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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1940
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE SEVEN
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DEARBORN, Mich. . . . The new light weight Ford tractor with
hydraulic controls for unit implements was demonstrated by Henry
Ford here recently. A feature of the demonstration was the plowing
of a twenty-ioot enclosure with the new tractor, which was handled
easily and plowed in spaces even too close for horses. New tractor
Implements are expected to do all the work on a farm that animals
do at far less cost.
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cold infections, when lack of resist
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MARK
COURT TURNS DOWN PLEA FOR
REVIEW OF EQUAL PAY TO
NEGRO TEACHES
New Light Weight Tractor Demonstrated
Washington, Oct. 28—The supreme
court refused today to interfere with
a circuit court decision that negro
teachers in public schools are entitled
to the same compensation as equally
qualified white teachers.
The tribunal turned down an ajw
peal by the Norfolk, Va. school board
from the decision by the fourth fed
eral circuit court.
Only one word—“denied”—was
used in refusing to review the litiga
tion, filed originally by Melvin O.
Alston, a negro teacher, and the Nor
folk Teachers’ association, composed
of negroes.
Today’s action sends the litigation
back to the eastern Virginia federal
district court for trial on the merits
That court previously dismissed the
suit on the ground that Alston had
voluntarily entered into a contract
with the school board at $921 a year.
In appealing to the supreme court,
the school board contended that
“equal school facilities” must be pro
vided “but it does not follow that
salaries in public schools must be
equal when determined by voluntary
contracts.”
Alston and the teachers association
said the school board officials had
been “maintaining the policy, custom,
and usage of paying negro teachers
and principals in the public schools
of Norfolk less salary than white
teachers and principals possessing
the same professional qualifications,
certificates and experience, exercis
ing the same duties and performing
the same services as negro teachers
and principals.
“Such discrimination is being prac
ticed against the planitiffs and all
other negro teachers ana principals
in Norfolk, Va., and is based solely
upon their race or color,” the brief
added.
They asserted the circuit court de
cision “is so clearly sound and con
sistent with precedent thnt i* should
not be reviewed.”
‘Discrimination because of race or
color,” they added is clearly arbi
trary and unreasonable. This court
has repeatedly so held in cases aris
ing out of a variety 1 of factual situa
tions.”
GEORGETOWN JEFFERSONIAN
SIGN RIPPED
Georgetown, Oct. 28.-—The banner
over the Jeffersonian headquarters
was ripped down tonight. The banner
was on the balcony of the South Caro
lina National Bank building, directly
opposite police headquarters.
So far as was learned tonight, no
anest of the vandals had been re
ported. The banner said: “No Third
Term. No Man is Indispensable.
Jeffersonian Democratic Headquar
ters.”
Harold Kaminski, state executive
committeeman, said the banner would
be back up tomorrow. He said it
was* in place when he went to a mo
tion picture show tonight, and by
the time he came out about 10
o’clock, the banner was tom down
and wrapped around a barber pole.
EN ROUTE TO PRISON HE ADVERTISED AND DID
A $10,000 BUSINESS
THANKS CLERK OF COURT
FOR SERVICES
EMPLOYMENT IS REPORTED
AT HIGH LEVEL
New York, Oct. 28—Total employ
ment in the United States rose to 48,-
404,000 workers in September, highest
since October, 1929 when there were
49,033,000 employed, the national in
dustrial conference hoard said today.
The board added, however, the na
tion’s labor force increased by more
than 6,500,000 during the eleven-year
interval.
Unemployed workers declined to
$6,829,000 in September from 7,698,-
0000 in August, an 11 per cent drop,
the board said. The sharp contraction
brought the jobless to the lowest to
tal since October 1937, and repre
sented a decline of 1,363,000 since
September last year.
Normal seasonal trends in employ
ment in manufacturing and construc
tion were upset as the national def- j
ense program got under way, the
board said. A nincrease of 307,000 per.
sons employed in agriculture was
much greater than normal. Manu
facturing claimed 348,000 more work
ers and contsruction 68,000.
The conference hoard is a research
organization supported by business
concerns.
MORE BLEASES
The Columbia Record a few days
ago carried an editorial about differ
ent names of those who had register
ed for conscription. It stated that
many registered who were named
for George Washington, Thomas Jef
ferson, Alexander Hamilton, and other
personalities, but appearing more
than any other name was that of
Cole L. Blease.
Chevrolet Builds 16,000,000th Unit
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The following is contained in a let
ter to Dr. H. K. Boyd from Governor
Maybank:
“Please let me take this opportun
ity to thank you for the fine and
patriotic service that you redered to
your county, to your state, and to
vour nation, in handling the registra
tion called for by the Selective Serv
ice act of 1940. Without your untir
ing efforts and the efforts of those
working with you. our task would
have been impossible.
To sav that 1 am pleased with the
way that the registration thruout
the state took place, is putting it
mildlv. It was a masterful job done
by faithful and conscientious, as well
as patriotic workers, and I want you,
please, to accept my heartfelt thanks
for giving so generously of your
time and‘your efforts to this cause.
Your efforts will always he recorded
in the history of South Carolina.
Won’t you please express to those
working with you my sincere appre
ciation and gratitude.”
S. C. IS ALLOTTED $926,132
BY W. P. A.
Washington, Oct. 28 — During the
first half of October the WPA allotted
$962,132 of defense funds to the first
South Carolina district. Most of these
expenditures will be used for army
and navy purposes hut they far ex
ceed contracts made and funds ex
pended in the state by the war and
navy departments this month.
Allotments made for WPA projects
in South Carolina include the follow
ing: To improve facilities at the
Charleston ordnance depot, near the
North Charleston, $16,608; to improve
buildings at the Charleston ordnance
depot, $3,553; to construct a naval
hospital and improve grounds at the
Charleston navy yard, $809,000; and
$96,971 to improve the road on Hilton
Head Island to provide access from
Seabrook’s Landing to the U. S. ma
rine camp, near Bufort.
Since June 13 the WPA has spent
$1,885,565 on defense projects in the
state.
COTTON GROWERS BALLOT DEC.
7TH ON SALES QUOTA
Newberry county cotton growers
will vote on Saturday, December 7,
along with other cotton growers of
the nation, to determine whether
they wish a marketing quota to ap
ply to their 1941 cotton crop. The
quota will go into effect only if op-
proved by two-thirds of the farmers
voting.
Marketing quotas have been in ef
fect for the last three yars. The 1940
quota was approved last fall by 91.2
per cent of the nation’s growers who
voted for the referendum.
As in former years, the county
AAA committee will he in charge of
the referendum. Plans are now be
ing made locally for lidding the vote
in each community.
The Secretary of Agriculture de
clared a 1941 marketing quota in
September when it was determined
that the supply of American cotton,
on August 1, 1940, totaled 24,900,000
bales, or 137 percent of the “nor
mal” supply, which is 18,200,000
bales. Under the Agricultural Ad
justment Act, a marketing quota must
be declared when supplies reach 107
percent of normal.
The national quota for 1941 is the
same as the one in effect this year,
and will make possible the market
ing, through the quota program, of
about 12 million bales during the year
beginning August 1, 1941.
\VHh a million?car model year just behind and a goal of
1,100,000 for the new selling year, Chevrolet announced
production of its 16,000,000th unit, built in less than ten
working months after No. 15.000,000. Announcement of Chevrolet general manager, with W. E. Holler, general
this latest “milestone car” spotlights attention on Chev- sales manager, beside the 16.000,000th car.
rolet’s unique record in the automobile industry of having
built and sold an average of a million units per year during
the past seven years. Shown above (left) is M. E. Coyle,
SCOUTS ENJOY
HALLOWE’EN PARTY
%
Troop two, patrols three and four
of the Newberry Girl Scouts, enjoyed
a Hallowe’en party Friday night at
the home of the troop leader, Mrs. J.
D. French.
The basement of the attractive
French home on Walnut street was
appropriately and spookily decorated
for Hallowe’en. In the fortune tell,
ing booth was Mrs. Griffin Coleman,
•dressed as a gypsy, telling each per
sons fortune.
Many Hallowe’en games were play
ed. Joyce Fellers drew a prize, and
Mary Ford won the prize for having
the best costume. For refreshments,
the scouts enjoyed apples, for which
they bobbed, popcorr, doughnuts, and
orangeade. About fifteen scouts were
Through advertising in the Mem
phis (Texas) Democrat, Raymond
Ballew, shortly before being sent to
prison, did business of around $10,-
000 in one month, says an article in
a recent issue of the Panhandle Pub
lisher. In May he was sentenced to
two years in prison on a charge of
assault with intent to murder—a
charge growing out of the wounding
of a policeman two years ago.
Ballew got busy. Two doors west
on Main street from his automobile
and electric appliance store he walk
ed to the Democrat, handed Publisher
J. Claude Wells a quarter page ad:
“Yes, folks, it’s true Ihn not go
ing to be with you much longer! For
in a little while I’ll me stripping sor-
hum and hoeing peas instead of ped
dling refrigerators and radios. . . .
I want to sell at least 24 new G. E.’s
so I can leave some bean and potato
imomey fotr the wSfe aimd child(ren
while I’m eating off of Uncle Bud.
. . . Frankly, I’ve been sold out—so
now I’m selling out.”
Under his signature, Ballew penned
a postscript: “If I had the wings of
an Angel—over these prison walls I
would fly.”
Many a Hall county cotton farmer
to whom the merchant had extended
liberal credit in years of drouth and
poor cotton prices piled into his
store in response to his ad. The first
day cleaned his shelves of about
$1,000 worth of stock—all he had. He
laid in more goods including a truck-
load of refrigerators and employed
more salesmen.
At Newlin he sold new electric re
frigerators to 9 of the 13 families.
By the end of the second week he
had moved $8,000 worth of merchan
dise and had recorded numerous sal
able items. His sales, when ended,
saw at least another $2,000 worth
moved.
With one week to go, he addressed
a final plea to his customers: “Folks,
it’s just like the monkey said when
the lawn mower ran over its tail—it
won’t be long now. We must clean uip
our stock before we join the ranks of
the state’s non-paying guests.”
This week he bought his biggest
ad of the campaign in the Democrat
Said he:
“GOODBYE Friends, Competitors,
Enemies. Professional Politicians and
Perjurers.”
To his friends he wrote: “ . . . I
am proud of the fact that my friends
are real friends instead of the fair-
weather kind. Going away is hurt
ing me more because it is hurting
my friends and family than because
I will lose my freedom ...” He
added that Mrs. Ballew would main
tain the store, said: “I will appre
ciate any business you can bring her
ft
Poem for Competitors.
To his competitors he addressed a
poem:
“When the One Great Scorer
Comes to write against your name
It isn’t whether you won or lost
But how you played the game.”
To his “enemies” he was kind: “I
only wish that we could have been
friends! Too often slight misunder
standing will cause bad feelings.
Understanding would translate ene
mies into friends.”
To the “professional politicians”
he directed a plug for Gov. W. Lee
O’Daniel: “Being childless, there
fore heartless, not much can be said.
I will let “The People’s Friend,’ W
Lee O’, tell you.”
To unnamed “perjurers” (“who
can see anything at any distance on
the darkest night and see through
brick walls and around corners”) he
was also kind: “May the Good Lord
forgive you. And may He bring that
same forgiveness into my heart . . .”
Merchandiser Ballew signed his
name at the bottom of the ad, as
usual. And he added a postscript:
“Formerly of the House of Qual
ity.
“Now in the House of Correction.”
Yes, this story is true; it is not a
fairy tale.
WHEAT CONTEST FOR 1941 IS
ANNOUNCED
MUST ATHENS BE DESTROYED
Italian airplanes roared above the
ancient City of Athens Monday, but
no bombs were dropped. Piraeus, the
city’s seaport four miles distant was
bombed and many persons were kill
ed and injured. Much property dam
age resulted.
One wonders whether Athens is to
suffer a fate similar to that of Lon
don and Berlin, the two great capi
tals of Europe. The city of Pericles,
Socrates, Plato, Phidias, Demosthenes
and a galaxy of other distinguished
ancients is no stranger to destroying
armies. The ruins of the Acropolis
testify to the ' city’s travail. If
Mussolini should order his airmen to
follow the example of vandals of the
past will he not be inviting similar
treatment for Italy’s proud city of
Rome?—Spartanburg Herald.
Clemson, Oct. 28—A state-wide
wheat contest for South Carolina
fanners, with substantial cash prizes,
to be conducted by the Extension ser
vice of Clemson college was announc
ed here today by Director D. W. Wat
kins.
The wheat contest will be conducted
on a three-acre basis and upon the
same principles as the five-acre cot- ■
ton contest which has been so suc
cessful and benefical. The scale of
prizes, the donors, and other details
will he auuounced in the near future,
by the extension agronomist who will
supervise the contest. County agents
will furnish contestants with rules of
the contest and entry blanks.
“South Carolina farmers are now
growin about 200,000 acres of wheat,
but they need 400,000 additional
acres in order to provide an adequate
supply of wheat for farm use,” says
H. A. Woodle, extension agronomist,
discussing the wheat contest. “It is
also imperative that we increase our
average yield of 10 bushels of wheat
per acre. The wheat contest should
prove a decided stimulus in this con
nection.
‘If we are to do our part in the
National Defense program, our
farms must produce sufficient food
and feed to supply home needs'. This
means that every farm must grow
enough wheat td furnish food for the
whole family. Better farm living has
always resulted from ample food sup
plies produced on the farm.
“Adequate supplies of good plant
ing seed can he ubtained by every
farmer. Some of the improved var
ieties of wheat not only produce high
yields but are highly disease-resist-
ant. Since most of the wheat in South
Carolina is usually planted immedi
ately after the -first killing frost, far
mers are urged to procure planting
seed now in order to avoid delay when
planting conditions become favorable.”
HUNTING SEASON IN STATE TO
OPEN NOVEMBER 21ST
Columbia, Oct. 28.—South Carolina
hunting seasons which run from
“Thanksgiving Day” will be opened
Nov. 27, Chief Game Warden A. A.
Richardson, announced today in ans
wer to “hundreds of inquiries.”
He said his department would con
sider Thanksgiving the day des
ignated by President Roosevelt.
present.
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