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MEASURE YOUR FELLOW- MAN BY HIS EXCELLENCE, NOT BY HIS SHORTCOM INGS. IF YOU INSIST ON PERFEV- TION, MAKE THE FIRST DE MAND ON YOURSELF. VOLUME 27—NUMBER 49. By-The-Way .. . b y doris a. sanders HONOR DESERVED , They recommend that al>ove third " . r -p grade, as the program progresses, The nomination of JonTi r. ^ Clarkson by Governor Russell to serve on the State Development college^ coin Board was teachers should have at least one modern alge- rse m an honor justly de served. Many men are working and have worked in the past to furthei the economic development of New berry county, but I believe I can truthfully say that none has worked harder in this capacity than has John Clarkson. Most of his efforts have been unpublicized, because he is not the publicity - seeking type individual. IT- pre fers to remain in the background, avoiding the fanfare which mnn\ another person would seek who had attained the many positions of honor which have been bestowed upon Mr. Clarkson. He has served Newberry county well as president of the Develop ment Board; there is no doubt that he will serve the State Board equally well. Our congratulations to Mr. Clarkson, and to the State Devel- j opment Board for its acquisition of a most capable new member. teaching the “new bra before math.” There will be in-service training programs for the teachers in our schools before the next school ] session, and I understand plans are in the making for a summer !l course in the “new math” for the teachers at Newberry. This will help. Next week. I’ll give you an idea of the kind of math your children will be studying from first grade up. At the same time, I'm making application to enter the Eighth grade next year so I’ll be able to keep a step ahead of the girls! NOT CONFIRMED While we are congratulating Mr. Clarkson on his nomination to the State Board, we had better mention that, as of this writing, his nomination has not been con firmed, although it is expected to be before this issue of The Sun reaches you. As Governor Russell had advised the Sun, the nomina tion was sent to the Senate last Tuesday. It was to have been pre sented by Senator Jesse Frank Hawkins, but was delayed because of his illness. Thus, while confir mation is virtually assured, the formal action must be taken by the Senate before Mr. Clarkson actually begins his duties. THE NEW MATH If your eighth grader comes home from school sometime next September and tells you that 3215 is equal to lt3e, or that 3243 equals 448, don’t think he’s gone crazy. That’s the new math you’ve been hearing and reading about the past few years, and if your children attend Newberry schools from the first grade up, they’re going to be thrown smack-dab in to this sort of business. They re going to come home talking about associativity, commutativity, sets, union of sets, intersection of sets, empty sets, inverse operations the property of closure, and all sorts of things you’ve never heard of and have gotton along beau tifully without having heard. From what I can gather, your child has no choice. This n e w^ math, I am told, will teach more students more math. Perhaps it will. And that will be wonderful for those who plan to take the study of math to the graduate level, those who plan to work on computers and that sort of busi ness. But can’t you just see those 41 out of every 100 in Newberry county who drop out of school - fore graduation going around talking about the commutative property of addition and multipli cation, or the inverse operations of subtraction and division. Its going to do them a lot of good, for instance, to know that an “empty set” could be defined as “all the cookies in a cookie jar after the jar has been emptied. (This comes from the 8th grade textbook your children will have next year). And how about this little prob lem from the sixth grade book: “If both the QUATTOL and the TOLQUAT are box-shaped with parallel sides, which one holds the more water?” In order to answer this one, you have to know about SMAGS and BAKES. Sounds interesting, doesn’t it ? Before Ed Beck tells you that I’m trying to mislead you, how ever, that problem isn’t actually the “new math.” That is just something that “the pupils may enjoy” since they have been studying volume. Science Research Associates, Inc., leaders in the field of study courses and originators of the Greater Cleveland Plan for (new) mathematics, which has been ad opted in many South Carolina schools, strongly advises against introducing this new math origin ally any higher than the third grade. They recommend beginning with kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, believe students in the third grade could absorb what has gone before. They believe teachers, with in-service training, could effectively teach these courses. Bill Authorizes Bond Issue For Nursing Home COLUMBIA — The Newberry County delegation sought legisla tion Tuesday authorizing a $300,- 000 bond issue for construction of a county nursing home and for paying off a related loan. The county proposed to use bond money to retire a $120,000 loan from the State Sinking Fund Div ision from whom the money was borrowed for a three-year period ending in the spring of 1065. “Sound fiscal planning indi cates” the bill states ‘that the proper way to handle this indebt edness is to refund the same thru issuance of county bonds to be repaid over a more extended per iod of time.” The County Board of Commiss ioners would be empowered to is sue general obligation bonds up to $300,000 or as much as the con stitutional limitation permits. The money would be used with available federal funds to con struct and equip the nursing home and to repay the sinking fund debt incurred in May and June of 1962. The County’s share for the nursing home would be approx imately $150,000. The last series of bonds would not become mature until 25 years after their issue. Club To Honor W. C. Wallace Thursday, April 2, will be “Clarence Wallace” day when the Kiwanis club holds its regular meeting at the Community Hall at 1:00 p.m. This will be a Dutch affair, ac cording to J. V. Kneece, president of the Kiwanis club, and friends of Mr. Wallace who would like to attend may secure tickets from T. B. Amis or Bob Underwood. The Day will honor Mr. Wallace for his 14 years service as City Clerk and Treasurer. There will be entertainment and “speakers” will include friends of Mr. Wallace who will be given two minutes each for their re marks. Deadline for reservations March 28. Scoutmaster Wright Cannon was given one of the big surprises of his scouting career when he arrived for his Troop 66 meeting Mnnda\ night. Keeping their plans a complete surprise, members of his troop had planned a special program to honor their Scout master who this year completes 40 years of service to the Boy Scout program. “I had no inkling of what was going on,” Mi-. Cannon said, “but it was wonderful—I thoroughly enjoyed it!” Butch Graves, one of the troop members, acted as Master of Cer emonies and introduced special guests: L. L. Stanley, Scout Ex ecutive of the Blue Ridge Council; Dewey Kinard, the oldest scout master in point of service in the Blue Ridge Council; and Mr. Wright’s sister, Mrs. Mary Fran ces Finney. Mr. Stanley and Mr. Kinard made remarks appropriate to the occasion, and Mr. Cannon was presented a plaque denoting his 40 years of service. Troop 66 was originally known as Troop 2 and its first scout master was Howard Overby. At that time it was sponsored by the American Legion. When the scout program in Newberry went under Blue Ridge Council, the troop was changed to 66, and has been NEWBERRY, S. C. 29108 THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1964 Thomas Stewart Dies Suddenly; Rites Today Thomas Oswald Stewart, 86, died suddenly early Wednesday morning at his residence on Wil son street. Mr. Stewart was born in Lees- ville, the son of the late Thomas Oswald and Olivia Caroline Quat- tlebaum Stewart. He had served as City Clerk and Treasurer and la ter was a traveling salesman for the Seagraves Fire Equipment Co., the U. S. Rubber Co. and later the American LaFrance Fire Co. He was a veteran of the Spamish-Am- erican War. He was a member of the First Baptist Church, a life member of the National Firemen’s Associa tion, an honorary member of the Newberry Fire Department, a member of Amity Lodge No. 87 AFM and of the Hejaz Temple. Mr. Stewart and his wife, the former Eunice Shockley, celebrat ed their 63rd wedding anniversary on March 17. Besides his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Olivia S. Simpson of Rock Hill and Dr. Clara O. Stewart of Newberry; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be con ducted at 3 p.m. Thursday at the Whitaker Funeral Home by Rev. J. Anderson Bass. Interment will be in Rosemont Cemetery. ♦ $2.00 Per Ye a r sponsored recently by the Lion’s club of Newberry. There have been 473 boys in the troop since it be gan, 47 of whom have reached the Eagle Scout rank. Mr. Cannon became assistant Scoutmaster in 1924, and has been Scoutmaster since 1926 with the exception of about three years when he was aw r ay from Newberry at school or working. During these periods of absence, he served as assistant scoutmaster of Troop 41 in Atlanta and organized Troop 16 in Enoree and served as its scoutmaster. Active assistant lead ers of Troop 66 are Tommy Folk and Jim G. Clamp, both former members of the troop. Commenting on the surprise progi-am, Mr. Cannon said he had often told members of his troop that the Scoutmaster was suppos ed to just sit in a chair and ad vise, and let the boys run the pro gram. “When I arrived at the cab in Monday night,” he continued, “they had a big chair in front of the fireplace. They told me that the duty of a Scoutmaster was to sit and advise, and ordered me to be seated.” The many friends of Mr. Wright as well as friends of Scouting, join his troop in extending con gratulations for his long service in the Scout program. (Photo by Nichols.) Importance Of Dairy Farming Shown On Businessmen’s Tour More Applications Needed For STEP is PROGRAM TO BE BROADCAST An Easter program entitled “The Daily Promise of Easter” will be broadcast on Radio Station WWKDK on Sunday, March 29 at 6:05 P. M. The Newberry-Saluda County Special Training for Economic Progress (STEP) committee, de signed to organize and conduct training for the unemployed in the two counties, found at its meeting Monday morning that the employment service had ac cepted 93 applicants for various training programs, the most popular one being nurses aid. STEP, a federally financed pro gram, is designed to provide oc cupational training for thousands of South Carolina citizens who need and want it, but does not offer any technical training. Any person who is 16 years of age or over and is unemployed may be eligible. Also persons who are employed substantially less than full-time or members of farm families with less than $1200 an nual net family income may be eligible. Under certain conditions, train ees may receive training, travel The STEP committee is making a concerted effort this week to get information about the pro gram into the hands of all who would be qualified to take train ing courses offered. Among those proposed for these two counties are nurses aids, kitchen helper, service station attendant, land scape gardener and farm mach inery operator. Pearce Davis, man ager of the local employment ser vice, who stepped down as chair man of the STEP committee Mon day on advice of his superior, said that the committee should know by next Monday whether there will be enough applications to be gin training courses. There must be at least 40 applicants before the program can begin. Elected to succeed Mr. Davis as chairman was Dave Morison, ex ecutive director of the Newberry County Development Board. Among those present at the meet ing was Walter Hamm, a member and subsistence allowances. The! Governor s committee of length of training will vary with each course, although no program will exceed 34 weeks in length. 100 to advance the STEP program. The other county member of the Governor’s committee, John F. Clarkson, was unable to attend the Monday meeting. | i D. P. Folk, a member of the | j school location committee, told | I those in attendance that estimates I have been made for placing the | | old Mollohon school in shape for holding STEP classes. The max imum estimate was $57,000. This would include closing the windows with glass brick, installing heat ing and air conditioning system, and composition floors and other necessary renovations. The program will be on a com pletely integrated basis. All who are interested and are eligible to undertake this training are asked to contact Mr. Davis at the em ployment office on College St. Mental Health Workshop Set For Wednesday Racine D. Brown, Community Consultant with the S. C. Mental Health Commission, Columbia, will be the principal speaker at a Regional Mental Health Rally to be held at the ARP church, New berry on Wednesday, April 1. Mr. Brown will address a lunch eon At 1:00 P.M. This is to be pre ceded by Workshops from 11:00 A. M. to 12:45 P.M. on Mental Health Week Activities, and Rela tionships with Community Chests and United Funds. A native of Chesterfield and a graduate of Wake Forest college, Mr. Brown has done graduate work at the University of South Carolina and has completed the work for his Doctoral Degree in Psychology at Washington Uni versity, St. Louis, Mo. He has worked in the Psychology Depart ment at the S. C. State Hospital, has served as Project Director for the Mental Health Division of the St. Louis County Mental Health Department, and is a member of the consulting network of Nat ional Training Laboratories which specializes in human relations training and group development consultation. He is married and has one daughter. Representatives of County Men tal Health Associations and other interested persons residing in the midland area of South Carolina are invited to attend this meeting. Reservations should be made by contacting the South Carolina Mental Health Association, 2739 Devine street, Columbia, Tele. AL 68668. Newberry county residents can make reservations with the Presi dent of the Newberry County MH A, Rev. Robert Long. Among those at the Businessmen’s Dairy Tour and luncheon Tuesday were, from left, George Bell, director of the S. C. Council of Milk Producers, Clifford T. Smith, who presided during the luncheon; Dr. Wayne O’Dell of Clemson College and George Tup- per, president of the state Milk Producers Council. (Sunphoto) Mr. and Mrs. McBeth Sprouse and two sons, Kerry and Randy of Knoxville, Tenn. arrived over the past weekend and are spend ing this week in the home of Mrs. Sprouse’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin O. Summer on Harper St. Kerry and Randy are out of school for the Easter holidays. Mrs. Senn Died Friday Mrs. Christina Dunlap Senn, 43, wife of Tvrus M. Senn, died Fri day at Newberry County Memor ial hospital. Mrs. Senn was born in Nova Scotia, daughter of Mrs. Henrietta Dunlap and the late Sedley Dun lap, and was employed by Oak land Mills. She was a member of Smyrna Presbyterian church, vice-presid ent of the Women of the Church and taught the Christian Fellow ship class. Survivors include her husband; her mother; two sons, George Sedley and Tyrus Walter Senn; one sister, Mrs. Roberta Folker of Tallahassee, Fla, and two grand children, Milton and Christiana Senn of Newberry. Funeral services were conducted Sunday at the Whitaker Funeral Home by Rev. O. C. Brown. In terment was in Rosemont ceme tery. Active pallbearers were Billy Johnston, Earl Watkins, Edward Watkins, Ed Senn, William Senn, and Everett McLeod. The success story of what two World War II veterans have ac complished since returning :rom the service was demonstrated here Tuesday with a Businessman’s Dairy Tour to the daily farm of Max and Harold Cook, located about a mile from Prosperity. It is the family farm of their father, Sam Cook of Newberry. At the same time, business lead ers learned of the importance of dairying to the economy of New berry County and to the state, and also of the necessity for the dairy farmer to make a fair profit on his investment. Businessmen and dairy farmers from this section, along with lead ers from Clemson College and other agencies interested in the dairy business, observed important features carried out on the daily farm by these two energetic young men. luncheon held following the tour; Clemson College Extension Ser vice, Milk Distributors, agricultur- Holding a chart showing increase in prices of staple foods since 1941 are, from left. Max and Harold Cook, whose dairy farm was toured by a large group of business and farm leaders Tuesday morning; Dr. Wayne O’Dell, head of the dairy department at Clemson College, and County Agent A1 Busby. (Sunphoto) an occurrence today. Dr. O’Dell noted that the rise in price of milk during the past 20 years had been much lower than for most food items used by most families daily. In the period be tween 1941 and 1962, the price of milk rose 86.9 percent. Or. only three of a long list of staple items was the increase smaller. Most were much higher, including some items which have increased almost' 300 percent during the same per iod. The speaker showed several charts to illustrate how the farm er is paid for the milk he produces and what income he receives. He stated that when the wholesale price of a half gallon of milk' is reduced from its present level of 48c to a low of 39c, as has been done in price wars in this state within the past year, the dairy farmer ends up having to operate 81c in the hole on each 100 pounds The tour was sponsored by the 0 f m iik sold. S. C. Council of Milk Producers, | “With the tremendous invest- which picked^ up^ the tab for the j men ^. ^ey have, how long could many of them remain in busi ness?” he asked. He noted that the retail price of 53c per half gallon al agencies, Newberry County De- of milk in South Carolina is com- velopment Board and Newberry County dairy farmers. The group was met oj County Agent Al Busby and assistant agents, Ollie Donkle and Tom Bry son Mr. Busby pointed out that the Cook brothers have made much progress in improving production. Since 1957 the herd has increased from 33 to 44 milkers, while milk production per cow has increased 45 per cent from 8,557 pounds to 12,519 pounds of milk per cow. The farm is operated with a minimum of hired labor—one full time and one part time helper sup plements family labor to furnish all labor required. The families of the Cook brothers take care of all chores. Like all dairymen, Mr. Busby stated, they are striving to cut ex penses and increase milk produc tion per cow in order to lower the cost of producing the milk. Ninety percent of the total income of the farm is from dairying. A milking barn was built in 1959 ard a new milker was install ed in 1963. After the tour, a luncheon was served at the Newberry Commun ity Hall. Clifford T. Smith presid ed. Guest speaker was Dr. Wayne T. O’Dell, in charge of the dairy department at Clemson College. Dr. O’Dell stated that there are now 70 dairy farms in Newberry County, each with an average in vestment of $100,000. “The dairy farmer has no choice about a good part of this investment,” the speaker said, pointing out that much of the money invested was used to meet rules and regulations to assure sanitary conditions to protect the public interest. “No other single food item is subject ed to as many rules and regula tions than dairy prodi cts” he said. He pointed out that less than 30 years ago, many disease epi demics could be traced back to milk, but it is rare to hear of such pletely in line with prices in other Southeastern states, and lower than some. Among others attending the meeting were George Tapper, president, and Walter Bell, direc tor of the S. C. Council of Milk Producers. Mr. Bell spoke briefly about this organization which he said was newly organized and which he characterized as the dairy farmers “Chamber of Com merce. ff A large group enjoyed country-fried steak luncheon. the Clinics Set For Pre-Schoolers Pre-school clinics for Newberry county pre-school children will be held according to the following schedule: April 1—Silverstreet—9:30 a.m. April 2—Carver—10:00 a.m. April 2—Park Street—2:30 p.m. April 8—Bush River—9:30 a.m. April 10—Prosperity—3:00 p.m. April 14—Garmany—10:00 a.m. April 15—Reuben—9:30 a.m. April 16—Little Mtn.—10 a.m. April 16—Drayton Street—3:00 p.m. April 17—Pomaria—3:00 p.m. April 20—Speers Stx*eet—3:30 p.m. April 21—Rikard—10:00 a.m. April 23—Boundary Street—3 p.m. Before a child can be enrolled in school, he must be vaccinated for smallpox. This is done at the pre-school clinic. All parents who will have children to enter school in September are urged to bring them to the pre-school clinic. Parents are reminded that the South Carolina State law requires that a child be six (6) years old on or before November 1 of the year he enters school. Prosperity Gets Federal Funds The Sun has been notified by telegram from Senators Thurmond and Johnston that a public facility loan of $225,000 has been granted by the House and Home Finance Agency of Community Facilities Administration for construction of sewer system improvements i n Prosperity. Construction of the project, total cost of which $265,200, is expected to begin two months. is in Easter Seals Total Given A total of $1,250.00 has been sent in by the citizens of New berry county as of Saturday, Mar. 14, declared J. Dudley French, treasurer of the Newberry Crip pled Children’s Society, from let ters mailed earlier this month. Over 2,000 letters had been mail ed out on March 1 containing the Easter Seals. Last year, a total from all sources amounted to over $4,000 00 that the citizens con tributed to the campaign. Of this amount, 80 per cent was retained in the county for use in helping crippled children and adults. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS March 29: Mrs. Norma Wea- singer Glymph, Miss Pauline Williams, James D. Perry, Tommie Long, Robert Clayton ‘ Smith, Jr., Harvey Drawdy. E. S. Southerland, George N. Martin, Nancy Elizabeth Tim merman,, L. F. Fischer. March 30: William Milam, Hedy P. Clark, Eddie Long, Deleal Boinest, Neel Boozer, Gettis L. Coates, Henry Dod gem, Tommy Pope, Charles Park, Mrs. R. Brice Waters, Robert Bartley Jr. March 31: Mrs. James Smith, Sr., Johnny Billingsley, Mary Susan Long, Mrs. Anna Counts, George Ray Lathrop, ’Bill Car ter. April 1: Jake Wise, Mrs. Ber tha D. Boylston, Otis L. Whit aker, Mrs. A. E. Hazel, Miss Ruth Feagle. April 2: Fred Hayes, Oliver Cromer, Mrs. Sam J. Shannon, Grace E. Harmon, Jackie Gray. April 3: Mary Ruth Armfield, Mrs. J. B. Harmon, Meredith Harmon, Marjorie Graham, Nancy Eskridge. April 4: Miss Rebecca Lomi- nick, Mrs. Herman Half acre, J. H. Cook, James Edward Plampin, Mrs. J. E. Wiseman, Mrs. Anne Bruner Griffith, Miss Myra Hardy, Johnny My ers, J. Howard Clark Sr.