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FOR POSTERITY—Almost every child would learn to write sooner if allowed to do his homework on wet cement. THE MIDDLE YEARS—You have reached middle age when you have learned to take care of your health, and intend to start any day now. VOLUME 29—NUMBER 43. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1966 $2.00 Per Year Prof. F. Scott Elliott, president of the Civic League, crowns Miss Cheryl Folk 1966 Queen of Hearts, at the contest held Saturday night at Newberry High School. At left is Miss Rita Harmon, first runner-up and at right, Miss Donna Koon, second runner-up. (Sunphoto.) Some local Negroes oppose EOC Committee make-up Church workers are offered six courses Rev. S. M. Atkinson announc es that the annual Christian Workers School, in which all Methodist chtrrches in this area are participating, will begin Sunday night at Central Meth odist church. Sessions will be held each night February 20 through 24 from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. with a 20 minute inter mission nightly. Six courses are offered, each pertaining in some way to home life. Rev. Herbert Spell, a for mer pastor at Central, will have the class for mature persons, “The Second Forty Years.” For young adults the course will be “Your Home Can Be Christian.” This will be taught by Rev. E. S. Jones of Lancas ter. Chaplain William Major of the State Hospital staff will teach the class on “Mental Health and The Family.” Practicing clinic psychiatrist Dr. Iverson Graham of Flor ence will conduct the class on “The Family Facing Problems.” For young people the subject is “Enjoy Your Parents.” Rev. W. C. Reid of Columbia is the teacher. Mrs. S. M. Atkinson will have a class for parents and teachers of pre-school children, the topic being “Working With Younger Children.” Easter Seal giving helps special class In its continuing program of rendering assistance where i needed within the county, The | Newberry Chapter of the S. C. 1 Society for Crippled Children and Adults, Inc. has made a contribution in money to the Special Education Class at the Boundary Street school. The following letter of appreciation has been received by the local chapter from the classes: 1 “Dear Members: “We want to thank you for the hundred dollars that you sent to us. This sum of money certainly is a help to our class- j es, because 40 children are now j in Special classes at Boundary j and many supplies have to be bought for us. You are very kind to remember us every year.” The letter was written by one of the class members and is signed “Mrs. Pugh’s Class; Mrs. Sander’s Class and Mrs. Eargle’s Class.” Chairman Harry E. Moose of the local chapter has announced that funds for the support of projects of this type are se cured through the annual Eas ter Seal Campaign which will begin this year the first week in March. Mr. and Mrs. James T. Long Jr., have moved to 2519 Fair Avenue to make their home. February 22nd, Washington’s Birthday, being a legal holiday, the Post Office will be closed. Mail will be worked to boxes and outgoing mail dispatched. There will be no city or rural delivery. Dr. Harrison R. Steeves was guest speaker when the Woman’s Club held its Reciprocity meeting last Thursday at Smeltzer Hall of Newberry College. He is shown here with Mrs. F. Scott Elliott, left, president of the Woman’s Club, and Mi's. Gordon Blackwell, chairman of the Reciprocity Committee. (Sunphoto.) A sometimes heated debate raged here Tuesday night over a public Economic Opportunity Commission vs. a proposed pri vately sponsored commission to administrate projects and funds under federal anti-poverty laws. The main issues at a four- hour meeting centered on whe- , ther the present commission is “dominated by Whites” and if the public commission truly represented the underprivileged people of Newberry County. Membership of the Newberry- Saluda Commission, organized through state legislation, was reported to be composed of eight Negroes and 13 White men representing Newberry County. It is a 30-member commission for Doth counties. Debate over the proposed pri vate non-profit EOC group end ed with agreement to call an other meeting for a hoped-for larger turnout of county resi dents most directly affected to express their views. Only 40 persons were present Tuesday night. The second meeting apparent ly will decide by vote if the private commission will be es tablished. Rev. David Carter, Negro pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, site of Tuesday night’s meeting, said the Newberry Ministerial Alliance (all Negro) met with the Newberry County Legislative Delegation Tuesday morning. He said the delegation asked the alliance to halt efforts to form a private commission. “I told him (Rep. D. P. Folk) then that I don’t give a darn about the public commission and that I would give him an oral resignation and a written reg- ignation later.” The Rev. Mr. Carter is one of the two-county commissioner’s eight Negro members from Newberry Coun ty- Earl W. Cobylan, an Orange burg Negro attorney, said if the existing commission is not rep resenting the “poor people,” then, “you should form your own commission. “There was a time when the order of the day was for dem onstrations,” the lawyer said. “They accomplished their pur pose. Now we must act on facts, not emotions.” The guidelines for the EOC Act specify that the county commissions are to include per sons from poverty areas, Coby lan said. Rev. James A. Holmes, New berry Negro, presiding elder of the Greenville District of the AME Church, said the Negro membership on the existing two-county commission was in creased from two to eight only after the alliance had made re peated requests to the delega tion for the change. “The public (existing) com mission is responsible to local politicians,” he said, “and local politicians are not desirous of (Continued on page 3) Folk proposes people vote on condemnation Three Newberry County Mu nicipalities would be able to condemn private property for slum clearance purposes in leg islation proposed Tuesday in the State House of Representa tives. Constitutional amendments would be necessary to bestow such power on the City Coun cil of Newberry and the town council of Prosperity and Whit mire. Three bills introduced by Rep- D. P. (Jabbo) Folk of Newber ry would allow voters to decide 'in referendums this November if the State Constitution should be changed to permit urban re newal projects in the area con cerned. Folk said no slum clearance projects currently are being planned in any of the three municipalities, but he said the legislation would allow voters the opportunity to reject or ap prove such programs for the fu ture. Separate bills setting up ref erendum machinery were intro duced so each municipality could City council has lengthy debate on employee use of vehicles If Newberry’s John Q. Public needs city services at night and finds it slow coming, he can place the blame squarely on four members of council: E. F. McCutcheon, James Longshore, Cecil Kinard and Clarence Shealy Jr. These men feel that some of the city employees who do emergency work during off- hours should not be allowed to keep their vehicles at home in order to answer calls. Not even the dog catcher may take his dog catching equipment home, so the citizens who wants a dog picked up at night may as well forget about it. The councilmen listed above saw fit to cut out vehicles of Robert Shealy, who must ans wer emergency calls when the superintendent of utilities is not available; Bill Nobles, who often has to work late on en gineering and paving jobs etc.; accept or reject urban renewal R®' ve an d Boozer who answer legislation, Folk explained. Officials in each case request ed the permissive legislation, according to Folk. To give urban renewal pow ers, Article 1, Section 17 of the State Constitution would have to be amended, a process which requires not only statewide ap proval but ratification by the General Assembly. The amendments in each case would allow city or town coun cils or redevelopment or hous ing authorities to “undertake and carry out slum clearance and redevelopment work in areas which are predominantly slum or blighted . . Public agencies legally could exercise the right of eminent domain over private, pro] in order to clean up slum areas. Smiley Porter rites held here Smiley Livingston Porter, 77, of Florence and Newberry, died Thursday at the McLeod Hos pital in Florence after a short illness. Mr. Porter was born in For- eston, the son of the late Rev. J. S. and Catherine Alice Liv ingston Porter. He was owner and manager of the Southern Pines Motel in Florence. He was a member of Amity Lodge No. 290, AFM. He is survived by one brother, Robert D. Porter of Greensboro, N. C.; and one sister, Mrs. J. W. Perrin of Crescent Beach. Funeral services were con ducted Saturday at Whitaker Funeral Home here by Rev. Kenneth Littlejohn Hamilton. Interment was in Rosemont cemetery. Active pallbearers twere J. S. Porter, Eddie Collins, J. R. Stanfield, W. E. Brtckett Jr., Robert Porter Brackett and O. J. McCain Jr. Hospital gets Duke funds The Duke Endowment is dis tributing this week $1,404,392 to help hospitals and child care institutions in North Carolina anld South Carolina finance their charity services. Newberry County Memorial Hospital, with 74 beds, received $4,649. Last year, the local hos pital’s appropriation from the fund was $4,487. Bike courses on Saturdays Bicycle safety instruction courses will be held each Sat urday morning at Council cham bers from 10 until 11 a.m., ac cording to City Safety Officer Johnny Stribble. The classes are for pre-schoolers and others who did not take safety courses at their respective schools. Officer Stribble stated that the safety course and testing program were producing good results. Dates for bicycle in spection and riding safety tests will be announced at a later date, he said. calls to turn off water when a pipe bursts or other things go wrong with the water system; and one of the two maintenance trucks, which keep the other emergency vehicles running. The action was based on what McCutcheon called “com plaints which had been build ing up,” of city employees us ing the vehicles for personal use. When challenged by City Manager Riebe for one exam ple of unauthorized use of the vehicles, McCutcheon failed to come up with any specific com plaint; nor did any other mem ber of council report hearing a specific complaint, although some said they had heard -‘talk.” Longshore thought it might a good idea to put off a decision on the question until further study could be made; however, he refused to put the thought in the form of a mo tion and went along with the motion to have the men listed above leave their vehicles in the city garage at night. Coun cilman Senn remarked that he was in favor of the next item on the agenda—broadcasting council meetings. He said he thought the time had come to let the public hear what went on at the meeting- Although four councilmen objected to the emergency ve hicles being taken home by employees, they said they saw nothing wrong with police cars going to homes of policemen to bring them to work, take them home, etc. Council heard a report from Mrs. Richard Baker, chairman of the special committee of the City Safety Committee, on a meeting with Mr. Bradley of the State Highway Depart ment. She stated that the de partment promised to make traffic surveys in the city with in two months on the city’s re quest. The city had previously requested these surveys on January 29, September 9, and October 7 of 1965. Mrs. Baker also invited members of Coun cil to attend the civic develop ment conference to be held on next Monday and Tuesday in Columbia. Council confirmed the award of a bid by Grady Hydrick for demolition of the Scott build ing in the amount of $2251. Work to tear down the build ing has already begun. Mc Cutcheon requested the y city manager to obtain estimates for the sale and demolition of the buildings between City Hall and the Fire Department. Manager Riebe reported that plans for this are already un derway. Marvin Bouknight appeared before council and requested passage of an ordinance pro hibiting the use of pellet guns and air rifles inside the city. The City Manager was re quested to check with the city attorney to see whether there was an existing ordinance which would prohibit such use. Council was advised in a letter from R. D. Schumpert, chairman of the Election Com mission, that April 12 has been set as the date of the special annexation election for the Kate street and Fair Avenue i areas. Newberry County Republicans gatheded for a barbecue supper last Friday night at New berry High School cafeteria, to hear Sen. Strom Thurmond and "to make plans for reorgan izing the county party. Among those present for the occasion wer, from left, Harry Dent, chairman of the state Republican Party; Sen. Thurmond; Woodrow Bedenbaugh, Prosperity’s Republican member of town council; and A. M. Dominick, county Republican chairman. (Pho to courtesy Whitmire News.) Dorn, Clary to speak at |{Post Office dedication Bandmembers Congressman Wm. J. B. Dorn of the third Congressional District will share the speaker’s platform with Bennett E. Clary of the Atlanta Postal Region at the dedication ceremony of the new Newberry post office on Sunday afternoon, February 20. Newberry postmaster Harry E. Moose announced that the pro gram will get under way at 2:45 p.m. with the Newberry High School band, under the direct ion of M ; ss Lorraine Paris, en tertaining with band selections prior to the formal ceremony. John F. Clarkson, President of the Newberry Federal Sav ings & Loan Asociation of New berry will serve as master of ceremonies for the program which is being sponsored by the Newberry County Development Board. Development Board President Robert C. Lake, of Whitmire will introduce Mr. Dorn. Mr. Clary, the Post Office Department speaker, is a native of Newberry, having been born here, educated in the public schools and graduated from Newberry college prior to en tering the mail service in 1937. He has progressed in the mail service from the position of Railway Mail Clerk to that of Chief, Employment and Place ment Branch of the Atlanta Postal Region. His responsibil ities include four southern states with approximately 41,- 000 employees. He is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Hagood Clary Sr. Mayor Ernest Layton and Senator Jesse Frank Hawkins will appear in the program with Mr. Dorn and Mr. Clary. Following the ceremony, vis itors will be invited to inspect the new facility as open house will be held. Postmaster Moose said that this would be one of the rare occasions when the general public will be allowed to go behind the counters and see how their mail is processed for delivery. “The public is cor dially invited to attend and take advantage of this oppor tunity to visit within the post office,” Mr. Moose said. Mr. and Mrs. John Free are now residing in their new home in Griffin Park. I*. • are Newberry College band ma jors will audition approximate ly 350 junior and senior . High school students from 7 schools Saturday at Denmark-Olar High school. Participating schools will be Barnwell, Bamberg, Allendale, Fairfax, Denmark-Olar, Hamp ton, Blackville and Williston. Newberry students who will take in the auditions are Tip Jones and John Summer. These students recently aud itioned Chester High school and Lexington High school bands at the request of the respective band directors. Auditions for the Edisto Conference Band are handled through the administration and cooperation of Prof. CherLo Pruitt mmm c* Guests of Jasper Chapter, D.A.R. at its Diamond Jtibilee meeting Friday at Smeltzer Hall were the three young ladies who have been chosen D.A.R. “Good Citizens.” They are, from left, Miss Nan Buddin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Buddin of Newberry; Miss Nellie Rose Richardson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Richardson of Prosperity and Mis Sally Abrams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Abrams of Whitmire. The girls are selected by their res pective High school faculties on the basis of dependability, service, leadership and patriotism. They were presented a pin by Jasper Chapter, D.A.R. (Sunphoto.) Birthday Greetings Feb. 19: Jin* Feagle, W. R. Feagle, Mrs. Emma Long shore, Charles Kinard, Mrs. Eva McKissick, Mrs. S. E. Longshore, James D. Crooks, Marcia Monroe, Kenneth Tompkins* Mrs. Harry Dukes Randy C. Crews, Mra. L. F. Fischer. Feb. 20: T. Clyde Tindall, Mrs. C. F. Thompson, Henry E. Mills, Larry Summer. Feb. 21: Mrs. Ruth Davis, Wilson Leitzsey, Ralph Sum mer, Jesse Outz. Feb. 22: Mary Ruth Walton, Susanne McElveen, Mrs. J. Y. Lomax, Cathy Bennett. Feb. 23: Mrs. Ralph W. Connelly, Mrs. Luther Hamm Sanford Y. Epps, Ann Wheel er, Mrs. Harry Kyzer, John Miller, Martha Kyzer. Feb. 24: R. A. Feagle, Dor othy Koon, Rey Lominack, Essie Cook, Mrs. Tompsie Summers, Mrs. Kirksey Koon W. R. Lominick, William Grady Bedenbaugh, Larry Swygert, Natalie Setzler, M. L. Goff, Julia Mae Koon, Margaret H. Lovell, Jimmy Underwood. Feb. 25: John C. Adams, Robert Davenport, Mrs. Ruth Wood, Willie Ann Berley, Carol E. Epting, Peggy Ber ley, Marion Long, Mrs. S. L. Waldhour, S. L. Waldhour, J. J. Hughes, Willie Lee Ringer, Sandra Petty, Joey Gray.