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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner 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: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Manning Methodists On Segregation Our Methodist breathren are not all of one mind about non-segregation, apparently; and that may be said of the other churches also. In The South Carolina Methodist Advocate I read the res olution to be submitted to the Conference in October by the official board of the Manning Methodist Church. Says the resolution: “The Official Board of the Manning Methodist Church, having met, discussed and considered 4;he trend through out the nation toward an integration of the races in our Churches adopts the following as a statement of its position and the position of this local church. Whereas, we believe and reaffirm our belief in the Divine Origin of Man and in the principle that all men stand on a spiritual plane of equality; and, Whereas, it is the desire of this local church to remain in and a part of the great and historic body of Methodism; but, Whereas, we also believe that certain social, economic, and cultural factors exist which make it impractical and undesirable that members of the Negro race be received into and made a part of this congregation. Be it therefore resolved, That this local Church opposes any action which may be contemplated or taken by the An nual Conference, Jurisdictional Conference, or General Con ference, either urging, recommending or in any other form suggesting that the races be placed side by side either in the local Church or in institutions supported by the South Caro lina Annual Conference. That such action, if taken, would make it impractical for this local Church to continue its connection with the Annual Conference. The foregoing was passed without dissent at a meeting of the Official Board of The Manning Methodist Church on Sunday, June 20th, 1954.” ‘Rural Minister Of The Year’ Rev. A. C. Prevatte has been recognized, as I read in The Baptist Courier. Says The Courier: “Rev. A. C. Prevatte, pastor of four Lake View area Bap tist churches, has been recognized as ‘South Carolina’s Rural Minister of the Year’ by the Progressive Farmer and the Town and Country School of Emory University, Georgia. The magazine and Emory annually make the award for ‘out standing service to church and community.” I£r. Prevatte is pastor of the Kemper field of the t’ee Dee Association which includes the Kemper, Fork, Piney Grove, and Bermuda churches. New Power Sources Each Week “The Utility Industry sparks ahead,” says the Investor’s Reader, a publication devoted to all business and industry. “Pn almost every front the giant $25 billion-assets public utility industry surges forward. The-Edison Electric Insti tute reports weekly electric output running just under 9 billion kwh or 6% over last year. In marked contrast, total US industrial production is currently 10% below a year ago with such titans as steel down 20 % and autos off 14 %. There is a simple answer to this paradox — residential power demand has more than offset the drop in factory needs. Moreover, electric use by commercial customers is 8% above last year. This group includes stores, restaurants, office buildings, etc., and normally accounts for one-quarter of total power. / To supply its insistent customers the private power indus try ‘turns on the juice’ in a new plant almost every week. Scheduled to open shortly: Texas Power & Light’s River Crest No. 1; Alabama Power’s Barry No. 2; Indiana & Michigan Gas & Electric’s Tanners Creek No. 3; Illinois Power’s Wood River No. 4 and many others. Last month the Ohio Power Company (part of the giant American Gas & Electric System) pulled the switch on a new 200,000 kw generating unit at its Muskingum River plant in the South east corner of Ohio. For the record, this was the fifth unit Ohio Power has added since World War II. Before the year is out, the greatest utility building pro gram in history will bring generating capacity to more than 100,000,000 kw, or double 1945, and three times once-great 1929. Nor will there be much rest for the power plant build ers—capacity will have to be doubled again by 1963. Right now the US gobbles up 45% of all the energy produced throughout the entire world. American power use has been stimulated by numerous technical advances. For instance it requires 20,000 kwh to produce a ton of titanium metal. Of course, costly production problems will have to be solved before many people can af ford the new wonder metal. The really big user of electricity is the kilowatt-hungry aluminum industry. Like titanium GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY it takes about 10 kwh to produce every pound of aluminum. Expressed another way, every aluminum worker employed uses almost 1,400,000 kwh a year. Other industries are less demanding. The zinc worker requires 135,000 kWh a. year, chemical 42,000, paper 39,600, coal and petroleum 38,300, iron and steel 26,900 kwh. Steel-workers are expected to double electrical purchases by 1963, thanks to growing use of electric furnaces in addition to high & low frequency in duction heating. But when a new steel mill, or metal working plant, moves to town, local utility men are happier about the new resi dential customers who come along with it. About 98% of all American homes are electrified and new gadgets like clothes dryers, heat panels and portable refrigerators are concocted every day. Residential sales account for 40 % of total electric energy and the ratio may rise as the push-button home grows into reality. The sure and steady growth of home electrical use often acts as a cushion during any fall-off in industrial sales. Example: In April, latest month reported by the Federal Power Commission, industrial sales were off 5%, residential up 12%, commercial up 8 %. More home appliances mean more convenience, more lei sure. Utility men hasten to point out two things. First, the average residential customer pays only 1.15% of his dis posable income for electricity. This proportion has been as high as 1.48% in 1933 (when incomes were low) and as low’ as 73% in 1927 (those days electric appliances ranked in the luxury class). - More important, electricity is one vital cost-of-lmng item which is cheaper than ever. Today the average resi dential price is 2.7c a kilowatt hour, compared with 4c in 1938 and 10c in 1908. Electric utility men are proud they have been able to lower prices in the face of higher taxes and higher labor, fuel and material costs. To hold rates down, the utilities have stressed efficiency and modernization, particularly in generating and transmis- sion. Back in 1929 it took 1.7 pounds of coal to produce one kwh; now the national average is one pound and some ultra efficient plants need only six-tenths of a pound. The growth in the use of electric energy also has helped keep rates down. Since World War II electric utilities have spent $16 bil lion on construction. Another $3 billion will be invested by the end of this year. Estimated cost of doubling electric out put in the next ten years is anywhere from $32-to-50 bil lion. Of great significance is the public swing against state- owned power plants. In a New Deal year like 1935 American voters approved 65 public power plants and turnejd down 45 in franchise elections. Last year municipal operation was pro posed to voters in only 21 communities and none won suf ficient ballots. Perhaps more and more citizens feel like famed scientist Thomas Alva Edison, who prophesied: ‘When the Government goes into business it can always shift losses to the taxpayers. If it goes into the power business it can pretend to sell cheap power and then cover up its losses.’ Public power development continues at various water sites but the preferexitial treatment once enjoyed by local co-ops and the REA may become a thing of the past. Big projects like Harry Truman’s pet MVA (Missouri Valley Authority) are almost forgotten or greatly toned down. Another indica tion the trend may be reversed is the joint Middle South Utilities and Southern Company proposal to build a 600,- 000-kw generating plant to supply TV A itself as a help to the atomic program. Atomic energy is no doubt in the cards, but promises no overnight revolution for the utilities. Only 14% of the electricity cost presently goes for fuel, and atom energy is just another kind of fuel. So, even if scott-free energy eliminated the need for coal, gas or oil, the savings would not be sensational. Atomic development may make present utility boilers obso lete but never the utilities themselves. The idea of an atomic power plant in every home appears cold. (The lead shield re quired would be too heavy and expensive.) To the utilities, atomic energy is just another revolutionary step to be taken in stride. Let us come nearer home. The News & Courier quotes S. C. McMeekin, President of The South Carolina Electric & Gas Co.; “The S. C. Electric & Gas Co. has earmarked a little over $62 million for expansion in the next two years. Last year, Mr. McMeekin, said SCE&G invested approximately $23 million in new facilities. Two 75,000 kilowatt units are now in service, the SCE&G chief said, with the first start- THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1954 S OME political observers say that Democratic leaders are no longer as confidant about sweep ing House and Senate contests in the. general elections as they were a few months ago They say that the Democrats feel sure they will win the House but that the Senate is doubtful. The Republicans, whether over confidant or not, say the Demo crats will not get the 50 additional seats they expect in the House Republican confidar.ce is based upon the brighter economic pic ture. continued popularity of Eisen hower. the improved Indochina sit uation and the fact that farmers are not opposing the Benson flex ible price support program as heav ily as was expected • The outcome of the T.V.A. issue is certain to be an important factoir in .Congressional elections. The events which led up to the Senate controversy on the matter offered the Democrats opportunity to hammer home their favorite theme; that this is a rich man’s administratidn and that the Presi dent Is concerned with the prob lems of the big corporate interests. The issue arose as a result of the order by President Eisenhower on Jane 17, directing the Atomic En ergy Commission to negotiate a contract with Middle South Utili ties, Inc., and the Southern Com pany, to build a $107 million steam plant at West Memphis, Arkansas, which would feed 600,000 kilowatts of energy into the T.V.A. system, to replace T.V.A. power being pro vided for the atomic energy plant at Paducah, Kentucky. The Demo crats pounced upon this order as the beginning of a Republican at tack on public power. They cried that this was class legislation, and another in a series of measures like the offshore oil bill, the divided tax- exemption amendment, and others. It was argued that the handful of companies which acquired atomic experience fulfilling war time and defense contracts would obtain a stranglehold on atomic power development. When the Republicans referred to the Democratic "‘filibuster” as •‘obstructionism,” the Democrats responded with the retort that the Administration had “wasted” five weeks earlier in the session in fruitless debate on the Bricker amendment and should not expect passage of a measure so important as the atomic energy bill within a matter of hours. - • The documents signed at Geneva recently changed the course of history. They sanction the > lapse of the last colonial rule of a Western holding on the Asian con tinent, with the exception of Ma laya. This critical turning point in the cold war brought much of In dochina under Communist rule and left the rest of it open to easy in filtration and domination. The prestige of Communist China has been greatly increased and the free world now has to find ways to prevent Communist infiltration of Thialand and to associate India, Burma and Indochina with the de fense pact. From the Surburban List, Essex i by our vast burden of public debt Junction, Vermont: Considerable, and crushing taxes. But we pay The Backbone of the Nation v <\ ..'Vi m m m] SV-' V '.-V. - Dale li criticism has come out of the cities on account of supporting prices paid to the farm industry. They call it a subsidy. There are other subsidies paid by the federal gov ernment^ arid I wish I knew the total amount. The merchant marine gets a lot of money outright and then there are millions of dollars paid to the air lines for carrying mail Some people will argue that the TV A, and some other government- sponsored electric companies, are supported by subsidy. The list would be quite a long one and I dare say that the total would go far above what the farmers are paid • • • ■ ” f From the South Pasadena Re view, South Pasadena, California: Senator Jenner of Indiana has said this: “Before we can solve the great problem of foreign policy in this dangerous and disorganized world. Congress must give back to private industry, to private reform and private education, and to local government, every activity which can be surrendered by the federal government We pay—and pay through the nose—for our super-government in many kinds of coin. The most ob vious one is money, and represented too in lost liberties, in diminishing independence, and in an insidious undermining of our moral fiber and responsibility a§ people. And. as Senator Jenner intimated; when government is concerned with ev ery phase of our domestic life, energy and resources are diverted from matters such as foreign and military policy, which are its prop er province. From the Canton Independent- Sentinel, Canton, Pennsylvania: It is a faovrite pastime of most Amer icans to discuss what the country needs. Just now, however, in a pe riod as critical as any that the Republic has faced, we might point out that the nation needs most the loyal support of patriotic men and women and the^confidence of those who believe in the democratic way of life. There is no substitute tor loy alty Flagwaving, public demon strations and community-wide ex pressions of solidarity do not re place the faithful individual, upon whom successful government de pends. As a citizen, it is essentia) for you to make your contribution to the United States of America. Do not mislead yourself You can not make a civilization in the face of great danger without some per sonal sacrifice you cannot con tribute at a profit AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING JULIAN FORBES, 1431 Wellsley Street, N. W., Roanoke, v-ix« W ix-. says that five yean ago he got married and his troubles began. But he gives thanks that they were short lived. At the time ot his marriage he was living with his mother and was her only support Soon he found the old axiom, “No house is large enough lor two families” to be true. There was a continuous argument about something all the time, net about matters that count ed, but about petty things such as where pictures should be hung, where the dishes were to be put and where the furniture was to be placed. And he was in the middle of this friction. He was obligated to his mother, but he was also obligated to his wife. Trying to analyze the trouble, he found the only way out was for him and his wife to move to another apartment. He talked to his brothers, letting them know his decision and asking their help in the support of their mother. They were lucky to find an apartment soon. Since that time they have built their own home. He says the interesting fea ture of his story is that his wife and his mother are the best of friends today. They belong to the same bridge club and church circles. Two weeks ago when his wife was sick with the Mumps, his mother not only* came and took care of her but also, even though the disliked animals, she fed and looked after three dogs, one with four puppies. •m GARNI Ernfi - r - “ ir ^ r f t t - r ■ ■ r - » r - r ■ iRKvr&s! ’! mm '(■■ii n« •* iRmtRK* Wf i’ r iPli W"* t'MWP r* >IM - . ff fgjgjlgi gfB M'WBKII MM M MR B R1 vinvp f ”11 J .. iriL 4 WS-- i -y - •'' tractor trailer . . All types of feeding and bedding chores can be much easier with a tractor trailer. One shown can be detached from tractor by loosening two bolts and a chain. It’s easy to back and maneuver, also can be lowered for loading or unloading. RESSIONA WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Aquatic Bird Q—How many federal employees are separated from the government payroll each year? A—Approximately a half million federal employees per year, on ^h* * average, have left government service in the period 1949-1953 in clusive. Approximate figures, prepared by the Bureau of Employ ment Security, Labor Department: 1949—488,000; 1950—447,000; 1951—658,000; 1952—591,000; 1953-550,000. Q—Which Congressional committees received the most money to con duct their probes daring the past year? A—The three largest recipients of funds in the Senate last year were the Judiciary Committee—$366,000; Government Operations Com mittee (Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy*! (R Wis.) Permanent Investi gations Subcommittee is a unit of this committee)—$199,000; Armed Services Committee—$177,000. Three top money receivers in the House were: Government Operations Committee—$355,050; Un-American Activities Committee—$300,000, and Ways and Means Committee—$200,000. Over-all, committees last year had $3,958,471 available for investigations—much of it still unspent. Generally, their 1954 requests have bfeen about the same as the money made available for 1953. Q—Under President Eisenhower’s proposed budget for fiscal 1955. what part of the budget dollar will go for national security? A—OJor major national security expenses the President proposes to spend 68 cents of the budget dollar. These expenses include military, the mutual military program, atomic energy and stockpiling. Some 22 cents of the dollar is scheduled to go for charges fixed by law, such as interest on debt, grants in aid to states and veterans bene fits. Ten cents per dollar would go for all other expenditures. (Oasyrlffht 1M4. C«nsressi«n»l Quarterly) || ing operation last December and the second early this year .A third unit, stronger by 25,000 kilowatts, is now un der construction. He said the average residential customer of the company last year used 3,142 kilowatt hours of elec tricity, at an average cost of 2.54 cents per kilowatt hour. 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