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i MAY 7, IM THE NEWBBBRf BUN FR- The Spectator Have you ever been caught in a “black-out”? Recently I was, and it was the culmination of a series ol misadventures which gave to the character of the straw which broke the camel’s back. Leaving Columbia on a bus for my home in Manning, and the beauties of Brooks Street, said by a National Commentator as the loveliest Street he had seen in America,—well, leav ing for Manning, and leaving Colum bia late at that, just one thing after another marred the joyful anticipa- ion of walking down enchanting Brooks Street. Arrived in Sumter our bus had to wait until its second section arrived. Before it arrivedj— forty minutes late—the horrific sig nal of a black-out sounded like the knell of doom through the length, breadth and thickness of the Game- Cock City which nestles near the charm of Swan Lake. After so long —perhajps fifteen minutes—the all- clear was sounded and the lights came on again all over the world. Then the second bus bravely pulled in, as though unashamed of being so late. Quickly our spirits rose; but when we were ready to fare forth through the busy city, that awe-im- spiring version of diabolic alarm sounded on the air, again, and for what seemed an hour darkness de scended upon the earth, for day and night were one, there being no light. And we waited and waited. Never was a black-out so black, nor a black-out so long, nor a crowd of people so tired and hungry and anxious to get away. But the Sty- PLENTY OF CANNED FRUIT? Only for Those Who Can Their Own! ■ ■ 1 ■ ~ ■—..i—- Extra Sugar for Canning is Available NOW! Be assured of ample, energy-build ing sweets next winter, by canning fruits and berries this Summer. The Government has allotted extra sugar for this purpose, and wants you to help in the present food shortage by canning as much as possible. Apply to your Ration Board for your extra sugar for canning NOW. Dixie Crystals Pur? Cane S'ygar ★ ★ WUai you. Buy 'With WAH BONDS ★ ★_ The Women’s Anxiliary Volunteer Emergency Service, more familiar ly known as the WAVES, has been established as a part of our Navy. They are doing a great work and relieving many men from office to active service. • Cost of a WAVE uniform, exclu sive of accessories, is approximate ly $137.35. This includes suit, skirt, hat, overcoat, raincoat and service bag. Yoijr purchase of War Bonds helps pay for the uniforms for these patriotic women. Buy War Bonds every payday with at least ten per cent of your income. £/. S’. Treasury Department t 1 Classified Ads | ! LOST—“A” Gasoline Ration Book for automobile lisence No. 10<3021, motor No. 120912. Issued on Aug ust 15, 1942. Finder please return to JIM HINDERSON, R. F. D., Pomaria, S. C. 3tp FOR RENT: Three large connecting upstairs rooms with private bath. Miss Annie Gary, 1221 Glenn street, plhone 458. 3tp 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. EGGS FOR HATCHING—from Big Black Giants, Dark Cornish Games, and also Bantams, domesticated Mal lard Ducks, Ringneck and Mutant Pheasants, Rabbits in all sizes. R. DERRILL SMITH, Wholesale Grocer, Newberry, S. C. APARTMENT FOR RENT — Apply to Mrs. T. P. Johnson, 1237 Calhoun street. Phone 220-J. gian night held us in thrall. # It was so dark in Sumter that' an enemy plane flying overhead could have spotted Sumter by the intense pal! of inky appearance. One lady on the bus, eager to get to the calm and peace of old Georgetown, remarked that her experience of the disaster at Pari Harbor was as nothing com pared with a black-out in Sumter, and authorized me to quote her as saying that. Certainly I speak only the truth in soberness in declaring that if you want to know when a black-out is a black-out, sit through a black-out in the gallant and prosperous city of Sumter. Of course I had heard that some of my friends of Charleston, with accustomed forehandednes®, prepared ice, glasses and champagne as the most propitious solace for the impenetrable gloom of a black-out; but that the City Police served such a thorough dose of cheerless night that my friends could not locate their own lips, for the cheering potations. But I’m persuaded that no black-out can be so black as a black-out in Sumter. I had hoped to turn my mind to other topics since I am not fighting the Santee-Cooper in its proper field, but merely opposing such an expan sion of it as would seem to threaten the state with a power Octopus under nolitical control. The progress and nrosperity of the great low-country ■oowef development must be pleasant to contemplate. The Associated Press has sent out an interesting story on the Santec- Cooper which the dailies carried on April 29th. The story gives the fol lowing informafon: ‘The Santee-Cooper is operating at actual capacity, that being some what under the theoretical maximum r>roductiv e capacity, naturally, and is earning $50,000 a month “in excess of all expenses”. I’m not sure that we can call that a net profit of $50.- 000 a month, because accountants talk one language and we untechni- eal people talk another. At any rate, the Associated Press states au thoritatively, or as authentic, that the big “Project” on the Santee, that selling S200.000 of power a month and that $50,000 is above all ex- ■penses. At first blush I wondered if the usually accurate Associated Press had made a slip. The statement, un der analysis, is confusing. It says that the Santee-Coper is selling about 2,400,000 Kilowatts, which is almost three times as many Kilo watts as all the power companies in South Carolina can generate. The total capacity of all generating com panies in this State is 857,160 Kilo watts; and this includes every type of generating company, steam hydro electric and internal combustion, and considering the full theoretical capa city of the Santee-Cooper. It may be that the reporter was not informed that there is a vast dif ference beween Kilowatts and Kilo- watt-hougs. As I said, the total capacity of Kilowatts of all South Carolina companies combined is 857,- 160. Assuming, then, that the report er was in error and that the Santee- Cooper is selling 240,000,000 Kilo watt-hours there would seem to be another error, for 240,000,000 Kilo watt-hours for $200,000 a month, or $2,400,000 a year would indicate a rate very notably high, much higher than the private companies charge. We know, as a matter of public re cord, that the Santee-Cooper is sell ing 144,000,000 Kilowatt-hours at 5 1-2 mills, so that leaves 96,000,000 Kilowatt-hours, the greater part of it said to be sold at 3 mills, or less. The reporter must have been en tranced by the view and the fresh water trout. There is another angle: The San tee-Coper is said to have an annual fixed charge for interest of at least $1,040,000 a year, paying 4 per cent on $26,000,000 advanced by the Fed eral Government. If the Santee- Cooper is selling $2,400,000 worth of power a year, according to the im plications of the public statement, that would mean that the company operates at a high cost. If, as he re porter tells us, the Santee-Cooper is making a clear profit of $50,000 a month, that would be $600,000 a year. Now let us take for granted that the $600,000 a year is clear, net profit. We must remember that it does not include taxes, unless provision has been made for local property taxes. By comparison with the Lexington Water Power Company, which is about the same size as the Santee- Cooper, we find that the Lexington Company pays in State taxes $157.- 316 and in Federal Taxes $36,192. The Santee-Coper pays none of this. Taking $2,400,000 as the total of the sales of power by the Santee- Cooper. an dsubtraoting $1,040,000 for debt service, that would leave $1,360,000 for everything else. Tak ing $600,000 from that as a net pro fit, then the Santee-Cooper is operat ing on a over-all cost basis of $760,- 000. This is strikingly impressive, but rather high, perhaps. If we take the statement of the Associated Press and look at it from another angle we might assume that the sale of 240,000 Kilowatt-hours at an average of 5 1-2 mills would re- NEWBERRY CONFERENCE AT GRACE LUTHERAN The Newberry Conference of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South Carolina met May 6, in Grace Luth eran church, the Rev. W. Darr Hai ti wan ger, Pastpr, with Rev. M. L. Kester, President, presiding. Presi dent Kester preached the sermon us ing as his text I Kings 19:12, 13, and having the subject “The Still Small Voice of God.” The liturgical - ser vices were conducted by the Revs. J. E. Roof and V. L. Fulmer. After the sermon the Holy Communion was administered. Pastor Haltiwanger and Mr. Robert P. Luther, Mayor of Prosperity, welcomed the members of Conference to Grace church and Pros perity. The Rev. A. M. Huffman of Knox ville, Tenn., a member of the Board of Ministerial Pensions and Relief of the United Lutheran Church of America; the Rev. Karl W. Kinard. President of the Lutheran Synod of S. C.; and the Rev. Charles E. Fritz, D. D., of Columbia, Director of Luth eran World Action appeal in S. C., spoke on the respective causes that they represent. Greetings were brought to the Con ference by Mrs. L. Carroll Derrick, President of the Women’s Mission ary Conference of Newberry County; Miss Emma Julia Ballentin e repre senting the Luther Leagues of New berry County; and D. Erland Nelson, President of the Lutheran Brother hood of S. C., in a letter read by Mr. W. B. Shealy. The Rev. J ,V. Long and Dr. R. A. Goodman spoke in be half of The Children of the Church. Mr. W. B. Ballentine spoke in be half of the periodicals of our Church and announced that The South Car olina Lutheran may be had for bal ance of the year 1943 for 25 cents. Reports from the following com mittees were received: On Program by the Rev. P. D. Risinger, on Presi dent’s Report by the Rev. J. E. Roof, on Stewardship by Albert Stenvmer- man, on Parish Education by the Rev. J. E. Roof, on Missions by Dr. R. A. Goodman, on Pastoral Charges by the Rev. J. B. Harmon, on Letters and Excuses by the Rev. W. D. Hal tiwanger, on Special Reference by the Rev. P. D. Risinger, on Reforma tion by Dr. R. A. Goodman, and on esolutions by the Rev. Albert Stem- merman. At the noon hour a bountiful lunch was served by the ladies of the con gregation in the grove by the church. Conference passed a resolution ex presing regret of the loss of the Revs. M. L. Kester and E. K. Counts from the C or >ference by being called bo fields of labor in another Con ference; and also, a resolution of ap preciation of having the Revs. W. D. Haltiwanger and Rev. Albert Stem- merman as new members of our Conference. The following officers were elect ed to fill unexpired terms of office: the Rev. J. E. Rocf, president; the Rev. J. V. Long, vice president; and the Rev. V. L. Fulmer, secretary. Mr. C. M. Folk is the treasurer of conference. A unanimous vote of thanks was extended Pastor Haltiwanger and the members of Grace congregation for the generous hospitality extend ed. The time and place of the next meeting was left for the executive committee, composed cf the officers, of conference, to decide, suit in a total income of $1,320,000. We know that not all the 240,000/000 Kilowiatt-hours is sold for a rate as high as 5 1-2 mills, but I use that figure. If the Santee-Cooper has a fixed charge of $1,040,000 on its bonds and has a total income from sales of $1,320,000 it has, by that calculation, only $280,000 for all ad ministrative and operating expense. These various calculations don’t square with one another. Perha«ps the $50,000 a month “in excess, of all expenses’ is the happy condition, instead of calculating the bond charge against the receipts. It only goes to show how one may become lost in a maze of figures. Af ter writing al this I am completely at sea and not able to see what is what. It may be that the bes way is o begin with $50,000 a month of net profit an dcount on the Santee- Cooper contributing tfr the State $600,000 a year, in lieu of taxes. But even then just one company is paying in all taxes $1,088,000 « year. QUINTUPlfTS relieve misery of CHEST COLDS this good old reliable way At the first sign of the Dionne Quin tuplets catching cold—their chests and throats are rubbed with Musterole—a product made especially to promptly relieve distress of colds and resulting bronchial and croupy coughs. The Quints have always had expert care, so mother—be assured of using just about the BEST product made when you use Musterole. It's more than an ordinary “salve"—Musterole helps break up local congestion! IN 3 STRENGTHS: Children’s Mild Musterole. Also Regular and Extra Strength for grown-ups who prefer a stronger product. All drugstores. SPARTANS ARE CRITICAL Spartanburg, May 2.—The Men’s Bible class of the Trinity Methodist church here today dispatched tele grams to President Roosevelt, Sena tor Maybank and Representative Bryson asking an immediate settle ment of the coal strike and enact ment of the “work or fight” order. “In th e name of Almighty God who created within us the desire for freedom, we implore you,'sir, is there not some way for us to get rid of such characters as John L. Lewiis now and forever?” The class, wired the -president, “Are we to be de feated like France and for the same reasons, while our sons give* their lives' and we lend our money.” To Senator Maybank the class wired: “We are desperate over strikes in war time, especially the present coal strike, we favor finish ing off with Lewis and his kind for the duration and a work or fight or der.” To representative .Bryson this message was sent: “If the govern ment will draft into the army every miner who refuses to work for the present high wages and train them promptly for foreign servic. the patriotic citizens of the United States who are furnishing their sons as sol diers and buying th e bonds will sure ly furnish two miners in his place. We say work or fight.” MRS. IDA KIBLER BOWERS Mrs. Ida Kibler Bowers. 81, wife of the latg George Bowers, died at her home near Prosperity early Sat urday morning. She had been in failing health for ' some time. She 4vas born and reared in the Pros perity section and was a member of Zion Methodist church. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. T. L. Dawkins, and Mrs. Henry Stockman, and two sons, Ridgell and Murphy Bowers of Prosperity. PLAN TO REGAIN UNITED STATES PROPERTY Washington, May 2.—Preparation to recover an estimated $5,000,000 000 for American property “system atically destroyed or looted by tlie Axis in the global war zones” are already under way, Eugene P. Thom as, president of the National Foreign Trade Council, inc. announced today. Declaring that the destroyed prop erty represented the investments of 2,000,000 Americans, Thomas said industrialists had started the effort for recovery by appointing a com mittee representing from 90 to 95 per cent of American industry en gaged in foreign commerce prior to the war. t Workers in a Michigan refin ery fixed up a very low, false door leading to the pay office. On it is inscribed, “You will learn to duck lower if you don’t Buy a Bond.” How to “PREPARE” Tin Cano for War Duty Clean can well and soak off label Cut off both ends and flatten firmly Tuck cut-off ends in can Save in separate containers and give to an authorized collector UNCLE SAM NEEDS YOUR TIN! ; Follow these Official Instructions I by the War Production Board! Nearly ninety percent of America’s tin formerly came from Malaya. And tin is vital to the war effort — for airplane parts, maehine gun mounts, gas masks, countless other military uses! That’s why Uncle Sam needs your old tin cans. Read the simple instructions below and cooperate with your Salvage Committee, Defense Council, and Municipal Authorities to help make the salvage of tin cans a big success in your community. Important Facts to Help You. All paint, oil, varnish, floor polish, or cone-shaped cans are not wanted for salvage. Evapo rated- or condensed-milk cans are not worth saving. Put these with your trash. Coffee cans and others with painted-on-can labels are wanted. It is not necessary to wash off the small amount of glue which holds labels. Be Patriotic.—Keep this leaflet in your kitchen for handy reference. Why “Prepared Cans” Are Needed 1, Washing prevents deteriora tion of tin coating—assures sanitary conditions—and pre vents contamination of de- tinning fluid. 2, Removing ’ top and bottom permits the free flow of detinning fluid over all sur faces of the can. 3, Firmly flattened cans occupy less space in collection, ship ment, and detinning oper ations — thereby decreasing handling costs and increas ing plant capacity for detinning. Start Saving Cans Now.—Properly “prepared cans’’ are clean and fit solidly into a basket or other con tainer. They can be stored in the home conveniently for an in definite period until collection methods are arranged. CoHeCtiOn Day.—The designated collection day for your neighbor hood will be announced and publicized intensively through your local salvage committee. Watch for newspaper and radio announcements. NOT A SINGLE CAN SHOULD BE WASTED