The Gaffney Ledger from Gaffney, South Carolina • Page 1

mey Ledgers 12 PAGES A NEWSPAPER IS ALL THAT THE WORD IMPLIES, DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF TnE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 16, 1894 GAFFNEY. S. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1949 S5.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE OTFE PLEADS TO MANSLAUGHTER IN HUSBAND'S DEATH The Gaf Revenge Cancelled: TIME CUT FOR A WELCOME SMOKE Arrested by Reds High Rating Achieved By The Ledger New York; Nov.

22 In release here of an evaluation report on Change Made In Rules For PMA Groups As the time approaches for the annuul election of farmer-commit-teenien who administer many federal farm programs in Cherokee county, the county office of the Production and Marketing Administration announced this week that new regulations of the Depaitment of Agriculture will affect somewhat the procedure for selection of committeemen. "The establishment pattern wheieby farmers participating in FMA programs in each agricultural community elect a community PMA committee and a delegate to the county convention which se ZST- County to Get $52,000 For Hospital Use Cherokee county is in line to receive $52,000 for building and equipping hospitals or health centers as its share of the state's surplus voted by the General Assembly to be sliced up among the 46 counties. The state supreme court last week upheld the "slush fund'' act but knocked out a clause which would have tossed the money to counties for any public use wished. The high court's ruling, in effect, meant the funds could be used for hospitals and health centers only. The decision ended a five-months-long court battle over the act, rassed this year, which started when a Greenville physician, Dr.

Thomas Parker, challenged it last June. He said the act was unconstitutional because of the "for other public uses" clause failed to specify what uses. Dr. Parker also said the state could not use state funds to build coun 7 I 11 ft AN AIR FORCE captain supplies cigarettes to two of the eighteen survivors of the B-29 bomber that crashed off Bermuda. The men wera spotted by an American plane.

A Canadian destroyer picked them up and brought them to Bermuda, ending their three-day horror. (International) Faces Up To Three Years Prison Term A 25-year-old mother pleaded guilty Wednesday morning to "involuntary manslaughter" in the .22 calibre rifle death of her husband. Mrs. Ruth Mullinax Fowler faced ur. to three years' imprisonment for the September 6 slaying of Cole L.

Fowler, 32, who she said she shot unknowingly in the yard of their White Plains section farm home. Mrs. Fowler was reported to have been drinking before grabbing the rifle which fired the fatal shot into her husband's abdomen. Indicted for murder by the grand jury, Mrs. Fowler was allowed to plead guilty to the lesser charge.

Judge J. Robert Martin, presiding over criminal court here, did not pass sentence immediately. The court docket showed Wednesday that the grand jury had returned true bills in 59 cases. A no-bill was recorded iii the case against Claude Edmonds, who the grand jury freed of burglary and larceny charges. Forty-three defendants have entered guilty pleas but only one sentence had been handed down when Wednesday's morning session recessed until 3 p.

m. Court will not be held Thanksgiving day. officials said, and will be resumed Friday morning at 10 o'clock. In order to allow members of thp court to attend the funeral of P. D.

Barron, veteran Union attorney, no session was held Tuesday afternoon. Most of Wednesday morning was taken up in the trial of Jack Parris, Paul White and Jack White, indicted for housebreaking and grand larceny in connection with the theft of about $250 in merchandise August 4 from Keith Owens' store near Chesnee. The youths served as their own counsel and Solicitor Sam R. Watt rilled as chief state witnesses, James Giles and Cl'de Waters, who pleaded guilty to the same charges after being indicted with the trio on trial. The case went to the jury Wednesday afternoon after a two-hour trial.

Three men convicted by a jury on charges of grand larceny and two others who plead guilty in the same case were sentenced in circuit court Wednesday afternoon by Presiding Judge Robert Martin. Jack Parris was given five years; Jack White four years; Paul White two years with 12 months suspended and three years probation. James Giles, who plead guilty, was given 18 months with nine suspended and three years probation, and Clyde Waters two years with 12 months suspended and three years probation. Thanksgiving To Be Noted As General Holiday in City The Gaffney Ledger, of GafTney, received a rating of AAA-Plus, which' designate it as "One of the Best Weekly Newspapers in America." The AAA-Plus rating places The Ledger in the top ten per cent of the weekly newspapers of the state and the nation, according to an impartial study and classification of the 10,000 odd weekly newspapers of the country, being conducted on a state-by-state basis. The ratings are made by Com- munity Research Bureau, an inde-pendent research organization, which is working in cooperation with American Weekly Newspaper Publishers Council to provide na- tional advertisers with a guide in selection of weekly newspapers for advertising purposes.

In this Continuing Evaluation Study, newspapers of each state are studied, analyzed, and rated in five classification brackets, with approximately 20 per cent of the papers of a state being placed in each of the five rate groups. The five quality classifications are AAA, AA, and C. The rating of AAA-Plus earned by The Ledger means that the newspaper rates not only ih the top bracket but also in the top half of the top bracket. Each newspaper is rated on recognized quality factors including local news and editorial content, evaluated circulation, volume of local advertising and the fairness of the newspaper's advertising late, based on cost per family reached. Community Research Bureau is an independent research organization operated under control and direction of Frank B.

Hutchinson, who operated weekly newspapers seived as-professor of Journalism at "Syracuse and Rutgers Universities and managed the New York Press Assoehttton and the New Jersey Press Association over a period of a dozen years before setting up tho newspaper research organization. Th American Weekly Newspaper Publishers Council which is coop-crating1 in the studies Is headed by Bennett II. Fishier, the publisher of three weekly newsppaers with audited circulations ranging from six to twelve thousand copies per week. Fishler's papers are consistent prize winners and one of them, The Ridgewood (N. Herald-News, was the recent winner of a top award for general excellence presented by National Editorial Association.

Rating of all newspapers are under general supervision of an advisory committee composed of lead-trsin the field of journalistic education, national advertising, and weekly newspaper publishing. Alcoholics Unit To Hear Special Speakers Tuesday Some special sneakers from a North Carolina units will be present for the next open meeting of the Cherokee county group of Alcoholics Anonymous, a spokesman has announced. The nieetiinr will be held next Tuesday night at the Buford Street Methodist church. Refreshments will be served and the public is invited to attend, the spokesman said. ACCORDING to reports from Paris, Dolores Gomez Ibarruri "La Pa-sionaria," famed woman Communist leader during Spain's civil war, has been arrested in Moscow as a "Titoist." Dispatches from Moscow, seeking to discount the story, tell of her sitting at the council table during a recent meeting of the "Women's International Democratic Federation." (International) Mrs Porter Is Taken by Death; Funeral Is Held Mrs.

Cordia Holt Porter, 03, wife of James H. Porter, died Monday night at 6:30 o'clock ut the family residence nt 1100 Spruce street following an illness of two weeks. A nalive of Tennessee, Mrs. Porter had been a resident of Gaffney 45 years. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday nt 4 n.

m. at the residence by the Rev. J. M. Dean, pastor of the Chinch of and the Rev.

C. I). Roach, of Ches'nee, of the Wesleyan Methodist church here. Interment was in Oakland cemetery with the Craft Funeral Home, morticians, in charge. The pallbearers were Coleman, Robert and William Thompson, O.

11. Parker, Floyd McCraw and Hubert Teague. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Porter is survived by two daughters, Miss Lillian Oveta Porter and Miss Agnes Louise Porter, and a son, Jack James Porter, of Gaffney; three sisters, Mrs. James Knight, of White Pine, and Mrs.

Maude Harris and Mrs. Walter Hull, of Gaffney; and two grand -hil lien, Winfoid Patterson anil Mrs. Marie Wanton, of Gaffney. (j 1 from Wednesday afternoon to Fri- uay morning. ity sehoels suspended from Wednesday afternoon to Monday, and Limestone College will also observe the holiday.

The post office, Merchants and Planters National Bank, Piedmont Federal. Savings and Loan Association, most of the court house and city offices, the South Carolina State Employment Service office, and offices in the county agricultural building will be closed for the day. Mrs Lipscomb Taken by Death; Funeral Is Held Mrs. Lizzie Doggett Lipscomb, 83, a resident of GafTney for more thi.n 50 years, died suddenly about 7:110 o'clock Monday nipbt at the Hotel Carroll, where she had made her home for the vbt several years. She had been in declining health for some time.

Mrs. Lipscomb was born and reared at Shelby, N. C. She was a member of the First Baptist church and had a wide circle of friends who were grieved by hr death. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Buford Street Methodist church by Dr.

R. A. MacFarland, a former pastor of the First Baptist church. Interment was in Oakland cemetery with the Shu ford-Hatcher company, morticians, in charge. The pall bearers were Di.

H. L. Frieze, Dr. J. A.

Ridley, R. E. Cline, R. P. Carson, Claude Fort, C.

S. Copeland, Lyman Hamrick and A. W. Askins. Mrs.

Lipscomb is survived by her husband, Robert Stetson Lipscomb; a daughter, Miss Jessie Lipscomb, of Gaffney; two grandchildren, Mrs. T. S. Means, Jr, and Robert H. Chapman, of Spartanburg; and two greatgrandchildren.

She was the mother of Mrs. Sadie Lipscomb Chapman, of Spartanburg, and Edwin Lipscomb, of Charlotte, both of whom died a number of years ago. New Scout Troop At White Plains Has Been Formed A negro Boy Scout with five charter members has been organized in the White Plains community under the sponsorship of the Green Bethel and White Plains churches. William Thomas will serve as scoutmaster of the new troop which includes E. G.

Douglas, Joe Winfred Littlejohn, Jacob Littlejohn, Defore Norm and Daniel Foster. The scout committee includes the Rev. E. R. Littlejohn, chairman, It.

T. Wallace and Dennis Nri ris. The troop meets at the school each Tuesday evening. All boys eleven years or older are urged and welcomed to join. Dogs Killed The, bodies of two cocker spaniels have been found mutilated in the yards of their owners' homes in the Indian Hill section this week, city police said.

The dead dogs belonged to Mrs. J. B. Harmon and Charles Wysong. I ARRESTED in connection with a $55.60 holdup in Plainville, Patrick J.

Parker (above), 18, al- legedly told police he needed the money for a "revenge" flight. The i Brown University freshman report- edly said he was on his way to Que- bee to kill the man accused of caus- ing the death of his wealthy father and 22 others by placing a bomb aboard an airliner. (International) Rose's Store To Open New Part Friday An East Robinson street addition to Rose's 10 and 25 Cents Store which provides the Limestone street establishment with one-third more floor space will be opened Friday morningwith a special sale, officials have announced. V. M.

Turner, the company's regional superintendent, and managers from of the firms I tores have been here for several days assisting Robert F. Burns, the local manager, in preparing for the opening. Mr. Tinner said the addition will enable the store to carry increased stocks of great variety and will permit better display. The Robinson sheet section is in the building formerly occupied by A.

T. Swolford's seed store, which has been connected with the Limestone store in the form of an providing entrances on both streets. Rose's has been operating in Gaffney for many years. The chain, with Headquartaers in Henderson, N. operates 130 stores in five states.

Mr. Burns has been manager of the Gaffney store for the past nineteen months. Managers assisting Mr. Turner and Mr. Burns in preparing for the opening Friday incliHud J.

C. Moss, of North Wilkesboro, N. J. II. Scott, of Lenoir, N.

T. A. Gallman, of Newberry; H. B. Barbee, of Whiteville, N.

W. C. Smith, of Bennettsville; R. S. Mer-litt, of Hartsvillo; W.

A. Balcomb, of Union; and C. II. Berthold, of Forest City, N. C.

Ten Spots New Orleans, Nov. 22. The average price of middling 15-16 inch cotton today at ten designated southern spot markets was 70 cents a bale higher at 29.75 cents a pound; average for the past 30 market days middling 7-8 inch average 28. 1G. A A lects the county PMA committee is not changed," W.

J. Martin, piesent county committee chairman, pointed out. The new regulation however, that (1) a member of the county committee may not be elected a delegate to the county convention in his own community, and (2) a delegate to the county convention may not be elected to mem bership on the county PMA committee. "Since delegates to the county convention will now have no personal interest in the jobs to be filled, we believe that they will be able to approach the task of selecting committeemen in a much more objective manner," Mr. Martin said.

"The farmer-committee system should be strengthened by this action." The voting eligibility requirements have been liberalized to include those farmers who are, in effect, participating in the agricultural conservation program but because of their rotation practices or other planned features of their farm conservation program, will not, during the calendar year, receive a payment or grant of aid. To be such, farmers must leceived a payment or grant of aid under ACP during one of the preceding three calendar years, or qualify under one of the other PMA-adniinistered programs during the current calendar year. Mr. Martin said that dates for community PMA committeemen elections in Cherokee county's 10 agricultural cwnmunities will be announced within the next two weeks. Chiefs to Play Augusta Eleven As a result of a change in the schedule, the Gaffney Big Chiefs will play the Augusta, Rockets at the Gaffney High School stadium Saturday night at 8:15 o'clock, it was announced yesterday by Herbert Ramsey, the Chiefs' manager.

The game had been scheduled originally for Augusta. counties, and the projects in which they have excelled are: Girls Batsie Freeman, Greenville, home improvement; Nancy Roberts, Lancaster, clothing achievement; Barbara Jean Connelly, Allendale, girls' record; Ann Lovingood, Cherokee, farm safety; Frances Edwards, Calhoun, dress revue; Reba Herndon, Colleton, poultry achievement; Patricia Chandler, Greenville, health improvement; Jackie Mc-Kenzie, Bamberg, canning; Sybil Hughes, Berkeley, gardening; Betty Williams, Sumter, food preparation; and Roelia Marr, Hampton, recreation and rural arts leadership. Also, boys Herbert Anderson, Florence, tractor maintenance; Clyde Baker, Williamsburg, better methods electric; Al-vin Rollins, Williamsburg, leadership; Thomas Coker, Greenville, health improvement; Ronald Skipper, Dillon, health improvement; Alton Morgan, Pickens, field crops; Billy Snipes, Barnwell, poultry flock management; and Edward McDowell, Lee, achievement. Dairy calf 4-H club members who were awarded trips to the livestock show by the Piedmont Interstate Fair Association, Spartanburg, for having excelled in showmanship and the showing of the best fitted animals in the junior livestock department of the association's fair this fall are: Ben Dunigan, Spartanburg, best for all counties; Cecil Coggins, Spartanburg; Bill Joe Bailes, Union; Max Mintz, Cherokee; Gary Gibbs, Laurens; Joe Caston, Chester; Bernice Mae Miller, Green-wooCJand Reba Wilson and Hoyt Clements of Polk and Rutherford counties, North Carolina, respectively. They will be accompanied by J.

W. Kelly, assistant county agent, Spartanburg. ty hospitals. Unuer the supreme court's decision each county legislative dele gation mav allocate its county share: to build hospitals or health centers, or to match federal funds for those purposes; to retire bonds previously issued for hospital or health center construction; to op-crate and buy supplies for such institutions; to hospitalize needy patients; to aid other hospitals owned by county or municipality; to reimburse the county for money airealy spent on hospitals or health centers. Associate Justice Taylor Stukes wrote the majority decision of the high court, speaking for three judges.

Associate Justice G. Dewey Oxner added a dissenting, opinion, written for himself and one other justice. Stukes' opinion threw out an injunction against State Treasurer Jeff i Bates which prevented him from paying out the slush funds to counties for hosp-itals. That released the money, to to in lots of $40,000 to each county, plus $6,000 to the county for each mem-ber it sends to the State House of Representatives. However, Stukes sruek out the However, Stukes struck out the have allowed the counties to draw on the funds for almost any purpose.

he final item (public uses) is, as has been said, a departure from the scheme of the act and does not comport with the cited (to build hospitals)" he said. oiukes discounted Parker's argument against the state building county hospitals because they were not for the general welfare. There is no "distinctive county citizen-shir." the justice wrote. "The problems presented by this litigation are not apt to often recur," Stukes added. "A sizeable state surplus is something new under the sun in South Carolina, and at the rate illustrated by this act will not long survive." Oxner's opinion, held that the public uses clause could not be stricken as incongruous with the rest of the act.

He said he believed either the entire act would have to go, or be left intact. Graham to Speak Charlotte, N. C. Senator Frank P. Graham today accepted two speaking engagements in Charlotte for early next month.

The junior senator will address the men's Fellowship Club at Myers Park Presbyterian Church December 12. The following night he will speak before a meeting of the Charlotte chapter of the American Association of University Women. Director of the Burem 2 Cherokee Youths Attend 4-H Congress, Stock Show Thursday will be observed as a general holiday for Thanksgiving. Practically all stores, business I houses and offices will be closed for the day. A union Thanksgiving services will be held at 7 a.

at the Limestone Presbyterian church with the Rev. Frank E. Morris, pastor of the First Baptist church, delivering the sermon. The High School football play Spartanburg at Spaitanbuig at 2 p. m.

The hunting season will open in full blast. J. T. Baines, county game warden, has urged that all sportsmen secure licenses and has warned against shooting pheasants. Court of general sessions, which opened here Monday, was to recess Francis Jobson Taken by Death; Rites Set Today Francis S.

Jobson, of 401 West Montgomery street, retired watchmaker and jeweler formerly of Birmingham, died Wednesday morning in a Columbia hospital. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 o'clock Thursday morning at the charx'l of the Shu-for i-Hatcher Company on East Frederick street by the Rev. Frank E. Morris, pastor of the First Baptist church. Interment will be in Oakland cemetery with the Shuford-Hatcher Company, morticians, in charge.

The family has requested that flowers be omitted. The pallbearers will be Claude Littlejohn, E. V. Hinton. T.

J. Grey. L. and K. D.

Vinesett and J. E. Price. Masonic honors will be paid to Mr. Jobson at the rites by Granard Lodge No.

186, Ancient Free Masons, whose members have been requested to meet at the lodge hall at 10 a. m. The Jobson family moved to Gaffney May 2, 1944. Mr. Jobson was a charter member and one of the organizers of the Southside Baptist church in Birmingham.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Jobsnn, and a son, J. H. Jobson, of West Montgomery street; and a brother, R. G.

Job-son, of Tampa, Fla. Two Fires Burn Over Six Acres Early This Week Two class 3 fires were handled early this week by the Cherokee county forestry service with the aid of organized volunteer firefighters, it Was announced by B. T. forest ranger in charge. Approximately one acre on the Dever Little farm three miles out on the Union road and five and one-half acres of woodland on Paul Littlejohn's farm in the Goucher community were burned over in the two fires.

Citing the Draytonville weather station report that rainfall this month has totalled only .08 of an inch, Mr. White called attention to the fact that woods and fields are unusually dry now. He said under existing conditions fires will spread rapidly, and he urged all landowners and citizens generally to be especially careful to prevent blazes. A jury convicted James Saddler of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature earlier in the week. Sentencing was deferred.

A cross-indictment in the case against Hedrick Ten-nell was nol prossed by the solicitor. Also awaiting sentencing after being convicted of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature is Walter Bell. The only sentence so far imposed by Judge Martin has been against Everett J. Poteat who pleaded guilty to desertion and non-support. A $1,500 fine and e-year imprisonment were suspended, provided Poteat pay $15 a week toward the support of his child.

He was put on probation for three years. A drunk driving indictment against C. B. Sprouse was nol prossed for lack of evidence and a housebreaking and larceny case against Coy Williams continue because the defendant is in a Veterans Administration hospital. Guilty deas have been entered in the following additional cases: Joe Green, disposal of property under lien; Arthur Peeler, violation of the liquor law; Bessie Whelchel, housebreaking and larceny; Arthur Harris and Junior Jarenagin, grand larceny; Monroe Jolly, assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature; J.

L. Wilkie and Furman Blackwell, theft from an automobile; Max Silvers, receiving stolen goods. Also, Randolph Tate, peer.ing Tom; Fred Wolfe, assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature; J. L. Parker, driving under the influence; James R.

Hadden, desertion and non-support; James Callaway, assault and battery, (Continued on Page 5.) 27 SHOPP'NgAVS LBFT Buy Christmas SeALSi THE GAFFNEY LEDGER Has Been Analyzed and Awarded a Rating of Cherokee county will be represented at the National 4-H Club Congress and International 'Livestock Show to be held in Chicago next Monday through Thursday. Ann Lovingood, of the Corinth community, state winner in her farm safety project, has for her award won a trip to the 4-H Com- MISS ANN LOVINGOOD gress, and Max of Blacks-burg route 1, won trip to the livestock show awarded by the Piedmont Interstate Fair Association. Both will leave by chartered bus with other winners for Chicago at 7:30 Thanksgiving Day morning from Spartanburg. Ann is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

U. H. Lovingood and Max, a son of Mrs. Bonnie Both are high school students. The state 4-11 club winners who will make the trip, their home ry Giving this Publication the Designation of One of the Best Weekly Newspapers of America After a Comparative Evaluation Study of the Newspaper, Its Circulation, Advertising Rate and the Market Covered COMMUNITY RESEARCH BUREAU October 27, 1949.

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