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VOLUME 28—NUMBER 5.
NEWBERRY, S. C. 29108 THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1964
♦ $2.00 Per Year
KENDALL CO. TO SPEND $3,500,000 HERE
By'T he-W ay
By DORIS A. SANDERS
BOUNDARY STREET BELL TO BE
DEDICATED SUNDAY AT 4 P.M.
THE A N S W E R
I can already anticipate the first
question my k oo( * friend Ed Mc
Connell will ask when next 1 see
him:
“You’re always saying- industry
won’t spend money in Newberry
County because of labor unions,
now what do you say about Ken
dall pouring $3 1 2 million into Oak
land, when it has labor unions at
both plants here??”
1 have an answer ready for you,
Friend McConnell — several ans
wers, in fact.
One is, to any other industiy, a
labor union is a labor union, per
iod. That fact connotes a disagree
able situation to someone sitting
in Philadelphia, or Chicago, or
New York.
But the Kendall Company knows
—and you have been a big help in
letting them know—that workers
h; Newberry, even though they be
union members, can be reasonable j
if left to their own devices and
are kept free of the influence of
thugs and goons from outside.
The Kendall Company has confi
dence that the workers in Newber
ry will remain sensible, reason
able workers, who realize that
only if their employer makes a
profit will their jobs be secure.
And this brings me to another
point. Kendall didn’t make this de
cision overnight. There were ex
tensive surveys at the Kendall
Plant, but just as important a de
ciding factor were surveys of com
munity sentiment.
In these quiet but thorough sur
veys, it is a good bet that Kendall
found out that in our schools, stu
dents are taught tho ins and outs
of the free, private enterprise sys
tem. They are taught that for a
company to flourish and provide
jobs, it must make a profit in or
der to pay stockholders for use of
their money, which enabled the
company to provide the jobs in the
first place. In far too many com
munities, profit is scorned as
something evil. Ralph Watkins,
director of our school system, has
taken steps to assure that stu
dents understand the meaning of,
and reason for, profits.
A third point is that Kendall has
found a vastly different attitude
on the part of business and pro
fessional people in Newberry than
some 30—or even 10—years ago.
They believe they have the sup
port of the community, and they
have a group to back the company
to the hilt. This wasn’t true a
few years ago. Score a point for
the Newberry County Develop
ment Board.
Last—you will say least, Friend
McConnell, and perhaps you are
right—Kendall has found that
there is a newspaper in the com
munity which is not afraid to
‘Take sides,” not afraid to stand
up and be counted for what it be
lieves is right. A small newspaper,
true __but widely read, even by
those whose names aren’t on the
mailing list; by those who have
canceled their subscriptions be
cause they didn’t like what ap
peared in this column about un
ions—but who somehow always
"know what has been in this cor
ner.
Kendall knows—from Boston on
down through Charlotte to New
berry—that there is one medium,
small though it be—through which
“It’s side” of a question can be
published if it ever becomes nec
essary for “sides” to be taken on a
controversial issue.
If I had the time, I could prob
ably think of more reasons for
Kendall spending $3^2 million
here, but the ones I have given
should be a pretty good answer to
the question which hasn’t yet been
asked.
* * *
Whatever the primary reason
for its decision, all of the people
of Newberry will be thankful to
know that the future of Oakland
will be secure for many years to
come and that in our midst will be
the most modem plant of its k:nd
in the industry. Without profits,
this would be impossible. We are
grateful to the Kendall Company
for this vote of confidence in our
community.
dedication Sunday, and I, for on?,
am very happy that this is so, al
though there have been a few-
trying moments connected with
the project.
The short dedication will begin
at 4 p.m. We hope you will all
be there. Both Miss Gertrude ; clement
Reeder and Miss Annie Bynum, 1 will
who listened for so many years to
the toll of the old Boundary Bell
while teaching several generations
of Newberry youngsters, expect
to be present.
Speaking of generations. I know
of one family of which four gene
rations (the oldest now deceased)
attended Boundary School. Are
there any others? It wouh
to resting- *0 know.
Set' you Sunday.
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College Finals
Be On May 31
The Newberry Go] lege Gomm-
encement will begin with the
Baccalaureate sermon by The
Rev. Glarenoe Kesler Derrick, D.D.
pastor of Mayer Memorial Luth
eran church, Newberry, in the
Mayer Memorial Lutheran church,
1307 Drayton street, on Sunday,
May 31 at 11:00 A.M.
Dr. Derrick is a graduate of
Newberry college. He received the
B. D. degree from the Lutheran
Theological Seminary, the hon
orary D.D. degree from Newberry
college and has done postgraduate
wmrk at Vanderbilt University and
at Union Theological Seminary.
He began his ministry at the
Home Mission Parish, Pelion, S.
C. and has served the St. Mat
thews Lutheran parish, Kings
Mountain, N. C.; St. Andrew's, in
Charleston; St. John’s, Atlanta,
and it present is pastor of Mayer
Memorial church.
He has served in various cap
acities in the North Carolina,
South Carolina and Southeastern
Synods.
The guest speaker for this years
commencement exercises at New
berry college will be Rev. Dr. F.
Eppling Reinartz, president o f
Lutheran Southern Seminary,
Columbia. At these exercises Dr.
Reinhartz will receive the Doctor
of Humane Letters degree.
Also receiving honorary degrees
will be Dr. Orlando Benedict
Mayer, III, Columbia, w r ho will
receive the Doctor of Medical
Science degree, and the Rev. Chas.
Henry Rein brecht, director of
Lutheran World Relief in Hong
Kong, China, will receive the Doc
tor of Divinity degree.
Newberry college will confer 84
Bachelor of Arts degrees and 29
Bachelor of Science degrees, also
nine General Business and Secre
tarial certificates at the Com
mencement exercises on Sunday,
May 31.
The graduating exercises will be
held on Setzler Field at Newberry
college on Sunday, May 31 at 5:30
P.M.
If good weather continues thru
the end of this week, the Boundary
B“k project, including the found
ation. fence, brick sidewalk and
steps, should be completed by time
the dedication ceremony is held
Sunday afternoon on the school
grounds at 4 p m. In case of in
weather, the ceremony
)0 in the cafetorium.
The program will open with the
invocation by Dr. Neil E. Trues-
dell. “America, the Beautiful” will
be sung by a chorus, directed by
Miss .Juanita Hitt and composed
of students whoso mother or fath
er o)- both were taught by Miss
Gertrude Reeder, who served the
school as principal for 33 years.
Miss Reeder plans to be present
for th- dedication if the weather
is favorable.
A short history of the bell will
be given by Prof. T. E. Epting
and the dedication w : ll be given
by Thomas H. Pope.
The chorus will sing “This Is
My Father’s World” and the cer-
| emony will be concluded with the
benediction by Rev. Robert Long.
The public is invited, and a
special invitation is extended to
all former teachers and students
of Boundary Street school.
(Contributions continue to come
in, according to Bill Kibler, treas
urer, although the goal of $700.00
in voluntary contributions has not
yet been reached.
Mr. Pope, who is serving as
finance chairman, today urged all
who have not vet contributed to
Groundbreaking
For Lutheran
Church Sunday
By MRS. A. H. COUNTS
Groundbreaking seiwices for the
new building of the Lutheran
Church of The Redeemer were
conducted after the regular morn
ing services Sunday.
Worship has been held in the
Boundary Street school building
nearby, while the former church
building was being demolished.
Sunday morning the congrega
tion led by the nastor, Dr. Henry
A. McCullough Jr., marched in a
group to the old site for the
exercises.
Participating were representa
tives of the various church pro
grams and those associated in the
building project. Warren Cousins
read the lesson and Gerald Pay-
singer introduced the participants.
The church has the largest Lu
theran congregation in this part
of the state, and this will be the
congregation’s third building..
Also participating in Sunday
Kibler, Lynn Ringer, Miss Sadie services were three members who
Bowers in honor of Miss Gertrude, belonged to the Redeemer church
Reeder, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph B. prior to the erection of the second
Baker, Ernest and Olin Layton, building in 1897. They are Edgar
Mrs. F. R. Fellers, Mrs. Clara Long, Mrs. George C. Hipp and
Bowers, Mrs. Frances Rutherford, Robert Long.
please do so, if possible, by Sat
urday of this w T eek, before the
dedication ceremony.
The Boundary Street P. T. A.
voted last week to contribute $25.
Donations have been received this
week, given in honor of Miss Ger-
trude Reeder and in memory of
Miss Mary Burton.
Contributors since last publica
tion include:
Cliff Graham, Paul Whitaker,
Charles E. Sligh, Mrs. T. C.
Sligh, Mr. and Mrs. J. W Sing-
ley, Mr and Mrs. Floyd Dominick,
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Reeves, Bart
ley Boys, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Rollins,
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Graham,
J. W. Leavell, Boundary Street P.
TA, Newberry Mills, Ine., Mr.
and Mrs. J. Ray Dawkins, Carter
Abrams, W. W. Bennett, Edward
Hawkins, Karen Humphries, Cleo
Leopard, C. M. Smith, Roy Frlker,
J. R. Kelly, B. A. Fretwell, E. H.
Mathis, T. E. Epting, donation in
memory of Miss Mary Burton,
Mrs. Maude Sanders;
Also, Mrs. Eva B. Clary, Keith
Mrs. Guy V. Whitener, Sr., Mrs.
Keith Roberts, Mrs Cannon G_
Blease, donation in memory of
M iss Mary Burton.
Total contributions to date is
$644.40.
Seek Industry
In North States
A group of industry-seeking
Newberrians will leave Sunday
by way of State Development
Board plane to call on industrial
prospects in Philadelphia and
New' York, according to Dave W.
Morrison, executive director of
the New'berry County Develop
ment Board.
Making the trip by plane to
Philadelphia will be Robert C.
Lake, Jr., president of the County
Board; Robert D. Schumpert, local
attorney; Luke Hart, manager of
StcAe Bank and Trust Co., Whit
mire; Ken Riebe, city manager,
and Mr. Morison.
They will be joined in Phila
delphia by Kelly Sullivan, Duke
Pow'er Company industrial repre
sentative; John Coleman of Dan
iel Construction Co.; Richard
SuDon of the State Development
Board.
Several of the group will re
turn to Newberry Wednesday af
ter the Philadelphia visit. Joining
the remainder for the trip to New
York will be John F. Clarkson,
member of the State Development
Board.
Mr. Morrison said the group
hopes to make over 100 contacts
in Philadelphia and about 20 in
New York.
Local Men Named
Members S&L
Committees
Two prominent Newberry Sav
ings and Loan executives were
recently elected to serve on two
1965 committees of the United
States Savings and Loan League,
it was announced today by Wm.
N. Bowen, executive vice-presid
ent of the Soujth Carolina Savings
and Loan League.
John F. Clarkson, president of
Newberry Federal Savings and
Loan Association, will serve on
the management committee; and
Pinckney N. Abrams, Secretary
and Treasurer of the State Build
ing and Loan Association, will
serve on the trends and economic
policies committtee.
The U. S. League is the trade
The spade used in the service
was provided by Dr. McCullough
in memory of Ben C. Chapman,
Dr. Paul H. Hei sey, Dr. Chris A.
Kaufmann and Mrs. Sarah L.
Ruff.
Work on the new' building, be
ing constructed at a cost of ap-
,*proxin>ktely $345,000 for sanc
tuary and administrative facili
ties, began Tuesday. Completion is
expected in the spring of 1965.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Giles have
moved to 1723 Drayton St.
Ashby Long
Died Sunday
Ashby Edgar Long, 54, mana
ger of the New'berry County Agri
cultural Stabilization and Conser
vation Service office, died of a
pistol wound about 11 A.M. Sun
day at Newberry County Hospital.
No foul play was indicated.
Long was wounded about 9 a.m.
Sunday at his home in the Hig
gins section of Saluda county, a-
bout 10 miles from Saluda, on
Highway 19.
Saluda county coroner David
Werts said Sunday night he is
conducting an investigation into
the fatal shooting and at present
has no further details on the case.
Son of Mrs. Missielou Sheppard
Kendall Company officials from Boston and Charlotte arrived in Newberry Wednesday for the
announcement of the multi-million dollar modernization program at the Oakland Plant. Seen here at
the Oakland plant office are, from left, L. Hart Jordan, Oakland manager; Jack Harris, Textile Di
vision assistant to director of manufacturing; George McQuilken III, Kendall vice president and
general manager of Textile Division; Bob Booth of Boston, vice president in charge of manufacturing
for the Kendall Company; John F. Clarkson, member of State Development Board who presided at
the luncheon Wednesday; and Jack Baker, Division Director of Manufacturing. (Sunphoto)
Officers Gather at Country Club
Wednesday To Reveal Plans
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Hope for the future economic vice president and general mana-j cal advances have been so rapid
growth of New'berry County was ! ger of Kendall’s textile division; ! that although the Oakland plant is.
given a healthy shot in the arm | Lt. Gov. Robert McNair, L. Hart | not obsolete, it will take $3 1 /2 mil-!
Wednesday with the announce-1 Jordan and others,
ment that the Kendall Companv
K 1 Other distinguished guests
association representing over 5000 . Lo ng 0 f Saluda and the late Jacob
savings, building and loan assoc- p. Lo ng> the victim was a life-
iations located in every state of
the United States, the district of
Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam.
The total assets of these member
institutions total over 117 billion
dollars, and are a vital factor in
the nation’s economy. The broadly
based program of the U. S. league
has as it main objectives the sup
port of thrift promotion; the en
couragement of private invest
ment in the purchasing of homes;
the development of safe, efficient
operating methods; and the im-
ing, increased the regular quart
erly dividend to 34 cents per
loan business and the public
terest.
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long resident of Saluda county.
Surviving in addition to his
mother are his wife, Mrs. Eliza
beth Workman Long of Saluda,
and a brother, J. Wilbur Long of
Columbia.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday at 4 P.M. at Pine Pleas
ant Baptist church by Rev. Randy
Griffith and Rev. J. R. McKittrick
and burial was in the church cem
etery.
THE BELL
Despite the ups and downs, ins
and outs, delays, etc., it looks as
though the Boundary Bell project
“will be completed in time for the
The Oakland Plant of the Kendall company has received a Cer
tificate of Safety Achievement from the State Department of Labor.
W. E. Ates, right, director of Personnel of Kendall’s Textile Div
ision, Charlotte, awards the Certificate to K. C. Wise, overseer
in weaving, as L. A. Cowax a, left, assistant overseer of weaving,
and H. E. Schumpert, assistant overseer cloth room, look on. The
certificate, signed by Fred Ponder, Commissioner of Labor and
Governor Donald S. Russell, cites the Oakland Plant for its “out
standing efforts in promotion of industrial safety with such efforts
resulting in the reduction of economic waste.” (Sunphoto.)
Miss Kelly Has
Research Grant
Dr. Charles G. Jeremias, head
of the Chemistry Department of
Newberry college, announces that
Margaret Kelly, a rising senior
chemistry major, has been award
ed an undergraduate research par
ticipation grant at the University
of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. for
the summer session. This grant
is made available by the National
Science Foundation.
She has been selected to work
under Dr. Alexander Van Hook of
the Department of Chemistry at
the university. Her studies will
r be centered around the vapor
pressure ratios between deuterated
molecules and their protiated hom
ologs. In particular, the research
will be concerned with the ques
tion of how this property is af
fected by the presence of a solid
or by solution in another liquid.
Miss Golden
In Recital
would spend $3 ^ million in New
berry to completely overhaul and
modernize its Oakland plant.
Plans for the renovation have
been in the making for over a
year, but have been kept a close
ly guarded secret until this week.
It was only Monday of last week
that the Kendall Company gave
its final O.K. to the expenditure.
Announcement of Kendall’s
plans for Oakland were made pub
lic at a luncheon Wednesday at
the Country Club, given in honor
of the Kendall Company by the
Newberry County Development
Board, and attended by some 80
guests. Employees of Oakland had
been notified earlier in the week,
according to L. Hart Jordan, Oak
land manager, who stated “We
felt we owed it to our loyal em
ployees to advise them first, be-' and City Council.
on
hand for the occasion included J.
B. Baker, J. R. Black, Jack Harris,
and W. E. Ates, all officials in
Kendall’s Textile Division in Char
lotte; Alex Savage of Camden, re
cently retired director of the tex
tile division; D. O. Carpenter, re
tired manager of the Oakland
Plant, who was manager during
the expansion and renovation of
Oakland in 1950; J. D. French, re
tired manager of Kendall’s Cot
ton buying office;
Also Walter W. Harper, direc
tor of the State Development
Board; John C. Floyd, general
manager, and Jim McAden, direc
tor of public relations of the State
Chamber of Commerce; local offi
cials of Kendall offices and plants,
members of the County Develop
ment Board, County Delegation
fore releasing the information to
the public.”
Presiding at the luncheon was
John F. Clarkson, member of the
State Development Board. Fol
lowing the invocation by Dr. A. G.
D. Wiles, brief talks were made
by Robert Booth of Boston, vice
president in charge of manufac
turing for the Kendall Company;
In discussing the program,
which is expected to get underway
in the very near future, the Oak
land manager emphasized that it
is one of modernization, not ex
pansion.
“In 1950,” Mr. Jordan said, “the
plant was doubled in size and
made as modern as it was possible
to make it. However, in the 14
lion to make it competitive and!
bring it in line with the mo$t mod-'
em textile plant in the country.”
It is Kendall’s anticipation that
when the program is completed,
Oakland will have no superior in
a plant with the same type opera
tion.
One of the largest expenditures
in the program—almost one mil
lion dollars—will be used to in
stall a new, modem air condition
ing system to service the carding
and the spinning areas and a new
air wash cooling system in the
weave rooms.
“The primary reason for the in
stallation of these systems is for
employee comfort,” Mr. Jordan
said. “There may be some second-
aiy gains in the processing as it
should eliminate the high varia
tions in our room conditions. How
ever,” he continued, “the company
is not expecting to get much re
turn on the money invested in
these cooling systems except
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George McQuilkin III of Charlotte, ( years since that time, technologi-
The Newberry College Music
Department presented Miss Char
lene Golden, Mezzo soprano, in her
senior recital on Monday, May 18.
Miss Golden is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Golden, of
Newberry.
During her college course, she
was awarded the Kiwanis, and the
Graves Music scholarships. She
was chosen to represent the col
lege at the Lutheran Music Sem
inar in 1963, and she has been
heard frequently as soloist for the
Newberry College Singers. She
was listen in Who’s Who in 1963-
1964.
She was accompanied at the
piano by James Calk.
Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Brown
have moved to 1219 Walnut St. in
the Billy McSwain home which
they recently purchased.
PRAYER FOR TODAY ...
Gracious God, we thank You
for this loving gift whereby the
burden of our sin is lifted from
us. Help us each day to repent
so that each day we may be
refreshed and made anew. Amen
RETURN FROM BEACH STAY
Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Carpenter
returned to their home on Bound
ary street Tuesday after spending
several days on a fishing trip at
Myrtle Beach.
Mrs. Elizabeth Graham, sixth grade teacher at Boundary Street
School, was honored last Thursday night during the last P.T.A.
meeting of the year. A tribute was paid by one of her students.
Dean Rodelsperger. She was presented an orchid corsage. Mrs.
Graham retires at the end of this year. She is shown here with
Boundary’s principal, Mrs. Ruby Abrams. Speaker at the PTA
meting, theme of which was “Farewell to Sixth Grade” was Jack
Raffield, manager of S. C. National Bank and father of a sixth
grader. (Sunphoto)
BIRTHDAY
GREETINGS
May 24: Mrs. James Leavell,
Mrs. Floyd Bradley, Leroy Wil
son, Mrs. Claude Buzhardt, J.
P, Boozer, Mr& C. L. Perkins.
Cyril Hutchinson, Ronnie Curtis
Wicker.
May 25: David Williams, Ruth
Amis Niles, John F. Clarkson,
J. P. Fellers Jr., Mrs. Nora
Davis, Frank Kolb, William Wil
son, Mrs. Margaret Bryson, Mac
Ashbaugh, Benji Kirkland.
May 26: Mrs. Della Koon,
Billy Tedford, Carolyn E. Duck
ett.
May 27: Harry H. Hedgepath,
R. W. Culbertson, Lillian Rodel
sperger, Cecil Fulmer, Frank L.
King, Christy Armfield.
May 28: Buzz Purcell, Carol
Kohn, Mrs. Mary Birge Hicks,
Martin Mills, Homer Crooks, Jo
Ann Knnkle, Carl and Charles
Setzler, William Franklin, Doris
B. Westwood, Henry A. Kesler,
Dennis Franklin, Rev. Kenneth
B. Wilson, Mrs. Rosine Long
shore.
May 29: Sarah Boozer, Jane
Cullum, Mrs. Allen Dominick,
Wilbur Koon, Mrs. Guy Counts,
Susan Kelly, Bobby Sprattl HI,
Sue Harmon.
May 30: J. T. Dennis, Mrs.
James Smith, Mrs. F. B. Daw
kins, Linda Cole, Mrs. Ray
Nobles, Jack Lominick, Mike
Wiggers, Danny Wiggers.