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# If you’re going to give some body a cup of milk, don’t skim it. If you aren’t afraid to face the music, you may someday lead the band. VOLUME 21; NUMBER 47. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1959 + $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way * by, jboriA Sander A NOT SIGNED It is the policy of this newspap er that no matter how w'orth while comments in a “letter to the edit or” might be, we do not print let ters that are not signed. As I have said many times before, we are willing to print letters and with hold the signature, so long as we know who is doing the writing - . So, if the “disappointed newcomer” to Newberry will furnish his or her name for our files, we shall be happy to print the letter we re ceived last week. We agree that it might “make people look at themselves as they look from a newcomer’s view.” NOT JUST TEACHERS I cannot agree that Fritz Hol- Kngs, in his talk before the South Carolina Education Association last week, was taking a slap only at the teachers. He was taking a slap at all of you who voted for the sales tax. The governor left many things unsaid in his lengthy speech. I don’t know of even a politician or a leader in the education field who will deny that the public was mislead, deliberately or not, about the sales tax. It was assumed from the propaganda, for which the governor takes so much credit, that the public schools would re ceive all benefits from the sales tax. In his speech, Rollings made the statement: “The truth is that every cent of sales tax money and over 30 million dollars additionally go to the public schools from the state each year.” The general pu blic assumes “public schools” to mean elementary and secondary schools, and the voters did not realize that vast sums of the sales tax money would go to state col leges. They also did not realize that much of the money formerly used for education purposes was channeled elsewhere after passage of the sales tax. The voters were led to believe that the sales tax would take care of all education needs; that funds from the sales tax would be used for schools in addition to the funds already be ing appropriated for school pur poses. This, then, is the reason that so many communities have been unwilling to vote bond issues or raise millage on a local level for school purposes. The governor also said “The General Assembly in the past ten years has been ahead of the people back home in instituting public school improvement. It has ex tended itself for education more than any legislature of this or any state in record time and in record amounts.” What the governor does not tell is the amount of tax es raised by other states specific ally for educational purposes. Have other state governments mislead their citizens with such measures as the sales tax, or are the states taxes much lower in other states, enabling the citizens to pay high er community or county taxes? If the governor is to give statistics, he should give them all. He says "This year, despite our 23 % mil lion dollar deficit, the state will give the teachers an increase of $1,100,000.” This would lead the public to assume that the teachers "are getting a raise.” The increase mentioned by the governor is the yearly increase that teachers have been getting each year. As I re call, it is a raise of about $7 a month for the highest type certi ficate, less for lower ones, and is supposed to be compensation for another year of experience. There is one paragraph of the governor’s speech with which I agree, and I quote it: “We have been led into our pre sent and unenviable state of floun dering around trying to be all things to all people by following blindly the tenets of progressive education, and more recently by following the same tenets now renamed ‘Permissiveness.’ This permissive nonsense injects frill courses into the curricula which does the student an injustice. The student of today can stand a greater demand than the student of yesteryear. Regardless of in telligence, he has a better aptitude, can learn faster. This is no time to be lightening the load. In this age of the atom and high taxes this is no time to be wasting the students’ time and the taxpayers’ money offering chorus, band, psy chology, problems in democracy and the like. These desirables but non-essentials should be relegated to the extracurricular.” Local educators, take notice! Several months ago, Connie was busy laboring away at a drawing. When she finished, it turned out to be a picture of a Pet Milk truck, with an apparatus to auto- matically deliver the milk from the truck to the customer’s house. We thought the drawing was right clever, and sent it along with our check (for the milk hill) to Pet the following month. We received a letter from Paul C. Harmon, sales manager of Pet in Columbia, in which he stated: “The drawing you mailed us created a great deal of interest here at the plant. We posted the letter and the picture on the bulletin board where all of our routesalesmen and employ ees had an apportunity to see and read it. “Our routesalesmen look for ward to the day when some of the ideas presented by your daughter might be incorporated in trucks for the delivery of milk. ‘W’hen children have vision, the dreams of older people sometime come true.’ “Connie’s ideas are so intrigu ing that we have decided to mail the drawing and your letter to the Editor of the Pet Milk Magazine in St. Louis, Missouri.” In the mail the other day fame the January-February issue of the Pet Milk Magazine, distributed na tionally to Pet employees. Connie’s drawing was pictured on Page 1G, with the following article, headed “Automation for Retail Milk De livery ?” “This particular gadget may not be the solution to putting auto mation to work in the retail, door-to-door delivery of fluid milk. But if youngsters with ingenuity like five-year-old Connie Sanders keep trying, someday milk men will have a gadget to take the leg- work out of their jobs. “The ‘art work’ was enclosed with a letter from a customer, Mrs. R. F. Sanders, of Newberry, S. C., to the Pet Dairy plant in Columbia. Here’s how Connie de scribed the apparatus attached to the front of the Pet truck: ‘“The buttons just behind the driver’s seat tell how many quarts of milk the driver is to deliver. If he wants one quart, he pushes button No. 1, two quarts, the se cond button and so on. “ ‘The little button in front of the steering wheel is to operate ‘this thing’ out in front. First the driver pushes the button to get the number of bottles he needs and they slide out. Then he pushes the other button and ‘this thing’ comes around, picks up the milk and puts it on the front porch.’ “If you’re not intrigued by the gadget itself, how r can- you help but be fascinated by Connie’s ima gination and product loyalty!” POLICE CHIEF COLIE DOWD sells a “Buck-A-Ciip” pin to Mayor Ernest Layton, as part of the Police Department’s effort to help the Easter Seal Campaign. All members of the Police force are selling the pins for a dollar each. They will entitle the wearer to drink as much coffee as he wishes at participating establish ments on Coffee Day, Good Friday. The coffee is donated by the establishments as their part of the drive, sponsored by the Am erican Restaurant Association. While the police are busy selling coffee buttons, others will be helping the Crippled Children’s drive by selling Easter Lilies in the city this coming Saturday. Mrs. Bill Tedford and Mrs, Pope Buford, Jr. are co-chairman of the lily sale for the local chapter of the Crippled Children’s Society. Members of the Junior Depart ment of Central Methodist Church will sell the lilies beginning early Saturday morning, with their superintendent Mrs. L. G. Mc Cullough in charge. The Marion Davis Mothers Club will also have a “W ishing W ell” near the square to sell lilies. The public is asked to support both the Coffee Day and Lily Sale, benefits of which are used for the Crippled Children and Adults of Newberry County. (Sunphoto.) Senator Looks Into Future Industry For Center State Zane C. Evans Joins Staff Of Newberry Mills During the past week, L. E. Gatlin, Jr., manager of Newberry Mills, Inc., has announced a pay raise schedule, also thte appoint ment of a new member of the su pervisory staff at the plant. On Monday, March 16, Zane C. Evans joined the staff of Newber ry Mills, Inc., in the capacity of Oversee? of the Spinning, Spooler and Winding departments. Mr. Evans comes to Newberry from St. Pauls, N. C. where he was connected with the Burlington Mills, Inc. as Overseer of the Spin ning department. Prior to his as sociation with Burlington, he was employed by Dan River Mills in Danville, Va., for several years and with the Profile Cotton Mills in Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Evans is married and has three daughters, ages 11 years, seven years and five years. He is a mason, a member of the Jay- cees, a member of the Presby terian church in St. Pauls and teacher in the Men’s Bible class. In announcing the appointment, Mr. Gatlin said “It is a pleasure to report this new addition to our staff, and we feel that with the many years of supervisory ex perience he has had, Mr. Evans will be an invaluable member of our staff.” Last weekend, Mr. Gatlin an nounced that Newberry Mills has granted an average hourly in crease of nine cents per hour to more than 600 employees. This in crease is retroactive to February 16, 1959 and is in line with the plant’s announcement of February 13, in which it was stated that an upward adjustment would be made as soon as details could be worked out. This represents an increase in the base pay average of slightly more than seven percent. Dorn Will Be Amity Ladies Night Speaker Hon. William Jennings Bryan Dorn, congressman from the Third District, will be guest speak er when Amity Lodge No. 87 holds its Ladies Night on Thursday, April 2nd. The affair will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Newberry.High School cafeteria. All members of Amity Lodge will be contacted within the next week or ten days to purchase tick ets to this annual affair. Senator R. Aubrey Harley, who recently questioned the State De velopment Board as to efforts made in behallf of Newberry Coun ty in locating new industry, re ceived a letter from R. M. Cooper, director of the Board, in which he stated that there has been an increase of about 233% invest ment in industry in Newberry County during a 12-year period. “In the 1945 Annual Report of the State Department of Labor,” wrote Mr. Cooper, “the capital in vested in industry in Newberry County is shown as $4,502,000, and the figure for this County in the 1957 Annual Report (the latest published), shows $14,932,000 in vested in industry in the same County, which I believe represents an increase of about 233%, while the increase for the State as a whole is 167%.” While the source of the increase is not revealed by Mr. Cooper, it has been pointed out that during the period mentioned, the Oak land Plant of the Kendall Com YOUNG ARTIST Our Little Connie has become an “artist and inventor’ of some what limited national fame. ROBERT H. LOVVORN, president of Calhoun Life Insurance Company, Columbia, was guest speaker at the meeting of the Exchange Club Tuesday night at the Wiseman Hotel. He is shown here with Howard Cook, left, program chairman, and Rob ert O’Dell, vice president of the Exchange Club who presided Tuesday night. (Sunphoto.) pany has been doubled in size, adding materially to industry in vestment in this County. In explaining the work of the Development Board, Mr. Cooper stated “We feel that our job is to sell the State as a whole and we conscientiously endeavor to do this to the best of our ability. We try to show sites that will meet the peculiar requirements of the in dustry with which we are working and we cannot take county lines into consideration. “We can only show prospects around; the final determination is made by the industry itself. Since our Board has been in existence we have shown numerous sites in Newberry County to a good many substantial prospects. Most of the prospects referred to above were looking for sites on large streams, but for reasons beyond our con trol they did not choose a New berry County site. Admittedly, we have not been as fortunate in Newberry County as we would like to have been. We will, however, continue our efforts as earnestly as we know how.” Sen. Harley and legislators from 11 other central counties met Tuesday night at the Hotel Co lumbia to consider details in an area-wide cooperative develop ment plan. “We have an abundant supply of honest, intelligent and industrious people and I know of many of them who are trying to get jobs in the Midlands and they can’t because the jobs are not available. “And with all this talk about getting somebody to come down here from the North to help us, we ought to get together and do something about helping our selves; to develop our own re sources and use our own talents. “This will take money, but I trust that this new industrial de velopment organization will make several million dollars available in the state. A good share of this should be used in the Midlands. This will be a purely business proposition. They won’t be giving any money away, but should list en with sympathetic ears to plans to develop native South Carolina industries.” Wilson Speaker Sunrise Service The Easter Sunrise Service, sponsored annually by the Civic League, will be held on Sunday, March 29 at 6:30 a.m. at Margaret Hunter Park. Prof, and Mrs. Scott Elliot are serving as co- chairman again this year. Rev. Kenneth B. Wilson, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Newberry will deliver the Easter message. Several other local mini sters will participate in the pro gram. Dr. Milton Moore will direct the music. A full program will be announced later. The Civic League has sponsored the Easter Sunrise service for the past eleven years. With the exception of last year, when the -services was held at Newberry High school due to inclement wea ther, the inspiring services have been held at beautiful Margaret Hunter Park. MEMBERS OF THE NEWBERRY GRAND JURY sworn in Monday morning by Judge Bruce Littlejohn of Spartanburg to serve for 1959 include, first row, left to right: D. M. Vaughn, H. M. Kunkle, J. H,, Davis,- Leroy Wilson, T. C. McDowell, Jerome Havird, W. H. Young and W. H. Mul- linax; second row, left to right, George D. Way, J. W. Hipp, Jr., Furman G. Kyzer, Clyde R. Amick, . Lewis C. Hawkins, Alfred Dorroh, J. M. Leaman, R. C. Neel, J. T. Long and John B. Lindsay. After these were sworn in. Judge Littlejohn disqualified T. C. McDowell for the reason that he held a peace officer’s job. Repllacing him was John F. Scurry. J. W. Hipp Jr. was named foreman of the jury. (Photo by Nichols.) Grand Jury Names Committees, Court Accepts Guilty Pleas MRS. WRIGHT IS AT HOSPITAL Mrs. Clara Wright is undergo ing treatment at Newberry Coun ty Hospital. She entered the hos pital Sunday morning. Newberry Band Is Rated Tops Newberry High School Band, directed by Miss Lorraine Paris, rated tops among nine bands, Class A to D, at the district music festival held in Union Tuesday. The Newberry band, listed as a Class B unit, received 14 out of 15 possible points. Only one other school, a Class A group, received that many points. In addition, the Newberry group took a “1” rating for concert, “1” for marching, “2” for sight reading, and a “1” overall rating. It was noted that no “1” ratings were received by bands participating in another district festival in Ninety Six on Monday. Bands performing in the Tues day festival included Union, Gaff ney, Chapman High of Inman and Rock Hill, Class A; Chester and Newberry, Class B; Winthrop Training and Clover, Class C; Mid- Carolina, Class D, and Spartan burg Junior High band. One of the judgek for both the district meet in Ninety Six Mon day, and the district festival in Union Tuesday, was heard to re mark that of all the bands which performed both days, the Newber ry band was best. As a result of its high rating the Newberry band will partici pate in the State Music Festival to be held at Winthrop. College on April 15th. All bands which re- cc’vod 11 or more points' are eli gible to participate in the State Festival. Mr. and Mrs. Gates Beckwith and three sons of ' DariCrt, Conn, will spend the Easter holidays here with Mrs. Beckwith’s par ents, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Davis on Caldwell street.' '“’ v The March term of General Ses sions began Monday with the swearing in of a new Grand Jury. The first two days of the crimin al court term -were occupied most ly with guilty pleas and accepted by Judge Bruce Littlejohn of Spartanburg. The Grand Jury acted on bills of indictment presented by the So licitor, William T. Jones, and also appointed committees for the year 1959, as follows: County Schools: John B. Lind say, chairman; H. M. Kunkle, D. Leroy Wilson, William H. Young. County Officials: Wayne F. Mul- linax, chairman; John F. Scurry# Lewis C. Hawkins, James M. Lea- man. County Buildings: Clyde L. Am ick, chairman; Jerome-F. Havird, R. C. Neel, Jr., J. T. Long. Chaingang, Roads and Bridges: D. M. Vaughn, chairman; Alfred Dorroh, Furman Kyzer, George D. Way. Cases disposed of by the court are as follows: West Goree, non-support, one year or a fine of $1,500, probation for three years and payment of $12.50 weekly. Wilhelmina Ruff, non-support, one year or $1,500, probation three years and $12.50 per week. Jimmy Lee Hunter, assault and battery, larceny and receiving stolen goods, two years. Lee Summers, indicted for us ing car without consent of owner, pleaded guilty, sentenced to serve 90 days. Allen Stephens, assault and bat tery with intent to kill and carry- Roland Hawkins was admitted to the local hospital Monday where j he is undergoing treatment. I Ollie Brown, who suffered a 1 broken collarbone in a fall from a horse Sunday, was treated at the J local hospital and transferred to a 1 Columbia hospital Tuesday. THE RECENTLY COMPLETED, modern manse of the O’Neal Street Methodist Church was dedi cated Sunday with Dr. R. Bryce Herbert, district superintendent leading the service. Open House was held following the dedication and the Sunphoto above shows some of those taking part in the service as well as a portion of the new manse. At the door are, left to right, Mrs. James Bannister, Mrs. Clara Wertz and Mrs. Clara Buddin. Shown In the living room are Rev. Paul Petty, pastor of O’Neal Street Church, Mrs. Petty, Dr. Herbert, and Rev. John Davenport of Greenville, former pas tor of O’Neal. The Pettys and their children. Dee, Sandra and Deborah, have been occupying the new parsonage for several weeks. The old parsonage is being destructed to allow room for further ex pansion of the church. * 1 ing concealed weapons, 18 months. The following cases and the charges were continued by the court; Alex Wheeler, drunken driving; Alma S. Gregory, assault and battery with intent to kill; Davis Gregory, assault and bat tery with intent to kill; Ray mond Caldwell, assault and bat tery; James D. Allen, drunken driving. Joe Sims, charged with viola tion of liquor laws, pleaded guil ty and was sentenced to $600 or six months, suspended upon serv ice of three months or payment of $300. Troy Huckaby, drunk driving, second offense, one year or $1,000, suspended and on probation for three years after payment of $250 or service of 60 days. J. B. Epps, violation of liquor laws, six months or $600; sus pended after three months or pay ment of $300. Edward Wise, violation of the liquor law, six months or $600, suspended upon payment of $300 or service of three months. Jesse Adams Mozee, violation of liquor laws, one year or $1,500, suspended after six months or pay ment of $750. John Henry Oxner, violation of liquor law, 30 days or $100. Andrew Clark Jr., violation of liquor law, 30 days or $100. Houston Grant, drunken driv ing, second offense, one year and $100; suspended on probation for three years after payment of $250 or service of 60 days. Jarifes R. Lee Taylor, drunken driving, second offense; one year or $1,000; suspended and on pro bation for three years after serv ice of 60 days or payment of $250. William T. Dallas, drunken driv ing, third offense, transferred to Magistrate B. F. Dawkins for pre liminary hearing. BIRTHDAY i GREETINGS March 22: Mrs. Willard Byrd, Daniel Hugh McHargue, Jr., Mrs. Hal Kohn, Sr., Mrs. J. C. Atkison, Mrt^ Sidney Carter, Norma Ruff, Mrs. John Lindler, Jr., A. A. Cleland, Mrs. Ellen Maddox, Paula Monroe, Tommy S potts. March 23: Mrs. Frank Mower, Mrs. L. D. Nichols, Joyce Chap man, Larry Danielson, Linda Waldrop, Mrs. J. W. (Bill) Smith, Luther B. Bedenbaugh, Miss Jo Shannon. March 24: Mrs. Fred Richard son, Mrs. Jeff Waldrop, Richard Perkins, Hayne Shealy. March 25: Rev. M. L. Kester, Mrs. Nancy Stone McDonald, Lt. Howard N. Parks, David H. Long, Mrs. Helen B. Folks, Mrs. Boyd Livingston, Jeanette Rine hart, Marcus Hendrix, Janice Ringer, Myrle Hanna. March 26: Mrs. E. L. Black- well, Marvin Eugene Schumpert, Sue Hutchinson. March 27: Mrs. M. D. Lam beth, Thomas Hugh Crooks, Marvin Abrams, Jr., Phillip Earl Cromer, Mrs. George R. Summer. March 28: H. O. Newman, Elizabeth Ann Ruff, Sylvia Shell, H. T. Lake, Johnnie S. Harmon, Horace Cromer, Ralph Higgins, Ruth M. Swygert, Da vid Leonard Turner.