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THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1961 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY By ARMFIELD BROTHERS Entered as second-class matter December 6 1937 ? at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, unde? the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., $1.50 per yeai in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. 41 Students At USC Enrolled From County Forty-one students from New berry county are currently enroll ed at the University of South Carolina, President Norman M. Smith, announced today. Total en rollment for the fall term is 3,- 418 consisting of 2,389 and- 929 women. Students from Newberry coun ty are: James C. Abrams, Robert Edwin Beck, Patricia Bodie, Ver non L. Boland, Benny Lou Carl ton, Betty Ann Clary, Haskell F. Corley, Narvice Cousins, Louise C. Woods Owners Get Help In Management Free assistance in forest man agement problems was given to 21 woodland owners in the nine counties in the Newberry district during September, according to E. L. Middleswart, district forester with the S. C. State ^Commission of forestry. This makes a total of 64 landowners who have receiv ed recommendations on how to manage their woodlands since July 1, 1951. Services received by the land- owners consisted of recommenda- Santee-Cooper Should Be Subject To Regulations Of Commission The failure of Santee-Cooper to provide power according to its contract with the Pittsburg Metal- urgical Co. of Charleston is not a political matter; it is the direct result of very low water. A travel ler can see islands covered with grass in the lakes supplying San tee-Cooper. Neither Mr. Jefferies nor anyone else is responsible for the low water. It may be noted that in the Pacific region the water has been very low, with shortage of power, either actual shortage or feared shortage. There is something that we might learn from this: the neces- • sity for harmonious, even friendly, relations among all our power* Companies. That must be a mis take, for I am told that Santee’s Coops are being served by private power companies, probably under ah exchange arrangement, by which Santee-Cooper will “pay back” in power whatever it draws from private Companies today. Saritee-Cooper may regard low water as a valid reason for fail ure to fulfill a contract.. Whether I am correct in this or not is not important; what im presses me is this; if Santee- Cooper had high water it would have for special sale what is call ed secondary power. This would be over and above its contract for what is called firm power. Why shouldn’t there be a working agreement on a pleasant, helpful basis? Why should there be a program of Santee-Cooper to do battle with private Companies? —^he Santee-Cooper is a great power plant; it belongs to the State; why, then, should the State itself, try to cut the throat of private power enterprises which pay millions of dollars of taxes? We should look at all this ra tionally and get the dust out of our eyes and the fog out of our brains. Let’s think it out to gether: What is Santee-Cooper? It is a great ei^gineering accom plishment by which the 42 foot higher elevation of the Santee River over the Cooper River is used. And back of this is the mighty stream which the Santee pours into the Atlantic Ocean. Al though engineers may have dis agreed, all that is now dim his tory. Today we have the great plant itself; it is no longer a dream, no longer a plan; today it is a great plant. But the purpose of Santee-Cooper was to serve in bringing big industries, just like the Pittsburg Metallurgical Co. No one thought of Santee-Cooper as a threat to existing power Compan ies. Of course the Act creating the Santee-Cooper confers upon it vast powers—a fact that most leg islators didn’t understand. It was like the old-time small print on the back of a policy of insurance: and like that small print it causes trouble sometimes. As a practical matter I have never heard any criticism of the actual management of the plant and have paid respects to the ability of my friends who direct it and the general competence of the management. However, I’ve always regretted the ambitious plans of expansion which are a menace to the private Companies. You’ve heard men say that the private Companies do as they please? Far from it; the truth is that the Federal Government and the State Government have the Power Companies under their firm control. In this case it is the so-called Public Power en terprise which does as it pleases, for it is complete within itself, fully sufficient of itself. It pays virtually no taxes and is not siifcject to regulation and control P by the Public Service Commis sion. It can borrow money of its own motion—as it did recent ly; it can make almost any sort of contract—as it did recently; it may fix its own rates—as it does. Frankly, it is an unsound arrange ment, but it is the sort of thing the Federal Government has en couraged. This is no ground for an attack on Santee-Cooper; and much less is it a reason for re marks against the management. The Act creating Santee-Cooper should be amended. It was an Act of the General Assembly of South Carolina and should be amended. So as to make Santee- Cooper as fully amenable to the Public* Service Commission as are the tax-paying private Companies. Before leaving the subject I say again: Santee-Cooper now is a great asset and should be used as an asset, not as^m menace. Since President Roosevelt virtually gave thirty five million dollars because of his appreciation of Senator Byrnes, the State has seemed to regard Santee-Cooper as a private Club. It is a great property of the State and the Legislature should take an interest in it. I commend it also to my friend, the Governor, for the State owes the fulfillment of the dream of T. C. Williams to James F. Byrnes, for he made it a reality by get- getting the money. So the Governor can speak .not only as Governor of the State, one having the greatest over-ali interest in the prosperity of all the State and all its enterprises, but because he is the fount of justice, to see that all interests, all enterprises, all citizens, are equal before the law. Greater than that, Hie Governor, as the Sena tor wmose labors brought him National and World-wide acclaim, and whose services earned this tribute of recognition from Presi dent Roosevelt, he has a double right to see that the scales of justice are evenly balanced. What is being taught the boys and girls in high schools and what is taught the young men and young women in the Col leges? Much has been said of late about subversive stuff being taught. Do we know what is being taught in South Carolina? Frankly, I don’t know, though I should know. We .bring in teachers and professors with no knowledge of them except that they have such and such degrees. We do not emphasize sufficiently ability to teach and the stimulat ing quality that arouses the pupil to think and investigate. But we find teachers—some times—who try to appear intel lectual by casting doubt on the customs and traditipns we may cherish. And a lot of subersive stuff is found in some text books. Recently a young lady told a friend of mine quite a story about a well known and respected insti tution of learning. The man came to me and told me the story. I wrote to the President of that institution and he denied the whole account that I had heard! I think he was entirely honest, but how can he know all that the instructors tell the students? I do not forget that 166 students sent a telegram to Senator Olin D. Johnston urging him to vote for the F. E. P. C. Most of us thought the students were young men and women from Northern States, but that wasn’t so. Sev eral of us checked the names: they were South Carolinians, sons and daughters of established families. One young man from Lexington asked that his name be stricken out because he signed under a misapprehension. I do not reflect on a fresh study of our tradition; I do not suggest that we degenerate in to old -mossbacks; but when the old beliefs of our people are under challenge who speaks for our illustrious men and women whose experience and observation resulted in what we regard as customs? Intellectually I know the truth of Tennyson’s words: “There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me, than in half the creeds.” In an honest doubt: yes, for honest doubt is open to convic tion from fresh evidence: but rep udiation is something entirely dif ferent. Do you like coffee? W’ell, here’s something a Tennessee Colonel sent me. He is himself one of the coffee-drinkers who go all around looking for a place which serves the best coffee. By the way, what is the best coffee? Years ago I was crossing Lake Ontario, going to Canada. It was a dismal day, rainy and cold. 1 went to the Ship’s bar and asked for a cup of coffee. Everything that was sold was sold in the bar—from hard liquors to silk handkerchiefs. The attendant said in that friendly way the British and Americans reserve for themselves; “What do you mean—coffee? You people drink Chicory, not coffee.” Well, I did n’t know that. Of course I know* now; that is, I have drunk coffeq in New Orleans and in South America, and the cafe-au-lait in the gay Paree. There is coffee and coffee. There is coffee that spoils good, pure, hot water; and there is coffee so sad that it makes you look like a deacon tak ing up a small collection on a rainy Sunday. Think of this: “Kaldi, the Ari- bian goatherd, didn’t know what he was starting when he ate a few berries from an evergreen bush in 850 A.D. It wasn’t for bidden fruit Kaldi was introducing to the world, but a lot of present- day employers wish the discovery had been forbidden—during work ing hours, at any rate. Because, Derrick, Rita Ann Derrick, Bag- gott H. Frier, Robert S. Gary, Ruby Anne Gatlin, Robert L. Gregory, Jesse J. Guin, Edwin H. Halfacre, Clinton E. Hendrix, Laura Jane Jenkins, Virginia Jenkins, Tommie M. Johnson, James T. Jordan, C. Alphonso Kaufman, Elizabeth Hall Lewis, Robert S. Lewis, David S. Matt hews, James N. Plampin, John W. Ray, Malcolm L. Ringer, Doris L. Schumpert, William T. Scott, Bet ty Sue Senn, James' Elonzo Sheely, Linda Lou Smith, Alfred D. Spotts, Douglas W. Stokes, Margaret M. Suber, Belton R. Taylor, Gilliam Senn Teague, Kathleen M. Thomas, Walter C. Trammell, and Sudie C. Wicker. The fall enrollment showed an increase in the size of the fresh man class and a decrease in the number of veteran students, the college president said. TOMMY JOE WESSINGER HONORED AT LENOIR RHYNE Tommy Joe Wessinger of Little Mountain was among the eight Lenior Rhyne college students received into the Gamma Beta Chi fraternity at the college in Hickory, N. C., last week. The new members will be formally initiated into the organ ization, second oldest social group on the campus, on Monday, Octo ber 22nd, according to Everett Dellinger of Hickory, president. according to legend, it was a coffee tree he found. Kaldi, the legend goes, was so exhilarated after eating the berries that he rushed off to tell his friends about the new sensation. The word spread. In the United States last year, 16.1 pounds of green coffee beans were used for every man, woman and child. And the twice-a-day habit of knocking off work for a cup of coffee has become to America what tea time is in England. When coffee was introduced in to England there was strong ob jection, largely because the cof fee w T as said to stimulate the minds so that everybody would become bright. The freshly arous ed minds would become so active that all men would become con structively dissatisfied and eager to be on the level of the higher men. Coffee, then threatened the quiet and even-tenor of life. If all those fears were realized then it must be that w'e are all so brilliant today that no man’s coffee intellectuality stands out apart, as it must have done in the olden times. I should regret to sound a sour note by suggesting that some might well drink an ocean of coffee; and that heavy-coffee drinking has not seemed to awak en the genius of others. WANT ADS FOR RENT — 2 room furnished Apartment with Private Bath. Call 220-J A.J.24-2tc NOTICE—Will the person who ac cepted Bulova watch with chain band in front of pool, hall on College St., please contact George R. Owens at Rt. 4, Newberry, or leave watch at The Sun office. Case of mistaken identity. 23-2tp. FOR RENT — 3-room apartment 1004 Boundary St., wired for electric stove. See H. T. Rushing. 23-2tp. BATHTUBS—Just received ship ment tubs, sinks, lavatories. Noah’s Ark, Abbeville, S. C. 21-3tc WANTED TO BUY—Iron, Metal Batteries, Radiators and Rags. W. H. Sterling, 1708 Vincent street. Phone 731-W 28-th . 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OF FINAL SETTLEMENT I will make a final settlement of the estate of Mrs. Etta Mae Seymore Baker in the Probate Court for Newberry County, S. C., on the 12th day of November, 1951, at 10 o’clock in the fore noon, and will immediately there after ask for his discharge as Administrator of said estate. All persons having claims against the estate of Mrs. Etta Mae Seymore Baker deceased, are hereby notified to file the same, duly vertified, with the undersigned, and those indebted to said estate will please make payment likewise. Robert C. Lake Jr. Administrator Oct. 8, 1951 tions on how to properly manage their woodlands so as to receive the greatest return from the woodland over a period of years. These recommendations included type cutting needed, if any; areas where cuttings should and should not be made; areas in need of re- forestration; and fire protection measures. Assistance in carrying out these recommendations was given to seven additional landowners dur ing the month. 157 cords of pulp- wood and 225,741 board feet of sawtimber were selectively mark ed on 268 acres of woodland for these seven landowners. This marking service was done for a small fee by the Commission for esters. “This type management service is available to all woodland own ers in South Carolina and should be taken advantage of before a timber sale is made,” Mr. Middle swart said. PRIVATE HELMEN, JR. COMPLETES BASIC TRAINING Private Nathan Helmen, Jr., son of Mrs. Sallie Helmen, Route .3, Prosperity, recently Completed 16 weeks of basic training with the 8th Infantry Division at Fort Jackson. He is a member of the 28th Infantry Regiment. WATCH AND JEWELRY REPAIRS BROADUS LIPSCOMB WATCHMAKER 2309 Johnstone Street For Expert Repair Bring Your Radio and Teieviaion —To— GEO. N. 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Poll Reveals Reason Newberry College Is Selected By Frosh In a recent poll of the 1951-52 Freshman class at Newberry col lege under the supervision of Doc tor John A. Aman of the depart ment of commerce, reasons for selecting Newberry college were given. Because Newberry college is a Christian college, 58 percent of the freshmen gave this as a reason for Coming to Newberry; 46 percent answered because it is near their home town; 45 per cent said they attended Newber ry because it is a small college; 38 percent selected Newberry be cause courses ar? given which they wanted to take; 30 percent because it is a United Lutheran Church college; 28 percent were influenced by their parents to at tend Newberry. Other reasons giv en for attending Newberry were: 16 percent because of the influ ence of a student; 13 percent be cause of the physical education program; 11 percent influenced by an alumnus; 9 percent because of the reputation of the Newber ry College Singers; 8 percent be cause of the influence of a Luth eran pastor; and 3 percent were influenced by the advertisements of the college in “The Lutheran.” The survey revealed other in teresting facts when examined Lutheran Board Worker Visits Miss Mildred E. Winston, one of the secretaries of the Board of Education of the United Luth eran Church in America, made an official visit to the campus of Newberry college, October 11 and 12. Miss Winston spoke at the regular chapel exercises last Fri day. The challenge of the church to young women and the summer service program of the Lutheran church were presented to the students by Miss Winston. Group and individual conferences were held with students on voca tions and Miss Winston pointed out the many openings in the Uniied Luthern Church for from the standpoint of the influ ence of family relations. Twen ty-eight percent of the freshmen attending Newberry this session are from families where one of the parents attended Newberry; 17 percent of the freshmen have had one or more brothers or sis ters who attended Newberry; 10 percent of the freshmen at New berry answered that their fathers attended Newberry; 10 percent answered that their mothers at tended Newberry; and, 7 percent answered that both mother and father attended Newberry. Anyone Wanting Employment At The Fair Mail Written Application To American Legion Fair Committee P. O. Box 212 Newberry, S. C. Do not phone as only written applica tions will be considered. If you don’t want to work, don’t apply as we don’t need anyone to hold down seats. t TAX NOTICE The tax books will be open for the collection of 1951 taxes on and after October 1, 1961, with the exception of Pomaria District 5 and Little Mountain District 6, which will be opened October 10th, 1951 The following is general levy for all except special purposes: Ordinary County 9% Mills Bonds, Notes and Interest 6 Mills Hospital J4 Mill Co. Bd of Education 1 Mill TOTAL 17 Mills The following are the authorized special levies for the various schpol districts of the county together with the general levy: General School School Total District No. Tax Levy Spec. Levy Bonds Levy Mills Mills Mills Mills 1. Newberry 17 15 32 2. Silverstreet 17 15 4 36 3. Bush River 17 15 ’ 4 36 4. Whitmire 17 15 5 37 5. Pomaria 17 8 25 6. Little Mountain 17 15 2 34 7. Prosperity 17 16 5 37_ There will be a discount of one (1%) percent allowed on Taxes paid on or before October 31, 1951 On and after January 1st, 1952, the penalties prescribed by law will be imposed on unpaid taxes. You are requested to call for your taxes by school districts in which the property is located. Those who had their dogs vaccinated for rabies during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1951 by a licensed Veterinarian, and expect to be exempted from dog tax will please bring their certificate of vac cination when appearing to pay taxes. J. Ray Dawkins Treasurer of Newberry Co. 21-5 tc. Let us help you with our low-cost financing plan! NEWBERRY J? Federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OP NEWBERRY John F. Clarkson President J. K. Willingham Sec.-TVeos. Newberry, S. C. RECEIVES PROMOTION Staff Sgt. R. Frasier Sanaers has just been promoted to that rank from the grade of sergeant, at Hunger Air Force Base, Savan nah, Georgia, and is being trans ferred from the 49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bombardment Wing M, to the 3rd Strategic Support Squadron, also stationed at Hunt er Air Force Base. S/Sgt. Sanders will be a flight engineer on C-124 aircraft. Mrs. Sanders (Doris Armfield) is employed as court reporter and secretary to the Staff Judge Ad vocate in the legal department of the Air Force Base. Sgt. and Mrs. Sanders are making their home at 508 East 37th Street in Savannah. LIEUT. HARPE COMPLETES OFFICER’S COURSE Second Lieutenant Nathaniel Harpe of Newberry, has complet ed the six-week course of inten sive military instruction Lieutenant Harpe, son of Sam uel Harpe of 225 Werts Avenue, graduated from Drayton Street High School, and from South Caro lina State A & M College in Orangeburg. Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S Day Phone' 719 — AVOID NEXT WINTER’S UNCERTAINTIES BUY COAL NO the lowest price it will be all fear! Processed And refined* Impurities are removed. Patsy is pmifiodt You get pure, clean-burning coaL Order today! FARMERS Ice & Fuel Company Geo. W. Martin Manager Phone Notice The tax books are now open for the collection of taxes and a discount of % 1 per cent will be allowed on taxes paid during the month of October 1951 J. Ray Dawkins County Treasurer