The Gaffney Ledger from Gaffney, South Carolina • Page 1

IE The AFFMEY DGER A NEWSPAPER IN ALL THAT TIIE WORD IMPLIES, DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY. FEBRUARY 16, 1894 GAFFNEY, S.C, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1949 $5.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Wll ORDERS ELECTION FOR BOARD MEMBER JUNE 14 1 BARKIEY ASSAILS REDS AT RALLY Churcnxjpd -'Aidecl' Reds Dr. Lipscomb Votes to Buy 60 New Type I 1 Jersey Chain Increased By Five Calves Five more registered Jersey calves purchased by. Belk's Department Store, the sponsor, have Keen added to the Cherokee County Future Farmers' chain, which now has a total of 56 cows and calves, it was announced yester 5 wr i Car Stolen Twice From Same Place It's getting to be a bad habit with a 1937 Ford club coupe. Being stolen once doesn't take on unusual proportions, but twice within a month and from the same placeis getting too repetitious for county police.

The vehicle, then owned by Dock White, of route 1, was taken from the Musgrove Mills area less than a month ago. It was recovered a week later near Landrum and then sold to Charles Nalley, of route 4. Nalley, after havng the car overhauled and a new motor put in, parked the machine Monday night near the spot it was stolen when owned by White. When he returned the vehicle was missed again. A state alarm has been sent out to retrieve it second time.

III km I iff iff i J- I 1 Pfe-SftTi irwniiti CLAA-! jit ark Meters City council Tuesday night or dered a general election June 14 for the flaming of a member of the Board of Public Works. The six-year term of Grady G. Turner, a member of the city utilities board for over nine years, expires this summer. Candidates for the office must rjnalifyby Junojijind registration books for voters will be open from through June 0, it was announced. Persons desiring to vote must hold city registration certificates which will be issued by City Clerk I.

Clyde Peeler on presentation of county certificates and city tax receipts for 1948. The council, meeting in regular session, voted to purchase GO automatic parking meters at a cost of to replace manual-type machines now in use on North Limestone street. The aldermanic body also voted In allow fishing in the Irene Park lake provided the action is legal under state laws. Alderman Marion Wood, who fathered the project, said the lake is at present being stocked with a variety of fish including bream, catfish, carp, bass and others. City lake licenses would be required for persons over 12 at a cost of $1 per year.

Fishing would be allowed only in daytime, excluding Sundays. The monies collected for permits would be used to restock the lake and feed the fish. In other business transacted, the council: voted to buy a 194'J Ford police car for $1,619 from the Stephenson Motor rejected two bids for an old city lire truck; ordered a crackdown on all motorists following lire trucks on calls; authorized loading zones for Clary's Cleaners, Vas- VICE-PRESIDENT Alben W. Barkley brands Communism a "wicked, creeping, crawling economic disease" threatening America, as he speaks at the Loyalty Day rally rponsored by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese nt New York. More than 30,000 New Yorkers were on hend to hear him behind Barkley is Cardinal Spollman and Mayor Dwyor.

(I'lfcrnaiioiinl) Gas Line Company Given Lay Pipe I sov-Bnher Feorl nml Sunn stnrn 9HH TFIO I BT(ll'ft' Oft Wl- CIKf 1 TT, Elected Next Jaycee Head L)r. J. N. Lipscmnb, local optometrist, Monday night was elected the next president of the Gaffney Junior Chamber of Commerce Other officers for the coming Jaycee year elected at the organization's regulai meetuig held at Turner's Grill, included: Paul E. Morgan, first vice-president, Mid Louis Sossamon, second vice-president.

Also the following new directors were named: Raloh Caldwell, Dean Clary, Bill Degner, Coll is Kirby, J. Phillips, Louis Sossamoi. Mid Paul Suminey. Olin Bonner vas elected Jaybird. Doctor Lipscomb will succeed Jaycee President E.

II. Jones on July 1. Other outgoing officers are: Lawrence Childers, first vire-i resident; and Paul E. 1 Jr. second vice-president.

Bdl Martin has served during the past year as seeretary-trcas- urer of the club. According to the organization's by-laws, a member for this post is appointed by the president with the approval of the board of directors. H. G. Curry, Ted Matus, James W.

Chalk, M. II. Shenly and Paul E. Morgan, arc holdover members of the board of directors and will serve during the next year with the seven named Monday night. The club voted to hold another bingo party in the near future Mid unanimously endorsed the Gaffney Community Concert Association, a newly-formed group for the purpose of bringing well-known artists to Gaffney.

The association will conduct a membership drive all of next week. Some 45 Jaycees attended the meeting, presided over by Mr. lones. Concert Band To Offer Program Tuesday Evening The Gaffney Concert Band, directed by Merrell L. Shcrburn of Limestone College, will present a concert Tusday, May 10, at 8 p.

m. in Curtis Auditorium at Limestone College. One of the features will be a trombone trio by Miss Donalee Steckle, director of music in Shelby, N. C. ('harles Douglas, private teacher in Spartanburg, and Mr.

Sherhurn. They will play the Trio in A Major by V. Cornette. The Gaffney Concert Band is a 40-pieee organization composed of college, high school anil community musicians. The concert Tuesday evening will mark the third public appearance of the band since its organization one year ago.

Officers To Be Installed Here Officers of the Business and 1'iofessional Woman's Club will be! installed and several business matters will be discussed at a meeting at 7 o'clock Thursday night at the Hotel Carroll. The installation service will be conducted by Miss Geneva Harris, of Greenville, first vice president t.f the state federation, who wiil be accompanied to the meeting by Miss Virginia Norris, of Greenville, president of the Greenville chapter of the Officers to be installed include Mrs. Norma K. Shcftall, president; Mrs. Frances Patrick, first vice president; Miss Nell Garrard, second vice president; Mrs.

Sara Liv-eranee, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Eula H. Vassy, recording secretary; and Mrs. Edna Earle Kirby, treasurer. il li Wf 5 1 ,1 I St V.

I I DR. J. N. LIPSCOMB On Elm Street To Be Erected A total of $59,400 in new construction, remodelling and repairs vas approved by the city during April, including authorization for erection of a Church of God edifice or. Elm street.

The $125,000 church will he of brick veneer construction, according to the permit issued by City Clerk I. Clyde Peeler. A two-story structure is proposed. Twenty-five permits were issued during the month, listing $52,000 in new construction and $7,400 in remodelling and repairs to existing buildings. Other new building permits approved by the city included: Walter Brown, brick warehouse, "5 hv 35 feet, on Gaffney street, $6.

oiio. C. W. Jennings, frame stoic buildings on East Frederick srteet, $500. Logan Perry, two-story, ten-room, brick store building ami living quarters on Granard street, R.

.1. Lucente, five-room frame dwelling on East Montgomery street, Joe Max Clary, six-room brick dwelling on East Buford street, $5,000. Wade Middlebrooks, two-stoi four-room garage aoartment jm East Buford street, $2,500. A. D.

Sanders, addition to plant on East Frederick street, $1,000. Flemming Jones, two-story combination store and apartment, Jack Lavender, cement block garage on North Logan street, $500. Remodelling and repair permits issued to the following: R. W. McCraw, dwelling on College Drive, $150; C.

V. Thomas, r.00 Walnut street, $5(30; S. 1. Fowler, Walnut street, $500; R. L.

Moss, 404 Elm street, $400; W. li. Ford, 203 Oak street, E. II. Bridges, store building on East Frederick street, $150; Wood row Pettit, 301 Jwist Frederick street, $150.

Also: J. M. McCraw, Magnolia street, $595; J. L. Crawford, 404 Walnut street, $595; Hattie Jol-ley, W.

Fairvicw avenue, $500; Mrs. Willie M. Jones, South Limestone street, $500; Clarence Jack son, Spruce street, Asa Knuckles, South Logan street, 150; Charles E. Millwood, Concord avenue, $500; and Oscar Parker, 401 Beech street, $1,200. Cherokee Chorus To Give Special Program Today The Chorus of the Cherokee County Council of Farm Women will observe National Music Week Thursday by giving a special broadcast over station WFGN at 15 p.

m. Mrs. Glenn Inman, director of the chorus, reorganized the organization in 1948 for the first time since it was disbanded during the war due to transportation difficulties. Mrs. Inman announced that the following selections will be sung: Springtime," "The Cowpens Battleground Song," "Dear Land of Home," and "Steal Away." Mis.

M. P. White will accompany the group. The following members are planning to in the program: Soprano: Mrs, Ktheleen Mahat'-fec, Miss Agnes Estes, Mrs. W.

13. Wilkerson, Mrs. Henry 'Tate, Mrs. Monroe Sanders, Mrs. M.

P. White, Mrs. S. B. Vassy, Mrs.

Butler Tate, Mrs. Perry Rnhhs, Miss Teresa Caskey, Mrs. Henry, and Mrs. Fred Turner. Alto: Mrs.

J. R. Barnhill, Mrs. Everette Dixon, Mrs. J.

E. Humphries, Mrs. Fred Phillips, Mrs. Ed Sarratt and Miss Emma Kirby. The public is invited to join the chorus for this special observance during National Music Week.

Suffers Broken Arm in Mishap On Logan Street Milton Maxwell, 42-year-old negro of Sycamore street, suffered a fractured arm Tuesday night when the motorcycle he whs riding collided with an automobile at the intersection of South Logan and West Race streets. Assistant Police Chief Leo Lavender said Maxwell's machine was in collision with a 1 037 Plymouth, driven by J. M. Smith, of South Johnson street. The negro was admitted to the Cherokee County hospital for treatment of a broken arm and a leg cut.

The motorcycle was demolished, Mr. Lavender reported. No charges were preferred, he suid, pending further investigation. day. Four of the new additions were purchased at a Jersey sale at Spar- i tanburg last Friday at a cost of $71(0, and the fifth was bought from a private source for $200, making the average cost of the calves $108 each.

The new calves have been distributed in accordance with the chain rules as follows: to Claude Cobb, of the Blacksburg FA I IWtir the Ches- nee chapter, James White of the Gaffney chapter, and one each to a Cowpens and Pacolet chapter member. Of the 5(i animals in the chain, 34 were pun based by Belk's Department Store and the remaining 22 were offspring from the former. The calves arc placed on recommendations by a livestock committee, which for the Gaffney chapter is composed of Clyde Cash, Preston Goforth, Donnie Morgan, Kenneth Wellmon and W. H. Plumblee, Gaffney High School rational agriculture teacher.

The basis of selection of the boys tr. receive calves takes into consul i ration their applications, intere in livestock and farming, facilities for caring for and breeding, scholastic grades in high school, and feed suoplies on band and amount of pisture available. The calves in the chain are placed with the FFA boys under a written contract between each boy, the parents, the FFA chapter, and the sponsor. The boy is to dis- Cliage nis ooiigawoii iu uiu i I chapter and sponsor by returjimg first heifer calf to the chapter I to Ik- placed with another boy. He lis also required to follow the rec-i ommendations of the livestock committee as to feeding, breeding, showing and keeping records on his calf.

Young Farmers Adopt Program For Year's Work i At a regular monthly meeting Tuesday night at the high school, the Gaffney Young Farmers As-! sociation adopted a report submit-! ted by a program of work commit-; tee including four major points. The program called for: (1) Active suoport of the cstab-; ltshniciit of a Cherokee county artificial breeding association as a 1 means of improving the quality of dairy cows in the county. I (2) Appointment of a committee i to investigate the possibility ot es-' tablishing a permanent home for I the organization, which would al-; so serve as a recreational center. Encouraging live-at-home programs among tne members. (4) Staging an all-day social event at some early date for the members and their families.

The committee recommending the program consisted of Grady Cash, chairman, ami James P. Huskey and Donald Huggin. Smith Peeler, the president, presided over the meeting. Eugene Cobb, the secretary-treasurer, was instructed to take the necessary action to affiliate the group with the state Young Farmers Association. He was also directed to mail cards in advance to all members notifying them of the time and place for tne next regular meeting.

It was announced Grady Cash had been appointed reporter for the state Young Farmers Association to fill an unexpired term. High School PTA To Hold Final Meeting of Year The Parent-Teachers Association of Gaffney High school will hold its final meeting of the current school year Thursday night at in the high school band hall, it has been announced. Jack Pruitt, band director at fills, will be in charge of the program which will include performances by some of the school's music students. Everett Hinton is president of the high school parent-teacher group. TEN SPOTS New Orleans, May li The average price of middling 15-llith-inch cotton today at ten designat-ed southern spot markets wag 65 cents a bale higher Ht )'M cents a pound; average for the past HO market days 32.93; middling 7-8th-inch averuge 31.05.

Mrs. Pruitt Is Taken by Death; Rites Set Friday Mrs. Bonnie Whiteside Pruitt, 8, of house Limestone Mills No. 1, died about o'clock Tuesday night following a sudden illness. A native of Rutherfordton county, North Carolina, Mrs.

Pruitt, a housewife and textile worker, was the widow of Bud Pruitt who died in Funeral services will be conducted at the residence Friday afternoon at o'clock by the Rev. Clarence Hampton, assistant pastor of the Cherokee Avenue Baptist church. Interment will be in Oakland cemetery with the Shu-ford-Hatcher Company, morticians, in charge. The body will be taken to the home at 10 o'clock Thursday morning. Mrs.

Pruitt is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Clyde F. Henderson, Mrs. II. J.

Guyton and Miss Beatrice Lee Pruitt, and three sons, Lenoir, Claude and Troy A. Pruitt, of Gaffney; two sisters, Mrs. Clarence Martin, of Gaffney, and Mrs. W. I).

Mayers, of Raleigh, N. two brothers, C. A. Whiteside, of Gaffney, and Rosco Whiteside, of Inman; and six grandchildren. Calhoun.

Timrod Societies Will Compete Friday Blacksburg, May 4 Deep interest has ileveloed among the students of the Centralized High School and the citizens of the community in the annual own joint meeting of the Calhoun and Tim-rod literary societies, which will be held Friday night at 8 o'clock at the high school. Representatives of the two societies will contest for a trophy nip to be awarded to the winner of the largest number of points. The program will consist of dramatic readings, orations and debate. Readings will be presented by Patsy Borders and Winona Moss. The oration contestants will ba Neil Thomas and Jimmy Quinn.

A debate on "Resolved, That the United Nations Should Now Revised into a Federal World Government" will be participated in by Gerald i no Floyd, Bobby Sue Wright, Freda Gladden and Alviu Ba rnes. School officials have announced no admission will be charged and the public is invited to attend. State Finals To Be Held Today At University Columbia, Mav The state finals in oral interpretation and declamation for all High School League Districts in the state will be held Thursday, on tlio campus of the University of South Carolina at Columbia. Finals for the declamations wiil be held in the Euphradian Literary Society Hall on the University campus and the oral interpretations will be held in the Clario-rophic Hall. Both contests will begin at I p.

in. G. T. Myers, orincipal of the Gaffney High School, Gaffney, is the state chairman for declamation and E. L.

Wright, superintendent of DenUville High School, Routt Columbia, is chairman of oral interpretation. Contestants will register in the office of the executive secretary of the High School League located in the Extension Division of the University, not later than 12 o'clock -on the morning of May 5 in order to enter the contests at 1 p. in. A GOVERNMENT witness at the conspiracy trial in New York of eleven top Communists, Miss Angela Ca-lomiris (above), a professional photographer, testified that the Federal Bureau of Investigation not only paid all her expenses but i gave her $j0 to toss into the "dc- lem.e fund" fur the Beds. Miss Calomiris pent ixvcn years in New York Communist movement as an undercover agent.

International) Divorce Action, Annulment Suit Filed In County One divorce suit and another for annulment of marriage were filed Tuesday afternoon in the office of Clerk of Court J. Conrad Jones. Principals in the divorce action are Mrs. Fay Coward Moorehead, the plaintitf, vs. Ben II.

Moorehead, the defendant. This was the tenth suit for divorce filed in Cherokee county since they were legalized by the lifting of a state constitutional ban last month. J. Claude Fort was listed as attorney for the plaintiff. In the suit seeking annulment, Wilnia Erleene Hodge, by her guardian ad litem.

Henry Hodge, the plaintiff, asks that a purported ma triage on June 12, 1947 to John T. Kennedy, the defendant, be declared void. It was alleged in the complaint that Kennedy was "legally named to another woman" on June 12, and "had not been legally divorced from her and that the nn triage of the plaintiff herein was The plaintiff was described as a minor over 14 years of age. Mr. Fort was listed as plaintiff's attorney in this suit also.

Another divorce suit involving Margaret Hudson Barker vs. William David Barper was filed Wednesday by II. R. Swink, of Gaffney, and Rufus M. Ward, of Spar tanburg, attorneys for Mrs.

Barker, the plaintiff. Truck Overturns On Highway 29; Ties Up Traffic A transfer truck, which jack- knifed and overturned near Little! Thicl.cty Creek early Tuesday morning, tied no traffic on highway No. 20 for nearly seven hours. Corporal M. Gregg King, of the shite nighway patrol, said th" northbound tiuck, loaded with 'reight, overturned on the main north-smith roadway about 4 a.

m. after it rounded a curve. The cause of the mishap was attributed to a fault in the steering mechanism. No other vehicle was involved, he s'aid, and the driver, whose nana: was not available, escaped injury. State bighwi.v patrolmen and Sheriff Roland T.

Clary's guided one-way traffic for several hours until the truck could be removed about 1 1 a. in. The vehicle was one of a fleet owned by the Lewis Holmes Trucking Company, a North Carolina firm, Corporal King reported. Annual Forestry Quiz To Be Held At Court House Some 20 Cherokee county white schools will send contestants to the annual forestry qui, to be conducted at 5 o'clock Friday afternoon at the court house here, it was stated Wednesday by County Ranger II. T.

White. The winner will represent the county in a state contest to be held later. Franchise to The county board of commissioners, in regular session Tuesday, allocated office space in the old court house building and granted a franchise to the Transcontinental Cas Pipe Line Corporation tr lay lilies across Cherokee county. Space in the North Limestone street structure, now in the process r.AA remodelling job, was (--. First floor, north side, from ironi 10 rear: state nignway patrol, two offices; county ranger and fire warden, one office; Farmers Home Administration, two offices; and Red Cross, one office.

i rust lloor, south side, from front to rear: home demonstration Romulus Maynor Of Cowpens Dies; Rites Set Today Romulus Maynor. "1, of Cowpens, a former Gaffney resident, died Tuesday in the General Hospital at Spartanburg as the result of a heart attack. He had been in declining health for the past year. Mr. Maynor, who was a painter, was a son of the late Mid and Susanna Mullinax Maynor, of Gaffney.

He served in the first World War as a member of the GafFncy Coast Artillery Company. Funeral services will be conducted at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Cowpens Central Baptist church by the Rev. Robert Shcpard, the Rev. Caul Dobbins and the Rev. Paul Stewart, the pastor.

Interment will be in the Mountain View cemetery at Cowpens. Mr. Maynor is survived by his wife, Mrs. Eunice Kirby Maynor; five daughters, Mrs. May Bull, of Savannah, Mrs.

Foy Sanders, Mrs. Buren Bolton, and Misses Sylvia and Eliabeth May-! nor; a son, Aughlry Maynor; a sister, Mrs. Minnie Linder, of C'hesnee; and eight brothers, Bedford, Bloss, Gid and the Rev. Ray Maynor, the latter a twin, of Gaffney; Henry Maynor, of Ches-nec; Albert Maynor, of Charlotte; Furman Maynor, of Cowpens, and Sam Maynor, of Spindale, N. C.

American Legion To Elect Officers TuesdaY, Mav 17 1 Election of American Legion officers for the coming year will be held Tuesday, May 17, R. Hall-man, commander of the local post, announced Wednesday. At the organization's regular meeting Tuesday night a nominating committee was appointed as follows: C. T. SeiU, chairman, and G.

G. Turner, Claude Little-johii, Claude Coyle and Irving Price. In addition to Mr. Mailman, the club's officers are Baxter Wood, senior vice commander; W. J.

B. Humphries, junior vice commander; W. B. Smith, adjutant; Claude Little john, finance officer; and E. P.

Humphries, chaplain. New officers will be installed on the first Tuesday in June, Mr. Hallmnn said. agents, two offices; school lunch supervisor, one office; count fa tin agents, two offices. Second floor: four offices for, the Agriculture Adjustment Ail-! ministration, and two for the! county conservation agency.

The county1 hoard approved a pe- tition by the Transcoiit.inent.ili company, presented by J. Claude! rort, local attorney, lor the laying "I rt V. 1 llll Will RVt'M' the county, splitting the area in half and passing about two miles east of Gaffney and Blacksburg. The line, which wiil originate in Mexico and extend to New York, is a multi-million dol- la project, i offices are in rhe firm's principal Houston, Texas. Mrs.

Byars Dies; Funeral Will Be Conducted Today Mrs. Nannie Belle Byars, "8, died about 6:15 o'clock Tuesday night at her residence at 20:5 Elm street, following an illness of eight weeks. Mrs. Byars, who was a native of Toccoa, was the widow of Joe T. Byars, who died in 1 0'iO.

Funeral services will be held at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the chapel of the Shu ford-Hatcher Company on East Fred-crick street. The Rev. C. A. Kirby and the Rev.

Clarence Hampton, pastor and assistant pastor, respectively, of the Cherokee Avenue Baptist church, and the Rev. E. W. Lybrand, pastor of the Limestone Street Methodist, church, will officiate. Interment will be in Oakland cemetery with the Shuford-Hatch-er Company, morticians, in charge.

The pallbearers will be Louis Rolin, Lcroy Mathis, Paul Guthrie, Roy Phillips, Smiley Floyd and Marshall Mullinax. Mrs. Byars is survived by a daughter and son, Mrs. Kdwin Phillips and Joe Tolleson Byars, of Gaffney; four sisters, Mrs. Cleo Holman, of Gaffney, Ml'S.

I Jim Padgett, of Clitrside. N. and Mrs. Albert Splawn and Mrs. Lloyd Cash, of Danville, a brother, Jim Bright, of Gaffney; and two grandchildren.

Composer Naming Contest to Close Thursday Evening A composer natirnir contest sponsored by the Gaffney Community Concert Association for Chei-okee county school children closes Thursday at 6 p. it has been announced. The first five grammar or high school students correctly naming 21 composers whose pictures appear in the disolay window at Whiso-l. ant's, on North Limestone si will be awarded free membership to the association's concert series during the 1949-50 season. All answers must be turned in at Whisonaut's before 6 p.

m. Thursday, contest officials stated. Winners will be announced Friday at the store, in The Ledger and over station WFGN. An all-out membership drive during all of next week will be conducted by hr association. No memberships will be taken after the drive, R.

E. Bernstein, campaign director, stated. a a quest to revert to the C. Thomson estate certain properties deeded to the city in 1924 for park and playground purposes since the lands have not been used in accordance with provisions of the deed; anil voted to become friendly intervenor in connection with an application by the Piedmont Natural Gas Corporation now before the Federal Power Commission regarding a proposed pine line through Cherokee county and the Piedmont section in general. (This action was taken subject to the approval of City attorney H.

R. Swink who was not present at the meeting.) Mr. Swink said Wednesday he disapproved the council's qctinn on grounds that he thought it was inadvisable for the city to become "a party to the petition" but added the council could, if it wanted, endorse the project. E. R.

Wells, manager of the local South Carolina Gas Company office, said should the proposed line be approved by the FPC, it would enable some 900-odd customers of the Gaffney area to purchase the product at prices about 25 to 30 per cent lower than the present rates. These savings would amount to about a year, he estimated. Authorities Seek Man in Shooting At Mount Ararat County authorities Wednesday were seeking an "unidentified man'1 ulio vfMioi'tedlv shot a venr-olrl neirro Tnesdav niirht ill his home in the Mt. Ararat section. Roland Sarratt was wounded in the leg about 8:30 by another negro who entered his home, asked for the residence, of a "John Sarratt" and before leaving fired shot which fractured Sarratt's leg, police were informed.

Sarratt was admitted to tho herokee County Hospital where attaches reported he spent a quiet night. He told police be did not know the identity of bis assailant. Teachers Group Hears Address On Pupil Tests Some 75 members of the Cherokee County Education Association heard an address Tuesday afternoon on achievement and guidance tests for pupils. J. II.

Hughes, testing consultant for the State of California was the priifi'ial speaker. H. Smith, of the South Carolina education department, also addressed the group. Mr. Hughes met with Blacks-burp1 school officials Wednesday in regards to setting up a testing program there..