The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, March 06, 1958, Image 1
No matter what is your lot
in life . . . build something
on it.
Defeat only leaves a bitter
taste if you swallow it.
VOLUME 20; NUMBER 45.
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1958
+ $2.00 PER YEAS
By The Way
By Doris A. Bandsrs
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CONGRATULATIONS
Although the final tally is not
yet in, the “semi-final” report on
the membership drive for the New
berry County Development Board
shows that there will be a suc
cessful launching of the Board
on April First
Many persons are responsible
for this. Among the staunchest
supporters is the soon--to-be dis
solved Chamber of Commerce,
which, under the leadership of its
president, T. Roy Summer, Jr.,
began the movement and saw it
through. Roy took a great per
sonal interest in formation of the
Board and was named general
chairman of the drive. He spent
many hours working for the suc
cess of the undertaking. R. Brice
Waters, brought in to be cam
paign manager, quickly and ef
ficiently outlined a campaign.
Competent committeemen were
chosen from each district—all
of them devoting full time to
their own businesses but willing
to give their “overtime” and ef
forts. Their names are listed in
another story in this issue. Also
among the hardest workers has
been Mrs. Celia Dodgen, acting
secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce.
The drive for members would
have been very slow, however,
except for the fine work of the
volunteers throughout the county
and they are too numerous to men
tion. If you have not yet joined
the Development Board, either
as a business or as an individual
interested in the economic future
of Newberry County, may I urge
that you do so before the end of
March, or preferably tomorrow,
eo that your name may be included
on the ballot for directors.
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Board Drive Is Termed Success;
Kick-off Banquet Set
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ICompany Celebrates Birthday
Of President Wednesday Night
A “birthday party” beginning a Wednesday night'at the Commun-
sales campaign for the month of
M&rch and also honoring Robert
H. Loworn, president of Calhoun
Life Insurance Company, was held
Dr.-George Heaton, in Newberry Wednesday to conduct personnel training sessions for supervi
sors of Kendall plants in Newberry, pauses a moment for a chat with, left to right, J. D. Pool of
Charlotte, N. C.; personnel director of the Gray Cloth Division of the Kendall Company; D. O. Car
penter, manager of the Oakland plant; Dr. Heaton, and William Tedford, manager of the Mollohon
plant. (Sunphoto.)
Lions Hear Lever Praise
Formation Of County Board
NATIVE SON
Every once in a while the name
of a “native-~&f>n” pops up in nat
ional publications. The latest such
appearance is in the March 3rd
issue of TIME Magazine, and
quotes TV Technical Director
Bob Hanna, son of Mr. and Mrs.
R E. Hanna, as to his opinion of
Milton Berle.
Bob says of Berle, who is re
turning to TV, “He really hasn’t
changed. Only he doesn’t have the
whistle he used to wear around
his neck to get everyone quiet.
He’s an old ham—the minute he
gets an audience he starts per
forming.”
For many years Bob was tech
nical director of the Kraft Thea
ter program. He serves as tech
nical director of some of the top
flight NBC TV shows, and is con
sidered about the best in the bus 4 -
iness.
Newberry Pupils
Visit Furman
Eight students from Newberry
were among the 350 high school
students taking part in the recent
High School Weekend at Furman
University in Greenville. They
were Claudia Setzler, Fran Amis,
Emily Martin, Sue Harmon, Mar
tha Dahl Harley, Barbara Warren,
Betty Warren, Mary Ann Wat
kins, and Edward L. Blackwell.
“I congratulate the people of
Newberry County on the establish
ment of a Newberry County De
velopment Board!” These were the
words of Chauncey W. Lever, vice
president in charge of Commercial
and Industrial Development of
the South Carolina National
Bank, who was guest speaker at
the meeting of the Liorts Club
Tuesday night.
“We are highly enthusiastic
about the future economic prog
ress of this area,” said Mr. Lever,
“and it is a privilege for us to
work closely with your local offi
cials in the commercial and in
dustrial development of your city
and county.”
In listing the things an individ
ual citizen can do to help the in
dustrial development of a com
munity, the speaker said:
“You can exert every effort to
keep the community ‘climate’ fav
orable; you can continually sell
your community to your outside
business associates, company af
filiates, suppliers, customers and
others and you can pass any leads
which you receive on to your de
velopment board; you can be ‘on
guard’ for hints as to the epxan-
sion plans of business and indus
tries; you can keep in touch with
friends who are executives living
in the North, Midwest and other
areas of the nation; when you at
tend association meetings and con
ventions, listen for hints as to. in
dustrial leads; keep traveling the
salesmen and purchasing agents
on the lookout for news concern
ing expanding companies; talk
with tourists who are passing
through.” He also mentioned sev
eral other ways in which individ
uals may help develop their com
munity.
In conclusion, Mr. Lever said
“Our altruistic goal should be to
labor in behalf of the South and
South Carolina so that generations
who follow us will look about at
the monuments of progress which
Ruskin, ‘See this, our Fathers did
for us’.”
Ralph Black, chairman of the
program committee, introduced
Walter Hamm of Prosperity, who
in turn introduced the speaker.
D. O. Crapenter led the group
in singing “America”, “My Bon
nie Lies Over the Ocean”, and
“Happy Birthday’ to nine mem
bers celebrating anniversaries
this month.
Guests of the club included Bill
Leaphart of Prosperity, Joe Rob
erts, jimmy Coggins, John Norris,
and Charles Dukes of Newberry,
Frank Goldson and Charles H.
Goldson of the Eau Claire Club,
Columbia.
Announcement was made that
the Lions annual broom sale will
be held during the month of Ap
ril. The public is asked to be on
the lookout and to withhold pur
chases of brooms until that time.
Mr. Lever was presented a “Cer
tificate of Appreciation” for his
speech by President Floyd.
Mrs. Hutchinson
Rites Wednesday
Mrs. Lucy Ida Paysinger Hutch
inson, 84, widow of McKeene
Hutchinson, died Tuesday morning
at her home after a short illness.
Mrs. Hutchinson was born in
Newberry County, a daughter of
late Frederick and Lavinia
Maffett Paysinger. She was a
member of the Lutheran Church
of the Redeemer.
Surviving are one son, Cyril
Hutchinson of Newberry; two
grandchildren, and one great
grandchild.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at 3:30 p. m. Wednesday at
Whitaker Funeral Home by the
Rev. Paul E. Monroe Jr. Burial
w r as in Rosemont Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were A. W.
Murray, Earl Summer, Carter Ab-
we have left behind and will say, rams. George Way, Emory Bow-
with great pride, in the words of man and Tom Fellers.
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Lt. Col. James W. Henderson, CO, 107 AAA Bn.,- congratulates members of Headquarters Bat
tery, 107th Battalion, Newberry, who completed six months active duty. The four enlisted men are
the first in the 107th to return. Left to right are: Capt. H. M. Bedenbaugh, commanding officer of
the battery; Privates J. L. Hendrix, Alfred D. Metts, Walter D. Wicker, Richard P. Richardson, and
Col Henderson.
Pope Endorsed
For State Post
By Convention
By MRS. A. H. COUNTS
The Newberry County Demo
cratic Convention in session here
Monday morning elected the Hon
orable Thomas H. Pope as state
Executive Committeeman, and also
unanimously endorsed his candi
dacy for chairman of the South
Carolina Democratic Party.
Byron V. Chapman was elected
chairman, Mrs. Robert Downs
Wright, vice-chairman, and Mrs
A. H. Counts, secretary and treas
urer of the. county convention.
Delegates elected to the state
convention, with one-half vote
each, were Marvin E. Abrams, Dr.
John F. Roche, T. W. Suber and
Robert Lake Jr., of Whitmire; J.
Press Fellers of Prosperity, and
Thomas H. Pope, William T. Hun
ter, Jesse Frank Hawkins, R. Au
brey Harley, C. A. Shealy, Pinck
ney N. Abrams, and Herman Lang
ford.
The resolution endorsing Mr.
Pope was presented by R. C. Lake
Jr. of Whitmire. It was, in part,
as follows: “Resolved that the
delegates this day elected to rep
resent the Newberry County
Democratic Party at the South
Carolina Convention be and are
hereby instructed to cast their
unanimous vote for Newberry
County’s native son, Thomas H.
Pope for the office of Chairman of
the South Carolina Democratic
Party.” Mr. Pope holds the rank
of Colonel in the U. S. army re
serve and is a retired brigadier
general in the National Guard.
Delegates to the convention
named Tom Sdber of Whitmire,
chairman and elected Herman S.
Langford on the state credential
committee and, Pinckney N. Ab
rams on the resolutions and plat
form committee.
At the meeting of the executive
committee which met after^ the
convention, fees for candidates
were set as follows: Probate
Judge $150, House of Representa
tives $100; Comissioner, $75;
Magistrates at Whitmie and New
berry, $75; Prosperity, $40; Po-
maria, Silverstreet and Little
Mountain, $35.00 each. Fees are
to be doubled where there is no op
position.
The committee named four cam
paign meetings, Pomaria, May 14;
Whitmire, May 24; Jolly Street,
May 31 and Newberry, June 9th.
Citienzs of any other communi
ty who wish to have campaign
meetings are asked to immediate
ly contact Marvin E. Abrams,
chairman of the itinerary commit
tee.
The time for qualifying for the
various county offices began iih-
mediately after the convention
Monday. The deadline for candi
dates to file their pledges with the
county chairman, B. V. Chapman,
will be noon, March 17.
Grand and Petit
Jurors Named
Jury Commissioners met Wed
nesday morning and drew names
of persons to serve on the Grand
Jury of Newberry County for 1958,
also members of the petit jury to
serve during the March term of
court.
| Grand Jurors are as follows:
' Holdovers—Keitt Purcell, Her
bert S. Fulmer, Leland S. Wilson,
'M. O. Mayer, William E. Senn,
^and E. O. Shealy.
New—Carroll M. Hipp, Marvin
S. Lester, Edward Duckworth, D.
M. Vaughan, Herman W. Sandel,
H. M. Kunkle, J. W. Hipp, Jr.,
Wayne F. Mullinax, William H.
Young, John B. Lindsay, Cyril M.
Hutchinson, A. R. Boland.
I Alternates—F. L. McCall, R. J.
Werts, Walter Regnery.
Petit Jurors are:
J. Ralph Williams, Carl Sam
Burns, James B. Folk, Joe E.
Bickley, C. Ansel Stuck, Frank E.
Nichols, Albert Turley, J. L. Hen
drix, Ira D. Wilson, P. T. Living
ston, Clyde A Shealy, Edwin C.
Adams, Felton W. Crapps, Lewis
M. Dennis, J. C. Riddle, Duane S.
Darby, George T. Werts, Jr., Ver
son D. Force, H. M. Meeks, C. R.
Taylor, H. G. Jay, Leland E. King,
Albert C. Frick, James A. Dorroh,
S. E. Cook, Cyril S. Halfacre, Lar
ry J. Bouknight, T. L. Hicks, A. M.
Johnston, Ollie. L. Bailey, B. Ross
Wilson, A. H. Kinard, R. G. Lister,
Lewis M. Lipscomb, Edward B.
Carlisle, - and Clarence W. Dom
inick.
ity Hall.
A. P. Faris, vice-president in
char e of the . Newberry Regional
office, served as toastmaster.
Special guests included Edwin
Cooper, chairman of the Bqard of
Calhoun Life, Mayor Ernest Lay-
ton, who welcopied. out of town
guests on behalf of the city; R.
Brice Waters, campaign manager
for the Newberry County Develop
ment Board who welcomed guests
on behalf of the County; Roy An
derson, a retired insurance repre
sentative and Mrs. Anderson,
Councilmen C. A. Dufford Sr. ^nd>
Frank Armfield; ^Dr. Milton W.
Moore of Newberry College >yho
led singing, and T. J. Harrelson,
a member of the executive Board
of Directors, who introduced dir
ectors of the company, including
A. P. Faris and Thomas H. Pope
who was recently elected a direc
tor in the company.
A buffet supper was served tp
about 150 guests, salesmen and
their wives. Hayne Shealy intro
duced local guests; A. F. Ellis in
troduced sales personnel from
District 1 and G. D. Evatts intro
duced personnel from Division 2.
A birthday cake for Mr. Lov-
vorn, celebrating his 42nd birth
day, was cut and enjoyed by the
guests.
Brief speeches were made by
various officials of the company,
also by J .P. Moon, oldest em
ployee from the point of service
with Calhoun Life.
Mr. and Mrs J8W3HMC. Abrams
left Wednesday morning to visit
Mr. Abrams’ sister, Miss / Verna
Mae Abrams at the South Carolina
Medical College Hospital in Char
leston. Miss Abrams, who was ser
iously burned at her home here on
February 17, is still reported to
be in critical condition.
ToSpeakAl
The steering committee for thfc
membership drive and organiza
tion of the Newberry County Do-
. stouter
at the Chamber of Jamt*
merce office. As reports were be
ing rpGa$*ed there on the drive
from various communities, upstairs
in the Community HaU, the lions
Club’s gue*t speaker was
!**At the oumet, l
of Newberry County on the
shment of -the Newberry S
Cou«i%?®fe Board! ySi -f
are pa the march and your county*
wide, cooperative efforts will aihsd ; -
prove fruitful in tka
months and years ahead.”
Those at the steering conpnittee
would have agreed, lid
they heard the .speaker, that con-
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incomplete,, 884
persons Java “signed*
baeome
R. D.
manager of the 8oatli
Electric Cooperative, Inc., will before the Board begins to
be guest speaker at the
meeting of the Kiwaafe clnh
held today (Thursday) at l:00/p.
m. at the Coauauaity HaU. Jfll!
SCEC is an association of electric
cooperatives in the state wiiMi
serve more than 120,000 rural
sumers with etecti^city
The agriculture and
tion committee of the Ktimris
Club is in charge of today’s pm-
gram.
Wesley To Speak
Bob Wesley, a Methodist
terial student at Newberr
We. will preach at
Sodist ”Chiirch Sundhy,
9 at 7:80 p. m.
The members of Ebenezer invito
friends of Mr/ Wesley, and the
public, to worship with them on
this date. '
Mr. Edward Hawkins, an offi
cial of Ebenezer, will lead tip
worship service.
(Summer
committee, as well as
^ exiapped
figure would easily reach
Revenue Officer Retires
By BILLY WILLIAMS
in The Greenville News
A. H. Counts of Newberry, a
worker in the Internal Revenue
Service office here, retired today
with a title he fought for and
won during his 17 years of gov
ernment employment here.
He will end his career as a
revenue officer, not as a deputy
collector, a term he always hated
and refused to use even when
government officials insisted he
was a deputy collector.
This was told last night during
a party for the Newberry man and
his wife at the Elks Club here.
About 75 fellow employees attend
ed to wish him happiness in his
“new adventure” as a tax expert.
During the speech making, it
was recalled that Mr. Counts al
ways signed his correspondence as
a revenue officer, when no such
title existed. *
“Counts, you are a deputy col
lector, not a revenue officer,” he
was told. He would listen. The
next letter he signed would be as
a revenue officer. Nothing, nobody
could change him.
Finally, the title of deputy col
lector was changed to revenue of
ficer by the Internal Revenue
Service.
Frances G. Duehay, district di
rector for the state Internal Rev
enue Service, told the farewell
party audience that Mr. Counts
has performed his work faithfully
and expertly during the 17 years.
He recalled the days that Mr.
Counts was once a government ad
missions expert and was on hand
for all prize fights, races, and
other forms of entertainment to
collect taxes at the gate.
S. H. Hutton, chief of collec
tions for the state division, pre
sented Mr. Counts with a gold
watch from the people in the rev
enue office.
He said that since Mr. Counts
is going to be a tax man in New
berry County, engaged in private
practice, a tremendous “clean
up” job is going to be necessary,
therefore the future busy Mr.
Counts will need a time piece at
all times.
Mr/ Duehay had described
Mr. Counts’ job as one of a
“breadwinner” for the- "federal
government. He said* in this line
of work “the customer is' net
always right” and it is up to the
revenue office to get the money
to keep the government going.
Members of the local office said
that ' they regret seeing Mr.
Counts, the revenue officer, leave
their midst. ^ '
Mr. and Mrs:" Walter Lovette of
Lovette, Ga. spent the weekend
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D.
J. Williams on Harper street.
A. H. Counts, third from left, was given s farewell party marking III* retirement from the
Greenville Internal Revenue Service office. On hand, left to right, were S. H. Hutton, chief of col
lections for the South Carolina Internal Revenue Service division; Mrs. Counts, Mr. Counts; and
Francis G. Duehay, director for the state Internal Revenue Service. (Greenville News photo by
James G. Wilson.)
<m April 1st of this year.
taOtots f<WLthe election of dtoi*.
toxff will be sent out this weekend. / -
Tie names of all persons who bate *
joined the Board, in each tax dist
rict wiU be Jisted and each member
in that tax district will have tiio
opportunity to vote for the dtree-
tor for ids districts
The two persons in eact
receiving the most votes
in a “run-over” for the director**
popt-. ,
The membership# reported Mon*
day a|gb$ bpr £« districts, are an
m
40; and Bush l^nrarv 6. '
Members of the steering
mittee, who were congratulated by I
Mr. Summer foi; the exeelhmt job
being done in the nfembe
drive, are (Clifford T. Smith,
River; . Dave Waldrop, Sitopa-
street; Cecil Berley, Pomaria; Jim
my ^WBUanu^ Prosperity; Tom
Suber, Whitmire, and Hunter
Caldwell, Little Mountain.
1% was decided-that instead of a
“farewell” annual banquet of the
Chamber of Commerce, which goes
out of existence on March 31et>
there would be a “Kick-Off Ban
quet” for the Newberry County
Development .Board. The occasion
.will be on March 81 at the New
berry High School cafeteria, with
R. M. Cooper, chairman of the
Bp u t h . Carolina Development
Board, as guest speaker. Directors
of the Board, who will have been
elected by that time, will be in
troduced.
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GREETINGS
March 8: J. P. Moon, T. S. Har
mon, Ace W. Watkins, Mrs, Harry
Stone, Mrs. Glenn L. Hamm, Mrs.
Katherine Neel Long, L. A. Black,
Andrew Shealy.
March 9: A. T. Hayes, Mrs.
Pearl Pugh, Claude Summer, Dr.
F. A. Truett, Joe S. Boland, Wof
ford Cooper Jr.
March 10: Doris Dominick,
Mrs. J. W. Denning, J. F. Lorain-
ick, Mrs. Reid Marrett, Mrs.
Gracie H. Cromer, Jimmy Ruff,
A. N. Crossoc, Mrs. J. W. Chap*
pell. Prof. R. E. Beck, E. E. Ept-
ing, Frances Blackwell, Mary
Gayle Wilson.
March 11: Mrs. Woodrow Rin
ger, Mrs. Ryan Graham, Elizabeth
Pinner Koon, Harriett Graham,
Donald Bowers, Lorraine Lomin-
iek, Bennie Burn, Elis&oeth Tim-
term an, Mrs. Hayne Shealy, Al
bert Jones, Mrs. Sadie McLeod.
March 12: Li. Col. Harry Bnz-
hardt, J. M. Hove, Mrs. Clyde
Tindall, Ruth Heyward Hodges,
Mrs. Ralph E. Epting, Donnie
Stewart, Donnie Vanderford, Mrs.
J. E. Ringer, Katherine Lominie*^
Edwin O. Lake, Dr. Louis Brossy,
Steve Reeves Jr„ Mrs. J. ^A. Ept
ing, Mrs. E. B. Young.
March 13: Joseph L. Keitt Jr,
Marsha Lominack, Lena Smus
Webb, Mrs. J. O. Jenkins, Bobby
Underwood, J. H. Wallenzine, Bob
bie Sue Koon.
March 14: T. M. Padgett, Park
er Martin, Virgil GSIUnm, Mary
Lee PraakHn, Jimmy Weir.