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THURSDAY, JANUARY 80, 1957
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE THRU
Newberry Man Is
Commander Of
Top Nike Unit
The following article concern
ing an army battery command
ed by Capt. Powell E. Way, Jr.,
eon of Dr. and Mrs. P. E. Way
of Newberry, appeared in the
January 16th issue of The New--
.ton (Penna.) Enterprise:
Battery “C” 606 Anti-Aircraft
fissile BatUlion, Richboro Nike
Site, commanded by Capt. Powell
E. Way Jr. of Edgeboro Drive,
Newtown, returned from Red Can
yon in December where Nike Ajax
Misailee ate fired at White Sands,
New Mexico.
Capt. Way reports that the mis-
ailes are fired at radio-control
led planes, as if they were hostile
aircraft attempting to penetrate
a defense like the Philadelphia de
fense of which the local site is a
part.
During his command at “0”
Battery, Capt. Way states that he
has fired eleven Nike Ajax Mis
siles, hut he has never seen such
outstanding performance by the
men of the radar fire control and
missile launcher areas. His bat
tery fired three missiles against
three radio-controlled planes and
scored three, direct hits. Two of
these missiles were fired salvo.
The second missile was fired 15
seconds after the first one burst,
each destroying its target.
All Nike Ajax Missile Batteries
are evaluated by a disinterested
team. The evaluations are on the
point system, the total equaling a
maximum of 3,000 points. This
system is broken down into phases
like missile preparation, training,
performance, pre-firing checks,
firing and post-firing checks,
Capt. Way stated.
As a result of their firing, the
battery scored 2,958 points out
of 8,000. This score topped all the
units in the Philadelphia defense.
In the 22d Region United Statt^s
Army Air Defense Command, Fort
Meade, Md. (which include cities
like Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Bal
timore, Washington and Norfolk,
to name a few in the 2d Army
area, the Richboro Nike Site a-
gain came out with a high score.
In the Continental Army, United
states, out of all the Nike Missile
Batteries, Richboro Nike Site was
number five, however, this is not
official at this time—and “we
may have >yon fourth place.” All
the Nike Batteries gave us a
“run” for our money, the Captain
added.
Capt. Wsy feels that these per
formances definitely prove that
the Nike Ajax Missiles and the
personnel are highly capable of
performing our assigned mission
of defending the cities of the
United States.
Capt. Powell E. Way Jr., Bat
tery Commander of Battery “C”
506 AAA Missile Battalion, Rich
boro, will turn over the command
to Capt. Everett Whitney Mon
day.
Capt. Way has commanded Bat
tery “C” for approximately three
and one-half years. He will, as
sume his new duties at Eureka
whore the headquarters of the
battalion is located, as S-.'l, oper
ations, plans and training officer
for all the Missile Batteries of
the 5(H) Missile Bn. His family
will continue to live at their home
on Edgeboro Drive in Newtown
until June when Capt. Way ex
pects orders for an overseas as
signment.
Unions Seek To
Clean House;
Meeting Here
By MRS. A. H. COUNTS
Delegates representing United
Textile Workers of America locals
from over the South gathered in
Newberry Saturday to take the
first steps toward what union lo
cal leaders hope will dear the in
ternational union of alleged cor
rupt practices in high places.
James Smith of Newberry,
president of Newberry Local 120
and president of the South Caro
lina Council of I’TWA who called
the meeting said the session
was the first in a proposed series
Iso identified.
/ “We intend to clean house,”
the Newberry labor leader said.
Mr Smith said that at the meet
ing a request, addressed to Peter
McGavin of Washington, appoint
ed monitor of UTMWA by George
Meany, was drafted requesting
that he furnish the locals with a
list of those in high places in the
union, or those seeking high
places, who are suspected of hav
ing engaged in corrupt practices.
“These men will be defeated for
office at the convention,” Mr.
Smith predicted. *
The meeting, attended by some
35 delegates representing eight
locals was held in West End
School. Delegates from locals in
Virginia and Tennessee were pre
vented from attending by the
weather, Mr Smith said.
The next meeting in the series
will be held at Coolemee, N. C.,
Feb. 22, Mr. Smith said.
PROSPERITY
NEWS
Dr. and Mrs. George W. Harmon
left Wednesday by plane for
Dallas. Texas, where they will
visit their son. Wallace Harmon
.md family.
Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Rudisill of
Cherryville. N. C.. spent the week
end with Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Hamm. They eame for the christ
ening of their grandson, James
Walter Hamm Jr., which took
place Sunday during the morning
serviee at Wightman Methodist
Chureh.
Guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs.
B. T. Young were Mr. and Mrs.
A. J. Riehards Sr. and Tommy
Richards of Heath Springs, Dr.
and Mrs. A. J. Richards and their
small son, Lee, of Columbia.
Dan Hamm Jr. and Walter
Hamm of the Prosperity Furniture
Company left Monday for the fur
niture market at High Point, *N.
of such meetings to
he held
throughout the Nopt
least and
Mis
s Janet
Hunt of Converse
South.
t 'o! leg
e. Miss
Joan Hurt of Co-
He said the purpose o
the meet-
himhi;
i t'olleg
e and Ronnie Fee of
ings is to scroeu tin
offieers.
the U
niversity of S. C. spent the
trustees and hoard metn
iers of the
\\ eeko
nd in t
he home of Mrs. A.
internatioiial union and
to identify
Ik Hunt.
thoso whose tiamos ha\ t
been con-
Bel)
!\iley
of Greenville spent
iieeted with alleged gia
‘t and cor
Frida'
r night
with the J. D. Luth-
!'U j't ion.
ei*s.
He said delegates wli
o will iep-
Mrs
. D. H.
Hamm Jr.. Mr .. W.
resent the locals at the March
convention of the international
union in New York will be in
structed to vote against the men
11. Leaphart Sr., and Miss Susie
Langford attended a WSCS work
shop Saturday at Main Street
Methodist Chureh, Columbia.
HOME
LOANS..
Construction Purchase
Improvement Repairs
Other Purposes
Low Interest Rate - Amortized Monthly
No Red Tape-No Delay
NEWBERRY
Federal Savings
& Loan Ass’n
«
Use our Modern Night Depository for after office hours business.’
“NEWBERRY’S LARGEST SAVINGS INSTITUTION’
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Mrs. J. D. Luther spent the
weekend hi Macon, Ga.
Mrs. D. H. Hamm Jr. gave the
kick-off coffee party for the polio
drive last Thursday morning.
Mrs. Hunter Fellers had one
Saturday.
Others to have parties include
Mrs. J. I. Ruff,(Mrs. Harold Ept-
ingf Mrs. John Earl Wessinger,
Mrs. G. H. Caldwell, Mrs. Walter
Hamm, Mrs. John Earl Dawkins,
Mrs. Leon Shealy and Mrs. W. E.
Hancock, Mrs. W. L. Mathis Jr*,
Mrs. Roy Dominick, and the teach
ers of the Prosperity school.
Federal Jobs
Are Available
The Fifth U. S. Civil Service
Regional office is accepting ap
plications for Supply Clerk paying
$3416 a year.
Applicants will be required to
pass a written examination. They
must also have appropriate exper
ience.
Applications must be received
or postmarked not later than Feb
ruary 19, 1958,
Persons interested in these po
sitions may get application forms
or information as to where such
forms are available at the post
office in Newberry.
know your State
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Aim tower
for Peacetime
The Southeast’s first atomic re
actor for peacetime power gener
ation will rise at Parr Shoals near
Columbia within yards of exist
ing steam and hydroplants. This
experimental power plant, being
built by private utilities of the
Carolinas and Virginia, may lead
to large-scale atomic power gen
eration in the future.
In today’s South Carolina,
with its emphasis on progress,
the United States Brewers Foun
dation works constantly to en
courage maintenance of whole
some conditions wherever beer
and ale are sold. As in other
states, the program calls for
close cooperation between law-
enforcement officials and beer li
censees throughout South Caro
lina.
Bee;* belongs... enjoy it.
United States Brewers Foundation
South Carolina Div., Columbia, S.C.
The beverage
,of moderation
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AUDITOR’S 1958 TAX
ASSESSMENT NOTICE
I, or an authorized agent,
will be at the following
places on the dates given be
low for the purpose of tak
ing tax returns on all per
sonal property, new build
ings and real estate trans
fers. Persons owning proper
ty in more than one district
must make returns for each
district.
The Auditor’s office will be
closed Wednesdays and Saturdays
at 1:00 P. M.
All able-bodied male citizens
between the ages of 21 and 60 are
liable to a $1 poll tax.
ST. LUKE’S
Moore’s Store, Monday, January
20, 1958, from 10 until 12:30.
O’NEAL
J. P. Feller’s Store, Monday, Jan
uary 20, 1958, from 2 until 4:00.
MACEDONIA
Rich’s Store, Tuesday, January
21, 1958, from 10 until 12:30.
OLIN FULMER’S STOI*E
Tuesday, January 21, 1958, from
2 until 4:00.
KINARDS
Oxner’s Store, Wednesday, Janr
uary 22, 1968, from 10 until 12:30.
PROSPERITY
Black’s Store, Thursday, January
23, 1958.
At Auditor’s Office to March
1st., after which a penalty of
10 percent will be added.
RALPH B. BLACK
AUDITOR NEWBERRY
COUNTY
January 27, 1958.
I have been much encouraged
by the support I am getting from
the people for my proposal to es
tablish a Commission on Federal
and State Jurisdiction.
The purpose of this Commission
is to study the boundaries between
federal power and state power,
and the boundaries between the
three branches of the federal gov
ernment, as they have been estab
lished by the Constitution.
Other committees and commis
sions have studied this question
from the standpoint of administra
tive efficiency and economy. I am
glad to say that they have found
evidence to indicate that some
powers now exercised by the fed
eral government could be exercis
ed more efficiently on the state
level.
I am interested in efficiency,
but I am also interested in free
dom. We cannot depart from the
Constitution without putting our
freedoms in grave jeopardy.
Therefore, the Commission I am
proposing would use the Consti
tution, not short term expedien
cy, as its guide.
A Contest of Spending
An exhibit in the National Mb-
seum of Natural History, here in
Washington, illustrates a custom
once practiced by one of our
North American Indian tribes call
ed the “potlatch.”
This was a kind of party at
which the host would give away
most of his possessions to his
guests. These Indians used such
parties as a substitute for war.
The chief who outgave his rivals
gained great respect, while such
rivals became paupers.
It was considered much better
to have a few bankrupt chiefs
than a lot of dead Indians.
I wish we could be sure that our
efforts to outspend the Russians
in foreign aid would result in no
more serious consequences than
the bankruptcy of a few chiefs.
But foreign aid has not eliminated
the possibility of war, and the bur
den of spending weighs on every
citizen of the United States.
Agricultural Problems
A major agricultural problem,
affecting South Carolina farmers,
has been raised on Capitol Hill.
The' new farm plan embodied in
President Eisenhower’s message on
agriculture indicates that crop
support prices may be reduced to
60 percent of parity. This is not
good news to the small farmer; in
fact, there is a strong suggestion
that the small farmer will be en
couraged to put all his land in the
conservation reserve and go out of
business. Congress is in a mood
to develop its own farm program,
and this will be, in the long run,
the best for the whole country.
The small family farm is one
of the bulwarks of our Democracy.
VA Pleads For
Proper Notice
When veterans mail their June
G. I. life insurance premiums with
the notice Veterans Administra
tion provides for the January pay
ment, things get a little confus
ing, says the VA.
Every year, near a policy anni-
URM0ND
versary date, the VA Benda a
packet of 12 premium notices to
each veteran who pays hie prem
iums monthly by direct* remittance
to the agency.
Printed on each notice is the
month’s premium for which it
should be used, along with the
veteran’s name, policy number,
and accounting data.
Seems simple, but it isn’t say$
Hugh H. Henderson, Contact Of
ficer, VA Regional Office at Co
lumbia.
Every month, thousands of no
tices are received which bear the
name of the wrong month for the
payment enclosed.
Each veteran then must be no
tified of the error and provided
with a replacement notice. This
costs tax dollars which otherwise
would be saved, Mr. Hendersor
said.
Pointing out that the notices
are provided both for the vet
eran’s convenience and for tax
savings through simplified prem
ium accounting, the VA urges; all
veterans to be sure to upe the
right notice for the months prem
ium enclosed.
Champion Builds
Plant In Brazil
CANTON, N. C., Jan, 22—The
Champion Paper and Fibre Com
pany has announced that it has
acquired an interest in, a new
Brazilian Company that is now
erecting the first completely in-
tfgrated bleached krait pulping
plant in Brazil.
The announcement was made lo
cally by * Reuben B.. Robertson,
Jr.. Champion president, during a
series of meetings with all em
ployees of Champion’s Carolina
Division.
He said that Champion will be
responsible or the management
and operation of the new plant
.M. C. Walsh, with. Champion
since 1929 and for the past four
years Manager of Champion’s
Washington, D. C., office has
been elected president of the nyew
company.
The new mill, located in the
town of Mogi Guacu in the state
of Sao Paulo, will have a com
plete chemical recovery unit and
its own caustic soda production
facilities. It will have an initial
capacity of about 150 tons a day
of bleached kraft pulp manufac
tured from eucalyptus wood.
The company will sell its pulp
to the Brazilian domestic market.
It is expected that the plant will
be ready for production early in
1959.
ans.
Applications for. librarian and
realty officer must be received or
postmarked by January 80, 1968
and will be graded on, the basis of
experience ami education and
training. A written test is requir
ed for messenger and telephone
operator and ap|>iicatioim must be
filed by January 20, 19$8k
' Persona interested in these po
sitions may get application forms
or information as to where such
forms are available at the post of
fice in Newberry.
'JSLI Policies
* He saia policyholders who be*
came totally disabled from any
cause before age 60 and whtta the
clause is in effect, will receiver a*
Income of $5 per month for 4acb
{$1,000 face amount of the GI pol-
fcy. v .
Payments under the clause way
begin after the total diaabiUty has
existed for rix consecutive months,
and continues for the duration of
the disability, regard^ of its
length, Nr. Henderson said.
No payment may be made fgr
disabilities incurred after
no premium charge for thia
benefit is made past that date, he
fu provision may be added t*
•nyurilgible poMcyholderi^N^m-
ai Sevtke Life insurance (NSUV
that participates in dividend*.
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Veterans in good health and un
der 60 who heid World War II GI
Life insurance may 7 tM:"* thtal
incomef clause to their
Gt policies aZ e, small
premium cock ^ ?
Hugh H.
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Federal Jobs
Are Available
The Fifth U. S. Civil Service
Regional office is accepting appli
cations for the positions of tele
phone operator at $2960 to $3415
a year; librarian $5440 to $6390
and realty officer $5440 to $8990
a year. Applications are also be
ing accepted for messenger at
$2690 to $2960 from veterans only
as competition in this examina
tion is restricted by law to veter-
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