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Even worse than getting your friends to arrive on time is getting them to leave when they should. » H<^w to refuse gracefully an un wanted Invitation is an art which, few know. ' ■ i > VOLUME 24—NUMBER 6 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, f ^ m mk - •• •• THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1960 Guard Unit To Train At Sixty-one officers and enlist men of the Headquarters ai Headquarters Detachment, 228th Combat Area Signal Group, will undergo their annual two weeks active duty training at Fort Gor don, Ga., beginning Sunday. They will leave by convoy from the Na- aves Sunday brgia make arrangements for the re mainder of the officers and men. The advance group will include Col. B. F. Wingard, Group Com mander; Lt. Col. J. L. Welling, Signal Officer; ' Maj. Jerry O’ Quinn .adjutant and detachment commander; Maj. James W. tional Guard Armory Sunday Counts, Supply Officer; First morning at 8 a.m. and will re- Sergdant Thomas J. Longshore, f fig? | i-il. ^ ^llfo ife /&* m turn Sunday morning, June 104 While there, the officers and men will attend schools designed to in* crease their efficiency in Army Signal work. There are 20 offfc cers, two warrant officers and 20 enlisted men in the Headquarters and Detachment., An advance detachment will leave this (Thursday) morning to Master Sergeant Curtis O. Chap man, and Sergeants First Class Paul M. Werts and R. Frasier Sanders. The other Guard units in New berry, composed of approximately 825 men, will train at Fort Stew art, Ga. They will leave on Sun day, June 26 to begin their two weeks summer encampment. _ $2.00 PER i'jLj kSV I Slfti m " >nr — —__________ TAKING PART in the naming of Kaufmann Hall at Newberry college Sunday afternoon were, left to fight. Dr. Conrad B. Park, acting president of the college; Dr. Karl Kinard, president of the S. C. Synod; Mrs. C. A. Kaufmann, Dr. Kaufmann, Rev. Fred E. Dufford of Charleston, Dr. H. Odell Harman, chair man of the Board of Trustees, and Dr. Raymond D. Wood, president of the Georgia-Alabama Synod. (Photo by Nichols.) , ■ By The Way ~ bp 3)or id Sander A THAT SUBJECT AGAIN It has been several weeks since I tackled the subject of the Na tional Education Association, but anytime something comes to my attention which exposes the aims of this group, I feel that I should pass it on to you. In this way, you can see that I am not the only one who has a fear of this tremendous organization which, .through its lobbying for federal aid to education and through oth- «r means, poses a threat to our free school system. Following are excerpts from an arii61e written by Russell Turner and published in the December 1956 issue of American Mercury magazine. This was written, you will notice, four years ago. The threat is even greater today. Turner says: “Another close ob server of the world of education, who generally is of ’liberal’ faith, applies this phrase to the NEA: *A bureaucracy of incompetents shaping highly important basic policies for the U. S.’ ” After explaining the headquart ers set-up of NEA and various of its programs, Mr. Turner says: Another facet of the NEA’s planning for its 1957 Centennial is a drive to enroll 1,000,000 mem bers by the time the convention meets in Philadelphia. This goal, regarded by most observers as un likely of achievement, would leave very few non-NEA member public school teachers anywhere in the country. Regardless of whether the goal is reached, each new member adds his mite to the weight of the NEA influence and lobbying authority, and further depresses the odds on the millions of opponents of federal aid being able to hold the line against the NEA’s re-enforced onslaughts. Many NEA members are them selves opposed to the idea of fed eral aid; but its policy delibera tions are such that these voices are unheard. The NEA insists that federal aid is nothing new, that it has been going on in various forms ever since the pre-Constitution Congress, in the Ordinance of 1785, provided that the sixteenth section of every township in the Northwest Territory, then a na tional possession, should be set aside for the support of public schools. It insists that federal aid can be given without interference in the conduct of local school sys tems. But it has failed to convince untold millions of Americans, who believe that if the federal govern ment controls the purse strings, it will control the spending, too; even the NEA says it wants no federal control, although ' many regard this assertion as merely an expedient bow to an over- whelming public opinion. It seeks to disguise its yearn ing for the open sesame to the federal treasury by resorting to the shopworn argument that some states are unable to finance pro per school systems; it says that since relatively impecunious states contribute to the financial welfare of wealthier states (auto mobile purchases in Alabama, for instance, contribute wealth to De troit and other parts of Michigan), the wealthier states should contri bute to the economic - welfare (meaning schools) of the poorer states. On its face, the argument sounds logical; examine it more closely, and it is part and parcel of the Liberal effort to concen trate all power and authority in the hands of the federal govern ment, and to relegate the states to the status of mere governmen tal shells, without force or mean ing. The NEA says its sole purpose is to improve the hataoh*s educa tional facilities and methods. But to carry out that aim, it adopts the posture of the ultimate know- all of wisdom on the subject; it is bothered not one whit, appar ently, by the fact that the meth ods and means which it advocates are criticized widely, even from within the educational world. These within-the-fraternit> critics include many college professors who have become disgusted with the wholly-inadequate academic base of graduates of NEA-domi- nated schools; these and other critics say NEA policies are so preoccupied with requiring teach ers to take educational courses on how to teach, both undergraduate and postgraduate courses, that all too often, secondary school teach ers themselves lack any proper knowledge of the subject they are trying to teach. Criticism is equally rife on many other counts, such as Ru dolph Flesch’s now-famous in dictment of NEA practices, Why Johnny Can’t Read; it provoked intemperate, unconvincing name calling answers in tiie NEA Jour nal. If the NEA wishes to be a schoolteachers’ trade union, it should restrict itself to trade-un ion activities. If it wishes to be a research organization honestly determining the best available methods of instruction, it would be infinitely better off to avoid mingling those research activi ties with politics and to allow a full voice to those who disagree with its findings. If it wishes to be a political lobby, it should so state and not function as a lobby under the pious guise of education al welfare. Put the trade union, the pur ported research and the political lobby activities under a single tent, and you have the bureau- cratic melange which is the Na tional Education Association. Al together, it is a far cry from the protector cf the nation’s public schools which it claims to be. MEET MONDAY WSCS Circles of Central Meth odist Church will meet Monday, June 6 with the following host esses: No. 1, Mrs. Ernest E. Ringer, Whitmire highway, 4 p.m. No. 2, Mrs. George W. Graham, 1000 Boundary St., 4 p.m. No. 3, Mrs. Henry Lominack, 1115 Hunt St., 10:30 a.m. No. 4 (Julia White), Church Social Hall, Mrs. J. L. Nobles and Mrs. T. S. Humphries co-hostesses, 8 p.m. No. 5, Mrs. H. B. Kirkegard, 1728 Boundary St., 10:30 a.m. No. 6, Mrs. D. O. Carpenter, 533 Boundary St., 4 p.m. Spray Program To Begin In County Monday During tne next three months, June, July and August, a spray ing program will be carried on in the towns of Prosperity, Pomaria, Whitmire and Little Mountain, and the city of Newberry by the Newberry County Health Depart ment. This spraying program has proven effective in the elimina tion of flies, mosquitoes and oth er insects. Spraying alone, how* ever, cannot accomplish a 100% goal. It is up to individuals to help. Sanitation begins in the home, says Dr. V. A. Long, health officer, so the full coop eration of each individual is re quested in carrying out the pro gram. Dr. ; Long states: “You, as an individual, can help by: “1. See that you have a sani tary garbage can with tight fit ting cover, one that is ample for your needs, but not exceeding a 30 gallon capacity. “2. Eliminate stagnant water which will cause most breeding places for insects, flies, and mos quitoes. Get rid of old tires, bot tles, cans, etc. “3. Clean up debris which causes fly breeding-places such as cow yards, dog pens, chicken yards and rabbit pens, etc. “4. Have all vacant lots cut since they harbor mosquitoes, etc Have adequate drainage for such lots. “5. Cockroaches are certainly unwanted and uninvited guests in any home. They destroy food and damage fabrics, book bindings, and other materials. They spread filth and carry diseases when they run over food. Some of the di seases which cockroaches carry are food poisoning and diarrhea. There are about fifty-five differ ent kinds of roaches in the U. S. and nearly all of them live out doors. Some of these may enter homes, but there are only four kinds of roaches which are com monly found in buildings. These four are the American cockroach, the German cockroach, sometimes called Croton Bug, the Oriental cockroach, and the brown banded cockroach. “Sanitation and good house keeping will prevent a build-up of roaches around the home. You should take away their food sup ply by keeping garbage cans tightly covered and storing food in tight containers. Wash the supper dishes. Leaving dirty dishes over night provides the roach with plenty of food. Clean up pantries, storage rooms, and closets. Untidy, dark areas pro vide an ex< client home for the cockroach. The spraying schelude is as fol lows: Pomaria—June 6th, 7th, and Aug. 1st. Little Mountain—June 7th, July 8th, and Aug. 2nd. Prosperity—June 8th, July 11, and Aug. 3rd. Newberry City—June 9th, 10, 13, 14, 15 and 16; July 12, 13, 14, 15, and 18th; Aug. 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th and 10th. Whitmire—June 20, 21, 22 and 23; July 19, 20, 21, and 22; Aug. 11, 12, 15, and 16. High School Graduates Given Scholarship^, Medals, Honors Kay Davis, Charlene Golden, Gloria Abrams, Margaret Abrams, Clark Rinehart, Linda Estelle Sat- Julia Ann Perkins, Billy Domi nick, Andy Price, Gerald and Dcr- ald Long were winners of medals and scholarships as Newberry High graduated 127 students Monday night. Honor graduates, who have made an average of 90 or more during four years of high school, numbered 35. Kay Davis was winner of the DAR Good Citizenship Medal, gi ven to that girl of the senior class who has demonstrated during her entire high school course the qual ities of Dependability, Leadership, Service and Patriotism. She also won the Phi Beta Kappa Frater nity Certificate of Honor given to that member of the senior class who follows the full college pre paratory course for four years with the highest scholastic aver age in that course. Charlene Golden received thfe first scholarship offered by the Newberry Kiwanis Club. The scholarship* foir $350, to College, was presented tty * Rev. Kenneth B. Wilson, a member of the club’s scholarship committee. Miss Golden also tied with And/ Price for the Margaret Farrow Music Award, given by the New berry Music Club to that senior who has contributed the most to the school and the community through his or her musical tal ents. Also for the first time this year, the Kendall Company offer ed a $700 scholarship to Newberry College, to a member of the senior class, based on character, per sonality, scholarship and need. D. O. Carpenter, manager of the Kendall Company Oakland plant, presented this scholarship to Glo ria Elaine Abrams. The Jasper Chapter DAR Har riet Jones Mayer Medal, for the student making the highest yearly average in American history, went to Margaret Agrams. Julia Perkins and Billy Domi nick were each awarded a $50 scholarship by the Key Club. These were presented by Jerry Satterwhite. Billy Dominick also won the Gold Medal presented b/ American Legion Post 24 in hon or of Dr. O. B. Cannon to that member of the graduating class who throughout the high school course, in the judgment of the faculty, has best exemplified the highest qualities of citizenship. Deraid Long and Gerald Long tied for the medal offered by The Newberry Observer to that mem ber of the graduating class who has lettered in at least two major sports, displaying high .qualities of sportsmanship, and has made the highest avterage in scholarship during his high school course. Senior speakers were Kay Da vis, Jerry Satterwhite and George Jones, The invocation was spoken by the Rev. H. A. Dunlap. Music was rendered by the Senior Girls Sextette; by Miss Charlene Gold en accompanied by Andy Price, and by the High School Band. Diplomas were presented by Supt. J. V. Kneece. Mr. Kneece and Prof. Harry Hedgepath pre sented awards Marshals were Ann Beck, Jean Jones, Barbara Buddin, Linda Kay Dennis, Libby Johnson, Marcia Kirkland, Lucile Long, Judith Ruff Marcia Todd and Barbara Youmans. Honor graduates were Gloria Elaine Abrams, Sallie Roberta A- brams, Shirley Ann Boozer, Mar- ney Marie Bouknight, Sarah Ma rie Brown, Linda Ann Cannon, Priscilla Crump, Kay Livingston Davis, Nancy Elizabeth Edwards, Charlene Golden, Catherine Eliz abeth Gordon, Judy King, Nancy Catherine Kunkle, Terri Dee Mc- carty, Lillian Delphia McCutch- eon, Julia Ann Perkins, Constance terwhite, Mildred Carol Senn, Brenda Salley Truett, Sarah Bren da Turner, Margaret Sue Wat kins, Margaret Leonora Wheeler, Mary Kathryn Whitaker, Mary ]$dna Wynn, Faith Elizabeth Young; Also, Melvin Dove Bouknight, Joseph William Dominick, John David Halfacre, George Lawrence Jones, Deraid Bryan Long, Ger ald Virgil Long, Kenneth Douglas Martin, Benjamin Henry Phillips, and Elgia Gene Sheppard. : sr m Pool Will Open Next Monday The Margaret Hunter Park swimming pool and all city parks will open on Monday, June 6. The I will not be open in the bags for the Yifrsl two weeks Wo as not to interfere with Bible schools. •. j 1 * Lewis Hawkins will serve as manager of the pool; Janice Tim mons wilj be ticket seller, and lifeguards will be Pope Buford and Bobby Carlton. The following hours will be observed Monday through Saturday: 9 a.m. to 12 noon; 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.; 7 to 10 p.m. On Sunday, the pool will be open from 2 until 6 p.m. Legislation has been enacted which will exempt municipal pools from the 10 percent admission tax that was placed on last year. The prices will be the same as in prior years: children through 12 years, 15c; Junior High students with “In-Between” club cards, 25c; adults, 35c. The city parks will be open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. until 12 noon and from 3 un til 6 p.m. On Saturdays, the parks will be supervised only in the mornings, from 9 until noon. Supervisors are as follows: Mol- lohon, ,Mrs. Long; Marion Davis, Miss Mary Salley; West End, Mrs. Reagin; Vinceut St., Rev. William Brown. Oakland Workers Is < . Cromer Child Died Tuesday Leland Ralph Cromer Jr., 5- year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ice land Ralph Cromer, Sr., died early Tuesday morning at his home at 708 Pope St. afte.- an illness of two years. / i Born in Laurens, Leland had lived most of his life here where his father is manager 6f Carolina Butane Gas Co. Mrs. Cromer is the former Miss Lillian McEver [.and is a native of Cartersville, Ga. They are members of Kings Creek Associate P.sfornied Pres byterian Church. Surviving besides his prrents are his grandmothers, Mrs. Es telle Cromer and Mrs. Hattie Mc Ever, both of Newberry. Funeral services were conduct ed at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Mc- Swain Funeral Home by Dr. P. L. Grier. Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery. The employees of the Oakland that the 1957 figure set a plant of Kendall Company have worked one million manhburs without a disabling injury, man ager D. O. Carpenter announced today. T^e millionth manhour Was reached Wednesday and Mr. Car penter expressed the hope that the plant will again reach and exceed its 1957 record of three million manhours worked without a lost-time accident. He stated Miss Brantley Pelham of Co lumbia spent the weekend and Memorial Day with her mother, Mrs. W. E. Pelham. Mrs. Mary Felker Murphy, 87, of Rt. 1, Pomaria, died early Tues day morning at a Newberry hos pital. She was stricken at her home Sunday afternoon.' Mrs. Murphy was born and reared in the St. Matthews sec tion of Newberry County, a daughter of the late Adam F. and Sara Wicker Felker. She was one of the oldest members of St. Mat thews liUtheran Church and was an active life member of the Un ited Lutheran Church Women. Her husband, Thomas M. Murphy, died in 1922. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Albert Wicker of Pomaria; two/brothers, Orlander A. Felker of Pomaria and J. Arthur Felker of Newberry; 6 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were conduct ed at 3 p.m. Wednesday at St. Swinging Lanterns and The Cell- Matthews Lutheran Church by the ist by Ben Stewart; and Lua|Rev. William Wood and the Rey. Wajtz by Claire Whitaker; Cradle M. T. Cullum. Burial was in the Piano Reital On Wednesday The piano students of Miss Eva Jane Price were presented in re cital Wednesday night at the rec- creation building of the First Baptist Church. The program was as follows: Jumping Beans and Blue-Bells of Scotland by Ann Reeves; Hie Princess and the Pirates and Lit tle Spring Song by Gay Stewart; Song and Birthday March by Jan Moose; Up in a Swing and March of the Wee Folk by Sharon Har mon; Story by the Mouse and Rhapsody in Blue by Clarissa Williams. . 1 church cehaetery. Lonnie Gilliam, who underwent surgery at the local hospital Tuesday morning, is reported to be recuperating nicely. among the 16 plants of the dall Company, seven of which cotton mills, that has not yet broken. He pointed out that one million mark would have ‘ reached several months for n finger injury susu an employee which a doctor rated W- a “16 percent disability” even g vmm though the employee lost no from his job. The announcement of this standing safety fecord was at the same time members df Oakland’s, Safety Committee awarded a “Certificate of A< ment” by the S- C. Def Labor. The presentation made by I. J. Via, Deputy / missioner of Labor, who congra tulated the employees and man- agement for the very outstanding! safety performance in 1959. He' stated that the program of award ing these certificates was begun five years ago, and the Oakland plant has received ' certificate^ for four years. He explained that in order to qualify, a plant must^ have an accident frequency rate 75% below the state average, or must reduce its accident rate 40% over the previous year. Mr. Via said *the nation *1 average was about 10, the. utate average 3.96, “whjch means Oakland has, an al- ^ most perfect record to be 75% below 3.96.” V Members of the safety commit tee are shown in the SunphotCb above Vrith the plant manager and Mr. Via. Seated, left to right, are Mr. Carpenter; James Davis, chairman of the committee; Mr. Via, Mrs. Essie *B. Bod* . Stand ing are Wyman E. Dominick, George Black, Irby Lee Long shore, J. M. Monte and R. H. Gunter. /iW/A- u RECEIVING CERTIFICATES following the completion of a ten-hour course in safety, conducted by the State Department of Labor, were the following supervisors of the Oakland plant of the Kendall Co.; Left to right, front row, I. J. Via, Deputy Commissioner of Labor, who presented the Certificates; Roy Ivester, H. E. Schumpert, William Brooks, Everett (Bud) Bowers, M. P. Miller, Ben Chreitzberg. Behind first row, left to right, R. B. Satterfield, instructor; Quay Fellers, Asa Hatfield, W. W. Big- ham, Kirby Wise, L .A. Coward, O. P. Davenport, Ivy Longshore, Roy Cook, James Davis, Henry Mar tin, Irby Lee Longshore, Forrest Longshore, J. T. Kinard, J. I. Ringer, J. T. Long, G. L. Hughey, and E. T. McClure. (Sunphoto.) > BIRTHDAY GREETINGS June 5: B. Y. Abrams, Mr*. V 7 Deleal Boinest, Donna . Ann Lathrop, Ruby Humphries, Paulette Whitaker. June 6: Frank Graham, Faye ' Leopard, Suzaitnah Force, Carl Long, Jo Ann Richardson, W. W. Walker, Janie Kunkle. June 7: Carol Armfield, Mrs. Ida Slimmer, James' Edward (Jimmy) Berley. Jude 8: Joe Robert Jr., Paul Ballentine Long, Mrs. L. 11- Beam, Mrs. Claude Price, Char lie'! Altman, Mrs. Agnes H. Koon. June 9: E. B. Purcell, Miss Fannie Mae Carwile, Mrs. J. L. Burns, H. W. Dipner Sr., I. Q. Watkins, H. G. Pelham, James . B. Price, Owen Holmes. June 10: Cecil Williams, Johnnie Long, James Henry Da vis, Warren Pence, Connie Clark Rinehart, Violet Brown ing, Brenda K. Merchant, W. L. Vassey. June 11: Mrs. W. C. Tarrer, R. J. /Metis, D. O. Carpenter, Mrs. David. Senn, Carol Deanae Clary, Guy Graham, Gilder Neel, Jr„ Evelyn Huffman, Mrs. E. C. Paysinger, Cornelia Ann Burr, J. C. Price, Mrs. W. W. Bennett, Lavenia Fuller, Zulu Fuller, Marilyn McElveen, Jimmy Cabbage.