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BOY SCOUT
WEEK
February 7-13
Strengthen Amferica
BOY SCOUT WEEK
Character Counts
VOLUME 26: NUMBER 42.
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1963
♦ $2.00 Per Year
By The Way
- By DORIS A, SANDERS
AT IT AGAIN
These union leaders ju.-t c an t
re.-t—they can't .-land the fact
that although exten.-ive ■ ii r-. .• -
have been
eid if:
t!
,e Soutri on
several occasions, they .-tdl ha\en l
forced their way into a tnajoiity
,.f the textile plants in thi- sec
tion of the 1 country.
An Associated Press story from
Charlotte indicates that a massive
drive to unionize the southern tex
tile worker appears to he in the
offinjr.
Plans have hen laid, the release
savs, for top officials of the Tex
tile WOrkers l nion of America
(TWUA) and the Industrial I’n-
ion Department of the AFT-CHi
to meet in W'ashinptoii this week
to discuss joining forces in the
push. The drive would be the first
all-out effort in more than a dec
ade to change the lace of the in
dustrial South.
The first indication that t b e
drive might take place came last
week in Atlanta, where the 22-
member executive Board of the
TWTA held its quarterly meet
ing. The talk centered on plans for
the hip push.
For 20 years the TWO A h a s
spert some $2 million every year
trying to win bargaining rights
for textile workers, mostly in the
South. For all of that an AFL-CIO
spokesman in Charlotte estimated
that only some 12 per cent of the
Southern textile worker- are or
ganized.
Perhaps it hadn’t occui n d
AFL-CIO that the* majority
workers have sense enough
bargain for themselves, and don t
need to pay a portion of their hard
earned wages to high-salaried un
ion officials to hve high on the
hog.
1 could go on ijj i i atiiijj unhanpv
experiences. 1 wa- surpr:.-» whil*
I wa- hospitalized a* the numu- •
o! people I talked t w t.o t- . ; • f
instances of then, -elves. ehil-ir* f
or others wlio had heel, afacked
by doe;.-. As a r'Ui» . it is uog- the
owm • s .-aid "wouldn't bite" i .* vv*
kfix's a dog i • unp’ efjn• ta 1 1 ie.
Something definite,y Feed- to
be done about dog.-. h-peciui :y.
t«ur children are entitled to thi-
protection as we can see d.atfge!
lurks on Newberry - streets, 1
hope some action w.il !>•- niken ’■>
fore a life is lo.-' o- a rhihi ham:-
icapped for life.
’l ours eery t rul.y .
Mrs. Gertrude H ('opolatoi
(O.MK I I I.I (A ( LI.
The time is past when talk of
‘preventive' war could be ration
alized. Vet the war machine
gathers strength, and serious
consideration of its diminution
or dismantling is rare and often
timid. Once the people are con
vinced that they can survive the
present state of the art of kill
ing, a broad and significant new
hai/it pattern will have bc^en in
troduced and accepted, one gro
tesquely different from anv w <■
have Known for thousands o>
years—that of adjujsting our
selves to the idea of living in
holes. From that time onward
it will he simple to adjust our-
1 (>
of
to
selves
holes.
\ ears
to living in DF.MPFK
Ten s of thousands of
ago our Mousterian and
results;
At least one person has taken
ager know hei' views on the dog
mv suggestion to let the city man-
problem. The following letter,
written by Mrs. Gertrude H. Cope
land to City Manager Riebe, gives
some indication as to how serious
the p blem is. I hope more peo
ple will join Mrs. Copeland and
will call or write the city manager
and express to him the same op
inions so many have expressed to
me.
Mrs. Copeland’s letter follows:
Dear Mr. Riebe:
For probably two years Dot is
Sanders in her column “By the
Way” has been advocating an or
dinance about dogs running ram
pant in Newberry. Since I have
had a very unhapy experience. 1
realize she is “so right.’’ She
suggested this week that we let
you know how we feel.
Karly in October, a neighbor and
I were taking what we thought
a pleasure walk. Just as I wa> in
front of the walk at the \\ . A.
Ma-on home, I realized dog< were
near. As I turned to see, their
two dogs were coming out of the
walk charg’ng at me. In trying to
defend myself, I fell and broke my
hip. I was hospitalized nine weeks
and am now at home only able
to get around with a walkei 1 after
four months, with at least two or
three more ahead of me if every
thing goes well. And as we know,
there is always the question “if."
In addition there’s the suffering,
big hospital and medical expenses,
etc., with the trouble and incon
venience to family and others.
These aren’t the only dogs that
give trouble. In walking I have
been frightened or chased num
bers of times on various streets.
A week before my accident, a
neighbor of mine had had a close
call but she carries a stick due to
dogs.
While I was in the hospital, a
man was brought in for treatment
who had ben bitten by his own
dog.
A couple of years ago, as I
came out of church a cocker span
iel bolted across the street and
kneoked my feet from under me
and down I went, hut luckily Er
nest Oxner was standing near and
helped break the fall. This could
have been serious. The past spring,
Tom Maybin was doing some work
in my yard and had placed h i s
overshoes in a lawn chair. As he
was leaving, he said, “Mrs. Cope
land, I can’t find but one over
shoe”. Nobody had been around
but I had seen a stray dog in the
yard. The only solution was, the
dog had carried it off. It was nev
er found. My experiences have al
most been tragic and I am sure
I am one among many.
In October I saw in The Obser
ver where Mr. DuPre Harmon had
found three goats and two ducks
killed. This, apparently could be
laid to dogs.
A couple of weeks ago a friend
was attacked in a neighbor’s yard
and evidently had a close call.
This was near one of our elemen
tary schools.
Aurignacian ancestor^- livrd in
caves. The vast knowledge
which we have aceumulated dur
ing the intervening millennia
will have brought us full cycle.
The epic of man's journey up
ward into the light will have
ended.—Harrison Brown and
James Real in “Communitv of
Fear.”
NO PROMISE OF SURVIVAL
Over and beyond the eating and
the sleeping ,the mere living and
dying one after another the
spirit adds, invents, creates what
is better than what was before.
We are thrust upward amid dan
gers and darknesses of our own
making. We have no promise
from the universe that we shall
survive. We live for the growing
of the human spirit, and. in spite
of all, we strive toward that
growth, up to the last moment
of possibility.—Robert Redfield
in Talk With a Stranger.
AMERICA MOST MEDICATED
America is the most over-medi
cal ed, most over-operated, and
most over-inoculated countr> in
the world. It is also the most
anxiety-ridden countr> with re
gard to health. We are the weal
thiest count i > in the wor ld—
yet one of the uuhealthie-t in
the world. We are flabby, over
weight, and have a lot of dental
caries, fluoridation notwithstan
ding. Our gastrointestinal system
operates like a sputtering gas
engine. We can’t sleep; we can’t
get going when we are awake.
We have neuroses; we have high
blood pressure. Neither our
hearts nor our heads last as
long as they should. Coronary
disease at the peak of life has
hit epidemic proportions. Sui
cide is one of the leading causes
of death (fourth between ages
of 15 and 44). We suffer from
a plethora of the diseases of
civilization.—Herbert Rainer, M.
I).
The Army Needs
2000 Nurses Now
Sixty-two years of dedicated
service to the nation on February
2 finds the United States Army
Nurse Corps faced with the most
critical shortage of personnel in
its history.
“There is an immediate need for
2000 registered nurses, male and
female to serve as commissioned
officers in the Army Nurse
Corps,” Sergeant Ray Vernon,
Army Recruiter said today.
“In addition, the Army is vital
ly interested in providing tuition
assistance to qualified student and
graduate nurses. This tuition as
sistance can range from $206 to
$338 per month with all pay and
allowances, from periods of 12 to
24 months, and result in a direct
commission,” Sergeant Vernon
added.
Complete details on the Aimy
Nurse program are available, at
the Army Recruiting Station, Se
lective Service Board, Newberry
Countv Court house.
Strengthening America
Plenty Of Fire Protection Is
Available For Newberrians
Boy Scout Week
Be Observed Here
Scout Russell Culbertson, son
of Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Culbert
son. recently received his Eagle
badge at a meeting of the New-
beri > Lions Club. The badge w as
presented by Lion John Clark
son, chairman of the Troop com
mittee. Scout Culbertson is a
member of Troop 66, sponsored
!>\ the Newberry Lions Club.
and
at-
To-
last
County Native
Died Thursday
Richard S. Maybin. 74, of
Blakedale, died Thursday in Self
Memorial Hospital.
He was horn in Newberry Coun
ty, a son of the late Reuben May-
bin and Mrs. Sallie Harmon May-
bin.
He worked at Ware Shoals with
Riegel Textile Grocery Store un
til his retirement nine years ago.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Mary Madden Maybin of the
home: one son, Dr. Richard M.
Maybin of Lawndale, N. C.; one
daughter, Mrs. Harry S. Duval of
Columbia; three sisters, Mrs.
John Waldrop and Mrs. Yancey
Floyd of Newberry and Mrs. H. L.
Dillard of Greer, and one brother,
B. H. Maybin of Hickory Grove.
Fun \1 services were conducted
at 3:36 m. Friday from Blyth
Funeral Home by Dr. R. L. Alex
ander and Rev. Ray Stephens. En
tombment was in Gieenwood Me
morial Gardens Mausoleum.
The problem that baffles Wash
ington is how to dig the country
cut of the hole it’s in without
making the hole any deeper.
H. F. Thrift Dies
In Alabama City
Word lias been received here of
the death of H. F. Thrift at the
home of his daughter in Opelika,
Alabama. Mr. Thrift was seventy-
eight years of age.
Survivors include three sons,
John Thrift of Whitmire, Clyde
Thrift of Grand Rapids, Mich, and
Odell Thrift of Montgomery, Ala.;
two daughters, Mrs. R. C. Tank-
ersley of Opelika and Mrs. Clar
ence McConnell of Selma; a bro
ther, George Thrift of Grey
Court: three sisters, Mrs. Carrie
McKain and Mrs. Ora Lewis, both
of Whitmire; and Mrs. Lillian
Broom of Danville, Ya.; 13 grand
children and 19 great-grandchild
ren.
As part of the observance of
Scout Week, Scouts and Explorers
of Newberry District will join
with their fathers for a Father-
Son Banquet on Friday night, Feb.
8th.
The program, which will be held
at Newberry College Dining Hall,
will feature Rev. Redd Turner of
Clinton as guest speaker. Mr.
Turner, before entering the minis
try, was a Scout executive.
Awards and presentations will
be made at this gathering, and a
fine dinner prepared by the Col
lege dining room staff will be
served.
Approximately 300 hoys
their fathers are expected to
tend the Banquet.
Progress in the “Fit f )r
morrow” pi-ogram launched
fall by the Boy Scouts of Ameii-
ca will be measured during Scout
Week, February 7 to 13, marking
the organization’s 53rd anniver
sary.
Plans for local observance with
the theme, “Strengthen America—
Be Prepared, Be Fit” were an
nounced by Joe Pool of Newberry,
Chairman of Newberry District,
Boy Scouts of America.
“Physical fitness”, Pool said,
“has been a major purpose of
Scouting for more than a half a
century. Our objectives have al
ways been character building, cit
izenship training, and physical fit
ness.
When he takes the Scout Oath,
a hoy pledges to ‘keep myself
physically strong, mentally awake,
and morally straight’,” he ex
plained. “These are accomplished
through activities, programs and
skills which are fun and natural
for hoys—a game with a purpose.”
When the President’s Council on
Youth Physical Fitness reported
last Apiil that probably half of
the nation’s young people would
fail a simple test, the council ask
ed that youth be given more op
portunities to develop the kind of
fitness they need.
Scouting’s renewed emphasis on
fitness recommends a four point
program including a medical
check for every boy, physical test
ing based on five tests, individual
exercises at home and vigorous
activities on hikes or at Scout
meetings, and periodic re-testing.
The youngest members of the
organization—the Cub Scouts—
boys 8, 9 and 10 years old—have
physical fitness stunts to pro
vide gathering-time activities at
their weekly den meetings and to
improve their fitness.
Henry I. Attaway
S.C. Warden Dies
At Age Fifty-five
Henry Irvin Attaway, 55, died
Saturday at the Veteran’s admin
istration hospital in Columbia. He
had been ill for several months.
Mr. Attaway was horn and rear
ed in Saluda county and was the
son of Mrs. Anna Leopard Atta
way and the late Tiller Attaway.
He had made his home at 1400
Poplar street in Newberry for a
number of years.
Mr. Attaway was a game war
den of the S. C. Wildlife Resources
department, a member of the city
fire department; member of The
American Legion Post No. 24;
member of Forty & Eight; and a
member of Mayer Memorial Lu
theran church. He had served in
the U. S. Navy for a number of
years.
Mr. Attaway is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Myrtie Stockman At
taway, Newberry; his mother,
Mrs. Anna Attaway; one daugh
ter, Mrs. Randall (Ann) Kitchens,
j Newberry; one sister, Mrs. Ralph
I Minick, Newberry; three brothers,
J uues Attaway, Herman Attaway,
both of Newberry and Robert At
taway of Greenwood.
Funeral services were held from
Maver Memorial church with Dr.
C. K. Derrick and Dr. N. E. Trues-
dell conducting the service. Inter
ment was in Newberry Memorial
Gardens.
Active pallbearers were C. M.
Rye, G. H. Wise, Mendell Boozer,
Charles Laffette, Glenmore Shi-
rey, Hubert H. Keisler, Reese
Jones, and J. C. Sanders.
Honorary escort consisted of
Ray Schumpert, Pete Parrott. F.
J. Harmon, Tom Fellers, Colie
Dowd, Lewis Lipscomb, Dr. W.
L. Mills, Fred Schumpert, Dr. B.
i> T . Montgomery, Jim Clamp, Hugh
Shannon, David Laird, Cecil Kin-
ard, L. D. Gardner, C A. Dufford,
Frank Sutton, Jake Wise, William
Johnson, Claude Calloway, Alon
zo Fulmer, Jim Danielson, Alvin
Danielson, Colie Hogge, Jesse
Frank Hawkins, J. W. Fuller, Bur
ley Shealy, Berley Rister, Garvis
Taylor, Roland Bobb, C. F. Dorn,
J. N. Tiller, James W ebb, P a t
Ryan, W. E. Howell, all Game
Wardens of S. < . Wildlife Resour
ces, Woodrow Kinney, Rob Creek-
more, George Heller, William Kit
chen and John Carhosco.
Flower attendants were Mrs.
Lib Carbasco, Mrs. Mildred John
son, Mrs. Ethel Miller, Mrs. Eula
M. Taylor, Mrs. Johnny Thrift,
Barbara Collier, Ann Lipscomb,
Mrs. Virginia Mills and Mrs. Colie
Bobb.
! Merchant Dies In
i Chappells Store
James Pressley Boozer, sixty,
died suddenly Thursday night at
his store on Route 1, Chappells.
Mr. Boozer was born and reared
in this county, a son of the late
P. N. and Emma Mayer Boozer.
He was a dairy farmer and mer
chant, operating a general mer
cantile business near his home for
many years. He was an elder of
Little - River - Dominick Presby
terian church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Lindsey Scott Boozer; a daughter,
Mrs. John Jacobs of Spartanburg;
a son, Scott Boozer of Chappells;
a sister, Mrs. Sallie Stewart of
Belton; a brother, John H. Boozer
I of Chappells; and three grand
children.
Funeral services were conducted
Saturday at Little-River-Dominick
chuich by Rev. Lawton Daugher
ty and Rev. O. C. Brown. Burial
was in the church cemetery.
Pallbearers were Ervin Mer
chant Robert Wicker, Ralph
Boazman, Earl Boazman, T e d
Davenport and Ellis Davenport.
Honorary escort was Joe Liv
ingston, Harold Bishop. Tommie
Davenport, Horace Oxnei’, Francis
Scurry, J. T. Holingsworth, John
Sloan, Frank McKittrick, J. O.
Madden, Pete Coleman, A. L.
Busby, Dr. W. W. King, Roscoe
Bundrick, Gene Johnson, Jim
Riddle and Tom Price.
Sixty Motorists
Drove Too Fast
A total of 98 persons faced Mag
istrate Ben Dawkins during Jan
uary for assorted crimes and vio
lations of traffic rules. Leading
the list of offenders were 60 who
drove too fast for conditions.
Other violations were, impropei-
passing 4; failure to dim head
lights 2; failure to stop for stop
sign 2; disordtOy conduct 3; pass
ing halted school bus 1; failure to
display fuel tax permit 1; permit
ting unauthorized minor to dn've
2; drunk 2; failure to transfer
ownership 2; following too closely
2; defective brakes 2; reckless
driving 1; driving left of center 1;
no driver’s license in possession 1;
no S. (’. license plates 1; failure to
yield right - >f-way 2; excessive
noise 1; wrong side of road 1;
under influence of intoxi-
•)
Prayer For Today
Merciful Father, we thank
Thee for the privilege of living
ii. this good land. We are in
deed grateful for the freedoms
and opportunities we enjoy.
Enable us this day we pray
Thee, to speak some kind word
and to do some thoughtful
deed. Forgive us, bless us and
use us, we humbly pray Thee
in the spirit of Christ. Amen.
Viewers To See
Farm Program
A thirty-minute television dis
cussion of a topic of major inter
est to every corn farmer—Fram
Management—will be presented on
February 9 at Channel 10, Colum
bia, at 1:30 p. m. and Channel 6,
Augusta at 7 A. M.
This special program is the first
in a series of farm seminars de
signed to acquaint corn growers
with the latest efficient practices
being followed by successful grow
ers, and recommended by agricul
tural authorities.
This is the first in a series of
four such seminars.
driving
cat ing
lights 1
lane 1:
breach of
airest 1.
Money-wise the month was
worth $1080.00 to the county as
a result of Magistrate Dawkins’
ooerations.
iquors g; no clearance
; failure to drive in single
improper left turn 1;
the peace 1; resisting
Scout Leaders
Are Trained
I TO UNDERGO
SURGERY TODAY
E. B. (Ned) Purcell was admit
ted to Columbia Hospital Tuesday
and is expected to undergo surg
ery today (Thursday). He is in
Room No. 173.
Scout Leaders
Meeting Today
All leaders, assistant leaders,
troop committee mothers and
troop cookie chairmen of Girl
Scouts of Newberry are urged to
to attend a meeting being held
this (Thursday) morning at 9 o’
clock at the Girl Scout cabin.
Slides of Day Camp will be
shown, any anyone interested in
Girl Scouting is cordially invited.
Cookie chairmen will pick up
packages at this meeting. Those
who are unable to be present will
be able to pmk up the cookies at
the home of Mrs. Tom Brown.
There’s enough leisure for every
body; the trouble is, the wrong
people seem to have it all.
For safe driving, see that all
nuts are tight, except the one at
the wheel.
A course for Newberry County
Girl Scout leaders was given Janu
ary 29 and 31 in the Girl Scout
cabin. Trained were professional
woi’kers of the Congaree Council,
under which Girl Scouting in New
berry now operates. They were
Mrs. Suevelyn Peters, executive
director, and M rs. Jay Lyman,
district advisor.
Content of the program included
basic information on (he new four
levels of program, which will in
clude transition from present f hree
program levels to the four levels
for Fall of 1963.
Although the new 7 program
doesn’t go into effect until Sep
tember, important steps are nec
essary now to insure the best pro
gram possible for the girls. Mem
bers of the Newberry County
Neighborhood Girl Scout Associa
tion attending the training ses
sions were Mrs. Howard Kirke-
gard, neighborhood chairman;
Mrs. Clara Wertz, troop organizer;
Mrs. Charles Vernon., troop con
sultant, and Mesdames Joyce At
taway, Janice Braswell, Earl Bo-
zard, Tommy Cantrell, Allen Cros-
son, Grady Force, Lamar Hazel,
Albert Jones, H. D. Lake, Evelyn
Long, J. F. Roche, Scott Boozer,
A. D. Alexander, C. M. Smith, W.
F. Smith, Maxcy Stone, Ben Stew
art, Irvin Satterwhite, Sloan Wil
son, Janet McConaugfty, Jean
Bishop. Bobby Williams and Har-
ly Young.
The re.vgnation of 14 mum hers
of the Newberiy Volunteer Fire
Department last week apparently
will not affect fighting of fires
within the city to any appreciable
degree.
Early this week, Melvin Atta
way, pi’esident of the Newberry
Volunteer Fire Department, as
sured citizens that the city will
have complete fire protection at
all times. In addition, the Newber
ry Country Rural Fire Commiss
ion has made it plain that t h e i
county fire trucks and personnel
are available to ALL the county,
which includes the city of New
berry. One of these trucks is stat
ioned on Boyce street in the city.
The statement by Mf-. Attaway
is as follows:
“The members of the Newberry
Fire department want to assure
you that we will continue to see
that our City has complete fire
protection at all times. We live in
Newberry, our homes and loved
ones are here, we make our living
here, we try to be good citizens,
and we are determined to protect
property and lives against fire.
“Controversial questions about
which you may have read or heard
wil! not affect in any way the ef
ficiency or the loyalty of your fire
department. When the alarm
sounds we will be on hand prompt
ly as always, ready to fight thr.t
fire.”
The Rural Fire Commissioners,
T. B. Amis, Chairman: R. C. Noel,
Jr., M. O. Mayer and S. C. Pay-
singer, made this observation:
“In response to numerous in
quiries we wish to state our posi
tion on the Rural Fire Depart
ment. Y- T e have 10 well equipped
fire trucks and over 200 trained
men. Although known as the New
berry county Rural Fire Depart
ment, these trucks are the prop
erty of Newberry county. These
trucks and men are ready, willing
and able, when needed, to answ r er a
call in any emergency in any part
of Newberry county.”
The unrest in the Fire depart
ment began shortly after the
death of long-time Fire Chief Sam
Beam. The volunteer firemen made
it known they wished to have one
of the volunteers, not a paid city
employee, as their chief. The city
agreed to go along with this plan.
In the meantime, City Manager
Riebe proposed, and Council ac
cepted a plan whereby all safety
progi-ams, including the operation
of the fire department, he placed
under a director of safety. The
volunteer firemen raised a howl
and after meetings with the city
manager, the plan was changed so
that the volunteer chief would
have complete charge of the de
partment, he i-esponsible for the
direction and conduct of both paid
and volunteer firemen in carrying
out the mission of fighting fires,
training all personnel in fire-fight
ing techniques, make fire inspect
ions and maintain equipment and
facilities in conjunction with the
assistant director of safety, hold
drills and training exercises, con
duct inspection of department.
The assistant director of safety,
under the plan, would be respon
sible for supervision of paid fire
department personnel, mainten
ance and repair of equipment,
keeping iecords, training new paid
employees in operation of equip
ment and would be a fireman of -
driver.
With these changes made, the
volunteers approved the plan, and
on December 17, 1962, wrote the
city manager as follows:
“In meeting assembled tonight,
December 17th, the members of
the NewbeiTy Fire Department
voted unanimously to accept y^ur
proposal as outlined in your letter
of December 13.
“We pledge our efforts to you,
city council and the citizens to
make the Newberry Fire depart
ment more efficient than ever.”
Almost immediately, however,
further grumblings were heard
Uom the volunteers. Ed Hazel,
LEGION AUXILIARY
MEETING TODAY
The American Legion Auxiliary
wdll have its birthday meeting to
day (Thursday) at 4 P. M. at the
home of Miss Grace Summer, Mrs.
J. J. Bullard of Columbia will be
a guest.
Prof. F. Scott Elliott of New
berry college faculty will make a
talk on Americanism.
All members are urged to attend
thir birthday meeting.
long-time paid city fireman, was
appointed assistant (lirerti r of
safety (the city manager having
assumed the responsibility as di
rector) and with the employment
of a new paid fireman, disagree
ment arose as to methods and res
ponsibility of training. The city
felt the new di iver should be train
ed first and foremost to di'ive a
fire truck; the volunteers appar
ently had other ideas, and prompt
ly charged that the city was us
urping authority belonging to the
volunteer fire chief.
Throwing more coals on the
embers, the City Manager pro
posed to Council a plan whereby,
in his opinion, better quarters
could be secured for the police
department and, at the same
time, provide a more nearly rad
■ation-proof location for police,
Cre, and civil defense equipment.
The plan was to utilize the space
beneath the main floor of the fire
department, now used ra"ely, to
install radio equipment for fire,
police and civil defense, as well as
a ham radio room, cell blocks for
prisoners, emergency supplies and
recreation facilities.
Again there came grumbling,
both from volunteer firemen and
the police department. The latter,
apparently, object to being what
they term “stuck in a hole in
a basement.” The basement act
ually is on ground level on Har
rington street, and an attractive
entrance could be made with no
more than one or two steps down.
Lai-ge windows furnish more light
than in the present police station.
A portion now u^ed as a garage
could be converted into an ade-
quat. number of cell blocks. The
area now used once or vice a
year for stag suppers for 1 remen
would remain a recreation area
and conference room, and the kit
chen would remain as is.
This split the volunteer fire de
partment almost down the mid
dle. Twelve voted against Ihe
plan, 13 in favor.
No official action has been tak
en by anyone on the resignation of
the 14 volunteers, and no action
is expected by City Council, in
asmuch as Council has no say-so
regarding the selection, rejection
or resig nation of members of the
volunteer fire department. It is
expected that the department it
self will discuss the matter when
it meets later in the month.
In the meantime, the citizens
of Newberry may rest easy that
both befoi-e and after February 28.
at which rime the resignations of
the fourteen are effective, they
will have complete fire prot etion
from the remaining members of
the Volunteer Fire Department
and, if necessary, from all ti-ucks
and every member of the New
berry County Rural File Depart
ment.
BIRTHDAY
GREETINGS
Feb. 10: Mrs. J. W. Smith, Bil
ly Odell, Frances McEntire
Bartley, Mrs. A. B. Lake, Jackie
S. Merchant, Mrs. Frances Dan
ielson, J. E. Ringer, Julia Ann
Perkins, Fred Myers, Larry
Franklin, Bobby Shealy, James
C. Abrams.
Feb. 11: Vernon Boozer, Mrs.
Ruth K Coleman, Wade Nichols,
Judy Halfacre, Irvine B. Leslie.
Feb. 12: John Janies Chappell,
Mrs. Lninie Gilliam, Euston
Richardson, Wayne Ringer, Bar
bara Jean Wilson, Ken Brown,
Ruthie Armfield Sanders, Er
win Renwick Baker.
Feb. 13: Roy H. Clary, Mrs.
James A. Brown, Mrs. Minnie
Leitzsey, A. M. Dominick, Mrs.
H. T. Oxner, Gordon R. Thurow.
Feb. 14: Agnes and Sally P.i‘-
crard, Mable Shealy, Mary Mof-
fatt Patrick, Julia Williams,
“'eressa Waldrop, Oscar Jollay,
Mrs. Henry Wasson, Tommy
Setzler, Huston Long, Elizabeth
Cannon, William H. Hawkins,
Mrs. H. B. Rayfield, Mrs. Bob
Long.
Feb. 15: Ralph Black, Helen
Singley, Warren Abrams, Miss
Kate Porter, Bill Bozer, Milton
Bedenbaugh, Sherry Danielson,
O. H. Ogle.
Feb. 16: C. A. Kaufmann, Jas.
L. Lipscomb, Mrs. Cecil Kinard,
Bessie Kelly, Bob Brooks, Regi
nald Bedenbaugh, Lillie Mae
Kinard, Joan F. Phibbs.