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I Some folks con stay longer in an hour than others can stay in a week. V r »/r ni ^ «L'< P.41V Only one person ever listens to both sides of a family argu ment—the lady next door. VOLUME 28—NUMBER NEWBERRY, S. C. 29108 THURSDAY, JULY 2 ; 1964 $2.00 Re r Year By-T he-W ay By DORIS A. SANDERS report', a chu 'chi ' withdraw; STILL SI PPORT IT Arconiintr to news number oi Method L about the State have support from Wofford eollep'e be cause of the announcement by Wofford trustees that the coileye would admit qualified Neifro ap plicants. I have not read, how ever, of any of the churches with- i >' we Purchase Of Lots O. K.’d By Council sad vXVNV.v.v (OI R A(,KOl A ream r i.a- to 'hare wit hi i which appeared First Blossom The expenditure of $250,000 to establish more off-street parking Newberry was approved in drawing support from the Council of Churches. The NCC, as perhaps aware, i.' behind all th< in Mississippi today. It the “school” attended N at ional you are ■ trouble snonsored by hun- dreds of yourig r ])eo]dt' from tiiru- out the nation who were to go to Mississippi to take part in a Negro voting registration drive. If you watched the special 1 \ program on CBS one nig it .a t week, you heard a .spokesman L — the NCC totally misrepresent and grossly slander the state of Miss issippi and its people. The NCC has actively lobbied for passage of “civil rights leg islation. In the past it has taken stands approving such legislation as all-out federal aid to education, lowering immigration barriers and admission of Red China to the United Nations. The NCC has taught young peo ple that they must “join the rev olution”; that they must take part in civil rights demonstrations even if doing so meant disobed ience to parental authority. The NCC has apparently forgot ten the mission of the church. It has become an organization ap parently dedicated to destruction, rather than advancement, of Christianity; the destruction of the Republic, and the advancement of socialistic philosophy of the left- wing liberals. And yet the Methodists— and ■the Presbyterians and the Luth erans and others, continue to sup port this outfit which thoroughly approves the Supreme Court de cision banning prayers in schools, and vehemently opposes any am endment which would allow—not demand—but allow prayer in schools. This is the “religious” organi zation which you—if you contri bute to a local Methodist, Presby terian, Lutheran or Episcopal church—are supporting. Doesn’t that make you happy? DOESN’T HE KNOW? Someone should have told Char lie Daniel, before he announced that he would build a 25-story skyscraper in Greenville. Doesn’t he know he is going to lose his shirt? Doesn’t he know that Greenville couldn’t possibly sup port such a magnificent building? In short, doesn’t he know that Greenville is a “poverty-stricken area”? Of the many inane things done by Senator Olin Johnston and Governor Donald Russell, the most asinine yet is the declaration that the upper part of South Carolina is “poverty stricken.” This state in various ways spends thousands and thousands of dollars a year advertising its prosperous, boom ing economy in an effort to at tract further industry. Then its leaders come out with what a- mounts to an announcement that the most vigorous section of the State is poverty stricken! What in the world has become of indiv idual, local and state pride ? We try to argue that we are a “sovereign” state and that the federal government should keep its nose out of our business. Then we go with outstretched hands to grab every cent of federal aid— that’s your income tax money, you know—we can get into our grubby little paws. It is disgusting and it is sickening! This “poverty-stricken” pro gram, if allowed to continue, is the beginning of the end of pri vate enterprise in this country; the last big step to socialism. It is the socialist concept—take from the rich and give to the poor. The example of Greenville being in cluded as a poverty-stricken area because, supposedly, it is a part of “Appalachia”—is a shining ex ample of the extreme to which politicians will go to get votes. Already the cry is heard thruout theland—“if we don’t earn as much as $3000 a year, the gov ernment must give it to us.” Of course this includes the lazy, drunken, no-good bum just as much as the true poor who can not help themselves. And the figure will by no means remain at $3000. Yes, someone should have told Charlie Daniel. That skyscraper he’s building won’t have a chance -of supporting itself in poor old : y • n ! nv ( hicauo Tribune, ind ! wo il-i iik* to share it with you. Knt ;t it*d “Profile in Gourage.” the ed;to. - ial follows: In the introduction t-> nr- book. “Profiles In ( otirag' .’’ .! • K. Kennedy wrote, “Thi- i- a hook about the most admirable ot‘ hum an virtues—courage. ‘(Lace undei pressure,’ Ernes' Hemiugwa;. fined it. And these are the /t-.r.es of the- |• res-ures experience i by t ight 1 'nited States Senat ■ and the <: race with which they endured them—-tin- risks to their - are > . tin- unpopularity of their tours---, th defamation of their charac ters. and sometimes, but sad.y only j ometinies, the vindication of their i reputations and their principles.”! Mr. Kennedy’s heroes each was j a man whose “desire to .via or' maintain a reputation for integrity ! and courage was stronger than his j desire to maintain his office - be cause his conscience, his pet'oral' standard of ethics, his integrity or j morality was stronger than the j pressures of public disapproval—j because his faith that his course I was the best one, and would ulti- j mutely be vindicated, outweighed | his fear of public reprisal.” So the great of the American i past, from John Quincy Adams to! Robert Taft, can now move over to make room for a new-comer. When Sen. Barry Goldwater stood in bis loneliness to say that, for the sake of the Constitution and the consequences he feared would flew from the legislation, he could not in conscience vote for the civil rights bill, he was en titled to the admiration of even his enemies. Here was a man who was within reaching distance of the Presid ential nomination of his party. He put that stake and his own high hopes on the line without flinch ing. He gave his opponents the weapon for which they had been Icoking to attack his motives, his character, and his candidacy. He chose to live with himself and to honoi his oath to support and de fend the Constitution even if he risked the alienation of powerful voting groups and the displeasure of party colleagues whose politi cal favor he could have had by easy submission to the majority m? %* - William Neel, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilder Neel of the Longshore section, proudly displays the first cotton bloom of the season picked from his father’s 70-acre cotton stand. William picked the first blossom on Saturday, June 20 and found two more on Thursday of the past week. Weather and the boll weevil cooperating, the Neels ex pect a good cotton harvest this year. (Sunphoto.) i Vacations Start July 4th For Many Workers Hundreds of employees of New berry’s textile and garment man ufacturing plants will enjoy holi days beginning Saturday, the 4th of July. Schedules for local plant dos ings and vacation pay arc: Oakland and Mollohon plants of Kendall company' will close down at b a.m. July 4 and resume op erations at 10 p.m. Sunday', July 12. Oakland, with about 500 em ployees, will distribute $68,000 vacation paymoll: the Mollohon payroll will amount to about $44,- 000 for its 475 employees. I j Newberry' Mills will dose at 8 a.m. July 4th and resume oper- j ations at 8 a.m. July' 13. Sharing He faced the consequence; ami in vacation pay 0 f about $43,000 will be about 525 employees. Shawnee Manufacturing Co. em ployees wdll have a two week va- accepted them. “If my vote is mis construed,” he said, “let it be, and let me suffer the consequences. Just let me be judged in this ca tion, beginning after wmrk on the real concern I have voiced hero and not by' words that others may- say about what I think.” Even the most partisan and hostile critics of the senator did not question his sincerity or the depth of his conviction, for Gold- water’s record on racial relations is too extended and too clear to permit any aspersions on his rea sons for refusing to take the easy- way out. He spoke with irony of “the sledgehammer political tac tics” with which the legislation had been rammed through “what was once considered to be the greatest deliberative body on earth,” and he bluntly recited the evil fruits he foresaw from its enactment and future enforcement. Thus, he said, the legislation did violence to the Constitution, to the concept of 50 sovereign states, and to the x-eserved rights of those states and of the people. He pre dieted it would give rise to a mammoth federal police force, to an “informer” psychology which would turn neighbor against neigh bor, worker against worker, and businessman against businessman. These, he said, were the hallmarks of the police state and landmarks in the destruction of a free soc iety. It is a strange-coincidence that Sen. Goldwater’s appraisal of the civil rights bill came at the very- time that a leader in the rights movement was downgrading the legislation as a rubber stamp measure which would have little practical effect and would not satisfy the requirements of his follow-ing. It is not the practice of this newspaper to get into Republican primary fights. It is our interest to present the picture. Today we are pleased to present the picture of a man who would rather be Friday and reopening Monday, July 20. The 200 employees w-ill receive about $30,000. Observing 10-day vacations will be employees of Old School Manufacturing Co. employees, $16,000 vacation pay; and Prosperity Manufacturing Co., $3000 payroll. Wilson Moore, 51 Wilson Moore, 51, of Spartan burg, died early- Saturday morn ing at the Veteran’s hospital in Columbia after a long illness. Born in Newberry county-, son of the late Dr. Ernest Harrison Moore and Mrs. Novice Brown Moore, he w-as an insurance agent before his retirement. He was a veteran of World W’ar II and was a retired major in the Army Re serve. He was a member of Kings Creek ARP church and of Amity I f u ^ re ^ Lodge 87. He also was a member of the Shrine. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mattie Glover Moore, a daughter, Mrs. Allan Geddings, Spartan burg; a sister, Mrs. Joseph S. Watters of Atlanta, Ga.; and a granddaughter. One of his sur viving uncles is Chalmers Brown of the county. Funeral services w-ere conducted Sunday at Whitaker Funeral home by Dr. R. N. DuBose and Dr. Paul L. Grier. Burial was in Rosemont cemetery. Active pallbearers were Will Montgomery, Howard Wallauer, Ethan Reeve, Lewis Lipscomb, Al an Caldwell, Ollie Brown, Jimmie Geddings, and Ollie Ogletree. at a special meeting of City Council Monday night. This amount would include the definite purchase of six properties, the possible later purchase of an additional property and development of the area for pa rking. Council approved the purchase of the following properties: Northeast corner of College and f riend street across from the Post 'Office, owned by Newberry Coun ty Bank and now used as a park ing area, $25,000; Corner of Coates and Friend streets across from City Filling Station, owned by Roland E. Reese, property not in current use, $ 16,no( Lo f .''routing on Friend Street, bon itd on the east by the park in lot of F. B. Purcell and on the west by the T. M. Rogers proper ty, owned by Richard L. Baker, $10,000; Lot at the corner of Friend and Wilson Street, ow-ned by E. B. Purcell, now uhed as Purcell’s parking lot, $20,000; Lot fronting Caldwell, Nance and Friend Streets, now- housing postal facilities and Whitaker Floor Coverings, owned by Chevis I. Boozer, $25,000; Corner of Caldwell and John stone Streets, the late Mrs. Julia White property, owned by Mrs. Charles H. Gray, $22,500. The project will provide an ad ditional 283 spaces on streets ad jacent to Main Street. Newberry now has 287 metered parking spaces. Council authorized an expendi ture of $177,500 for purchase of lots and $72,500 to develop the property for parking. The estimated improvement costs include $1,000 for demolition of six buildings on the lots. Providing all legal barriers are cleared, the project will be financ ed by a revenue bond issue of $200,000, and $50,000 the city has available in surplus funds. It is anticipated that revenue from all parking meters in the city will repay the bonds. City Manager Ken Riebe read a report from C. H. Davis Jr., traf fic engineer from Hickory, N. C., showing how the off-street park ing project fits into a central business district improvement program for Newberry. The report included a five-point improvement program consisting of one-way streets and off-street parking, on-street parking im provement, redeveloping and im provement of private property, co operation in merchandising, down town parks and public beautifica tion. Council has given the city mana ger permission to attempt “to sell” the city’s residents and business men on a system of one-way streets. A plan for such a system already has been prepared. Council also voted to amend the zoning ordinance to include the “manufacturing and fabricating of clothing, including hosiery” in the area zoned for central busi ness. This will give permission for Colony Industries, a division of Shawnee Manufacturing Company, to operate in the former Newton Tire and Recapping Building on Caldwell Street. Colony Industries, now operating with 16 employees, expects to expand its operation to employ 36 employees in the near right than President—and be both. could Rev. and Mrs. Dewey Brazill are now making their home at 30 Caldwell street. RICHLAND TEC David L. Young of Newberry was among students who com pleted the third quarter of work at the Richland Technical Educa- Ton Center with a “B” average or better. The Center has just completed its first year of school. The two-year, co-educational post- high school institution offers training in areas of engineering technology. Grid Tickets Now On Sale The Newberry College Athletic department announces that the advance sale of season football tickets to the Indian club members begins July 1 and runs through August 1. Mail orders will be fill ed in the order received, but no tickets will be mailed out until after August 1, 1964. Members of the Indian club have the privilege of purchasing season tickets during this period at a reduced price. Folders containing the 1964 Newberry College Foot ball schedule and information have been mailed out to all Indian club members. Send orders for tickets to L. C. Graham, Director of Public Rela tions, Newberry College, Newber ry, S. C.; Phone 276-5010, ext 48, or membership to the Indian club or Chiefs Club to F. D. (Dutch) MacLean, Secretary of the Indian Club, Newberry College. y ; x f. f ,• 0; m% ■ -ESI >;L..v,•; • On Saturday, Juno 20, thoi Newberry High school class of ! 1944 hold its 20th anniversary re- | union at the high school. i Thirty-nine classmates and their wives or husbands wore present for this first reunion since their school days. They gathered at the high school and reminisced while getting name tags and booklets in which were listed the vocation, ad dress and names of the wife or husband and children of each Joe Welborn presided during the banquet held in the school cafeteria. Thomas Buzhardt gave the invocation, and Class Presid ent Evelyn Dickert Davis welcom- m w.\ •>£o3!k ed the group to their return visit to their Alma Mater. Muriel Har mon Lake reviewed some high lights of their school days, and at the end of this short address, each class member stood and gave a brief account of his life since leaving the school. After the banquet Mr. and Mrs. Heyward Davis, Dr. and Mrs. Sydney Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Kib- ler Williamson and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Welborn entertained the group with an informal reception at the home of the Welborns on College street. Class members attending the reunion are shown in the photo above. From left, they are: First row: Mrs. Margery Pay- singer Williamson, Mrs. Venira McConnell Cochcroft, Mrs. Evelyn Dickert Davis, John Maxwell, Jr., James Everette Sterling, Mrs. Frances Adams Waits, Mrs. Mar gery Warren Cook, Mrs. Frances Schumpert Bern Second rot Mrs. Elizabeth Hayes Waldhour, Mrs. Muriel Harmon Lake, Mrs. Agnes Corley Kelly, Mrs. Narvis Oxner Drig gers, Mrs. Evelyne Gibson Bishop, John W. Smith, Mrs. Margie P. Smith. Third row: Mrs. Leah June Vi- godsky Gross, Mrs. Betty Baker a...-*■■ it -i Carter, Mrs. Wynona Layton Ter rell, Mrs. Derrill Smith Beat, Mrs. Elzetta Shealy Cobem, Mrs. Car oline Gallman Bishop, Mrs. Made line Hutchinson Fanning, Wallace M. Dawkins. Fourth row: Mrs. Fay Shealy Mills, Robert M. Renwick, Rufus H. Kibler, Mrs. Edith Taylor Den nis, Mrs. Colleen Neal Swett, Mis. Jean Stone Gayle, Joe H. Welborn and Leonard C. Pitts. Fifth row: James E. Ruff, Charles L. Oswald, David Long, George Slice, Thomas P. Buz hardt, David R. Ringer. (Photo by Nichols.) Proposed Traffic Plan Would Feature One-Way Streets mm iii Hi mm m m m Mt m * - 'v The traffic flow plan proposed for Newberry involves 12 streets, for a distance of several blocks in the heart of the city, according to City Manager Ken Riebe. With two exceptions, the parallel streets would alternate directions each block. Boundary and Friend streets would be one way coming from the direction of Greenwood and going in the direction of Columbia. One way traffic for Boundary would begin at McKibben and continue to Higgins. One way on Friend would begin at the railroad tracks and continue to Holman. One way in the opposite direc tion will be Johnstone, Main and Boyce streets. One way for John stone will begin at Higgins and In the top photo, Mrs. Annie Cromer, left, on behalf of the Speers street school, accepts trophy for best effort in the elementary school division dur ing the spring Clean-up Cam paign. The trophy is presented by Mrs. Jennie Carlisle, who was Jaycette in charge of Speers street school project. In the lower photo, Mrs. Chris Folk, chairman of the Clean-up campaign sponsored by the Jay- cettes, presents the Boy Scout division trophy of Scout Patrol Albert Goudelock, who accepts it on behalf of Troop 201. This troop cleaned yards of residen ces in the community during the campaign. Other trophy winners were Newberry High School for the High school division, and Girl Scout Troop 7-21, which under took the cleaning of Miss Annie Bynum’s yard while she was in the hospital. Griffith Joins Duke Power Co Steve C. Griffith Jr., Newberry attorney and former House of Representatives member from Newberry county, announced on Monday that he has accepted a position as assistant general coun sel for Duke Power company. Mr. Griffith will work out of the company’s home office at Charlotte, N. C. He entered the law practice in Newberry with the late Judge Eugene S. Blease after graduation from the Uni versity of South Carolina. He was elected to one term in the House of Representatives. His brother, Eugene C. Griffith, who joined the practice in recent years, will continue practice un der the firm name of Blease and Griffith. The two attorneys are the sons or Circuit Judge and Mrs. Steve C. Griffith. Steve is married to the former Mary Stanley Salley of Newberry. They have one daugh ter. The family left Monday for Charlotte where Mr. Griffith as sumed his new duties July 1. ON DEAN’S LIST AT FURMAN Miss Donna Rook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Don Rook of this city, was among 142 students named in the Dean’s list at Fur man University for the 1964 Spring semester. Miss Rook is a rising junior at the University. Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Warren are residing at 2605 1-2 Fair Ave. go to McKibben; Main from Hol man to McKibben, and Boyce from College to McKibben, as it is now. Running perpendicular, McKib ben will be one way from Boyce to Boundary, in that direction. One way the same wr.y will be Cald well, from Tench to Boundary; Lindsay from Martin to Main; Coates and Wilson from Main to Boundax-y. Coates and Wilson are only a block apart, but both would run in the same direction so dri vers may get to the proposed off- street parking lots without diffi culty. Going in the opposite direction will be Nance from Boundary to Boyce, and College from Boundary to Tench. Traffic on College street travel ing from the direction of the col lege to town would turn right in to Tench, then left on Caldwell to get to the business district. Parking on most of Main street will remain as it is presently, but there will be two lanes of traffic. Loading space for stores on the south side of Main between Wilson and College streets will be pro vided in the off-stx‘eet parking areas. Some store owners are al ready making plans to provide attractive rear entrances which will face the off-street parking lots. There will be some changes in parking on Caldwell street on the Community Hall block. It is an ticipated that a sidewalk will be constructed from the front of S. C. National bank building to Main street. Twelve parking meters will be installed along the side walk, and parking will be removed from the side of Caldwell on which the business establishments front. There will be two lanes of one way traffic at this point, going in the direction of Boundary street from Tench. Sketches of the proposed traffic flow plan will be published, and citizens will be asked to give their opinions before the measure is adopted. Discussing the plan, City Man ager Ken Riebe stated “We do not say this is a perfect plan. It is possible that some changes will have to be made and we urge any suggestions from the citizens. We want them to take an interest and to understand how the plan will operate.” The City Manager said it was hoped that the off-street parking areas could be completed by early fall, and, with the cooperation of Newberry residents, the traffic flow plan put into effect in suffi cient time to relieve the traffic congestion dux-ing the Christmas shopping season. “The ovex-all purpose for devel opment of the city business dist rict is to bring more shoppers to Newberry,” he said. “We are not going to succeed unless ’.'e relieve the traffic congestion we now have.” It is believed that the three- month period preceding Christ mas will be an excellent test per iod to determine the effectiveness of the traffic flow plan. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS July 5: Mrs. Lewis Shealy, Mrs. W. W. Hornsby, Ralph Gilliam, Mrs. B. B. Livingston, Prof. Milton Moore, Mrs. Mary Alice Wherry, Mrs. Billy Walton, Wil bur EL Epps, Mike Livingston, Gerald C. Pay singer, George C. Tresfgar, Horace DeHart, Vir gil DeHart. July 6; Miss Sara W’ilson, J. J. Hipp, Bill Armfield, Jr., Mrs. J. S. Thompson, Karen Lomi- nack, Sandra Gail Dawkins, Pam Phillips, Rogers Lewis Ringer, C. K. Brown, Beth Boulware, Walter Lake, Mary Ann Watkins, Nancy Jane Mayer, Mrs. Hor ace DeHart, Kenny Ogle. July 7: Miss Rose Hamm, Mrs. David Long, Carolyn Andrews, Dr. V. W. Rinehart, Jackie Mar tin, Lula May Hawkins, Randy Senn, John P. Livingston, Eiarl Bozard, Sadie Merchant. July 8: Mrs. Constance Arin field McHargue, E. L. Lomi- nick, John McCullough, Mrs. Foster B. Spotts, Olin Lominick, Jr., Tommy Buzhardt. July 9: Rusty Wilson, L. Pope Wicker, Jr., Ronnie Bedenbaugh, George W. Martin, Lang H. Am mons, Miriam Jollay, J. H. Cook, Jr., Mrs. D. R. Son, Jas. Swygert, Troy Matheney, Don nie Devore. July 10: Mrs. Evelyn Lea* dl Davis, George Senn, George W. Summer, Louis Broesy Jr., Paul Hutchinson, Gus Franklin Jr., C. A. Dufford Jr., Mrs. Kenneth B. Wilson. July 11: Beth Long, Mrs. Jes sie Dawkins, Mrs. F. A. Long shore, Doris Marie Sheeley, Ralph EL Epting, Frank Smith.