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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.