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MANY A MAN thinks he is fol lowing his natural bent, when he is just too lazy to straighten up. VOLUME 29 — NUMBER 6. THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1965 WHEN ONE WORD leads to an other it generally ends up in a quarrel, a speech, or a dictionary. • $2.00 PER YEAR By~The-'Way ... By dor/s a. sanders JOY BELLS If we still had school bells, they would be joy bells tomorrow, ring ing for the final day of classes at schools throughout the county— and most students will look for ward to a carefree summer while some will worry for another week about that inevitable report card and the story it will tell. We wish them a happy summer; and especially we wish future happiness to our high school and college graduates. I don’t know whether it is legal to use the works of Rudyard Kipling without permission, but I’m going to take a chance and print his poem, “If, as a word of advice and, I hope, encouragement to the graduates: IF If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs, and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting, too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good nor talk too wise; If you can dream and not make dreams your master. If you can think, and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with triumph and disaster, And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And Stoop and build ’em up with worn-out'tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings, And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the will which says to them: “Hold on!” If you can walk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch. If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds ’worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it. And—which is more-— you’ll be a Man, my Son! —Rudyard Kipling DEMANDiSD Please read the following quo tation carefully: “At times the frustrations and anger of these people deprived of life’s most basic necessities, i. e., housing, equal education, well-paying jobs, are understand ably Jx>iling over into violence. At times feelings are barely kept in check by the hard work of dis ciplined and Christian leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King and the strong faith of many Negroes. Moreover, the intolerable condi tions endured by minority groups have resulted in a burden of guilt and remorse felt by sensitive peo ple, and threatens to divide a na tion against itself. Action is de manded 1) by all people of good will, urging their congressmen to vote FOR the civil rights bill, and 2) on the local scene acting cour ageously, even sacrificially, to create justice.” Now, who do you suppose wrote that? Roy Wilkins, head of NAA CP? Eugene Carson Blake? Hu bert Horatio Humphrey? Lyndon Baines Johnson? Well, it was written by one Iso- bel Letts and was distributed by Lutheran Church Supply Stores, 2900 Queen Lane, Philadelphia, Pa. 19129 (or any branch store) for the price of ten cents, written for Lutheran Church Women, same address and is a portion of what I presume to be a Lutheran Church Women program entitled “Change is a challenge.” And how are you to act cour ageously on the local scene? Well, let’s see: “Since people differ in temper ament, talents and resources, each one must find her own niche and then act. Those with money could give scholarships for local high school or college minority stu dents. Those with time can work on committees to win acceptance for integration in schools, contact businesses to open jobs or provide training for Negroes. Those with teaching ability could persuade pastors and Church Councils to open churches for remedial classes after school hours to prevent “drop-outs” or to hold nursery schools for children of deprived homes or working mothers. (She’s kind enough to let you include whites on that one) “The more aggressive may join in non-violent demonstrations for job opportunities or better hous ing after talks have proven unsuc cessful, or take part in ‘pray-ins’ ‘sit-ins’ and offering to ‘work- with’ minority people at their place of business.” I thought it was bad enough that some members of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church US (South) tried to con done civil disorder by a resolution which said “The individual’s sense of the Word of God, which must be for him the great ordering Word, comes to him in many ways, clarified, we believe, by the words of the Bible and speaking finally through the voice of conscience. If this voice speaks clearly, he should follow it, though against the world.” In other words, if your con science tells you to go rob a bank, why it’s perfectly all right. But the Lutherans apparently already have that idea, and had it long before the Presbyterians brought it up for debate. I find in the LCA Sunday School Series, Term Three—Adults the state ment: “As Lutherans we believe that the freedom of the gospel rules out the making of strict codes of moral conduct.” There we go with that “called to responsible freedom” again. Now the United Presbyterians, USA (North)—at least some of them—have brought forth more light: some interracial marriages, they say, are brought on because there are laws against interracial marriages. Therefore to cure this evil, they propose a resolution banning laws against interracial marriages. I cannot—I will NEVER be able to understand why church people, Christians, sit idly by hearing, see ing, condoning by their silence, the vulgarity and socialism, the piece-by-piece, inevitably total de struction of the Bible. WHY can’t they speak out? If you are afraid to let your self be heard, then speak silently by withholding your funds—or at least do what some others are do ing: make your pledge, give your check, payable when YOUR church gets out of the National Council of Churches and returns to the faith of your fathers. CONGRATULATIONS A group of seniors at Newberry High school got together at the beginning of this school year and decided to try a project. It was not an assigned project; it was just something they wanted to try. It is encouraging to see youngsters (though they probab ly don’t like being called that for they will soon don cap and gown) take upon themselves a responsi bility like this, and bring it to such a successful conclusion. With Barry Shealy as editor, Karen Kirkegard as assistant edi tor, and Ellie Felker, Rey Lomin- ack, Linda Anderson as staff members, these seniors produced a 38-page literary magazine, “NHS Literary Notes.” They pro duced it all the way down to typ ing the stencils, and putting the magazine together physically as well as literally. Contributors came from each of the high school grades, and help and advice was given by Mrs. Margery William son. A public who hears so much of “these terrible teen-agers” should get a copy of this magazine. It is amazing to see the thought, the maturity, the reverence expressed in some of the articles and poems. The staff of this first issue of NHS Literary Notes hopes it will inspire succeeding classes to not only continue, but to improve up on a literary magazine for the high school. It is one of the most (Continued on page 4) Poppy Day observed Poppies be sold this weekend More than 6000 disabled war veterans were given employment making memorial poppies for the American Legion Auxiliary this year, reports Mrs. M. F. Bowler, president of Unit 24 of the Auxil iary, Newberry. Working in veterans hospitals and convalescent workrooms, they have produced an estimated 20,- 000,000 of the little crepe paper flowers to be worn in remem brance of their fallen comrades on Poppy Day Saturday, May 29. “The disabled veterans who made theflowers are the only paid work ers in the Auxiliary’s poppy pro gram,” said Mrs. Bowler. The rest of us are all volunteers.” “The work gives the veterans the encouraging experience of earning money again, many of them being long-time patients. It is also considered beneficial as occupational therapy, giving them something constructive to do to help pass the slow hospital hours. In some places the Auxiliary op erates convalescent workrooms where the v eterans outside the hospitals but unable to do other work can make poppies.” Dimes and Dollars dropped into the contribution boxe* of the Am erican Legion Auxiliary’s Poppy Day volunteers on Friday and Saturday will remain largely in this city to meet the needs of local war veterans and dependent child ren, according to Mrs. W. Roy Anderson, Poppy Day chairman. After the cost of the poppies is paid to the S. C. Department of the Auxiliary, the remainder of the contributions go into the Re habilitation and Child Welfare funds of the local Auxilary unit. The Auxiliary’s Slogan for the Poppy Day is “Honor the Dead*-? YXT - T> .... A iA TUaoklflrf ” Memorial Day program Sunday A short Memorial Day program will be held at the pavilion at Rosemont Cemetery on Mary 30th, National Memorial Day, at 6 p.m., according to Henry T. Fellers, Chaplain of the Legion Post for a number of years. Mr. Fellers will be in charge of the program. “On Memorial Day,” said Mr. Fellers, “we honor our war dead. Memorial Day was originated af ter the War between the States. On May 10th, the Confederate Veterans were honored. Confeder ate flags were placed on their graces on that day.” After the Sunday program, the American Legion will place a flag on the graves of all veterans of all dther wars, even as far back as the Revolutionary War. The public is invited to attend the program. “Especially do we wish that members of the families of deceased veterans attend,” Mr. Fellers said, noting that over 250 veterans are buried at Rosemont cemetery. Rev. Edward L. Bland, pastor of the Newberry Associate Reformed Presbyterian church, will be the speaker. During the day of May 30, com mittees will visit all cemeteries throughout the county and place flags on the grave of each veteran. Garvice Taylor rites are today Garvice L. (Sug) Taylor, 60, of 616 O’Neal Street, died sud denly late Tuesday afternoon at his heme. Born and reared in Newberry County, he was the son of the late Ira L. and Daisey Alewine Taylor. He was a veteran of W. W. II. He was a member of Mayer Memorial Lutheran church where he taught the adult Sunday school class. Mr. Taylor was a member of the Newberry Exchange Club and Teachers given local increase The 1965-66 budget for the Newberry county school system has been tentatively approved by the County Board of Education. The new budget provides for a $100 raise for teachers. Ralph Watkins, director of county education, said the budget totals $1,686,326. He said the bud get is subject to possible revis ions by the education board. Watkins said the $100 pay raise is a local supplement for teachers in the district in addition to the five per cent raise provided by the State Legislature. Watkins said that a proposed 10-mill tax increase for the school system has been rejected by the county legislative delegation. The delegation reported that no addi tional revenue is available this year and that the tax levy could not be raised, Watkins said. Watkins indicated that addition al funds could be provided for the schools in the 1966-67 school year through a property re-evaluation program approved by the delega tion recently. Scholarships are awarded Ruth D. Kinard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kinard, Rt. 2, and James W. Addy, son of Rev. and Mrs. J. V. Addy ,Graniteville, have ben awarded $300 scholar ships by Lutheran Brotherhood, Minneapolis-based fraternal insur ance society. Miss Kinard is a junior at New berry college, where she is maj oring in English. Mr. Addy is also a junior at the college, study ing history. The education director said a county group representing the federal program “Operation Head Start” appeared before the board and asked assistance in the pro gram locally. The “Head Start” program was established to en able pre-school children to attend kindergarten sessions in order to prepare for the start of first grade in regular schools. Watkins said he would advise the board of trustees and the coun ty group after he attends a ses sion in Columbia concerning the subject. Mrs. Henry Parr lifts several first graders atop “OM Jim” as others in line await their turn. The first grade class of Mrs. Nettie Boulware at Speers Street School enjoyed a morning at the Henry Parr farm Monday. Besides Old Jim, who proved to be the most popular thing around the place, the children visited the fish pond and pastures by way of a tractor-drawn hay “wagon”, had a look at a hew foal and its mother and visited the baby calves in their stalls near the milking house. The outing ended with punch, cook ies, and a group of tired but happy children. (Another picture on page 4.) (Sunphoto) has been employed at the local post office for 20 years or more. Surviving are two sisters, Miss Celeste Taylor of Newberry and Mrs. Henry Dennis of Anderson. Funeral services will be held this (Thursday) afternoon at 5 p.m. at Mayer Memorial Lutheran church, conducted by Rev. C. K. Derrick and Rev. D. M. Shull, Sr. Interment will follow in Rosemont cemetery. City pools to open Monday Margaret Hunter and McSwain Street swimming pools will open on Monday, May 31 at 2:00 p.m., according to P. K. Fuller, city rec reation director. Both pools will be closed during the mornings of May 31 through June 11, so as not to interfere with vacation Bibles schools. In formation about swimming classes can be obtained by calling the respective pools. Morning sessions will be used for swimming classes only ex,cept on Saturday. Operating hours ars as follows for both pools: 9-12 Monday thru Friday, swimming classes; 2-6 p. m., Monday thru Sunday, open to public; 7-9., Monday thru Sat urday, open to public. Admission: McSwain pool, 12 years and under, 10c; 13 years and over 25c. Margaret Hunter, 12 years and under, 15c; Junior teen club members, 25c; adults 35c. There is no charge for swim ming instruction except the reg ular admission charge at the pool. To open office supply store Larry Hatchette, formerly a partner in the L&L Office Supply Company of Laurens, and well known to many Newberrians, will open an office supply and equip ment store in Newberry in early June. The store will be located on Main Street in the building for merly occupied by the Hobby Shop. The building is now being remodeled and redecorated for the new business. Mr. Hatchette said that he will offer a complete line of office supplies and equipment, including desks, filing cabinets, typewriters, adding and business machines, and other office needs.' He will also repair and service office machines. Mr. Hatchette is authorized ag ent in Newberry county for the Underwood-Olivetti Corporation. Announcement of the opening date will be made in the near fu ture. Plans are announced for college, high school finals The next few days will be filled with echoes of “Dear Alma Mater” as college and high school seniors throughout the county take the final step in one phase of their ed ucation. Candidates for degrees at New berry College will receive their challenge for the future from Gen. Mark Clark, U. S. Army re tired, president of The Citadel, at exercises Sunday at 5 p.m. on Setzler Field. About 113 students are expected to receive degrees. . v '‘ ' r ■' On Sunday morning, the grad uates will gather at Mayer Mem orial Lutheran church at 11 a. m. to hear the baccalaureate sermon delivered by Rev. Kenneth Hewitt, D.D., pastor of Reformation Lu theran Church in Columbia. During the commencement pro gram, the college will award hon orary degrees to General Clark and to John F. Clarkson, presid ent of Newberry Federal Savings and Loan Association. General Clark is to receive the doctorate of humane letters, and Mr. Clark son will be awarded the doctorate of commercial science. Dr. A. G. D. Wiles, president, will confer the honorary degrees, and degrees to graduates, and pre sent certificates to students who have completed a two-year busi ness course at Newberry College. Dr. Conrad B. Park, vice president for academic matters, is to present senior awards. / Graduating seniors and their parents are to be guests of the college at a luncheon in the col lege dining room from X2:30 until 2 p.m. They will be guests of President and Mrs. Wiles at a re ception at the President’s home from 2:30 until 4:00 p.m. A joint reunion of 13 classes, 1892, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1899, 1900 through 1905, 1910 and 1915 will field o&ndneation. be held in connection with com mencement activities Members of these classes are to be guests of the Newberry College Alumni As sociation at a luncheon in the Newberry Community Hall at 12 noon. At Newberry High School, some 181 graduates will hear the com mencement sermon Sunday night at 8 p.m. delivered by Rev. Ralph E. Rhyne, pastor of the West End Baptist church. Also taking part on the program will be Rev. John A. Sanders, pastor of Bethany Lu theran church. Music will be ren “Teaching Is a rewarding and satisfying experience, but retire ment can be equally exciting”. This the opinion of two Newberry College professors who will retire this week after long careers in the Dr. Walter Ht TBeck, professor of education and psychology, is re tiring after 44 years of teaching. Willard K. Wynn, associate pro-., fessor of English, is leaving the profession to which he devoted some 30 years. Dr. and Mrs. Beck will move to Lakeland Fla., where Dr. Beck plans to devote much of his time to mental health and retarded chil dren groups and visiting people in hospitals. As a Lutheran minister, he also will do some supply preaching. There will be time to pursue his dered by the Newberry High | hobbies, of fishing, woodworking. School Sextette, and a solo, “How Great Thou Art” will be sung by Barry Shealy, baritone, accomp anied by the sextette. Wayne Folk will sing “My Task”, and Barry Shealy will be pianist for the offertory. Marshals will be Kathy Avedi- sian, Sara Brooks, Barbara Brown, Nan Buddin, Jeanette McCullough, Jeanette Dominick, Rita Harmon, Sue Jacobs, Polly Livingston, Mar tha Jean Smith, Dianne Taylor, and Shirley Warren. Commencement exercises will begin at 8:15 Monday night. Sen ior speakers are Steve Price, La val Johnson and Susan Frazier. Honors, awards and diplomas will be presented by Supt J. V. Kneece. Mid-Carolina High School be gins its finals Friday morning at 8:45 with an awards program in the gymtorium. On Sunday night at 8 p. m., Rev. George Strait, pastor of the Wightman Methodist church in Prosperity, will give the baccalau reate sermon. Rev. Elfred Roof and Rev. Hilton Roof will also have part on the program and the high school chorus will sing. Graduation exercises will be on Tuesday night at 8 p.m. Martha Julia Bowers will de liver the valedictory address, and Gloria Jean Boozer is salutatorian. Senior Speaker will be Mike Haw kins. Rev. John P. Griffith and Rev. Harry Grout will speak the invo cation and benediction. Musical selections will be ren dered by the chorus with Dianne Fulmer and Margaret Upton, so loists. POST OFFICE BE CLOSED MONDAY In observance of Memorial Day, Monday, May 31, the post office will be closed, along with other federal agencies in the area. Postmaster Harry Moose stated that there would be no city or ru ral delivery and stamp windows would be closed. Stamps are available in vending machines in the post office lobby. Incoming mail will be worked to post office boxes and outgoing mail will be dispatched on regular schedule. music, and art—painting in oils and ceramics. “Teaching is rewarding in that one has an opportunity to influ ence the lives of students,” Dr. Beck said. “This has been quite satisfying to me over 44 years.” In comparing students of today with those over the 44-year period of teaching, Dr. Beck said he no ticed “more lack of feeling of res- sponsibility for acquiring know ledge on their own.” Dr. Beck came to Newberry College in 1960. Prior to this he taught at Texas Lutheran College, Midland Lutheran College, Con cordia Lutheran Teachers College and Immanuel College and Theo logical Seminary. He was a pastor and teacher at Mt. Zion Lutheran Church and School in New Or leans, refugee placement director and counselor of the Lutheran Welfare Society of Wisconsin, and pastor of Faith Lutheran Church in South Beloit, 111. His degrees are the A.'B. from Northwestern College, M.A., Uni versity of Wisconsin, ED.D„ Tem ple University, B.D., Wisconsin Lutheran Theological Seminary, and M.S.T., Philadelphia Lutheran Theological Seminary. Dr. Beck is married to the for mer Ruth E. Smyre of Greensboro, N. C. They have one daughter. Mrs. Dorothy Ann Voyta, Arling ton, Va. “I am quite happy over the prospects of the future and not un happy over the past,” Professor Wynn said in regard to his re tirement. “If I could plan my life again, I would choose teaching, and teaching English.” He has been at Newberry Col lege for eight years, and names this college as the place where he has most enjoyed teaching. “I have had a variety of subjects to teach and have had the freedom to teach in my own peculiar way,” Professor Wynn said. “This was my first experience at a co-edu- cational school; and I have enjoy ed having both men and women students.” “The most inspirational class I have taught was an extension course in vocabulary building at North Carolina State, ”Mr. Wynn recalled “About six students came to my house weekly for three years, and studied without credit after the college would not con tinue the course with credit. This is the real test of education, when students continue to study with out receiving credit.” Professor and Mrs. Wynn will move to their home in the moun tains, 30 miles west of Brevard, N, C. They bought 65 acres of land there years ago in prepara tion for their retirement. Mr. Wynn built a house on the proper ty, and has made all of the furni ture. In addition to continuing hi« hobby of woodworking, Mr. Wynn has a garden, apple orchard, ber ry patch, hay field and grape vine yard to occupy much of his time. He also plans to do some writing. And there will be time for read ing, one of his favorite pastimes. “We have a fireplace with book cases on either side extending to the ceiling,” Professor Wynn said. “Sitting in front of a log fire with a good novel in your hands is as close to heaven as anyone could get.” Professor Wynn taught two years at Georgia Tech and approx imately 20 years at North Carolina State. He holds the A.B. degree from Wofford, M.A. in English from Emory University, and the MA. in English from Columbia University. / BIRTHDAY GREETINGS May 30: J. T. Dennis, Mrs. James Smith, Mrs. F. B. Dawk ins, Mrs. Ray Nobles, Jack Lominick, Mike Wiggers, Danny Wiggers. May 31: John G. Goggins Jr., Susan Nichols, Mrs. J. C. Atki- son, Mac Cobb, Harriett Schum- pert. Rev. James M. Aiken. June 1: Drayton Wicker, Mrs. J. E. Crooks, Faye Hughes, Anee Walton, Mrs. J. C. Counts, Ann Beck, Marie L. Merchant, Lu ther D. Long, Mittie Y. Sum mer, Helen K. Werts. June 2: Neel Long, Dolly Senn, Mrs. Daisy Lee Graham, E. R. Fellers, W F.. Mullinax, Jube Underwood. June 3: Mrs. Mae A. Aull, Miss Lois Merchant, F. M. Bax ter, Mrs. Melvin Hancock, Mary B. Burns, Jerry Havird, Frank Stevens Jr., Mrs. Jason Ringer, Mrs. Margaret McAlhany, A. P. Coleman, Strother and Alan Paysinger. June 4: Shirley Lathrop, Bar nette Boland, Mrs. Jessie Outz, Gayle Davis, Wayne Folk, Hayne Folk, Richie Dennis, Mrs. V. W. Rinehart. June 5: B. Y. Abrams, Mrs. Deleal Boinest, Donna Ann Lathrop, Ruby Humphries, Pau lette Whitaker. .v-