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Women go for a man with looks, but for a handsome man to get a nod of approval from other men is some thing else again. I u tilt Once you’ve replaced t^em, your old and discarded shoes look so shab by that you wonder how you dared to be seen in them. VOLUME 22; NUMBER 8. By The Way By Boris A. Sandsrs They will close Saturday or no Saturday, cer tain Merchants in Newberry will close their places of business on July 4th. Among them will be Carpenters and Sears. There will no doubt be announcements from others to the same effect before the 4th rolls around. These esta blishments believe that July 4th »' a holiday and are giving, their employees the day off that they would normally expect to have. May I suggest that you patronize these stores, where there is fnore interest in the welfare of employ ees than there is in luring in some of those vacation checks which will be distributed at Oakland, Mollo- hon and Newberry Mills on or just prior to the 4th ? NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1959 O $2.00 PER YEAR w'. v., ; ^ Guilty Pleas Disposed of With Rapidity During Criminal Term QUIET ELECTION Looks as though the City De mocratic primary will be a quiet one, with contests in only two wards thi^ summer. The noon dead line Monday was even quiet—only one candidate, the chairman and secretary of the democratic exe cutive committee, one on-looker and two newspaper representa tives being present when the list closed. You are again reminded, however, that regardless of your ward of residence, you vote for candidates in every ward, so if you do not have a registration cer tificate, be sure to get one on the first Monday in July at the Board of Registration office in the court house. This will be your last chance to get a certificate to vote in the city primary. Even though there may not be a race for aider- man in your ward, you should care fully consider qualifications of all alderman candidates since it takes the combined group to make de cisions as to running your city. Don’t forget to vote. UP IN ARMS More power to the postmen of Greenville. They are up in arms over the dog situation and will go so far as to petition city council and the county legislative delega tion to do something about it, but I can warn them that they pro bably won’t get very far. The Greenville postmen are ask ing a logical thing: they are ask ing that council and the delegation pass a “leash law” which would stop the present practice of allow- as they are licensed, ing dogs to run at large as long This is the same thing I have been advocating. The case of the little child in Seneca should be proof enough that “harmless” dogs are not always harmless. As I have stated before, we got rid of the pretty little “Lassie” puppy we had because he was get ting so large and we were afraid he might hurt the girls. But what can I do about the big dogs which the neighbors allow to run free all over the neighborhood ? I couldn’t shoot them if I wanted to; I don’t feel inclined to put out poison. I can’t even appeal to the police department, since the ma jority of these dogs are licensed. As a result, I am just to sit by and hope that they won’t bother the girls as they are out playing, or else I would have to keep them indoors all the time. It would seem to me that if there are other parents who have the same feeling I do about these animals, they would •— through Mothers Clubs, PTA’s or other or ganization, band together and try to get a law passed requiring every dog owner to keep his animals in his own yard, or keep them on a leash if they take them out. Per haps in this way, we could avert having a child torn to pieces by packs of stray dogs, or even fami ly pets. If only one life were sav ed, or one brutal mauling avoided, wouldn’t it be worthwhile ? In attendance at the Soil Fertility meeting held Thursday night at the Community Hall were, left to right, George B. Nutt, director of Clemson College Extension Service; T. W. Morgan, Associate Dir ector, CCES; H. A. Woodle, leader agronomy extension work; Dr. Sam L. Tisdale, National Plant Food Institute; A. F. Busby, County Agent; J. F. Hawkins, representative; T. William Hunter, re presentative; Mrs. T. P. Crooks, co-chairman Newberry County Agricultural Committee; L. B. Massey, District Agent; R. Aubrey Harley, state senator; W. E. Senn, chairman, Newberry County Agricultural Commiittee. (Sunphoto.) Walker Inquest Brings Praise For Members of Highway Patrol CARELESS RIDING Careless bicycle riding by a young lad yesterday could easily have resulted in his death. If reac tion to an emergency weren’t au tomatic, the boy wouldn’t have had a chance. As I was riding home yesterday, with the two girls in \the back seat of the car, the young ster rode his bicycle across Main Street, without looking in either direction. If I had had time to think, before I automatically slam med on brakes, I probably would have had more consideration for my girls on the back seat than I would have for the careless young ster. Fortunately, it ended up with nothing worse than a bad scare and a bruised forehead for Ruthie, but it could have been a broken neck. A Coroner’s jury here Thursday night commended the South Caro lina highway patrol as it brought in a verdict that “George Walker, Jr. came to bis death as the result of injuries received in an automo bile collision, said automobile hav ing been driven by deceased in a reckless manner.” The verdict went on to state “We find the de ceased entirely to blame for the collision.” Following the reading of the verdict, the foreman of the jury, C. A. Shealy, on behalf of the jury commended members of the Highway patrol for their ex cellent work in protecting the pu blic on the roads of South Caro lina. The wreck in which Walker, colored, from Greenwood was kill ed climaxed a 25-mile top-speed chase from the city limits of Greenwood to the Little Riiver Bridge between Chappells and Sil- verstreet. Patrolman A. W. Hampton of Greenwood, driver of. the car which pursued Walker, was the first witness at the inquest called by Coroner George R. Summer. Hampton told of noticing the car just outside Greenwood being driv en in a reckless manner and at a high rate of speed and that he began pursuit. Once he pulled alongside the car, he stated and the driver pushed the accelerator to the floorboard. The car went through Ninety Six “as fast as the ‘55 Ford would carry him, right through the heart of town,” the patrolman testified, and on throubh Chappells in the same manner, almost side-swiping a number of cars and driving several from the road into the ditch to avoid head-on collisions. “This subject was driving at such a speed that every curve he came to, he would nearly lose con trol of the car. As a matter of fact, it would get up on two wheels and go from left to the right shoulder, back and forth, and near ly go over,” Hampton stated. A second time the patrolman pulled beside the fleeing car, “he ran over at me,” and at this time, said the patrolman, he could see the car was not going to stop so he radioed the Greenwood station for help. Corpoial W. J. Martin in Newberry was called to aid Hamp ton. Hampton’s testimony continued: “As we topped the hill, I noticed Corporal Martin pull out in the road and head his vehicle eastward toward Newberry. The object was to get the subject between us and slow our speeds until he eventually stopped. . . As we came down the hill, driving at excessive speeds, . . as fast as we could go, as we ap proached Corporal Martin, sub ject never touched his brakes. . . I was looking for him to run in the back of Corporal Martin. His (Martin’s) car was slightly over the centerline, to try to keep him from going around. As the color ed fellow approached, Corporal Martin pulled back into the lane to keep from having him run into him. . . The colored subject pass- May I plead with you parents who allow children to ride bicycles on the streets, to instruct them more carefully in safety mea sures? I trust that when the po lice patrol cars see such incidents, they take time to lecture the bike riders s# that it won’t happen again. ed Corporal Martin, hit the left shoulder of the road. As he hit, he lost control of the car.” The patrolman stated that he could see several hundred yards ahead that the driver had lost con trol of the car, but that the patrol brakes wouldn’t hold after the long chase at high speeds and “I slid past Corporal Martin, out into the bridge. I noticed subject’s motor had come out of the car as he turned over. I tried to avoid hit ting the motor. The car slid into the motor on the right hand lane, swerved me into the left hand side o fthe bridge where my car hit the bridge and came to a stop.” After climbing out of the window of his car, the patrolman lost conscious ness for a few moments, but was not seriously injured. W. J. (Bill) Martin testified that he heard the chase from the be- gining on his car radio and when Greenwood called for “any patrol man in Newberry,” he answered the call and proceeded to Highway 34. He described events leading up to the accident and stated “when he went by me, two wheels hit the shoulder. He came back across and jerked. I saw he lost control. He went to the left side of the road again and into the bridge. When he went into the bridge, the car went straight up on the end. . .Af ter that, the dust and smoke and steam, all of it was covered up and I couldn’t see anything.” He stat ed that on Tuesday there were still marks on the bridge railing, “brains that came out of the de ceased’s head. The rest of them were lying out on the bridge.” He testified that he heard Hampton’s siren before the cars were in view and that he also heard it several times while talking to Hampton over the radio. A. I. Sutton, an eye-witness to the collision, testified Martin had pased him at high speed just on the outskirts of Silverstreet and that he watched to see what was happening. As he was about to enter the bridge, he saw the other patrol car and the Ford ap proaching and that he stopped his ca*. He described the scene in a manner similar to that of the pa trolman. Sgt. Joseph F. Ready of the Greenwood district patrol office stated that when Hampton called for help, they tried to get assist ance from the Ninety Six police department, but the department’s car was in Greenwood and they had no one to help. It was then that they radioed Newberry for help, the Sergeant said. After hearing over the radio of the col lision, Ready and Sgt. Barden, also of Greenwood, went to the scene. Sgt. Ready gave measurements of skid marks and described the man ner in which the Ford apparently hit the bridge, as follows: “This bridge is approximately 525 feet long and it is divided into 25 foot sections. The car struck the second section and partially into the third, then it apparently whirled and struck again into the fourth section on the right. On the right hand side there, where it struck the second impact, there was some flesh and apparently brains about seven feet below the joint of the third and fourth sec tions and splattered up on the guard rail. Then the other impact was over on the left hand side of the fourth section where there were more brains on the guard r^jl, then the car struck the bridge again in the sixth section and then back over to the right, striking the eighth section. “The deceased’s body was lying in the ninth section of this bridge approximately 58 feet to the west of where the 1955 Ford landed. . . the Ford came to rest in the 11th section. The motor. . . apparently landed very close to the joint of the seventh and eighth sections.” He stated that extensive exam ination on two occasions of both vehicles showed “there were no marks on the patrol car to indicate it struck any part of the ‘56 green Ford and there were no marks on the green Ford to indicate it had come into contact with the patrol car. Neither were there any marks blood on the patrol car to indicate it had come into contact with the body of the deceased in any way.” Sgt. Ready stated that the Ford belonged to Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Bannister of Greenwood; that Mrs. Bannister had told him she drove the car to work that morning and left the keys in the ash tray. The last witness was Blease Merchant, probation and parole officer who had supervised Walk er during a probation period. He stated that Walker had violated probation and one year of his sen tence was revoked. “As I walked down the hall with George short ly after the revocation,” stated Merchant, “neither of us was say ing anything. He said to me ‘when I get out from this, I am really go ing to let people know I am around here.’ ” Merchant said Walker had been released “a week or less than a week” before the accident, from the Greenwood County public works. A doctors statement reported that almost every bone in Walker’s body was broken ,and that “hem orrhage, shock and mutilation were sufficient to cause death.” Bishop Service Bennett Lucas Bishop, 74, died Sunday morning at a Columbia hospital after several days of ser ious illness and a year of declin ing health. Mr. Bishop was born and rear ed at Harleyville and was a son of the late Joe M. Bishop and Ela Cummings Bishop.. He had been a member of the First Bap tist Church of Newberry for 46 years. He was a member of Amity Lodge 87, AFM, and was a retired carpenter and farmer. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mamie Buzhardt Bishop; eight sons, Joe Bishop, Coleman Bis hop, Pete Bishop, Judson Bishop, Robert Bishop and David Bishop, all of Newberry; Ben Bishop of Charleston and Charlie Bishop of Charlotte; three daughters, Mrs.. Margaret Parkman of New berry, Mrs. Frances Woodruff of Ventura, Calif., and Mrs. Mamie Edgeworth of Charleston; five sisters, Mrs. Sidney Mims and Mrs. Oscar Cone of Harleyville, Mrs. Avery Nelson of North Charleston, Mrs. Charlie Sanders of Charleston and Mrs. John Pierczynski of Charlotte; three brothers, S. H. Bishop and Fur man Bishop of Harleyville and Sam Bishop of Summerville, and (MRS. A. H. COUNTS) Criminal court convened in New berry Monday with Judge Steve C Griffith presiding. Nine cases were carried over from previous terms and the Grand Jury brought in true bills in 59 cases, making a docket of 72 cases for this term. Luke Fowler waived Grand Jury action and pleaded guilty on four counts of selling with out a prescription and illegally possessing benzedrine- He was sentenced to 18 months, su- pended on service of three months and probation for three years. He was released upon payment of fine. Henry M. Shirey pleaded guilty* to drunken driving, second of fense, and was sentenced to one year, suspended on service of two months and payment of $350 and probation for two years. Other cases disposed of Mon day were: Bennie Dennis Carter, drunken driving, second offense; one year or $1,000, suspended on service of four months or payment of $350; probation for two years. Jessie Lee Johnson, housebreak ing and larceny and receiving stol en goods, six months, suspended and placed on probation for two years. Guy Brown, second offense drunken driving, one year or $1,000, suspended during good behavior on payment of $400. Bennie Murphy, third offense drunken driving, three years or $2,000, suspended on service of six months or payment of $500 and probation for two years. Johnson Coleman, non-support, six months or $1,000 or to pay $8 per week. The court disposed of numerous cases by guilty pleas Tuesday and received the presentment of the Grand Jury, which reported that several fire extinguishers in the county’s 21 schools needed re charging and that rest rooms in some of the schools were in need of renovation. Guilty pleas were received as follows: Lee DeWalt and Evans Wise, larceny and receiving stolen goods, two years, suspended on service of six months and probation for five years; Abraham Shelton, re ceiving stolen goods, six months or $500 suspended and placed on probation for two years; Jessie Lee Turner, larceny, one year; James Vance, larceny six months. Also, Cline Paul Robinson, as sault and battery of aggrevated nature, 18 months, suspended on service of 60 days and placed on probation for two years; James Edward Liivingston, entering with intent to steal, one year and two ye a r s probation; Victor |tay Smith, drunken driving, third of fense, three years or $2000, sus pended on service of six months or payment of $500 and probation 4or two years. Also, Herman Glenn, drunken driving, second offense, one year or $1000, suspended on service of three months or payment of $250 and probation for two years; James A Setzler, non-support, six months or $1000 or payment or $8 a week; Bobby Jean Pearson, ma licious injury to real property and shoplifting, probation revoked. Also, Linden Byrd, Jr., bastardy, to pay $5 a week for support of child; Tom Hailstock, assault and battery with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapon, four months; Mildred Gallman, assault and battery of aggravated na ture, four months and probation for two years. Also, Essie Lee Suber, assault and battery of agravated nature, eight months, suspended on ser vice of two months or payment of $250 and probation of two years; Curtis Glasgow, assault and batery of aggravated nature, two years, suspended on service of six months and five years pro bation; Leo DeWalt, assault and battery of aggravated nature, two years, suspended on service of six months and five years proba tion. 24 grandchildren. Funeral services were conduct ed Monday at 5 p.. m. at the First Baptist Church by the Rev. Ken neth B. Wilson and the Rev. Thornton Smith. Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery. mi mm mm is fMm IIP HI ‘I Some of the winners in the Safety Puzzle Content which elided on Jahe 5, 19S9 at Newberry MiQs, Inc. are pictured above. L. E. Gatlin, right front row general manager, of the plant, presents savings bonds to first prize winners John L. Counts and Carson Babb. On the second row are Irvin Frye, Mar* vin Fumer, Lowell DeHardt, Dewey Kinard, Harmon Meeks; bade row, Carl Brown Charles Fainter, El her ton Giles, James L. Koon, Mildred Johnson, Willard Bicldey and James Haskell Long. Absent when the picture was made was another first prize winner, Wilbur Shealy; and other winners, J. B. Livingston, Jr., C. P. Williams* L. S. Jennings, Lee Poison, Jeanette Bedenbaugh, Tillman Wise, Ro bert Brooks, Pearl Hiller and Reba Giles. (Sunphoto.) Deadline Shows Contest hi The town clock struck twelve noon; the candidate filing list was declared officially closed; there still remained only two contests to be decided in the City Demo cratic primary to be held on Au gust 4th. There was not even a hint of excitement or anticipation as the Monday deadline drew near, even though there had been rumors of contests in other wards. Mayor Ernest H. Layton, Coun cilman Frank Armfield, Ward 1; Clarence DeHart, Ward 4; Cecil Merchant, Ward 5; and Dwight W. Jones, Ward 6 had been returned to office without opposition. Coun- cilmen S. D. (B6zo) Paysinger and C. A. Duiford, Sr. will be opposed by Clarence A. Shealy, Jr. and George W. Martin respectively. Mr. Dufford has served on coun cil longer than any other member with the exception of the Mayor. Mr. Paysinger is seeking his third term. Councilman Armfield enters his fourth term; Councilman De Hart his second; Councilman Mer chant and Jones their third. The first Monday in July is the deadline for securing registration certificates for voting in the Au gust primary. GRADUATES FROM GEORGIA TECH William T. Altman, son of Rev. and Mrs. T. B. Altman of Route 3, Newberry, received the Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering de gree at the Georgia Institute of Technology at its 76th annual com mencement exercises on Saturday, morning, June 13. MAY SAYINGS BOND SALES Series E and H Bond Sales for the month of May in Newberry County totaled $10,962, imports Joe M. Roberts, County Savings Bonds Chairman. Mr. and Mrs. George Scruggs and daughter, Betty of Roanoke, Va., are spending ten days vaca tion here with Mr. Scruggs par ents, Mr. and Mrs. George R. Scruggs on College Street Exten sion. Mr. and Mrs., Albert Nelson of Bay Town, Texas are visiting their cousin, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hayes. Miss Anna Keitt who will be a senior at Carolina next year, is employed during the summer months at Purcells. sights around Tokyo related that, as an interpreter, he was the first person to meet the American troops when they landed in Japan after the end of World War II. The throngs of people milling about on the streets of Tokyo im pressed Mrs. Carpenter, as did Hie large amount of building. “Where we would use steel in buildings, they use bamboo. It is odd to see all those bamboo poles tied togeth er reaching high into the air.” She also told of the use being made of a four track elevated train. “They built a road below the El, beauti fied and have stores along each (Continued on Page 2) GREETINGS BIRTHDAY Travelers Find Poverty In Many Countries Of World “It’s a long way around the world, and the poverty in places is almost unbelieveable.” These are the first thoughts id come to Mrs. E. A. Carpenter, when asked to tell something about her recent around-the-world journey. “I didn’t go to look at old temples and ruins,” she continued. “I went to see the people, talk to them, see how they live.” With her sister. Miss Alta Cun ningham of Greer, and her brother and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Cunningham of Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Carpenter began her tour by flying from Baltimore to San Francisco, which she describes as the most beautiful city in the world. The four did not take a con ventional “guided tour” but plan ned ahead of time the places they wished to visit and the time they wished to stay in each place, then turned the planning over to Ame rican Express. “The trip was hand led in an excellent manner,” Mrs. Carpenter reported. “Everything went along like clockwork. Every where we landed there were Amer ican Express agents to meet us, help us through customs and see that we were well taken care of.” After several days in San Fran cisco ,the group boarded the Ocean Rover—a large Pan-American air craft—and on May 7th crossed the International dateline. The first stop was Hawaii, and Mrs. Carpenter ' reports: “I don’t care about going there again. Any thing you can find in Hawaii, you can'find in Florida. As for the na tive dancers, they appeared to be nothing more than a show put on to attract tourists.” After Hawaii came Tokyo, Ja pan where the travelers were most impressed with the industry and friendliness of the natives. “Every where you go, Japanese girls and boys will approach you and want to talk. They are required to take English in school and they want to practice what they have learned. Many of them hope to become guid es, and the better their ‘-English the better chances they have.” The group stayed at the world renowned Imperial Hotel, in the old Japanese portion of the building. The guide who shewed them the June 21; Bill Armfield, Angel- ine Plain pin, Bobby Busby, O. A. Felker. June 22: Mrs. Jewel W. Hentz, William Partridge, Faye Sum mer, Roy C. Doolittle, Mrs. Ber ry Livingston, Rion C. Price, Tena Price Nichols, Terry Don ald Dominick, Mrs. W. H. Cald well, Patty Regnery. June 23: Mra. H. H. Ruff, Mrs. O. J. Jackson, Mrs. O. O. Ful mer, Billy Long, Mrs. John Earl Smith, Ralph Waldrop, Mrs. John P. Livingston, Floyd Bouk- night, Y-Genia Crossland, H. Al vin Franklin. June 24: Susan Lipscomb^ Mildred Glymph, Mrs. William R. Buford, Clarence Kinard, Jr., “Skipper” Hunter, Jimmy Touchberry, H. Os tell Ballew. June 25: Oswald Copeland, Elizabeth G. Norris, Jimmy Counts, Bobby Jollay, W. T, Yanderford, Mrs. Henry L. Wright, June Abby, Sara Clark, Elva liou Waites. June 26: A. E. Hazel, Robert Luther Shealy, Mrs. Frank Stev ens, Jr., Mrs. Ralph P. Baker, Bruce Lipscomb, Mrs. Olin Ina- binet. June 27: Elsie Long, Mrs. Euston Richardson, June Wal ton, Judith A. Jones, Johnny Shealy.