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The best way to develop your re putation is to develop your con science. A bachelor is a man who can pull his socks on from either end. VOLUME 21; NUMBER 44 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA. THUTit.DAY. FEBRUARY 26, 1959 '? AH; 1 + $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way by Jt) onJ Sandi er3 CLEAN OWN HOUSE I notice that Congressman Clar ence Cannon of Missouri has call ed for a “crackdown on what he described as payroll padding by government agencies.” “Untold millions of dollars can be saved,” says the Congressman, “by getting rid of some of the unnecessary jobs. Since agencies themselves aren’t likely to cooperate in an em ployment curtailment move, Con gress must step in.” I have no doubt but that the Congressman is right; and I don't believe he is exaggerating by say ing “thousands.” I have worked in governmental agencies enough to know r how many unnecessary employees there always are around these offices. I have also worked for Congressmen, and if the sit uation exists now as did when I worked at the Capitol, I would suggest Congress start its job cutting in its own home. Many, many congressional secretaries— and I was among them—put in eight hours a day doing work that could have been done in two hours at the most, and spent the remain der of the time loafing. The tax payers pay for those secretaries, too, not the Congressmen, so a house-cleaning in the House and Senate would be in order before the Congress puts too much pre- sure on the agencies. GOOD ADVICE I don’t know whether this is done in all Newberry County high schools but I do know that one su perintendent does it and I think it is a fine idea. When students are failing, he sends a card to the par ent, on which he checks one of two notations. One advises the parents that the students are failing, and that they should be made to study more. The other recommends that the students be taken out of school and put to work. There are many students in the high schools who are nothing but trouble makers. They go to school just to keep from working and they are the cause of many problems which must be handled by teach ers and administrators. I congrat ulate this superintendent for speaking frankly about his failing- students. The students know he means business, and either they will start studying to stay in school or their school days are over. SECRETARY SPEAKS Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson made a fine speech a few months ago on the subject “The Heritage of Freedom.” I wish space allowed reprinting the entire talk, but since it does not, J quote here some of his state ments: ‘ Today, the scope and variety of governmental operations have become amazingdy wide. \\ ^ are touched by government from before we are born until after we die. Government impinges on our lives every hour of the day and night. “It is high time we awakened to the dangers of excessive gov ernment in business and in agri- eultuie. It is time we realized the perils of too great a centraliza tion of power, and too much de pendence on public agencies. “There is hardly a single in stance in all of history where the dictatoi ial centralization of power has been compatible with indivi dual freedoms—-where it has not reduced the citizenry to the status of pawns and mere creatures of the state. God forbid that this should happen in America. Yet I am persuaded that the continuation of the trend of the past twenty- five years could make us pall I leav ers at the burial of the states as effective units of government. The drift toward centraliza tion of power is not inevitable. It can be slowed down, halted, rever sed. How? By State and local gov ernments insisting that theirs is the responsibility for problems that are essentially local and state problems—insisting upon this, with the knowledge that re sponsibility and authority go'hand m hand. “Inevitably, in centralized fed eral programs the money is not as wisely spent as if the states parti cipated financially. The people come to look „o the federal gov ernment as the provider, at no cost to jhem, of whatever is needful. The truth is that the federal government has no funds which it does not first, in some manner, take from the people. A dollar cannot make the round trip to Washington and back without shrinking in the process. As tax payers we need to recognize these facts; programs which obscure them are contrary to public inter- «st. “There* are some in our midst, neveitneless, who decry free en terprise, who would place busi ness, agriculture, and labor in a government strait jacket. " . . .basic American beliefs, principles and attitudes are threatened by woii-meaning but uninformed people who see the shortcomings of our economic sy stem and believe they can .legis late them out of existence. They iry to reach the promised land by passing laws. They do not under stand our economic system and its limitations. They would load it down with burdens it was never intended to carry. As their schemes begin to break down, mure and more controls must be supplied. Patch is placed upon patch, regu lation is added to regulation and ultimately, by degrees, freedom is lost—without our desiring to lose it and without our knowing why or how it was lost. “Our heritage of freedom is threatened by another group—self seeking men who see in govern ment legislation a way to obtain special privilege for themselves or to restrain their competitors. They use demagoguery as a smoke screen to deceive. These people have no love for freedom or enter prise. They would bargain away their birthright for a mess of pot tage. They would learn the value of freedom only after it,/was gone. “A third, still much smaller group is dedicated to the over throw of the economic and social system that is our tradition. Their philosophy does not stem from Jefferson, but is foreign to our shores. It is a total philosophy of life, atheistic, and utterly opposed to all that we hold dear as a great Christian nation. These men un derstand our system thoroughly— and they hate it thoroughly. They enlist innocent but willing follow ers from the uninformed and the unprincipled. Through rabble- rousing qnd demagoguery they play upon the economic reverses and hardships of the unsuspecting. They promise the impossible, and call black white, and mislead with fallacies masqueraded as truth. “If we lose our freedoms ... it will be because we did not care enough—because we were not alert enough—because we were too ap athetic to take note while the pre cious waters of our God-given freedom slipped—drop by drop— down the drain.” A A , / If / . f Ti~: / UOr’-— / /if u ,;© L V'V-y/’ / "'v v, / V\ a v- v 7 v" v a v . V x:.** • -U-n - i U 77*7x.A- >y, I \ V\ s'?/ va v-v <\ • A a-a V A" A »./•.;>. /vtn y v - / Aa X —£X. A AsA 'A* <• A I Ux STUDYING A MAP OF NEWBERRY, and making plans for a religious census which will be held this Sunday afternoon are, left to right, Miss Jane Henderson, Marion Martin, Rev. Kenneth B. Wilson, Miss Jean Wilson and Mrs. J. H. Schumpert. (Sunphoto.) Religious Census Be Made By City Baptist Churches Sunday To Conduct Bush River Revival The Reverend Kenneth B. Wil son will be guest preacher for re vival services at Bush River Bap tist Church March H-ld. Announcement of the scries of services was made recently bv the Tribute Paid Dr. Summer At Civic League The following tribute, present ed by Mrs. R. D. Wright, was made to the memory of Dr. Mamie S. Summer at the Tuesday meet ing of the Newberry Civic League: “Leaves have their time to fall And flowers wither at the north wind’s breath And stars to set, but thou— Thou hast all seasons for Thine own, Oh Death.” Our city, county and state were inexpressibly shocked when, on the early morning of January 29th, 1959, a message came out over the radio that the soul of Mamie Swittenberg Summer had passed to its eternal home. Her friends knew that she was in the Newber ry Memorial hospital, but even then , her various civic activities were on her mmd and receiving her attention. Of the varied things that claim ed Mrs. Summer’s constant inter est. none was nearer her heart than the work of the Civic League. Not only did those projects of the League begun before she became pro- iuent receive constant and ea re Gil attention from her, but in the twenty-five years of her presi de plumed and put into ac- for the iency Bush River Pastor, the Reverend 1 n I m, j ect A lie 1th. tin* Ivautil icat ion, the feel that we are fortunate in, pleasure and the advancement of j,. ( j ( the community. No one can look at ■ i si- and Bag pole on World T. B. Altman. Mr. Altman "W secular,g a speaker so much m d( nuind around Newberry, one who appeals to every age group. Tlu* Reverend Wil-on, a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, came to Newberry as pastor of First mb,-) , i P 1 bet Poe icu ! - ot! a 1'iieo- ser The public to attend the- II; U)t i <1 ( 'hiiirh in S ei t ivin v; i •uni pk-l * *i; h! s \Y- :>rk at Southern 1 > i 1 1 !o gics d S ominaiy a nd V( ■d a S jU is Inf of (dll ini C\ .ml i na .and in Ind inn War 11 Menmria! Park, nor the be.nut of Margaret Hunter park and • not 1 kink of hmv w-‘ ) 1 Mu wrought. Who can attend the im pressive annual Easter Sunrise Service or pause lie fore the lovely r '-ee:r- luring the Christ u!• en.'oo and not have his sou! The Baptist churches of New berry, with the cooperation of the Newberry Ministerial A-ssocia- cion, wui conduct a community re ligious potential survey next Sun day, March 1st. Workers from five A warm-hearted response was Baptist churches of the city will made in Newberry to the Heart : mee t for an instructional period Sunday volunteers who conducted i 1-30 p.m. in the Felloivship the door-to-door collection on be- R a B °f th e First Baptist Chuich. Over $900 Given To Heart Fund half of the South Carolina Heart Association. The army of Heart Fund workers, who reached into every residential area, reported a generous welcome and the results at this time have risen to a total of $910.57, with the final tally yet to be achieved, according to Immediately following this, the Paysinger To Accept Board Chairmanship In September Clinics For Pre-Schoolers Next Week Pre-school clinics for youngsters who will enroll in the 1st grade in city schools next fall will begin next week. In order to enter the first grade, children must be six years of age before November 1, 1959, for the 1959-60 school ses sion. It is important that all pros pective first-graders be present at one of these clinics: Tuesday, March 3, 2 p.m. Speers Street school; Wednesday, March 4, 9:30 a.m., West End School; Thursday, March 5, 9:30 a.m., Mollohon school; Thursday, March 5, 2:00 p. m., Boundary Street school; Friday, March 6, 9:30 a.m. Oakland school. Clinics have not yet been sched uled for county schools, but will be held later on dates to be an nounced by the County Health De partment. League Records Opposition To Destruction Prof. F. Scott Elliott was guest speaker at the Tuesday afternoon meeting of the Civic League. His subject was “The Value of Read ing. His most interesting talk, which workers will go to the various sec- included recitaiton of poetry, fol- tions of the city and will conduct a survey between the hours of 2 and 4 in the afternoon. The purpose of the survey is to learn of the religious life of the population of the city and to share Mrs. E. G. Able, who served as'this information with all churches Heart Sunday chairman. While Heart Sunday was the high point in the 1959 Heart Fund campaign, the month-long drive will continue through this week, Dr. B. M. Montgomery, Fund chairman, said. Mrs. Able paid tribute to the women who volunteered to make the canvass. “If we missed anyone, we are sorry,” she said. “Howev- almost inevitable participating in the Newberry Ministerial Association. er, it is someone was overlooked who wanted to make a contribution. It is still not too late for that and we hope they will want to send their gift to the Heart Fund eith er at campaign headquarters or in care of the Postmaster.” Those in charge of the campaign wish to thank every person who helped in any way, including work ers, press and radio. Full information, as soon as it is compiled, will be sent to various churches in the city. It is hoped by the Baptist pastors that this census will be a means of service not only to the relig'ious life of the community, hut that it will be of some asset in the moral and character building of the commun- that ity. Pastors and participating hour was held, churches are as follows: Glenn Street Baptist, Rev. Fay Lanford; West End Baptist, Rev. Ralph Rhyne; Hunt Memorial Baptist. Rev. D. W. Satterfield; lowing a memorial service for the late Dr. Mamie S. Summer. The service began with a prayer by Mrs. A. E. Bedenbaugh. A tribute was read by Mrs. R. D. Wright (this may be seen elsewhere in this issue.) The service concluded with Mrs. Summer’s favorite hymn, “Beautiful Savior,” sung by Donna Rook, her grand-niece. It was voted that copies of the tribute be sent to Mrs. Summer’s family; to the Clubwoman maga zine and to the newspapers. The League unanimously adopt ed a Resolution calling on city council to preserve the old opera house building. The resolution was presented by Mrs. Ralph B. Paker. Following the program, a social ITDC Chapter Meets Tuesday Drayton Rutherford Chapter, U Calvary Baptist, Rev. J. ( . High- T 7' 'viR meet Tuesday, March 3 ■1 p.m. at the home of Miss Kent.- ih B. WiUou. Tne cooperation of the people o; and continuing eaci b”. lies ii i No rtl. : • ,h ’• eh? I k>ll' v • ei •:* h, r brain in. •’ :;di ■ n. nurl m e; i will devotion ially invi ted ' ni! 1 inrd vnrk oi ii her part. An- t\- . .linn ine-'^e- : in <■ i: iId < which she had 1 1 :2o A. M. ! nt to ’* (> proud is the annual i'Vt:n iiur at ATri f tmas Tea tin it has meant so i iday, March In the pleas nr e and cultural , in 1 ru'e s -in:, on Hi e hundreds that I attem 1. Spanish Club Thirteen new members were in- ; i luted into the Spanish Club, Los Uruditos, at Newberry College last week. The students were chos en due to their high scholarship in Fo.nnish ns well a.s in their other studies. The following tire new members from Newberry: Miss Frances C. Blackwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Blackwell; Miss Phyllis L. Boozer, daughter of Mr. ami M rs. George* Boozer. X e\ he TV i i a iSi.-tii .g .in La. Cv n- : o in.e sus to gain fui! info rmation about Mr< Elm the rel igioi' s life nf the city wil! /.u.i ri .. f of t J) 0 1 nos t hoi j tul and will be great thers appreciate IS R'XT BERATING AFTER FALL ■ m. J. V. Vh't \ v.ho suffered a fail :u her home several wee*ks ■•go tiiid was tr tu. d at the k Try Memorial Hospital, i.-- ...... r recuperating at her home on Calei-! X i w now well Streot. Her many friends will i Monday lie glad to know slu is recovering ■ i . ! niceiv. I la at Lucy MeCaughrin with Mesdames .'oieian K>e>i and Bothweil Graham ho. tosses. r Shealy will bo in a* histnrical program, tire asked to note * < ha: rs* iii hour, and are also el isod that a shipment of candy N; arrived. Services At St. Marks Holy Mass on Sunday 10:30 a.m. -•t ructions for the' Children, 5 p.m. Stations of the May 7:'hi 'n.m. Ge'tiid Lrii't. Pastor. Gerald Paysinger, must recent ly appointed member of the New berry County Board of Education, has agreed to accept the chairman ship of the Board in September. He will replace W. H. Caldwell of Little Mountain, who has made several unsuccessful attempts to be replaced as chairman of the group. The motion to make Mr. Pay- singer chairman was by Dan Hamm Jr. of Prosperity. He stat ed that members from the lower county, Whitmire, and Bush River have served as chairman, and “I think Newberry should now be represented in the chairmanship.” Mr. Paysinger stated that he definitely would not accept the chairmanship at this time for the reason that he had not been on the board long enough to be fa miliar with all of its operations and procedures. He stated that he did not feel it would be fair to him or to the board to accept the chairmanship during the critical budget-preparing and teacher-em ploying period. “All of that will be done by September, and I will have had a chance to familiarize myself with the work of the board by that time. Then, if you still wish, I will accept the position.” With the definite promise of re lief, Mr. Caldwell finally agreed to remain as chairman until Septem ber, after efforts to have an act ing chairman appointed failed. P. K. Harmon, director of schools, announced that Supt. of Education James D. Brown had returned Tuesday from a Colum bia hospital where he underwent surgery. Mr. Brown expects to be back on the job Mondajr. Mr. Caldwell appointed a budget committee with Dan Hamm, chair man, Dave Waldrop and Mr. Pay singer, members. The Board voted to give the pur chaser of the old school building at Silverstreet, Herman Langford, until April 1st to remove bricks and debris from the site. On recommendation of Mr. Pay singer, Bob Bruner was appointed to succeed himself as a member of the Newberry Area Advisory Board. New members appointed were Edward Chandler to succeed Chalmers Brown, who resigned from the Board; and Kirby Lomi- nack to succeed Mr. Paysinger, Mr. Harmon advised the Board that all county superintendents Attend Meeting At Clemson County Treasurer J. Ray Dawk ins and County Auditor Ralph B. Black attended the Symposium on State and County Fiscal Rela tions, held at Clemson College Tuesday. In charge of the sympos ium was Dr. G. H. Aull, head of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Department, Clemson. Among the topics discussed were . Late wide equalization property tax; financing state and county government in South Carolina; County-State relationships; fin- • ncing public education; operating the state and counties efficiently and economically; and a look into Ml ure South Carolina tax Mrs, Gilfillan’s Father Passes -Mills Edgar Higgins, 74. retired dairyman, farmer and former tex-1 tile overseer of Little Memorial; community, died at a Gaffney h<>s- : pital late Sunday after a two! months illness. He was a Rutherford County, N. j C. native and was the Cherokee' County supervisor from 19 3 6' through 1940. Surviving are his wife, Mi's. Mattie Moore Higgins; two sons, Thurmond and W. M. Higgins; three daughters, Mrs. Frank Gil- fillan of Newberry, Mrs. Sam Gaffney and Mrs. Rayford Swof- ford; two half-brothers, A. V. and E. B. Daniel of Charlotte; three sisters, Mrs. J. N. Dillingham, Mrs. G. L. Bagwell and Mrs. J. R. Sapoch, and six grandchildren. Funeral services were conduct ed Tuesday at 4 p.m. at Little Me morial Baptist Church by the Rev. D .epiy into oe.n A of t he 1 ‘.>- Uadev ■ hip ih dli wt th • an i V l in d t h c re < » M* on :f-T tin Nee to We men eon i 11 y w i 11 hi her long and Mint a res for them. F or yea :1‘S die; imed of ; rest'd m the young community, through , they enjoyed to the mini Christmas par- ign of the Valentine MOSS Mr the town and her memory for tinned efforts to om was provided Summer had imunity build ing for the use of the people of the city and county. But she did not stop with her dream. She talk ed, she planned, she secured the interest of the legislative delega tion as well as that of the citizens generally and finally her dream became a beautiful reality. As Chairman of the County Commun ity Building Committee, perhaps she felt that this was the cap stone of her service to her home Woodrow Spencer, the Rev. War ren Fowler and the Rev. George Lockaby. Burial was in Fredrick Memorial Gardens. Father Of Local Man Succumbs (diaries Judson Brice, aged 90, father of L. L. Brice of Newberry, died at his home in Rose Hill, N. C. Saturday morning. Funeral ser vices were held Sunday afternoon at Concord Baptist Church. Inter ment was in the church cemetery. people. Be that as. it may her in tense interest and her dynamic drive to keep Civic League pro jects at a high peak never let up, though friends begged her to slow down for health’s sake. In that spirit land to which she has gone, she has heard her Master’s com mendation, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter into the joys of thy Lord.” “Beautiful life is that whose span Is spent in duty to God and man Beautiful calm when the course is run Beautiful twilight at set of sun Beautiful death with a life well done.” Lovingly submitted, Clara Langford Wright Ida May Hayes Bedenbaugh Eloise Welch Wright Committee MEMBERS OF GIRL SCOUT TROOP NO. 19 distributed cannisters in the business district of New berry to receive contributions for the Heart Fun4 campaign. They are, left to right, kneeling, De borah Caldwell, Ann Smith, Ellie Felker, Karen Kirkegard, Ginger Gordon, . Janice Stone, Shirley Keefe, Emily Grier; standing, Lyn McPhatter, Susan Frazier, Gayle Phillips, Gayle Setzler, Mary Ruth Armfield, Margaret Wherry, Joan Dominiak and Cathy Bledsoe. (Sunphoto.) had accepted their same positions for the next school year. Mr. Paysinger invited and urg ed members of the Board to attend the public meeting to he held at Newberry high school on March 9 to discuss school construction in the city. Mr. Harmon showed the Board members results of a survey made of school superintendents in South Carolina to determine their feel ings as to whether one or two ele mentary schools should be built to accommodate 1200 elementary students, grades 1 through 6. Forty-nine of the 51 contacted replied to the questionaire. Forty- four favored two schools, three favored one school; two replied that they would need more infor mation before making a decision. Among the comments received were: “Our policy is to erect no new elementary building with more than 18 regular classrooms.” “Two buildings definitely. We feel that 600 pupils are enough. Too many pupils, too many prob lems.” “I would prefer two. This would enable you to develop a more func tional program for every young ster every day and give room for future expansion. “It has been my experience that an elementary school over 600 be comes unweildly. This is brought about by problems in the primary grades, excessive amount of traf fic and the elementary principal does not have sufficient time for the many time consuming tasks that are normally expected of an elementary principal.” “My experience is that an ele mentary program with an enroll ment of more than 600 is inef fective. Administratively it’s diffi cult to operate. Looking into the future a school built for 600 gives you an opportunity for future ex pansion in the event of popula tion growth and adjustment can be made from school to school. We have constructed four new elemen tary buildings with maximum of 16 rooms; however, we anticipate additional classrooms when enroll ments increase, not to exceed 24 classrooms.” Three of those who favored one building commented: “I would build one unless dis tance and transportation worked unusual hardships on the pupils. I would want a large site so wings could be constructed for grade le vels and play areas for different age levels. I would use the supple ment which two principals would i-equire and give it to one; let the principal have no teaching duties and give him a full time secre tary.” “The . . . Elementary school has about 1300 children, grades 1- 8. This is good size.” “I have four elementary schools . . .grouping, assigning teachers, transferring is doubly hard.” BIRTHDAY GREETINGS March 1: Miss Eugenia Epps, M.E. Abrams, Mrs. J. R. Swy- gert, Billy Walton, W. C. Huff man, Mrs. Homer Epting. Cook ie Johnson, Charles Phibbs, Forrest W. Dickert, Mrs. W. D. Jones. March2: David Stone, Margie Ingram, Grady Force, Ralph G. Higgins, J. R. Nobles, Jr., Jan Bennett. March 3: James Ralph Wil liams, Jr., Wilbur Boozer, Mrs. F. A. Truett, Janice Carolyn Boozer, Jerome Havird, Evelyn Neel Long, Marcia Ross, David Graham, Judy Ann DeHart. March 4: Ralph Connelly, Crosby Lewis, Ralph Lancaster, M rs. Hendrix Monts, Mrs. A. P. Ruff, Christie Crowder. March 5: Miss Ruby Kinard, Mrs. Earl Roland, Mary Ann Connelly, Mrs. Everrette Gra ham, Mrs. Ethel Murphj, Cor nelia Nalley, Mrs. FT E. Hite, Mrs. W. F. (Bill) Graham, Pat rick Shealy, Mrs. Robert Wick er. March 6: Hugh Y’onnelly, Mrs. Charlie Bradley, David Richard son, Mrs. P. G. * Ellesor, E. F. Lowell, III, Fred J. Weir, Jr. March 7: Mrs. J. M. Hove, Miss Carolyn Kinard, Linda Ann Lathrop, Ula Jollay, George P. Boozer, Mrs. W. D. Mont gomery, Mrs. Ellerbe Miller, Forrest E. Shealy, Jr., Cheryl Folk, Mildred Sheely, Mrs. Kib- ler Williamson.