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4 PAG ft TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1956 - f 5§t»tt 1^18 Colleirv ^tr**er NEWBERRY. S C PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield. Jr., Owner Entered as second-clays matter December 6. 1937 at the Postoft'ice at Newberry, South Caro Una under the Act of Congress of March 3. 18^9. SUBSCRIP1TON RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance: six months, $1.25. 'BOY, YOU'LL HAVE TO SHOVE!' COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS We’ve heard so much about Yalta; someone has hinted that our men were so bemused they , didn’t know what was going on. Well this may throw a light on some of our so- called diplomatic junkets: “Enough has not been told concerning the disgraceful Yalta conference. Some weeks back I prepared a manuscript summarizing both published and unpublished facts dealing with this diabolical episode. Now' comes a book by one Laurence S. Kuter, who was at Yalta during the conference as a representative of the military air force. Among other things, Mr. Kuter des cribes some of the menus, as follows: ‘The first course of the breakfast was set forth in a med ium sized tumbler containing what appeared to be apple juice. When breakfast was opened with toasts to the sev eral allied military commanders, the ‘apple juice’ proved to be cinamon brandy. Following the opening toasts and the brandy were re peated servings of caviar and vodka. With the successive vodkas came toasts to lesser allied military luminaries, ev entually getting well down the scale. ‘With the cold cuts, a white wine was served. Following the cold cuts, and with more white wine, came a curd cake with sour cream sauce. Finally, small hard Crimean apples were served and with them bountiful glasses of a quite sweet Crimean champagne. With the champagne came still more toasts, and by this time American staff officers were called upon to return toasts by Russian staff officers. The final course of this breakfast consisted of tall thin tumblers of boiling hot tea with which brandy was served in snifters. That was just breakfast! How could any man with his stomach full of the above described stuffings make one rational or logical decision in relationship to the welfare of the United States of America? It must be remembered that even Elliott Roosevelt, who went with his father to the conference, said that practically everyone wjas drunk.” Here is something from the Bamberg Herald which may prove illuminating: “MISSISSIPPI ‘VIOLENCE. , Some Negro advisors would have Mississippi expelled from the Union or Bend federal troops to that state to ‘protect’ the rights of the colored people. Ail of this stems from the alleged murder of a colored youth from Chicago who assumed jthe privilege of insulting a white women. But from an isolated murder (the jury acquitted the white men accused of it) the NAACP now includes the whole state— and other states—in wholesale mistreatment of the Negro population. - Congressman John Bell Williams has dug into the crime record in Mississippi, and finds that six negroes were killed by white persons in 1954 and eight white persons were killed by negroes in the same period. But 182 negroes were killed in 1954 by members of THEIR OWN RACE. There is too much crime and too many killings in Missi- ppi; likewise, there is too much crime in every state of the Union. Considering the percentage of negro population to white pouplation in Mississippi, the 1954 record of racial crimes is amazingly low. Congressman Williams is render ing the South and the nation a real service in deflating a common calumny against the people of his state.’’ % Coal men concede they’re bound to lose part of their pow er market to the atom. But they deplore ‘unwarranted op timism’ over atomic energy as a source for commercial power. If atom power comes into wiide use soon, they main tain, it will be only because of Government subsidy. And coal men flare up at this prospect. ‘There now exists no substantial reason for headlong de velopment of a big government subsidized industry to gen erate atomic fueled electricity for commercial purposes,’ says a statement prepared by the National Coal association. “Report sent to congress by Tennessee Valley Authority stated that it will be faced with a power shortage by the end of 1958—unless it obtains additional construction funds. It would prefer the old system of direct advances voted out of the US Treasury by Congress, but even the democratic- controlled Congress has ‘nixed’ the idea of any more Treas ury cash for the building of stearn^ generating plants. Un der contemplation at Washington now is the proposal to authorize issuance of revenue bonds by TVA. The figures coming out of TVA, by the way, reveal in startling clarity the fact that the Valley Authority is charg ing its customers much more for electricity than is charged by Booneville Power Administration. The facts covering this disclosure will be reached in a few moments. TVA indicated to congress that a generation shortage amounting to 500,000 kilowatts may develop before the end of 1958. To thwart it the Authority wishes to have con struction of additional steam plants started at once. At the end of the last fiscal year, June 30, 1955, TVA had 7.8 million kw of generating capacity, 1.7 kw of which was added during the year. Since that date the total gen erating capability is said to have grown to more then 9 million kw. In* the fiscal year the agency’s facilities gen erated 42.5 billion kws and it purchased 3.6 billion addi tional kwh. The Atomic Energy Commission took almost exactly half of the power TVA generated in its own'plants, amount being 21.8 billion kwh. “Old King Cole is laying battle plans to beat off the atom’s rising—though still distant—challenge to the power generating empire coal has dominated for a long time. The chief strategy is to keep the cost of coal-produced power as far as possible out of atomic electricity’s reach. To do this, coal men are pushing mine mechanization, lur ing power plants to settle close to mines, trying to hold down coal freight rates and seeking to squeeze more power out of each pound of coal. Coal men, plainly concerned about the coming of the atom drew little consolation from the report by a panel of private citizens that tended to pooh-pooh coal industry fears of new dislocations. They insist that what the panel called a slight possibility—big atom power gains between 1965 and 1975— is, in fact, highly possible. And they don’t want to sit idly by. The spectre of the atom isn’t the only stimulus for coal’s current campaign; the post-World War II advance of oil and gas into its domain rankles too. But the increasing price of oil and gas-produced power diminishes their threat, coal men figure, and the atom poses the real long-term danger. The prize in the developing atom-coal rivalry is a hand some one. Today, coal provides the raw material for more than 50 per cent of all electricity produced in the U. S. and for better than 66 per cent of the fuel-produced power. Power-plant furnaces consumed 115 million tons of coal in 1954 and 137 million tons last year. This year, they’re expected to burn up over 142 million tons. America owes its greatness to men of vision, faith and courage. We like to think of Henry Ford, the amazing in dustrialist; and we have had men of vision in South Car olina, not visionaries, idly dreaming, mildly speculative and ineffective. Something in the daily papers this week im pressed me deeply. It was the announcement of great pro jects of construction by the South Carolina Electric and Gas company—a total of new construction for three years aggregating 73 million 250 thousand dollars. Whose vision led to that? That is the plan adopted by the Directors of that great company, a group of level-headed, resourceful, clear-thinking men who study conditions and act on facts which are the foundation of abiding faith in the development of South Carolina. I think you would like to know who those extraordinary men are. Not including the directors, who are of the administrative staff, here they are—all men of large responsibilities and all success ful in managing interests of great magnitude: p. M. Edwards; John C. B. Smith; W. i. Keenan, Jr.; these of Columbia; Maier Triest; A. F. Heinsohn; J. B. Ma honey; of Charleston; J. B. Guess,Jr., Denmark; D. H. Banks, St. Matthews; J, H. Epting, Leesville; and S. R. McMaster of Winnsboro. The directors acted on a plan which had been studied broadly, deeply, economically, electrically, technically, fin ancially. Who prepared and submitted the plan? The pres ident of this great company, a native South Carolinian, a Clemson college graduate, born and reared in Fairfield county—Silas C. McMeekin. To tell in one sentence about Mr. McMeekin, I was re cently told by an accountant that this company, during eight years of Mr. McMeekins leadership has increased its investments in our State one hundred million dollars— from $81,000,000 to $181,000,000. It is more than that to day—and I’ve spoken of the new construction to cost 73 1-4 million dollars within three years. Ponder the figures and the achievement accomplished, not merely planned. I callattention again to the great in vestment, planned and directed by an executive of remark able qualities and endorsed by a great Board of Directors. I have not consulted our State authorities, but this enor mous investment for public service and convenience— about 200 million dollars—must be South Carolina’s great est investment. I quote Mr. McMeekin’s statement that was carried by The “State” newspaper: P ASSAGE of the so-called Harris natural gas bill which takes the regulation of natural gas prices out from control of the Inter-State Commerce Commission, and hands it over to the various State Pub lic Service Commissions for con trol, will do three things: (1) It will undoubtedly increase the price of natural gas to some 25,000,000 consumers eventually: (2) It will likely cause a split in the heretofore unified ranks of the Democratic party; and, (3) It will place the Democratic party in the position of being a party to the “give-a-ways” for which they have so furiously con demned the Republican party. This is virtually the same bill passed by the Congress original ly! under the name of the Kerr bill, for Senator Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma, and which Presi dent Truman vetoed. Last year under a new version it was re introduced in the House by Rep resentative Harris of Arkansas, a Democrat, and Just skinned through the house with heavy Republican support, and somewhat lighter Democratic support, but enough to pass it. The companion bill was introduced in the Senate by Senator William Fulbright, Demo crat of Arkansas, and was made one of the “must” bills by Sen ator Lyndon Johnson, the Majority leader in the Senate. One of the heaviest lobbies in history has congregated in Wash ington to bring about passage of the bill throughout the debate. Opposition to the bill has been spearheaded by Senator Paul Douglas. Democrat, of Illinois, and he sought several crippling amend ments to the measure, one of which would eliminate the 27 Vi per cent depletion allowance granted the oil corporations, and another which would have elimi nated the tax deductibility of cost of drilling a dry well which the oil companies enjoy. Proponents of the measure de clare that the present bill has been provided with safeguards to pro tect consumers. However the op ponents still maintain that the pas sage would cost consumers as high as $800,000,000 annually in in creased cost of natural gas, and that the so-called safeguards are purely of the paper variety and that a breakdown of federal reg ulation of prices at the well-head will mean large price increase at the other end of the pipeline in the mlddlewest and eastern states. There has been no statement of polic/ from the executive branch of the government as to the possibility of a presidential veto. • • • i The Nation^ college and univer sity enrollment this year will top the three-million mark for the first time in history, according to a report of S. M. Brownell, Federal Commissioner of Education. Institutions reporting the largest enrollment include: University of* California. 38,594; State University of New York, 33,634; New York University. 31,867; City College of the City of New York, 26,426; Co lumbia University. 25,887; Univer sity of Illinois, 24,120; University of Michigan, 23,765; The Univer sity of Minnesota, 23,393; Ohio State University, 21,744 and Uni versity of Wisconsin, 20,110. Total enrollment includes 1,784,000 men and 937,000 women. * CROSSWORD PUZZLS 19 41 IT 55 20 61 IT 25 35 7T 29 26 30" 33 31 34 44 62 4T 17 23 18 63 59 PCXZLB N*. ACROSS 1 Organized com pany of tingors S Figure ml speech 10 Sanctilied person 11 Notions 13 News agency 14 Golf mounds 16 Small barra cuda 17 Child far father 19 To cut off 21 Shrewder 23 Deface 24 To incite 26 To discolor 27 A doloy 28 Grain fungus 30 Make mistake 31 French river 32 Silkworm 34 Armed galley of old North men 35 Multiplies 37 Portion 38 Ediblo seeds 41 Climbing plant 43 Excavation 45 Scorch 47 Mine entrance 48 Article of faith 50 Narrow road 51 Met* I 52 Mendicants 54 Dance step 55 Combining form: dawn 56 Fur neckpieces 57 Debatable 59 Syllable of scale 60 Groups of three 62 Arabian getelle 64 Puts up poker stoke 65 Skilled person DOWN 1 Symbol for calcium 2 Stage success 3 Number (pi.) 4 Short articles 6 Mature 7 River of Europo 8 Fond la 9 Babylonian doity 10 Trail of a wild animal 12 Country of Europe 13 Wrote boys* success stories 15 Surfeit 16 Agitate 18 Russien craft guild 20 Part ml book 22 Making lees dense 23 Grape refuse 25 Inebtive- 27 A drinking bout 29 Pope's triple crown 31 Citiiens of ancient Media 33 Emmet 34 High mountain 36 Lift spirits ef 37 Ache 39 Cooky 40 Birds 42 Siraploton 43 WocxJon pine 44 Group pulling together 46 Growl 48 Tantalize 49 Region ef which ancient Trey wee capi tal 52 Shea 53 Painful 56 Storage con tainer 58 Gratuity 6T Sun goo 63 French for “ond” Aeewer to Peeole No. Mt a u u u ij u ■ □ n i3 r* a fi mo finnnrn couruo conuc* nrann nnnu uqhejq uiuli LiuiiLj oquih n oa □□□oi □□□□ du n □□na □unu uuu natiar* □□au odcju aaisa lioiliu uuulo nan □aas □bob e □ PI □ClHLl UULJU EU □ □□HIS □□□□ E3BE □□an □nnn ddue ana naan khiukho aciartaanu oliuucih □□■□□□lillJKJIdlJIHEUE “The years ahead promise a continuation at an accelerat ed rate of the extensive industrial expansion which has taken place throughout the state and particularly in the area served by the South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. Keeping up with the residential, commercial, and industrial growth means that the company must solve its production, transmission, and distribution problems years in advance of the actual demand for electric and gas service. Behind every kilowatt-hour of electricity and every cubic foot of natural gas the company delivers, there are years of study in anticipation of the increased needs of our fast-growing list of customers. Preparations must be made not only for anticipated influx of new and expanded industries but also for the increased acceptance of new equipment such as elec- trie and gas clothes dryers and all-year ’round air condi tioners in the many thousands of homes in our service area,” the power company executive declared. “The company’s last three-year forecast of construction expenditures amounted to some $57 million (1965 through 1957). Today for a like period of time it has increased to more than $73 million; here is convincing evidence of the company’s confidence in South Carolina’s future development, with particular emphasis on the 23 counties which we are privileged to I li S T 0 n Q—Can yon tell me wbat the Wild Life Refugee ProteoUon'RH1 pro vides? A—H.R. 5306, introduced by Congressman Lee Metcail, ol Montana, provides basically that it is the policy of Congress to maintain and preserve the national wild life refuges, and would require prior Congressional approval before any part or all of a wild life refuge could be disposed of or relinquished by the Secretary of the In terior. Companion bills have been introduced by Senator Hubert Humphrey, of Minnesota, and Congressman Henry S. Reuss. of Wisconsin. q—How many presidents have come 'from states weal of the Miaale- sippl River? A—Three. Herbert Hoover, born in Iowa and elected from Calif onus; Harry S. Truman, born in Missouri, and President Eisenhower, bom in Texas, and living in Kansas before entering military service. Q—De widows of Presidents gel pensions? A—-Not as a matter of law, but by special acta of Congress annual pensions of $0,000 hava bean granted to the widows of Presidents Tyler, Polk, Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, Cleveland. Benjamin Har- rison, McKinley. Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson and Coolidfe. nl salary dees the vice-president receive? A—lie receives 880.000 per year, plus an expense allowance of WOO*. Prom the Dove Greek Press, Deve Greek, 'Brain washing" Joined the English tan- guaga* shortly after the first Amer ican captives of the Korean con flict were returned in the prisoner exchange. The term refers to tha actions of their enemy captors as the Communist forces attempted to sway their' American captives to their line of thinking. However, without Identification of the action as such, segments of America's population have been undergoing “brainwashing" for more than ,20 years! AU too frequently, the news on the national scene is filled with stories of labor violence and strife. Why? Simply because the organ ized laborer in the factory, the shop, or the store has undergone so much “brainwashing" from the union hois and the cooperative governmental bureaucrat that he’s convinced that management owes him his job This “brainwashmg of the American laborer is reflected fur ther into the quality of his work. The poor quality of workmanship in the so-caUed “famous names" of household appliances, television sets, and automobiles has be come a serious problem in the of fice* of the big manufacturers to day. Yet. what can be done about it as long as the man on the as sembly line has substituted "this outfit owea me my job 1 ’ for pride of workmanship? But, let's leave the factory and head for the open country where we'U find the same thing hap pening on the farms of America. Although some of jhe farm and Uvestock organizations have been fighting government .eglmentatioa for several years, still there is that portion of the farm population that believes that "the govern ment owos me a living." And, thanks to oversea lous po litical aspirants, the American farmer is practically In ** posi tion where It is impossible fur him to help himself—he has to de pend on the government for that! The solution to these problems. If there is any. wdn't be easy and won’t be painless. The question is—can anything be done to cor rect these situations or is It al ready too Late? The individual who believes that the government owes him a liv ing wlU wake up some day to find that he owes his living to the gov ernment • e • From the Etowah Newe-Jenmal, Attala, Alabama: To become a convincing talker, keep both hands in your pocket while telling your audience of the fish that got away DaueCarmegh AUTHOR OP “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START l\\ TNOROTHY N. EPPERSON, Rt. 2, Neoshow, Missouri, has written us not a story but an Inspiring letter about her parents. If what the says about them could be said about all parents, there would be .Httle juvenile delinquency in the world and much more happiness. Here is the gist of her letter: "My mother and my father were profuse in their praise of anything well done, and more advisory than critical of any faults in their children. Their advice to their chil dren was always given in a manner suggestive of the belief in the one advised and his or her ability and desire to improve. I cannot recall a single word of harsh criticism ever made by either of them. “My parents lived to be eighty years old, hav ing reared five children who have given them many grandchildren, and the entire family was devoted to them. A favorite saying of my mother’s was. The biggest room in the world is the room for self-improvement. * " mm CARNEGIE mt vot/e 1. Monetary unit of the principality of Monace la (a) the lira; (b) peso; (o) French franc. 8. The capital of Liberia Is (a) Bierut; (b) Monrovia; (e) Bengasi. S. The Dionne quintuplets were born In (a) 1028; (b) 1020 (e) 1034. ANSWERS •*S41 ** •eiAejeeif *s ‘eeejj goeejj *f i■ ■ i ■■ 1 r^rmtTi • -Zf ■ »- , M Ml r || ir”.r- r»ni II Nl I ■ I ■■■ m i ■■■ I Mi*' I n serve. n MULTI-PURPOSE . . . Movable gates can serve a sums around the farm. They’re convenient for hay storage, sheds, or for setting off pen areas. Gate can be used eithc partition or hay feeder.