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/ ‘ 4 ; : ‘i-v wmWm THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1959 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE FIVE Carrier Exams Are Announced The Board of Civil Service Ex aminers, Columbia, has announced an examination for Substitute Clerk and Substitute Carrier for South Carolina Post offices in sev eral counties, among them, New berry County. Included in first and second class post offices, $2.00 an hour Newberry and Whitmire; third class offices, $1.69 per hour, Chap pells, Kinards, Little Mountain, Pomaria and Prosperity. For further information, contact Louis F. Mazza, Civil Service rep resentative, located at the post of fice in Newberry. Camellia Show To Be Held In Columbia The Columbia Camellia Show will be held on February 14-15 at the Columbia Township Auditor ium. This show, co-sponsored by the Columbia Garden Club and the Men’s Camellia Club of Columbia, will be comprised of several divi sions, including: Grown in open, grown under glass and artistic ar rangements. The inclusion of grown under glass division will assure the ex hibition of hundreds of specimen blooms. These blooms will not be in competition with blooms grown in the open. More than 40 under-glass grow ers throughout South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia plan to exhibit at this show. Blooms will be available for any one enter ing arrangements. The co-sponsors urge every one to bring or send blooms to the show. Blooms will be accepted 8:30—12:30 A. M. February 14. Entry cards will be mailed to any one wishing to enter flowers in this show—contact Mr. J. U. Smith, 2911 Stratford Road, Col ombia, South Carolina. This show will not be cancelled. Honor Lists At S. C. University University of South Carolina students—439 in all—"have been recognized for outstanding acade mic progress during the fix'st 1958- 59 semester with 158 seniors and juniors included in the Dean’s List, and with 82 sophomores and 199 freshmen named in honor rolls. Among those from Newberry County so honored were: Robert W. Pugh, Jr., Prosperity and Helen Kaye Ringer, Newberry, seniors. Mary Louise Dickert, Newberry, junior. Anna Coe Keitt, Newberry, sophomore. John W. Chappell and Harri- ette Morehead, Newberry, fresh men. Rites Friday For Mrs. Reagin Mrs. Minnie Bobb Reagin, 85, widow of R. G. Reagin, died early Thursday morning at Mills Clinic, Prosperity, following a lin gering illness. Mrs. Reagin was born in New berry County, the daughter of the late George Lawson and Al- tea Evans Bobb. She was a mem ber of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer. She is survived by three sons, Horace Reagin o f Columbia, Robert Reagin of Greenwood and J. L. Reagin of Middletown, Pa.; two sisters, Mrs. W. L. Mathis, Sr. and Mrs. Wilbur Metts, both of Prosperity; six grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Funeral services were conduct ed at 3:30 p.m. Friday afternoon at the Whitaker Funeral Home by the Rev. Francis I. Fesperman. In terment was in Rosemont Ceme tery. Two Are Named takers ‘A Scout Is Friendly’ Is Theme Of Boy Scouts’ 49th Anniversary JALAPA HD CLUB MEETS FRIDAY The Jalapa Home Demonstration Club will meet Friday at 3:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Herman Wise with Miss Cora Shealy as associate hostess. Students Attend Greenville Show A. P. Mature, Assistant profes- usor of Modern Languages, took the Spanish Club of Newberry Col lege to Greenville, on Wednesday, February 11, 1959 to see the Hose’ Greco Spanish Dancers at the GreenViTTe Memorial Auditorium. Drop-In Honors Mrs. Weathersbee ' Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Koon of Pomaria will hold a drop-in at their home Sunday from 2 until 4 p. m., honoring Mrs. Bessie Loud Weathersbee of Columbia, who will be celebrating her 102nd birthday The public is cordially invited to drop by and meet Mrs. Weath ersbee. CAROLINA Remnant Shop Main Street Newberry, S. C. THE HOUSE OF PIECE GOODS GINGHAM STRIPES Sanforized, Crease Resistant, Drip Dry Special — 49c yd. MOSS TRIMMING in II Colors For Slip Covers, Drapery, Etc. 20c yd. Many Special Items at Money-Saving Prices. Sew and Save. Named 1959 Betty Crocker j Homemakers of Tomorrow in high schools in Newberry are Patricia Ann Mills, Newberry High, and Linsey Ralphine, Gallman High. Each received the highest score in a 50-minute written examina tion on homemaking knowledge and attitudes taken by graduating) senior girls in her school. Each will receive a homemaking pin which represents the slogan, “Home is Where the K^art Is.” Her examination paper will be en tered in competition with those of other school winners in the state to name the state Homemaker of Tomorrow. Completes Officer Training Course —Army 2d Lt. Billy R. Gibson, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. James I. Gib son, Route 3, completed the eight- week officer leadership course Jan. 29 at The Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga. Designed for newly-commis-1 sioned officer’s who have not served with troops, the course offered Lieutenant Gibson instruction in the duties and responsibilities of an infantry unit commander. fie entered the Army last Nov ember. Gibson is a 1954 graduate of Bush River High School and aj 1958 graduate of Clemson Agri cultural College. Prior to entering) the Army, he was employed by the Georgia State Highway Depart ment. Mrs. Fulmer Rites Tuesday Mrs. Bettie Lathop Bobb Ful mer, 53, of O’Neal St., died Sun day night at a local hospital af ter an illness of several years. Mrs. Fulmer was born at Ki nards, a daughter of the late J. P. and Mollie Merchant Lathop, She had spent most of her life in Newberry and had . been em ployed by Newberry Mills Inc. for more than 25 years. She was a member of O’Neal Street Metho dist Church. Mrs. Fulmer was twice married, .irst to the late Vernon Bobb and second to Grady Fulmer who survives. Surviving also is one brother, Floyd Lathrop of Newberry. Funeral services were conducted at 3:30 p. m. Tuesday at O’Neal Street Methodist Church by the Rev. Paul Petty and the Rev. D. M. Shull. Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery. Pallbearers were Roland, Au- merl and Carl Bobb, Ernest Ward, Slim Dodgen and Otis Shealy. ill mm ms 1 Principals Of Schools Meet Elementary school principals of Congressional District 3 met at Greenwood Elementary School, Greenwood on Wednesday after noon, February 4. William B. Roy ster, chief supervisor of elemen tary education, State Department of Education, was guest speaker. Attending from Newberry were R. E. Beck, superintendent of Newberry elementary schools; Ralph Setzler, principal, Junior High School, and the following el ementary principals: Mrs. Ruby R. Abrams, Boundary; Miss Mar tha Bouknight, Mollohon; Mrs. Maude Matthews, West End; Supt. Hubert Bedenbaugh, Prosperity; Supt. Eugene Stockman, Little , V S .< NOTICE! EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY 23 Offices of the CLINTON NEWBERRY NATURAL GAS AUTHORITY will be located in the former Carolina Life Building 1207 McKIBBEN STREET Prior to this date the present office on Boyce Street will remain open for service to customers. CLINTON NEWBERRY NATURAL GAS AUTHORITY Boyce Street _ Phone 911 SARV 195! k ■ r\ >. v ^ i i } V. L s : V: i V.- W OFFICIAL BOY SCOUT WEEK POSTER The nation’s 4,780,000 Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Explorers, and adult leaders observe Boy Scout Week, February 7 to 13, by launching the fourth and final year of the “Onward for God and My Country” program. The 49th anniversary empha sis is “A Scout is friendly.” Through their World Friend ship Fund of voluntary contri butions the Boy Scouts of Amer- Mountain; Supt. J. B. Long, Sil- verstreet; Supt. William Lomin- ick, Pomaria. Supt. Beck was named chairman of the district "or 1959-30, with Miss Martha Bouknight serving as secretary. Mrs. Abrams has serv ed as a member of the district committee for the past year. The district is composed of ele mentary schools in Abbeville, An derson, Edgefield, Greenwood, McCormick, Newberry, Oconee, Pickens and Saluda counties. American Books Were Used For Brainwashing By Dr. George S. Benson SHOCKING REVELATIONS When the Chinese Communist instructors conducted their classes for American GI prisoners of war in North Korea—brain washing most of them into a degree of co operation—they used books by American authors who had over emphasized our defects, the unat tractive things in America—vice, political corruption, racial conflict, the greediness of some employers, the failure of some people to pros per. The brain washers played up these things, distorting the full picture until in the minds of the GI’s, who were educationally un prepared for such an experience, the good things about America fad ed from the consciousness and our American system became some thing bad. ica have helped Scouts in 48 other nations. America will be represented by several hundred Scouts at the Tenth World Scout Jamboree next July 17-26 in Makiling National Park near Manila in the Philippine Islands. During Boy Scout Week, hon ors will go to units that success- I fully carried out projects in ) traffic, outdoor, and home safety ! in last year’s Safety Good Turn. In his examination of today’s high school textbooks in Ameri can History, as reported in his new book, “Brain Washing in the High Schools,” Dr. E. Merrill Root .mind that some of che most wide ly used texts similarly overem phasize unattractive conditions and incidents and give a distorted pic ture of important events in the founding and growth of our Amer ican system. Onesided or distorted presentation of history tends to make children disrespectful of their heritage. In such a misinformed state of mind they are ripe targets' for the sly propaganda backoning toward various ^'orms of Socialism “the wave of the future.” One-Sided Picture “Cartoons in several of these texts,” Dr. Root reports, “splash the ills of American life across the pages. The craze for gambling- in stocks in the late 1920’s is made graphic . . . One cartoon stresses child labor, another revels in an industrial slump, other pictures gloat over ‘a typical tenement,’ the corruption of the Republican Party, the Senate of the United States as subservient to ‘the trusts.’ One picture reiterates an industrial slump, another plays up the Homestead Strike luridly (be set with violence and bloodshed), another the Pullman Strike . . . “The point is not, ” observes Dr. Root, “that the dark areas of Amer ican history should be hidden, but chat the undoubted excellences of America are hidden (in 10 text books studied); the authors make vivid much of the real or fancied evil of the American story, but one wonders why the story is not bal anced with its glory, as historical proportions require.” Shocking Facts The authors cite as their auth orities a number of Left Wing wri ters and propagandists, for in stance: Howard Fast, Communist propagandist who just recently an nounced he had broken with the Party; Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish Socialist who has shown a warm th toward Soviet Russia; Carey McWilliams, who has one of the longest Communist-front records in U. S. government files; Gene Weltfish, vigorous Communist- .‘ronter who publicly asserted that ;he United States engaged in germ .varfare in Korea, and who was iismissed from Columbia Univer- nty because she refused to testify ns to her membership in the Com munist Party. These and others of their ilk nre among the “authorities” cited in book after book among the 11 examined by Dr. Root. Books by Albert E. Kahn, cited commendab- ly as an “authority” by some of these textbook authors, actually were used by the Reds in Korea to “brain wash” American GI’s. Kahn took the Fifth Amendment oefore a Senate committee on the question of his Communist Party membership. The Senate Internal Securities Committee reported: ‘American boys were forced by Jieir captors to read and report avorably on these works of Al- nert Kahn (degrading American .md praising Soviet Russia) or face starvation, torture and probable leath.” Special Pleading These high school history text books show an easily discernible (to the mature mind) bias against conservative politicians and for “liberals.” They discount Communist Fifth Column activi ties within our government and in defense industries as the “Red Scare.” They do not bring forth the historical details of the Alger Hiss case or the Harry Dexter White case in which Communist agents were found to be entrench ed and wielding influential power in the most sensitive areas of our national government. The impres sion given is that our Congression al and Justice Department Anti- Communist activities largely con stitute “witch hunting.” Every citizen should read Dr. Root’s book and then, in coopera tion with local school authorities, nee that contaminated teachings are replaced with books by auth ors who clearly show an objective fairness toward American institu tions and our American system. Attends Meeting In Columbia T. P. Mills of Prosperity attend ed a meeting of the State Dairy Commission at the Hotel Columbia Feb. 5. Members of the Commission met with dairy products distributors from over South Carolina to dis cuss trade matters. loans is charged at four percent on the unpaid balance and .must be paid on or before the due date, surance ceases forever, since the GI policy is cancelled and cannot be renewed or reinstated, he said. Should a veteran borrow on his GI insurance and then die before repaying the loan in full, the out standing indebtness will be deduc ted from _ the jgolicy proceeds be fore fye^at\ef is'plud to the bene- ficianeft, Jleilderson pointed out. For example, if a veteran dies while owing $500 on his $10,000 GI policy, the beneficiary would re ceive $9^500. Annual interest on GI policy Mr. Henderson pointed out. Otherwise, the agency said, the unpaid interest is added to the outstanding , amount of the loan. This could eventually eat up the remaining cash value of the policy and the insurance protection would cease. Repayment of the principal on GI policy loans may be made :n amounts of $5 or more, and at any time before default in payment of premiums, Mr. Henderson ex plained. Loans can be made only on per manent-type GI insurance policies. GI term insurance has no loan va lue, Mr. Henderson added. Colony Church Lenten Service The Lenten services of Colony Lutheran Church will continue Sunday, with the service title M I« Heaven A Place or State?” The service will be at 7 p.m., conduct ed by the pastor,. Rev. H. A. Dun lap. A full schedule of Lenten serv ices at Colony will be published in next week’s issue of The Sun. &, “Who’s Who” • Among the seventeen Winthrop College students chosen to repre sent the South Carolina College for Women in the 1959 edition of “Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universi ties” are three students from New berry. They are Mollie Partridge, Katheryn Shealy and Joyce Ouzts- PERSONAL Mrs. Mary Gardenhire left last Friday for Tampa, Fla., to spend a week with her daughter, Mrs. Jules (Rosemary King) DeNaxa- rie. While there, she will attend" the Gasparilla celebration which is being held in Tampa. ; Dick Sanders of Sumter spent part of the weekend in Newberry with his uncle, Frasier Sanders and family on Jessica Ave. He was at tending High School weekend at Newberry College. Dick, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. San ders, is planning to attend New berry College next fall. Vets May Borrow On Policies Veterans holding permanent GI life insurance don’t need to sur render their policies for cash in order to raise money urgently needed during financial emergen cies The Veterans Administration said these veterans may borrow up to 94 per cent of their cash poli cies’ cash surrender value. Although this action reduces the amount of protection for the vet eran’s beneficiaries by the amount borrowed, it does leave the policy in force, Hugh Henderson, Contact Officer of the VA Regional Office in Columbia, explained. Once surrendered for cash, how ever, all protection under the in- RITZ AT INCOME TAX TIME... WHY DON’T YOU DO WHAT MILLIONS OF SMALL BUSINESS MEN ARE DOING AND SHIFT TO THE GRACE’S COMPOSITE BOOKKEEPING SYSTEM THE BOOK THAT GIVES YOU THE COMPLETE BREAKDOWN OF YOUR YEAR’S BUSINESS SUITABLE FOR EVERY TYPE OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSION It’s simple to keep, it’s accurate, and you can tell at a glance just how you stand on any one day . . More important, you can tell exactly how you stand when tax time comes .. . With the Grace’s System, your only worry about taxes is paying them. •ALL THIS FOR ONLY- $4.75 A YEAR Ask to Be Shown This SensationalSystem ★ ★ PHONE NO. 1 The Newberry Sun THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jurgens, Robert Donat The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness MONDAY & TUESDAY Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Tina Louise, Earl Holliman The Trap CLOVER LEAF DRIVE-IN Theatre FRIDAY & SATURDAY The Bravados Gregory Peck, Joan Collins Added Color Cartoon—One Cab Family SUNDAY Meet Me In St Louis (In Technicolor) Jndy Garland Added Color Cartoon—Missing Moose a ‘The bill collectors are all gone, sir—but I suggest you get an auto loan from Purcells soon.’ If one has lots of small nagging debts, it’s silly to try to evade the issue, when it-s so easy to call these friendly Purcell folks for help. r c e “Your Private Bankers” 1418 Main St. Newberry Set Your Table... And Pay Later We offer you a chance to have a complete set of china or crystal and enjoy the useof it while paying smaH;. weekly payments. JUST RECEIVED A new shipment of China patterns at a Special Price 57-piece set, complete service for eight Only $42.50 V $10.00 down and balance $1.25 per week i We also now have in stock a nice selection of White Rhinestone Tiaras $5.75 to $10.00 ' 11 W. E. 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