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A ^ood thoug-ht, well expressed, is often a source of inspiration to thousands whom the author never sees. tm HUMAN NATURE MAY CHANGE, BUT IT WON’T CHNGE MUCH DUR ING OUR LIFETIME. VOLUME 29 — NUMBER 3. THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1965 $2.00 PER YEAR By-The-Way .. . By DORIS A. SANDERS NEWS FOR CHIEF I’ve got news for our Police Chief. Not more than one person out of ten pays any attention to those school blinkers on Bound ary Street. Perhaps they do in other school areas, but they don’t between Drayton and Jessica on Boundary. This applies to school buses as well as private cars. On three occasions cars have passed me while I was adhering to the 20-mile-per-hour speed. I recog nized one of the offenders and will be happy to furnsh his name. Wonder if he would be apprehend ed ? I understand the blinker speed restrictions were to be strictly en forced. During the first week they were installed, I saw a police car on that street one day. I haven’t seen one since, and a day seldom passes that I don’t travel the area once, twdce and usually more of ten while the blinking blinkers are blinking. Can’t we either do away with the things, change the speed, or enforce the limit? I’m a little^ tired of bumper hogs. flimsy I’d be kind enough not to j publish them. However, since Kev. ! Bass quoted the letter appealing j for help of “influential Southern i Baptist leaders”, I shall take the opportunity to make appropriate comments on that, as well as oth er statements in his sermon. The sermon and comments will be found elsewhere in this issue. Negroes seek transfer to eight white county schools CRITICISM I expected a little reaction to the item about the Baptists last week, but I must admit I didn’t expect that a full-length sermon would be preached on the subject. Quite frankly, I am pleased. I be lieve that if these controversial subjects were brought out in the open in the churches more often, solutions would be easier to find. I appreciate Rev. Bass bringing me a mimeographed copy of his sermon, which is printed elsewhere in this issue, except for the first page. That page deals in general ities about people jumping to con clusions without knowing all the facts. Rev. Bass’ sermon, if I read it correctly, assumes that I didn’t have all the facts, or, at least, that I didn’t present them. I did, however, have all the information contained in Rev. Bass’ sermon. The reason I didn’t publish the Baptist Sunday School Board’s “reasons” for the occurrence was because I thought they were so BEAUTY APLENTY Not just once—but three times since last, week the girls and I have been out to look at the love ly iris at Hal Kohn’s Iris Gar den on the ny-pass. There are some of the most magnificent blooms I have ever seen, of every shade from white to “black”—the black really being a very deep purple. And there are other attrac tions—for instance, I believe I could stand most of the day scent ing the delightful aroma of the banana shrubs, or looking at the beautiful beds of pansies. The girls especially enjoy the lake with the sw r ans; and the peafowls, and walking along the shaded paths. There were between 500 and 600 visitors at the Garden last Sun day—by actual count, 180 on the premises at one time. Mr. Kohn said that on weekdays, visitors have a much better opoprtunity to “browse around” when the visit can be uncrowded and more leis urely, but he invites the public to come at a time that suits them best. He estimates that the iris will be in good bloom for another two weeks or longer, with many varieties yet to open. ‘An Appeal to Reasoned Judgment’ made by Bass MORE BEAUTY I haven’t been able to catch Fulmer Wells to find out what it is, but there is a beautiful plant of some sort in full bloom at Wells Japanese Gardens on Lindsay Street. It is some distance from the road—and at that distance, I would guess it is either a culti vated honeysuckle of some kind, or a wild azalea. Please, Mr. Wells, may we have the proper identifica tion? It is worth a trip down Lindsay Street to see. (Continued on page 3) Hospital to begin 1 controlled visiting Concerned with the welfare of its patients, especially those who are critically ill, the administra tion of the Newberry County Me morial hospital is initiating a vis itors control policy beginning on Monday, May 17. Under the new regulations, morning hours for the general public have been eliminated. Af ternoon and evening hours will be controlled by visiting cards and the times will be 2-4 p.m. and 7-8:30 p.m. Only two visitors will be admitted to the floor to see a particular patient at one time. In addition to the hours above, two members of the immediate family may visit a patient from 10-11 a.m. If both personal visit ing cards are in use during the regular visiting time for the gen eral public, no additional visitor will be permitted to go to the floor. Between 10 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. members of the Clergy Staff may There will be a file on the in formation desk containing the regular visiting cards and the per sonal visiting cards for each pa tient admitted. Each visitor will go to the information desk to pick up his card and proceed to the floor where the patient is located. The visitor will return the card to' the information desk. The visi tor may visit only the patient and room number indicated on the card. The card will not permit him to visit in other areas of the hospital. If any two cards are out of the file, no additional visitors will be permitted until one card has been returned. Under no circumstances will additional cards be issued. The Nursing Service personnel will en force these rules. No children un der age 13 shall be permitted in patient areas. In semi-private and ward ac commodations where any one pa tient may r be too ill for visitors, visit members of their congrega-, the hospital reserves the right to tions or patients who have spe-\ revoke visiting privileges for all cifieally requested their \isit. Clergy staff members will wear identification badges, and persons not on the clergy staff will be treated as general visitors. The procedure announced by the hospital is as follows: Upon admission, two general visitors cards will be made up with the patient’s name and room number. These cards will be sent to the information desk and will be available for use of relatives and friends of the patient during regular visiting hours in the af ternoon and evening. Also upon admission, two per sonal visiting cards will be made up for the use of the immediate family. These cards are non- transferable and the holder may visit during regular visiting hours in the morning, afternoon, or even ing. At no time will there be more than two visitors at the bed side of a patient. The patient, patient’s husband or wife, parents of a minor pa tient or the patient’s doctor may designate “no visitors” by inform ing the nurse in charge on the floor who will in turn advise the information desk. occupants until the patient im proves sufficiently or until oth er arrangements can be made. The only exceptions to the rules will be as follows: A physician may grant a visitor privileges to sit with a patient at times other than visiting hours when, in the opinion of the physi cian, it is medically indicated. Post-operative patients may have one visitor at bedside for 24 hours following surgery, when, in the opinion of the physician, visit ing will not interfere with neces sary care. Unless extended by written instruction of the physi cian, this special visiting privil ege ceases after 24 hours. Pediatrics: If the attending phy sician deems it necessary and so notes on the patient’s chart, one parent or guardian may stay with a child at all times. During visit ing hours, not more than two visitors will be permitted. The hospital officials request that the people of Newberry and the county become familiar with the new policy and that, for the welfare of hospitalized patients, they cooperate fully with the regu lations. (Following is the greater portion of the sermon delivered Sunday at First Baptist church by Rev. J. Anderson Bass, Jr. The first portion which dealt with two fictional situations depicting the danger inherent in “jumping to conclusions” and not touching on the local situation except by reference, is omitted so that space will allow the remainder of the sermon to be published in its entirety.—Ed.) As in this case, much misunderstanding has resulted from making judgment on remarks of w r hich we have only a passing acquaintance. It is important, therefore, that in any situation we learn all the facts before w^e make our judgment. Is it to that end that I bring to you this morning a prepared statement. On Friday of this past week, a feature article from one our our local newspapers was brought to my attention. The article was entitled “Now The Baptists”. The article concerned the listing of certain con troversial books in a book list in our Baptist Training Union Young People’s Quarterly for July, August, and September, 1964. The article, though not specifically stating so, severely reprimanded Baptists for so-called “liberalism.” Believing that this one article may be the only information which you have on this subject, and believing that some may be prone to jump to wrong conclusions on the basis of partial information, I be lieve it only right and proper that I, as your pastor, should inform you of the true facts in the situation as best I know them. First of all, it is true that the controversial books mentioned by the author of the newspaper article did appear in a book list in the Bap tist Training Union Young People’s Quarterly of July, August, and September, 1964. It is not true, however, that these books are now or ever were, av ailable through our Baptist Book stores, or that any part of these books was quoted in the Quarterly. Thirdly, the personnel of the Sunday School Board and the elected members of the Sunday School Board from the various states of our Southern Baptist Convention have assured us that the listing of the books in the Quarterly was an “unintentional error” and have taken what steps they can to see that such shall not occur again. In a letter dated November 5, 1964, and addressed to all Baptist workers, Dr. James L. Sullivan, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, gave a full and complete explanation of the incident referred to. I have had the letter in my files since last November. I have not read it to you prior to this time for the simple reason that the situation now before us was not a problem for us until three days ago . Allow me to quote from Dr. Sullivan’s letter: “This is an appeal for your help. You . . . can assist us in answer ing some criticisms, based on insufficient information, which have been all too widespread during recent weeks. First, the Sunday School Board is NOT recommending or promoting the sale of the book en titled “Another Country”, as some people have thought and as certain news media have stated. This title does not have the approval of any person at the Baptist Sunday School Board and has not been stocked in our 49 Baptist Book Stores. “Misunderstanding came about when the book was listed inadvert ently in an introductory paragraph in the July 5 Young People’s Training Union program and subsequently placed in the bibliography of that quarterly. The listing in both places was in error and was caused by uncanny successive failures in our carefully worked out publication procedures. “Tentative titles,” unread and unchecked, moved under printing dead line pressure, in to the publication processes. In spite of every precaution such does happen occasionally, though theoretically it never should. Our workers are alerted to the danger of errors and diligently try to discover and stop them. Failure to edit the book list properly came because of the transfer of editorial duties at the precise time this quarterly was being processed for printing. Procedures call for the editor of the publication to check the bibliography b,ut for one month last year four men had to carry the workload during this transition (Continued on page 2) Saturday, May 1st, was the deadline for school students to re quest transfer to other schools within the county. The County Board of Education has prepared a statement to inform the public as to the number of transfers re quested, as well as the present status of the school desegregation plan. The statement in its entirety follows: Since all citizens of Newberry County are vitally concerned with the operation of the public schools, the administration wishes to re view plans for the integration of the county schools for the 1965-66 session. A pupil assignment and trans fer plan was adopted by the New berry County Board of Education on July 28, 1964 and revised on March 1, 1965. This plan was sent through the South Carolina State Department of Education to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in Washington, D. C. on March 2, 1965 for approval. Since no reply had been received from the Department, the plan was published in all four county newspapers for three consecutive weeks. Letters explaining the Newberry plan were sent to all parents by the students. Every school principal had an ample supply of transfer blanks for dis tribution to pupils and parents who requested them. Newberry Mills sets vacation Newberry Mills has announced its plans for annual summer vaca tion. The plant will close down at 8 a.m. Saturday, July 3 and re sume operations at 8 a.m. Mon day, July 12th. Employees who have been with the company over five years will receive vacation pay of four per cent of their annual income; those with on i to five years service will receive two percent. These handsome lads are the sons of Sgt. and Mrs. M. H. Hart of Miami, Fla., formerly of Newberry. They are Bob, age six, and Brent, 4 1-2. Their mother is the former Marshall Howard, who for several years was director of Christian Education at Aveleigh Presbyterian Church. Sgt. Hart was stationed in Newberry as a member of the National Guard Advisory Group. Their many local friends hope the Harts will return to Newberry to reside when Sgt. Hart retires from the United States Army. The cut-ofi date for receiving transfer applications, as stated in the plan, wasMay 1, 1965. A to tal of 83 Negro students made application to transfer to white schools. The breakdown, as to school, grade and sex, follows: Silverstreet Elementary: Fifth grade, one girl; sixth grade, one boy and one girl; eighth grade, one boy. Boundary Street School: Third grade, one girl; fourth grade, one girl; sixth grade, two girls. Speers Street School: Third grade, one boy, one girl; fourth grade, one boy; fifth grade, one girl. Newberry Junior High: Seventh grade, one boy, one girl. Prosperity Elementary: Third grade: one girl; fifth grade, one girl; sixth grade ,two girls; eighth grade, one girl. Newberry High School: Ninth grade, four boys, four girls; tenth grade, four girls; twelfth grade, three boys. Mid-Carolina High School : Tenth grade, one boy, five girls; twelfth grade, one boy, one girl. Whitmire High School: Ninth grade, four boys, four girls; tenth grade, four boys, five girls; even- enth grade, six boys, six girls; twelfth grade, eight boys, four girls. A total of 36 boys and 47 girls making a grand total of 83 Ne gro students made transfer re quests. The pupil transfer requests are being studied and will be acted on by the Newberry County Board of Education as outlined in the plan. The Newberry plan is based on “freedom of choice” and is similar to the large majority of plans sub mitted by the other school dist ricts in South Carolina. The vast majority of these plans are pat- > terned after the Court-ordered || plan of Greenville and Darlington counties. Although some other districts in South Carolina had earlier re ceived replies concerning their plans from the Department of Health Education and Welfare, the Newberry County Board was in formed in a letter dated April 28, 1965 that the Newberry plan did not meet the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in its entirety. The same let ter was sent to 71 other school districts. The Newberry County Board of Education, in a special session on May 4th, met with a committee from the Newberry Ministerial Al liance. This committee expressed verbally, as it had done previously in writing, its disapproval of the Newberry plan. The Newberry County Board of Education is presently studying the recent guidelines sent from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in Washington and waiting on further guidance from the South Carolina State Depart ment of Education and the Attor ney General of South Carolina. A revised Nev/berry plan will later be sent to the office of Education in Washington for consideration. Mrs. Annie Long rites Tuesday PROSPERITY — Mrs. Annie B Long, 70, wife of Norman J. Long, died Monday aftemoon at a local clinic after a long illness. A native of this county, daugh ter of the late Luther E. and Clara Kunkle Chapman, she was a mem ber of St. Luke’s Lutheran church and the Lula Hunter Circle of the United Lutheran Women. Surviving in addition to her husband are two sons, William E. Long of Newberry and J. Frank Long of Prosperity;a dau ghter, Mrs. Woodrow Hentz, of Pomaria; her step-mother, Mrs. Lena Kunkle Chapman of New berry; two brothers, Wilbur H. and Malcolm H. Chapman of Newberry; three sisters, Mrs. Birge Bedenbaugh and Mrs. Chas. Bedenbaugh of Prosperity and Mrs. Marvin Oxner of Newberry; four half-brothers, Lewis E., Ru fus V., Curtis O. and Ishmael E. Chapman of Newberry; three half- sisters, Mrs, J. C. Lester and Mrs. Bill Shealy of Newberry and Mrs Forest Le Graham of Pomaria. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at St. Luke’s by Rev. J. Hilton Roof. Burial was in the church cemetery. -s*. * 4 i ; ; fYJr -V f v;v, ■> , U ■ ftSSxX.X:-. - -.-^r.vw G * q % !£ii| mm ” y t * ' ' - : ' ' 1 mm, > §11!; ^ ^ r > Y . >.v : ■»./■ ..^>5 '>a ^ i ^ mm . --mm G <jvv : . < £ -, ■'m t? Service today for Maj. Wright Lennon Thomas Wright, 47, re tired Air Force major, died Mon day at a hospital in Columbia. A native of Warrenton, N. C., son of Mrs. Temple Fishes Wright and the late Leonard Wright, he was a member of Ave leigh Presbyterian Church and the American Legion. Surviving in addition to his mother are his wife, Mrs. Mary Hood Wright; a son, Thomas Hood Wright of Newberry; a bro ther, Joseph Wright, Portsmouth, Va.; five sisters, Mrs. W. H. (Eth el) Richmond of Louisville, Ky., Mrs. W. R. (Selma) Despain of Milton, Fla., Mrs. G. E. (Mary Alice) Fleming of Washington, D. C., Mrs. H. C. (Jimmie) Fleming of Greenwood and Mrs Hubert (Jeon) Wolfe of Leland, N. C. Funeral services will be con ducted Thursday at 2 p.m. at Whitaker Funeral Home by Dr. Neil Truesdell. Burial will be in Newberry Memorial Gardens with full military rites. A Burge crowd gathered to watch the operation as a gaint crane lifted the steeple to the top of the new Lutheran Church of the Redeemer building on Boundary Street. A portion of the crane may be seen as the steeple is lowered into place. Several workmen are on the roof, waiting to place the steeple after it is lowered. (Sunphoto) Heads Chiefs , - v-n ife mm ss&r" Mrs. Robert I>. Wright of Newberry is the first patron of the Newberry College theater. She is shown with (left to right) Dr. C. A. Dufford, Newberry County chairman of the Chapel drive; Dr. A- G. D. Wiles, president of Newberry College; and John F. Clarkson, general chairman of the Chapel drive. Newberry Police Chief Colie Dowd returned last week from a trip to Washington, D. C. where he represented the Police Chief’s Executive Association of South Carolina on a business committee. Accompanying him were Ken Cor bett of Florence, secretary of the Mrs. Robert D. Wright, long time civic and cultural leader in Newberry has become the first patron of the Newberry College theater to be built in connection with construction of the A. G. D. Wiles chapel on the Newberry Col lege campus. She presented a check for $1,- 000 to the theater and chapel fund this week in memory of her daugh ter, Mrs. Troxelle Wright Brown, and in honor of her son, Capt. Spencer Downs Wright, Com manding officer at Cecil Field Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, i Fla. Mrs. Brown was a member of j the class of 1926 at Newberry College, and lived in Newberry. “It is characteristic that Mrs. Wright should be the first in the community to donate a thousand dollars as a patron of the New- berrry College theater which will | be built under the chapel,” Dr. A. G. D. Wiles, president of Newber ry College said. “She has been, throughout her life, a leader in valuable city, state and national enterprises.” Captain Wright donated $1,000 to the theater in honor of his mother. He becomes the second “Patron of the Newberry College Theater.” Permanent recognition will be given to Mrs. Wright and Cap tain Wright on a plaque in the our entire community. And the culmination of these two needs will be a great asset to Newberry as well as the college.” Dr. C. A. Dufford Jr. is servin’g as Newberry County chairman of the drive which is under the di rection of John F. Clarkson, chair man of the finance committee S. C. Law Enforcement Officers Association, and Lt. Jim Wilson of | lobby of the theater which will the State Law Enforcement Di- J identify such benefactors. The vision. While in Washington, they attended a banquet given by the S. C. Chamber of Commerce at the Shoreham Hotel. Chief Dowd was recently elected president of the State Police Chiefs’ Association at its annual convention in Columbia. He suc ceeded Chief Melvin Adams of Florence. plaque will contain the names of all contributors who give $1,000 or more. “There is a tremendous need for a chapel in Newberry as a place for the religious training of our young people,” Mrs. Wright said. “The theatre to be constructed on the ground floor of the chapel is needed to enhance the culture of BIRTHDAY GREETINGS May 9: Williamson Folk, Mrs. Horace Cromer, Nat Gist III, C. E. Sharp. May 10: Mrs. Bill Armfield, Oscar Johnson, Ferd Summer Jr., Alice Jane McBeth, Sue El len Hipp, Mary Rebecca Ander son, Rev. David T. Templeton. May 11: H. T. Wike.Eleanor Amick, Mack Amick, N. B. War ren, Jr., Mrs. Ruth Culclasure, Mrs. Ruth S. Dickert, Irvin At- taway, Julia Rebecca McSwain, Alice Pricey Susie Ogle. May 12: Lottie Boland, Mit- zie Ann Stondemire, Jane Sennt, George D. Hentz, Miss Theresa Lightsey, Clarence Duncan Sr. May 13: D. J. Williams, Mrs. Lois W. Huckaby, Mrs. Pressley N. Boozer, Eleanor Kirkegard, Kibler Williamson, Derryll Sat- terwhite, Rhoda R. Boozer. May 14: Mrs. Floy Hancock, Alfreida Hipp, E. C. Rinehart, Connie King H,any Hughes, Phyllis Boozer, Carol Ann Wat ers, Patricia She&ly Pryor, Kirk Beckwith, Clifford T. Smith, Deedle Wilson. May 15: Mrs. Frank Lominack Jr., Toby WJllis, Charles Senn, Sarah Scarborongh, Elmer W. Maver.