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11 * * t ALL TOO OFTEN A CLEAR CON SCIENCE IS MERELY THE RE SULT OF A BAD MEMORY. VOLUME 29—NUMBER 22 STRAIGHT TALK By Jesse Helms, Vice President News and Public Affairs W RLA Raleigh, C. C. Last Thursday, in perhaps the most incredible performance yet, Lyndon Baines Johnson went on television again. One regrets to anticipate the image of the na tion’s Chief Executive with such apprehension when he goes before the cameras, but this man seems always to be seeking a more as tonishing posture of power. He wishes, obviously, not mereK to defeat his opposition but to wither and destroy it. And he unhesita tingly reaches for any hand\ wea pon. , Some of Mr. Johnson’s support ers are shocked at increasingly wide-spread suggestions that, un witting or not, the President him self was one of the architects of tne violence and mayhem at Los Angeles. But it will one day be clear that the benevolent attituue taken by him, and others in auth- or itv, towards marching mobs m other parts of the land has serv ed as an engraved invitation to agitators to take the law in o their own hands. One would think that the Pre ^‘ ident might have learned from the Los Angeles disaster that playing with political fire is dangerous for the nation. But last Thursday, he was waving another perilous torch in the heart of a gigantic tinderbox. He went on television with a threat to the Congress that unless the city government of Washington, D. C. is prompt y turned over to the predominantly Negro population of that ci ty, there will almost surely be a rep etition there of what happened in Los Angeles. The President s threat was one not even the most inflammatory civil rights leader had thought to voice, and it was immediately seized upon as a weapon to achieve passage by Congress of what is known as “home rule” for Washington, D. C. It is not necessary, at the mo ment, to argue the question of whether so-called “home rule” will be good or bad for the na tion’s capital. The President has pledged that it wd 1 come to pass, and he apparently' intends that his will shall prevail in Congress. But the President’s tactics can not he prettied up. Nor can they he disguised beneath a pretense of the kind of virtues which he so enjoys heaping upon himself. Mr. Johnson’s career as a politician, his contradictory statements and positions on civil rights, disclose an alarming superficiality that leaves room for speculation about the motives behind his use of pow er. As a Senator from Texas, he vigorously opposed the very things he now demands that Congress ap prove. It is not unfair to inquire: W as Mr. Johnson a self-serving Senator, or is he now a self-serv ing President ? Some of the sidelights of Mr. Johnson’s civil rights activities may be instructive. One recalls the lengths to which he went in expressing his shock and sorrow at the shooting of a Detroit wom an in an admittedly senseless mur der in Alabama. Mr. Johnson made sure that the news media record ed his sympathetic message to the woman’s family*. The President sent Hubert Humphrey to attend the funeral at Detroit. He called out the FBI. But last week, an Alabama Negro died aftre having been horribly beaten and mutiliated. The Negro’s tongue was cut out, it is said, because of the old man’s objection to civil rights marches. The silence from Washington was deafening; it is almost as if an attitude of boys-will-be-boy T s has been taken regarding the elderly Negro’s death. The President has repeatedly sent flowers and well-publicized mesages of sympathy to the fam ilies of various civil rights work ers who have lost their lives in racial disorders. But there was only silence from Washington, D. C. when an innocent young Geor gia boy, who had just enlisted in the Marine Corps, was shot dead in Americus, Georgia, by civil rights participants. The President may believe that he is merely playing astute poli tics with the explosive racial sit uation in America. But what he is really doing is playing with fire. Regardless of what he intends, or may eventually intend, he has left the impression that obedience of the law is a one-way street which Negroes need not travel unless they wish. And certainly when he issues what amounts to an engrav ed invitation to mayhem in the streets of the nation’s capital, he is giving his implicit blessing to anarchy. And that is the kind of politics that no nation can long survive. IN PAGEANT Miss Pat Shealy, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Shealy, Rt. 2, Newberry, has been selected as a finalist in the “Miss Teenage Columbia Pageant,” to be held at Dreher High school auditorium on Friday night, September 24 at 8 P.M. Sixteen years old, Pat is above average student at the Newberry High school. She was selected as a finalist on the basis of intelligence, poise, personality and talent. For her talent selection she will do a song and dance skit from “Cinderella.” Twenty girls will compete in the finals repre senting twelve High schools. The winner, along with her official charerone will fly to Dallas, Texas on October 23 to compete in the Miss Teenage America Pageant which wdll be televised and shown on a nation wide hookup on Octo ber 29. Mrs. Pearl Reese is now making her home at 1603 Calhoun. street. Mr. and Mrs. Aaron H. O’Bier have moved to 1207 Fair street to make their home. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Arrington are now residing at 1000 Boundary street. Mr. and Mrs. T. F Murph are now making their home at 734 Boundary street Kendall Gives $4000 Grant for Scholarships Newberry College has received a $4,000 scholarship grant from The Kendall Company for the fourth consecutive year. The check was presented re cently to Dr. A. G. D. Wiles, pres ident of the College, by three of ficials of the Kendall Co., Hugh E. Wessinger, manager of cotton buying; George McQuilkin III, division manager and a Kendall vice president; and W. E. Aates, director of personnel, the Textile Division. “We believe in the private, lib eral arts college,” McQuilkin said. “And we find that this is an area of education which needs help. We feel especially close to Newberry College because of our company’s long association in Newberry.” The Kendall Company has been lo cated in Newberry since 1925. Recipients of the scholarships are named “Kendall Scholars” for the year of the award. Twenty- one students have received aid under this program since it was originated in 1962, and the aver age grade for these scholars was better than a “B”. Fourteen of this group have appeared on the Dean’s list one or more semesters during the three-year period. The Kendall Company has pro vided $4,000 annually since 1962 for scholarships which are awarded to academically qualified and fin ancially needy students. First preference is given to applicants from Newberry County, and there after to other applicants from South Carolina. Stipends vary from a token honorary award to a maximum of $350 a year, de pending upon academic merit and financial need. MOTHER GOOSE REVISED Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get her poor cat some mint: When she got there The cupboard was bare So, she called the Pres-i-dent. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1965 Officers of the Newberry County Republican Party are shown following a recent meeting of the executive committee, during which their election took place. They are, from left, Mrs, Mary Kinard, vice-chairman; M. Gay Suber, state executive comitteeman; and A.- M. Dominick, chairman. Mr. Dominick succeeds Ernest Martin, who resigned; Mr. Suber succeeds Earl Bedenbaugh who also recently resigned and Mrs. Kinard was elected to fill the vacancy left by Mr; Suber. Mrs. Tom F*rry was elected second vice Chairman. During the meeting, the committee voted to kick off its county reorganization campaign with a free barbecue for precinct and other workers throughout the county. Time and place of the event will he announced at a later date. Enrollment in Schools Below Last Session The ten-day enrollment in New- >erry County Schools for the cur- ■ent session is 6827, according tc igures released today by James 3. Brown, county superintendent >f Education. This is 317 less than he enrollment at the end of the irevious school session, Mr. Brown >aid, but added that he expects he enrollment to pick up some luring the year. Of the more than 6800 students ittending the county schools, over lalf of them are transported by >us Seventy buses carry 3570 hildren to and from school each lay. The enrollment by schools is as ollows: Newberry High 683: Junior digh 287; Boundary 499, Speers 156; Mid-Carolina 302; Prosperity !77; Pomaria 266; Little Moun- ain 182; Silverstreet 131, Bush liver 135; Whitmire High 313; ^ark Street 429. Also, Gallman High 776; Gar- nany 273; Drayton Street 900; tueben 356; Carver 207: Rikard !95. There are 60 Negroes attending dght previously all-white schools, md Newberry High school. HOME FROM HOSPITAL Mary McAlhany is recuperating at her home on Boundary street after undergoing an appendec tomy at Newberry County Memor ial hospital Saturday night. Mary is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Preston McAlhany and a student at Boundary Street School. Fair Will Open On October 11 October 11-16 are the dates set for the Newberry-Saluda County Fair, according to Frank Sutton, manager of the annual fair spon sored by Post 24 of the American Legion and clubs of Saluda coun ty.. More than $5000 is being offer ed in cash prizes for exhibits, Mr. Sutton said, and the attractive prizes should encourage keep com petition in all departments. Official opening time will be at 6 P.M. on Monday, the lit*, with amusements of America on the Midway. The Fall Flower Show, sponsor ed by the Council of Newberry Garden Clubs, will open Tuesday, at 2:00 P.M. Wednesday and Thursday will be school days, with ail school children admitted free with pro per ticket. The midway will open at 1:00 P.M. on each of these days. Saturday will be grand finale, and all children twelve years or younger will be admitted free be tween the hours of 1:00 and 6:00 P.M. Valuable prizes will be given away at 5:00 P.M. Mr. Sutton is confident that the exhibits, entertainment and Mid way at this fair will surpass any of recent years. BIRTH OF A SON 1st. Lt. and Mrs. Jerry Oxner of Giessen, Germany, announce the birth of a five pound, seven ounce son, Sean Leland, on Aug. 14 at Giessen. The Oxners have another son, Andrew Todd, 23 months old. Mrs. Oxner is the former June Carol Neal of Miami Shores, Florida .Lt. Oxner is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Oxner Rites Tuesday For Mrs. Boland Mrs. Katie Kibler Boland, 70, of Pomaria, died late Sunday at the Newberry County Memorial hospital after a short illness. A lifelong resident of Newberry county, she was a member of St. John’s Lutheran church. She was a daughter of the late John D. H. and Catherine Kinard Kibler. She is survived by her husband, Claude E. Bolaqd; .two sons, . C. Ray Boland of Ballentine and Wm. Kibler Boland of Pomaria; two daughters, Mrs. Everette Chap man Jr. of West Columbia, and Mrs. Joe A. Riddle of Leesville; nine brothers, Hernis A. and Hen ry H. Kibler, both of Prosperity; Luther A. Kibler of Irmo; William M. Kibler, Columbia; Johnnie, Malcolm R., Ray and Jacob Paul Kibler, all of Newberry, and Lil- lius E. Kibler of White Rock; three sisters, Mrs. Oscar Trout man and Mrs. Herbert Amick, of Ballentine, and Mrs. Mildred Wal lace of Newberry. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday from St .John’s with Rev. Donald Loadholt and Rev. Earl Loadholt conducting the last rites. Burial was in the church cemetery. Mrs. Hendrix Dies Thursday Mrs. Carrie Addie Hendrix, 86, of Lexington, died Thursday at her home after a long illness. Among her survivors is a son, C. E. (Scrap) Hendrix of Lexing ton, formerly of Newberry and a former Superintendent of Educa tion of Newberry county. Littlejohn To Preside at Criminal Court Hon. Bruce Littlejohn of Spar tanburg will be on the bench when Court of General Sessions (crim inal) convenes at Newberry Coun ty Courthouse Monday, September 20. Of the 53 cases on the docket, 16 are holdovers and there are 37 new bills for Grand Jury action. Grand Jurors will report at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, with petit jurors to begin service at the same time on Tuesday morning. Holdover cases include: Lambert Fielding, murder; Julian Leland Welling Jr., drunk driving third offense, also sentencing for 2nd offense of the same charge; Rob ert Bailey, rape; Charles White- ner, larceny and receiving stolen goods; ;Phillip Plampin and L. Cornell Wise, lynching, second de gree; Eugene Bowers and Thur mond Bowers, assault and battery with intent to kill; Louise Sims, violation of liquor law; William L. Watts Jr., and Bobby Garland, highway robbery, larceny, also assault and battery with intent to kill; John O. Shealy, two counts of asault and battery with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons; Clyde Otis Reed, drunk driving, second offense; T. L. Bowers, et al, rule to show cause. New cases to be presented to the Grand Jury are: Jimmy Willard, attempted housebreaking; Mike Willard, housebreaking and grand larceny; James Henry Gallman, Ernest Williams, James Goggans, Lewis Davis, assault and battery with intent to kill; W. L. Watts Jr., T. J. (Bull) Dean, burglary: Hil lard H. Johnson, Wallace Wilson Griffin, drunk driving, fourth of fense; Lawrence M. Mull Jr., drunk driving, second offense; Er nest Lyles, Carl O. Taylor, Robert (Rick( Gallman, Ray A. Spicer, Eugene Ruff, non-support; Wil liam Earl Gambrell, Jimmy Hun- nicutt, Eddie Gaffney, housebreak ing and grand larceny; C. P. Mc- Clurkin, bad check law; Also, Richard Bundrick, obtain ing goods under false pretense; Jerry Parkman, entering house with intent to steal; Jerry E. Parkman, two counts, violation of bad check law; Eddie Gaffney, at tempted entering; Cornell Willi ams, escaping public works, Rob ert L. Toole, obtaining money by false pretenses; Johnny Leroy Davis, escaping public works and grand larceny; J. D. Patterson, assault and battery; William L. Watts, Jr., car stealing; Ruth Black, entering and grand larceny; B. M. Rolling, disposing of prop erty under mortgage, grand lar ceny; T. J. (Bull) Dean, grand larceny; Henry J. Clark, violation or liquor law and firearms; Mamie Jackson and Willie Griffin, mur der. Mrs. Buzhardt Rites Saturday Mrs. Lula Rutherford Buzhardt, 84, died early Friday morning at the Newberry County Memorial Hospital. She was born in this county, a daughter of the late William and Sallie Cromer Ruth erford. Her husband, the late Blu- ford Buzhardt, preceded her to the grave years ago. She was a member of the Newberry A. R. P. church. Mrs. Buzhardt is survived by four step-sons, Rev. J. H. Buz hardt of Ninety Six, Pierce B Buzhardt of Enoree, Boyd Buz hardt of Pawleys Island, and Jas. H. Buzhardt of Charlotte, N. C.; two step-daughters, Mrs. B. J. Livingston of Newberry and Mrs. Roy S. Smith of Charlotte, N. C. Funeral services were conducted Saturday from Newberry A. R. P. church with Rev. E. L. Bland and Dr. P. L. Grier conducting the last rites. Active pallbearers were Gilder Cromer, Charles Cromer, Gene Harmon, Vernon Livingston, and Frank Cousins. Honorary escort included J. N. Beard, Ernest Layton, Dr. J. E. Dickert, Dr. R. P. Baker and dea cons and elders of her church. Nine new faculty members at Newberry College look over the scale model of the A. G. D. Wiles Chapel to be built on the campus this year. They are, left to right, Dr. Everetta L. Blair, assistant profesors of English; Dr. Karlheniz K. Brandes, assistant profesor of chemistry; Dr. Aaron H. O’ Bier, associate profesor of biology; Dr. Charles W. Swisher, associate professo of psychology; John W. Wagner, asistant professor of music; Daniel W Chandler, instructor in sociology; Lercy O. A. Martinson, instructor in sociology; Dr. Nelson Van de Luyster, professor of modern languages. Not pictured is Dr.. Edna L. Steeves, associate profesor of English USS SHENANDOAH, Sept 7— Commissaryman Second Class Charles D. Metts, USN, son of Mrs. Lottie L. Metts of Route 3, Prosperity, is serving aboard the destroyer tender Shenandoah. The Shenandoah is presently on a three-month stay in Naples, It aly tending ships of the U. S. 6th Fleet. One of the first support and repair ships of her class, she operates out of Norfolk, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Moore are residing at 1205 Third street. THE REASON THAT NO WOMAN HAS EVER BEEN PRESIDENT IS THAT YOU HAVE TO BE 25 OR OVER. • $2.00 PER YEAR Second Primary In Wards 4 & 5 About 3000 Newberrians cast their votes in the municipal pri mary here Tuesday, resulting in the return to office of Mayor Er nest Layton and Councilmen Me- Cutcheon, Longshore and Shealy. A second primary in two weeks wil! be necessary to determine winners in Wards 4 and 5. In Ward 2, a newcomer to politics, Lin Slaton, defeated J. Howard Cook Jr. by a vote of 1589 to 1482. Mr. Cook ran for Mayor two years ago against Mr. Layton. In Ward 4 Jack Senn was short 20 votes of a majority over his two opponents, the vote being Senn 1499, Mutt Ruff 1048, and Rev. Spencer 470. Incumbent Gerald Taylor was short some 200 votes of winning over his two opponents, Cecil Kinard and A. E. Singley in Ward 5. In the vote for mayor Mr. Lay- ton polled 2610 votes while his Negro opponent got 392. In Ward 1 race Jim Longshore polled 1999 votes to 950 for Frank Armfield Jr. Negroes apparently did not vote entirely as a Hoc as Negro candidate Holmes, who is a Meth odist Presiding Elder, received 88 less votes than Rev. Spencer, Minister of a Negro Methodist church here. In the newly annexed Oakland section of the city a vote of about 160 was cast. Dr. A. G. D. Wiles, president of Newberry College, receives a * Check in the amount of $4000 from The Kendall Company. Mak ing the presentation is Hugh E. Wessinger, manager of the cotton buying division, and a Newberry College graduate. Lookin on is George McQuilkin, HI, division manager and a Kendall vice presi dent. The grant, has been provided annually since 1962 for scholarships. (Newberry College Photo.) Indians To Do Battle With Mountaineers The Newberry College Indians will open this year’s football sea son against Appalachian State Teachers College Mountaineers this Saturday in Boone, N. C. Game Time is 8 P.M. Newberry boasts a much strong er team than the 1864 squad. Strength is experience and depth. Almost all positions are four deep in number and two deep in exper ience. Several freshmen backs are expected to bolster the back- field. Steve Coker, halfback from Charleston, is expected to be the starter against the Mountaineers. George Taylor of Gaston should see action, although he is a fresh man. Head coach Harvey Kirkland will be depending upon returning lettermen Neal Dufford, Bill Eaves and Gyles Hall for exper ience at the backfield slot. The end position creates some doubt. Dennis Swygert is on the injured list. Swygert, a positive starter, has been sidelined for the past week and probably will miss ac tion Saturday. Either Benji Kirkland or Ray Hesse of Saluda will start at quar terback. Kirkland received an in jury last week but is expected to be up to full power for the Sat urday game. Capt. Pat Merrick has been ag gressive in practice to eliminate any doubts at center position. At tackle, Steve Robertson stands strong, much improved over last year. The Mountaineers have lost 13 top players from the 1964 team which finished 6-3 in competition, but lacked depth. Carl Messere begins his first year as head coach, taking ths place of Jim Duncan who resigned last year. Mountaineer Center Jerry Price is expected to be even better this year, and serves as captain of the team. The big problem for the Mountaineers appears to be in experience and maybe also in depth. USS SHENANDOAH, Sept. 7-— Machinists Mate Fireman John L. Koon, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Koon of Route 1, Pomaria is serving aboard the destroyer tender USS Shenandoah. Cay Baker’s Brother Dies Willie Edgar Baker, 83, died Thursday morning at a Newberry nursing home following a short illness. Lif long resident of this county he was a son of the late William T. and Mary Wicker Baker. He was a retired building contractor. Among his survivors is a bro ther, Cay Baker of this city. GREETINGS BIRTHDAY Sept. 17: George P. Hill, Er nest Clary, R. R. Bruner Jr., Harnett Dickert, Tommy Kin ard, Eddie O. Graham, Jesse W. Senn, Janice Halfacre, Mrs. N. C. Shaver, Mrs. Floyd Amick, Jenny Jones, Miss Addie L. Simpson, Annie Jane Clark, Marsha Ann Sebum pen, Mrs. William N. Henderson. Sept. 18: Blanche Salter, Ansel L. Wood, Tommie Pitts* Tommy Kinard, Andrea Rae Ringer, Hugh Bedenbaugh, Allie Gar- lington, Nancy L. Copeland, Carol T. Ballew, Mrs. J. S. Nich ols Sept. 19: Jeter Young, Berley Werts, Helen Stone, Mrs. Thos. Cromer, Norma Jean 'iiinmer- man, Helen Derrick, Rev. P. L. Grier. Sept. 20: Mrs. D. M. Lambeth, Mrs. R. C. Neel Jr., Henry Bur ton Wells, Walter Hiller, Judy Walton, Charlie Bradley, Mrs. Susie B. Connelly, Jean Amick, Rev. D. M. Shull. Sept. 21: H. H. Ruff, Margaret Harman, Tommy Riley, Mrs. W. H. Chapman, Mrs. Richard L. Baker, Ansel Ridgeway, Mrs. J. R. Bedenbaugh Jr., Joe E. Webb, Van E. Price, Minnie Lee Tay lor Mrs. J. H. Wallenzine, Rev. N. R. Ruff. Sept. 22: Richard Andrews, Kay Dominick, Betty Kay Rich ardson, Lamar King Jr., Ester H. Coates, Laurie F. Spearman, Lynn Monroe, Marian Lipscomb, Mrs. M. B Sesions, Ralph L. Ep- ting. Sept 23: Mrs. W. O. Miller, Susan Hawkins, Cecil E. Kin ard, Jackie Clarkson, Robert Glymph, Edward Epting, Gerald Griffith, Ellen Derrick Addy, Jimmy Kester, Mrs. Charlie Alt man Susan Paige Nichols.