w e i i a: - for bet- tc r ed ueatioii f or ail . “In the same issue, o n page 75 is an Three Professors Are Added To Newberry College Faculty article “A Nmie - Too - Happy Glimpse Into the Teen-age Mind.” This deals with a 15- year survey made by Dr. H. H. Remmers of Perdue and his re search associates, trying to find out by querying sonic- 25,0(1(1 high school students directly, what the American teen-ager thinks. The conclusion: “it seems doubt ful that many American teenag ers are learning enough about their country and its government. The astonishingly large number who obviously don’t believe in the 1 Rill of Rights (this supported by statistics shown in the article) and other safeguards of American freedoms is ‘the most sinificant blind spot of our high school youth’,” says Remmers. Remember that these are the students being taught through the guidance of the National Educa tion Association to its teacher- members. The editor’s remarks about the NEA, and the conclu sions found by Dr. Remmer, do not seem to be consistent. Other things learned from the Remmer research: “Some 1 8(1 per cent of the students tested feel most courses are practical, hut only 14 percent agreed that ‘aca demic background’ was one of the most important things school should give. Rather, ‘knowing how to get along with people’ was rat ed No. 1 as the school’s teaching goal by almost three-quarters of the students.” Wright Goes To West Point William R. (Randy) Weight left Newberry Saturday to enter the United States Military Acad emy at West Point. He is the son of Lt. Col. William P. Wright, army advisor to the 228th Group, South Carolina National Guard, and Mrs. Wright. Pvt. Wright has been a member of the 228th Group since Febru ary 195fL He was graduated from Newberry High School in 195b and attended The Citadel at Char leston during the past year. As a National Guardsman, Pvt. Wright stood the examination for appointment from the Guard to West Point. He successfully com pleted the examination, but in the meantime, received a Congression al appointment to the Military Academy. County Opens Supply Bids More than 35 bids were received by the Newberry County Board of Commissioners for county sup plies for the next six months. The bids were opened Monday morn ing at 10:00 o’clock by Supervisor S. W. Shealy, Commissioners Cl. T. (Tab) Werts and Carman Bouk- night. and Clerk Olin Lominick. Among the contracts awarded were the following: For regular gas and chassis lub ricant, Standard Oil Company; Motor Oil, C. D. Coleman Com pany; diesel fuel and kerosene, Aubrey Davis; Diesel oil and trac tor roller grease, The Texas Com pany; Transmission and differen tial grease, Gulf Oil Company; annti-freeze, Farmers Ice and Fuel Co. Also, prison clothing, $27.95, Summers Road Machinery Com pany, Columbia; nails, Thomas and Howard; bushaxes, picks, axes, files, Lominacks Hardware; truck, tractor and motorgrader tires and tubes, C. T. Summer, Inc.; stor age batteries, Goodyear; lumber, Earle Boozer low on most items; motor grader blades, S. C. Equip ment Company and Summers Road Machinery Company; janitor sup plies, paper goods, Thomas and Howard and Epes-Fitzgerald. Less than half of the bids sub mitted were from county business firms. DR. THU ROW President (’. A. Kaufmann an nounced this week the following appointments to the faculty of Newberry College: In the Department of Bible and Religious Education, The Rev. Francis I. Fesperman of St. Peters burg, Fla. has accepted the Call to become Assistant Professor of Bible and Religious Education, his work to begin in September, 1957. Pastor Fesperman will also serve as Chaplain in charge of all religious activities at Newberry College. Pastor Fesperman is a native of North Carolina and is a grad uate of Lenoir Rhyne College receiving the A. B. degree In 1941. He received the B. D. de gree from the Lutheran Theolog ical Southern Seminary in 1945. He has competed most of his grad uate work at Chicago Lutheran Seminary toward the S. T. M. de gree. This summer he is at Chic ago Seminary for further study. From 1945-49 he served as pastor of the Lake City Lutheran Parish, Lake City, Fla; from 1950-51 he was a Mission Developer at Gain esville, Fla; since 1951 he org anized, was mission developer up until his resignation as Pastor of St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, St. Petersburg, Fla. He has been active in the work of the Florida Lutheran Synod, having served as Secretary of the Synod for a number of years. He is married to the former Kathleen Castor and they have two children, Martha Lou and Luther Paul. In the Department of Natural Sciences, Doctor Gordon Ray Thu- row has accepted the appointment to the position of Assoc. Professor of Natural Sciences (Biology and Zoology). Doctor Thurow is a nat ive of Illinois. He received his Ph. B. degree (1948). his B. S. degree (1950), his M. S. degree (1951) from the University of Chicago. In 1955 he received the Ph. Lb degree from Indiana Uni versity. Since 1955 he has been serving in the U. S. Army, stat ioned at Frederick, Md. He is a member of a number of learned and professional societies in the field of biology and zoology. Dr. Thurow is married and is a Lutheran. Dr. and Mrs. Thurow- have a son, Michael Gordon. In the Department of Music, Kernie N. Wessinger has accepted the appointment to the position of Assistant Professor of Music (Theory and Voice). Mr. Wess inger is a native of Chapin, and graduated from Newberry College in 1950 with the A. B. degree. He received his M. A. degree from | t|||| MR. WESSINGER REV. FESPERMAN George Peabody College for Tea chers in 1951 with a major in Music Education. He has studied voice in New York City and Denver, Colorado. This summer he will be at Col umbia University doing further graduate study. From 1951 to 1956 he was in the T7. 'S. Atr Force. Mr. Wessinger is single and a member of the Lutheran church. Workers Plan Vacations Thousands of Newberrians will be looking forward to at least a one day vacation this wejgk as stores, offices and manufact uring plants close down for the July Fourth holiday. Employees of the Mollohon and Oakland plants of the Kendal] Company, and employees of the Newberry Garment Company be gan vacations the first of this week. Newberry Mills, Inc. will close down Thursday morning at 6:00 a. m. and remain closed until Monday, July 8 at 6:00 a. m. New berry Mill employees had a two- week vacation period the latter part of May. Several business firms will be closed today (Wednesday) and Thursday: W. E. Turner, Jeweler, Fennell’s Jew-elery Store, The Nov elty Shop, Jones Florist and Gits, Carter’s Flowers and Gifts. Most other business establishments, with the exception of some grocery stores, will observe the usual Wednesday closing at 1 :00 p. m. and will remain closed Thursday. Among the office's and firms closing Thursday are all offices in the Newberry County Court House, offices of the city, The Newberry County Bank, The South Carolina National Bank, Newberry Federal Savings and Loan Assoc iation, The State Building and Loan Association and The Bank of Commerce at Prosperity. They will be open for business as usual on Friday, July 5th. Many Newberrians are planning weekend holiday trips and they have been urged by South Carolina Highway Patrolmen to drive care fully. The patrol will be out in force to keep an eye on careless drivers. Firemen, Sprinkler System Save Spartan Grain Co. Exchangites To Have Ladies Night Tuesday The Exchange Club of New berry will hold its annual Ladies Night program on Tuesday eve ning, July 9 beginning at 8 p. m. According to an announce ment made today by President Harry E. Moose, an interesting program has been arranged with McBride S. McFadden of King- stree as speaker. Mr. McFadden is Postmaster at Kingstree and president of the South Carolina Postmasters As sociation of South Carolina. “He is an interesting and entertaining speaker,” Mr. Moose said, “and Exchange Club members and their ladies are looking forward to a most enjoyable evening.” C. C. Wertz will be caterer for the dinner served in conjunction with the Ladies Night program and festivities will take place in the building which w r as formerly the lobby of the New-berry Hotel. Vocal selections will be given on the program by Mrs. Hazel Gilfillan and Miss Joyce Pruitt. President Moose will preside and serve as toastmaster. Wells Theatre Closes Doors Fulmer Wells, for many years owner and operator of Wells Theatre in Newberry, announced last weekend that he had leased the theater building and equip ment to Theo Albrecht, owner and operator of the Ritz Theatre. Mr. Wells will retain his interest in the Clover-Leaf Drive-In Theatre, which he and Mr. Albrecht also ow-n and operate. Mr. Albrecht stated that the Wells Theatre will remain closed for the present, and the best se lection of pictures will be showm at the Ritz. Mr. Wells stated that he decided to lease Wells theatre, which he had personally operated, in order to spend more time on other busi ness interests. Top Students At S. C. University The following Newberry County students qualified for the honor roll or dean’s list at the end of the spring semester of the Uni versity of South Carolina, accord ing to Registrar Henry O. Sfro- hecker: Dean’s list, juniors and seniors, average grade of B-plus, very good to excellent: Robert W. Pugh Jr., Prosperity. Sophomore Honor Roll, average of between B and B-plus: Helen Kaye Ringer and Donald W. Young, Newberry and Donald F. Teseniar, Whitmire. Freshman Honor Roll, average of B: Mary Louise Dickert, New berry. 1 .■CPU;;- Newberry Beauty Is Named Carolina’s Miss Universe Kidnap Suspects To Undergo Mental Tests By MRS. A. H. COUNTS Judge Steve C. Griffith Monday signed orders, committing thj-ee kidnap suspects to the State Hos pital for a 30-day sanity examina tions. Sent to the hospital for obser vation were Thomas D. Jacobs, 59, member of a prominent Clinton family, and two Negroes, Jobie Shelton, 28, and William T. Hill, 60. They are charged with conspir ing to kidnap the 4-year-old son of Clinton banker Robert M. Vance Sr. A preliminary hearing in the case had been scheduled for Tues day before Clinton Magistrate Sam McCrary. Judge Griffith,; however, ordered the examina tion to begin immediately and Laurens Sheriff C. W. Wier later said he would take the three to Columbia early Tuesday morning. Judge Griffith’s orders provided that the three be confined to the state penitentiary unless their cus tody is requested at the State Hospital. The motion for the orders was made by Solicitor William T. Jones and was agreed to by attor neys for Jacobs and Shelton. Hill, who was not represented by a lawyer was included by Judge Griffith. Jacobs is represented by st^te Rep. David Sloan of Laurens and Shelton by Laurens attorney Mar shall Abercrombie. Mrs. T. P. Wicker has return ed to her home on Langford St. last week after undergoing sv^;- ery at the Newberry County Me morial Hospital. She is recover ing nicely. Civilian Soldier Training Is Successful FORT STEWART, Ga.—South Carolina National Guardsmen who trained here June 9 through 23 are back home now, but the sharp blasts of tank and antiair craft fire which echoed through the scrub pine thickets of this coastal Georgia military installa tion still ring in their ears. Unit commanders of the 51st. Infantry Division’s 263rd Tank Bn. and 107th AAA AW Bn., as well as non-divisional units, 713th and 678th Gun Bns., the 3649th 'Ord. and the division’s Recon. Co. (with the tanks) all proclaimed the training program “highly satisfactory.” The division’s antiaircraft ar tillery battalion, under the com mand of Lt. Col. James W. Hen derson of Newberry, found again that this base’s facilities were ideal for the type of maneuvers it undertakes. The 107th fired daily from its ranges 17 miles from its headquarters, using both stationary and moving targets. The ack-ack units again this year fired at the elusive R-Cats, which are radio controlled artil lery targets about the size of a large canoe. The Cats, shaped like tiny airplanes, are controlled from the ground, and swoop ac ross the horizon in front of the weapons at a high rate of speed. The mission of the weapons is to cut them down. Non-division anti-aircraft units at Fort Stewart conducted train ing missions similar to that ac complished by the 107th. Their’s, however, are guns rather than automatic weapons, and fire a larger calibre shell. Both the 713th under Lt. Col. William M. Pollard of Greenville, and the 678th, under Lt. Col. Julian Cray ton of Anderson, reported mis sions well accomplished. Both are units of the 228th Group with headquarters in Newberry. Their work was observed on Tuesday by Maj. Gen. Parmer W. Edwards, and his party from Washington. Gen. Edwards is the Commanding General of the Sec ond Regional Air Defense Com mand. He watched an R-Cat dem onstration by the 678th, and lat er moved to the area of the 713th. At the conclusion of the demon stration planned for him, he told the commanders that he was pleased with what he had observ : ed at Fort Stewart. Movement to and from camp was a smoothly-rolling operation, showing w T hat the various com manders termed the dovetail ing of good advance planning, and properly-disciplined execution of the operation. Fringe areas of the actual train ing program at Fort Stewart also won nods of approval from com manders. Messes were both adequate and enjoyable, they reported. The men they said, were getting a taste ful, balanced diet carefully pre pared from master menus and food issued the mess officers. Bill eting, they reported, was suitable for the purpose, and comfortably housed the men and their officers for the duty they were to accom plish. Chap. (1st Lt.) Harold Wells, who served with the 263rd, said the cooperation he got from com manders was “outstanding,” and that as a result the religious training of the men was not neg lected. He was able not only to schedule his regular services, but also to accomplish other work necessary to completion of the chaplain’s mission. “It’s been a fine two weeks for our section,” the chaplain reported after the training ended. Overall, the work at Stewart will be registered as “highly suc cessful” in most units, with the aim of making it even more sup erior in the years ahead for the South Carolina National Guard. A young girl who’s going west had visions of fresh California and national laurels for herself and South Carolina after she em erged from 37 contestants Friday night as the new South Carolina Miss Universe. Jean Spotts, 20 year old blonde beauty from Newberry, was busy at her home today receiving con gratulations and best wishes from friends throughout the Newberry area. Miss Spotts, a graduate of New berry High School and bow a the fire was discovered at dent at Limestone College, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fuller Spotts of Newberry. With vital measurements of 36- 24-36, she will leave July 11 for Long Beach, Calif., where she will compete for the national Miss Universe title taken last year by her predecessor, Betty Lane Cherry of Orangeburg. If she wins in the national con test, she will then challenge beau ties from over the world in the Miss Universe finals. The Newberry beauty, who will also receive a wardrobe, has been winning beauty titles for some time, having been named queen of the 1956 Timmonsville Tobacco Festival and honored as most con genial of contestants in a pre vious Miss South Carolina con test. She will attempt to follow in the tradition of South Carolina beauty ^winners. Miriam Stevenson, now Mrs. Donald Upton, won the Miss Universe crown, and Miss Cherry won the American compe tition. July 4th fireworks began early at Spartan Grain and Mill Com pany on Caldwell street when smoke was discovered coming 1 from the top of the main build ing on Monday night, July 1st. John Harp, night watchman, dis covered the smoke and summon ed the Newberry Fire Department. The sprinkler system at the Spartan plant was touched off by the heat at about the same time the fire department arrived, and the firemen with the aid of the sprinkler soon had the small blaze extinguished. Clifton Hattaway, assistant manager of the company, stated about 8:20 p. m. The fire was touched of by a hot bearing on some of the machinery. He esti mated the damage at between $1,000 and $1,200 to materials stored in the building. All dam age was caused by water with the exception of a wall which was smoked up enough to necessitate repainting. All losses were covered by in surance, accordin to Mr. Hatta way. Burly Fretwell is manager of the local plant of the Spartan Grain and Mill company. Kaufmann Speaks At Central Dr. C. A. Kaufmann, president of Newberry College, will be guest speaker at the Sunday morning service of Central. Methodist Church. Guardsmen Off For Active Duty Three members of Newberry’s National Guard unit will leave Saturday, July 7 for Fort Jack- son to begin service of six months active military duty. They are Harmon Eugene Brehmer Jr. and Thomas M. Walker of Headquart ers Battery, 228th Group, and Gary L. Harmon of Battei^r C. 107th Battalion. Brehmer and Walker have been members of the guard since April 25th and both attended summer encampment with the 228th at Savannah River Defense Area, Aiken, where they trained in the meteorological sec tion. Both men will spend two months in basic training at Fort Jackson, and have requested spec ialized training in meteorology after completing basic. At the end of their six months’ service, they will return to the 228th Group to complete their military obligations. Pvt. Harmon has also been in the guard since April and is as signed as a mechanic in Battery C: He has requested mechanics as special training when he com pletes basic training. WESLEYAN GUILD The Wesleyan Service Guild of Central Methodist Church will meet Tuesday evening, July 9 jn the Social Hall at 8:00 p.m. All members are urged to be pres ent. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS July 6: Miss Sara Wilsoit, J. J. Hipp, Billy Armfield Jr., Mrs. J. S. Thompson, Karen Lominack, Sandra Gail Dawk ins, Pam Phillips, Rogers Lew is Ringer, C. K. Brown, Beth Boulware, Walter Lake, Mary Ann Watkins, Nancy Jane May er. July 7: Miss Rose Hamm, Dr. Claude Sease, Mrs. David Long, Carolyn Andrews, Dr. V. W. Rinehart, Jackie Martin, Lula May Hawkins, Randy Senn, John P. Livingston, Earl Bozard, Sadie • Merchant. July 8: Mrs. Constance Arm- field McHargue, E. L. Lominick, John McCullough, Mrs. Foster B. Spotts, Betty Stone, Olin Lominick Jr., Tommy Buzhardt. July 9: “Rusty” Wilson, L. Pope Wicker Jr., Ronnie Mich ael Bedenbaugh, George W. Martin, Lang H. Ammons, Mir iam Jollay, J. H. Cook Jr., Mrs. D. R. Son, James Swygert, John L. Edwards, Troy Math- eney, Donnie Devore. July 10: Mrs. Evelyn Leavell Davis, Sara Ann Nichols, Geo. Senn, George W T . Summer, Louis Brossy Jr., Paul Hutchin son, Gus Franklin Jr., C. A. Dufford Jr. July 11: Beth Long, Mrs. Jessie Dawkins, Mrs. F. A. Longshore, Doris Marie Sheeley, Ralph E. Epting, Frank Smith. July 12: Mrs. E. W. Yates Sr., Buddy Waldrop, Wayne S. Spearman, F. R. Higgins.