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' Mothers haven’t given up the spinning wheel . . . it’s just that now it has a tire. Economy note: The bigger the summer . . . the harder the fall. VOLUME 24; NUMBER 42. By The Way By Doris A. Sanders ITEMS OF INTEREST Several items of interest in the news have caught my eye in the past week and I pass them along in the event you might have over looked them. The first was in Gil Rowland's column in The Greenville News Sunday. It told a story that was gratifying to one who has so long wished that emphasis could be placed more on learning, less on athletic prowess in our schools. Here is the story, as Mr. Rowland tells it: Students who succeed in learning should get attention and praise just as students who succeed in athletics. And it is good to learn that smart students will be recogniz ed under a plan at Pickens High School. Students with a "B” average will receive block betters ,each large “P” having a small “S” for scholarship beside it). “The Blue Flame” of Pickens High explained it under this headline: “Pickens High Plans Scholarship Banquet.” It quoted Principal Vance R. Bettis as saying that a May 19 banquet will give recognition to students excelling in scholastic work. Invitations will go to students who maintain a “B” average. Other guests are to be faculty members, trustees and a Pickens County Legislative Delegation member. There will be a speak er, natch! Various school groups have already contributed $200 toward the banquet. The w r hole scheme is a part of stepped-up emphasis on scholar ship in the 700-student school. Steps have oeen taken to have meetings and conferences after class time, so that students will not miss classes. It all began last year when special privilege cards were is sued to “B” average students. If this practice spreads to other schools, and newspapers follow with sports jargon pub licity, we might be reading strange things such as: Item: “Podunk High will open Monday with a strong senior class consisting of 17 lettermen and letterwomen.” Item: “Splitlevel Heights is pinning its scholascic hopes this year on Elmer Wcyzkincha, a fast-reading senior imported from Europe to strengthen the school’s formal grammar contin gent. Scholastic coach Bill Smith says Wcyzkincha is a tricky man with an intransitive verb. However his average was lowered some last year by a bad habit of dangling participles. • Item: “Officials of Dry Gulch High School and Suburban Ma nor High reported yesterday that interest in tomorrow’s re port cards is at fever pitch. So great is competition over which school will qualify for the most scholastic block letters that coaches find it difficult to keep the students’ minds on football.” I might add three cheers for Pickens High students wdth Block P(s) letters, and for the school administration. I hope this idea of making the scholastic team w r ill catch on throughout the state. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1961 + $2.00 PER YEAR , • Newberry Mill Employees Take Steps To Oust Local Union ISiEI • -* To Be Opened March 2nd For Construction Of Schools An aerial photograph shows the twisted mass of wreckage left when 19 cars of a Columbia, Newberry and Laurens freight train left the track Sunday afternoon about three miles north of Newberry. No one was seriously injured in the acident. (Photo for The Sun by Richard Briggs, taken from airplane flown by Olin Shealy.) Evaluation Committee Rates High School Above Average Newberry Boy Scouts Observe 51st Anniversary, Feb. 7-13 Mortgage To Be Burned Sunday At W. E. Church The West End Baptist Church will hold a special service Sun day morning at which time the mortgage on the building - will be burned. The Church began on its new building in July 1954 and on January 30, 1955 the first serv ice was held in the new building. The building was formally dedi cated at that service. In Decem ber 1900 the church paid off its indebtedness. : .vv>*S£>‘ MORE LEARNING The second item I notice is that •Clemson College has finally seen the light, and instead of loading down students who expect to be come teachers with hour upon hour of teaching technique courses, the would-be teachers must now apply themselves and most of their time to learning the subject they expect to teach, and education courses will be cut to a minimum. Three cheers for Clemson Col lege! SHOULD BE TAUGHT A third item comes in the form of a statement from Gordon L. Smith, director of secondary edu cation for the Greenville County School District. His statement, as reported in The Greenville News, is as fol lows: Schools should teach more about communism, the director of secondary education for the Greenville County School Dist rict said here last night. Gordon L. Smith said teachers in many local high schools are developing units of work on the (Continued on Page 8) The service Sunday will be a significant event in the life of the church. The sermon will be delivered by Rev. J. Ed Taylor, who was pastor when the church began and completed its building. Rev. and Mrs. Taylor are mission aries to the migrants, a work that is sponsored and supported by the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. The pastor, the Rev. Ralph E. Rhyne, and the church extend a | cordial invitation to the public , to ; attend this special service on Sun- i day. ! Hospital Gets Duke Funds The Trustees of the Duke En dowment have voted appropria- i tions of $1,111,302.94 for 137 hos pitals and 43 child care institu tions in North and South Caro lina, on the basis of their charit- i able work during th? fiscal year ended September 30, 1900, Thomas L. Perkins, Endowment Chair man, announced today. Hospitals are aided at the rate of one dollar for each fi - ee bed day of care rendered during the year. Newberry County Memorial Hospital received $2,893 from the the Endowment, Boy Scout Sunday, February 12 will be observed in the churches in the Newberry area. Hundreds of Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Explorers attending church will hear their pastors deliver ser mons especially for young men, according to James Leland, chair man of the Newberry District, Blue Ridge Council, Boy Scouts of America. The services will mark the 51st anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America. Boy Scout Week, Feb ruary 7 to 13, is being observed under the theme of “Strengthen America. . . Character Counts.” In Newberry there are seven Cub Packs with 143 members; 12 Scout Troops with 235 mem bers; and three Explorer Units with 31 members, making a total of 409 boys and young men in the county engaged in Scouting work. Among the Scout leaders in Newberry are: Cubmasters: Robert Renwick, James Bannister, C. M. Smith, Louis Brossy of Newberry; Louie Derrick of Little Mountain and Hubert Bedenbaugh of Prosperity. Scoutmasters: Harold Folk, Ro bert Summer, Wright Cannon, De wey Kinard, Jack Jennings and Meredith Harmon of Newberry; Andrew Shealy of Little Moun tain, J. R. Hall of Pomaria. Henry Nichols of Silverstreet, George Caldwell of Prosperity and Thom as Walker of Smyrna. Explorer Advisors are Rev. Garth Hill of Little Mountain and G. Alvin Fulmer of Pomaria. Bill Brackett of Clinton serves as district Scout Executive for the Newberry and Laurens Districts (counties) of the Blue Ridge Coun cil. Merchants of Newberry salute the Scouts of the county with spe cial greetings which may be seen elsewhere in this issue. Bishop To Visit St. Luke's Church The Rt. Rev. C. Alfred Cole, D. D., Bishop of the Diocese of Up per South Carolina, will make his annual visitation to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Newberry, this coming Sunday morning. Bishop Cole will preach and ad minister the rite of Holy Confir mation at the 11:00 a.m. Service. “The public is cordially invited to attend this service,” said the Rev. Cannon McCreary, Vicar of St. Luke’s. The Executive Committee of the church will entertain the Bishop for dinner. The committee is made up of the following members: F. D. MacLean, B. A. Fretwell, T. E. Davis, A. C. Garlington, T. H. Pope, R. T. Albrecht, J. A. Bur ton, and P. J. Price. Newberry High School rated above average following a four- day study by an evaluation com mittee last week. The weakest point found after the exhaustive check of facilities, faculty, curri culum and administration was the school’s guidance program. The committee recommended that a full time guidance counselor, trained and qualified, be hired to replace the six teachers now spending one period a day in guid ance work. None of the six has had special training for this work, according to Supt. Kneece. The committee, of which P. I. Dowling, superintendent of schools in Greenwood was chairman, found the courses of study far above av erage; that the school has a good extent of offerings of course study in 14 classifications. Noting that the - $219 per stu dent spent to run the school last year was below state average, the committee felt that the amount had been well spent, stating “It takes clever management by the area superintendent and his staff to provide the program and main tain the school plant for this amount.” Committee members felt that 31 mills would not con tinue to supply the educational needs of the county, and also sug gested an increase in local sup plement for teachers. The committee rated the pupil activity program high, and found the adminstrative staff of the school well qualified. As to teachers, the conclusion of the committee was that staff members of the school have ade quate academic preparation in most cases; adequate professional preparation in most cases; good teacher loads; could do more in the way of self-improvement by in-service programs and by at tending summer schools, work shops and obtaining Master’s de grees. The committee concluded that Newberry High School is giving a sound program of education to the girls and boys of the area. “The youth are happy in the ex perience. They like the school, in structors and administration. They behave well in classes, in halls and on the school grounds. They look neat; they think for themselves. They are moving ahead by gaining skills and know ledges. The community should have pride in the general educa tion being offered,” the committee said. Other members of the evalua tion committee were Miss Barbara Glasscock of Dreher High; Roy Nichols of Pelion High; R. P. Wil der, Clinton High; Robert Kirk, Columbia High; J. K. Derrick, Laurens High and Archie Whit- tinghill, Dreher High. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Lee Bed enbaugh and Mary Lee of Cam den and Mr. and Mrs. Aldon Bed enbaugh and Amelia Ann spent the weekend with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Buddy Bedenbaugh. Sunny South Is Selling Point, Says Robinson Newberry County was represen ted in the metropolitan areas of New York and New Jersey last week by an industry hunting team of Ben Robin-son of the Newberry County Development Board and Manton Frierson of the South Carolina x State Development Board. Calls were made on twenty-one small to medium size manufactur ers in that area, some of whom had indicated by earlier corres pondence an interest in South Carolina. Others were selected be cause trade reports revealed a steady growth of business which would lead to expansion. Robinson reported that they were very well received and prac tically all expressed an interest in South Carolina. Three of the firms, visited indicated that they were far enough along with their plans to seriously consider areas for new plants. They promised to visit Newberry County in the spring. Without exception, Robin son said, everyone talked with had a favorable impression of South Carolina. Some of the things they mentioned were the right to work law, loyalty of South Carolina em ployees and a state government which was understanding of the problems of industry. Many had visited the state and commented on the friendliness of the people. The director of the local Board said that they made headquarters in Paterson and worked the New ark, Passaic and Paterson areas. Robinson reported that auto trav el on city streets, because of the heavy snowfall, was extremely difficult when one got off the main thoroughfares and chains had to be used. One consolation, the rough weather made the job of selling the sunny South much easier, said Robinson. Bids for construction of twoi new elementary schools at the sites of tho present Boundary and Speers street schools will be open ed on March 2nd, according to an announcement made yesterday by Gerald C. Paysinger, chairman of the Newberry County Board of Education. Word was received Tuesday that the State Finance Commission has approved the plans for the schools, and adver tising for bids will begin imme diately. The schools will be identical, except that at the Boundary Street location, two additional rooms will be constructed to accommodate the Special Education classes now be ing held at the West End School. When completed, the new schools will house all students in grades one through six throughout the city. West End, Oakland and Mol- lohon elementary schools will be closed when the new schools are opened. Whether the schools will be ready for the opening pf the 1961- 62 term is indefinite, according to Mr. Paysinger. “With extremely good weather and a fast contrac tor, it is possible that we will be able to begin the next school ses sion in the new buildings,” he, said. “As const^uHion moves along, we will be ^ble to make this decision Jn time to plan for the fall session.” 5 JASPER CHAPTER MEETS FRIDAY Jasper Chapter, DAR, will meet Friday at 4 p.m. in the basement of Wessels Library at Newberry College. Through the courtesy of Congressman W. J. Bryan Dorn, the film, .“Operation Abolition” will be shown. This film is docu mented evidence of communist ac tivities in America, and all mem bers are urged to attend. Elected State President FBLA Miss Donna Rook, a member of the junior class of Newberry High School and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Rook, was elected presi dent of the State Chapter of the Future Business Leaders of Am erica at the state convention held last weekend in Columbia. Pope Buford, a member of the senior class, was named “Mr. F.B.L.A.” During the convention, Tommie Ann Werts won third place in a spelling contest and Margaret Ma son, third place in the' speaking contest. Tommie Ann and Mar garet are both students at New berry High. As a result of being elected president of the State Chapter, Donna will receive an expense-paid trip to Washington to attend the National Convention of the Future Business Leaders. Pope will re ceive $25 toward expenses to the convention. At Mayer Church Sunday Night The congregations of West End Baptist and O’Neal Street Meth odist churches will join members oi Mayer Memorw Lutheran Church for services Sunday even ing to welcome Dr. and Mrs. C. K. Derrick. Dr. Derrick, new pastor or Mayer Memorial, will deliver the sermon, “Life's Triple Wit ness.” Those who have no church home in Newberry are cordially invited to Mayer Memorial. Sunday school, with Harold O. Cook, gen eral superintendent, is held at 10 a.m., followed by morning wor ship at 11 a.m. Luther League meets at 6:30 p.m., Welcome Service at 7:30 p.m. The subject of Dr. Derrick’s morning sermon will be “The Jerusalem Journey.” ’ rt:"/''. Exam Finalist ;; Margaret W. Abrams, a mem ber of the senior class at Newber ry High School, has been notified that she is a finalist in the Na tional Merit Scholarship Examin ations.^ She is among the six- tenths of one percent of seniors throughout the state to achieve this honor. Only about 9800 of 150,000 students throughout the nation were recognized as final ists. Margaret will take another examination and if the results are satisfactory, she will receive a scholarship in the amount of $1500 a year for four years to attend the college of her choice. Margaret is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Abrams of 1416 Glenn St. Taking the Merit Exams aS a semi-finalist was Mary Ann Tim mons, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Talley Timmons of Newberry. Mr. and Mrs. Robert McFadden have moved to 1223 Clarkson Ave. in the home they recently purch ased. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Long and Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Carter are at tending the Florida State Fair in Tampa this week. Mr. Carter had an orchid display at the fair. They will return to Newberry this weekend. A large number of Newberry Mills, Inc. have and submitted to the N Labor Relations Board a to hold a decertification el at the plant. The sfgnr^ that Local Union 120 Textile Workers of r Aim L-Gxo) no longer rep: mujorify of employees at ry Mills. Thi union haa ognized as bargaining ; employe.s at the plant for 25 years; * The union has refused to sent to the election, so fr» ties prescribed in the ley labor relations act will l lowed, beginning with scheduled at the N Court House Tuesday February 14 at 1:30 p.m. A ing officer from the N bor Relations Board fice in Winston-Salem* N. be on hand to take The petition is ah an unauthorized walk-out at plant early last which production dro] about 50 percent of capacit that time, L. E. Gatlin Jr., j eral manager of the mill, notx striking employees that thoe remained away from work in violation of attendance rules and by their action were wq&jfffi matically terminating their em ployment. The striking workers turned to their jobs* am cept a few were allows back to work. Ejuv l ' y f ; \ ' ' '' • f ■. *»V*... + ■ m mmM In August, during a ten period when employe! withdraw from union me in accordance with the tract, some 160 employees out of the union,.leaving 150 and 176 union at the plant. Unofficial of the number eligible to to the union is around ploy res*. The Taft-Hartley act _ that “Whenever a petition have been filed ... by ployee or group of employeea - - - alleging that a substantial ber of employees assert that individual or labor organizat— which has been certified or is ing ciiiTently recognized by emplo\er as the bargaining Tejb resentative, is no longer a sentative . . . the (National Relations) Board shall in such petition and if it has (Continued on Page 8) BIRTHDAY GREETINGS vim ffw-. !?' , m Members of Mayer Memorial Lutheran Church welcomed their new pastor. Dr. C. K. Derrick Sr., with a reception in the Recreation room of the church Saturday night. In the receiving line were, from left, Rev. F. I. Fesperman, who served as supply pastor until Dr Derrick began his duties here; Mrs. Fes- perman. Miss Mildred Derrick, Mrs. Derrick, Dr. Derrick,. Clyde Amick and Mrs. Amick, who greeted the guests. (Sunphoto) Feb. 12: John Ji pell, W. M. Fennell, Mrs. nie Gilliam, Euston Wayne Ringer, Barbara Wilson, Ken Btvvti, Rntkie Armfield Sanders, Erwin wick Baker. y >. Feb. 13; Roy H. Clary, James A. Brown, Mrs. Leitzsey, A. M. Dominick, H. T. Oxner, Gordon R- row. Feb. 14: Agnes and i Pritchard, Mable Shealy, ] Moffatt Patrick, Julia Teressa Waldrop, Oscar Mrs. Henry Wasson, Tamar/ Setzler, Huston Long, Elisabedt Cannon, William H. Hawkmo, Mrs. H. B. Rayfield. Feb. 15: Ralph Blad* Mrm. Warren ■ Abrams, Miss Kat* Porter,/ Helen Singley, Boozer, Milton Sherry Danielson. Feb. 16: C. A. Kanfi James L. Lipscomb, Mrs. E. Kinard, Bessie Kelly, Brooks, Reginald Joan F. Phibbs, Lillie Mae Kin ard. Feb. 17: Mrs. Walter Lovett, Mrs. Marvin O. Summer, Mxau J. N. Ruff, Mildred Senn, Mrs. Clarence Waldrop, Ralph er. Dawn Frick, Mrs. Nichols, Miss Ruby Mrs. R. L. Longshore, Monts, Mrs. A. L. Goff, Jesse W. Senn, Policeman gene Shealy. Feb. 18: Miss Leon P. G. Blount, Bobby man, Lorene Fulmer, Mims, Howard B. Mrs. J. W. Mims, Ray ’.j*.