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l % -■■■■’■■****?* 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 the 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 . . . Spectator Colums Round Out 16 Years Of Service To Carolina Spectator, meaning the week ly column, is of h^gh school age, being about sixteen years old. The writer of Spectator is in the full effervescence of perpetual youth, even if not efflorescent. However here is a note written by Major William D. Workman which I am vain enough to pub lish. “For more than 10 years now, you have been kind enough to send me copies of ‘Spectator’, and it is high time that I make some acknowledgement of their value. They have served me, and no doubt many another South Caro linian, % as constant reminders of those problems, local, national and international, which warrant our attention. The -solutions you propose have in many instances been those I would have suggest ed; in other instances, our re actions have differed—but that is beside the point. The real value has been in the awakening of thought—and it is a rare problem which cannot be solved after a fashion through the application of good sense and good will. Here's hoping that you’ll be turning out ‘Spectator’ for a long time to come—and that my name will stay on your mailing list.” When I first knew ‘‘Bill” he was program Director of a radio station out in the marshes, on the edge of Charleston. I went down once a week and spoke, slipping away, leaving Bill to take the blame until I perpetrated another talk. This Spectator of mine was first written on the suggestion of Ira B. Armfield of Newberry, now a newspaper brother of North Carolina. So Ira and O. F. (Arm- field) were the first to palm off Spectator on the public. They are hoping to be forgiven. As for “Bill”, he quit the radio busi ness and fought the Germans, re garding combat service as less arduous and hazardous than standing up for my radio talks. Even so. Oil, the new giant of industry! Some time ago I talked about coal; here is something about qil: “Shortages of materials had dis rupted many American industries in 1951. It was not that way with oil. “Record civilian and substan tial military needs were fully sup plied when, as and where requir ed. The emergency created in ex port markets by the stoppage of oil flow from Iran was firmly met and quickly abrogated. “American oil companies mean while conducted the most inten sive search for new sources of crude oil in their history. Re serves were increased and notab ly from domestic fields. At the year end domestic crude poten tial was in excess of current con- oumption by a comfortable mar gin. Modern refinery capacity was concurrently expanded and modernized to provide a safety factor against expected further increases in oil consumer require ments. The industry's 1951 perform mance was with a minimum of government control or interfer ence, which < ould in part ac count for its excellence. Manage ments, stockholders, workers, customers and the public at large had a fine opportunity to see competitive enterprise in action, swift and efficient. Competition within the oil industry has always been keen. There are tens of thousands of units within the United States bidding for avail able business and no one has more than about one seventh of the tatal market The expenditures which Ameri can oil companies made in their record drilling drive last year were staggering to the imagina tion. About 44,500 wells were sunk, 1,200 more than the former record set in 1950. Well drilling costs range from a low of around $45,000 to $250,000 $500,000 and even as much as $1,000,000 apiece depending on depth and geo graphical location. It is a risky business this search for oil. Of the total wells drilled in 1951, no less than 16,- 000 were dry holes, a majority of them in acres regarded as proven by skilled geologists and geo physicists. Projects for expanding refinery capacity popped up almost daily in 1951. Those under way, in cluding plants for production of all types of products, are cost ing the industry at least $1,000,- 000,000, and by mid-1953 will have added another 1,000,000 barrels daily processing capacity. The American Petroleum Institute only recently issued its estimate of refining capacity in the United States. On December 31, 1951, it was 7,228,000 barrels a day. By March 31 this year refining capacity is due to reach 7,272,* 500 barrels daily; by June 30, 7,333,500 barrels and by Sept. 30, 7,365,000 barrels a day. Further progress in dieseliza- tion of the nation’s railroads, great strides in the mushrooming petro-chemical industry, new rec ords • in production and use of liquefied petroleum gas, intensi fied studies looking to the utiliza tion, when required, of enormous oil reserves now locked in shale, coal asphalt and tar deposits, and research results comparable with any former year, could be the subject for other chapters in the oil industry’s record of achievement in the year just end ed.” Private enterprise! Scanning some of our papers last week I found this little poem in The I Timmonsville Times, taken from an Arkansas paper: “The power to choose the work we do, To grow and have the larger view, * To know and feel that we are free To stand erect, not bow the knee, To be not chattel of the State, To be the master of our fate. To dare, to risk, to lose, to win. To make our own career begin. To serve the world in our own way, To gain in wisdom, day by day, With hope and zest to climb, to rise; That is PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.” Well, that’s about it, isn’t it? I don’t know a paper in Soqth Carolina which isn’t on the. side of good government and sound economics. Some are more vig orous than others, but the editors WATERTITE »F <r 17 Jewels kadium Hands & Dial Dust-tight, sweep-second hand Unbraakabla crystal, •xpansion band $4250 AS LITTLE AS $1 WEEKLY TONER JEWELER. Aunnouneing * -Formal Opening of BOLDING MOTOR CO. Authorized Lincoln-Mercury Dealer in Laurens People of Newberry and surrounding areas are invited to visit with us during our Formal Opening on Saturday, March 8 Bar-B-Cue Sandwiches and soft drinks will be served from 10:30 a.m. on during our opening. Come in and let’s get acquainted Casey D. Bolding, Gen. Mgr. Ray W. Bishop, Sales Mgr. Jimmie Brown, Service Mgr. Bolding Motor Co. 217 E. Main St TeL 24231 Laurens, S. C. THE NEWBERRY SUN have not lost their perspective. If Moses had put the Children of Israel on the Welfare rolls and had continued that support until now the cost would be less than President Truman has spent since July 1st. 1945. I had all that calculated some months ago. Now comes a Professor of Eco nomics of New York University and tries his hand on the budget which Mr. Truman has presented to Congress for the next fiscal year, beginning July 1st. Here is what the Professor says: “Your editorial of January 22, describes Mr. Truman’s ’52-’53 budget as ‘too big for compre hension.’ I sympathize with the ‘frustration’ you experienced at the difficulties involved in giving it meaning. Yet we cannot give up; we must try to give it mean ing—'Win, lose or draw. Several attempts to illustrate the magnitude of Mr. Truman’s budget are given below. • (!)• Suppose, on the day of Christ’s birth, you had hired 10,- 000 men at $10 a day. Suppose you had paid this amount uay after day, year after year, century after century, up to the present time. You would not yet have spent $85 billion until the year 2329. (2) Suppose, back in 1945 on the day Mr. Truman was inaugu rated you had hired three million men at $10 per day. Suppose they were paid, day in, day out, seven days a week. • You would not have spent $86 billion until SERGEANT SWEAT AWARDED ^BRONZE STAR MEDAL Sergeant First Class James A. Sweat, whose wife, Ara, lives at 1400 Poplar street, has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service during 12 months of Korean combat. Sergeant Sweat rotated to the United States last November. He January, 1953. (3) Let us suppose that, in 1952, the median income per tern- ployed person will be $4,000. The $85 billion, therefore, represents the full time employment, for one year, of 21 1/4 million people. The remarkable fact in all this is not that we have what is loose ly called ‘inflation.’ Instead, it is remarkable that the ‘inflation’ has not proceeded even further." The leadership of Mr. Truman is a calamity but sober thinking men are remembering that Con gress must bear its part of the responsibility. Let us take note of what Congress is doing. It serves no useful purpose to de nounce Mr. Truman for ex travagance if that extravagance and the pernicious sway of bureaucrats are supported by even our own Congressmen whom we joyfully support. If Congress men will do their duty we can curb Mr. Truman. In planning to leave Mr.. Truman at home let us study the records of our men in Congress; perhaps some of them might be kept at home so as to enjoy citizenship from the out side rather than perquisites on the inside. FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1952 was a member of the 39th Field Artillery Batalion, Headquarters, 3rd Infantry Division. The decoration was presented in recognition of Sergeant Sweat’s service between November 11, 1950, and November 8, 1951. MAJOR McCRACKIN SLATED FOR DUTY IN KOREA (Major Ed McCrackin, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McCrackin, left St. Petersburg, Fla., Monday for California, enroute to Korea for active duty. Major McCrackin was stationed in St. Petersburg three weeks before he received his orders for overseas duty. Prior to going to Florida, he was an Engineer In structor at Fort Belvoir, Va., and, before being transfered to Fort Belvoir, (Major McCrackin was an instructor at the Florida Mili tary Academy. Mrs. McCrackin and their daughter, Gwinn, plan to make their home at St. Petersburg Beach, while Major McCrackin is on duty overseas. The Major McCrackins were re cent visitors in the home of the McCrackins on College street. NEWBERRY COLLEGE STUDENTS ATTEND YOUTH CONFERENCE Miss Jean Dawkins, Miss Patsy Kinard and Guy Kennedy, New berry College students, represent ed the college at the Methodist Youth Conference, which was held at Wofford College, Spartan burg, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, February 22-24th. Prizes Offered To Workers In Concert Drive The Community Concert Asso. announces big incentive prizes to be given its workers in the mem bership drive next week. To the worker who sells highest in value of memberships above a minimum of $60 will receive a prize of $16; second high $12, third high $7.50; 4th 5th and 6th prizes will be an adult membership in the Concert Asso. for next season—five ex cellent concerts! And there will be three student memberships of fered to the students who sell the most memberships—if they do not win one of the cash awards. That’s not all. In Carpenter’s window this weekend will be shown a barrel full of gifts to be given to workers on the Concert Asso. Membership Drive. There will be a first and second pria^p for ladies, gentlemen, girls and boys—who se* the highest and second highest value in member- ships in the Concert Asso. Every* one is elegible to win both the cash awards and the merchandise gifts. Among the free gifts are ladies cosmetics sets, sheer hose, 2 deck tibit server, men’s bath accessories, men’s sport shirt, boys sport shirt, argyle hose, Flower ’n Tye, etc. See them in Carpenter’s window. . . ■ Deed Transfers Newberry No. 1 Newberry Life and Health In surance Company to George Wayne Martin, one lot and building, near Glenn street, $12,- 000. ^ 4 Bryan B. Livingston and Aman da A. Livingston to Alton O. Livingston, Jr., one lot 94’xl50 on Charles street, $500. Fred Eugene Boland to Velerie P. Rushing, one lot and one building, 617 O’Neal street, $4260. Newberry No. 1 Outside J. C. Dominick to W. L. Shep*- pard, one lot contains one acre, $400. I. Aubrey Davis to Tommie E. Harmon and Margaret D. Har mon, 48 acres (East Adelaide street Extension), $1000. Howard Cromer to Rube Har mon 8.76 acres, $1500. Bush River No. 3 Walton B. Halfacre to J. Ralph Williams, 60 acres, $1500. Whitmire No. 4 Rebe H. Stone to Hugh E. Tankersley and Vallie W. Tanker- sley, one lot and one building, 113 I^eed Avenue, $5.00 and other considerations. Whitmire No! 4 Outside Hugh E. Tankersley To Reba H. Stone and Robert C. Stone, one lot and one building near Whitmire-Clinton Highway, $5.00 and other considerations. Little Mountain John R. Hall to William Harold -- ; Vwr hoine-Vxir Moms You hope it won’t happen to you, but in millions of homes each year accident and illness do strike—often with tragic results. The Red Cross has trained millions in first aid and home nursing for the better protection erf themselves, their families, and their neighbors. But much more remains to be done. At least one person in every family should have this valuable knowledge . . . knowledge which may mean the difference between life and death. That takes generous giving of time, cooperation and energy. And generous giving of money, too—for supplies, equipment and training. Every dollar you give today means better protection for you and your loved ones. Now is the time— give generously to your Red Cross! totoerfie&ll-fvm I This Adyertisement is Sponsored by the Following Firms: # SQUARE GROCERY T. ROY SUMMER KEMPER CHEVROLET CO. FIRESTONE HOME & AUTO SUPPLIES B. C. MOORE & SONS PURCELLS