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Records show thaf tall men are just as short at the end of the month as anybody else. Husband giving wife a bouquet of flowers: "Now don't go all to pieces; somebody left them on the bus.' VOLUME 27—NO. 25 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER II. 1963 # $2.00 Per Year By The Way - By DORIS A. SANDERS HELP PREVENT FIRES The week of October 6-12 has been set aside as Fire Prevention Week and elsewhere in this issue a number of Newberry business firms are calling your attention to the importance of fire prevention. The following editorial, written by the National Board of Fire Un derwriters, gives helpful suggest ions to help in preventing fires: This is Fire Prevention Week, and it is a good time for all of us to pause in what we are doing and give a thought to care with fire. Too many fires need never have happened, and a little care on the part of all of us can reduce our tragic fire toll in lives and prop erty destroyed. On the average, about 1000 fires start in homes in the U. S. every day. Last year, 11,800 persons lost their lives in fires and more than 70,000 received bad burns. And last year dollar fire losses in the United States totaled $1,- 265,002,000, a new all-time high and an increase of 4.6 per cent over the preceding year. The tragic thing about all these fires is that three-fourths of them were the result of carelessness, ac cording to the National Board of Fire Underwriters. With a little care, lives can be saved and needless burning of property prevented. Here are a few suggestions that may keep your home fire safe: 1— Never leave small children alone. Even if you are leaving them only a few moments, get a responsible person to stay with them. When going out for an ex tended period of time, employ a baby sitter. 2— Small children and elderly people are the most frequent fire victims. If there are elderly per sons in your household, plans should be made to get them out of the house quickly in case of fire. 3— Use care with cigarettes —never discard a cigarette or drop a match without being sure it has been extinguished. It’s a good plan to break a match after using just to be sure it is out. Keep matches out of reach of the children. And never smoke in bed. 4— Keep a flashlight handy for use in dark places. Never strike matches cr carry lighted matches or candles into closets or attics. 5— Keep your electrical appli ances in safe condition. Take them to a qualified repairman if they have loose connections or frayed or worn cords. 6— Throw out old newspapers, magazines and other waste com bustibles regularly, rather than let them accumulate in the base ment or attic. These are things on which fires feed. 7— Impress upon everyone in your household that in case of fire first get everyone out of the house, and then call the fire de partment from your neighbor’s house, if need be, but never re enter a burning house. These suggestions could save your life, or the lives of members of your family. You are the one who can help your home be free from fire. STRAIGHT TALK (By Tom Anderson) Can a Christian believe in white supremacy? Well, if everybody who practices some form of discrimination: the right to be exclusive; the desire to outdo the Jones; to get ahead; to live better than most others; to make more money—if these uni versal human traits are anti- Christian, then there are virtually no Christians, white or colored. We have the right to run our j own affairs. We have the right to be prejudiced. We even have the right to be wrong. We have the right to be Methodists, Catholics,, Jews or atheists. Or to be anti any or all of these. j We have the right to hire only I Baptists, Jews, Negroes, left-* handers or members of the DAR. j In the “right-to-work” states we j have the right to hire a man with out forcing him to join a union. He has freedom of choice. Are we going to let the politicians take these precious privileges away from us with “civil rights” legis lation? If we are going to be free people, no government—federal or state or local—can tell us whom we have to hire or fire. The next step after that would be to tell us where we have to work, as they do in Communist countries. I intend to hire and fire anybody because of race, color, creed, sex or the way they part their hair. If I want to pursue my happiness by hiring only aboriginal idiots, that is my natural right and I will be uncivil to all who try to deny it. No government has the right to force integrated firing, hiring, schooling, praying, playing, eating. We are free, not when the ma jority is free, but when the indiv idual is free. If segregation is “unchristian,” l then nationalism is bound to be. ' Therefore we must have world government—equally with all the down-trodden cannibals of the ! world. Just because of the acci- j dent of birth why should we be I able to eat steak while they have 1 to eat each other? Like the young chief of a cannibal tribe who had been educated at Oxford and pre sumably was civilized. But upon attaining command of his tribe, he reverted to type. His head chef reported one day that a plump missionary was “on tap for the feast to follow an unusually large jamboree session the following day and asked whether the chief desired boiling or roasting. “What kind of missionary is he? the chief inquired. The chef re plied that the party which brought the captive made no report on this. “How is he dressed?” the chief next inquired. The reply was that he was wearing a long browui robe with attached hoot! of some ma terial. “Oh, my!” the chief exclaimed. “You musn’t boil or roast him— he’s a friar,” A Supreme Court of judges de creed in 1896 “If the races are to meet upon terms of social equality, it must be the result of natural af finities, a mutual appreciation of each other’s merits and a volun- ! tary consent ol individuals. An integrated social order in ! which there’ll be no distinction be- i cause of race, religion, color or i nationality may be a noble ob- | jective but hke Communism, it’s I against human nature and can’t be put into effect without dicta torship. Some time ago a story made the rounds concerning an agitator ad dressing a London crowd. Among other things, he promised that, the Revolution, all workers would ride in Rolls-Royces. A Cockney spoke up and said he didn t want to ride in a Rolls-Royce. The agi tator glared at him and answered, “Come the Revolution, you 11 ride in a Rolls-Royce whether you like it or not.” If Socialism ever takes over here, you’ll do exactly what you’re told in every respect, like it or not. And if enough people rebel, the government will then be forc ed into instituting firing sauads. Federal Aid is Federal C .rol. Federal aid is, finally, dictator ship. Many of us had forgotten, until reminded recently by the NAA^P, the communists and the New Frontiersmen that there is a sec tion in the 14th Amendment which has never been used. It says that states shall have their representa tion in Congress reduced in pro portion to the number of its cit izens whose right to vote has been denied. This, like the 14th itself, was passed by Reconstruction Repub licans and carpetbaggers in 1866, after the South was beaten to its knees. It’s an affront to the South. Now that we have been reminded, we Southerners should try to have that amendment am ended. As every fair-minded person knows, in a Republic the right to vote cannot properly be denied on account of race, religion or prev ious condition of servitude. But it can be denied because of irrespon sibility of citizenship. That’s why voting is denied those under 21. The right to vote should be based on literacy, responsibility, citizen ship, Illiterates, criminals and welfare cases should be denied, regardless of the color of their skins. The Kennedy’s don’t believe in discrimination—at the voting booth. They know that a Negro vote counts just as much as a white vote. King John has asked for a temporary truce. Our big gest mistake would be to grant him one. Kennedy has bought the Negro vote with blood. Let him swim in it. According to Supreme Court “law,” demonstrators can sit-in, sleep-in and block the entrances of private businesses, legally. It is ‘“coercive” to demand that they leave if it is in a segregated com munity, but it is not coercive for these agitators to ruin a person’s business. No man has a right to sit-in or otherwise obstruct the The Yankee reporters sent down business of another man. to get the “true picture” have re ported that “the walls of segrega tion are tumbling,” ’’the South seeing the error and the futility” of its attitude and is “‘accepting integration.” Some Southern fatcats are fin- (Continued on back page) Community Booth Winner Importance Of Preventing V • • • ... V."i*.V.\V.V.'-'-V . Fair Is In Full Swing; Prize Winning Exhibits Chosen Fires Stressed This Week By M rs. A. H. Counts Pleasant Grove, in Saluda county won top prize of $125 in the com munity booth competition here at the Newberry-Saluda County Fair Tuesday. Its theme was ’’Every Good and Pertect Gift.” Other winners in the commun ity booths were Higgins Grange, Saluda county, $100; Wheeland Grange, Newberry county, $85; and Higgins Home Demonstration Club, Saluda county, $50. Tranwood club in Newberry county and Hollywood club in Saluda county received honorable mention and cash awards of $25 each. The Henry L. Parr family won the most prizes in the annual Jersey cattle show at the fair Tuesday. The family received 17 awards in a highly competitive show. A. L. Busby, Newbery county agent, said it was the best Jersey show conducted here. Mary Parr, young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Parr, won first on the best cow, three years old and under four, and first in the senior champion female, four years and over. She won a rosette for the grand champion cow in the open show, was third on exhibiting best showmanship, second in junior calf and first in the junior show, three-year-old and under four. Boyd, another son of Mr. and Mrs. Parr, was second in the two-year-old and under three in the open cow show. ^ Headspring Farms, owned by Henry L. Parr, received fifth aw ard on junior heifer, third on jun ior yearling heifer, and first on produce of cow. Others receiving several awards were Alice Bedenbaugh and her brother, Ralph, of the Newberry 4-H Club. Alice won first in both the sen ior yearling heifer and the junior champion female heifer, third cow two years old and under three; fourth, cows three years and under four; third, cow four years old and over; and second, produce of cow in the open show, j Also in the 4-H show she was) second in cow, two years old and • under three; third, cow three I years and under four and second f cow four years and over. Ralph’s winnings were fifth, senior yearling heifer; fifth, cows three years old and under four; third, produce of cow; fifth, show manship; fourth, senior yearling, and fourth, cow three years old and under. Other winners were Randy Senn, Nancy Jane Ruff, Billy Stewart, James Folk Jr., Danny Perry, W. W. Parr, Billy Parr, Jr., Tony L. Perry, Frances Folk, Wayne Longshore, Bobby Lomi- nick and Roger Longshore. MEN TO MEET The annual Fall rally for the Men of The Church in South Car olina Presbytery will be held Sun day, October 20 at the First Pres byterian church in Greenwood. Registration begins at 2:30 p.m. An interesting and inspiring pro gram has been planned. The lad ies are invited. Eagle Scout V. • ' Scout Leonard Halfacre, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Halfacre was presented the Eagle Scout badge by Scoutmaster Wright Cannon at the meeting of the Newberry Lions club on October 1. He is a member of Troop 66, having joined in 1958, and is an out standing member of the troop which is sponsored by the Lions club. He has served as Assistant Patrol Lealer and received the God and Country Award from his church in 1961. He was el ected to the Order of the Arrow, national camping fraternity, in 1963 at Camp Old Indian. Civil Court Jurors Chosen The following named will serve as jurors when the October term of Court of Common Pleas con venes here Oct. 21 with Judge G. Badger Baker presiding: Frank M. Senn, J. E. Stevens, James W. Davis, George H. Black, Floyd H. Dennis, Earl E. Bollin ger, Wyche Moore, Fred W. Pugh, David Tod Sokevitz, George Rob ert Hawkins, Ernest T. Maness, J. W. Boland, Earl C. Hipp, William C. Fanning, E .0. Shealy, Jesse D. Butler, Ted M. Willingham, Hen ry Leroy Brock; Also, J. B. Connelly, Henry W. Werts, John Cecil Eargle, Joe N. Wilson, James E. Nichols, Elgin V. Sheppard, James D. Wheeler, James Francis Coggins, Claude S. Summer, L. C. Fellers, Seber Ray Amick, G. S. Teague, Alvin G. Hipp, William M. Brooks, Emer son E. Westwood Jr., Joseph H. Bishop, Thomas B. Walker, James H. Davis. A step-up in fire prevention ef forts to hold down the gigantic fire toll was urged today by K. W. Riebe, city manager and director of safety for the city of Newber ry- Mr. Riebe said that Fire Pre vention Week—October 6-12, is a logical starting point. Commenting on the nation’s hu man fire toll—11,800 persons lost their lives from fire last year and thousands more were injured—Mr. Riebe said “The loss of a single life is a tragedy, and the loss of nearly 12,000 lives gives emphasis to the need for everyone to be con stantly alert to this ever present threat. The loss of life can and must b reduced. There can be no relaxation in the efforts to elimi nate uncontrolled fire.” “A point to be remembered,” he continued, “is that each one of those persons who died or were injured w-as an individual, and while the statistics show large numbers, the individual suffering and the grief of friends and relat ives underline the need for think ing not only in terms of large numbers but more importantly of the individual.” In relation to property destroy ed or damaged by fire, the dollor value of property destroyed and the number of fire losses which oc cur are the usual measures of the fire loss, Mr. Riebe said. “We must remember that the fire loss is made up of a large number of fires, any one of which could have involved loss of life, and brought physical suffering to individuals as well as loss of their property.” On the bright side, Mr. Riebe reported that fire prevention is paying off. “It Is clear that fire prevention efforts and fire protection facil ities have in effect reduced the an nual toll from fire,” Mr. Riebe said. “The rat’o of loss of life from fire to the population of the country has dropped as the popu lation has increased. “We must recognize that fires can be controlled, but it is up to the individual to do his part. It is not something we can leave to others to do for us, because each of us could be the next victim un less we take steps to prevent fire and to provide proper safeguards to minimize the hazard of fire,” Mr. Riebe concluded. Council, Public Talk New Zoning Law CLUB TO MEET The Newberry Woman’s Club will meet at the home of Mrs. C. M. Smith Jr., Thursday, October 10. Dr. Lillian Kibler will be the leader. Her topic will be “John Adams, 1735-1826.” Kendall Reports Earnings Up BOSTON, September 30 — The Kendall Company made gains in both sales and earnings for the third quarter of the year, the com pany reported to stockholders to day. Kendall earned $1,220,000, or 58 cents per commonshare for the 12-week period September 7, 1963, compared with $1,095,000, or 52 cents per share, earned for the similar period last year. Cumula tive earnings for the first 36 weeks of 1963 were $3,571,000, or $1.69 per share, compared with $2,876,000 or $1.35 per share, for the same period in 1962. Stockholders were told that if the results for the first 36 weeks of 1962 had reflected current guideline rates for depreciation and 1963 investment tax credit, those results would have been im proved by approximately $255,000. Sales of $31,779,000 for the third 12 week period were up 5 per cent over the third period of 1962. For the first nine months of 1963, the sales were $95,062,000, compared to a total of $92,183,000 posted in a similar time last year. Sales growth took place primar ily because of the strong show ing of Fling support stockings for women, disposable products for hospital use, and other new Ken dall products. Tag Buying Is Moving Slowly Motor vehicle license renewals are lagging throughout the state, creating a situation which is like ly to produce long waiting lines at licensing offices and possibly late registration penalties for many motorists, the State Highway de partment announced today. Only about one-third of the State’s motor vehicles have been registered, although one-half of the registration period has already elapsed, Department officials said. All vehicles must display the new black and white plates on Novem ber 1. Vehicle owners who fail to register their vehicles by that date are subject to both late registra tion fees and fines for violating the license law. Motorists are urged to obtain their new plates over the counter at license offices whenever pos sible, since late orders by mail may not be delivered before the deadline. Department officials said there are no waiting lines now, al though long lines will undoubtedly form as the deadline approaches. Vehicle owners who have NOT received license renewal forms are advised to take their current registration cards to their local offices where new cards will be immediately filled out and license plates will be issued. Owners were again reminded by the Department that all information requested on the back side of the cards must be filled in before new plates can be issued. H. W. Dipner Rites Yesterday CHAPPELLS— Henry William Dipner Sr., 73, died suddenly last Tuesday morning at his home here after several years of declining health. He was born in Germany, son of the late Fred and Betty Smith Dipner. He had lived in Newberry county since he was six years of age. He was a member of Soule Chapel Methodist church where he was an honorary steward. He was a retired merchant and a member of the Woodmen of The World. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Belle Kelly Dipner; a son, W. H. Dipner Jr. of Chappells; four daughters, Mrs. G. S. Parnell of Chappells, Mrs. R. C. Johnson of Cayce, Mrs. R. W. Kelly of Greenwood and Mrs R. W. Jar- rett of Newton, N. C. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at McSwain Funeral Home by Rev. Floyd V. Chandler and burial was in Soule Chapel Memorial Park near Chappells. Pallbearers were E. Y. McDon ald Jr., Ray Kelly Jr., Aubrey and Earl Kelly, A. J. and Robert Mer chant. Honorary escoi-t was composed of W. F. Berry, L. E. Werts, B. McAdams, W. E. Spearman Jr., Ralph Lancaster, E. L. Holloway, Cecil Smith and the official board of the Soule Chapel church. The city of Newbery took the first step Tuesday night toward a long-range land development plan with the first of three readings by City Council of a proposed zoning ordinance. Charles H. Davis, consulting engineer from Hickory, N. C. ex plained to council and a group of some 30 interested citizens that the 36-page zoning ordinance is based in the best use of each land area in the future. He emphasized that no existing uses and buildings will be changed by passage of the ordinance. As new uses of land and buildings come into being, they will be regulated by the zoning code, he said. He said the ordinance will allow the city to anticipate its growth to make every tax dollar count and will protect citizens construct ing homes and businesses. The proposed zoning ordinance provides for 10 zoning districts, to be broken up into four areas of development—residential, busi ness, industrial and exclusive man ufacturing. Davis said the zoning regulation can be changed or amended by council according to developing needs of the city. The ordinance generally follows the present lay out of the city and changes will be gradual with at least 40 years required for the full effectiveness of the ordinance and development plan to be evident, the engineer said. The pattern of the city as it has naturally developed was taken as a basis by the engineer and a city planning commission, from which improvements and addi tions were made. Ralph B. Baker is chairman of the planning com mission. The ordinance must have two more readings by City Council be fore it goes into effect. Council in regular session ap pointed Pete Parrott secretary- treasurer of the City’s Democratic Club to conduct a municipal gen eral election Nov 12. In other business, council: Read letters of appreciation to the city from officials of the military maneuver Swift Strike III. Had second reading of an or dinance for water and sewer ex tension in new housing develop ments. Heard a report from city man ager Riebe that the problem of rats infesting the Mollohon area is being taken up with the county for possible joint action. Show Winners Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mims and sons, David Kent and Steve, of Sumter were recent visitors with Mrs. Mims’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Campbell on Nance street. Mrs. Mims remained for a visit with her parents. 12-Year-01d Dove Downed COLUMBIA—A Methuselah a- mong doves came to the end of his read in Laurens county September 17, just one day less than 12 years after he had been banded a few miles away. The dove, killed by Billy Roy Wilson of Hickory Tavern, had been banded—No. 61309930, Sept ember 18, 1951 by Sidney Lee, Jr. son of Laurens County Game War den Sidney Lee. Around 80 per cent of all doves fail to survive their first year and the odds against one reaching 12 years are astronomical — around ten million to one. Mrs. C. W. Gibson and children, Beth and Cathy of Norfolk, Va., are staying with Mrs. Gibson’s mother, Mrs. James R. Leavel! on Martin street while her husband Lt. Gibson is on duty in the Med iterranean. H. F. Lominick Dies At Pomaria Horace F. Lominick, 78, died Friday afternoon at his home in the Pomaria section of the coun ty. Mr. Lominick was bom and reared in the county, a son of the late Robert L. and Arie Counts Lominick. His wife, Mrs. Willeeze Boinest, preceded him to the grave a number of years ago. Mr. Lominick was a prominent and prosperous farmer of the Saint Phillips section of the county, but retired several years ago on ac count of his health. He was a member of St. Phillips Lutheran church, a former member of the Church C ouncil and a member of the Woodmen of The World. He is survived by one son, Wil liam R. Lominick, Pomaria; one daughter Mrs. Carson D. Evans, Barnwell; four brothers, Herbert W. Lominick, Olin H. Lominick, Eugene H. Lominick and Charlie C. Lominick, all of Pomaria; three sisters, Mrs. A. O. Felker, Mrs. Ola L. Kibler, and Mrs. Howard S. Boland, all of Pomaria, and four grandchildren. Funeral services were held on Saturday from St. Phillips church with Rev. C. L. Richardson con ducting the rites. Interment was in the church cemetery. Active pallbearers were Voight Kunkle, Luther Sease, Bobby Lominick, Whit Gilliam, Deleal Boinest and David Luther Ruff. Honorary escort included mem bers of the church council, Dr. C. A. Pinner, Dr. -B. M. Montgomery, Clarence Wallace, Ralph Baker, Donald Satterfield, Herndon Hentz, Hubert Bedenbaugh, James D. Brown, Ralph Watkins, C. E. Long, Alvin Kinard, J. W. Rich ardson, Govan Sease, Frank Lom inick Sr. and Roland Felker. A Tri-Color winner in the Fall Flower Show at the Newberry- Saluda Regional Fair this week was the top arrangement by Mrs. Walter Suber of the Whit mire Garden Club. The division is “Light Housekeeping. A Blue Ribbon winner in the division “The First Birthday Party” is shown below. It was entered by Yellow Jessamine Garden Club of Saluda. (Sun- photos) .1 > BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Oct. 13: Steve Griffith, Doro thy Kyzer, Mrs. K. L. Martin, Marion Spearman, Mrs. Lila Dickert, Virgil W. Rinehart, Judy Rinehart Karen Stewart, W. H. Ashbaugh, Mack Mont gomery ,Estelle Martin, Fran ces Miller, Mrs. Mattie L. Fel lers. Oct. 14: O. F. Armfield, Jr., Henry Livingston, Jr., Mrs. O. Hentz, Miss Bessie Thrift, Mrs. W. K. Swygert, Mrs. Wofford Cooper, Murray Shull. Oct. 15: Larry Luther Chap man, Mrs. John T. Norris, Mae Lathrop, Mrs. William K. Lath- rop, Tobie Enlow, Mrs. Henry Livingston, Everette Graham, J. O. Koon, Mrs. R. A. Goodman, Laddie Hamm, Michael Thurlow. Oct.. 16: Pete Coleman, Mrs. James S. Watters, J. Frank Wil son, James Darby, Betty Ruth Perry, Guy V. Whitener, Jr., Billy Dominick, George Ray Richardson, Jimmie Brown, Pope Johnson, Shirley Dillashaw, Clyde Wilson, Amy Atkinson, Fred Schumpert, Mrs. Carroll Frick, Mrs. Dow Bedenbaugh. Oct. 17: Buford Cromer, Bar bara Helen Youmans, Mrs. M. I. Youmans, Keith Green, Doro thy L. Senn, A. C. Dominick, Linda Davis, Samuel H. Grim. Oct. 18: Gallic Boyd Parr, Mrs H. O. Swittenburg, C. F. Ster ling, Danny Lei and Hiller, Har ry E. Bedenbaugh, Frank S. Thomasson, Shelbie Jean Rich ardson, R. E. Reece, John F. Thompson. Oct. 19: Mrs. R. G. Carroll, Mrs. J. R. Cromer, James Mar tin Armfield, Virginia T. Pay- singer, Bobbie Long, J. H. Half- acre, Robert DeHart.