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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.