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m By The Way '• by c2)i onJ SanderJ BIT OF PRAISE While cleaning off my desk the other day, I found a note which had gotten lost under my type writer; thus it has not been men tioned here sooner. Several weeks ago, during a Sunday night, Gallman ' High school was damaged to the extent of about $500 by several young vandals throwing rocks through the windows. The damage was dis covered the following morning And promptly reported to the po lice department. Supt. S. S. Wigfall wishes to city police important, a child might get its hands on the poison—and this has happened before; and the pet puppy of a neighborhood child might get the poison. A child can become very attach ed to a pet and I can imagine that three little children were heart broken this week to find that their I pet had been poisoned by some un thinking person. The incident oc curred in the neighborhood of Friend and Wilson Streets. I men tion this because no one knows exactly where the poison was lo cated, so if you live in that vi cinity and have children and pets, I would suggest that you watch publicly praise the force for the efficient manner in * "^uiu which the incident wa a handled, them carefull J' for a wh ‘ le - pointing out that four of the cul prit? were apprehended within 15 minutes or so after the damage was discovered. So, for a depart ment which often gets criticism— a word of praise. NOT FOR IT When you go to the polls on November 8, you will be asked to vote on a number of amendments to the State Constitution. One of them, No. 6, concerns Newberry County in particular, but could eventually affect the entire state by the pattern it sets. This amendment, if adopted, would allow the general assembly to provide by law that incorporat ed municipalities or housing or redevelopment authorities i n Newberry County may undertake and carry out slum clearance and redevelopment work and to provide for the use of the power of eminent domain by the incor porated municipalities or housing authorities in Newberry County for such purposes. In more simple terms, such a law would mean that the city, or any housing authority it might set up, would have the power to condemn any property, including yours, if it decided that was the place for a housing project to be built. In the first place, Newberry doesn’t need a housing project. In the second place, if the city did need such a project, there is lane available for purchase without condemning private property for private purposes. In the thirc place, there is no area in Newber ry which could properly be refer red to as a slum area. True, there are some sections which are not as attractive as they might be, especially in some •of the Negro sections. The city fathers would do well, however, to drive out Boundary street, for instance, and see how many of our colored neighbors have worked to improve their homes. Th^y might ride over by Taylor street and see the new homes which our colored neighbors have purchased and are maintaining. And instead of of fering something for almost noth ing, they might praise and en courage these people in their ef forts at raising their standards of living. The city fathers should know that any citizens, white or color ed, can do better in the way of housing if he has the desire. Those who do not have the desire, if they were taken from their pres ent hovels and put into a shiny, new housing project, would soon have it looking like the neighbor hood they left. Furthermore, the only way such a project could be built, offering units at rents these people would be willing to pay, would be with a handout of your tax dollars If City Council would take ac tion on this stray cat and dog sit uation, there would not be the necessity of risking such a hazard to be rid of a nuisance. I fear for the safety of our girls with the big stray dogs roaming our neigh borhood, but I would be even more fearful that the little curiosity seekers would find poison no mat ter where I put it. I would urge those of you who might be think ing of this method of solving the situation to bear in mind the tra gic results it might have. Instead of a child who has lost its pet, it might be a parent who has lost a child. from the federal treasury. True, as Mayor Layton says, we look for great things for New berry in the future. But please, never let it be said that the peo ple are so lacking in moral res- ponsibility that they give a small group the power to condemn pri vate property for private pur poses, or that we haven’t the re sources to take care of our own without a dig in the federal pork barrel. If > new industry should come to Newberry and require new housing, I have enough con fidence in our local banks and building and loan associations to believe that the money could be ACCOUNTING NEEDED Deeply concerned about a fast growing paternalistic central gov ernment, and the apathy of the average citizen to require his elected officials to account for his deeds and misdeeds in office, Dr. Neil E. Truesdell devoted his Sun day morning sermon at Aveleigh Presbyterian Church to warning his congregation of the ultimate end of such a trend. He harked back to ancient history, pointing out countries which had grown great, and, because .. emphas on things material, had ^ >n fallen from power. A portion of his sermon is as f ollow-s: “I know of no way to judge “the future than by the past, so as we turn to history, we need to recog nize the things that it writes in an indelible w*ay, and no human being and no process of govern ment has ever been able to era dicate the truth of these things. In the affairs of government of all of the nations of all of the civ ilizations which ever lived and collapsed are at least three in herent characteristics. First of all, a devotion to the material prosperity and secondly a lessen ing of the moral and spiritual fi ber of the people. The third is the failure of the citizenship to be mindful of these things. “I should like to remind you of something very much the vogue a few months ago. You could not pick up a paper, particularly in the South, but that you heard large cries and great space devot ed to it, the matter regarding the state and federal relationship. “I should like to remind you that under the Constitution of the United States, it is presumed that the authority not specifically granted to the federal government is retained by the state. It is pre sumed there is such a thing as states rights. Now I mention this for this purpose; that today there are things which because of varied and, sundry ideaologies and weak nesses have brought us to a sit uation that is far from whole some, one which, if America to day existed in the time of the chil dren of Israel, one wbuld know al most beyond a shadow of a doubt that God would have a prophet somewhere s crying out ‘unless there is a change somewhere, only destruction awaits’. There is today a growing cen ter of interest in the treasury of the United States, and the treas ury of the United States has not one cent in it, nor did it ever have, except what the government took from the individual or corpo ration. The power of taxation was gran :,ed under the Constitution and it is proper, but the thing I am speaking about now is this dnd of thing: that in a day when Wednesday Rites For Mrs. Shelly . Mrs. Essie Bowers Shealy, 76, wife of Enos R. Shealy of Rt. 3, Prosperity, died early Tuesday morning at a local hospital. She had been ill for a month. Mrs. Shealy was bom and reared near Little Mountain in Newberry County, a daughter of the late George and Frances Warner Bowers. She had spent all of lier life in the Sligh’s sec- ti6n and was a member of Mt. Tabor Lutheran Church. Surviving besides her husband are one son, Ashley Shealy of Prosperity; three daughters, Mrs. Warren Dowd and Mrs. Eugene Shealy, both of Prosperity and Mips. Howard Bedenbaugh, of Co- lumbia; two sisters, Mrs. Minnie Kibler of Prosperity and Mrs. Lttla Koon of Pomaria; one broth er, Lester Bowers of Prosperity; add 16 grandchildren. ^Funeral services were conduct- at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Mt. Thbor Lutheran Church by Rev J. S. Wessinger and Rev. C. L. Richardson. Burial was in the church cemetery. § To Speak Here The Newberry High School Choral Sextette has appeared on many statewide programs of int erest. On October 14, the group sang for the district meeting of the Confederate Centennial Commission at Lancaster. They will sing for the Capital District meeting of the State Federation of Music Clubs at the Commun ity Hall in Newberry Saturday, Oct. 29. On Sunday, November 6, the sextette will appear on a program of the Aiken County Historical Society to be held at “Mayfields,” the home of Rep. John A. May in Aiken. ' The sextette is directed by Miss Juanita Hitt of the high school music faculty. Members are shown above, front row, left to right, Donna Rook, Marcia Todd and Barbara Youmans; second row, Sandra Petty* Jean Jones, Eva Jane Price (accom panist) and Marcia /'Kirkland. (Photo by Nichols.) secured locally to finance such 131 percent of every dollar on the XT / my, 4- V-» 4- * -w. y# 4- ^ I T •* 4- y. yl District Music Clubs Tp Meet At Community Hall Saturtf; A district meeting of all mem bers of the South Carolina Fed eration of Music Clubs in the Capital District will be held in Newberry on Saturday, October 29 from 2 until 6 p.m. at the New berry Community Hall. Capital District is composed of the fed erated music clubs of Columbia, Johnston, Kershaw, Lancaster, Sumter and Newberry, all of which are a part of the South Carolina Federation of Music Clubs and of the National Fed eration of Music Clubs. Mrs. H. B. Bradford of Columbia is district director and Miss Marianne Hol land, also of Columbia, is regional vice president. Workshops on the state rating sheet, orientation, parliamentary procedure and public relations will be conducted by Mrs. H. E. Jervey, Mrs. T. H. Westmoreland, Mrs. C. W. Harrell and Mrs. Ro bert E. L. Freeman, all of Colum bia. The Newberry Music Club, Mrs. P. N. Abrams, president, will be the hostess club with Miss Margaret Paysinger, vice presi- projects. I have heard many a judge in •our state courts say many times: *A man’s home is his castle.” Perhaps it is a mansion, perhaps it is a one-room shack, but no one should be able to take it from him unless it is in the interest of the state or national security and safety. ITS DANGEROUS No one despises the stray dogs who roam the city more than I do, but I would never be able to put out poison to kill these dogs for two reasons: first and most average that is made in the United States of America goes to taxa tion, I ask you if there is the moral and spiritual tone in the handling of these things which will enable the people to under stand what they are doing, why they are doing it, and to give a morally justifiable answer for the expenditure of everything. That is the kind of thing in which there seems to be today the lack of a moral responsibility — to give a justifiable accounting of every thing that is received, and it is so all over our country. “What is spent is spent largely by the exercise of power of pres sure groups. It is a very refresh ing thing to see, for instance, that at long last the petroleum indus try is getting a little bit alarmed. I think that is a marvelous thing and all individuals ought to let their voices be heard to the ex tent that people in charge of the expenditures will know there is a moral accounting to which they must be held true. “The first thing I think vital as a matter of moral and spiritual welfare is for a true and proper accounting of whrA is received to the extent that no pressure group, that ,10 vested interest will ever cause a lowering or weakening of the moral fiber of our country. “The only way we can judge the future is by the past. The belief is that people must be fed. We must have bread, bread at any price. The federal debt at this mo ment is five times greater than the debts of all of the states and all of the local governments in the United States of America. Where there is no sense of accounting from the top back to the bottom, there is no sense of moral right eousness from the bottom going to the top. “If there is a single thing that the United States of America, the greatest nation on earth, needs, it is the need for men who will al low our ships to be controlled not simply by the pleasant winds that blow in the halycon days, but that will carry us to victory even when the stern winds of viissitudes blow against us. dent, in charge of registration. After the scheduled workshops, those attending will be entertain ed with a musical program and an informal tea given by the New berry club. Chairman of the tea is Mrs. W. Roy Anderson with com mittee members, Mrs. Aubrey Harley, Mrs. J» D. French and Mrs. Allen Murray. Miss Juanita Hitt will present a musical pro gram of Newberry High School students, featuring a sextet com posed of Jean Jones, Donna Rook, Marcia Todd, Barbara Youmans, Sandra Petty and Eva Jane Price, accompanied by Charles Huffstet- ler and Bill Moore. Bishop Cyrus B. Dawsey, re tired missionary to Brazil will preach in revival services at Lew is Methodist Church November 1- 6 each evening at 7:30 and each morning November 2-4 at 10:00. Mrs. Bickley, 80, Died Tuesday Mrs. Mamie Dominick Bickley, 80, widow of Monroe Bickley, died Tuesday morning at Greenville General Hospital after a, lingering illness. She was born in Newberry County, the daughter of the late John and Nanie Stillwell Domin ick. She spent most of her life in Newberry County but had lived in Greenville the past several years. Surviving are a son, J. C. Bick ley of Branchville; 3 daughters, Mrs. Nancy B. Feikel of Elloree* Mrs. Sudie B. Cashion of DeLand, Fla., and Mrs. Helen B. Bagwell of Greenville; 10 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. The family respectfully requests that flowers be omitted. Funeral services will be con ducted at 11 a.m. Thursday at Whitaker Funeral Home by Rev. Alvin H. Haigler.' Burial will be in St. James Lutheran Church cemetery. Carnival At Silverstreet The Eighth grade of Silver- street school is sponsoring a Har vest Carnival on the night of No vember 4, 1960, at 7:30 p.m. The entertainment will be as follows: door prize, cake walk, bingo, spook house and chances on a turkey. Hot dogs, hamburgers, coffee and cold drinks will be -sold. The public is invited to the car nival, proceeds from which will be used for the class to take an edu cational trip to Charleston in the Spring. & ■. •/ LOVELY ’ftllB FAYE Af^mjLLOl received another hom* Friday night when she Was crowned by Snpt. J. V. Knoece as Nei School Homecoming Queen. She is shown here with other contestants for the title and their escorts. Left to right, they are Elizabeth Norris, Bobby Bnmer, Lisa Lominack, Eddie Longshore, Queen Mc Cullough, Supt. Kneece and James Smith. The flower girl is Beth Dixon and the crownbearer is Doyle Shealy. (Photo by Nichols.) — ‘ U"' !i Large .. ..rH ,<■ Plans have been . •*. 1 comi l .v. »•;• and, -mt m in.. Club Speaker Professor Albert* Mature, As sistant Professor of Spanish at Newberry College, was guest speaker at the October meeting of the Literary $tpdy Club at the home of Miss Frances Boozer. In an interesting manner, Pro fessor Mature enriched hig topic, Spanish Music” with authentic examples of recorded music. The group heard a recording of the Spanish guitar, played by a Mexi can artist; songs typical of the southern part of Spain; songs of Moorish influence; a song from Cuba; and music of the Pull Ring. In conclusion, he playcft a record ed Spanish folk song, which he translated to the enjoyment of his listeners. Mrs. Elbert Dickert, vice presi dent, presided over the business session. Reports from committees were heard and plans for the January Reciprocity meeting were begun. The hostess served a deli cious de : ^rt course. ' Rev. David T. Templeton, pas tor of Ebenezer, New Chapel, and Lebanon Methodist Churches, will lead the congregational singing and will preach Monday evening, October 21 at 7:30. Special music will be rendered each evening by the church choir under the direction of the organ ist, Mrs. Irby Lee Longshore and the pianist, Mrs. J. Ezell Abney. Bishop Dawsey is a native of South Carolina spending his boy hood days in the community in Horry County where is now locat ed the town of Ayrtor. He attend ed the little schools of his com munity, Wofford Fitting School and graduated from Wofford Col lege in 1910 with an A.B. degree. After his graduation, he served as pastor of the Montgomery Me morial Methodist Church at Paco- let Mills until the end of the Con ference year 1913. In 1914 he sailed for Brazil with his wife, t former Miss Ethel Sanders of Spartanburg, and one child. Their first year in Brazil was spent learning the language. He served as pioneer preacher trav eling on foot, on horses, on mules and on slow running trains spend ing his next 19 years in the Northwest section of the state of Sao Paulo that had just been tak en over from wild Indians. He en dured many hardships which to him were privileges to bring the gospel to both the poor and the rich. ^ In 1946 he was elected by the Brazilian Methodist Church to the Episcophy, re-elected in 1950, and UDC Meeting To Be Tuesday Drayton Rutherford "Chapter, UDC, will meet Tuesday, Novem ber 1 at 4 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Ralph B. Baker. Mrs* A. J. Briggs will lead the historical program. The chapter hopes; to Afcave a prominent visitor at this meeting. — ■■■ - — — .. P !«■ jl ,!■ I. ■ at the General Conference held in Rio de Janerio in 1956 was elected as Bishop Emeritus. Shortly there after he returned to fhe United States. - The first Mrs. Dawsty /passed away in Paracicaba, Brazil, in 1948. She was the mother of their five children: Ethel (Mrs. Albert) Ream of Columbia; Sarah Mar garet, head of Bennett College in Rio de Janerio; Agnes (Mrs. Wil liam F.) Rogers, Jr., Brazil; Cy rus B., Jr., missionary to Brazil; and Mary Ellyn of Columbia. Bishop Dawsey’s second mar riage was to Miss Lillian K. Knobles of State Line, Mississip pi. For 25 years she had been a missionary in China and then for 10 years was missionary to Bra zil. The Dawseys now make their home at 1205 Gladdeir Sfc., Colum bia. They are both in constant de mand as speakers throughout the state. The pastor, the Rev. James A. Giigsby wishes to extend a cor dial invitation to the public to at tend the services. coming at Newberry college Sat urday, October 29 is going to a big and gala occasion, the f< ture event being the football game between the Newberry In dians and the Guilford Quakers on Setzler Field at 8 p.m. During the morning various class and club organizations on the campus will be busy erecting their homecoming displays, com peting for s cash prize offered by the Alumni association. The program will begin at 10:30 a.m. with a meeting of the Alum ni Council in ,the Alumni office. This will be followed by the Alum ni Council dinner at 12 noon. Homecoming registration will be in the Wright building at one o’clock. The campus exhibits will be judged at 2 p.m. The student body will have a pre-football par ade at 3 p.m. The judging of the special prepared window .of the merchants of the city will be held at 3 p.m. The South Carolina chapter of the Newberry College Women’s League will meet in Smeltzer hall at 3:30 p.m. The Newberry College Women’s Lea gue will meet in Smeltzer hall at 4 p.m. Dr. A. G. D. Wiles, presi dent of the college will be the speakef. At. 5 p.m. there' will be guided tours throughout the cam pus for visiting alumni and their friends. Supper will be served in Kauf- mann Hall from 5:30 to 7 p. m. The parade of the Homecoming Queen, attendants, and senior sponsors will be held on Setzler Field beginning at 7:30 p. m. During the half-time ceremonies the Homecoming Queen will be crowned by Dr. Wiles, the trophy for the winning merchants’ win dow will be awarded and other planned events will be staged. The Junior class is sponsoring a dance in McLean Gymnasium af ter the game. All students and their guests are invited to attend. A small admission will be charg ed. ) • A large number of alumni and friends of the college are ex pected. The Guilford College “Quakers” carrying a 2-3 won-loss record will be the rival for Newberry’s Home coming game this weekend at Setz ler Field. The “Quakers” have wins from Randolph-Macon and Emory-Henry, but lost three oth ers to Elon, East Carolina, and’ powerful Lenoir Rhyne. The In dians have only two wins/ in six starts with losses to The -Citadel, Lenoir Rhyne, Wofford, and East Carolina while the wins came from out of state foes, Catawba and Troy State. The “Quakers” will count on 18 to offset the All- been switched to liver the offensive forth forward wall has Ail-Conference tackle, Wayne Henley, who is » mainstay in the Crimson and Gray line-up. * The Guilford eleven are coach ed by Wake Forest graduate Herb Appenzeller (9-29-1), who con cludes that the “Quakers” have no offensive worries with Buddy Ba ker at the signal calling position and Stutts at fullback. Jimmy Lowder leads the “Fight ing Redskins” in total offense and rushing with 421 yards on 50 car ries. Richard Seastrunk, who has been out on injuries follows with 364 yards on 75 carries. Tom Gor man leads in passing with 21 completions in 41 attempts for a total of 294 yards. Bill Bethea has punted 22 times for a 32.2 yards average. Jimmy Lowder, in addi- dition to Ms rushing, lead, is at the top of the list in individual scoring with 26 points to Ms cred it. GREETINGS Oct. 304: Miss Dollie Bias Sens, C. Hugh Shelley, EL M. Har man, Carol Hipp,. Edmonds Young. Oct. 31: Mrs. D. Y. Knight, Mm. M. L. Youmans, Mrs. C. W. Bedenbaugh, Nancy Lou Long, Ida x Satterwhite, Hugh Sheely, J. L. Eargle, Agues Eargle. V Nov. 1: Louise Cobb, Jerald Smith, Mrs. Meryl Glymph, Mrs. Dorothy Sou Pyle. Nov. 2: Mrs. L. G. Eskridge, Mrs. Julia R. Smith, Leauis Hove, Mrs. L H. Wilson. John W. Waldrop, Lula Mae Martin, Loretta Derrick, Harry Stone Sr, Ted Neely, F. A/ Boland, Mrs. A. M. Dominick, Mack Dominick, Sgt. Edward Myers. Nov. 3: Bobby Ruff, Bruce Hawkins, Jack S. Crira, Bobby Davis. Nov. 4: Mrs. J. C. Harmon, June Roberts, J. C. Doolittle, Candace Graham Ruff, Jimmy Longshore, Mrs. Lula E. Hitt, Mrs. Gus Franklin, Henry Franklin, Mrs. George B. Brooks. Nov. 5: T. S. Riley, Judy Shealy, Vonnie G. Chapman, W. B. Boinest Jr, Ryan Graham, Mrs. Alice Shealy, Mrs. Carl Setzler, Floyd Amick, Martha A. Young, Buddy Wilson, Ji Bedenbaugh.