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Merry Christmas! Season’s Greetings! VOLUME 21; NUMBER 35. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1958 + $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way * by, Jborid Sander3 OUT EARLY AGAIN For the third time in about six weeks, The Sunpaper will be pub lished a day early next week. In asmuch as New Year Day falls on Thursday and there will be no mail delivery that date, The Sun will be published on Tuesday, De cember 30 and will reach you on Wednesday, December 31st. VIRGINIA LETTER Ordinarily, this column is given over in the Christmas issue to the “Virginia” letter, but this year you will find that elsewhere in this section of your Christmas Sunpaper. We hope you will carefully per use each page of this week’s Sun. We believe that you will find much sincerity in the Christmas greetings sent to you by those with whom you do business throughout the year. To try to send personal greetings to each and every person who enters a business establishment during the year would be almost impossible but the merchants of Newberry appreciate your every visit to their stores, they appreciate your pat ronage, and they take this means of telling you so. Along with others who greet you through the pages of The Sunpaper, those of us at The Sun are also appreciative of your many kindnesses to us in the past. We wish for you the nicest of holidays, and the best of every thing in the years to come. THE GIRLS Also wishing you a Merry Christmas are two little girls, Connie and Ruthie. Many of you have told me you feel as though you know them, and they know many of you by name, if not in person, for they are interestedd in everything their parents do and want to know everything that goes on. They have had an exciting time this Christmas and their Mother and Dad have enjoyed the excite ment with them. It began with their being on the Aveleigh Kin dergarten Float in the Christmas parade — something they looked forward to for weeks and thor oughly enjoyed. Last Friday, I took them to Clinton where their Daddy’s eighth grade classroom had a Christmas party. They sang carols to and with the group, stuf fed on colas, cookies, and candy, and enjoyed a musical program by the Junior High glee club. So excited were they at this treat I couldn’t get them to come home for their own kindergarten party. Sunday, Connie, along with the remainder of the kindergarten group, sang during church service at Aveleigh. (Ruthie reneged at the last minute, said she was too sleepy!) This, I think, fulfilled Connie’s highest dream, to sing in a real choir in church. Now they are anxiously waiting Santa Claus. They are a little un happy because I won’t let them open any of the presents under the tree. It has always been sort of a tradition in our family that no presents are opened until Christmas morning but they don’t think much of that tradition. I expect Ruthie to sleep peace fully “the night before Christ mas” but I have an idea that Con nie is old enough this year that if she doesn’t stay awake trying to catch a glimpse of Santa, she will at least drag us out of bed far before dawn. Connie, Ruthie, Frasier and I hope that your Christmas with your families will be as happy an occasion as we expect ours to be. County Board To Have Ad In Times Section A special magazine section of Martin Resigns As Constable K. L. Martin has resigned as constable to Magistrate Ben F. r Dawkins, District No. 1. R. S. Bush will replace Mr. Martin. He will assume his duties the first of January. The New York Times on Febru ary 15, 1959 will be devoted to the industrial development of South Carolina. Among the advertisements to be in the issue \ is one from the Newberry County Development Board. The ad will be entitled “Check the Advantages of New berry County” and lists such ad vantages as abundant native la bor; excellent rail and motor transportation; ample power at reasonable rates; plentiful water supply; adequate facilities for education, recreation, shopping, religious and social life; low taxes For the past eleven months, Mr. Bush has been a guard at the State Penitentiary and prior to that time, he was a policeman at Prosperity for about three years. He lives at 1930 Ebenezer Rd. Mr. and Mrs. William McCor mick of Fayetteville, N. €.- arrived in Newberry today to spend Christmas with Mrs. McCormick’s mother, Mrs. W. C. Schenck. —five-year exemption except for school tax; ideal climate. The ad tells interested persons that a brochure will be furnished on re quest. * \ &Vi $ X* > \ V>' wi»’ %%? ** * ‘ - $ EASONS may, come and go without great excitement, but with Christmas it is different. UO OvJ \\- One can not help but be influenced by the joy and happiness, the friendlier greetings along Main Street. It seems to start back in November when the kids around town suddenly stop being little demons and try, often with success, to appear angelic. * The hustle and ado around the churches and schools seems to hasten the approach of the holiday season. By now all the town is under the Christmas spell. We hope these magic days will continue to be filled with joy and happiness for you. And to all our readers we wish a very ... Harold Long Family Receives Farm-Home Development Award (By COUNTY AGENTS) The Harold F. Long Family , The Harold Long Family receiv ed ,this week, a bronze plaque with the following words engraved up on it: “Award of Merit to Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. Long and Fam ily for outstanding Accom plishment in Farm and Home Development 1958.” This award is a coveted honor. It was given jointly by the New berry County Agricultural Com mittee and the Clemson College Extension Service. The basis for the award is to recognize outstanding progress and accomplishment in farming and in home making. In making the selection of the family de serving of this award, five main points are considered. 1. Good Land Use. Mr. Long has carried out this practice well. He has cleared land which was not profitably producing timber or pulpwood. He had a complete farm soil test made and follows the recommendations as shown by these tests. All of the land has and is being put to its best use. 2. Farm Organization. Mr. Long and his family purchased addi tional land to make his farm bus iness large enough to provide a sufficient farm income for an ade quate standard of living. Fields allow efficient use of machinery and the farm buildings are kept in good condition. Mr. Long and his family keep good records of their business and have certainly made effective use of capital and credits. 3. Balance in Farm Enterprises. With beef cattle, pastures, cotton, corn, small grains, sorghums, and a good woodland program, the Long family has a balance of farm enterprises. 4. Efficiency in Production and Marketing. Mr. Long has one of the better and few remaining gen eral type farms in Newberry County. His production is among the top and his marketing ability shows in the progress he has been able to make on the farm. 5. Farm Living. Mr. and Mrs. Long, Suzanne and John, live very comfortably in a modern home, built during 1957. Much of the home food supply comes from the farm garden. Suzanne and John have both been active in 4—H Club work in the county. Each member of the family has con tributed to the success of the farm operation. The Harold Long family was one of the first to enroll in the. Babson’s Forecast Will Be Featurea In Sun Next Week The Newberry Sun will pub lish Babson’s Business and Fi nancial Forecast for 1959 in next week’s issue. This feature has been published exclusively in Newberry County by The Sun for several years. A careful checking of the Babson Predictions made in the Business and Financial Fore cast for 1958 upholds the re markable average of the past years being 86 percent correct. American business has no more inspiring personality than Roger W. Babson, internationally-known business commentator and invest ment adviser! An outstanding fea ture of his philosophy has been his lifelong insistence on the im portance of both religion and ad vertising in business. Born and reared in an old-fash ioned atmosphere of hard work and hustle on a farm in Glouces ter, Mr. Bason went to the Mass- achussets Institute of Technology. Upon graduating, he turned in stinctively to financial and busi ness activities in which his father was engaged. His exertions, however, under mined his health; he contracted tuberculosis and he was sent West “as good as dead”! It was while he was convalescing from this dread malady that he worked out some of the possibilities and problems of business forecasting. His weekly releases are used by over 400 newspapers and his fi- Blackwell Retires After Long Service With Thomas & Howard The retirement of Gordon D. Blackwell as manager of Thom as and Howard Company of New- No Mail Service On Christmas Postmaster Harry Moose an nounces that there- will be-no city or rural delivery of mail on Christmas Day. A window will be open at the post office, and in-going and out-going mail will be processed as usual. Mrs. 1 A. T. Neely left Monday for Rock Hill to spend Christmas with her daughter, Mrs. Clarence Senn, Mr. Senn and family. Mrs. Birdie Martin is spending the holidays in Norfolk, Va. with her brother. Farm and Home Development program, which began in 1955. We offer our congratulations to a family so deserving of this recog nition. Happy New Year We sincerely wish for all farm families in Newberry County a most Happy New Year for 1959. We don’t set too much store in New Year’s resolutions except that we hope the coming year will give us the opportunity to be of greater service to our farm peo ple. May we all work together to ward keeping in step so that New berry County agriculture will con tinue in prominence and will en able our farm families to enjoy a fuller, more satisfying way of farm living. berry, effective January 1, 1959, has been announced by T. H. Tim- berlake. President of the Com pany. W. E. Monroe, assistant manager, will succeed Mr. Black- well as manager. Mr. Blackwell’s retirement was made known to the employees of the company at the Annual Christmas Banquet held Friday night in Newberry. He was pre sented with a silver service on be half of the company in recognition of his more than)28 years of serv ice with the company. Mr. Blackwell joined the firm in 1930 as a salesman in Colum bia and became manager of the newly opened branch in Newberry a few years later. He is a former member of the Newberry Rotary Club, a Past President of the Newberry Chamber o# Commerce, a Shriner and a member of the First Baptist Church of Newberry. Mr. Blackwell’s son, J. Ralph Blackwell, is manager of the com pany operation in Spartanburg. Mr. Blackwell will, on retire ment, receive retirement benefits from the company’s profit-sharing Trust Plan which is made possible through annual company contribu tions. Mr. Monroe is a native of Clem- .son, and a graduate of Clemson College. Following graduation he joined the Timberlake Grocery Company in Macon, Ga. as a sales man and became assistant mana ger in Newberry in 1967. He is a member of the Newberry Rotary Club and. has been very active in youth activities of the Methodist Church. He has served as a mem ber of the firm’s Board of Direc tors for the past year. nancial reports by 20,000 corpora tions and estates. His research work is carried on by a large staff of experts. Mr. Babson founded Babson Institute for Men; and, in co-op eration with the late Mrs. Babson, developed Webber College for Women — both nationally - known educational institutions. Here young men and women may con centrate on the fundamentals of honest and efficient business ad ministration. Later, he founded a Midwest institute of Business Ad ministration, located in Eureka, Kansas,, the center of , the United States. He has been active also in the establishment of other med iums of service to the public, such as the Gravity Research Founda tion, located at New Boston, New Hampshire. Mr. Babson has probably done more thah any other man to create among his millions of newspaper readers an interest in simple busi ness problems, and to instill a broader vision in businessmen, en abling them to meet the upe-and- downs of the business cycle. — M ■ » BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Dec^ 28: Mrs. Janies Smith, Jr., Mrs. Elbert Dickert, Usa Lominack, Mrs.. Fay Murray Gray, Mrs. F. Scott Elliott, Mrs. Oscar Mayer, Brenda Summer, Dale Eargle, Gates Beckwith. Dec. 29: Mrs. Dave L. Hayes, Mrs. Frank Stewart, Mrs. J. AL vin Kinard, David Langford; Margaret Watkins, Christie Carol Weigle, Frances W. Les ter, Annie Belle Wilson. Dec. 30: Brother Gilliam, Jac queline Crooks, Carolyn Boland, Mrs. Virginia S. Senn, Mrs. H. O. Stone, Lyn Altman. Dec. 31: Mrs. Nat Gist, Mrs. G. V. Clamp, F. B. Dawkins, Mrs. Ella H. Beam, Miss Emily Boozer, Mrs. Eddie O. Graham, Sue Stone, Mac Brooks, Clyde EL Minick, D. B. Dawkins, J. C. Shealy, Elberta Coleman. Jan. 1: John Harrison Rag land, Buddy Lipscomb, Mrs. G* 4 W. Kinard, Larry Young, Grace Reddick Joye, Rachel Werts, George B. Brooks. Jan. 2: Mary Fulmer Wells, Ben Pressley Stewart, Jr., Mrs. Mamie Smith, David Stone, Molly Lindsay, Robert Wicker. Jan. 3: Carter Abrams, E. Kirby Lominack, Dick Ned, Wanette Walton, Sam P. Boland, Charlie S. Cromer, Mrs. Mary Ringer. The past weekend intensified the effort of many home-owners to “deck the halls”—and the outsides of their homes, in holiday style. There are many beautifully decorated homes throughout the city, jhmong the outstanding decorations are those shown above. On the left is a view of the outside decorations at the C. C. Dun can home, 1414 Bachman Street. This is a street not too frequently traveled, but well worth the time it takes for a trip by either at day time or night to see the lovely decorations. Santa arrives with some of his Reindeer on the lawn of the Frank Graham home, 1918 Nance Street, in the center photo. This is the gentleman all the children are looking forward to seeing-—or at least seeing the results of his visit—on Christmas morn. The picture at the right shows the beautiful candles and other Yule decorations at the Alfred D. Bradley home on College Street ex tension. (Sunphotoe.) i