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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, JUNE 17,1955
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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.
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
Have you ever been to Beaufort, South Carolina? Perhaps
you have been to Paris Island, the big Marine Station. Beau
fort and Port Royal have distinctive claims; both are sep
arated from the mainland by Whale branch’, a body of Wa
ter that would make our up-country branches seem like a
small mud hole by comparison. No one has ever seen a whale
in that water but it may be that someone caught a big bass
or rock fish and thought of it as a whale because he was in
the magnifying exuberance of a fisherman's well known
condition of felicity.
On the mainland side of Whale branch is one world, the
prosaic stretch in and around the village of Green Pond;
but beyond Whale branch one comes to Port Royal, one of
the finest natural harbors on the Atlantic coast and vastly
superior to any harbor or port on the Pacific side of South
America.
Beaufort, lying east of Whale branch, is a new world, or
a delightful reminder of the old world, with it narrow streets
and its considerate and hospitable people.
It was national Memorial day and Beaufort celebrated,
at least the colored citizens celebrated. Beaufort has a
National cemetery and along the brick wall of that city
of the soldier-dead thousands and thousands of colored cit
izens were parked, with refreshment stands, all eager for
the big parade and the attendant festivities. Down town,
the citizens were as calm as usual, Beaufort's memorial
day is May 10., of course, our day of memory of our Coij-
federate soldiers, but we have a fond interest in National
Memorial day—May 30—because it commemorates the sac
rificial service of Americans of all wars, from the Revolu
tion to Korea.
This visit to Beaufort was on account of my old comrade
and brother, Bill Bachman, now of the Beaufort radio.
When I spoke of Beaufort some months ago I was recalling
my old buddies, Brantley Harvey, Calhoun Thomas, Bro
ther Dowling, and others. At that time I thought Bill Bach
man was firmly anchored in middle Carolina. Now, how
ever, I wanted to see Bill in the charm and tropical luxur
iance of Beaufort. The radio station has a soothing, in
spiring atmosphere; and I became one in spirit with those
attractive folk. The young lady of the station said to me:
“I remember your talk to our Community Club; and I recall
that Miss X said to you ‘I enjoyed your talk, but I didn’t
agree with you*.” Well, now that "is tolerance and breadth.
I don't know what I was talking about and, perhaps, didn’t
know what I was talking about while I was talking. Even
so. If we never talked except when we really had some
thing to say, most of us would lose the faculty of speech.
I was told that Bill puts me on the air at two o’clock on
Sundays. I wondered why, but now I know; at two o’clock
our Beaufort friends are somewhat unresisting, following
an abundant meal of all the delicacies, so I come on and
assure them of a quiet nap. I know now my mission as a
radio commentator, to soothe the energetic spirits into
restful repose. And so my brethren of Walterboro and Ai
ken, likewise, offer me to their radio audience, with calm
Certainty that all will enjoy a “season” of rest, with ‘‘sleep,
nature’s gentle nurse” refreshing them for the victorious
renewal of the struggle.
WINGS OYER U. S. A.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart ^pr any fate
Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.”
Sometimes my radio brethren call out to me “Give me a
level”, meaning that the delicate machine must be on my
voice level. So I speak a few words. Dont misunderstand
us: no moral issue is involved, no suggestion of turpitude:
We stay on “the level”, but this radio “level”, this voice
adjustment, is something else again.
t
When the brother who is putting me on the air calls for
a level I usually repeat a verse of something, such as “A
horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.” Of course that is
all out of date to day; today the endangered king would say:
“A car, a car, a three hundred horsepower machine with
fuel of two hundred octane rating.” However, if the king
were in a sand bed of Chesterfield county, or the (Jeep mud
of Spartanburg he would find a horse more serviceable.
If the operator needs more I am prone to treat him to
this: “I know not what course others may take; but as for
me, give me liberty or give me death.” Spoken in tones of
deep solemnity that impresses even the blase’ radio man.
When the radio operatorseems unimpressed by my us
ual quotations, and still calls for a level, I fall back on the
old master and sing with him:
• V - v* ,' ' ’ > y * v ‘v r‘-W>,:£ r .
“To be, or not to be; that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind, to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune;
Or to take up arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them.”
*
The seasoned radio, or newspaperman, takes all this in
his stride and is not impressed. He might shrug his should
ers and say, “Aw, its a lot of sillibub,” though I could make
a better guess—and it wouldn’t be “sillibub.”
IHieCarmegie
^ AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING" ^
E H Moon. 57 Standish Avenue. N.W.. Atlanta. Georgia, was forced
to give up the practice of professional engineering due to a crack-
up of nerves caused by years of high pressured hard work. His break
down was of course a gradual process, increasing over a period of
about six months to the extent that he was unable to work or sleep.
He worried constantly about his condition, and. after receiving all the
benefits that medical science could provide, his
doctor told him that he would have to change his
mental attitude and stop worrying, explaining that
this of course he would have to do for himself.
He immediately began to search for a magic
formula which would banish worry and give him.
peace of mind, and he found that formuhf. It it
simply this: ^
He does not worry about the mistakes that ha
made yesterday.
He tries not to anticipate the unpleasant things
that may. happen tomorrow and over which he has
no control.
He tries to Ho the best he can each day.
An there is another angle to his formula. In the quiet of the early
morning hours when most people are still asleep and he is enjoying
his first pre-breakfast cup of coffee and a cigarette., he takes time out
to thank a Higher Power for the many good things he is privileged to
enjoy, and to ask for help in any situation that may arise during
the day.
He says it is a sort of partnership arrangement and is very well
expressed by an old colored preacher's prayer in which he said:
"Lord, there ain’t nothin’ gonna happen today that me and you
together can’t take care of.*'
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ideus from other editors.
From the Garland Times, Gar
land, Utah: One of the things
hardest to explain is the insistence
of certain groups upon xigid 90
per cent parity supports for farm
prices.
Proponents of this program will
point out that farm income is fall
ing, that mortgage volume has in
creased sharply in the past few
years and admit all this sad situa
tion has come about under the
rigid support program that still is
in full operation. And then, just
as tho they had been totally un
conscious since 1950, they rec
ommend to save the situation those
same ‘ high supports for farm
prices. They think of nothing new.
They think of nothing that would
stop what is already happening.
They don't seem to be aware that
the huge surpluses the government
already holds is pushing down
ward the price level They have
no answer for the problem posed
by the government storage bill . . .
one million dollars every day on
commodities it is holding. In their
fearful coma they just repeat their
long-since discredited croak for 90
per cent rigid parity supports to
forestall ruin. Like an Indian
medicine man who stubbornly
ignores the germ theory of disease
while he continues to treat his
patients c; with snake tea and in
cantations, these farm medicine
men offer only their old potions
for a disease the^r do not show
any understanding of.
. • • •
From the Whiteside County
News, -Morrison, Illinois: Life is a
great race—in a track meet all of
the participants compete for ftri**
place, but only one can -win. hi
life’s race, we are all competing
3ml only the one’s trying hardest
reach the coveted goals.
I Every athlete exercises self con
trol in all things, willingly gives
his best to receive a perishable
trophy, so in our race of life, we,
too, must give our best so that we
can earn the imperishable.
To run this race aimlessly, like
a boxer beating the air, will gate
us nothing. But we should pommel
our minds and bodies, subdue
them, lest after preaching the re
wards of gracious living, we “
be disqualified.
In our efforts to bring peace
harmony to the world, we si
give these thoughts careful
sideration.
• • •
From the Andubon County Jour
nal, Extra, Iowa: If the thought
growing eld or entering old age
disturbs you, then you may find
consolation in the fact that 84 per
cent : of the great achievemc
in this world have been ac<
plished by men who have
their 60th year.
/tSc.
The governor has drawn the fire of Speaker Solomon
Blatt. I don’t know exactly why the House needed new
seats, but if larger, more comfortable chairs will enable the
legislators to ’“sit out” the advocates of more spending arid
more taxes then the chairs would really result in great sav
ing to the State. The item of seats was but a pittance in that
big appropriation, though I appreciate the wisdom of econ
omy even in the smallest details.
This exchange brings before us two good men: the
Governor comes from good old Edgefield folk, son and
grandson of men of high and faithful service. Speaker Blatt
is a level-headed man of solid reputation for frankness and
forthrightness; he does not seek publicity but his outstand
ing qualities earned for him recently the commendation of
the Charleston News & Courier.
The zeal of the governor is timely and praiseworthy,
without derogating from the correctness of" the statement
of Mr. Blatt. The issue may be beneficial to the State by'
bringing before the public the item of contingent accounts
of the House and of the Senate.
T O ONE who is attached to the
Washington scene over a long
period of years, it is not a pleasant
experience to watch the continual
hassle year after year of the same
groups pulling and hauling this
way and that ... all with one
motive, self interest at the expense
of the national welfare.
So it is indeed a refreshing ex
perience for a single business
group, out of many here in Wash
ington, to come up with a com
pletely objective viewpoint in its
approach to national economic pol
icies and to ally itself with the
public interest as well as the busi
ness interest.
Such an organization is the Com
mittee for Economic Development,
formed in 1942 to do a specific job
of promoting an orderly transfer
from high war production to high
employment peace prodqction. This
reporter, long on the Washington
front, has watched with interest
the operation of this group of
business leaders, progressive and
high-minded, and today there is
no other group of business leaders
who have as much integrity, or
who have as much influence be
cause of this objective integrity,
as the Committee For Economic
Development.
The objectives of this group of
business leaders is particularly
important at this time, for this
administration is a so-called busi
ness administration. The tremen
dous majority of government offi
cials in this administration come
from the ranks of business firms.
top-business firms. And their rec
ord to date does little to reflect
credit on the business community.
The philosophy of. “What’s good
for General Motors is good for the
Country” is just about as far from
the philosophy qf CED as it is
possible to get. In an address
here in Washington recently, Mey
er Kestnbaum, chairman of the
Board of Trustees for the Com
mittee for Economic Development,
and President of Hart, Schaffner &
Marx, of Chicago, spoke on this
very subject of; business leadership
and the part it should play in
aiding the formation of national
economic policy. Pointing out the
challenges which face the nation
today as the leader in the free
world, Mr. Kestnbaum said:
“Inseparable from the demand
for a large degree of prosperity
is the insistence on economic
security—security that is based on
reasonable economic stability.
There was a time when our people
accepted as a matter of course the
strains brought about by broad
swings in the business cycle ...
today, largely because of the great
depression . . . the public expects
business to take a greater degree
of responsibility | for economic
stability. The public demands also
a degree of government interven
tion in economic affairs in order
to prevent a recurrence of the
gross instability of the past . . .
It is obvious that the business com
munity can stand aside from the
formulation of national economic
policies only at the peril of our
economic system. . .**
From Mrs. John B. Amen. Green
ville, Pa.: I remember the “horse
and buggy days'*—the dust rose in
a thin, yellow cloud from around
the horses hoofs and settled on
everything far and near. The bug
gy, our clothing, even the horses'
back bore the gritty mask. We
tasted It in our mouths, it's smell
entered our nostrils to mingle with
the sweetness of red and white
clover.
We plodded slowly along In the
heat of the summer day and as
we went we gathered In all the
sights, sounds and smell of the
country. ,
No bird flew over that was not
commented upon. We smelled wild
strawberries and stopped to see if
NEW REVERE
Workmen raise white <
bers for new steeple on
Old North Chureh,
of
gathered. a
roses.
We Jogged quietly
at farmhouM
tng in fields, hens
dust. When we ca
instead of driving
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the
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Do baccalaureate addresses serve a useful purpose? Oc
casionally, perhaps; but frequently the orator is just flying
in the skies with very little appreciation of the location of
the earth. What is the purpose of an address to graduates?
Is it to inspire them or to impress the fathers and mothers ?
Or is it an occasion to forget the humdrum things of life
while soaring aoft in sweet contemplation of the enduring
things, the ennobling thoughts, and the purposeful pursuit
of great plans?
A subject which would be timely and informative would
be a presentation of the background of the Constitution of
the Unitqd States and the first ten amendments. Another
address might profitably tell us about the great American
principle which proclaims “the equal protection of the law.”
We have so many lawyer and judges who seem to treat
the basic principles of our law flippantly or, at least cau-
ually, that the people, the whole citizenry, might enjoy a
luminous presentation of our fundamental law.
Once upon a time our people rejoiced in the sweet "sim
plicity of Longfellow’s Psalm of Life—“Tell me not in
mournful numbers”, ets. When we become sophisticated
we repeated, or read more difficult stuff—usually without
sweetness, rythm or melody. If you want stirring admoni
tion, how is this:
“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or
way; But to ACT, that each tomorrow finds us farther
than today ....
Last year drillers sank a record of 53,930 wells, at a
cost of more than $2 billion. The combined ‘holes’ had a
total depth of 210 million feet, more than one-and-a-half
times the distance around the world at the equator. This
year, drillers plan to put down 54,500 wells; in 1950, about
43,270 wells were sunk.
To tap oil and gas wealth deep in the earth, drillers now
are working with such things as ‘jet’ and ‘buttom’ bits,
stream of compressed air or natural gas, percussion and
‘sonic’ drills, slimer holes, new drilling fluids and new
equipment to test wells and get them into production. Most
of the new gear works unseen, 300 feet to four miles under
the stefel skeleton of the drilling rig on the surface.
Besides deeper wells that multiply drilling problems, oil
men are sinking more shafts through offshore waters, in
tropical jungles or in frozen wastelands. All this steps up
demand for new tools.
Biggest drilling improvement in recent years has been
in speed of penetration. In soft earth, drills may plunge
downward 1,000 feet a day. But in hard rock formations,
drill bits may churn a day or more without dropping 100
feet. Oil men say the deepest well ever drilled was the
$1.5 million 21,482 foot dry hole near Bakersfield, Calif.,
abandoned last summer. The deepest producing well also
is in California. It is a 17,892 foot hole in Kern county, com
pleted in 1953. Thereis a deeper well, 18,568 feet, under
ground in southern Louisiana, but it produces from a
depth of 17,306, so ranks a few pipe lengths behind the
Kern county one.
bank into Eagle creak,
horse gets e long cool drink
bolds his nose In the water long
alter he is through drinking, being
under the impression that be is
fooling us.
e child to sit in a buggy in the
middle of e stream
ripples widen and recede into
infinity . . , To eee the underside
of e bridge end little fish swim
ming end e bird talcing a bath.
Only four miles in the time ft
now takes to go forty «t a
ate speed, but what
PUZZLE Me. S4S
ACROSS
1 Farm, building
5 Couples
10 To wainscot
14 Turkish regi
ment
/IS Cloth
16 Dislike in
tensely
17 Dispatched
18 Wild buffalo
of India
19 In a quandry
20 Mediterranean
vessels
22 Untidy,
slovenly
woman
24 Rodents
26 Card game
27 Flying
mammal
30 Dispose of
for price
32 Accelerates
velocity
36 Compass
point
37 Path
39 Feminine
name
40 Hel’s watch
dog (Norse
myth)
42 Locations
44 Reliable
45 Heating
vessels
47 At no time
49 Golf mound
60 A sphagnum
bog
52 Man’s name
53 Make mistake
84 River of Asia
66 Russian hemp
68 Self-
righteous
person
62 Discharges;
as an arrow
66 Genus of
maned East
Indian deer
67 East Indian
tree
69 Gulf of
California
Indian
70 City of
Siberia
71 Proclamation
72 Persia
73 In a
quandry
74 Petulant
75 Headland
DOWN
1 Fish
2 Opposed to
aweather
3 Rave
4 Saltpeter
5 Covers wall
with adhesive
coating
6 Atmosphere
7 Hotels
Spools
Moves
loves furtively
10 Movable •
property
11 ReUeve
12 Roman road
13 Spare
21 The Orient
23 Adhesive
band
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j'juuLila
J1911 Li Lilli
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nan
LI li 4 Ji
l9jI4L1
26 Killed
27 Adorn with
jewels
Semitic god- -
dess of war
Gull-like
birds
Measure of
capacity
33 Lift spirits of
34 To put off
35 To scoff
38 Pry
41 Native of Bahr
el Ghazal
43 State of being
old
46 Prefix: half
48 City of Nevada
[JUfJU
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nmmm
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aaoa
□ U.4L3
61 Triangular
piece of cloth
in garment
65 Wrote Cloister
and the
Hearth
57 Kind of dye
58 South seas
canoe
59 Sings with
closed lips
60 South African
fox
61 A nome In
Greece
63 Withered
64 Period of time
(PL)
65 Transgressions
68 Part of play
BOOST AIR POWER ... U. 8. Air Sec. Harold Talbott
senate armed services chairman Richard Russell (Oa) ai
Force Chief of Staff Gen. Nathan Twining (right)
rocket and guided missile models.
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Sheet Metal Contractor—Heating—Air Condttioi
Licensed Gas Fitters
CAROLINA METAL WORKS
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