Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A lot of marriages would work out better if the head of the house would remember to bring home some applesauce along with the bacon. Doc Holloway told Gramp Fears that pain in his leg was just a sign of old age. Graraps says that’s a lot of nonsense ^ . . the other legs is just as old and doesn’t hurt a bit. VOLUME 20 ; NUMBER 32 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5 1957 + $2.00 PER YfcAh By The Way By Doris A. Sanders EDUCATION I noticed several weeks back that South Carolina teachers are again seeking a pay raise. Little good it will do them, unless Sput nik has caused a change of heart in the persons of George Bell Timmerman, Edgar Brown and some other politicians of the state. I wonder if they know that at the beginning of the current school year, 26 subjects were dropped in South Carolina schools because qualified teachers could not be secured, and that of those 26, most were courses in chemistry physics and math ? Little wonder that Russian moons were first in space when the youth of America, who might be the geniuses of the future, have no chance to study the subjects essential for planning tomorrow’s world. The information about the num ber of courses dropped came from ‘‘Bulletin Board” an informational pamphlet published by the South Carolina Association of School Boards and the S. C. Congress of Parents and Teachers. Other in teresting facts in the pamphlet were: 284 white elementary teach ers are teaching subjects for which they were not qualified; the same is true of 270 high school white teachers in the state as of October of this year. At the be ginning of the current school session, 331 vacancies for teachers existed in the white schools of this state. On October 15, there were (and most likely still are) 284 existing vacancies. What is to be done? Well, a meeting to be held at the High School auditorium Monday night mighf start action in some direct ion. Notice of the meeting is else where in this issue. If you are interested in our schools, I sug gest you attend. I understand that meetings of this sort will be held state-wide. If there is some unity throughout the state, perhaps something will be accomplished. SOMETHING NEW Something new has been added o the Christmas street decorat- ons in our fair town, und what , refreshing sight it is. The color- d lights across the streets in the last looked fine at night, but miser ibly cold and bare in the day- ime. This year, with the “riffles” ts our daughter calls them—of duminum foil covering the bare rires, the decorations are just is pretty, if not prettier, in day- ime as at night. :OUT BAZAAR Elsewhere in this issue is a itice that the Girl Scouts of ewberry will have a bazaar tom- row (Friday) at Kirk Motor jmpany on Main street. I hope >u will find time to be there, rst because you will be able to iy many attractive and useful »ms; also because the purpose the bazaar is to raise funds to -roof the Scout cabin which is aking badly and to complete nversion of the basement into oop meeting rooms. The businessmen in town are eluded in the plans for this izaar because coffee will be sold- wiU home-made Danish coffee ke-all day long and the men are ged to take their coffee break riday at bazaar headquarters. For those who haven’t gotten ound to buying Christmas de rations and -presents, you will id the answer to many of your oblems. There will be “ready- ade” arrangements for sale, as »11 as materials to make arrange- ents for the “do-it-yoursJelf.” lere will be a white elephant le a fish pond and a variety items such as good things to t, jewelry, pillows, doll clothes, iristmas stockings and hand dip- d candles, aprons sugar plum ees, almost anything you want. The project is sponsored by the ewberry County Girl Scout Coun- [ and most of the items for le were made by the Scouts, •ownies and their parents. They ive worked** hard, and I hope u will help make this fund-rais- g effort a success. Klent Copeland, who underwent appendectomy at the Newberry emorial Hospital last Monday turned to her home on Main reet Thursday. She is recuperating nicely and pects to return to hfcr fourth ade classroom at Boundary St. bool next Monday. Santa Arrives 3:30 Friday Santa Claus will arrive in New berry Friday, December 6th at 3:30 p. m. and will be greeted with a short band concert on the public square by the Newberry Concert band. After his welcome, he will be at his headquarters below Rose’s store for the remaind er of the afternoon, and all day Saturday. He will make a return visit on December 20th and 21st. Santa Claus helpers are remind ed that business firms will re main open all day on Wednesdays from now until Christmas and will be closed on December 25th and 26th. Davis Is Master Amity Lodge 87 At a regular communication of Amity Lodge No. 87, AFM, Monday evening, December 2nd, the following officers were elect ed for 1958: Heyward S. Davis, Woshipful Master; B. Meredith Harmon, senior warden; Ewell G. Cotney, Junior Warden; Joseph M. Hove, treasurer, and Prof. F. Scott Elliott, secretary. Other officers named were the Rev. James R. McKittrick, Chap lain; Ferdinand J. Summer, senior deacon; William E. LeValley. junior deacon; Jeter Young, ste ward; George William Heller, Jr, steward; and James E. Nichols, tiler. Following the election, these new officers were installed and will assume the duties of their offices December 27th. SCNB Local Men Promoted The promotion of eighteen staff members and officers of the South Carolina National Bank in the Cen tral district of the bank was an nounced this week by Thomas C. Vandiver, Regional Vice President in Columbia. Those receiving promotions in the Newberry branch were John T. Noris, Jr., Joseph L. Keitt, and Lewis J. Shealy. Mr. Norris has been promoted from manager to Vice President in charge of the South Carolina National Bank in Newberry. Mr. Keitt has been promoted from as sistant manager to assistant cash ier. Mr. Shealy has been promoted from assistant manager to assist ant cashier. Lions Hear Football Talk By Coggins James F. Coggins, owner and manager of Radio Station WKDK and play-by-play football sports- caster for the Clemson College radio network, was guest speak er at the meeting of the Lions Club held Tuesday night at the Community Hall. Mr. Coggins was introduced by Lion Buddy More- head, chairman of the program committee. The speaker’s discussion dealt with the method of broadcasting a play-by-play description of a football game. He told the Lions of the extensive amount of work and scouting necessary in the preparation of such broadcasts; of the equipment used and the part played by telephone com panies; of the vast number of charts and statistics which must be studied by announcers prior to games. He particularly com mended the work of spotters, and the part they play in successful announcing of football game act ion. An interesting question and answer period was held after his talk. Another special guest of the club was Ed Blackwell, Jr., who was the Lions Club representat ive to Boys State in Columbia. Ed thanked the club for sending him there, and outlined the pro cedure and day by day program at Boys State. Lion Floyd announced clubvisit- ations to Whitmire Christmas Eve and to the East Columbia club on January 10. Mrs. James E. Wiseman, Sr. entered Duke University Hospital at Durham, N. C. Sunday. She is expected to undergo surgery there today. Development Board Kickoff Banquet Planned March 31 Dawkins Infant Dies Monday James B. Townsend, 29 of New York City was killed instantly about 11:30 a. m. Tuesday when his car, shown above, and a milk truck collided on the Greenville highway just west of Joanna. The driver of the milk truck, Jonas D. Shealy of Greenville, suffered minor head injuries. Mr. Townsend, alone in his car, was pinned behind the steering wheel. State highway Patrolman J. L. Collins said the accident occurr ed about 100 feet fr<yn where U. U. S. Highway 76 crosses the railroad tracks in an “S” curve between Joanna and Clinton. The officer said his investigation in dicated that Mr. Townsend’s 1957 ford was in the left lane of the highway at the time of the crash. toward reenville and the truck east to- rd Joanna. 1 Patrolman Collins said the Ford was demolished and that the truck was damaged to the extent of ^bout $1400. s Uaurens County Coroner Joe F. Smith empanelled a jury and said he would fix a date for the in quest later. (Sunphoto) Bruce Leslie Dawkins, two-year and-three-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. (Bob) Dawkins, died late Monday in a Charleston hospital. Mrs. Dawkins is the former Miss Doris Bowers. The Dawkins child was a na tive of Prosperity. Surviving are the parents; two sisters, the Misses Miriam and i Barbara Dawkins, both of Pros perity; the paternal grandmoth er, Mrs. Lillie N. Dawkins of Newberry; the maternal grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Bowers of Prosperity, and a num ber of aunts and uncles,:., , Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at 3:30 p. m. at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church by Dr. Thomas F. Suber. Burial was in the church cemetery. ? Hill Resigns As Tax Collector Tabor L. Hill, delinquent tax collector for Newberry County for the past 13 vears, resigned that position in a letter addressed to Senator R. Aubrey Harley on November 29. The resignation is to become effective on December 31st. Mr. Hill gave as his reason for leaving the job his declining health. Because of his health, he said “I am unable to perform the necessary outside duties of this office in the diligent pursuit of delinquent taxes. Upon this basis, I herewith submit my resignation as delinquent tax collector of Newberry County to become ef fective December 31st, 1957 at. 5:00 p. m.” The resignation has been accept ed with regret by the County Del e-gation. Walton B. Half acre has been appointed to replace Mr. Hill. Bedenbaugh Rites Held Wednesday Mrs. Rebecca Rodgers Beden- baugh, 74, died at the Newberry County Memorial Hospital Tues day ofter an illness of seven weeks. She was born in Newberry Coun ty but had lived most of her life in Saluda County. Her husband was the late Levi Bcdenbaugh. Her father was the late Hugh Rodgers and her mother the late Mary Montgomery Rod gers. Survivors include two sons, two daughters, a sister, Mrs. Lissie Banks of Newberry; 21 grandchild ren and 33 great-grandchildren, Funeral services were conduct ed at Bethany Methodist Church, of which she was a member, Wed nesday by the Rev. William Reid and Rev. Charles Thomas. Burial was in the church cemetery. County Receives Forestry Money Forest Supervisor Paul H. Rus sell announced today that over $352,000 in National Forest re ceipts are being distributed to 13 South Carolina Counties in which the Sumter and Francis Marion National Forests are located. The largest payment goes to Berkeley County which will receive $107,- 613,.87. The second largest pay ment goes to Oconee County which will receive $44,929.64. Payments to counties are one- fourth of gross receipts received by the National Forest during Fiscal Year 1957. These returns to the counties are for road and school purposes. Receipts are ap portioned according to the area of National Forest land in each county. The returns to the two counties in the Francis Marion National Forest amount to over 57 cents per acre. The Sumter National Forest payments are over 61 cents per acre. National Forest receipts are principally from the sale of tim ber, rental of land and grazing privileges. Last year the two National Forests in South Caro- ina sold 73,200,000 board feet of timber. Carle Concert Friday Night Standing room only is expect ed Friday night, December 6th at Newberry High School audit orium when a concert of religious music will be given by Bill Garle, a former Broadway personality who gave up a life of fame in order to devote his time and tal ents to the presentation of sacred music. The concert being sponsored by the Methodist Youth -Fellowship of Newberry, is free of charge. The public is cordially invited to attend. Included on the program wi|l be the following: Whiffenpoof Song, Stout-Hearted Men, The Lord’s Prayer, How Great Thou Art, Down in Depths of Sea, I Walked Today Where Jesus Walked Silent Night and The Day Christ Was Born. Honor President Of Champion Co. Reuben B. Robertson, Chairman of the Board of The Champion Paper and Fibre Company, has been selected aS "the recipient "of the 1957 Human Relations Award given by the National Society for the Advancement of Management. The award is usually made on an annual basis, but in years when there appears to be no suitable candidate it is withheld. Mr. Robertson, who maintains his home and offices in Asheville, is the first North Carolinian to receive the S. A. M. Human Re- The payment to Newberry Coun ty’ is $33,980.16, ^ ... 0. W. Watts Dies Suddenly Otis Wilsdn Watts, 53, died suddenly early Monday morning in Jacksonville, Fla. He was en- route to his work when he was stricken. Mr. Watts was born and reared at Prosperity, and was the son of Mrs. Florence Ellisor Watts and the late J. S. Watts of Pros perity. He had made his home in Florida for a number of years. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Louise Metts Watts of Jackson ville; one son, Otis Watts Jr.; hj* mother; four sisters, Mrs. Qtarlh: Miller of Pomeria, Mrih4 because our Bill Shannon is Improving after having undergone surgery in the Veterans Hospital in Columbia on Tuesday, November 26. He is still a patient there. j Monday Night Patrons of Newberry, Silver- street and Bush River Schools will hold a public meeting next Monday night, December 9 in the Newberry High School auditor ium. The purpose of the meeting will be to present school prob lems and needs to the people. The public is invited to attend. An interesting program on school operations in Newberry County and in South Carolina has been planned by & committee com posed of the PTA presidents of the district, a • i'i Among those participating on the program will be Dean Philip T. Kelly of Newberry College, The Reverend Neil TYuesdell, Mr. C. M. Smith, Mrs. I*. A: Hargrove, Mr. Clifford Smith, Mr. David Waldrop, Mr. Don Rook. . , The meeting will last only one hour and begins at eight' O’clock Monday 'evening. Y ; Pink Hawkins of Newberry; Mrs, Colie Metts of Little Mountain; Mrs. Claude Richardson of Pros perity; 3 grandchildren. Funeral services and burial were Wednesday in Jacksonville. Delegation Plans Open Meeting Plans are nearing completion for the second annual South Carolina House Delegation open meeting in the Senate Chamber of the State Capitol in Columbia at 9:00 a. m. Monday, December 9th. Congresman McMillan, Chair man of the House Delegation, announced that Representatives Dorn, Riley, Ashmore, Hemphill and Senator Thurmond will join him in open hearing. It is hoped that Senator Johnston and Con gressman Rivers can also attend. A long list of witnesses re presenting agriculture, industry and every segment of the State’s economy will* appear. The explos ive civil rights, Supreme Court, troops to Arkansas situation is expected to come before the Dele gation. The legislators appeared be fore a packed Chamber last year and this year, with Sputnik and racial unrest, an even larger crowd is expected. The hearing will be open to any witness or any tax- paying citizen. ' Walter and Arden Hallman of Sumit spent the week with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Harmon. lations Award. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, a graduate of Yale University and a student at the Law School of Cincinnati, Mr. Robertson was admitted to the Bar in 1903 and joined the Champion Paper and Fibre Company in 1906. He ad vanced to the presidency of this firm in 1946 and became chair man of fhe board in 1950, the office he now holds. Among his most significant ac complishments have been his con tributions toward the achievement of human relations, not only with in his own organization but throughout the world of free enterprise. He was a founder, and is still a director of the Southern Industrial Relation^ Conference, serving as chairman from 1927 to 1946. His lifelong recognition of the rights of the individual has led to harmonious, productive and co operative working relationships in his own company, and was an influential factor in his selection for the 1957 S. A. M. Human Relations Award. By Tom Anderson The Russians may beat us to the moon with Sputnik. But I’ll bet we get the first with Foreign Aid. Our missle development was turned oyer to the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Russia got ahead of us not because of bur “econo"^’ spree” Russia out-sputniked us highest of whkh'- ; *Glen each other instead of the enemjrd So Russia took outer space while^ J we -took Little Rock. If we should get to the m< first and stake out a full of good land and craters fill irrigation water, wonder what it do to cotton allotments? Even if we don’t find good land and there, our Bureau of Rec and our Corps of Army Elnginee: will take care of that. They spec ize in~ developing unneeded land, reclaiming deserts, making lakes out of craters, draining swamps and inundating rich bottoms. While the Department of Agri culture is idling 28 million acres through the Soil Bank, the Bureau of Reclamation is reclaiming untold millions of acres though irrigation and drainage. Our nat ional policy seems to be to de velop all land reserves and uri usuable resources regardless qf cost or need. We subsidise the plow to tear up the soil, then susidise the dam to catch the silt. We de stroy wildlife shelter here and build shelter there. Price supports and “conservat ion” subsidises have paid about half the cost of converting thou sands of acres of duck marshes into wheatlands. The wheat went into government storage and the ducks went to some government created sanctuary somewhere else. USD A is now helping drain about 15 million acres of wetlands in the Mississippi Valley and the Coastal Plains of the Southeast Because we need the land? Or be cause the army of bureaucrats has to keep thinking up absurd things to do in order to hold their jobs ? Marshlands are a soil bank of black gold guaranteeing food and fiber for future generations. Drained and plowed, those lands deterioate. They should be kept under water until that time in the distant future when we can get no further profitable increases from land now under production. THE DESERT GOLD IS OUR GOLD Your government has spent and is spending billions of dollars of your tax money to reclaim millions of acres of desert in 17 Western states to produce irrigated crops to be sold to government storage. Before the multitudes of dams were built in the West, cities out there had serious water shortages. Industries couldn’t leave our cities back East and go West until the rest of us agreed to subsidise the cutting of our own throats. Ever hear of the Colorado Stor age Project? You should. It’s being built now. If you live in Alabama, it’s costing your state about $11.4 million, Georgia, $15.3 million; Kentucky, $12.7 million; etc. That’s just for the beginning billion dollars to get the Colorado Stor age Project going. Total eventual cost is estimated at $5 billion. That’s approximately what the entire farm program n costs per year. There will. be i The Kick-off Banquet for the Newberry County jbieveiu^inent Board will be held on Monday night, March 31, with R. M. Coop er, chairman of the South Carolina Development Board as guest speaker, it was announced today by T. Roy Summer, Jr., president of the local Chamber of Commerce, which will go out of existence on the same date. Response from present Chamber members, when asked whether they favored dissolution of the Chamber and transfering member ships to the Development Board, was overwhelmingly in favor of the transfer. As a result of the- expressed wishes of its »members, the Chamber’s Board of Directors voted Monday night to dissolve the Chamber on March 31, 'the end of its business year. Amembership drive for the New berry .Chunty Development Board will get underway in the near future, and it is hoped that Dir ectors of the board, one from each of the county’s seven tax dis tricts, may be elected in February so that the organization will be perfected in time to begin operat ions on April 1, 1958. The County Development Board is the outgrowth of a meeting held last August of representat ives of municipalities through out the county to discuss publicat ion of a brochure advertising the county to industry interested in locating in the South. Formulation of the Board moved aheod step by step, with a Constitution and By-Laws already having been a- dopted, and was culminated by the decision of a majority of Cham ber of Commerce members to join the Development Board in Hen of continuing the Chamber. .world, with tht* thjrd . largest re servoir in ttye , world and the seventh largest hydro-electric power plant in the U: S. It calls ftir irrigato® pf 886,090: acres of arid lan<} in a five-state area. It’s been estimated that th£ M £ost of irrigatirig this, lajhd; will ’ be 82,700 an acre. ^ f "v RUSSIA SPUTNIKS . WHILE WE SPORTNIK The bureaucrats, politicians and self-seekers who put this’over on you argue that it will increase industry, population, and tourists so much that it will pay for it self in increased taxes in a short time. Pay for itself by taking people, industry and tourists from the rest of the country, whose people paid for itl This is the same old Roosevelt-Veblen-Key nesian socialistic formula: Debt doesn’t mean anything . . . the more we go in' debt, the more prosperous f we are. “The Reclam ation Era,” one of the thousands of government publications costing you millions to tell you what to think at your own expense, and to provide jobs for the ever-grow ing army of bureaucrats, says: “We will have opportuhities for recreation so vitally needed for our enjoyment of better living and particularly needed to accommo date a growing population with more leisure time, paid vacations, and early retirement.” The Romans once had even an easier life— so easy the Empire was destroy ed. We are in a war for the world. We’d better get to work. Most assuredly a nation of less-and-less work-for-more-and-more-pay wor kers ... a nation of “sportsmen” and Best Pasture The Piedmont District Grass land and Dairy Field Day was held at Moonville in lower Green ville County Tuesday. Over 100 farmers and county agents from 15 counties attended. “Green Past ures” awards were for the manage ment of three-acre pastures of Coastal Bermuda. Among those winning blue ribbons in the old pasture division were W. E. Senn Newberry and Clifford T. Smith of Kinards. * social security loafers will , „ , . Dec - 8: Jun ® Hawkins, Mrs. H. doubtless someday be “retired” by our hard-working Communist enemies. “The Reclamation Era” is also the source of the exciting informat ion that the waterfall plunging over Grand Coulee Dam will be illuminated with colored lights changing colors repeatedly in a 20 minute, kaleidoscopic, auto matically-timed “program,” Con gress authorized $150,000 “to il luminate the spillway at the rate of 3.4 foot-candles. By comparison, the moon provides an illunUnation of one-tenth of the one foot cand le.” Just shows what God could have done if He’d had the money. Very few government irrigation projects have paid out since the first reclamation act whs passed in 1902. Yet, in 1956 Congress passed the Small Reclamation Pro jects Act. Under it the government can lend up to $5 million a pro ject. And it may give up to $5 Cont. on Page 3 Scout Bazaar The Newberry County Girf Scout Council will sponsor a Bazaar tomorrow, (Friday) from 9:00 a. m. until 6:00 p. m. at Kirk, Motor Company on Main street. Coffee and home made cake will be sold throughout the day. Many attractive items (see By The Way) will be sold. I BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Dec. 3: Buddy Kinard. Dec. 4: Mrs. B. W. Bedenbaugh. Dec. 7: Loxie Lee Bowers, Leon Taylor, Jr., Mrs. Nellie Brown ing, Geneva Halfacre, Mrs. Jessie B. Boozer, Angus Senn, Mrs. William E. Senn, ]£rs. Ervin Merchant, George Luther Long. L. Pitts, Laval H. Johnson, Gordon Leslie, Carolyn Hawk ins. Dec. 9: L. E. Wood, Jr., Dorothy Livingston, Sylvia Smith, C. H. Eargle, P. H. Moore, Barry Stutts, Anne C. Hunter. Dec. 10: J. C. Neel, Mrs. B.*0. Long, Mrs. Pope Wicker, Sr., Adrian M. Summer, Mrs. J. A. Bundrick, Virginia H. Ander son, Mrs. Atlee Lindsay, Jack Dee. 11: Mrs. Josie McAlhaney, Caroline Cook, Joe Summer, Valeria Stack, Billy Altman, Mrs. Mary Eula Holloway. Dec. 12: Forreat Lominack, Mrs. Nelson Connelly, Mrs. Fred T. Moon, John Koon, Mrs. Mary Jane Hanna Sproul, Mrs. Sam Beam, Janet Crim. Dec. 13: R. E. Green, M. O. Summer, Alice Jean Riley, James E. Wiseman, Jr., Susan Ward, Mrs. Eva S. Cromer, Harold Epps, Claude E. Dominick, Roy Creekmor* ,