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► k- m l f ‘Opened by mistake” could also be stamped on most charge ac counts. VOLUME 23; NUMBER 21. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 1959 + $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way ~ bif Jborid Sander3 MY MISTAKE Last week I wrote about the "work our local welfare depart ment does in connection with pay ment of “aid to dependent chil dren” money. I also mentioned the success Newberry County has had in carrying out the Uniform Sup port Law, and quoted Mrs. Edna Feagle as giving much credit for its success to Circuit Judge Steve C. Griffith and Probate Judge E. Maxcy Stone. While Judge Stone does work with the welfare department extensively on other matters, the second person most responsible for the success of the Uniform Support Law is Clerk of Court Burke M. Wise, who is “custodian” of support payments and receives and distri butes a vast number of these pay ments each week. That is another phase of this etcry I had intended to investi gate and write about this week, but haven’t been able to find the time to do. I will soon, because I believe you will find it of inter est. tract.” He did briefly list some proposals, but did not go into de tail because, he feels, it is a mat ter for the company and the un ion to iron out if possible. If this is not possible, you have the assurance that Oakland officials will not be the least reluctant to tell their position, for they have nothing to hide from the public. NCEA To Hold First Meeting Of Year Today THAT TIME AGAIN The cool past few days have made Is seem more like “that time”—football season. Newberry High has already played two games—one victory, one defeat— and this Saturday the Newberry Indians will seek to take the bite out of The Citadel Bulldogs. A number of Redskin supporters usually attend this game and I hope you will, if you find it pos sible. If not, then make plans to be on hand for the first home game a week from Saturday to support your team—and make an effort, too, to attend the high school games. Besides good foot ball, you can always count on good half-time shows by the Col lege N Marching Band and the Newberry City Schools bands. NO GOSSIP, PLEASE Frasier leaves Monday for the University of Georgia, where he hopes to begin work on a Doctor of Education degree. After much indecision about what to do, the girls and I decided to stay in Newberry, so that Connie wouldn’t have to change schools after one year. If you see a “strange man” coming to our house while Frasier is gone, no gossip, please. He is our nephew, Dick Sanders of Sumter, who is a freshman at Newberry College and will be staying with us during the school year. The Newberry County Educa tion Association will hold its first meeting of the school year in the Newberry high school auditorium on September 17 (today) at 3:30 p.m. This will be a business meet ing, after which a tea will be held in the cafeteria honoring one re tired teacher, Miss Chloe Epting, and the following new teachers: Mrs. Betty L. Felker, VV. C. Pin son, Benjamin D. Clark, Mrs. Shirley C. Maybin, J. W. Miller, Mrs. Elizabeth McCutcheon, Mrs. Ann G. Montgomery, Miss Patri cia Monroe, Mrs. Fairey B. Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth P. Fulmer, Wade P. Rogers Jr., Mrs. Dorothy F. Wessinger and Mrs. Mary Nelle Eargle. An invitation to attend the meeting is also extended to all re tired teachers, the Newberry County Delegation, and the New r - berry County Board of Educa tion. Attend Meeting MUCH TO BE LOST There is much to be lost if the employees of the Oakland plant of the Kendall Company go out on strike. The Kendall Company, employees of the plant and their families, both union and non-un ion, and the merchants of New berry would all suffer losses if the plant were to be closed down. A shutdown of the Oakland plant would be a drastic blow to the economy of Newberry. If Oakland employees are like most of us, they owe for homes, cars, washing machines, television sets and a number of other necessities and luxuries which they are buy ing on the installment plan. The Oakland plant asked that the contract be opened for modifi cations, just as was done at Mol- lohon last year. Some of the changes sought are the same as were incorporated in the Mollo- hon contract which was signed af ter a few negotiation sessions. The people of Newberry had better give plenty of thought to this situation. I have warned in columns past that it would be well for the citizens of this coun ty to show appreciation for in dustry they already have, rather than just taking them for grant ed and looking for other game. This is the time to be showing a “good business climate” and giving your support to your exist ing industry. The loss of a $40,- 000 weekly payroll is something to be seriously . considered. I would not ask that you support a company which seeks to exploit its employees. We do not want that type of industry in Newberry. I do ask that you weigh carefully what the Kendall Company has meant to you, and that before passing judgment, you study its proposals to see whether you find anything that would deprive the workers of reasonable rights and benefits. If you do, then you have a right to support the employees should they strike. D. O. Carpenter, plant manager, stated this week that they had not published their proposals because "we do not feel the press is the proper place to negotiate a con- William R. Anderson, of 2015 Mayer Ave., Newberry, is among the retired representatives of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com pany’s Columbia office, scheduled to attend the annual business meeting and luncheon of the com pany’s Veterans Association at the Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill, N. C., on Thursday, September 17. Membership in the association is made up of persons employed by the company for at least 20 years. Altogether, more than 200 members from district offices in the states of North and South Carolina are expected to be pres ent. Members of Local 2014, Unit ed Textile Workers of America, AFL-CIO, voted Sunday at a clos ed meeting to give their nego tiating committee authority to call a strike at the Oakland Plant of the Kendall Company anytime it felt that no progress was be ing made in contract talks with the company. The vote was 247 to 23, and came at the conclusion of an almost three-hour session dur ing which union officials outlined company proposals to workers in the crowded Oakland school au ditorium. Three international representa tives of the UTWA attended the called union meeting here. They were Roy S. Whitmire of Ashe ville, N. C., Southern co-director; Radford Cope of Salisbury, N. C., who has assisted with negotia tions since August 25, and a Mr. Heath. They assisted with the in terpretation of proposals, accord ing to W. E. Taylor Jr., president of Local 2014. The strike vote was secret, with three observers and three tellers present. In the photo above, Herbert Morris deposits his vote in the ballot box which is being held by Catherine White. (Photo by Win ston Jones.) ■■pi Contract Deadline Draws Near; Federal I n m Criminal Court To Convene Monday, 49 Cases Listed Oakland Manager Sees No Reason Contract Agreement Not Be Reached College Plans To Ohfer Course For Teachers Safe Workers To Be Honored Scout Leader Course Is Set Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Anderson accompanied their son, Eddie, to Charleston Wednesday. Eddie will be a member of the junior class at The Citadel this year. Members of the safety commit tee of the card room at Newberry Mills will be guests of the com pany at the quarterly safety ban quet to be held Saturday, Septem ber 19 at 6 p.m. at Willowbrook clubhouse, according to A1 White- head, personnel director. The em ployees of the card room have worked the past three months without an accident. A safety director of Joanna Mills will also be a special guest at the barbecue banquet. Mrs. Louise Taylor of the spinning room will be in charge of the pro : gram. A training course for leaders and assistant leaders of Girl Scout troops will be held at the Scout Cabin beginning at 8 p.m. September 28. The training will run for four nights, September 28, 29, October 1 and 2, and will last for one hour, 8 until 9 p.m. Anyone interested in learning more about Girl Scout work in Newberry County is invited to at tend, and those who plan to at tend are asked to notify Mrs. M. L. Youmans, telephone 975. The course will be taught by Mrs. J. D. French, Mrs. Leon Nichols and Mrs. M. L. Youmans. Newberry College is making plans to offer courses for teach ers in the late afternoons again this year. The courses will be open to elementary and secondary school teachers who may want to take advantage of the opportunity to renew certificates, to raise cer tificates, or to continue work tow ard a college degree. Each course will provide three semester hours of credit. The classes will meet once each week for sixteen weeks and each class period will be approximately two and one-half hours in length. Course offerings will be in the fields of elementary education and secondary education. Tentative offerings are: Education 38, Guidance and Counseling; Educa tion 31 and 32, Human Growth and Development; Education 52, the Teaching of Social Studies, and Education 54, the Teaching of Reading. Organization of classes in any of the above courses will depend upon the advance registra tion requests. These courses will be organized by W. E. Monts, who taught the late afternoon classes at Newberry College last session and prior to that served as Asso ciate Professor of Education and Psychology at the college. All who are interested in these or other courses are asked to con tact Dean Conrad B. Park, New berry Coll ere, phone 883, as soon as possible. A meeting will be held in Room 3 of Holland Hall at 4 p.m. on Monday, September 21, for the purpose of advanced regis tration and to determine’ the day and hour for class meetings. All interested in this work will be expected to attend this meeting. UDC To Have Week Proclaimed State Meet By Mayor Layton The Glenn Street Baptist Church will hold Revival Services September 20-27, according to the pastor, Rev. Fay Lanford. During this week, previous to the revival, Cottage Prayer Services are be ing sponsored in the community by the Brotherhood and Woman’s Missionary Society. On Sunday afternoon at 2:00, the Men of the Church will visit each home in the community and give to each family a personal invitation to at tend the Services. The Rev. James M. Bruce of Chapin, a retired Baptist pastor,' will be visiting evangelist for the services. Claude Hamby, music director of the church, will lead the singing. Services will begin each evening at 7:30 p.m. The pastor and congregation extend an invitation to the public to attend all of these services. Mayor Ernest H. Layton has proclaimed the week of September 17-23 as Constitution Week in Newberry. The official proclamation fol lows: Whereas, September 17, 1959 is notable as marking the one hund red seventy-second anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States of America by the Constitutional Convention; and Whereas, To accord official recognition to this memorable an niversary, and to the patriotic ex ercise which will form a note- worthy feature of the occasion, seems fitting and proper; and Whereas, Public Law No. 915 guarantees the issuing of a proc lamation by the President of the United Sthtes of America desig nating September 17 through 23 of each year as Constitution Week; Now, Therefore, I, Ernest H. Layton by virtue of the authority vested in me as Mayor of the City of Newberry in the State of South Carolina do hereby proclaim the week of September 17-23, 1959 as Constitution Week in the City of Newberry, and urge all our citi zens to pay special attention dur ing that week to our Federal Con stitution and the advantages of American citizenship. In witness wherefore, I have hereunto set my hand and-caused the Seal of the City of Newberry to be affixed at Newberry, this 12th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine, and the independence of the Iflnited States of America, the one hund red and eighty-third. Ernest H. Layton, Mayor Attest: W. C. Wallace. The South Carolina Division, United Daughters of .the Confed eracy, will hold its 63rd annual convention at the Hotel Columbia on October 14-15. Highlight of the opening day will be a banquet address by Lt. Gov. Burnet R. Maybank, Jr. in the hotel’s ballroom in the eve ning. The Thursday session will consist of a breakfast, business meeting at which officers will be elected, luncheon and afternoon business meeting. An evening banquet and historical exercises will close the convention. President of the State UDC is Mrs. W. A. King of Clemson. Mrs. F. Scott Elliott of Newberry is state recorder of crosses. Forty new cases will be ready to be presented to the Grand Jury for action when the .September term of General Sessions court opens here on Monday, September 21, with Judge .George Gregory of Chester presiding. In addition, there are nine continued* cases on the docket to be disposed of by the Court. All of the new warrants except nine were turned in by Magistrate Ben F. Dawkins of Newberry. These include: , Willie Edward P en n y, grand larceny; Leroy Coleman, false pretense; Robert Fetters, grand larceny; Henry HaU, two counts of housebreaking to commit a crime, also one charge house breaking and petit larceny and one charge housebreaking and grand larceny; George Williams; car breaking; Horace Williams Jr., non-support. Also, James C.. Brennan, viola tion of liquor law; James Austin, assault and battery with intent to kill; Harvey Smith, three counts of breakinginto tank; Fat Gary and Tom Byd Gary, grand lar ceny; Simon P. Motes, drunk driv ing, second offense; Sammy Trib ble, assault of a high and aggra vated nature; Fred Wyatt, as sault, high and aggravated na ture; Harmon Penny, assault and battery with intent to kill; Phillip S u b e r , non-support; Kenneth Griffin, disposing of property un der lien; William L. Watts Jr., grand larceny; Willie Swindler Jr., non-support; Ulysses Wilson, non-support; J. Cecil Wicker, vio lation of liquor law; Also, Eugene Downing, false pretense; Carl Wesley Johnson, non-support; Albert Trapp, viola tion of liquor law; George Oscar Rowell, three charges, false pre tense. Warrants from Magistrate Fos ter: James Rogers, rape; Willie R. Erskine, bad check law; Law rence B. Derrick, drunk driving, second offense; Luther J. Tram mell. drunk driving. Magistrate T. H. Shealy: Clyde Chaplin, violation of liquor law. Magistrate Wicker: Edward Wise, non-support; Jonas Amick' and William P. Wise, violation of liquor law; Eddie Caughman, drunk driving, second offense; Ollie Cannon, disorderly conduct. Continued from the last term of court were the following: James Willie Wilson, drunk driving, third offense; Willie Jenkins Jr., two counts of in voluntary manslaughter and reck less homicide; John G. Coward, assault with intent to ravish; Wal ter Eugene Ruff, Rou Wise and Robert J. L. -Bowers, drunk driv ing, second offense; Garnett Ginn, drunk driving; Bartow Cooper, assault and battery with intent to kill, carrying concealed weapons. Grand Jurors will report for duty Monday morning, petit jur ors Tuesday morning. George Roseberry of Charlotte, N. C., a federal concilia^ tor, arrived in Newberry Wednesday as the midnight dead line for expiration of the contract between the Oakland Plant of the Kendall Company and Local Union 2014, UlWA AFL-CIO drew near.* On Wednesday morning, Oakland man ager D. O. Carpenter stated “there should be no bona fide reason why the parties cannot resolve any differences which may exist and agree upon a new labor contract.” Enjoy Dinner At College Attend Meeting In W. Virginia Mrs. Walter Lovett of Lovett, Ga. spent the past weekend with her mother, Mrs. D. J. Williams A large group gathered in the cafeteria in the Student Union Building of Newberry College Saturday evening, September 5, at 7:00 p.m. The occasion*was a buffet din ner given by President and Mrs. C. A. Kaufmann to the faculty, staff and their families. Following the dinner. President Kaufmann extended a hearty wel come to the group and then intro duced each member of the faculty and staff and they introduced the other members of their family. Mrs. Edna Feagle, director of the Newberry County Department of Public Welfare, and Mrs. Sa rah Shannon left Monday for Charleston, West Virginia, where they are attending the meeting of the American Public Welfare As sociation of the Southeastern States. They will return to New berry Friday. Negotiations between the com pany and the union, of which W. E. Taylor Jr. is • president, began on August 25, after the Local was advised by the company on July 7 that it would seek changes in the existing contract. After several negotiation ses sions, the union negotiation com mittee called a meeting of its members for Sunday afternoon, September 13. During the meet ing the members voted to give the committee authority to call a strike when it felt progress on a contract had bogged down. Mr. Carpenter, when question ed this week about the specific contract proposals made by the company,, replied that he did not feel it was ethical to conduct ne gotiations on a new contract through the press. He did say, however, that “many of the Com pany’s proposals are contract pro cedural changes, and changes to bring about further clarification of the contract language. In this keenly competitive textile mark et,” the manager continued, “it is important that a company’s manufacturing operations are maintained at a high level of ef ficiency in order to be averagely competitive. As a matter of fact, “he explained, “some of our pro posals are identical in principle with contract provisions of other companies.” The Oakland manager pointed out “our Company intends to con tinue in a new contract the many benefits which Oakland employees are currently enjoying. The com pany intends to continue the pres ent wage level in effect. We pro pose to continue our All-Company- Is Recruiting Sergeant Here Paid Pension Plan which is most exceptional in the Textile Indus try with respect to production employees. It is our intention to continue the present schedule of paid holidays. We propose to con tinue our present vacation allow ance. The company intends ' to continue with a Group Insurance program, but has proposed to re design the present program so that the level of employee benefits will be increased. Under the new^ pro gram, the employee would assume ■ the cost for their dependents. The Company proposes to continue its present overtime allowance.” The United Textile Workers union has been certified as the bargaining agent for the Oakland plant employees for more than 17 years. “Over this period of time,” stated Mr. Carpenter, “the par ties have been successful in re negotiating the labor agreement when either of the parties have felt the changes were justified. There have been occasions when the parties have agreed on con tract over a longer duration than one year. There have been occa sions when the parties have per mitted the contract dated for ex piration to automatically renew itself without change. “It would be unfortunate for the town of Newberry,” conclud ed Mr. Carpenter, “if the Oakland contract is not resolved peaceably with both the company and ,the union having negotiated with each other over a considerable period of time. With labor relations at an expected mature level, there should be no bona fide reason why the parties cannot resolve any differences which may exist and agree upon a new labor contract.” So far as could be determined at press time, negotiations were still continuing with the presence of the federal mediator at the bar gaining sessions. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Winthrop Grads Have Meeting To Speak On Constitution Steve Griffith Jr. will speak on the Constitution at 7:15 p. m. over Radio Station WKDK on Thurs day evening (tonight). The pro gram is being presented as a part of the observance of Constitution Week by Jasper Chapter, Daugh ters of the American Revolution. Winthrop College Alumnae of the Northern and Northwestern Districts will meet September 19 at the Watts ville Community House in Laurens. The program, which will include a business and a luncheon session, is scheduled from 11:30 a. m. until 2 p.m. Guest speaker for the luncheon will be Dr. Charles S. Davis, president of Winthrop College. Winthrop alumnae from New berry are invited to attend the meeting. Master Sergeant Eddie L. Sun- die, native of Pensacola, Florida, has been assigned to the Army Recruiting Service in this area, according to Major Richard H. Davis, Commander of Army Re cruiting in South Carolina. With headquarters in the post office in Greenwood, Sgt. Sundie will serve Greenwood, Newberry, and Abbeville counties. Sgt. Sundie served in the Far East with the 187th Regimental Combat Team, returning to the states in 1955. His last assignment was with the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. To make it convenient for young men to consult him con cerning miiltary matters, Sgt. Sundie will be at the Newberry Selective Service Board each Tuesday and Friday. ATTEND SHOW IN DETROIT W. E. Shealy, manager of the local Ford agency, left Monday morning for Charlotte where he caught a plane for Detroit to at tend the showing of the 1960 Ford Falcon and other new-models in the Ford line. Sept. 20: Mrs. D. M. Lam beth, Mrs. R. C. Neel Jr., Hen ry Burton Wells, Mrs. John T. Cromer, A. E. Reese, Walter Hiller, Judy Walton, Charlie Bradley, Mrs. * Susie B. Con nelly, Jean Amick, Rev. D. M. Shull. Sept. 21: H. H. Ruff, Mrs. Eugene S. Blease, Tommy Riley, Mrs. W. H. Chapman, Mrs. Richard L. Baker, Ansel Ridge way, Mrs. J. R. Bedenbaugh Jr., Joe E. Webb, Van E. Price, Minnie Lee Taylor, Mrs. J. H. Wallenzine. Sept. 22: Richard Andrews, Kay Dominick, Betty Kay Rich ardson, Lamar King Jr., Esther H. Coats, Laurie F. Spearman, Lynn Monroe, Mrs. Frank Smith, Maria^ Lipscomb, Mrs. M. B. Sessions, Ralph L. Ept ing. Sept. 23: Mrs. W. O. Miller, Susan Hawkins, Cecil E. Kin- ard, Jackie Clarkson, Robert Glymph, Edward Epting, Ger ald Griffith, Ellen Derrick, Jim my Kesler, Mrs. Charlie Altman, Susan Paige Nichols. Sept. 24: George Rodelsperg- er, Mrs. Edgar L. Hiller, Rob ert E. Wike, Barbara Way, I’on Stuck, Joyce Ann Swygert, Gary Bedenbaugh, Mrs. Carol Hipp, Patricia Graham, Beth Baker. Sept. 25: Strother Paysinger, Pinckney Abrams, Mrs. W. B. Goggans, Kay Dawkins, Tom my Lewis, Eddie Lominack, Mm. Clem I. Youmans, William R. Buford, Mrs. Grace Graham Pence, Patsy Walton, Mrs. Ma rie Nicosia, Mrs. Earl Bozard, Mrs. Bonnie Bowers. Sept. 26: J. Ervin Wilson, Peggy Lominack, Harold Bow ers, Gail Phillips, Susan Cook, Lynn Lipscomb, Linda Cannon, Beth Underwood.