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Inconsiderate is a long and ugly
word, usually shouted by those
who never did give others con
sideration.
Possibly a third of what is tes
tified to under oath in court are
plain tarradiddles.
VOLUME 24; NUMBER 51.
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1961
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By The Way - By DORIS A. SANDERS
Word To Preach
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THE REASON
Some of you may be wondering
why you haven’t heard anything
recently about the election, re
quested by a number of employees
at Newberry Mills, to decide whe
ther Local Union 120 still repre
sents a majority of employees
there.
The reason is delay by the un
ion. As 1 mentioned just after a
hearing was held in Newbei'ry by
the National Labor Relations
Board, the union attorney, Joseph
Jacobs, succeeded in getting a
delay in. time to file briefs with
the Board. I also guessed that he
would get an additional delay and
he did—first until the 22nd of
March, then until April 5th, and
latest word is that time to file
briefs has been extended (on re
quest of the union) to April 17th.
In a letter sent to all employees
on April 6, L. E. Gatlin, Jr., gen
eral manager of Newberry Mills,
aptly described the activities of
the union and the reason behind
the actions:
“As you know, the union has
been and still is delaying any ac
tion on the petition which some
of you employees filed seeking
to determine whether the UTWA,
AFL-CIO, Local Union 12G still
represents a majority of employ
ees of Newberry Mills.
“Again, let me say thar. a un
ion which has done so much for
you, as they claim they have,
should welcome, not delay, but a
continuing vote of confidence.
“The truth is, and you know it,
that they fear giving you the
right to vote.”
Accompanying the letter which
Mr. Gatlin sent the employees
were two publications. One was
the April 1955 issue of the Koh
ler News depicting the infamous
activities of the union during
that long drawn-out strike. The
other was a book, “The Kohler
Strike—Union Violence and Ad
ministrative Law” by Sylvester
Petro, Professor of Law at New
York University ' School of Law.
I would urge that every employee
of Newberry Mills, as well as
every citizen interested in justice,
read this latter publication. It
may be hard for you to believe
that an agency of the government
operates as unfairly as it set out
in this book, but it is nevertheless
true.
Back on the subject of unions,
rumor has it that an outstanding
personality in union circles wes
supposed to have been in New
berry this past Sunday. No one
seems to know whether he got
here or not, but the rumor was
that ■ George Baldanzi, internat
ional president of the United Tex
tile Workers, was to have at
tended union meetings here Sun
day.
This Baldanzi is quite an inter
esting character who has made
some very interesting and signif
icant statements. In the near fu
ture I hope to reprint for you
some of the things he has had to
say about unionizing the South.
A litle history and background
on some of the leaders and law
yers of unions might be interest
ing and enlightening to thuse of
you who have never had occasion
to deal with an organization of
this type before.
At Lewis Church
Rev. C. B. Word, pastor of the
Bath Methodist church, Bath, will
preach in levival services at the
l ewis Methodist church April 16-
22.
Rev. Word is a native of Laur
ens ,and a former member of the
Saint James Methodist church of
that city. He received his A.B. de
gree from Presbyterian college,
Clinton. He attended the Candler
School of Theology, Emory Uni
versity, Georgia, and the Lutheran
Seminary of Columbia.
While a student at P. C. he was
pastor of the Lydia and Sandy
Springs Methodist churches of
Clinton. He served the Ebenezer,
Lebanon, and New Chapel churches
of Newberry 1954-58.
He is married to the former
Miss Shirley Bernice Wiley of
Tucson, Arizona. They are the
parents of five children.
The services will be held at
7:30 each evening Sunday-Satur-
day and each morning Wednesday
through Friday at 10 o’clock.
Special music will be rendered
each evening by the choir of the
church under the direction of
Mrs. Irby Lee Longshore, organ
ist and Mrs. J. T. Mims, pianist.
Lewis church is located at Dig-
by and Second streets, Oakland
Mill in Newberry. The Rev. Jas.
A. Grigsby, pastor, extends a
ROBERT J. SANDERS, right, who retired on March 11 after 40
years service at the Oakland Plant of the Kendall Company, receives
his first pension check and a Certificate of Participation in the Ken
dall’s retirement plan from W. W. Bigham, Weave Room Overseer.
Mr. Sanders first went to work at Oakland in 1912 and has been
there since, except for four years when he was in the military service
during World War I. He said that he was in the first company to
camp at Fort Jackson when that base was being opened. Mr. Sanders,
who worked in the weave room at Oakland, commented “I haven’t
stopped working—I’ve just changed bosses.” His wife is due to re
turn home from Newberry Memorial Hospital today after undergoing
major surgery, and he has been busy keeping house during her ab
sence. The long-time Oakland employee is one of the few at that
plant to have attained a 40-year record of service. (Sunphoto.)
Highlights Of Industries On
Agribusiness Tour Are Given
The Agriculture and Conserva
tion Committee of the Newberry
Kiwanis Club, the Agricultural
Agencies of the county, and the
Newberry County Development
Board are completing plans for
the 2nd annual Agribusiness Tour
to be held Wednesday, April 19.
A brochure is being prepared giv
ing highlights of the industries to
be visited, as well as mention of
other industries in the county.
Tickets for the tour, which be-
cordial invitation to the public gins at Setzler Field, Newberry
to attend these services. College, at 2 p.m., may be obtain
ed by calling T. B. (Dad) Amis
at the Soil Conservation Service
office.
Brief description of the indus
tries'to be visited are as follows:
Kendall Company Cotton Lab-
John T. Hayes of Newberry was oratory. Kendall’s Textile Division
Wins Trio To
Convention
Civil Court
Jurors Named
Common Pleas (Civil) Court will
begin in Newberry on April 24
with Judge James Hugh McFad-
<iin presiding.
The following will serve as ju
rors:
Newberry and Routes: John R.
Sligh, Troy L. Bowers, Robert
Kent Bishop, J. E. Geiger, O. M.
Johnson, Sidney J. Hughes, James
William Summer, Curtis P. Tur
ner, James P. Fulp, Perry Edw.
Halfacre, Oscar L. Johnson, Clar
ence W T . Dickert, Curtis O. Chap
man, James Larkin Beard, Esley
W. Brown, John E. Graham, Thom
as L. Brooks, Johnson Hagood
Clary, Jr., Edw. B. Carlisle, Lu
ther D. Long, John W. Martin,
James M. Smith Jr., S. D. Price,
J. Ellerbe Sease, Lin Slaton, H. B.
Wilson, Frank Forrest S e n n,
James Francis Coggins.
Prosperity: Claude Richardson,
Fred Richardson, Jacob P. Hawk
ins, O. C. Dominick, J. C. Shealy,
Jr., J. W. Fulmer.
Pomaria: D. S. Kinard, Charles
S. Cromer.
Whitmire: James C. Smith, Da
vid Bobo Miller.
Little Mountain: John L. Page,
John Thomas Riddle.
one of sixteen local field represen
tatives of Woodmen of the World
Life Insurance Society to win an
all-expense trip to the South Caro
lina Head Camp (state) conven
tion, April 16 to 18, in the Wade
Hampton Hotel, Columbia.
had recently completed the con
struction of a cotton fiber chemi
cal and physical testing laboratory
here at the Oakland plant. The
new facility is designed to provide
the company with an expanded fi
ber testing program as well as re
duced sample handling and ship-
JAMES E. CAULDER, president of the Student body, presents to
President and Mrs. A. G. D. Wiles a sterling silver bowl at the chapel
exercises in Holland Hall Friday morning. In the presentation, James
said “On behalf of the student body of Newberry College I would
like to present this gift for your new home. Remember that this gift
represents the affection, admiration, and the loyalty we have for
you.”
ping costs. The new facility has
three basic functions: service-type
testing for the cotton buying of
fice; special fiber testing for the
mills, and fiber research projects.
Head of the laboratory is Leon D.
Pryor, a graduate of the Univer
sity of Tennessee with a Master’s
Degree in microbiology and chem
istry. Pryor has been with Kendall
for ten years and was formerly in
charge of the fiber testing labora
tory at the Paw Creek location of
the company’s research 'aboratory.
The Kendall Cotton .buying Of
fice, formerly known as Palmetto
Cotton Co. was organized in 1928
for the purpose of procuring the
raw cotton requirements of the
Kendall Company. This depart
ment needs to select, classify, buy
and ship approximately 107,000
bales of cotton each year to fill
the needs of Kendall’s seven tex
tile division plants. The two Ken
dall plants in Newberry use an
nually about 37,000 bales of cotton
costing $6 1-4 million. The cotton
buying office and laboratory em
ploy ten persons located in New
berry. This operation is unknown
to many here, but since this is a
potential customer for a major
farm commodity — cotton — the
town of Newberry is well known
throughout the cotton trade, and
wherever cotton is grown in the
United States.
The Oakland Mill was built in
1911 and commenced operations in
the early part of 1912. The ori
ginal company was organized by
Newberry County people and had
as its head Col. Walter H. Hunt,
who is recognized as the founder
of the Oakland Plant.
In 1926 Oakland was purchased
by Kendall and has been operated
continuously by them since that
time. The mill has been expanded
several times, the last expansion,
nearly doubling the plant, in 1951.
The plant now has 1624 looms and
61,032 spinning spindles. It is un
der the direction of Hart Jordan,
general manager. The annual pay
roll is in excess of $1,850,000, the
majority of which stays in New T -
berry County.
Mollohon Mill was built in 1900
by a group of local business men.
The first president was George
Summer. In 1927 the mill was sold
to Kendall and several million
dollars has been spent since that
time modernizing the building and
machinery. At present, the plant
has 1164 looms and 51,936 spin
dles. W. H. Tedford is general
manager.
Shawnee Manufacturing Co. was
organized and began operations in
November 1955. E. A. Baum of
New York City is president and
J. B. Henderson serves as vice-
president and general manager.
This company is primarily engag
ed in the manufacture of sport
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Traffic Light To
Be Installed On
Glenn Street
City council Tuesday night gave
its approval to the installation of
a traffic light at the intersection
of Johnstone and Glenn Streets.
Several surveys have been made in
the past to determine whether a
control should be placed at this in
tersection, and a number of citi
zens have urged that this safety
precaution be taken.
I- Council was notified that adver
tisements for bids for water and
Isewer extensions and erection of
jan elevated water tank were being
published this week and bids will
be received Tuesday, April 25, at
which time a special meeting of
^council will be held to consider
awarding the contracts.
Mayor Layton appointed a com-
^mittee composed of Councilmen
Armfield, Dufford and Merchant
to • investigate and make recom
mendation to council on the pro
posed purchase of a tract of land
between Drayton Street School
and Gallman High School.
Summer uniforms for police and
firemen will be furnished by
Clary’s, the low bidder at $1,-
025.49.
Council was notified that the
Planning Commission met with
Charles E. Davis Jr., on March 15
and Mr. Davis explained to ,therr
the nature of his firm’s services
to a city in long range planning
and zoning.
Council agreed to place a $25 ad
for the city in the South Carolina
Club Woman's magazine, and to
write the publishers that it is not
the policy of the city to place
such ads. A request for funds to
complete the printing of “The
State History” was received as in
formation.
Council accepted with regret
the resignation of Mrs. Price J.
Padgett from the Tree Commis
sion.
The city clerk and treasurer was
authorized to sign checks for the
city for improvements to the air
port, and the police department
was asked to investigate the feas
ibility of establishing a loading
zone on the east side of Caldwell
street just north of Harrington.
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TAKING PART IN A LUNCHEON TUESDAY to acquaint high school senior boys with opportuni
ties for careers in the textile industry were, from left, John F. Clarkson, member of Newberry. County
Development Board; Mayor Ernest Layton; W. H. Tedford, manager of Kendall's Mollohon Plant; L.
S. Pitts of Union, plant manager of Monarch Mills; Hart Jordan, manager of Kendall Oakland Plant;
Joe Poole of Charlotte, personnel director for Kendall's Textile Division, and Jim Goldsmith, superin
tendent at Oakland. (Sunphoto.)
High School Seniors
To Consider
Pastorate Of
St, Luke’s
Inauguration Of
Dr. Wiles To
Be April 26
Dr. A. G. D. Wiles will be in
augurated as the eleventh presi
dent of Newberry College on
Wednesday, April 26, at 11:00
o’clock. The inauguration services
will take place in the MacLean
Gymnasium.
A graduate of Gettysburg Col
lege, with a doctorate from Prince
ton University, Dr. Wiles has
been active in Southern and na
tional educational life since he
joined the faculty of The Citadel,
as head of the English Depart
ment, in the fall of 1936.
In the early 1940’s he played
a significant part in the South
wide reevaluation of higher educa
tion conducted by the Southern
Association of Colleges, correlat
ing and editing The Citadel’s co
operative study, and in 1942 serv
ing at Sewanee as the project’s
co-editor of the report for the lib
eral arts. He served for three
years (1938-41) as executive coun- 1
cilor of the Southern Association
of Teachers of Speech and for
two years (1955-57) as executive
councilor of the Southeastern Col
lege English Association. He has
several times presented papers at
the meeting of the South Atlantic
Modern Language Association and
of the Southeastern Renaissance
Conference.
At the national level, Dr. Wiles
has participated in programs of
the Modern Language Association
of America, and of the Board of
Higher Education of the United
Lutheran Church in America. And
for years he served as a member
of the Readers’ Council of “The
American Scholar,” the quarterly
magazine sponsored by Phi Beta
Kappa—to act as evaluator and as
scout for fitting manuscripts in
the Southeastern area of the Un
ited States.
In the state of South Carolina
he has been very active, speaking
widely; acting as consultant for
the South Carolina Council of
Teachers of English; serving as
president of the South Carolina
Speech Association, then as editor
of the speech bulletin; serving for
years as a member of the Board
of directors of the poetry Society
of South Carolina; and founding,
at the request of the United Chap-
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The Rev. Cannon McCreary
has announced his resignation as
Vicar of St." ^Like’s Episcopal
Church, Newberry, effective the
5th of June. At that date he will
bt gin a period of clinical pas
toral training at the South Caro
lina £t:*te Hospital where he will
be a member of the Chaplaincy
Department. Mr. McCreary
said, ‘Tt is my plan to take
training preparatory for a posi
tion as chaplain in an institu
tion as, for example, a general
hospital, a mental hospital or a
penal institution. To this end I
have made application for an
extended period of training at
least six mouths of which will be
taken at our State Hospital in
Columbia.” He added, “Mrs. Mc
Creary and I have been in New
berry for four years. That time
has passed quickly for us but
not without the formation of re
lationships we sever with regret.
We have grown fond of this
place, this town and people, and
of course, the people of St.
Luke’s Church most especially.
We are and always shall be
grateful for our years here.”
Fennell Rites
Saturday At
Baptist Church
William McComiell (Gus) Fen
nell, 58, died late Thursday after
noon at the Newberry County Me
morial Hospital after a short ill
ness.
Mr. Fennell was born in Ches
ter, the son of the late Louis
Augustus and Mae Brown Fen
nell. He owned and operated Fen
nell’s Jewelry Store. He was a
member of the First Baptist
Church, the Rotary Club and the
Retail Jewelers Association of
South Carolina.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Ruth Thomas Fennell; two sons,
William M. Fennell Jr., of Hick
ory, N. C., and Louis A. Fennell
of Newberry; a daughter, Mrs.
Henry (Molly) Alexander Jr., of
Charlotte, N. C.; two brothers,
Louis A. Fennell of Columbia and
Edgar B. Fennell of Charlotte,
About 70 young men, members
of the senior'classes of Newberry,
Whitmire and Mid-Carolina High
Jchools, were guests at a luncheon
at the Community Hall Tuesday,
fhe luncheon was sponsored by
the Kendall Company and by the
S. C. Textile Manufacturers Asso-
iation to acquaint the young men
with opportunities for careers in
che textile industry.
W. H. Tedford, manager of Ken
dall’s Mollohon plant, presided. He
stated that the Newberry County
Development Board is working to
oring more industry to the coun-j
ty for young people, and introduc
ed the following members of the
Board: John Clarkson, Mayor Er
nest Layton, A. E. Morehead, J.
W. Earhardt, G. C. Paysinger, P.
D. Johnson,. H, B. Kirkegard, and
Ben Robinson, executive director
of the Board, v .
- Mr. Tedford urged the seniors
to give serious thought to the
kind of work they will do, stating
that there were “1001 ways to
make a living, all of them hard
work.” “We are seeking to inter
est you in the textile industry,”
he said.
James Goldsmith, superintend
ent of the Oakland plant of the
Kendall Company, told the group
he felt that he was fortunate to
be i’ textiles. Mr. Goldsmith was
graduated from Newberry College
in 1951 and has been connected
J. E. Wiseman’s
Mother Dies
Mrs. C. B. Wiseman, 90, died
Saturday at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. E. T. Childs, in
Lincolnton, N. C. She had been ill
for the past six years. Her hus
band, Dr. C. B. Wiseman, died 41
years ago.
In addition to her daughter^
she is survived by two sons, Dr.
P. H. Wiseman of Henrietta, N.
C. and James E. Wiseman, Sr. of
Newberry.
Funeral services were held at
4 p.m. Sunday at Henrietta.
Mrs. Wiseman had a number of
friends in Newberry, having visit
ed here many times. Attending
funeral services, in addition to Mr.
and Mrs. James E. Wiseman, were
Dr. and Mrs. F. A. Truett.
Local Glee Club
Is Impressive
CHARLESTON (UPI) —Wade
Hampton’s Red Shirts lived again
Tuesday and scored an impress
ive victory at the opening of the
Fort Sumter Centennial.
The 100 voice all girl Newberry
High School Glee Club entertain
ed delegates at the opening of the
Fort Sumter Centennial with pa
triotic songs, including battle
songs from both sides of the War
Between the States.
The singers were dressed in
colorful red shirts patterned after
the garb of the men who followed
Gen. Wade Hampton, white skirts
and bow ties. The group is di
rected by Miss Juanita Hitt.
N. C.; two sisters, Mrs. Lorene
Bynum of Savannah, Ga., and
Mrs. Maurice F. Miller of Colum
bia; and two grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted
at 11 a.m. Saturday at First Bap
tists Church by Rev. Kenneth B.
Wilson. Burial was in Newberry
Memorial Gardens.
with Kendall since that time.
Hart Jordan, manager of
Oakland plant, welcomed the
iors. fie told them he had '' _
with KfendslI for 35 years aad l ^wi^r‘
need young men in the t3xtile in-'
dustry.” The industry has afford
ed a full life in a pleasant irey, he
said and “has been good to me.” ‘
He told of
trainee program, with 12-18
months training for positions in
the industry, hot only in manufac
turing, but in personnel and re
search, cotton classirig, and others.
Joe' Poole of Charlotte, director
of personnel for Kendall’s Textile
Division, told the young men “the
textile industry is not dying. It is
progressive. Many changes hare
been made, and it is more inter
esting and more challenging^” Mr.
Poole cited food, clothing and au
tomobiles as basic needs. “We
must have clothes,” he said, “arid
someone must manufacture them.”
I. S. Pitts, manager of Monarch
Mills at Union, and chairman of
the Publicity and Public Relations
Committee of the S. C. Textile
Manufacturers Association mged
the seniors to finish their educa
tion, whether it be in textile or in
some other field. He noted that
Clemson is the only college in
South Carolina offering training
for a textile career. He repeated
the statement that not enough
young men were going into the
textile industry and urged that
they consider management train
ing programs offered by the in
dustry.
The young men were invited to
conta^ Mr. Tedford or Mr. Jordan
for interviews concerning the pos
sibilities of the training program*
Following the luncheon, the
group was divided. Whitmire sen
iors and a portion of those from
Newberry High were taken on a
tour of the Oakland plant; Mid-
Carolina seniors and the remain
der from Newberry High toured
the Mollohon plant.
BIRTHDAY
GREETINGS
April 16: Mrs. Willie Mae
Long, Mrs. Cornelia Clary Burr,
Ithama Brooks.
April 17: James A. Brown,
Nancy Floyd, Tommy M. Folk,
Jr., Mrs. Huston Look*
April 18: Mrs. Cannon Bleaset
Gordon H. Stockman, Dorothy
Weir Ruff, Mrs. Furman Rea-
gin, Mrs. W. F. Smith, Mrs.
George E. Stone, Mrs. W. C.
Huffman, Dorothy Shealy, Eli
zabeth McCamie Wilson.
April 19: Mrs. P. M. Nichols,
Martha Sue Cromer, Mrs. Claude
Summer, Frank M. Senn Jr.,
John C. Davenport, Ellis Dav
enport Jr., Karen Hite.
April 20: Elizabeth Hargrove,
Arthur George Dwyer, Linda
Driggers, Jack Timmerman,
George Spotts, \nne Cannon,
Mrs. Tracy Barnett.
April 21: Perry O. Wicker,
Betty. Bowers, Mickey Chapman,
Fred James Harmon, Betty Folk,
Barl>ara Davis, Ferd Summer.
April 22: Henry T. Fellers,
Mrs. George Stephens, Mrs.
George S. Minick, Mrs. Joseph
L. Tolbert, Mrs. Frank Mills, A.
O. Livingston, Henry L. Parr HI,
Paul Duncan, Mrs. W. Ernest
Merchant.
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