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THE NEWBERRY SUN 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. 0. F. Armfield Editor and Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Entered as second-class matter December 6 1937, at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., 51.50 per year in advance outside S. C., $2.00 uer year in advance. COMl^NTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR People like to travel; and they Columbia likes to hear me talk seem to enjoy hearing and read- in Spanish, but he vs ants a ing about the travels of others. ! translation Immediately, and Some of my friends urge me to properly so. tell more of the days I lived We are in the very midst of in South America. One friend in the Christmas season here. The vex y &xr tiugies wuxi me spirit Oj. Christmas. Perhaps someoue *.ili sa> that the veiy an is exec- ii ic wim tue rush oi Christmas I shopping. At any rate, during I my ten years in South America there was no tumult and shouting m proclaim chi i.Ama.-,, no great .hopping sprees; no crowding oi to.es; no pushing and jostling on the stieets; no special lights, mre the family plans a re-union, | ivith a feast. Docn three it was ' I p.iiet, about as usual. The Equator is an imaginary line passing through Ecuador, i Ecuador is the Spanish for Ec*ua- 1 f or I lived hundreds of miles -m .h of the Equator, so we had i Summer w hen you had w inter. Christmas down there comes in hot weather. 1 went to New York to take a ship to Callao, the chief sea port of Peru. We sailed far out in the Atlantic to avoid Cape Hatteras; and so as to bring us East of Cuba. So we sailed around Cuba and passed Haiti on the way to the Caribbean and the Panama Canal. Ships are not admitted to the Canal from either end at night. The trip through the Canal requires about ix hours. On the way to Peru our ship docked at Christobal, Canal Zone, for fuel. The Panama Zone has two towns at each end. Ap proaching from the Atlantic the port is Christobal, while joining it is the Panamanian city of Colon. The American City, Christobal, and the Panamanian city, Colon, merge into one town though governed separately. The two words, Christobal Colon, are the Spanish for Christopher Co lumbus. At the western end of the Canal, likewise, are two towns: Balboa, American town, and Panama, the Panamanian town. Our ship tied up to the dock all night while through a great hose she took on fuel-oil for he engines. That was quite dif ferent from the fueling of the great Imperator at Brest, FVance. When I stood on the wrater front at Brest I saw the big ship, sister of the Levviathan, anchor ed out in the bay and taking, on coal by hand baskets. You can understand the size of that ship by this: twelve thousand of us were aboard. She was, as I re call, about 960 feet long, not so big as the mammoth Queen Mary, but quite a ship. When our ship tied up at Balboa most of us went to Pana ma City. The ladles, quite nat urally, indulged their taste for shopping. Sometimes they out- haggled the Hindu merchants who were everywhere, finally bringing down the pi ices from $100 to $50 — and still paying about fifty percent too much. When the ship is about to sail the Hindu merchants will readily sell at the modest profit of 50 percent, instead of holding out for 200 percent. Approachin Callaco we saw' the skies darkened with thousands of gulls, the guano birds of Peru. The ships did not then tie up at docks, but first anchored about ive miles out at sea to await the Customs Inspector and the Government Medical Inspector. Upon their arrival the barber shop is closed and all sales of silk hose must stop—unless you know how to operate beneath the surface. Soon the ship weighs anchor and sails a bit nearer, but hardly nearer than two miles from shore. Then the fleteros swarm over the sides, all offering to take you and your baggage ashore and deliver it to your hotel. / ■\ c-t ~ V \ y / \> -b-1 ‘ V. Lv V" \ • • * \ v. 7T There are many thoughts that go through the minds of each of us at Christmas ... impressions that remain with us for days to reflect the happiness that prevails at the Yuletide Season. From Christmases past there are remembrances of associations with loved ones and friends ... of tokens of esteem from those about us ... there have been Christmas festivities ... family reunions ... re ligious worship ... the joy of giving . .. and the happiness that comes from being remembered. These and many others are the impressions that make Christmas meaningful and joyful. It is the sincere wish of your City officials that you may enjoy every one of these blessings this Holiday Season . .. that the Christ- mastide this year may be the most impressive of them all. itv of Mayor J. E. W he man J. L Boozer, Sr. F. W. Dickerf C. A. Dufford C. £. Kinard E. H. Layton Ted McDowell E. L Blackwell W. C. Wallace B. B. Livingston W. B. Halfacre C. L. Dowd, Chief of Police Sam Beam, Fire Chief v £ .v, a you do not speak or under stand Spanish you feel as though you were engulied in words. Aqui, senor, aqui.” Well, what is tout? Then another “venga uca, Senora,’ all amid shouts and tiie general excitability of uur rriends to the South. What liiey said was “Here, Sir, here.” vud “Come this way. Madam.” a is, indeed, a pushful experience iou walk down the Companion Aay, or ships steps, and jump mto the launch, which all the time is surging torward on a big .save or withdrawing as the wave recedes. It makes you feel very helpless. Thinking of fueling a ship with oil reminds me of an article 1 read on the increased use of petroleum and natural gas. I quote; “Over the past 50 years, pe troleum and natural gas have ac counted for a steadily increasing proportion of total energy re quirements of the nation. Last year, for the first time in history, these two fuels together supplied more than half of all such needs. At the turn of the century, coal supplied 89 percent of the total energy requirements. In 1949 it accounted for only 39 per cent. During the same period, the proportion for petroleum rose .rom 4.o percent to 3t>.4 percent, ior natural gas, from 3.2 percent to 4.9 percent. Furtnermore, these agures do not reflect the sub stantial gains made in getting more power out of a unit of fuel. For example, over the past 30 years the yield of gasoline from a barrel of crude oil has been increased from 10.6 to 17 gallons. At the same time, the car mile age per gallon of gasoline has ueen boosted by one-half. Transportation has become in creasingly dependent on petrol eum, as evidenced by the great growth in automotive and air plane mileage. Today there are around 44 million motor ve hicles in use. Trucking, urban and inter-city bus transportation move on gasoline and diesel oil. Marine transportation is now basicallr oil-fueled. The railroad industry is replacing its coal- uurning steam locomotives with oil-fueled diesel engines (Barron's Oct. 23). Agriculture is becom ing more and more mechanized, even on small farms, with oil- fueled tractors doing an increas ing share of the farmer’s work. One of the sharpest gains has been made by liquid and gas fuels for heating homes. The total number of domestic oil ourners in use has more than doubled since 1940, while the number of gas burners has about tripled. Gas heating outsold oil last year for the second time and increased its share of the total automatic heating jobs at the ex pense of both coal and oil. Although bituminous coal con tinues to be the most important fuel in factory and utility power plants, residual fuel oil has been increasing its share of the mark et, particularly along the Eastern seaboard. In recent years, the gains made by natural gas have ueen greater than those of petroleum. Between 1946 and 1949, petroleum’s share' of the total energy market rose from 31.8 percent to 36.4 percent, while that of natural gas went up from 13 to 19.4 percent. In a wartime economy, de fense needs for oil would sky rocket. Undoubtedly bituminous coal would again have to take up more of the energy load. Pos sibly many factory users of fuel oil might be forced to go back to coal, as would a number of utility plants. Most modern util ity plants are equipped to burn coal, oil or gas, whichevver is most economical. There would probably be severe gasoline rationing and home-owners might have difficulty in getting enough oil for heating. But essential wartime needs for oil would be met though it might be necessary to get some help from synthetics. Over the longer term, atomic energy may become important as 4«. source oi power. .now ever. Lire worid will unuoubteuiy cou- cruue to depend on coal, on, oaLurai gas and water power to oupyxy us energy requirements i.or many years to come, eitner uirecuy or muireckiy in tne lOiin of syucuetic iueis. And an ^resent indications point to gains oy petroleum and natural gas at me e-cyenae or coal.’* Our accident iecord on the uignways is not goon, op to Sepn „ucu. or tnis year, we had »,Sot> ac cidents, as compared with ior tne mat nine inontna of last y ear. naquor didn t cause all the ac cidents by any means. From mj ooservation as a unver i lino mat many people taae foolish cnances. inow and again 1 nave cO siow down so some expert may pass me as anotner car is dpproacning. ire nas no right to expei^t me in siow down, but he seems to mink he is such a smart driver mat all will be as he wishes, oomeining else 1 see frequently, as to backing: the driver may ibok all about and then get in ikis car and beck without looking as he backs. Within one min ute there may be two or three cars coming along. Something else: some drivers pull out from a road-side filling station without looking up the road; others pull jut of country roads or their own yards without any observa tion of the highway. 1 wish 1 could sound a warn ing against drivers whose lights when “dimmed” have one light which blinds you. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1950 Lovely Christmas Flowers Sensible Christmas Gifts Lots of Christmas Spirit VERNA and HAL K0HN m "‘Shank %u” r ■ r/ is the most sincere expression we know of to convey our apprecia* tion for the friendships which have been so important to our mutual benefit during the past twelve months. May we extend to you and yours our best wishes for a joy* ous Christmas Season. * L * CAROLINA ELECTRIC and APPLIANCE COMPANY 942 MAIN STREET PHONE 724 i \ ,> with oil good wishes for o glorious Holiday Season