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NEWBERRY. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1958
4 $2.00 PER YEAR
By The Way " by Jbori3 Sander3
HERE’S YOUR CHANCE
I have been thinking since the
Salk vaccine was made available
to persons over the age of 20, that
I would stop by the doctor’s office
one of these days and get my pro
tective shots. If you are like I
am chances are you’ve thought of
the same thing, but just haven’t
gotten around to do it. Well, the
Newberry Jaycees are giving you
the opportunity to get this protec
tion, at no cost to you. All you
have to do is present yourself
downstairs at the Community Hall
this Friday, August 1st, and Dr.
Von Long, district health officer,
•will be there to give you your
first shot.
It takes two weeks for the first
shot to take effect, then a wait
of two to six weeks for the second
shot that will provide reasonable
protection for this polio season.
We are reminded by the National
Polio Foundation that polio is not
exclusively a child’s disease. The
percentage of cases among adults
aged 20 through 39 has taken a
sharp turn upward. Furthermore,
it is the adult, more likely than
the child, who winds up in an iron
lung. It is the adult, and not the
child, whose paralysis leaves a
family bereft of a mother or a
Wage-earner.
If you are under 40, don’t
wait till disaster strikes. Get
your first polio shot Friday—free
of charge.
A word of warning: if you for
get and send first class mail for
3-cents, the receiver will be charg
ed a 5-cent penalty before he re
ceives your letter. If he won’t
pay it, either you must or it will
wind up in the dead-letter de
partment at the post office.
GOOD ATTRACTION
A stock car race is something
I have never cared for, but the
Labor Day Southern 500-mile race
at Darlington this year offers a
fine attraction with the appear
ance of the fictional Matt Dillon,
United States Marshall of Dodge
City. James Arness, star of the
favorite TV western “Gunsmoke”
will lead a parade of bands and
beauty featuring over 500 musi
cians and beauty queens. So even
if you don’t like stock car racing,
maybe you’d like to get a look at
Matt Dillon.
Kinard Family Has Three
Generations Of Scouters
DON’T FORGET
There is another reason for
August 1st being an important
date. That is the day on which
the postal rate increase goes into
effect, and that old 3-cent stamp
alone is no good anymore. First
class letters will require 4-cent
postage; airmail, seven cents;
post cards, three cents and third
class mail, three cents.
For your further information,
greeting cards, invitations to par
ties and announcements of var
ious kinds in unsealed envelopes,
to be sent for three cents, must
ntot contain any written matter.
They may, however, have the sig
nature of the sender. If there is
more than a signature, the four-
cent first class rate will apply.
And in the event you are interest
ed in Christmas cards during this
Sweltering weather, this rule also
applies.
SADDENED
We were all deeply saddened
Wednesday morning by the sud
den death of Mr. John C. Wilson.
Mr. John had served the county
for many years as a deputy sheriff
and a magistrate’s constable. He
had retired and spent his time at
home with his favorite hobbies of
gardening and woodworking. He
had suffered two previous heart
attacks, and while he made some
effort to slow down, he just lov
ed that garden too much to stay
out of it. He was working in the
garden early Wednesday morning,
and evidently felt the attack com
ing on, for he tried to get to the
house, but managed to make it
only to the back steps.
Mr. John was a most thought
ful and generous person, Vegetab
les from his fine garden were al
ways shared with the neighbors;
he had a green thumb, especially
when it came to rooting and grow
ing roses, and his beautiful plants
adorn many a yard in Newberry.
When our Little Connie was forc
ed to stay in bed for a while after
her operation in April, Mr. John
made her the cutest little doll’s
high chair, a toy which has been
a delight to both of our little girls.
We extend our deepest sym
pathy to Mr. John’s family; we
know he will be greatly missed,
not only by them, but by his
neighbors and many friends as
well.
Straight Talk
By TOM ANDERSON in Farm &
Ranch Magazine
Miss Zsa Zsa Gabor
Hollywood, California
Dear Zsa Zsa:
Since Sherm and Goldy pushed,
you off the front pages, I got To
thinking about you, more than
ever. You got a lot of gifts al
ready, but have you ever thought
how much better you could do if
you got into politics ? Since you
were given that $12,000 Mercedes
Benz and that $17,000 chinchilla
coat by Rafael Trujillo, Jr., the
son of the Dominican dictator,
some isolationists (that’s people
who believe in America first)
have had the nerve to suggest that
the U. S. Government reduce its
foreign aid to the Dominican Re
public. Since the Dominican Re
public gets from the U. S. about
the same allowance as Junior—
$50,000 a month—any cut could be
serious for you (and maybe to
Junior’s six children), especially
since you’re already tired of that
particular Mercedes Benz, and as
simply everybody who’s anybody
knows, chinchilla won’t hold up.
It has not been officially report
ed what Junior expected in return
for these little remembrances,
but as your dear old mother point
ed out: “What do you expect a boy
to give a girl like Zsa Zsa ? Flow
ers!?”
What do they expect a boy like
Goldfine to give the assistant
president or the governors? Cig
ars? Of course, many members of
Congress who’re so “shocked” by
the Adams affair are daily prac
ticing what they impeach.
Sherm’s the goat in the vicuna
pasture. He is far less indebted
to - Goldfine and even you are less
indebted to Junior Trujillo than
are hundreds of politicians who
take $100,000 gifts from business
or from union political-education
funds (what hasn’t already been
stolen) to pay for campaign ex
penses. There is practically no
support for any “conflict of int
erest” bill in Congress. So if you
got elected, Zsa Zsa, you could
still count on Republicans getting
vicuna, Democrats getting mink,
and you getting chinchilla.
You will enthusiastically sup
port, I’m sure, the idea that while
men are indispensable, no one
man is. Before the President in
formed us he had to have Adams,
you will remember that for sev
eral million years there had been
only one indispensable man: Ad
am. Now there’s another (a di
rect descendant), Adams, who
took the apple too, but claims he
didn’t eat it.
Old Goldy loves to go steady—
not with one but with all politi-
tical wheels. He put his vicuna
coats where they’ll do the most
good. (Betcha Junior Trujillo does
too.) The $2,400 oriental rug was
only a loan offered by Goldy af
ter he observed that the rug in
Adams’ living room was “shabby”.
Now that’ll give you an idea how
cozy your political relations could
be. How many friends do you
have who’d feel free to call any
rug of yours shabby? Your repu
tation is, of course, but that helps
box office in your business as
Lana has proved.
The greatest thing in the world
is love. The squares in the olden
days used to have a saying that
the most generous woman is
soonest left unloved. But as ev
erybody knows, you have to get
elected before you can be a states
man. Ha! Ha! Bearers of ex
pensive political gifts eventually
expect and demand their, pardon
the expression, pound of flesh. As
the most freedom-loving Hungar
ian still unexecuted, you’d be top
banana when the payoff came.
There is an old saying by the
goody-goodies that character is
what you are when you’re sure no
one is looking. Reversing that,
maybe office holders could ask
themselves, “Would I do this if
everybody were looking?” You’d
have a big advantage there, Zsa
Zsa.
Don’t worry about the do-good
ers’ talk about eroded moral val
ues in government. The govern
ment is you and me. The congress
men just want to swat flies, not
drain the swamp. The Adams af
fair brings up the old qiJbstion.
which you must have thought of i
(CContinued on page 4)
Forty-three years and three
generations of scouting—that is
the record set by Dewey Kinard
of Newberry, with his son and
grandson.
Mr. Kinard started his Scout
ing career in 1915, with the first
troop ever to be organized in
Newberry County in the year
1913. He has been actively asso
ciated with the Boy Scout pro
gram since that time, and on
March 18, 1958, he was honored
by the Exchange Club of Newber
ry by being awarded a Bronze
plaque and being enrolled in The
Book of Golden Deeds.
In 1925, Mr. Kinard became as
sistant scoutmaster of Troop 69,
formerly Troop 5. He served as
assistant scoutmaster until Oc
tober 1927 and then became
Scoutmaster of that troop and has
held that position until the pres
ent time.
Mr. Kinard has passed all ad
vancements to Eagle Scout, has
received the Scoutmaster’s Key 1
for having completed the pre
scribed five year training course
and possesses the Scout Acorn
Award for having been instrumen
tal in organizing a Cub Pack. In
1950, a signal honor was Record
ed him in his having been select
ed to take a Scout Troop to Valley
Forge for the National Scout
Jamboree.
Approximately 600 boys have
gone through scouting under Mr.'
Kinard, of which 22 have earned
the Eagle Badge and three the
God and Country award. Eight
former scouts have become minis
ters, including Scoutmaster Kin-
ard’s own son, Rev. James E. Kin
ard. Other boys have entered the
field of music, higher education
and textile work, with seven boys
having subsequently earned mas
ter degrees, one a Ph.D. and one
scout having become the superin
tendent of a textile plant. Mr. Kin
ard has had the pleasure of di
recting both his son and grand-
(CContinued on page 4)
John C. Wilson
Dies Suddenly
John Crouch Wilson, 64, died
suddenly early Wednesday morn
ing at his horn 1 , 515 Boundary
St. He was about his usual duties
his home when he was sudden
ly stricken,
Mr. Wilson was the son of Mrs.
a Crouch Wilson and the late
’ W. Wilson. He had spent his
ly life in Saluda County and
had made his home in the Chap
pells section of the county and in
Newberry.
■ For a number of years he was
a deputy sheriff and deputy to the
magistrate of District No. 1. Mr.
Wilson was a veteran of World
War I and was a member of the
First Baptist Church of Newber
ry-
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Annie Mae Smith Wilson, New
berry; two daughters, Mrs. D. L.
Andrews of Atlanta, Ga. and Mrs.
Jewell Hentz of Newberry; his
mother, Mrs. Lilia Crouch Wil
son of Newberry; two brothers,
Otis Wilson of Union and Osborne
Wilson of Silverstreet; five sis
ters, Mrs. Desser Burn and Miss
Sara Wilson of Newberry; Mrs.
Amelia Kennemore of Ninety Six;
Mrs. Ora Stark of Colliersville,
Tenn. and Mrs. Nora Pless of
Cleveland, Ga.; also three grand
children.
Funeral services were incom
plete at presstime.
Plant Boss Praises Work,
Efficiency Of Employees
Things are looking up at New
berry Mills, Inc., according to
t| lO TT1 berry Mills, Inc., according to a
Labor Supply Survey Underway
Expression Class To Have
Recital, Appear On WIS'TV
Hamm Attends
School Board
Workshop
Dan H. Hamm Jr. of Prosper
ity, member of the Newberry
County Board of" Education, at
tended the South Carolina Asso
ciation of School Boards Work-
a&op cm July 26-27 in the moun
tains at Camp Socareda, accord
ing to E. E. Dargen of Conway,
president of the Association.
The workshop program con
cerned a number of very vital
school issues, a basic program of
education for South Carolina,
school finances, board meetings
and board policy.
The Spartanburg School Board
conducted its regular July meet
ing at the workshop. From this,
the group attending discussed the
value of written board policy, staff
reporting, financial problems, etc.
Tom Johnstone Jr. chairman of
the Greenville County Board and
Pat Smith of the S. C. Education
Finance Commission led the dis
cussion on South Carolina and the
minimum or basic foundation idea
or concept.
Mr. Hamm, a member of the
Board of the State Association, as
well as a member of the county
board, presided at the evaluation
session on Sunday.
The Newberry County Develop
ment Board will mail this weekend
some 7000 questionnaires to deter
mine the amount and type of labor
available for new industries in
Newberry County. A question
naire will be sent to practically
every home in the county.
All persons who are not at pres
ent employed in an industrial
plant but would be interested in
such employment and all persons
now working a considerable dis
tance from their homes are urged
to fill in one of the questionnaires.
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plies will be kept confidential;
however, it will be used to gain
statistics to sHbw interested par
ties the amount and type of labor
available in Newberry County.
The Development Board requests
that each person in the above cate
gories fill out andv return the
forms to the Board.-In the photo
above, Emory Bedehbangh, field
representative of the Board, and
Mrs. Celia Dodgen, secretary,
complete the last of addresses on
the thousands o^ forms.
Mrs. Slaton s
Mother Passes
News has been received in New
berry of the death of Mrs. W. B.
Rosson, 88, who died at the home
of a daughter, Mrs. Bernice
Thurston in Culpepper, Va. last
Wednesday.
Mrs. Rosson was the mother
of Mrs. Claude Slaton of New
berry and for several years she
resided here with her.
Surviving besides Mrs. Slaton
and Mrs. Thurston are two sons,
Alton Rosson of Orange, Va. and
Lloyd Rosson of Strasburg, Va.;
three grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conduct
ed in Culpepper on Friday.
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Mrs. Ruby R. Abrams will pre
sent her students in Expression
Recital on Friday night, August
1, at 7:45 p. m. at the Junior
High School Auditorium. The
public is cordially invited.
Those who will take part are
Beth Price, Mary Baker, Ruthie
Sanders, Connie Sanders, Terry
Newton, Debbie Partain, Dean
Rodelsperger, Marcus Lester,
Keith Nichols, Eleanor McCaugh-
rin, Warren Cook, Alyce Counts,
Monty Smith, Eddie Rodelsperger;
Also, Judy Bain, Tommy Ben
nett, Janice Stone, Nan Buddin,
Eleanor Kirkegard, Beth Baker,
Carolyn Hawkins, Karen Kirke
gard, Susan Lipscomb, Henry
Summer, Polly Livingston, Robbie
Creekmore, Brenda Turner, Louis
Fennell, Freddie Kay Rhinehart,
Martha Jean Smith, David Ben
nett, Susan LeValley.
There will be two songs by the
kindergarten and primary groups:
“I’m a Little Tea Pot,” and
“We’ve Got The Mumps,” illus
trated in the picture above. The
intermediate group will sing “I’ve
Got The Rheumatiz.”
The members of the expression
class will appear on the Johnny
Evans show over WIS-TV on
Wednesday morning, August 6th.
The show begins at 9:10 a. m.
Some of this group appeared last
year on “The Specs Show” and
were highly praised for their tal
ents and behavior. Johnny Evans
has replaced Specs Munzell at
WIS-TV, the latter having resign
ed in order to enter theological
seminary.
Suffering from “the mumps”
in the picture above are, left to
right, front row, Eleanor Mc-
Caughrin, Mary Baker, Ruthie
Sanders, Connie Sanders, Dean
Rodelsperger and Beth Price.
Back row, Marcus Lester, Keith
Nichols, Warren Cook, Alyce
Counts.
Miss Sara Wilson plans to move
this weekend or the first of next
week to her new home on Speers
A contract for the construction
of an underpass under Secondary
Road 99 on Interstate Route 26
in Newberry County has been
awarded by the State Highway
Department to General Construc
tion Company, of Columbia.
The contract was announced in
a letter of award from Chief
Highway Commissioner Claude R.
McMillan July 23. It was based on
a low bid of $47,620.44 submitted
when bids for the work were pub
licly opened in Columbia July 15.
The underpass will be 226 feet
long, and will be constructed of
pre-stressed concrete. It will
carry Road 99 over the Interstate
route at a point northeast of Pros
perity.
Historical Facts About One
Of County’s Oldest Churches
E. Britt, vice president and gen
eral manager.
According to his message to the
plant’s employees, weave room ef
ficiency has increased almost
three percent and seconds have
been lowered almost one third
since June 26.
On June 26, the plant officials
posted a notice on the bulletin
•board stating that low efficiency
was costing the plant a loss of
between $5000 and $6000 a week,
and that high seconds were caus
ing loss of another $1000 weekly.
He stated that unless conditions
changed, the mill would be clos
ed and all machinery shipped to
South America. He told the em
ployees that they must have “the
intestinal fortitude to help man
agement to pull the mill through"
and if “you do not have it along
with loyalty and interest, there is
no further need for us to operate."
In his notice of July 29-, Mr.
Britt stated:
^ "I wish to take this opportunity
to thank all of our loyal employees
If or the wonderful cooperation they
have given me and local maasge-
ment for the past five weeks- J
knew all the time that we had ex
ceptionally good and loyal em
ployees. I think you are tops.
^ “You have certainly shown int
erest in your work and coopera
tion with your immediate * super
visors. Weave room efficiency has
been increased almost 3 percent
since the notice t posted on June
26, 1958. Housekeeping in the mill
has unproved wonderfully. See-'
onde have been lowered almost
one-third (1/3) since that date.
“I want you to know that both
the local management and myself
deeply appreciate what you haws
done. I am very elated w
about the situation and
yon that we will do all in our pent
er to keep Newberry Mills, Inc.
running forever. I believe this
mill has more future at this time’
than it has since it was sold in'
1946 and I am sure you will keep
up the good work.
“After working together as we
have I see that this mill can av
erage 95% or better efficiency
and 3% or less seconds. After we
prove that this can be done and
can be held to this wonderful op
eration I believe I will have a nice
surprise for all of you.
“Thanks again for being such
wonderful people.”
NEWBERRY MILLS, INC.
(S) James E. Britt
Vice Pres. & General Mgr.
Mrs. E. A. Carpenter, Mrs. Mar
garet Fouche, Mrs. Mazie Abrams
and Mrs. Margery Smith spent
Sunday in Charlotte, N. C.
BIRTHDAY
GREETINGS
By MRS. A. H. COUNTS
Little River Presbyterian Church
has the distinction of being the
oldest Presbyterian Church in
this section of the state. It was
in 1762 when the original church
was organized and a building was
erected in the upper part of New
berry County on a plot of land
granted to the church from the
King of England. Gleanings
from the church minutes show that
during the early history of the
church, there were no churches of
any denominations in Greenville.
It was during this time that the
church members voted to give $50
to sponsor a missionary to the
“Village of Greenville.” Also of
notable and historical interest is
that the late Governor Simpson
was a member of the congregation
and his body now lies buried in a
graveyard near the site of the old
church.
The minutes show that the
church housed the first Presby
terian School in South Carolina.
Records show that people came
from far and wide to camp around
the church for weeks at a time
while the pastor performed the
duties of a school teacher as well
as those of a preacher.
Records reveal that from 1907
until 1932, this old church which
had been of so much service to the
people of the community and
throughout the state, suffered a
lapse. No regular services were
held and no minister was. called.
Services at irregular intervals
were conducted by students of
Presbyterian College at Clinton.
The Presbyterians of that section
gradually drifted into church of
other denominations and in 1932
the Presbytery of South Carolina
ordered Little River church dis
solved. However in 1933 the
church was received as an outpost
Sunday School by the late Rev. C.
A. Calcote of Newberry and the
Rev. C.- J. Matthews of Smyrna
Church, assisted by members of
Aveleigh Presbyterian Church in
Newberry. For two years, these
two pastors, assisted by members
of their own churches, took a pro
found interest in this project and
gradually put the church “back
on its feet.” Mr. Matthews was
installed as pastor.
Dominick Presbyterian Church,
located not too far away from the
Little River Church, was built in
1916 and burned down about twen
ty years ago. In April of 1937 the
congregations of Dominick and
Little River voted to merge. There
was no opposing vote. The Pres
bytery of South Carolina ordered
the two churches merged on Ap
ril 19, 1938.
With the merging of the two
congregations, it was planned that
a modem church building would be
erected between the sites of the
two old churches. Pledges were
made towards a new church build
ing in September and construction
began and was completed in 1938
completely free of debt. All
pledges were paid in full and gifts
toward the building fund included
the following: John V. Clary, a
member of Smyrna Church, $1,-
000; Assembly Home Mission
Committee of the Southern Pres
byterian Church, $300; Belk Me
morial Fund, $250; Aveleigh Pres
byterian Church in Newberry,
$100. Smaller contributions were
given by members and others int
erested in the building.
The church was built four miles
up the road and was dedicated on
Sunday, May 15, 1938, with 88
active members.
Little River Church still owns
the original plot of land granted
by the English King and on one
part of the site is the historical
old burying ground. Some of the
church members of around 200
years ago who were killed in the
battle of King’s Mountain include:
General Griffin, Colonel Simpson
and an Elder Williams, a member
of the congregation, and other
notables of Revolutionary days.
Aug. 3: Mrs. W. C. Schenck,
Hugh Turner, Mrs. A. D. Halti-
wanger, Mrs. T. H. Neel, Fur
man Wright, Mrs. W. L. Hitch
cock.
Aug. 4: James S. Price, Su
san Senn, Mrs. John F. Clark
son, Sadie Mae Graham, Gary
Lee Ringer, Frances B. Boozer,
Buddy Parnell, Thomas Cromer,
Mrs. Bennie Burn, Mrs. B. G.
Langford, Harry and . Larry
Longshore, Sandra Smith, Jim
my Koon.
Aug. 5: Mrs. C. T. Summer,
Mrs. Pearl Smallwood, Jerry
Graham, Leon Calrak, Mildred
P. Setzler, Mrs. J. W. Daven
port.
Aug. 6: Mrs. Wyche Dickert,
Mrs. Hugh Senn, Mrs. Harry W.
Shealy, Mrs. D. F. Senn, Mrs.
Roy Singley, Mrs. Malcolm Am-
ick Sr.
Aug. 7: J. W. Swindler, Mrs.
H. W. Swindler, Jim Wheeler,
Mrs. Ben Stewart, Chris Car
lisle, Bobby Smith, Kilbert
Bouknight, Mary Helen Cromer,
Douglas Forbis, Frances B.
Stutts.
Aug. 8: Mrs. Olin Lominick,
Jean Sullivan Copeland, Mrs.
Oswald Copeland, James P.
Fulp, Mrs. Leland Boozer, BHl
Hughes, Mrs. Eula Hendrix, Wil
liam Pitts.
Aug. 9: Mrs. James S. Price
and twin sister, Mrs. O. D.
Glenn, Reggie Brooks, Karen
Boozer, Wilbur Boozer, Alice
Julia Youmans, Mrs. Gettis L.
Coats, Anne Graham, Doris Ann
Parks.
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