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If Patrick Henry thought taxation without representation w^as so ter rible, he should see it with represen tation ! VOLUME 26; NUMBER 5, Wealthy people miss one of life’s greatest thrills—paying the ast in stallment. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1962 + $2.00 PER YEAR By The Way - By DORIS A. SANDERS Flights Over Newberry Are “They’ll vote in the Democratic primary, contribute a penny to the Demos to support the nominees thereof in the General Election, then vote as they please in Novem ber. “Which is a nice, easy, inexpen sive way to salve your political conscience, if it bothers you. The oath says simply you must sup port the Democratic nominees, but says nothing about how or how much you must support them. “Yessir. It’s cute and a fit ans- ■* wer to the politicians who try to confuse the people with the loy alty oath sort of thing.” FOR WHAT PURPOSE Tho'-e who favor retaining the Opera House as a landmark seem to feel that because others don’t speak up in agreement .they fa vor tearing the building down. The engineers hired by the city to check the building reported that the walls were structurally sound; that, at great cost, it couid be re modeled into an office building of sorts but it was believed that on efficient city building could be erected for no more than, and per haps not as much money as would be the cost of renovating the Op era House and coining up with something you didn’t want to be gin with. I would like to make it clear that these engineers did NOT say the building was about to fall down. What I am getting around to saying is I don’t know of any member of city council, or anyone else for that matter, who wants to destroy a building merely for the fun of destroying a building. That brings up the point, for what purpose can the Opera House be used ?Tbe city needs indoor recreation for its young people. If the lower floor of the Opera House were used for a gymnasium, it would be necessary to remove the walls supporting the upper floor. If the upper floor could be leveled and used as a gymnasium, it is easy to see that the lower floor could not be used as office space. So assuming it could be used for a gym, that still leaves the building of a new city build ing—and does anyone doubt that we need a city building of which we can be proud? There has been some talk of conve' *ing the Opera House into an art museum. I believe Mr. Pet ty, the architect who examined the Opera House last weekend, claim ed that such a museum would bring in as much money as an industry. That would be fine. But what sort of art museum? What is to be put there? Who is going to do the putting? Who will sponsor it? If the City Council could be shown that the Opera House could be put to some worthwhile use, es pecially if it could be used for revenue-getting purposes, I’m sure they would be happy to cooperate. But I have yet to see or hear of any definite plans being present ed to council on which it could act or which it could consider. I am sure that every person interested in retaining tbp Opera House is sincere in r.is or her interest; it seem to me the best way to show that sincerity is to present to council some concrete plans for its use. The gentlemen of council, many of whom have worked years in and about the city offices and departments, feel that trying to convert it into city offi ces is not feasible. The. 3 people should know better thin the rest of us what is practical and what is not. That does not mean, how ever, that they want to tear the building down. I would think that if the Civic League, or some other interested organization, would like to take the building over with it, that the city would be happy to deed it for that purpose once it has other space for its op- WELLS GARDENS erations. 1 have a suggestion: the T m Newberry-Saluda Regional Libra- lN * ULL BLOOM ry is desperately in need of more space. Wouldn't the Opera House be ideal? Part Of ram WANT TO TRAVEL? It was a pleasure to have a note in the mail this week from Ken Wilson. Ken, who is greatly miss ed hereabouts, is now pastor of First Baptist Church in Mt. Airy, N. C. He sends his regards to all and says he hopes to pay Newber ry a visit this summer. We’ll be looking forward to seeing him and bis family again. Right now, Preacher Wilson has a job on his hands that I know he will enjoy thoroughly. He is an of ficial tour organizer for a 30-day Holy Land and European Tour to be taken in July 1963. Although one of the highlights of the tour will be the Baptist Youth W’orld Conference to be held in Beirut, Ken says the tour will be “nonsec tarian and strictly interdenomina tional. It will be made up of adults as well as young people, and should be a thrill of a lifetime.” The trip will begin in New York with a jet flight to London, and among the places to be visited are Stratford, Paris, Athens, Corinth, Cairo, Beirut, Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv, Rome, Geneva and Am sterdam. There are plans to at tend the Shakespeare Memorial Theater, tours of all sorts in the countries visited, camel rides, swimming in the Dead Sea, and many other activities to give tour ists a broad experience during the 30 days they will be gone. If my ship comes in between now and next July, I think I’ll pack my bags and family and join the fun. Seriously, plans for this sort of thing must be made early. I repeat this information because I believe some oi you might be interested in taking such a trip. If so, I would suggest that you write as soon as possible, to Rev. Kenneth B. Wilson, at 213 Wrenn Avenue, Mount Airy, N. C. gMgpWMMg Airman 1-C S. W. Allen tracks a plane “bombing” Newberry with the assistance of Capt. L. A. Oakes at the radar tracking station near Jalapa. Members of City Council and other city employees visited the special train Tuesday afternoon. Watching the opera tion are standing, at left, Hugh Connelly, superintendent of utili ties, and Councilman Cecil Merchant. (Samphoto) (From The Greenville News) The “Grey Ghost” rode the skies above Newberry Monday for the first time, raining electronic destruction and death on selected targets. The “Ghost” will continue its six-day-a-week-rides, 18 hours a day, until July 7. But there is no destruction, no death, no danger for the Newberry area. Only safety in training for the whole nation. The “Ghost” is the code name for simulated bombing runs by B-47’s and B-52’s of the United States Air Force over the New berry area. Exact targets are clas sified according to Capt. Lawrence A. Oakes. NO BOMBS ON PLANES There are no bombs on the planes which began their elec tronic bombings Monday about 3:15 pun. But to radar and other electron ic training devices for jet bomber crews, the bombs did fall—on the plotting screens of the radar bomb scoring train No. 3 sidetracked for 45 days at Jalapa. | ! Some 1,500 jets will speed into the Newberry area during the ! training exorcise at about a height of 5,000 feet, coming here from an entry point near Lexington, Ky., Capt. Ooakes estimated Mon- I day. There is no sonic boom connect- The second political campaign ! ed with the exercises which move of the week will be held at Jolly - to a different point every 45 days. Street Community Center (old'The electronically-filled 10-car Air school house) at 10 a.m. Saturday. I Force contingent just moved here Politics At Jolly Street The speaking will be followed by a barbecue dinner. Pinckney N. Ab rams, chairman, will preside. Residents of the Pomaria area had a chance to hear the candi- about 400 miles an dates last (Wednesday) night at! Oakes said. and do'somethinc P° mar i a Elementary School. The ] Capt. Oakes, commander of the meeting was preceded by a barbe cue supper. from Athens, Ala., but the next point is at present classified. The stratojets and strat fortres ses will move over Newberry at hour, Capt. THE SOLUTION? My friend, Winston Jones, up Easley way, sends me a clipping with the notation “Here’s the so lution to your problem!” It is from a column by James M. McKinney in The Greenville Piedmont, and the more I think about it ,the more I think I might be willing to take the “loyalty oath” using this method of easing my conscience: “When the politicians get cute with the voters, quite often the voters react by getting cute with the politicians. Which is what is happening in South Carolina in this political year of 1962. “Take this ‘loyalty oath’ thing —whereby you have to swear to support the nominees of the Demo cratic Party if you vote in the Democratic primary. “Now there are a lot of us hard- boiled characters who pay no at tention to such technicalities on grounds that the right to vote in a meaningful election cannot be contravened by any oath. “But there are a lot of people who are worried about the oath, fearing it will bother their con sciences if they vote in the Demo Derby and then vote for a Republi can come November. Some of these fearful ones have figured out a cute way to ease their consciences. Wells Japanese Iris Gardens, on Lindsay Street, will be in full bloom this weekend, according to Fulmer Wells, who invites the public to drive by and see the beautiful flowers. RBS Special, as the train is known, said the mobility of the train gives crews a wider range of unfamiliar targets and unfamiliar i routes than a fixed or semi-mo bile scoring unit. It offers an accurate record of where bombs would fall from the jet bombers, and it also sets up a variety of obstacles for the plane crews to overcome. A POLITICIAN PAUSES—en route from a campaign speaking in Lexington to the hustings in Greenwood last week. Senator Mar shall Parker of Oconee County, candidate for lieutenant-governor, pauses for a brief visit with his sister, Mrs. C. M. Smith and fam ily on Crenshaw street. With Senator Parker and his sister are his niece and nephew, Caroline and Jim Billy Smith. (Sunphoto) TRAIN TO OPERATE The train, with its force of 70 military and civilian technicians on temporary duty, will for instance, send out a simulated tracking and scanning radar signal which a plane’s electronic warfare officer must identify, locate the jam as if the signals were enemy tracking stations. The plane crew, on the other hand, must overcome a jamming signal from the train, which con fuses the plane’s navigational sig nals. In general, the train’s equip ment is designed to test the ability of each aircraft crew member. Three of the train’s cars are supply vehicles, two are admini strative and command care, and five contain the air-ride electronic equipment. Such items as four generators which together could supply pow er for a city of 3,500 homes, 10- 000 gallons of water and 10,000 gallons of diesel fuel oil for the generators are carried by the train. In the radar cars, night and day flight waves are plotted and re corded. The crews work eight- hour shifts, and the radar operates 18 hours a day. The other six hours of the day are for mainten ance. As planes approach, radar equipment begins tracking them and their course is automatically transmitted to a plotting board. When the crew decides to drop its bombs, it transmits a signal to the train which is cut on the “Bombs Away” call indicating a simulated drop. The point is marked on the plot ting board, an dusing such con ditions as distances and direc tion of the bomber from its target, the plane’s g* ound speed heading and altitude, wind conditions, bomb fall characteristics and other data, technicians at the train can de termine if the target was hit. If it is missed the technicians determine how far and in what di rection it was missed. DATA IS CLASSIFIED Of course, the accuracy of the Newberry area runs are classi fied in order not to reveal the capacity of a plane or its crew. The train’s equipment and crew make it possible for the bombejr crews to find and fire on targets under realistic wartime condi tions, except, perhaps, for possible attack by jet fighters. Capt. Oakes pointed out he has a color film on the ’B-58 jet bom ber and on sonic boom which he will show to civic clubs or other organizations at their invitation. He can be contacted through the Newberry telephone exchange at the train or at the Hotel Clinton where he is living. Community Meet To Be Friday A community meeting, looking towards a long range plan for city wide beautification, will be held Friday night at 8 at the Court House. This preliminary meeting is sponsored by the Mayor and City Council and the Civic League, who are acting as a steering com mittee until an organization is effected. There is no doubt of it, that Newberry is very much beauty conscious, both publicly and pri vately but has lacked a long range plan, which if followed would pro mote a more coordinated improve ment of the parks, streets and residential lots. This meeting will tiy to point out the way to go about getting a workable plan and how to follow up on tie recom mendations, said Hal Kohn, Civic League president. Robert Marvin, a well known landscape architect, from Waiter- boro, has been invited to address the meeting, to present a ‘ basis for the movement and to answer questions from the audience. Mr. Marvin is an engaging speaker, very down to earth and will make a most favorable impact on those who hear him. He is not only in great demand as a speaker but as a writer and Newberry is fortun ate to have him help make the “first giant step” towards a love lier city. Dr. James Kinard will act as moderator during the question and answer period and all will be giv en an opportunity to express |;hemselves. There will be no effort made at this meeting to ask for donations or subscriptions. It is 100% a come and learn meeting, which could be a great influence on the present city and on the future. City wide beauty, parks, recrea tional facilities and a great num ber of other very worth while things may grow out of this gath ering. Members of the luncheon clubs, garden clubs, church and civic groups and all others who would like to see Newberry a bet ter place in which to live are urg ed to attend. The last visit of the Red Cross Bloodmobile for the fiscal year in Newberry will be next Tues day, and Newberrians need to donate 294 pints of blood to com plete their quota for the year. “We know this is almost im possible,” said Lawrence Rich ardson, chairman of the New berry County Red Cross. Chap ter, “but we are looking or a very large turnout on this visit.” The Bloodmobile will be at the First Baptist Church Fellow ship room on Tuesday, May 29 between the hours of 2 and 7 p. m. Recruiting of donors is being sponsored by the Kiwanao Club. Mr. Richardson stated today that some counties with even lower donations than Newberry, may possibly be cut off from blood service through the Red Cross. “We don’t want that to happen here,” he continued, “so I urge everyone who possibly can to be on hand next Tuesday for the Bloodmobile visit.” County Board Loses Member Coffee Be Given For Russell Newberry friends of Donald Russell, candidate for govern or, will entertain with a cof fee in his honor Monday morn ing, May 28 at 11 a. m. at the Community HalL Coffee, punch and cookies will be served. All friends and others interested in the candidacy of Dr. Russell are cordially in vited. A large attendance is expected. The County Board of Education lost a member this month, with the resignation of Gilder Neel as a member from the Bush River area. Taking Mr .Neel’s place temporarily will be Clifford Smith, who has previously served on the Board from Bush River. The Board learned that because of the limit on bonded indebted ness, it would not be able to sell $115,000 additional bonds as auth orized by the legislative delega tion this year, to complete its building program. The amount it could sell was $89,000. It was felt that interest accrued in bond pay ment accounts, and interest on money in the building fund which has not been used, will almost bring the amount to the $115,000 desired. No change was made in the amounts allocated last month for use by each area. Several areas requested approv al for projects using the money. The approval was granted for the following work: Whitmire: Renovate band house, renovate room to be used for special education class, painting of all buildings. Bush River: Repair boiler, bath rooms and some painting. Little Mountain: Repairs to roof of school; purchase of adjoin ing property. Prosperity: Replace windows and do other work in auditorium. Mid-Carolina: Build athletic field and mechanics shop. Newberry: Paint one-third of interior of Newberry High, com plete outside painting started last year. Robert J. Shannon wa^ j recom mended and approved as agricul ture teacher at Mid-Carolina. Board Chairman Gerald Paysin- ger advised the Board the highway is making plans to widen Bound ary and Coates streets to relieve congestion at the Boundary school area. Three To Be Ordained Here On Sunday afternoon. May 27 at four o’clock, the Lutheran Sy nod of South Carolina will ordain to the Gospel Ministry three men who were graduated from the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, on May 23. They are John L. Heyer, Dermon A. Sox Jr. and George T Willif- The Ordination Service will be held in the Mayer Memorial Luth eran Church, Drayton and Cromer Streets, Newberry. Representing the Synod will be the President, the Rev. Karl W. Kinard, D.D.; the assistant to the President, the Rev. J. Shelton Moose, D.D.; and the secretary, the Rev. Carl B. Caughman, D.D. The sermon will be preached by the Rev. Dermon A. Sox Sr. of Summerville. Others assisting in the service will be the Rev. Marion Rhoden of Talla hassee, Fla., formerly of Green ville, and the Rev. Clarence K. Derrick, D.D., pastor of Mayer Memorial Church. The church choir under the direction of Dr. Milton W. Moore will sing the an them “How Lovely Are Thy Mes sengers” by Mendelssohn. Andrew E. Price is organist. An informal reception in honor of those being ordained will -be held in the Fel lowship Hal" of the church imme diately after the service. The pub lic is cordia lly invited to the serv ice and the reception. John L Heyer was bom and reared in Butler, Pa. He was grad uated from Clemson College in 1954. He served in the U. S. Army from 1945 to 1958, serving in France, Belgium and Germany. He is married, his wife being the for mer Sarah N. Purser of Greenville, and they have two children. Mr. Heyer is pastor-elect of the Beth* 7den-St. James’ Parish, Newberry. Dermon Albert Sox Jr., the son of Rev. and Mrs. Dermon A. Sox of Summerville, was born in Charleston. He was graduated from Newberry College in 1959. His wife is the former Jean Millen Steele of Greenwood. Mr. Sox is pastor-elect of Faith Lutheran Church, John’s Island. George Tilmer Willis was bora and reared in Newberry, the son of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Wil lis. He was graduated from New berry High School in 1955 and from Newberry College in 1959. He is pastor-elect of the Bethlehem- St. John’s Parish, Irmo. Mrs. C. A. Dufford, president if the American Legion Auxiliary, pins a Poppy on Mayor Erneot Layton’s coat to begin the 1962 Poppy Sale in Newberry, as Mr** , W- Roy Anderson, Poppy Day Chairman, looks on. Poppies wil* be sold by members of the Aux iliary and other volunteers on the streets of Newberry Saturday. (Sunphoto) About 6000 red crepe paper me morial poppies, made by veterans in hospitals and work shops in 20 states, will be sold this week in Newberry, with the sale climaxing on Poppy Day, Saturday. Disabled servicemen are paid for each hand-made poppy they make, and the materials are furn ished froe by the American Legion Auxiliary in the states where the hospitals are located. Proceeds from the sale will be used by the Auxiliary in its child welfare program for children of veterans. On Poppy Day each year, more than 25 millien poppies made by disabled veterans are distributed throughout the country. Approxi mately 125 thousand volunteer workers from the Legion Auxiliary and other organizations take part in this annual program. Through the American Legion Auxiliary poppy program, more than $300,000 is paid annually to needy and disabled service men and women who make the memor ial flowers. All contributions re ceived go directly to aid disabled war veterans or members of their families. Public Invited To Attend Services On Memorial Day The annual Memorial Service of Newberry Post No. 24 of the American Legion is to be held on Sunday with the decoration of nearly 500 graves in Newberry County and an address by the Rev. John C. Cooper, assistant professor of Bible and Greek at Newberry College. Rev. Cooper is to speak on “The Spirit of Sacrifice and the Ideal of Peace”. His address is to be given at the service scheduled for six P. M., Sunday, at the pavi lion in Rosemont Cemetery. Eu gene Stockman, commander of Post No. 24, has announced that in the event of unfavorable wea ther conditions, the service will be held at the American Legion Hut. The Hut is located near the fair grounds on the highway to Pros perity. Prior to preparing for the Gospel ministry, Rev. Cooper served in the Marine Corps and was in combat Safety Check Is Success The Jaycee-sponsored Safety Check of automobiles last Thurs day was a big success, according to Sonny Gray, Jaycee president, and D. P. (Jabbo) Folk, project chairman. Of the 457 cars checked at the station on College Street, 387 passed, 70 did not. Thirty were found to have defective brakes; 25 defective lights and 16 had either defective exhaust sys tems, tires or wipers. The local Safety Check, which was entire ly voluntary, is parUof a National Jaycee-sponsored program aimed to promote highway safety** The checking was done by mem bers of the Jaycees, yrith the help of experienced mechanics. The cars which passed the check were given a “Circle "-of Safety” sticker. Serving with Mr. Folk on the committee were Ferd Summer, Wilmer Hite, Bill Fields, Jerry Baker, Wayne Cartrette and Har old Dominick. v Call To Prayer Our Father in Heaven, we come to Thee in the name of Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Sav iour, rendering praise and thanksgiving, seeking the for giveness of our sins, and the continued manifestation of Thy favor, and the guidance of the Holy Spirit in the choices of our lives, and in the rendering of service to Thee. Give unto our day and genera tion a vision of our shortcom ings, the imperfection of our judgment, and the weakness of our effort, helping us to remem ber and claim Thy promise, “Commit thy ways unto the Lord, trust also in Him, ami He will bring it to pass.” Make us grateful for this promise and to feel that thus we can walk hand in hand with Thee, and that our ways shall be Thy waya Help us as objects of Thy love and creation, to be true to our high calling, that we may be our brother’s keeper, the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Make us a channel of blessing to those about us, that wo may be true children, who were blessed tiiat He might bless. Give us ’Lord strength for that which is before us this day, according to the promise, “As thy da> is, so shall Thy strength be, for the glory of Thy Names.” Amen. during the Korean War. In the course of his studies aftur serv ing in the Marine Corps, he was graduated from the University of South Carolina and from Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary. In 1960, he received his Master of Sacred Theology degree at Chica go Lutheran Seminary In addition to his duties on the college faculty, Rev. Cooper is serving ac supply pastor of Faith Lutheran Church in Newberry. Re cently he was elected president of thq South Carolina Association for Philosophy, the philosophy sec tion of the South Carolina Aca demy of Science. During the service Sunday, 216 graves of departed Legion com rades are to be decorated in Rose mont, Baxter, and Springdale Ce meteries. Taps are to be sounded by Tip Jones, bugler, of the New berry Concert Band. Families of the deceased veter ans are asked to attend the memo rial services and to stand at grave sides during the placement of dec orations. Members of the Memorial Com mittee of Post No. 24 are Carroll Eargle, Henry T. Fellers, Charles L. Lesemann, and Beamon Sum mer. BIRTHDAY I IS RECOVERING Paul Havird, who is connected with the Public Service Commis sion in Columbia, is at the home of his mother in Silvers creet where he is recuperating from a recent operation. He visited last week with Mrs. Edward C. Dupree, with whom he once made his home in Columbia, at the home of Mrs. Dupree’s daughter, Mrs. Robert E. Long. Also visiting Mrs. Dupree recently was her son, Judge John K. Dupree of Columbia. GREETINGS m. May 27: Harry H. Hedgepath, R. W. Culbertson, Lillian Rodel* sperger, Cecil Fulmer, Frank L. King, Christy Armfield, Pick Riser. May 28: Buzz Purcell, Mrs. T. H. Longshore, Carol Kohn, Mrs. J. W. Hicks, Martin Mills, Ho mer Crooks, Jo Ann Kunkle, Carl and Charles Setzler, Wil liam Franklin, Doris B. West- wood, Henry A. Kesler, Dennis Franklin, Rev. Kenneth B. Wil son. May 29: Sarah Boozer, Jane Cullum, Mrs. Allen Dominick, Wilbur Koon, Mrs. Guy Counts, Susan Kelly, Bobby Spr&ul III, Sue Harmon. May 30: J. T. Dennis, Mrs. James Smith, Mrs. F. B. Dawk ins, Mrs. Ray Nobles, Jack Lom- inick, Mike Wiggers, Danny Wiggers* May 31: John G. Goggins Jr., Susan Nichols, Dr. J. C. Atki- son, Mac Cobb, Harriett Schum- pert. Rev. James M. Aiken. June 1: Mrs. C. J. McWhirter, Drayton Wicker, Mrs. J. E. Crooks, Faye Hughes, Anne Walton, Mrs. J. C. Counts, Ann Beck, Marie L. Merchant, Lu ther D. Long, Mittie Y. Summer, Helen K. Werts. June 2: Neel Long, Dolly Senn, Ann Seim, Daisy Lee Gra ham, E. R. Fellers, W. F. Mul- linax, Julie Underwood.