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The pei'i’ec - , 1 it iday > eTa- cious living is a lady a: a sneath dress ti’y.ay to sit (aava m a eie-- temporary-daS’Trn chair with a bui- fet uiti]]tr i.'i ic-r iia!a:>. Human nature is such that distant wars, earthquakes and. typhoons seem less catastrophic than the first scratch on vour new car. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, EFBRUARY 14, 1963 ♦ $2.00 Per Year By The Way - By DORIS A. SANDERS GOOD REASON Administration officials affect an attitude of being hurt to the quick because the public generally, and some members of congress in particular, seem not inclined to put too much confidence in the as surances of the President and the Secretary of Defense that things aren’t so bad in Cuba. The public and the Congressmen have good reason to take this at titude. Not long ago, in connection with the Cuban crisis, an adminis tration spokesman admitted that the news had been “controlled” and he could see nothing wrong with “controlling” the news. In view of that statement, how are we ever to know whether we are being told the truth, or whe ther what we hear is controlled? Of all the things done yet by the Kennedy administration, this, to me, is the most dangerous. The people of America should he told the truth about any sitution which affects national security. They should be told the truth about anything that goes on in out gov ernment—whether it concerns the Russians or the favors given Con gressman Adam Clayton Powell. If we can no longer depend on our government to tell us what is going on, it is time for some enterprising newspaper reporters to start digging in and revealing facts as they exist—hut then even if they did, the publishers might refuse to print the information be cause of fear of reprisals from the Kennedv bovs. i to think you can't do anything : about a dog unless hi’s viciou. 1 so now you have the consolation ! of knowing, after a dog bites you. ■ that he is vicious and you can do | something about it- ! Council asked the city manager 1 to see what other places, were do ing about dogs. Whether other cities have done anything. I don’t know, but if they haven’t, that I is no excuse for Newberry to sit i back and do nothing. 1 I repeat again—if all of you who have talked to me about this would talk to the may, r. your council man or the city manager, some thing would he done. I can’t do it alone. Mollohon Workers Have Fine Record For Safety BAD PUBLICITY This whole business of the vol unteer fire department and the po lice department would be right comical, if it weren’t causing so much bad publicity for Newberry. I realize it has been a head ache for the mayor and members of council, who have been cons tantly badgered by both Bides in the controversy among the volun teer firemen. And of course it is regrettable that there must be a controversy. But the whole thing boils down to one question: Who is going to run the city? Is it go ing to be run by the city manager, under direction of a majority of members of council, or is it going to be run by a few disgruntled citizens ? The volunteer firemen who have resigned—and by the way, I un derstand most of them wish they hadn’t—did the right thing. They weren’t satisfied with the way things w’ere going, so they got out. It would be my thought that this w T ouId he a good rule for the police department. If they don’t like the way things are going, no one is forcing them to remain in their jobs—but if they are going to re- ! main, they should either be loyal to their employer, or come up with some better reason for not want ing to move their headquarters other than “we don’t want to be in that hole where w T e can’t see what’s going on.” (Now I’ll have the Police depart ment giving me the cold shoulder again!) Well, city council decided Tues day night who would run the city and it won’t be a few volunteer firemen. My hat is off, in particular, to Councilman Jimmie Davenport. On the first vote, he went along with Councilmen Armfield and Merch ant, and Mayor Layton, to estab lish a Department of Safety. The latter three have been on council long enough that most people realize they’re going to do what they think is right and not suc cumb to pressure. Jimmie, being a ' first-termer on council, was more of an unknown quantity, so the pressure was really put on him to change his position and vote out the Department of Safety. In ad dition to this, he has for many years been a close friend of at least one of the opposition mem bers on the issue. But Jimmie stood firm because, as he said, “I did what I thought was right in the first place, and I see no reason to change.” Newberrians should be proud to have elected this young man to council. I don’t say we will always agree with the way he votes, but we can be sure that he is voting his convictions, and not succumb ing to pressure from a few dis satisfied citizens who want to make trouble. Mrs. Nina Mower Rites Tuesday Mrs. Nina Seay Mower, eighty- four, widow of the late Dr. Frank D. Mower, of 1001 Johnstone St., died Sunday night at a Columbia hospital after a long illness. Mrs. Mower was born and rear ed in Richland county,, a daughter of the late John Robert and Rach el Stack Seay. She had spent most of her life in Newberry where she was a member of Aveleigh Pres byterian church. Before her mar riage she was a nurse, being in the 1 first graduating class of the Col- j umbia hospital. Mrs. Mower is survived by ;o daughters. Mrs. Tom M. SiO er of "Whitmire and Mrs. Rachel M. Spivey of Newberry anc Char lotte: six grandchildren. and a number «'f nephews and nieces Funeral services were conduct ed Tuesday at McSwain Funeral Home by Dr. Neil E. Truesdell. Interment was in Rosemont cem etery. Active pallbearers were Elders of Aveleign church: J. D. French, J. W. Abrams, J. J. Chappell, T. W. Hunter, J. L. McCord and B. M. Scurry. IN COLLEGE ALL-STATE BAND Seventeen members of the New berry College Band have been cho sen to play in the College ATI-state Concert Band at the Citadel in Charleston February 15 and 16. Those from Newberry county tak ing part will be Miss Margaret Kelly, Clarinet; Larry Williams, Tenor Saxophone of Whitmire; and Benjamin Phillips, Jr., Tuba. Miss Sylvia Elkins, a piano ma jor at Newberry college, will he the only soloist appearing with the All-State College Band. She is a student of Darr Wise, Assist ant Professor of Music. The Mollohon plant of the ' Kendall company textile division here passed 1962 without a lost time accident, and its safety com mittee was honored here Friday i night with a banquet. Lauded as “one of the finest | safety committees we’ve ever had i at Mollohon” by Plant Manager W. H Tedford, the 18--member | committee led the way to a safe ty mark that now extends to i 1,182,000 man hours, i Some 60 persons, including four ; Charlotte. N. C., textile division | officials, attended the banquet in ! the community house here and i heard Miss Clarabel Strayhorn, as- | sistant director of division person nel, >peak. Miss Strayhorn said Mollohon’s 1 record showed all employes “live and practice safety.” She listed the three RT of safety of safety | as recognition of dangerous prac- j tices, responsibility of each em- | ployee. and revolution or change | of the practices. A plaque from Kendall w a s presented by Jack Baker, direc tor of textile division manufact uring, to Mis. Q. L. Shealy on be half of the safety commission. Baker said there is always one thing common to the safest in dustrial plants, a “strong safety committee with some get up and go about them.” Plant manager Tedford, w h o presided over the hour-and-a half banquet, said the committee should be proud of what they had accomplished. This included “sav ing the company a tidy sum,” plus the alleviation of human suf fering. The current record, being car ried on by a new committee, is the second best Mollohon has ever had, Tedford said. The pres ent mark extends from Dec. 6th, 1961. The best mark was from Sept. 1, 1953, to June 29, 1955, when some 2,050,000 man hours without a lost-time accident were achiev ed. “We expect to keep building on to this (present mark) until we reach an all time record for Mollohon,” Tedford continued. He presented gifts to all members of the committee. Tedford said the committee ac tually represents all 480 em ployees of the plant since the record required the cooperation of them all. Also on the program was Jack Harris, assistant director of man ufacturing and Rev. L. W. King. New Magistrate Be Elected A special Democratic election will be held in Whitmire on March 5 to elect a successor to John P. Foster, who died recently. The time to qualify as a candidate will close at noon February 16. Candi dates may file with Mrs. A. H. Counts at her office, 13 03 1-2 Caldwell street. All registered voters in Tare dis trict No. 4 are eligible. This in cludes Whitmire No. 1 and 2 pre cincts, Maybinton and Long Lane- Beth Eden. DEMANDS THINKING The demands of this new world are first of all demands that we think, and learn. We face them ill prepared. Our educational sys tem is not unfairly characterized by reference to the course in fam ily living in the high school of Lockport, N. Y. The last unit of this course is called “How to Be Livable, Lovable and Dateable.” PTA MEETING AT SILVERSTREET The Silverstreet PTA will meet Tuesday night, February 19th at 7:30 in the school auditorium. Rev. David Templeton will have the devotions. Rev. Shealy of the Boys Farm will be the guest speaker. The public is invited. Girl Scouts To Sell Cookies Congaree Girl Scouts will launch the biggest cookie sale in the his tory of the Council with a goal of 100,000 boxes. Mrs. Tom Brown is Cookie chairman of the Newberry Neighborhood, now a part of the Congaree Council. Orders for cookies will be taken starting February 16 through Mar. 1. This year the Scouts are offer ing 4 types of cookies: Assorted Sandwich, Chocolate Mint, Vanilla- Cinnamon, and -Butternut-Roundup —prices are 50c per box. Cookies will be sold and delivered March 18—April 5. Proceeds from the Cookie Sale go toward the improvement and development of camping facilities in the Congaree area. 1962 Cookie Sale profits made possible the con struction at Congaree Established Camp and Arts and Crafts build ing, a new Unit House for Senior Age campers and renovation of the “Big House,” an original house on the site when purchased. Profits for Camp Dickson, camp for negro Scouts, included the con struction of three shelters with concrete floors, a deep well and pump and fencing. Detailed planning and organiza tion prior to the cookie order tak ing period, go into this annual pro ject. A Cookie Committee made up of Scout Volunteer Workers, met in October to decide which fran chised cookie company they will accept to provide cookies for the sale. The committee considers each company, tasting the product, con sidering selling aides, delivery ser vice, packaging and price of the product. After the committee de cides which company’s they will use, Neighborhood Chairman are informed on procedure of the sale. Then the planning stage reaches the Scout members and in a series of meetings the girls are informed as to how they should carry out the sale. Prior to the time girls ring neighborhood door bells they are well-versed in the type of cookies, the price, the packaging, the distribution and purchase of the sale. Effort To Abolish City Safety Department Is Voted Down Prosperity To Extend Sewer By a vote of 154 to 54 residents of Prosper’+v voted last Thursday to expand the sewer facilities of the town. An engineering firm was immediately contacted to begin preliminary planning. It is expected that the project —which will cost about $130,000— will be financed by revenue bonds. Local Hospital Gets Duke Funds ^appropriations of $1,374,165.33 to assist North Carolina and South Carolina hospitals and child care institutions in charity work were announced today by trustees of the Duke endowment. Newberry County Memorial hos pital received an appropriation of $3,692 as compared with $3,820 received last year. Assisted hospi tals receive $1 a day for each free day of care. Second Seminar Be Saturday The second in a series of thirty- minute television seminars on Farm Management will be pre sented on Channel 10, Feb. 16 at 1:30 and on Channel 6 at 7 a.m. the same day. The Farm Semina, panel for this management discussion con sists of five knowledgeable men selected for their personal exper ience with managing a farm busi- nesfli They are: Ralph Palan, a vocational agriculture instructor; successful farmers Maynard Jen sen, Frank Mitchell, and Will Er win; banker and farm manager, Don Willard; and county agent Ellis Christen. The main discusion will center around how proper farm manage ment is the key to increased in come. The participants will take management out of its stereotyp ed picture as “jjust bookkeeping” and translate it into a vital and essential procedure. BREEDERS TO HAVE MEETING Members of the Newberry Co operative Breeding Association are reminded of the annual meet ing to be held Monday evening, February 18 at Silverstreet school. A free pancake supper and inter esting program are planned for all who attend. Those who have not mailed their reservation cards for the supper are urged to do so by Friday. P. T. Harris, president of the Association, will preside. The Newberry District, Boy Scouts of America, observed the 53rd anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America with a father-son banquet Friday night. On the program were, front from left, Milton Gatlin, Peter Brown and Edmunds Young, who led the Pledge to the Flag; back row from left, Elmer Shealy, scoutmaster; Jimmy Bannister, who also participated in the opening ceremonies; Wright Can non, scoutmaster; and Dewey Kinard, scoutmaster with the longest tenure in South Carolina. All three scout masters are holders of the Silver Beaver Award. | City council made it clear Tues day night that it would run the city despite the opposition of a i few volunteer firemen and the | grumbling of some members of the city police department. The supposed issue which brought the showdown wan whe ther or not the city would retain the Department of Safety which council voted in favor of last Oct ober. Although the volunteer fire de partment unanimously approved operation of the fire department under the Department of Safety, after certain changes were made which they requested, there has been an undercurrent of dissatis faction within the department since that time, and 14 voli nteer firemen stated that they would re sign f»-om the department effect ive February 28. At the last special meeting of council, Councilman Clarence She- aly made an effort to open the Council Seeks Re - Testing Of Drivers At a meeting of the executive council of the South Carolina Highway Safety Committee last Wednesday a motion was unani mously adopted, putting the coun cil on record as favoring, and ask ing for public support of, a driver re-examination bill recently intro duced in the S. C. General assemb ly. The measure has been advocat ed by citizens groups of South Carolina for a number of years, and was given approval at the an nual meeting of the Governor’s Highway Safety Conference held September 25. Member of the committee point ed out that the bill if enacted into law, would result in taking from the highways many persons who are nearly blind or otherwise phy sically incapable of operating mo tor vehicles safely. Under the pro posed driver re-examination, lic enses would expire four years from date of issue, rather than all expiring on the same date ,as at present. This would stagger the load of license issuances more evenly over the four-year period. The Committee also discussed a proposed bill which would pro vide for periodic motor vehicle inspections under a system where vehicles would be checked by lic ensed garages. Passage of such a measure, not yet introduced in the General Assembly, was approved at the Governor’s Highway Safety Conference, and has the backing of a number of organizations in the state. It was pointed out at the meet ing that a number of states in the Union already have laws re quiring re-e-xamination of drivers and periodic motor vehicle inspec tions. Presided over by Dr. O. B. Mayer, of Columbia, chairman of the Safety Committee, the coun cil heard a discussion of various proposals for making the high ways safer. Sample of driver lic enses, on which were imprinted photographs of drivers, were cir culated at the meeting. It has been proposed that South Carolina dri ver licenses also bear the photo graphs of license holders. It was explained at the council meeting that a good many unlicensed per sons are attempting to drive with the licenses of others, and pho tographs on licenses would pro vide more positive identification of the persons to whom they were issued. The executive council is compos ed of 23 leading business and civic executives in the state. Call to Prayer VOLUME 26; NUMBER 43. FINALLY Council finally got around to talking about dogs Tuesdav night, but it was only talk and that was brief. This was understandable, be cause everyone knew the Depart ment of Safety issue was coming up, and no telling how long that would consume. Councilman McCutcheon seems Boy Scouts of today are pion-1 eering the pages of history’s most' interesting chapter, Dr. W. Redd Turner, pastor of the First Pres byterian church, Clinton, told more than 300 attending a father- son banquet of the Boy Scouts of America, Newberry district, Fri day night. Dr. Turner was speaker for the I banquet in the Newberry college j dining hall, talking to an audience of Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Explor er Scouts, their fathers and adult scouting officials. He likened the young leaders of tomorrow’s space age to earlier pioneers—David Livingstone, of missionary pioneering fame in Af rica; Walter Reed of yellow fever research renown; Daniel Boone of beyond-the-mountains exploration in the West. Hart Jordan past district chair man, was master of ceremonies. Scouts were introduced for recog nition by Joe Pool, current district chairman, who also recognized Dewey Kinard of Newberry, scout master with the longest tenure in South Carolina, and scouting lead ers, Wright Cannon and Elmer Shealy. Meredith Harmon, member o f the district committee, led in sing ing of “America The Beautiful” and Jimmy Bannister recited the Pledget to the Flag. Kind Father, Thou whom to know is to love and to love is to serve, forgive us when we have done less than our best. We remember with sorrow the hard words we have spoken. We remember with shame the un worthy thoughts we have had. Deep within us we are tired of not obeying Thy will. May the words of Thy son Jesus “You are my disciples if you do what I have commanded you”, take on new meaning for tr- today. In the name of Christ we pray. Amen. I question of the Department of 1 Safety for discussion. He was i ruled out of order by Mayor Lay- | ton, who stated that only a mem ber who had voted with the ma jority on the question was able to open it for discussion. Councilman Shealy stated last weekend that he expected to again bring up the question but before he had a chance to do so, one of the prevailing members beat him to it. Councilman Jimmie Daven port moved the question be open ed; Councilman Shealy quickly seconded the motion and Mr. Dav enport at once made it clear that he was still in favor of the De partment of Safety, but because there had been so much contro versy, he felt that the council should discuss it again. The discussion ran hot and heavy before a motion was made by Councilman Armfield to limit debate. Shealy stated that he in tended to bring the question up himself and that his conscience would not be clear unless it was discussed again. Armfield remind ed Shealy that the question was fully discussed before it was ever adopted. “Did you not have a clear conscience then?” he asked Shea ly. “I did, but I can’t see what purpose the Director of Safety is serving. All the duties the direct or has, the city manager has.” (The City manager volunteered to serve as Safety Director until such time as council felt it could afford to hire someone for the po sition.) Shealy asked Mayor Layton: “Do you intend to hire a Director of Safety when the money is avail able?” The mayor reminded Mr. Shealy that that would be left en tirely with council; that this coun cil could not obligate a future council. Shealy then asked if council realized that by forming the de partment, “confusion would be created within the city depart ments of the city.” Mayor Layton replied, “I don’t think you can predict confusion on any issue.” Councilman McCutcheon wanted to know why council thought the city needed a Safety Director. Mr. Armfield replied “What we want is progress. I don’t say we need one next week or next month, but certainly I approve of putting all departments under one classifica tion.” Mr. Shealy wanted to know if, considering t ie confusion centered around the Safety Department, it wouldn’t be better to do away with it. Mayor Layton asked Shealy: “Are you one who is qualified to say confusion exists around the Department of Safety?” Shealy’s reply was that he had heard that was the case. Mayor Layton stated “I have heard it was not.” He asked Shealy didn’t he believe someone should take care of the city’s equipment and Shealy ad mitted there should be someone for that purpose. Councilman Davenport said: “When this was brought up, I thought it was a good plan. I think the Department of Safety is a good thing in planning for the future.” After further discussion, Mayor Layton told Shealy “I don’t see how you can condemn Mr. Riebe (city manager) who is only doing what council instructed him to do.” Shealy angrily pounded his fists on the table and denied having con demned Mr. Riebe. On inquiry from Armfield, Shea ly admitted this controversy all went back to one department (the volunteer fire department). Arm- field then reminded Council that the volunteers had unanimously approved the plan, and Mayor read the letter from the volunteers in which this approval was given. Shealy wanted to know if the city had kept its word and operat ed according to the plan. Mr. Riebe stated “As one responsible for the operation, I would like to say we have followed the plan to the let ter—we have even bent over back wards to be cooperative.” Shealy still maintained that do ing away with the Department of Safety “would clarify things.” After council voted to limit de bate, Shealy made a motion to abolish the Department of Safety. Armfield, Merchant and Daven port voted against the motion; Shealy, Heller and McCutcheon in favor of it. Mayor Layton broke the tie by voting against, and the Department of Safety remained in tact. A number of volunteer fire- | men were on hand to hear the dis cussion. At the beginning of the meet ing, the mayor read a letter from the Civic League expressing ap- 1 preciation to the city for its coop eration on various piojects of the league. Clerk and Treasurer Wallace showed figures to show that the Meter Maid was paying her sal ary with increased parking meter collections and fines. Councilman Armfield reported on a budget committee meeting held Monday night and reported that the city should operate with in the budget this year and pos sibly come up with a surplus. The committee recommenaed pay raises of about five percent for employees who have been with the city longer than six months. This pertains to those who were not given a raise effective April 1st when the budget was adopted for the current operating year. The committee also recommend ed that city manager Riebe get bids on garbage department equip ment of a more modern nature. Council was assured that no pres ent member of the garbage depart ment would lose their jobs, but would be absorbed in other de partments, or vacancies left unfill ed until the number absorbed. The" estimate on two garbage units was $23,000 to $25,000. Manager Riebe told of various surveys run on gar bage collection and said that ail tests showed the city should be able to save $25,000 annually with more modern garbage collection facilities. Council instructed the manager to draw up specifications and get bids to present to council. The city manager laid the resi dents of newly-annexed Harring ton Heights would be divided be tween Wards 2 and 6, depending or. the way the line presently runs between the two wards. Mr. Riebe advised that Civil De fense officials had only Tuesday visited Newberry and then had not completed their investigations, so he had no further report on the proposed central communica tions center. The question of the dog menace arose and Mr. Riebe told of receiv- irf£ a letter and numerous tele phone calls concerning injuries and destruction to property caus ed by degs. Councilman McCutch eon expressed the opinion that he didn’t know how you could do anything unless you knew a dog was vicious. The city manager said he had discussed the matter with the city attorney, who advised there -was nothing to prevent council from passing laws setting up controls to include anything from requiring leashing to requiring penning dogs. Mr. Riebe was asked to check and see what c : ties compar able to Newberry were doing about this problem. . ^ BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Feb. 17: Mrs. Walter Lovett, Mrs. Marvin O. Summer, Mrs. J. N. Ruff, Mildred Senn, Mrs. Clarence Waldrop, Ralph Wick er, Dawn Frick, Mrs. Henry Nichols, Miss Ruby Dominick, Mrs. R. L. Longshore, Larry Monts, Mrs. A. L. Goff, Mrs. Jesse W. Senn, Policeman Eu gene Shealy. Feb. 18: Miss Leona Shealy, P. G. Blount, Bobby Timmer man, Lorene Fulmer, Bettie Mims, Howard B. Kirkegard, Mrs. J. W. Mims, Ray Holliday. Feb. 19: Jim Feagle, W. R. Feagle, Mi's. Emma Longshore, Mrs. L. W. Wilson, Charles Kinard, Mrs. Eva MeKiasick, Mrs. S. E. Longshore, James D. Crooks, Marcia Monroe, Ken neth Tompkins, Mrs. Harry Dukes, Randy C. Crews. Feb 20: T. Clyde Tindall, Mrs. C. F. Thompson, Henry E. Mills, Joan Davenport, Larry Summer. Feb. 21: Mrs. Ruth Davis, Wil son Leitzsey, Ralph Summer, Jesse Ouzts. Feb. 22: Mary Ruth Walton, Susanne McElveen, Mrs. J. Y. Lomax, Cathy Bennett. Feb. 23: Mrs. Ralph W. Con nelly, Lawrence Connelly, Mrs. Luther Hamm, Sanford V. Epps, Ann Wheeler, Mrs. Harry Kyzer John Miller and Martha Kyzer.