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-M A man is a success today if it costs him more to support the gov ernment than his wile and children. un Those with the most to say usually say it with the fewest words. How would you ever get ahead of someone you are trying to get even with ? VOLUME 25; NUMBER 20. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 7, 1961 + 12.00 PER YEAR By The Way - By DORIS A. SANDERS COLLEGE A HELP One of the best talking points Ben Robinson has when he goes out to search for new industry is the location of Newberry College in our midst to serve students of the city and county and to elevate the cultural atmosphere of our community. Newberry College proved its convenience again Tuesday when her boys and girls, through high school graduation and was at New-] berry High the night of our com mencement exercises. I think the! most ashamed I ever felt was that 1 I did not graduate from high school as an honor student, know ing that Miss Gertrude, who had done so much for me, was sitting out there in the audience. Miss Gertrude lives in Columbia Freshmen On City Council Jurors Listed it cooperated in Midlands Poultry! now, and I haven’t seen her for Progress Day. The publicity ob- many years, although we do ex tained from an affair of this sort is good both for Newberry College and for our city. With barely a year in Newberry, the new r college president, Dr. A. G. D. Wiles, not only has his feet firmly on our community soil, but is fast taking root, according to all indications. If I recall correctly, in his in- augural address, Dr. Wiles de nounced the socialistic tendencies of this country and its govern ment. This alone was enough to give Dr. Wiles a good send-off for the majority of Newberrians. In addition to that, he has shown his change notes occasionally. With the beginning of this school year I would bet she is thinking about those first graders—and this is just to let her know that one of her former first graders is think ing about her. CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations to the Lee County Board of Education, which has gone on record as opposing the National Education Association E. F. (Shotsie) McCutcheon went because of its left-wing tendencies. ] ahead by 15 votes in Tuesday's run-off Democratic primary to un- MUST LIST , . _ T , There are two recent publica- interest not only in Newberry, tkms which shou]d be on the must College but in the community as a whole and has worked as hard as many a long-time resident of New berry for community betterment. seat Dwight W. Jones as member of city council from Ward 6. The eight-box total in the race was list for reading by every Ameri- for McCutcheon, 565 for Jones, can. The first is “Excerpts From Speeches by Senator Strom Thur- In addition to a hold-over May or, council in 1962-63 will be com- Department Says New P. 0. Needed Congressman Bryan Dorn has received the following information from J. W. Asker, Atlanta Region al Office director of the Post Of fice Department: “Our space and equipment sur vey indicates that new quarters are needed for the post office at New berry and w r e plan to make such recommendation to the Department for fiscal year 1963. The activa tion of the project will depend on prior commitments and availability of funds. It will require some time to complete plans and construct a new building. “In the meantime, we are seek ing space to be used as a tempo rary annex, to give relief to the congestion of the Federal Build ing.” Criminal Court Poultry Farmers, Consumers Hear Edwards And Hollings Court of General Sessions (Criminal) will convene in New berry on September 18th with Honorable Julius B. Ness of Bam berg presiding. Grand jurors will report on the 18th and petit jurors, whose names are given below, will report on the 19th: Newberry and routes: Colie W. Jones, Harper R. Wherry, Charles Fulmer, H. B. Kirkegard, Clyde Minick, John L. Braswell, David L. Ruff, James Larry Boozer, Gordon S. Leslie Jr., Willie D. Summers, Carroll L. Bouknight, Thomas P. Buzhardt, William E. Attaway, James E. Stone, James M. Smith (1512 Wheeler St.), How By MRS. A. H. COUNTS “The poultry industry is a most important segment of our total economy,” Dr. R. C. Edwards, president of Clemson College, said here Tuesday afternoon at the Midland Poultry Progress Day held on the Newberry College Campus. Gov. Ernest F. Hollings was speaker at a banquet Tuesday night. He discussed the problem of marketing agricultural prod ucts produced in South Carolina. Dr. A. G. D. Wiles, president of Newberry College, wlecomed ^ ^ , mond on Efforts to Gag Military Vmirl Much of this work ,perhaps has Anti-Communist Speeches and I P ° d f three hold-o\er couneil- h^pn hphind thp scenes not in the h ,, l ^ 1 lst ^peecnes and men anf i three freshmen. Frank been behind tne scenes, not m ine | Seminars „ The speecheg were de _ rinrpn ^ * T r limelight; but often that kind of j Hvered on the u s> genate floot Aimfield, Clarence A. Shealy Ji wor|c is more °ther. | Record. The second is the report of Nor is the college standing s i j bear j ng , g tbe j n t erna i Security effective than anv ! " 7 • "''"land Cecil E. Merchant, Wards 1, 3 r l mi !’ l "I ted ln the . Congressional and 5 respectively, won re-election in the August 22 primary, as did under his leadership. Additional ^ayor Layton. George W. Heller instructors are beintr brought in 1 U1Ut u aC ' defeated C. A. Dufford, Sr. in instiuctois aie oemg oioig ’ | tivitics, recently released by that the building program continues, commjttre . underway. The average citizen simply does Newberry is lucky to ha\e at no ^ realize in what proportions college presidents with a deep an and to w hat extent the commun- Totals for the Ward 6 run-off Ward 2 and Jimmie B. Davenport unseated Clarence B. DeHart in Ward 4. ibiding interest not only in their relatively small domain on "he col lege campus, but in the community as well. We are happy to see the trend continuing. POULTRY DAY ists go in making read.\ a com- primary Tuesday, by Wards, are munist take-over of the United as follows: States. These two publications are eye-openers. From time to time, excerpts] from these speeches and hearings! will be published in this column. In the meantime, I would suggest held at Newberry Tuesday wa ‘’j self. Senator Thurmond will successful far beyond the hopes of j bap py > j am 6Ure> to send you those who made the plans. When I was talking to A1 Busby last week, he said they had sold over 200 tickets and hoped possibly to reach 300 for the banquet Tues day night. I didn’t get the final figure, but I’m sure more than 400 were crowded into the dining room of Kaufmann Hall to eat chicken, barbecued on the campus that afternoon by experts from Clemson, and to hear Governor HolHngs speak. For once, I must admit, I ad mired the governor’s speech. He put the blame for agriculture not being more advanced in South Carolina squarely on the shoulders of the farmers. “We have done everything we could in every way we knew to do it,” the governor told his listeners, and informed them that it was impossible to sell something they knew nothing about. He emphasized that farm ers must ke€>p records of their pro duction; must get together in a cooperative effort for quality con trol and advertising in order to sell the agricultural products of the state. He told the farmers they were individualists who didn’t want anyone telling" them how to run their business. But, he said, unless they found some way to cooperate and let the people of the nation know what the state has to offer in the way of agricultural products, there will be no markets. Farmers in this county would do well to dwell on the governor’s ad vice. es; if he cannot furnish you the other one, he certainly will be able to tell you where to get it. Just address your letter Senator Strom Thurmond, Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C. Local Chapter Helps Provide Professorship ship in special education in th USC School of Education. Jeff B. Bates, chairman of the society’s Board of Trustees, pre sented the check to USC President Robert L. Sumwalt at a meeting in a Columbia hotel. The fund provides for the hiring of a specialist in the teaching of physically and mentally handicap ped children. The professorship is Pre cinct Jones McCu cheon Ward 1 _ _ 70 62 Ward 2 114 93 Ward 3-1 36 31 Ward 3-2 91 161 Ward 4-1 _ 21 19 Ward 4-2 _ 46 35 Ward 5 _ 50 91 Ward 6 _ 137 88 TOTALS __ 565 580 the first teaching “chair” estab lished in the School of Education. Mrs. Sue T. Rouse, a native of Missouri, has been appointed to the professorship. She is a grad uate of Harris Teachers College, St.' Louis, hold the M.A. degree from the University of North Carolina, and expects to receive the doctorate next year from George Peabody College. County chapters which helped the society’s state headquarters provide the fund included Newber- ry. The fund was also supported by Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Russell of Spartanburg, the Phelps Foun dation, and the Lions Club of Co lumbia. Fennell Runs Jewelry Store Mac Fennell has purchased Fen nell’s Jewelry Store on Main St. and began active management of the business on September 1st. Associated with him in the store will be his wife, the former Miss Toni Turner of Johnston, and his mother, Mrs. W. M. Fennell. Mr. Fennell was associated with nis late father in the jewelry business for four years prior to accepting a position with Com mercial Credit Corporation in Hickory, N. C. He is a graduate of Newberry High School and at tended Clemson College. He and his family are living on College Street. Mr. Fennell invites his friends and the public to stop by and see the large select.on of jewelry and gift items available. A watch re* pair service s also available at Fennell’s Jewelry Store. Died Monday Mrs. Pearl Counts of near Cha pin, widow of Anderson Counts, died Monday night at the Lowman Home in White Rock. Mrs. Counts was born in Lex ington County, June 6, 1886, a daughter of the late George and Mary Alewine Koon. Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. L. D. Slice of Chapin; one son, Ralph Counts of Little Moun tain; two sisters, Mrs. Mattie Bal- lentine of Irmo and Mrs. Hoyt Boland of Prosperity; one broth er, Harold Koon of Florence; her stepmother, Mrs. Della Koon of Prosperity, and two grandsons. Funeral services were conduct ed at 5 p.m. Wednesday from Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church (Spring Hill) by the Rev. H. Brent Schaf fer, assisted by the Rev. Kenneth Webb and the Rev. L. E. Black- welder. Interment was in the church cemetery. ard F. Turner, W. S. Gordon. Her- visitors and A. F. Busby, bert Stutts, Mack Rice, W. H. Newberry County farm agent, Nichols, George Sedley Senn, Jeff P^sided. C. Waldrop. Speaking on the South aCro- Whitmire’ and routes: Furman lina Poultry program, Dr. Edwards W. Dickert, Melvin R. McCall, Rayford R. Gaffney, Charles H. Leaman. Prosperity and routes: Ralph P. Shealy, David W. Cook, Arthur Milton Boozer, Colin R. Hawkins. Pomaria and routes: G. E. Bo land, W. Roy Graham, Cecil E. Mayer, J. Cecil Berley. Little Mountain, Rt. 1: C. R. Sites. Silverstreet: John H. Bowers Jr. said th£t capital invested in poul try amounts to more than 110 mil lion dollars. During 1960 South Carolina poultrymen received 41 million dollars on sales of poultry and* poultry products. The indus try ranks in top three or four ic ini of economic ifnportance in the state. As impressive and important but far more significant is the fact that the industry has excellent growth potential in future years. Referring to the midland area which includes Newberry, Laur ens, Greenwood, Saluda, Lexing ton, Richland, Fairfield and Un ion counties, Dr. Edwards said, “the first Midland Poultry Pro gram Day” could well have, been in any one of the participating Magistrate Has 164 Cases One hundred and sixty-four cases wer^ heard during August by Magistrate Ben F. Dawkins, ac cording to a report released by his office this week. Driving too fast for conditions accounted for 102 of the cases; the next highest number of violations, 10, were charges of having no drivers li cense. Other charges included one each, unlawful weapon in possession, spilling load, violation of special restricted drivers license, improper parking, improper use of farm lic ense, no valid license plate on truck, fail to give turn signal, following too closely, hunting on sanctuary, assault with deadly weapon, crossing median; twoj counts each, allowing unauthoriz-l ed minor to drive, no drivers lic ense in possession, exceeding reg istered license, improper brakes, failure to dim lights; Three charges each, driving left of center, failing to display fuel tax marker, drunk and disorderly conduct; 4 charges of reckless driv ing; five charges, excessive noise; and seven charges of failure to transfer ownership. GOVERNOR ERNEST F. HOLLINGS spoke at the ducken barbecue dinner which climaxed events of Midlands Poultry Progress Day in Newberry Tuesday. Governor Hollings told his listeners, “When we promote agriculture in South Carolina, we will promote the econo my of South Carolina. He is shown here with Senator Jesse Frank Hawkins, left, who introduced the governor, and Dr. George B. Nutt, right, director of Clemson Extension Service, who presided during the evening session. (Sunphoto.) Coroner Schedules Inquests In Three Deaths Friday Night ViJ tp f'-y • • •••* > ' V-XS-CW i mmmm jim i§§! .-.vNv jP! Hi I * NOSTALGIA School days are here again. Or dinarily, this does not bring any pangs of sentiment because, for, the most part, I do not consider my school days as having been es pecially happy ones. I could not help feeling a bit of nostalgia Tuesday, however, when I took our baby (who says she isn’t one) to her first grade room at Boundary Street School, because it is the same room in which I spent most of my first grade days under that wonderful teacher and principal, Miss Gertrude Reeder. One of the teachers said to me the other day “You don’t remem ber Miss Gertrude Reeder, do you?” If I forgot all other teach ers I ever had, I could never for get Miss Gertrude. It ’s bad en ough for many first graders just beginning school, but even worse when one is new in a community, enters the first grade several months after school has started, and knows none of the other stu dents. “Miss Gertrude” took me under her wing, however, and saw that my beginning days at Bound ary were not unhappy. Not only that, but she followed my school career, as I am sure she did all of | mm * i»i jii -i*: ■ s ¥'> Wmwmm m Yvt :>• um v " • C< v •• •* • ss : \ •••*• • s :i/.' N?'4 : , \\ PP^ •>." ~ License Tags Registration renewals for South Carolina’s estimated 850,000 motor vehicles began Tuesday at High way Department licensing offices throughout the state, Chief High way Commissioner S. N. Pearman announced today. Application forms addressed to vehicle owners were placed in the mails at Columbia August 31. A list of license offices will be en closed with each application mailed out. Motorists are urged by De partment officials to obtain their new plates over the counte; at their local offices, thereby speed ing service and saving thmeselves a postage and handling charge of 30 cents. Several revisions have been made in the renewal application forms this year. The statement on the back of the forms pertaining to payment of taxes will this year apply to all vehicles owned during the previous three-year period. In former years, the statement ap plied only to the particular vehicle being licensed and pertained only to the year in which it was licens ed. A single card form will normally be used this year for making appli- Ready To Take A Few Scalps On Thursday, August 31, 37 Newberry College Indians reported to tb<* Indian Camp, and began preparing themselves for the home opener against Frederick College on September 16. All men reported in good condi tion, and participated in two good practice sessions on Friday. The biggest asset that this small squad now possesses is its spirit. If the spirit runs high all season, and if injuries can be kept to a mini mum, the 1961 Indians will take a good many scalps during the coming season. With only 25 veterans return ing, Coach Harvey Kirkland will form his nucleus around the 16 let- termen from this group. Backfield stalwarts Ton? Gor man, Jimmy Lowder, and Carl Harris wasted no time hi showing Coach Kirkland that they intend ed to take up where they left off last year. However, halfbacks A1 Jennings, Maxie Knowlton, and Bill Bethea let it be known that they were ready to play some foot counties. To illustrate this point as to what is happening in New berry and surrounding counties, he mentioned the cash receipts from the sale of eggs and broilers for 1959, the latest years for complete available information: Laurens County, three-fourths of a million; Richland, one-half million; Saluda, two million; Lexington, three and one-third million; Newberry one and one-third million, for a total of almost eight million. There - has been substantial growth in the past 18 months, Dr. Edwards said. Newberry County's growth in poultry he said, has been almost sensational since 1957 when sales were one-half million,'with the county ranking ninth place in the state. In 1959, with sales of about one million, the county moved to fourth place. In 1960, sales jump ed to one and one-half milLon, an increase of 800 per cent in four ,years. “This is the kind of prog ress we like to talk about,” Dr. t Edwards stated. “All of us at Clemson, and this includes your speaker, are vitally interested in your problems. Our poultry de partment is concerned with the development and promotion of a total program for your industry. We need and must have if we are to adequately assist and secure service for your industry and ex pand research. program a more efficient .extension program and more students who major in poul try science.” In his banquet talk, the govern or said that one reason South Carolina farmers find it difficult to market their produce is that they, the farmers, are not banded together. He pointed out that in California, orchardists make ar rangements to sell their crop lohg before the peaches ripen. -He said that South Carolina produces jftst as fine peaches as does California, hot that orchardista. have no guar* anteed market because the orCh- ardists act as individuals and not as an organization.-. Gov. Hollings pointed out there are but five poultry processing plants in the state. One of the largest such firms in the country was Interested in establishing a plant in South Carolina, but was not aware there was sufficient poultry available to warrant such a move. George B. Nutt, director of the Clemson College Extension Serv ice, presided at the banquet. Gov. Hollings was introduced by Jesse Frank Hawkins, state sen ator from Newberry County. Midlands Poultry Progress Day was sponsored by the Clemson Extension Service in cooperation at 7:30 at the Courthouse, accord- wi . th the f Newberry County De- ing to George R. Summer, Coro-1 J. e . lop “ ent r . 1 ^® a r d ’ ‘ he Newberry ’ ' Kiwanis Club, local poultry pro ducers, suppliers and Newberry Two inquests have been schedul ed for Friday night, September 8 ner. cation for a vehicle license and to i ball, and Phil Orsini will be giving indicate vehicle liability insurance - Gorman a fight for the quarter- Wm Art fiP*® xvj?- : mm mm TAKING PART IN the afternoon session of Midlands Poultry Progress Day at Newberry College Tuesday afternoon were, seated at left. Dr. Robert C. Edwards, president of Clemson College, and Dr. A. G. I). Wiles, president of Newberry College; standing, from left, Dr. M. C. Rochester, leader of Agriculture Economic Extension Work, Clemson; Henry M. Simons, Jr., assistant vice president and manager of the agricultural department, Wachovia Bank and Trust Co., Charlotte, both of whom spoke; A1 Busby, Newberry County agent who presided at the afternoon session, and Ben P. Robin son, executive director of the Newberry County Development Board, which cooperated with Clemson and Newberry Colleges and the Newberry Kiwanis Club in sponsoring the special occasion. (Sun- photo.) coverage. The front side will be for applying for a vehicle license, and the back for showing insurance coverage, if any. The back must be filled in completely to show the in surance policy number and the name of the present insurance car rier. This is the normal procedure where the owner has had coverage in the past and has not changed insurance companies. In some cases the owner will still be required to file separate forms, as indicated on instructions. Department officials emphasiz- Bobby Fore. back position. End, the strongest position on the team, is in the hands of five veterans, Roger Getty s, Willie Mickle, Freddie Haley, Edgar Cad- dell, and David Hart will share the duties at the flank position. Tommie Witt, Charles H a g - gard, Travis Rowell, Jimmy Rou- ton, and Jimmy Villiponteau hold down the line positions, but they are being pushed by Wesley Mur phy, Lurie Alexander, Charles Partridge, Johnny Watson, and The first inquest will investigate the deaths of Leroy Dawkins and George Sims, who were electro cuted last Wednesday afternoon. Dawkins and Sime, both colored, were working for the S. C. State Highway Department, laying pipe in the Hartford section. Witnesses stated that the boom of the cram*, handling the pipe apparently came in contact with a high voltage line overhead. Also injured in the ac cident was another Negro, Benja min Nelson. The second inquest, according to the Coroner, will investigate the cause of death of Robert Franklin Nicholson of Columbia, who was killed on August 20 in an accident on By-Pass 19. The accident dir ectly involved three cars, and in directly involved a fourth. Mr. Nicholson’s wife was also injured in the crash. Coroner^ Summer asked that ju rors, witnesses and others who are interested in. attending the in quests notice they are scheduled earlier than usual, at 7:30 p.m. College. ed that all information called for on the forms must be provided and the tax statement must be signed before a vehicle will be registered for the coming year. There is a four way battle tak ing place at fullback. However, Bill Herndon has a slight edge on Mike Hughes, Doug Robbins, and Eddie Mills because of experience. Barnett Leaves First Baptist Rev. Tracy Barnett has resigned his position as minister of music and education at First Baptist Church and has accepted an as signment Li the Pionee” Area of the Southern Baptist Home Mis sionary Board at Scottsburg, Ind. Rev. and Mrs. Barnett and their family moved last Thursday to Jeffersonville, Ind., where they will make their home. Rev. Kenneth B. Wilson, pastor of First Baptist, highly praised Rev. Barnett’® services during his two years in Newberry. GREETINGS BIRTITOAY Sept. 10: Ralph Quinn, Wil liam Cecil Ammons, Charles H. Boyd Jr., Vickie Wheeler, Mrs. C. B. Halfacre Mrs. Clara Ber ry, Mrs. J. B. Scarry, Mrs. Jas. Phibbs, Mrs. Alan Senn, Randy Crowder, Mrs. J. H. Clary Sr. Sept. 11: Sedley Senn, Tyruo Senn, Ed Gilliam, Mrs. Roy Jol- lay, Mrs. Sam P. Boland, Mrs. L. A. Sease, Miss Mary Wicker, Sept. 12: Keister Willingham, Mrs. O. O. Copeland, Margie Da vis Freeman, Mrs. Cleo Morris, Thomas Bradley, Mrs. Shirley Eaves, Audrey S. Senn, Jason Ringer, Mrs. R. Derrill Smith, David Wayne Brady, S. D. Ste phens, J. A. Chasteen, Anne Newton, Mildred Baker. Sept. 13: Mrs. J. T. Dennis, Elsie Dickert, Mrs. R. J. Metis, Danny Livingston, Judith Ann Griffith, Deree Abrams, Mrs. Margaret Cousins. Sept. 14: Grady Boozer, Miss Mazie Dominick, Mrs. D. A. Liv ingston, Anna Coe Keitt, Mrs. John F. Scurry, Frances Neel, Mrs. Luther B. Bedenbu h, Ann Dennis, Jut Miller. Sept. 15: T. H. Noel, Mrs. W. E. Spearman, Gene Abrams, G. Howard Moore, Louis C. Floyd, Donna Driggers, G. r j. Dorroh, Mrs. Johnnie Jones, Mrs. S. C. Paysinger. Sept. 16: Mrs. E. O. Shealy, Jane Patrick, Buddy Sligh, C. B. Halfacre, Mrs. James H. Davis, W. M. Miller, Myrtle D. Schum- pert, C. M. Sexton, James Werts. A •NO ■m #i wi