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"Where've you been?" "On a pleasure trip." "Where'd you go?" "Took my mother-in-law home." ----- —— A bachelor is a guy who doesn't have to leave a party when he starts having a good time. VOLUME 28—NUMBER 2. NEWBERRY, S. C. 29108 THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1964 ♦ $2.00 Per Year By-The-Way By DORIS A. SANDERS LOOSEN ’EM UP! If you good folks could see the hard work that is being done by many people to make the Bound ary School Bel 1 ’'a thing of beauty and a joy forever”, you’d loosen up those pocketbooks and make your generous donations to the Boundary Bell Fund, There has been such a wonder ful spirit of cooperation and such a willingness to do whatever is necessary that despite a few wor ries about where the money is coming from to do this thing, we’re going right ahead with it, still with the faith that sooner or later, the money will be there. With everything else he has on his shoulders, Ken Riebe has been right behind this thing, keeping his city crews on the job whenever he could spare them and that has been right often recently. Johnny Halfacre has been there much of the time, and Charles Boozer most of the time, with their helpers do ing a fine job of repairing the wall and grading the sidewalks, build ing the forms for pouring con crete foundations, etc. Irvine Les lie has spent many hours drawing up plans, staying on the site to help lay out the plans for the sidewalks and structure. Tom Pope and the secretaries in his office have freely given of their time writing letters, asking for dona tions. Prof, T. E. Epting is spend ing his time working with details for the dedication ceremony and he has come up with some fine suggestions. Bill Kibler, bell fund treasurer, willingly takes in the money and cheers us up when it is not as much as we had hoped for. Ralph Watkins, the County Board of Education, Ed Beck, Mrs. Ruby Abrams and teachers of Boundary have been sympathetic and helpful. We have made every effort to keep you informed as to what was going on with the Boundary Bell, and we hoped, in turn, you would have enough pride in the fact that this relic of the past was being preserved that you would willing ly loosen your pocketbooks — es pecially those who are former students of Boundary. We still have faith that you will do so and we are going right ahead on that basis. Will you drop by the S. C. National Bank or aend your check today to Bound ary Bell Fund, care of Bill Kibler, treasurer? Thank you. judicial departments of the gov ernment, and so on. But it’s the safest of bets that the average citizen, having just survived the April 15 tax hite, would be amazed if he knew where some of his money goes. Examples: The federal govern ment spent $18,000 on a study to learn why patients break appoint ments* at pediatric clinics. It spent $1,250,000 to study the re lationship between an infant mon key and its mother. It spent $11,- 500 to study blood group genetics of Southampton Island Eskimos. It spent $20,092 to study diseases of the giant snail. Such a list could l>e continued almost endlessly. The individual amounts are small. But there is more to it than just the money in volved. These are examples of what happens when a central gov ernment, peopled by avaricious bureaucrats are seeking more power and larger appropriations, try to do all things for all men and all interests. Large oaks from little acorns grow. Small cuts, in totally non- essential government projects, can add up to large budget reductions, to the benefit of us all. More Contributors Are Listed As Boundary Bell Fund Grows Memorial Day Observance To Be Tuesday POET WITH A HEART We have discovered that we have in Newberry a poet with a heart, and feeling for parents of young children. This poet was •dining at a restaurant in Orange burg not long ago, and nearby a baby was crying. Our poet, feel ing for the parents, was determin ed that he would not hear that baby cry, so he tx>ek out hie pen, grabbed a placeraat, and this is what he wrote: I Don’t Hear a Baby Cry by William Noland Henderson As I sat here lazily hunching Guests are evincing a frown. They say a baby behind me is cry ing And can be heard all oxer town. But 1 don’t hear a haby cry. A baby at .the table before me Is laughing and gurgling with glee This I bear, and this I see. But the guests, ignoring the happy baby. Glare at the other as though they are crazy. But I don’t hear a baby cry. I can see a baby’s winsome wiles And hear its happy sounds. It is easy for me to wear a smile And the babe doesn’t see a frown. Because, I don’t hear a baby cry. Confederate Memorial Day will be observed Tuesday, May 5 at 4P.M. at the Huey Cemetery. At this time, a short dedication ser vice will be rendered by t h e Drayton Rutherford chapter, UDC honoring the memory of Captain William M. Hatton and First Lt. Thomas H. Lyles. Iron crosses and wreaths will be placed on these graves. Participating in these services will be members of the Calvin Crozier chapter UDC and the Eloise Welch Wright Children’s Chapter. The public is cordially invited. A motorcade will form in front of the home of Mrs. Steve Griff ith on Johnstone street at 3:30 and will proceed to the cemetery. The following will be the order of service: Ritual and Prayer: Mrs. C. Wal ter Summer, District Director, UDC. Lord’s Prayer in concert. Sketch of the lives of the two men: Mrs. Robert D. Wright, past President General UDC. Dedication of Crosses: Mrs. E. E. Westwood, Sr., president Dray ton Rutherford chapter. Response: Mrs. A. T. Neely, vice president, Calvin Crozier chapter- Laying of Wreaths: Mrs. Elise Peterson Bowler, Real Daughter. Closing Prayer: Mrs. Steve C. Griffith, chairman, Days of Ob servance (Drayton Rutherford chapter.) S. C. Bar Presents Book To Library A book entitled “Sources of Our liberties”, edited by Richard A. Perry under the supervision of John C. Coopei, former admini strator of the American Bar Foundation, was presented to the New r berry-Saluda Regional Lib a- ry Tuesday. The presentation of the book, w r hich took place during the term of civil court, was made by Thom as H. Pope, acting for County Bar Association President Robert C- Lake Jr. The book was given by the South Carolina Bar Associa- tion. Mr- Pope pointed out that the volume contains the Magna Carta, United States Constitution and all early documents in American and English history which give the citizens of this nation the rights of free men. He said he thought the setting of a court room was the appropriate place to make such a presentation. Mrs. E. A. Shinn, acting libra rian of the New r berry-Saluda Re gional Library, accepted the book, noting that it would be a valuable addition to the Library. Judge T. B. Greneker of Edge- field, who presided over the court term, spoke briefly following the presentation. “This book tells us how we got our liberties, and I hope and pray we never lose them. I wonder if ten years from now, someone will write a book on ‘How We Lost our Liberties.’ At the rate power is being concentrated in Washington, we could lose them. This is no time to stand back,” Judge Greneker continued. “‘We should all speak out against this continued concentration of power in a central government.” In the picture above, from left, are Judge Greneker, Mr. Pope and Mrs. Shinn. (Sunphoto) Blease Portrait Presented Today OF INTEREST A couple of items of interest, gathered from other sources: Publisher Tom Anderson of Farm and Ranch magazine writes: “One of the eternal verities is that there is no such thing as equality. All men are deserving of equal treatment before the law and are equal in Heaven and hell, but not in between. Hitler, Tito, 3fao Tse Tung, Castro and Bobby Kanaedy have tried to make all Wm equal—under them. Free men *re not equal, and equal men are not free. As 'Bobby Kennedy’s as- sistant, J. Edgar Hoover has said, "Hie Negro situation is being ex- ploited fully and continuously by Communists on a national scale.” Is your snail sick? What is your tax money used for? There’s an easy answer—to pay for the national defense, to main tain the executive, legislative and Community Hall Chairman Named J. E. Wiseman of Newberry was elected Chairman of the Newberry County Community Hall Commiss ion at the April 22 meeting of the Commission in the Community Hall. Mr. Wiseman succeeds J. D. French, who resigned from the post after serving in that capac ity sin«ce 1959. Mrs. Clem Youmans was elected Vice Chairman and Mrs. Charles Ragland, Secretary. O. M. Cobb continues to serve as Treasure)-. Mrs. T. P. Crooks and Jake Bow ers were re-elected to serve on the Commission for six-year terms. Among the items of business enacted was the motion that, as a matter of policy, all organiza tions holding regularly-scheduled meetings in the Hall be notified that such meetings are not to be postponed or changed for any other meetings or occasions. The Newberry County Commun ity Hall Commission, created by Legislative Act on June 1, 1949, is composed of 12 interested citi zens of Newberry county who are empowered to make rules and regulations regarding the use of the Hall, and to supervise its care, maintenance, and general use. Present members of the Comm ission are J. E. Wiseman, Mrs. Clem Youmans, Mrs. Chas. Rag land, O. M. Cobb, J. D F.rench, Russell Addy, Mrs. E. G. Able, Mrs. T. P. Crooks, Jake Bowers, Dave Hayes, Louis C. Floyd, and Mrs. Kemper Lake. Memorial Exercises and presen tation of a portrait of The Hon orable Eugene Satterwhite Blease, Late Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, will be held during a special session of the court today (Thursday) at 11 A.M. in the Supreme Court room of the State House in Columbia. The late Judge Blease was elected Associate Justice of the Court on January 14, 1926 and was elevated to the position of Chief Justice on January 14, 1931, ^ position which he resigned on October 8, 1934. Judge Blease o .ed on December 27, 1963. Chief Justice Claude Ambrose Taylor will preside during the ceremony. The invocation will be spoken by Dr. James C. Kinard, formej- president of Newberry j college and a close friend of the late Chief Justice. O. Langdon Long, Chairman of Memorials, will preside for the Bar Associa tion, and remarks will be made by Frank B. Gary, president of the S. C. Bar Association. The Eulogy will be delivered by Steve C. Griffith Jr., law partner of Judge Blease and the portrait will be presented by R. Aubrey Harley, chairman of the Portrait Committee. Carol Blease Workman, great- granddaughter of the late Judge Blease, who was to have unveiled the portrait will be unable to at tend. The portrait will be unveil ed by his grandson, Jack Blease Workman of St. Petersburg, Fla. Associate Justice Woodrow Lewis will accept the portrait on behalf of the Court. The benedic tion will be pronounced by Rev. T. H. Vickery, pastor .of Central Methodist church, of which Judge Blease was a member. IN NEW YORK Harold O. Cook of Newberry is among nine representatives of the Life Insurance Company of Vir ginia’s Union district who quali fied to attend the company’s lead ers convention in New York city this week. Band Concert To Be Tonight Band students of Junior High school and Boundary St. school will present a program Thursday evening, April 30 in the auditor ium of Boundary Street Elemen tary school. The program will be one hour in length and well begin at 7:30. There will be no admis sion charge. In addition to the band numbers there will be two ensembles. Keith Nichols, clarinet and Willie Gilfillan, Bass, will play a novelty duet, Cricket and the Bullfrog. Steve Armfield, Mike Bedenbaugh, Ronnie Kyzer, Jerry Mitchell, and David Park will play a drum en semble, Flying Sticks. Both groups will be accompanied by Barry Shealy. The Sixth grade group is made up of 40 students who just began music instruction in October of this year. They will perform Hear The Organ Play, Two Waltz Mel odies, Intermezzo, Home On The Range and Sailing. The Seventh grade will play Fire Drill March, Liebestraum, Boy Meets Girl, and Old McDonald Learns To Dance. The Eighth grade will pre sent Honor Band March, Holiday in London and Shortnin’ Bread. The combined Seventh and Eighth grade groups will play Largo, La Golondrina and Sousa Medley. All three groups will join together to present a Salute to the Armed Forces as a closing to the pro gram. The public is cordially invited to attend this program. The Newberry High school Sen ior Band will present the Annual Spring Concert Thursday, May 7 at 8 o’clock in the High school auditorium. Admission price for this concert will be 25c and 60c. Among those who have donated to the Boundary Bell Fund since the last list was published is Miss Gertrude Reeder, who sent a generous contribution to Treas urer Bill Kibler. The many friends and former students of Miss Reeder will be happy to know that weather per mitting, she expects to be present for the dedication ceremony on May 24. Miss Reeder served Boundary School for 41 years, 33 of those years as principal. Another generous contributor, Mrs. Eloise Welch Wright, added an interesting note when she sent her donation “I feel especially interested,” Mrs Wright said, “since I was a member of the first Graduating Class from the New berry City Schools; and after graduating from Columbia Col lege taught in the Boundary Street building for fouryears.” Mrs. Wright said that in addi tion to her, there were only three members of her graduating class: Louise Tarrant, Mary Law Mc- Clintock who was later head of a girls school in Boston and Miss Annie Bynum. Miss Annie taught in leading South Carolina schools for several years and was rated among the very top teachers, Mrs. Wright said. Miss Annie's many students at Boundary also remem ber her in that way. The plaque which will be mount ed on the iron gate surrounding the bell structure has been order ed, and delivery is promised in sufficient time for the plaque to be in place before May 24. City crews under the supervision of City Manager Ken Riebe and Supt. Johnny Halfacre, with the aid of Architect Irvine Leslie, have.' Closed the old entrance in the stone wall, made a new one, and have laid out the area of the sidewalks and bell foundation. Work was held up Saturday be cause of rain, but began again Tuesday. Richland Shale Company of Col umbia is donating brick for the bell foundation The committee has decided that it would be more fitting to also construct the side walk and steps of brick, and this brick has been furnished by the same company at one-third off of the rebular price. The program on May 24 will be a brief one, and will feature two songs by children of Boundary school under the direction of Miss Juanita Hitt. Prof. T. E. Epting will serve as Master of Ceremon ies, and the dedication will be made oy Thomas H. Pope. More donations are coming in, but the Boundary Bell Fund is far from reaching the required goal. Mr. Kibler reports that most donations he has received thus far have been for $5, al though several have amounted to more and a few, less than $5.00. The committee will gladly ac cept any amount, but urges that donors be as generous as possible. Checks may be made payable to Boundary Bell Fund and sent to Bill Kibler at the S. C. National Bank. Other contributors during the past week include O. F. Armfield, Sr., Strother C. Paysinger, Mr. and Mrs. J. Don Rook, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Turner, Mrs. N.K. Williamson, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Westmoreland, Miss Pawnee lU Students at Boundary Street School are getting ready for their part in Newberry’s Clean-Up Cam paign. Putting a Clean-up poster on the bulletin board as Mrs. Ruby Abrams, principal, looks on are some students of Miss Sallie Lee Cromer’s 5th grade. From left are Mrs A.brams, Frances William son, Skipper Mathis, Stuart Leslie and Lynn Lominack. (Sunphoto) Clean-Up Parade Monday; Other Projects Underway Due to unsettled weather, the j Kick-Off Parade scheduled for last Monday afternoon to initiate Clean-Up Week in Newberry has been postponed until next Mon day, May 4, at 4 p.m. Mrs. C. S. Folk, Jaycee-ette Chairman of the Clean-Up cam paign, announced plans to post pone the entire Clean-Up Week appeal until the week of Monday, May 4, through Sunday, May 10. The week originally was scheduled to begin last Monday. A representative from NBC, Channel 10 in Columbia, will be in Newberry at 8 a.m. next Mon day morning t# take pictures and if needed, will remain all week to cover the campaign. Films will be shown at a later date on that sta tion. The film will also be view ed by NBC executives in New York for possible nation-wide use. Many persons have already be come interested in the Clean-Up promotion and have begun contri buting to the campaign- The Jayces-ettes wish to com mend H. S. Langford who is paint ing his building on Main Street as a contribution to the campaign. The Exchange Club has agreed to undertake the job of improving the old cemetery across the street from the Boundary Street school. Pledges and.badges were dis tributed to each child at Boundary and Speers Street Schools urging them to take part in the campaign at school as well as at home. A hot dog supper and dance were held last Friday night, April 24, at the National Guard Arm ory by the Newberry Junior High School, under the direction of Mrs. Lula Cuthbertson, for the purpose of raising money for Clean-Up projects at the school. The dance was termed very suc cessful. Jaycee-ettes expressed gratitude to Jan Cromer and Ki Ki Kirk land, Newberry Junior High School students for their help dis tributing Clean-Up Campaign Pos ters around the down-town sec tion. phy; Newberry High, Newberry Junior High and Gallman High will compete for one trophy; and the various Girl Scout troops will compete for one trophy; the var ious Boy Scout troops will com pete for the remaining trophy. These projects will be viewed by an out-of-town person and awards will go to the schools and troop putting forth the most effort. James Weaver, Clean-Up Chair- mao. far.. the._.Nfigro. . section . of Newberry, announced that Area chairman were appointed at a meeting held Tuesday night. The area chairmen appointed are as follows: Cannon Town and Sun set Park, Mrs. Theresa Boseman, Mrs. Mary Bishop and Mrs. An nie L. Goudelock; Gravel Town section, Miss A. O. Rutherford, Mrs. Jennie Ruff and Theresa Fant; Hill section, Mrs. Vivian Floyd; Cottage Hill section, Mrs. Florence Lark and Miss Mamie Reed; Brooklyn section, Mrs. Car rie Lee Ruff and Mrs. Mary Alice Baker; Hallman Town section, Mrs. Suzanne Dawkins; Summer ville section, Mrs. Genell Ruff, Mrs. Annie Edwards and _ Mrs. Gertrude Nance; Pike Circle sec tion, Miss Nellie Cooper, Horse shoe Circle, Mrs. Louise Gallman; Gallman High School, Mrs. Glorie Scott, Chairman with Mrs. Robert McFall and Carroll Hare assist ing; Drayton Elementary School— The Activity Committee of the school will supervise the Clean- Up work; Boy Scouts, J. Ernest Gibbs, J. W. Glenn and Fred Glass; Cub Scouts, Joe Means. These Area Chairmen will select Block Captains who will contact the residents in their section and encourage them to do their share in making Newberry the Nation’s Cleanest Town. Publicity Chairman for the Ne gro Section is Mrs. J. Ernest Gibbs. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Gar „ . lington, Mr. and Mrs. Grady The foIlowin g Newberry High Price, Newberry County Medical Sch ° o1 £ irls are praised for their Auxiliary, Mrs. Duncan Johnson, servlces making posters and act- Sr. for her children, Mrs. J F / ing as offlc ial secretaries for the Hawkins, Mrs. Clara Wertz Mrs 1 clean - u P campaign: Donna Davis, J. R. Boozer, Miss Mable Boozer, Toni Willingham and Emily and Miss Frances Boozer. ON MEN’ COUNCIL AT COLLEGE David Sox, a rising senior at Newberry college, has been elected chairman of the Men’s Council for the next school year. New berry students who will represent day students on the council are James Park and Mac Cobb, of Newberry. Hare To Become Rear Admiral The State Capt. Rober i H. Hare, a native of Saluda, has been named deputy and assistant to the Navy’s Judge advocate general in the Pentagon. With the appointment, Hare will be promoted to rear admiral. Hare was educated at Newberry College and the University of South Carolina Law School. The son of former congressman Butler B. Hare of Saluda, he is married to the former Helen Owens of Charleston. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Smalley are now residing at 2628 Winns- boro Road. Willingham and Hamm. The Senior IYP Club members plan to paint equipment in the playground. Next Saturdav, the Senior Teen Club members plan to paint the door and window frames at the Youth Center and also some playground equipment. The following Girl Scout Troop projects have been announced: Troop number 7-20 will clean the East side of the Girl Scout cabin; Troop 7-1 will weed in front of the Girl Scout cabin; Troop 7-21 will clean Miss Annie Bynum’s front yard; Troop 7-14 will clean the windows of the Girl Scout ca bin; Troop 7-4 will clean Wells Park; Troop 7-2 will clean Marion Davis Park. Four handsome trophies will be awarded to the schools and Girl and Boy Scout troop doing the most outstanding job. Speers, Boundary and STEP Program Begins Monday The public has been invited to attend the formal opening of the Newberry-Saluda STEP Training Center, to be held Monday morn ing at 10 a.m. at-Mollohon school. An official from STEP headquart ers in Columbia is expected to make a brief talk, and other city and county officials from Newber ry and Saluda will be present for the occasion. Two courses will officially be gin at the STEP center Monday, nurses aid-hospital orderly, and landscape gardener. Other courses are expected to begin as soon as sufficient appli cations in one category are on hand. Easter Seals Totals Given A total of $4,095.85 was recently contributed by the residents of Newberry county to the 1964 Eas ter Seal Campaign. This is the fifth consecutive year that the county has “gone over the top.” Thanks to the many residents of the county was expressed today on behalf of crippled children for the success of the 1964 drive staged by the local chapter of the Society. “Backed by Newberry county’s financial aid and understanding, the Newberry chapter will main tain and hopefully expand the services that give practical hope to crippled children,” Philip Kelly local chairman said. A complete breakdown of the contributions is as follows: Lily Day $276.91; Appeal Letters $1,- 926.57; Cannisters $20.63; WKDK Walk $43.00; Newcomers club Benefit $100.00; and Coffee Day $1,723.74, SPECIAL MEETING Drayton Rutherford Chapter, U.D.C. will hold a short meeting at the home of Mrs. S. C. Griffith Sr. at 3:30 on Tuesday, May 5th, before leaving for the Huey Ce metery where Memorial Day serv ices will be held. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Car Wash Is Postponed The car wash that was to be held in back of St. Luke’s Parish House last Saturday will be held Drayton Street [this Saturday, May 2, from 10:30 Schools will compete for one tro-* until 5:00. May 3: J. Ralph Williams, Bobby Long, Berley Bedenbaugh Jr., William H. Ringer, George S. Ruff, Marion Gilbam, Grady Ringer, Carolyn Wood, Jimmy Bedenbaugh. May 4: Mrs. Elise P. Bowler, Horace Williams, Dewey Kin ard, Mrs. Eld ward A. Lane, Jack Summer, Mrs. Brabham Crooks, Mrs. Jack Hughes, Carl Setzler, Roberta Clairice Kennerley. May 5: Francis Aull, Mrs. Ran dolph Kirkland, Mildred Power Martin, Billie Wayne Sheppard, Mrs. William Thomas Werts, Richard B. Caldwell, Mrs. W. Eller be Pelham Jr., Mrs. W. F. Rutherford, Mary Helen WTiit aker, Pamela L. Setzler, Mrs. Annie R. Crews. May 6: Mrs. J. M. Randall, A. W. Murray, Betty Boyd, Mrs. Byron Nichols, Hazel Wright, McTeer Seen. May 7: Henry Brooks, Mrs. Charles H. Boyd Jr., Randolph Ferguson, Michael Sheppard, Annette Hawkins, Mike Epps, Carroll Devore, Norman Beck, Buddy Morehead. May 8: Edith Dickert, J. Mor gan Randal, Mary Bouknight, Lois Ellen Cromer, Helen J. Ezell, Sara Brown, Mary Helen Smith, Johnnie B. Lindsay, Ter ry Merchant, Kerry Lamar Ep ting, May 9: Williamson Folk, Mrs. Horae* Cromer, Nat Gist III, C. E. Sharpe.