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An intelligent man is very much concerned about the future because that’s where he’s going to spend the rest of his life. » Ez Tike complains his insomnia is now so bad he can’t even sleep when it’s time to get up. To get her man today a girl should know how to play golf, tennis, bridge and dumb. VOLUME 25—NUMBER 19 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1961 + $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way - By DORIS A. SANDERS ? Alderman' Ward '6 ? STILL NOT OVER. The City Democratic Primary is still not quite over. Voters are yet to decide who will occupy the Ward 6 alderman seat come next January first. The run-off prim ary will be Tuesday, September 5. Polls will be open at the same places, same times—from 8 a.m until 6 p.m. I don’t know why it is that Am ericans—the majority of them— have to be urged, sometimes almost forced, to go to the polls. We love to criticize our elected officials but too often we don’t do our part in either putting them in of fice or trying to keep them out. Please take advantage of the privilege you have, and vote next Tuesday. SAFETY PROGRAM The South Carolina High way Department, in cooperation with the Highway Safety Committee and news media throughout the pa ] improvements, and brought The Newburgh Story Until recently, it is safe to say, a comparatively small proportion of the American people had ever heard of Newburgh, New York, a city of 31,000 on the Hudson river. But Newburgh has been very much in the news of late, and has been the subject of lengthy articles in number of national magazines and leading newspapers. For events in Newburgh have focused national attention on the welfare problem —and of associated problems and issues that arise as a welfare state develops and expands. Last fall Newburgh hired a new and experienced city manager. One of his first acts was to look into the relief expenditure situation. He found the payments came to almost a third of the total muni cipal budget—$983,000 out of $3,- 134,000 according to a Time mag azine account. This was more than was spent on the police and fire departments Additionally, such heavy relief spending imperiled certain needed and wanted munici To Speak Progress Day Tuesday Sept. 5 State, is sponsoring an all - out Safety campaign during Labor day and school opening season. You are urged to take every precaution while on the highway during-the holiday weekend and to remember, when you drive around town, that school opens Tuesday. with it the prospect of higher taxes. Voters of Newberry will go to the polls Tuesday, September 5th, to decide whether Dwight Jopes, shown at left above, or E. F. (Shotsie) McCutcheon will occupy the seat of Alderman Ward 6 on City council January 1, 1962. Mr. Jones, incumbent, polled 891 votes in the first primary on Aug- The upshot was that Newburgh’s j ust 22, Mr. McCutcheon received city council took a long look at the* 883. A third candidate, Jim Todd, A LITTLE TIRED. Being a little tired, and half sick, I’m just too lazy to try to come up with anything original this week. However, I do urge you to read the following articles, ta ken from Industrial News Review. I believe you will find them of in terest. Notch In The Belt From the Saturday Evening Post: “It may turn out that the Teapot Dome scandal of the sizzling ’60s will be Urban Re newal. In cities from coast to coast, areas of historic interest,; 1,1 pleasing architecture and gracious] h , a t s . met w.th much more living are being condemned as \PP roval tha " opposition although of course, there is plenty of the tangled relief picture and came up with a new 13-point code. It is this code that has excited national no less than state and local con- troversary. It provides, in part, that relief payments shall be lim ited to a three-month period, ex cept for the aged and the physi cally handicapped; that the moth ers of illegitimate children, who have any more babies out of wed lock, shall be denied welfare as sistance; that, when possible, re lief payments will be made thru vouchers instead of cash (council found . that some cash payments were going for liquor and other non-necessities), and that able- bodied men drawing relief pay ments would Lave to put in a 40- hour week at city work. It would seem that this tough more received 491, and was eliminated from the race. In the first primary, McCutch eon led the ticket in three pre cincts: Ward 4 No. 1; Ward 3, No 2 and Ward 5. Jones led in the remaining five boxes. Mr. Jones is in the retail groc ery business. Mr. McCutcheon is an employee of Radio Station W- KDK. Polls will be open from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. at the same locations as during the first primary. 'substandard, blighted, deteriorat ing’ or plain ‘slum’. Then as John Crosby put it in a recent column, ‘real-estate speculators come in loaded with Federal money and vast powers and vast responsibili ties. They can throw you out of your home, pay you a condemna tion price for a house whose mort gage you’ve been paying off for twenty years and construct a per fectly hidious anthill in its place, which is called luxury housing.” An interesting question that arises here in just why the Fed eral taxpayers—a category which includes millions of people who don’t live in urban areas, and have little or nothing to do with cities—should pay a large part of urban renewal bills. If a commun ity wants to rid itself of a slum district, that is the communities business—and the communities responsibility. It's hard to see why, for instance, a farmer in Iowa (or Newberry) should be forced to contribute to a dubious project in New York City, o r Portland, Oregon. Finally, the current arms build up makes all possible belt-tighten ing in Washington essential. Ur ban renewal should be a notch in that belt. latter. A number of leading public fig ures have praised it, at least in principle. On the other hand, Gov. School Opening Is Tuesday Next Tuesday marks the end of vacation time for school-age youngsters, and the elementary school officials are making plans for a successful beginning of the 1961-62 school year. Parents are asked to please ob serve the following ggestions on the first day of school: All students in Boundary street school will report to the following rooms Tuesday, Septembers at 9 a.m.: First grade, Miss McGraw; 2nd grade, Mrs. Beck; 3rd grade, Miss Feagle; 4th grade, Mrs. Charles Cromer; 5th grade, Miss Sallie Le Cromer; 6th grade, Mollohon sclnol; new students, Mrs. Abra ms. All students in the Speers St. Plenty of Strings Supporters of Federal aid to education say that Washington will dole out dollars without any strings attached. However, facts show otherwise, as the Chamber of Commerce of the United States now points out. Whenever the U. S. of fice of Education has passed out burgh action in general, though money, it has exercised controls. ! no - the provisions of the pro- The Chamber cites a list of gram — made this significant specific examples. Among them: statement: “Washington is The Office of Education dictated curriculum and administrative practices of a guiding and counsel ing Institute in Tennessee. Under the same Office’s regulations a language laboratory in an Illi nois school must remain idle when not used for teaching modern lan guages; it cannot be used to teach Latin. A Federal employee threat ened to remove a school adding machine from a Minnesota school if it were used for any purpose but science—the government had helped to buy the machine. In Ala bama the government set mini mum wages to he paid on a school building whose construction Fed eral funds were used. So iU goes. And no -2 should be surprised. Back in j.U2 the Supreme Court held th-; “it .is hardly lack of due process (of law) for the government to regu late that which it subsidizes.” Rockefeller of New York is aj school will report to the following —*— —i — ^rooms Tuesday, September 5 at 9 a.m.: First grade, Mrs. Boulware; 2nd grade, Miss Annie Abrams; 3rd grade, Miss Sarah Boozer; 4th grade, Miss Rosabell Thompson; 5th grade, Mrs. Gloria Parks; 6th grade, Mollohon school; new stu dents, Mrs. Annie Cromer. The first day of school has been designated “get acquainted” day and parents are asked not to send any money to school on that day. The child’s teacher will send home a detailed list of books, supplies that are needed. Parents are ask ed to place the correct amount of money in an envelop and return to the teacher with the slip Wed nesday, September 6. After the opening day, Tuesday at 9 a.m. regular classes will be gin Wednesday, September 6th. Lunch will be $1.25 weekly. Ac cident insurance will be $2. Long Succumbs After Attack W. Everette Long, 55, of 1806 Nance street, died Wednesday en route to the New-berry hospital af ter suffering a heart attack on Lake Murray. Mi-. Long was born and reared in Newberry county, a son of the late Hilliard W. and Sara Louvinia Chapman Long. He had spent the greater part of his life in New berry where he was connected with Schumpert’s Service station for a number of years. He was a member of Colony Lutheran church and a veteran of four years ser vice in World War II. He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Walter (Laberta) Davenport and Mrs. Clarence (Lera) Dun can, both of Newberry; one bro ther, Huston H. Long of Newber ry, and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conduct ed at 5 p.m. Friday at McSwain Funeral home by Rev. H. A. Dun lap and Dr. P. L. Grier. Burial was in Colony church cemetery, near Newberry. dissenter, and so is the State Board of Social Welfare which pays about a third of municipal relief expenses. A legal problem appears here. Federal law re quires that the welfare program be uniform within a state, so the Board fears that Newburgh’s in transigence could conceivably lead to the loss of Federal payments to the whole state. So, in the view of David Franke, writing in Nat ional Review—a view which many hold—“the Newburgh case proves that Federal aid brings Federal control. It show’s that Federal aid impinges not only on States rights but on the rights of local govern ments within the States.” The basic problem has been succinctly described by Time in these words: “The welfare state means new’ security for the mil lions who do not share the nation’s affluence. But it also means pub lic intervention in private lives, job-shirking relief chislers who loaf at government expense, and tax burdens that soar higher ev ery year.” This is the problem that New-burgh is seeking to solve. The town’s council and city man ager are not opposed to welfare per se. They are simply opposed to w’hat they consider to be un justifiable and expensive abuses. W hat the end will be is not yet clear. Meanwhile, an editorial in Life—which approved the New- Drayton Taylor Succumbs After Long Illness Drayton J. Taylor, 96 died Wednesday night at his home af ter a long illness. Mr. Taylor was born in New berry county, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Taylor. Until his retirement he was dep uty sheriff. He was a member of Central Methodist church. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Marion Schumpert Taylor; one daughter, Mrs. M. E. Garrett of Travelers Rest; two brothers, Wy-pien^ifcary, liey Taylor of Newberry and Ru fus Taylor of Batesburg; two half- sisters, Mrs. Gary Hawkins and Mrs. Arthur Long of Newberry, and three grandchildren. Funeral services were conduct ed at 11 o’clock Friday morning by Rev. Thurman H. Vickery at Whitaker Funeral home. Inter ment followed in Rosemont ceme tery. Active pallbearers were Hazel Hawkins, Murray Garrett, Paul Garrett, Duncan Johnson, Lewis Sligh, Louis C. Floyd, Hendrix Monts and Harry Moose. Assisting with the flowers were Mesdames Helen Monts, Elizabeth Miller, Claudia Hinson, Sadie Schumpert, Philip Watson, Ben Chapman, Sara Gantt, Dorothy Weir Ruff, Paul Garrett, Murray Garrett, and Lewis Sligh. Services For Mrs. Summer Held Friday Mrs. Demmie Coleman Summer, wife of Adrian M. Summer, died Wednesday morning at the Emory University hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, after a long illness. Mrs. Summer was bom in Sa luda county, a daughter of the late Annie Lee and Oro Bouk- night Coleman. She graduated from the Greenville Women’s col lege in 1916 and taught in the schools of Pelzer, Shelton, and Greenville. She had made her home in New- tolfy since her marriage in 1924. She was a member of the First Baptist church and was active in the work of her circle of the WMU and was class mistress of the Fi- de’ie Sunday school class. She was also a member of the Calvin Croz- ier chapter of the UDC., the Am erican Association of University Women and treasurer of the Nose gay garden club. Pet-ides her husbann she is sur vived by one son, Adrian M., Jr; one caughter, Mrs. Roy (Gloria) i Kvovse, Jr., of Augujta, Ga.; four brothers, O. W. Coieman of Saluda, H. v . Coleman of Columbia, J. V. Coleman of Philadelphia, Pa. and B. P. Coleman of Dallas, Texas; two sisters, Mrs. J. S. Lide, New- berry and Mrs. W. H. Wilson of Jacksonville, Fla: and 3 grand children. ITmtral services were conduct ed at 4 p.m. Friday from the First Baptist church by Rev. Kenneth Wilson and Rev. Thurman Vick ery. Interment was in Rosemont Active pallbearers were: Houseal Jay, Kirby Lominack, Clarence Wallace, James S. Price, Dr. J. A. Underwood, Jr., and John T. Nor ris. Honorary pallbearers were the deacors of the First Baptist ch jroh. A sc: c ting with the flowers were: Mrs. Parker Manln, Mrs. J. W. Earhardt, Mrs. Tommy Setzler, Mrs. Edward Cannon, Mrs. W. M. Fennell, Mrs. Harry Hedgepath, and Mrs. Gerald Paysinger. Mayor Ernest H. Layton pro claims next Tuesday “Poultry Progress Day” in Newberry, as Mrs. Mildred Holliday, A1 Busby, standing at left and Ben Robin son look on. The first meeting of its kind to be held in South Caro lina, “Midlands Poultry Progress Day” for producers and home makers is being sponsored by the Clemson college Extension Ser vice in cooperation with the New berry County Development Board, Newberry Kiwanis club, poultry producers, servicemen and sup pliers, and Newberry college. Mr. Busby and Mrs. Holliday are co- chairmen of local events for the occasion. Climax of the day will be a speech by Governor Ernest F. Rol lings following a barbecue at 7 p.m. Runway Dedicated watching and waiting to see what actually develops. So will the U. ^ or over the years social wel fare laws have expanded to a point where a full, frank and fair scrutiny of them is long overdue. If charity begins at home, the neighborhood conscience should assuredly have a voice in adminis tering public welfare funds. The great American tradition of gen erosity to the unfortunate must continue. But Newburgh provides a healthy example of local gov ernment assuming due initiative and responsibility.” ?hington, D. C. The Charles Smiths remained in Newberry for That pretty well tells the whole a few days visit before returning Federal aid story. to their home. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith and children, Marlene and Maurene of Charleston, and Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Smith and children, Jean and Mon ty, spent last week on a tour of The Board of Registration will interesting places in and around (^eet the first Tuesday, September Washington. D. C. Tho 5. in^tpnd of thp first Mnndnv u c Board To Open 5, instead of the first Monday, as f he Court House will be closed for Labor Day, September 4, accord ing to W. C. Scott, Chairman. By Mrs. A. H. Counts The extended runway at New berry County Airport was dedi cated Sunday as planes buzzed overhead. The runway has been lengthened and widened at a cost of approximately $35,000 to accommodate larger type aircraft than the airport has been abl$ ;to do in the past. The project was sponsored by the Newberry Civitan club. Half of the funds were furnished by the Federal Aeronautics Commission and the remaining amount was supplied by the South Caroliha Airport Commission and Newber ry county through action of the county delegation. “There has ben a revolution in transportation since 1912” John Barry of Columbia, assistant chairman of the State Aeronaut- ice Commission said. “Aviation is a keynote in indus try. American businesemen have come to rely on air travel as the quickest way of carrying on their business. No longer are businesses as a rule located behind the of fice. Air travel has expedited the mode of travel by its time saving quality,” he said. “The Newberry Airport is now in line for air travel anywhere in the United States” Mr. Barry said. James F. Coggins presided at the dedication services. Others who spoke briefly included Mayor Er nest H. Layton, Representative D. P. Folk, Ben Robinson of The Newberry County Development Board, and John C. Billingsley, member of the Newberry County Airport commission. FESPERMAN TO BE AT MAYER The Rev. Francis I. Fesperman will be guest minister at Mayer Memorial Lutheran church at the 11 o’clock service Sunday, Sep tember 3. Pastor Fesperman is chaplain at Newberry college. The public is cordially invited. PERSONAL M r. and Mrs. Sydney Carter and sons, Syd and Richard, of Charleston, visited last week in the home of Mrs. Carter’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Baker. Mr. and Mrs. Guy V. Whitener, Sr., have returned to their home on College Street extension after having spent the summer at their Isle of Palms home. Mr. and Mrs. Troy Bowers are now residing at 703 Crosson St. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Brown have moved to Derrill Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. William D. Pugh have moved to I 710 Kibler street. Dr. A. G. D. Wiles (left), President of Newberry College, receives a gift of $100,000 from Mr. and Mrs. L. Bates Houck of Cameron, South Carolina. Mr.Houck is a former wholesaler in drugs in Miami, Florida, and now operates a farm near Cameron. The gift to the Col lege is to be applied to the Faculty Endowment Fund, so that it may help guarantee a high standan 1 of education to our future leaders in church and State. How poultry production grew to a $41,000,000 business in South Carolina will be told by six per sons from the industry during the meeting* which begins at Holland hall auditorium, Newberry Col lege at 3 p.m. on September 5. One of the speakers, O. H. Green, will look into the future with a talk on “Where is. South Carolina’/ Poultry Business Head ed.” Mr. Green, owner of Seven Oaks farm, Spartanburg, is a veteran of hatchery management, and egg and broiler production. He is *aeogiiia«d as t ha outstanding speakers in the Uni ted States. T. C. Gray, Iva Poultry Farm, Iva, who started with 10 hens and one rooster 35 years ago to be come one of the outstanding poul- trymen in S. C., will cel) how he grows pullets to pnodaec 262 aggs per hen housed—61 above the nat ional average. Leon Bloom, Decatur, Georgia, will tell growers how to increase livability in egg broiler houses through improved methods of san itation. Two outstanding broiler grow ers will discuss efficient broiler production under the topic “How I Grow Broilers.” The speakers are A. D. Amick, Amick Poultry, Batesburg, and W. G. Wofford, Pee Dee Hatchery, Hartsville. “Current Turkey Topics” is a subject to be covered by E.- H. Mathis, Jr., Spartan Grain and Mill company, Newberry. Mr. Ma this has had wide experience in the poultry field. Officials emphasize that Poul try Day is as much for homemak ers as for producers. Following the general meeting, group discussions will be held in classrooms in Holland hall, and one group will be devoted to home makers. Subjects to be discused will be “Season is the Reason” by W. A. Tuten, extension marketing specialist, Columbia; “Your Mon ey’s Worth” by Mrs. Betty P. Wat kins, extension consumer special ist, Clemson; “Using Poultry Meat and Eggs ip Meal Planning” by Miss Janie McDill, extension nu tritionist, Clemson, and a film “Tips on Poultry and Egg Cook ery.” The group discussions will end at approximately 6:30 p.m. and the berbecue dinner will begin at 7:00 with George B. Nutt, direc tor of Clemson Extension Service, presiding. All phases of the pro gram will be free of charge ex cept the barbecue. Tickets for the dinner, which will be cooked on the college grounds, are $1.25 each. In the city, tickets may be obtained from Newberry County Bank, S. C. National Bank, Newberry Fed eral Savings and Loan Association, State Building and Loan Associa tion, Newberry County Develop ment Board, County Agent's of fice, and from T. B. Amis. A number of attractive d o o r prizes will be given. Producers and consumers from nine counties in addition to Newberry county, have been invited to attend Poul try Progress day. The Mayor's proclamation is as follows: PROCLAMATION State of South Carolina, County of Newberry, City of Newberry. WHEREAS, the Clemson Col lege Extension Service has honor ed Newberry in its selection as the location of the first Midlands Poultry Progress Day, thus hon oring the poultry producers in our area, and WHEREAS, the poultry prog ram to be held in the City of New berry -will bring, into our midst many visitors from other areas of the State, thus acquainting them with the importance of the poul try industry in Newberry county, and WHEREAS, the poultry indus try is important in the economy of our City, producing an annual revenue of nearly two million dol lars, NOW, THEREFORE, I, Ernest H. Layton, Mayor of Newberry, in recognition of the importance of the poultry industry to the city of Newberry and in honor of the poultry leaders of the County and State, do hereby proclaim the 6th day of September, 1961 Poultry Progress Day in the City of New berry, and do urge all civic and business associations to co-oper ate in this observance. DATED at Newberry, South Carolina, this 29th day of August, 1961. ERNEST H. LAYTON, Sept. 3: Mrs. Sloan Chapman, Mrs. Sam A. Cook, Mrs. H. O. Counts, Wyman Williams, Mrs. J. S. Taylor, Bobbie Oxner, Ruth Rogers, Kate Cousins, Mrs. C. H. Alewine, Griffin Langford, Alice Faye Koon, D. J. Icard, Sr. Lisa Summer, Martha Brown, Bonnie B. Cook. Sept. 4: Mrs. B. P. Ringer, C. E, Berley, Mrs. Ira Gibson, Ann Merchant, Henry Dennis, Mrs. George W. Heller, Lewis H. Fen nel, linda Inabinet. Sept. 5: Miss Marguerite Bums, Mrs. L. M. Graham, Mrs. Mary Hawkins, Lary Edward Graham, Mrs. George Hentz, Mrs. T. E. Longshore, W. H. Tedford, Ellis Davenport, Jinx Regnery, W. L. Davenport, Sr. Sept. 5: Miss Mary Wheeler, Bobby Lominack, Mrs. Ralph Waldrop, Heyward Davis, Eliza beth Cromer, J. W. Timmerman, L. B. Bedenbaugh, Larry Beden- baugh, Mrs. John G. Ross, Mrs. Ida Underwood, Mrs. Annie Mae Underwood, Janie D. War ren, Ralph Edward Miller. Sept. 7: Mrs. Stanley F. Baker, Wallace Michael Dawkins, Char lie Edward Cromer, Mrs. Har old K. Bedenbaugh, Dick Shealy, Dee Petty. Sept. 8: Rev. Cam D. Wallace, J. D. Wicker, Frank H. Ward, Mrs. J. W. Wilson, Margaret Faye Coats, Mrs. Tom Gilliam, John Marlowe, Mike Harmon, Mrs. Wilmar M. Hite, Curtis J. Taylor. Sept. 9: Tommy Longshore, Bu ford S Adams, Lee Smallwood, Mrs. E. C. Rinehart, O. C. Phil lips, Margaret Wherry, Jessie Dawkins, Billie Dave K. Brady, E. L. Blackwell, Alan Brooks, Aliene Reeves, Deborah Petty.