The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, December 22, 1950, Image 2
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
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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.
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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
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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
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"‘Shank %u”
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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.
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CAROLINA ELECTRIC and
APPLIANCE COMPANY
942 MAIN STREET
PHONE 724
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with oil good wishes
for o glorious Holiday Season