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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
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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-
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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.