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The John Birch Society has become perhaps the best known of these groups because of some unfortun ate utterances of its founder—and the author of this article apparent ly seeks to undermine the work of the John Birch Society by playing on such utterances, rather than telling of the real, patriotic work being done by Birch chapters. The author says, in a manner that can only be termed critical after the entire article is read, that the “double patriot” “. . . goes to rallies, hears anti-Communist speakers, is advised by the John Birch Society Blue book to ‘form fronts’ (we could use some right- wing fronts instead of the many that are tools of Communism, as described by J. Edgar Hoover), mans a picket line (no instance given), occasionally crei tes dis turbances (no instance given) . Now, the author tells us, the neophyte rightist learns some thing startling! “He is told that; the principal threat to the U. S. comes from within the nation, not from abroad.” The author doesn’t say that the man who brought this forcefully to the attention of the people of America was J. Edgar Hoover in his now-famous book, Masters of Deceit. The author of the series tells us that it now becomes clear to the rookies that the reason for all the problems which beset the nation is “Reds in high places in Ameri ca.” He doesn’t bother to mention -the Alger Hisses, the Whitaker Chambers, and others who were flushed out of “high places.” He has another answer: his explana tion is that the woes of the na tion are attributable to “nearly 17 years of the cold war.” But what has been done to win the cold ■war ? Those who have tried, such as Generals MacA.rthur and Wal ker, have been booted from their commands. The author seems hurt that the anti-Communist would dare ac cuse the press, along with other information media, of “deliberate ly misinforming people or failing to print facts.” But Edward C. Hunter, highly regarded authority in the technique of brainwashing, cited to the Senate Internal Secur ity subcommittee, instance after instance of distortion of fact in leading American newspapers. The author ends his second ar ticle with a quote from the Oneon- ta, N. Y., Star. I don’t know any thing about this newspaper, but I would challenge the statement of the writer of these articles that the Star “probably speaks for the great majority of ’ Americans’ when it said: “There is a question in many open minds today wheth er the greatest danger to our Un ited States is from the Reds of Communism or from the Blue on the right.” The third in the series of ar- icles concerning General Walker, apparently is more factual and less slanted. Perhaps the remainder of the series will come up with something that will justify the publication of the first two ar ticles of the series. GOOD FOR THEM! The good Presbyterians of Eno- ree Presbytery have not been brainwashed by the Presbyterian Survey into believing that every thing is just dandy with the Na tional Council of Churches. They ere to be commended on the stand they took Tuesday, as reported in The Greenville News: “SPARTANBURG — Enoree Presbytery representatives passed an overture here Tuesday asking the General Assembly of Presby terian Church, U. S. (South) to withdraw from the National Coun cil of Churches as a voting mem ber. “The overture asked that the denomination ‘accept a cooperative status with our various boards and agencies where there is no conflict with our beliefs,’ “A number of speakers empha sized these points in favoring the overture and opposing membership in the council: “1. The National Council now has over 30 voting members and more than 40 cooperating mem bers. “2. Many Presbyterians believe the present ties to the council could lead to a more complex gov ernment in which denominational distinctions could be lost. “3. There is a possibility that the council’s increasing activity and increasing budget will lead to in creasing power and a super church. “4. The present council tie threatens the Presbyterian Church, U.S. with loss of ‘individual wit ness’ and ‘denominational empha sis.’ “5. Many Presbyterians dislike bearing ‘the moral responsibility’ of council pronouncements. “6. There is danger of the coun cil misleading the public with ‘con fusing press releases.’ “7. Many Presbyterians dislike the council’s ‘social, economic and political activities under the tag of Christianity’.” Enoree presbytery ii,eludes 50 churches in Spartanburg, Green ville, Cherokee and Union coun ties. Second Polio Immunization Newberry County citizens will have another opportunity to gain valuable protection against polio next week when some 30,000 doses of Type I Sabin oral vaccine are expected to be given. Doctors V. A. Long and C. A. Dufford, who spearheaded the im munization program against Type III polio in October, announced to day that the Type I oral vaccine will be given next Thursday all over the county at the same eight feeding stations from 10 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. “Everything will be .identically the same as when we gave the vac cine last time,” Long and Duf ford explained, “with the exception that this time we will be giving Type I. We will use the same places as last time with the same physicians and same help. And we strongly emphasize that the need for taking this vaccine is jurt as great now as it was when we were in the midst of the epidemic.” Mr. and Mrs. Harold Pitts of Route 3 were honored last Thurs day night as Young Farmer and Young Farntwoman of Newber ry County. The awards were made at a banquet given by the Jun ior Chamber of Commerce, which annually sponsors a contest to pick the outstanding young farmer and farmwoman. The County Young Farmer will compete in the state contest. Runner-up for Young Farmwoman went to Mrs. Grif Dorroh, and runners-up for Young Farmer were Dick Neel and Bob Dor roh. Speaker at the banquet was State Sen. Marshall Parker, of Oconee County, a candidate for nomination to the office of lie- tenant governor. (Photo by Nichols) Hawkins Dies At Prosperity John Norris Hawkins, 82, of Prosperity, died early Tuesday at his home after a long illness. He was a son of the late S. Berley Hawkins and Emma Hart man Hawkins. He was a graduate of Newberry college and until his retirement was a mail carrier. He was a lifelong member of Saint Luke’s Lutheran church. Surviving is a sister, Miss Effie Hawkins of Prosperity. Funeral services were conduct ed at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Whitaker Funeral home by Dr. Thomas F. Suber. Burial was in the Prosperity cemetery. EXPLORER POST ADVISORS MEET Explorer Post Advisors of New- berry District, Boy Scouts of America, will meet Monday, Feb ruary 5, at 7:30 p.m. at Willow- brook Clubhouse, Newberry r for the purpose of setting up a Dist rict Explorer Cabinet. ATTENDS SHOW Mac Fennell spent Sunday in Charlotte, where he attended the Jewelry Show at Radio Center and bought merchandise for Fennell’s Miss Sease Is Now Home Agent CLEMSON.—Four new assistant home demonstration agents have been added to the home demonstra tion staff of the Clemson Extension Service, according to Mrs. Sallie Pearce Musser, state home demon stration agent. Among them is Miss Catherine Sease of Newberry, who will go to Spartanburg county. — Brown Elected Moderator Of S. C. Presbytery Rev. C. O. Brown, pastor of the Smyrna Presbyterian church, was elected moderator of South Caro lina Presbytery at a meeting held at the First Presbyterian church in Ware Shoals Tuesday. The presbytery consists of 44 churches in the counties of Greenwood, Mc Cormick, Abbeville, Laurens and Newberry. The 64 representatives of the 44 churches voted to dissolve Dor roh church and warned other small churches to become more active. The representatives also noted the number of ministerial candidates from the Presbytery has dropped sharply in a 5-year period, addition by profession of faith and adult and infant bap tisms has slumped, and Sunday school enrollment is off 200 per sons since 1957.. The presbytery accepted “with reluctance” the resignation of Rev. David F. Bridgman of Mc Cullough and Whitmire churches. Rev. Ed. Langham, missionary to Brazil, thanked the presbytery for its support. On the other hand. Rev. C. J. Hammett, formerly of Greenwood, but now serving as chaplain of the 108th Signal Bat talion (SCNG), which was acti vated last year, wrote that only one minister had written his troops since they left. The chap lain said in his letter a great ma jority of servicemen are “sour on church” because they think the churches are more interested in individuals’ pay than in the indiv iduals themselves. Rev. Lawton Daugherty of Lit- tle-River-Dominick church was nominated as moderator of the fall meeting. In view of the recent polio epidemic in Newberry County, we the Doctors of Newberry County are heartily in favor of administering types Oral Polio I and II vaccine as a follow-up to the program in October of 1961 when Type III was offered. Signed: Y. A. Long, V. W. Rinehart, Ralph Baker, *•> E. H. Moore, B. M. Montgomery, E. J. Dickert, J. A. Underwood, W. L. Mills, K, D. Lake, C. A. Dufford Jr n Carroll A. Pinner Jr., Har riett E. Pinner, R. E. Livingston, W. W. King Jr., J. E. Grant, Roy B. Suber and E. G. Able. Next Thursday’s program is merely the second step of a three- phase program expected to be carried out by county physicians in an effort to control polio. More • than 20,009 Newberry County residents received the Type III vaccine in October and after Thursday’s program another day is expected to be set aside during the latter part of March for the final Type II Sabin oral vaccine. “We have the same reason for taking this Type I vaccine as we had for taking Type III,” Doctors Long and Dufford stressed. “Al though we haven’t had any Type I cases that is all the more reason we need to take this precaution. Type I or Type II polio could eas ily come back next summer, there fore you can see why it is so im portant that the whole county turns out for Thursday’s vaccine.” According to Dr. Long, it would simplify matters if everybody who received the vaccine last time would go back to the same place and repeat the process. Every one of the eight feeding stations will be manned by at least one or more physicians at all times. And all of the physician’s offices will be closed. Emergencies will be cover ed by leaving one physician at the hospital. Following are the feeding . sta tions where residents will be able to get the vaccine: Newberry area: Speer Street, Boundary Street and Drayton Street Schools. Prosperity area: Prosperity Ele mentary School '• Pomaria area: Germany Ele mentary School Little Mountain area: Little Mountain Elementary School Silverstreet-Bush River area: Reuben Elementary School Whitmire area: Whitmire High Gym Doctors Long and Dufford also emphasized today that they had requisitioned many more doses this time than last. “We think that we have plenty of vaccine for the entire population,” they said, “so there should be no reason for any body being turned down.” County residents are also warn ed that there is still need to con tinue the Salk vaccine shots. “We recommend that everybody, con tinue the Salk vaccine along with the Sabin oral vaccine because a combination of the two would in crease the protection to a maxi mum of 98 per cent effectiveness,” Long and Dufford said. The polio epidemic which New berry County suffered last sum mer has apparently been thwarted and county physicians attribute this directly to the oral vaccine. However, there are still two pa tients in Augusta and two at the Newberry County Hospital ps a result of that epidemic. If most of the county responds to the giv ing of Type I and Type II Sabin vaccine, physicians indicate that the problem may have been solved. “The vaccine and feeding sta tions will be available to all next Thursday,” Dr. Long and Dr. Duf ford stated, “it will just be up to the general public as to whether the county gets the needed protec tion. We think it is extremely im portant.” One indication of the Sabin oral vaccine’s effectiveness is shown in the fact that not one single new case of polio has broken out since the Type III vaccine was given last October. - .4''‘ j> y • 4 State Lutheran Men To Have J* ' ■*' : r Convention At Mayer ^hurch United Lutheran Church Men from throughout South Carolina will gather in Newberry for their Synodical Convention, which will be held at Mayer Memorial Luth eran Church on Friday, February 9th. The program will begin with registration at 10 o’clock. Each of the approximately 140 Lutheran Churches in South Carolina is ex pected to send delegates. The con vention will conclude with a ban quet at Kaufmann Hall, Newber-: to be given. tm* Synodical President of the U.L. C.M., Lewis M. Boice of Orange burg, states that 350 men and their wives are expected in New berry for the convention. Mission Gift Funds, an import ant project of the ULCM of the Synod, of approximately $10,000, will be given to the different mis sion churches of the Synod. Faith Lutheran Church located at Har rington Heights in Newberry will receive $4,000 of the total funds ry College at 7:30 p.m. The theme of this year’s Conven tion si “Doers of the Word.” (James 1:22). Speaker for the banquet will be Rev. Voight R. Cromer, D.D., president of Lenoir Rhyne College, Hickory, N. C. and also member of the Board of Am erican Missions of the United Lutheran Church of America. Dr. C. K. Derrick is pastor of the host church. Taking part on the Lee-Jackson program last Friday at Newberry High School, were, from left, Mrs. Elmer Shealy, state UDC corresponding secretary; Mrs. Robert Downs Wright, past president general of the UDC; Mrs. Seth Meek, vice president of Calvin Crozier Chapter; Mrs. Walter Sum- Ridge District director; Mrs. Ralph B. Baker, president of the Drayton Rutherford Chapter, which was in charge of the program this year and state Rep. Steve C. Griffith Jr., speaker. (Photo by Nichols.) UDC Chapters Meet Tuesday Calvin Crozier Chapter. United Daughters of the Confederacy, will meet at the Wallace House Tuesday, Feb. 6, at 8 p.m. Host esses will be Miss Juanita Hitt. Mrs. L. W. Bedenbaueh. Miss Jo Shannon, Mrs. Ray Nobles, Mrs. F. B. Hawkins and Mrs. W. A. Mason. Members are reminded that that this is the time for payment of dues. Drayton Rutherford Chapter, U. DC., will meet Tuesday, February 6 at the home of Mrs. J. J. Chap pell at 4 p.m., with Mesdames Gordon Clarkson, J. W. Mims and W. H. Suber, associate hostesses. Mrs. Gordon Clarkson will be in charge of the historical program. Prayer for Today O Almighty God, Whgoe pow er it is to move heaven and earth, we yield Thee unfeigned thanks and praise for the bless ings of Thy merciful providence bestowed npon this nation and people. We are unworthy of Thy mercy; we are miserable offend ers against Thy holy laws; we are ever in need of Thy forgive ness as a nation and people. But Thou Who hast promised to hear the petitions of those who ask in Thy Son’s Name, we beseech Thee to forgive us our sins and to incline our hearts to turn from our foolish ways unto an humble, holy, and obedient walk’ ing before Thee all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. DR. CROMER RETURNS FROM BUYING TRIP Mrs. E. A. Carpenter has re turned to Newberry after a week in New York, where she bought spring and summer merchandise for Carpenter’s store. Although the June primary is some months off, things are beginning to warn up for a contest in the only four- year office open for election this year in the county. The announcement by E. Maxcy Stone that he would not seek re- election as Probate Judge of Ne' berry county brought forth mediate denial from D. P. (Jabbo) Folk that he would be a candi date for the job. It also brought forth two who will be in the r George R. Summer, who served the county as Coroner t> the past 14 years, has thrown hat in the Probate Judge has R. Clayton Smith, N business man. Coroner Summer is a na the county, son of the late W. and Essie Shealy Summer. He is married to the former Miss Ethel Roton and is the father of two sons, Buddy and Tony. Mr. Summer is active in Mayer Memorial Lutheran church. He has served as president of a Sun day school class, vice president of the Brotherhood, assistant Sun day school teacher, a delegate of the church, former member of the Stewardship committee and a past member of the Church Council. He is also active in Cub Scout work, being Cub Master of Pack 260. Mr. Summer has been connected with Caldwell Brothers, Inc. of Little Mountain for the past six years as bookkeeper. He also op erates “Summer’s Hobby Shop” which opened on Main Street in Newberry last fall. Mr. Smith is a member of Ave- leigh Presbyterian Church, where he serves on the board of Deacons. The son ' Mrs. R. Derrill Smith and thu ce Mr. Smith, he was born and educated in Newberry schools and at Newberry College. For 26 years, he has been associat ed with R. Derrill Smith A Sons, wholesale grocers and became president of the business on the retirement of his late father. be open for nomination this commissioners. While county cc cause a great balloting is in the Democratic offices to be elude United States 1 resentative, an office district by W. J. Bryan ited States Senator, now by Olin D. Johnston; for which campaigning ready begun; and In ernor, with several in the Make Plans For Workman Rally A meeting was held last (Wed nesday) night at the Hotel Wise man to make plans for the W. D. (Bill) Workman rally to be held in Newberry on February 15. Mr. Workman, a Republican candidate for the United States Senate seat now held by Olin D. Johnston, will be present at the rally to speak. The steering committee in charge of plans for the Rally pro gram includes Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Wilson, Miss Margaret Paysinger, Kibler Williamson, Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Sanders, Mrs. Albert Mc- Caughrin, Mrs. James Leland, Mrs. Ida Summer, Miss Julia Kib ler, all of Newberry; Mrs. Jean Simmons of Prosperity, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Counts of Po maria, also Mr. and Mrs. Asa Q. Hatfield, Jimmy Coggins and En- nest Brooks, of Newberry. S. C. SOCIETY MEETS WEDNESDAY The Newberry County Chapter of the Crippled Children’s Society will meet Wednesday, Feb. 7 at 3:30 p.m. at the home of Miss Mary Nell Eargle, 1131 Summer St. Mrs. Ruth Pugh will be co hostess. Feb. 4: A. H. T. Fellers, Hiller, Sherill Jean Mrs. Horace T. Boozer, Lindler Jr., Kay Nichols, anne Shealy. Feb. 5: Howard Bickley, Enlow, Mrs. Harold Aull, Livingston, Tommy W. B. Timmerman, Werts, Mrs. Frank Jacqueline Counts, Hawking Mrs. Duffie Mrs. W. A. Webb, Mrs. Fred Hayes, Johnnie berry, Mrs. R. B. Shealy, Pope, Tom H. Westwood, T Mims. | Feb. 6: Gene Hendrix, Mrs. W. Bowers, Bessie Bradley, Thompson. Feb. 7: Henry Baker raer, Edward Kent Ducfr Mrs. A. B. Nugent, Sarah Long, Mrs. Ernest Long, Ham Thomas Werta, Mrs. Cbdand, Mrs. J. Harold H< Lola Davenport, Dale Feb. 8: Mrs. Dorothy F. linger, Mrs. G. S. Cynthia Lake, Joe E. borough, J. A. Bundrick, Mae Workman, Tommie P. ler, Wayne Wicker, Smith, Frank Yochem. Feb. 9: Frank Satterwhite, Mrs. Bertha Farr Lake, Mrs. Henry Mrs. M. W. Felker, Mrs. Kinard. Feb. 10: Mrs. J. W. Billy O’dell, Frances Bartley, Mrs. A. B. Lake, S. Merchant, Mrs. Frances Dan ielson, J. E. Ringer, Julia Perkins, Fred Myers, Franklin, Bobby Shealy, C. Abrams. Setz- Tim Tedford, Mrs. ' im ii'K' Mi M ‘Mm