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TUB NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1982
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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, under
tiie Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., $1.50 per year
in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance.
Comments On Men And Things . . .
North Left Shivering As Wool
Manufacturers Move Southward
Spectator Handing:
Out Bouquets To
Bus Operators
Charleston seems to think well
of its Power Company, accord
ing to The News & Courier,
which I am quoting:
"The franchise held by the
Gray Line is being relinijuished
because the operator is losing
money. The South Carolina Elec
tric & Gas Co., which already
operates city bus service to the
North Area and west of the Ash
ley, has volunteered to take over
the service. The power company
has undertaken the assignment
not with the hope of making a
profit out of what already is a
losing proposition but from a
sense of public obligation. The
company’s attitude deserves rec
ognition and thanks from the peo
ple of this entire region.”
It is certainly more a matter
of serving the public than of
making a profit, for I understand
that the transportation service is
not profitable anywhere. Years
ago, as I recall, the Company
now operating in Columbia and
Charleston wished to be allowed
to transfer its transportation
franchise because its operations
in Columbia were conducted at a
loss.
If I recall correctly the Duke
Power Company has recently dis
posed of its bus service in Char
lotte, Greenville and Spartan
burg. The Bus Company operat
ing from Charleston to Mount
Pleasant, Sullivans Island, The
Isle of Palms and other com
munities across the Cooper River,
decided to go out of business
because the operation was car
ried on at a loss. Now comes
The South Carolina Electric and
Gas Co. and agrees to serve that
territory. Just to state the facts
is sufficient. Let us hope that
the able management of the
Power Company will be recogniz
ed for an act of great service
which will bring many headaches
and few dollars of profit—if any.
Our towns today are largely
dependent on bus service. Thou
sands of men and women depend
entirely on the buses for going
to work, as well as going any
where else. Observe Columbia
with its far-flung new areas of
residential development. Then
there is frequent and good ser
vice from Columbia to Cayce,
West Columbia and regions be
yond the limits of those thriving
cities. That is a different Com
pany, but doing the same service,
making it possible to havd
frequent trips to and from Co
lumbia. Today a mile or five
miles means nothing if there is
frequent bus service. Thousands
of cars come to the City, but
a two thousand dollar car is an
expensive means of travelling
two or three miles a day; but for
sixteen cents, or less, one may
use a bus in comfort and travel
six or more miles a day. A car,
even the less expensive cars, will
cost several times as much, not
counting the parking meter, or
parking lot, or trips around
block after block in search of a
parking space, not to mention the
parking ticke't.
There are some sidelights on
operating a car in town. Some-
days ago several cars stopped
before a red light in Columbia,
out in a residential and church
neighborhood, where the Catholics
and Methodists and Lutherans
have beautiful churches. Car No.
1 stopped; car No. 2 decided to
move over and jammed car No.
1. Then No. 1 tried to maneuver
it backed into car No. 3. Result:
three fenders bent. Presumably
a good time was had by one and
all—as they used to say. The
owner of No. 2 walked up to No.
1 and said "I’m insured; send me
the bill.” No. 2 said to No. 3
“And I’m insured; send me your
bill.” If all three had been on
buses all would have been as
milk and honey in the land of
Canaan.
The South is attracting more
attention every day. Here’s a
story of interest:
“Southward mill migration once
more is sending shivers up north
ern textile spines. This time it’s
the wool goods makers who are
heeding Dixie’s lure more than
the cotton mills, which deserted
New England in droves in 1920’s
and 1930’s.
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American Woolen Co., which
produces one yard in seven of the
industry's woolen and worsted
goods, is heading the present
treak. American Woolen’s new
Raleigh mill will open on Febru
ary 1, employing 360 people on
machinery moved from Lawrence,
Mass. That city, top worsted
center, is especially hardhit right
now, with three out of four
worsted workers jobless. ‘We
moved some of our machines
south in order to get lower costs,’
a company officer says. ‘Labor,
taxes, workmen’s compensation
unemployment taxes—every ele
ment of cost but raw wool will
be lower in Massachusetts!!”
And then observe this, from
The News & Courier:
“Better than a full-page ad
vertisement telling of the Indus
trial advantages of South Caro
lina was a recently published
agreement between the manage
ment and the union of Utica and
Mohawk Cotton Mills Inc.
Under the agreement, employes
of the Utica, N. Y., concern will
receive $126,000 in severance pay
The company, which is merging
, with J. P. Stevens & Co., is
moving its mills from Utica to
Clemson and Seneca. While we
are not gloating that Utica is
to lose the mills, it will not
escape notice that the concern
was willing to pay $126,000 simply
for the privilege of moving its
mills to South Carolina. The
figure does not include the cost
of transferrng equipment.
Any State which has such in-
du^trial potentialities that mills
find it profitable to move to that
State, even in the face of large
sums for severance pay, must
have something to offer a new
business. South Carolina is such
a State."
My Northern friends won’t
think me ungracious if I Recall
with approval the words of a
Methodist lady missionary I knew
in Peru: “Whatever else I may
lose,” she said, “I hope I'll never
lose my # Southern accent.” She
was a Georgian and her Southern
accent was heavily compounded
of Georgia, plus, with a drawl
that made long-distance conversa
tion prohibitively expensive. In
fact, her words came with such
deliberation as suggested one of
the Scots turning into a park
ing space and moving on the
last drop.
How high are our Federaj
taxes? The Aiken Standard and
Review says, editorially:
“Fast as individual income tax
rates have risen corporation rates
have risen even faster. The corpo
ration rate was held to a ceiling
of 42 per cent in World War II.
Now it is 52 per cent. Very
steep excess profits taxes come
on top of this. The total corpora
tion tax runs as high as 70 per
cent. Tftere is not much room
for further boosts here if an
incentive-economy is to be main
tained in this country, and enter
prise is to be encouraged to
progress.
This illustrates, in capsule
form, the tremendous magnititude
of the tax problem. The heart of
that problem was described in
these words by Senator George:
‘There have, been frequent dis
cussions of what, the total tax
‘take’ may be without doing in
jury to our economy. There is
no fixed limit; the limit is to bd
found only when the tax ‘take’
destroys the incentive of the peo
ple and when it leads to every
conceivable effort to evade and
to wasteful practices by the tax
payers themselves’.”
A tribute to our State officials
is found in the annual report of
John A. Campbell, President of
The South Carolina National
Bank. Says iMr. Campbell: (The
Charlotte Observer has commend
ed this address editorially.)
“Both agriculturally and in
dustrially, South Carolina has
made wonderful progress in the
last few years. One crop farming
has given way to scientific land
use. Crops are diversified. Cat
tle raising, dairying and poultry
are beginning to be a considerable
factor in the agriculture sections.
More and more the State is re
lying upon itself for subsistence.
It has a network of highways un
surpassed in the nation which has
contributed materially to the up
building of even the remote por
tions of each county. It has an
excellent and respected State
Government of which its citizens
can be proud. Its taxes are
fairly levied and honestly col
lected. It has a native American
population which respects those
things which made this country
great—ambition, initiative, loyal
ty, independent judgement, and
a willingness to work. It has
a brilliant future in store for
it, and its desirability is now
recognized nationally.
When such concerns as West-
inghouse Electric Company, a
subsidiary of which ip operating
a multi-million dollar plant at
Hampton; E. I. du Pont de Nem
ours & Company, which recently
built a synthetic fibre plant at
Camden at a cost of several mil
lion dollars and is now tripling
its capacity, and the same com
pany has acquired land in Flor
ence County for the site of a
future plant; J. P. Stevens & Co.
which has extensive interests in
the Piedmont area and has com
pleted a large bleachery near
Cheraw; Owens - Corning Glass
Company and Singer Sewing Ma
chine Company, both of which
have just completed costly plants
at Anderson; Utica-Mohawk Cot
ton, which is expanding its pro
ductive capacity in the state and
has just built a new mill near
Clemson; Julius Kayser & Co.,
which is completing a plant in
Belton in addition to others they
operate in the state—and these
are but a few of the national
names which have entered the in
dustrial life of the state—when
such concerns as these are will
ing to bring their money and
their know-how to this state in
preference to others, there must
be a reason.”
Mr. Campbell recently made a
study of Florence County and in
a speech in that prosperous and
wide-awake city gave such illumi
nating facts that the daily papers
as well as Spectator quoted him
at length.
Some of these days we may
persuade Mr. B. M. Edwards to
write the story of his life, a
career remarkably fruitful in
solid achievement. The only draw
back is that Mr. Edwards is too
young and vigorous to look back:
he still looks far into the future.
But twenty five years from now
let us hope that he will write the
story, and enliven it with some of
his infectious humor.
Some day I may be tempted
to write something about that
pair, the high command, so to
speak. Recently at a supper of
fifty men or more Mr. Edwards,
just talking informally, remark
ed that a contribution to the
building fund of a church was an
investment that never would
shrink in value but would 'pay
dividends forever. And my broth
er Baptist said that at a table
presided over by that gracious
and lovable man, the Reverend
Dr. WilliaA Way of Charleston,
a highly distinguished Episcopal
(Minister.
I’ve spent many hours with Mr.
Edwards. He may tell a delight
ful story of somebody’s “Coon-
dog;” or he may reveal his
practical religion with just a few
words: but he won’t talk “shop.”
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CHARLIE BAILEY
RECEIVING INSTRUCTIONS
Charlie M. Baily, steward, sec
ond class, USN, husband of the
former Geneva Cleveland, 636
West street, Newberry, is now
undergoing a course of instruction
in chemical warfare at the Fleet
Tiaining Center, Norfolk, Va.
The odurse acquaints students
with ship-board chemical defense
equipment and how to use it.
AUDITOR’S 1952 TAX
ASSESSMENT NOTICE
Returns of personal prop
erty, new buildings and real
estate transfers, and poll tax,
are to be made at the Coun
ty Auditor’s Office begin
ning :
January 1st, 1952
through
February 29th, 1952
All able bodied male citi
zens between the ages of
twenty-one and sixty are
liable to $1.00 poll tax.
All returns are to be made
by School Districts. Your
failure to make return calls
for penalty as prescribed by
law.
PINCKNEY N. ABRAMS
Auditor Newberry County
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AGRICULTURAL
PROGRAM
BALANCING A CHANCING AGRICULTURE
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We Endorse •
Point 5 Of The
South Carolina Agricultural Program ~
As Sponsored By
Clepison .College Extension Service And State Agricul
tural Committee
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The purpose of farming is to obtain good
farm life, a necessary part of permanent na
tional security and well-being. Plan and work
for good health through improved nutrition,
increased food production and conservation,
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comfortable homes, and adequate clothing. Pro
vide opportunity for education, religious train
ing and social life.
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The NEWBERRY FEDERAL
Savings
Loan Association
JOHN F. CLARKSON, Pres.
J. K. WILLINGHAM, Secty.-Treas.
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AGRICULTURAL
PROGRAM
FOR
SOUTH
CAROLINA,
BALANCING A CHANCING AGRICULTURE
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1. Balanced Farming:
Make the farm an efficient operating unit by careful farm and home
planning to make the best use of land, labor, machinery, cash and credit.
2. Crops:
The farmers’ part in national defense in 1952 is greater production of
food, feed and fiber. ..Successful farming is based upon the production
of field and forest crops adapted to the land on which they are grown.
Use modern methods of efficient production to obtain highest yields
and returns.
3. Livestock:
Encourage the wise expansion of grassland farming to support our
growing livestock and poultry industry. The development of an efficient
animal and poultry husbandry is essential to full use of our land and la
bor resources, and to a balanced agriculture.
4. Marketing:
Good marketing methods often mean the difference between profit and
loss. Knowledge of market demands, skillful preparation of products to
meet such demands, and full use of the best available market facilities
are necessary to successful farming.
5. The Farm Family:
The purpose of farming is to obtain good farm life, a necessary part
of permanent national security and well-being. Plan and work for good
health through improved nutrition, increased food production and con
servation, comfortable homes, and adequate clothing. Provide opportun
ity for education, religious training and social' life.
6. Rural Youth:
Train rural youth in improved methods of farming, homemaking,
health, citizenship and leadership.
7. Public Affairs: 1 ’
Bta>me familiar with agricultural policies and programs. Join and
support local and national farmers organizations.
This Important Message Sponsored By
The South Carolina National Bank
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Newberry Branch
Joe L. Keitt, Asst. Mgr.
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