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' IN ANY HEATED DISCUS SION IT IS ALWAYS BEST TO KEEP YOUR WORDS SOFT & SWEET. . . YOU MAY WIND UP EATING THEM. MINNY FEARS SAYS *■ . .t SOME OF THE NEW NOVELS ARE JUST TOO GOOD TO PUT v DOWN . . . OTHERS YOU DONT DARE PUT DOWN, -- VOLUME 21; NUMBER 8. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1958 + $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way By Dorta A. Sandgra NOT UNLUCKY Friday the 13th may be unlucky for some people, but for us it brought a nice surprise. As you perhaps know, my husband taught at Clinton high school during the past year. When the second term rolled around, he was asked if he minded taking on an extra class in economics, which would make a total of five classes he would be teaching, instead of four. He was accustomed to this, having taught five classes during all the years he taught in the Newberry County school system, so he took on the economics class. On Friday the 13th, a letter came from the superintendent of Laurens County School District No. 56. It contained a nice check for services rendered, you might eay, “beyond the call of duty”— for teaching the class in economics the last semester of school. He had neither asked nor ex pected extra compensation for doing thi^. work. Can you imagine the Newberry County School Dist rict being so generous ? I can’t. A more truthful statement was never made than the one made by a County Board of Education member at a recent meeting: “We are spending too much money on too many things other than read ing, writing and arithmetic.” One of these days, when and if I can ever find time, I’m going to find out, for instance, just how much money is spent on athletics — a nice part of the school program for a few, perhaps, but a tremen dous waste as far as educating u majority of the students. Destruction Left By Safe Crackers ANDERSON SURVEYS I think you will be interested in the survey conducted by the editors of Farm and Ranch maga zine. Recently they . asked their subscribers to vote on nine na tional issues. Results showed that 72.2 percent thought cooperatives should be taxed, nationally and lo cally, on the same basis as cor porations; 63.2 percent thought postal rates should be raised; 26.9 percent thought government should guarantee support prices at 90 to 100 perceht of parity and control production on major crops; 87.5 percent thought farm ing should return to a free sup- ply-and-demand system, as soon as possible with minimum govern ment control; 85 percent thought public utilities should be develop ed and operated by private com panies instead of by the govern ment; 80.9 percent felt states should run their own schools with out interference from federal government and federal aid to schools should be stopped; 77.6 percent throught integration in schools should be prevented by any legal means; 75.3 percent be lieved federal aid to states means extravagance, high taxes, waste and federal control and should be stopped; and 55 percent agreed that Secretary Benson is doing a good job as Secretary of Agricul ture. These statistics are from the July 1958 issue of Farm and Ranch magazine as are the fol lowing comments by its Straight- Talking editor, Tom Anderson: The majority of Farm and Ranch readers who answered a re cent survey in this magazine gave answers which were quite sur prising to Farm and Ranch edi tors. And they may be consider ably more surprising to some po liticians who think they’re voting the way the majority wants them to vote. Farm and Ranch editors were anxious to know what our read ers think on vital questions of the day. Unlike some surveys this one was conducted, not to prove something, but to find something out. As every statistician knows, figures don’t lie but liars do fi gure. Forty bow-legged and 40 knock-kneed women in a room “average out” 80 straight-legged women. The startling facts: 72.2% of Farm and Ranch readers ans wering this survey think co-ops should pay the same national and local taxes as corporations . . . that an almost unbelievable 87.5% favor returning farming to a free supply-and-demand system, as soon as possible, with minimum government control . . . that 75- .2% vote that federal aid to states should be stopped. We leave it to the reader—and to the experts—to “explain” this return. True, some of the ques tions are a choice between black and white, when many readers might prefer some shade of gray. On the other hand, to have includ ed gray areas, would possibly' By BILL ARMFIELD Belk-Simpson Company in Whit mire was brokekn into and robbed between the hours of 8 p. m. Sun day evening and 6:30 a. m. Mon day morning. The intruders entered through the scuttle hole in the roof and moved the company’s safe about 30 feet from the office into the store between counters in order that they could not be observed from the outside. As can be seen in the photo above, the safe was completely destroyed and the looters took off with approximately $1500 in cash. As near as could be determined at the time, all checks, ledgers and so forth were left scattered on the floor. The robbery was investigated by local, county and state law enforcement officers. According to Lt. James Wflson of SLED, the safe was possibly broken with crow bars and sledge hammers. One side of the side had been peeled, the bottom ripped off. The door hinges were finally removed to get the safe opened. It was theorized that the robbers may have used drapes from the store to hide the light and cushion the sound, as there were several pairs of drapes on the floor near the safe. • There was considerable damage to merchandise in the store around the area of the safe crack ing. This is the third robbery to oc cur in Belk stores recently, the stores in Fountain Inn and Abbe ville also having been entered Textile Plants Plan Vacation Amid Changes, Contract Talks In the midst of a cutback at the Oakland plant of the Kendall Company, and contract negotia tions ‘at the Mollohon plant, em ployees of the two textile plants will begin a two-week vacation on June 28 this year. At Newberry Mills, the vaca tion wil last only one week, with the mill closing at 6 a.m. Satur- have complicated the survey and made clear-cut answers less like ly. Also, Farm and Ranch has previously editorialized on these problems, so perhaps the Farm and Ranch audience is “pre-condi tioned” and does not represent the typical Southern farm audience. Perhaps the survey is partially a tribute to Farm and Ranch’s literate, serious-minded audience. Or, perhaps it indicates a sharp change in farmer thinking which is as yet largely unrecognized in political circles. Perhaps it indicates that people are awake to the dangers of a centralized Socialist-labor welfare state and are ready to follow the right kind of leadership; honest, no-axe-to-grind leadership fight ing for the best interests of Am erica. Perhaps farm people are fed up with government bureau cracy, waste, pork-barrel politics, foreign give-away, inflation . . . fed up with farm programs which have piled failure on top of fail ure, mistakes on top of mistake, and left the farmer worse off than if there had not been any program. There’s no doubt that there’s been a change in South ern grass-roots thinking—so much so that some Southern congress men with their ears to the ground hav6 asked Secretary Benson how they can get off the hook. They’re now ready to renounce some of the ridiculous farm programs they’ve supported since the first little pigs were plowed under. They want to get back to supply-and- demand, common sense and the multiplication table without los ing face and votes. The results of this survey indi cate the Southern farmer once more reasserts his historic inde pendence, his fear of government, his devotion to self-help, and his love of freedom. We would not be truthful if we failed to state that we are greatly surprised— and greatly gratified—by what the response showed. We plan to continue testing our readers atti tudes and convictions on other subjects. And we’ll continue to re port the results, whether bowleg ged or knock-kneed. day and resuming operations at 6 a. m. Monday, July 7. Vacation pay will be paid all employees eligible on Thursday, June 26 at Newberry Mills. A claim will be filed with the South Carolina Employment Commis sion for all not eligible for vaca tion pay, according to James E. Britt, vice president and general manager. Pay checks for the week ending June 28th will be issued Friday, July 11, as the mill office will be closed during vacation week. At Oakland and Mollohon, the mills will close down at 6 a. m. June 28 and resume operations at 6:00 a. m. July 14. Employees who have been with the company from six months to two -years will re ceive two percent of their annual salary; those who have worked longer than five years with Ken dall will receive four percent of their annual salary. W. M. Tedford, manager of the Mollohon Plant, stated today that the contract with Local Union 324 (CIO-AFL), which expired June 12, had been- extended for 30 days. “We are making progress on the contract,” Mr. Tedford stat ed, “and expect to have one sign ed in the near future.” At Oakland, Manager D. O. Carpenter stated today that there had been some lay-offs due to the loss of a contract which the plant had had for many years. As a result of the loss, extensive changes have takeh place at the plant, and these were explained in a* letter to all Oakland em ployees on June 12. The manager pointed out that business on 583 looms had been lost; that “this does not necessar ily mean that we will have to cur tail operations. It does mean that we will have to find customers for these looms, which represent ed over half of our production.” The letter further stated that a single contract had been received which would run 150 looms through October; that whether this contract would continue “de pends largely on whether we can meet the quality requirements.” “In order to keep from curtail ing at Oakland,” the manager told his employees, “we are transferring diaper looms from Pelzer, putting, in print cloth con structions and transferring var ious other constructions from other points. Mr. Carpenter explained various other charges, and stated “To make this change, some of our people have suffered a hardship. A job elimination is a serious thing. The security of all of our people is a serious thing. In looking at something of this na ture, there is really only one ans wer. It is far better for the ma jority of us to have the security of our jobs than for all of us to have little or no security.” Easter Seal Report Given; GoalTopped A report of ( the Easter Seal Campaign was given when the Newberry County Chapter of the Crippled Children’s Society held its June meeting at the home of Mrs. I. M. Satterwhite Jr. with Mrs. Emmett Nichols, chairman, presiding. Mrs. C. M. Smith reported that the campaign brought in contri butions of $2,812.58, which was $190 more than the goal set. Ap peal letters brought in $1077.75; special letters, $729; Lily parade, $193.76; school campaign, $551- .14; coin containers, $51.80! Cof fee Day, $209.13. Mrs. Nichols expressed, for members of the chapter, apprecia tion to all who had a part in mak ing the 1958 campaign a success: the county newspapers, radio stations, law enforcement officers, restaurants, drugstores, and oth ers who participated in coffee day; Mothers Clubs of Newberry. “The generous assistance of all who helped is of tremendous value in the continuation and expansion of our work for the crippled,” Mrs. Nichols said, “and we are deeply grateful to you.” Long Becomes Health Officer For District Dr. Von A. Long, who prac ticed general medicine in New berry County for a number of years prior to September 1, 1957, assumed duties Monday as Dis trict Health Officer for New berry, Union and Laurens coun ties. He succeeds Dr. J. C. Sease, who will remain with the health department on a part-time basis for another year. Dr. Long recently returned to Newberry after having received a Master’s degree in Public Health at the University of North Grand Jury Committee Issues Threat To Board Of Education Court Hurries Through SS Cases Monday; Adjourns Criminal Court convened here Monday morning with Judge Steve C. Griffith presiding. By late af ternoon, Solicitor William T. Jones had disposed of 55 of the 65 cases on the docket and court ad journed for the session. All of the disposal cases were guilty pleas. The only murder case was that of Sammie Johnson, Negro, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received a 10-year sentence. One of the four counts against John Willie Robinson, charging housebreaking, larceny and stolen goods, was nol pressed. He plead ed guilty to housebreaking with intent to commit larceny; house breaking and larceny; house breaking, larceny and receiving stolen goods, and was sentenced to two years on each count, to run concurrently. The last cases were those of five Negro youths ranging in age from 15 to 18 years, charged with the raping of several teen-age Negro girls. All were studefets at the same school and it was on the final day of school that the incident took place. The boys who were indicted and pleaded guilty to the charge were: Hugh Senn Clark, John Earl Johnson, Bobby Dawkins, Preston Jeter and Theodore Duckett. Clark "was sen tence/! to the Industrial School for Negro Boys, with sentence sus pended and placed on probation for three years. The others re ceived a sentence of one year each to be suspended upon the serv ice of three months and placed on probation for three years. B. V. Chapman and Walter Lake, attorneys, appeared in be half of the youths. Mr. Chapman made a plea saying that it was the first offense that the youths were froom good Negro families, had good school records and that the boys were placed in manner hard for them to resist. Attorney Lake substantiated Mr. Chapman’s statement. "Deputy Sheriff J. C. Neel, who made a {borough investigation, said the youths had not been in apy pre vious trouble. The following guilty pleas were heard: Glen Moore, assault and battery of aggravated nature, four months, probation 18 months; Jerry Duckett, Jr., assault and battery, six months, probation two years; L. C. Dunbar, pos session of illegal liquor, 15 days or pay a fine of $50; Charles Da vid Guthrie, drunk driving, sec ond offense, one year or payment of $1,000, after three months or payment of $250, probation for two years; Hoover H. Johnson, drunk driving, second offense, one year or payment of $1,000, but upon service of three months or payment of $250, probation for two years; Claude Kinard, non support, one year or payment of $1,000 or payment of $10 per week; David Wells, drunk driv- inf, third offense, three years or payment of $2,000, hut upon serv ice of six months and payment of $600, probation for three years; Willie Mack Saudemire, assault and battery of an aggravated na ture, sent to the Industrial School For Boys until 21 years old, suB- pended after 30 days in jail, pro bation for three years; Robert Lee Sims, forgery, amount less than $20, 60 days; George Young, forgery, amount less than $20, 60 days; Lee Gary, alias Nibble Gary, escaping public works of Newberry County after being tried, six months to continue at expiration of sentence now serv ing; Willie Jones Elkins, peeping tom, three years; Sammie John son, manslaughter, 10 years; and Joe Hiller, assault and battery with intent to kill, and carrying concealed weapons, 18 months. Nathaniel Pitts, indicted for as sault and battery with intent to kill and carrying concealed weap ons, pleaded nolo contendre. He was sentenced to serve 18 months. Committees of the 1958 Grand Jury of Newberry County made their first reports to the pre siding Judge during the June term of General Sessions court Monday. The committee on roads and bridges, composed of W. E. Senn, chairman, Dick Vaughn, M. S. Lester and H. W. Sandel found “that the roads and bridges are in good condition; and we wish to commend the Supervisor for these in such good keeping Bids were opened Tuesday af ternoon at the office of the Sup erintendent of Education for the addition of classrooms to Gallman High School Low of the nine bidders, according to Superintend ent of Education James D. Brown was W. E. Baker & Son of Whit mire, with a bid ot $67,700. “All bids were higher than we had expected,” Mr. Brown stated. It had been estimated . that the project would cost $64,500 and this was the allotment approved by the State Finance Commission several months ago. The $64,500 figure also included equipment as well as the construction; howev er, Baker’s bid did not include any equipment. The cohtract bae not been awarded, said Mr. Brown, and de cision as to whether to go ahead with the project on current bids will be made at the next meet ing of the County. Board of Edu cation, scheduled fdr Tuesday night, June 24. 4 Mr. Brown also announced that the State Finance Commission had approved two mother projacta in the.. . county at its June 12th meeting funds for thls pu /P ose Precincts Close At Different Hours In 2nd Primary Tuesday Vacancies At Scout Day Camp Miss Marcia Haile, director of the Girl Scout Day • camp to be held from July 21 through August 1st, stated today that registra tions have filled the camp to ca pacity for the first week, July 21-25. Vacancies are still left in the second week, July 28 through August 1st, and those who wish to attend camp during that week are urged to register immediately. The camp will be held from 9 a. m. until 3 p. m. each day, Mon day through Friday. Miss Haile stated that girls entering the second grade this fall, who plan to become Brownies, are eligible to attend the second week of the day camp. Because scout troops have dis banded for the summer, those in terested in attending the second week of the day camp are asked to contact Miss Haile, 1329 Kinard St., telephone 347-W. Carolina on June 2. He is a na tive of Prosperity, a graduate of Prosperity high school and of Clemson College. He received his medical ■ degree from the Medical College of South Carolina in Charleston. He served his in ternship at Greenville General Hospital. Dr. and Mrs. Long and their three sons, Von, Jr., David and Elmer, live on McHardy street. They moved to Newberry in July 1952, from Prosperity, where Dr. Long had practiced since 1938. ON VISIT HERE Lt. Col. Harry Buzhardt, who is stationed with the Marine Corps in Washington, D. C., is visiting his mother, Mrs. Epsie Buzhardt on Boundary street, and his children, Harry, Jr. and Ruth who make their home with their grandparents, Mr. and* Mrs. G. E. Young in Whitmire. The second Democratic Primary to elect a governor and an adju tant general in statewide races, and a commissioner and a magis trate in Newberry County, will' be held on Tuesday, June 24. Donald Russell, former presi dent of the University of South Carolina, and Ernest F. Hollings, lieutenant governor are in the run-off for governor, Anderson Mayor William C. Johnson having been eliminated on June 10. For adjutant general, Frank D. Pinckney and Ted Watson will do battle for the seat occupied many years by retiring General James C. Dozier. Locally, voters in the lower part of the county will elect a commissioner. In the race are Ross George, who polled 932 voi in the first primary, and W, (Bob) Dawkins, who received 677 votes. Out of the running is “Little Man” Kingsmore, who re ceived 536 votes the first go- around. The second race for Magistrate District No. 6 finds Andrew F. Shealy, with 213 votes in the first primary and J. Harold Wise, with 186, seeking the' post. Gal lic B. Metts was the third man in this race who was eliminated June 10. Voters are especially requested to notice the closing times of the various precincts. All 49 pre cincts will open at 8 a.m. Some precincts, however, close at 4 p. m., some at 5 p.m. and some at 6 p.m. Information as to the closing of each precinct may be found in the Election Notice print ed elsewhere in this issue. Bedenbaugh To Join NCBD Emory Bedenbaugh has been appointed field representative for the Newberry County Develop ment Board, according to an' an nouncement made this week by T. Roy Summer Jr., chairman of the in Columbia. They are construc tion of a cafeteria at Pomaria, $33,650 and renovation of cafe teria and building at Prosperity, $50,000. He aaid that plans wore in the “working stage” but were not yet ready to call for bids on these two projects. Bushardt Rites At Whitakers Mrs. Lilie Mae Bushardt, 78, widow of C. O. Buzhardt, died Monday afternoon in Columbia after a long illness. Mrs. Bushardt was born in Newberry County, a daughter of the late Entime and Mary Kibler Bushardt. She had lived almost her entire life near Newberry. She was a member of Seventh Day Adyestist Church in Colum bia. Surviving are \two brothers, Eugene Bushardt of, Newberry and Wilbur Bushardt of Columbia. «Funeral services were conduct- /ed Wednesday at 4 p. m. at Whit aker Funeral Home by thte Rev. C. B. Word. Burial was in Rose- mont Cemetery. Active pallbearers were Herman Langford, Tom Hayes, Jesse Frank Hawkins, O. J. Wilson, Woodrow Lathrop and Ralph Whitaker. Serving as honorary pallbearers were George Stribble, W. P. Lathrop, J. O. Havird, Thomas Bushardt, Wilson Brown, John T. Norris, Tom Fellers, J. F. Hipp, W. B. Goggins Sr., H. D. Whitak er and Ned Purcell. Assisting with the flowers were Mrs. O. M. Cobb, Mrs. Woodrow Lathrop, Mrs. J. B. Coward, Mrs. J. F. Hawkins, Miss Lillie Sligh and Mrs. Richard McWhirter. Local To Vote On Contract There will be a very important meeting of TWUA Local Union 324 (CIO-AFL) at Mollohon Sun day afternoon, June 22 at 3 p. m. in the school auditorium. At this meeting, results of the Thurs day meeting of the union shop committee with company represen tatives on contract negotiations will be discussed and union mem bers will vote to accept or reject the proposed contract. Every member of the union is especially urged to attend this important meeting. £ shape, especially during the bad weather.” The committee on county build ings was composed of E. O. Shealy, / chairman, Cyril Hutch inson, Carol M. Hipp and H.M. Kunkle. They found needs for some repairs at the county jail; also at the county home. Among those at the latter building “wir ing needs to be repafrfed to ac commodate television. . . remove present rotten car garage and build another at a different lo cation.” The committee found fire ha zards in the county stockade; -a leak in the roof of the Agricol ure building, and the court house enerally well kept and in good condition. The committee on schools, M. O. Mayer, chairman, A. R. Boland* J. W. Hipp, Jr. and Edwin Dodfe- worth found more to complain about. Excessive repairs ' needed, they found, at Whitmire, high school and at Park street elementary school, where a fire escape was, recommended. They found Carver elementary echeol in good condition; and highly commended Supt. R. L. Huslebns for the fine condition in which Bush River school was main tained. Fire escapes were again recommended for Bush River,also for the Little Mountain school Mollohon school and Newberry High were found in good condi tion. A number of repairs. were recommended for Pomaria ele mentary school; Junior High, Speers and Boundary were found old and inadequate and “should be replaced as soon as funds are available.” All scboolgrounds were found to "have received inadequate care as to grass, shrubbery and polie- ing, “apparently, due to to lack of i. The com mittee recommended using prison labor to maintain the school grounds. ' The committee concluded, its re port with a threat to the County Board of Education: “Recommend all needed fire es capes be installed immediately. This request was first made by the Grand Jury of this County in November of 1967 and upon failure on the part of respon sible officials to comply with this request by the beginning of the 1958-1959 school year, there win be no alternative for this Grand Jury except to take the most forceful steps at our command.” BIRTHDAY June 21: Wm. C. Armfield, Bobby Busby, O. A. Felker. June. 22: Mrs. Jewell W. Hentz, William Partridge, Faye Summer, Roy C. Doolittle, Mrs. Berry Livingston, Rion C. Price, Tena Price Nichols, Terry Don ald Dominick, Mrs. W. H. Cald well, Patty Regnery. June 23: Mrs, H. H. Ruff, Mrs. O. J. Jackson, Mrs. O. O. Fulmer, Billy Long, Mrs. John Earl Smith, Ralph Waldrop, Mrs. John P. Livingston, Floyd Bouknight, Y-Genia Crossland, H. Alvin Franklin. June 24: Susan Lipscomb, Mildred Glymph, Mrs. William R. Buford, Clarence Kinard Jr., Skipper Hunter, Jimmy Touche berry, H. Ostell Ballew. June 25: Oswald Copeland, Elizabeth G. Norris, Jimmy Counts, Bobby Jollay, W. T. Vanderford, Mrs. Henry L. Wright, June Abby, Sara Clark, Elva Lou Waites. June 26: A. E. Hazel, Robert Luther Shealy, Mrs. Frank Ste vens Jr., Mrs. Ralph P. Baker, Bruce Lipscomb, Mrs. Olin In- abinet. June 27: - Elsie Long, Mrs. Euston Richardson, June Wal ton, Judith A. Jones, Johnny Shealy. - June 28: Mrs. Douglas Horns by Jr., Olin Layton, Mrs. T. Roy Summer Sr., Lonnie Gilliam, Mrs. R. M. Lominack, Mrs. C. C. Hutto, Kenneth Ross Harmon, Frances Derrick, Tommy Ann Werts,- Mrs. H. D. Hollings worth, Harriett Ann Senn, Ed die Blackwell, Paula Fuller, H. B. Rayfield, Joe F. Bedenbaugh, Jack Hawkins, Doris Dufford Eargle, Katherine D. Senn, Sam Burns, Mrs. H. L. Parr, Ralph Parr Baker Jr.