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.'Aft- ji£aMVi .*«! ^ ••• ‘ -• *.r-..‘- •■ S’ •. r .r’?^- sy \.v- : V r ©- --v?^; T •': ■■“•" •* -^v? m : K ' Tv Ez Tike says the mo"t important thing to save for your old age i* yourself. One of the Inst ways to climb the ladder of success is to stay on the level. VOLUME 20; NUMBER 15 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1957 $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way * by Jb oriJ Sanders SAD DAY There will be a sad day this week for the many, many friends of Dr. and Mrs. K. A. Goodman, for the Goodmans are leaving Newberiy after 36 years to make their home in Troutman, N C. I was not especially sad to heat that Dr. Goodman was retiring from Newberry College, because after so many years of labor, he deserves a little time to do the things he hasn’t had time to do before. I had no idea, however, that they would be leaving New berry and this news made me most unhappy. Dr. and Mrs. Goodman both always have such a happy, pleasant greeting for everyone, and a friendliness which endeared them to all. Troutman s gain is Newberry’s loss and the only consolation 1 have is that we travel through Troutman occas ionally and will have a chance to drop by and see the Goodman’s in their new home in the “country , located about three blocks from the main highway, but still in the country. I hope they will come back to visit us often, but I’m afraid that being only seven miles from their little granddaughter, Jane White in Statesville, it w r ill be hard to tear them aw-ay from that part of the country once they are settled. PRECAUTION Last Wednesday morning my attention w r as called to the fact that a remaining wall on the de stroyed Palmetto House on' Col lege street was leaning at a dan gerous angle and that several young boys were seen playing in the alley where the wall might have fallen on them at any time. I immediately contacted the own ers of the property, the county health department, the chief of police and acting city manager. While it seemed that responsibili ty for removing the wall rested upon the firm which had been wrecking the building, Police Chief Dowd and others wasted no time in roping off the alley, warning would-he trespassers. Wednesday afternoon, the alley was roped off, and the uneven portion of pavement on which a pedestrian tripped and fell Wed nesday morning, was repaired. Newberry is fortunate to have city and county officials who work so closely for the safety and good of our city and county. fectly capable of taking my chil dren for train rides, to the fire- department and such places and feel that such time spent on these various and sundry excursions could be put to better use in the classroom teaching the fundamen tals of education. It would proh-, ably surprise you to know how much time a student sperms out side the classroom on such excur sions during the elementary grades; on a large number of club activities during high school. If you think high schools are giving your children a proper- education, read what a mathe matics professor at Southern Ill inois University has to say. You may think this doesn’t apply here, but investigation might prove ot herwise: “Background preparation is so bad that the nuprber of high school make-up courses given in college mounts steadily. Even this, had a-s it is, would not be so de pressing if the attitude of incom ing high-school students were not so discouraging. They do not seem to know the meaning of a sense of responsibility. “The attitude in the classes is: ‘Spoon-feed me.’ Don’t try to ex plain why and how a process works—just give a formula that will work the problems. “Now, of course, I am not be rating all students everywhere. We still have topnotch scholars coming in. But their numbers are far too small, and such students are in grave danger of being swamped in a sea of mediocrity. . . . It has meant endless repeti tion of detail for the benefit of the lower end of the class at the ex pense of those who got the idea the first time through. This is a tragic waste of a priceless nat ural resource. To me, at least part of the problem could be solved by insisting on high-school pro grams which make some demand on the student.” Tabulated Vote By Precincts MAYOR WARD j Ward 1 . j Ward 2 I Ward 3, No. 1 j Ward 3, No. 2 Ward 4, No. 1 Ward 4, No. 2 Ward 5 Ward 6 totals :: "C u CC c ’■x. 64 50 4 70 9 34 190 60 481 £ © CC J Alderman Ward 4 Alderman Ward 5 DeHart Parrott Bannister Merchant Layton Coasts To Easy Victory In Primary; Merchant, DeHart Are In XJ u CC 43 30 13 113 12 16 49 36 213 113411251 6311 631 1263 1441 144 217! 191 781 67 50j 162 64! 55 1641 141 194! 302 223! 189 Reforestation Day To Be At Court House Saturday Rev. Wilson At First Baptist On Sunday MY MISTAKE Last week in the article con cerning the stories written by Rusty Harley and Frank Britt, I wrote that Miss Margaret Pay- singer was teacher-sponsofl* for the two young authors. May I correct that by stating that she was sponsor for Frank Britt, and that Miss Louise Buzhardt was sponsor for Rusty Harley. NEITHER RAIN NOR— There is a saying that nothing stops the U. S. Mails, and Boyd Robertson, a rural mail carrier, seems to follow through on this policy with the Newjberry Concert Band. I had promised the girls all last week that I would take them to Willowbrook Park Sunday to hear the band concert. When the dark clouds came up, I as sured them the band wouldn’t play in such weather, but I was wrong. And I made the mistake of riding by the park just as the concert ended. Now the band will have to schedule another concert soon, so that I can take the children and get back on good terms with them. Radio, tV Shop Now On Main St. Black’s Radio and TV Service, formerly located on lower Main Street, has moved to 1309 Main street in the building formerly oc cupied by Martin’s Radio and TV Service, two doors above the Coun ty Bank building. James E. Black, owner and man ager of Black’s Radio and TV, states that the new loation was remodeled and redecorated, and has been equipped for expert sales and repair service. Mr. Black has completed several courses in Radio and TV work, among them being at the Forest Radio and TV School, Chicago, and at the Philco and Emerson plants. He has b^en doing this type of work part-time since 1941, full time for the past eight years. He has been in Newberry for seven years. In addition to Mr. Black, per sonnel to serve you include his wife; Jacob Amick and Willie Senn. Black’s Radio and TV Service is a local dealer for DuMont and Admiral television and Frigidaire appliances. Rev. Kenneth B. Wilson will conduct the morning worship serv- ive at the First Baptist Church on Sunday, August 11, 1957 while the pastor, Rev. C. O. Lamoreux is on vacation. Rev. Wilson, a native of Charlotte, N. C., is a graduate of Davidson College and was associated with the firm of Edwin R. Wilson Architect, Char lotte, prior to his entry into the ministry. At present he is a stu dent at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky. He has served churches both in North Carolina and Kentucky, with current service at the East ern Heights Baptist Church, Jef fersonville, Indiana. Rev. and Mrs. Wilson will visit with Mr. and Mrs. Preston Mc- Alhany while in Newberry. v «, ^ ;V. ^ * • - Cartwright Is Transferred Among the changes in the staff organization of the Columbia of fice of the U S. Forest Service, announced today by Forest Super visor R. J. Riebold, was the trans fer of James B. Cartwright to Co lumbia to assume a new staff position as land use assistant. Mr. Cartwright is a native of Pennsylvania, attended Pennsyl vania State Forest School at Mont Alto, Pa., and after two years transferred to North Carolina State, from which he graduated with a BS degree in forestry. Mr. Cartwright has been with the For est Service for 20 years. He trans fers to Columbia from Newberry, where he has been district Forest Ranger since December 1957. He is a World War II veteran, having served in Europe and the South Pacific. Mr. and Mrs. Cartwright have one child. Charlie and Bill Ballentine, of Roanoke, Virginia, were in New berry the early part of the week to attend a family reunion. They are formerly of the Pomaria sec tion of the county. “Reforestation Day,” promoted by the Forestry Committee of the Newberry Chamber of Commerce, will be held here Saturday morn- inng, August 10. The program of the morning will begin at 10:00 o’clock, according to Newberry District Forester John E. Grah|m of the S. C. State Commission of Forestry. An estimated 7,000 acres is in need of planting to trees in New berry County so that a profit able crop can be grown and har vested, said Graham. The pro gram on “Reforestation Day” will be to inform landowners on the establishment and management of such a crop, a pine tree planta tion. The following outline shows the topics, speakers and length of the program which will tfegin at 10:00 a. m. in the Newberry County Courthouse. Welcome, T. Roy Summer, Pres ident Newberry Chamber of Com merce, 10 a. m.; Forestry Com mittee Plans, H. M. Hentz, chair man Forestry Committee, CofC, 10:05; Moderator’s Introduction, P. B. Ezell, Newberry County Agent, 10:10; The Value and Fu ture of the Forestry Industry, James B. Cartwright, District Ranger, USFS, 10:15; Nursery Production— State nursery, Wil- burg H. Reames, Forester, State Comm, of Forestry, 10:30; West Va. Pulp and Paper Co. nursery, George , Watson, forester, West Va. Pulp and Paper Co., 10:40; Break, 10:5^. Site preparation, planting stock, selection and planting, Dave Morison, forester, Champion Pa per & Fibre Co., 11:00; Assist ance, forestry agencies and in dustry, John E. Graham, Dist. Forester, State Comm, of Fores try, 11:20; Allied Management Items, John Billingsley, Consult ing Forester, 11:30; ACP and Soil Bank^—Ashby E. Long, County Of fice Manager, ASC, 11:50; Ques tion period, 12:00. According to Graham, farmers are continuously seeking new crops that will yield substantiej profits from their investment. At “Reforestation Day,” *they have the opportunity to learn about such a crop. Graham urges farm ers and other landowners to at tend this very informative pro gram. Ernest H. Layton listens to the happy news over Radio Station WKDK as he learns that he was nominated as Mayor of Newberry in Tuesday’s Primary. Mrs. Layton is just as happy about it as her husband. (Sunphoto.) MORE MATH It was good to see the recom mendation of a joint committee from the Aesociation of South Carolina College and the South Carolina School Administrators Association, that high schools add more required math courses for college-bound students. The col leges and universities, it seems, are getting a little tired of having to set up remedial courses in sub jects which should have been taught in high school. \^th more and more students wanting to en ter college, I would not be sur prised to see the schools of high er education in. this state do as the University of Illinois did—notify the secondary schools that reme dial courses will be dropped and caudidiates for college will either Ijheir background in high ior will not be accepted. I that the public schools ed but as a parent, I paying taxes to provide an education for my children, not nine ! months of quasi-academic, social activity. I feel per- The Suncamera catches Mr. and Mrs. Alfonso Smith placing their ballots in the box at Ward 5 Tuesday afternoon, as managers Mrs. Lillie Goree, Mrs. Frances Berry and Edgar Hiller, left to right, seated, look on. (Sunphoto by Doris A. Sanders.) O. E. S. To Hold Instruction School The Sixth District of The Or der of The Eastern Star will hold a school of instruction on Friday, Aug. 9th at 8 o’clock at The Ma sonic Hall in Prosperity. The dist rict consists of chapters in Laur- e^l Clinton, Joanna, Whitmire, Newberry and Prosperity. ‘une Worthy Grand Matron of South Carolina, Mrs. Eva Long of Georgetown, and the Worthy Grand Patron of South Carolina, Arthur Burton, of Charleston and other Grand officers are expected to attend this meeting. Mrs. Bes sie Dawkins is the District Deputy Grand Matron of the Sixth district. The banquet will be at six o’clock. \ MR. MERCHANT PROFIT IS MADE A final statement prepared by the treasurer of the Newberry College Centennial, Inc. shows a net profit of $1590.44 from the various activities of the centen nial. MR. DE HART Granite From Nichols Farm In County “ Worlds Best” Both from the standpoint of sales and the materials handled, ihe CarcEna Royal Blue Granite Company is i big one. The tre mendous slabs of granite brought from the Nichols farm in the Mt. Bethel-Garmany section of the county, a few miles from Newberry, may weigh anywhere from three to ten tons each. Mrs. Raymond Nichols, present owner of the company, stated that during the 33 years of opera tion of the plant, there has never occurred an accident to cause serious injury, “although we are always expecting it, because of the heavy nature of the material handled in the quarry and the plant.” Clyde Adams, present manager of the plant, explained further, “we never move one of these heavy slabs without first looking around fon a way to jump in the event something should cause the slab to fall.” Carolina Royal Blue Granite Company was started in May 1924 by Byron Nichols, who mov ed to South Carolina from Maine in 1900 to work. on an extension to the State House. He acquired a 400-acre farm nine miles west of Newberry and began to quarry the Royal Blue Granite^ which has only .82 of one percent iron oxide content. One cubic inch of the rich blue stone will withstand close to 17 tons of pressure. Iron oxide is that element in granite which turns it to a rusty brown color when it is exposed to the weather, and according to the late Mr. Nichols, there is less irun oxide in the stone quarried from the Nichols mine than any other granite in the United States. For this reason it .is recognized as the finest stone of its kind for monuments. The first operation of the com pany in Newberry was the ship ping of rough granite to monu ment dealers throughout the South. When the depression hit the nation in 1929, orders- stop- i ed coming in for his stone and assisted by his son, the late Ray mond Nichols, he began cutting his own monuments. The demand for his monuments continued to expand until 1947, when Mr. Nich ols lost the sight of one eye, and after more than 60 years in the stone cutting business, he was forced to turn the entire opera tion over to his son. Under the direction of the younger Mr. Nichols, the opera tion continued to grow. He built a new 8,000 square-foot shop out of the scrap rock around the quarry, and installed more than $50,000 worth of equipment and machinery. Like his father and his grand father, the younger Mr. Nichols was “raised on stone.” When he was nine years old, he went into a blacksmith shop and sharpened a drill. Then, before his father knew what he was doing, he cut a ten-foot line and broke it. (cut out a block of granite ten feet long.) From that time, his life was devoted to the granite busi ness. From his mother, who now re- (Continued on page 4) js. & Wmmmm iwip • ?■&&. ' v,"-: 'A iy. V*o • ' .* s. I Clyde Adams, manager of the Carolina Royal .Bine Granite Com pany, discusses the operation of the plant in his office in tee Mt. Bethel-Garmany Community. (Sunphoto by. Doris A. Sanders.) A mayor and two aldermen to terve the City of Newberry for the next two years were nominat ed in Tuesday’s Demoratic pri mary by a more decisive vote than has probably been seen in a city election in many years. The total vote was 1927. Ernest H. Layton, councilman for ten' years, easily landed in the mayor’s chair by garnering 341 votes more than the combin ed vote elicited by his two oppon ents. Mr. Layton’s vote was 1134. Cecil E. Kinard, who is complet ing his first term as mayor, re ceived 481 votes. Uavid L. Laird, who - during his campaign, ques tioned the manner in which the city administrations have run the city’s affairs for the past several years, evidently did not convince the voters that anything was wrong, for he tailed the ticket, receiving 312 votes. Clarence B. DeHart, a local contractor and newcomer to poli cies, easily overcame his oppon ent, A. P. (Pete) Parrott and will replace mayor-nominee as aider- man from Ward 4. The vote was 1251 for DeHart, 631 for Parrott. Cecil Merchant, who is serving his first term as alderman from Ward 5, was re-elected by defeat ing his opponent more than two- to-one. He received 1263 votes, James Bannister received 611. In addition to those nominated above, the councilmen nominated without opposition were: Ward 1, Frank Armfield; Ward 2, C. A. Dufford Sr.; Ward 3, S. D. (Bo zo) Paysinger; Ward 6, Dwight W. Jones. Members of the new city coun cil, if successful in the General Election in November, will take office in January 1958. A tabulation of the vote by pre cincts will be seen elsewhere on this page. “The, C^ty Democratic Executive Committee will meet tonight (Thursday) to declare the results of the primary official. GOODMANS LEAVE FOR NEW HOME Dr. and Mrs. R. A. Goodman will leave Newberry this week for their new home in Troutman, N. C Dr Goodman, beloved Bible professor at Newberry College, retired at the end of the summer school session. He and Mrs. Good man are both natives of Iredell County, where they will spend their life of retirement. GREETINGS August 10: Katherine Rebec- co Truesdell, Tommy Chappells, Joe Roberts Sr., Mrs. Dove P. Connelly, Sue Harmon, Mrs. Doris Brooks, N. C. Shaver, Jefcsie Dandy, Linda Cook, Mrs. Virginia Berley, Rodney Cook Ouzts, Larry Creekmore. August 11: Leonide Reagin, Mrs. Jeff Suber, Ned Danielson, Janelle Livingston, Peggy Bow ers, Nina Ann Sheppard, Lu Ellen' Neel, Miriam K. Leslie, Mrs. J. A. Chasteen, Keith Wicker, Jerry and Terry Koon. August 12: J. J. Boazman, Clarence Kinard, Mrs. Gordon Leslie, J. Dave Caldwell, Pat Ray field, Clyde Livingston, Bill Stuck. August 13: Micky Jenkins, Rosalind Werts, Tom P. Wicker, David Waldrop, R. C. Hunter, Alfredia Livingston, Mrs. F. C. Hentz, Barbara Alice Amick, F. J. Kennerley II, Henry David Warren. August 14: ‘Trip** Hargrove, Mrs. P. C. Plampin, Mrs. Clay Ballentine 1 , Carroll Looney, Lor is Boland, Deborah Brady, Dud ley Dominick, Miss Sadie Den nis, Patricia Lake, Ike Dfennis Jr^ Debbie Lipscomb, P. K. Ful- er. August 15: Mrs. James Mills, Miss Sadie Bowers, Mrs. Wil liam Partridge^ Mary Lane Chapman, Mrs. Ruth Walton, Ann Leopard, Mrs. Arthur Ear- gle, Charlotte Pelham, Gary Pope, Dow Bedenbaugh, Jose phine Anne Tindall, Cecil EL Merchant, Ella Rae Blake. August 16: Price K. Harmon, Mrs. Holland Sligh, Barney Yates, Billy Dickert. Cynthia Sue Merchant, Martha Folk, Mfcry Katharine Stone, Mary Bedenbaugh, Cathy Graham, Mary Anna Long, Clyde Living ston Jr. f'. 4 -;y .: '.. .y'y. A ‘ V-!* '