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A nod (or a veto) by an older per son, costing little or nothing, can make life happy (or miserable) for a youth struggling for his first suc cess. You tell a girl she is beautiful and promptly she gets a hairdo and fa cial and spoils herself for you. VOLUME 25—NUMBER 1. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA* THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1961 + $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way BfD oris A. Sanders HUMAN RELATIONS For the past several years, more industries are becoming aware of the necessity of a “go-between”— .someone not connected with the in dustrial work-a-day world, but familiar enough with it, and with people, to soothe ruffled feathers before they start flying. When the Kendall Company de cided to begin this sort of pro gram in some of its plants, it didn’t hesitate in selecting the man it knew could do the job—Dr. George Heaton. Dr. Heaton spoke at a luncheon here Tuesday and that story is elsewhere in this page. I did not list Dr. Heaton’s long string of ac complishments. I felt he was so well known hereabouts through his television progarms, that back ground history would be super fluous. One meeting with Dr. Heaton is sufficient to convince a person that he is the right man for the job he is doing. He knows and loves human beings with all their frailties; he is interesting because 1 he is interested; he is sincere and friendly and, I would guess, ut- j terly absorbed and happy in the' job he is doing, whether mediating ; disagreements or, as a Baptist, preacher .teaching a Presbyterian Sunday school class. We welcome this “Plant Pastor” on his trips to our city, and hope he won’t ever do his job here so thoroughly that his services will no longer be needed. * t J' - 4&C ■■ • £ ’IK. . v v, . v ■ % .v.v.v.vvtv.vrvXv.-:-: , ■=- MISSING LINK Dr. William P. Gumming, who spoke at the inaugural luncheon for Dr. Wiles Wednesday, empha sized the necessity for research and the results achieved. As an example, he told the following: “It is the story of finding a missing link in the history of the discovery and settlement of South Carolina. It seems to me pertinent to make this first public state ment of my findings to a South Carolina audience; it is not, like the rest of the address, almost necessarily a repitition of what has been said in similar addresses be fore “Just two weeks ago, in the week before Palm Sunday, I was in Madrid hunting for documents which would throw new light on the finding of the North American continent. In the Museo Naval rmong papers of an eighteenth century Spanish historian, I stumb led across a map of one of the rarest types for which historians long: an original explorer’s n#ap. It was a careful and detailed six teenth century map made by a member of the French Luguenot expedition of Ribaut in 15i.2. How ■did this French map get into en emy hands in Spain nearly four hundred years ago? “The attempt to trace its history led me in my small Volkswagen through three countries and across ji thousand miles. Parts of the story were found in the fabulous archives of the Indies at Seville, and in the great castle at Sim- ancas in northern Spain. Tours, in the French Chateau country, furn- ishecj a clue to the identity of the maker, which directed me through the National Archieves in Paris to the public record office in London. ‘There, in an unpublished letter by Queen Elizabeth I, written in 1565, with interlinear corrections by her Minister Lord Burleigh (Queen Elizabeth wrote r wretched hand; deciphering it was a major under taking!) was an account of how r Nicholas Barre, the probable au thor of the map, sailed across the Atlantic in a frail bark and was captured off the coast of Europe. He was taken to England, and it was probably there that a Spanish -spy secured the map for his king. “Now the site or Ribaut’s set tlement at Charlesfort has long been the subject of acrimonious dispute. The U. S. Government finally erected a $10,000 monu ment near the South Point of Par ris Island. But this original con temporary map shows that the set tlement was near Port Royal, on the bank where a U. S. customs warehouse now stands, and where, last summer, wading in weeds, I completed the research begun in Madrid. I may add that, however convincing the evidence of the map is, I do not expect the U. S. Ma rine Corps or the U. S. Govern ment to move its $10,000 marker. “Now I am a better (I do not say a good) teacher because my horizons have been widened by the places I have been, the people I have met, and the new ideas I have encountered in this and oth er similar studies.” MEMBERS OF THE NEWBERRY COUNTY MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION and officials of the two local Kendall company plants enjoyed a tour of the Oakland plant, followed by a luncheon at the Com munity Hall Tuesday. At the head table were, from ,eft seated, Hart Jordan, manager of Oakland plant; Dr. George Heaton, guest speaker; Rev. T. A Vickery, president of the county ministerial association; W. H. Tedford, manager of the Mollohon plan’ Standing, from left, Joe D. Pool, incoming superinten dent at Oakland; D. O. Carpenter, retired manager of Oakland; James Goldsmith, who leaves the posi tion of superintendent at Oakland to assume the s ne job at Kendall’s Upper plant in Pelzer; Rev. Tracy Barnett, secretary-treasurer, and Dr. Pari Griei, vice-president of the ministerial associa tion. (Sunphoto.) County Ministers Tour Plant At Oakland; Have Lnucheon Wiles Becomes Nth President r I -.Yt Of Newberry College April 2b “The foremost task of any man is to bring to light his unique po tentialities.” Dr. George Heaton, prominent industrial relations counselor, told an audience of 50 ministers and Kendall Company officials at a Tuesday luncheon at the Community Hall. The members of the Newberry County Ministerial Association, who had just completed a tour of the Oakland plant, were told that “there is nothing better for a man than that he should be happy in his work,” and that this was a goal not easily achieved. Dr. Heaton, who has been con ducting courses in human relations at the Oakland plant periodically since last October, told his listen ers of six factors involved in the manufacturing process: Space, which must be used most effi ciently; time, which is most im portant; money, cotton, machines, and men. He pointed out the small mar gin of profit in textiles in 1960, three percent, and translated this in terms of employee time spent on the job: 15 minutes of an eight- hour day produces profit, the re maining 465 minutes go to meet expenses of the operation. This is a highly competitive in dustry, Dr. Heaton said, and the only difference between this plant any many others like it is that “these are your church members, your people, and what people are able to do brings fulfillment or lack of fulfillment.” “There isn’t anything needed in understanding of human relations in industry that can’t be found in the Word of God,” Dr. Heaton stated. Acknowledging that a heavy burden is placed on man agement, he said “The most im moral thing a man can do is to let his enterprise fail.” “The opportunity of the church is great to give guidance. There is more at stake than most of us realize. To do fairly well isnT good enough,” the speaker conclud ed, “W T e must do our very best.” Dr. Heaton was introduced by Hart Jordan, manager of the Oakland plant, w’hich sponsored the tour and luncheon. Mr. Jordan also introduced Rev. T. H. Vick ery, Rev. Paul L. Grier and Rev. Tracy Barnett, president, vice- president and secretary-treasurer of the Ministerial Association, res pectively; D. O. Carpenter, retired manager of the Oakland plant; J. D. Pool and James Goldsmith, in coming and outgoing superintend ent, respectively, at Oakland; W. H. Tedford, manager of the Mollo hon plant; and newspaper repre sentatives. Mr. Jordan told the ministers “We w r anted to meet you and ac quaint you with some of the prob lems confronting us in the indus try today; also w r e wanted to get together so we could get to know one another better.” At the conclusion of the pro gram, Rev. Vickery, on behalf of the Association, expressed appre ciation to the Kendall company for the tour and the luncheon. j Changes In Kendall Staffs Banquet For Dr. Wiles To Are Announced Be Monday Changes in local Kendall com-1 pany personnel have been an- j nounced by Alec Savage, manager 1 of Kendall’s textile division. George W. McCall, now super intendent of the Upper Plant at Pelzer, will become superinten dent at the Mollohon plant on May first. Mr. McCall lived in Newberry for two years, during 1957 and 1958, when he was sup erintendent at the Oakland plant. Prior to that time, he was super intendent of Kendall’s Lower plant at Pelzer. Mr. and Mrs. Mc- call are members of the Presby terian church. James L. Goldsmith, w’ho has been superintendent of the Oak land plant since last September, has been transferred by Kendall to replace Mr. McCall at Pelzer. Mr. Goldsmith is a native of Pel zer, a graduate of Newberry col lege, and has been with the com pany since 1950. He was at the Albertville, Ala., plant before coming to Newberry. The new superintendent at Oak land will be Joe D. Pool, who is now Director of Public Relations for the Textile Division, and in the Industrial Engineering depart ment of the Charlotte office of the company. Mr. and Mrs. Pool will move to Newberry in the near future and will reside in the sup erintendent’s home adjacent to the plant. They have two children, a son and a daughter. All changes are to be effective May first. Approximately 200 citizens of Newberry have been mailed tick ets to an Appreciation Banquet to be held in Kaufmann Hall, New berry College, Monday night, May 1 at seven o’clock. This banquet is being held for the purpose of showing the appre ciation of the citizens for Newber ry College, and in honor of its newly elected president, Dr. A. G. D. Wiles. Among the distinguished guests who will be present is Governor Ernest F. Rollings, a longtime trustee of Newberry College and a former student of Dr. Wiles. Dr. Odelle Harman, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Newberry College and presidents of the sup porting synods will also be in at tendance. The banquet is being financed by friends of the College, and spon sored by two comittees of the 0 Newberry County Development Board: the Public Relations Com mittee, of which Keitt Purcell is chairman, and the Industrial Re lations Vommittee of which John Clarkson and Ernest Layton are co-chairmen. Revival Speaker City Awards Two Contracts Contracts for the construction of a w r ater storage tank and for extension of water and sanitary sewer systems were awarded at a special meeting of City Council held Tuesday morning. Pittsburg-Des Moines Steel Co. of Atlanta was low bidder for the construction of a 250,000 gallon water storage tank to serve the Hartford Heights area. The bid was in the amount of $26,900. Low bidder for water and sew er extensions, to serve Hartford Heights and Suburbia, w’as C. M. Allen Company of Charlotte, in the amount of $160,833.85. UDC CHAPTER MEETS TUESDAY Drayton Rutherford Chapter U.D.C., will meet at 10:30 a.m May 2 at the home of Mrs. Lon nie Gilliam, with Mrs. D. O. Car penter, Mrs. T. E. Davis and Mrs. E. J. Dickert , associate hostesses. Mrs. Carpenter and Barbara Youmans will have the historical program. REV. DONALD E. COOK, of Pamplico, will be guest evang elist for revival services be ginning Sunday, April 30th at West End Baptist church. Ser vices will be held each evening at 7:30 and morning services conducted at 10:00. The Rev. Ralph E. Rhyne, pastor of the church, extends a cordial invi tation for the public to attend these services. A nursery will be provided at the evening ser vices. Dr. Fred E. Dufford, member ofVthe Newberry college board of Trustees, presided at the installa tion of Dr. A. George David Wiles as eleventh president of Newber ry college Wednesday merning during impressive ceremonies at MacLean gymnasium. Following a prelude by Prof. W. Darr Wise, organist, the proces sion of officials and delegates en tered the crowded gymnasium, and the invocation was spoken by Rev. Dr. Raymond D. Wood, pres ident of the Georgia-Alabama Synod of the United Lutheran Church of America. Greetings were extended by Dr. Robert A. L. Mortvedt, exec utive secretary, Board of Higher Education, United Lutheran Church of America; Dr. Karl W. Kinard, president of the Synod of South Carolina; Dr. Raymond Wood, president of the Georgia- Alabama Synod; Dr. Royal A. Yount, president of the Florida Synod; Governor Ernest F. Holl- ings for the State; Senator Jesse Frank Hawkins for Newberry county; Mayor Ernest Layton for the City of Newberry; Dr. Hey- .ward V. Epting, Newberry Col lege Alumni; Dr. Fred E. Dufford, Board of Trustees; Dr. Conrad B. Park, Collefe faculty; James E. Caulder, Student body. An anthem, Hallelujajh, was rendered by the Newberry college Singers under the direction of Dr. Milton W. Moore. This was followed by the installation, a prayer, and Dr. Wiles inaugural address. Dr. Wiles emphasized the im portance of a liberal arts college, pointing out that (1) the good lib eral arts college will stress dev elopment of the mind of the stu dent, in depth by the requirement of considerable concentration on one subjejet known as the major subject, and in breadth by th re quirement of the mastery o' the skills of reasoning and of commu nication in writing, speaking, read ing, and of mathematics, and also by the requirement of representa tive courses in the three great areas of knowledge: the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities; (2) the good lib eral arts college will seek the de velopment of the character of the student by creating in the class room, in the dormitory, in the religious and recreational pro grams, and on the athletic field an atmosphere “that will favor the growth of worthy personal and social conduct”; (3) will seek the development of the body of the student by teaching the laws of health and encouraging their application in the practice of proper diet and exercise; (4) will seek the development of the spirit ual awareness of the student by its providing life and teaching within the Christian frame work, that is, within the conviction of God revealed and attainable thru Jesus Christ; and (5) will, in the many and varied activities of the campus, provide a training for citizenship. “The liberal arts program,” he said “should be seen to have been of gi-eat value to our country in the past and to be of even greater value to it now, when it so criti cally needs rounded enlightened leadership in the face of the vast expansion of science, the revolu tion of the masses, and the weak ening of Christianity. It should be seen also that this program would form the strongest kind of basis for later professional, vo cational, and in-service training.” “I think also, “continued Dr. Wiles, “that our modern liberal arts program too little faces the student up to the fundamental questions of all time and the deeper issues of the day. What is man’s destiny? What are the things that really matter to him ? How shall he live? What about Communism, American democracy, the welfare state, a competitive and self-adjjusting economic or der or a government-adjujsted one, the use of atomic energy, the obligations of pure science to humanity? What about Creation, God, Christianity? The last cries for discussion in the house of learning, when crime and vice in this country seem to have broken all historical records. Is murder not murder but insanity? Is drunkenness not drunkenness but disease? Is vulgarity as vulgar ity art or literature. Is sexual promiscuity simply, a sign of in dependent and liberal thinking?! Is disbelief in religion and morals courage? Shall the Ten Com mandments and The Sermon on the Mount, that the wisest men down the ages have steered by, now be negated by a psychologi cal movement that preaches „hat peace and security cannot come to the world until the concept of right and wrong is ‘ eradicated? Men of mind and character need to stand in truth* as they see ie and help our young people be cause time-honored standards are swaying and toppling arotind them as never before.” He concluded: ‘And so, dedic t-! ed to tl\e development of the whole | personalitv of the student thru strong liberal arts program, to the principal of work and seif-de nial, to the untiring search for truth, and to the glory of God, aa revealed in Jesus Christ, Newber ry college will go forw rd, on this high hill, beneath this kindly m MEMBERS OF THE STAFF and faculty of Newberry College and their families were guests of. Dr. and Mrs. A. G. D. Wiles at their new home on the college campus Saturday night. On behalf, of the group, Dr. Conrad Park presented Dr. and Mrs. Wiles a silver punch set. In the center of the photo are Dr. Park, Mrs. Wiles and Dr. Wiles. (Photo byNichols.) Praises Ne^r College Leader .. '-S “What a college needs most just now is not so much the ideas and new methods that we seem to know in abundance, but a clear purpose and a character. It must not try to be all things to all men. Its significance and its distinction —and indeed its usefulness—will come only out of a firm resolve to be some things to some men. And this it can be,” Dr. William Patterson Gumming told his aud ience of 600 gathered Wednesday in Kaufmann Hall for the luncheon following the inauguration of Dr. A. G. D. Wiles as president of Newberry College. Dr. Gumming, professor of Eng lish at Davidson College, N. C., told the luncheon guests, “The small college . . . should know that its real sphere, its financial solvency, its very nature, lies in doing a few things well rather than in doing many things badly. The proliferation of courses, the appeal of vocational training, the obsti nate demands of vested departmen tal interests, the line of fashion able experimentation: these should be fought.” Dr. Gumming commended New berry College on “an evident ef fort not to follow fashionable fads at the cost of a sound core curri culum,” emphasizing that the pri mary purpose of a college such as Newberry is “to teach, teach well.” The speaker stressed the need for the small college to assist its teachers in pursuing their profes sional careers. “Most of us,” he said, “need the stimulus of original study and investigation to keep us intellectually alive and growing ■. . original scholarly research helps to shake one out of the instruction al rut.” As ways to help teachers con tinue intellectual pursuits, Dr. Gumming suggested that the small college could try to limit class schhedules and committee work, extend library facilities by means of inter-library loans; give sabba tical leaves and grants for sum mer study or reasearch; aid in publication. He noted that there are many opportunities for grants and fellowships from outside foun dations, and stated that these should be made known to the fac ulty. Paying tribute to Dr. Wiles, the speaker said “It is a happy augury for the continued growth of New berry as an educational institution that one whose career in the teach ing profession is distinguished, whose personal qualities of integ rity and wisdom have made his respected and loved, should be chosen for this high office ... I feel a happy confidence that, in the future of Newberry College, the values which I have tried to stress will be maintained by the effective leadership of Dr. Wiles.” Prof. T. E. Epting presided at the luncheon. The invocation was by Rev. Dr. Heyward W. Epting, pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Charleston. The benedic tion was spoken by Rev. Henry A. McCullough Jr., pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Redeem er. The President’s reception was held at 3:30 p.m. at his home on the college campus. The Civic League will hold its April meeting on Thursday (today) at the Community Hall at four p. m. Monthly meetings customarily are held on the fourth Tuesday, but on account of a conflict T ie date had to be changed. All members and former mem bers are invited to this meeting at which a number of interesting and important matters will be taken up. Mental Health Meeting At Aveleigh Church Persons interested in mental health and the care and treatment of the mentally ill are urged to attend a meeting to be held to night (Thursday) at 8 p.m. at Aveleigh Presbyterian church. The purpose of the meeting will be the formation of a local Mental Health Association and to develop a vol- ! untary citizen movement to work; for improved care and treatment of the mentally ill, improved methods and services in research, prevention, diagnosis, and treat ment of mental illness, and th e promotion of mental health. The Executive Director of The South Carolina Mental Health As sociation, Mr. Harry R. Bryan of Columbia will be present to talk about the -’ ork of the Mental Health A' ation and how to go about organizing one. It is felt by many that New berry county has need for such organization, And everyone who desires to help in this most worthy cause, or is interested in better mental health, is urged to be present. The meeting, being spon sored by the Neil Truesdell class, of Aveleigh Presbyterian church, will be held in the Sunday School building. April.30: Mrs. Beale H. Crom er, Frederick Gardiner, Mrs. Richard L. McWhirter, Ray No bles, F. L. Miller. May 1: William Neville, Su san Blalock, Bill Blalock, Juan ita Lathrop, Jean Walker, Mrs. Clarence B. Word, W. H. Cald well, Mrs. A. C. Dyskin, Mrs. Charles E. Thomas, John Hug gins. May 2: Mrs. Epsie Buzhardt, Billy Martin, S. Downs Wright, Robert Wayne L&throp, John S. Hazel, J. Alvin Kinard, Ida Farr, Michael L. Bedenbaugh. May 3: J. Ralph Williams, Bobby Long, Berley Beden baugh Jr., William H. Ringer, George S. Ruff, Marion Gilliam, Grady Ringer, Carolyn Wood, Jimmy Bedenbaugh. May 4: Mrs. Elise P. Bowler, Horace Williams, Dewey Kinard, Mrs*. Edward A. Lane, B. B. liv- ingston. Jack Summer, Mrs. Brad Crooks, Mrs. Jack Hughes, Carl Setzler, Roberta Clairice Kennerley. May 5: T. E. Davis, Francis Aull, John H. Ruff, Walter Rufr, Mrs. Randolph Kirkland, Mild red Power Martin, Billie Wayne Sheppard, Mrs. William Thomas Werts, Richard B. Caldwell, Mrs. W. Eller be Pelham, Jr„ Mrs. W. F. Rutherford, Stanley Drawder, Mary Helen Whitaker, Pamela L. Setzler. May 6: Mrs. J. M. Randal, A. W. Murray, Betty Boyd, Mrs. Byron Nichols, Hazel Wright, McTeer Seim.