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r x j m3 titl You never can appreciate the flexibility of the human voice until your wife stops scolding you to answer the phone. VOLUME 26; NUMBER 48. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1963 ♦ $2.00 Per Year By The Way - By DORIS A. SANDERS EASTER PARADE Across the button of this pa^c* is a picture of the youngsters who model “Easter Fashions Throairh The Years.” The first fashion show tfiven by these boys and pirls of Boundary Street school was at the banquet of the S. <'. .Music Educa tors Association in Columbia in February. This picture has been published in The Sun before, on a much smaller scale, but there was so much favorable comment, it is beiny r reprinted, as it was pub lished in the March lOtid issue of the South Carolina Musician. The jtroup will ap’ain perform at the meeting of the Civic League next Tuesday at 4 P. M. at the Com munity hall. Whether you are a member of the League or not. I’m sure you would be welcomed if you wish to come see the “F'ashion Parade.” The children, and the years their fashions represent are, from left, Beth Dixon and James Dod son, 1923; Beth Hughes and Ben nie Bartley, 1893; Marian Fryga and Mickey Move, 1913; Ruthie Sanders and Rickey Attaway, 17- 83; Ann Summer and Erwin Ba ker, 1863; Gwen Cummings and David Ringer, 1863; Jean Altman and Blair Mathis, 1943; Jo Tindall and Ronnie Bannister, 1963. Cornerstone Be Laid At Mount Tabor Building A. Kaufmann Dies Of Seizure mm Tim Rev. I)-. Karl W. Kinard, president of the South Carolina Lutheran Synod, will b<- at Mt.j Tabor Lutheran church. Lit tie Mountain on Sunday, March 24th ; for the laying of the cornerstone I a r i .■ numl i of the new Mt. Tabor ing. Dr. Kinard will preach at the! I 11 A. M. service. Immediately foi-. ! lowing the service, the eongrega- I tion will go into the church yard | for the ceremony. Work on the $30,0(1 parish build ing was begun the early part of November of last year. Tentative' date of completion is May 16. The Rev. John T. Chewning, Jr. | is pastor of the church. Funeral services were conducted at 3 p. m. Saturday at the Luth eran church of The Redeemer by Dr. H. A. McCullough, Rev. T. H. Vic 1 ery and Dr. Karl Kinard. Burial was in Rosemont cemetery. H. B. Kirkegard’s Father Dies Many Guilty Pleas Entered During Criminal Court Term Pallbearers were Fulmer Wells, | day. Wl ight Cannon, T. E. Epting, Wil- ' son Yates, B. O. Long, Dr. Conrad ; 117 1 Parks, John F. Clarkson and Dr. | V,3.IlC0r OTK0TS Reeves Chalmers. Jens Kirkegard, 85. father of H B. Kirkegard of Newberry, died Sunday at a nursing home in Con necticut after a long illness. Fun eral services were held Wednes day morning at 10 a.m. in his home town of Ansonia, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Kirkegard left Monday to attend the funeral, j ^^Rs who pleaded guilty to twenty- oner indicted on four counts. one charges Monday. Circuit Judge Frank Eppes of low county jail prisoner. Greenville, presiding at the year’s Carter was a co-defendant in first term of General Sessions the highway robbery charge with Court here, sentenced 12 defend- Freddie Lee Simms, another pris- i . ---i- i i j •,, . . - They will return to Newberry Fri- Kaplan Urges Response To Red Cross Appeal NEPH Winners Are Announced Pierce C. Davis, director of the South Carolina Employment Sec urity commission in Newberry, has announced that Nancy Paysinger o' Newberry high school is first J place winner in an essay contest on J the “Employment of the Hand!- j capned” and will receive a prize 1 of $15.00. Second prize of $10 was won by : Claudette Long of Mid Carolina High School with the $5 third prize going to MargueriU- T> rice of Whitmire High School. Prizes were donated by New berry Federal Savings and Loan Association. Each winner also re- | ceived an additional $10, given I by The Newberry Sun, Prosperity | Furniture Co. and J. P. Stevens Co. plant in Whitmire. Judges for the contest were members of Newberry College English department. This wonderful Spring weather, with the grass getting green, and the lovely flowers in bloom thru- out the city, should be enough to inspire anyone to do a lot of cleaning up even without the or ganized efforts of a clean-up cam paign. Not that I’m against the campaign—I’m definitely for it, and City Manager Ken Riebe tells me that the organization will be getting under way in the near future. It is to he quite a com plicated set-up, and if I don’t miss my guess, practically everyone in town of kindergarten age and over will he involved before it’s over with. I felt ashamed not to be out raking leaves and weeding flowers myself yesterday when I looked out the window and saw my neigh bors working so hard. I don’t believe there are any two harder-working people in Newberry than former Supervisor S. W. Shealy and Mrs. Shealy. We think we get up bright and early, but we can look out any morning and see the Shealys are already up working hard in the garden and on the yard. It would be hard for anyone to top the beautiful and productive vegetable garden Mr. Shealy will have in a short time, and Mrs. Shealy has lovely flow ers blooming almost any time of the year. With the exception of two spots I AI ” , , , i. , i ! March 12. on that block. Langford street, be tween Boundary and O’Neal, is a beautiful residential section. All the neighbors take pride in their lawns, flowers and gardens. Some even go to the extent of cleaning- up property which doesn’t belong to them, just to keep it from be ing an eyesore. If all residents cared for their homes and lots as themajority do, in our block, Newberry would truly be a beautiful city. Trouble is with this clean-up, paint-up business, my husband tells me he’s going to put me to I Newberry, March 31-April 6; Ser- work painting the house this sum-| vice Sunday ll‘:00 a. m. and even I. Kaplan, chairman of the 1963 Red Cross Drive, urges that all businessmen and other citizens who have received letters request- Dr. Christopher Alphonso Kauf-j ing donations to the Red Cross, maim, 56-year old former presi- j respond as soon as possible, in dent of Newberry college, died i order that the drive may be suddenly Thursday afternoon at brought to a successful conclusion his home on Harrington street. i by the end of March. Dr. Kaufmann, a native of Lex-J Mr. Kaplan states that there is ington and a son of the late Julian I still some solicitation work to be Lugerm an 1 Addie Drafts Kauf- | done in the business section and Bundrick Now In Fire Department The City Office announced this week ciiat B. R. Bundrick, driver in the garbage department, h a s been transferred to the Newberry fire department. Mr. Bundrick’s transfer will ; bring the total number of paid I drivers in the fire department to i six, three for each shift. The ad- j ditional driver was authorized by i Council at the regular meeting on ! to the advisory committee on In keeping with previous policy a,kllt ^ u ^ti°n in 1954. Mr. Bundrick’s position in the gar'- | In -^‘wherry. D,. Kaufmann was bage department will not be filled. ' cha!iman of the Red Cross drive Mr. Bundrick assumed his new mann, was graduated from Lex ington High School, and in 1929 from Newoerry college. He later received his master of arts degree f! om the University of South Car olina. He was awarded an honor ary degree of doctor of law at Lenoir Rhyne college. The educator came to Newberry College in 1930 as registrar. From 1945 to 1947 he served as State manager of the Citizens Home Fire Insurance Co. He also organ ized and was manager of Radio Station WKDK until 1949 when he returned to the collge as assistant to the president and director of public relations. He first served as acting presi dent in 1954 and then was elected president of Newberry college in 1955. He resigned in 1960 because of poor health. Dr. Kaufmann was active in church and civic affairs through out the state. He was a member of the Lutheran church of the Redeemer where he was chair man of the church council, super intendent of the high school de partment of the Sunday school and a member of the building com mittee. He had served on the com mittee on ministerial education for the S. C. Lutheran Synod, and was elected to the board of trus tees at Newberry college in 1960. He was appointed by the governor the residential section, but that the response thus far has been gratifying. Funds obtained during the drive support the blood program in this county, as well as a number of other community services, and aid ♦hose who are victims of disasters. Meeting Set A meeting of volunteer workers for the 1963 Cancer Crusade will meet tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 P. M. for a supper at the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church on Main street. Speaker for the meeting bill be Dr. U. Hoyt Bodie of Columbia, who is connected with Dr. Pitts in cancer work. Carter and Simms asked for The guilty pleas were the only , separate trials and Carter’s came duties in the fire department Monday, March 18. on Revival Service The Reverend C. Eugene Carroll, pastor of the Kendalls Baptist Church of New London, N. C., will be the guest speaker at the Bush River Baptist Church, Route 3, mer Well, I’ve done it before; guess I can do it again—if I can’t find some good excuse to get out of it. and was a member of the Kiwanis ; club. Since his retirement he had ! been a member of the advisory ! hoard of the South Carolina Nat ional bank. At the time of his death, he headed the 1963 New berry county Heart Fund cam paign. During Dr. Kaufmann’s term of office at the college, its enroll ment almost doubled and three new buildings were erected. One of the new facilities at the school was named Kaufmann Hall in his honor in 1960. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Til ings, 7:30 p.m. The music will be led by the pastor, Arden Stewart. Billy Stew- la West Kaufmann; and a brother, art will be the organist. J. E. Kaufmann of Florence. School Clinics To Be Held The Newberry County Health department will conduct pre-school clinics on the dates and at places listed below: March 28—Boundary Street El ementary—2:30 P. M. March 29—Pomaria Elementary —2:00 P. M. April 3—Silverstreet Element ary—9:30 A. M. April 4—Rikard Elementary — 10:00 A. M. April 5—Prosperity Elementary —3:00 P. M. April 8—Speers Street Elemen tary—2:30 P. M. April 10—Reuben Elementary— 9:30 A. M. April. 11—Little Mountain Ele mentary— 10:00 A. M. April 11—Drayton Street Ele mentary—3:00 P. M. April 19—Garmany Elementary —10:00 A. M. April 24—Bush River Elemen tary—9:30 A. M. April 25—Carver Elementary— 10:00 A. M. April 25—Park Street Elemen tary—2:30 P. M. Pupils must be six years old on or before November 1 of this year before they can be enrolled. Birth certificates are required before a child can be registered and par ents are requested to bring their child’s birth certificate to the clin ic. To Speak At Rotary Meet Approximately 500 Rotarians and their wives from 30 clubs in upper South Carolina are expected to attend the annual conference of District 775, Rotary International, at the Jack Tar Poinsett hotel in Greenville Friday and Saturday, March 29-30. Bruce D. Cloaninger of Clem- son is district governor, and John D. Sadler of Greenville is general chairman for the conference, di recting the work of the host Ro tary clubs in the Greenville area. Theme of the conference is “Kin dle The Spark Within”. Among the speakers on Friday afternoon program is Jimmy Cog gins, president of the Newberry club. Dr. R. N. DuBose of Spartan burg, formerly of Whitmire, and well-known in Newberry, will ad dress a Saturday luncheon on “Rotary Moves Forward.” Laura and Mike Bi’annon, child ren of Mr. and Mrs. Luke Bran non of Columbia, spent the week end here with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Carpenter on Boundary street. CAC Meeting To Be In Columbia COLUMBIA — The only state wide meeting of Protestants in South Carolina will be held on Tuesday, March 26, when the Christian Action Council will hold its Annual Meeting at the First Christian Church in Columbia. Dr. Neil Truesdell of Newberry, president of the inter-denomina- t’onal Council, has announced that “The Moral and Social Tasks Be fore Us in South Carolina—Ways Forward in Christian Action” will be the theme for the meeting. Special attention to “30 Years of Service”—the 30th anniversary of the Christian Action Council in South Carolina—will be included in the program, according to Dr. Wallace Fridy of Anderson, Pub lic Relations Chairman of the group. Baptists, A.R.P., Advent Christ ian, Church of God (Cleveland. Tenn.) Christian (Disciples of Christ), Lutheran, Methodist, Pen tecostal Holiness, Presbyterian, and Wesleyan Methodist groups in the state are associated with the program and support of the Christian Action Council. court action after the grand jury reported out its 67 new cases in the afternoon. Six cases were carried over from last year. Among the guilty pleas were three each from four youths— Jesse Watkins, Joe Walker, Jr., Warren Trammell and Ronald Watkins—for larceny here. Each got concurrent, suspended five- year sentence.^ of five years of probation. In other action, Judge Eppes signed an official order, commit ting Mrs. Ollie Smith Gambrell of Rt. 1, Donalds, to the State Hospital for a 30-day mental ex amination. Mrs. Gamorell, charged with shooting her husband, Capers S. Gambrell, 71, last Wednesday aft er prayer meeting, was taken to the Columbia institution Sun day under an emergency o~der. In its presentment signed by foreman Elmer E. Epting, the grand jury named four commit- ’ tees for investigative purposes this year. Jurors are James C. Harmon, Harold O. Cook, J. N. Amick, James Henry Phibbs, Jr., Grady B. Wicker, Jame; C. McLeod, Charles H. Kidd, D. G. Sease, Leon D. Nichols, Vernon F. Epting. A. R. Chappelle, John J. Chappell, M. 0. Mayer, G. Frank Hanna, T. Roy Summer, Jr., John R. Floyd and Warren R. Cousins. The jurors returned no-bills for Willie H. Gray, non-support, and J. W. Counts for grand larceny. They also returned one no-bill and one true bill against John Lewis Praylow for assault and battery with intent to kill. Other guilty pleas and senten ce:- were: Johnny Holmes and Dennis Byrd, non-support, a year or $1,- 500, suspended on payment of $17.50 a week, on probation until fine paid. Willie Earl DeWalt, assault and battery, six months, suspend ed on probation of a year. Ernest Watts, Leslie Arnold Blankenship, and Arthur Lee Baker, Jr., second offense driving under the influence of intoxicants, each a year or $1000, suspended on payment of $300 or three months, probation for two years. J. W. Wells, assault and battery three years, suspended cn proba tion for three years. James Goggans, non-support, a year or $1,500, suspended on pay ment of $15 a week during proba tion. James Goggans, assault and battery, a year, suspended on pro bation of two years. During the Tuesday session, Marion Carter defended himself against a charge of highway rob bery, a misnomer for the crime which simply means robbery with use of threats or violence — and lost. The robbery charge was one of three Carter faced Tuesday, and it resulted from the alleged robbery of $30 in cash from a fel- up first with Simms as a defense witness. But Simms told Solicitor Wil liam T. Jones on cross examina tion that Carter did take the money and denied he had helped. While the jury deliberated, Simms reversed himself and plead ed guilty to his part in the jail robbery, to two counts of house- breaking and larceny and to a single count of larceny. Judge Frank Eppes of Green ville, sent him to jail for five years. Then before the jury returned with its conviction of Carter, Car ter pleaded guilty to the two housebreaking and larceny charges which put him in jail in the first place. Carter was sent to jail for ten years. Meanwhile the court was proc essing guilty pleas, continuances and nol pressed cases, leaving only 12 of the original 73 docket cases on the books for this term. One of those left was a jury trial which was recessed until Wednesday morning. Guy Dent Hipp is on trial for second offense driving under the influence of in toxicants. In an unusual action, Judge Eppes made a condition of proba tion for a liquor law violator that he close his place of business by April 1 and never operate a simi lar business in the state again. In addition, Ralph Rickard, who got a suspended one year or $1,500 sentence, was given permission to leave South Carolina, despite his probation. Continued cases were: Earl Bax ter, assault and battery with in tent to kill; Shirl C. Tinsley, non support; C. Maurice McDaniel, bad check law; Albert Cannon and George Willie Perry, rape; Troy D. Harris, second offense drunken driving; Australie Simms, viola tion liquor laws, and Mack Alston, violation liquor laws. Nol pressed were these cases: Phillip B. Hite, bad check law; Terry Satterfield, assault and bat tery with intent to kill, Willie H. Grey, non-support, and Joe John son, non-support. Among the guilty pleas and sen tences were: Willie Lewis Hawkins, house breaking and larceny, three years, suspended, three years of proba tion. Daniel Nix, highway robbery, five years. John Henry Douglas, highway! robbery, five years. J. L. Lindsey, violation of liquor laws, six months or $1,090. sus pended, three montns or $300. Pink Williams, non-support, a year or $1,500, suspended on pay ment of $15 a week during proba tion. Billy Ray Cook, housebreaking with intent to steal, four counts, five years on three counts, a year on une, ail concurrent. Sam Wilson, forgery, five years, suspended, probation for five years. Paul Jones Sr. and Phil Jones Jr., houseb’-eaking and larceny, 18 months, suspended, probation of three years. Willie Lewis Hawkins, house breaking and larceny, three years, suspended, probation of three years. Larry Amick, violation liquor laws, six months, or $600, sus pended on three months or $300, probation of a year. William Pinckney Wise and Jo nas Amick, violation liquor laws, a year or $1,500, suspended on six months or $750, two years of pro bation. Frank DeWalt, pointing a fire arm, a year, suspended, probation of a year. Friends of Mrs. A1 Busby will be pleased to learn that she has been released from a Greenville hospi tal, and is at the home of her mother in Anderson. Mrs. Busby is recovering nicely, and expects to return to her home on Evans Circle this weekend. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS March 24: Mrs. Fred Richard son, Mrs. Jeff Waldrop, Rich ard Perkins, Hayne Shealy, Hob by Busby. March 25: Nancy Stone Mc Donald, Loward N. Parks, Dav id H. Long, Mrs. Helen B. Folk, Mrs. Boyd Livingston, Jeanette Rinehart, Marcus Henurix, Jan ice Ringer, Myrle Hanna. March 26: Mrs. E. L. Blackwell, Marvin Eugene Schumpert, Sue Hutchinson, Lance Reid, Mar- gart E. Mason, March 27: Mrs. M. D. Lambeth, Thomas Hugh Crooks, Marvin Abrams, Jr., Phillip Earl Crom er, Mrs. George R. Summer. March 28: H. O. Newman, Eliz abeth Ann Fuff, Sylvia Shell, H. T. Lake, Johnnie S. Harmon, Horace Cromer, Ralph Higgins, Ruth M. Swygert, David Leon ard Turner. March 29: Mrs. Foster Smith, , Mrs. Norma Wessinger Glymph, Clyde Chaplin, violation of li-1 Miss Pauline Williams, James quor laws, six months or $600, sus- • D. Perry, Tommie Long, Robert pended, three months or $300. James Andrew Caldwell, third offense drunken driving, three years or $2,00, suspended, six months or $350 and probation of three years. John Lewis Praylow, assault and battery of a high and aggra vated nature, a year, suspended a year of probation. Clayton Smith, Jr., Harvey Drawdy, E. S. Southerland, Geo. N. Martin, Nancy Elizabeth Timmerman. March 30: WillLxm Milam, Hedy P. Clark, Eddie Long, Deleal Boinest, Neel Boozer, Gettis L. Coates, Henry Dodgen, Tommy Pope, Charles Park, R. Brice Waters, Robert Bartley, Jr. mm. : 'QS?