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The harder the tail, the higher the bounce—if you arc made of tie- right material. When you sit and do nothing, you are sitting on the lid of the box that holds the answer to your problem. 7 VOLUME 30 — NUMBER 1. BY THE WAY STILL KIN(; < )n e dt iesn’t oft*: ■n iv-ar 1 eoltun relVi red to a.- tin _* “Kin g” any more . Bu t it still s lands ; is King a rout id i lore when i one i re mem- hers that 74.8 percent of the in duslr iai payroll of Ne wherry Coun t y i s directly attri bu table to Ki ng Cotton, an d those 1 work- ers. who take the cottoi n from the ! i a 1 e and work with it until it i = a finished prodno take home na y a mo uni :ing ti i eight and t h re e-qu arteri • niillie m dul- lars ; ,i ye al. Cotton Week is an appropriate time to point out these facts. While we are thankful to have diversified industry in the coun ty—and certainly hope more of the same is on the way—we still recognize that Cotton is King as far as the economy of Newberry County is concerned; and that the largest payrolls are those of Newberry Mills, Inc., The Oakland and Mollohon plants of Kendall Company and the Whitmire plant of the J. P. Stevens Company. It is with pleasure that we salute this fine industry and its fine people during National Cotton Week. By DORIS A. SANDERS New annexation election to be sought By MRS. A. t’ity council night agreed it H. COl NTS here Tuesday request Gov. Heads Baptist fund campaign The Rev. James Anderson Bass Jr., pastor of First Baptist Church here, is chairman of the Reedy River Baptist Associa tion’s campaign to help raise $611,898 to replace a Federal grant to Furman University. The fund-raising effort is a follow-up of convention action last November when the denom ination asked Furman Univer sity to return a Federal grant which had been received for con struction of a science building. The convention agreed to raise the $611,898. Bass is one of 44 South Caro linians named to lead in the statewide campaign. A native of Rock Hill, Bass is a graduate of Furman Univer sity and in 1960 he received the B.D. degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Prior to coming to Newberry, he served as assistant pastor of First Baptist Church of Mobile, Alabama. He is a member of the Newberry Kiwanis Club and has served as president of the Newberry County Ministerial Association. Dr. Enoch C. Brown, state wide chairman of the fund raising campaign, noted this week that the two annual spec ial missions offerings have been completed and that the churches are now promoting the Furman Fair-Share Campaign. “June 5 has been designated cash and pledge day at which time it is hoped that the goal will be ful ly underwritten in cash and pledges,” Brown said. As of May 9, $75,488.78 has been received. Robert F. MeXair to .schedule a second election in an area pro posed for annexation into the city after the first election was declared invalid. The County ( onimisssion of Elections reported to council that the April Id annexation election in the area was not valid because three unqualified votes had been cast. The area proposed for an nexation includes Kate and Glenn streets adjacent to the Oakland Mill area. Voters in the city approved the annexation in a separate city referendum, the commission reported. In otner business, council au thorized funds from the recent sale of Marion Davis Park to be placed in the general fund and to be earmarked for park and playground use. City Manager Kenneth Riebe told council that the money, $41,100, is needed to allow for “flexibility in use of funds dur ing this period in the fiscal year” because of a heavy de mand on the general fund for current construction projects. Council authorized the city manager to advertise for bids for resurfacing and construc tion of curbing and gutter on Mower street as petitioned by residents of the area. Officials of the S. C. High way Department reported to council that an additional six miles of city sreets have been accepted by the department for maintenance. City Manager Riebe told coun cil that the questionnaire proj ect by the city is providing “much information that can be helpful.” He said 3,000 question forms were mailed and 800 citizens have returned the forms with the requested information con cerning the quality of city serv ices and recommendations on city needs. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1966 School Board approves its reorganization The Newberry County Board of Education gave its stamp of approval here Monday night to legislation providing for the re organization of the school board with four of the seven members | to be elected instead of appoint ed. Rep. D. P. (Jabbo) Folk said the bill will receive final read ing for passage in the Senate Tuesday. Folk said the school board recommended passage of the bill to the delegation as present ly written with no amendments. The bill provides that the school board be reorganized effective Jan. 1, 1969. Four of the board members would be elected by countywide voting and three would be ap pointed by the county commis sioners with approval of the county’s house member, ac cording to the bill. Folk also said that the elec tive office of county superinten dent of education will be abol ished effective Jan. 1, 1969, and the office of director of finance will be created. $2.00 Per Year Harry Moose, president ot Speers tends 'the PTA’s best wishes for a happy retirement to Speers Principal Mrs. Beale Cromer. Mrs. Cromer was honored at Thursday’s PTA meeting with a musi cal program directed by Miss Juanita Hitt, on left in the photo. On behalf of the students of Speers, Miss Hitt presented Mrs. Cromer an “Appreciation plaque. (Sunphoto) County Court is proposed by bill Complimented for program Police Chief Colie Dowd has received a letter of commenda tion from J. N. Caldwell, Jr., executive director of the Muni cipal Association of S. C., com plimenting him for the "splen did program presented at the Police Chiefs Association meet ing at Myrtle Beach.” Mr. Caldwell states, “1 have heard many favorable comments on this meeting and the entire program of the 26th annual meeting, and for myself and the entire association, I extend our sincere appreciation for the part you played in making this the most successful annual meeting we have ever had. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Sut ton have moved to their new home on Dominick Avenue in New T berry voters will decide in November if magistrate offi ces will be abolished ai-d a county court system established instead. Newberry legislators took necessary steps Monday to set up the referendum machinery and to kill sections of a bill which would have reduced the number of magistrates from six to two in tw’o years. The proposed county court would include a juvenile and domestic relations division. The court would have civil and crim inal jurisdiction up to $2,000. If voters favor the county court system over the magis trate system, the legislative delegation would be empower ed to introduce legislation to create it. Rep. D. P. (Jabbo) Folk of Newberry introduced the refer endum bill in the House w’hile in the Senate his original bill to reduce the number of magis trates was being amended to delete those sections. Folk said from his home in Newberry that he and Sen. Jesse Frank Hawkins feel the county court could be estab lished for the same amount of money proposed for use under a two magistrate system. His original bill had called for two countywide magistrates to sit in the courthouse and re ceive $7,500 each a year with increased jurisdiction. “We feel for $15,000, we could have a pretty good court,” Folk said. He added the county court now has backing of the County Bar Association. Consolidation or elimination of the magis trates has been recommended by the grand jury, Folk said. The delegation feels chances are good the people will ap prove the county court. The same judge—hopefully, a good lawyer, Folk said — would be able to handle both the coun ty court and the juvenile and domestic relations division. The county court would hear eases now in the jurisdiction of IN AUGUSTA HOSPITAL Barry Shealy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Shealy of Newberry, js in serious condition in the Au gusta Medical Hospital where he is undergoing treatment for injuries received in an automo bile accident near Aiken last Saturday. Barry, who was Drum Major of the Newberry High School Band last year, is a member of the freshman class at the Uni versity of South Carolina. magistrates. Folk said people could be ap pointed in various county com munities to issue warrants as magistrates now do, on a fee basis or for a set salary. May ors may be given this authority should the county court be es tablished, he said. Provisions of the earlier bill eliminating the fee system and putting magistrates on a salary, and abolishing magistrates con stables will stand, Folk said. Fees charged for magesterial services will go into the county general fund in the future. Whitmire man killed by train WHITMIRE—A steel guard rail on the front of a Seaboard Air Line passenger train en gine struck and killed a 20- year-old Whitmire Negro man as he was lying near the rail road tracks late Saturday night. Newberry County Coroner George R. Summer identified the victim as Jerry Griffin, 20, of Railroad Avenue, Whitmire. The coroner said Griffin was lying on the track bed whth his head near one rail of the tracks. The train engine guard which extended a few inches from the engine struck the vic tim’s head, the coroner said. Griffin w T as killed instantly about 11 n.m. Summer said. He said the accident occured in front of Griffin’s home. A. B. Hall, train engineer, told offi cers he saw the man lying on the track bed but could not stop in time. The accident occurred in the north section of the city. An inquest will be conducted pend ing further investigation, the coroner said. Mrs. Dreher be League speaker Mrs. James F. Dreher, presi dent of the Historic Columbia Foundation, will present a pro gram on the restoration of Ainsley Hall at the meeting of the Newberry Civic League to be held at the Community Hall May 24 at 4 p.m. The subject of her talk will be “A Restoration Story: The Robert Mills Design ed Ainsley Hall Mansion.” There will be slides of the con struction w’ork of the house. She will conclude her talk with suggestions on preservations in this state. Mrs. A. G. D. Wiles and Mrs. Thomas H. Pope Jr. are the co- chairmen of this program. Mrs. W. Roy Anderson and Mrs. Hugh Foster are in charge of refreshments. Edwin D. Dodd, executive vice president and general manager of the Forest Products Division of Ow T ens-Illinois, presses one of the switches which controls the speed of the Corrugator at the Owens-Illinois plant during the formal op ening last Friday. Watching the operation are Governor Robert McNair, Miss Nancy Moore “Miss South Carolina,” and R. H. Mulford, president of Ow T ens- Illinois, Inc. (Photo by Nichols) Dignitaries gather for formal opening Owens-Illinois plant Officers of Speers Street PTA for the 1966-67 year were installed last Thursday night. They are, from left, Gerald Hester, president; Mrs. David Summer, secretary; Mrs. Milton Shealy, treasurer and I. D. (Rusty) Wilson, vice president. (Sunphoto) Get degrees from Clemson Several Newberry County students were among those re ceiving degrees at the 70th commencement of Clemson Uni versity Saturday. Clemson’s highest purely ac ademic award was won by E. Glenn Huff of Whitmire, a December graduate in electri cal engineering. He received the Faculty Scholarship award of certificate and gold medal which goes each year to the member of the graduating class with the highest academic ach ievement based entirely upon undergraduate scholarly ac complishment. Others receiving degrees were: William H. Abrams, Bachelor of Architecture; John R. Fra zier, Bachelor of Science in Forestry; Bohdan Kolodij and Dennis W. Newton, Bachelor of Science in Pre-Medicine. Mr. and Mrs/ Steve Menius are now making their home at 1931 Nance Street in Apart ment No. 1, Oakhall Apart ments. Civitans at State meeting Furman Garner, deputy gov ernor, and four officers of the Newberry Civitan Club, Prof. F. Scott Elliott Sr., president; John Earle Smith, vice presi dent; Fred Staton, secretary; and F. Scott Elliott Jr., ser geant - at-arms, attended the 19th annual South Carolina District Civitan Convention held at Columbia Hotel on May 12 and 13. Mrs. Furman Garner partici pated in the ladies convention program and Wendell Garner attended the family picnic at Columbia Children’s Home with the rest of the Newberry group Thursday evening, May 12. At the convention, the New berry Civitan Club whs awarded a trophy as honorable mention for achievement among clubs of less than 50 members. Deputy Governor Garner received one of the three district honor keys. Prof. Elliott was awarded an honor scroll for his work as chairman of Collegiate Civitans, and was elected lieutenant gov ernor of Zone 9. Prof. Elliott also deceived a door prize, a $25 United States government bond. Final rites at Funeral Home George Sidney Swittenberg, 60, of Rt. 2, Chapin, died sud denly Monday afternoon. Native of Pomaria, son of the late Charlie B. and Jane Sum mer Swittenberg, he was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church and a Mason. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Ida Mae Shealy of Newberry; and three brothers, W. D. and Claude O. Swittenberg of Chap in and Charlie Edward Switten berg of Fayetteville, N. C. Funeral services were con ducted Wednesday at 11 a.m. at McSwain Funeral Home by Rev. Donald Loadholt and Rev. G. L. Hill. Burial was in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church Ceme tery in Little Mountain. Mr. and Mrs. James Hayes are now residing at 2700 Milne One of the world’s most mod ern plants for the production of corrugated shipping boxes— the workhorse of the nation’s multi-billion dollar packaging industry—was officially opened here Friday by Federal, state, county and city officials and South Carolina business, indus trial and civic leaders. / ■* / f Owens-Illinois, Inc’s 19th cor rugated shipping box plant joined South Carolina’s growing industrial scene in ceremonies'^ participated in by Governor Robert McNair, U. S. Senators Strom Thurmond and Donald Russell; Raymond H. Mulford, president of Owens-Illinois, and Edwin D. Dodd, Owms-Illinois executive vice president and general manager of its Forest Products division, both of To ledo, Ohio, and Nancy Moore, Miss South Carolina. The opening of the plant be came official a little before 10:30 a.m. when Governor Mc Nair joined Mr. Dodd and Miss South Carolina in a ribbon cut ting to celebrate the official plant opening. The flags of the 50 states, in 24 of which Owens-Illinois operates its 79 domestic plants, were flowm on staffs on the lawn in front of the plant building. Equipped with a 350-foot long, 85-inch corrugator for manufacturing corrugated board, the plant can produce 40 million square feet of corrugat ed board a month for the manu facture of shipping boxes for the Carolinas’ growing indus tries. Highly automgte^^V^e. cutters, printer-slotteVs ' Aa'-ird finishing department machines, including automatic stitahejes, tapers and gluers, are .part of the plants high speed equip ment. The 162,000-square feet plant is located on a 31-acre site off South Carolina highway 121 bypass. The land was purchased from Newberry College The new plant makes ship ping boxes for a wide variety of South Carolina products, in cluding textiles, fresh fruits and vegetables, eggs and furni ture. The plant also supplies industries in parts of Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee. Employees total about 150 persons and the plant’s annual payroll will approach one mil lion dollars. Approximately 20 of the employees were trans ferred here from other Owens- Illinois locations while others were hired and trained locally. Deward D. Brittain, a native of South Carolina, who form erly was sales manager of the Owens-Illinois box plant at Salisbury, N. C., is general manager of the Newberry in stallation. The plant is part of the Forest Products Division’s Southeastern Region headed by James A. Cobb, a vice presid ent of the Forest Products Div ision, who is located in Jack sonville, Florida. Wagoner Construction Com pany of Salisbury, N- C.' was general contractor for the plant. "Because the corrugated shipping box is a major index of the state of the economy, this new Newberry plant is a size able dollars-and-cents express ion of Owens-Illinois’ faith in the present state of South Car olina business, as well as in its future growth,” Mr. Dodd said, in discussing the significance of the new box plant to-South Carolina. ^ v* Shipments of contaiuerfeoard for the manufacture of the cor rugated shipping boxes used by every segment of the nation’s industry should hit a record- breaking 158 billion square feet this year, a 6.5 per cent in crease over 1965’s record, Mr. Dodd pred cted. “Annual production of con tainer boat i by 1975 should be well above 200 billion square feet,” the Owens-Illinois offi cial said. Mr. Dodd pointed out that it has taken the corrugated box 40 years to reach the 158-bil lion-square-feet mark predicted for this year. It was in 1906 that the railroads first accepted goods for shipment in boxes made of corrugated board. “The next 145-billion-square- feet should come in a relatively short period of time because we are developing new markets for corrugated packaging every year and we are constantly im proving our end product,” he said. “Corrugated boxes carry lit erally hundreds of thousands of Americanmade products to mar ket and they range in size from boxes small enough to hold just two packages of cig arettes to one big enough for a roomful of funiture. The pro ducts in corrugated boxes range from hot asphalt to apples; Mexican baby burro to drive- in banks, and baby chicks to caskets. Thomas Buzhardt, brotb§r of the late Aftiss Louise Buzhardt, presents/tHtffirat Louise Buzhardt Trophy, awarded by the Boosters Club, to Miss Nan Buddin, left, and Miss Jean Epting. The trophies were present ed at the annual Boosters Club banquet last Tuesday night. (Sunphoto) BIRTHDAYS May 21: Mrs. Frances Swit- tenburg, Sadie Crooks, Mrs. Harvey M. Jordan, Angela Christie Timmerman, Red Evans Franklin. May 22: Mrs. R. W. Cul bertson, Mrs. C. B. Beden- baugh, Mark Hughes, Mrs. Betty Sharp, David Young, Randy Robert Koon, James G. Clamp. May 23: James Smith Jr., Mrs. Johnson Hagood Clary, Gerry Dominick, Bobby Han na HI, Mrs. J. T. Amick. May 24: Mrs. James Lea veil, Mrs. Floyd Bradley, Leroy Wilson, Mrs. Claude Buzhardt, J. P, Boozer, Mrs. C. L. Perk ins, Cyril Hutchinson, Ronnie Curtis Wicker, Johnny Nich ols, Bill Parr. May 25: David Williams, Ruth Amis Niles, John F. Clarkson,. J. P. Fellers, Mrs. Nora Davis, Frank Kolb, William Wilson, Mrs. Mar garet Bryson, Mac Ashbaugh, Benji Kirkland. May 26: Mrs. Della Koon, Billy Tedford, Carolyn E. Duckett. May 27: Harry H. Hedge- path, R. W. Culbertson, Lil lian Rodelsperger, Cecil Ful mer, Frank L. King, Christy Armfield.