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Most of insist on the best, and then complain about the price. All of us learn valuable lessons as we go through life, but the trouble is that too often we learn them too late. VOLUME 21; NUMBER 49. By The Way By Doris A. Sanders WEEK’S CHUCKLE One pre-schooler to another: “Now this dog is a watchdog. When she says ‘bark, bark, bark’ it’s three o’clock; when she says ‘bark, bark, bark, bark,” it’s four o’clock. She’s a WATCH dog.” TWO-LEGGED PESTS The Columbia Better Business Bureau would remind you that the coming of spring brings, among other things, the fraudulent ter mite “expert.” An alerted public can do much toward exterminating these two- legged pests, according to the Bu reau, and at the same time save thousands of dollars paid for poor work at high prices. Generally this type of operator would have the homeowner believe that his house will collapse before there is time to investigate the “control specialist.” Such is not the case, says the Bureau. Additional damage done in a few weeks or even months will make little difference. If you are interested in exter minating termites, the Columbia Better Business Bureau says it will give of obtain reliable infor mation concerning the reputation of termite control operators. If someone you don’t know tries to rid your home of termites, better check with the BBB first. UNITED FUND Again we appeal to all civic and service organizations to attend the meeting of the Interservice Council to be held Monday night. This is not a meeting at which someone will try to ram a United fund plan down your throat. It is a meeting to discuss the advisa bility; to let you determine wheth er your own club members will go along with UF; perhaps even to find some better way of eliminat ing the too-many drives we have in the city and county each year. One concerted effort would be the best bet, perhaps set up on an in stallment plan so as not to light en your wallet too much at once. Many ideas will be discussed, so be on hand. Many persons have been asking whether the Interservice Council is for any purpose other than to organize a united fund. Paul Folk, chairman of the council, gives this answer: “The Interservice Council is simply what the name implies. The council was organized to coordin ate the efforts of the various clubs and organizations in one direction. “The first project of the coun cil was to try to organize a united drive for fund raising in Newberry County. If and when this is ac complished, the council will con tinue to function as an organiza tion which can coordinate the woi’kings of our service clubs and other organizations on other ma jor civic needs in the future. “Interservice Council IS NOT and WILL NOT be the United Fund or whatever we call our united appeal. The job of the coun cil is to decide if the people are ready for a united drive and if they are, to secure the chairman and other officers necessary to put on the drive.” Mr. Folk noted that the type of organization to be discussed Mon day night will be: 1. Locally gov erned, not affiliated with a na tional or state organization. 2. To limit the drives for various local and national organizations to one big drive. 3. The decisions as to what funds will be collected for to be left with the board of direc- and how they will be distributed tors of the fund. Clinic To Be At Silverstreet A pre-school clinic will be held at Silverstreet Elementary school on Monday morning, April 20 be ginning at 9:30 a. m. All chil dren who will be age six before November 1st and who expect to attend Silverstreet school are ex pected to attend the clinic accom panied by a parent. The clinic will be held in the new school building. UDC Chapter Meets Tuesday Drayton Rutherford Chapter, U. D. C. will meet Tuesday after noon, April 7 at 4 p.m. at the home of Mrs. R. D. Wright with Mrs. Hunter Brown, associate hostess. Mrs. Ralph Baker will lead the historical program. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1959 4 $2.00 PER YEAR Plans For United Appeal Be Discussed At Monday Meeting Former Pastor St. Luke's To Be At Anderson The next pastor of Grace Epis copal Church in Anderson will be a lawyer, teacher and soldier. Com bining these professions is the Rev. Edwin Ballenger Clippard, who accepted a call to become the pastor on May 1st. Rev. Clippard will be remembered by Newber- rians as having been Rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church here, from the summer of 1951 until January 1954. He was ordained at St. Luke’s on December 21, 1951. Announcement of the Anderson appointment was made Sunday morning. Mr. Clippard, who comes from the Church of the Holy Communion at Charleston, will succeed Col. Julian Ellenberg who resigned last July because of ill health. A native of Edgefield, Mr. Clip pard holds the B.A., M.A. and L. ^.B. and the bachelor of divinity degree. He was reared in Wood ruff, attended the Citadel and taught later in Pickens public schools. He did graduate work in English at the University of South Caro lina and the University of North Carolina, receiving his M.A. de gree in 1936 from U.S.C. where he studied law. Called to active military duty in 1941, Mr. Clippard served 42 months in the Pacific theater. He took part in the Battle of Kwaja- lein, key Japanese naval base. He won his law degree at USC and practiced law in Columbia from 1946-48. In the fall of 1948, he entered Virginia Theological Seminary, graduating in 1951 with a bachelor of divinity degree. He served missions of St. Luke’s and St. Monica’s in Newberry as well as All Saints in Clinton, Epi phany in Laurens and St. Simon’s in Peak. In 1954, he went to Charleston as rector of the Church of Holy Communion. He was deputy to general con vention in Honolulu in 1955, and served on the executive council of the Diocese of South Carolina; as chairman of the Diocese of South Carolina and as chairman of the Department of Christian Educa tion. Mrs. Clippard, Converse College graduate who holds a master’s de gree from USC, is widely known in art and education circles. Horse Throws Deputy Sheriff Deputy Sheriff L. L. (Slim) Henderson suffered a sprained leg when he was thrown by a horse Wednesday morning. He was treated at the local hospital. under the direction of Dr. Milton Moore will perform the oratorio Elijah on Sunday afternoon, April 5, 1959 at 3:30 p.m. in the McLean Gymnasium at Newberry College. The Newberry College Singers, consisting of eighty voices, have been rehearsing on the Elijah since their Christmas tour. Solo ists for the Elijah will be Herman Schwacke, Jr., baritone, from Charleston; Kernie Wessinger, tenor, Professor of Music at New- Wili a United Fund appeal in Newberry be a success? This is the principal question to be de bated at a meeting of the Newber ry County Interservice Council to be held Monday night, April 6 at 7:30 at the office of the Newberry County Development Board. The Interservice Council, which was formed last year, took on as its first major project the pro motion of a United Fund for New berry in an effort to replace the numerous charity drives held throughout the year. While plans could not be worked out to hold a United drive for 1959, interest is on the increase for such a plan in 1960 and a large representation from civic and service clubs of Newberry is expected to be pres ent at the Monday night meeting. Paul Folk, chairman of the In terservice Council, stated that club representatives would be given questionnaires Monday night to be distributed to all club members. The questionnaire contains the statement “An effort to organ ize a united drive for Newberry County was attempted this past fall for the spring of 1959. As you know it failed due to lack of interest and because of interfer ence by National organizations. This spring you have been called upon to help wLh or contribute to a great number of drives. The time has come that we, as indi viduals, must decide either to con tinue this constant solicitation or concentrate our efforts in one United Drive. “Another and last attempt is now being made to organize a United Drive for Newberry Coun ty for the coming year. With your cooperation in answering the following questions, we will be able to determine if this will be possible.” Questions contained are 1. Do you desire a United Fund Drive in 1960? 2. Do you realize that a United Drive can succeed only if (a) you turn down all positions in a National Drive. Will you? (b) Are you willing to serve in some capacity once a year in a united effort? 3. Are you willing to give all your contributions to one locally governed and operated fund ? A recent article in the Reader’s Digest, entitled “Mutiny of the Bountiful,” contained much infor mation about the various fund raising organizations. Excerpts from this article follow: “The result is a growing tug of war between local and national interest. The national health agencies, for example, regard all other forms of fund-raising—such as United Funds or Community Chests—as dangerous competi tion. From the outset the TB As sociation turned thumbs down on joint drives. March of Dimes also firmly declined. “In May 1957, Dr. Robert W. Wilkins of the Heart Association sounded the odd battle cry: ‘Div ided we stand, united we fall.’ To day the Heart Association will permit no more of its state and berry College; Marjorie Smith Lightsey, contralto from Green wood; Sheila Patterson, soprano, from Charleston; and Ute Jacob, soprano of Florence. Darr Wise, Professor Piano aTid Organ at Newberry College, will serve as accompanist. The public is cordially invited to this concert. In the photo above, left to right, are: First row, Miriam Eleazer, Sheila Patterson, Brenda Koch, Ina Sox, Emily Eiermann, Gerald local chapters to join United Funds and the Cancer Society has ordered all its chapters now in to get out by 1960. Ini fact, the Heart and Cancer Societies along with the March of Dimes have actually spurned a million dollars or more that was collected for their dis eases rather than their organiza tions! “The fury of a contributor, scorned, however, can pack quite a wallop. This was demonstrated two years ago when the women of Gates Mills, Ohio, a Cleveland su burb, decided to stage a combined drive for all the health organiza tions. The experiment became a cause celebre when the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis ordered its Cleveland chapter to give back $1322 which the la dies had collected for polio. “Thus snubbed, the ladies of Gates Mills rebelled, and the re volt spread to other towns in Cuy ahoga County. Everywhere the women volunteer workers simply stopped volunteering for indivdual health-agency drives, and instead demanded a combined drive in the Gates Mills style. Village councils, Rotary Clubs and chambers of commerce enthusiastically second ed the plan. So groups of women in 16 towns near Cleveland worked out details, such as separate list ing of the participating agencies on one envelope, allowing the con tributor free choice among them— and staged their drives last May. They collected an impressive to tal: some $200,000. “As long ago as the mid-1940’s the National Health Council, a co ordinating committee controlled by the various health agencies, sponsored a survey of its members. The report called the existing fund-raising situation ‘preposter ous’: money was being wasted in duplicate campaigns; the public was confused by the multiplicity of appeals; fundamental scientific re search was being slighted because of overemphasis on the ‘conquest’ of specific diseases. The authors of the report wrote that ‘over the years those who work for' the agencies become more concerned with the institution than its pur pose.” “. . . The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis . . . after fulfilling its mission with the Salk vaccine, announced last summer that it was switching its mission to congenital defects, arthritis and other assorted ills—a terrain al ready well-populated by other agencies, none of which intends to disappear. “It will be a great day on many counts when some of the ‘tempor ary’ agencies fulfill their missions and go out of business. But for the foreseeable future we can as sume they are indestructible.” IN HOSPITAL Mrs. Maude Sanders underwent an emergency appendectomy at the Newberry County Memorial Hospi tal early Tuesday morning. She is reported to be recuperating nice ly. Polk, Charles Cope, Don Schreff- ler, Linda Hewey, Eleanor Wig gins, Juanita McCullough, Dian Schreffler; second row, Becky Dickert, Marian Kahrs, Elma Jean Piester, Carolyn Blackwell, Mar- gene Dufford, Barbara Hawkins, Harold Kirkland, Edward McCul lough, Lenich Coker, Emily Jones, Ava Gnann, Sylvia Siljeholm, Julie Hamiter, Judy Jackson. Third row, Henriann Goddard, Ute Jacobs, Sara Ella Yount, Thel ma Morris, Harriett Zeigler, Mar garet Marth, Raymond Kirkland, The Newberry Elementary Girls Choir under the direction of Miss Juanita Hitt, left Newberry this (Thursday) morning at eight o’clock for Roanoke, Va., where they will present a program on Friday morning before the South ern Music Educators Conference in the ballroom of the Roanoke Hotel. The choir members travel ed by chartered buses. Following their program, the Coffee Day Receipts High Police Chief Colie Dowd, chair man, and Sheriff Fellers, co- chairman, Coffee Day representa tives of the Coffee Day Committee of the Newberry Chapter of the Crippled Children and Adults So ciety, would like to express their appreciation to all the people of Newberry for their generosity, and the places of business for their cooperation in making the 1959 Coffee Day the best ever, with receipts totaling $513.26. Establishments serving coffee free of charge to persons who had purchased “B.A.C.” pins were Plampins, Gilliam’s Drive-In, Haile’s Truck Stop, 76 Truck Stop, Cromer’s Eats, Summer’s Triangle Drive-In, Whit’s Grill, Zesto, Oakland Commissary, Mol- lohon Commissary, West End Commissary, Kinards Lunch Room, Wiseman Hotel, Werts Cafe, Wallace Home, Dixie Cafe, Newberry Drug, Main Street Pharmacy, Main and Hunt Street branches, Lominick’s Drug, Cen tral Drug and Gilder and Weeks. Dana Sawyer, Fred Friedrichs, Carole Irick, Martha Sarglj, Ina Roof, Judy Stone, Kathryn Coop er, Dale Sox. Fourth row, Barbara Patterson, Diane Altman, Mickey Ward, Har ry Orr, Julian Hicks, Jackson Zip- perer, James Leopard, Robert Bouknight, Don Poole, Frank Yonce, Luther Swicegood, Dermon Sox, Fred Glazier, Jane Baynham, Sylvia Wood. Members of Singers absent from picture: Boyd Cook and Doug Kor- chgen. girls will leave for a tour of in teresting points in Virginia. In cluded will be Natural Bridge, and Lexington. They will spend Thursday and Friday nights in Roanoke, and will return to New berry On Saturday. There will be approximately 100 girls making the trip, in addition to a number of parents. The group will also be accompanied by R. Ed Beck, superintendent o f elementary schools. Meetings Are Listed By County Agents (By COUNTY AGENTS) Livestock Association Meeting All beef cattle growers are in vited to attend a meeting to be held Monday night, April 6th, at 8 p. m. at the Agricultural Build ing. The purpose of this meeting is to determine if there is suffi cient interest to organize a New berry County Livestock Associa tion. Several beef cattle growers have expressed interest in form ing such an association to stimu late interest and promote beef j cattle in Newberry County. Bill Miller, field representative of the American Hereford Asso ciation, will be guest speaker at the meeting. All commercial beef cattle grow ers as well as breeders are urged to attend. St. Phillips Community Development Meeting All families in the St. Phillips Community are reminded to at tend the meeting to be held next Wednesday night, April 8th, at the St. Phillips School Building at 8 o’clock. This meeting is be ing held to organize a Community Development Program for the community. The Community Development Program is going strong in several nearby counties and we are de lighted to see the interest develop ing in St. Phillips as well as other communities in Newberry County. There is no surer sign of a pro gressive community than one in which the people are cooperating and working together to better themselves and their community. The Community Development Pro gram encourages this interest and serves as a guide to carry out these objectives of improvement. Pretty Lawns The most beautiful lawn or turf is obtained when only a single kind of grass is used, but many times this is not possible because of trees and shrubbery on the lawn site. Some grasses have more toler ance to shade than others, some more tolerance to sun than oth ers. Be certain to choose the grass best suited for your lawn site. To have a pretty lawn is going to require time, effort, and money. Nature will not do all of the work for you. To maintain the established lawn is also going to require at tention. Watering is very import ant. Thoroughly soak the lawn so it is wet to a depth of six inches. Once a week in dry weather is suf- (Continued on Page 4) The first number of the pro gram to be presented by the choir is “Together We Sing,” by Dr. Ir ving Wolfe, who will be guest con ductor for this number. The pro gram will, continue with “Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild” by Harry Robert Wilson; “Soft Music En chanting” from “The Magic Flute,” Mozart; “Swiss Hiking Hiking Song;” “Cockles and Mus sels;” “Mary and Martha;” and “Cher Mo L’Aime Toi.” The last Contracts Are Awarded For City Paving A contract for the resurfacing of 37.50 miles of primary and se condary roads in Edgefield, New berry and Saluda Counties has been awarded by the State High way Department to Midstate Con tractors, Inc., of Hickory, N. C. The contract was announced March 23 in a letter of award from Chief Highway Commission er Claude R. McMillan. It was bas ed on a low bid of $190,037.15 sub mitted when bids for the work were publicly opened in Columbia March 17. Included in the project are the resurfacing with hot laid asphal tic concrete surface course and asphaltic concrete binder course of 3.8 miles on the S. C. Route 19 By-Pass from S. C. Route 34 to U. S. Route 76; of 2.4 miles on S. C. 19 between S. C. Route 34 and the Saluda County line and of 3.85 miles on U. S. Route 76 Busi ness, S. C. 34 and 19, and Road 375, being streets in Newberry. Navy Recruiters Be At College A Naval Officer Procurement team from the Columbia Navy Re cruiting District will visit the Newberry College campus Friday, April 10, according to an an nouncement made by Lt. Cmdr. L. R. Steinmeyer, officer in charge. Lt. Cmdr. Steinmeyer states that vacancies exist in all the of ficer programs and that prospec tive June graduates are invited to contact the team during its visit to the college for information and possible initial processing. a Is Injured In Scooter Wreck Jimmy Brooks, son of Mr. ana Mrs. J. C. Brooks, suffered leg in juries Wednesday morning when the motor-scooter he was riding was involved in a collision with an automobile driven by Miss Mary Alice Laird. He was carried to the Newberry Hospital for obser vation and treatment. Mrs. R. H. Wright, who under went surgery at Columbia Hospi tal last week, is reported to be getting along “as well as could be expected.” William Milam is seriously ill at the local hospital. He suffered a heart attack last Thursday. number, “Frog Went A-Courtin* will be dramatized in costume with the following taking part: Frog, Kenneth Harmon; Mouse, Patricia Shealy; Uncle Rat, Steve McCut- cheon; Mice Bridesmaids, Ellen Williamson and Lynn Altman; Preacher, Willie Gilfillan; and Old Black 'Cat, Alan Paysinger. Accompanists will be Mrs. Au brey Harley, Mrs. Marvin Rucker, piano; and Miss Cynthia Lake, violin. Rabies Clinic Begins Tuesday State law requires yearly vac cination of all dogs four months of age and older by a licensed vet erinarian. Rabies clinics will be held throughout the county, begin ning Tuesday, April 7, conducted by Drs. Lide and Lowman. Dog- owners are urged to have their animals at one of these clinics for vaccination. The following is the schedule for next week. Schedules will be published a week in ad vance until the end of the clinic on April 27. Tuesday, April 7, Dr. Lowman: Peak, Chapman’s Store, 2 until 3 p.m.; L. M. Shealy’s Home, Little Mountain, 3:15 to 4:15 p.m.; Shealy Service Station, Little Mountain, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.; Hor ace Richardson’s Esso Station, Slighs, 5:45 p.m. until 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, April 8, Dr. Lide: Werts Service Statiqn, Chappells, 2 until 2:45 p.m.; Murray Shep pard’s Store, Silverstreet, 3 until 3:45 p.m.; M. S. Lester’s Esso Sta tion, Silverstreet highway, 4 until 4:45 p.m. Thursday, April 9, Dr. Lowman: Neel Bros. Store, Belfast Road, 2-3 p.m.; King’s Store, Bush River section, 3:15 until 4:15 p.m. Friday, April 10, Dr. Lide: City Hall, Whitmire, 12:30 until 4:30 p.m. IN HOSPITAL J. T. McCrackin Sr. is reported to be resting comfortably at New berry hospital where he was car ried following an r.ttack last week. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS April 5: Mrs. Arthur Dwyer, A. C. Ward, John Francis Scurry, Jackie Goodman, Mrs. L. A. Black. April 6: Phil Plampin, Mrs. Jasper Amick, Connie Armfield Sanders, Virgie Ellis Shealy. April 7: Mrs. John Thomas, Wava Billingsley, W. F. Smith, Bobby Bruner, Phillip Carl Trefsgar, Barbara Ann Kesler, Elizabeth D. Epting. April 8: Mrs. Ellisor Adams, Robert D. Coleman, III, Jake Crossland. April 9: Olin Berry. April 10: Mrs. Meredith Har mon, J. Brooks Workman, Mar garet Paysinger, Calvin T. Mil- stead. April 11: O. F. Armfield, Sr., Donald Shealy. The Newberry College Singers