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In business the contest of wits is eternal; championship tournaments are in daily progress, and those who err in judgment are mercilessly eli minated. sCN L I hope someday to buy something for $500 or more for my own self ish enjoyment without having some pocket-picking woman scornfully tell me that I seem to have plenty of money to throw around. m VOLUME 25; NUMBER 50. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1962 + $2.00 PER YEAR < if: By The Way - By DORIS A. SANDERS . .... wmm ■ SOME FIGURES In the belief that voters of Newberry will want some informa tion concerning the proposed an nexation to the city before they vote next Tuesday, I talked at some length with the City Mana ger, Clarence Wallace, about what would be involved if the area should be annexed. Mr. Clarence tells me it is im possible to give exact figures, but the area compares reasonably with the Hartford Heights area which was most recently annexed and some idea could be obtained from the cost of annexing that area. There will be an extra item in the proposed annexation which was not a problem in the Hartford Heights area. Annexation of the proposed area will require the con struction of a new outfall sewer line across the entire city, from Glenn Street to Dennis Tractor Company on Boundary Sireet. While there is no estimated figure on this work, Mr. Clarence said it would be quite an expensive item because of the number of streets that would have to be torn up and re-paved to lay the line. In Hartford Heights, the elec tric system cost $13,267. This does not include street lights, which are yet to be installed in that area. Water and sewer lines for Hartford Heights cost the city $217,138.93, a total of $230,407.93. In addition to these major serv ices, the area also has been pro vided garbage service, fire protec tion and police protection, for which a cost breaKdown is not available. Perhaps these facts will give the voters some information to go on when voting in next Tuesday’s J||| special election. If there are fur- j| ther questions, I’m sure the city manager will be happy to answer them. m 1 m ill Development Board Directors Are Elected New Directors for the Newber ry County Development Board have been elected by ballots dis tributed among the membership last month. John F. Clarkson was elected Director for a three-year term representing Tax District 1. Mr. Clarkson replaces on the Board Thomas H. Pope whose term expired April 1. Serving with Mr. Clarkson is hold-over Director David L. Hayes who was elected last year. Representing Tax District 4 which is Whitmire is Luke B. Hart, popular banker in Whitmire. Mr. Hart replaces Earl H. Gilliam who has served as president of the Development Board and whose term expired April 1. Serving with Mr. Hart wdll be hold-over Director Robert C. Lake Jr., who was also elected last year. Representing Tax District 7 which is the Prosperity area is J. Walter Hamm. Mr. Hamm replaces Jacob A. Bowers who has served as vice-president of the Develop ment Board and whose term expir- Considering all services which ed April 1. Serving with Mr. will have to be rendered should the area be annexed, including the Hamm will be holdover Director Vernon F. Epting, elected last outfall sewer line which will have year. to be built, Mr. Clarence estimates the cost will easily run more than $300,000 to taxpayers should the annexation be approved. There are several ways in which this money could be raised: by General Obligation bonds, which must be voted by the taxpayers and for which millage must be guaranteed; by sale of revenue bonds, for which a certain amount of revenue must be guaranteed; by borrowing from other sources which must, of course, be repaid in some manner. Mr. Clarence tells me there is no possible way to repay bonds or borrowed money from current op erating revenue. The only course left would be to raise tax millage to pay for services to the area, should it be annexed. Basing his figures on the most recent sale of Revenue Bonds, $300,000 over a 20 year period, he estimates that taxes would have to be increased eight mills to pro vide the needed services. Unless one actually has the names of every property owner in the area, there is no way to de termine what taxes would be de rived from residents of the propos ed area, shoul d it be annexed. Neither the city offices, nor the auditor’s office, has this informa tion. There are a few business es tablishments located in the area, but none of extensive size. There are a number of houses located in the area, but there is also a large amount in farmland or other open land. Representing Tax District 6, the Pomaria-Peak area, is H. J. Smith. Mr .Smith replaces J. Cecil Berley who has served as secretary-treas urer of the Development Board and whose term expired April L Serving with Mr. Smith will be holdover Director T. H. Shealy who was elected last year. Representing Tax District 3, the Bush River area, is William Ballentine. Mr. Ballenline replaces Clifford T. Smith, whose term ex pired April 1. Serving with Mr. Ballentine will be holdover Direc tor W. W. Walker who was elected last year. Held over are Directors David C. W'aldrop and L. E. Werts from Silverstreet, Tax District 2, and Director Garth L. Hill from Little Mountain, Tax District 6. Earl H. Gilliam, retiring presi dent of the Development Board, was quoted as stating, “I want to sincerely wish the new Board of Directors much success in the im portant work of the development of our County and its assets. I am most appreciative of having had the opportunity to serve on this board and work with some very outstanding people in our County. We feel that much of the initial «pade-work has been accomplished and that some of the prospects with whom our board is working will materialize in the near future. I sincerely urge that each and every citizen of Newber ry County continue to support the work of the board and I am sure that our efforts will be rewarded.” John Billingsley has retired af ter more than 20 years service with the South Carolina National Guard, but another John Billings ley has taken his place. Brigadier General John C. Bil lingsley, who was advanced to that rank at the time of his retirement last month, proudly looks on as John C. Billingsley Jr. takes his oath as a recruit in Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 228th Signal Group. Administering the oath in the Sunphoto above is Major Jerry O’Quinn. At right is Col. Barringer F. Wingard, com manding officer of the 228th Group. An interesting sidelight is the fact that Gen. Billingsley gave the oath to Major O’Quinn when he formed the first National Guard unit in Newberry in 1939. John Jr. will leave this week for six months active duty, after which he will return to the 228th to com plete his military obligations. General Billingsley, who was transferred to the inactive array reserve on his retirement, is a na tive of Arkansas. He holds a Bachelor and Master’s degree in Forestry from the University of Michigan. His military service began as a member of the Reserve Officers Training Corps and he later enlist ed in the Michigan National Guard in 1932 as a private. Upon grad uation from the University he re ceived an award as the outstand ing cadet of the year and was | commissioned second lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps. In 1939, he was advanced to first lieutenant with the S, C. National Guard and his first assignment was to organize a unit in Newber- ry* With the group he organized, he went on active duty in 1941, first at Camp Stewart, Ga. The unit saw service in North Africa, Si cily and Italy. He received several promotions during the war, was elevated to battalion commander and released from active duty in 1946 after 38 months service over seas. He re-joined the National Guard in 1947 as battalion commander, was promoted to cokmel in 1957 and served as regimental executive officer, division artillery comman der and at the time of his retire ment was assistant commander of the 51st Infantry Division. He has received the following military decorations: American Defense Service medal, American Campaign Medal, Earopean-Afri- can-Middle Eastern Campaign medal with bronze arrowhead and three battle stars. World War II Victory Medal, A.rmed Ferces Re-, serve medal, and the Italian Cross. Mr. Billingsley has been con nected with the U. S. Forest Serv ice, but for the past few years has conducted his personal fores try service. ■ Residents of the City of New berry, and those from the area proposed to be annexed to the city, irill go to the polls next Tuesday io decide whether the city limits Newberry wlil be extended. polls will open at 8 a.m. and tfose at 6 p.m. Polling places are ka follows: Ward 1, at Police Headquarters; Ward 2, Smith Motor Company; Ward 3, No. 1, Boundary Street School; Ward 3, No. 2, Mollohon School in Scout Hall; Ward 4, No. 1, Old Courthouse; Ward 4, No. 2, Union Hall, next to Newberry Mills; Ward 5, West End Barber Shop; Ward 6, Shealy Motor Company. A Registration Certificate will be required for voting. Residents of the area proposed to be annexed will vote at Dick Shealy’s Store. A majority of those voting with in the city, as well as a major: Ly of those voting in the area propos ed to be annexed, must vote in favor of the annexation before it will be accomplished. Mrs. Wertz Is Honored M’-s. Clara Wertz was honored this past Friday at the 13th an nual meeting of the South Caro lina Heart Association in Charles ton. She was one of six to receive the Meritorious Service Medallion, which annually goes to volunteers who have performed outstanding ly in the Heart Fund Campaign and year-round program of the Association. Upon presentation of the award to Mrs. Wertz, Albert R. Simonds, President of the South Carolina Heart Association, said, “The Meritorious Service Medallion is presented to you for your out standing service in education and fund raising in Newberry County.” Attending the meeting from Newberry were Drs. B. M. Mont gomery and James A. Underwood. 6m BgjBMBBal (Ml mu If! "if 3 ..388385 j|||| Hi m mm mm Charm School To Be Sponsored By B&PW Chib An authority on Charm, Beauty and Fashion will appear in New berry under the auspices of the Newberry Business and Profes sional Women’s Club on April 12 and 13. Classes will be held from 9:30 until 11:30 each morning at Smeltzer Hall, Newberry College; from 7:30 until 9:30 each evening at Boundary Street School Audi torium and a special class for stu dents from 4:00 to 5:00 pjn. at Kaufmann Hall. Miss Alice Bell, who is from Stone Mountain, Ga., is one of the top ten authorities in the United States on charm, beauty and fash ion. She is a star of radio and TV; author of several books and writes a syndicated column. Thous ands have found the Alice Bell Charm and Fashion School the answer to self-confidence. She brings a down-to-earth, practical approach to charm that requires only a few minutes a day and these minutes can make a wonder ful difference. Miss Bell neither sells nor en- -dorses any product. The proceeds will be used for the Scholarship fund of the B&PW. , , * Each ticket will entitle the hol der to attend two sessions.* They'} may be purchased from all mem bers of the B&PW, the Newberry College Woman’s Club', also from The Fashion, Hawkins Novelty Shop, and Lominick’s Drug Store. Tickets will also be sold at the door. mmsst V % ’ i isiisa HP 885: -CiivaSakw ^ -mm % % *% i ■ mm , m- m mm Theta Chapter of Alpha Delta Kappa, a teacher’s sorority, held a tea Monday afternoon for the retired teachers of Newberry County. The lovely affair was at the home of Mrs. Olin Layton on Jes sica Avenue. Sandwiches, cakes, cheese straws and lime punch were served. The table was centered with an unusual arrangement of pink camellias. As the honor guests arrived, they were given a cor sage of purple violets. Members of the chapter are shown here with two of the honor guests: Miss Rosa B. Dreher, re tired; Mrs. Frances Beck; Miss Ethel Jones, retired; Mrs. Layton, Miss Lorraine Paris, Mrs. Mar ian Boozer, Miss Frances Boozer, Mrs. Naomi Epting, Mrs .Gloria Parks, Mrs. Ruby Abrams and Mrs. Marvin Rucker. (Sunphoto) PRE-SCHOOL CLINIC AT SILVERSTREET A pre-school clinic will be held at Silverstreet Elementary school Wednesday, April 11 at 10:30. All children expecting to enter the first grade at Silverstreet next session are urged to attend. Pupils must be six years old on or before November 1, 1962. A birth certificate is required. The pre-school clinic at Reuben Elementary school will be held the same day at 1:00. Bill Moore, a student at East man School of Music in Rochester, N. Y., spent the spring holidays last week with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Milton Moore on Keroes Avenue. Annual Rabies Clinic Soon The County Health Department has made the following state ment: “Once again we are asking you to aid in carrying out an import ant program in Newberry Coun ty. “Each year at this time an ex tensive drive to control rabies is held in Newberry County. As you know, rabid dogs cause untold human suffering and livestock losses each year. This resulted in numerous persons having to take the anti-rabic treatment. Most ex posures to rabies is by persons coming in contact with rabid dogs. This can only be prevented by having all dogs vaccinated against rabies and keeping stray dogs under control. “Rabies clinics conducted by the local Sanitation Officer and Veter inarians are being held throughout the county starting April 16 and ending May 4, 1962. There will be a fee of $1.00 per dog for vaccina tion. All vaccinations at the office of veterinarians will be $1.50 per dog. “State law requires yearly vac cination of all dogs four months of age and older by a licensed vet erinarian.” The schedule will be published in The Sun each week for the cli nic to be held the following week. Since the clinic begins Apri.' 16, the locations for that week wi.l be published in the next issue of The Sun. ioyi ■ f ^ .4 jM s fI vifmi “Coffee Day for Crippled chil dren” will be held for the 10th year throughout South Carolina, according to J. H. DeBruhl, Cam den, State president of the South Carolina Quality Restaurant As sociation. This project, which originated in South Carolina, was first held in 1953 for the South Carolina So ciety for Crippled Children and Adults. Since 1958, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Officers Asso ciation has co-sponsored with the restauranteurs. Coffee Day will be held Good Friday, April 20th. Buttons go on sale April 6th throughout the* state. The “B.A.C. M stands for “Buck-A-Cup” and means “Brace- A-Child.” The buttons are sold to as many South Carolina citizens as possible, and entitles wearers to free cof fee in all restaurants, hotels and drug stores in the state on Good Friday. Sheriff Tom Fellers and Police Chief Colie Dowd are co-chairmen of Coffee Day in Newberry Coun ty. Assisting them will be the en tire police force of Newberry, the county law enforcement officers and the police, of Prosperity and Whitmire. Last year’s coffee day sales netted $889 for the Newberry Chapter of the Crippled Children Society. Chief Dowd and Sheriff Fellers hope to surpass this figure this year. Gathering Tuesday to make plans for Coffee Day are some of those who will take part: from left, City Policemen Chevis Franklin, George Summer and Andrew Shealy; Chief J. Bowers of Pros perity; Philip T. Kelly, chairman of the Easter Seal Drive; Chief Dowd, Sheriff Fellers and Shannon. (Sunphoto) - - -. . . - ^ ■ * ■ . • . ,. Call to Prayer O Lord, our Lord, how ex cellent is Thy . name in all the earth! We acknowledge Thee as the Lord of life and the King of glory and humbly raise our prayers of praise to Thee this day. Even though ThOu art high and lifted up, yet Thou did’st condescend to ipep of Ipw degree in the in carnation- of Jesus Christ, our Savior. We do acknowledge our feebleness, our sinfulness and our proneness to sin and transgression and beseech Thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, to forgive us our tres passes as we forgive those who trespass against us. Grant us the willingness of heart to draw upon thy grace and strength that we may live acceptably with Thee this day and permit our lives to be spent in doing good unto all men. Give us attentive ears to hear the daily call to prayer and having heard may we, with obedience, do as our Lord commands us — pray without ceasing. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. New Distributor For Sinclair Is Announced Farmers Ice and Fuel Co., 618 Drayton St., is now distributor for Sinclair products *n Newberry, Prosperity, Pomaria, Little Moun tain and Whitmire, according to an announcements made this week by W. C. Campbell Jr., wholesale manager of the Southeastern Di vision, and J. W. Ragsdale, district manager of South Carolina. Among the stations to be servic ed by Farmers Ice and Fuel, of which George W. Martin is mana ger, are Don Gatlin’s Service Sta tion and Moore’s Grocery in New berry; Morris Boat Landing and McNeace Boat Landing on Luke Murray; Bolen’s Service Station, Pomaria; G. Russell Shealy Serv ice Station, Little Mountain and Maness Service Station and Whit mire Dairy-0 in Whitmire. Martin stated also that his company will offer a complete line of Sinclair petroleum products for home, farm and industrial use; printed metered ticket service; “keep fill” service for home heat ing customers; two-way radio dis patched trucks for prompt service, and S&H Green stamps for kero sene and fuel oil home heating customers. * The Sinclair officials congratu lated Martin for accepting the dis tributorship and expressed confi dence th*t Sinclair would Continue to grow in popularity iiir dewberry County. Mr. Martin, who is in'his 20th year in business in Newberry, ex pressed his gratitude for past pat ronage and promised to continue efficient service to his customers. Dr. and Mrs. Jimmy Wiseman and family have moved to 1234 Calhoun street in the house form erly owned by the late Mrs. Wal ter Hunt. Mr. and Mrs. Larry V. Fulmer are now making their home at 1607 Nance St. DRIVERS STILL GOING TOO FAST Seventy-eight drivers were ap prehended for going too fast for conditions and brought before Magistrate Ben F. Dawkins dur ing the month of March. The mag istrate collected $1715 fines from 141 cases heard. Six persons were caught drunk, six with no driver's license in posession, six more with no S. C. driver’s license. Five per sons were charged with disorderly conduct, four with excessive noise, four for having defective brakes and four more for reckless driving. Three failed to transfer owner ship of car, and 25 other persons were brought before the magis trate ■ F or a number of other viola tions. Report Given On Opera House The following report was sub mitted by Mrs. Ralph B. Baker, chairman, and Mrs. R. D. Wright, Secretary, of the Women’s Com mittee: “Some three years ago, when it was reported that plans were on foot to demciish the old Opera House, the women of the town and county were very much per turbed. As a result they contacted each service club, all cultural, pa triotic and civic clubs among the women’s organizations in the town, and the County Council of Farm Women. Each gave hearty endorsement to the request that nothing be done towards the de struction of this landmark until its condition be passed upon by a struct :ral engineer. All had in mind then the many objectives which the restored building could serve. “As far as the women know, no action of any kind was taken of ficially until recently when some publicity appeared in the papers. “Since then committees from the women’s organizations have been meeting and having interested, animated discussions as to the various practical and much needed uses to which every part of the building could be put. The women sincerely hope that the ,City Coun cil will see its way clear to allo cate a fund'just sufficient to have a man who is an authority on the restoration of buildings ’that are historic land marks come here/ examine the Opera House care fully, and give an unbiased opinion as to its condition.” Pre-School wi ' f , K ■••MuVfWMM CENTRAL YOUTH ENTERTAIN During the past quarter at Cen tral Methodist Church, the yoiiug people have had a study on South America. Last Friday night, the Junior High MYF group enter tained other Methodist youth of Newberry with a Fiesta. Guests were asked to dress ae South Am ericans. Games of South America were played, and the food was South American. About 50 young people attended and enjoyed the occasion. Mrs. Ben Bickley and Mrs. Meredith Harmon were advisors for the Fiesta and the Central Methodist youth group made up all committees in planning, deco rating and staging the Fietta. Mr. and Mrs. Murray Davis have moved to 1924 Evans street in the house vacated by the Dr. Jimmy Wisemans. The following is a schedule of the pre-school clinics for the New berry Elementary Schools: Boundary Street, April 9 (Mon day) 3:00 p.m. Speers Street, April 16 (Mon day), 3:00 p.m. ^ The Newberry County Board of Education passed a resolution re quiring birth certificates of all children in Newberry County who register at the clinics. Birth cer tificates of all children born in Newberry County are available at the Newberry County Health De partment for $1.00. No <;hild will be permitted to register without a valid birth certificate. The cer tificate issued by the hospital at the time of birth will be accepted. According to a State Board of Education regulation no child can be legally enrolled in South Caro lina who will not be six years of age on or before November 1; therefore, children born after No vember 1, 1956 will not be eligible to enter the first grade for the next school year. m "Wm GREETINGS f t ~- April 8: Mrs. Ellisor Adams, Mrs. Lewis Amnions, Robert B, Coleman III, Jake Crosslaud, Harriette Hedgepath, Ruth Dawkins. April 9: Olin “Scrap” Berry. April 10: Mrs. Meredith Har mon, J. Brooks Workman, Mar garet Paysinger, Calvin T Milstead. April 11: O. F. Armfield Sr M Donald Shealy, Mary Catherine Stewart. April 12: Ralph Haile, Fred David Riley, Mrs. S. L. Shealy Jr., Richard L. Baker, Emerson E. Westwood Jr., Gerald Daven port, Ellis Davenport, Mrs. J. Olin Price, Marsha Lynn Tem pleton. April 13: Miss Evelyn Burns, George Hiller, Ed Young, Mrs. Ethel Tompkins, A1 Weigle, Miss Leona Cannon, Bennie Bartley. April 14: Keitt Purcell, Billy Lominack, Mary Ann Addy, David Dicker!, James McCants Berley, Robert L. Forbis, Robert Michael Underwood. ~' 'Art