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There’s a special encyclopedia with blank pages for guys who know everything. Too much emphasis is no empha sis. Raise your voice too loud no one hears you. Hit too hard 1 and you ex cite sympathy for your victim. Draw your indictment too sweeping and it becomes suspicious.—Hubbard. VOLUME 22; NUMBER 17. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1959 4 $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way ~ by aboriA SanUerA NEW TYPE APPEAL A newspaper office receives per haps the most varied collection of mail to be found in any sort of business establishment. We are especially kept fully supplied with information concerning various ap peals and drives. This morning’s mail brings a new one, though. The letter is from Indiana, and is as follows: “I write from the Sanctuary, a refuge for homeless dogs upon a hill-farm in southern Indiana. I am the staff—the one fighting •woman who is trying to hold the place together. In times past those who love dogs have been good to us, and so we ask again, bearing in mind our debt in grat itude. “We need food (of any sort) and old towels, blankets or pieces. Just about anything can find an application here. “45 cold noses and warm hearts salute you!” If you are interested in sending something to the dogs, let me know and I’ll furnish the address, first advising you thaf I know nothing whatsoever about the Sanctuary except the information in the letter above. BACK TO SCHOOL The old school bell in the Boundary School tower will ring out next Friday to signal the be ginning of another school year; and hundreds of Newberry young sters will climb the steps of three old, worn-out buildings to begin their studies. The fact that tho buildings are old is, of course, of major import ance in the efforts to secure new ones; but the prime factor in seeking ways and means to build new schools is that after this year, the high school will not be able to accommodate the large stu dent body which will be ready to enter its portals. Either there must be a new building, or other arrangements will have to be made to accomodate the large eighth grade which would ordin arily enter high school next year. At its meeting next Tuesday night, the County Board of Educa tion will discuss the building pro gram and bond issue. They plan to meet earlier than usual and anticipate a lengthy meeting, since this is a subject that will require lengthy discussion. How it will all turn out is anybody’s guess, but it seems evident that funds for at least one building will have to be forthcoming from somewhere. Thurmond has already announced that he will work and vote for the bill. “Your letters to our Senators and our members in the House of Representatives will help them to support strict economy legisla tion and to bring about a balanc ed budget for 1960. Tell them you want the budget balanced. Tell them you don’t want special fav ors, but that you want Congress to practice thrift the same as you have to do at home. Tell them to seek ways to save money instead of looking for new sources of re venue which means more and more taxes. Tell them to cut ^pending instead of cutting the value of the dollar. You don’t get something for nothing out of Washington; you, the taxpayers, must pay the bill in the end and through higher taxes.” Bond Sales Top $16,000 Series E and H Bond sales for the month of July in Newberry County totaled $16,543 reports Joe M. Roberts, County Saving's Bonds Chairman. Series E and H sales for the state during July were $1,949,- 789, bringing total bond sales for the period January-July up to $14,863,420, states Robert G. Claw r son, State -Chairman of the U.-'S. Savingsg Bonds Division. New Members Are Added To Newberry College Faculty E. W. Dominick Dies Tuesday Eddie (Edd) W. Dominick, 77, died early Tuesday afternoon at his home on the Hartford Rd. He had been in ill health for the past year. Mr. Dominick was born near Prosperity and was the son of the late Creighton and Ellen Long Dominick. For a number of years he had lived on Rt. 4, Newberry. He was a former member of the Order of Red Men and a mem ber of Colony Lutheran Church. Mr. Dominick was a retired farmer. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Carrie Wicker Dominick of New berry; 4 sons, Edgar Dominick, Gurna Dominick, Fred Dominick, and James Dominick, all of New berry-; 5 daughters, Mrs. Joe Wil son of Prosperity, Mrs. Donald Black, and Mrs. Herman Nichols, both of Newberry, Mrs. Carl Les ter, and Mrs. Hayne Kinard, both of Prosperity; 2 sisters, Mrs. Her man Taylor, and Mrs. Jake Tay lor, both of Prosperity; 2 broth ers, Furman Dominick of Pros perity and Gus Dominick of Greenville; 24 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were conduct ed Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Colony Lutheran Church by the Rev. G. H. Corley, the Rev. T. H. Weeks and Dr. Thomas F. Suber. jy. : . Y .' : Y' ‘Horse And Buggy’ Items May Be Found In Country Store NOTHING NEW As far as I can determine, there have been no new developments concerning a housing authority Tor Newberry. Mayor Layton ad vised Council at its last meeting that he had not appointed any members to the authority and that if he does, he will so advise council. It would seem that as long as there is no authority, there is no reason for being too upset about the situation. I would like to thank the hundreds of you who have supported me in the fight against this needless, pork-barrel scheme. GOOD ADVICE W. W. McEachern, president of the S. C. National Bank, had some good advice for his listeners at the General Assembly of Farm and Home week Wednesday. I quote a portion of his speech: “No matter what you or I think about the Eisenhower Administra tion, or any other administration, there is one point we should al ways remember. This point is that Congress, and Congress alone, has the power to levy taxes, to auth orize expenditures and to appro priate money for the costs of gov ernment. No Republican or Demo crat as president or any other of- licial in the Executive Depart ment of the government has the authority or power to spend a single penny until it has been authorized and appropriated by the Congress. “Congress also has ^he power fo help to bring about a more reasonable labor-management re lationship and thus, I believe, to ease one of the pressures of in flation by enacting into law the Landrum-Griffin Bill, which has been passed by the House of Rep resentatives. It will be to the ever lasting credit of South Carolina’s six members in the House of Representatives that all of them voted for this bill. I hope that both of our Senators and a suffi cient number of other members of the Senate, will vote for the bill to insure its passage. Senator By LEVERNE M. PROSSER Need a back bend buckle, a lamp chimney or a jawbone-break er ? You can find them all—plus a world of other items you probab ly never heard of at one of mid- Carolina’s ever declining country stores. Although calls for well-pulleys, horse collars and pitch fork han dles are getting more rare by the season, David Ruff’s country store in nearby St. Phillips Community, still stocks them. And speaking of seasons, they have been split three ways by people living adjacent to the rus tic Ruff store. They’re called “straw hat, fruit jar and salt- butchering,” according to Ruff who contends “the weather i has more to do with the life of a farmer than it does with anyone else.” An old-fashioned pot-belly stove stands in the store some what as a symbol of “two gene rations of neighborly talk, an aw ful lot of whittling, and just plain bull sessions,” according to Ruff, a director of the Newberry Electric Co-Op. “A lot of men have mel lowed into old age around that old pot-belly stove.” “But young people don’t seem to have the knack for being pa tient enough to sit around and talk about just everyday things,” Ruff remarked. “They seem to be in too big of a hurry to jump in anything with wheels on it and roll to town. Young people are living too fast.” Ruff’s father started the cor ner Ruff store some 70 years ago when cotton was king around Newberry. Since that time, the Ruff name has always been sit uated with the rural merchandis ing center. “We don’t have any system here,” Ruff pointed out. “Wje just stack things in the floor or around some place until people come in and call for it. We would probably be blackballed and call ed real hicks by the fellows who run those neat downtown super markets with fancy fixtures.” MISS HENRY Dr. C. A. Kaufmann, President of Newberry College announced this week that Miss Nell Quinby Henry has been appointed Assist ant Professor of Biology and Mathematics. Miss Henry is a native of New berry. She holds the A.B. degree from Lander College and the A.M. degree from the University of North Carolina. She has done graduate study in several colleges and universities. She has taught at Limestone College, University of South Carolina, and Lander College. Also recently announced by Dr. Kaufmann is the appointment of Miss Carolyn Feis as Assistant Professor of Music (Piano and Theory). Miss Feis is from Hast ings, Nebraska. She earned the Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College in 1957 and the Master of Music degree from the University of Indiana in 1958. She has taught music in the Des Moines Public Schools Officers Named By Lutheran Women Tuesday The 74th annual convention of the United Lutheran Church Wo men of the South Carolina Luth eran Synod closed Tuesday follow ing the election and installation of officers for the coming year. Mrs. Ralph D. Derrick of Spar- tAnburg was reelected president. Also reelected were Mrs. Herman Cauble of Columbia, vice presi- aent; Mrs. C. A. Fischer of Or angeburg, recording secretary, and Mrs. Carl B. Shealy of Little Mountain, treasurer. Mrs. Murray Counts of Little Mountain was re elected statistical secretary. The five i-onference presidents, serving in the Synod are: Mrs. John Miller of Columbia, Central Conference; Mrs. Ben M. Clark of Prosperity, Newberry; Mrs. C. A. Tate of Greenville, Piedmont; Mrs. M. B. Hunter of North Charleston, Southern, and Mrs. John B. Moose of Leesville, West ern Conference. The next convention will be held at Newberry College with the Western Conference as host ess. There was a total of 588 in at tendance at the convention which consisted of 262 delegates, 291 visitors and 35 pastors. A symposium, “United Luth eran Church Women at Work Throughout the Church,” was conducted by the Rev. Karl W. Kinard, D.D., president of the South Carolina Lutheran Synod. Mrs. L. C. Powles installed the officers and the Rev. John P. Cooper gave the closing medita tion. Highlighting the Monday eve ning session was an address by the Rev. Charles B. Dawkins of Prosperity. Mr. Dawkins, mis sionary to Japan, told the con vention that Japan is a country of barriers—of nature, of rebel lion and nationalistic theory, and of culture. School Opening Announced; Classes To Begin Next Friday iP^TT' v - 4 ,s.mk - ' ' ’■■■■• • Ml# Pant’s A’Plenty: David Ruff has stocked larger overhauls at his country store near Newberry but the calls for them are beginning to drop. “This dieting business is creating smaller men,” he contends. “We just don’t sell as many king- size overhauls as we once did.” (Photo by Prosser.) Mrs. Joella S. Neel of Newber ry, has been appointed Associate Librarian at Newberry College according to Dr. C. A. Kaufmann, president of the college. Mrs. Neel lives in Newberry and has been librarian of the Newberry-Saluda Regional Libr- ry since 1952. She is an A.B. graduate of Newberry College and earned her M.A. degree in Library Science from George Peabody College for Teachers in 1955. Dr. C. A. Kaufmann, President of Newberry College announced this week that Dr. James E. Her ring has been appointed Professor of Modern Languages and Acting Head of the Department. Dr. Herring is a native of Mis sissippi. He is a graduate of Mis sissippi • College with the A.B. degree and the M.A. degree from Louisiana State University. He earned his Ph.D. degree from Tu- lane University in 1956. He has taught at Mississippi College and Furman U: iversity. He has been at Furman as a professor since 1956. No Inquest Set Yet In Grant Death No inquest has yet been sched uled into the death of Mrs. Mary Grant, according to Coroner George R. Summer. He stated that the inquest would be held af ter more definite information can be obtained concerning the con dition of Mrs. Gran’t infant daughter, Lynn. Mrs. Grant and her daughter were found in an automobile near Kinards last Thursday night, both suffering from two shots from a .32 calibre automatic pistol. Mrs. Grant died on arrival at the New berry County Memorial Hospital. Her daughter is in critical condi tion and is reported by the Coro ner to be “doing as well as could be expected.” Coroner Summer and Sheriff Tom Fellers, who investigated the tragic killing, stated that it would be up to a coroner’s jury to determine who was responsible for the shooting. The shooting occurred near Kin ards about 9:30 Thursday night. Mrs. Grant and her child were found in a 1955 Ford by Mrs. Ed ward Longshore, in whose yard the car had stopped after travel ing across the highway. Her husband, Larry Grant, was found by investigating officers in his trailer home across tthe high way from where the car was lo cated. Mrs. Longshore stated that she went to the car, picked up the child and carried her in the house and called an ambulance. The baby had been shot through the cheek and the stomach and Mrs. Grant had been shot twice in the chest. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Turner and son, Hugh, Miss Phyllis Booz er, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Boozer, Mr. and Mrs. Da vid Senn and Janice Half acre, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Summer and Frank Jr., spent their vacation last week at Myrtle Beach. Mrs. Robert McFarlane and children, Douglas and Priscilla have returned to their home in Red Bank, N. J. after spending the summer months here with Mrs. McFarlane’s father, G. P. Berry on McSwain St., and with her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. George Heller on Harper St ' V -Y,;UY HP Arriving at Newberry College Sunday to take part in the 74th annual convention of the United Lutheran Church Wo men of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South Carolina were, left to right, Mrs. Monica B. Owen of New York City, Associate Director of Migrant Ministry, who was guest speaker at the Sunday* evening session; Mrs. Ralph D. Der rick, State president of. the ULCS; Rev. Charles B. Dawkins, missionary to Japan who addressed the convention dele gates; and Mrs. Ruth Grigg Horting, secretary of Public Welfare, State of Pennsylvania, and a member of Christian Higher Education of the United Lutheran Church in Am erica. (Sunphoto.) Gets Masters From Peabody James Grey Shealy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Berley Shealy of New berry, received the degree of Master of Arts in Education Ad ministration last Friday night at Peabody University in Nashville, Tenn. Attending the commence ment exercises were his wife and two-year-old son, James Grey Jr. Mr. Shealy and his family left Newberry Sunday afternoon for Sumter, where he will be princi pal of the newly constructed Shaw Junior High School adjacent to Shaw Air Force Base. Mrs. Shealy will teach fourth grade at Shaw Heights Elementary School. They will live at 51 Alice Drive in Sumter. Mr. Shealy was graduated from Newberry College in 1950. He has taught at Greenwood and Hampton schools and for the past several years has been principal of Belleview Elementary Schools at Rock Hill. Takes Part In Celebration The Rev. F. I. Fesperman and family have gone to Lake City, Florida to assist in tl)e Centennial Celebration of Bethlehem Luther an Church, the oldest Lutheran Church iin Florida. The Rev. Fes perman, now Assistant Professor of Bible and Religious Education, and Chaplain at Newberry College was pastor of this church from 1945 to 1949. It was established in 1859 by people who moved from Newberry and Saluda counties in S. C. about 1850. Among the families who moved to Florida from South Carolina and were instrumental, along with missionaries from the S. C. Synod, in establishing Bethlehem Luth eran Church at Lake City, were Haltiwangers, Shealys, Witts, Feagles, etc. The Rev. E. B. Heidt, former pastor of a Newberry Lutheran Church, is the present pastor of this church. The Centennial Celebration will begin on August 23 and run for a week. The Rev. Fesperman will preach on Sunday the 23rd and Monday, the 24th. Mr .and Mrs. W. F. Rutherford Sr., Dr. and Mrs. T. L. Lomasey of Middlesboro, Ky. and children, Robbie and Stewart, and Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Rutherford Jr. of Gas tonia, N. C. spent last week at Garden City Beach. Prior to their trip, Robbie and Stewart had been visiting their grandparents Mrs. Griffith’s Brother Dies James Day Hambright of 209 Pressley St., president of the First National Bank of Clover, died suddenly Saturday morning at his farm near Clover. Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Steve C. Griffith of Newberry. Funeral services were conduct ed Monday at 4 p.m. at the First Baptist Church. Burial was in Woodside Cemetery. GREETINGS BIRTHDAY Aug. 23: Sam Beam, George Way, Linda Ray Ruff, Barbara Faye Thomas, Faye Davis, Caroline Wicker, Mrs. Ralph Lancaster, Mrs. Charlie S. Cro mer, Mrs. Pete Parrott, Jona than Beck Monroe, Mrs. Mary Sease Riser, John B. Lindsay, Nat Gist Jr. Aug. 24: Rodney Bedenbaugh, Eugene Koon, Mrs. T. S. Humphries, Faye Eargle, Tom Gilliam, Leslie Carol Hipp, James W. Holland, Clarence Bundrick, T. E. Setzler, Janice Allene Rister. Aug.-25: J. W. Earhardt Jr., J. Boyd Robertson, Wayne Mar tin, J. W. Warner, Ha Mae Su ber, Homer O. Epting Sr., Mrs. Herbert Bedenbaugh, Miss Am- inee Dominick, Jean B. Brown, Donna Shealy, O. L. Cook Jr., Mrs. Sarah Graham, ^Irs. F. C. Merchant. Aug. 26: Bobby Summer Jr., Faye Langford, Mrs. P. G. Blount, Mrs. I. Q. Watkins, Mrs. Effie Hendrix, Charles Cromer, Linda Cousins, Delora Patricia Leslie, J. O. Jenkins, Winnie Davenport Senn, Mrs. T. A. Scarborough, Rev. E. B. Young. Aug. 27: Joanette Bergen, M. L. Youmans, Sue Ward, Mrs. J. Frank Lominick, Mrs. W. H. Aahbaugh, Mrs. Horace Cromer, Andrew David Eargle. Aug. 28: Lewis Ammons, I Louise Wicker, Mildred Long, Jane Fellers, Sandra Kinard, Julia Hazel, Lawrence Graham, Mrs. Margaret Long, Mrs. Jen ny Bruington, Mrs. A li c e Moates, D. P. Folk II, Mary De Hart, Sue Halfacre. Aug. 29: Mrs. George Way, W. C. McGahee, Carrie W. Whitener, Mrs. Bill Long, Mrs. L. B. Davis, Joan Fuller, Mar shall Lipscomb. Newberry High- School will be gin its 1959-60 session Friday morning, August 28 at 8:80 a. m., according to J. V. Kneece, Super intendent. Classes will run until 12:30 on Friday. Beginning Mon day, the regular schedule will be from 8:30 a. m. until 2:45 p. m. The cafeteria will be in operation on Monday. Supt. Kneece stated that rental books for high school students may be secured Monday through Thursday of next week from 9 a. m. until 12 noon and from 2 until 5 p.m. at the school building. The first faculty meeting will be held Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m. In addition to Mr. Kneece, the faculty at Newberry High will be composed of Dorothy C. Amick, George P. Boozer, Mildred L. Boozer, Earl R. Boazman, Louise Buzhardt, Pauline Dantzler, Betty L. Felker, Marion W. Felker, Ham ilton H. Folk, Katherine B. Floyd, Claudie H. Golden Claudia S. Hin son, Harry Hedgepath, Claire Henry, Ruth C. Hipp, Emma Julia B. Irons, Margaret F. Kelly, Mild red J. Kneece, Donald Layton, Re becca Livingston, L. Hubert Long, Elsie P. Nichols, Lorraine Paris, Benjamin H. Phillips, W. C. Pin son, Edith W. Sterling, Ha Mae Suber, Emerson W. Westwood, Janie C. Whitaker, Margery P. Williamson and Marion J. Wilqoa- R. E. Beck, supperintendent of elementary schools, announced that Junior High, Boundary, Speers, West End, Oakland and Mollohon schools would Observe the same schedule as the high school. Students are urged to ob tain their books, rental or other wise, and bring them to school on Friday. The rental book schedule for Speeri Street students will be Monday and Tuesday of next vereek from 9 a. m. until 4 p. m. at the school. Junior High students may continue to get rental books at Junior High through next Thursday, and after school hours after that time. The faculties for the elementary schools are sis follows: Junior High: R. H. Setzler, principal; Marion D. Boozer, Elise P. Bowler, Naomi R. Epting, Ber tha G. Gallman, Elizabeth R. Gra ham, Josephine Layton, Evelyn S. Langford, Alice Nobles, Callie Mayrie Setzler, Georgia H. Wel- born. Boundary Street: Ruby R. Ab rams, principal; Frances J. Beck, Annie Mae S. Cromer, Sallie Lee Cromer, Ruth Feagle, Lou C. Lide, Evelyn McGraw, Sarah Mc- Whirter, Marie F. Mills, Maude E. Sanders. J Speers Street: Annie D. Cro mer, principal; Annie R. Abrams, Sarah Boozer, Nettie K. Boul- ware, Matilda Crooks, Mary D. Dawkins, Gloria Parks, Nina C. Price, Leonide Reagin, Sarah B. Rucker, Rosabel Thompson. West End: Maude H. Mathews, principal; Clara Bowers; Special Education, Ruth S. Pugh, Mary Nell H. Eargle. Mollohon: Carolyn Lane, prin cipal; Lucille Eleazer, Julia Wise. Oakland: Marthd Bouknight, principal; Katie L. Shealy, Gladys H. Hipp. Miss Juanita Hitt is music sup ervisor in all whjte city schools. Ralph Cedric Gilliam, son of Mr .and Mrs. Lonnie B. Gil liam of Newberry, began his duties on August 17th as band director at Travelers Rest high school. His wife, the former Bar bara Miller, will join him after her graduation from Columbia Hospital School of Nursing on September 1st. Mr. Gilliam is a 1959 graduate of Newberry College.