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i VOLUME 21; NUMBER 1. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY X, 1958 + $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way By Doris A. Sanders POLICY NOT CHANGED - It has been my understanding that all employees of the Newber ry County School District, be they teachers, administrative person nel, or in any other category, were required to retire when they reached the age of 65. As a mat ter of fact, that policy was re cently re-emphasized by the Coun ty Board of Education. The only exception to the rule has been to allow those employees who were nearing the age of 65 at the time they went under Social Security coverage in 1955, to complete the necessary number of. “quarters in order that they might be elig ible for social security payments when they retired. This has been done in a number of instances, provided the employee could furnish a health certificate at the beginning of each school year to *how that he or she was capable of performing assigned duties. This was certainly a reasonable request on the part of employees, and a reasonable concession on the part of the Board. In abso lutely no other case, they said, would employees be allowed to stay after they reached the age of 65. I heard the other day that one such employee was being retain ed. I thought that all school dist- trict employees who had gone un der Social Security payments in 1955 now had sufficient coverage. When I inquired about this parti cular person, I was told by Supt. of Education James D. Brown that this was not the case. Just as a matter of verification, I check ed the record myself, at the edu cation office and found that if this particular person had been releas ed—or retired at the end of this school year, he would not have been eligible for Social Security retirement pay. * I was glad to find that was true, because I would hate to think the Board, in retiring so many fine teachers this year, as well as in the part, was showing favoritism by keeping on one par ticular person. It is a shame that some of our excellent teachers must be retired, but if that is to be the policy of the County Board, it should be most strictly adher ed to, as I assume it will be, for all personnel. NOT MUCH DETAIL I am sorry that I am unable to give you, in more detail, the pur poses listed in next year’s bud get for the county school system. Although reporters were allowed at the board’s meeting Monday night, they were not allowed so much as a glance at the proposed budget until it was finally adopt ed, and then the superintendent of education would give reporters a copy of these public records only after receiving special per mission from the Board. At the meeting, Mr. Brown read each of the items, giving some ex tra information about some of them but since I did not have a copy to follow, it was almost im possible to make notes as to what he had to say about the various items. The budget is printed elsewhere in this paper, as it was given to me, so if you have ques tions about anything I would sug gest that you call Mr. Brown and let him explain them to you. I’m tired of trying to get explana tions of any sort having to do with anything concerning the schools. “Queen Of The May” Miss Joyce Pruitt, daughter of Mrs. Jimmie Pruitt of Newberry, will reign over Newberry Col lege’s celebration of May Day. The festivities will begin at 5 P. M. on May 3 with the coronation of the queen and the presenta tion of her court on the campus quadrangle. The evening will be highlighted with a dance in Mac Lean gymnasium, to the music of the College N orchestra. Miss Pruitt’s Maid of Honor will be Miss Nancy Stephens, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold H Stephens of Orlando, Fla. In the past four years Miss Pruitt has been active in the col lege Singers, has served as fe male vocalist for the College N Orchestra, is a majorette for the band, a member of SCA, BSU, Day Student’s club, Players, and is one of the women day stud ents’ representatives to the Stu dent council. She has taken part in May Day for two years. She is majoring in secondary educa tion. The crown bearer will be Chas. Park, son of Dean and Mrs. Con rad Park. Flower girls will be Pi ta Burnette, Betty Douglas, Kiki Kirkland and Frances Williamson. Train bearers will be Eleanor Burnette, Ginger Kirkland and Ellen Williamson. They are the daughters of coach and Mrs. E. W. Burnette, Prof, and Mrs. Elmore Douglas, coach and Mrs. Harvey Kirkland, and Prof, and Mrs. N. K. Williamson. MERCHANT ASSOCIATION Many merchants of Newberry have been asking “why wasn’t the ‘You Auto Buy Now’ cam paign extended to cover all busi nesses, instead of just being for automobile dealers?” The ans wer, according to Herschel Kemp er, who is chairman of the local automobile association and also ehairman of the YABN campaign, is that there is no organization in Newberry, since the dissolution of the Chamber of Commerce, through which a city-wide drive of this type could be handled. Herschel is strongly in favor of a Merchant’s Association, and he feels that 95% of Newberry’s merchants would go along with such an organization. It has been suggested that the last Board of Directors of the Chamber of Com merce be “drafted” to serve a merchant's association until such an organization could get under way. That would seem a good way to begin—then Newberry would Pave a group to handle such promotions as YABN, parades, store closings, etc. I feel that this is worthy of consideration. At an “open” meeting of the County Board of Education held Monday night, the Board adopted a budget for the 1958-59 school year; elected Robert E. Stokes head coach at Mid-Carolina High School; and discussed landscaping of the grounds- at Mid-Carolina. The budget totaled $1,191,132.60 against an estimated income of $1,313,861.00, leaving an expected balance of $122,728.40. The largest single item on the budget, as always, is the amount set aside for teachers salaries, $842,360. This does not include supervisory personnel. The salary of “administrative superintend ents” (defined as the director of schools and superintendent of edu cation) is $12,535. Other expenses for these two amounts to $6,560. The salaries of supervising prin cipals amounts to $50,085.60; their expenses, $9,560. Other items in the budget in cluded: shop expense, $3200; li braries, $5612; special education, $6270: visual aids, $3820; teach ing supplies, $2595; band, $725; other instructional expense, $710; health (first aid), $246; salary, bus drivers, $27,215; salary jani tors, $28f,185; telephone, $2775; fuel, $24,020; lights and water, $14,650; custodial supplies, $3,- 080; care of grounds, $605; Also, teacherage, $1050; con tracted service. $2500; replace ment of equipment, $1775; other expenses replacement and ma terial, $3675; insurance, $14,437; rent, $264; school lunch workers, $50,153; other expenses lunch room, $36,337; extra curricula ($3.00 per pupil high school, $1.00 elementary), $9,433; athletic ex pense, $3200; Korean veterans, $900; equipment (new), $1050; of fice supplies, $600; salaries of consultants or supervisors, $6900; other expenses, $700; salary at tendance teacher, $2875; other expenses of attendance teacher, $450; interest on loans, $25; oth er expenses of loans, $10,000. Mimeographed copies of the budget also showed the average daily attendance at the schools of the county to April 1958 as being 6557, and the average cost per pupil as $181, compared with the state per pupil cost of $169. DB Directors Seeking Sites For Industry All directors of the Newberry County Development Board were present for a meeting held Tues day night to discuss the recom mendations made by engineers of Daniels Construction Company, who were in Newberry lari week, and by R. M. Cooper, director of the State Development Board. The group decided to follow rec ommendations for locating pros pective industrial sites, and to be gin compilation of other informa tion for the publication of a county-wide brochure advertising Newberry to industries seeking to locate in the South. T. Roy Summer Jr., chairman of the board, stated that each mem ber would be responsible for seek ing out desirable industrial sites in his own tax area. When sites are located, sketches will be drawn and will be checked by Daniels engineers before they are included in a brochure. < The directors decided to set the last Tuesday night of each month for a regular meeting date. Re ports as to available and desirable skes are expected to be made at the May meeting. Each class will be represented by four attendants, four garland girls, and several May Pole dan cers. Among those from Newber ry participating are: Betty Ring er, daughter of Mr. and Mrs E. E. Ringer; Doris Anne Parks, daughter of Mrs. Gloria Parks; Alice Faye Koon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Koon of Prosper ity; Suzanne Lewis, daughter of Mr.Ralph Lewis; Lugenia Mar tin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Martin; Margie Livingston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Livingston; Judy Jackson, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. James Jack- son; Judy Stone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Stone of Whitmire; Elma Jean Piester, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Piester; Sara Ella Yount, daughter of Rev and Mrs. N. D. Yount of Whitmire; Mary Jo Cromer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Cromer; Jack ie Counts, daughter of Mrs. Grace Counts of Pomaria. The chairman of the faculty committees in charge of May Day are: general chairman, Dean Hat tie Belle Lester; program chair man, Miss * Margaret Paysinger; attendants, Mrs. Fred Dominick; garland girls, Mrs. Cora Aull; Maypole dancers, Mrs. Louise Douglas; and the throne, Mrs. Margaret Neely. The Newberry College Wo men’s League will hold a recep tion on the terrace in front of Smeltzer Hall immediately fol lowing the May Day exercises. Contract Talk Is In Progress Officials of Local Union 324 (CIO-AFL) met with officials of Mollohon plant of the Kendall Company last Thursday to discuss a contract for the ensuing year. The company , had previously asked that the contract be opened for minor changes and amendments. According to William Tedford, manager of the Mollohon plant, another meeting will be held on May 22. “I have no doubt but that we will agree on a contract be fore the expiration of the current one on June 12,” Mr. Tedford said today. Pope To Head State Masons Another state-wide honor has come to Newberry’s Thomas H. Pope, who was recently elected chairman of the South Carolina Democratic party. During the past weekend, he was elected grand master of the Grand Lodge of Ancient and Free Masons of Automobile Dealers Pleased With YABN Sales Promotion Herschel Kemper, chairman of the local YABN campaign, addresses the group attending the kick-off breakfast last Friday n\orning. Seated at the table with Mr. Kemper are, left to right, Joe' Roberts, Mayor Ernest Layton, Mr. Kemper, Rev. Garth Hill and Jimmy. Coggins. (Sunphoto.) Appointments And Made In Lower County Budget Over Million Dollars Is Adopted By School Board South Carolina, at the 221st an nual communication of the lodge in Charleston. Other appointments announced at the communication included: Fred V. Lester, deputy grand master of the 12th district; H. Lee Smallwood, grand pur suivant; James C. Abrams, member of the Masonic service committee. Family Night At Central LEGION AUXILIARY The American Legion Auxil iary will meet today (Thursday) at 4 p.m. with Mrs. John Norris. Associate Hostesses will be Mrs. J. L. Keitt, Mrs. P. E. Way and Mrs. S. C. Paysinger. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Slaton and Mr. and Mrs. Lin Slaton re turned home Thursday from a six days visit in the state of Florida. While in the state, they visited many of Florida’s scenic points of interest. Sunday night, May 4, Central Methodist Church will observe Family Night at the evening wor ship service. May 4 through May 11 is National Family Week. The .theme for this week is “Your Home—A Household for God.” In observance of this week the entire evening service May 4 will center around family life. A fam ily of the church will be seen “at worship,” and the congregation will watch this typical family as they worship as they would in their family worship in their home. Families are urged to attend this service and sit in family (groups. The public is cordially invited. Mid-Carolina, the consolidated school which will accommodate high school students from the Prosperity, Pomaria and Little Mountain areas, finally has a superintendent. He is C. S. Wil liams, now serving as superinten dent of McColl-Fletcher Memor ial school in McColl. Mr. Wil liams, his' wife and three child ren, will move to Prosperity and he will begin his new duties on July first. He was born at Swansea, Nov ember 16, 1921. He finished the Swansea high school and attend ed the University of South Caro lina, from which he holds the B. A. and Master of Education, de grees. He was principal of the Knight- ville elementary school, Summer ville, from 1944 to 1950, princi pal of McColl high school from 1950 to 1951 and area superin tendent of the Macedonia public schools, Moncks Corner, 1951-19- 55. He then returned ro McColl where he served as area superin tendent to the present time. Mr. Williams is a member of the McColl Methodist Church, an official board member and teach er of the Young adult Sunday School class and chairman of the Board of Christian Education, He is a Mason, a member of the S. Public Invited To Tea Honoring Seven Teachers Although the ladies in charge of refreshments for the Tea be ing given in honor of the seven teachers of Newberry county who are retiring at the end of this school year have no way of know ing how many will attend, they are preparing for several hundred guests. The Newberry county Council of Parent-Teachers As sociations and the Newberry Civ ic League are giving this Tea as a small token of the great esteem they have for these teachers who have devoted so many years to the welfare of the children of Newberry county. The Tea will be in the Com munity hall Sunday afternoon, May 4, from 4:30 to 5:30. Every one in Newberry county is invit ed, and a special invitation has been issued to former students of these teachers. The honor guests will be: Miss Eula Epting, Little Mountain; Miss Sudie Dennis and Miss Julia Kibler, Newberry high; Mrs. Thos. P. Johnson, Newberry Junior high;Miss Helen Nichols, Oak land; Mrs. Marie Huggins, Pom aria, and Miss Ethel Jones, of Speers street. C. Education Association and a past president of the Berkeley and Marlboro County education associations. He organized Boy Scout Trodps and cub packs and has served asScoutmaster for The Newberry County Council of PTA will have its final meet ing of the current year tonight (Thursday) at 8 p.m. in the eon- ference room of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer. The meeting will last one hour. Regular delegates and the out going officers of PTA are Urged to attend. A special invitation ie extended to the newly—elected officers of all PTA units in the county. The Council feels that these officers will receive much useful information at this meet ing which will make their work in PTA easier and more effect ive. Mrs. Kirby Lominack and Mrs. Donald Rook will give brief re ports on the Council workshop. New officers of the Council will be installed. MR. WILLIAMS several years. Another change in the Pros perity area schools is the elec tion of Hubert M. Bedenbaugh as superintendent of the Prosperity area. He fills the vacancy left by C. E. Hendrix, who has accepted a position as superintendent in Estill. Mr. Bedenbaugh was graduat ed from Clemson in 1947 and re ceived the degree of Master of Education from the University of South Carolina in 1954. He is now serving as agriculture teach er in the Pomaria and Little Mountain schools and lives in the O’Neal community. His wife is the former Miss Gerald Riley of Saluda county. They have two children. Elected head coach for Mid-Car olina, at a County Board of Edu cation meeting Monday night,was Robert E. Stokes, who will re ceive his diploma from Newberry college this year. Hehas been an outstanding rhember of the Newberry Indian football team for several years. Several other vacancies still exist for teachers at Mid-Carolina according to that school’s advis ory board. Practically all other teacher positions in the schools of the county have been filled. BIRTHDAY Mrs. J. H. Willingham and Mrs. Earl Taylor visited Dr. and Mrs. H. A. McCullough at the Forest Rest Home in Columbia Sunday. Dr. McCullough, broth er of Mrs. Willingham, has been undergoing treatment at the Rest home, where he is reported to be seriously ill. May 3: J. Ralph Williams, Bob by Long, Berley Bedenbaugh, Jr., William H. Ringer, George S. Ruff, Marion Gilliam, Grady Ringer, Carolyn Wood, Jimmy Bedenbaugh. May 4: Mrs. Elise P. Bowler, Horace Williams, Dewey Kinard, Mrs. Edward A. Lane, B. B. Liv ingston, Mrs. Brab Crooks, Mrs. Jack Hughes, Carl Setzler, Ro berta Clairice Kennerly. ✓ May 6: T. E. Davis, John H. Ruff, Walter Ruff, Mrs. Ran dolph Kirkland, Mildred Power Martin, Billie Wayne Sheppard, Mrs. William Thomas Werts, Richard B. Caldwell, Mrs. W. El- lerbe Pelham, Jr., Mrs. W. F. Rutherford, Stanley Drawder, Mary Helen Whitaker, Pamela L. Setzler. May 6: Mrs. J. M. Randal, Mrs. J. M. Chappell, A. W. Murray, Betty Boyd, Mrs. Byron Nichols, Hazel Wright, McTeer Senn. May 7: Henry Brooks,* Mrs. Charles H. Boyd, Jr., Randolph Ferguson, Michael Sheppard, An nette Hawkins, Mike Epps, Car- roll Devore, Norman Beck, Buddy Morehead. May 8: Edith Dickert, J. Morgan Randal, Mary Bouknight, Lois Ellen Cromer, Mrs. Helen J. Ez ell, Sara Brown, Mary Helen Smith, Mrs. H. C. Timmerman, Johnnie B. Lindsay, Terry Mer chant, Kerry Lamar Epting. May 9: Williamson Folk, Mrs. Horace Cromer, Nat Gist III, C. E. Sharp. The “You Auto 'Buy Now” cam paign which began in Newberry last Friday will be concluded Sat urday evening at 6:00 p. m., when some lucky person who has registered at one of the partici pating automobile dealers will be presented 100 silver dollars. Reg istrations close at noon Saturday and the drawing will be held in front of the Community Hall. A majority of the automobile dealers contacted Wednesday morning expressed approval of the campaign, feeling that it has done much to create interest and sales of new and used automo biles. Herschel A. Kemper, chairman df the YABN campaign, stated that there was definitely more terest at Kemper Chevrolet Company. “There is more floor since the beginning of j the campaign,” he said. “We have sold some used cars and have had more than the normal number of inquiries about ne^ cars. With the inclement weather we have had* many people have been out of work,” he continued, “and we eipect the YABN campaign to have a delayed effect as more people are able to get back to work again. I think the campaign has definitely stimulated interest and has been a help.” Ed Young Buick Company’s owner reported “We have had mighty good luck so far. Both car sales and shop work have picked up. I don't know anything else to ‘blame it on’ so I give credit to the. YABN campaign.” “We Are very pleased with the campaign,” reported Lewis Lips comb, of Lipscomb Motor Ctf. “Our sales have greatly increas ed—Friday, Saturday and Mon day, we sold more cars than in any'iilto vecentty.” James Henry Davis of W. H. Davis and Son feels that the cam paign “is doing some good. It is creating more activity and inter est and is worthwhile. We are sat isfied with our investment in the campaign. Duncan Johnson, of P: D. John son and Co. reported that he felt the campaign was worthwhile and participated in it, although he did not expect a large increase in business because “we only sell trucks in a small way.” H. B. Kirkegard of Kirk Pon- tiac-Cadillac reports: “I .haven’t seen any difference.” Elmer Shealy, Shealy Motor Company says there has been “quite an improvement.” He feels “if we talk less about the so-called recession, I think we’ll get along a whole lots better. We are very pleased with our business since last Saturday. Jack Matthews, used car deal er who is participating in YABN, reported, “we are well pleased with what’s been going on. While sales haven't increased greatly, we expect them to.” The other automobile dealers participating in the campaign could not be contacted prior to press' time. Brown Driving New Chevy James D. Brown, county super intendent of education, is driving a new 1958 four-door Biscayne Chevrolet these days. He admits he wasn’t talked into buying it during “You Auto Buy Now” week—he won it. It seems that for some weeks, Morrison’s cafeteria in Columbia has been drawing tickets, deposit ed by its customers, and award ing to winners a free trip to Florida. At the end of a number of weeks, all tickets were put in a box and one was drawn to re ceive the grand prize, a 1958 Chevrolet. The name—James D. Brown of Newberry. He picked up the new powder-blue and ivory automobile in Columbia Tuesday and was proudly displaying it Wednesday morning. Mr. Brown had eaten at Morrison’s . only once during the contest, that being during teach ers meeting in Columbia. J J - (. ■ mi m Mr. and Mrs. John Free have moved to 1709 College street. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lester mov ed last Tuesday into their new home at 1625 Clarkson Ave.