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a Age, like distonce, lends double ^harm. —Oliver Wendell Holmes. Justice is not an explosion which spends its force in a single outburst, and then vanishes into thin air. Jus tice is the steadfast will to see right done in the world.—Lloyd George. VOLUME 22; NUMBER 19. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1959 + $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way ~ by, Jt)ori3 Sander3 A REMINDER Saturday will be the last day that Newberry College Indian fans will be able to purchase sea son tickets and family plan tick ets at reduced prices. L. C. Gra ham, director of public relations at Newberry College, who is handling the ticket sales, reports that response has been good to date, but that many tickets are still available. Adult tickets are selling at five for the price of four; children’s tickets (through high school age) will be 50c per game, or $2.50 for the season when bought in the same section, West Stand B, and at the same time as adult tickets. Contact Mr. Graham for further information. HARD TASK You might not believe it, but if you once tried, you would find it is a hard job to think of some thing ‘‘readable” to put in a cor ner like this every week. This week, I am going to let Tom An derson, editor of Farm and Ranch magazine, do my thinking for me. I believe you will thoroughly en joy his latest editorial, which fol lows: In Washington, the Hersheyj city (60% chocolate and 40% nuts), nearly one out of five children born last year was born out of wedlock. According to a re cent survey, 1,600 white and 8,- 700 colored children were born out of wedlock in North Carolina in 1957. The Florida Welfare Depart ment has 68,290 dependent child ren on its rolls, 18,701 of whom are white and 49,500 Negro. As sistance is paid for the care of 13,476 “iiligitimate” Florida chil dren of which 12,862 are Negroes. (Many of our colored brethren are inclined to be careless about inte grating with the opposite sex without benefit of clergy). In the Welfare State, good breeding merely means quantity. Mothers with as many as 10 to 12 ' chidren born out of wedlock get as much as $350 a month. Human Events reports that one particul arly fertile female in California has propagated a connubial com mune (formerly called a family) of 19 human events for which she reportedly gets $11,000 govern ment money this year. This con stantly expecting litter is expect ed to “settle” for more than $250,- 000 from the taxpayers in the next 10 years. By the time she finds out what’s causing all those bless ed events she’ll be ready for old age assistance. Sin does uot pay ? In the Welfare State it does. Go Forth and Sin and Win In California, prior to' 1949, a father had to be “missing” three years before his “family” could get Aid-to-Needy-Children (AN C) money. During these, three years the family got “indigent” relief from the state and county. Ahd then, soft-hearted, easy- touch Uncle Sam took over half of the cost. The kiss-and-sell bri gade got new life: 10 years later the number of illegitimate and claimed-to-be-illegitimate children in California has fantastically in creased from less than 50,000 to more than 200,000—more than 400%. The child and its mother receive ANC benefite until the child becomes 18 years of age. One official has estimated that more than 60% of the cases are fraud ulent. They take us for better or for worse. These government - sponsored hot-pillow houses are in a breed ing contest with the U. S. Treas ury, making hay in the hay. White or black, they’re mostly not cases of unfortunate girls who just made a mistake, but of pros who’re cohabitating openly for pleasure or cash. Unlike the case of the moun taineer who put a silencer on his shotgun because he wanted his daughter to have a quiet wedding, these people never had any inten tion of marriage. Welfare depart ments throughout the country continue to write thousands of monthly checks so the merry, sin ful mothers can keep their babies in their sordid hands. Not only are the sinners not punished, they are actually encouraged: the more they sin, the more they win. Now adays the scarlet letter has a gov ernment check in it. The babies usually don’t have even the bene fit of a common law husband as a father. As the foreman of the Grand Jury in New York report ed, “the children never see, or know, their real fathers; only the new faces of the mother’s boy friends . . . many of these children are bred and led into a life of de linquency and crime.” There are many cases where out-of-wedlock children produce out-of-wedlock children. Bastardy to bastardy in three generations at taxpayer’s expense. Many mothers having as many as a dozen illegitimates have re fused to name the fathers of any of them, because to do so would be to lose public assistance. Bas tardy proceeding's are virtually extinct. The only paternalism charges being made nowadays are against you—the taxpayer. You pay, and pay, and pay. At the present rate and under present methods, experts figure we’ll be keeping up one million American illegitimates by 1965. Overall, it’s costing American taxpayer’s $210 million a year to support more than 300,000 chil dren of illegitimate parents. Total government aid to dependent chil dren costs, and feeds inflation to the tune of $1.1 billion a year. Some political do-gooders are trying to take welfare complete ly away from states. Why should illegitimate babies, they ask, be worth more in one state than an other? They want to federally standardize or “fair-trade” baby prices. The Federal Government has warned that states cannot de ny aid to children because of the circumstances of their birth. For instance, Uncle Sam, father of all, threatens to withhold all federal aid to dependents in any state which reduces or withholds relief payments to unwed mothers of more than one or two children. For the government to fail to punish the offender’s and make them work to take care of their offspring makes a farce of jus tice. To force the rest of us to ante up for the shacked up is a violation of our civil rights. To force every taxpayer to adopt ev ery out-of-wedlock baby born, re gardless of race, religion or cir cumstance, is a police state tech nique. Charity, justice, and retri bution should begin at home. No where does the Constitution say the sins of the fathers shall be visited on all us children, unto the third generation. Less Government and More Private Responsibility The reason public assistance has become a back-breaking, cheating, loafer-producing farce is because the Federal Government took it over. Under the federal law, no one, rot even the County Prosecu tor, is permitted to look at the rolls of public assistance grants. If local officials and local people were responsible for all public welfare and made all records avail able for public examination such sordid conditions would end quick ly, because local people wouldn’t tolerate these abuses wdth “fheir” money. Federally-forced adoption of children, like federally forced in- tegi’ation of schools, is wrong. Few Americans would willingly see any baby go without a home, or any needy and deserving per son go hungry. But we have a right to determine each case on its merits, at the local level, and preferably with private, free-will charity. As in virtually everything else, local control is more effi cient than federal control; and pri vate control is more efficient than any government. The best day homes, orphanages and schools are private, not public. Govern ment charity denies the American people of freedom of choice. The answer to the welfare prob lem is the same as the answer to the farm problem: Get the Federal Government out! The car being driven by J. C. Ruff left the road when he apparent ly suffered a fatal attack while driving Tuesday morning, and came to rest in the ditch at a pecan tree, near Spotts Construction Co. Sheriff Tom Fellers, left and Coroner George Summer stated that death was from natural causes. (Sunphoto.) Find Whitmire Man’s Body In Duncan Creek By BILL ARMFIELD P. 0. Closed For Labor Day Monday, September 7th, La bor Day, being a legal holi day, the Newberry post office will be closed, according to Postmaster Harry Moose. There will be no city or coun ty mail deliveries. Mail will be put in post office boxes and outgoing mail will be dispatch ed as usual. Jesse Tankersley, 31-year-old employee of J. P. Stevens and Co. in Whitmire drowned Tuesday in Duncan Creek. Chief Charles Moss of the Whit mire Police Department stated that Mr. Tankersley reportedly told his father about 11:00 a. m. that he was going to take a swim in Duncan Creek before going home. He had not arrived home at 3:00 p.m. at which time his broth er reported to the Police Depart ment that he was missing. His clothing, including shoes and bill fold were found on the creek bank near the dam where he apparent ly went swimming. This spot has been a favorite “swimming hole” for many years. Shortly after the report was re ceived searching parties began di ving and dragging the creek while a crowd of several hundred gath ered to watch and offer assist ance. At nightfall most of the searchers stopped due to darkness and also due to the creek being very high and swift after much rain. The search resumed Wednesday morning very early led by Deputy “Slim” Henderson of Newberry. A “frog man” from SLED also joined the search. After many hours of searching, dragging and diving, the body was found at 9:15 Wednesday morning about a mile down stream from the dam only a few hundred yards from the old Newberry road bed. The body was recovered by Boyd Dill, Hubert Elrod and Vernon Hunnicutt. Coroner George R. Summer ruled the cause of death was ac cidental, although the victim’s head was fractured at the base of the skull. A doctor examined the body stated that the injury could have occurred when Mr. Tankersley dived or fell into the creek, or that it may have occur red after the drowning. The coroner stated that no in quest is planned. Attack Fatal To J. C. Ruff On Tuesday John Calvin (Bubber) Ruff, 60, of the Mt. Bethel Garmany section of Newberry - County, died sud denly Tuesday morning while driving his car hear Newberry. Mr. Ruff had stopped near Spotts & Co. garage to change a tire on his car. He then started driving again, and had gone a distance of 75 to 100 feet along a ditch bank before the car came to rest. He was found by J. C. Amick, an employee of Spotts & Co. Coroner George R. Summer stated that Mr. Ruff had died of natural causes, and that no inquest would be held. Mr. Ruff was born and reared in Newberry County, a son of Mrs. Myrtle Caldwell Ruff and the late Chris S. Ruff. He oper ated a farm in the Mt. Bethel Garmany section all of his life and was a member of Lebanon Meth odist Church. Surviving besides his mother are three sisters, Mrs. John Da vid Setzler, Mrs. J. O. Cromer and Mrs. John Henry Ruff, all of New berry and one brother, G. A. Ruff of Greenville. Funeral services were conduct ed at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Mc- Swain Funeral Home by the Rev. David Templeton. Burial was in Lebanon Methodist Church ceme tery near Newberry. College Names New Additions To Faculty Dr. Frank W. Ashley, a native of Newton, N. C., has been ap pointed Associate Professor of History and Political Science and Acting Head of the Department at Newberry College. He earned his A.B. degree and his M.A. de gree from the Uniiversity of North Carolina. This summer he earned the Ph.D. degree from the University of South Carolina in the area of American and Euro pean History. He is married and has two children. He is a Presbyterian. The Rev. Harry Weber, a na tive of Charleston, has been ap pointed to fill the position of As sistant Professor of Bible and Re ligious Education at Newberry College. He holds a B.S. degree from Newberry College; a Master of Education degree from the Uni versity of South Carolina; and a B.D. degree from the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary. His major field has been Bible and Religious Education and he has had additional study at the New York University in the field of Guidance. Quentin J. Gobble, a native of Tennessee, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Biology at Newberry College. He earned the B.S. degree from East Tennessee State Teachers College and the M. A. from George Peabody College. He has completed a years work toward the doctorate. He has been at Milligan College as in structor since 1956. Jurors Say Truck Drivers Blameless In Death Of Two WILSON REUNION TO BE SUNDAY All descendents of the late John C. and Kate Cromer Wilson will hold their annual reunion Sunday, September 6th, at Jolly Street Center. Picnic lunch with iced tea will be spread at 1:00 o’clock. % LABOR’S HOLIDAY Registration Office Open The Newberry County Board of Registration office will be open on Tuesday, September 8 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. All eligible persons who do not have a registration certi ficate for voting in Newberry may get one at that time. Obey Traffic Laws! Adams Succumbs After Attending Brother’s Rites Olin J. Adams, 61, died early Tuesday night at a local hospital. He was suddenly stricken late Tuesday afternoon at his home on Brown St. and was rushed to the hospitaL * Mr. Adams was born and rear ed in Newberry County, the son of the late Pinckney and Eneritta Cromer Adams. For a number of years he was connected with the Railway Express Co. At the time of his death he was employed by Oakland Mills. He was an active member of Bethany Lutheran Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Sumter Schumpert Adams of Newberry; one son, James Olin Adams of Newberry? two daugh ters, Mrs. Eugene Stockman of Little Mountain and Mrs. Harry Golden of Anderson; two sisters, Mrs. Viola Richardson and Miss Eunice Adams, both of Newber ry; two brothers, John G. Adams of Asheville and Clarence Adams of Prosperity; andd four grand children. A Coroner’s Jury Tuesday night found no negligence on the part of two truck drivers involved in a three vehicle collision which took the lives of two Whitmire women early Thursday morning, August 27. After short deliberation the jury returned a verdict that: “Mrs. Shirley Y. Penland and Mrs. Miriam Sinclair came to their death as the result of injuries re ceived in a collision involving three motor vehicles. We do not recommend that anyone be held for grand jury investigation.” The first witness called by Coro ner George R. Summer was Hack Wallace, who testified that when he arrived at the scene in an am bulance, he found one of the la dies on the pavement, the other still in the car. The two had been riding in a Morris-Minor car and were en route from their homes in Whitmire to their employment at Newberry Mills, Inc. Eugene Milton Helms, driver of a Central Motor Lines tractor- trailer, took the stand next. He described the accident as follows: im “Coming this way towards New berry, you come up over this little rise there in the road, then before you get on the straight-away, it sort of rises up a little bit more. As I came up on the rise tow ards the straight-away, the little car came up behind me and pro ceeded out to pass. It came up on the side of me; up a distance was this one light on the right hand side. It was very dim. The little car got up right just be tween the saddle tanks and the front wheels on the other side of the road. At that time I saw the light was so close and I saw the truck in the distance. I whirled my truck to the right. Then is when the accident happened. The pulpwood truck hit the car and knocked the back part of it into my saddle tanks on my truck.” The driver testified that he was driving around 40 or 45 miles an hour, with his lights on. He esti mated the little car “would have to have been averaging 50 miles an hour.” He said that he didn’t hear eithey of the victims say any thing until being put in the am bulance, then one mumbled some thing like “William.” Recalled to the stand later, Helms testified that the truck he was driving was green. Nathaniel Harp, driver of the pulpwood truck owned by J. H. Bowers Jr., was next called to the stand. He testified: “I left Silverstreet on the way to Delta. I got six miles up the Whitmire highway, going toward Whitmire. I had just come up a little grade and hit on the level, and saw a tractor trailer. I knew it was a big truck. I dimmed my lights. About time I got right up on him, pretty close, I saw the little car coming out. I put on brakes and pulled to the right as Freshmen Begin Orientation At Newberry College Monday Mr. Gobble is married and has two children. He is a Lutheran. Pastor Weber served four years in the Army in World War II. He was teacher and principal in the school system in West Colum bia for three years, and was State Supervisor of Guidance Services of the State Department of Edu cation from 1950 to 1953. He at tended the Lutheran Theological Seminary for three years. He served as pastor of Resurrection- St. Matthews Lutheran Churches in Cameron, has been active in the Luther League work of the South Carolina Synod and has served on various synodical committees. Pastor Weber is married to the former Miss Virginia Graham of Newberry, a graduate of Newber ry College. Newberry College will open its 103rd session on September 10. Prospects are good for an increas ed enrollment. Over two hundred new students are expected to be on hand for the Orientation program which will begin on Monday, Sep tember 7 at 9 a.m. All freshmen, both business certificate and de gree candidates, and all transfers students who completed less than one full semester at their former institution are required to attend this entire four-day program, Sep tember 7-10. Freshmen will be registered on Wednesday morning, September 9th from 9:00 a. m. until 12:00 noon. Prof. T. E. Epting, Chairman of the Orientation Committee, an nounced the following program: At 9:00 a.m., September 7, the first assembly will be held for all freshmen in Holland Hall with President C. A. Kaufmann con ducting the devotions. Following the devotions and words of greet ing from the administration, Prof Epting will supervise the filling out of General Information cards. At 10:30 a. m., faculty members will discuss with the freshmen, courses and degrees. The afternoon session will be devoted to general tests. The day will be concluded with supper and recreation. On Tuesday, September 8th, the freshmen will assemble for devo tions in Holland Hall at 9:00 a.m., with the Rev. Francis I. Fesper- man, the College Chaplain, con ducting the devotions. The morn ing program will continue ’•with the freshmen testing program. The activities in the afternoon will in clude the filling in of cou^pe cards and Orientation classes. Supper will be served at 6:00 p.m. and a recreation period will begin at 8:00 p.m. On Wednesday, September 9th, chapel assembly will be held at 9:00 a.m., with Dean Conrad B. Park, conducting. All freshmen will register from 9:15 a. m. until 12:00 noon. This time has been reserved for the registration of new students only. Upper-class men may register on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday afternoon or Thursday, September 7-10 from 9:00 a.m. until 12 noon and 2:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. From 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. will be the testing of new students by Registrar Ab rams. There will be an informal dance and recreation at 8:00 p m. with music by the College “N” Orchestra. The formal opening will be in the chapel in Holland Hall on Thursday, September 10 at 10:00 a.m., with President C. A. Kauf mann presiding. There will be representatives from the Board of Trustees, City, County, and Church present for the opening. All students are expected to be present for this program. Student conferences with Miss Hattie Belle Lester, Dean of Women, and Philip T. Kelly, Jr., Dean of Men, will start at 11:30 p.m. Planning and study by Dean Conrad B. Park begins at 2:00 p.m. and note taking and note keeping by Pro fessor Harry Weber at 2:45 p.m. Course credits and grading sys tem by Registrar Abrams at 3:30 p.m., planning recreation by Coaches Harvey Kirkland, E. W. Burnett and Thomas Quinn at 4 p.m. Supper will be at 6:00 p.m. The SCA dance will be held in the MacLean Gymnasium pt 8:00 p. m. with music by the College “N” Orchestra. Mr. and Mrs. Heyward O. Davis are now residing at 904 Pope St. Shown in this Sunphoto is the Morris-Minor car in which Mrs. Miriam Sinclair and Mrs. Shirley Penland met their death almost instantly last Thursday morning on the Whitmire highway. (Sun photo.) Graduate From Nursing School Two young ladies from Newber ry County were among the grad uating nurses of the Columbia Hospital School of Nursing, who received their diplomas Tuesday evening, September 1 at First Baptist Church, Columbia. Among the graduates was Mrs. Barbara Miller Gilliam, wife of Ralph Gilliam of Newberry. She will join her husband at Travelers Rest, where Mr. Gilliam has ac cepted a position as band instruc tor at Travelers Rest High school. The other county graduate nurse was Miss Ruth Martin far as I could get.” He testified that he sPw the tractor-trailer pull over. When asked if it appear ed as though the little car tried to get out of the way, he replied, “No sir, it didn J t. I tried to miss her but I couldn’t. It didn’t look like she tried to get over or miss me or nothing.’.’ He testified that the truck he was driving was green. D. A. Reighley, highway patrol man, investigated - the wreck. He stated that when he arrived at the scene, the little creme colored car was in the middle of the road, the Chevrolet pulpwood truck was on the right hand side off of the highway northeast of the Morris- Minor car and the Central Motor Lines tractor-trailer was parked on the left hand side traveling southwest. } He said that the highway was 18 feet wide with a five-foot con crete shoulder on each side. Des cribing the damage, he stated that the left side of the little car was demolished—the whole side wae sheared off; that the left fender and left end of the pulpwood truck was sheared off; there wasn’t any fender on the left side and the front wheels and axles on the truck were out from under it on the shoulder of the road. He testified that th^ Morris- Minor car was registered in the name of Mrs. Miriam R. Sinclair and that the key ring, still in the car, Contained a driver’s license in that name. He said he talked to Mrs. Sinclair’s daughter; who told him that Mrs. Sinclair left home that morning driving the car, and that Mrs. Penland’s mo ther told him Mrs. Sinclair was driving when they left the Pen- land home. Mr. Reighley told the jury that the little* car had green paint on the left side and green 'paint on the right rear, as if it had been struck on both sides; that the trac tor trailer had been struck on the left side fender, running board, saddle tank .and tractor wheel tire. He stated that drivers of both trucks have valid driver’s licenses, and that there was no sign of alcohol about any of the vehicles or drivers.. The doctof who examined the bodies of the victims stated that Mrs. Sinclair had a crushed-in chest and broken left arm, and that Mrs. Penland had a broken neck with a long gash on the forehead. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Sept. 6: Miss Mary Wheeler, Bobby Lominack, Heyward Da vis, Mrs. Ralph Waldrop, Eli zabeth Cromer, J. W. Timmer man, L. R. Bedenbaugh, Mrs. John G. Ross, Mr& Ida Under wood, Mrs. Annie Mae Under wood, Janie D. Warren, Ralph Edward Miller. Sept. 7: Mrs. Stanley F. Ba ker, Wallace Michael Dawkins, Charlie Edward Cromer, Mrs. Howard K. Bedenbaugh, Dick Shealy, Dee Petty. Sept. 8: Rev. Cam D. Wallace, J. D. Wicker, Frank H. Ward, Mrs. J. W. Wilson, Margaret Faye Coats, Mrs. Tom Gilliam, John Marlow, Mike Harmon, Mrs. Wilmer M. Hite, Curtis J. Taylor. Sept. 9: Tommy Longshore, Buford S. Adams, Lee Small wood, Mrs. E. C. Rinehart, O. C. Phillips, Margaret Wherry, Jessie Dawkins, Billie Dave K. Brady, E. L. Blackwell, Alan Brooks, Aliens Reeves, Deborah Petty. Sept. 10: Ralph Quinn, Wil liam Cecil Ammons, Charles H. Boyd Jr., Vickie Wheeler, Mrs. C. B. Halfacre, Mrs. Clara Ber ry, Mrs. J. B. Scurry, Mrs. James Phibbs, Mrs. Alan Senn, Randy Crowder, Mrs. J. H. Clary Sr. Sept. 11: Sedley Senn, Tyrus Senn, Mrs. Jim Wheeler, Ed Gilliam, Mrs. Roy Jollay, Mrs. Sam P. Boland, Mrs. L. A. Sease. Miss Mary Wicker. Sept. 12: Keister Willingham, Mrs. O. O. Copeland, Mrs. Mar gie Davis Freeman, Mrs. Cleo Morris, Mrs. Leone Thrift, Thomas Bradley, Audrey S. Senn, Jason Ringer, Mrs. R. Derrill Smith, David Wayne Brady, S. D. Stephens, J. A. Chasteen, Anne Newton, Mild red Baker.