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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1955
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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.
Next month, Mr. Benson will take up just this problem I Mrs. Hattie Fulmer
at a meeting of governors of the Great Plains states. Right Passes Suddenly
now, he figures ‘education’ is the best way to persuade farm
ers to shift from grain to grass. But his top advisors favor
more stringent methods.
The lack of rain, rather than the wind damage, is the real
problem for many great plains farmers this year. Actually
the winds have torn up fewer acres this year than last,
when 17 million acres were blighted. But rainfall has re
mained well below normal steadily since 1, and it’s the
cumulative effect of this that’s causing the , >uble.
The impact of the winds and drought vary widely in the
dust bowl region. Eastern Colorado and portions of north
east New Mexico appear to be hardest hit. Even Colorado
farmers, with land irrigated by rivers,-are finding things
rugged this season, after doing relatively well in recent
COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
DROUGHT SITUATION CRITICAL
Here in South Carolina we are modest, unassuming, un
pretending, unassertive people, living moderately well, but
seldom rising to the highest heights or sinking to the lowest
depths. Rarely do we seek glamorous acclaim by fabulous
earnings, but we are also spared the appalling disasters that
afflict our brethren.
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Consider the drought: it is dry in South Carolina, but not
so dry that we can’t raise a hue and cry about it; it hasnt
impeded the steady growth of our one great power enter
prise, The South Carolina Electric & Gas company, which has
the greatest lakes and water power of any private enter
prise in the State; nor has the dry weather impressed our
State Legislature, for it appropriated money as though
money were a spontaneous generation like weeds. Of course
the power company is guided by a great genius who not
only has long and wide vision, but a firm grasp of all the
immediate factors, too.
By the way, I’ve just read several annual reports of great
companies. Do you read the annual statements of our big
enterprises? I read many of them and find them informa
tive. Here is something from the largest South Carolina in-
dustrial enterprise:
“Interesting evidence of the continued growth of the 23
counties served by the South Carolina Electric and Gas Co.
is contained in the company’s annual report for 1954. During
those 12 months six thousand, one hundred and thirty-six
new edectric customers were added to the company’s lines
bringing the total to 158,381. The residential customers used
an average of 3,477 kilowatt hours of electricity during the
year—this is 36 per cent above the national average; the
average rate paid by residential customers was less than
two and a half cents per kilowatt hour, nine per cent lower
than the average residential rate for the nation. The one
sad note in the company’s report for last year was the con
tinued decline in the use of its bus system in Columbia and
Charleston; the transit operation carried 3,000,000 {three
million FEWER bus passengers than in 1953.”
As to the,drought, let us consider the condition in the
Southwest: • ! _ ';j|
“In the past six months, the whirling winds have ravag
ed some 11 million acres of wheat and grazing land in a
‘dust bowl’ that covers parts of Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma,
Kansas and New Mexico. The devasted area is larger than
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut combined.
Federal soil scientists estimate another 15 million acres are
dry enough to blow loose in the first big wind.
Says Agriculture Secretary Benson, fresh from a three-
day tour of the drough area: “The current drought in the
Great Plains is worse than it was in the 1930s.”
Despite these start statistics and grim words, a visitor
to the region finds most farmers apparently weathering the
dust storms surprisingly well; new model cars abound;
homes are well furnished. But citizens are digging into their
bank accounts and going into debt/
There is almost no sign farmers will stage the mass ex
odus that took place three decades ago.
Lewis Wolfe, leading Oklahoma State drought official,
notes that farmers ‘are going pretty heavily into debt, bor
rowing on credit established when crops were good. But
they know all they need is rain and one good crop, and
they’ll be solvent overnight.’
Consider the case of a typical drought victim. Three times
this season he’s planted wheat on his 600 acres, only to have
it blown away. If rain comes soon, he says he’ll try to re
coup some of his losses with barley or grain sorghums.
Agriculture department officials in Washington explain
the absence of ‘drough panic’ this way: Farmers went into
the drought period with more money in the bank to tide
them over bad years; they know more now than they did
in the 30s about soil conservation, irrigation and other safe
guards against wind erosion, and they have better machin
ery to work with; they've had more help from the Govern
ment in the form of easy credit, crop insurance and cut-«f£e
feed to keep livestock alive when rangelands are destroyed.
This is not to imply, of course, that the dust bowl of the
50s hasn't brought plenty of hardship to farmers and the
people who sell them.
Moreover, the Government is spending millions for
drought aid. Shipping cut-rate feed and sharing the cost of
emergency soil conservation practices have cost the govern
ment more than $65 million in the past two years in ,the
Southwest drough area. In addition, the Agriculture depart
ment’s Farmers Home Administration since 1953 has doled
out $85 million in One year 'disaster loans to help finance
farniing operations in the southern Great Plains.
Now this agency is mulling still another form of credit
aid. It’s considering making emergency loans of up to five
years maturity to let dust bowl farmers pay off their debts
to banks and businessmen—something they’ve been barred
from doing with the one-year 'disaster’ credit.
years.
67 BILLION FOR FOREIGN AID
The senator from Greenville, Bradley Morragh, and the
senator from Aiken, John Jl.Williams, are not disposed to
go along with the annual make-shift known as the Free-con-
ferenee on the General appropriations bill-1 agree with them
fully, although I understand not only the difficulties, but
appreciate a lot of hard work done by the joint committee.
I may also say that Senator Edgar Brown, as a business man
himself, has tried to avoid the harsh impositions j which are
frequently suggested. Notwithstanding that, the last-min
ute arrangements is a solemn farce which does no crelit to
our ability to govern ourselves. Furthermore, I have a con
viction that the provisions of free-conference reports, even
as adopted by both Houses, may be in violation of our Con
stitution. As to the congress, although we have able men
in both Senate and House; and in spite of my appreciation
of President Eisenhower for his good intentions, however
misguided\ and mischevious I think net results of the labors
of our National eaders is so far below that of our English
cousins that I wonder if five hundred men, taken at random,
would do worse.
What do you think of this:
Let me quote from the Town Journal something worth
pondering well :
“The government of the U.* S. is still spending more than
it takes in. The budget has not been balanced. A balance
next year remains only a pious hope. The national debt
which now amounts to around $1,800 for every man, woman
and child, continues to grow. And taxes still take about a
third of all t he money that is earned by all the producers'
of the nation.
These are pertinent facts. In their light, President Eisen
hower requests by special mesage to Congress that more bil
lions be appropriated in foreign aid. He has asked for $3,-
530,000,000. Foreign Aid Chief Stassen says that two-thirds
of this would be spent on 15 countries of Free Asia. These
are rather considerable sums of money. In return for send
ing them to Asia, what is it that we are expected to getf
Defense? Future allies? Friends? ‘
In Europe, which is closer home, we have had some ex
perience. We have extended aid. We have assisted. We have
lent. How much? Curiously, the United States Government,
with its vast information facilities, does not give its tax
payers an understandable report on these matters.
We are therefore indebted to the Washington weekly
“Human Events” for having had the inquisitiveness to try
to add up our total foreign aid for the tenyears since the war
6nded. Using statistical sources inside the government, the
paper reaches a figure covering the past decade. The figure
is 67 billion dollars. Some 51 countries shared the American
taxpayers’ generosity.
At the top of the list stands France, still unstable after
a score of changes in administration since the war’s end,
with a hundred Communist/deputies in her parliament, and
certainly weak and doubtful as a prospective ally. Aid to
France is estimated at $10,646,693,000.
Next comes Great Britain: $10,206,416,000. The British
have just announced a big reduction for their taxpayers.
Then Italy, no tower of military strength for anyone, $3,-
712,494,000. And alter Italy, why? Russia and her satellites:
$1,325,050,000. That billion, wheedled out of us before we
caught on, certainly sank in a rathole. (How much, by the
way, is one billion dollars? We’ve heard of no easy way to
tell. A billion would buy 58,000 average U. S. farms, enough
to cover 29 or 30 countries.
These billions have done some good. They have helped
keep some parts of the world out of Communist hands. They
have repaired a lot of war damage which was not our fault.
They have provided some defense facilities for us abroad.
They have helped some poor people. They have propped up
weak socialistic regimes, strengthened tyrannies and en
riched the already rich. But have they bought us 67 billions
worth of defense? That’s a fair question. Such a sum could
have given us balanced budgets all these ten years and tax
cuts besides. Could we have bought more defense with half
that amount?
The United States cannot afford less than the best in de
fense. But neither can Americans afford an indefinite and
endless drain from guesswork commitments and hopeful
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Mrs. Hattie Bickley Fulmer, 77,
died suddeuly Saturday aftternoon
at Newberry county hospital. She
had been in the hospital for the
past three weeks.
Mrs. Fulmer was born in Lex
ington county, daughter of the
late E. B. and Nancy Lindler
Bickley. She had made her home
in Newberry for a number of
years and was the wife of the
late Ernest Sligh Fulmer, who
died two years ago. She was a
member of Summer Memorial Lu
theran church.
Surviving are four sons, Willie
E.. Ira W., Alvin A., and Marvin,
all of Newberry; one brother, Joe
Bickley, West Columbia; two sis
ters, Mrs. Lizzie Shealy, s and Mrs.
Maggie Aimick, both of Newberry;
11 grandchildren and seven great
grand children survive.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Monday at 4 p. m. at Summer
Memorial Lutheran church, by
Rev. Horace Lindler anid Rev. D.
M. Shull. Burial followed in ‘ the
Springdale cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Carl
Aandck, Ethian Amick, Charlie
Bickley, Colie Bickley, Eddie Am-
ick and Herman Wise.
Flower attendants were' Pauline
Geddings, Evelyn Nobles, Sherrine
Fulmer, Carolyn Bickley, Annie
Lee Wise, Christine Fulmer and
Allie Livingston.
Leadership Club
Has Monthly Meet
The Junior 4-H Leadership club
held its monthly meeting Thurs
day, iMay 12, 1955. The meeting
was opened by singing “Onward
Christian Soldiers.” The Twenty-
third Psalm was repeated in uni
son. The roll was called and the
minutes read and approved.
Reports on National 4-H Sun
day were given / by George Haw
kins and Mrs. James L. Dominick,
junior. Wilma Boozer gave an in
teresting demonstration on grow
ing tomatoes. Janet Hawkins was
elected reporter for the dub. Ray
MeCarley was the proud winner
of the 915 award tor timber thin
ning. Recreation wae enjoyed by
all present with Ray MoOarley as
leader. Delicious refreshments
were served by Ann Monroe, An
nie Rae Livingston and Ray Mc-
Carley.
Janet Hawkins, Reporter
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BOOKMOBILE
Thursday, June 2:
Union community: Mrs. Grady
Lee Half acre.
Union community: Eugene Hor
ton.
Jolly Street community:
Shealy.
Midway community: Mrs. J.
Wheeler.
Wheeland community: Mrs. Joe
Fulmer^ 1
Little Mountain community: Rev
Hill.
Mrs. Luther Hawkins.
ML Pilgrim Community: Mrs. G.
Y. Cooper.
Friday, June 3:
Prosperity: Public square.
Old O’Neal community: Mrs.'
Ruth Bowers.
TURNER INQUEST . . .
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After he finished the|Cup of cof-/
fee, he said he left there and went
down to a store on the Winnsboro
road and he said he understood a
Mr. Nobles runs that store and
talked to the lady at the store and
asked if he could use the telephone
and he called a Mrs. Lever who I
understood is related to him, lives
out about the Fair Grounds here,
and asked her if she would send
her son to the store for him.
“She sent her boy out there and
he picked Billy Turner up and
brought him 'to their house and he
said he hadn’t been there but a
short while and the Lever boy
asked if he wanted to come to
town and shoot some pool. He said
he told him no, he didn’t care
anything about shooting pool, but
he would go on to town. Wheh he
got to town to his brother’s pool
room on Main Street, his brother
told hint we wanted 'to see him.
He asked what about and he toKt
him ‘you know as well as I do, go
on over to the police station.’ He
said, he came to the police station
and asked if they wanted him.
They asked who he was and he
told them Billy Turner and they
told him we wanted him. They
asked him to have a seat. That
was when they called up and he
said that was from the morning
before up until right then.”
Henderson stated that after
Mrs. Turner died, a murder war
rant was issued and he went to
the jail to read it to Turner. He
asked Turner if he had made any
threats and he replied “yeah, I
told this man before I wouldgo
to jail again for non-support
somebody^ would be hurt.” He a«id
Turner did not call any names.
A blood-covered claw hammer
was foundry investigating officers
by the side of the bed and blood
stains were found on Turner's
clothes. These articles were sent
to the State Law . Enforcement
division in Columbia and the
blood stains on the clothes were
found to be human blood, said
Mr. Henderson. He stated that
Turner said the hammer was
“just like his.”
Questioned about some money
Turner had, Henderson stated that
Turner told him that “while he
was iu Joanna be collected 93.00
from a fellow Lindsay up there
that he had done some work for.
He told me he spent fifty cents
and what he spent it for but I
have forgotten. When be got home
he had 93.50. He said he gave
that to his wife aodi she took it
and looked at it and gave it back
to him and told him to lay it up
on the mantle. I asked if he done
anything else with the money be
fore he left and he said he didn’t,
he guessed it was still there. He
said he told his wife he could go
back up to the store with the
$2.50 and' get something for break
fast but he noticed when he came
down the road both the stores at
Kinards were closed, that he
would get up early the next morn
ing and go up there to get some
food. He also told us on the 7th,
after he was informed of his wife
being dead, he told us that the We-
hunts were the cause of all their
troubles. _
In answer to a question by of-;
ficers as to whether or not he
killed his wife, Henderson said
that Turner replied he “wouldn’t
say he did> and wouldn’t say he
didn’t.”
The bill of indictment against
Turner for murder is expected to
be presented to the Grand Jury
at the next court of General Sess
ions which' convenes here on
Monday, June 20.
228TH NATIONAL GUARD . . .
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ficer, army; Capt. Ralph P. Zobel,
who has just returned frqm a
9 months , "firiiig control sojiool at
Fort Bliss, Texas, unassigned, air
force; Lt. Larry B. Graves, radar
officer, air force; Lt. George W. v
Neel, assistant communications of
ficer, navy; Lt. David Neville, as
sistant operations officer, • army
with service in Korea; Lt. Fred
Weir, Jr., liaison officer ROTC;
Also, 4. Chief Warrant Officer
Floyd H. Dennis, food service of
ficer, army; CWO Wallace, mo
tor maintenance officer, army;
Warrant Officers Richard Earl
Addison, radio officer, navy; Jas.
G. Clamp, personnel officer; Dra
yton L. Minick, assistant radar of
ficer, army;^Harrison Lee Small
wood, assistant supply officer,
navy Seabees.
Officers of the 228th Headquar
ters battery are Oapt. Kirby Lom-
iroack, commanding officer and
Warrant Officer R. Ffasier San
ders, meteorologist, both with
prior service in the air force.
Enlisted men with the 228th
Headquarters Battery are MjSgt.
Thomas' J. Longshore; Sergeants
first class Curtis O. Chapman,
Jimmie B. Davenport, Curtis W.
Hipp, Robert H. Shealy, and Jas.
E. Stone; Sergeants, Kennedy D.
Couch, Donald L. Harmon, RobL
L. Hentz, Joseph. F. Hipp, Jr.,
Frank B. Leopard, Pettus J. Liv
ingston, Jr., William B. Merritt,
Benjamin V. Nichols, Leonard J.
Perry, Andrew Shealy and Jonas
C. Wessinger.
Corporals: William B. Clamp,
Jr., Ralph E. Cromer, William C.
Cromer, Jerry P. Epting, Gerald
Griffith, Frank H. Minick, Wallace
B. Ruff, Arthur E. Singley, Jr.,
Lewis C. Stutts and John B. West.
Privates First Class: Charles
K. Cromer, Jimmie M. Douglas, |
Johnny D. Dowd, Elton L. Duffle,
Charles R. Livingston, Frederick
E. Lusk, Russell S. Moore, Fred
D. Riley, Gilbert L. Robertson,
Bob H. Shealy, Lewis F. Sligh,
William A. Smith, Jr., Ross C.
West, Alfred Dorroh, v Reginald P.
Franklin, Ned H. Hipp, Ji^nmie W.
Lester and Thompson H. Long
shore.
Privates: Henry F. Brehmer,
Samuel E. Laird, John E. Mar
lowe, Madison Pitts, Melvin L.
Puckett, Robert D. Tesenair, Joha ;
E. Campbell, Fred L. Clary, Clar
ence L. Kinard, Jr., Edward F.
Lominick, Jr., George H. Long
shore, James A. Longshore, Wil
liam M. Maybin, Thomas M. Nich
ols, Jimmie W. * Pitts, Robert ’ S.
Rinehart and Jimmie W. Bowers.
S. C. National
The South Carolina National
Bank will pays its shareholders
an extra dividend of 25 cer.ts a
share in addition to the
75 cent dividend. The
will be made July 2.
,The bank directors, a
regular meeting in Columbia,
nounced the dividend, which
amount to 9250,000.
profits, and the volume of
during the fiscal year
payment possible.
HAWKINS’ TO MAKE
HOME IN NEWBERRY
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby
and eon Boh, returned to
ry, Saturday to make their
Mr. Hadkins has accepted
as assistant overseer to
kins at Mollohon Mills,
kins’ have made their
Halifax, Virginia for the
years where he was
with the Pacific mills,
make their home for the
with Mrs. Hawkins parents,
and Mrs. W. |C. Huffman,
Boundary street.
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STORY HOUR TO BE
DISCONTINUED
The Newber^y-Saluda Regional
Library announces that the child
ren’s Story Hour which has been
held each Monday afternoon un
der the direction of Mise Mary
Tlmberlake, will be discontinued
for the summer months.
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NOTICE OF DELINQUENT TAX
SALES ON PERSONAL
PROPERTY
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF NEWBERRY
TO WHOM THESE PRESENT^-
MAY CONCERN:
By authority of the tax laws of
South Carolina and the various
Tax Executions issued to me in
the name of the State and County
of Newberry by the Treasurer of
the said county, the following per
sonal properties, listed below,
have been seized and taken poss
ession of and are hereby adver
tised fo be sold for delinquent
taxes on June 6th (Monday) 1955,
before the Newberry Court House
door, within the usual hours of
public sales. Terms: cash.
^All properties advertised are the
properties levied upon in the name
of the defaulting taxpayers here
inafter listed.
Personal property, consisting of
Chevrolet, 2 door car, license No.
D 196-197, in Tax district No. 1,
County and State aforesaid, lev
ied! upon in the name -of Ozell
Counts.
Personal property, consisting of
Nash 4 door car, license No. D227-
753, in Tax district No. 1, County
and State aforesaid, Ihvied upon
in the name of Neal G&llman.
Personal property, consisting of
Nash, 4 door car, license No. C28-
527, in Tax district No. 1, County
and State aforesaid, levied upon
in the name of George Parker.
Personal property, consisting of
Ford Pickup, license No. H65-894,
in Tax district number one out
side, County and State aforesaid,
levied upon in the name of Thom
as B. Griffin.
Personal property, consisting of
2 door Chevrolet car, (license No.
D227-745, in Tax district No. 7,
County and State aforesaid, lev
ied upon in the name of John
Henry Hair.
Personal property, consisting of
2 door Pontiac car, license No.
D244-88L in Tax district No. 7,
County and State aforesaid, . lev
ied upon in the name of Julius
Monts.
T. L. HILL,
/ Tax Collector
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Thousands*will at the Newberry Federal. June 30th
being our Semi-Annual Dividend Date, many thous
ands of people will receive a dividend on their savings.
If you are not one of these, why not open a Savings ac
count today, and let your money work for you.
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NOTICE
Pursuant to paragraph 4-39 of
the S. C. Code for 1952, notice
is hereby given that the under
signed will apply to the South
Carolina Tax Commission for a
retail liquor license to operate
a retail liquor store at 1301
Nance Street in the City of
Newberry.
S. A. COOK
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Newberry Federal
Savings & Loan Ass’n.
“An Institution Devoted to Thrift and Home Ownership”
John F. Clarkson, Pres. J. K. Willingham, Sec.-Treas.
NEWBERRY, S. C.
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