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The trouble with singing your own praises is that you seldom get the right pitch* rH VOLUME 28—NUMBER 34. By-The'WcL'y . . . b y dori; a. sanders CHRISTMAS SPIRIT As each Christmas sea^m comes around, we s‘'em to ^o farther in for^ettin^ ti e real rea son for the celebration. 1 he moie we prosper, the more wa concen trate on material things and i<n- get the religious significance of the occasion. We are pretty far gone it seems to me, when a “Christmas” float contains hound dogs painting after a coon. 1 don’t know about the claimed in humanity of the flout but certainly the theme is far from what the spirit of Christmas should be. h or the illumination of our out-of-;own readers, this float was not in the Newberry parade, but in the Col umbia parade two weeks ago. Our minds these days are on Christmas shopping for family and friends. 1 wonder how many of us ever think of shopping lor the needy? We might take our little fruit, or a few pennies to the church to be handed out to some unknown, but when have you personally ever, experienced the pleasure of really helping the needy? While I deem the President’s idea that this is a poverty-stricken nation absurd the truth is that there are people who are not able to take care of themselves and their families through no fault of their own. It is our neglect—our personal neglect and the neglect of our churches to do humane works, that is making possible the establishment of the “Great So ciety”—a fancy term for all-out Socialism. I am leading up to a project in which you, personally, can take an interest—if you really are inter ested in helping the needy—and that is Boys Farm. I wish you would go visit this place. Rev and Mrs. Shealy who operate the Farm, are always hap py to have visitors, and you wall be able to learn personally of the work they are doing. It is amazing the way they have converted the little house out there into a home for 17 boys. As they show you around the house, they proudly tell you of the kind people w r ho have donated beds, linens and covers, clothes, food— there is almost nothing they will not put to good use—except girls’ clothes. After all, it IS a boys home. The Shealys talk about the children with such affection that it is hard to believe the boys aren’t their own. Each boy has chores, among them making his bed be fore he goes to school. The morn ing I made an unexpected visit out there, the house was as neat as a pin. A wek seldom passes but the Shealys have to say “no” to tak ing another child. There just isn’t room. Their dream is the build several new cottages and a chapel, little by little. An architect is drawing (free of charge) long- range plans so that when the dream becomes a reality, the buildings will be properly and at tractively spaced on the grounds. In the meantime, there is still the mortgage to be paid on the property. There are still 17 hun gry boys to feed and clothe. It costs $75 a month just, to provide school lunches for the boys. When I asked whether any church had volunteered to help with the lunches, Rev. Shealy told me he had gone to one minister when they first began Boys Farm and was prompty rebuffed with the statement “we don’t need people like you in Newberry.” The Courts don’t agree. They often ask Boys Farm to take children whose parents can’t, or won’t take care of them. I don’t know of anything more irritating than to hear of a church congregation building new structures costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, installing air conditioners and expensive or gans costing ten of thousands of dollars, then sitting on their hands and moaning “we just don’t have the money to help the needy.” This doesn’t apply to all the churches, of course. Some of them and some individual church mem bers have taken an active interest ialBoys Farm. But they could use 8Cf*2nuch more! How about taking a good look a&. jrourself and see how long it has been since you had the pleas ure of helping someone in need. Then sit down and write a check add send it to Boys Farm. Now! Perhaps you could lead your church circle, your Sunday School class or other civic group into giving a monthly donation to Boys Farm and perhaps you, as an individual could do the same, even if you aren’t able to do so on ;i regular basis. Ami again I would urge that you visit the Farm —then you will better under stand to what use your gift is being put. As you do your Christmas shop ping, reniembe" theie are boys for whom there is no Santa, ex cept as th ■ good Lord moves your heart to he one. And there are no mothers and fathers throughout the year for those boys, except through Rev. and Mrs. Shealy with your help. How about getting the real spirit of Christmas giving this year ? PI SH COMING SOON It won't be long until extensive efforts will be made to pass thru Congress the king-Anderson bill, better known as "Medicare”. This is the bill which woo’d put medicai care for SOME of the elderly (needy or not) under the Social Security system. It is a very un desirable piece of legislation, es pecially when there is already a medical care program for the needy elderly citizens. While I hope that this bill will be given extensive publicity so the public really knows its dangers, it is impossible, in a few newspaper columns, to give all the facts about it. Next time you visit your doctor ask him for a copy of “The Case Against the King-Anderson bill.” This was a statement made by the American Medical Association before the Congressional Ways and Means committee. If your doctor doesn’t have copies, lie should—so ask him to get enuogh of the little books to give to in terested patients. If you will study this information, you will realize that this is just another unneces sary raid on your pocketbook, which will endanger your present Social Security system. Service Sunday for Mrs. Setzler Mrs. Mildred Paysinger Setzler, C>0, died suddenly early Saturday morning at her home on College street. Mrs. Setzler was born and rear ed in Newberry and was a daugh ter of the late Charles Thomas and Florence Dennis Paysinger. She made her home in Newberry and Pomaria all her life. She was a member of the Lutheran Church of The Redeemer and the Lutheran Church Women. Mrs. Setzler is survived by I er husband, Tom E. Setzler, New- berry; one son, Tommie P. Setzler, Newberry; one brother, Gerald C. Paysinger, Newberry; three sis ters, Mrs. O. L. Hill, Charlotte, N. C., Mrs. J. E. Gaines, Elberton, Ga., and Mrs. H. S. Culclasure, Honea Path; two grandchildren, Natalie and Pamela Setzler, both of Newberry. Funeral services were held on Sunday afternoon from the Mc- Swain Funeral Home with Rev. Henry A. McCullough Jr. con ducting the service. Interment was in Rosemont cemetery. Active pallbearers were R. R. Bruner, Joe Welborn, Carroll Ear- gle, Douglas Hornsby, Robert D. Schumpert. Robert Hawkins, Fred Weir Jr. and Gordon Leslie. Were always being urged to tell the truth, but nobody wants to hear it. NEWBERRY, S. C. 29108 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1964 ♦ $2.00 Per Year Election for annexation of two areas be next Tuesday Which Christmas will you observe? That is the question asked by these fifth grade students of Mrs. Nina Price’s home room at Boundary Street School. On one side is depicted the material as pect of Christmas, the other, the religious significance of the holiday. The students who made the poster for the Boundary bulletin board are, from left, Mary Dale Barnette, Ricky Tttaway, Lee Leslie, Blair Mathis and Frances Jordan. (S mphoto) City buys property to build oxidation pond for industry Former county health officer died Tuesday Dr. H. Grady CaLison, 75, di rector of the Andersor County Health Department, and former Newberry County Health Officer for a number of years, died Tues day about 9 a.m. shortly after a heart attack at his office in the Anderson Countv Health Building. A native of Callison and a grad uate of the Medical College of South Carolina. Dr. Callison ent ered public health work in 1924. He formerly was director of lo cal health services for the State Board of Health and had been county health director in Newberry and in Augusta, Ga. He was a son of the late J. W. and Amanda Hollingsworth Cal- lison and a member of Grace Epis copal Church and Anderson Rotary Club Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ethel Jagar Callison; one son, H. Grady Callison of Chapel Hill, N. C.; two daughters, Mrs. Houseal Norris of Chester and Dr. Caroline H. Callison of Clinton, N. C.; a brother, J. W. Callison of Green wood; four sisters, Mrs. G. R. Plunkett of Lynchburg, Va., Mrs. Ellison Nelson of Columbia, Mrs. Marie Reynolds of Birmingham, Ala., and Miss Lillie Callison of Greenwood. Funeral services will be con ducted Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at Grace Episcopal Church by the Rev. Edwin Clippard. Boyd Robertson retires from postal service J. Boyd Robertson, rural car rier at the Newberry pastoffice since 1956 and a postal employee for 38 years, retired from the ser vice on December 9, after having requested and being granted op tional retirement under the Civil Service System. Mr. Robertson had served for 22 years as a city letter carrier and seven years as a window clerk before being trans ferred to rural route two in Sep- tembe- i956. A’ honorary recognition certi- fi * ,e was presented Mr. Robert- s n on the occasion of his retire ment which conveyed official com mendation and an expression of esteem from the Postmaster Gen eral and the Atlanta Regional Di rector. Postmaster Harry Moose made the presentation in the pres ence of his co-workers at the postoffice as the retiring carrier was preparing his mail for deliv ery on one of his final rounds. A personal letter from the Director cited Mr. Robertson’s contribu tions to the civic and religious life of the community and commended him for his performance of these duties of a good citizen, in addi tion to his excellent postal ser vice. Mr. Robertson has served a 55 mile route without acident for these past eight years and accord ing to Postmaster Moose, even now application for the National Safety Council’s eight year Safe Driver Award is being processed for the retiring carrier. “One very difficult situation which fac ed Mr. Robertson in serving his route,” the Postmaster said, “was the fact that there were so many families with the same surname living in the territory he served. At last count,” the Postmaster continued, “there were 55 famil ies with the same surname and in many instances, given names were the same.” The retiring carrier is married to the former Eula Mae Leopard of Newberry and they are the parents of three daughters, all registered nurses and married. Mr. Robertson and his wife just recently returned from a European visit to their daughter, Helen, who is living there with her husband who is serving in the armed for ces. The postmaster announced that Perry E. West ,a part-time rural carrier since 1948, would begin serving Mr. Robertson’s route on December 10th. ] City Council Tuesday night ac cepted a low bid of approximately $290,000 by Kahn and Jackson Construction Co. for a water line facility to the new Shakespeare plant site. The contract calls for con struction of a water tank at a cost of $88,800, water mains and tank foundation, $151,948, a pumping station, $35,172, and engineering work, $20,000. Council also authorized the pur chase of 80 acres of land in the vicinity of the Shakespeare plant site for location of an oxidation plant. Cost of the land was list ed at $150 an acre plus the cost of timber on the plot. A cost sur vey of the timber is to be made, it was reported. In other business, council ap proved an amendment to the zon ing ordinance which restricts trail er parking in certain residential areas. The amendment also pro vides for the rezoning of an area at Harrington and Wilson streets from residential to business. A letter from James D. Brown, Newberry County superintendent of education, request that the street connecting Kibler and Pope Terrace to the rear of Speers Street School be taken into the city system and that the street be surface treated. Brown also asked that sidewalks be constructed along Center and Drayton streets in the Drayton School },rea. City Manager Kenneth L. Riebe was granted time to investigate the projects and will report back to council. Oil Tuesday, December 15, vot ers of the city will decide whether they wish the annexation of two more areas to the city limits, while voters in those areas decide whether they want to be annexed. For the second time in the past ten years, a portion of the Oak land community is seeking an nexation. The other area, trying for the first time to get into the city limits is described as “com mencing on Johnstone street at a point where such street intersects the City limits of the City of Newberry and proceeding in an easterly direction along Johnstone street and said city limits to a point one hundred feet east of the intersection of Turner street and Johnstone street, thence in a southerly direction along a line parallel to Wise street to the city limits of Newberry, thence in northerly direction following the present city limit line to the point of commencement.” The portion of the Oakland community seeking annexation be gins at the city limits on Nance street, taking in 200 feet on the west side of Nance to By-pass 121; easterly on By-pass 121 to Fair Avenue, then southerly on Fair avenue to the city limits. The Oakland plant of the Ken dall company would not be in cluded in the annexation, but other propertif s owned by Kendall are included. Polls will open at 8:00 a.m. and close at 6:00 p.m. A registration certificate wil be required of all voters. In order for the areas to be an nexed, the voters in the city, as well as the voters in the area seeking annexation, must be in favor of the annexation. In the last Oakland annexation election, voters of that community favored becoming a part of the city, but were rejected by city voters. Polling places will be as follows: Ward 1, Council Chambers. Ward 2, Smith Motor Co. Ward 3 No. 1, Boundary Street School. Ward 3 No. 2, Mollohon Park Pavillion. Ward 4 No. 1, Old Court House. Ward 4 No. 2, Union Hall, on Drayton street. Ward 5, Scout Cabin, West End. Ward 6, Richard L. Baker’s Furniture store. Oakland Annexation Area: Colie Vaughan’s home. Wise Street Annexation Area: Chaplin’s Grocery, j Managers are requested to pick up the box for their precinct at the court house on Saturday, the 12th between 9 a. m. and noon. If voting on annexations is favorable, it is probable that City Council will accept these areas in to the city as of January 1, 1965. Mrs. Toni Fennell, left and Mrs. Barbara Folk, Jaycee-ettee, watch Mayor Layton sign a proclamation setting aside December 14-20 as the second “Clean-Up, Fix-Up, Paint-Up” campaign of the year in Newberry. The campaign is sponsored by the Jaycee- ettes, who have entered national competition for the award of “Cleanest City in the United States.” (Sunphoto) Second phase 'dean up’ campaign begins William David Crouch, who retired on November 1 after working for about 36 years at the Oakland Plant of the Kendall Company, receives his certificates of participation in Kendall’s Retirement Plan for non-salaried employees from his overseer, William David Knox. Mr. Crouch, who is 65 years of age, worked in the weave room at Oakland. Married and the father of four children, Mr. Crouch said he doesn’t have any hobbies but will have to take up some. The first thing he plans to do is some painting. He is shown on the left in the picture above. (Sunphoto) CALVIN CROZIER UDC CHAPTER TO MEET Calvin Crozier Chapter, U.D.C., will meet Tuesday evening, De cember 15th at 8 o’clock for a dutch supper at the home of Mrs. Ida Summer. Mrs. Eloise Welch Wright -will be a special guest on this occasion. Singers leave today for tour The Newberry College Singers, a 60-voice acappella choir, will leave Thursday for a seven-day tour in Florida. The itinerary includes appear ances at Lutheran churches in Jacksonville, Sarasota, Tampa, Clearwater, DeLand, Fort Laud erdale, Hollywood and Winter Park and at high schools in Ocala, Tampa, Kissimmee, Fort Lauder dale and Stuart. Christmas concerts are schedul ed during each of the appear ances. Dr. Milton Moore, head of the Department of Musil at New berry College, is director of the choir; Darr Wise, associate pro fessor of music at the college, is accompanist. The Florida trip is the annual tour of the Newberry College Singers. The group has toured ex tensively throughout the South east. An estimated 700 persons were present for the annual Christmas concert presented by the Singers Sunday in the college gymnasium. GETTYSBURG, PA. — Dr. Robert C. Farb, vice president in charge of development ot New berry college served on a panel at a conference held pecember 7 and 8 at Gettysburg college. The dis cussion was “practical considera tions in development work.” Are honored at convocation Fourteen Newberry College stu dents and eight 1964 graduates of the college were recognized at a Honors Convocation Monday which featured an address by Dr. Fred W. Kinard, professor of physiology and chairman of the Committee on Graduate Studies at The Medicel College of South Carolina. Dean Conrad B. Park presented certificates to students who were named on the Dean’s List for both semesters of the 1963- 1964 academic year; and certifi cates were mailed to those who were graduated last year. Speaking on the subject, “Re wards of Scholarly Activity,” Dr. Kinard said, “Excellence on the athletic field, excellence in the class room, excellence in campus leadership, excellence in any area of life comes only to those who labor without ceasing, accept ad vice and instruction, concentrate on the goal and achieve mastery of themselves.” Dr. Kinard, a native of Leesville and member of the Board of Trus tees of Newberry College, was in troduced by Dr. A. G. D. Wiles, president of the college. He holds a B.S. degree from Clemson Uni versity, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Virginia and M.D. degree from University of Tennessee. The Newberry Jaycee-ettes are sponsoring the second Clean-up, Paint-up, Fix-up Week Decem ber 14-20. They ask anyone plan ning a project inside or outside the home to call 276-0471 so the project can be recorded in the campaign Scrapbook, which will be entered in national competition. Mrs. Toni Fennell, Jaycee-ette president, today expressed appre ciation of the club to the schools, t clubs, organizations and citizens who participated during the pre vious clean-up campaign held in the spring. “With your coopera tion,” she said, “this coming week will be as successful as the last.” Mayor Ernest H. Layton has signed a Proclamation declaring December 14-20 as a special week in Newberry. The Proclamation follows: “WHEREAS, each year the National Clean-up Bureau spons ors the National Cleanest Town Achievement Award competition, offering national recognition to communities that have become better places in which to live thru their campaign efforts; and WHEREAS ople working to gether with . . j aid of soap and water, paint and brush, and ham mer and nail to improve their community demonstrate good civic housekeeping and gain in tangible benefits of group coop eration and achievement; and WHEREAS, leading educators have hailed Clean-up, Paint-up, Fix-up efforts as the perfect civ ics laboratory for school children of all ages; and WHEREAS, in terms of teach ing better citizenship, no exist ing program rivals this work in providing young people with a rare opportunity of working side- by-side with adults, teachers, civic and government leaders; and WHEREAS, a Clean-up Cam paign is a means of giving our young people a new sense of im portance within themselves, and helps them learn that citizenship is more than a right, it’s a privi lege; AS MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEWBERRY, I nereby proclaim the week of December 14-20 as Clean-up, Paint-up, Fixup Week in the City of Newberry and re quest that the sponsoring organi zation, the Newberry Jaycee-ettes receive full support and coopera tion of all City Government units and/or departments, service clubs and civic organizations, merchants and news media, schools and last, but by no means last, our individ ual citizens.” Contract for post office let The Post Office Department is awarding a contract to a Charles ton man for construction of a new postal facility at Newberry. J. C. Long is the successful bid der, Sen. Olin D. Johnston was in formed. Once the unit is completed, the building will be leased to the gov ernment for 20 years, with six five-year renewal options. Annual rental will be $9,990. . Specifications call for an inter ior of 6,956 square feet, a plat form of 907 square feet and a paved area of 21,035 square feet for parking. Construction cost is estimated at $100,710. Purvis E. Boyette, Newberry College faculty member on leave of absence this year, is the recip ient of a Danforth Teacher Grant for 1965-1966. He holds a Luther an Church in America Grant, and is currently studying for a doc torate in English at Vanderbilt University. Mr. and Mrs. George Attaway and family have moved to Hill- crest Road in the house they pur chased. Miss Lila Huffstetler is now making her home at 2122 Brown street. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Ocheltree are now residing at 1400 Poplar St. Dec .13: R. E. Green, M. O. Summer, Alice Jean Riley, Jas. E. Wiseman Jr., Susan Ward, Mrs. Iva S. Cramer, Harold Epps, Claude E. Dominick, Roy Creekmore. Dec. 14: Mrs. J. R. Wood, C. J. Alexander, Raymond Salter, W. S. Hentz, C. B. Matthews. Dec. 15: Thomas E. Wicker, Mrs. G. W. Shealy, Bobby Wicker, Joan Dominick Bart lett, Mrs. C. J. Alexander, Mrs. J. E. Senn, Mrs. R. E. John son, Katherine Sease, Frances Bedenbaugh, Amelia Ann Mar tin, Janie Buzhardt, Leslie Broks, Suzanne Gray. Dec. 16: Mrs. R. Aubrey Har ley, Mrs. D. L. Nance, Mrs. Al bert Ringer, Mrs. L. EL Cook, Marion Wiggins, Rosemary Dowd, Moriet Dominick, Clyde Richardson, Jenny Ryan Gra ham, Bobby Green, Mrs. F. R. Higgins, Dewey Icard Jr., Kate H. Forbis. Dec. 17: Jack Workman, Billy Clary, Mrs. Maggie Hartley, Betty Page, Pete Parrott, Rich ard Cooper, Mrs. D. B. Sease, Judy Lynn Mac Beth. Dec. 18: Miss Lucy Epps, Cor- rie Crumpton, Joan Louise Dom inick, Walter James Joye, Mrs. Elizabeth Harris* Marion Ear- gle, Lorena Lancaster, George Heller Jr., J. N. Nicosia, Wil liam Heller, Ada Cromer, Gene Sowell, Lamar Sanders, Wm. N. Henderson. Dec. 19: Betty Jo Livingston, Mrs. R. C. Neel, Sr., Mrs* A. N. Crosson Jr., Judith Mills, Mrs. Cleve Stoudemirs* A. D. Mar tin, Mike Hite, S. R. Amick.