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VOLUME 23; NUMBER 37.
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1960
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By The Way * by Jborid Sanders
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OUR SYMPATHY
We express our deepest sym
pathy to Sen. Strom Thurmond
on the loss of his wife, Jean,
early Wednesday morning. It was
not my pleasure to know her per
sonally, but Jean’s many friends
in Newberry found her kind, con
siderate and likable. Certainly,
eince her marriage to the Senator,
she has conducted herself in a
lady-like manner, and in her pub
lic role as the wife of a United
States Senator, she reflected only
credit on her home state.
She will be missed.
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ST1LJ- POPULAR
Newberry is still a popular
place for landing disabled air
craft, it seems. The 1942 gull
wing Stinson four-place plane
which made a forced landing on
the property of Wilbur L. Epting
lasr, Wednesday afternoon may
stili be seen resting in the field
about mid-way between Newberry
and Silverstreet. Engine failure
was said to hsTe caused the plane
to make the emergency landing
as it was en route from Thomson,
Ga. to Charlotte, N. C. The pas
sengers, Roy Tremell, Fred Blake
and George Bomraanwitz, all of
Charlotte, received treatment for
minor cuts and bruises and were
on their *ray, leaving the plane
behind.
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SOMETHING NEW
I heard something new on the
radio the other night, I heard a
candidate appeal to the voters in
a campaign speech. This is no
thing new, of course. The differ-
«m*e was that his campaign speech
was made in French.
It had not occured to me that
there are people in the southern
part of the United States who do
not understand English. This
speech was made in New Orleans,
however, and was for the benefit
of the many voters in southern
Louisiana who understand and
apeak nothing except French.
Since I’ve forgotten what little
I learned 4a high school
the speech meant nothing; but
then that is the way with most
political speeches, is it not?
THE SETTLEMENT
The ‘^evtlement” of the stee
strike was a farce which flouts
the collective bargaining provi
aiotis of the Taft-Hartley Act,
The settlement was not negotia
Tf. S. factories in Cleveland, Fort
Worth and elsewhere. In the \\
world market the differencial is
larger. American manufacturers
now find themselves in this same
high price position in hundreds of
products, from women’s blouses to
building materials and appliances
for American homes. ‘
“Direct and indirect labor costs
on any manufactured product rep
resent about 75 to 80 percent of
the total selling price, not count
ing taxes. This means that any
wage increase without compensat
ing increase in a man’s productive
capacity forces prices up.
“. . . American industry has its
bacK to the wall. To try to meet
the competitive challenge on the
world market and here in Ameri
ca, some major industries have
been forced to invest heavily
abroad in manufacturing plants,
where production costs are so
much lower than in America. It is
estimated that $50 billion of Am
erican money has been invested to
build factories in foreign coun
tries. More than a million jobs
have thud been created abroad
which should have been created
here. Suddenly the United States
has become an importing nation,
importing more goods from abroad
than we export—automobiles, ma
chines textiles, a vast array of
products. Every American has a
personal stake in this worsening
situation.”
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ted-—it was ordered. It was order
ad by tho Eisenhower ndministru
tion, and the steel companies
which did their best to fight the
tide of rising costs, finally buck
led under. Of course there will be
no “inflationary increase” in stee
er—-until after the presiden-
lal 1 election in November. There
a to be little doubt but that
will come after that time,
could sympathise with the
workers if they were being
to labor for starvation
•But being the wife of a
school teacher who is paid only
more than $8000 a year, I
can hardly sympathise with
someone now averaging over $0,
000 a year and asking for more.
Dollar marks are to big in the
•yea of most workers that they
do not atop to think what will
happen In {ihe future. Many manu
facturers, siok and tired of un
reasonable demands of union lead
ere, have begun their operations
abroad where they can make their
goods, ship them to the United
States and still make more profit
than they could by manufacturing
them hero. It U amasing how
many of the things we purchase
are made outside of this country.
Textiles, in particular, have flood
•d the market and textiles espec
ially I do not buy if I know they
were manufactured abroad be
cause while I may disagree with
our Newberry textile workers
about their unions, I do not want
to see them lose their jobs.
The threat to American manu
facturers is pointed out in a re
cent “Looking Ahead” column by
Dr. George S. Benson. Excerpts
are as follows:
“There are two major factors
which are curtailing the normal
healthy growth and the vital
strength of American industry:
(1) unrealistic double taxation is
•mothering the incentive to in
vest, and (2) the swiftly rising
high coat of production is pricing
American goods out of the world
markets and even out of our own
domestic markets.
“In the hardware stores in my
home town today barbed wire
made in Germany and Belgium
and shipped 8000 miles by boat
and train sails for $2 per spool
leas than barbed wire made in our
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After Suffering
Injury In Wreck
Mrs. Hugh B. Senn remains in
serious condition at the Newber
ry County Memorial hospital, af
ter suffering injuries in an auto
mobile wreck last Sunday after
noon about five o’clock. The con
dition of four other women, in
jured in the same collision, was
not as serious.
The five women, all of New
berry, were injured in a two-car
collision at the intersection o f
Highway 560 and the Bush River
road, 12 miles northeast of New
berry.
Highway patrolman B. G.
Chrisley, who investigated, said
a 1960 Plymouth, driven by Mrs.
T. Roy Summer, Sr., apparently
was struck on the side by a 1953
Chevrolet driven by Miss Made-v
line L. Bodie. In the car wjith
Mrs. Summer were Mrs. Senn and.
Mrs. Claude Smith. All received
bruises and contusions and were
admitted to the hospital. Mrs.
Summer returned to her homo on
Monday morning.
In the Chevrolet with Miss Bo
die was her mother, Mrs. Ora
Lee Bodie, who suffered a frac
tured elbow and was transferred
to a Columbia hospital. Miss Bod
ie also received bruises and con
tusions.
All of ,the injured are reported
to be getting along nicely with
the exception of Mrs. Senn.
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The Joanna school fire started In the boiler room. He&e it is shown
after the firemen. left. Water from the fire department hoses may be
seen on the floor. (Sunphoto.)
March Of Dimes Activities
Listed By Drive Chairman
Special events are shaping up urday morning at 4 a.m., and
and will soon be under way to have breakfast at Little Moun-
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raise funds for the 1960 March j n g ton
of Dimes, according to Steve C. Chairman Griffith said envel-
Mr. and Mr«. Arnold Powell
have moved to 706 Pope street.
Griffith, Jr., chairman of the
Jaycee-sponsored fund raising
campaign for the National Foun
dation, which uses the funds for
service, education and research
in the fields of polio, arthritis and
birth defects
A “kick-off’ coffee party was
given Wednesday by the co
chairmen for this phase of the
March of Dimes, Mrs. Elbert J.
Dickert and Mrs. Ben Buddin.
Persons who are interested in
giving a coffee party are asked
to contact either of these two
ladies for information.
Co-chairmen have been named
for the Colored division of the
March of Dimes. They are Prof,
and Mrs. Switzoi^ S. Wigfall, who
announce that tHe Colored divis-
Hon will also have coffee parties
and other various activities to
raise MOD funds.
On Friday, the “Marching Ma-
rinfs” will visit Newberry. The
Maifyies (shown in a photo else-
whefe in this issue) started their
376 rtiile march across South Car
olina iMonday. Their aim is “a
dime a step” across the state, all
funds koing to the March of
Dimes. ^
The Mtjines will arrive in New
berry about 1 p.m, and Haile’s
Truck sto]p will treat them to
lunch. Trie Wiseman hotel will
furnish a room for their use for
a short rest before they proceed
to Prosperity, where they will
camp for ^he night on Wightman
church grounds. The public is in
vited to visit and talk to the Ma
rines during their march through
Newberry ai^d their stay in Pros
perity. Members of local Boy
Scout troops i will collect dimes
for the Marir» March before, dur
ing and after their visit The Ma
rines will leaire Prosperity Sat-
opes will be distributed in the
schools for contributions to the
March of Dimes.
WSCS Zone 3
Meets Sunday
At Epting
The meec-mg of Zone 3, Wom
ans Society of Christian Service,
and the Wesleyan Service Guild
will be held Sunday afternoon at
three o'clock at Epting Memor
ial Methodist church.
Mrs. Dwight F. Patterson, of
Laurens, president of the Green
wood district, WSCS, will pre
side. Mrs Hafold L. Timmerman
of North Augusta, district secre
tary of Christian Social Relations
will be the main speaker, with
the subject “United Nations.”
She will show colored slides of
the UN building in connection
with her talk, which should be
extremely interesting and inform
ative, inasmuch as Mrs. Timmer
man visited the United Nations
and attended various sessions in
recent months.
All members of the WSCS and
the Wesleyan Service Guild are
urged to be present and avai
themselves of the opportunity to
learn many facts about the Unit
ed Nations. The public is cordially
invited.
Result Of Fire:
Children Get
A Holiday.
Many school children, at one
time or another, express the wish
that “ the school biiilding would
bum down so we would have a
holiday.” Some 350 children had
that wish granted this week when
fire badly damaged one wing of
the Joanna Elementary school
Tuesday afternoon, as the stu
dents marched quietly from the
building during what they thought
was a practice fire drill.
The fire, discovered about 1:15
by the schooli.janitor, raced thru
one wing of ithe two-story brick
structure but was contained there
by the Joaniia. volunteer fire de
partment with the help of the
Clinton department.
•Jchool officials said only the
fact that two fire doors, one at
each end of the corridor, were
closed kept the entire building
from going’ up in flames.
G. N. Foy, of Joanna, assistant
areq school superintendent, said
the right wing of the building
was a complete loss. This wing
contained six classrooms, the lib
rary and restrooms. Mr. Foy said
that many of the children lost
their wrap^, books and ocher per
sonal belongings as they filod
hurriedly, but in an orderly man
ner, from the building.
Cause of the fire was unknowq,
Mr. Foy said. The school recently
converted to gas as fuel for the
boiler, but the fire appeared to
have originated in a small amount
of coal still remaining in the bin.
There was no school for Joanna
students Wednesday.
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Gene Phipps of Conway had a
narrow escape when his tractor-
trailer truck, shown above, was
struck by a Southern railway en
gine in Newberry about 5 a. m.
Monday.
Phipps was carried to the local
hospital where he was treated for
a head wound, then dismissed.
Engineer jjA. Butler of Green
wood stated that lie was making
about 25 miles per hour and
the truck approaching the cross
ing but believed the driver would
stop. Phipps told officers that he
did not see the engine until the
impact. The front of the truck
was badly damaged.
Mr, Phipps had delivered a
load, of grain in Newberry, and
was returning home, according to
Ray Schumpert, assistant chief
investigated.
of polfce, who tuTrovig.vwt.
Mr. Phipps was not the only
one to narrowly escapqf injury,
as a result of the accident. As a
wrecker was pulling up the truck,
the cable holding the vehicle
slipped loose and swung around,
narrowly missing several bystand
ers, including the Sun photo
grapher who took the picture
above.
DAR CHAPTER
MEETS FRIDAY
Jasper Chapter, D.A.R. wil
meet Friday at 4 p.m. at the home
of Miss Rose Hamm. Associate
hoatesees will be Miss Julia Kih-
ler, Mrs. E. S. Sutherland and
Mrs. P. N. Nichols.
On December Slat, R. Aubrey Harley, city attorney, administered oatlie of office to members of City
Council who took office January I, 1960. In the photo. Mayor Ernest Layton, standing at left, congrat
ulates the only new member of Council, Clarence Shealy, Jr, from Ward 8. Also standing, left to right
from Mr. Shealy are C. A. Dufford, Sr., Ward 2; City Cleric and Treasurer W. C. Wallace, Mr. Harley,
City Manager Ed Blackwell, and Frank Armfield, Ward 1. Seated are Councilman C. B. DeHart, Ward
4, Dwight W. Jones, Ward 6 amt Cecil Merchant, Ward 5. (Sunphoto.)
Mrs. Folk Dies
Tuesday; Rites
Were Wednesday
Mrs. Lily May Caldwell Folk,
78, the Long Lane- Beth Eden
community, died suddenly early
Tuesday morning at a local hos
pital after a brief illness.
She was bom in Newberry
county, a daughter of the late
James William and Sadie Wicker
Caldwell.
She was the last surviving
member of her immediate family
and way a member of Beth Eden
Lutheran church and a life mem
ber of United Lutheran W^men.
Mro. Folk T^as first irarr.ed to
the late J. Horace Brown. Sur
viving from this man* age ore
two sons, James D. Brown, New
berry, and R. Haskell Brown, of
Clinton.
Her second marriage was to
the late Chris M. Folk, Surviving
from this marriage are three
daughters, Mrs. Olin II. Lomi-
nick of Pomaria, Misses Sarah
and Lillie Mae Folk, both of the
home; one son, Hamilton H. Folk,
of Newberry; nine grandchildren,
and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at 8:80 p.m. Wednesday ut the
Beth Eden Lutheran church by
the Rev. Alvin H. Haigler. Bur
ial was in the church cemetery.
Active pallbearer were Sims
W. Caldwell, Alan J. Caldwell,
Wylie H. Caldwell, Richard B.
Caldwell, L. Edward Chandler and
John H. Baker.
Composing the honroary escort
were members of the church coun
cil of Beth Edep church.
Flower attendants were Mrs.
John Walker, Mrs. Alan Caldwell,
Mrs. John W. Smith, Mrs. L. Ed
ward Chandler, Mrs. Alien Ox-
ner, Mrs. Gus B. Franklin, Mrs.
William D. Cromer and Mrs. Ad
am Price.
Thomas H. Pope Is Honorary
Chairman State Heart Fund
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Thomas H. Pope, promt
Newberry attorney, will be Hon*,
orary Chairman of the Soutu
Carolina Heart Fund Drive, it waai
announced today by R. Cathcart
Smith, M.D., of Conway, Presi
dent of the South Carolina Heart
Association. The annual drive is
responsible for raising funds to
continue the Heart Association’s
program of medical research, com
munity service and education
throughout the state. The cam
paign begins with the opening of
Heart Month, February 1, and
continues through February 29.
“The heart and blood vesssl di
seases are the State’s Number
One Health Enemy, taking more
lives each year than all other
causes of death combined,” Mr.
pointmenL “The Heart Fund,” he
continued, “is our Number One
Defense agajnst these diseases.
“The Heajb Fund has made
monies available for heart re
search at the Medical College in
Charleston 'during the past ten
years,” he pointed out. Continuing
he said, ‘As a result, we have wit
nessed impressive advances in
the fight against the cardiovascu
lar diseases. With the aid of Heart
Association grants, Medical Scien
tists have developed outstanding
new methods for saving hearts
through surgery, and devised new
methods for diagnosing and treat
ing disorders of the heart and
blood vessels.”
“But research alone is not
enough to handle heart disease,”
he continued. “Knowledge from
research is only one step toward
the application of that knowledge
in the care of heart patients. Our
Heart Association mujt have, the
means to enlarge its present pro
gram of professional education
for physicians and nurses and to
continue its program of public in
formation for us, the laymen who
harbor so many mistaken notions
about heart trouble.”
Largely because of Heart As
sociation effort, Americans are
now more hopeful than ever before
about th$ heart diseases, Mr. Fope
pointed out. Most of us now know
that some forms of heart disease
can be prevented, other types cor
rected, and that cardiac patients
can usually continue to lead pro-
'But, most important,” he con
tinued, “tho public has recognized
that, through the tireless re
search carried on by - Medical
Scientists with the help of Heart
we shall even-
over Ihe heart
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Mr. Pope, a Newberry attorney,
has been active in political, mili
tary and other civic life. He was
born in Newberry faunty, and i»
the son of Mrs. M *rie Gary Pope
and the late Dr. Thomas H. Pope.
He is married to the former Mary
Waties Lumpkin of Columbia and
they have three children, Mary
Waties, Thomas H., Jr. and Gary
Tus ten.
He was elected chairman of the
State Democratic Executive Com
mittee in March 1958. In 1950, Mr.
Pope waged a vigorous, although
unsuccessful campaign for govern-
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BIRTHDAY
GREETINGS
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YULE VISITORS
Christmas holiday visitors in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hal
Kohn Sr. on Johnstone street were
children and grandchildren: Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Hicks and family
of Fiakdale, Mass., Mias Verna
Kohn, librarian at Pineloch High
School in Orlando, and Mr. and
Mrs. Hal Kohn Jr. and family of
Columbia. Other guests were Miss
Mary English of Florence and
Mrs. Charles Forkner of Sumter.
Miss Verna Kohn returned to Or
lando Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Beat, and
hree sons have returned to their
lome in Toledo, Ohio, after
spending the Christmas holidays
with Mrs. Beat’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. R. Derrill Smith on Main
street.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Senn are
now residing at 1101 Fair street
Thia is the wing of the Joanna Elementary School building which
was damaged by Are Tuesday afternoon. Damage to the roof may be
setm in the far right corner. (Sunphoto.)
Jan. 10: Mrs. Lucy McCarthy.
Mrs. H. R. Brooks, Clara El well
Stokes, Michael Guy Dwyer,
William W. Watkins, Martin
Anthony Franklin, O. H. Shea
ly, Ellen Williamson. .
^ Jan. tl: Mrs. Van Price, Mrs.
Sadie Ringer, Mrs. Tom So
ber, William F. Brooks, Martha
Jam Smith, Evelyn Wright,
Mm William H. Ringer, Joe E.
Bickley, Virgil L. Adame, Mar
garet Linda Hanna.
Jan. 12: Edgar L. Hiller, Mm
Mary Parka Mm Nellie
Stoken, Mary Willis, Linda
Hawkins, Margaret Doolittle,
Jerry Satterwhite, David Cov
ington, Mm M. P. Derrick,
Marsha Mintek, D. Paul Folk
III, Edward Ruff.
Jan. 18: Steve North, Mm
Andreas Oswald, Nora Kathryn
Kiptard, Henry Livingston, D. L.
' Half acre. Mm J. G. Long, T. D.
Pitta, Jack Hughes, Henry W.
Shealy, Mm Thomas Booser,
Mm Gerald Richardson, Marion
Crooks, Brenda Been Graham,
David Floyd.
Jan. 14: Paul B. Eseil, Mabel
Hiller Slaton, Mm James
Brown, Richard L. McWhirter,
Mm Donald White, France* E.
Sims, Joseph W. Hlpp, Nath-
line Knight, Richard Henry
Ruff, Claudia S. Hinson, Harvey
M. Jordan, Lewis Lipscomb Jr.,
Alice R. Milstead.
Jan. 15: Mrs. Edna H. Feagle,
Edna Hite P. Ringer, Ann Work
man, r§T. D. Pitts Jr., Kirkaey
Koon, Mm O. A. F* liter, Ednas
Paysinger.
Jan. 16: James Montgomery
Smith III, W. M. Buford J%
Wynana L. Terrell, Ciiftrn
Floyd, EHea Altman.