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PAGE POUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1952 nn 1218 Colkge 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, undei the Act of Congress of March 3, 1379. 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 By SPECTATOR Well, there’s Bobby Shantz, the young wizard of the Philadelphia athletics: if you are looking for a hero Bobby fills the bill: his slants and benders, his dips and gliders, his sinkers and fast ones, and his slow ones—all make him a remarkable man on the mound. ^ Then you can celebrate the Columbia Reds and their championship, a notable achievement that reminds some of our ancient sports-lovers of the long ago, when in im memorial antiquity the sturdy champions of Columbia brought glory to the city on the Congaree. Thinking of the city on the Congaree makes me wonder if the city isn’t on the Saluda River. But there, again, “hangs a t&le,” as we must say, in the words of England’s immortal Shakespeare. The Spence family, so worthily represented by “the Col : onel,’’ who is “the Spence” of long association with The South Carolina Electric and Gas Co., was the grantee, though the company was called by another name years ago, in “the Colonel’s” youth. What I mean to say is this: “Colonel Spence” treasures a grant from the King of England and still holds the land of that ancient grant—1752, as I recall. As I recall, the grant conveys a tract of land “on the Saluda River, in Berkley^ County.” I was interested in that situation—“the land lying, being and situate” in that County and on that river, to quote the legal style, once so common. Now did you ever think of Berkley County as situated on the Saluda River? The Saluda River, with the Broad River, becomes the Congaree when the two yellow waters mingle under or about the bridge spanning the streams to bring to the metropolitan City of Columbia the opulent citizens'of West Columbia and Cayce. But, just as General Thomas Sumter spoke and wrote of the “High Hills of the Santee,” meaning the Wateree, near Stateburg, so the Saluda being equally a part of Santee one might think that that was the reason. I sug gest that, without having an opportunity “to clear” this with Dr. W. W. Ball or Mr. A. S. Salley. Bowing before superior authority I timidly offer a weak hypothesis. I was interested to observe the signature of W. G. Heriot, as an official in the transaction.. “Colpnel Spence” himself knows all about this. When the United Nations came into being I thought the Central organization would bring the Nations together, through delegates who would serve to thresh out problems that affected the interests of those Nations. All of us should have known that the dreamers would fasten some thing fantastic on us. Well how’s this: “California farmers and state officials are hopping mad at the Federal Communications Commission. Since 1928 the state has operated eight short wave stations, under Federal license, to bring market news to its farmers. Now the F.C.C. proposes to shut them. Under an agreement reached at the extraordinary ad ministrative radio conference held at Geneva, Switzrland, in 1951, to which Russia and her satellite countries were signatories, the wave lengths the California stations operate on will be turned over to the use of all foreign nations. Cries an angry poultry raiser who depends on daily re ports from the stations to determine when, how much and at what price he will sell: ‘I don't see that the Govern ment’s got any right to come in and take this service away from us and hand it out to foreign countries.” CELERY SHIPPER UNHAPPY Or take E. J. Raffeto, a lettuce and celery shipper of Salinas, Calif.: T depend on the market news for daily reports on prices, supply and temperature in Eastern mark ets. If you don’t know those things you can’t accurately price your produce.’ And he adds, T can’t say I’m very happy about seeing the Government coming trying to upset things.’ A regional official of the F.C.C. says not so. ‘There just aren’t enough short wave channels to go around, so if the Government is going to keep the agreements it has % made, the California stations must cease operation.’ The F.C.C. is coming in for the hottest criticism be cause it allowed complaining parties only a week in which to file objections to the ruling. Sputters an irate California Department of Agriculture official: ‘At the time of the international agreement, the Government told us the matter would be fully discussed with state representatives and we would be given every consideration. Instead of that, they pulled a ‘quicky’ on us and give us only a week to protest.’ And he adds, unhappily ‘Now it looks like after 24 years the best market news system in the whole country is going to get shut down and our wave lengths given to other countries.’ One organization, though, the California *Farm Bureau, is not going to accept the ruling lying down. ‘We’re definite ly putting a protest on file with the commission,’ says Don Clean Campaign— McColley, executive secretary. ‘We want them to know that if the ruling stands it will upset the whole flow of farm produce in this state.’ The bureau’s legal staff is working around-the-clock to, determine the constitutional legality of the edict. ‘We’re not all sure these international agreements 4iave been sanctioned by the Senate.’ Mr. McColley says. The Farm Bureau is being joined in the fight by other organizations, such as the Grower-Shipper Vegetable As sociation of Central California, but the big Federal agency has made no move as to yet to backtrack. Even the plea that the (California civil defense author ities counts on using the eight station net in time of emergency has so far fallen on deaf ears. The Govern ment replied that the state can install a microwave sys tem. ‘Sure we can’, says a California official. ‘At a minimum cost of $1 million. ' But the commission politely tenders its regrets. ‘The commission is not unmindful of the fact that some hard ships may result,’ it says, but adds that California must understand that ‘national agreements must be implement ed !’ ” Too bad, isn’t it? The mischief being done in Washing ton is nearly beyond belief. .Congress has virtually sur rendered to the Executive Department so many large powers that the Congress is almost a lame duck. ^ While I was in Chicago I went to the vast Convention hotel frequently. I was never sure where I would be, on coming out. You may find this interesting': “Ever run a hotel housing a national political conven tion? It’s one of the biggest jobs in the history of hos- telries. Talk to the men who manage the big Conrad Hilton hotel in Chicago and they’ll tell you why. They struggled with the rampaging Republicans for nearly a week and then the Democrats. When a radio network executive visited the hotel re cently checking electrical facilities for broadcasting and televising the Republican convention, he found the hotel’s five electrical generators turning out enough power to service a city of nearly 25,000. But that power couldn’t generate the juice for one of the network’s light bulbs. The radio and television facilities require AC current to operate, whereas the Hilton’s generators turn out DC current. The hotel’s problem was magnified when other net works and stations presented bids for broadcasting sftece. By this week 80 radio, 15 audio TV and 18 visual TV channels were established at the Hilton—more chan* nels than you find in New York City. All wanted AC cur rent. That problem seemed likfe a tough one until we re membered that a neon sign on the top of the hotel was operating on AC current from the Commonwealth Edison Company. With the cooperation of Illinois Bell Telephone, which installed 2.5 million feet of temporary wiring, hotel engin eers hooked up broadcasting and TV facilities to sock ets in the neon sign. If you watch or listen to any of the Republican or Democratic convention TV or radio pro grams emanating from the hotel, it may interest you to know that power for those programs is coming from the neon sign which normally flashes the new name of the Conrad Hilton Hotel over Michigan Boulevard. (The Hil ton was formerly known as the Stevens Hotel). You get some idea of the enormous size of this 25- story hotel, the huge business it carries on, and the myriad of functions necessary to make a convention a suc cess when you take a trip through its miles of corridors and through the 14-story annex which houses the hotels own laundry, bakery, ice making plant, carpenter shop, furniture shop and electrical shop. A typical convention day finds 328,000 pieces of hotel linen and about 50,000 pounds of guest flat work going through the laundry. Ice making machines are turning out 25 tons of ice cubes and cracked ice daily for the lemon ade, tea, soda and stronger beverages being served to dele gates. One meal takes as much as 50,000 individual pieces of china, glass and silver. A one day’s shopping list for the kitchen includes 1,000 pounds of butter, 1,000 dozen eggs, 10 steers, 1,000 pounds of pork, enough coffee to brew 35,000 cups, 500 gallons of cream, 30 bags of potatoes and 25 cases each of oranges, lettuce, celery and tomatoes. About 2,000 employes are on hand to service guests in ^ AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND STARniVING" Make the Most of Situations H ARRY K. GARD, Galesburg, Illinois, a year ago came peril ously near to losing his local automobile agency and, as he says, all because he was stupidly allowing worry and fear to poison his mind. He had just purchased the agency when the factory went into a prolonged strike; his bank account was at a very low figure; Uncle Sam was breathing down his neck for a large sum of money on delinquent income tax and his only source of revenue was the service department which was doing practically , no business whatsoever. He went to his office- every day for a week with a case of mental he- be-geebies. Finally, he went to one of the local banks to establish a line of credit. His sales talk to the bank president was probably the world’s poorest, for his turn down was a verbal kick in the pants. In other words, the banker’s refusal told him that he didn’t think he had the ability to succeed in Galesburg. He went back to his office fighting mad. Call ing all his employees together he told them the situation and asked for their cooperation without too much finan cial consideration. He was very fortunate 1 He says, “You should have seen those fellows work. We purchased two barrels of paint and remodeled our whole place. Everyone, including myself, arrived early and worked late—and the agency took a new lease on life. The enthusiasm was contagious. All the old customers started rolling in and new ones came from curiosity.” As a result, they lost a little, but only a small amount of money during the strike; Uncle Sam wasn’t the vicious money monger he had thought, and it wasn’t too long before a big money lending firm called him and asked if he needed some money (which he didn’t). Everything has been just Jim Dandy because he didn’t take time to worry and fret, but got to work and made the most of the situation at hand. Carnegie THAT’S THE GUY! . . Brought to Hollywood police station to Identify man who allegedly held him up, Douglas Sims (left) grabs the hair of Murray Jaconoon and shouts, ’’That’s the guy!” WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Author-Lecturer HORIZONTAL 1,7 Pictured author. 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Karl Latva, Wendell, N.H., was ordered deported In Boston federal court because he contributed 90 cents to the Communist party 18 years ago. Here, he steps off bus enronto to post bond. His wife waits for him to join her. ^ V A V MB* ( ' * V ' J • • aw * 1 ashington mm By Walter Shead A NNOUNCEMENT by the Eis- . enhower headquarters that he will open his campaign in the south recalls the prediction in this col umn that, as s result of the two political conventions, the southern states would become s battle ground during the campaign. Although the concensus here Is that there is little danger of a bolt of the Dixie states from the Demo cratic standard, the wide popular ity of Eisenhower gives his man agers the feeling that a campaign in the south is worth the gamble. Already announced for sot speeches In his airplane junket through the south are Richmond, Va., Atlanta, Birmingham, Jack- sonville, Miami, New Orleans, Fort Worth, Houston, Memphis and per haps other southern cities. Also there is little doubt but that Governor Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic nominee, will make a tour of southern cities at soma point in his campaign. • • • Republican leadership particu larly entertains hopes of breaching the southern line by capturing Florida and Texas. It is known that the GOP senatorial committee, chairmannsd by Senator Dirksen of Illinois, plans to send financial help into Florida in support of Eisen- hower-Nixon clubs and for John P. Booth, Miami attorney, GOP nominee for the senate against Senator Spessard Holland. The Re publican congressional committee may also send money into Florida in at least two congressional dis- trists—perhaps three, the first, fifth and sixth congressional districts. There is little question but that Gen. Eisenhower will get more votes than any other Republican in modem politics, but, since he must get these votes on a Repub lican ticket and not under a Demo cratic or Dixiecrat banner, there is little belief here that he will cap ture any electroal votes south of the Mason-Dixon line. What the general may do, however, is give hope and impetus to the two-partj system in the south which is badlj needed to bring out the best men in both parties in the southern states. • • • On the basis of a real revolt the south, it could be possible for Eisenhower to capture such states as Virginia, Florida and Texas, with a possibility in Louisiana and South Carolina. But to date there is no indication of any such uprising, despite the fact that Governor Jimy 3rynes of South Carolina signed a petition to place Eisen hower electors on the ballot, Byrnes has publicly said he would go along with the Stevenson-Spark- man ticket. As a matter of fact, a survey indicates that 56 southern daily newspapers are supporting Eisenhower as against 29 for Gov ernor Stevenson. At any rate, Eis enhower’s quick tour into the south U an attempt to capitalize on this sentiment for him. • • e National Bureau of Economic search says that back in 1932, w national and private debt was atively small compared to debt, it was equal to 59 pare the national wealth. Today a increased debt is only 53 the national wealth. Today debt, says U.S. News and Report, is $241 billion, state and local, plua $270 bi private debt Our national totals $968 billion dollars. Republicans are treading ice in charging the Truman istration with rigging the in 1948 and with creating issue over shortage of grain i facilities. Congress imposed on the Commodity Credit tion to store grain by an ment to its charter pre\ from renewing leases < where storage bins wera or acquiring land elsewhere. A when there was a decline in prices due to world d« was the CCC which moved support the market SS S OME o< our good Republican friends are asking this ques tion: “How can Rush Holt be a ‘pole cat’ and a ’jackass’ at the same .time?” * They are, of course, referring to the description of the Republican gubernatorial candidate given by U.S. Senator Mansfield Neely. Here’s the answer to this query: Rush Dew Holt once ran on the Democratic ticket. He then jumped over, when he could not dictate the policies of this great party, to the Republican pasture. Remember that story about a certain man—Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—who was two men in one, a split personality? He was one kind of a human being at times, one who was kind, considerate, and lovable. Again he was a murderer, a rapist, and many times a crim inal of various kinds. So, we believe, Rush Holt can be a “polecat” and a “jackass” as well as that fellow could l>e a Dr. Jekyll and a Mr. Hyde.—Mason County (W. Va.) News. • * • The Department of Industrial Relations warns farmers that when schools open next month, the “three R’s,” will come first and cotton picking second for Alabama children under 16 years of age.— Eufaula (Ala.) Tribune. * * » The recent drought in the South eastern states and in New England gives Americans new cause to be thankful for its great area and its flexible and highly productive agri cultural system. The drought has meant disaster to many farmers, ideas from other editors but the probability is that it hardly will be noticed by consumers, contrast to conditions in drought-stricken areas, crops are in prospect in other areas and food and feed pr< still may be at close to levels.—Natchitoches (La.) prise. * * • This will be a year of and converts—one political will blast their bolting vc traitors and the other party bless them as converts.- Mason County News, New W. Va. — • • • Men’s first flight to the isn’t going to be as easy as the comic book writers and ot have led us to believe. acc< to Dr. Clayton S. White, res director of the Love!ace Clinic Albuquerque, New Mexico. The doctor points out that begins to run out at about thousand feet, and there isn’t « at all above 60 thousand feet, addition, at 22 thousand feet barometric pressure is down to point tha$ decompression si< affects the pilot’s blood and lungs. Also at about 60 thousand there is a poisonous concent of ozone, and above that is in- tensive ultraviolet light. And, of course. Dr. White calls attention to the fact that once the pilot leaves the earth’s amosphere, he must ! look out for speeding meteors and other flying bodies. But the research director agrees that getting a rocket ship into the upper atmosphere is feasible!- Phoenix (Ariz.) Home News. Test Your Intelligence various ways. Some of them who depend on tips for the bulk pf their income, aren’t too enthused about the generosity of current hotel occupants. v Score 10 points for each correct answer in the first six questions. 1. The Chinese-Russian Communist leaders met recently in whi< Russian city: —Minsk —Moscow —Leningrad —Archangel 2. Which of the following words does not belong in this group: —red —heliotrope -—mauve —decade 3. In which city were the famous colonial-American witch trials held? —Baltimore -^-Wheeling —Salem —Lynchburg 4. Which of the following governments cannot claim American citi zenship for its people: —Alaskan —Puerto Rican —Philippine —Virgin Islands 5. Pick out the Confederate military leader who surrendered to General Grant. / —P. T, G. Beauregard —James Longstreet —Robert E. Lee —Stonewall Jackson 6. Canada’s “Island Province” is: —Baffin Island —Prince Edward Island —Vancouver Island —Peelee Island 7. Match the following literary characters with the novels in which they appear. Score yourself 10 points for each correct choice. (A) Jean Valjean —Tom Sawyer (B) ELcnezer Scrooge —Les Miserables (C) Eva Sinclair —Dickens’ Christmas Carol (D) Aunt Polly —Uncle Tom’s Cabin Total your points. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-80, superior; 90-100, very superior. (Answers on Page Six)