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Character like embroidery is made stitch by stitch. VOLUME 20; NUMBER 38 NEWBERRY. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1968 By The Way ~ by, 3bori& Sander5 BUT NOT HERE! It’s fine to cut taxes, but not here! That seems to be the senti ment everywhere. I noticed that our Senators and Congressman are strongly in favor of cutting the national budget—so long as it doesn’t involve South Carolina. And naturally, every senator and congressman from every state feels the same way so where are taxes to be cut? If the army wishes to close a camp in Kalamazoo or Walla Wal la, that would be fine with our representatives. But close Fort Jackson? Or cut the size of Don aldson Air Force Base? From the havoc that is raised at the slight est suggestion of these things, one would think the army and air force would go out of business should such a thing happen! Our senators and congressmen are not to blame. We are to blame. We put the pressure on, and they rely on us to return them to of fice. What can they do but try to hold on to government payrolls as long as they can? I only heard a few minutes of the President’s State of the Un ion message last week but I gath ered from what I heard that he said much of the same thing—that all the talk about cutting the bud get was fine, but there was no use to talk one thing and do an other, when it hits • in the repre sentatives’ own back yard. I noticed in his column, which begins ariew this week in The Sun, Senator Thurmond says “there must be* a tightening of the belt in domestic programs.” If that belt starts squeezing South Carolina, what will he say then? What will you let him say? We criticize the vast spending pro grams and we have to pay the bills—but it is all of our own do ing if we take the attitude that cuts must be somewhere else, be cause citizens in every other state will take the same attitude. Next time you are in the mood to crit icize government spending, just stop and think who is responsible . . . not for starting it, perhaps, hut for refusing to allow it to stop. COMES THE DAWN The State Department of Edu- < ation has come out with two startling revelations during the past week. 1. The potential of the gifted pupil is so great that every effort should be made to identify him and to channel his talents both for his and society’s benefit. 2. More students are staying in school until graduation than ever before, according to statistics just revealed. It seems to have taken Sputniks to convince the Department of Education that the gifted child needed some attention because “this was one of the conclusions drawn ... at a recent meeting of the Division of Instruction of the S. C. State Department of Educa Hozl** And I am sure it was very recent because the State De partment doles out news releases as often as they can get on paper anything that might possibly be used in a newspaper. As to the second revelation, without reading the article, I can give you one good reason more students are staying in school un til graduation. That is because if they just persevere long enough, they’ll get that meaningless dip loma, regardless of their ability to pass the necessary subjects. It would be degrading to keep a stu dent in one class more than a couple of years so even if he can’t pass his subjects, he is “socially promoted.” The statistics releas ed by the department begin back in 1938. If the school program and standards were the name as in 1988, I believe the state depart ment would find the conclusions far different—and probably would find that less students were grad- tiating. Now that I have written the above, I have read the complete article. The State Department of Education gives these reasons for the fact that more students are graduating: better teaching, a better' curriculum, and programs better adjusted to the age and ’ maturity level of children. I will agree with the last two reasons, but not the first because I think most of our better teachers have gone to states where they are better paid. Ae to the curriculum, it has been changed to allow stu dents to choose “crip” courses to finish high school. As to programs being better adjusted, this means, 1 take it, that children’s minds- are no longer challenged. They are given what they can get with no effort and passed up to the next grade. Even the state department, in its release, says that in 1933 many children were retained in the first grade for a second, third and even sometimes a fourth year and that in 1945 fewer children were having to repeat the first year of school. Back in '33 they stayed in a grade until they were capable of going to another. In ’45, and till now, they are “social ly promoted.” Should they be retained three or four years in the same grade? I don’t think so because they evi dently do not have the mental ability to take the program of fered to the mediocre. It gets back to my argument that children should be grouped according to ability—that there should be sep arate classes for each intelligence group—and that children should be given programs as long as it will be of any help to them, but PLEASE not a high school diplo ma! A certificate, perhaps or some sort of recognition of the time they have spent and the pro gram they have accomplished, but it is time to stop allowing a dip loma to serve as an attendance record for having spent at least 12 years in school. I have heard that parents would not hear of such a thing as classes divided according to ability; that they wouldn’t have their children in “dumb” classes. I have even been asked if I would like my chil dren so classified. My only ans wer to that is that we have two pre-school daughters. We have never had them take any sort of intelligence test. We have never been around other youngsters that age to make any sort of compari son, so we don’t know whether oiir litle girls are dumb, mediocre, or smart. Knowing this—or not knowing it, I should say, I have advocated the program of teach ing according to ability so that should be answer enough. If our little girls could not keep up with the smarter ones, I see no reason for holding the smarter ones back. If they could not keep up with the mediocre, they should be put where they can keep up. But I see no hope of any action being taken in this direction in Newberry County in the near fu ture. Parents just don’t seem to be interested—or very few of them anyway. And until they are, nothing will be done. State Jersey Cattle Club To Meet Here W. E. Senn, President, an nounces the annual meeting of the S. C. Jersey Cattle Club will be held in Newberry on Friday, January 17. The meeting will be gin at 10 a. m. in the county court house. Reports of the various ac tivity committees will be given and FFA, 4-H Club, and Breeder Production Awards presented. Charlie Hall, field man ,of the American Jersey Cattle Club, will present his report at the morning session. At 1 o’clock the group will ad journ from the court house to the Community Hall of lunch. C. G. Cushing will act as toast master and will also conduct a ladies panel composed of wives of the members. Feature speaker of the afternoon session will be P. T. Keessee, representative of Am erican Jersey Cattle Club, who will speak on the American Jersey Cattle Club Milk program. Senn says that all members in South Carolina are invited to the annual meeting and especially urges all local jersey breeders in this area to attend the meeting on Friday. Jurors Drawn For Civil Court Petit Jurors were drawn Wed- to retired policeman J. J. Hitt for nesday morning for the January 2 6 years services to the city. A term of Common Pleas court which convenes at Newberry Jan uary 27. They are: Newberry: Clarence Hawkins, Horace Boozer, Rt. 4, John Wil liam Ballentine, Rt. 3, J. Frank Mills, William R. Brooks, L. R. Harmon, Rt. 3, Johnnie J. Fuller, Benjamin A. Buddin, George B. Sessions, L. L. Haltiwanger, Wil liam S. Hentz, Rt. 1, Jafhes Earl Stevens, Joe W. Mayer, Rt. 2, J. E. Nichols, Carroll L. Bouknight, James M. Smith Jr., Moses Ruff, W. F. Wells, H. L. Evans, Jeff C. Waldrop, Rt. 3, James H. Shan non, Rt. 1, Henry L. Parr, Rt. 3, Vernon L. Sheppard, I. V. Fulmer, Rt. 2, and M. L. Wall. Prosperity: W. E. Martin, Wy man Dominick, W. E. Koon, Rt. 3, Carroll A. Counts, Rt. 3, C. H. Mills, Rt. 1, 0. K. Shealy, Rt. 1. Also, Clarence E. Shealy, Lit tle Mountain; Jack E. Farr, Little Mountain; Claude Hester, Poma- ria; and W. C. Dorroh, Rt. 1, Sil- verstreet. Mayor Ernest Layton, left, presented a gold service pin to re tired Policeman J. J. Hitt at the meeting of City Council Tuesday night. Mr. Hitt had been an employee of the police department for 26 years. J. B. Shealy, who retired after 28 years service with the department, waa unable to be present to receive his pin. (Sunphoto.) Layton, A rmfield Named As Members Of Gas Authority Newberry’s new city council sat Newberry and Clinton and one down Tuesday night for their first member at large. They are' charg- regular meeting in council cham- ed with the responsibilty of the hers. A fairly light work Joad was natural gas systems in Newberry, handed them as the agenda was Clinton and Joanna, taken up. * Other items considered by the Before turning to the business city fathers were: of the city. Mayor Ernest H. Lay-j Reviewed the auditor’s report ton presented a gold service pin for the year ending September 30, 1957. Turned over to the highway de pin was also to be presented to partment a street at the side and retired officer J. B. Shealy for rear of Newberry County Memo 23 years service, but Mr. Shealy i i a i Hospital for improvement and was unable to attend due to ill- maintenance. ness. The award was to be made later by City Manager E. L. Blackwell and Police Chief Colie L. Dowd. Council authorized the city manager to proceed with the in stallation of traffic controls at the, intersections of College and Speers and College aad Calhoun Streets. Installation of these sig nals was approved recently by the State Highway Department. Es timated cost is 81,600. Frank Arrafield was elected a member to the Clinton-Newherry Natural Gas Authority. The va cancy on the authority came when past Mayor Cecil E. Kinard step ped down the first of January. Mr. Layton automatically becajne a member as mayor, and Mr. Arm- field filled the vacancy left by Mr. Layton. The authority is compos ed of three members each from Turned over to the highway de partment for improvement and maintenance the intersection of Hunt and Eleanor Streets and a short distance on Hunt Street. Silverstreet PTA Affiliates With National Organization Bids Received For Calhoun Life Company Building Bids will be received until Jan uary 29 at 11:00 a. m. for the con struction of the Calhoun Life In surance Company building on Col lege Street extension, according to Architect Irvine Leslie. Specifications were sent out Wednesday, and bids will be re ceived at the office of the archi tect at 1004 Wilson Street. The 30 by 60 foot building will feature a cast front entrance, mas onry walls, slab floor with asphalt tile and steel reinforced poured roof. Shown above are officers of the j a while when I was aaked by the Silverstreet Parent-Teacher asso-1 president of our local unit to at- ciation, which recently became ■af- tend a meeting of the Newberry filiated with the National Con- County Council. gress of Parent-Teachers Associa tion. They are, left to right, Mrs. Allen Dominick, secretary, Mrs. S. F. Cannon, membership chair man; Mrs. J. H. Long, president; Mrs. H. T. Lake, vice-president, and Miss Sara Folk, treasurer. (Sunphoto.) The Silverstreet PTA has been in existence for many years as an independent organization. Its re organization and affiliation with the National Congress came about in the following manner, as ex plained by Mrs. Cannon, the mem bership chairman: The idea ef becoming affiliated with the National Congress of Parents and Teachers had been simmering in my mind for quite “Here I found people discussing reasons why each local unit should become a member of the National Congress in such a con vincing way that my idea gained momentum and I went back to my own school hoping that when I made a report of what I had learned, that enough members of our local unit would be convinced that we could accomplish much, much more by working with our National Unit in carrying out the program it has planned. “When we did have our next meeting several weeks later and my report had been given, my hope became a reality when the Silverstreet unit voted to become a member of the National P. T. A. “A few days later a committee meeting was held with our school superintendent, one of the teach ers in our system, and a patron in attendance. We decided to can vass each school district compos ing the Silverstreet area in the drive for members and to have one teacher from our school sys tem and one patron from each of the eight districts do the canvass ing. Luckily we had the same number of districts as teachers! “About two weeks later the work was completed with every person who was asked to help do ing his or her part in a most en couraging manner. “As a result of these efforts on the part of our patrons, superin tendent, and teachers, the Silver- street unit today is an affiliated unit with 161 members.” Valentine Queen Contests Plans Saturday night, February 15 at 8:00 o’clock will be the time of the 1958 annual Valentine Queen contest, sponsored by the Civic League, according to an announce* ment made this week by the gen eral planning committee for the -contest. The event will be staged at Newberry High School audi torium. * Each merchant and business es tablishment is invited to partici pate in the contest. The only re quirement is a contribution of ten dollars to the work of the Civic League. This may be sent to Mrs. George Stone, treasurer of the Valentine Queen project, or to Dr. Mamie Summer, general chairman for the contest. The deadline for entrance is February 8. Sponsors may select their own contestants or they may request the committee to choose one for them. Mrs. Ed Blackwell is in charge of this phase of the proj ect. Serving on the general plan ning committee, in addition to those already named are, Mrs. Howard Clark, Mrs. George Haw kins, Mrs. Russell Addy and Miss Margaret Paysinger. Area Lutherans Meet Sunday Many Lutherans of the Newber ry Area will journey to Newberry College next Sunday afternoon for a Lay School on ExangeUsm to begin at 3:00 o’clock. At least nine laymen and the pastor are expect ed for each of the 24 Lutheran Churches in this Conference. The school will remain, in session until 8:15 p. m. Rev. Ralph W. Hoffmeyer of the Newberry College Bible De partment will lead the.' group in Bible study. FoUowin* ft. prftyer period under tike guidance of Rev. G. Alvin Fqlmifts the separate hi nhie groups for. the purpose of study in the fields of the various objectives of the Bvmn- gelism Program aft they ai«B to be practiced in congregations during 1958. Instructors for the** groups and their subjects are as fcAlow«: Ernest A. Brooks, Strengthening the Evangelism Committeef Ref. Paul E. Monroe Jr. Bible Study; Rev. G. Atvfift mer. Developing' the tion’s Prayer life; Rev. NL Yount, Developing ing a Congregat Member Pile; Fred fL Lester, listing and Instructing ,Gronpft of Lay Visitors; Rev. Ben -Ctaife, Conducting the Pastor's Class; C. E. Hendrix, Asah Sustain New Church Members; Rev. D. M. Shall, Whole ElvanKehim, gregational Committee ( * * and Pastors); and, W. A, tine, The It is expected that tions and much arise during , this with the instructor. Thare time out for supper ahdL ship. The program will an inspirational menage Francis I. Fespen Newberry College* . The iel M. Shall is of the school. , >' 8 ' This occasion n the firing of a gun fMr of organized evangelism in gregations for 1968. The Men Program CT spOnsetei; Brotherhood or the eran Church Men and to be. ed between Eaater an* will be the first major effort. College Pegins 2nd Semester Newberry College will the second semester of its session with the opening of dormitories on Monday, January 27. Registration of students who are entering Newberry College for the first time will be held on Tuesday, January 28. Students currently enrolled , in Newberry College will be registered for the" second semester this week. UNION TO DISCUSS ARBITRATION CASE Mollohon TWUA CIO-AFL Lo cal Union 342 will hold its next regular meeting Sunday after noon, January 19 at 3:00 p. m. in the school auditorium. All mem bers are especially urged to attend and hear discussions on the pend ing arbitration case and other un ion business. Visitors are wel comed. GREETINGS I" il Jan. 17: Mrs! J. O. Dunaton, who is 84 years young today. Jan. 18: Mrs. Steve C. Grif fith, Mrs. L. G. McCullough, William Henry Shannon, Jr„ Alice Bedenbaugh, Becky Dick- ert, Irvine Lee Leslie, Mrs. Gor don R. Thurow. Jan. 19: Lonnie Clifton Gra ham, Mrs. H. H. Abrams, Major Gerald CKQuinxi, Gaynelle Har mon Stewart, Diane Boland, Bu. ford Connelly, B. H. Hamm, Cheryl Reeves, Linda Smith. Jan. 20: Charlie Bowers, John Donald Rook, Donna Betts Nich ols,. Mrs. O. H. Lane, Elizabeth R. Boylston, Lugenia Martin, J. T. Batson, S. A. Baggett Sr., Ervin Merchant. Jan. 21: Warren Abrams, Mrs. Eva James D. Wherry, Lamar Neville, Mrs. Annie Lee Whit aker, Miss Anna Long, Steve Sease, Jean Harmon, C. Olin Inabmet. Jan. 22: P. D. Dawkins, Bin. Frances Clary, Mias Doris Schumpert, Myra Davis, Mrs. Marie Hollingsworth Gilliam, Eddie D. Richardson, Mrs. R. H. Buford, Michael Griffin, Stew art Leslie, Gary Lee Harmon, J. Burr Harmon. Jan. 23: Sally Lewis, Palmer Shealy, Oilie Nichols, Mrs. Caro line Mayer, Mrs. WflHa Ringer Sr„ Betsy Worts, Donnie At- kison, H. W. Schumpert, Deris S. Setlzer. Jan. 24: Mrs. J. C. Price, Eu gene Shealy, Jeanne Dawkins, Buddie Spearman, Mr*- Myra Trefsgar, Jo Anne Ennis, Mrs. Joyce Attaway. Df* that the fartherest cornern fitted by the Seven citizens from*through the’ county have been recommended to se*ve on thq 'steering committee to spearhead the memfcrsblp drive for the Newberry Countjr Develop ment Bonid, according to R. Brice Waters, who begao work Monday aa campaign manajar for drive. The committee will be com- posed of one the seven 'tax districts In the county, Newberry, Silverstreet, Bush River, Whitmire ; ^Little Mountain, Pomaria and Proeper- ity. . '•*: ■ . / /;:v- Confirmations had nbt been re ceived from all of the mmnjwx* at press time. It Is expected that the committee will be completed by next week. • < Mr. Waters stated Monday that he had mapped out preliminary plans for the drive, which will be concluded on March 31. It is un derstood that-' the steering com mittee will appoint a general chairman who will have over-nil charge of the drive. Hie next step, according to Mr. Waters, will be the enlistment of team captains and lieutenants from each district, to actively solicit raehtberships. ; There will be an advance sub scription drived according to the campaign manager, and thia has already been given a boost b** cause at most of the Chamber of Commerce members having ex pressed a willingness to transfar memberships from the Chamber to the Board. There will be a publicity chair man, and stories concerning the Board will appear in the press and win be heard .over the radio. The message will also be brou^ltt by personal appearance of speaker* at meetings of service and dvle clubs or organizations throughout the county, according * to present to the aUihthm of tag to leeftte in the Bouth, aad Ihr the promotion and encouragement' of the industrial, agricultural and general welfare of CotW^r’ - X '>; V : : ''' V “CWsns of the county ” he said, “must be informed tbet the Tmiiftflfa Will ^ ~ oeneziui w?**. ceunty-wwe, tmia each from the ^rvantaathm shovOd^e eduh- mm Mr. Witers la a native of South Gnrottna, haring been born In Rock Hill. Ho was graduated from Clemson College with a B. S. De gree and is a veteran of World Way 1. After the war, he served > ip? nine year* at sneretary of the Sumter Chamber of Commerce, after which he became assistant state administrator of the Emer- gency Relief Administration in Columbia. In, 1986, he organized and - ngwedt as administrator ef of Employment Secur- in Columbia, In 1940, be wont to Washington he served as advisor to the of the Burpau of Employ- Security: Mo returned to hie toteh-cfc Rdck HOT in 1946 ttan he held until his retirement InSe^estberMNW. - Mr. Waters ia married to th* former Miss Goode Burton of Newberry. She is a sister of James A* >-BmiteiL r ‘- Mfcn H. M. Bryson mad *Mrs. J, W. Thomson of* New berry and. Mm. C. JL Renneker ef Orangeburg. . The Waters are making their home on dlemi Street The object of the Development Board, as defined by Mr. Wa**l ta to “organize to publicize New? berry County, to bring tho county ■"—T" Mrs. Holland Wilson to Wldttsm^ ^Bags Arr whom She ia employe^ 'after pending smiora} days at her hoose on Purcell street i James Dunston has returned to hicago. 111., after spending a va- emtiea with is mother, Mrs. ?. O. Dunston and hta sister, Mrs. Bside GrmnW ltnd fririSy.