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* - * i ‘ >' i ’ £ > , o 6 f\ He Ez Tike says the most import- an; thinp to save for your old age is yourself. An old-fashioned girl is one h ho prefers them to martinis. $2.00 PER YEAR £fy - C' C& IT S IMPOSSIBLE Sometimes I find that it ;s im possible to scold a child, I believe the pre-schoolers of nowadays are learning to reason at too early an age for their parents to keep up with them, or perhaps we just have a generous-hearted daughter. Anyway, the 2 l > year old, Ruthie, has for the past several months stopped tearing up the little books she has because she is now interested in having them read to her. Since she had ceased being so destructive, 1 bought her a new book Monday. Tuesday, dur ing their routine reading session before their naps, Ruthie took one of the books and tore the cover off. I began scolding and asked “Ruthie, w r hy did you do that?” Her reply: “I just wanted you to have part of it, Mommy.” LITTLE LEAGUE There is at least one person who reads this corner of the Sunpaper and I know it, because quite of ten his opinions and mine differ, and be has no hesitancy about telling me so—a fact I like! On the subject of Little League, he feels that too much emphasis is on “sportsmanship” and not enough on “aggressiveness.” I agreed that a child should. be taught to excel insofar as he is capable, but how is a boy to learn when he is told not to even come to practice ? From what I can gather, this Little League contro versy canont be dealt with gener ally because of the seemingly vast differences in management of the various teams. I have neither the time nor the inclination for such an extensive investigation, but will be glad to print any facts about any of the teams provided such facts are authenticated. Fortunately, members of the family who were cooling off on the porch of this house saw the truck coming and fled in time to escape injury. Two rooms and all furniture in them were completely de molished. The tractor-trailer suffered a similar fate. (Sunphoto.) Meaning Of Civil Rights Bill As Explained By Tom Anderson w UNBELIEVABLE We had occasion to do a littl# business with the government the other day. We sort of dreaded it, fully expecting there would be at least a dozen forms to fill out, with at least four copies of each, or more. After we had discussed the transaction with the appro priate government employee, he said “I’ll get the forms for you to fill out.” We eat back and nerv ed ourselves for the ordeal. The man came back with—believe it or not—ONE form, and only two copies of that We insisted there must be some mistake—where was all the red tape? That was it, he told us. Then to top it all, we read in the instructions on the one form he gave us “Submit only one copy, keep the other for your information’.” We still haven’t quite recovered from the shock. SCHOOL BUDGET You will notice elsewhere in this issue that the budget com mittee of the county board of edu cation still does not have the bud get for the year which began July 1st ready for adoption. This may sound a little bad, but actually it is good. Work on the budget was held up to some extent until the General Assembly finally got around to adopting the pay raise for teachers which it knew all lihe time it was going to adopt despite all the controversy. The county has to pay a number of teachers this increase, since they are paid totally from county funds with no state aid—there fore it was not known, for pur poses of preparing a budget, any way, how much money would be needed for this increase. The main hold-up, as far as I can deter mine, however, is that rather than accept a list of figures for this year set up on the basis of last year’s operations and adopting the thing generally as a matter df form, the budget committee is going thoroughly into each and every item with a view to cutting out every item not absolutely nec essary to the operation of the schools, whether it involves few many dollars. If and when sy ever get around to the adop tion, I expect to give you a full report as to how much the com mittee has been able to accomplish ill saving your tax dollars and putting them where they will do most good. STROM “GREAT” Senator Strom Thurmond, along Senator Johnston and other itatives of Southern states, worked hard and long to pre- want passage of the vicious Civil bill pending in the Senate, of interest to note the it of Senator Russell of who described last iCantfamed on page 3) By TOM ANDERSON IN Farm and Ranch Magazine What is the Civil Rights Bill, and what does it mean to you ? “Civil Rights” means that if you’re a Protestant who hires only Protestants, or a Jew who hires only Jews, or a Catholic who hires only Catholics, you can be prose cuted by the federal government. It means you could be forced to hire the same number of Swedes as you do Italians or be punished for discrimination against “na tional origin.” It means if you run a dancing school you could be forced to hire a qualified Negro instructor or face possible subpoena to appear before a U. S. District Judge (they’re appointed for life by the President) in a distant city at your own expense and prove your self innocent. It means that if a school, park, public rest room (private homes and clubs are ex empt, so far) is de-segregated and you try to interfere or pre vent it, you are subject to arrest and imprisonment for contempt of court. It means integration would be enforced by army bayonets and martial law. Under the Civil Rights Bill the Attorney General of the United States could bring legal actions in your name whether you desired to go to court or not, and the Civil Rights Commission could summon you on 24 hours notice from any part of the United states to any place it might desig nate to defend yourself against charges of which you were ignor ant until you got the subpoena. Conform or Be Carpet-Bagged Under the Civil Rights Bill now proposed, the Justice Department could get a federal court injunc tion against anyone who is “about” to take away another’s civil rights or voting rights. If you defied the government when it told you you had to hire a “qualified” Negro as your secre tary, or as a salesman, or as a lifeguard at the swimming pool, you would be tried on criminal contempt charges without a jury. Civil Rights means perhaps the beginninng of the end of state government and individual free dom in America. That eminent Socialist-turned- Democrat, Walter Reuther, says, “The problem of Civil Rights in the U. S. is an international issue . . . the key issue in the world.” We must pass Civil Rights leg islation, the Reuthers, Harrimans, and Kefauvers profess, to keep Russia from exploiting against us our archaic horse-and-buggy con ceptions of constitutional law, trial by jury and other freedoms guar anteed by the Bill of Rights. Imagine! We must impress Rus sia, where the only people who vote are the 11 men in the Krem lin .. . where American soldiers with hands tied behind their backs were “tried” by being machine gunned into a common grave . . . Russia, which has butchered 20 million of its own citizens. Or, are we trying to impress England, where aristocracy and colonialism still reign ... or South American countries where mili tary dictators “re-elect” them selves without opposition with guns? Or, maybe it’s the African cannibals, or the untouchables of India we’re trying to impress? The same liberals whose hearts bleed so profusely for minority groups are now trying to kill the right to filibuster, which is the right of unlimited debate unless two-thirds of the Senators vote to cut off debate. The two-thirds requirement is adequate safeguard against the abuse of free speech and is in itself a protection of the minority. Few Northerners, even the worst bleeding hearts, if they knew and understood deep-South areas where backward blacks out number whites in some areas two and three to one, would favor in tegration and full voting privil eges. As in backward colonial de pendencies, a people has to earn equality. To thrust it on them is to guarantee chaos. The beleag uered, back-to-the-wall South is not defying the Constitution, but upholding it. The Supreme Court not the South, is guilty. The Court is guilty of unlawful and unconstitutional judicial and pre judicial tyranny. The New Deal ers, Modern Republicans and Cru sading Justices are forcing us down the road to a centralized Socialist-Labor welfare state, in which individual states and indi viduals are under the heel of an all-powerful federal autocracy. Let All Americans Vote On Civil Rights Amendment Under the Civil Rights Bill an enlarged army of federal bureau crats and F.B.I. agen£s will march through Georgia laying waste to the Southern way of life and leaving in their wake swarms of Civil Rights carpetbaggers to in timidate the people and supplant local law with federal law. Lower court justices, who hate to be re versed, are already being intimi dated. A Civil Rights law will be ignored, evaded, ridiculed and hi jacked by the people no less than was the Prohibition Amendment, which was at least voted in (and out) by the people. All the Amer- (Continued on page 3) iiSM. - cSc. \ v <; s; . ipilfll r lilf^ 'i:C v.-r : ’ ?. .xb • •- Participating in services held Sunday at West End Baptist Church, during which Rev. and Mrs. J. Ed. Taylor were dedicated missionaries by the Baptist Home Mission Board, were, left to right. Rev. Lloyd Hellams, pastor of Southside Baptist Church, Columbia; Rev. Fay L. Lanford, Rev. Taylor, Dr. Clovis A. Brantley, assistant secretary of Direct Missions, Baptist Home Mission Board, Atlanta, who delivered the message; Mrs. Taylor; Rev. C. O. Lamoreux and Rev. Lamar Gamble. Rev. and Mrs. Taylor will do mission work among migrant workers in the Southern Baptist Convention territory along the Mississippi Valley. (Sunphoto.) Board Sees Plans For Addition To School; Budget Not Yet Prepared Members of the County Board of Education sweltering in a non- air conditioned conference room at their regular meeting Tuesday night, quickly disposed of the business at hand and adjourned. Most of the items acted upon were of a routine nature. It had been expected that budget for the 1957- 58 fiscal year, which began July 1, would be presented and adopt ed at this meeting; however, James D. Brown, superintendent of education, reported that the bud get committee, consisting of Jos- House And Truck Are Almost Demolished: No One Is Hurt Board Not Be Open August 5 The Newberry County Board of Registration announced today that its office will not be open for issuance of reg istration certificates on Mon day, August 5th as was prev iously announced. The Board members will be attending a special meeting in Columbia to receive instructions for fu ture issuance of certificates. Any person who wishes to obtain a duplicate registra tion certificate may do so by contacting any member of the Board of Registration. Painful Visit To Spartanburg It might be sometime before Mrs. S. C. Campbell decides to visit in Spartanburg again. After she and Mr. Campbell had spent several days in Sumter last week with their children and grandchil dren, the Kenneth Mims, they went to Spartanburg to visit their son, Boyd Campbell and family. While weeding some flowers there, Mrs. Campbell encountered what was thought to be an adder which objected to the intrusion and promptly bit her on the finger. Her grandson, Billy, a Boy Scout well versed in the art of first aid, immediately applied a tour niquet and Mrs. Campbell was rushed to the hospital where doc tors gave Billy credit for probably saving his grandmother’s life. Mrs. Campbell’s entire arm was swollen and blue and she was in much pain for several days. She was allowed to return to her home here Sunday provided she would “take it easy” for several days. Band Concert To Be Sunday On The Square The 246th Army Band, under the direction of Chief Warrant Officer Charles P. Pruitt, will present a concert on Sunday after noon, July 28, at 4:30. This concert will be given in front of the Old Court House on the square in Downtown Newber ry. The public is invited to attend for an hour of enjoyable listening to a well rounded program of good band music. There is plenty of parking space near the square and the band can be heard and seen from parked automobiles. The progam consists of the fol lowing: March under the Double Eagle Wagner Relax Yoder Colonel Bogey Alfred Pavanne Gould Bugler’s Holiday Anderson Robinson’s Grand Entry March King In My Merry Oldsmobile, Edwards The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea (Bass Solo) King Gippsland March Lithgow The Viking March - King The Star Spangled Banner. By MRS. A. H. COUNTS A Negro tenant house was shat- tered by a runaway tractor trailer truck around 8:30 Monday night nine miles north of Newberry on the Greenville-Columbia highway. The empty trailer truck side- swiped an out-of-gas farm truck parked along the highway, bounc ed across a cotton field and knocked down a pine tree eight inches in diameter before coming to a stop inside two rooms of the house located a quarter of a mile from the highway, Highway Po- trolman D. F. Smith said. No one was seriously hurt in the accident. The driver of the truck, David Faircloth, 33, White, told investi gating officers that when his truck crossed a ditch, he ^ was knocked from under the steering wheel and was unable to regain control. Owner of the truck, which was demolished, is W. G. Argoe of Columbia. The side was ripped off the parked farm truck whose driver, James Robinson, 17-year-old Ne gro, had gone to get gas when the accident occurred. The owner is Henry L. Parr of Route 3. Both trucks were headed south toward Newberry. Occupants of the tenant house were William Long and his six-i member family. One person, a^ unidentified woman, was trapped in the wreckage but was appar ently unhurt. The other members of the family saw the truck com ing and got out of the way. Investigating the wreck, in ad dition to Patrolman Smith, were Patrolman D. E. Abrams, and Newberry sheriff’s deputies L. L. Henderson and Hugh Shannon. Local Men On Alumni Group Cyril B. Busbee of Cayce has been elected president of the Uni versity of South Carolina Alumni Association in the annual mail election, according to Dr. Daniel W. Hollis, acting secretary of the Association. Among those elected as counci- lors-at-large to serve two-year terms was Robert Raysor (Bob) Bruner, Jr., of Newberry, who was graduated in 1937. Hold-over vice-presidents in clude, from the eighth circuit, Richard L. Baker of Newberry. ATTEND SYNOD , J. W. Abrams and Dr. Neil E. Truesdell attended the Syaod of South Carolina Presbyterian meet ing which was held in Rock Hill Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. eph L. Keitt, Dan Hamm Jr. and David Waldrop, had not yet com pleted the proposed financial op eration of the schools for this fis cal year. Chairman W. H. Caldwell stated, however, that the committee had spent much time working up a budget and expressed his appre ciation to the members for giving so much time to the matter. Supt. Brown stated that the budget “probably will not be ready before the next regular meeting.” Al though the budget has not been completed, the county delegation has already set the school levy at the same rate as last year, 30 mills, after discussing but not seriously considering a suggested increase. Architect’s plans for the addi tion to Gallman High School were presented to the Board, approved and were taken Wednesday to the State Finance Commission in Co lumbia in an effort to secure the necessary funds for the construc tion. P. K. Harmon, director of schools, reported that members of the commission had advised him that some requests for building funds were being held up due to the uncertain condition of the bond market and that there was no guarantee that funds for this ad dition would be forthcoming any time soon. The addition will include 7470 square feet of space on the ground and first floors on the Langford Street side of the existing struc ture. Over 4000 square feet of this are on the upper level, estimated to be built at a cost of $9.00 per square foot; the remaining space is on the ground level, estimated at $6.00 a square foot. The upper level addition will contain four classrooms; below, there will be a band practice room, offices, and a book storage room which may lat er be converted into a classroom if needed. The approximate cost of the building was estimated to be about $58,000. With the addition al fees and cost of equipment, the total cost is expected to run about $64,750. Bids for construction will not be requested until the project is approved by the Finance Com mission. Supt. Brown announced that bids for fuel oil and coal were opened Tuesday morning at 10 a. m. The Board awarded contracts to the low bidders as follows: To Cities Service, Farmers Ice and Fuel Company, low of five bidders for fuel oil, at the rate of 3.3 cents off of tank wagon price, for supply throughout the county. To C. T. Summer, Inc., coal to all points in the county, with the exception of Whitmire, at $11.70 per ton. Leaman Coal Company, coal for Whitmire, $12.25/per ton. The Board decided not only to renew a boiler insurance policy on all schools, but to double the lia bility. The three-year policy cur rently in , force with Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance Company, which expires in October, offers $50,000 coverage for explosion in each of 20 schools in the county. According to Company officials, doubling the liability coverage will cost approximately $200 a year additional premium. Prem iums paid for the past three years beginning with the 1954-55 session were $1264, $1174 and $1091. Supt. Brown stated that the in surance company regularly in spected the boilers, at least once a year and usually more often. Mr. Harmon read the schedule for the 1957-58 session of school, suggested by the area superintend ents, and it was adopted as fol lows: School openings for Prosperity, Pomaria and Little Mountain white schools, August 30th; ail other schools, September 2nd; Thanks giving holidays, November 28 and 29; Christmas Holidays, December 20-January 6; State Teachers Meeting, March 21; Easter, April 4-7; school closings May 30. The Board decided to turn over the Bush River shop to Bush Riv er community for operation. This was the only remaining shop in the county being handled by the school system. The operation of the shop and cannery will be un der the sponsorship of a commun ity organization to' be designated by the Bush River Advisory Board. The operation will be completely separated from the school system, and salaries and other expenses will be paid by the sponsoring or ganization. The Board favored a proposal to allow the cannery and shop to retain funds on hand, which will be shown as net profits, to be used for operational pur poses. Director Harmon gave a list of statistics showing the average attendance at county schools dur ing 1955-56 and 1956-57. The list shows a decrease in the average attendance at Newberry city ele mentary schools, Newberry High school. Bush River elementary, Whitmire High, Whitmire elemen tary, Pomaria High, Little Moun tain elementary and Prosperity High. There was a considerable increase in average attendance at Silverstreet elementary and high schools; a slight increase at Bush River high, and Pomaria elemen tary and a ten percent increase at St. Phillips elementary. The at tendance at Littll' Mountain high remained the same as for the last session, and Prosperity and Stoney Hill elementary each increased by about two percent. In contrast to the decrease at the white schools, the average at tendance in the colored schools in creased in every instance with the exception of Rikard Elementary, which remained the same as last year. The increase in colored at tendance ranged from two to nine percent. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Graham Infant Rites Saturday Funeral services for the infant son of Forest Lee and Lucy Chapman Graham of the New Hope community were held Sat urday morning at the graveside in St. Matthews Lutheran Church cemetery by Rev. M. T. Cullum. Surviving are his parents, two sisters, Patsy and Judy Lee Gra ham; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Luther E. Chapman and his paternal rgandmother. Rev. and Mrs. J. Ed. Taylor are shown will be their home in their new work asmissionaries to migrant workers. The trailer was on display after Sunday dedication serv ices at the West End Baptist Church. A reception for the Taylors was also held at the church following the service. (Sunphoto.) July 27: Mrs. D. D. Darby, Annette Young, Mrs. Ada Liv ingston, Miss Allene Graham, Bobby Hawkins, C. A. Dufford, Sr., Mary Regnery, Allen Gra ham, Elsie H. Creekmore, Mike Darby. July 28: Thomas H. Pope, D. L. Nance,. C. B. Parr Jr., Louis Ray Ringer, Joseph Lint coin Tolbert Jr., Mrs. E. E. Ept* ing, Robert Hipp Copeland, Neal Dickert, Clara Coleman, Jackie Bozard, Mrs. George P. Haw kins, Woodie Livingston, Robbie Ann Creekmpre, N. R. McEl- veen, Dorothy J. McElveen, Hugh E. Merchant, Miss Bertha Gray Gallman, Mrs. Bill Stuck. July 29: D. ^L. Wedaman, Welch Wilbur, Tommy Folk Sr., Doris Goree, H. T. Oxner, Clar ence DeHart. July 30: Harriette Morehead, Bil! Hawkins, May belle Yatefe, Mrs. J. C. Counts, Mrs. Ben H. Caldwell, Mrs. C. S. Hazel, Mrs. Lillian N. Werts, Mrs. Hugh Ballentine, Lillian Yanderford, C. Purcell, Kenneth Cook, Mrs. Joe Bedenbaugh, Beverly De Hart. July 31: Mrs. Danny Pay sin ger, Mrs. Robert Lee Ruff, Mrs. E. B. Carlisle, C. E. Bauknight, Annie L. Sutherland, Roy Bed enbaugh, David Folk. August 1: Mrs. Rachel Mow er Spivey, Tommie Len Hen derson, F. A. Longshore, Ann Stewart, Mary D. Boozer, Mrs. C. E. Long, Nathan Culclaanre, Gordon N. Clarkson. August 2: Mrs. M. W. Clary, Dr. Louis Patrick, Debra Jane Bowers, Mildred Chapman, Ann Bowen, W. P. Lathrop, B. B. LeHzsey Jr., Willie Graham, Eva B. Clary, Nancy Bouknight, Mary Elhm Gist.