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A cold is both positive and nega tive; sometimes the eyes have it and sometimes the nose. Just keep rowing the boat and you w«n’t have time to rock it. VOLUME 22; NUMBER 16. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1959 + $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way ~ by, ^borid Sander3 GOOD REASON The following item was clipped from a Salvation Army publica tion: “Charity drives have become so numerous the following story ex plains the need for United Funds: “A man spent a long evening unsuccessfully trying to repair a Venetian blind. The next day he called a repair shop to pick it up. “The following morning just as "he was finishing breakfast, his wife answered the door bell and a voice said T’m here for the Vene tian blind.’ “His wife went to the rear of the house, returned to the front door and handed the man some-) thing. “When her husband asked who had called at the door, she casual ly replied, ‘Just someone collect ing. I gave him two dollars’.” was brought on the party men tioned above to ask me to stop writing about this housing pro gram. If those who sponsored this thing in the beginning are ready to forget about it, I would be most happy to forget it too; but as long as there is the possi bility of council robbing your pocket and mine to provide fine homes for those who think the world owes them a living, I do not feel I have the right to forget it. When the proponents of public housmg for Newberry come for ward with a valid reason for fed erally financed housing in Newber ry, I’ll be the first to admit I was wrong. SOMETHING GOOD Well, we found out Tuesday morning via the Greenville News that Newberry County is good for something — airplane emergeacy landings. Says the News:: ‘Memo to private airplane pilots who may get into trouble: “Newberry County seems to be a pretty safe place in which to make a crash landing, if the em ergency demands it. “Twice in a little over 24 hours, two private planes, each carrying four* persons, landed without in jury to the pilot and passengers in fields in that area.” (*Correction: One plane carried five, the other four.) GOOD ADVICE Dr. Chris Kaufmann, in a wel come address to Georgia-Alabama Luther Leaguers who are conven ing at Newberry College this week, urged the young people who plan to continue their education in college to “study the high school curriculum thoroughly, select a course of study wisely, then apply yourself diligently to the study of the courses,” so that when they seek admission to college, there will be no doubt about their being .able to get in. He told the conven tion delegates that Newberry, along with other colleges and uni versities, has found it necessary to carefully screen students, giving entrance exams where there was doubt as to the student’s Capabili ty to keep up with college work. He stated that students are com ing from high schools to Newberry and other colleges unprepared for college work. The students are not so much to blame for this situation as are the liigh schools. Most students, even those of exceptional mental ability, when they reach high school age are going to choose the courses that will require less work, if the choice is theirs to make. I don’t believe, of course, that there should be a tough cur riculum for all students; that would be foolish. But there should be a requirement that students who are capable must take courses which will develop their ability to think for themselves. When pub lic schools recognize this, and ini tiate such a program, the worries of the colleges about unprepared students will vanish. GOOD THINKING A month or so ago, the county legislative delegation allocated to the school district a little over $15,000 and recommended that it be used to increase the supplement of classroom teachers, those who were not already receiving “ex tra” supplements over and above the set scale. School administra tive officials figured what they thought would be a fair increase in all categories to expend this amount, then it turned out that there was a little left over. At a special meeting Tuesday night, the County Board of Educa tion decided to use what little was left over to increase the supple ment for personnel whose “extra” supplement did not exceed $225. About the only persons affected by this increase are elementary school principals. Although there was a little doubt in the minds of board members just where to draw the line in allocating the extra money, all were in agreement that the elementary school principals were certainly deserving of a raise. I go along with that—with the The farm at George c. Doozer in the Bush River section proved to be an excellent emergency landing field for this plane, the second to make, an emergency landing in New berry County in 24 hours. The first landed on the Smith farm near Kinards last Wednesday. The plane above con tained four persons, ministers of the Church of God. The plane which landed on the Smith farm containing a soldier and his family who were en route from Fort Benning, Ga., to Virginia. No one was huurt in either landing. (Sunphoto.) Board Seeks ‘Culprit’ In Case Of Faulty Gym Floor A special meeting of the County more than an hour and a half, fi- Board of Education, called Tues day night, for the purpose of adopting a budget and discussing a building program bond issue, saw neither of these items accom plished. The greater portion of the lengthy meeting was consum ed with a discussion of the gymna sium floor at Whitmire High School. The floor, called the “Loxit” system, began to give trouble soon after it was installed. Vol- job they have, they deserve even ominous correspondence and num- more, but I do not withdraw my argument that the elementary schools should have a supervising, not a teaching principal. Those we now have filling principal teaching positions are doing a fine job under distracting circum stances, but it is fair neither to the teacher nor her pupils. It ap pears that there will be no relief for the situation, though, until the five elementary schools are combined into one or two large schools—then the student body and teaching faculty should be large enough to warrant a super vising principal. Spotts Co. Gets Road Contract A contract for the grading and bituminous surfacing of 14.865 miles of secondary roads in Greenwood County has been aw arded by the State Highway De partment to Spotts and Company of Newberry. The project includes both county roads and city streets. Spotts low bid was in the amount of $175,220.98. erous conferences with architects, contractors and manufacturers in an effort to get something done about the floor have been to no avail. The Board, determined to get some action before school starting time, requested the pres ence at its Tuesday meeting of Harry J. Demosthenes, a former associate of the architect who de signed the gymnasium. The arch itect, J. Whitney Cunningham, is deceased. Mr. Demosthenes made it clear to the board that he had no legal responsibility as far as the design of the building was concerned. He added, however, that he felt he had a moral obligation to do what ever he could to assist the board in getting the matter cleared up. He explained at length what he believed to be at the root of the trouble—that being damp condi tion at the time the floor was in stalled, which resulted in “dry rot. Also present for the discussion was Newberry attorney Walter T. Lake, who two months ago was named a member of the State Edu cation Finance Commission by tiie Governor. Mr. Lake questioned ! the architect at length about ar- Mr. and Mrs. Lin Slaton spent chitectural supervision of the con- their vacation last week on a tour stru«tion and tried to determine of North Carolina, Georgia, Vir-'what party might be at fault, ginia, Tennessee, aad Washington. I The discussion, which lasted nally culminated in Mr. Demos- thene’s suggestion that he make an effort to get together with the Loxit manufacturer and the con tractor to see what could be work ed out. - Next item on the agenda was adoption of a budget. This also ended as unfinished business, be cause of minor changes expected to be made at the regular ‘Board meeting on August 25. The Board did, however, agree to give in creased supplement to teaching personnel in the county whose “extra” supplement does not ex ceed $225. At the last meeting, the Board had approved the sup plement for all classroom teachers who received no supplement other than the regular county supple ment.. Some ten or twelve persons will benefit by the action taken Tuesday night. Most of those in the category are teaching princi pals. Due to the lateness of the hour, and the fact that three board members were absent, the discussion of the building pro gram and bond issue was postpon ed until the August 25 meeting. Present Tuesday were the Chairman, W. H. Caldwell, and members D. H. Hamm Jr., Dr. Johnny Roche and Gerald Pay sing er; also P. K. Harmon and James D. Brown. Absent were Dave Waldrop, Gilder Neel and J. Al vin Kinard. Council Sets Budget, Tax Levy; Considers Annexation Request Recreation Day Is Saturday Saturday, August 15, 1959, has been proclaiVned as the Third An nual City-Wide Recreation Day in Newberry by Mayor Ernest H. Layton. His proclamation states “I call upon all of the citizens of the City of Newberry to take part in observing this day as Recrea tion Day, to make use of the rec reation facilities of the City of Newberry, to attend the many events which will take place upon that day, to attend the sporting events at West End Park and the Speers street field, the all-star baseball game and the events at Margaret Hunter Park swimming pool.” The schedule of events, an nounced by P. K. Fuller, recrea tion director, includes: 9:00 A. M.—West End Park: Sack Race, three-legged race, wheel barrow race, tug-o-war, baseball throwing contest, softball throwing contest, pig"gy back race, barrel walking contest, horseshoe contest, greasy pole climbing contest. Free snowballs for everyone will be a feature, and all events will be held in three age groups: 10 years and under, 15 years and under, 16 ye£rs and - over. Arts and Crafts display will be at Speers Street youth center from 10 a.m. until noon. At noon, fami lies are asked to have picnic lunches in the various parks and playgrounds. 3:00 P. M.—Swimming Pool. Tub race, cracker race, tube race, balloon race, underwater distant swimming, water polo, clown diving, and 15, 30 and 60 yard free style swimming. Every one admitted free all day to pool. 8:00 P. M.—Speers street field, softball game, church softball league. 9:00 A. M. — Vincent Street Youth Center: horseshoe contest, sack race, greasy pole climbing wheel barrow race, softball and baseball trowing contest, three- legged race, barrel walking con test, piggy back race. 2:30 p. m All-Star baseball game, Gallman High Field; 8:00 p. m., all star ball (dance), Youth Center. BIBLE CLASS TO HAVE PICNIC The Lucy Epps Bible Class of Central Methodist Church will hold its annual picnic on August 19 at 7 p.m. in the Social Hall of the church. All members are in vited to come and to bring their families. WRITE NO MORE When I touched on the subject of the Newberry public housing authority in last week’s column, I had thought that would be the last mention of it—for a while, at least. A couple of things have happen ed, however, to make me wonder about it even more.The first was a very subtle form of economic re prisal against this newspaper. The second, which leads me to believe that pressure has been brought on others, was the fact that one of the persons who has been most bitterly opposed to public housing in Newberry called me last week and very tactfully suggested that I write no more about the subject. If the proponents of public housing have a valid reason for believing Newberry needs such housing, why haven’t they impart ed this information to the remain ing members of council? And to the press? Council has allowed •for the past several years, repre sentatives of the press to sit in executive sessions. There are very few such sessions anymore, but when it has been necessary to tem porarily withhold council actions from the public, the press has not fc stnrv Members of the Exchange Club sponsored Ijttle Boys League were given a supper last hrokJ” Tf there are matters of wee k by the club at its cabin on Lake Murray. Among those present were, left to right, a confidential nature behind this front row. Bill Franklin, Jerry Cohen, Larry York, Steve Wise, Randy Abrams, Robin scheme, why aren’t other members Foy, Phil Metts, and Billy Cannon. Second row, Buddy Threatt, manager, Larry Gilliam, of council at least, informed? Willie Gilfillan, Johnny Smith, Phil Trefsgar, Mike Beck, Gregg Counts, Tommy Moose I have no proof that pressure and Frank Gilfillan, assistant manager. (Sunphoto.) Special Class Increases At West End School The special education class for Newberry school children will be gin with the regular school ses sion on Friday, August 28. This will be the fourth year of opera tion of the class. During the past three years, the number of children in attendance has increased a little each year, and the class has been taught by Mrs. Ruth Pugh. This year, there will be twelve addition al children in the class and a new teacher, Mrs. Mary Nell Halfacre Eargle has been added. The two teachers will have between 25 and 30 students, most of whom will be from the city due to the lack of transportation to bring chil dren from the county to attend these classes. The Newberry Schools admini strative office announces that the teachers will be able to accomo date several more children, and anyone who is interested in en rolling a child in the class is ask ed to contact Mrs. Julia R. Smith at the education office. Cotton BoD Thought First B. M. Scurry displayed last week what is believed to be the first cotton boll of the season in Newberry County. It came from his farm on the Pomaria High way, located about five miles from Newberry near Interstate Highway 26. Mr. Scurry reports that from his seven acre allot ment, he receives over a bale an acre. The remainder of the forty acre farm is planted 32 acres t* grain from which he expects a good harvest; several acres of com and a garden with plenty of summer vegetables. City Council at regular session Tuesday night adopted a budget, set a tax levy, received an an nexation petition, and took care of several other items on the agenda during a busy session. Councilman Paysinger, chair man of the committee to prepare an operating budget for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1959, presented a budget with estimated receipts of $717,850.00, ordinary disbursements of $701,736.97, and Capital improvements to the elec tric-water and sewer systems of $74,000, making a total of auth orized disbursements $775,736.97. The tax levy was set at 39 mills, the same as it has been for a num ber of years past. Mayor Layton commended Councilman Paysinger and the committee for the excellent job in preparing the budget, which re mains substantially the same as for the past year with the excep tion of the capital improvements item. This item will encompass city services in Suburbia as well as in other parts of the city. A petition from a majority of the property owners adjacent to the Southeast present limits for annexation was read and a motion was passed to have the signatures verified, so that council may cer tify the petition to the Commis sioners of Election. There were 117 signatures on the petition. The area was said to include ap proximately 150 property owners. The portion for which annexation is sought includes a part of the Mollohon village now outside the city limits, and Hartford Heights. It begins at the point where Cald well street intersects the city lim its, goes southeasterly to a point where Ebenezer Road intersects the city limits, goes southeasterly to a point where Ebenezer Road intersects with Caldwell street ex tension, down Ebenezer road to Glenn street, from Glenn to Riv ers, from Rivers to Railroad ave nue, then to the city limts, back to the beginning point. All bound aries include 120 feet from the street to take in property on each side. Mayor Layton notified coun cil that he had not yet appoint ed any members of a Housing Authority. He also stated that B. B. Livingston had been ap pointed city property officer for Civil Defense. An ordinance was read requir ing owners of vacant lots or oth er property to properly clear such property, and providing methods for enforcing the ordinance. The ordinance would require that “No owner of any lot place, or area within the City of New berry, or the agent of such owner, shall permit on such lot, place, or area, or upon any sidewalk abut ting the same, any weeds, grass, or deleterious, unhealthful growths, or other noxious matter, that may be growing, lying or lo cated thereon.” It would empower the city manager, on discovery of viola tion, to send a notice by Regis tered Mail to the property own er telling him to clean up his property, and if the owner fails to do so after 15 days, the city manager would be empowered to have the work done and col lect pay from the property own er. Council decided to take a while to think this over, and postponed action until a future date. I ■■ The Georgia-Alabama Synod Luther Leaguers, in conven tion at Newberry College in 1957, voted that contributions and collections received at the convention should go to the College for the purchase of religious art. Among the selec tions chosen by the committee was a reproduction “Grace." The painting shown above is by Mrs. Ken Eargle of Laurens, the former Miss Doris Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jones of Newberry, who was commissioned to paint the re production. At the opening of the 1959 Luther League con vention Tuesday morning, the portrait was presented to Dr. Chris Kaufmann, right, by Henry McKay, president of the Ga.-Ala. Luther League. (Sunphoto.) Band Concert Program Given The following program will be played by the Newberry Concert Band Sunday afternoon beginning at 5 p.m. in Willowbrook Park. This band of 30 members is spon sored by The Newberry Mills, Inc. and is believed to be the only in dustrial band in America today. J. Boyd Robertson is the direc tor and Frank K. Jones the manager. The public is invited and urged to attend, as the program has been arranged so as to include selections to suit everyone: The American Red Cross, March; The Magic Garden, Overture; ’Ihe Invincible Eagle, March; Mourn ful Maggie, Trombone Novelty; Country Fair, Novelty; The New Colonial, March; When You Wish Upon A Star from “Pinocchio”; Dry Bones On Parade, March; Memories of Stephen Foster; The High School Cadets, March; Cho ral; God and County, Overture; Elmira, Concert March; The Bill board, March; The Star Splangled Banner. ATTEND CONFERENCE IN COLUMBIA Mrs. F. Scott Elliott and Mrs. L. E. Gatlin attended the Confer ence Woman’s Society of Christian Service School of Missions which was held at Columbia College, August 3-7. Mrs. Elliott is secre tary of Missionary Eklucation and Service of Central Methodist Church and Mrs. Gatlin is secre tary of Spiritual Life of the Greenwood District. , Mrs. Holland Sligh suffered a stroke at her home on Hunt St. last Thursday. She was admitted to the Newberry Memorial Hospi tal where she is reported to be slightly improved. Receives Ph.D. From Carolina Linda Lou Smith of Kinards be came the first woman to receive the doctor of philosophy degree in chemistry from the University of South Carolina last Saturday. Her doctrinal dissertation was titled “Thermodynamics of Polyelectro lytes.” Also receiving degrees during the graduation exercises were Walter Raleigh Johnson and Mar tin Gay Suber, Whitmire, also James Claude Vaughn, Newberry, B.S. in Business Administration; Walter Julian Quattlebaum, New berry, B.S. in Mechanical Engin eering. Kindergarten Starts On 1st The Aveleigh Kindergarten will open September 1st at 9 a.m. un der the direction of Mrs. E. J. Catlin and Mrs. P. E. Way. There will be provided several learning centers, a housekeeping corner, building center, nature table, book and puzzle center and painting, modeling and drawing comers which will appeal to the children’s varied interests. Field trips are planned. To aid pre--€choolers in prepa ration for reading, a reading read iness program will be initiated this fall. The material is designed to help teach the perception skills necessary in reading. The series includes practical and attractive exercises in the six main areas of reading readiness: visual discrim ination, visual motor coordination, rhyming sounds, beginning sounds, thinking skills and independent activities. This particular program has proved to be of valuable aid to the children entering first grade. Aveleigh kindergarten is inter denominational and accepts chil dren ages 4 to 6. Those interested in enrolling children are asked to call Mrs. Catlin at 1446. GREETINGS BIRTHDAY Aug. 16: Price K. Harmon, Mrs* Holland Sligh, Barney Yates, Billy Dickert, Cynthia Sue Merchant, Martha Folk, Mary Bedeftbaugh, Cathy Gra ham, Mary Anna Long, Clyde Livingston Jr., Mary Baker. Aug. 17: Mas. M. P. Davis, Mrs. Seth A. Meek, Leila Kay Singley, John H. Boozer, Frank Gilbert, Rodney Outz, Jeannie Armfield, John Earl Smith, Boyd Hobson Parr, Mrs. Bobby Hawkins. Aug. 18: B. V. Chapman, Grif fin Coleman, Mrs. B. F. Hawk ins, Sinclair Kemper, Billy Van- derford, Michael Cameron John son, Clarence B. Hazel, Eugene Smith, Eunice H. Hawkins, Tom E. Longshore. Aug. 19: Mrs. Charlie Ruff, Jimmie Ringer, Jimmy Timmer man, Anita Myers, Blanche C. Leslie, Frances S. Dufford, W. C. Wallace, Mrs. Ernest O. Wicker. Aug. 20: Mrs. CRfton Graham, Mrs. H. B. Wilson, Doris and Lauris Riley, Jeanette H. Crooks, Virginia Ann Blount, Mrs. T. Collier Neel, H. T. Car lisle, B. R. Roton, C. T. Mize, Derrill Coleman. Aug. 21: Mrs. Perry O. Wick er, Martha Bouknight, Mrs. R. E. G reen, Jim Shealy, Mrs. George Ray Richardson, Mrs. J.. R. Bedenbaugh, Mary Robins Stone, John N. Livingston, Claudia Setzler, Forrest Sunv mer Sr., Susan Sligh. ] Aug. 22: Mrs. W. R. Reid Jr., Mrs. Keith Wilson, Kent Cope land, Robert Bouknight, Mrs. W. L. Singley, Mrs. Oscar Jollay, James K. Copeland, James B. Franklin.