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.T IS NEEDED is a device that ring a bell and turn out the ts when it’s time to go home. 23: NUMBER 47 have been relayed to ie that many of you have been sted and concerned as to my since I so suddenly and un> toniousiy found myself on an table some 10 or 12 ago. I am most appreciative your interest and sincerely not only you, but others •who have remembered me with 'Cards, flowers, gifts, and those who have stopped by to chat -awhile. And I must especially thank all of the wonderful baby- aitters. I am still in the hospital as 1 write this, but I hope to be home with my family again by time jrou read it. THE CASE If my strength will hold out just a litle longer, I want to tell you that “Aunt Ban” Blease man aged to borrow for me the copy ci “The Case for the South” which ^he author, Bill Workman, had aent to Judge Blease. I have not finished reading it but I can tell _you that Bill Workman has come up with facts that were surpris ing to me—such as just how far northern newspapers and periodi cals have gone to distort the pic ture of the South in the eyes of cur Yankee neighbors. I urgently recommend that you read “The Case for the South,” and send, or at least recommend it, to your friends in other parts cf the country so they can get a true picture of what the contro- -versy is all about. Abtams Named * Chairman Of Demo. Group * ■*. - y. . •. ■ Pinckney N. Abrams, who for years has been prominent in Newberry county politics, was el ected chairman of the Newberry County Democratic Executive Committee at a special meeting held in the court house last Sat urday. He was selected to suc ceed the late B. V. Chapman who was named chairman March 7th shortly before his sudden death. Abrams, for many years Au ditor for Newberry county, re signed to accept a position as sec retary-treasurer with the State Building and Loan Association. He also served a number of years as a Newberry County Com missioner of Elections. Mrs. Eloise Wright, Vice Chairman, presided at the meet ing, which was opened by prayer by Ed. Hazel. A Resolution in memory of the late Mr. Chapman was adopted as follows: Whereas, the members of the Newberry County Executive Com mittee, with deep regret, on Mon day, March 7, 1960, received the sad tidings of the death of The Honorable B. V. Chapman, and Whereas, members of this com mittee and cognizant of his years of outstanding and distinguished service, and Whereas, those duties so admir ably discharged by him are well known, it would seem superfluous and unnecessary that these ac complishments be listed in this Resolution, embodied with grief (Continued on page 2) EXCELLENT DEPORTMENT is a sad credential to a father whose son has failed in arithmetic. / I iiii v r + $2.00 PER YEAR K&a wl mt: [*+> Jaycees To Hold LAURA, left, and PAULA RICHARDSON stand aside while others not In the camera’s eye admire their handiwork. The snowman, properly attired in surgical regalia, adds the proper note to the Newberry County Memorial Hospital grounds during the most recent snow. > To the rear is the World War II Memorial. The snowman is facing the front of the hospital where he may been seen by the patients. Laura and Paula are daughters of Mr. Lawrence Richardson, administrator of the hospital, and Mrs. Richardson. (Sunphoto). 1 The annual teen-age driving ’•odeo, sponsored by the Newberry Ci.’xnter of the Jaycees, will be held on April 13 in the Colonial Store parking lot, according to a spokesman for the Jaycees. Written tests will be given at Newberry high school on April 11 by Donny Layton, and at Mid- Carolina by Bobby Stokes. County first prize winner will receive a $26 savings bond, and runner-up will get a $10 cash award. The County winner will com pete in the State contest at a lat ter date, and the State winner, will move up to the national con test. The contest is sponsored nat ionally by the Junior Chamber of - Commerce organization. Hawkins Enters m Representative J. F. Hawkins announced this week for the office of Senator from Newberry County. Mr. Hawkins h*s been a member of the House of Representatives for four years. He is a farmer and for many years was engaged in the feed and milling business. Last Rites For Fred Dominick Held Sunday is Fluoridation Issus Brings Letters From Opponents IP* Dear Sir: There's so much going on about the flouridation of our city water that I’d like to take this opportun ity to tell you I’m definitely Against it. I have a urinary and kidney dis turbance and have had for some time, I’ve been in the hospital aeveral times and 2m still taking treatments. One day a friend suggested I drink chemical free water and I tried it and got betver for awhile. told my local doctor about it and he said that drinking chemical Tree water would often help. I also asked my kidney specialist in Columbia if I couldn’t drink our regular city wat<*r since I have to get my water from a well and Lring it home to drink. And he suggested that I stay on Chemical Tree Water. So then, doesn’t this suggest that all chemical addi tions are against people like me? And there are oh! so many others like me. I could name you lots of them just in my community. So for all the unfortunate people like ns, won’t you please keep up free from flouride? Mrs. Julia Senn March 11, 1960. Fluoridation of drinking water Ss a serious problem in relation to health of the chonically ill, since fluorine is a cumulative ele ment. The decision should not be based upon any “hit or miss” pro cess. No one can guarantee equal disbursement of sodium fluoride In each glass of water nor that each person will drink the same amount, not to mention concentra tions in the boiling of foods. Scientific experiments have es tablished that sodium fluoride is a deadly poison and must be pre* scribed with utmost caution and exactness. As to a conclusion that fluorine in drinking water, by it self, can prevent tooth decay, scientific men have proved by ex tensive methods that this is not the case. It was found that people in communities with sources of drinking water, with relative high fluorine content, still had decayed teeth. Since sodium fluoride is a pois on, It will not be ami*« to com pare it with such pu/ions as arse- lead and cyanide. This can be by computing the safety fac- of each as compared with fluorine. Two experts, Herbert E. Stoldnger, Jr., Chief Toxicologist, Occupational Health Program, United States Public Health Serv- Cincinnati, and IT chard L. Woodard, Chief of Water Supply, Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engin eering Center, Public Health Serv- . ice, Cincinnati, expressed their findings in an article, published by the JOURNAL OF THE AM ERICAN WATER WORKS, issue of April 1958, which dealt with “Toxicological Methods for Estab lishing Drinking Water Stand ards.” The article stated that the safety factor of arsenic is 10, that of lead is 3 to 10, that of cyanide is 40 to 125 while that of fluor ine is zero! This means that any thing over -.25 parts of sodium fluoride per million parts of drink ing water is likely to be toxic and is so dangerous that the amount actually recommended by the Public Health Service is the larg est amount that could be risked without possible harm. It seems that by this scale, either arsenic, lead or cyanide in drinking water, when within the safety factor, would be safer than fluorine; but who would want to drink such con taminated waters? Since the limit of one part of sodium fluoride per million parts of water is based upon the assumption that every one who drinks fluoridated water is a “healthy person” and not a child nor the chronically ill with such complaints as diabetes, heart trouble of any kind, high blood pressure, arthritis, etc., why jeo pardize the lives of so many by taking risks which do not justify claimed benefits for a condition that can be safely and easily rem edied by non-poisonous methods? A quotation from the JOUR NAL OF THE DENTAL ASSO CIATION OF SOUTH AFRICA, issue of July 1959, concerning fluoridation, reads, “the efficacy of fluoridation in reducing the in cidence of dental caries is open to doubt; no positive proof of the safety of fluoridation has yet been advanced—indeed, as the so- called therapeutic concentration of fluoride, arbitrarily establish ed as 1 pm in drinking water, is the toxic range, it actually can constitute a health hazard; the fuction of a public water supply ifi to provide pure, safe water for every body, not to serve as a ve hicle for drugs: with the present state of knowledge, it probably would be better to attempt to ex tract fluorine from drinking water rather than insert it, and to coun ter tooth decay by dietary means.” Dr. Douw Steyn, Professor of Pharmacology in the University of Pretoria, South Africa, after years of close study, supports the evidence “that fluoridation can impair general systematic health.” Fluoridation has its opponents and its protagonists. Such is the freedom of choice and the free dom of speech in our system of government. However, in view of the above information, gathered in part, from the March, 1960 issue of the magazine, Prevention, with a circulation of 230,000, it seems that it would be the better part of wisdom to choose in the cause Former U. S. Rep. Frederick Haskell Dominick, 83, died sud denly early Friday morning at his home on Harrington Street in Newberry. He had been in declin ing health for several years. Mr. Dominick was born at Peak, son of the late Jacob Lu ther and Georgia Ann Minick Dominick. He lived in Columbia during his boyhood and attended the Columbia City School and South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina). When he moved to Newberry in 1895, he att nded Newberry Col lege. He read law in the office of Johnstone and Cromer and then went to law school at the Univer sity of Virginia. He entered the practice of law in Newberry in the law firm of Blease and Domi nick. When Colie Blease was elect ed governor of South Carolina the office of Dominick and Workman was formed. As a young man he served as city attorney and later as county attorney of Newberry County. He was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives and was a member of that body until 1902. Since 1900, until recent years, he has been a delegate at every Demo cratic convention in the state, with the exception of one in 1914. He served as comittee chairman of the Newberry Democratic Com mittee from 1906 to 1914 and served as a delegate to the Demo cratic National Convention at San Francisco in 1902 and at New York City in 1924. From April, 1913, until April 1916, he was assistant attorney general of South Carolina, resign ing in 1916. He was elected to Congress on March 4, 1917, and retired March 4, 1933. While in Congress, he was a member of the judiciary and other commit tees. During World War II he was assistant to the U. S. Attorney General Tom Clark in Washing ton. He was a member of the Luth eran Church of the Redeemer, a member of Amity Lodge No. 87, A.F.M., Signet Chapter No. 18, R. A.M., Commandery No. 6, K.T., and the Hejaz Temple of the Shrine. He also was a member of the Sons of the American Revolu tion and of the Sons of the Con federate Veterans. On December 19, 1927, he was married to the former Miss Alva Seger, the daughter of the late Congressman and Mrs. George W. Seger of Passaic, New Jersey. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Alva Seger Domihick; two daugh ters, Mrs. Caroll W. (John Seger Dominick) Bartlett, of Waynes boro, Va., and Miss Doris Seger Dominick of Atlanta, Ga.; one brother, Harry W. Dominick of Newberry; two sisters, Miss Cora L. Dominick and Miss Mazie Dom- (Cintinued on page 2) of caution and safety rather than plunge into the real of health haz ards by adopting fluoridation of our drinking water. T. L. HILL Lengthy Roster Faces Term Hendrix Gets Of General Sessions Courf |ln Race For Supervisor Criminal court will convene on Monday morning,’ March 21, with Judge John Grimball of Columbia presiding. To be tried are the following continued and new cases: Continued cases: Roy Wise, drunk driving, sec ond offense. Jonas Amick, violation of liq uor law. William P. Wise, violation of the liquor law. •• -- -- - - : William Jenkins, Jr., 2 Inv manslaughter and reckless homi cide. v James Westbrook, disposing un der lien. James Hunnicutt, 2-Inv. man slaughter and reckless homicide. Ashley Able, leaving accident. Vernon Wise, Inv. manslaugh ter and reckless homicide. C. Ashley Able, AppeaL New Cases: John Odis Matthews, H. B. and Petty Larceny, Grand Larceny, H. B. and Grand Larceny. Earl Harris, H. B. and Petty Larceny. - Stanley Earl Harris, G. Larc eny. Floyd Sims, A. and B. to kill. Harold Woodrow Madden, H. B. and Grand Larceny. Todd Jeter, H. B. and Petty Larceny (13), H.B. and Grand Larceny (5), Grand Larceny. James Williams, H. B. and Pet ty Larceny (2), H. B. and Grand Larceny. James Williams, House B. and Petty Larceny (2), H. B. and Grand Larceny. James Williams, Jr., H. B. and Grand Larceny (3), H. B. and Petty Larceny (6), A. and B. to kill. Robert Sims, H. B. and Grand Larceny (3), H. B. and Petty Larceny (6). James Franklin, Jr. H. B. and Petty Larceny. James Sims, Jr. H. B. and Pet ty Larceny. (5). James Sims, H. B. and Petty Lprceny. Gerald Woodrow Madden, H. B. and Grand Larceny. Ervin Swittenburg, violation of liquor law. Leroy Boozer, A. and B. to kill. Clarence G. Thompson, druhken driving, second offense. Herbert »Wilson, bastardy. L. T.- Davis, non-support. Horace Swittenburg, A. and B. intent to kill. Johnnie Lee Hunter (2) assault with deadly weapon, A. and B. intent to kill. Charles Sligh, breaking and en tering. Gibbes Waddell, H. B. and G. Larceny, G. Larceny. Jessie Dean, H. B. and Petty Larceny. Clinton Gary, Grand Larceny, automobile: Willie Ruff, non-support. Henry Foulk, Grand Larceny. Jimmie Williams, murder. Charles Arrowwood, Jr. steal ing from car. (2). Richie H. Church, stealing from car (2). Chnrles McKee, stealing from (car (2). Willie Williems, H. B. and Grand Larceny. J. M. Howell, pointing firearms. James Wilson, pointing fire arms. Kelly Goff, Jr., H. B. and G. Larceny. Lottie Free, disposing of prop erty under lien. Henry Hendrix, H. B, and G. Larceny. Robert Louis Johnson, Grand Larceny. . Thomas Willie Sims, A. and B. to kill. Eugene Alexander, breaking, entering and larceny. Ira Singleton, breaking, enter ing and larceny. Yancey Suber, breaking, enter ing and larceny. Eddie Louis Rhode, non- sup port. s- George Caldwell, A. and B. to kill. Robert Earl Moore, forgery. Hugh Boyd Davenport, forgery. Elizabeth McNary, Grand Lar ceny. James H. Sullivan, H. B. and Grand Larceny (2). Louis Nance Summerlin, Grand Larceny. Sandra Lynn Summerlin, G. Larceny. William Dan Epting, vioUtion of liquor law. John Finney, William Darr port, A. and B. kill. Eugene Downing, non-support. Cleophus Wise, malicious' in jury. Willie Lee Stephenson, drunken driving. William B. Weir, drunken driv ing, third offense. James L. Adams, drunken driv- ipgr. James E. Childers, drunken driving, third offense. Freddie Lee Matthews, A and B. with intent to kill. Harold B. Hendrix, agriculture teacher of Prosperity, has an nounced his candicacy for Super visor of Newberry County. Mr. Hendrix was born and rear ed in Lexington County, is a grad uate of Lexington High School and Clemson College. He graduat ed in 1980 with a degree in Ani mal Husbandly. He taught voca tional agriculture in Little Moun tain and Pomaria for five years, and in Prosperity and Mid-Caro lina High Schools for seventeen years. ' v-fe M ■’ mm > H ' m m He is a life long resident of New berry County. In announcing his candidacy, Mr. Hawkins stated, “I have en joyed serving my county in the capacity of representative for two terms and the fine support heretofore given me by the voters of my county has been heart warming. My sole purpose in of fering for the Senate is the fact that this office will give me a ■ serve _ my county with whom politics before. I have been so closely associated all my life. The only promise T now make 6r will make during my campaign is to give the utmost of my ability to the duties of this great office of trust and responsi bility. Monday noon, March 21, is the deadline for candidates with' as pirations for county political of fices. ' A number of candidates have qualified with the Executive committee and. sever'd others have , announced intentions thru the press, but have yet to file with the county chairman and pay the :*ee. At noon Wednesday the follow ing candidates had completed re quirements for being included on the Democratic ballot: Jesse Frank Hawkins, for the past two terms, a member of the House of Representatives, filed for the Senate seat R. Aubrey Harley, incumbent has not s publicly his intention to J again. * •/ f In the House race for two seats T. William Hunter, incumbent and D. ,P. (Jabbo) Folk have quali fied. Steve C, Griffith, Jr. $haa also announced, bu- had not filed Wednesday morning. Mr. Folk made the House race two years ago, but was eased out by. Mr. Hunter and Mr. Hawkins. Mr, Griffith is a new-comer'to poli tics. S. W. Shealy, County Super visor has filed to Succeed him self. Harold B. Hendrix, agricul tural teacher at Mid-Carolina has announced that he will be a can didate for this office. In the Commissioner District 1 race, Carman Bouknight, incum bent, has. announced that he wQI seek reelection. / In the Commissioner No. 2 race Ross George, incumbent, has an nounced for reelection and ip S. Virgil Williamson, newcomer to politics, has Hied for the same office. Tally© H. Shealy, Magistrate at Pomaria, has offered for realet- and it iwing opposed by h. '&J Wm ■jfe breach of trust. Epting, non-sup- with intent to ISP ffe 1 ’■ $ •- mm ■ ■ M ■ 3 £ : Hendrix Monts has returned to his home on Bachman &t. from the Providence Hospital in Colum bia where he underwent surgery. Besides serving as chairman of the troop committee of the Boy Scouts and a member of the council of Grace Lutheran Church, and is an adult Sunday School Class teacher, former Superin tendent of Sunday School, a mem ber of the Farm Bureau, Grange, American Vocational Association, and a member of the South Caro lina Education Association. Mr. Hendrix, who is 53 years of age, has one son, Billy, now in service and one daughter, Mrs. J. H. Barnes of Prosperity. Both are graduates of Newberry Col lege. Police Blotter For February Intoxicants led the list of viola tions in the City of Newberry again in February* with 15 cases being made by local police offi cers. Police Chief Cplie Dowd’s Feb ruary report lists the ' following infractions of the law: Illegal liquor, 2; assault mnd battery, 1; driving intoxicatea, 2; resisting arrest, 1; creating dis turbance, <\* no driver’s license, 1; failing to yield right of way, 8; Reckless driving, 1; driving too fast for conditions, 3; driving too close, 1; trespassing, 3; petty lar ceny, 1; threatening, 1; running stop sign, 2. Chief Dowd also commented that for the first time in memory no arrests were made by city officers Saturday .or Sunday of last week. M .:V': . Miss Marguerite Burns was tak en suddenly ill at her apartment in Columbia last Friday. She was admitted to the Columbia Hospital where she underwent major sur gery on Friday. She is doing as well as cbuld be expected. Her mother, Mrs. J. L. Bums and sis ter, Miss Evelyn Burns live on Kiwanis Club Institutes Scholarship Program For Newberry County Youth The Kiwanis Club of Newberry has announced a Newberry College Scholarship which will be award- jed to a Newberry county student graduating from high school this year. Reverend Kenneth B. Wil son, Chairman of the Vocational Guidance Committee of the Club, said “The Board of Directors and the entire dub is pleased to an nounce the granting of a three hundred dollar ($300.00) scholar ship to Newberry College as a pro ject of the dub and as evidence of our interest and confidence in our youth. The award will be to New berry College In appreciation for the significant work they are do ing not only in the field of educa tion, but in their contribution to the building of the cultural and educational level of this commun ity. This award, we hope, will be as grpat a challenge to some de serving young person as it is to our club.” Applications for the “Kiwanis Scholarship” may be procured from the office of the high school principals. In addition to the, fil ing of the application, each appli cant will be requested to make ar rangements with Newberry -Col lege to take the College Entrance Exams. Applications will not be considered unless this examination has been taken and certified by the registrar. While scholarship will be the primary consideration, personality, character, life purpose and need will be influential factors in the final decision. It is hoped that the recipient of the award will be the boy or girl with the greatest scholarship potential but at the same time, the individual to whom the grant would be most mean- inguful in their prepartion for life. The Kiwanis Chib urges all int erested high school seniors to ob tain the application forme on Fri day of this week and immediately make arrangements for their ent rance testing,. The award of this scholarship will be made at the commencement'service of the high school of the winning student. Members of the Vocational Guidance Committee responsible for the Scholarship Program are Leon Nichols, Gus Ellis, Larry Seaman, and Ed Brooks, ex offi cio and President of the Kiwanis Club. Dr. Chits Kaufmann and Professor Hubert Setaler will serve on the Scholarship commit tee also. Others who have either quali fied of announced are Au Ralph Black; Treasurer, J. Dawkins; Sheriff, Tom Fellers; Magistrate, Ben Fi Dawkins; Sapt of Education, James D. BroWn; Coroner, George R. Summer; Clerk of Court, Burke M. Wijse; Whitmire Magistrate, John Foe-' ter; Prosperity Magistrate, W. B. Wicker; Little Mountain Magis trate, Andrew F. Shealy. Civic League m Hear Lecture The Civic League will > meet Tuesday, March 22 at 3 p.m. at the Community Hall. Mis. Thom as Edwards, of Greenville, will lecture and demonstrate Period Flower Arrangements. AH members are urged to be present and prospective member# will be most welcome. r M& PI BIRTHDAY GREETINGS March 20: Harry William Harris, C. W. Bowers, Mrs. E. R Setzler, J. C. “Fox" Boozer, Mrs. Pope L. \iuford Jr n Eleanor Ridgeway, Mts. W« W. Watkins, Mrs. Marvin W. Long, Janice Whitaker and Mrs. P. K. Harmon. March 21: Dan Bradley, Har vey Richardson, Wade Pitts, Barbara Davis, Mrs. William H. Hawkins, Mary Sue Clar , S. A. Baggett Jr„ and Abbie Abrams Martin, daughter of Mr. mad Mrs. Wayne Martin. March 22: Mrs. Willard Byrd, Daniel Hugh McHargue Jr., Mrs. Hal Kotin Sr., Mks. J. C. Atkison, Mrs. Sydney Carter, Norms Raff, Mrs. John Liqdler Jr., A. A. Cleiand, Mrs. Ellen Maddox, Panla Monroe and Tommy Spotts. March 23: Mrs. Frank Mower, Mrs. L. D. Nickels, Joyce Chap men, Larry Danielson, Unde Waldrop, Mrs. J. W. “BUI” Smith, Lather R. Bedenbeagh and Miss Jo Shannon. March 24: Mrs. Fred Richard son, Mrs. Jeff Waldrop, Richard Perkins and Hayne Shealy. March 25: Rev. M. L. Kester, Nancy Stone McDonald, U. Howard N. Parks, David H. Long, Mrs. Helen B. Folk, Mrs. Boyd Lhrhigstba, Jeanette Rine hart, Marcos Hendrix, Janies Ringer, and Myrle Hanna. March 2f: Caroline Pool, Mrs. B. D. Blackwell, Marvin Eugene