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mm The boss, from the president down, is looking for somebody to take over some of his cares, and you may be the man, my friend. L t till A mother glows when her teen-age daughter i the pick of the crop among the boys, but the father is often disturbed. VOLUME 24—NUMBER 45 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1961 By The Way - By DORIS A. SANDERS STILL THE SAME A couple of weeks ago I men tioned the delay in a hearing be fore the National Labor Relations Board, the first step toward de termining whether there would be an election at Newberry Mills, Inc. as to the status of the labor union local there. I ended the article with the question, “Who’s stalling now?” Following the hearing, which was finally held Friday, two wo men—members of the union, I gather—came to where I was standing and sneeringly asked “Who’s stalling NOW?” The ans wer, ladies, is still the same, and al Ithe flowery talk of your un ion attorney Joseph Jacobs doesn’t change it one whit. Attorney Jac obs, incidentally, said his atten tion had been called to that ar ticle (The Sun does get around, doesn’t it?) and he wished to in form me he was engaged in a case in Georgia and couldn’t ar range to be here at the earlier date set, therefore the delay. I informed him I would pass the information along to you, for what it is worth. I don’t know what these women had in mind, but the inference I gathered was that they thought the petitioners or the company were trying to stall. Not so. The Petitioners are ready to go ahead with the election, else they would not have filed the petition. The attorney for the company, at the hearing, expressed the thought that the workers should be given a chance to express themselves freely at the ballot box. When he mentioned that the workers should have such rights, Attorney Jac obs quickly interrupted and ac cused the company attorney of trying to make a speech, some thing, incidentally, Mr. Jacobs had used three-fourth of the hear ing doing. There is little doubt that Mr. Jacobs is an able attorney; one who is particularly apt when play ing to a gallery. No doubt his ora tory made a bright impression up on his followers in the local un ion, but if a single one of them understood what was going on, I would be surprised. The entire hearing was consumed by repiti- tious motions and contentions pe culiar to such labor, board hear ings and only those who have been around these hearings often knew what was going on. So the union is still delaying, first by making al) the motions which the Board will have to rule on; second by asking extension of time in which to file a brief. One extension was granted by the hearing officer; chances are an other will be asked and granted before the case ever gets to Washington. If the union has nothing to fear and is not “stalling,” then why not ust say “sure, we’re ready for an election. Let’s have it now!” Don’t ask me who’s stalling, ladies. Ask your union bosses. See what THEY will tell you. Kiwanians To Sell Shrubbery Next Week A shrubbery sale to boost home beautification in Newberry and to benefit the scholarship fund will be sponsored by the Newberry Ki- wanis Club. The sale will begin at one o’ clock next Wednesday afternoon, March 8 in the old Efird’s build ing on Main street and will con tinue through Saturday, March 11th. Sale hours will be as fol lows: Wednesday, 1 to 8 p.m.; Thurs day and Friday, 4 to 8 p.m.; Sat urday, 8 a.m. until 6 p.m Approximately 15 different var ieties of shrubs will be offered for sale, including the favorite var ieties of Chinese and Japanese Hollies, Crepe Myrtle, Magnolias, and Camellias. Most shrubs will be small in size, and in gallon cans for convenience in handling. Newberry folks have already proved their interest in Home Beautification, stated Al Busby, chairman of the club’s Agricul ture and Conservation committee. That is why it is believed, he said, that they will be interested in buying shrubs at economical prices and at the same time sup porting a worthwhile scholarship program. The Newberry Kiwanis Club now sponsors an annual scholarship at Newberry College. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hayes try operating the teletype machines used by the 228th Signal Group during National Guard open house Sunday at the local armory. Looking on is Lt. Col. Leland Welling, signal officer for the group. (Sunphoto) Young Farmers Are Honored aycees The Newberry Junior Chamber of Commerce announced at a banquet held Thursday night that Robert Long of Silverstreet had been named “Young Farmer of the Year” and Mrs. Horace L. Booz er, Jr. of Smyrna, “Young Farm Woman.” Others recognized as finalist for the two titles were Mrs. Harold Pitts, Mrs. Griff Dorroh, W W. Parr, Harold Pitts, Bob Dorroh and Richard Neel III. The presentations were made by D. P. Folk, at the Community Hall banquet, at which County Agent Al Busby was speaker. Mr. Long will be eligible to Mayor Begins Easter Seal Drive With Proclamation Red Cross To Have Fun In March The Red Cross County Chair man, Lawrence Richardson, an nounced today that a drive for iiunds will be held during the month of March. The drive last y«ar was postponed two months due to the fact that other worth while campaigns had just been Completed or were in progress at that particular time. Richardson stated that it is regrettable that people are solicited by so many fund drives over a short period of time, but it appears that this is the way it will be until some workable arrangement is made whereby one sizable donation can be made to take care of all of the needy organizations. The County Chapter’s goal this year will be $7,226. “This is a great deal of money to be ask ing for,” said Richardson, “but it can be raised if we will give generously and think of the bene fits that we have received through our - Red Cross Blood Program and the benefits that would be available in case of disaster. “I repeat, I am sorry that a fund campaign must be launched at this time, but our Red Cross I funds are exhausted, and the only; way that funds can be made avail able is through public donations.” < 'iA + $2.00 PER YEAR !lff§pfl ••••apo- mm S-fisSsi 111 WmSm m mi Hi Mi ■.■s.y.V.y..-.-.-.-. Wm Wmm mm -■ y j ip: at * mm ill Is*?*:*! 11 pp: msm: Students Are Teaching «_s Sixty-five Newberry College students are practice teaching in the classrooms of a number of schools. This period of practice teaching will run from February 27 to March 17. Fifty are teaching in the esc- ondai'y education departments and the remainder in the elementary grades. This work is carefully supervised by Prof. James L. Mc Cord, supervisor of secondary edu cation; Dr. James F. Cummings, Associate Professor of Education and Psychology; and Mrs. Louise R. Douglas, supervisor of elemen tary education at Newberry Col lege. Through the cooperation of the superintendents these college stu- Mayor Ernest H. Layton Tues day signed a proclamation desig nating the period March 2-April 2 as Easter Seal Month in Newber ry. The proclamation is as fol lows: WHEREAS: Easter Seal socie ties nationwide have, for 40 years, been providing rehabilitation serv ices to thousands upon thousahds of crippled children and adults, and WHEREAS: All residents of Newberry, through their steady support to the Crippled Children Society during its annual Easter Seal Campaign, have given hope, help and opportunity to hundreds crippled at birth or by disease or accident in our community, and WHEREAS: There are now in Newberry many crippled children and adults still in need of rehabi litation services, and WHEREAS: The Crippled Chil dren Society continues to efficient- compete for the State oung Saluda, Lexington and Laurens Farmer of the Year” award. His Counties. predecessor, Henry L. Parr, won | County students pract i ce teach ing in secondary schools are Re becca Ann Dickert, Mary Jane dents are practice teaching in the schools of Newberry, Fairfield, U and effectively operate out standing programs to the state title last year and rep resented the state in the national contest. Fellers, Jerry T. Fulmer, Barbara This is the first year a “Young Jean Hawkins, Robby A. Lindley, Farm Woman” has been recog nized by the local Jaycees. CONCERNED A Newberrian recently went to another city to get a job. When he told his prospective employer he was from Newberry, the inev itable question came: “are you. or were you, a member of the un ion?” Not until the prospective employer made a long distance call to Newberry and was assured the applicant was NOT a labor un ion member, was he given the job. This is the sort of stigma at tached to Newberry. And the stigma comes mainly from wildcat strikes or threatened strikes which find their way into the daily press. Because of this situation, many Newberrians are concerned not only over the fact that we are getting no new industries, but whether we can hold on to what we have. The going seems to be nip-and-tuck with many textile manufacturers today and a tip of the scales could mean disaster. This is pointed out clearly in an article in a recent issue of the Textile Reporter. The writer, dis cussing labor union leaders, states: “They (union leaders) built into the National Labor Relations Act a provision making it illegal, or punitively expensive, for an em ployer to find relief from frus trating labor disputes by moving to another state, or going out of business. But this proved to be of only limited effect, since trouble with a union is seldom the only reason why a firm moves or li quidates—it is merely the reason that is likely to make an already harrassed management throw up its hands and say, ‘Let’s get out of this rat race’.” At Silverstreet The Eighth grade of Silver- street school is sponsoring a mus- Elizabeth B. Long, Henry Clyde Martin, John M. Oxner, Allen R. Perry, Elma Jean Piester, Donald Satterfield, B. Delores Shealy, Claudia C. Setzler, Hubert H. Setz- ler, Mary Ann Tisdale. In elementarv schools: Frances ical program on March 10 at 8 p.m. The program will feature the C- Blackwell, Edna Earle Fant, Mitchell and Price instrumental group. Admission will be 25c for students and 50c for adults. The public is invited. Janice King, Mrs. Nina Y. Kun kle, Mrs. Frances A. Lowrimore, Glenda R. Wise and Sara Ella Yount. meet the needs of all physically handicapped persons, I, Ernest H. Layton, Mayor, HEREBY PROCLAIM the per iod March 2-April 2, 1961, as Easter Seal Month and urge all citizens to join the Crippled Chil dren Society in its fight against crippling by giving generously to this great cause. /s/ Ernest H. Layton Mayor of Newberry Noted Pianist In Concert Mr. and Mrs. William K. Perry have moved to Harrington St. to make their home. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Mason are now residing at 1204 Hillcrest Dr. WJm m vt- m Dr. Thomas Richner, noted con cert pianist and teacher, will pre sent a piano recital in Holland Hall at Newberry College on Mon day evening, March 6, at 8:00 p. m. Dr. Richner, a recognized auth ority on Mozart, has concertized extensively in this country and in Europe, where he is engaged for annual concert tours in England, France, Austria, Holland, and the Scandinavian cdun,tries. His all Mozart recital in Vienna won for him the whole-hearted admiration of critics and public. Noel Strauss, music critic for the New York Times, had this to say about a recent recital by Rich ner: “Thomas Richner, pianist, who presented an all-Mozart pro gram at Town Hall last season, gave another recital devoted to keyboard music of that composer yesterday afternoon in the same auditorium. His playing was again serious, sincere, refined with care ful attention to details, including ornamentation. Without exception, the works performed were project ed with a sensitive, singing tone, capable of decided finesse in mat ters of nuances. They were invar iably transparent, nicely phrased, clean in pedaling. Lyricism was the keynote of his readings, a ten der lyricism, avoiding overstace- ment of any kind, either emotion ally or in regajrd to dynamic frame. The distinction in the char acter and in the dynamic frame of the different works was well con sidered in an afternoon of Mozart playing that held the attention of the large audience from the start to the end of the finely de vised list covering all three chief periods of the composer’s output.” The program at Newberry Col lege on Monday evening will con sist of works of Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, and Khachatur ian. Admission to the concert is free and the public is cordially invited 'to attend. Little Jean Harmon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Me elith Harmon, sells the first sheet Seal stamps to Mayor Ernest H. Layton, while her mother and Phillip T. Kelly, chairman of the ter Seal Drive, look on. Jean suffered measles*ence halitis when she was one ye*r old *»nd for a was completely disabled, both in her physical movements and in her speech. She began J treatments, rehabilitation and speech therapy at thj Crippled Children’s Clinic in Cohimbia when was about three, and still goes for therapy once a week. Jean is now a first grade student a. Bound ary Street school. Her parents praise the help which she has been given, and is being given by the Crippled Children’s Society of South Carolina, which is supported by contributions to the Easter Seal Drive. (Sunphoto) ‘ “ . *1 * ’ w Efforts To Oust Union Decision Of National Wi, •Ml ■mu r- , w Employes of Newberry Mills, Inc., who have requested that an election be held by the National Labor Relations Board to deter mine whether Lochl'""Union 120 still represents a majority of em ployees at the plant, are now awaiting a decision^ ’by ,tbe Board in Washington as to whether an election will be held. The Board will make its decision based on testimony and arguments made during a rep'resehthtion hearing held at the court hojise last Fri day, at which Martin Ball of the NLRB’s Regional Office in Win ston-Salem, N. C:,' was hearing officer. Henry F. Sherril), attorney of Columbia, represented the three men who filed the petition asking for an election. Ellison D. Smith Jr., attorney, also of Columbia, represented Newberry Mills, Inc., and Joseph Jacobs, attorney of Atlanta, appeared on behalf of Lo cal Union 120. Most of the two hour hearing was taken up by Mr. Jacobs who made a number of motions to dis- an election, miss the petition. Mr. Jacobs first ]yi r Jacobs “we think counsel is trying to do members of indirectly what he can’t do di rectly* .that is explore into and ex amine and have knowledge of the names on the signature cards. The Board has already acted upon and determined that and 4 think it is no longer open to argument.” Jacobs further sought to have the petition dismissed contending that Local Union 120 AFL-CIO was not properly certified as the bargaining agent, but merely tHe United Textile Workers of Am erica. Mr. Smith, attorney for the company asked “Is it counsel’s contention that there is n > longer any certified union at Newberry Mills? We would be very inter ested.” Attorney Jacobs then made a motion to dismiss the petition, contending that the contract, which expires August 8, 1961 is a bar to any election at this time. This motion was referred to the Board, although Mr. Sherill cited a case where the Board had ruled that a similar contract was not a bar to asked that slips signed by a num ber of employees, requesting that an election be held in an attempt to decertify the union, be made a part of the record. Mr. Sherill, in response, told the hearing officer, m Among those inspecting a M42 tank, a self-propelled weapon, at National Guard Open House Sun day afternoon were Ray Gilliam and his two little daughters. The little girl on the tank at the left is Maria, at the right, Linda. Mr. Gilliam stands onthe left in front of the tank. The three guardsmen are SFC Thomas Harmon, M/Sgt. George R. Owens and SFC Carrol Bouknight. All members of Bat tery C. Sgt. Owens is platoon sergeant, and Sgts. Bouknight and Harmon were instructors during the Sunday drill of Battery C. (Sunphoto) Coroner Cases Number 34 Thirty-four deaths were investi gated by Coroner George R. Sum mer during 1960, according to his annual report. The largest num ber, twelve, were found to have occured from natural causes. Sev en deaths were the result of self- inflicted wounds; four resulted from burns, five from automobile accidents, two from gunshot wounds, four were accidental, and one drowning occurred. Mr. and Mrs. Kemper Hawkins have moved to 625 O’Neal street to make their home. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Harmon Jr. are now residing at 1323 Pearl St. I Mr. and Mrs. Charlie A. Force are now making their home at 901 McKibben street. Garden Club District Meet To Be Here The Council of Newberry- Gar den Clubs, Mrs. T. P. Crooks, President, is making plans to en tertain state and district officers, ciiairmen and all members of the East Piedmont District of the Gar den Club of South Carolina on March 15. The morning session will be held at Central Methodist Church, at 10:30, preceded by a '■of,, -e hour at 9:30. A luncheon will follow in Newberry’s historic Community Hall. At the close of the luncheon J. C. Dowling of Gaffney, well- known flower arranger and judge will give a demonstration on flower arranging. * The members of the local com mittee are Mrs. Clem I. Youmans and Mrs. John R. Frazier. Every garden club member in Newberry is urged to attend. Newberry has the unusual honor of having of its members, Mrs. Richard L. Baker, as president of the Garden Club of South Carolina. Reservations for the luncheon must be made with Mrs. Frazier not later than the morning of March 13. then pointed out Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Floyd are now making their home at 1514 Harrington St. that two subpenas had been is sued, one to Newberry Mills, Inc. or its general manager, L. E. Gat lin, Jr., and one to Ben Robinson, executive director of the Newber ry County Development Board. On motion of attorneys for the plant and the development board, the subpenas were quashed. The hearing officer stated it was his understanding that “the subperms in both cases are for the purpose of showing outside participation in the acquisition of the authori zation cards and for that reason they were quashed.” Mr. Jacobs asked the hearing officer to strike from the motion to quash the subpena to Mr. Rob inson a statement “Neither Mr. Robinson nor the Newberry Coun ty Development Board has any thing to hide. If charges are to be made against him and the New berry County Development Board, the charges will be met and in my (the attorney’s) opinion com pletely refuted. Any efforts to involyp , Mr. Robinson would be improper and completely unfair.” The helping officer referred Jac obs’ request to the Board for rul ing. , Jacob? then stated “We have reason to believe . . . that some of the signatures that were submit ted were not proper signatures.” He then'called to the stand one of <j Up' • • the petitioners, Thomas Hawkins. The Hearing Officer allowed the union attorney to ask Hawkins’ as to his employment, but refused to allow questions as to the slips. Jacobs then offered to prove if allowed to do so, that there was outside interference (in obtaining the slips) “particularly by the Newberry County Development Board”; that assistance and aid was given in the undertaking by supervision, and agents of the Newberry Mills, and that there was misrepresentadon and fraud by statements made at the time signatures were secured from the employees who work at the plant. The witnesses he would use to prove these charges, he said, were Claude Wicker, John Kinard, Carol Crouch, Ruby Jones, Daniel James, Dessa Rae Wesson, and Clarence Bundrick , | The hearing office: would not allow the testimony, ruling that the hearing Friday was not’ the proper place to bring such charges. > u . At the conclusion of the hear ing, Attorney Smith attempted to say that the workers should have a right to express themselves freely by ballot. He was interrupt ed by Jacobs, who accused Mr. Smith of “making a speech.” The hearing adjourned at two - o’clock. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS March 5: Miss Ruby Kinard, Mrs. Earl Roland, Mary Ann Connelly, Mrs. Everette Gra ham, Mrs. Ethel Murphy, Cor nelia Nalley, Mrs. E. E. Hite, Mrs. W. F. (Bill) Graham, Pat rick Shealy, Mrs. Robert Wick- \ er. March 6: Hugh Connelly, Mrs. Charlie Bradley, David Richardson, Mrs. P. G. Elleeor, E. F. Lowell III, Fred J. Weir Jr. March 7: Mrs. J. M. Hove, Jos eph L. Tolbert, Miss Carolyn Kinard, Linda Ann Lathrop, Ula Jollay, George P. Boozer, Mrs. W. D. Montgomery, Mrs. Ellerbe Miller, Forrest El Shea ly Jr., Cheryl Folk, Mildred Sheely, Mrs. Kibler William son. March 8: J. P. Moon, Ace W. Watkins, Mrs. Harry Stone, Mrs. Glenn L. Hamm, Mrs. Katherine Neel Long, L. A. Black, Andrew Shealy, Mrs. Pearce Davis. March 9: Cecil LeRoy Bart ley, A. T. Hayes, Mrs. Pearle Pugh Shealy, Claude Summer, Dr. F. A. Truett, Joe S. Boland, Wofford Cooper Jr. March 10: Doris Dominick, Mrs. J. W. Denning and 4ier grandson, Bruce Denning, J. F. Lominack, Mrs. Reid Marett, Mrs. Gracie H. Cromer, Jimmy Ruff, A. N. Crosson, Prof. R. E. Beck, E. E. Epting, Frances Blackwell, Mary Gayle Wilson. March 11: Mrs. Woodrow Rin ger, Mrs. Ryan Graham, Eliza beth Pinner Koon, Harriett Gra ham, Lorraine Lominick, Bennie Burn, Elizabeth Timmerman, Mrs. Hayne Shealy, Albert Jones, Mrs. Sadie McLeod. n