The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, June 09, 1950, Image 8
THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, JUNE 9,
SPECTATOR
(Continued from Page 4)
toon for tite development of the
State.
I (resent the remarks of REA.
Mr. Wickard and of Senator
Brown, at least on one thing:
Monopolies. Those gentlemen
insuit our intelligence in rais-
injg up a scarecrow called mon
opoly. There axe certain nat
ural monopolies. A pow^r
camtpany is one. Do you want
the streets and roads cluttered
up with poles and wires Do
we (build railroads at random?
But a bad monopoly is an en
terprise that is unregulated, un
controlled, dominant and dom
ineering. The South Carolina
Electric & Gas Co. has stock
holders and it has directors.
But it is under regulation by
the South Carolina Public Ser
vice Commission, a Board elec
ted by the Legislature and hav
ing qualified experts in its ser
vice: The Santee - Cooper reports
to no supervisory Commission
and is scot-free to do as its
Board of Directors may wish.
If there 'be the seed • of mono
poly it is in the Santee-Cooper,
surely. ,
But I am not fighting the
Santee-Ooopper. It is a .great
enterprise and can be used to
do fine work.
Senator Brown enjoys what
we ma call a monopoly, though
nothing has been said about it.
If a group of men should apply
for a charter to operate a bank
in Barnwell they would quick
ly find that the State Board of
Bank Control would rule that
one bank is enough for Barn
well. Senator Brown is a
oowerful and prosperous banker
in BamwelL My distinguished
friend is not often thought of
as a businessman, a successful
hanker, but he is; and his suc
cess in banking makes me won
der whether he would be en
thusiastic over the loan of nine
millions of Government money
at two per cent for thirty years,
to establish a parallel, compet
ing bank in Barnwell, the new
bank agreeing to lend money
at two and a helf per cent, with
afll the additional millions of
the Government to draw on.
Well, speaking of monopolies,
I have had a part for five years
in an effort to establish a bank:
The Senator ought to know, for
ail concede that he ds alert to
all .that is happening; he must
know that even in banking we
seem to have monopolies.
So the Government has a
post office—a monopoly, but
one which serves us well. Sup
pose we had’ three postoffices
an one town. You never would
know which one had misplaced
the check you were expecting,
would you?
We have a partial monopoly
in the bus business—and prop
erly so. Over certain routes a
bus line has an exclusive fran
chise, a monopoly; otherwise it
could not afford to provide ser
vice. I am glad that the House
of Representatives has appoint
ed a Committee to investigate
all the power business of the
State. Let’s build for the fu
ture on solid foundations of
good will and cooperation; but,
first, let’s get the facts.
JURY LIST
Fodlowdng is a list of the
jurors drawn Thursday morning
to serve during the June term
of criminal court which will
convene Monday morning, June
19th, with Judge Steve C.
Griffith presiding:
James Connelly, James Leo
Amick, John M. Dominick, J.
E. Ringer, George T. Daven
port, N. R. Lester, Clay E. Bal-
lentine, Leland H. Boland, Ho
mer W. Bowles; James C. Les
ter, Gilbert Cromer, Willie B.
Boinest, Jr., John William Lea-
veil, George K. Domdniok, Paul
H. Duncan, George S. Donmon,
Eugene Shealy (West End), B<
M. Davis,
Also, J. B. Eargle (New Hope
Zion), T. H. Shealy, John L.
Epps, E. V. Lewis, Horace L.
Reaves, Frank H. McConnell,
H. B. Wilson, Harry A. Mills,
R. B. Black, J. W. Abrams
(Warren), Herndon Hentz, C. R.
Rinehart, W. M. Sloan, Herbert
Coleman, Hayward Davis, R. L.
Beaty, H. H. Polk, J. Mower
Dennis.
SATURDAY, JUNE
10TH, DEADLINE *
Over ten thousand peo
ple in Newberry county
have 'been issued registra
tion certificates, which' will
enable them to vote in the
coming primary. If you
stjll haven’t gotten yours,
the office in Newberry lo
cated on the second floor
of the new court house,
and the one located- in the
City Hall in Whitmire, will
remain open through Sat
urday, June 10th.
After this date no more
certificates can 'be issued
for the coming primary.
NEGROES MAY TRY
TO ENTER CLEMSON
Columbia, June 6.—Renewed
efforts by Negroes to enroll in
demson College and the Statt
Medical College were promised
today.
State President J. M. Hinton
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
people made this plain in com
menting on the U.S. Supreme
Court's recent segregation rul
ings.
“The requests by Negroes to
enter Clemson College to study
engineering, and the requests
to the Medical College in
Charleston to study medicine,
were only waiting for these de
cisions, arid will be revived
shortly,” Hinton announced.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Ml Tarrant
and daughter, Marian Stuart, of
Hickory* N. C., were weekendj!
visitors in the home of Mr.
Tarrant’s mother, Mre. R. L.
Tarrant on Johnstone street.
Danny Paysdnger and R. E.
Summer, Jr., students at The
Citadel, Charleston, will’ return
to Newberry Saturday, after the
graduation exercises, to spend
the summer months in New
berry.
Both boys will be members of
the Sophomore class at The Cit
adel next term.
HEAR
RITZ
THEATRE
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
and SATURDAY
Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray,
Charles Bickford, Frances Gif
ford, William Demarest, Percy
Kilbride,
RIDING HIGH
FOX NEWS
MONDAY \ ft TUESDAY
Van Johnson, Elizabeth Taylor,
Le6n Ames, Fad Holden, Selena
Hoyle
THE BIG HANGOVER ^
Cartoon—A Ham in a Role
MGM NEWS
WEDNESDAY
James Mason, Marta Toren,
Dan Duryea, William Conrad
ONE WAY STREET
Cartoon—Hunting the Fox.
JOHNSTON WILL RUN CAMPAIGN
ON "CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES"
STROM
Thurmond
Candidate for the United States Senate
Every Tuesday Night
On Your Favorite Radio Station
TOWNSEND-WESSINGEH
(Continued from Page 5)
Junior groomsmen were Rob
ert Platt of Gr&niteville and
Francis Asbury Townsend, Jr.,
brother of the bride.
Miss Amelia Carter Townsend
was her sister’s maid of honor.
Bridesmaids were Miss Alice
Day Garlinton, of the Canal
Zone and Newberry; Mrs. Anne
Townsend Grkffin, of Columbia,
cousin of the bride; and Miss
Meta Sloan Leitner.
Junior bridesmaids were Miss
Carolyn Griffis, of Augusta,
Ga., and Miss Norma Wessimger,
of Newberry, cousin of the
bridegroom. Miss Rebecca Chap
man, of Myrtle Beach, cousin
of the bride, arid Mists Sandra
Wessimger of Anderson, niece
of the bridegroom, were flower
gjrl attendants.
The bride's attendant® wore
identical gowns of French hlac
marquisette. The maid of hon
or and bridesmaids carried arm
bouquets of yellow and laven-
dar snapdragons, blue iris, tu
lips, pink charm carnations, del
phiniums, and white sfcolk tied
with French lilac satin ribboA
The flower girls carried nose
gays of the same flowers, tied
with matching French Mac
satin ribbon. ;>
The bride entered with her.
father, who gave her in mar
ried. She wore a gown pf
ivory nylon'net, fashioned with
a portrait neckline, impo:
French Chantilly lace bodi
peplum and full skirt of ny
net that formed a train. A
thedral veil of bridal illi
was caught at each side with
orange blossoms and was
t ached to a Juliette cap
"In seeking re-election, I do
so on my own merits — not
4emerits of any one," said Sen
ator Olin Johnston at Saluda.
"I am going to conduct my
campaign upon Christian Prin
ciples."
Every South Carolinian
should read the full text of this
speech. As a Citizen and Vot
er you are entitled to know the
TRUTH and FACTS. These are
contained in a leaflet printed
by Olin Johnston's, supporters,
including Farmers, Teachers,
Textile Operatives, Doctors, Vet
erans, Business and Profession
al Men and Women, Industrial
Workers and others in this
state. Write today for copies
—just say how many you want
for yourself and friends, and
they will be mailed to you. If
you will pass them on to your
neighbors, it will be appreciat
ed. On the back of the leaf
let are extracts from one of
Senator Johnston's great speech
es on the floor of the U. S. Sen
ate against the F.E.P.C., which
he and his Southern colleagues
blocked.
"Now I know what is hap
pening," one citizen said after 4
reading TRUTH AND FACTSL
"It was a revelation to me to
read J o h n s to n's uncensored
words. The facts are quite dif
ferent from the rumors I had
heard and read."
MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY I
JOHNSTOff HEADQUARTERS,
ROOM 315, WADE HAMPTON HOTEL,
COLUMBIA, S. C.
By return mail send me
Copies of TRUTH and;
FACfTS, containing Senator Johnston's record and speeches.
Name
Town
Comment
RJ\D.
Additional acres: 57,000 of Cotton, 1,300 of Tobacco, 2,900 of pea
nuts, secured for S.C. farmers by Olin Johnston! He stands for
better schools! He took the state property tax off by veto 'and
left a $20 million surplus—no deficit! Political Adv.
Check On Your Receipt
Books And
Phone No. 1
11 — r
R c 9 i s t • r before
Juno 10th and vote
for - Wm. Jennings
Bryan Dorn for Con-
gross.
The man who told the truth
about Russian communism, so
cialism* statism, national de
fense, foreign relief end- the
other problems threatening our
people. We must vote to sur
vive.
WELLS ,
THEATRE
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
WHIP WILSON
in "Rang* Land"
with ANDY CLYDE
Added—BATMAN AND ROBIN
and VON ZELL Con
— *
MONDAY A TUESDAY
Also Lata Show 10:15 Sat* ft
Where a man was as good
his aim . . . and a woman
•better than her intentions!
i PANHANDLE
Rod Cameron, Cathy Downs, ^
Reed Hadley and* Anne Gwynne
Added—PATHE NEWS
3:00, 4:40, 6:20 & 8:00
WEDNESDAY _
CUSTOMS AG
William Eythe and Marjorie
Reynolds
Morning Show t:30
/ 8
>rning Shoi
WESTERN
and
Admission I2c-35e
DRIVE-IN
THEATRE
TUESDAY NIGHT IS
- SURPRIZE NIGHT
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
DOUBLE FEATURE
Jimmy Wakley
PARTNERS IN THE SUNSET
and '•
Arthur Lake, Penny' Singleton
BLONDIE'S ANNIVERSARY
Added—CARTOON
MONDAY and TUESDAY
Betty Davis, Henry Fonda
JEZEBEL \
Added CARTOQN
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY
Yevonne DeCark>, Dan Duryea
BLACK BART
(In Technicolor)
Added—CARTOON
ALWAYS A COMPLETE SHOW
AFTER 10:00 P.M.
OPERA
SATURDA
DOUBLE
WILLIAM 1
in Cheyenne
' 5 and
WILLIAM
in "Riders of the
Added—COMEDY
Admission 9c and
all
TOLBERT-FRANKLIN
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Tolext announce the m
of their daughter,
Elizabeth, to M. B.
June 1 in Columbia
DO YOU WANT
$1000?
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NOTICE^
Wa just received a
Paint Sprayer and
Sander to help serve
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THANKS MR
BUT WE DON’T
KIN
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Because there are no hushed-up facts, as you advertised about the ap
plication of Central to build its own transmission system. Central con
sists of 16 local Co-ops, some of which are in your territory and some in
the territory of other Power Companies. The 16 local Co-ops which
compose Central conceived the idea of borrowing money and building
its own transmission system. Each local Co-op is acquainted with the
details of the Central plan. Each Co-op has a Director in Central. We
applied to REA for a loan to build a transmission system and invited
Santee-Cooper to put in some of its lines and make certain contributions,
and to arrange for Santee-Cooper to operate our system because it has
an existing management organization which is efficient and dependable.
WHY ARE YOU SO CONCERNED OVER CENTRAL BEING IN
DEBT FOR $7,595,500 for 35 YEARS? Our subscribers, even at a 6
mill rate, which may be reduced to 4 or lower later on, if we can con
nect with other public power, will pay this loan off. You have $50,-
000,000.00 to $100,000,000.00 in debts on your property which you prob
ably will never pay. Your elastomers, at the exorbitant rates which you
charge, are payin the interest on this debt. # 0nly recently you refinanc
ed for a LONG period of time at the expense of your customers some
$20,000,000.00 to $30,000,000.00 of your obligations. *
YOU CAN’T FOOL US advertising that you have reduced our rates
to 10 % under the proposed rate from Santee-Cooper. The public knows
that yours is a “fake rate” and not made in good faith, but made in
hatred in an effort to try to keep the rural people from getting-a
transmission system to get to these public power projects. Anybody
with an ounce of sense knows that, if there were no Santee-Cooper and
no Clark’s Hill, you would still be charging the Co-ops probably 2c per
kw hour and your other customers in proportion.
WE ARE FAMILIAR with the Resolution to investigate the “Power
Situation” in South Carolina. You say you want to help us get the
truth about what we ourselves are doing. We prepared our Applica
tion. We filed it with REA, we followed it through. The local Co-ops
set up the Central and it is strange that you appear to know more about
our business than we do.
We are not interested in anybody setting up a Power Kingdom in
South Carolina. The only thing we don’t want is for you to destroy
our Central transmission system and make yourself the Power King in
South Carolina. If there must be a Power Kingdom and your mono
polistic enterprise seems to point that way, then the taxpayers of the
WHY?
state would greatly prefer for the State to own the transmission system,
after its cost has been paid by the farmers. Let us remind you that
Santee-Cooper is state-owned, if this transmission system is eventually
going to fall into the hands of somebody, isn’t is preferable for the
* State w to own it for the 'benefit of all the people* than for you to hog the
power, business in South Carolina, by buying public power from the
State and selling it at a profit for your own ^elfish aggrandizement ?
The farmers of South Carolina haven’t fr .'gotten that, only a few
years ago, before REA, if a group of farmers wanted pow§r in the
country, we had to build our own lines at a cost of from $2,000.00 to
$3,000.00 per mile, pay the power companies to maintain them and pay
rates of from 3c to 6c per kw hour^
We haven’t forgotten either that, when the pqwer companies were
charging the Co-ops 12 to 14 mills per kw hour for wholesale power
you: (a) refused to lower, your rates to 7^ mills until every other
power company in the state had done so* and you were forced to come
in line on account of public opinion, and because of a Petition to the
Public Service Commission which was about to be filed; (b) that, when
the Lexington and St. Matthews Co-ops sent a committee to beg you to
wheel Santee-Cooper power to them for a service charge so that they
might get power cheaper than 12 to 14 mills, you refused and stated
that any such proposal was “out of the question”; (c) that you refused
consistently to build additional sub-stations and extend transmission
lines for the benefit of the Co-ops. You wanted to keep the Co-op pro
gram on the “ragged edge” with as little service as possible. Now,
when the Co-ops have a chance to borrow money, build their own trans
mission system, get out from under your domination and run their own
affairs, you set yourself up as our “great benefactor” and spend thou
sands of dollars of you customers’ rate money in advertisements and
on the radio to break up our program.
You say that our “lines are designed to carry ten times more power”
' than our Co-ops need. Strange that you know so much about our bus
iness. Maybe they are designed to carry ten times more power than
you want the Co-ops to have. You intimate by this that Santee-Cooper
is going to have the use of our lines to compete with you. This is an-
. other reason why we don’t trust you dnd it is because you have so little
regard for the truth. Our lines are designed by our engineers which
were closely checked and approved by the REA engineers to carry 78%
■
Co-op.load. Is this ten times more power than we need? OH, NO,
MR. McMEEKIN! There is only 22% of the proposed load of our
lines which would be available to Santee-Cooper to carry cheap power
to municipalities, the State or to any other agency or person entitled to
buy cheap Santee-Cooper power. 78% of the capacity of the Central
system for which we made application will be available at all times
for the use of the' Cooperatives. This will leave only 22% that could
be used under any circumstances in competition with you. The Co-op's
loan is only about 1% of your total business. WILL TAKING this
small amount of business away from you, when you admit you are sell
ing it at a loss, WRECK YOUR ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR
COMBINE? Since 78% of the capacity of our system will take 1%
of your total, business, then the other 22% of the capacity of our sys
tem will take 22-78 of 1% of your total business and the system'we
have designed for our loads and those foj which Santee-Cooper may
k 0 l eas ^ lan 2% of your total business. MR. Mc
MEEKIN, YOU SCARE MIGHTY EASY!
WHY ARE YOU CHARGING THE MUNICIPALITIES of the State
and the State of South Carolina 10 to 13 mills aper kwh for the same
kind of load of wholesale power that you say you would sell to us
for spite at 5'/ 2 mills? DO YOU THINK THE PUBLIC IS GOING
TO APPROVE OF THIS,
May we remind the public of one or two facts whicl* ought to be kept
in mind: The Federal Power Commission Reports show-that in South
Carolina, because there is now no transmission system by which the
people can get public power (from Santee-Cooper or other public power
projects) the private power companies are taking out of South Carolina,
in exorbitant rates, over and above the amount our people would pay
if we were within reach of TVA, or were connected with Santee-Cooper!
more than $16,000,000.00 annually. Broken down into language that
the people can understand, this means that each of the 46 counties in
South Carolina averaged-up are contributing to your exorbitant ‘ rates
the equivalent of 2,000 bales of cotton per county at $160 per bale, not
for what you have done FOR the people but for what you have done
and afe doing AGAINST THEM.
WE KNOW that, but for public power in South Carolina and the
Central system which we are now building, the Co-ops would be paying
around 2c per kwh instead of 7'A mills or your fake rate of 5% mills.
E.
MR. McMEEKIN, YOU
V. LEWIS, ACTING MANAGER
RUN YOUR BUSINESS. LET US RUN
NEWBERRY, S. C.
CENTRAL ELECTRIC POWER CO-OPS., INC.
OURS.
PERRY M. BROWN, PRESIDENT
R. F. D. 2, REMBERT, S. C.