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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, DEC. 22, 1960 BY-THE-WAY . . . (Continued from Page 1) can’t you smell the spicy aroma! Pleasant memories indeed. . .and folks like to recall how Grandpa climbed the ladder to the roof on Christmas Eve and traced sly “tracks” in the snow, and large boot “prints.” How many years passed by before they learned of Grandpa’s traditional ladder climb. Those old-time Christmases were so nice. . .Town folks and coun try folks alike were knitted to gether in true neighborliness, ’specially on Christmas Eve. . . when the snow was soft and sparkling in the light of tne lamps and the lanterns. The silence was broken only by the chiming of the bells in the steeples. . .and by the bells jingling on the sleighs, as friends and neighbors cele brated the Infant’s birthday in the gentle v ay. Churches shone brightly as their doors opened for Christmas services. In the front parlors, families from far and near gathered round the festive trees which gleamed with lighted candles. The soft dazzle and shimmer of one of those great fir trees in the quaint old room is still before the eyes of those who remember. . .long strings of silver tinsel draped in gentle festoons from its bran ches from crest to base. . .a thou sand shiny ornaments hung from its branch tips. . .candy canes. . . candy cherries on thin wives. . . and cornucopias stuffed with spe cial sweets. What wonderful me mories. The grown-ups would tell the old stories of Santa Claus in the old-fashioned way, remembering how in days past he brought their first pair of ice skates that they just had to try out on the old grist mill pond. . .even though the temperature had dropped to eight degrees below’! In the morning there was the thrill and excite ment of seeing Santa’s presents spread below the big tree. . .the popping of ribbon and string. . . the tearing and shredding of pa per. . .the opening of boxes. . .the shrieks of laughter and delight. .. true ecstacy as childhood's cup overflowed. And the happy smiles of the old folks as they opened up their own presents. Being re membered in such a loving way, by friends and family, their spec tacles steamed up. . .that only a dab of a ’kerchief could remedy. Folks like to remember and teli how they used to rejoice with a grateful prayer at midnight and in the morning, too, just like we do today. Only those were more tranquil day. Yes, Christmas time is story tijne. . .remembering time. The Hedy Story of the little , Babe in Bethlehem is told again. . and we reflect the true meaning of Christmas with its warm, nos talgic feeling. . .and w ? e long for those dear, dear days of yester year. Straight Talk by Y !BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER Every few r years we used to make some wine at home. Not to be drunk in the usual w T ay. But for communion at church and for oc casional flavoring. This wine was kept in 5-quart brown bottles that my father, the country doctor* got medicines in. They were stored a way back on a shelf in a dark cellar, and be came covered with cobwebs and dobber nests in time. We kids were never allowed to taste this wine. Nor did w ? e covet it. We were too disgusted with any sort of intoxicant for w r e had seen it so misused by a few un fortunates in the Stone Hills. One year the blackberries were specially fine. So my mother made up some wine, as her supply was out. She let the berries and sugar ferment in large crocks with cheesecloth tied over them to keep the gnats out. Then when it w r as right, one afternoon she poured it up into the dark bottles and stored it in the cellar. A Colored boy that we raised was helping her. He was an over grown giant at about 15. She left him to clean up and told him to pour the dregs or skimmings from the wine out back of the woodpile there. He tasted the stuff. Liked it. Drank his fill. And poured the rest out in a hole back of the woodpile there. Soon the pigs and geese came up to see what he had poured out. They sniffed and tasted it. And they too found it to their liking. Quickly they filled up on the stuff until it was all gone. Soon there was a queer sight back there around the woodpile. The colored boy had watched the critters lap it up, as his was tak ing effect. He toppled over, dead drunk. And those pigs and geese were the funniest things you ever saw. Squawking, grunting, squeal ing, and falling around out there in the weeds, they werd a weird sight. Night came on, they went to sleep, and we left the boy out there with them. I don’t recall if they all showed ‘ signs of head aches next day or noL Those were i (Jteimas (jin All of us — staff and management — extend to you our wishes that every joy and blessing will be yours in the cheery holiday season — and, that its many pleasures will thrill your household. NEWBERRY RECAPPING CO. 1402 Martin Street Telephone 1084 J. ELLERBE SEASE CO. Cut-Off Road Newberry, S. C. (On 28,000 mile Trade Tour with Secretary Benson.) Wellington, New Zealand This IS “New Frontier.” This is also about as far away from John Kennedy as you can get. The day after Kennedy’s “elec tion,” I left the country. I have now decided to return and join the Constitutional underground.®* They’ve had Socialism, the “New Frontier,” here is New Zealand for around 25 years. In New Zealand, as in other Social ist nations, nobody goes to bed hungry. As a candidate Kennedy told us and the world, “In Amer ica 17 million people go to bed hungry every night.” Most of them are on Metrecal. Here, no body’s poor. And nobody’s rich. The only possible way to get rich in New Zealand, and in other So- cia ist states, is to go into part nership with a crooked politician. Under the Socialist, only politi cians have “rank.” Every Pig The Same The average wage here ar ound $25 per week. Butter and other foods are government-sub sidized—sold below cost (the “Brannan” plan”). Medicine and doctors are “free.” Few people have cars. Government owns and rent-controls a big portion of housing. There is no unemploy ment. Except for the old, the sick and the goldbrickers on govern ment relief, everybody works— but not very hard. It’s bad taste here to get into the back seat of a taxi cab. Indicates you think you’re better than the driver. Ev erybody’s “equal,” by government regulation—but they restrict un desirable immigrants. Although they need immigrants badly and have a shortage of workers, im migrants are restricted almost ex clusively to Anglo-Saxons. They are critical of our treatment of Negroes—but they don’t want any. One New Zealander bragged to me. “We look at people like a sow looks at her litter—12 pigs all get the same treatment. The Labor (Socialist) party of New Zealand was defeated a few days ago by the less radical Nat ionalist party. The mushrooming costs of the Welfare State jolted the people into changing * political horses—but no government would dare take the Welfare State away, although it takes all the wool from New Zealand’s 48 million sheep to maintain the “New Fron tier” for the two and a half million people. Widows get special benefits, more of they have children. . Or phans get benefits. The sick get benefits. Unemployed get bene fits. Invalids get benefits. The blind get benefits. Even widowers get benefits. Parents of children under 16 get benefits (paid ’til 18 if child stays in school). The aged (60 and over) get benefits. Peo ple in “emergencies” get benefits —if the Social Security Commiss ion thinks the person should have it. What Have You Done For Us Lately After traveling in 23 nations (12 of them with Secretary Ben son), I am more then ever con vinced that Uncle Sam is Uncle Sucker. On Benson’s Trade Dev elopment tours, I have been im pressed by the oneness of atti tude of all foreign nations with us. We ask then, “What can we do for you?” and they ask us, “W / hat can you do for us?” They the only drunk hogs and geese I’ve ever seen. But I learned this, all drunks are a lot alike, whether they be hogs, geese or men. In fact it always seemed to me, a drunk man is a combination of the other two, both a hog and a goose. Bad Start, Good Ending r “Our pimiento peppers had a bad start but a good ending this jpj,” up Coij$ty, 2 A8Bpt, a Bull or Abbeville. After a poor start, the seasons improved, the crop came out, and most of the, grow ers made some money, he tells me. This is one of the few crops ) know of that’re not overdone. In fact they bring more now than they did a few years ago. And they are grown on contract with a Georgia firm at a fixed price. Interested farmers in the up- country get details from their County Agent in counties where the project is undertaken. all have their hand out. They want to take all and give nothing. They’re all looking out for No. 1, while our leaders sanctimoniously proclaim our belief in world bro therhood. After we’ve dumped $70 billion in aid all over the world, our world brothers ask, “What have you done for us lateW?” * We always help t>ur TPfends when they are in trouble, and they never forget us when they are in trouble again. But now we’re in trouble. We’ve “lost” much of our gold. Our dollar is indanger. Our debt is astronimical. Britain, West Germany, France and others we’ve helped to their highest level of prosperity now refuse to join us not only in shouldering part of the aid to the have-not nations, but also refuse to pay their fair share for their own defense. Un cle Sucker defends them, at his own expense, from Communist in vasion. Some call our foreign aid “enlightened self-interest” 1 cah it Moochual Security. Kennedy’s “New Frontier” is 1 Socialism. Socialism is Commun ism without the firing squad. Be fore the “New Frontier” first in troduced as the “New Deal” gov ernment prevented one man from robbing another. Now government robs one man for the benefit of another. How appropriate „ that Roosevelt’s likeness on our dimes replaced the goddess of Liberty. Kennedy asks for unity. He won’t get it because he doesn’t deserve it—any more than Nor man Thomas, Walter Ruther, or any other Socialist. Kennedy was “elected by a well oiled, multi- milion dollar campaign, based on destructive, seductive appeal to minority groups and on - crooked . big city machines. (Alarmists are Irr, 8 atIon in Greenwood FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clcmson Extension Information Specialist Mrs. G. S. Banks Rites Sunday Community Improvement There’s a lot of community im provement work going on over the state. O. W. Floyd, former county agent at Edgefield, is now state coordinator of that work out from Clemson. The Little Swamp Community of Bamberg County has already done a lot to help itself. For the coming year it has set these four goals, acording to County Agent Hubbard: (1) Further improve the community center, (2) assist in improving their market shed, (3) hold community affair, and (4) develop a program to meet the young people’s needs in the community. Knowing those folks, my guess is they will come pretty near ac complishing these things. William Baskin III, five pound, nine ounce son born Dec. 16 to Mr. and Mrs. William Baskin Law- rence^ Jd., 1218 %plnut St. Mrs.^ Lawrence is the former Miss Mary Elizabeth Wall. Thompson Holland Jr., nine pound, ten ounce son born Dec. 18 to Mr. and Mrs. Thompson Hol land Longshore, 1109 1-2 Purcell St. Mrs. Longshore is the former Miss Linda Joyce Holland. Kenneth Palmer, six pound, 13 ounce son born Dec. 18 to Mr. and Mrs. Harry William Shealy, Rt. 3. Mrs. Shealy is the former Miss Frances Louise Longshore. Julie Lynn, seven pound, 15 ounce daughter born Dec. 17 to Mr. and Mrs. James Swanto Craft, 1230 Summer St. Mrs. Craft is the former Miss Mary Alice Bickley. Mrs. Elizabeth Rogers (Gran ny) Banks, 87, widow of Good Banks of Newberry died Thurs- Memorial hospital after a brief day afternoon at the Newberry illness. Mrs. Banks was born and rear ed in Newberry county in - t^ie Stoney Hill section, a, daughter of the late Hugh and Mar? Mont-(considerations, gomery Rogefs. ' She " spent mopt Newberry No. worrying unnecessarily about fu ture and worse vote frauds. Un der Kennedy, even if we still have electionselections, a dollar won’t buy a vote any more.) His victory was not a mandate but a default by an opponent who tried to tip toe into the White House. Dewey- like, with a me-too, we-can-do-it- better-and-cheaper campaign. Along with millions of Americ ans who’ll refuse to “unite” be hind a collectivist with a police state mentality, I believe in neith er “going along” nor going away, I intend to oppose Kennedy and his Socialist brain every .step of the way. . County Agent Garvin tells me, “Those who irrigated their corn in Greenwood the past summer were amply repaid in increasing yields.” He had 6 farmers in the corn contest. Each made the 100 bushel corn club. Combining Corn The first corn I saw combined was some years ago in Hampton. County Agent Thompson says at least 90 per cent of their crop treating a 9-acre field with simi- zine at planting time, never cul tivating it at ‘fell and making 90 bushels per acife,' The Wave Is What Yon Make It Pumpkins in Richland Kennedy promises to plan, ban, lend, spend us out of our free doms. If the lamp of freedom is blown out in America, the world will be thrown into darkness. With the Kennedy dynasty ruling our lives, I agree, for the first time, that the main issue is re ligion: God Save America! Many materialists, cowards, os triches and switch hitters say “I can’t openly engage in politics be cause of my business.” The poli tics we are engaged in today is the politics of survival as a free people. We’re being spent, plann er!, maneuvered, cheated, and •'neutralized" out of our free- dems. People who neither agree nor disagree, who refuse to fight for the right, who stay in the middle of the road wherever the middle is, who believe in peace at any price, who refuse to take a stand because it might lose business or alienate friends, remind me of Dante’s clasic indictment: “The hottest fires of hell are reserved for those who, in a period of mor al crisis, maintain neutrality.” The cynics claim Socialism is the “wave of the future.” I be lieve the wave of the future is what we make it. “God grant us the senerity to County Agent Bailey of Rich land tells this one: “Puriipkins as a companion crop in corn paid total cost of corn production, plus land rent, on 13 acres of fertile bottom land for one Dutch Fork farmer the past season. And he points out that the corn yield was not reduced at all by the pump kins.” Growing pumpkins! Almost a lost art now. They used to be common. was thus harvested this. fall. And he tells of Bernard McAlhaney’s Carl Shealy of, Little Mountain;? Mrs. Counts, 89, Died Thursday Mrs. Mary Ada Aull Counts, 86, widow of Joseph A. Counts, died Thursday morning at the Lake Side Rest Home near Lex ington. She had been in declining health for a number of years. Mrs. Counts was born and reared in Newberry County near Pomaria, daughter of the late Adam L. and Lily Kibler Aull, and was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. She is survived by four sons, the Rev. E. K. Counts of Saluda, Lonnie O. Counts of Greenwood, Owens L. Counts of Greenville, and J. Clyde Counts of Prosper ity; two daughters, Mrs. G. Les ter (Louise) Bowers of Prosper ity and Mrs. J. C. (Catherine) Ruff of Greenville; seven sisters, Mrs. J. A. Huffman of Newberry, Mrs. Frank .Metts of Spartan burg, Mrs. S. R. Putman of Green ville, Mrs. E. O. Cannon, Mrsj. Wil lie Shealy, and Mrs. Blanche Bun- dr ick, all of Columbia, and Mrs.’ three brothers, L. D. Aull of Po maria, Roscoe S.l Aull of Wash ington, D.s- C», and J. Lee Aull of Coltimbfa^ nT' grandchildren and ' 29 great-grandchildren. Funeral Services were copducfcv ed at 3 p.m. Friday from St. Paul’s Lutheran Church by Rev. Wyman Dowd, and Dr. Karl W. Kinard. Interment was in che church cemetery. Grandsons served as active pallbearers and granddaughters were flower attendants. Honorary escort was composed of members of the St. Paul Luth eran Church Council. Hospital Births Recent arrivals at the Newberry j County Memorial Hospital in clude: Robin Denise, eight pounds, nine ounce daughter born Dec. 13 to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Furman Hall, Rt. 3, Batesburg. Mrs. Hall is the former Miss Willie Mae Caughman. Deborah Lynn, seven pound, 15 ounce daughter born Dec. 13 to Mr. and Mrs. Philip Eugene Plam- pin, Blair. Mrs. Plampin is the former Miss Linda Eileen Rags dale. Lorraine Kay, eight pound, one ounce daughter born Dec. 15 to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Edward Lawson, Rt. 5, Box 200, Saluda. Mrs. Lawson is the former Miss Martha Jean Howe. mERRV [HRISTR1R5 And Holiday Greetings to All! THE GOLD SHOP 1206 Main Street Newberry, S. C. of her life in Saluda ucounty but had made her home in Newber ry for the past 37 years. Sherwas a member of Summer Memorial Lutheran church. She is survived by five sons, R. L., of Saluda; Sam, Frank and Hugh, of Newberry and Otis of Long Beach, California; four daughters, Mrs. Rosa Johnson of Bishop ville; Mrs. Ruth Gilstrap of Fountain Inn; Mrs. Grace Ruff and Mrs. Martha Nobles, both of Newberry; one step-daughter, Mrs. Vira. Corley of Saluda, 16 grandchildren and 18 great grand children. >| She was* the last surviving member of her immediate family. Funeral services were conduct ed at 2 p.m. Saturday from Sum mer Memorial Lutheran Church by Rev. Kenneth Hewitt and Rev. Joel W. King, Jr. Interment was in Newberry Memorial Gardens. Grandsons served as active pall bearers and granddaughters were flower attendants. Honorary escort was composed of Moody Stoudemire, Bill Ear- gle, Jack Rogers, Otto Beden- baugh, Dr. V. W. Rinehart, Dr. Richard Lominick, Henry Bick ley, Ed Reeves, Roy McF.ntire, Heyward Jackson, Reuben Ruff, Dwight Jones, Bill Black, P. M. Dennis, Pat Nichols, Chevis Boo zer and Cliff Hattaway. Mrs. Stoudemire Newberry No. 1 S. Frazier Taylor to Willie O- Hawkins and Mary J. Hawkins, one lot and one building, 514 Floyd street, $5 and other valua ble considerations. Evelvn Huffman Hooper t O' Waldr C. Huffman, one lot or Fair street, $5 and other valuable ■ buildup. accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference.” Recent Marriages Johnnie Summer of Newberry and Lena Holt of Joanna were! married on December 4 at New berry by Rev. Jack 0. Dean. Charlie M. Stuck of Pomaria and Charlotte Annette Shealy of Chapin were married On December 2 at Chapin by Rev. John H. Koch Jr. Robert W. Epting, Route 1, and Judy Stone, Route 1, Whitmire, were married by Rev. David F. Bridgman at Whitmire on De cember 5. Mrs. Mittie Lindler Stoudemire, 83, widpw of Robert Jackson gage Stoudemirq, died early Tuesday at her ^ome near Chapin after an illness of two years. Mrs. Stoudemire was horn and reared Newberry coupty, 4au- ghterfl^af the late Henry hod Sus anna v CumtnaJander Lindler. She was a member of Capers Chapel MethfytiM&:raQq SuWring!’ a$eY four daughter Mrs. J. L. Lindler of Blairs, Miss Stoudemire, Miss Mary ire, and Miss Bernice Stoudemire, all of Chapin; 5 sons, H. T. and S. E., both of Richtex; R. i}. of Silverstrcet; J. F. and A. C., of Chapin; three brothers, Har vey, Brooks, and Earl Lindler, all of Chapin; four sisters, Mrs. Anna Stoudemire and Mrs. Laura Sum mer, both of Little Mountain; Mrs. Ruth Mills of Newberry and Mrs. Cummings Counts of Ballentine; 23 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren. Funeral services were conduct ed at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Cap ers Chapel church by Rev. John Griffith. Burial was in the church cemetery. F. L. Miller to Magbee and Nora. P. Magheo, Jone lot, $5 and other valuable awasiderations. Harrington Hts. First Church of God *o Mrs. M. L. Whitener and Mrs. Ella M. Whitener as ad ministrators of the estate of M- L. Whitener, 2 lots and one build ing, $5 and the premises. Board of Church Extension and Home Missions of the Church of God to Ella Mae Whitener admin istratrix of the -estate of M. : L, Whitener, two lots and one build ing, quit claim, $1 and other val uable considerations. E. Maxcy Stone, P. J. to New berry Federal Savings and Loan Association, nine acres, $4,915.85. Wilhelmina Ruff to Lucy Pitt*||p| and Nell Cooper, one lot and f building, $5 love and affection^. Elton H. Epting and Annie E. Epting to James Lee .< f ills and Katherine H. Mills, two lots, $5 and other valuable considerations- B. L. Saxon to Keitt Purcell, 2 lots $900. Silverstreet No. 2 John H. Cureton to Bennie Davenport and Lizzie Davenport*, one lot, $50. Dinah May Shelton to George M. Smith and wife, Evelyn Smith* one lot $65. Whitmire No. 4 Heirs-at-Law of R. G. Hamil-r ton to Jake W. Teague, one lot and one building, 1600 Grant- street, $10 and other valuable considerations. Marilyn S. Cohen to William L. Sinclair, Jr., one lot and building,' 1136 Reid street, and in consideration of a mort- Pomarie No. 5 \ Walter A. Crumpton to Jame* T. Davenport, one lot and one F. Sinclair* Hr., onte ; t, uable Prosperity David W. Bowers to C. on N. Main stree tfctejitSe com BHB * No.r to William lot,* * VV' m rtha S. me lot and ERRIAN ON STAFF Ofr J. Robert son of Mr. and Mrs. port of Newberry has been elect ed business manager of the college annual, The Newberrian for 1961- 1962. - James A. Amick of Newberry and Minnie Inez Shealy pf Route 1, Prosperity were married Dec. 4 at Little Mountain by Rev. J. S. j Wessinger. Permits To Build Dec. 14.—Jim Wheeler repairs to dwelling on Hunt street $150. Dec. 15—C. A. Magbee, one 8x 10 shed, 741 Pope street $100. Dec. 17—Rev. Edwin B. Young one 20x21 out building, 925 Cor nelia street $550. 1960 TAX NOTICE After the Close of Business HOLIDAY CLOSING NOTICE! OFFICES IN THE NEWBERRY County Court House WILL BE CLOSED FOR CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS Christmas Eve, Saturday, Dec. 24th and Monday, December 26th JANUARY 3,1961 ONE PER CENT PENALTY WILL BE ADDED TO ALL UNPAID 1960 TAXES J. RAY DAWKINS County Treasurer : '• *V : 4 ^' •>£