The Gaffney Ledger from Gaffney, South Carolina • Page 1

a a a a a THE GAFFNEY LEDGER A NEWSPAPER IN ALL THAT THE WORD IMPLIES, DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY. February 16, 1894 Gaffney, South Carolina, Tuesday, August 1, 1950 $5.00 Per Year In Advance SENATOR M'KOWN PROTESTS REFUSAL TO RECOUNT VOTES Election To Bring Dozen New Officers As a result of the July primaries it appears Cherokee county will have a dozen new officials who will take over various offices in the next several months. The list of new officials will include a senator, two members of the house of representatives, sheriff, probate judge, coroner, superintendent of education, two magistrates in the five townships west of Broad river, and a county commissioner. As a consequence of the election changes, the county will also get a new supervisor and a new delinquent tax collector. Only one county official who had won renomination.

OPPOSITION. T. Baines, who has not yet finished his first term as game warden. L. Bryant Jolly, Morgan township commissioner, was the only other opposed candidate who gained renomination.

Four officials had no opand were automatically renominated. These were Clerk of Court J. Conrad Jones, Treasurer J. 1. McCulloch, Auditor Charles P.

Stroup, and Cherokee Township Magistrate Buford F. Moore at Blacksburg. Cherokee county's legislative delegation in the next general assembly will be completely new with Supervisor J. 0. Daniel succeeding Senator George W.

McKown, (unless an election pronow pending changes the situation,) and Thomas C. LitPalejohn, and Harry L. Cline, as members of the house. Mr. Daniel is now in the midst of his second four-year term as supervisor, SO when he resigns to become senator a new supervisor will have to be chosen.

The terms of members of legislature expire the Monday ing the general election in November. Members-elect may take the oath of office at any time after that date. It is not expected Mr. Daniel will quit the supervisor's office until he can be sworn in as senator, and he might wait until the next general assembly meets in Columbia in January. At any rate, someone will be due to be appointed to fill his unexpired term as supervisor.

In his campaign speeches, Mr. Daniel said if he was nominated for senator he proposed to call a meeting of the legislative delegation and the county commissioners to select his successor as supervisor. Representative Jeff D. Parris was eliminated as a member of the delegation in the second primary. He has a record of 14 years' service in the legislature.

Representative J. Howard White ran for the senate this year and lost. Probably the first change resulting from election will take place in September, when the two-year term of Magistrate Leighton R. Wallace expires. It is expected Francis McCraw, who headed the list of candidates for this post, will be nam.d to succeed Mr.

Wallace, who lost in the first primary. Jim Bridges, who was second on the in the second primary, is likely to be named to succeed Magistrate Harley L. Wooten, whose term ends December. Mr. did not offer for "Wooten renomination for magistrate but was defeated in a race for county superintendent of education.

Magistrates are not elected, but are merely nominated in the primaries and are then appointed by the governor on advice and consent of the senate for terms of two years from the date of appointment. Boyce L. Crocker, principal of the Grassy Pond school, who (was nominated for county superintendent of education, will take office July 1, 1951. We will sueceed Jonathan Z. McKown, the present superintendent, who did not offer for another term.

City Patrolman Julian Wright, who defeated three candidates in the first primary, will take over the office of sheriff early in January, succeeding Sheriff Roland T. Clary, who is completing his first four-year term. Other changes scheduled for early after the beginning of the year will include the succession of W. R. (Bobby) Douglas to the probate judge's office, relieving Judge Roy C.

Cobb, who has held the office 16 years, and Jack E. Millwood as coroner, succeeding W. P. Batchelor, holder of the office for 20 years. As a result of the nomination of Mr.

Douglas for probate judge, a new delinquent tax collector for the county will be needed when he changes positions C. Ben Hammett, of White Plains, who defeated W. Frank Burgess for county commissioner. will join the board at the first meeting in April of next year. Spotted for Royalty July July Building Permits List 6 New Homes Nineteen building permits, including six for new homes, were issued by City Clerk I.

Clyde Peeler during July. The permits represented $37.775 in new construction, remodelling and repair work inside the corporate limits during the month. A total of $29,000 was listed as new construction. Construction of new dwellings were authorized for: Kenneth W. Lail.

six-room frame bonse on East Frederick street, $3,500. Rov L. Childers, five-room frame dwelling on Hampton avenue, 000. o. S.

Lipscomb, five-room frame building on South Limestone street, $5,000. W. C. Keller, five room frame house on East Montgomery street, $6,000. W.

C. Keller, five 100m frame dwelling. on West Smith street. $6,000. H.

Frieze, four-room frame building on South Petty street, $2,000. The only new commercial construction permit was issued to J. R. Barnhill for a $1,500 cement block storage building on Rutledge avenue. Other permits, for additions, remodelling or repairs, included: Newton T.

Edwards. South Logan street, $250; Mrs. Minnie Pegram, West Birnie street, $800; Logan Perry, South Granard street, $150; Mrs. Pauline Stepp, Settlemever street. $300.

Also, Walter Gibbs, Hill street, $500; J. F. Bagwell, East Jefferies street, $100; Robert Donaldson, Peachtree street, $100; W. Ray Shortt, Lipscomb street, $200: W. C.

Keller, Scruggs street, $500. Also Dr. H. L. Frieze, South Petty street, Norene Martin, East Fairview avenue, and J.

Rosemond Cook, North Granard street, $375. Funeral Services For Mrs. Philson Held Saturday Funeral services for Mrs. Ella Jones Philson, 82, who died at Winnsboro last Friday morning, were conducted Saturday afternoon in the chapel of the Shuford-Hatcher Company here. Mrs.

Philson, who formerly lived at 909 East Frederick street, had been residing with a daughter, Mrs. J. C. Leavelle, at Winnsboro for the past year. She had been in declining health several months.

Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Frank E. Morris, pastor of the First Baptist church. Interment was in Oakland cemetery. Pall bearers included: Gilliam Kelly, John T.

Childers, Zeb V. Whelchel, T. G. Collins, Wilmon Wright and Charles Poole. Surviving are: three daughters, Mrs.

W. H. McLaughlin, of Florence, Mrs. P. A.

Moore, of Simpsonville, and Mrs. Leavell; three sons, W. J. Philson, of Tampa, S. A.

Philson, Greenville, and P. J. Philson, of Columbia; two brothers, T. E. Jones, of Fountain Inn, and W.

W. Jones, of Austin, Texas: ten grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Picnic Planned For Wednesday By Saint John's (By MRS. W. C.

MOORE) Blacksburg, July 31 The memhers of St. John's Methodist Church will hold their annual summer picnic Wednesday afternoon, August 2, at Lake Crawford, in Kings Mountain park. Those plan to attend are asked to bring picnic lunches and meet at the church at 3 o'clock. Three Dollar Days Will Be Held Here This Week Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week will be dollar days in Gaffney, according to announcement made by J. R.

Middiebrooks, promotion chairman of the Merchants Division of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Middlebrooks has sent a letter local merchants urging that all participate by offering real values for the special three days and that each one advertise his bargains so the buying public may be properly informed of tne event. Mayor J. N.

Lipscomb and the city council have consented to the suspension of the operation of Warned On Greece YUGOSLAVIA' SOFIA BULG. ALBANIA VALONA GREECE CIONIANA SEA A BALKAN commission report that Bulgaria and Albania may be preparing to attack Greece is being given grave consideration by the United Nations at Lake Success, New York. Upon receiving the warning from observers, Secretary General Trygve Lie notified the 59 U.N. members. (International) 56 Operating Loans Made To War Veterans During the year ended June 30.

56 operating loans totalling 305 were made to farm veterans by the local Farmers Home Administration office, according to Jim Craig, the manager. Total operating loans for Cherokee county from November 1, 1946, through June 30 this year amounted to $44,585, he said. No loans for purchasing real estate have been made in Cherokee county since World War II. Mr. Craig explained that the chief reason for this situation is that the high price of land and construction costs generally exceeded the present Cherokee county limitation of $7,500 for farms with sufficient acreage.

However, he said one loan docket has been submitted to the Columbia office and is now pending. Over the entire state 1,557 operating loans were made by the FHA to veterans and totaled 330 during the fiscal year ending June 30. Since the office has been created 6,937 veterans in the state have received loans. Local officials called attention to an article in the current issue of the American Legion Magazine on "How the Legion Fights for the Farm Veteran." Gaffney Schools To Begin Term On August 31st Gaffney schools will open oll Thursday, 1950-51 morning, session. August 31, A joint announcement of the opening day of the term was made Monday by J.

Paul Beam, superintendent of the grammar schools, and B. D. Lee, superintendent of the high school. At the same time, Mr. Beam disclosed plans were going forward to renovate and add to Central school; and provide additional space for negro students of No.

10 district. The No. 10 board of trustees has employed H. S. Singley, Columbia architect, to survey the needs of grammar schools and make recommendations.

Plans also call for installation of a central heating unit at Cherokee Avenue school in the near future, Mr. Beam said. At the present time walls, damaged by water seepage over a period of years, are being restored at Elm Street school, and work was expected to begin Tuesday on construction of a city school storage room at West End school and fireproofing of the basement. Man Arrested On Charge Of House Robbery A man listed as Dannie Vehour was being held in county jail Monday, charged with entry into in the White Plains community on June 22. Sheriff Roland T.

Clary's office reported. Vehour was arrested by Spartanburg county authorities and turned over to local police Saturday, Deputy Sheriff E. D. Mathis said. He is charged with housebreaking and grand larceny in the theft of $24 an other items from Lawrence Phillips' home, Officer Mathis stated.

19 Transfers Of Property During Week Nineteen new real estate transfers were on record Monday at the office of Clerk of Court J. Conrad Jones as follows: D. E. Eubanks to Clyde F. Henderson, et al, lot on west side of Pecan street, $600.

Lois C. Wilson Phillips to south side Russell street, $250. Amata Heiden, Gleissner, lot Lois C. Wilson Phillips to A. C.

Phillips, lot on Russell street, $250. Mrs. Myrtle B. Sparks to Beaulah Hames Davis, .269 acre at intersection of Lead Mine and streets, one mile south of Gaffney, $10 and other valuable considerations. C.

L. Chandler to First Baptist church, six lots (60,000 sq. ft.) on Sunset drive, donation to church building fund. First Baptist church to Mrs. Catherine E.

Morgan, six lots (60,000 sq. ft.) on Sunset drive, $3,500. C. L. Chandler to William B.

Smith, two lots (20.000 sq. ft.) on Sunset drive, $1,200. William B. Smith to Hardenia Jefferies Smith, two lots, (20,000 sq. ft.) on Sunset drive, $5 and love and affection.

Miss Mae Peeler, et al, to Mrs. Edna Sarratt Peeler, lot on east side of South Limestone street, $5 and love and affection. Julius M. King to Keller, et al, lot on West Smith street, $700. Sam G.

Service to Mrs. R. L. Atkins, lot on east side of Oak street, $900 and assumption of Josie Caldwell to Sudie B. mortgage.

Huskey, lot fronting 50 feet on Russell street, $600. Edna S. Peeler to Paul C. Mosley, lot on Mills street, Edith Fort Wolfe to Lois R. Brown, lot on west side of Pacolet road, $1,050.

James C. Byers to Mary Byers Griffin, one-half interest in lot on South Johnson street, $10,000. F. W. Sossamon, to Walter R.

Betsill, lot on Austin drive in Brookdale subdivision $7,300. Ralph V. Smith to A. W. lot southwest side of Fairview avenue, $3,000 and ashumption of $4,500 mortgage.

Berry Thomas to Lillie Thomas, one-half interest in two lots at 'corner of Gaffney avenue and Jones street, $1 and love and uffection. Ethel R. Jefferies to Amata Heiden Gleissner, lot on Russell street, $650. Taylor Is Said Too Dangerous For County Jail Sheriff Roland T. Clary's office disclosed Monday that Hugh Taylor, 55-year-old Blacksburg negro charged with the murder of his ex-wife, has been transferred from county jail to another county.

Cherokee police described Taylor, an ex-convict, as too dangerous to be kept in the county's outmoded jail. Where he was taken was not disclosed. The negro is accused of the July 21 pistol slaying of Hattie Edwards Taylor, 47. at her Blacksburg beer parlor. Taylor, according to police, has admitted blasting his former wife to death with three bullets from a .38 automatic but claimed his intended victim was Tom Foster, a friend of hers who also was at the beer hall the night of the slaying.

Taylor was apprehended two days after the shooting by police who stalked him in a wooded area ten miles north of Blacksburg. 70 Additional 1-A Registrants Readied For Call Records of 70 more 1-A registrants of Cherokee County Draft Board No. 11 were being readied Monday for pre-induction examinations expected to be ordered early in August. The board dipped into the 22- 23 age group to choose the men for the expected second call, but their names will not be disclosed until receipt of further orders from state selective service headquarters in Columbia, according C. C.

Hubbard, local board chairman. Another group of 35 men, first since the Korean war, already have been directed to report to Greenville on August 11 for draft examinations. A preliminary order for the 70 additional men was received by the local board over the -week end. The board is now awaiting a directive stating when and where these men are to report for examination. B-29's SPLINTER ENEMY RAIL YARD County Group Sets Session For Hearing HER HIGHNESS, the Queen of Freckles, Frances Brucato, 12, pensively sips a victory soda at the Children's Aid Society Center, New York, after winning the title in a citywide contest.

The voting was reported as "spotty." (International) June Traffic Mishaps Kill One, Hurt 8 Thirty-nine more persons were killed in motor vehicle accidents in South Carolina during the first six months of this year than during the corresponding period in 1949, a statement issued today by Chief Commissioner Claude R. McMillan of the state highway department shows. Fatalities tihs year have totaled 291, as against 252 through June of last year. During June alone persons were killed in the state, as compared with 42 in June of last year, a 26 per cent increase. The statement showed in Cherokee county, there were 22 June accidents.

There was one fatality in the county and eight persons were injured. The overall number of accidents in the state continued to climb rapidly throughout the sixmonth period, reaching 6,489 at the end of June, as compared with 4,592 on the same date last year. Accidents in June totaled 1,067, an increase of 299 over the June, 1949, total. Of the 1,828 drivers involved in accidents in June, 905 committed one or more vilations, the report indicated. It was shown that 141 drivers failed to grant rights-of-way, 111 were on the wrong side of the road (when not 111 passing), 74 disregarded various types of traffic control devices, 39 made improper turns, 45 passed improperly, 86 were following other vehicles too closely, and 137 were exceeding the lawful speed limits.

A total of 158 drivers were intoxicated, an increase of 36 in this single type of violation. Grassy Pond Boy Seriously Hurt A 12-year-old Grassy Pond boy, seriously injured in a fall over the week-end, was reported improved slightly by his physician early Monday afternoon. The youth, Harold Goforth, was reported in "fair" condition at the Cherokee County Hospital where he was being treated a head injury and a fractured arm. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Mason Goforth. AMERICAN SATURATION BOMBING of the Seoul railway marshalling yards by an armada of fifty B-29's heartened Air Force planners when an F-80 reconnaissance photographer brought in this clear proof of aerial marksmanship. Four hundred tons of bombs plastered the vital Red rail point in South Korea's occupied capital, leveling repair shops and blast- Gaffney Man Head Of New York Deaf School (By Alberta J. Dickinson in the Utica, N. ObserverDispatch.) "The most wonderful thing about deafness is that it is merely a physical deprivation, not 3 calamity." That's the attitude that Fred L.

Sparks, superintendent of the Central New York School for the Deaf in Rome, is constantly hammering home to many groups he addresses in the course of a year and to individuals. "It can well he has said, "that the greatest handicap the approximately 100,000 totally or partially deaf persons of this nation today have to face is the attitude of 148 million hearing persons. The deaf are people worth knowing!" At 38 Sparks is probably the youngest superintendent a school for the deaf in this country. There are 72 such institutions, New York State having 14. with the Rome school in the top bracket.

Sparks' ancestry, home town (Gaffney, S. and accent are Southern, He came to the Rome school in the Spring of 1946 as vice principal directly following six years in Army service, was shortly thereafter made acting head, and in January, 1927, superintendent. He served with the 88th Division in Europe during the war, being advanced from first lieutenant, to the lieutenant war he had colonel. been an instructor in the Morganton, N. High School, taught in the North Carolina School for the Deaf in Morganton, and was vocational principal of the West Virginia School for the Deaf in Romney.

He obtained a B. S. degree from Clemson College, S. and a master's degree from Gallaudet College, Washington, D. only college for the deaf in the world.

The Central New York school the Deaf, incorporated in 1875, is managed by a board of trustees and supported by state and county funds. The State Board of Social Welfare has inspectional authority. Located at 713 North Madison, the buildings, set in spacious, well -cared for grounds, accommodate about 180 young people, whose ages range from 3 to 21 years. One of these days a building program, for which alchitests' plans are being completwill provide at least four new buildings, including a gymnasium. That's been Fred Sparks' dream since he became superintendent.

"Specifically," he says, "the purpose of the school is the education of the deaf and hard of hearing, who, because of their handicap, cannot make reasonable progress in the public schools. We aim to train students from the nursery through the elementary school, high school and vocational school to be well-informed, responsible, self-supporting, useful, happy citizens and homemakers." Speech reading and speech are taught in addition to public school subjects. The trades taught are clothing, cooking and baking, book binding, cleaning and pressing, dressmaking, cutting and fitting, mending, ironing, leather work, shoe repair and finishing, paper hanging, power operation, graphic arts, machinery, newspaper and print shop composition and press work. "Our a alumni, scattered over the country, speaks for the suecess of our program," Sparks em- phasizes. "Heads of families, fathers, mothers, club members, church members, tax payers, voters, they ask no favors, want none, only intelligent consideration." From the superintendent and the supervising principal, Armin G.

Turecheck, through the various departments--academic, vocational, physical education, dietary, household, maintenance the school staff numbers about 70. The Sparks family (the superintendent, his wife, the former Miss Hazeline Campbell, of Charlotte, N. at the time of her marriage an academic teacher in the North Carolina School for the Deaf; their children, Martha Mae, 7, and Richard, years old), live in a residence on the school grounds, an arrangement very much to the superintendent's liking. He is president of the Rome Rotary Club, vice-president of the Rome Citizens' Council, a member of the Rome Club, Rome Chamber Commerce, board of trustees of the First Presbyterian Church of Rome, is on the advisory committee of the Rome city planning group, a member of the Rome YMCA, and the board of directors of the Civic Music Association of that city. A member of the International Conference for Exceptional Children- and the New York State planning council for that organization, he is chairman of the 01- ganization of Surerintendents of Children's, Institutions, Department Area of 3, Social Welfare; is a member of the New York' State Conference of Social The superintendent is affiliated with virtually every national and association having to do chief concern educastate, tion and training of the deaf.

Among them are the Volte Speech Association, the American Assoto Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, the Conference of Executives, American School for the Deaf. He is chairman of the Vocational section, Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, is president of the Vocational Association of the Deaf. A reserve officer in the United States Army, he is member of Henry P. Smith Post, American Legion. Interested in every phase of Scouting (his hobby, next to his work at the school), Sparks is a member of the District Board of Review and Executive Board of Fort Stanwix Council, Boy Scouts of America.

16 Cherokee 4-H Members Leave For District Meet Sixteen Cherokee county 4-H club boys and girls left for the annual Piedmont district round at Clemson. includes: Bobby groun Scruggs, Max Mintz, Neil Thomas, Jimmy Queen, Bobby Moss, John Neal, Howard Coyle, Lou Wood, Millie Peeler, Harriet Wilson. Peggy Hammett, Norma Sue Wylie, Frediah Parker. Ann Lovingood, Mary Jane Mathis and Jolene Moss. L.

J. P. Stone, assistant county farm agent. and Miss Teresa Caskey, home demonstration agent, are accompanying the group. State Senator George W.

MeKown will get another opportunity Wednesday to induce the Cherokee county executive committee to Democratic, senate race ballots of the July 25 run-off' primary. County Chairman II. R. Swink called a meeting of the executive body for Wednesday at 10 a. m.

in the court house after naving been served over the. week end Senator McKown's formal protest of committee's action last Thursday in refusing to recount the votes. The committee ruled Thursday that Senator McKown was dofeated by 67 votes by County Supervisor J. O. Daniel and dethe run-off official.

Previously, Chairman Swink held that a' motion for a recount failed to carry after committeemen deadlocked with an 11-11 vote. Senator McKown's protest asked that it be heard by the executive committee. Prepared by Senator McKown's attorney, Jonathan Z. MeKown, text of the protest follows: "That the protestant herein serves you notice of protest of the action of the Democratic Executive Committee of the State and County aforesaid in failing to order a recount of the ballots in the race for State Senator for Cherokee, County in the election held on July 25, 1950 when offer of expenses of said recount was made. "And in that the chairman aforesaid, H.

R. Swink refused to give any information to the protestant herein of the number of those who voted, relative to the number of ballots counted, when the said information was in his possession exclusively, thereby showing a willful and wanton de. sire to hinder and obstruct the protestant herein from obtaining the information, necessary to be had him to determine whether there are more ballots than those who voted. "The protestant herein, because of the apparent obstructionist actions of the said chairman, and because of the numerous reported irregularities in the of voting. in numerous precincts, hereby protests the refusal of a recount, when the said committee knew or should have known that many ballots were counted by those who were not managers but partisans, and that no other count has been made.

The protestant further protests the action of the committee in declaring the results official in the State Senate race for Cherokee County and reserves the right to show irregularities in the voting and counting but he primarily protests because of the actions of the County Chairman in capriciously withholding public information so that the protestant is unable to determine whether there were illegal ballots cast. "Wherefore the protestant requests that his protest be heard by the Cherokee, County Executive Committee the Democratic party pursuant to the provisions made by the law in such cases." Cherokee Falls Loses Thriller To Broad River (By MRS. C. MOORE) Blacksburg, July 31-Baseball fans of Blacksburg and Cherokee Falls watched twelve thrilling innings Saturday night, as the Broad River team handed the league leading Cherokee Falls their second straight set -back of the season. The score was 6-2.

Big Shell Pridmore pitched the full twelve innings for the Broad River team. Eddie Adeimy, of the Cherokee Falls team, gave way to Setov Cobb in the 12th inning. Adeimy was given credit for 18 strike-outs and Pridmore for 9 strike-outs. Chris Medley with 4 for 6 and Charlie Moss with 2 for 5 led the Broad River attack, while L. Broome and Clary with a 2 for 5 led the Cherokee Falls team.

The game was 2-2 until the twelfth inning when Broad River made four runs. Assistant Clerk For Draft Board Will Be Chosen parking meters for the three days, Mr. Middlebrooks said. Paper sacks will be available for covering meters. Mr.

Middlebrooks asked the merchants to get the sacks any time this week from the office of the Chamber of Commerce and to place them over the meters in front of their respective establishments early Thursday morning. It has been several months since Gaffney stores have offered dollar day sales and the managers of many stores say their establishments are now in position to give customers extra-ordinary bargains in spite of the fact that some wholesale prices are rising. Applications for a part-time assistant clerk for Cherokee County Draft Board No. 11 will be received up to Thursday noon, it has been announced by C. C.

Hubbard, the chairman. Applications may be mailed or taken personally to the board's offices on the fourth floor of the Little Building on West Frederick street. It is requested applicants state their qualifications. Mrs. Mary Pittman, of North Petty street, is chief clerk of the board..