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Life is just an eternal struggle to keep one’s earning capacity up to one's yearning cepacity. "Darling, this place is simply won derful. It leaves me speechless.' Husband: "Let's lease it for life. VOLUME 26—NUMBER 49 N iEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1963 ^ $2.0C Per Year By The Way - By DORIS A. SANDERS NOT A WORD I’M not saying a word this week about the dogs. I am merely re printing the following item which appeared in last week’s issue of The Whitmire News: “Chief of Police Charles Moss announced la^t week that all dog.-, regardless of whether tagged or not. must be pen nod or chained. “There have been reports of many vicious and possibly rabid dogs on tin* loose and an eftort is being made by the department to dispose of these and any st'a\ dogs. “Last week, severely bitten which resulted in being taken i “All dog.- i fective Wedm t ymimr cn ild was !'.v a vifioi is (!<>£ in many litehc' her ^ t leg. lie k' * p t up >'f- ay, March 20th. WHERE TO (IT? Any mention of cutting the Federal budget bring.- cries of protest from tin* liberals. Repub lican and Democrat alike. They say the budget proposed by the President is conservative; that it cannot be cut although they insist th.at taxes can be cut. It appar ently makes no difference that the country continues to spend it self into bankruptcy. Congressman Snyder of Ken tucky is among those who believe the budget can be cut and gives a few illustrations. A summary of what he said was the subject of Jesse Helms’ WRAL-TY View point of Mar. S, 19f>3, as follows: The other day in Washington, amidst a discussion in the House of Representatives, ( ongressman M. G. Snyder of Kentucky ventur ed the observation that the gov ernment ought to cut hack on its spending at least to the extent that the budget could be balanced. It can be done, the Congressman said simply, if we just put our minds to it. For the next two hours there couldn’t have been more confus ion in the House chamber if Fidel Castro had marched in with his firing squad. Quick as a flash, several of the “liberal” Congress men who owe their political ex istence to governmental give away programs were on their feet, gasping with indignation. Never mind, aid Congressman Snyder, we can have a balanced budget. All we’ve got to do is to vote for it. And with that, the donnybrook was on. The Congressional Record does not record whether Mr. Snyder was grinning, but it seemed to us that we could see a broad smile between the lines. In any event, he calmly stood bis ground while a squad of so-called “liberal Congressmen came out strong a- gainst the Hoover Depression, unemployment, disease, sin, pov erty, and all of the other things that we supposedly don’t have now that the government is in control of practically everything. Well, said Congressman Snyder (and we’re certain he was smiling at this point), we’re running up this fantastic debt and the gov ernment is controlling practically everything—what have you fel lows got to show for it? We’re getting worse off all the while; rising unemployment, poverty— all the rest. Why not try a balanc ed budget and fewer controls? And then came the inevitable. Mr. Snyder’s “liberal” colleagues asked him what he would elim inate from the government ex penditures. They thought they had him—but they had thrown Br’er Rabbit smack dab into the briar patch. He started off with about $10 billion in proposed reduced spend ing. And he promised more, in case his colleagues were still in terested when he was through with the preliminary list. There were some choice items which he regarded as typical of the things he would cut out. Here are just a few of them: The government is spending $1 1-4 million on a study of how much baby monkeys love their mo thers. We’re spending a half-mil lion dollars to bring Japanese la bor union leaders to America. Be cause of fraudulent invoices, Am erican taxpayers paid $207,500 for generators and sawmill equip ment, for the country of Laos— when the actual cost of the equip ment was supposed to be $44,000. We’re paying $3 million for a luxury yacht for the Ethiopian emperor. We’re building super highways, costing millions of dol lars, in nations which have prac tically no motor vehicles. For eign aid funds were sent to the African nation of Kenya for the purchase of extra wives for Ken yan government officials. And Chester Bowles should not be forgotten: Mr. Bowles, who is President Kennedy's roving am bassador, spent it.) on an 13- day junket around the world re cently. At this point, it should Id- men tioned that Congressman Snyder specified the page- number of the hearing transcript where each of the-e expenditures can he docu mented. Put to continue: The Federal government spending $80,000 to study the por sibility of communicating wit dolphin-dolphin, of courso. being fish. Apparently somebody thinks that dolphin can talk. Another $03,000 i> going to support a col ony of buboons. Tile ration of Ghana was given everal millions of dol'a>s to buy jet plane-. After the planer were delivered, it dawned en somebrdy that Ghana has no airstrip long enough for the planes to take off. So there they sit. While the United States worries about its dwindling gold supply, here’s what happening in that re gard. We gave Cyprus $r,79,000 in foreign aid: the same year Cy prus bought $3 million worth of our gold. We gave Iran $5,") million in aid, and that nation turne< right around and bought $10 mil lion worth of our gold. We gave Iraq $07 millicr; she bought nearly $30 million worth of our gold. Congressman Snyder went en for page after page with similar examples. At the end, he wond ered if his liberal colleagues wanted any further suggestions about what he would cut from the budget. Nohodv said a word. Congratulations Extended To Stevens Company In observance of the 150th An niversary of the J. P. Stevens & Company, Inc., the Town of Whitmire has issued the following Proclamation of Congratulations: Whereas: J. P. Stevens & Co. Inc. had its beginning in the tex tile field by the Acts of 0 aptain Nathaniel Stevens at North Han over, Mass, during the year 1813, one hundred and fifty (150) years ago; And Whereas: the unit. now known as Whitmire plant. v-ns established at Whitmire and 1mm been in continuous operation since the year 1903, And Whereas, the aforesaid J P. Stevens & Company, Inc is cel ebrating its 150th Anniversary, and in the century and a half has contributed much to the progress, way of life and economic develop ment of our country, And Whereas, The Whitmire plant through expanding opera tions has contributed immeasur ably to the economic and general welfare of the Town and its citi zens, And Whereas, the extended per iod of mutually pleasant and sat isfactory dealings between this Company and its Whitmire sub sidiary and the Town of ^ Whit mire, its officials and its citizens, make it highly appropriate and proper that official recognition of the occasion be taken by the Town, all as more fully herein after provided: Now Therefore, I Arthur C. Sparks, Mayor of and for the Town of Whitmire, acting under and by virtue of the power in me vested as such, and for and on behalf of the aforesaid Town, its Town Council, its officials and its Citizens, do hereby extend offi cial congratulations to the J. P- Stevens & Company, Inc. upon the occasion of the celebration of the 150 years as one of America s great industries and leading tex tile companies. The contents hereof shall be duly disseminated through the public press and a copy hereof shall be spread upon the perma nent records of the Town. Let all citizens join in the ex tension of these felicitations to J. P. Stevens & Company, Inc. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand as Mayor of the Town of Whitmire, S. C., duly attested by the Clerk of the said Town, who has affixed the official seal thereof, on this the 28th day of March, Nineteen Hun dred and Sixty-three. ARTHUR C. SPARKS, Mayor R. C. LAKE, Jr., Clerk. Col. Jack B. Workman of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is on leave and is visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Bryson and Judge and Mrs. Eugene Blease. While here, he is staying at the Bryson home. I.. Hail Jordan, right, welcomes {o Newberr> William David Knox, who has assumed the position of overseer of weaving at the Oak land plant of the Kendall comp any. Mr. Knox began his work here two weeks ago. and he and Mrs. Knox will move this weekend to 2902 Fair avenue. Mr. Knox is a native of Ninety- Six and worked at the Greenwood Mills there. He also has had ex perience at Morgan Mills, Laurin- burg, N. (’. and Mayfair Mills, Glenwood Division in Easley. He was at the Pelzer plant of the Kendall company before coming to New berry, Mr. Knox is a member of the Methodist church, the American Legion and is a Mason. He is a former member of the Chamber of Commerce in Ninety Six. (Sun- photo.) Criminal Court Ends With Mistrial Marshall Named Kendall Chief BOSTON March 20. Harold T. Marshall of Dover. Massachusetts has been elected President of the Kendall company, it was announc ed today foliowing a meeting of Kendall directors. Mr. Marshall succeeds Richard R. Higgins who, at the same meeting, was elected chairman of the board, after serv ing as president since 1951. Mr. Marshall, an alumnus of Dartmouth college in the class of 1920, joined Kendall as a textile sales trainee immediately upon graduation. Fob owing a period as a salesman, he was successively manager of Kendall’s dry goods department, assistant sales man ager, assistant general sales man ager, and then general sales man ager of the Textile division. In 1950 he was called to the Kendall executive offices in Bos ton as director of merchandising for the company, and less than a year later was made vice presi dent and director of sales. He re mained a vice president when in 1953 he was transferred to Chi cago as Kendall’s divisional man ager. He returned to Boston in 1957, to become executive vice- president. Mr. Marshall, in addition to be ing a director of the Kendall Co., is a director of the National Shawmut Bank and recently was nominated to the board of the Massachusetts Mutual Life In surance company. Bern in Boston, Mr. Marshall is married to the former Marion Benson of Winthrop. Their family consists of three sons and a dau ghter. At Kendall’s annual meeting, held today before the director’s meeting, the stockholders approv ed changes in the bylaws concern ing the assignment of responsibil ities to the chairman and presi dent. By Mrs. A. H. COUNTS Circuit Judge Frank Eppes of Greenville ordered a mistrial in General Sessions court here Wed nesday’ in the case of Roger Tram mell, charged with stealing four gallons of gasoline from a tractor at Boyds Lumber company plant. The jury went out at 4:33 P. M. and returned some two hours and twenty minutes later without agreeing on a verdict. Arthur Alewine and Steve O’Donald pleaded guilty of the charge ear lier in the day. Judge Eppes de— ferred sentencing Alewine and O’Donald until the June term of court. The cases ended the first term of Newberry court for the year. Two verdicts, both convictions, had been returned earlier in the day. A jury found Guy Dent Hipp guilty Wednesday morning of a second offense driving under the influence of intoxicants. Judge Eppes sentenced him to a year in prison or a fine of $600, suspend ed after three months or payment of $300; probation for one year. Later, Johnnie Robinson Jr. de fended himself against a charge of liquor law violation but was convicted. He was sentenced to six months or $600, suspended af ter three months or $300; proba tion of a year. Guilty pleas were accepted from Henry Calvin Stone third offense driving under the influence of intoxicants, and Frederick M. Ariss, involuntary manslaughter. Stone was sentenced to three years or $2000, suspended after six months or $500; probation of three years. Ariss, a career soldier, had his six-months sentence suspended. Newberrian Is Elected Head Of State Teachers Mrs. Margaret Kelly, a member of the Mathematics faculty of . Newberry high school, was the successful bidder for the office of president-elect of the South Carolina Education Association at its annual meeting last week in Greenville. She will assume her duties as president after the next annual convention. Mrs. Kelly is particularly quali fied for this high honor, having been active in local, state and na tional education organizations. She is an active worker in the Department of Classroom Teach ers and is a district director of the department. She has attended the southeastern regional confer ence of classroom teachers for several years. She is a past pres ident of the county education as sociation and is on the executive board of the state association. She is a member, and immediate past president of the Council of Mathematics teachers. Mrs. Kelly is a member of the Business and Professional Wo men’s club of Newberry, a Rotary Aim, and a member of Alpha Delta Kappa, teachers’ honorary sorority. She is an honor gradu ate of Newberry college, immed iate past president of the Wo men’s League and has attended a National Science Foundation in stitute on Mathematics at the j University of South Carolina. I Mrs. Kelly’s husband is Philip ;T. Kelly, Jr., dean of men and i alumni secretary at Newberry I college, where one of their three I children is a sophomore. The other two children attend Newber ry high school. Mrs. Kelly is a member of the Lutheran Church of The Redeem er, a Sunday School teacher and active in the work of the women of the church. She has held num erous positions in PTA work, in cluding membership on the State Board and participation in several conventions. The congratulations of all New- berrians are extended to Mrs. Kelly on having attained this high honor. Mayor Names Gene Griffith 'Clean-Up’ Drive Chairman FORT HOOD, TEX. (AHTNC) —Julius W. Koon, son of J. Pat Koon, 1318 Silas street, recently was promoted to first sergeant at Fort Hood, Texas, where he is serving with the 1st Armored div ision. Koon, first sergeant of Head quarters Battery in the 73d Artil lery’s 1st Battalion, entered the army in 1934 and was last stat ioned at Fort Campbell, Ky. The sergeant attended Chapin High School. His wife, Patricia, lives in Killeen, Texas. Garden Peak Dates Revised Unseasonably warm weather the last few days has rushed along the opening of flower buds at Charleston s Famous gardens. At Magnolia, Middleton and Cypress Gardens, the early azaleas and wisteria are now out; midseason azaleas will be out within a very few days. Full bloom estimate has been revised to cover the period March 27 to April 10. By some miracle, the severe winter has made no impression on the bloom. The Charleston area will have its most concentrated color display in many years. The. number of tourists flocking to Charleston is increasing daily; they are much in evidence on the Gardens, and walking about the old sections of the city. Visitors Here From Hong Kong The Rev. C. H. Reinbrecht, of Hong Kong, China, is visiting the Dr. Luther Grady Cooper’s of the faculty of Newberry college. While h ere , Rev. Reinbrecht will visit the college campus, speak to The ta Sigma Eta, visit some classes and speak in chapel. Dr. Cooper was associated with the visitor for 20 of the 35 years he has spent in China. Dr. Rein brecht is presently on furlough and living in Gettysburg, Pa. He will return soon to Hong Kong. Mrs. Wheeler Service Sunday Mrs. Anna Singley Wheeler, 95, widow of the late John F. Wheeler died early Saturday morning at Newberry Memorial hospital af ter several days’ critical illness. Mrs. Wheeler was born and reared near Prosperity and was the daughter of the late Jacob and Nancy Bedenbaugh Singley. She was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran church. She was one of the oldest citizens of her com munity. Mrs. Wheeler is survived by three sons, Verne Wheeler, John Forest Wheeler, and Carlisle Wheeler, all of Prosperity; two daughters, Miss Rosalie Wheeler of Prosperity and Mrs. Helen W. Jenkins, Newberry, and four grandchildren. She was the last of her immediate family. Funeral services were conduct ed Sunday afternoon from Saint Paul’s Lutheran church with Rev J. L. Drafts officiating. Inter ment was in the church cemetery. Active pallbearers were Luther F. Wheeler, James Wheeler, John Wheeler, Jr., J. A. Singley, James Luther, Jr., and Dale Epting. UDC CHAPTER TO MEET TUESDAY Calvin Crozier Chapter UDC will meet Tuesday, April 2, at 8 P. M. at the home of Mrs. W. D. Beard, 2013 Glenn street. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie W. Lester have moved to James street in the house they recently bought. Mr. and Mrs. George F. Senn are making their home at 1307 Glenn street. Scholarship Be Offered Again By Kiwanis Club The Newberry Kiwanis club to day announced plans for the 4th annual award of a very desirable scholarship to be placed at New berry college for the academic year 1963-1964. Value of scholar ship will be five hundred dollars for use during freshman year. Through the Kiwanis club’s special committee on scholarship, the chairman, Dr. William N. Hen derson, has reported that forms have been sent to high school prin cipals and will be available to residents of Newberry county who are in the top quarter of their graduating class. Application forms for the Kiwanis scholarship may be obtained through the of fices of the Newberry, Mid-Caro lina and Whitmire high schools. Since May 1 is the deadline for completing applications, interest ed students should make immed iate arrangements to take the college entrance exams in order to qualify. Completed applications for the scholarship should be sub mitted to Dean C. B. Park of the college. Applicants will be carefully screened on basis of complete in formation which they must sub mit. Applicants will be rated on basis of scholarship, academic ac complishments, life purpose, per sonality and need. Final decision as to winner will be made after close study of applications and personal interviews with those rating highest on academic stand ards. District UDC Meeting Here Calvin Crozier and Drayton ! Rutherford chapters, UDC, will j he host to the Ridge District Con- j ference on April 3-d. Registration will begin at 9:30 ! A. M. in Smeltze .• Hall on the campus of Newberry college and there will be a coffee hour until the business session is called at 10:30 in the same building. At the conclusion of business, a luncheon will 1 e served in the Conference room of Wessels lib rary. All South Carolina Division of ficers are expected to attend, as are representatives from chapters in Aiken, Abbeville, Batesburg, Clinton, Ebgefield, Newberry, Prosperity and Saluda. One feature of the meeting will be a workshop conducted by Mrs. Julian W. White, President of the South Carolina Division, UDC. The officers of the District are: Director, Mrs. B. B. Stroup, of Greenwood; Vice-Director, Mrs. Walter Summer, Newberry; Sec retary, Mrs. P. M. Pitts, Clinton. Among the prominent guests will be Mrs. Archie Watson, of Columbia, 3rd Vice-president Gen eral UDC who heads the work of the Children of The Confederacy in 38 states. Workers Asked To Report Red Cross Funds I. Kaplan, general chairman of the 1963 Red Cross Drive in New berry, this week congratulated the ladies who were in charge of canvassing the residential sec tion of the city for the drive. “They have already turned in over $600” Mr. Kaplan said, “ and the report is still not complete.” Mr. Kaplan also announced that a chairman and co-chairman for the colored division have organiz ed their community and are doing a fine job of collecting funds. Mrs. Ida Mamie Longshore, is chairman, and Willie J. Moore is serving as co-chairman. Mr. Kaplan urged that all the workers complete the area to which they were assigned, and turn in their reports by the end of this week. GRADUATES FROM NAVY SCHOOL Ensign John F. Sanders was graduated from the U. S. Navy Supply School, Athens, Georgia, on March 14th. He has been as signed to the U. S. S. Rockbridge in Norfolk, Virginia where he will be until May 20, when the ship will go into dry dock in New York for two months. Ensign Sanders is the son of Rev. and Mrs. John Sanders, of Newberry. Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Ward have moved to 2708 Milne Ave. to make their home. Miss Havird Dies In Columbia. Miss Minnie D. Havird, 79, died Thursday morning in Columbia after a short illness. Miss Havid was born in New berry, daughter of the late Camp bell and Ella Blease Havird. Be fore her retirement, she did pub lic stenographic work for the pub lic schools of Anderson. She was a member of Central Methodist church. Surviving are a sister, Miss Corrie Leila Havird of Newberry and a brother, L. E. Havird of Newberry. Funeral services were conducted at 3 P. M. Saturday at Whitaker Funeral home by Rev. T. H. Vick ery. Burial was in the Rosemont cemeteary. Pallbearers were Burley Metts Havird, Loyd Havird, Jerome Hav ird, Maxey Stone, J. J. Chappell, Herman Langford, Steve Griffith, Jr., and Paul Whitaker. Dedicated Today A Blue Star Memorial Marker, in honor of the World War dead, given by Mrs. Clem I. Youmans in the name of the Newberry Gar den club, will be dedicated this (Thursday) afternoon at 3 P. M. at the Pomaria Park on the New- berry-Pomaria highway. The pub lic is invited. Among those who will be present are Silas Pearman, Chief Highway Commissioner and the president of the State Garden Garden club. SINGERS The Furman University Singers of which Miss Donna Rook of this city is a member, will begin their annual Spring tour on. March 31. The group will visit seven towns in South Carol in* and one in North Carolina. The Singers are under the direction of Dupre Rhame, professor of music and director of the fine arts at Furman. - 7 Eugene C. Griffith has been named Chairman of the “Clean up, Paint-up, Fix-up” campaign in Newberry, according to an nouncement made today by Mayor Ernest Layton. This is the first step in a project, approved at the last meeting of city council, to beautify the city and enter into a national contest. In accepting the chairmanship, Mr. Griffith said “The City of Newberry will be asked to join an all-cut campaign against un kept yards, lots and anything else which tends to take away from the beauty and charm of the city. The help of each and every cit izen will be urgently needed.” “Newberry is a beautiful city for the most part,” Mr. Griffith continued, “but beauty doesn’t mean much if junk and debris are scattered all over the town. “The people and the town have done a lot in the past to help this situation, but more needs to be done,” he urged. “We have a lot of good land here in Newberry if you could just see it under the weeds, broom straw and 'trash.” “A clean-up campaign such as we are undertaking,” Mr. Griffith said, “would accomplish many things. Among them would be beautifying the city, the elimina tion of harboring places for mos quitoes, decreasing field fires, in creasing lot values and allowing the public to see what kind of land we have here. “W'hat we need here,” he point ed out, “is the help of the people. There seems to be a lack of civic pride in areas where we need it the most and we hope this drive will correct that situation.” Mr. Griffith stated that there would be a number of units work ing together in this project, and he expects to release names of some committee chairmen within the next week. Discussing plans for the cam paign in the picture are, from left, Mayor Layton, Mr. Griffith, and City Manager Ken Riebe. (Sunphoto.) BIRTHDAY GREETINGS March 31: Mrs. James Smith, Sr., Johnny Billingsley, Mary Susan Long, Mrs. Anna Counts, George Ray Lathrop, Larry Beam, Bill Carter. April 1: Jake Wise, Mrs. Ber tha D. Boylston, Otis L. Whita ker, Mrs. A. EL Hazel. April 2: Fred Hayes, Oliver Cromer, Mrs. Sam J. Shannan, Grace E. Hannon. April 3: Mary Ruth Armfield, Mrs. J. B. Harmon, Meredith Harmon, Majorie Graham, Nan cy Efekridge, April 4: Miss Rebecca Lomi- nick, Mrs. Herman Halfacre, J. H. Cook, James Edward Plant- pin, Mrs. J. EL Wiseman, Anne Bruner Griffith, Mra. Myra Hardy, Johnny Myers, J. How ard Clark, Sr. April 5: Mrs. Arthur Dwyer, A. C. Ward, John Francis Scurry, Jackie Goodman, Mrs. L. A. Black. April 6: Phil Pamplin, Mrs. Jasper Amide, Connie Arm field Sanders, Virgie Ellis Shea’y.