The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, March 08, 1946, Image 1
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VOLUME NO. 8; NO. 44
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JVIARCH 6, 1946
$1.0C PER ANNUM
Florida Boom This Time Is A Cash Affair
HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF
LONG GREEN BEING SPENT
IN FLOWER STATE
MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 28.—The boom
that struck Florida this winter is
just like that of 20 years ago in
that it’s all down with paper—last
time it was just paper, but this time
it’s “long green”.
Last time it was all done on paper
-promissory notes, mortgages, blue-
S rints, and checks that bounced,
ard. . _ - = ,
This time it’s coin of the realm in I drawing up abstracts, searching for
and buses brought prospective cus
tomers from surrounding towns. In
some instances, promoters rented
boats, rowed out to what they called
“choice locations,” and said to pcp-
eyed customers:
“This is your lot,” 'pointing
straight down.
People bought too—thousands of
them—usually with $10 down and
the remainder only a promise to pay,
verbally or otherwise.
Clerks worked far into the night,
recording deeds and mortgages,
the forms of tens, twenties and
hundred dollar bills—rolls of them.
The other boom, meaning the one
that roared along through the mid
dle twenties, brought hundreds of
thousands to the state, most of them
bent on getting rich at the expense
of the other fellow They’d never
seen anything like Florida; and
Florida had never seen anything like
them.
‘Binder Boys’ Then
They were promoters and traders
—“binder boys” was the popular
designation, because they wore
knickers and their slogan was “get
a binder’.’
Lots were staked out in pine woods
and praries, miles from railroads or
highways. Acres of blueprints clut
tered up every real estate office,
owners of property someone wanted
to subdivide and sell.
A lot of buildings never got be
yond the blueprint stage, if that far.
They blamed in on the embargo.
Remember the embargo? Well, lum
ber and other building materials
poured into the state by carload and
trainload, and ships were anchored
off Miami Beach unable to get in
the harbor to unload their cargoes,
but it couldn’t get here fast enough
to meet the demand.
Money Often Ran Out
Some developments never got be
yond pink sidewalks, winding drive
ways and fancy street lights- minus
any buildings, because the money
ran out—whait little money there
was in those days—and the prompt
ers left as suddenly as they had
come.
Fantastic stories are told about
those boom days, and many of them
can be verified. Like the one about
the grove owner, who got the fever.
He advertised his property for sale
at $25,000, became afraid someone
would buy it, and doubled his price.
He still has it. Another sold his
orange grove for $20,000, with 25
down. He still has it, too.
Some of the developments kept
going and growing even after the
“binder boys” had gone their way,
like Miami Beach, which grew into
a modern city of hundreds of fine
hotels and thousands of beautiful
homes, with hospitals, parks and
playgrounds.
Or Davis, Island, dreged up out
of Tampa bay, where something like
$40,000,000 worth of property was
sold and which now is a modern
residential district of fine homes, a
golf course, and tennis courts, a
hospital and other facilities.
In the 20 years since the boom,
Florida has enjoyed tremendous
growth. Whole communities have
sprung into being; towns have grown
into cities and cities have spread out
and became metropolises.
Railroads and highways have been
built and improved; air lines have
come to link every corner of the
state with every corner of the world.
Back To Normal
Thousands upon thousands of foot
soldiers, airmen and soilors trained
in Florida, and when the war ended,
Florida went back to .normal as
quickly as any section of the coun
try.
It is a different Florida now, with
out the land speculators; a Florida
that is ready and capable of enter
taining a couple of million visitors.
And they’re here.
This time they came with money in
their pockets, and they’re bent on
spending it for one thing—to have a
good time, each to his liking.
Some of them want to make
money, too, just like their fathers
did 20 years ago. But most of them
are just playing — something like
$100,000,000 will be wagered at
horse and dog tracks this season, and
that’s all cash.
Beaches, golf courses, tennis
courts, playgrounds and camping
facilities are jammed, and have been
for two months.
During the other boom—if this is
a boom, and it looks like one—peo
ple stood in line for hours even over
night to buy lots, most of them hop
ing for ' quick re-sale, at a big
profit.
This time they’ll stand in line for
hours—to buy anything that’s for
sale.
Landmark For Peace
Official Havy Photograph
WILMETTE, ILL. — Used as a landmark during the war by
Naval aviators at nearby Glenview Ajr Base, the Baha’i Temple here,
near Chicago, continues to stand out as a symbol of peace. Among
architects the Temple is recognized as one of the outstanding edifices
of its kind in the U. S. The Baha’i Faith, dedicated to the international
brotherhood of man and universal peace, is followed in 78 countries by
adherents whose sole purpose is to further the principles of the Faith.
RUBBER TOWERS
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Newly completed unit operated by Sinclair Rubber Inc. for the Government.
W HEN the Japs grabbed the rubber trees
of Malaya and the East Indies, they
never visioned that these "rubber towers”
would spring up in Texas. Here, in the modern
plant pictured above which is operated by
Sinclair Rubber Inc. for the Government, a
petroleum product, butylene, is transformed
into butadiene. And butadiene, when mixed
with styrene, becomes today’s tree-less rubber—
fynthetic rubber with a bounce.
s Todav, Sinclair makes not only components
for synthetic rubber, but its modern refineries
also make toluene, used in the manufacture of
the explosive TNT, 100-octane gasoline and
jnany types of fuels and specialized lubricants
needed wherever wheels go ’round. Altogether
there are 10 Sinclair refineries
turning out products for war.
•
SINCLAIR DEALERS help keep
wheels turning on the home front,
too. Let a Sinclair Dealer service
your car regularly.
BUY MORE WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
SI NC LAI
S. C. Paysinger, Agent
Army and Navy Attempt to Make
Surplus (Soods Available to Veterans
17 Apply For License
To Wed In February
The following couples applied for
mariage license during the month of
February:
James Clifton Smith and Florence
Caldwell, Whitmire; James Wade Mc
Clure, Nashville, Tenn., and Cather
ine Spearman Elders, Newberry; Ed
ward Arthur Thomasson, Newberry
and Madge Elizabeth Craft, Rock
Hill; Fred Raymore Harmon and
Ruby Elizabeth Berry, route one,
Newberry; Furman Kinard, route
three, Newberry and Martha Frick,
route one, Little Mountain; Fred
erick Crase, Freeport, HI., and
Thelma Davis, Whitmire; John Rich
ard Morris and Ruby Connelly, New
berry; Marion Raymond Smith, New
berry, and Elizabeth Cox, route four,
N ewberry.
Also, Robert Fred Daniels, Fren-
tres, Texas, and Gladys Smith, New
berry; Arthur Emerson Jacob, Ver
ona, N. J., and Sibyl Jaunita Boozer,
Newberry; Bunch A. Nugent, Mis
soula, Mont., and Treacy Stewart,
Seminole, Okla.; Carroll Brayan
Mayer and Marguerite Gregory, Po-
maria; James Darby and Monteen
Phillips, Newberry; Willie Fred
Fulmer, Newberry and Christine
Wicker, route three, Pomaria; Cur
tis Oscar Chapman, route one, New
berry, and Vonnie Griffin, Newber
ry; and Herman Osborne Berry and
Dorothy Mae Padgett, Newberry.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—The ar
my and navy have ordered their Paci
fic commands to send back to the
United States as soon as possible
all surplus goods which can aid civil
ian reconversion, it was disclosed
tonight.
Orders went out last week to
Gen. Douglas MacArthur at Tokyo
to arrange for the transfer of such
material as is surplus to his occu
pation needs. Simultaneously the
Navy department advised its Pacific
commands that it should move home-
Loans!
ON
REAL ESTATE
AUTOMOBILES
AND
PERSONAL PROPERTY
NEWBERRY INSURANCE
AND REALTY 00.
NED PURCELL, Manager
TELEPHONE 197
Exchange Bank Building
ward “unneeded goods which may be
useful to the civil populations.”
They preceded by a week an
nouncement that three high-rank
ing government officials would
make a one-month round-the-world
survey of U. S. surplus property
abroad, and inquire into numerous G.
I. gripe that the same articles that
relatives at home are vainly seek
ing have been wantonly destroyed
at Army and Navy bases.
The United Press informant said
the first surplus goods to be sent
home probably would be badly-need
ed trucks and tractors, blankets, tools
and the like. Motorized vehicles, he
said, are no longer as important as
they were when the order of the day
was to set up camp in some wilder
ness, or build an airfield in 36 hours.
GOVERNMENT COTTON SALES
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. — The
Agriculture department announced
today that sales of government-held
cotton will be, suspended between
March 1 and March 15 except for
export on commitments made prior
to March 1.
After March 15, such cotton will
he offered on a daily bid basis. No
sales will be made however, below
the parity price of cotton.
The department said the tempo
rary suspension in sales was ordered
because of a heavy volume of sales
during January and February and
to give the department time to ad
just the sales operations to a daily
bid basis.
Heretofore, cotton has been offer
ed a t longer intervals than a day.
Wiggins Says World
Becoming Socialist
COLUMBIA, Feb. 28.—A. L. M.
Wiggins, Hartsville banker and news
paper publisher, warned today that
the world is “fast going toward
socialism” as he advised reorganiza
tion “of our economic system.”
He told members of the Columbia
Merchants association that “free
enterprise and capitalism are under
attack,” with “machinery already
set up to take in socialism when
ever the people want it”.
He then urged that business men
recognize the principles involved in
democracy and “see that the pres
ent system opearted for the good
and welfare of all people.”
For the first time in its history,
he said, South Carolina “has an
accumulation of wealth with which
to bring in new industries.”
“As I see it,” he continued, “we
have three or four years in which
to reorganize our economic system
in order to establish a balance of
trade and raise the living stand
ard.”
FIVE JAPS TO HANG FOR SLAY
ING THREE FLIERS AT HANKOW
SHANGHIA, Feb. 28.—Maj. Gen.
Masataka Kaburagi and four Japan
ese non-commissioned officers were
sentenced today to hang for the ‘hate’
parade and murder of three Ameri
can' fliers at Hankow December 16,
1944.
The American Military commission,
trying the first of the Shanghai war
crimes cases, convicted 12 other de
fendants and sentenced them to pri
son terms ranging from 18 months to
life. One defendant was acquitted.
USE
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COLD PREPARATIONS
Liquid, Tablets, SalVe, Nose Drops
CAUTION—Use only as directed
WANTED—HOGS—will pay $14.40
ceiling price for top hogs. Will
buy anything from 100 to 300 lbs
Price according to grade. THE
NEWBERRY ABATTOIR.
WANTED—Scrap iron, brass, cop
per, lead, zinc, aluminum, pewter,
old batteries, radiators, all kinds of
rags, old waste cotton, mattress cot
ton. Also old feather beds and pil
lows filled with goose or duck fea
thers. We also have a nice line of
groceries. W. H. Sterling, Vincent
street.
NOTICE!
ANYONE CAUGHT
Shooting Firearms
Especially 22 Rifles
Within The City Limits,
Will Be Prosesecuted
/
SIGNED,
COLIE L. DOWD
Chief of Police
NEWBERRY, S. C.