Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN 1218 Collegpe Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jrt, 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 We are never satisfied, are we? I am about to mention something that proves the truth of the story of the Bible, about the man who accepted work at an agreed wage, but became dissatisfied because those working fewer hours received the same pay. Well here we are. The problem before the house is this: has South Carolina prospered even proportionately as much as other states, even other Southern states? Just off-hand I have been of the impression that South Carolina was quite fortunate. Now am I right? Lets’ see what the Federal - Reserve bank of Richmond says: “Of the $1,008 million value of construction contracts awards in this period, 62 per cent was awarded in Maryland and Virginia. Maryland awards were 56 per cent higher than a year ago, and Virginia awards were 48 per cent higher. The District of Columbia, accounting for 7 per cent of the total, had an increase of 112 per cent. North Carolina accounting for 16 per cent of the total, was up 38 per cent, and West Virginia, with 6 per cent of the total, advanced 31 per cent. Outstanding among the projected new manufacturing fac ilities or expansions are the $100 million expansion of the Bethlehem Steel Plant at Sparrows Point, Maryland; a $20 million General Electric plant at Hendersonville, North Car olina; and a $20 million G. E. Transformer plant in the Hickory-Newton-Conover, North Carolina, area. Additional facilities include a $15 million cement plant at Carroll City, Maryland; an $8 million woolen mill at Barnwell, S. C.; a $5.5 million expansion at Glenn L. Martin in Baltimore, Maryland; and a $5.8 million plant of Riegel Carolina cop- poration at Acme, North Carolina.” I remind you that the power companies serving South Carolina have spent many millions here: the South Carolina Electric and Gas company alone has just finished a mam moth plant costing $50,000,000 and has spent 30 to 40 million in recent years on improving facilities. The Santee- Cooper, likewise, has spent at least 15 or 20 millions and the total of expenditures by Electric cooperatives must be in the millions. In department store sales South Carolina shows .up ahead of Virginia, in percentage. North Carolina had an increase of 16 per bent (for five months); South Caro lina 13 per cent; Virginia 9 per cent. In the sale of auto mobiles North Carolina showed an increase of 40 per cent; West Virginia 33; Virginia 14; South Carolina 26. South Carolina shows up well in man hours for all manufactur ing, 7.1 per cent; North Carolina 7.8 per cent; Virginia 2.9 per cent. In durable goods South Carolina leads with 8.3 per cent; Virginia 1.5 per cent. I am not giving a complete report; it is just a sample, taken at random, and riot a reliable guide. Manufacturing employment increased in North Carolina 2.3 per cent and 2.2 per cent in South Carolina; .05 per cent in Virginia. Brick houses seem to be in style again. Just off-hand, I’ve thought of the red clay of Wedgefield, Edgefield, York, Chester—and all about. Aiken has a special clay that has been in demand many years; Sumter county, near Hagood, is selling building sand, according to my friend, H. L. San ders, who hails from Hagood or its neighborhood. I’ve read of Canton, Ohio, “home town of President Mc Kinley/’ It is the unofficial capital'of the widely-dispers ed, $220 million U. S. brick anl tile manufacturing industry. Tucked away among the rolling hills, within a two hour drive from Canton are some 20 of the nation’s 696 struc tural clay products plants. And today, with demand surging upward, these plants are the scene of unprecedented activ ity. Existing facilities, for the first time in years, are be ing operated at full capacity. Cost cutting equipment is being installed—huge crushing wheels and grinders of the latest alloys and 300 foot tunnel kilns made for around- the-clock baking. And, a half-dozen new plants are either on the drawing boards or under construction. ‘Even so,’ said an official of one brick producer last week, ‘we can hardly turn the stuff out fast enough.’ Part of the heavy demand for brick and tile, of course stems from the current boom in homebuilding. Although the number of dwelling units started last month was down from the year’s peak, industry spokesmen predict that starts for the full year will total a near-record 1.3 million. A big ger percentage of these new units, moreover, will use brick. Twenty-nine per cent of the more than a million single family units being built in the U. S. today are made of either solid brick walls or brick veneer—a jump from 25 per cent over the past decade. And the use of this durable, age-old building material is steadily gaining favor in a wide range of other structures as well, including schools, stores, hospitals, churches, hotels, museums and airports. Thus, shipments this year are pushing toward an all-time high, EPITAPH, 2055 A. D.-? CROSS ft,. / / ; i, . ■ • i 1 1 > • . 1 i.'«i « ,, . , »\ v ’ * •, J. < ’ ^ 1 ' ‘ J v* \ ^ * W * * » v* 'V* ahead of 1954, and well above the previous record set five years ago. For an old and conservative industry, long noted for its hold-tight philosophy, these are big doings. Since Colonial times, the manufacture of brick and tile in this country has been relegated to small plants, generally privately-owned and serving limited markets. Much of their output, partic ularly in the early days, went into the homes of the town’s well-to-do citizens who lived in all-brick residential dis tricts. The producers themselves took pride in the idea that theirs was a high-priced, quality product which could only be afforded by the ‘best’ people. (Eds Note—One Newberry brick maker of long ago stamped his name—T. C. POOL—on every brick he made. Ever now and again these old bricks show up in the razing of old residences here. They were indeed good brick.) As the nation grew, however, this sales approach became dated. The brick market sagged as the demand for lumber and steel and asbestos increased. By the time the Great Depression hit, the finances of most brick manufacturers were precarious, so much so that of the 2000 then in opera tion, fewer than 500 survived. Those that did emerged from the ruins chipped and battered. 1 Great changes have come to brick making in recent years, however. A number of companies are still family-held, one-plant propositions, with sales confined to the borders of a single state and running below $1 million annually. But a new pattern is slowly taking shape. More and more brick makers are emerging with multiple facilities in a number of states in different parts of the country” “With some degree of production in every state except Rhode Island, brick-making is among the most decentral- ibzed of all U. S. industries. Because of the low value of raw materials and finished product alike in relation to their bulk, brick plants must be located close to good clay deposits and within easy reach of large markets. While the best clays—those combining the characteristicstics of plasticity, fusibility,* low shrinkage and great tensile strength —are not overly abundant, clays suitable for making some type of brick or tile can be found virtually anywhere in the U. S. Thus, there is no heavy concentration. \ So far-flung is brick production, in fact, that no single state accounts for more than 10 per cent of the total nat ional output. Ohio, Illinois, and Pennsylvania are the most important producers, each with 500-600 million brick equiv alent. North Carolina, Texas, New York and Georgia, with from 5 per cent to 8 per cent each, rank next. And 21 other states, ranging geographically all the way from Ala bama to California, make at least 100 million units annually Varying amounts of brick go into paving highways and streets, arching and walling sewers, and lining industrial furnaces. But most of it, about two-thirds, is the familiar red brick used in residential construction. Structural tile is employed primarily for fire - proofing steel beams and girders and for flooring in commercial buildings and pri vate dwellings. GETS REVENGE . . . Eddie Ar- caro rode Nashua to 6H length victory over Swaps (Willie Shoe maker up) in 9100,000 match race at Chicago’s Washington Park, arranged after Swaps beat Nashua in Kentucky Derby. Here trainer “Sunny Jim’* Fitz simmons advises Nashua. This an* That is one of the very few sports without a universal playing surface. Oddly enough, more than 96 per cent of all tennis Is played on clay and hard eourte—but cham pionships are decided on grass. Some experts have long advocated adoption of concrete as the stand ardised surface, since It fa prac tically the' only surface that can be duplicated perfectly . . . The New York Tankees have signed Jim Oros, star second baseman of the University of Southern Califor nia, Oros win report to the Bing- bampton, N. Y., farm ctab next spring. The 91-year-old right-hand ed batter hit .960 for the Trojans during the past season . . . Herb Score, the Cleveland Indians’ phe nomenal strike-out artist, was signed out of high school in Lake Worth, Florida, for a $40,000 bonus after he had pitched six norhU games. The most successful minor league lefty since Lefty Grove, Score fanned 990 K «*Trnm while tossing ’em for Indianapolis of the American Association in 1954. ideas from other editors From the Cats kill Mountain Star, Saugerties, New Vork: Get ting acquainted with and under standing some of the many prob lems of the publisher and editor of your local newspaper is the best way to establish effective press relations. Like all business places, your newspaper is run by people, and to deal harmoniously with them you should be familiar with their objectives, rules and routine. Deciding what to publish Is one of your editor’s most important functions. His decision as to what news to use depends on three facts: 1. What in his opinion con stitutes news. 2. What kind of news the public, who buys his papers, like to read. 3. Whether the articles submitted smack of libel. If you believe you have a story or a news item that should be printed, your editor win be glad to talk with you about it. Your editor appreciates the co operation of the public, whether personal news or news of com munity projects. In the final an alysis, the news printed in your local paper is a history of the area In which you live, work, wor ship and play and will be read and referred to by future genera tions. , * * * From the Independent Record, Wildwood, N. J.: If ants were provided with a concrete ant hill. what would they do? In all proba bility they would start building a regular ant hill next to the con crete one. Ants would perish with out castles to build. Socialism is much like the hypo thetical concrete ant hill. It shouts Utopia and its sponsors promise a life of security. But it has in the past torn down people’s accumu lated savings. What if socialism could give cradle to the grave se curity? That alone would leave man as lost as the ant In a con crete hill. A republic of free men Is based on the premise that the individual can build his own castle at his own risk instead of living in a cubicle provided by the state. With incentive as an urge to pro duce, man pushes himself to the highest standard of living. The energy of man must find an outlet in building, as much as the ant. The creative spirit cannot be static \ • • From the Harvard Herald, Har vard, Illinois: It has been observed that the possibility of soaking the rich to pay the cost of government went out with prohibition and Em press Eugenie hats. If the federal government took every nickel of individual taxable income above $4,000, it would get only a fifth of what it is spending each year. AUTHOR OF "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING” f F THIS has been a discouraging day for you, maybe you’d like t * know about a man who was "finished” at the age of forty Yes finished. He said so himself! He had been born with what you and I would think was a silve spoon In his mouth. He had had everything. Position in life, a goo* family, money, every chance for an education. All he had to do to ge it was to study .More, his friends were Influential But came a time when none of these counted. The silver spoon obviously had been plated warel And so he was finished 1 For fourteen years he had struggled, filled with ambition; he had worked hard; he had kept hjs private life above reproach. And he had an «lm Then at forty he was done for. He was In a Government position and had to face political intrigue; honesty didn't always bring the desired result. His stofy is too long to go into deeply here—some of It you already know, mostly the successful part. He was sometimes admired, sometimes hated •*th | most hated man among all his colleagues”—but he was always re spected. Ibis man’s name became known around foe world—after he wa forty. You know it—Sir Winston Churchill. I wonder if that fact mentioned above was not more responslbl for his great achievements than any other—he was always respected CARNEGIE i n c i o TTs Q—Under foe new law passed by foe 84fo ministration make retroactive payments under foe GI K< ■ ^ A—No, VA will not make retroactive payments, bat _ tober, your monthly allowances wtQ be mflgmed system and you win gat foe allowance rata for foe ran of your first year in tralnJac, affar ofafcli year checks win be duced at four-monfo Q—What wm be fl Chairman Cooley, of foe Hikes Committee Is farm life? A—In connection wltti a omshlerefl by some as luiraicai to foi status of the family sfaed form, foe 16-man subcommittee wil study legislation' “to proteat, foster and promote foe family sfaed form as foe continuing dominant unit in American agricuttusek* Representative Thompson, of Texas, was named «h*trm«w at tin sub-committee. * Q—Can yon ten nt A—The General Accounting Office headed by foe President’s cn—1»_ trailer General, Mr. Joseph Campbell, has ruled against tbs Pres ident and with Congress, that in foe absence of any court determ ination on foe constitutionality of the section, it fa for to say how and on what conditions public moneys shall be spent Mr. Campbell further warned that his office would hold any official as financially responsible for any expenditures incurred jnder ♦>>»»* clause or section 638 in foe act Q—Are deficits continuing in the postal department despite some in crease in rates? w ^—Yes. Deficit on June 90, 1955, was near $350 mfiiirtn, put new 8% wage boost win raise it $900 million to about $550 million. The basic process involved in making brick have changed little since the industry gat started some 12000 years ago. Substitute oil and gas firing for the heat of the sun and certain pieces of machinery, and the method remains pretty much the same as that used by the sons of Noah to build the Tower of Babel, the Romans their famous acqueducts and the Chinese their Great Wall. Clay is mined both on the surface, by stripping, and un derground, where the best grades are usually found in de posits 30 to 60 fet deep. To hold its own against newer and more versatile building materials, the brick industry has belatedly—and with something of a rush—awakened to the need for scientific research and market analysis. With consumer income up and public desire for higher priced homes keeping pace, they feel that the brick house will really come into its own.” • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1955 ’ — -■ ■ — 1 ■ ■ ■■ W ASHINGTON’S reception of the Soviet farm delegation, headed by Vladimir M. Matske- vich, the acting Red Minister of Agriculture, was so different than anything seen in Washington since the war, it is still being talked about. These representatives of the So viet “new look” were unctious, and smiling and gay and banter ing . . . nothing like the stolid masks of faces seen upon the Rus- ' sians around here. And the greet ing given by the State and Agri cultural Departments was much mooe than friendly, it was almost fawning and bowing and scraping. The austere Russian embassy, forbidding for' many years, with drawn shades and dimmed lights, was ablaze with lights and gaiety at a sparkling reception and buffet for Washington officialdom and VIP's. The old embassy is on Six teenth Street, and paradoxically stands next door to Washington’s swank University Club. For years the embassy has been a stark con trast to its bustling and busy high- flown neighbor, the University Club. The embassy’s famous gold room, all gilt and glitter, with massive chandeliers, was brilliantly lighted, flowers were everywhere, tables groaned with goodies, with caviar, of course, and other Soviet delica cies, enough to feed many a hungry Russian peasant. There was laugh ter and gaiety in the reception line, much bowing -and clicking of heels. Comrade Marskevich was in a gay mood and there was much regaling and well wishing. Tele vision invaded foe forbidden iron t and found the Russian delegation all smiles and laughter and the American and other embassy at taches attempting to outdo one an other in being polite and gay . . . there was much shrill laughter, and the party overflowed up the grand stairway onto the floor above. Even at the blase’ National Press Club, where dignitaries have been a dime a dozen, the Soviets drew a record crowd to listen to alternating sentences of Russian and English as an inter preter, standing by his side, trane- lated Mr. Matskevich’s speech, which was a mixture of good hu mor and frankness, and was foe first Russian, speech at the Pres# Club and to the Washington Press Corps since the start of the “cold war.” And the newspapermen seemed to like it, for the speaker drew alternating rounds of laugh ter and applause. What Mr. Matskevich wants more for Russia than anything else is American farm machinery, particularly tractors and attach ments. Then the Soviets would like American hybrid seed corn and hy brid poultry^ and hogs. And he personally, would like to import some of the Santa Gertrudis cat tle which he saw on the King Ranch in Texas. These are a cross between the Shorthorn Hereford and the Brahma cattle of India, and resistant to heat, ticks and disease. Matskevich declined to agree with a questioner at the Ftess dub that the American free en terprise system of farming was more productive than foe Soviet collective farm system. r iE!S 5F ;F, 1 « ru ~Maan ■a! ■ •' I- ?jj; |» 'ft'I'in, j|B* a I ' •• ? ee of strap iron, bent as easy when you tie woven not only does a I drilled i or barbed tight Job—dt CROSSWORD PUZZLE Acnoaa 1 Choral com- poaitton • Place for saiakaeptnf of goods U Tuna 13 God of lore 14 Sun god 16 Feminine name It Ox of the Celebes 19 Hebrew letter 90 Belonging to me 29 Pulverise 24 Expensive 25 Kind of fish 27 Dispatches 28 Part of play 29 Audacity 32 Pigpen 33 Hindti woman’s .garment Tver.) 33 Lubricates 97 Public vehicles 38 In a lifelike manner 40 Greek letter 41 City of Roumanla - 44 To lift 46 College In Iowa 48 Tropical American plant fiber 00 Operate 61 Trunk of body 53 Consume M The sweetsop 06 Flowers 07 Wild buffalo of India 68 Nagative 89 Egyptian sacred boD 61 Small stream 63 Tba gods 64 Follow an sat ing regimen .66 The onent 67 Ousted 68 Dry gullies DOWN 1 Rich crimson 9 Symbol for sodium 3 Woody plant , 4 Assist 5 Flavors 7 Caras for 8 Gold in Spanish American countries - 9 Thoroughfare 10 While 11 Placed in vigorous action 13 Military assistant 17 War god 18 Man’s nick name 19 Step 21 Roman emperor 23 Inland part of a country tpL) Answer .te Pnsmle Ne. 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