The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, October 05, 1951, Image 6
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THE NEWBERRY SUN
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LAST WEEK'S
ANSWER
ACrtOSiS
1. Lift
6. Coal
scuttles
10. Defensive
covering
ill. Chills and
fever
{12. Take as
one’s own
[13. River
(Eng.)
[14. Steal
(archaic)
115. A gift
16. River with
a famous
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falls
19. Mulberry
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20. Constellation
21. Incite
23. Famous
London
abbey
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27. Goddess of
discord
28. Bom
mm
29. French
2. Fragrance 15.
3. Mischiev- 17.
ous person
4. Habitual 18.
drunkard 21.
5. Suffix 22.
forming
the 23.
comparative
6. Filaments 24.
of flax 25.
7. S-shaped
molding 26.
8. Sailor’s
baggage 30,
9. Colonizer
12. dirl’s
name 31.
13. Pagoda 32.
(Japanese) 33.
Instructed
Guns
(slang)
Fortify
Employed
Right
(abbr.)
Cheated
on a bet
A hermit
River
(Chin.)
Diminutive
of Edward
God of
pleasure
(Egypt.)
Semblance
Memoranda
Merry
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35. Heathen
image
36. UnaspiraU4
39. Play on
words
40. Conclude
42. Music note
- -
article
20. J3ed fur*
nishings
24. Looked
pleased
37. Flightless,
extinct bird
38. Conceals
29. Like peat
41. Boy’s school
(Eng.)
[42. A sudden
thrust
43. Erase
(Print.)
44. Mountains
(So. Am.)
DOWN
1. Half
diameters
PFC. RUFF AWARDED
INFANTRYMAN BADGE
Pfc. Luther W. Ruff of Route
4, Newberry, has been awarded
the Combat Infantryman Badge,
a symbol of close-quarter fight
ing with the enemy, while serving
with the 1st Cavalry Division, 5th
Cavalry Regiment, in Korea.
The Badge, consisting of a
miniture replica of a Revolution
ary War flintlock mounted on a
blue background and superimpos
ed on a silver wreath, distinguish
es the actual fighting men from
rear area and service troops.
SEAMAN BICKELY RECEIVING
TRAINING COURSE IN ILL.
Robert C. Bickley, seaman re
cruit, USNR, son of Mr. and
Mrs. G. E. Bickley of Little
Mountain is undergoing a two-
week reservd training course at
the U. S. Naval Training Center,
Great Lakes, 111.
The training given there serve
recruit closely parallels that given
the regular Navy recruit with
considerations for the time limi
tation.
ENSIGN VINES COMPLETES
RADAR COURSE
Ensign Thomas E. Vines, USN,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J.
Vines, 403 Rodelsperger street,
recently completed the four-week
course in operational radar at
the U. S. Naval Combat Informa
tion Team Training Center, Bos
ton, Mass.
Production Cuts
Aimed Toward
Market Stability
Everyone knows the cotton tex
tile industry has steadily been
cutting down. What is the rea
son for this?
Mill executives who were asked
this question by the Textile Neigh
bor believe this is the answer:
Within three months after the
Korean outbreak, the mills had
stepped up their output under the
pressure of scare buying and the
need to mobilize for defense. Mili
tary orders did not come through
as heavy as expected and the in
dustry’s hig hrate of production
soon filled civilian pipelines.
Of course, the general cause
of any mill cutback is a decline
in demand. As far as the current
curtailment is concerned, mill
men point to a number of ad
ditional developments that hurt
business.
Most important among these,
they feel, was the damper on
business caused by OPS red tape,
the closing of the markets where
raw cotton is bought, conflicting
orders on pricing, and the like.
Mill Sales Slump
The net result was that while
production was more than enough
to meet civilian demands and fill
all military orders, except in cer
tain special lines, mill sales
slumped.
When it became evident that
the big output was more than
needed, the mills began cutting
down to avoid piling up gods in
inventories which in the past too
often resulted in long and costly
shutdowns.
Modern Methods Used
Temporary cutbacks in produc
tion, when demand falls off, are
the cotton textile industry’s in
surance against’ repetition of the
“boom or bust” days. In the
past, when warehouses were bulg
ing with surplus goods which
couldn’t be sold even at cost,
mass layoffs, permanent mill
closings, bankruptcis, and acute
depression in mill communities
were often the penalty. Today
the industry seeks to avert these
more damaging consequences by
restorting to such cutbacks as
shorter hours, longer vacation per
iods^ fewer machines in operatiop
and limited layoffs.
Just as the industry has mod
ernized its machinery, it is al
so applying the most modern
methods of market analysis, mer
chandising, sales promotion and
gearing of production to demand.
These are some of the ways by
which the industry is able to
maintain more balanced opera
tions and more stable economic
conditions in the textile manufac
turing areas.
The fact ' that cotton textile
manufacturing is not the only
industry to be affected now by
conditions which have changed
rapidly since Korea was noted by
Charles C. Hertwig, president of
the American Cotton Manufac
turers Institute, in testifying be
fore the Senate Finance Commit
tee on July 16.
He sad that in his opinion,
the general attitude that in
creased taxation was a necessary
anti - inflation weapon, resulted
from “scare buying, an underesti
mate of the nation’s productive
power, *and an exaggerated esti
mate of military requirements
relative to the adequacy of
facilities for supplying them.”
Defense Orders Filled
What actually happened, he
said, was that the nation’s pro
ductive power has exceeded all
expectations and has filled more
than 20 billions of dollars in de
fense orders “without visible
strain.”
Increased defense spending now
would not tend to inflate prices,
he stated, but actually is needed
to support the expanded produc
tive capacity of both agriculture
and industry^
Mills Have Double Task
Textile manufacturers have a
basic part to play in American
business affairs, Mr Jackson as
serted. He called a “two-fold
function^’—(1) to produce ma
terials suitable for the public’s
needs (both civilian and mili
tary) in quantities and qualities
sufficient to supply increasing
consumer demand while at the
same time exciting consumer in
terest in new products and uses,
and (2) to stay in business “on
a competitive, free enterprise sys
tem. That means the making of
a reasonable profit.”
In order to meet these two ob
jectives, the mills need all the
research help and scientific know
how they can get, Mr. Jackson
said. He spoke of the higher
costs nowadays of doing business
j—higher prices of raw materials,
machinery and the like, the extra
expense caused by overtime op
erations to fill war orders, bigger
bills for upkeep, maintenance.
fuel and power, as well as taxes
And government control programs.
He also mentioned the big
jump in textile payrolls over re
cent years, saying:
“Added to the higher wage
rates—and there is no textile man
who would want to return to the
old days of low pay—there are
many other progressive social
trends which provide better
living and working conditions in
textile communities but which
from their cost angles must still
be considered by careful manage-
menL”
For all these reasons, he said,
mills must keep on a constant
search for new information about
fibers, machinery, better finish
ing methods and merchandising
ideas. Yet even though new types
of machinery work faster turn out
more goods, to help mills hold
their place in a free market, the
past 10 years of scientific pro
gress have seen more jobs in the
industry, Mr. Jackson said. In
cotton textile manufacturing, the
total of production workers has
gone up about 1000,000.
Textiles In War
Times of crisis, such as a war,
also spur on textile research, the
speaker said. He explained:
“Because of science, a major
war is fought over the entire
face of the earth, in the tropics
and in - the polar regions;. on the
sea and on the mountain tops; in
the deserts and in the rice pad
dies. It is not even confined to
the surface of the earth. It is
fought under the sea—and in the
stratosphere. Simultaneously, it
is fought in the lands of summer
and the lands of winter.
"All of these varying condi
tions and methods of combat
must have their special and
unique types of textile require
ments. In the search for these
new and unique types, science
and experimentation are working
ceaselessly, hand in hand.
“Perhaps we shall see their
results, when peace returns, in
the form of new and. startling
examples of sportswear and other
apparel among our civilian popu
lation, just as we did after the
last war.”
FOR RENT—Three room down
stairs apartment, wired for
electric stove at 1004 Boundary.
See H. T. Rushing at premises.
» 21-2tp.
FOR RENT — Furnished Bed
Rooms for men. Phone 220J—
1237 Calhoun Street, Newberry,
S. C. 19-4tc
LIVES OF TWO DROWNING
BOYS SAVED BY QUICK
THINKING FALL RIVER MAN
Fall River, Mass.' William
Forgette, textile employee who
saved two boys from drowning
on St. Valentine’s Day, now is
getting ready to answer another
extraordinary call to serve his
fellow men. Despite his five
fighting years with the Army iif
World War II, he is due soon to
go back into active service again,
this time as a sailor.
An ex-ammunition sergeant who
campaigned on Normandy Beach
and through Europe in the 26th
Division with General Patton, Mr.
Forgette holds a first class sea
man’s rating in the Naval Re
serve and has been called to re
port April 11 in Boston for his
physical exam, preliminary to act
ive duty.
The 34-year-old second hand In
flant “A” of Berkshire Fine
Spinning Associates won this
city’s acclaim when he plunged
into South Watuppa Pond to res
cue Joseph Pontes, 6, and Nor
man Bosse, 10, after the young
sters fell through thin ice.
Trapped. Under Ice
From a mill window Mrs.
Maria Soares, spinner, saw the
two boys struggling in the water
and she notified Mr. Forgette.
He raced from the building,
scaled a fence and ran along the
ice toward the boys. By this
time they were trapped under
the ice, 26 feet from shore. As
he neared them, his weight caused
him to crash through too, but
by flailing his arms he man
aged to reach the pair.
Grabbing the younger lad first,
Mr. Forgette placed him on. the
surface of the ice and gave him
a shove toward shore. Two fel
low workers from the spooling
room, Joseph Duponce and Louie
Rosa, dragged the Pontes boy
to safety with ropes, then seized
a length of picket fence to haul
Mr. Forgette and young Bosse
ashore.
Suffering no more than an
icy wetting and a scare, the boys
were taken to their homes. Mr.
Forgette was treated for ice cuts
by the Berkshire plant doctor.
The excitement of this experi
ence had hardly begun to die
down when Mr. Forgette received
his Navy notice.
“It’ll be rough having to leave
my wife and boys and my job at
the mill, but I want to serve
where I’m needed. That’s why I
signed up with the Naval Reserve
and I’m going to take things as
they come,” he says.
Best Of The Good
To The
Kendall Company
AndToThe
Employees |0f Oakland
A
• . •
Full Measure Of
Success
To Each Of You
BAKER’S SHOE STORE
Main Street
O A
and/
T HEREFORE, PURCELLS extends best wishes to
both Mr. Henry Kendall and his associates, and
to all of the people who man the works at Oak
land.
The Kendall company has shown its faith in
Newberry and this should be a source of inspiration to
every Newberrian. This far-seeing executive believes <
that Newberry is on its way up. Let Us all co-operate
with him and share his optimism.
A ND WE KNOW you will agree that congratula
tions are in order for your genial Manager, D. O.
Carpenter, the overseers, the section hands, the
second hands, and all other Oakland workers of
whatever rank.
E. B. Purcell
Troxelle Senn, Bookkeeper
Ben P. Stewart, Collector
Keitt Purcell
Sara B. Franklin, Secy.
Carolyn L. Wicker, Secy.
Their devotion to Oakland is well known and fully
appreciated by Newberry people. Their ready accep
tance of any task to make Newberry a better city is al
so well known. A better people than those of Oakland
would be hard to find.
PURCELL
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