The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, November 06, 1942, Image 4
1218 College Street
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
O. F. ARMFIELD
Editor and Publisher
One Year One Dollar
Published Every Friday In The Year
Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937,
at the postoffice at Newberry. South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
Nowhere has war caused more
havoc than in agriculture.
Almost no new machinery is avail
able. Repair parts for existing
machinery are always difficult and
sometimes impossible to obtain. The
cost of everything the farmer must
buy is at record levels. Worst prob
lem of all is the farm labor situa
tion. The draft has taken many farm
workers. And the farmers simply
can’t afford to pay shipyard wages
for help—with the result that tens
of thousands of workers have left
the rural areas to find high-priced
jobs in war industry.
This, in part, is the farmer’s ans
wer to those who think that the in
crease in farm prices means that all
is well down on the farm. The plain
truth is that most farmers are won
dering how they will be able to keej>
ia business—and to effect the in
creases in production the govern
ment wants.
The situation is particularly ser
ious in the dairy field, where skilled
and permanent help is absolutely
necessary. In many states, milk is
a public utility, and its price is fx-
ed by regulatory bodies. Vast quan
tities of dairy cattle are being sold
for beef, because farmers can’t ob
tain the necessary labor. It is time
city dwellers understand some of
the grave problems farmers face.
WAR TRAFFIC COMES FIRST
THE WRITING ON THE WALL
The writing on the wall is every
where now, for anyone to see—regi
mentation. Regimentation of jobs,
of income, of living conditions, of
time, thought, and action.
This is one of the demands of to
tal war in seeking the greatest effi
ciency and production from avail
able man and woman-power. How to
so gear output that our standards of
living at home will remain “Ameri
can” and our armed forces will be
supplied on time with all the unpre
cedented needs of global warfare, is
the problem.
In theory, it is protection through
equalization, “temporary’’ control of
individual activity for the country’s
good in time of emergency.
While our people willingly accept
“temporary” restrictions as a neces
sity of war, the thing to remember
is that word “temporary.” We must
not drift into a mental attitude that
will pave the way for permanent
regimentation. That isn’t the kind
of people we are.
What we have, what we are fight
ing for, is our roots, growing deep
into the soil of free enterprise and
free thinking, a nd the privilege of
minding our own busness. That pri
vilege is what we must go back to,
after the war, if freedom as we
have known it is to survive in Am
If your passenger train happens
to be a little late, or if it doesn’t
contain a super-deluxe lounge car
complete with bar and other fancy
accessories, don’t start kicking at
the railroads. For the railroads are
just as much interested in serving
you as ever—but war traffic comes
first.
That war traffic reaches stagger
ing totals. In a recent six-months
period, more than 5,000,000 troops
were moved—not counting soldiers
on leave. Freight trains are deliver
ing some 3,000 carloads to our east
ern seaports every day. Tank cars
are baking 800,000 barrels of oil
daily into the East—where in nor
mal times they carried only about
12,000. The railroads are success
fully doing a job that skeptics said
couldn’t be done.
While doing this, they are carry
ing on their fine service in civilian
America. In all its essentials, that
service is as ood as it was before
the war. But, now, and then, a train
may be delayed because it had to
wait for war trains to pass. Luxury
lounge cars have been taken out of
service, by order of the Office of
Defense Transportation, because re
gular types of cars of the same size
can carry more passengers. Thoie
are mighty small “inconveniences
to pay for expediting the troop
trains and the war freights.
The traveling public can help—by
not traveling except when necessary,
by making reservations as far ahead
as possible, by not engaging more
Pullman space than is actually need
ed, and by not demanding needless
special services. It’s also wise to
not travel on holidays and over
weekends if you can avoid it.
The trains are running farther
and faster than ever before. When
you board one, reflect that no in
dustry is doing a better or a more
necessary war job.
LANDS FOR SALE—Anyone inter
ested in the purchase of the farm
containing 373 acres, in Beth Eden
School District, on which there is
considerable timber, or the lot of
1.2 acres on College Street, touch
ing Scott’s Creek, in the City of
Newberry, owned by the late Mrs.
James C. Duncan, is invited to
communicate with me, or my at
torneys, Blease and Griffith, New
berry, S. C. JAMES C. DUNCAN,
Kinards, S. C. 2tc
TAX NOTICE
The tax books will be open for col
lection of 1942 taxes on and after
October 15, 1942.
The following is general levy for
all except special purposes:
Mills
Ordinary County 11
Bonds, Notes and Interest 18
Roads and Bridges... 2
Hospital %
Schools — State 3
County Schools 5
County Board of Education.... %
County Schools — Special I
State 1
dependency Is Not A Requirement For Allowances To Wives
And ChUdren of American Soldiers
AUTO LICENSE SALES OFF
Columbia, Oct. 27.—Sales of 1943
motor vehicle license plates through
last week were off 23 per cent from
the same date last year. License
sales have been increasing daily,
however. A week ago the purchas
es were down a third. October 31st
is the last day to get licenses with
out paying a 50c penalty.
'kUud y044, Buy With
WAR BONDS
At Midway, in the Coral Sea and
from General MacArthur’s head
quarters in Australia, the Navy pa
trol bombers are searching out en
emy bases, ships and transports and
“completing their mission.’’ The
Navy Patrol Bomber costs about
$750,000.
Our factories are turning out hun
dreds of these bombing ships. Yet
it is only through your investment
in War Bonds and Stamps you can
do your share to help provide pa-
;trol bombers for our rapidly in
creasing air force. Invest at least
ten percent of your income every
payday in these Government securi-
;ties and do your bit to win and short-
en the war. Onr airmen are de-
' pending on your help.
£/. S. Treasury Dipartmnt
WHEN DEATH COMES
All through life, one fights death,
We do everything within our power,
quite naturally and quite properly, to
protect our health and to so live
that we may have as many days on
this earth as is possible. The thought
of death either for ourselves or for
lov^d ones sends terror to our hearts.
A veteran nurse is quoted in a re
cent magazine article as saying that
it has always seemed to her a major
tragedy that so many go through
life haunted by this fear of death—
only to find when it comes that it
is as natural as life itself. Very few
are afraid to die, she says, when
they get to the very end and in all
of her experiences she has seen only
one who seemed to feel any terror—
a woman who had done he^ sister a
wrong which it was too late to
right.
“Something strange and beautiful
happens to men and women whqn
they come to the end of the road,”
says the nurse. “All fear, all horror
disappears. I have often watched
a loqk of happy wonder dawn in
their eyes when they realized this
was true. It is a part of th'> good
ness of nature, and I believe of the
illimitable goodness of God.”
Many of us have made the same
observations as this veteran nurse.
Most of us have sat at the bedsidg
and seen a loved one pass way. Torn
though our hearts may have been,
we unquestionably found comfort in
the calm and peaceful manner in
which the dying one embraced death.
How agonizing it would have been
to have seen them pass pleading
that something be done to stave off
the inevitable!
A handsome young boy. the son of
a prominent South Carolinian, was
stricken several years ago with a
fatal disease and it was known that
when it reached one of his vital or
gans it would carry him off quickly.
A few days before the end was to
come, the youth talked with his
father, told him he did not want to
die and asked if there was not
something that could be done to save
him. The father, who had already
had medical science do everything
that could possibly be done, was
naturally distracted by his son’s
pleadings. The day before death
came, however, the youth called his
father to his bedside and begged him
not to worry. The “something
strange and beautiful” which the
veteran nurse says happens to all
when they come to the end of the
road, had prepared this handsome
and brilliant youth for the end. It is
not difficult for us to imagine the
consolation the grieved father got
out of his son’s reconciliation to the
inevitable.
And we have all probably observ
ed also that the “same goodness of
nature and illimitable goodness of
God,” which removes all fear from
dying ones, helps also to sustain
those who are left behind.—Lancas
ter News.
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The following are the authorized
special levies for the various school
districts of the County:
Dist. No. Mills
1—Newberry ,..^.17
1—Newberry (O.S.) 17
2—Mt. Bethel-Garmany 6
3— Maybinton 6
4— Long Lane 6
5— McCullough €
6— Cromer 0
8— Reagin 10
9— Deadfall 10
10— Utopia 10
11— Hartford 6
12— Johnstone 5
13— -Stony Hill 6
14— Prosperity 15
15— O’Neal 8
18— Fairview 4
19— Midway 4
21— Central 4
22— St. Philips 8
23— ’Rutherford 4
24— -Broad River 4
25— New Hope Zion 4
26— Pomaria 12
27— Red Knoll 6
28— Helena 4
29— Mt. Pleasant 8
30— Little Mountain 16%
31— Wheeland 3
32— Union 6
33— Jolly Street 8
34— St. Paul 6
35— Peak 4
37— Mudlick 6
38— Vaughnville 6
39— Chaippells 6
40— Old Town 10
41— Dominick 8
42— Reederville 12
43— Bush River 12
44— Smyrna 12
45— Trinity 10
46— Burton 10
47— Tranwood 12
48— Jalapa 8
49 : —Kinards 2
50— Tabernacle % .. 8
51— Trilby 4
52— Whitmire 15
53— Mollohon 4
54— Beth Eden 5
55— Fork 8
57— Belfast 6
58— Silverstreet 14
59— Pressley 4
60— St. Johns 4
There will be a one per cent (1% )
discount on general County taxes
through November 14, 1942.
On and after January 1, 1943, the
Penalties prescribed by law will be
imposed on unpaid taxes.
You are requested to call for your
taxes by School districts in which
property is located. The Treasurer
is not responsible for unpaid taxes
not called for by districts.
Those who had their dogs vaccinat
ed f*r rabies during the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1942, by one authoriz
ed by law, and expect to be exempt
ed from dog tax will please bring
their certificates of vaccination
when appearing to pay taxes.
J. RAY DAWKINS,
Treasurer Newberry County
Many of the questions whiih haye
vexed soldiers and their dependents
as well as selective service officials
and service officers, are answered
fully in the official instructions re
ceived by Selective Service Boards
here.
The benefits are limited to rela
tives and dependents of enlisted men
in the seventh, sixth, fifth and
fourth grades. In the army these are:
Private, Private First class, Techni
cian fifth grade, corporal, technician
fourth grade and sergeant.
Who Is Eligible
For the purpose of family allow
ances, the relatives and dependents
of a soldier are divided into two
classes: “Class A" and “Class B”.
In class A are the wife and children
of the soldier. Class A relatives do
not have to be dependent upon the
soldier in order to be eligible for a
family allowance. In Class B are
the parents, brothers, sisifters and
grandchildren of the soldiers. Class
B dependents must be dependent up-
no the soldier for a substantial por
tion of their support to be eligible^
Class A
Class A includes:
Wife—A lawful wife.
Child—includes the following:
(1) A legitimate child.
(2) A child legally adopted.
(3) A stepchild, if a member of
the man’s household, including a
stepchild who continues as a member
of the man’s household after the
death of the mother or the termina
tion of the marriage, and
(4) An illegitimate child, but only
if the man has been judicially or
dered to contribute to the child’s
support; has been judicially decreed
to be the putative father of such
child; or has acknowledged such
oath in writing that he is the father
of such a child.
Former wife iivorced — Former
wife divorced who has not remarried
and to who alimony has been decreed
and is still payable.
Class B
Parent—Includes father and mo
ther, grandfather and grandmother,
stepfather and stepmother, father
and mother through adoption either
of soldier or of his wife,-and per
sons, who for a period of not less
than one year prior to the man’s
enlistment or induction stood in
place of parents to the soldier. No
more than two .parents are eligible
REPORT OF GINNINGS
Special Agent B. M. Wise reports
that 11,236 bales of cotton were
ginned in the county to October 18th
of this year. There were 3,207 bales
ginned to the same date a year ago.
Telephone 155
We Have
JUST
RECEIVED
a Large Shipment
of
Genuine Berwind
Pocahontas
(Smokeless)
BRIQUETS
Don’t let winter catch
you unprepared.
Farmers Ice & Fuel
Company
FOR SALE)—Eight young grade
cows and heifers, all bred to Here
ford bull. C. M. WILSON.
FOR RENT—Two or three room un
furnished upstairs apartments
Mrs. J. W. White.
WANTED TO BUY—Scrap Iron,
Copper, Aluminum, auto radio parts,
Rags, Inner-tubes and Zinc. Loca
tion in alley leading to Standard Oil
company bulk plant. W. H. Sterling.
for an allowance based on the ser
vice of one soldier
Brother and sister—Includes bro
thers and sisters of the half blood,
as well as those of the whole blood,
stepbrothers and stepsisters and
sisters through adoption.
Grandchild—A child as above de
fined is limited to persons to whom
and is limited to persons to whom
the soldier has stood in place of
parents for a period of not less than
one year prior to his enlistment or
induction.
How Much Each Gets
In the case of a $50 payment to
a wife, the soldier contributes $22
which is taken out of his pay and
the government contributes the re
maining $28. Total monthly allow
ances are as follows:
Wife, but no child, $50.
Wife and one child, $62.
Wife and two children, $72.
Wife and three children, $82.
Wife and four Children, $92.
Wife and five children, $102.
No wife but one child, $42.
,No wife but two children, $52.
No wife but three children, $62.
No wife but four children, $72.
No wife but five children, $82.
Divorced—Up to, $42.
Class B
One parent, $37.
1 parents and 1 other, $42.
1 parent and 2 others, $47.
1 parent and 3 others, $52.
1 parent and 4 others, $67.
1 parent and 5 others, $62.
1 parent and 6 others, $87.
2 parents, $47.
2 parents and 1 other, $52.
(And $5 a month for each addi
tional brother, sister or other eli
gible dependent).
No parent, but 1 other, $27.
$5 month for each other)
Wife, no child, 1 parent, $70.
Wife, no child, 2 parents, $80.
Wife, child, 1 iparent, $82.
Wife, 2 children, 1 parent, $92.
Wife 3 children, 1 parent, $102.
Wife, 4 children, 1 parent, $112.
Many other combinations are pos
sible. These are given only as typi
cal examples.
Proof of Dependency.
A familiar question has been:
“Does a wife or child have to prove
dependency on a soldier to get the
allowance ? ”
No. Class A relatives do not have
to prove dependency. They only have
to prove relationship.
Class B dependents must prove
that they are dependent on the
soldier for a substantial part of
their support, and must also prove
their relationship to him.
CLEMSON MAN WHO BORROW
ED $560 REPAYS $2,258
BETH-EDEN LUTHERAN PARISH
Rev. M. L. Kester, Pastor
Clemson, October 31.— Slightly
over 30 years ago Bill Camp same
to Clemson college from York coun
ty with little more than the determ
ination to get an education, and the
will to stick it out through four
thrifty years.
Last week, William B. Camp, a
successful Pacific coast vegetable
producer, was back on the campus to
visit his sons, Bill, jr., and Donald,
members of the junior and fresh
man classes, respectively, and to
hand Clemson’s president, R. F.
Poole, a Check for $2,258.84.
“This,” Mr. Camp said, “is pay
ment for the money Clemson loaned
me when I was a student. I didn’t
borrow that much, but this repre
sents what Clemson staked me to,
compounded at 6 per cent over the
thirty years. I guess the total’ is
correct; it was figured in the col
lege teasurer’s office just now.”
As a Clemson student, Mr. Camp
had borrowed $140 a year, or a total
of $560.
With a profused “thanks”, Dr.
Poole, who was graduated from
Clemson in the same class with M r -
Camp in 1916, turned the check over
to the Clemson Foundation fund, to
be used to help other worthy boys
through college.
Beth-Eden:
10 a. m., Sunday school. James
Hentz, Supt.
11 a. m., Dr. Erland Nelson will
present facts concerning the recent
convention of the United Lutheran
Church in America at Louisville, Ky.
All members are urged to hear Dr.
Nelson and the public is invited.
St. James’:
3 p. m.. In keeping with a request
of the leaders of The Children of
the Church the Sunday School hour
will be given over to a public pro
gram given by the Children of the
Church. An interesting .program
has been arranged and the public is
invited to hear it ,
4 p. m.. Dr. Erland Nelson will
present facts concerning the recent
convention of the United Lutheeran
Church in America at Louisville, Kv.
All members are urged to hear Dr.
Nelson and the public is invited.
Colony:
11 a. m., Sunday school. Grady
Bedenbaugh, Supt. (Note the change
of hour from 10 a. m. to 11 a. ml)
KENDALL MILLS LUTHERAN
Rev. J. B. Harman, Pastor
Bethany:
Sunday 10 a- m., Sunday School.
Mr. E. B. Hite, Supt
11 a. m., Church worship with
Sermon.
Summer Memorial:
Sunday 10:30 a. m., Sunday school.
Mr. M. E. Shealy, Supt
6 >p. m., Luther League and
Brotherhood.
7 p. m., Children of the Chufch
Festival followed by sermon.
Visitors are invited to attend all
GIRL SCOUT NEWS
A group of girls met at the Girl
Scout cabin Tuesday afternoon to or
ganize a new troop which is to be
Troop 4.
The following officers were elected:
Patrol No. 1, leader, Verna Kohn, as
sistant leader, Peggy Hutchinson-,
patrol No. 2, leader, Joan Dominick,
assistant leader, Joyce Coleman;
treasurer, Doris Dominick; scribe,
Carolyn Lipscomb.
We discussed the uniforms and
dues, afterwards we played a game
called “Observation”. It was decid-
edl tht for the present we would meet
every Tuesday afternoon at the Girl
Scout cabin from 4 until 5:30 p. m.
Carolyn Lipscomb
Scribe.
RETURN^ FROM ARKANSAS
Sheriff Tom Felisrs and Magis
trate Ben Dawkins returned last
Thursday night from Osceola, Ark.,
where they went to get J. O. Daniel,
who escaped bond here about 2 1-2
years ago. Daniel is charged w'itb
chicken stealing,
Don't listen to people who say-“They can't need scrap very
badly. Look at that junk yard, or the auto graveyards-
they've got plenty of scrap. And remember the last time
we had a drive the stuff sat around for weeks." Tell such
people these true facts...
_ jpiy
of Rye Grass Seeds for the winter
lawns. See us before buying. We will
be glad to help you estimate the
amount it will take for your lawn. R.
M. Lominick Hardware.
FOR SALE—For good quality
seed oats, barley and wheat, high in
purity and germination test. Write,
phone or see me for prices. H. 0.
Long, Silverstreet, S. C.
FOR SALE—One John Deere trac
tor outfit-tractor, 20-22 inch disc har
row, 6-2 inch disc tiller. Also, one
Burrough’s adding machine and one
fat beef cow. H. C. Holloway. 22-23
O F course the junk yards are full.
They are "factories” that turn
out finished scrap—sorted, broken
up, and bundled . . . ready for the
mills of America. The scrap has to
go through these yards, and it keeps
going through fast!
The auto graveyards too, are busy.
They specialize in used car parts, but
produce plenty of scrap as well.
In June alone, these yards moved
450,000 tons—for they are required
to junk within 60 days a.' many cars
as they buy.
As for Salvage Depots—communi
ties all over the country are staging
drives. All this scrap can’t be taken
away at once. The junkies can’t
handle it and the mills can’t store it.
But every pound is needed and will
be used. We’ve got to pile it up ready
for instant use at any time.
The day when all junk yards are
empty, when the auto graveyards are
cleaned out, when all the local scrap
stockpiles are gone—that is the day
to dread. It is a day to avoid at all costs.
So remember—steel is needed to
fight the war, and millions of lives
depend on it. This steel is made of
50% scrap—and the mills have not
enough scrap to last even 30 days
longer. Don’t fail to do your pan in
this emergency.
Get your scrap ready for the drive that starts Monday I
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