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Kissing can be expensive. An Eng lish judge fined a youth $28 for kiss ing while driving. He also slapped a fine on the girl—for aiding and abet ting. “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most mean dread it.”—Geo. Bernard Shaw. VOLUME 25; NUMBER 12. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1961 + $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way - doris a. san6ers EVERYTHING READY Council was notified Tuesday night that everything is in readi ness to begin picking up stray dogs on Saturday in the city. This comes at an appropriate time, as another dog bite case was report ed over the weekend. Steve Price, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Price of Boundary St., was attacked by a pet dog as he rode his bicycle along Harrington street. Fortun ately the wound wasn’t too serious and the dog’s owners proved the dog had been inoculated. This was little comfort to Steve, who suf fered the pain, but at least he didn’t have to take rabies shots. While I believe the laws present ly on the books will help this sit uation in Newberry, the above case is proof that the law is not en ough. This dog had been inoculat ed, so the dog-catcher would have no legal right to pick him up. Yet as long as he runs loose, there is danger he will bite again. day afternoon. The withdrawal action took place at a special meeting of council called Satur day afternoon at 2 o’clock. The mayor and council unanimously approved a motion asking the manager to reconsider his resig nation, giving him a “unanimous vote of approval.” At the outset of the meeting, the mayor explained that he had called council together to consid er the resignation handed to him by Mr. Blackwell at 4:45 the previous evening. Mr. Kinard and each member of council ex pressed individually the thought that the city manager had done, and is doing, an excellent job and that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to obtain a city manager of the same calibre for the salary presently being paid. The Mayor, speaking of the res ignation, said, “I told him I really regretted it.” To Mr. Blackwell he said, “I want all the members of council to know I have worked with you and will continue to work with you. If I hadn’t thought I could work with you, I wouldn’t have run for the job. I sincerely appre ciate your withdrawing your resignation.” Wallace Makes Reply To Kinard’s Letter SERVICES AT NEW MISSION Regular Sunday morning serv ices will begin at the new T Luther an Mission at the corner of the By- Pass and Harrington Street Ex tension Sunday morning at 11 a. m., according to Rev. Shelton Moose, who will conduct services until a permanent mission worker is secured. Rev. Moose stated that Sunday school would be started in the near future. The public is invited to attend the services. WHO’S THE TRICKSTER? W. C. Wallace has used admir able constraint in his reply on this page to Dewey Kinard’s let ter, published elsewhere in this issue. If there was trickery and conniving, as Mr. Kinard would lead you to believe, when the city manager’s resignation was with drawn in February 1956, surely there is no one more capable of giving him the facts than his brother, Cecil Kinard, who was then serving as mayor of Newber ry. Was it trickery on Cecil Kin ard’s part when, on being present ed the city manager’s resignation, he said “I told him (Blackwell) I really regretted it.” Was it trickery and conniving when then-Mayor Cecil Kinard said “I want all members of coun cil to know I have worked with you (Blackwell) and will continue to work with you. If I hadn’t thought I could work with you, I wouldn’t have ran for the job.” Was it trickery and conniving when then-Mayor Cecil Kinard said to Mr. Blackwell “I sincerely appreciate your withdrawing your resignation.” If Mr. Dewey Kinard feels there was trickery and conniving, why doesn’t he get the facts from the man most qualified to tell him— his brother—then let the public know, what he is talking about, rather than to spread malicious insinuations against the city manager, city council, and even his own brother? Dewey Kinard seems irritated that the city manager makes a de cent salary and insinuates that council tries to hide this informa tion. Well, for the benefit of Mr. Kinard and others who might be wondering, Mr. Blackwell was hired 12 years ago for $6,000 and was furnished an automobile to conduct the city’s business. Twelve years later, his salary is only $8,- 280 and a car to use for the city’s business. Percentage-wise, his sal ary has increased less over the 12- year period 'than the salaries of some of the laborers who sweep the streets. They, incidentally, work only eight hours a day, whereas, by law, the city manag er’s job is a 24-hour a day job. Personally, I wouldn’t undertake the position for twice the salary, even if I were qualified for it. As to Mr. Wallace—I didn’t in quire as to his salary, but I will if Mr. Kinard wants the informa tion—Mr. Wallace puts in a full day’s work and the idea of loading any other job on his shoulders is absurd. Yes, Newberry has received some unfavorable publicity lately, and the voting out of the city manager form of government would be the last straw. Ben Rob inson could just save time and money by forgetting his search for industry. The labor unions are bad enough, but if prospective indus tries were to look at a city and see that a city-manager form of gov ernment had been thrown out, they would laugh in contempt at the idea of locating in a community which was going backwards in stead of forward. Mr. Kinard wants information Charlie Swindler, left, and Mrs and he’s going to get it. While all C c ^ e Kinney total up the num- of it has been published before, it ^ er y ears they have worked for is going to be published again, to Oakland Plant of the Kendall show the great strides Newberry Company and find that together, has made under the city manager their service totals 93 % years form of government, so efficiently Mrs. Kinney retired from the administered by Ed Blackwell. plant July 1 after 45 years on her The following is a report of the job in the spinning room. Mr. meeting of city council of February Swindler will retire on August 1 24, 1956, from the Sun, March 1, after 48 1 ^ years, excluding S 1 ^ i 1956: months in the army during World! With a 100 percent “vote of War I. Mrs. Kinney has already! confidence” by Mayor Cecil E. received her Certificate of Parti- Kinard and Members of city cipation in Pension Plan of the council, E. L. Blackwell with- Kendall Company, and Mr. Swind-! drew his resignation as city i ler will soon receive his, certifying manager of Newberry which he ^ that they will receive a check had handed to the Mnyor on Fri- I monthly as long as they live, Choir To Visit Lakeside Home Pastor C. K. Derrick and mem bers of the choir of Mayer Me morial Lutheran Cht*-ch will hold a service at the Lakeside Rest Home in Lexington Sunday after noon. Cars will leave the church at 2 o’clock. The Christian Service Committee of the ULC Women is in charge of the program. John J. Eargle, a member of the congre gation resides there. Everyone is invited to go. The Luther League will meet immediately following the morn ing service, and will go to the James Rister place on Lake Mur ray for a picnic, an afternoon of recreation, and their program. All young people of Luther League age are invited. Sunday school at Mayer Mem orial will be at 10 a.m. and morn ing worship at 11:00, with the sermon topic, “On Facing Life” by Dr. Derrick. Replying to a suggestion made in a letter to the editor, written by Dewey Kinard and published ear lier this week (the letter may be : seen elsewhere in this issue), pro posing that W. Clarence Wallace, who has a full time job as city clerk and treasurer, also take on the burden of operating al Ifacili- ties of the city, Mr. Wallace has made a statement to the press “to | clarify some of the statements” made by Mr. Kinard. Mr. Wallace’s statement is as follows: I dislike very much a controversy through a newspaper and this is not intended as such. My intention and hope is to clarify some of the statements in the published letter to the Editor of Mr. Dewey Kin ard dated July 8, 1961. The first is. Mr. Kinard’s inab- ! ility to understand the date for the recent resignation of the City Manager to become effective. It is the right of any one offering a resignation to set a date for the resignation to become effective. The City Manager in his letter of resignation set December 31, 1961, as the effective date and gave as a reason that the construction of the Water and Sewer lines now in progress should be completed at that time. As to a former resignation tend ered by the City Manager, any one familiar with the circumstances could not possibly detect any signs of conniving and trickery. This resignation was tendered during the time when Mr. C. E. Kinard was Mayor and Council requested the City Manager to reconsider which he did and the resignation was withdrawn. As to the assertions that four, members of Council could have de cided on certain things, four or more members of Council did de cide on these things as four or more members decide on every is sue that is presented to them. The citizens are informed through our newspapers on all matlers, important and trivial, act ed upon by Council and any one interested enough to read the ac tions of Council as our competent newspapers report them are fami liar with the operations of the City. The writer appreciates very much the statement of Mr. Kinard that he considers me a Christian. That is the greatest compliment that can be paid any one. As for me running the affairs of the City I know my limitations and that I am not competent and would under no circumstances undertake it. Any services that I have been able to render the City for these past eleven years was made pos sible by the guidance, help and understanding of Mr. Blackwell and the cooperation of Council and of the citizens. I can truthfully say that the citizens of Newberry have obtained full value for every dollar collected from them during the time since the inauguration of the Council-City Manager form of government. Mr. Blackwell has rendered an outstanding service to the City of Newberry since assuming . thfe office of City Manager. Nd in a better position than the/wfit- er to know this. Instead of going into a lengthy detail nanuqfr all the improvements I will .-^merely pass on to the interested citizen the following: The Certified Ao^ countants report of the accrued surplus on October .1, 1949 was $989,595.61 and as of October 1, 1960, $1,568,493.27. I trust I have been brief enough not to take up too much of your valuable space and at the same time given beneficial facts to our Citizens — who want to under** stand* vi Thanking you for the many fav ors rendered to the City of New berry. Sincerely, W. C. Wallace, ArrAsfs T jetpJ The City Police Department and Magistrate Ben Dawkins have re-? leased records of arrest for the* month of June. The city arrested 28 for intoxi cation; creating disturbance, 4; failure to yield right of way, 6^ driving too fast for conditions, 2; running red light, 2; disorderly conduct, 1; no drivers license, 2; driving intoxicated, 1; petit lar-4 ceny, 1; running stop sign, 1; im proper passing, 1; improper driv ing, 1; escaping while under ar rest, 1; section 10-50, 1; cursing and threatening, 1; da: property, 1. Magistrate Dawkins had 207 cases during the month and ^col lected $2899.48 cash fines. Arrests were as follows: Driv ing too fast for conditions, 139; failure to yield right of way, 5; failure to dim lights, 2; public drunk, 3; no driver’s license in possession, no valid S. C. license, 8; failure to display license plates, 2; failure to transfer ownership, 5; improper parking, 5; turning and passing unlawfully, 4; fishing without permit, 2; exceeding axle gross, 5; defective brakes, 4; fol lowing too closely, 1; disregarding stop sign, 2; spilling load, 3; reck less driving, 1; driving under sus pension, 4; violation of special re tricted license, 1; driving under influence, 1; passing stopped school bus, 1; escaping public works, 1; disorderly conduct, 4; driving left of center, 1; assault and battery, 1; allowing unauth orized minor to drive, 1; obtaining goods under false pretense, 1 sik v In City Primary Evidences of an unusually warm! Vv^rd 5: Dwight W. Jones, in- and controversial campaign for cumbent; and E. F. (Shotsie) Mc- city offices are coming to the sur-1 Cutcheon, who was to have quali- face as more candidates qualify to fied Wednesday night, and a for- “which looks as though it will be a long time,.” remarked Joe Pool, Superintendent at Oakland, who also stated that the pension fund is paid for entirely by the com pany. Mrs. Kinney, who says she still awakens about 4:00 or 4:30 each morning to get ready to go to work, on the first shift, plans to spend her retirement gardening, crocheting, visiting, especially her children. With her now is a daugh ter, Mrs. Ellen Freeman of Fram- ington, Mass., and Mrs. Kinney plans to return North to spend a while with her. Her other children are W. D. Kirr.ey, who worked for many years a. Oakland, and now is overseer of the weave room at Mollohon; Woodrow Kinney, who lives in Newberry and Uenry Kin ney of Greenville. Mr. Swindler says his doctor won’t let him fish, so he’ll spend his time resting and tending to his flowers and garden. He and Mrs. Swindler have five children: Mrs. Dorothy Merchant, who works at Oakland; Mrs. Donnell Minick who live?, on the Country Club Road; Harold Swindler, a labora tory technician at Celanese Cor poration, Rock Hill; Mrs. Barbara Wessinger of Columbia, and Joe Bob Swindler who lives at home with his parents. In the Sunphoto, are, from left, Mr. Swindler, Hart Jordan, plant manager; Mrs. Kin- enter the mayor and alderman con tests. Whether the candidates themselves will make it known is yet to be seen, but it is expected they will fall into two categories: (1) those who have the backing of labor unions and seek to do away with the city manager form of government; (2) those who are not backed by the unions and approve the city manager form of govern ment. At least one of the candi dates signed, and helped circulate a petition, calling for an election to test the form of government. Latest candidates to qualify are incumbents Mayor Ernest Layton and Frank Armfield, Alderman, Ward 1, both of whom paid their fees Tuesday night. E. F. McCut- cheon told The Sun shortly before presstime Wednesday that he would enter the race for Alderman Ward 6, and would qualify Wed nesday night. Others who had qualified to en ter the primary as of presstime Wednesday were: Mayor: S. C. Altman and J. Howard Cook Jr., both newcomers to politics. Ward 1: Dave Laird, who once ran for the office of mayor. Ward 2: C. A. Dufford, incum bent, and George W. Heller, new comer. Ward 3: C. A. Shealy Jr., in cumbent, and S. D. Paysinger, former alderman from this ward. Ward 4: Clarence DeHart, in cumbent, and Jimmie Davenport, newcomer. Ward 5: Cecil E. Merchant, in cumbent, and Cecil E. Kinard, for- ney, and Joe Pool, Superintendent, mer alderman and mayor. mer contender for the office of al derman. Mrs. Hendrix, 66, Dies Tuesday Mrs. Lucy Morris Hendrix, 66, wife of Tiller Hendrix, McNary St., Prosperity, died Tuesday night at Newberry County Memorial Hospital after •suffering an attack at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hagood Cromer, Route 1, Po- maria. Mrs. Hendrix was born and rear ed in the St. Luke’s Section of Newberry County, a daughter of the late J. S. and Sara Brooks Morris. She lived in Newberry a number of years and was a mem ber of Lewis Methodist Church. For the past several years, she has made her home in Prosperity. She is survived by her husband, Tiller Hendrix; one son, Bloomer Clinton Hendrix of Newberry; three daughters, Mrs. Herman Morris, Prosperity; Mrs. Dave Rollette, Columbia; and Mrs. Ha good Cromer, Pomaria; one sister, Mrs. Forrest Boozer of Prosper ity; eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held today (Thursday) at 4 p.m. from Lewis Methodist Church, conduct ed by Rev. James A. Grigsby and Rev. B .B. Blakeney. Interment will follow in Newberry Memorial Gardens. The body will be taken to the home on McNary Street where it will remain until the hour of service. Those who have qualified to enter the city Democratic Pri mary August 22 are, from left to right, beginning with top row, Ernest Layton, incumbent, How ard Cook Jr., and S. C. Altman for Mayor; Frank Armfield, Dave Laird, Ward 1; C. A. Duf ford Sr., George Heller, Ward 2; C. A. Shealy Jr., S. D. Pay- singer, Ward 3; Clarence De Hart, Jimmie Davenport,. Ward 4; Cecil Merchant, Cecil Kin ard, Ward 5; and Jones, Ward 6. E. eon has announces’ that he will run for Alderma i Ward 6 but had not qualified at presstime Wednesday and no picture was available. Dwight W. McCutch- Mr. and Mrs. Roy F. Dodd and sons, Jack and Kurt from Glen Burnie, Md., have returned to their home after visiting Mrs. Dodd’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bow ers Jr. July 16: Mrs. Pet Dawkir j, Mrs. Jim Todd, Mrs. T. S. Har mon, Frank Partridge, J. G. Long, H. C. Timmerman, Gor don Johnson, G. B. Fuller, Mrs. Nat Gist Jr., Dorothy Jean Hutchinson. July 17: Mrs. G. R. Price, Mrs. D. T. Wicker, Mrs. A. E. Bedenbaugh, Mrs. Murray Shep pard, Mrs. Catherine Graham, Lavinia Brown, Lera Duncan, Innis M. Clarkson, Marshall L. Motes, I. M. Smith. July 18: Clayton Smith, Mrs. F. M. Schumpert, Mrs. Ruby Trice, Betty Shealy, Kenneth Fuller, Kathy Senn, Sandra Gaii Templeton. July 19: Gladys Young, Colie B. Pitts, Judy Boland, Walter Sheppard, Linda Faye Fuller, Michael Kinard, Jana Beden baugh, Paul WhiUker, Robert Icard Jr. July 20: A. J. Bowers, Mrs. A. T. Neely, Chevis I. Boozer, James R. Andrews, Gertice Smith, Mrs. Cyril Halfacre, Os car Graham, Thomas Koon Bra dy. , July 21: Judy Ann Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sterling. Mrs. Christine H. Bums, Judy Senn, James Scott Boozer, Mrs. Henry Mills, Anna Hawkins, Bobby Duncan, Scott Anthony Epting. July 22: Willie Robert Gilliam, Sam A. Cook, William E. Burr III, George A. Setzler.