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teAta- itc/a i i : y m •v: wm mi. ■<-v. • . _ . ■ jl\ -■•, , _ mm ■' ■; tv r.& s k#rrl VOLUME 25; NUMBER 52. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1962 + $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way - By DORIS A. SANDERS A MYSTERY It is a mystery to Chief Oolie Dowd why anybody would want to 4< snitch” a school safety sign— but that is what has happened. Almost since the beginning of the school year, these safety signs have been placed in the center of College street at a point near Speers street and another near the College. “We put those signs there in an effort to protect our children” Chief says, “and I can not understand why anyone would want to take them.” He urges that the signs be returned, and would appreciate information from any one who has knowledge of the theft or the whereabouts of the signs. SINGING YOUTH \ You will noaice elsewhere in this issue an item about the Pri mary and Junior Choirs of Ave- leigh Presbyterian Church present ing a program over Radio Station WKDK Easter Sunday at 1:30. The choir director w r ould like to call your attention to the fact that these children practice only one- half hour a week. The program was tape recorded earlier in the w 7 eek, and since this was a time thing” the boys and were perhaps more fascinated by workings of the station control room than they were by singing at the moment. But for yougsters with no more training than they receive,I think they do a pretty good job, and I hope you will tune in and enjoy the program. “lirst girls you. Seriously, I am delighted to know that someone has gotten a- round to writing entertaining books for the yougsters. I don’t know much about this Dr. Seuss, but I know that he knows some thing about what appeals to youngsters (and their mamas.) Some of the Seuss books are downright nonsense, but teach vo cabulary; others are nonsense combined with vocabulary and oth er instruction; all are highly enter taining. If your first, second or third grader hasn’t yet met Dr. Seuss, then by all means see that he does so. If he hasn’t the Seuss books in his school library, they may be ob tained at the Newberry-Saluda Regional Library. And I’ll bet you enjoy them as much as your youngsters! Good Friday Services Set 111! Kendall Gifts To College And Xlity Amount To Over $70,000 y ys y Aly /' pip • fc ?*• v.-,* % ip i m r,- y BMmw- THANK YOU I wish to thank Rev. Robert E. Long for writing an “Easter Mes sage” for this week’s issue. It was with reluctance that I called on him to do this, knowing that all ministers are especially busy dur ing this Easter season. He very willingly accepted the assignment, and I know you will enjoy reading the Message elsewhere in this issue. NEXT WEEK I took a picture of a certain group of young people the other day and they will be looking for ward to seeing it in this issue, no doubt. They will have to be pa tient, though, because space does not aiiow the picture to go in this issue. It will appear next week. SOMETHING NEW Perhaps I’m returning to sec ond childhood, but I’m getting to be an avid reader of grammar school books, and I find parents of other first graders are in the same boat. I have discovered that there’s something new in the way of reading material for the small fry—at least for supplemental reading. Oh, we still have Dick, Jane and Sally, oh, oh. look, look ing. But we also have Dr. Seuss! You haven’t been introduced to Dr. Seuss? You don’t know about The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, and the Birthday Bird of Katroo? You haven’t read of McElligot’s Pool, One Fish, Two Fish or A Fly Went By? You aren’t familiar wit a Go, Dog. Go; Are You My Mother? Then you had better do something about bringing your literary efforts up to date, or you will find your chil dren and/or grandchildren speak ing in a vernacular unfamiliar to Seven continuous 20-mimjte Good Friday services will be held beginning at noon Friday at Cen tral Methodist Church. Theme for the services will be “The Seven Last Words.” There will be a per iod of five minutes between each of the services to allow worship pers to enter or leave the sanctu ary. Merchants have been request ed to allow their employees time off to attend one of the services. The Preparation for worship, by Rev. T. H. Vickery, will begin at noon. The first service, at 12:05, “For giveness” will be conducted by the Rev. Vickery, pastor of Cen tral Church, with the Meditation by Rev. R. N. DuBose, D.D., of Spartanburg. The second service, “Pardon” begins at 12:30 p.m. The prayer will be by Dx. Paul L. Grier, pas tor of Newberry A.R.P. Churck, the Meditation by Rev. John C.. Cooper, Professor at Newberry College. At 12:55, the service “Love” will begin, with prayer by Rev. William C. Wood, pastor of St. Matthews, Bethlehem and Po- maria Lutheran Churches, and meditation by Rev. Harry Weber, professor at New'berry College. The service on “Loneliness”, will begin at 1:20. Prayer will be by Rev. A. Kenneth Hewitt Jr., Summer Memorial Lutheran Church, the Meditation by Rev. B. B. Blakeney, pastor of Epting Memorial Methodist Church. in the service beginning at 1:45, “Human Need,” Rev. Henry A. McCullough, pastor of Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, will bring the Meditation. The prayer will be by Rev. Paul D. Petty, pas tor of O’Neal Street Methodist Church. At 2:10, Rev. H. A. Dunlap, pas tor of Colony Church, will have the prayer, and the Meditation on “Triumph” will be by Rev. Arden J. Stewart, pastor of Bush River Baptist Church. The concluding service, at 2:35, will be on the theme “Reunion.” Prayer will be by Rev. John A. Sanders, pastor of Bethany Luth eran Church. Meditation will be by Rev. Robert E. Long, Vicar of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. - An Easter Message m m .WW* • •• i SKjgSS j i- <•- On Good Friday April 20, coffee urns in restaurants, hotels and drug stores in Newberry County, as well as over the state, will be bubbling with free coffee for wear ers of ‘ ‘Buck-A-Cup, Brace-A- Child” buttons. These buttons an nounce that the wearp’" 1 ave ex tended a helping hand to a crip pled child. Officials reports are that through last weekend, sale of Coffee Day buttons by law en forcement officers amounted to $910. Chief Colie Dowd, co-chair man with Sheriff Tom Fellers of “BAG” Day, stated this w-eek that it would be safe to say that sales will exceed $1200. Last year’s BAG sales netted less than $900. In the picture above Chief Dowd sells the first BAG Button to Mayor Ernest H. Layton. (Sun- photo.) By REV. ROBERT E. LONG Vicar St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Easter Day is the day of the Resurrection. Christianity is the religion of the Resurrection. Here in lies its distinctiveness and pow er. Take away the Resurrection, and the whole history of Christ ianity collapses. The Cross with out the Resurrection is a symbol of shame, disgrace, and death. The Cross in the light of the Resurrec tion is the symbol of God’s new creation, the Christian church. As members of the Christian Church we are new creations. Without'the Resurrection there would be no such thing as the Christian Church. So the Christian Church is the Church of the Resurrection. The Christian gospel that the church proclaims is the Easter gospel. There was no Christian gospel on Good Friday. Without Easter, the Jews were right when they mocked Him for His claim to be the Son of God. The Resurrection of Easter is the foun dation stone oi the Christian Gos pel and of the Christian Church. Easter is the event we celebrate every Sunday. Sunday is the Lord’s Day; it is the weekly re membrance of the Resurrection of our Lord. When we celebrate Eas ter as Christians, we celebrate the fact that we are a part of the Body of Christ and that we are “raised together with Christ” in order that we may “walk in new ness of life” (Col. 3:1). Today in the darkness and gloom of world events, we need to receive with new insight the fact that God is at work in the affairs of men. He is at work in the hearts of those members of Christ’s Church who “walk in newness of life.” He is reaching out trying to enter the hearts of all men. There is the story of the man who w-as mentally ill and had to be locked in a padded cell. He suffered from a fear that no one loved him. His family and friends tried to reassure him without re sults. However, they would always talk to him through a barred win dow or when armed with some weapon for protection. The man, of course, could see this and knew that he was not fully trusted. Fi nally one friend, in order to show his love and concern, decided to enter the room alone and unarmed and lock the door behind him. The sick man, to actually prove that his friend’s love would not falter, had to kill him to be positive. And so it was with our Lord Jesus Christ. He entered the world through the incarnation to show His love for sick mankind. He carried no weapon of worldly power, and He was willing to suf fer and even to be put to death. And man had to hang Him to a Cross. The wonderful news of Easter is that He is now risen and that sick mankind can rejoice that it may “walk in newness of life.” Hail, O Day of Resurrection! Re joice at our salvation! Holds Revival At West End Rev. J. H. Darr, pastor of First Baptist Church, Clinton, will be Evangelist when West End Bap tist Church holds revival services next week. Services will begin Sunday evening at 7:30 p.m. and will continue through April 29 at the same time each evening. Music will be in charge of Miss Joan Bobb, choir director. The nursery will be open each even ing. Rev. Ralph Rhyne, pastor, cor dially invites the public to attend any or all of these services. Call to Prayer Almighty God, and our Father, we give Thee thanks for the faithfulness of our fathers and forefathers in the furtherance and preservation of our Christ ian faith and way and especially for the special week in our Christian calendar which has been known for centuries as Holy Week. In the mid’st of stress and business give us the willingness to spend moments with Thee in devotion and medi tation, so that our evident and hidden weaknesses may be sup plemented by Thy strength and grace. Grant, dear Lord, that our meditations on the Cross of Je sus Christ will not fill us with gloom, but rather give us glimpses of Divine victories which were worked out by the way of the Cross. Help us, too, to take up our crosses daily and follow our Lord and Master so that the powers of darkness may be frustrated and that Divine light may more effectively be ra diated from the children of men. In Jesus name. Amen. TO BROADCAST EASTER PROGRAM A Christian Science Easter pro gram will be broadcast over Radio Station WKDK at 7:30 p.m. Eas ter Sunday. The public is invited to listen. Gifts totaling over $70,000 were presented last Friday by the Ken dall Company to Newberry College and to the City of Newberry. Presentation of the gifts was made at the regular meeting of the Newberry Rotary Club. A number of special guests ‘were present, including Maurice L. Clemence of Boston, Treasurer of the Kendall Company, and Alec Savage, divisional manager of the Kendall Company Textile Division, of Charlotte. : Gifts to the college included $4,- 000 in scholarship money for the next four years, a tract of land bn By-Pass 19 consisting of 107 acres, and a cash gift of $4,000 to make plans for the development of this area. The City was given a tract of land adjacent to the city limits to be used as a recreational area. Bill Monroe, Rotary President, jpresided at the meeting. Guests Seere introduced by Secretary Phil keHy. H. B. Kirkegard, program chair man, introduced John Clarkson, president of the Newberry County Development Board. Mr. Clarkson told Rotarians and guests that when the development board began considering ways to improve climate for business in Newberry, it began by reapprais ing its existing assets, and decided the greatest existing asset was Newberry College. Mr. Clarkson stated that evidence of the college being recognized as an asset was the tremendous response by the citizens of the county to the re cent N ew berry College Drive, when Newberrians donated over $300,000 against only $80,000 in a similar drive in 1954. “We have long been fortunate to have as a part of our commun ity the Kendall Company,” Mr. .Clarkson said. “I think it is evi dent that they want to help us, if we help ourselves.” Mr. Clarkson introduced Maur ice L. Clemence treasurer of the Kendall Company, who is a grad uate of Brown University and Harvard Business School. For five years after graduation, he was connected with the Dennison Manufacturing Company, and in 1941 joined the Kendall Company at its Textile Division headquart ers in Charlotte. He was named Treasurer in 1954 and in 1959 was elected a director of the company. He is a trustee of Brown Univer sity, Wheaton College and the Newton-Weliesley Hospital in Massachusetts. Mr. Clemence told the assembled group “many people think of the Kendall Company as being in Bos ton, but we think of ourselves as being at home at any place our plants are located, especially in Newberry. “Ten years ago,” he continued, “we would not be here for this purpose, because there was grave doubt as to the lawful right of a corporation to make donations to educational institutions.” A Supreme Court decision had cleared the way for corporation giving for educational purposes, he said, and since that !,ime, many corporations have instituted many programs of giving to aid the cause of education. He outlined some of the ways in which cor porations make their gifts, and stated that the total corporation gifts for education amount to about $150,000,000 annually. A company must be selective in its giving, he said, and outlined methods used by Kendall in decid ing how to distribute its donations. Mr. Clemence stated the Ken dall Company spends four million dollars a year in Newberry. “We cannot afford to dissipate our strength,” he said. “We have to invest where we can profit. The college can exert great influence in the community.” Mr. Clemence then told Dr. Wiles that Kendall would donate, for the next four years, $3,000 scholarship money to be used for needy students with first prefer ence to those from Newberry County; and in addition would give an unrestricted gift of $1,000 for each of the four years to the college to help in the cost of edu cating the scholarship students. He presented Dr. Wiles a check for $4,000 for the year 1962. L. A. Savage was then intro duced by Mr. Clarkson. Mr. Sav age is a graduate of Lowell Tex tile Institute and joined Kendall in 1927 at its Mollohon Plant in New berry. He wns later made Overseer of carding at Mollohon and later moved to the company’s plant in New Bedford, Mass. He returned South in 1937 and served as assist ant manager, assistant work man ager, and manager of the Pelzer Plants. He was transferred to Charlotte as Works manager of the cotton mill operations of the company in 1943. He held this po sition until the end of 1956 when he became divisional manager of the Textile Division, the position he now holds. Mr. Savage stated that the prin cipal contribution of the Kendall company to the college was land, containing 107 acres, on the edge of Newberry on By-Pass 19. “We are donating this,” Mr. Savage said, “in the belief that it can be developed into an income bringer- inner. It is probably the best site in Newberry for an industrial tract.” . - “Because we believe it can be done and want to see it done,” Mr. Savage concluded, “we are do nating a check for $4,000 to cover the expense of plans for the be ginning of development of the area.” In accepting the gifts. Dr. Wiles said, “I think it is a magni ficent thing for your great com pany to support higher education in the country. Many great indus tries give not a penny to higher education. It is especially glorious that your company thinks in terms of the independent college. All companies are asked to pay taxes out of which comes support for state supported schools. We think to be a good citizen of the it especially glorious and courag eous that you stand by the little fellow. We want to assure your great company that this is a little ... - » \ fellow who means to do everything 12 in its power to merit your trust.” || Mr. Savage then presented to Mayor Ernest H. Layton a deed to the city for a parcel of land adjacent to the Oakland property, |8S with the “Hope that the city will continue to use and maybe de velop it further as a recreational area.” In accepting the deed, Mayor j|§ Layton said “without Newberry College, and the Mollohon Oakland plants of the Ke Company, Newberry would not the city it is today. In giving the city this desirable pro] the Kendall Company is contim ^ .'r m . • „ - munity and in the forefront moting the welfare of the Every effort will be made this property wisely and welL wmmm i J i' > pill illlspP M 1 mmmmm f % v ; < : | •> mm mm Present at the Rotary Club meeting last Friday, when the Kendall Company presented gifts to Newberry College and to the City of Newberry, were, seated, from left. Dr. A. G. D. Wiles, President of Newberry College; Maurice Clemence, Treasurer of the Kendall Company; John F. Clarkson, president of the Newberty County Development Board; and Alec Savage, manager of Kendall’s Tex tile Division. Standing, from left. Dr. Karl Kinard, president of the S, C. Lutheran Synod; Dr. Odelle Harman, president of the Newberry College Board of Trustees; Mayor Ernest Layton, and Bill Mon roe, Rotary President. (Sunphoto.) Epting Church Plans Revival III DR. A. B. FURGESON Epting Memorial Methodist Church will begin its spring revi val on Monday, April 23rd and will continue through Friday with services set for 7:30 p.m. and at 10 a. m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Dr. A. B. Ferguson, presently retired from the S. C. Conference of the Methodist Church, will be the evangelistic speaker at all ser vices. Mr. Ferguson resides in Co lumbia where for 19 years he serv ed as pastor of Whaley St. Metho dist Church and Main Street Meth odist Church. He has also served as Chaplain of the State House of Representatives for a period of six yea^s. He is very active in Evange listic work since his retirement several years ago. Special music for the Revival will be under the direction of Mrs. J. R. McEntire, organist and choir director of Epting Church, and will feature the Adult Choir, the male quartet and a mixed quartet. The prayer room will open each night at 7:15 for all who will give themselves to the ministry of prayer. These sessions will be un der the leadership of the pastor of the Church, the Rev. B. B. Blakeney. 16-Year-01d Gets Her Wings Olin Shealy, manager of the Newberry Airport, has taught many persons to fly. His greatest pride, however, came Tuesday, when his youngest student made a solo flight, on her 16th birth day. The reason for the pride was not just the age of the student, but the fact that she is his daughter, Murrie Alice, who was just as proud as her daddy to have her solo “wings.” Mental Health Week Begins Mental Health Week in New berry County this year will be launched with the first annual meeting of the Newberry County Mental Health Association on Thursday, April 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the Grier Building of the A. R.P. Church. Lr. J. O. Kempson, chief chap lain at the South Carolina State Hospital, who was presented an award at the 1961 annual meeting of the South Carolina Mental Health Association for his out standing work in the mental health field in the state, will be the fea tured speaker for this public meet ing. Easter Seal Donors Thanked -» sm The workers in the Easter Seal campaign wish to express their sincere appreciation tc those won derful Newberrians who have, to date, responded to the 1962 cam paign. A progress report as submitted by Philip T. Kelly, Easter Seal chairman, is as follows: Through letters containing Easter Seals, $1,106; through sale of Easter Lilies, $210.60; through sale of Coffee Day buttons, or B.A.C., sponsored by the Law Enforcement Division, $910.00. This makes a to tal as of the weekend, $2,225.60. The 1962 campaign ends on Sunday, April 22. Coffee Day is @ Friday, April 18. Citizens are asked to send in their gifts this week. If they have p lost their appeal letters, they may send contribution to Crippled Children, care the South Carolina National Bank. GREETINGS -S; - -,m ffip bSS! Dom Lucky On Friday the 13th Friday the 13th was a lucky and happy day for Representative William Jennings Bryan Dorn. Dorn was informed shortly after 12:00 o’clock that he would again have no opposition in the Demo cratic primary. The 13th was followed by the Congressman’s 46th birthday on April 14. Representative Dorn said “I am flattered, honored and very grateful to the people for per mitting me to remain in Washing ton where many great issues are being acted upon almost daily.” Vr- : .5 <v\,. y* v v April 22; Henry T. Fellers, 1 Mrs. George S. Minick, Mrs. ii Joseph L. Tolbert, Mrs. Frank Mills, A. O. Livingston, Henry L. Parr III, Paul Duncan, Mrs. W. Ernest Merchant, Miss Pau line Duncan. April 23; Betty Lea veil Gib son, Kenny Cook. April 24: Gloria Cleo Hawk ins, J. Ray Dawkins, Frank Culclasure, Hendrix Monts, Er nest O. Wicker, Mac Bartley. April 25: Fred Gilbert, John Paul Whitaker, Emily Grier. April 26: Mrs. William Milam, Preston McAlhany, Bill Folk. April 27: Leroy Shealy Ad ams, Mrs. Naomi Bouknight, Christine Rister, Margaret Eli- zath Warren. April 28: Butch Culclasure, Jessie Harold Hendrix, Jr., J. Harold Hendrix, T. K. Shell, Buddy Dennis, Helen Sussnne Long. ■ SI ® ■Mel