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1 VOLUME 25; NUMBER 48. NEWBERRY* SOUTH CAROLINA* THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1961 $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way - By DORIS A. SANDERS CLARIFICATION In the article in this column last -week about tree-cutting, I stated that plans for the project were submitted to the chairman of the Tree Commis-sion and that no pro test was heard from the Commis sion. The information was correct so far as it went, but I was go ing on the assumption that all members of the Commission had seen the plans. I am informed that this assumption was inaccu rate; that at least one member knew nothing of the tree-cutting until it began. I wish to apologize ' for this oversight. for continued success ented young artist. to this tal- THE TEACHERS I am disappointed that the teachers of South Carolina en dorsed federal aid to education, but in a way, I can’t blame them. While I still do, and always will oppose federal aid to education, I can see that the teachers are f.’.n- slly fed up -with being handed a mere pittance every several years; they are humiliated at having to beg a crumb when they—at least some of them—deserved a whole loaf. But therein lies the whole reason for the General Assembly doing nothing concrete for the teachers. As long as the lawmakers see that there are teachers to fill classrooms, there will be no sub stantial pay raise; nor will there in many cases be the type of edu cation we desire for our children. Some of the teachers not only de serve no more than they are get ting, but do not even deserve to be in a classroom. Only when unqualified teachers are eliminated will there be va cancies in the schools and only then will the General Assembly recognize that in many cases, the best teachers are leaving and go ing into other fields. Federal aid is not the answer. If the states are allowed to say what will be done with the funds, there will still be the same situa tion of one state paying more than others for teachers. This will ev entually bring about (and I am sure the NEA lobbyists have this in mind) the taking over com pletely by the federal government of teachers salaries, on a civil service system controlled from Washington. The pitiful part of the whole thing is that while our state poli ticians are wringing their hands in anguish over the idea of fed eral aid, they are asking for it. It seems to me that the State Department of Education should be able to come up with some scheme to determine which teach ers are unqualified, and to elimin ate them. Then, the state could help the remainder to become bet ter teachers. A teacher who intends to remain in the profession is required to get off a certain number of grad uate hours study. It occurs to me that a good method of providing a pay raise would be to pay the cost of summer school for teachers un til they receive a Masters Degree, then either give them a cash raise or the allowance for further graduate study, if they wish. It should also be required that the Master’s degree consist of more than half the courses in subject matter, instead of time-wasting, unimportant courses in “method ology.” Surely there is someone in the General Assembly with sense enough to realize that something has to be done for the teachers and for the education of our chil dren, and that the answer is not federal aid. THE DOGS If as many people called their mayor and councilmen as called me about the dog situation, I be lieve council would get busy and do something to take the stray dogs off the street, and require dog-owners to keep their pets con fined. The situation seems to be even worse now than it was when I wrote about it some time ago, or at least more widespread, because people from every section of town have said “please keep on writing about it until something is done.” As I stated before, however, I’ve given up hope that council will do anything until a serious accident occurs. MORE NEEDED Council has helped the traffic situation in Newberry to some ex tent by making certain streets one way. One thing that should be done next is to take these tremen dous tractor-trailer off our city streets, at least in the business section of town. Some of the trucking companies maintain ter minals just outside the city lim its, and while their trucks used in town are larger than pick-ups, there are in the most part only half the size of some of the trucks trying to park on our narrow streets. One parked right on Col lege street the other day, across from the Hotel Wiseman, almost stopping traffic completely while the truck was being unloaded. Government Aid for Hospital Addition Given According to a telegram re ceived Tuesday from the office of Senator Strom Thurmond, the is~partment of Health, Educat ion and Welfare has approved a grant to Newberry County Me morial Hospital for a 12-bed addition and alterations. The to tal cost of the project will be iH30,600 with $60,000 of • this mnount coming from the federal government through the Hill- Burton Act. Lawrence Richardson,' hospi tal manager, said that $60,000 of the necessary amount will be borrowed from the State Sink ing Fund, to be repaid over a period of five years. The re maining amout will come from a grant made some years ago to the hospital by the Ford Foun dation. Mr. Richardson said that Ir vine Leslie has been chosen as architect, and expressed the hope that plans for the new addition will move along as rapidly as possible. “B. A. C.” buttons are appearing on lapels throughout Newberry this week as law enforcement officers distribute them among the citi zens as a part of the Easter Seal campaign for funds to aid crippled children. On Good Friday, March 31, coffee urns in restraurants, hotels and drug stores of Newberry, as well as over the state, will be bubbling and boiling with free coffee for wearers of “Buck-A-Cup and Brace- A-Child” buttons. These buttons announce that their wearers have Bee Is Saturday Couldn’t a limit be placed on the extended a hand to help a crippled child. size of trucks streets ? allowed on our Services Set For Holy Week Holy Week services will be held in Mayer Memorial Lutheran Church Monday through Friday, March 27-31 at 7:30 p.m. The pas tor, Rev. C. K. Derrick, Sr., will deliver the messages for the week. He will use as his theme, “The End of the Journey.” Sermon top ics are as follows: Monday, “When God and Man Meet”; “Tuesday, “The People Stood By”; Wednes day, “Loneliness”; Thursday, “Meat and Drink”; and Friday, “Work Completed.” On Thursday night, Holy Communion will be administered. The Rev. Francis I. Fesperman of Newberry College will assist with this service. Services for Palm Sunday, March 26 are as follows: Sunday School, 10 a.m., lesson topic, “Christ died for Us.” Morning Worship, 11 a.m., Ser mon, “Partnership with God.” Dur ing this service, new members will be received into the congregation. Baptismal Service, 3 p.m. Par ents are invited to bring their un baptized children for baptism at this time. Please notify the pas tor in advance. Luther League, 6:30 p.m. There will be no evening ves pers on Palm Sunday night. The U.L.C.M. will hold their monthly meeting Saturd \y, March 25 at 7:30 in the Fellowship Hall. All men of the church are invited to attend. Note the change in time. Visitors are welcome to attend any or all of these services. Hotel owner lin my Wiseman Sr., who always has a cup of coffee on hand, night or day, nevertheless does his part, and buys a BAC button from Policeman Eugene Shealy. (Sunphoto.) Easter Lily Sale To Begin With Parade On Saturday Newberry Exchange Club members, their ladies and guests observed the 50th Anniversary of National Exchange Club with a banquet Tuesday night at the Willowbrook Club House. John Cashion of Radio Station WORD, Spartanburg, was guest speaker. L. Bit (Dick) Shealy and Harry Moose were ka charge of arrangements for the occasion. The invocation was spoken by Rev. Paul Petty. Howard Cook Jr. is club president. They are shown in the Sunphoto above, from left, Messrs. Shealy, Cashion, Petty and Moose. : ~'V good and indications are that Newberry County people will again go over the quota for this section. The 1961 Easter Lily Parade will take place on Saturday, March 25 beginning at 9:00 a.m. The Newberry College Band under the i .... , . . , , direction of Professor Charles Individuals receiving seals through Pruitt will give an extra attrac-1 the mail and not sending in a tion to the parade. j contribution to date are reminded Plans as announced by the 0 f the need of their help. Easter Seal Campaign Director Kelly re ports that as of last Friday, March 17 over $1,400.00 had been received at the South Carolina National Bank for Easter Seals. Law enforcement officers are most enthusiastic over the re sponse of the public in the purch asing of B.A.C. buttons for the Coffee Day on Friday, March 31. as committee call for the parade to commence in front of the Episco pal Church at 9:00 o’clock sharp and proceed down Main Street to the Community Hall. Leading the parade will be Chief Colie Dowd and his co-chairman, Ray Schum- pert. Members of the comittee in clude Mrs. Bill Tedford, Mrs. Pope Buford, Mrs. T. W. Parks, and Mrs. R. W. Ivester. In the parade will be the Baton Twirlers of Mrs. Meredith Har mon’s class. Also included in the parade will be members of the Junior Department of the Central Methodist Church who will help sell Ea-ster Lilies, and other groups. Down town there will be a Wishing Well in front of Efirds Department Store. Plans call for a table in front of the Ritz Thea ter where other members of the committee will be on duty during the day. Serving on this commit tee are Mrs. L. G. McCullough, Mrs. Sarah Wallace, Mrs. Aubrey Harley and Mrs. Violet Nichols. Throughout the day the public will have an opportunity to pur chase Easter Lilies to help fight crippling. To date the response has The annual Spelling Bee for Newberry county white students will be held at Newberry High Saturday, March 25, beginning at 9:30 a.m. The contest is open to students under 16 years of age in the fifth through eighth grades. Schools which have been invited to send j contestants include Pomaria, Bush! River, Prosperity, Little ' Moun-! tain, Silverstreet, Whitmire, Jr, ! High and Newberry High, I Each contestant is requested to bring a small photo. The first place winner will re ceive a $5 prize. Second place winner will receive $3 and third place winner $2. Individual county winners will participate in the State finals, which will be held at Anderson college at Anderson, Saturday, April 29 at 10 a.m. The County winners, with one chaperone each, will be guests of the Anderson daily newspaper for lunch in the Anderson college dining room af ter the contest. H. F. Longshore FEBRUARY SAVINGS BONDS SALES Combined E and H Savings Bonds sales for February in New berry County totaled $24,887.00 re ports Joe M. Roberts, County Sav ings Bonds Chairman. E and H Bond sales for the state for February totaled $2,186,001, according to Robert G. Clawson, State Savings Bonds Chairman. At the end of February, cash value of E and H Bonds outstanding in the nation reached the all-time record of $43,416 million, an in crease of $279 million since Jan uary 1. This is the largest amount of increase in any two-month public’s period since early 1956, further re- been exceptionally ported Mr. Clawson. IMPROVEMENT Members of the Palmetto Gar den Club are to be thanked for turning a once barren, unattrac tive spot into a colorful spring garden. I refer to the triangle on Harrington street beside the court house. Those of you who have occasion to pass that w r ay certainly must have enjoyed the beautiful spring flowers which have been blooming there ■‘‘or the past few weeks, and will join me in thanking those from the Pal metto Garden Club who worked so hard to bring about this transfor mation. fill wmmm. ip ... mi Sgs iiiil .'.V.V.V.V m m x iM* ^ Iff: CONGRATULATIONS We wish to congratulate Bill Moore on the honor bestowed upon him by Winthrop College. In recognition of his outstanding tal ent, Winthrop has asked that Bill, give a recital at that institution. The recital will be tomorrow (Fri day) night. In addition to being an excellent pianist, Bill is also an above-avef- age student at Newberry High School, where he serves as presi dent of the Key Club. Our wishes 5^5$^ Gentlemen of the 1961 Newberry County Grand Jury: front row, from left, B. E. Wicker, Willie L. Bedenbaugh, Virgil L. Boland, Joe E. Bickley, William T. Baker, S. F. Freeman, Francis M. Mathis, Joe H. Simpson, Jr. and Louis C. Floyd; back row, from left, J. Howard Cook, Jr., Thomas M. Abrams, Woodrow B. Hentz, A. M. Johnson, J. K. Fulmer, J. Alvin Kinard, Harold F. Long, Randolph Wilson and F. R. Campbell. (Photo by Nichols.) Supervisors Of SCS Submit Annual Report This 24th Annual Report of | the Newberry Soil Conservation District is prepared for the peo ple of Newberry County and es pecially for the 92 new coopera tors that were added to the list during 1960. Your district is one of 45 in the state and one of the over 2800 over the nation promoting the conservation of our most impor tant resources. During the year 462 cooperators were visited and their farm plans reviewed and amended according to the progress made in conser vation practices. The District furnished techni cal assistance through the Soil Conservation Service to- 123 ACP referrals. Fifty-one farm ponds were constructed during the year and 46 of these ponds were pro perly stocked with fish furnished through the Fish and Wildlife Service. Forty-five miles of ter races were constructed, giving protection to 500 acres of our cultivated land. Two and one-half miles of drainage ditches were dug so that open bottom lands might be used more effectively. Pasture seeding and fertiliza tion is still on the upward trend throughout the District. The use of grasses for water holding is on the increase. Tree planting and selective cutting of the farm woodlots is being used, and should be used more. The District cooperated in the effort of putting on a highly suc cessful Agri-Business tour. An essay contest was sponsor ed by the S. C. Bankers Associa tion with the cooperation of the local banks and the Newberry District. One hundred ten essays were w-ritten by pupils of the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades through out the county. The title of the essay was “What Conservation of Soil, Water, Woodlands and Wild life Means to Me.” Henry Baker Summer was a- warded the first prize of $25 by a supervisor during chapel per- (Continued on Page 4) Hugh FarieV* Lohgsliore, Sr., 66, died early Wednesday morning at the Newberry County Memorial Hospital after a short critical ill ness. He had been in declining health for the past several years. Mr. Longshore was - bom iu Newberry County, the son of the late C. T. and Frances Martin Longshore. He was a retired far mer. He was a member of New Chapel Methodist Church and also a member of the American, Legion. He was a veteran of World War I. Surviving are his a wife, Mrs. Eunice Livingston Longshore; two sons, H. F. Longsbpre Jr. of Ches ter and Donald L. Longshore of Clinton; three daughters, Mrs. P. H. Kinsey of' Cleveland, Ohio, Mrs. James E. Medlock of New berry and Mrs. Fred. C. Clark of Greenville; and twelve grand children Funeral services will be conduct ed at 3 o’clock this (Thursday) af terncon at New Chapel Methodist Church by the Rev. David Temple ton. Interment will be in the church cemetery. The body will remain at the Whitaker Funeral Home until the iiour of the service. By MRS. A. H. COUNTS W. H. Buddy Goff^ousebreak- ing, larceny and receiving stoles goods, one year, after six months one year probation. Walter Leon Finch, housebreak ing and larceny and receiving stolen goods, one year, after serv ice of -six months, suspended and probation for two years. - it Arnold Dewitt Holder, house* ~ > , , , j breaking, larceny and receiving Crooks pleaded guilty to the] stolen goods, one year, suspended, charge and Curry was found guil- probation one year. V * £ v „ ™ J ury - ? udge James Liquor law violations—Lawrence Hugh McFadden of Manning, pre- Goree, three months or $800; Olin siding judge, grve each a one Goodman, third offense^ one year Court of General Sessions ad journed Tuesday afternoon after disposing of 44 of the 55 cases on the docket. The only jury case tried during the two-day session was that of Jack Crooks, Charles Curry and George Caldwell, charged with in x F. J. Reddick Died Monday Frank J. Reddick, 78, died early Monday morning at his home af ter a long illness. Born in Florence county he was a son of the late Joe and Mary Elizabeth Anderson Reddick. Mr. Reddick was roadmaster of the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens railroad until his retire ment in 1950. He was a member of the Pentecostal Holiness church and the Woodmen of the World. Mr. Reddick was married three times; his first wife being Pearl Miller. From this union survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Ruby R. Davis. His second marriage was to Gertrude Warren and from this union he is survived by a daugh ter, Mrs. Walter Joye, of New berry. His third wife. Minnie Cope land, survives. CL. er ' survivors include one step-son, Ernest Mer chant of Sumter, three grandchil dren and three great-grandchild ren. Funeral services were conduct ed at 3:30 p.m. from Whitaker Funeral home by Rev. Robert H. Bagwell. Interment was in Rose- mont cemetery. RECOVERS AFTER HAVING SURGERY Mrs. Eugene B. Shealy is re cuperating nicely at the Baptist hospital in Columbia, where she underwent surgery last Thursday. She is expected to be in the hos pital about a week longer. Her address is Room 366. year sentence, suspended for three years on the condition that they never carry a deadly wea pon. Caldwell was found not guilty of thfe charge. Guilty pleas heard and sentences handed down were as follows: Freddie Lee Douglas Sr., viola tion of the liquor law, six months or $750 to be paid before the next term of court. James Walter Johnson, viola tion of the liquor law, three months or $300. Dock Stevens Glenn, assault and battery of a high and aggra vated nature, one year; suspend ed and placed on probation for one year. # Freddie Lee Bates, escaping public works, six months, to run concurrently with sentence al ready serving when escaped. James F f a n k 1 i n Alexander, housebreaking, larcehy and re ceiving stolen goods ,one year. Edgar Donald Farmer, house breaking, larceny and receiving stolen goods, one year. Young Arnette Kinard, assault and battery, high and aggravated nature, 10 months. Beurl Rollins, forgery, one year. Thamous Hawkins, housebreak ing, larceny and receiving stolen goods, one year, on each of two charges, for the same offense. Donald Eugene Lewis, larceny and receiving stolen goods, 18 months, suspended and placed on three years probation. Harold Lee Crenshaw, larceny, and receiving stolen goods, 18 months and 3 years probation. Moore Recital To Be Tomorrow ROCK HILL — The Winthrop College department of music will present William Beale Moore, pi anist, in recital Friday (March 24) at 8 p.m. in the Recital Hall. A student at Newberry High School, Moore is the son of Dr. Milton Moore, head of the depart ment of music at Newberry Col lege. Bill is 18 years old and a senior] at Newberry High School. He is accompanist for the school choral groups and president of the Key Club. For four straight years he has received one ratings at the South Carolina High School Mu sic Festival. For'the past two years he has been presented in recital at New berry College. Moore’s Winthrop program will include selections by Scarlatti, Bach, Beethoven and Chopin. or $1,500; Willie Edwards, third offense, one year or $1,500; Leo Marshall, three months or $800; Albert Suber, 15 days or $50, and John D. Williams, three months or $300. Robert C. Hood, theft of gaso line from automobile, one year suspended and probation for two years. Patrick Coleman, drunken driv ing, third offense, three years or - $2,000, suspended on service * nine months cr payment of $600 and probation for three years. Willie Mack Harmon, alias Todd Jeter, assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature,, two years. Albert Lee Gaffney, assault and battery of a high and aggra vated nature, one year suspend ed and probation for two years. Willie Bookman Jr., assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, one year, suspended on service of six months and one year probation. GREETINGS i March 26: Mrs. E. L. Black- well, Marvin Eugene Schum- pert, Sue Hutchinson, Lance Reid. March 27: Mrs. M. D. Lambeth, Thomas Hugh Crooks, Marvin Abrams, Jr., Phillip Earl Cro mer, Mrs. George R. Summer, March 28: H. O. Newman, Elizabeth Ann Ruff, Sylvia Shell, H. T. Lake, Johnnie B. Harmon, Horace Cromer, Ralph Higgins, Ruth M. Swygert, Da* vid Leonard Turner. March 29: Mrs. Forster Smith, Mrs. Nora Wessinger Glymph, Miss Pauline Williams, Jamea D. Perry, Tommie Long, Robert Clayton Smith, Harvey Drawdy, E. S. Southerland, George N. Martin, Nancy Elizabeth Timm erman. March 3<U Wililam Milam, Hedy P. Clark, Edie Long, De- leal Boinest, Neel Boozer, Get- tis L. Coates, Henry Dodgen, Tommy Pope, Charles Park, Mrs. R. Brice Waters, Robert Bartley, Jr. March 31: Mrs. James Smith Sr., Johnny Billingsley, Rupert "Edward Hodges Jr., Mary. Su san Long, Mrs. Anna Counts, George Ray Lathrop, Larry Beam, Bill Carter. April 1: Jake Wise, Mrs. Ber tha D. Boylston, Otis L. Whit- aker, Mrs. A. E. Hazel. . ^ •• Isu m