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A small town is one where if you lock your car, the folks know you are a city slicker. If we could C' ,+ out greed, and petty ambition, from the world, it wouldn't matter who we had for president. We could run the coun- t try on the automatic pilot. VOLUME 27; NUMBER 18. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1963 ♦ $2.00 Per Year By The Way - By DORIS A. SANDERS AIR ENTHUSIASTS A couple of months ago, wbeTi South Central Airlines inaugurat ed its service through Newberry, J remarked to the girls “Maybe you’d like to fly up to Statesville to visit your aunt Connie.” Not too much was said about it at the time, but 1 should have known they wouldn’t forget it. A few weeks ago they reminded me of the “promise” to let them take a flying trip. After much discussion, we finally set a date. We would fly to Statesville Thursday of last week. Connie and Ruthie were excited youngsters as we arrived at the Newberry Airport, and doubly ex cited as the smooth looking red and white Aztec rolled down the runway and taxied around in front of the airport building. The pilot. Tommy Thompson, offered tc let one of then “ride co-pilot” but they chose seats behind the pilot where they could see more of the ground below, unhindered by the wing. Their mommy ended up riding co-pilot. This was my first view of New berry county from the air, and it was beautiful. The flight was a little bumpy, but not disagreeably so. Seemed that we had just set tled down on the flight when the pilot told us the city we could see some 5000 feet below was Gas tonia, N. C. The girls were amaz ed to learn that we had been in the air only 20 minutes, and were only 20 minutes from Statesville. The prettiest sight from the air was beautiful Lake Norman, backwaters of a Duke Power Co. dam between Charlotte and States ville. Almost before -we knew it we had touched down at States- ^j]]e—only 40 minutes in the air, about three hours less than it takes to drive the distance. We are fortunate to have this commercial air line coming thru Newberry. I hope there will be enough traffic to enable South Central to keep this city on its schedule. It should be helpful to some folks—I wonder, for instance if our good friends in the Char lotte office of the Kendall com pany know they can catch t he plane from Charlotte, be in New berry about 10:30 a. m., spend several hours here, leaving for Charlotte at about four the same afternoon ? I don’t usually “plug” for a commercial enterprise in this column, and chances are I might not have occasion to fly South Central again for a year—but it is a fine service for Newberry to have and I hope everyone who has a chance will utilize South Central’s services. You can get information or reservations by calling Winston-Salem, N. C., WX 6565. Doesn’t cost you a cent to call. I know two little girls who are going to be saving their pen nies for another flight. Why don t you try it one day soon? Happy landings! P. s.—Just to set the record straight South Central did NOT pav for this “commercial”—nor did I get a ticket for reduced rates. They don’t even know they had a member of the press aboard. IN REVERSE Some weeks ago there was an item in this column about discrim ination-in-reverse—and the fact that the Civil Service Commission was completely ignoring its reg- isterse and going far down the list in an effort to hire Negroes to fill every vacancy that occurs. Senator Olin D. Johnston, who should be able to do something about it since he has so much sen iority and since he is head of the Senate Post Office and Civil Ser vice Committee, has done nothing to stop this discrimination except “urging” that it not be done. I doubt the urging was very enthu siastic. Might make his buddy, John F. Kennedy, unhappy. Anyway, I came across the fol lowing in a recent issue of The Christian Science Monitor: It clearly shows how discrimination- in-reverse works: Washington “Ten white postal workers in Dallas are suing the Post Office Department, saying the agency discriminated against them be cause of race. “Their suit was filed in United States district court here. “The workers say that the postoffice promoted three Ne groes to supervisory positions although the white workers 1 ranked higher on a promotion register. “Richard Murphy, assistant postmaster general in charge of personnel, has said that the reg ister is not a strict promotion list but only an order of prefer ence for postmasters to use in choosing men for advancement. He said the Negroes, who rank ed down on the register, were chosen because the Dallas post office had “consistently discrim inated’’ against Negroes in the past. “The 10 white workers, in their suit, asked the federal court to strike out the promotion of the Negroes and to force the post office to fill the vacancies from the promotion register. “The white workers say they were Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5. 0, 7, 8, 0, 11, and 12 on the register. The Ne gro with the highest rank was 54 on the register. John Macy, chairman of the Civil Service Commission has said the postoffice acted in ac cordance with civil service regu lations when it promoted the three Negroes.” Council Nominees Give Manager Riebe A Vote Of Confidence TELL THEM SO The Greenville News periodical- n suggests that your influence doesn’t end at the ballot box and suggests that you write to your representatives in Congress to let them know how you feel. 1 don’t know of a better time to write litem than now ^"rite to Senator Johnston to tell him how you feel about discrimination in hiring in the Post Office and Civil Service positions; tell him you think he could do more to help in the fight for freedom against dictatorship which will come if the civil rights bill is passed; write to Senator Strom Thurmond giving him sup port and encouragement in his fight against the bills which would mean federal control of ever y school and business throughout the nation; write to Congressman Bryan Dorn expressing your ap preciation for his wmrk against another Federal handout, Trotters Shoals dam. The Senators may be addressed at Senate Office Build ing, Washington, D. C. Congress man Dorn’s address is 330 Old House Office Building, Washing ton. Write to them today—and you might also tell them you oppose any deals or treaties with the butchers of Moscow, who have broken every treaty they have made as soon as it suited their purposes. Work 1 Million Hours Without Accidents Call To Prayer Our Most Gracious Heavenly Father, we thank thee that in the atonement of Christ our adoption was made possible in to the Great Family of God. We rejoice in the words of Christ when He told his disciples, “In my Father’s house are many mansions ... I go to prepare aplace for you.” Grant that when He calls for us there will be nothing in our lives that will hinder us from an “abundant entrance” into Thy Kingdom. Thy word teaches us that, “If we have sinned, we have an ad vocate with the Father.” May we find forgiveness wherein we have failed so that we might hear Christ say, “Well done, my good and faithful servant,” In the name of Christ, our Coming King we pray. Amen. On August 0th, employees of the Oakland Plant of the Kendall Com pany had worked one million hours without a lost-time accident. This is the beginning of what the man agement and employees hope will he an effort to achieve or exceed the record of 1957., when three and a quarter million manhours were worked without lost-time ac cidents. A meeting of all supervisors and the plant safety committee were held Monday afternoon to discuss the achievement of the one mil lion record, and to make plans for continuing to work with safety. Members of the safety committee, representing each department in the plant, are shown in the picture above. They are, front row from left, R. C. Wilson, TL G. Freeman and H. E. Schumpert; back row, Kirby Wise, H. R. Wherry and I. L. Longshore, Jr. In recognition of the achieve ment, each employee was given a ball-point pen, in yellow r safety colors, on which was written “We’ve reached a million—let’s go to two.” Employees also received a ticket entitling them to a sand wich and drink without charge at the plant canteen. It has taken since the middle of last September for employees to reach the million man-hour mark. Congratulations were extended by L. Hart Jordan and Joe Pool, manager and superintendent, res pectively, of the Oakland plant. (Sunphoto) Meeting Set At Prosperity There will be a meeting of all persons interested in the present and future welfare of the Pros perity cemetery on Thursday ev ening, August 29 at 8 o’clock in the educational building of the Wightman Methodist church. At this meeting plans will be discussed and developed regard ing many items of interest to those w r ho have loved ones buried in the cemetery. The committee planning this meeting would like for it to be known that there will be no solici tation of contributions at this meeting, nor will there be any pledges requested. Everyone inter ested is invited to attend and to take part in the discussion which may lead to a permanent organi zation, to have charge of the cem etery and to insure its upkeep in such a manner that the lot owners would be pleased. Gets Degree From Wingate WINGATE, N. C. — William Frank Lominack, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lominack, 1129 Hunt street, Newberry, was awarded Associate of Arts degree from Wingate college at the Summer commencement recently. Shot Fatal To Curtis Fulmer Curtis Wilson Fulmer, 49, for mer resident of Newberry, was fatally shot early Monday morn ing at his home, 509 Townes St., Greenville. Mr. Fulmer was born and rear ed in Newberry County, a son of Mrs. Lou Emma Davenport Ful- | mer and the late Charles Sankey Fulmer. He spent most of his life I in Newberry and was a member of Trinity Methodist Church. For the past several years, he had made his home in Greenville and was a truck driver. He is survived by two daugh ters, Miss Peggy Lee and Miss Kathy Fulmer of North; his moth er, Mrs. Lou Emma D. Fulmer of Newberry; three sisters, Mrs. Eula Rae Stribble and Mrs. Edith Bo land of Newberry, and Mrs. Mable Smith of Gardiner, Maine; one brother. Rev. Herman M. Fulmer of St. Matthews and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conducted at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Trinity Meth odist church by Rev. Ralph T. Low- rimore and Rev. A. Kenneth Hew itt Jr. Burial was in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were James Sand ers, Robert Foy, Ronnie Daven port, Don Jones, Oscar Eargle and Woodrow Lathrop. “Outstanding” was the term ap plied by newly-nominated members of city council to the work which has been done by Ken W. Riebe during his tenure as city manager of Newberry. This vote of confidence was giv en Mr. Riebe immediately follow ing a meeting of council Tuesday night. All members who will take office on January 1, 1964 were present. Mr. Riebe explained to the fu ture council that his job w T as in their hands; that he realized the possibility that a new council could select the city manager it chose; that since he had a family to support, he would like to know what the future desires of council might be. Councilman McCutcheon, serv ing his firt term and re-nominated for a second, expressed the thought that Mr. Riebe had done an “out standing job” even though he did not always agree with him. Coun cilman C. A, Shealy was second to express himself, stating that in his opinion, Mr. Riebe was doing an “excellent” job as city mana ger. This was followed by pra.'se for an outstanding job by coun cil-nominees Longshore, Dufford, ■ Senn and Taylor. With this vote of confidence be hind him, Mr. Riebe said “I am : looking forward to working with the new city council. I feel that ; things will run smoothly in the future as they have in the past.” I The main item of business at the meeting, delayed one week due to the Democratic primary last Tuesday, was to change the city’s | fiscal year from October 1-Sep- tember 30, to a calendar year ba- f-sis, to adopt a budget for the re maining three months of 1963, and | to vote a continued 47-mill tax levy. Anticipated receipts during the three-month span amount to $314,- ; 800 and proposed expenditures are | estimated at $264,800. Mayor Er- 1 nest Layton predicts that the year I which ordinarily would end Sep tember 30th, will find the city “in the black” and that the city will not have to borrow any part of the $40,000 provided in the 1963 bud get for unforseen expenditures. It was recommended that utility charges remain the same. In outlining the budget for the next three months, council listed in expenditures the addition of three jail cells in the new police station to accommodate 10 male prisoners at a cost of $3600. Wo men prisoners will be kept in the county jail, across the street. Other expenditures included re modeling of a building at the city garage to house a new mainten ance and repair section recently Council approved the purchase 1 of the power lines in Harrington I Heights from the Newberry Elec- | trie Cooperative, Inc. for $22,070.- | 81. Harrington Heights was an- j nexed by the city the first of this year. Make Offer To Buy AH Co-Ops Three power companies serving South Carolina Tuesday offered to buy any or all the REA co-op systems in the state. They said the transfer would cut 80% of the co-op customers’ rate> an average of eight per cent. Such a purchase was pictured as offering substantial benefits to co-op members, to co-op employ ees, and to tax collectors. It was estimated that the pur chase would add more than $840,- 000 annually to state and local tax revenues, exclusive of addi tional federal income taxes paid by the companies. Carolina Power and Light cq., Duke Power Co. and S. C. Electric & Gas Co. made the offer “as proof that the electric business done by the co-ops can pay the same taxes as the business done by the companies”. The offer came in a statement to the Tax Study Commission, which the co-ops had asked to make a study to determine what taxes the cooperatives should pay. The Commission already has heard eo-op spokesmen, who asked that they be heard in secret. Investor-owned companies pro posed three benefits to co-op mem bers. First, rates to 80 per cent of The War Is Over; Swift Strike Ends ^ * 4 CC!' > - : x <• ^ : X • X X-ySsve-y.v...ss . y . .•.<*? y. • •> •*"X‘>'vt- >."■X -y vX; ... / i ' K - j \ Swift Strike III in Newberry Fri day morning. Ken Riebe, second from right in the photo above, who was Prime Minister of the mythi cal Territory of Columbia, and Jimmy Wiseman, second from left, who replaced the deposed Prirte Minister as president of the ter- such customers would be reduced,: ritory, were glad it was all over, and no rates would be increased. as were Civi i Affairs Officers Col. Next, co-op members would be Richardson, left, and Lt. Col. Sim- paid in cash the accumulated co- mons> op profits, which average $110 After weeks of battles, airdrops, per member. Finally, they would ! dogfights, and troop transporting, get the increased services and de- Newberrians had just about gotten pendability of a much larger sys- over the novelty of being the cen- t em ' ter of action of the war games, Co-op ownei s and managers j an d the thousands of soldiers who would benefit, the companies said, by being offered jobs with the purchasing companies, which gen- quick i y as they had entered erally pay higher wages and bet ter employee benefits. All such employees would get service credit with the companies equal to their years of service with the co-op. Existing boards of directors of co-ops will be asked by the com panies to serve as “area advisory boii ds”. The companies said they did not seek to compel cc-ops to sell but were committing themselves to buy “any or all’ co-ops desiring to sell. Each company has offered to buy the co-ops in the general area served by that company, said John Hicks, secretary of Duke Power, who spoke for all three created by council at a proposed companies. Former co-op custom The men’s softball team spons ored by the Kendall company whallcped the city of Newberry team in the finals by a score of 14-0, to add the title of play-off champions to one they had al ready earned, season champions. Shown above with the trophies are, from left, Horace Turbeville, team manager; Hart Jordan, man ager of the Oakland plant; Geo. W. McCall, superintendent of the Mollohon plant, and Bo Sanders, representing the recreation de partment. Kendall pitchers took top hon ors for the season with Tom Crump having won 11, with no loss recorded. Elbert Avery, also pitching for Kendall, had a 5-1 record. Other pitchers were Nard Leopard for the City, 13-4; John G. Bedenbaugh for Waldrop Bros. 6-4; and Gus Franklin for Market Basket 9-8. Top batters in order were John G. Bedenbaugh, P. K. Fuller. Phil Musgrave, Tom Crump, Jim Kes- ler, Gerald Hester, Willie Johns ton, Kenny Cook, Bob Creekmore, and Eddie Warren, whose aver ages ranged from .360 to .496. Monts Receives Masters Degree NASHVILLE, TENN. — Larry H. Monts, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Monts of 1609 Bachman St., Newberry, was among the approx imately 420 graduates who re ceived degrees from George Pea body college for Teachers here at its 183rd commencement exer cises. Monts, who holds the B.S. de gree from Newberry college, re ceived the master of arts in phy sical education. He teaches physi cal education and coaches track at Paxon High school in Jack sonville, Florida, where his ad dress is 5001 Phillips highway. cost of $900; rearranging admini strative offices in city hall to pro vide adequate space for a new bill ing machine at a cast of $600; and purchase of equipment to be used with a new billing system, $2500. Council had previously authorized the purchase of the billing machine at a cost of $8,272.86. Also listed were purchase of a leaf collector, which is expected to reduce labor cost by 50 percent, for $3,000; purchase of a brush chipper for $3,700. This piece of equipment will reduce the man hours spent in the removal of limbs during tree trimming. It will also greatly reduce the num ber of trips that the trucks make to the dumping site, the city man ager said, and general improve ments in the operation of the street and utility departments will be ac complished by the purchase of this equipment. Of interest to all parents in the city was council’s authoriza tion to hire six school crossing guards. This was recommended by the Citizens’ Safety Committee. The additional personnel would be employed and placed in strategic locations near the schools begin ning September 3. Council voted $900 for salaries for three months and $600 for uniforms for the guards. Mayor Layton presented awards to H. H. Connelly, R. H. Shealy and Mayes W. Derrick for com pletion of a national electrical course. Mayor Layton also pre sented Chief of Police C. L. Dowd a national safety pedestrian aw ard, the fifth time Newberry has received the award. ers would pay either the co-op rates or the company rates, which ever were the lowest, Hicks said. Senator Marshall Parker, chair man of the Tax Study Commission presided. A four-way handshake, with ev-1 about 12 miles northwest of New- erybody happy about it, ended berry. Marroquin, from Robertson, Texas, was swimming with several other soldiers when he apparently fell from an air mattress which he was floating. The Greenwood County Rescue squad recovered the body in water about 15 feet deep, 50 yards from shore. Marroquin was the second Strike soldier to drown last weekend. Sherman E. Mapes drowned near Aiken Satur day shortly before his unit left the maneuver zone. In a similar accident last week. Spec. 4 Roya Foyer, 27 of Fort Bragg drowned in a large farm pond near Kinards after falling from an air mattress on which he was floating. These deaths brought the total number of fatalities among Swift Strike soldiers to 15 since the mas sive war games started a month ago. Five fatalities have been the result of drownings, five from plane crashes and five in motor vehicle accidents. were a familiar sight in anu around the city left almost as County Native Died Monday ORANGEBURG.—Miss Alma Boyd, 89, died i na local nursing home here Monday. Born in Newberry, a daughter of the late Rev. James Marion Boyd and Margaret Boyd, she was a graduate of Convere college and second president of the Converse Alumni Association; taught in Spartanburg schools and was the principal of Southside School in Spartanburg. She had lived here for five years. Graveside services were con ducted Tuesday at 4 p.m. at Obk- wood cemetery in Spartanburg by Dr. H. Lester Kingman. McGowan Dies At Ninety Six John Calhoun McGowan, 66, died Monday at his home in Nine ty Six after a long illness. Among his survivors is a half-brother, Frank Hanna of Newberry. Funeral services were conducted at Ninety Six Presbyterian church Tuesday afternoon. Burial was in the church cemetery. The battles have ceased; only remnants of the troops remain, and the streets of Newberry have returned to the near-deserted state they usually take on during the hot, humid days of August. The people of the mythical ter ritory of Columbia regret the ac cidents which took the lives of 15 young men during the war games, but marvel that no more were fa tally injured. The latest fatalities in the war games occurred Sunday, when Pfc. Roberto Marroquin drowned in Lake Greenwood, and Pfc. Wayne Allen died of injuries re ceived when a jeeep overturned Farb To Speak To Graduates Doctor Robert C. Farb, Vice President and Director of Devel opment will address the graduat ing class at the summer com mencement exercises of Newberry college in Holland Hall at 3:30 on Friday, August 23. Dean C. B. Park, Ph.D., assisted by Regis trar James C. Abrams and Prof. T. E. Epting, will present the dip lomas to the graduates. Commencement exercises in August are held for stud nts who have completed the requirements for degrees during the two sum mer sessions. Approximately 30 candidates plan to complete the require ments for degrees at this time. Newberry college will open the 1963-1964 session with a formal exercise on Thursday, September 12 at 9:00 A. M. Registration of students will begin on Tuesday morning, Sep tember 10. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Book Rentals W. R. Lominick, Superintendent of Pomaria Elementary school an nounces that school books will be rented at Pomaria Elementary school between the hours of 1 P. M. and 5 P. M. on August 30. Grady Lee Halfacre, Principal of Prosperity Elementary schov; 1 will rent textbooks during the j same hours on the same date. Aug. 25: J. W. Earhardt Jr. J. Boyd Robertson, Wayne Mar tin, J. W. Warner, Ha Mae So ber, Homer O. Epting Sr., Mrs. Herbert Bedenbaugh, Miss Ami- nee Dominick, Jean D. Brown, Donna Shealy, O. L. Cook Jr., Mrs. Sarah Graham, Mrs. F. C. Merchant. Aug. 26: Bobby Summer, Jr. Faye Langford, Mrs. P. G. Blount, Mrs. I. Q. Watkins, Mrs. Effie Hendrix, Charles Cromer, Delora Patricia Les lie, J. O. Jenkins, Winnie Senn, Mrs. T. A. Scarborough, Rev. E. B. Young, T. B. (Dad) Amis. Aug. 27: Jeanette Bergen, M. L You mans. Sue Ward, Mrs. J. Frank Lominack, Mrs. W. H. Ashbaugh, Mrs. Horace Cromer, Andrew David Eargle. Aug. 28: Lewis Ammons, Lou ise Wicker, Mildred Long Un ger, Jane Fellows, Sandra Kin- ard, Julia Hazel, Lawrence Gra ham, Mrs. Margaret Long, Mrs. Jenny Bruington, Mrs. Allie Moates, D. P. Folk II, Mary De Hart, Sue Halfacre. Aug. 29: Mrs. George Way, W. C. McGahee, Carrie W. White- ner, Mrs. Bill Long, Mrs. L. B. Davis, Joan Fuller, Marshall Lipscomb, Sandra Kay Stewart. Ang. 30: Maude Spotts, W. L. Chapman, Mrs. L. C. Graham, David Dominick, Nancy Senn Harold Bennett, Roslyn Fret- well, Laura Lee Weigle. Aug. 31: & F. Dawkins, Prof. T. E. Epting, Collier Neel, John Chappell, Sammie Cook Gra ham, Mrs. David Ringer, Mrs. J. R. McKittrick, R. Frasier Sanders, Harry Stone Jr., Mrs. Robert Daniels, Linda Swygert,