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FOR RENT—Furnished apartmcn. Phone 220-J. Mrs. T. P. Johnsor., 12S7 Calhoun street. 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. LOST—1 A Gasoline Rationing Book. Finder please return to J. C. Sortor. Box 131, Whitmire, S. C. 3tp NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDER’S MEETING Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the stockholders of the J. W. Kibler Company, a corporation with its principal place of business at Newberry, South Carolina, is here by called to be held in the office of Blease & Griffith, attorneys, New berry, S. C., on Monday, December 21, 19>42, at 11:00 o’clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of winding up its affairs, surrendering its char ter for cancellation and dissolving the corporation, and for the transac tion of any other business connected therewith. M. W. CLARY, President Newberry, S. C., Nov. 17, 1942. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE I offer for sale the following prop erty of the estate of Warren T. Ep- ting: House and lot in Newberry, No. 1517 Johnstone street, two blocks from the business district, facing the Lutheran church, known as the Summer place; The home place of Warren T. Ep- ting, 322 acres, in Pomaria and New- Hope school districts; The Samuel Epting place, 60 acres, in Pomaria school district; The Pitts place, 56 acres, in Trin ity school district. For further information, see the undersigned, or Blease & Griffith, attorneys. ERNEST W. EPTING, Executor 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 V* Schools — State 8 County Schools 5 County Board of Education % County Schools — Special I State 1 42 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 5 5— McCullough 6 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 16—O’Neal 8 18— Fairview 4 19— Midway 4 21— Central 4 22— SL 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 1614 31— Wheeland 3 32— Union 6 33— Jolly Street 8 34— St. Paul 6 35— Peak 4 37— iMudlick 6 38— Vaughnville 8 39— Chappells 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— Tran wood 12 48— Jalapa 8 49— Kinards 2 50— Tabernacle 8 61— Trilby 4 62— Whitmire 15 53—Mollohon 4 64— Beth Eden 5 65— Fork 8 67—Belfast 6 58—Silverstreet 14 50—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 for 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 Leon Henderson, national O.P.A. administrator, tells of saving billions of dollars to the nation in its war purchases, and billions to us private consumers. It is an interesting story. For example, the price of copper rose to nearly thirty cents a pound in the first world war and would probably be above that figure today if it were not for the Price Administration. That applies equal ly to a thousand other items bought by the government for the war; and bought by us as individual consum ers. The figures given by Mr. Hen derson in a speech in Boston are il lumination. AlreVidy tlhe govern has saved $20,000,000,000 and the savings may run to seventh eight billions, said Mr. Henderson. With out O.P.A. controls prices would be at least 50 per cent higher, he points out, based on prices of the First world war period. Th e family budgets have been saved $8,500,000 00© and the savings may run to $21,- 000,000,000. We recall sugar at thirty cents pound during the First world war. The strict rationing and price con trol are entirely in the interest of the small-income man. Without these restrictions a few would have bacon, sugar, coffee, gasoline and tires without limit merely by paying prices beyond the reach of small in comes.,As it is, every man is given equal consideration. Certainly that is the purpose of the government and we should respect that policy. I have a letter from one of the great industrialists of the south, a man of many intererts, and a man of large wealth. He writes me: “Nothing could give me more pleas ure .... etc., but owing to -the gas situation I shall be unable to attend.’’ With all bis power and his wealth he gladly bows to his country’s rul ing. That is the spirit and that is patriotic citizenship. , Don Carlos Arroyo Del Rio, Pres ident of Ecuador, is visiting the Uni ted States officially as a gesture of good will. His title is Presidente Constitucional de la Republica de Ecuador. The president of Ecuador is styled “El Senor Presidente”. Do you know where Ecuador is? The equator runs thru Ecuador. The name Ecuador is the Spanish word for Equator. If I should anylize th e name of our distinguished guest I should say that the English equival ent would be Mr. Charles of the Valley of the River, though arroyo means a small stream or tributary. It is easy to follow the route of someone who has visited a country, so let’s try it as best we can. Per haps you wonder that South Ameri cans are just now learning us. It is equally true that we are just learn ing them. Until the first world war when we had ocassion to visit South America we usually went across the Atlantic to England. We had no regular sailings to South America. The South Americans, then, went to Europe instead of coming here. Even letters to South America were were carried to England. Just as we looked to Europe and paid no atten tion to South America, so South America looked to Europe and paid no attention to us. Some adventur- our Americans went to South Amer ica. I have a friend who spent years in Collombia and Ecuador. But such men were rare. South America looked upon us as the “Col ossus of the North,” but not with understanding or appreciation. The Panama Canal has turned our minds to South America, as it has turned their minds to us. Before the canal was opened a traveller to Ecu ador by water would have sailed down the Atlantic to the tip of South America and then up the Pacific to Ecuador. That would have been quite a voyage. Travellers by land might have crossed the Isthmus of Panama and passed through Col umbia. But only men of the hard iest type, veritable Daniel Boones, would attempt such a journey. Even today, anyone making such a jour ney overland would live in the mem ory of his people as a great explor er. And 1 think it safe to say that th« hardships of Columbus were trivial in comparison with a trip to Ecuador overland, even today. So before the days of the Panama canal Ecuador was a sort of mythi cal land to the great outside world, excepting her near neighbors, Peru and Colombia, and intercourse with them was just occasional. Today all regular passenger ships have discon tinued their schedules on account of the war, but the Pacific coast of South America is alive with British and Ameriqgn cargo ships bringing in raw products of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. Colombia which is on both sides of the canal can be easily reached. Now then, where is Ecuador? If one passes through the canal he will turn the comer of Colombia and go severa Ihundred miles.,He will then sail by the shores of Ecuador sever al hundred miles before reaching Peru. A thousand miles down that coast will bring you to Chile. Many of our leaders are predicting a short session of the legislative. Their reasoning is sound and patriot ic the war absorbs all our attention and we must not have a protracted session of the Legislature. The prin cipal business for the coming session might be well confined to appropriat ing for the state and county gov ernments. Of course other matters will inevitably arise. Until the ways and means committee of the house submits appropriation bill the house will have to occupy itself with some thing. The county supply bills could be introduced in the house at once. But they do not require much time. Then the senate will have to find something to do while the house han dies the appropriation bill. There have been suggestions that the house and senate recess while the ways and means committee wrestles with the money bill. , There is little that we can do at the moment for almost everything is being regulated as a part of the war program. New taxes are out of the quetsion fortunately, but the state must decide what to do with the sur plus. Governor-elect Johnston and Governor Jefferies see clearly the wisdom of reducing the State’s debt. Mr. Query has shown what is already happening to the revenue of the State. This is a time for the state to pull in its belt. The individual is said to have more money than he can wisely spend; that is precisely the position of the state. The nation is making its military might effective in many areas of war. It has first claim on all of us and our resources, so South Carolina will give an example of her war spirit by thinking in terms of the national war situation. The scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon was a last act of free Frenchmen. Of course it would have been better if the fleet had joined Britian and America, just as it might have been for the best of Holland, Denmark, Norway and Bel- guim ha djoined the British two years ago. But we are seeing this with the wisdom which comes after the event. It would be a terrific act of sacrifice to give up a fleet. Naturally the French held to it. But a calamiay has befallen them. Per- THE NEWBERKT Stm —* haps we should take off our hats and salute the Frenchmen iif their last act of devotion. ^ The United nations have profited by the infamous acts of 'Hitler. The Fighting Free French ate disaffect ed because of the arrangements made with Admiral Darkn. Surely we can understand that, but our govern ment has dealt wisely in treating with Darla n. Vast territory has been acquired at small Cost and a fleet has gone out of action. In the final settlement the rights of France as free nation will doubtless be ful ly respected, and the French will be restored to all their rights. In the ‘meantime our government deserves the hearty commendation of all of us for a fine conclusion of a very deli cate negotiation. Cotton has a dignity we knew no thing of a short time ago. I picked up a magazine recently and read that the “investigation of cotton seed oil includes the separation of the phospholipides and of gossypol from the oil.”, Well. I ask you farmers, did you know that the humble cotton seed our grandfathers threw away could inspire such language? Well a lot has been done to raise cotton and its components to a new dignity. I’ve told many times about the organization of the National Cotton Council. It was not just one more organization to boost cotton for a while and then fade into oblivion. It intended to promote the sale of cot ton by developing permanent, sus tained demand for it. The Council was organized when cotton seemed PAGE FIVE doomed. Fortunately, instead of re lying on mere ballyhoo, the Council brought in chemists and other men cf the laboratory. It asked the ques tion “What is cotton?” “What can it be used for?" and then “How can we promote the use of it in com petition with other great products?” The Mellon Institute put eight chem ists to work on the solution of the cotton problem. The National Coun cil also hag technicians at work with the Mellon chemists; various univer sities and colleges (including Clem- son) are studying cotton in the lab oratories; and the great United States Agricultural Laboratory in New Orleans is specializing in cotton. This is a new approach to the cot ton question. We used to talk about cotton—and abuse Wall Street—but new we undertake to create and de velop new markets for cotton by ad- aptng it to what the world wants, or can be induced to want. Technicians are studying every thing about cotton, from the whole bush, the stalk, the lint, liners, hulls, seed, oil—everyhing. For example, cotton seed meal has been found to be a complete and adequate source of protein for feeding purposes, but studies of the meal’s composition in dicate that meals of even higher nutritive value can be produced. Methods of isolating cotton seed pro tein for use in the manufacture of plastics and adhesives have been de veloped. 'Investigation of lint cot ton seeks new information on the construction, strength, and physical properties of the cotton fibre. study of linters is designed to pro mote the use of this type cotton ma- erial in the manufacture of high- grade paper, cotton felts and plas tics. Perhaps the most important of the studies being made of cotton has to do with the drape characteristics of cotton fabrics. It is hoped that cotton may be made to drape like silk or be made to stiffen to the crispness of starched linen. So the cotton of the south today is using the men of science to tell us of the possibilities of the great basic crop of Dixie. , GASOLINE “VITAMINS” When spectacular figures on the performance of a new type military plane are released, there is a gen eral tendency to overlook one im portant factor: fuel and its bearing on the breathtaking record of mod ern aircraft. For example, a standard airline transport plane can carry 24 pas sengers with 100 octane fuel operat ing on engines designed for it, While the same ship flying with 73 octane fuel and comparable engines can car ry only 10 passengers. Our 2,0<>0 -horsepower engines would still be draftmen’s dreams without the high test gas to run them. And it takes a lot more than oil wells to produce that gas. Mil lions of dollars in research and de cades of painstaking laboratory ex periment were required before the t fuel was produced that could send The j the present efficient, high altitude, heavily armored bombers over our enemies. The oil industry was ex perimenting with gasoline ‘vitamines’ before anybody ever heard of Hitler or Hirohito, or before there was any conceivable need for a supergasoline. The experimenting was simply im- ipelled by the spirit that keeps this country going to magnificently, the spirit that was born of our heritage of fredom. We can be thankful that it still exists. REV. BOULWARE The Rev. Robert C. Boulware, 78, retired Methodist minister, died Fri day at his home in the Utopia sec- ition. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Sue Watson Boulware; four sons, R. P. Boulware, Newberry; Robert C. Boulware, Waynesboro, Va., the Rev. C. H. Boulware. Cades; William S. Boulware, Fort Jackson and a sister, Mrs. Carrie Waddell, Atlanta, Ga. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at New Chapel church by the Rev. Ed Mason, pre siding elder of this district, and the Rev. O. M. Owens. Interment fol lowed in the church cemetery. Sl/fpo/tr out aors TOP TMAT JOk BY NEW VAR'S 01. MPBOm HERE’S YOUR “ORDER FOR A BOMB’’ for delivery to Berlin or Tokyo l, Because those boys aren’t fooling. Tkey***' killers—and they’re coming after yo* . So what are you going to do about k? Wait until they are on American soil? They’re on it now! In the Aleutian Islands, if you want to pick a place close to home! So the time to act is now! To buy War Bonds with at least 10% of your income—every week—> so Your Bomb can be delivered Met? mm* until this war is won. It’s easy to buy War Bonds at your post ottoe,^ bank, savings and loan association, at many depart- 1 ment stores, motion picture theaters, and other official sales agencies . * . today! Just read that “order,” Mr. anu Mrs. America! Read it carefully. It will deliver a bomb, with your democratic com pliments, to the murderous dictators of Germany or Japan. It’s an application for a U. S. War Bond. Sign it and Your Bomb will help tear apart the military machine the Axis powers have built to destroy you. Put off signing it and the chances are good that you’ll live just long enough to accept delivery of one “Made in Germany’ yourself. or one "Made in Japan’ BUY WAR BONDS- -at least 10% every pay day This space is s contribution to America’s All Out War Effort by Chapman Lumber Co. W. P. Derrick & Co. Whitener Lumber Co.