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/V/'LTu'u U U Vi W UVTU I VOLUME 24; NUMBER 49. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1961 f M» YEAR By The Way - By DORIS A. SANDERS IN FULL BLOOM For those of you who may be interested, we are informed by the Orangeburg Chamber of Com merce that the annual period of peak bloom of Orangeburg’s fam ous Edisto Memorial Gardens be gan the past Sunday and will con tinue in full force through Easter Sunday' The Park superintendent states that during the period “the azaleas, dogwood an wisteria, the predominating color - producers, will be in full force.” The Orangeburg Chamber of Commerce and ihe City of Orange burg extend an open invitation to all persons in South Carolina to come to Orangeburg and visit the beautiful Edisto Memorial Gardens while they are still in full bloom. The pleasure and appreciation that will be derived from the beauty of the gardens and from other acti vities will prove to be a worth while experience for young and old alike. AT HOME, TOO! Perhaps more flowers will be seen at Edisto Memorial Gardens, but they will be no more beauti ful than the ones now in bloom in Newberry. The azaleas and dog wood seem to have burst in bloom almost overnight; the flowering shrubs and trees are still laden with blossoms; tulips and other bulb plants add to the color and beauty. There are so many beau tiful places in the city that I hes itate to pick out one as being more outstanding than another, so I just urge that one of those sun ny days before the week is out, you get in your car, drive around the city and enjoy it for yourself. THE VISITOR Elsewhere on this page is a story about Philippe Hebbelynck of Ghent, Belgium. So interesting was this young man that the time alloted for an interview didn’t give nearly enough time to ask all the Questions I had in mind. Perhaps we can continue the inter view later. I saved a few of the things he talked about to fill up this col umn. Of particular interest, I thought, was the operation of the mill in whicn his company has an interest in Albertville, Belgian Congo. Despite the troubles in that area, the mill is still operating—or was two months ago when Philippe left Belgium. He said there had been no trouble with the inhabi tants who work in the plant, which is engaged in spinning, weaving, dying, bleaching, printing cloth and making clothes for inhabi tants. Philippe explained that there are three cotton mills in Katanga province and production is too high for the population of the Belgian Congo, so most of his company’s production is sold in Ruanda-Urundi, a province north east of Congo, administered by the Belgians. He said that financial difficulties had developed because Katanga Chief Chumbi had start ed printed money, Ruanda - Ur- undi prints its own money, and still another currency is used in Stanleyville, from which raw ma terials are purchased. Neither province will honor the money of the other. Philippe believes, how ever, that this problem will soon be solved. Television in Belgium is govern ment owned and very good pro grams are available from Belgium, Holland and France. Philippe is not a movie fan, but judging from the few he has seen, he finds French movies superior to those made in America. Labor unions hold sway in Bel gium but they are oddly divided; there are two unions in the Union Cotonniere plants, one representing Catholics, the other Socialists. The company had no trouble dur ing the recent widely publicized riots and strikes in Belgium. Philippe stated that the workers in Northern Belgium are not so excitable as those in the southern part. There, are very few Commun ists in Belgium, according to Phil ippe. The Belgian visitor says he can find no outstanding differences be tween his own people and Ameri cans except “we eat more rare .meat and not so many beans as you do.” He has been impressed with the friendliness of the Am ericans with whom he has come in •contact—but no more than they have been impressed by this intel ligent young man who is destined to become a future executive of the Belgium textile industry. Dr. Warren To Speak Easter At First Baptist Dr. C. C. Warren, Director of the Southern Baptist “Thirty Thousand Movement’’ will bring the Easter Sunday morning ser mon at the First Baptist Church. According to the pastor, Revedend Kenneth B. Wilson, the coming of Dr. Warren is a significant event and an honor to the congregation and the city. Former pastor of First Baptist Church in Charlotte and past president of the South ern Baptist Convention, the visit ing minister has become recogniz ed as one of the greatest leaders in evangelical Christian circles of today. Founding the “30,000 move ment”, Dr. Warren has shared with the entire nation his concern for making America a Christian na tion. This particular program is an effort to establish at least 30,000 additional preaching stations, eith er new churches or missions, by 1964, the year of the 150th anni versary of baptist work on the North American continent. While the pastor of First Bap tist Church in Charlotte, the abil ity of a church to sponsor a local mission program was well proven. Operating on an average of six community churches or permanent missions each year, Dr. Warren led in the establishment of 17 fully organized, self-sustaining coop erative churches during his four teen year pastorate. In addition to these, many Sunday schools and missions were begun in areas which will continue to be an out reach of the home church as they . , minister to the needy of that grow- of the co-founder of Belgium sj and has two little daughters, ages Public Invited To Attend City Wide Services Friday The second Annual Good Friday Three-Hour Service sponsored by The Newberry County Ministers’ Association will be conducted on March 31 at The Associate Re formed Presbyterian Church on Main St. Beginning at twelve o’clock noon, there will be seven separate J devotional periods of twenty min utes each, with the service closing — ARP Church Fr>r Mrs. Parr Mrs. Mary Boyd Parr, 90, died ~ Tuesday afternoon at her home on at three o’clock. There will be Main Street after several months Philippe Hebbelynck, whose story may be seen below, and in By The Way, -is holding a picture of the modern office building com pleted a year ago by his company in Ghent, Belgium. With him is Hart Jordan, manager of the Oakland plant, who is inspecting a rayon and cotton suit fabric manufactured by Union Cotonniere in Belgium. (Sunphoto.) Visitor From Belgium Finds American People Are Friendly Phillippee Hebbelynck, grandson' Phillippe is 28 years old, married ing city. A vital part of this pro gram has been the practical train ing of scores of young men and women in the service of Christ. largest textile company, Union j 3 and one and one-half. After fin Cotonniere, is a visitor in New-jishing his schooling, he worked berry. Philippe, a handsome young man with a friendly smile and a A list of over seventy volunteers Phasing personality, is spending to vocational Christian service in three months at the Oakland Plant that one church is a credit to com passion and Christian concern of this dedicated leader. The music for both morning and Crystal Springs Bleachery, at evening services will be under the Chickamauga, Ga. foi three direction of Reverend Tracy B. mon ths, to *Vest Point Co. at West Barnett. The evening message will P°i n t, Ga. foi anothex three be “The Triumph of Faith ” months ’ then wiI1 s P end a month brought by the pastor, Mr. Wil-l or more at Spartan Mills in Spar- son tanburg. Philippe is being train- 1 ed by his company for an execu tive position, and will probably follow in the footsteps of his fa ther, who is director of manufac turing for the 17 plants of Union Cotonniere, at Ghent, Belgium. one year in one of the company’s plants doing menial tasks to begin learning the operations, then work ed on the overhauling crew and as assistant overseer for one year. He spent his one and one-half From here he will go to 1 years military service in the Navy of the Kendall Company observing techniques and supervision of per sonnel Spelling Champ Nan Buddin, daughter of Mr and Mrs. B. A. Buddin of New- on a troop transport cax-rier and twice during this time visited the Belgian Congo. Completing his service, he went to work in a new plant of Union Cotonniere at Bru ges, Belgium, where he ex*ected machines and worked in the lab oratory. He spent another 18 months as overseer of carding at the Bruges plant then moved back to Ghent. He willingly responded when asked by the company to go to the Congo to undertake pro- ... Philippe’s trip to the 0akland duetion analysis at a mill in which berry, was winner of the Newber-1 plant began in 1958, when Mr. H. j h ‘ : ' c ° m P an > had an interest. Af- brief intermissions between the de votional periods, permitting wor shippers to enter or to leave as may be desired. This will also en able employees of downtown stores and other personnel in the busi ness district to utilize part of their luneh period in attending the Service. It is hoped that arrange ments can be made in the various business establishments to give an opportunity to every person who may desire to attend at least one of the seven periods. This Good Friday Service is a community-wide service, replacing the former Easter Service held at Margaret Hunter Park. It is be ing planned by the following com mittee: Rev. Ralph E. Rhyne, pas tor of West End Baptist Church, Rev. E. Cannon McCreary, rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Rev. Tracy Barnett, Minister of Education and Music at First Bap tist Chux-ch, Rev. Brice B. Blake- ney, pastor of Epting Memorial Methodist Church, Rev. Paul L. Grier, host pastor at The Asso ciate Reformed Presbyterian Church, and Rev. Henry A. Mc Cullough Jr., pastor of Lutheran Church of The Redeemer. The seven devotional pexdods are centered upon the Seven Words of Christ on The Cross. In each per iod there will be a devotional lead er and a speaker, with congrega tional singing led by choir mem bers from co-operating churches. First Period, 12:05-12:25, Rev. Paul L. Grier, leader; Rev. T. H. Vickery, speaker; Second Period, 12:30-12:50, Rev. A. K. Hewiti; Jr., leader; Rev. Ralph Rhyne, speaker; Third Period, 12:55-1:15, Rev. O. C. Brown, leader; Rev. Brice B. Blakeney, speaker. Fourth Period, 1:20-1:40, Rev. Alvin Haigler, leader; Rev. James Grigsby, speaker; Fifth Period, 1:45-2:05, Rev. Kenneth Wilson, leader; Rev. John Sanders, speaker; Sixth Period, 2:10-2:30, Rev. Paul Petty, leader; Rev. C. K. Derrick, speaker; Seventh Period, 2:35-3:00, Rev. Cannon McCreaxy, leader; Rev. H. A. McCullough, Jr., speaker. of illness. She was a native of Newbcvry County,, the daughter -of the late Calhoun F. Boyd and M^s. Eliza Wilson Boyd. Early in lire, she was baptized at Cannon preek A. R.P. Church, and Dter jppv d to Prosperity where she became a member of Prosperity A.R.P. Church. She finished Prosperity High School and graduated from Due West Woman’s College. She taught at Saluda Academy and in the schools of Newberry County. She was marrier on February 13, 1894 to the late Henry Larkin Parr, and moved to Fairfield County where she spent several years before returning to Newber ry- As long as her health permUted, she was active in cfyurcji and com munity affairs. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution; Chaplaip. v ,ef Draytoi\ Rutherford Chapter, United Daughters of the CQnfederacy; an organizer of the Women’s Christ ian Temperance Union; and for many years taught the Mary Boyd Bible Class of the Newberry As sociate Reformed Presbyterian Church, of which she was the old est member. Less than two weeks after undergoing major surgery last year, Mrs. Parr attended the dedication of the new education building at hep church. • Surviving are a son, C. B. Parr Sr. of Newberry; -a daughter, Mrs. Ralph B. Baker,; of Newberry; a half-brother, Calhoun Di' Boyd of New Orleans, La.; and e / number of grandchildren and great grand children. Her husband,- Hi L. Parr and one daughter, . Mrs. ! Azilee Parr Patrick, preceded her to the grave a number of. years ago. Funeral services were to be con ducted this (Thursday) morning at 11 a.m. at Newberry ARP Church by Rev. P. L. Grier, Rev. J. W. Carson, Rev. Di\ Ej, N, -Orr and Rev. R. C. Grier. Burial followed in Rosemont Cemetery. 1 - ||pgg| | 4:,,. mmm 3 % 'M ■ *• i • ■ % &•. . 'V W ' • - ..fCfF ' ■raKMfcSv 1 y > ^ lipp Members of the Ministerial Association of Newberry Comity dially invite the public to^ attend Good Friday Services at the Asso ciate Reformed Presbyterian Church, and Easter services at churches throughout the county, on Sunday, April 2. (Photo by Nichols.) Doctor's Day Is Observed March 30;. History Is Told ry County spelling contest held Satui’day at Newberry High School. Placing second was Judi Boland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil L. Boland of Littie Moun tain, and third place went to Patsy Senn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Senn of Silverstreet. Nan, who is a seventh grade stu dent at Newberry Junior High School, will compete in the state contest to be held at Anderson College on April 29. K. Hallett, retired vice-president j and Textile Division Manager of the Kendall Company, visited Un ion Cotonniere and met Philippe’s father. In 1960, the elder Mr. Heb belynck and his son visited the International Textile Show at At lantic City, N. J. They came on to the South and as Philippe says “Father took the oportunity to visit his friends here, and I took the opportunity to make arx-ange- ments to visit their plants.” ter studying production analysis methods in Brussels, he and his wife and eight-month-old daugh ter flew to Albertville, Congo, where they stayed for 11 months. After retux-ning to Belgium, lie worked in various departments, in cluding the central laboratory where he learned cotton sampling and x’aw mateidal control; in the bookkeeping department; and in the sales department, the job he was doing when he came to Am erica. Teen-A?e Rodeo To Be April 12 The annual Teen-Age Rodeo, sponsored locally and nationally by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, will be held Wednesday, April 12 at the parking lot of Colonial Appeals Court Reverses Ruling Against Kendall RICHMOND, Va. —The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has de cided in favor of the Kendall Company by reversing the deci sion of the District Court in a pat ent case argued here on Januarv 10. * It was charged that Kendall had infringed a Chicopee Corpo- store. State, county and city lawJ pat f. nt for ® certain type enforcement offirials win ^ of ,^ a ^ ze diaper which does not Announcement was made this week that he Kendall Company and the Newberry Kiwanis Club would again pr ent scholarships to Newberry College in the amounts of $700 and 500, respectively. Shown in the photo are winners of the scholarsh p last year: left, Miss Charier Golden, Kiwanis scholarship; right, Miss Gloria Abrams, Kendal Scholarship. Standing from left are Dr. A. G. D. Wiles, president of Newberry College; Rev. Kenneth B. Wilson, chairman, Kiwanis Scholarship Committee and Dr. Conrad Park, dean of Newberry College, member of the committee. (Photo by Briggs.) The large textile organization known now as Union Cotonniere was begun by Philippe’s grandfa ther and a Mr. Braun before World W r ar I. During that war, the Germans destroyed the machinery and afterwards, money was bor rowed to restore the operations. With the Brauns and Hebbelyncks still controlling and operating the company, stock was sold and pro duction gradually increased to its present level of ten spinning mills, seven weaving mills, 5000 plant workers and 500 office workers. Philippe describes the plants as specialty mills, and says that in a plant containing 340 looms, there may be as many as 340 dif ferent patterns being run. The samples he shows bear this out— the mills weave hundreds of types of materials ranging from heavy corduroy for work clothes to syn thetic materials used in the manu facture of raincoats. The company does not make finished garments, but does sell products made from fabrics they manufacture. The weaving mills use about two- thirds of the yarn from the spin ning mills; the remainder of the yarn is exported, mostly to Hol land and Germany. There are 1670 looms in the seven plants of Un ion Cotonniere. Philippe compares that number to the 1624 looms un der one roof at the Oakland plant, and stated that because of the spe cialized nature of the Belgium mills, two and one-half more workers are required to run the looms there than are required here, where one type of material is run constantly. (Continued on Page 4) enforcement officials will be judges of the driving phase of the contest. Before teen-agers may enter the driving phase, they must first pass a written test which will be administered by the driver training instructors at Newberry and Mid-Carolina High Schools. To compete, students must be at least 16 years of age, and must not have reached their 19th birthday before August 3rd, 1961. The lo cal winner, in addition to receiv ing a $25 Savings Bond, will com pete in the state contest. Nation al finals will be held in Washing ton, D. C. Runner-up in the local contest will be awarded $10. Harold Dominick is chairman of the local Jaycee committee for the Rodeo. Serving with him are Clyde Smith and Wilmer Hite. Students between the ages above are eligible to participate whether or not they take the dri ver training course in school. Fur ther information may be received by contacting the driver training instructor at either of the two schools according to Mr. Dom inick. UNION NOT TO MEET SUNDAY Local Union 324 TWUA will not hold a meeting Easter Sunday, April 2nd. wrinkle after washing in auto matic machines. In the previous decision, the lower court had ord ered treble damages against Ken- dall. The higher court said that the Chicopee patent is clearly in valid and directed dismissal of the suit. Commenting on the case Thach- er H. Fisk, general counsel of the Kendall Company, said “T h e Kendall Company is gratified that the court has concurred with its view that this patent is inval id and lacks utility as applied to gauze diapers.” Besides textile products the Kendall Company manufactures suigical dressings, nonwoven fabrics, elastic stock ings and pressure sensitive tapes. > he company, which has been op erating in South Carolina since 1916, now has seven textile plants in the state and cne in Alabama. Its large finishing plant is lo cated in Bethune. Other plants are in Camden, Edgefield, New berry, and Pelzer, and Albertville, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. David Wicker and daughter, Dianne ,of Key West, Fla., spent several days last week in the home of Mr. Wicker’s moth er, Mrs. Ruth Wicker on Cline St. Mrs. George L. Epps is spend ing some time in Columbus, Ga., with her son, Dr. George Epps and family. bounty Board TVqcJjers At a regular meeting of the county Board of Education Tues day night, teachers for the county and city schools were elected. Ac cording to James D. Brown, super intendent of Education, no new teachers were elected, although some vacancies exist. No announcement was made concerning the choice of a direc tor of schools to succeed P. K. Harmon, who retires in June. Thursday, March 30 is observed as Doctor’s Day, throughout the Southern States. It originated in Barrow County, Ga. in 1933 and was introduced to - the Southern Medical Association in 1934 and adopted in 1935. The date of March 30th was not chosen at random but to commem orate one of the greatest discov eries in medical history. It was on this date in 1842 that Dr. Craw ford W. Long, the famous Georgia Physician, first used ether as an anesthetic agent in a surgical op eration, thereby providing man kind with the blessedness of free dom from pain and suffering dur ing surgery, Dr. Long, one of seven children, was born in Danielville, Ga., No vember 1, 1815, of Irish ancestry. His family background of distin guished and successful men and women of culture and superior character was an influence in the development of this man who was destined to become one of the world’s most famous physicians. He was a quiet, studious boy, loving horses and dogs, swimming, fishing and athletics. Following his graduation from the college in Athens, Ga., he decided to become a doctor, and at the age of 24 he was graduated from the Univer sity of P' ^ylvania Medical School at 1.. idelphia. It was during his early college days in Philadelphia that Craw ford Long first learned of the ex hilarating and soporific effects of Nitrous Oxide Gas and Ether. To further perfect himself after graduating, he spent eighteen 1 months in New York Hospitals where he witnessed great suffer ing in surgical operations without successful efforts to relieve pain. There is no doubt but that this in fluenced his desire to discover a means of alleviating this agony. In 1841 Dr. Long located in Jef ferson County, Georgia and it was not long before he acquired an ex tensive practice. Horseback was his constant means of transporta tion. He immediately began ex perimenting on himself with the inhalation of sulphuric ether and discovered bruises and painful spots on his person which he had no recollection of causing. He be came convinced that a person would become insensible to pain during surgery if sufficiently eth erized. His sympathy and under standing for his patients; his faith and desire to give his fellow man relief from the suffering and agony of operative procedures gave this modest young general practitioner the courage to per form the epochal operation which levolutionized the field of surgery and brought him immortal fame. Dr. Crawford Long died in Ath ens, Ga., from a cerebral hemor rhage on June 16, 1878, at the age of 63. A stature of his is located in the hall leading to the Senate Wing of the capital in Washing ton, D. C. Cut at the base of W* stature are inscribed these words: “My profession is to me as miiK istry from God.” MINISTER SALUTES DOCTORS By Thurman H. Vickery NO GREATER CHALLENGE The man who wrote most beau tifully, with great tenderness, as well as clarity of thought concern ing our Lord, was, himself, a phy sician. Has anyone ever rendered a more significant service than St. Luke ? > ; Was it because he not only pos sessed the love of God but the fel lowship of the concerned within his heart? Waa It because hd knew that it took both skill and faith to restore both body and soul. Was it because he knew that both body and soul were integral parts of the Divine Plan which God had in mind when he took the dust of this earth and added to ft the “Breath of Life” to make it a living soul? In the final analysis, is it right to think that the physical is one thing and the spiritual quite an other. Cannot both be made'Holy? Are not both sacred. It seems to me that, idtally, they are but the two sides of the same coin. It is, with this in mind, that the dedicated physician approaches his healing ministry. There is so much that medicine can do and God cannot do what man disal- (Continued on Page 4) BIRTHDAY GREETINGS April 2: Fred Hayes, Oliver; Cromer, Mrs. Sam J. Shannon, Grace E. Harmon. April 3: Mary Ruth Armfield, Mrs. J. B. Harmon, Meredith Harmon, Marjorie Graham, Nan cy Eskridge. April 4: Miss Rebecca Lomi- nick, Mrs. Herman Halfa^re, J. H. Cook, James Edward Plam- pin, Mrs. J. E. Wiseman, Anne Bruner Griffith, Miss Myra Hardy, Johnny Myers, J. How ard Clark, Sr. April 5: Mrs. Arthur Dwyer, A. C. Ward, John Francis Scur ry, Jackie Goodman, Mrs. L. A. Black. , April 6: Phil Plampin, Mrs. Jasper Amick, Connie Armfield Sanders, Virgie Ellis Shealy. April 7: Mrs. John Thomas, Wava Billingsley, W. F. Smith, Bobby Bruner, Philip Carl Trefsgar, Barbara Ann Keeler, Elizabeth D. Epting. April 8: Mrs. Lewis Ammons, Robert D. Coleman III, Jake Crossland.