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A man is a success today if it
costs him more to support the gov
ernment than his wile and children.
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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.)
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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 |
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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-
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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.
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