The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, August 22, 1963, Image 1
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
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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,