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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
SPECTATOR
W. D. Workman, Major Workman, my old buddy Bill,
seems to know all that is going on as well as what has hap
pened from earliest antiquity, since the memory of man
runneth not to the contrary, you know, as the British say
in the old studies of Jurisprudence. Bill also knows what
is scheduled, and unscheduled to happen.
Well, Mr. Workman tells us about the Nuclear Energy
Program now being hatched out by the Southern Regional
Education Board.
Just what is the Southern Regional Education Board?
The promotion of various plans seems to be undertaken
by many means and along many avenues. I may appears
suspicious—and I am suspicious—for all sorts of Boards,
Commissions, Agencies have been organized in our country
to pave the way for plans which have been carefully nur
tured in some adroit brain.
Now let's come down to earth: is the Southern Regional
Education Board fomenting a scheme for development of
Nuclear Energy under Government controls, just like Gov
ernment Power, commonly called Public Power? Real Pub
lic Power is what is usually called private power. Let’s see:
Private power is, in our State, Duke Power Co., Carolina
Power and Light Co., and The South Carolina Electric and
Gas Co. Those Companies are private only in this sense: they
are built and operated by men and women who invest their
savings in these enterprises. As I recall, The South Caro
lina Electric & Gas Co. has a great number—many thous
ands of stockholders, the average owning fifteen shares of
stock. That one company, the thousands of small investors
paid more than six million dollars in taxes last year. Now
that is a private company, one that serves the public, pays
heaVy taxes, and is built and operated by our fellow men
and women. A so-called Public Power is one built with Gov
ernment money, paying little in taxes, paying nothing to
the U. S. Government which puts up the money whether by
grants, loans or other easy favoritism.
Public Power, so-called, is really not puublic, for it is
sold on a basis of preference, specially favored groups.
Whenever you have a specially favored or preferential
group, that discrimination is not democratic, is it?
An average citizen can’t demand service unless all the
preferred groups have been served, if they demand service.
Now the so-called Private Companies not only build and
operate investment, but anybody, anybody, can call for and
get service. There are no preferred customers. That is demo
cratic. ’ j ,
More yet: the South Carolina Public Service Commission
exercses close and strict supervision over the so-called Pri
vate Company. The Commission fixes the rates that may
be charged. So, the so-called private companies are really
Public because they are supervised, regulated and controlled
by the State; the other companies are really Government
Power, but paying very little in taxes. That means that one
group must pay taxes for their neighbors. Even so.
Now I wonder: What is the Southern Regional Education
al Board ? Why is it trying to meddle with Atomc Energy ?
Is this a subterfuge, to set up an Atomic Energy affair that
will be a double-first cousin, brother, sister, uncle and aunt
of such projects as Tennessee Valley Authority?
I wonder.
However, let’s keep our eyes open and our ears close to
the ground to hear the rumblings.
The Federal Government did not build the great gasoline
or natural or articifial gas business of America. Individuals
did that—private investment. So, let individuals try the
Atomic energy development.
The progressive paper of Aiken’, The Standard and Re
view, of Mrs. Annie Howell King, carried an editorial re
cently that is much to the point:
“ATOMIC ROADBLOCK
“Washington is accustomed to words—especially in an
election year. But Elmer Lindseth, president of the Cleve
land Electric Illumnating Company, has said a few that not
only make uncommon good sense but contain worthwhile
news for the American people.
“The Joint-Congressional Committee on Atomic energy
was told by Mr. Lindseth that the U. S. now has 89 atomic
reactors completed, planned or applied for, compared with
63 for all the other nations of the world combined and five
times as many as Communist Russia. This is atomic leader
ship with a capital ‘L\
Mr. Lindseth was speaking for the Edison Electric Insti
tute, the industry’s statistical authority, in opposition to a
Bill by Senator Gore of Tennessee, which would put the
Atomic Energy Commission in the electric business by or-
ering it aganst its will, to build six large-scale atomic re
actors.
“This ‘atomic TVA’ program would cost taxpayers an
estimated $2 billion on top of the $10 billion which the
federal government has either spent or is planning to spend
on power facilities in competition with U. S. Electric com-
panies. The point is, there is just no need for Federal
THE NEWBERRY SUN
THOUGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY
spending in this field. America already is head-and-should-
ers above the rest of the world in atomic power progress.
Private industry is moving forward rapidly with its own
program to build nine atomic power plants. The proposed
program would do nothing but duplicate projects under
way, wasting manpower, materials and tax dollars in the
process.
With taxes as high as they are today, it makes no sense
to waste taxpayers’ money simply to produce a carbon copy
of a job already being done by private enterprise in coop
eration with AEC. We suggest that Senator Gore voluntar
ily remove his roadblock to progress and let the AEC get
on with its job.”
DaleCarnegie
'jfc' AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING” ^
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M ISS ELLA ORTON, Amarillo, Texas, had for a boss a man who
would sit with his feet propped up on his desk the better part
of the day. Any time he wanted anything, even if it were only a foot
or so from him, he would yell at the top of his voice to Miss Orton to
bring it to him, which she hastened to do, for she was terrified of him.
Every Sunday evening she began to feel ill and would begin making up
reasons why she could not go to work the next day.
For ten long months this went on. This was her
first job and she was afraid she couldn’t get an
other one. Finally she did apply and got another.
Then she was afraid to go back and tell her grouchy
employer that she was leaving. Of course she finally
got around to telling him, and he was very nasty
about it.
She says if she should ever again be placed in
such an unhappy position, she would apply one of
the following methods:
1. Dissatisfied, she would at once have looked
for another position. Knowing that if she could get one job. she
could get another
2. She would have a quiet calm talk with the boss and point out to
him that he made her so nervous she couldn’t stand it.
She has known both these methods to work for others. And she has
conquered Fear of bosses, who are, after all, just people.
CARNEGIE
Governor George Bell Timmerman, Jr. grows on men; he
either is growing and developing, or he is proving that he
is carrying on the Timmerman tradition of high public
service. The Judge—George Bell Timmerman, Senior, has
the qualties of Edgefield greatness; and the Governor walks
in the footsteps of his grandfather—one time State Treas
urer—and his father, an ornament to the judiciary.
Over in Aiken, Governor Timmerman showted himself
alert to possibilities of subterfuges and spoke with that
clarity, drectness and pungency that we now expect from
him when he discusses public measures and policies. I quote
the Governor, as Bill Workman reports him:
“Delegates to a Southwide conference on nuclear energy
today were warned by South Carolina’s Gov. George Bell
Timmerman, Jr., to guard against any effort to use atomic
power as a basis for further centralization of power by the
federal government.
“The governor voiced that sentiment in a brief welcome
to the third planning meeting to precede an August work
conference on nuclear energy. The sessions are being hand
led by the Southern Regional Education Board at the direc
tion of the Southern Governors’ Conference. Last October,
the Governors of 16 southern and border states told the
SREJ3 to survey the entire field of nuclear energy needs and
potentials in the South.
“Previous meetings already have been held at Oak Ridge,
Tenn., and at Raleign, N. C. The fintl session will come
August 2-4 at St. Petersburg, at wihich time a final report
will be drafted for submission to the governors. Meanwhile,
detailed studies are being made by specialized groups into
the following fields: at omic potfer; federal industrial appli
cations; agriculture; medicine and public health; and man
power and education.
“Gov. Timmeran turned his attention especially to the
atomic power field today- when he cautioned against any
exclusion of private industry from the field. He indidated
that there may be a place for both public and power partici
pation in atomic power development in these words:
“ ‘When there is a public service that needs to be render
ed and private inh ative is unable or unwlling to rjsk the
investment, it is ir.evitabble that a vacuum is created into
which the government will step to fulfill the need. To that
extent, pubic powe: serves a purpose, and that is not so
cialism.
“But when pul l'c power undertakes to do a job to the
exclusion of private industry, when private enterprise is
ready and willing cj do the job, then that becomes rank so
cialism.”
Citing the ever present forces which stand ready to in
crease the strength of the central government, Gov. Tim
merman added:
“They will not rn'.ss a chance to try to use nuclear energy
in promoting them belief that all powers should be central
ized in Washington in the name of efficiency . . . You must
guard against the possibility of your report’s being used
to establish material that centralization extremists can
use to the detriment of the several states’.”
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From LIGHTER LINES, a col
umn, THE AUSTIN SALESMAN,
Austin, Texas: Eugene C. Weafer,
Bryan, Texas, looks out of his
window every morning to see if
tiie yard is littered with diamonds.
Twice, the Brazos County school
teacher has hit on bonanzas, and
be isn’t overlooking the possibility
of a third strike.
The teacher is credited with pre
cipitating the great uranium rush,
in the Four Corners Area of north
ern Arizona, a rush which turned
poor prospectors into multi-mO-
HSs other bonanza is Milk Bowl
Enterprises, proceeds of which are
giving new hope to crippled chO-
dren and orphans
Weafer and his family lived
among the Navajo* in the Four
Corners, and his children played
with uranium in their own back
yard. In a series of stories about
tbs Navajo country, Weafer wrote
about the uranium playthings of
his children.
After the story was published
on March 19, 1M9, prospectors
began crawling over each other.
They were amateurs defying ex
perts who said uranium was ’low
grade.”
Charles Steen deserted his odd
jobs in Houston, went to Four
Corners, and now has Haim*
worth 9300 million. Vernon Pick
now claims a 940 million uranium
stake. There are others who have
become wealthy at Four Comers.
On the strength of this strike.
President Harry Truman canceled
a billion dollar loan to Britain,
which would have given The
United States uranium concessions
in Africa.
The MQk Bowl bonanza was
discovered in Milam County, on
a converted cow pasture, where
Weafer taught football to boys
who had never seen s football
game.
The boys liked the sport, so
Weafer established The Milk Bowl,
an intercouniy challenge classic.
This year. The MQk Bowl, now
a famed national classic, will bo
broadcast for the fourth time on
national radio, and is scheduled
for telecast on a nation-wide net
work. The competition has been
honored by Governor Allan Shiv
ers and by toe Texas legislature.
Leading citizens of to* state, in
cluding Jesae H. Jones, Hugh Roy
Cullen. R. L. Thornton. Sr., Glenn
H. McCarthy, and Senator Price
Daniel, are on the board of direc
tors.
Weafer has do fortune himself,
but he is gaining a reputation as
the “man who thinks bonanzas.**
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Brother of
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around hair
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name
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direction from
which glacier
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56 To make
amends for
58 One in want
60 Peruse
61 Chirped
repeatedly
64 Viewing
67 Scotch for
own
68 Abnormal
hair growth
on leaves
70 College in
Iowa
71 Wooden pin
72 Elementary
textbooks
72 Cornish
prefix: town
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3 Asiatic
animal
4 Analyzing
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11 Erasures
12 Form ot
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13 Affrmativs
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18 Period of
time (pi.)
20 Concedes
22 Bactericides
24 Retaliated
25 Let go
26 Person, place,
thing (pi.)
28 Bony
29 Exhibits dis
pleasure at
32 College
officials
35 Clasp
37 Pointed weapon
40 Harvester
42 Conduit
45 One who guides
47 Ransoms
50 Last
52 Cart
55 Cuttlefish
57 Proclamation
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THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1956
DRESIDENT Eisenhower recent-
L ly has proposed two important
plans aimed at making American
foreign policy better understood by
person-to-person contacts through
out the world.
In so doing, however, the Presi
dent has either overlooked or
shown an ignorance of what is and
has been going on for some time
in this regard, both under the aegis
of private and governmental or
ganizations.
The President in proposing these
plans, left unanswered such ques
tions as, “What is to be the United
States policy on East-West con
tacts?” For as of today there is
no agreed policy and U. S. officials
from the State Department down,
concede there is doubt that any
policy will be forthcoming until
after the November elections.
As a mattter of fact there are
influential groups within the Eisen
hower administration who have
refused thus far to agree on any
broadening of contacts across
the Iron Curtain. A major spokes
man for these groups includes
Mr. Herbert Hoover, Jr., Under
secretary of State. This in spite
of the fact that toe President has
approved the trip- of Air Force
Chief of Staff General Nathan
Twining to attend the Soviet Air
shows in Moscow. The President
hasv consistently told his subor
dinates to work out a program
and com* back to him whoa it
is agreed upon.
At his recent major speech at
Baylor University to Texas, to*
PresiAnt urged that “some or
all” of American universities sup
ported by private funds, launch
a program of hew educational
facilities abroad to swap Ameri
can technical skills with new
knowledge and wisdom from more
ancient lands.
The President, however took no
note in his Waco speech that soma
52 American universities are now
engaged in an exchange of stu
dents in teaching, in working out
scholarships and fellowships and
in other educational work includ
ing technical and industrial skills,
throughout the globe.
Under the Fulbright Act, passed
in 1946 and the Smith-Mundt Act
passed in 1949, and through the
efforts of private foundations such
as the Institute of International
Education, endowed by Carnegie
Funds and the Ford Foundation,
more than 30,000 students and
others in many professions and
sciences have reaped the benefit
of United States and foreign coun
try. educational institutions. For
instance In 1955 alone more than
911 millions were spent for this
exchange of educational services
on a basis of 'about 12,000 Ameri
cana going abroad and 9.009
foreigners coming to this country.
About 80% of this money was forth
coming from private institutions
and Inundations.
The bulk of this traffic in educa
tional exchange was handled
through to* International Educa
tional Exchange Service of toe
State Department set up to handle
the exchanges under the two Acte.
In addition, tot International Co
operation Administration, wfcldk
handles foreign relief funds, Pefaft
Four and other programs, aX#
has van extensive educational pro
gram of technical and teacher
and student training, which in
volves bringing foreigners to this
country and includes some 90 con
tracts with American universities.
THE HOT GET-AWAY
By William L. Roper
J IMMY HANSEN was sitting in
the front seat of his Uncle Os
car’s taxicab, listening to the
radio calls from the cab com
pany’s control center, when the
shooting started.
Jimmy’s first impluse was to
report the shooting to the man at
headquarters, .the way Uncle Os
car did. But he quickly rejected
toe idea, aa he remembered that
TJnde Oscar ahould be to the cab
Instead of at the all night hambur
ger stand on to* corner getting
a cup of coffee. Besides Jimmy
was not supposed to be to toe cab.
The fact that Unde Oscar was
teaching 1dm to drive a taxi was
their own secret, an arrangement
strictly without company approval.
Suddenly Jimmy saw a thin,
emaciated man dash out of a dim
ly lighted liquor store across the
street, a smoking gun in his right
hand. A short, pudgy man pur
sued, firing wildly.
The fleeing man twisted around.
His gun spurted fire. The short
man screamed, pitched headlong
on the pavement under a street
lamp. Increasing his speed, the
gunman raced toward the taxi
cab, where Jimmy sat as if froz
en, unable to move.
“Get going,” shouted the gun
man. The man’s black, deepset
eyes gleamed crazily from his
thin, white face.
As the cab raced along the
street, Jimmy listened tensely for
the wail of a police siren. Surely
someone besides himself had
heard the shots. It would take a
few minutes, though, for the chase
to get under way. Jimmy shivered
at the thoughts of what such a
chase might mean—police bullets
whistling around his head, possi
bly a bullet-blasted tire and the
car swerving off the road out of
control But if the police did not
stop them, what then?
He recalled a recent newspaper
photograph, showing a taxi driv
er’s body slumped over the steer
ing wheel of his cab on a lonely
country road. A cold chill raced
up and down his spine.
About two miles out erf Center
ville, on the Freeway, the gunman
spoke again.
“Slow down and turn right at
the next cross-roads.”
Jimmy followed orders. Even
in the darkness, he recognized
the road. It was the one, on whibh
the dead cab driver had been
found two months previously.
His fingers reached cot for the
two-way radio switch. Bat before
he could touch it. he fatt toe gun
barrel pressing against his chest
“Don’t try any tricks, punk.”
the gunman growled. "I’d hate
to have to blast you while the
car’s speeding.” ‘
“Don’t you want to know if the
State cops are on your tail?” Jim
my asked.
’’Okay,” the gunman said.
“Turn it on.”
Jimmy manipulated toe switch,
but the radio speaker gave forth
only a hum.
“Guess it’s burned out” Jim
my said. “But we ought to be in
South Hillsboro in another thirty
minutes, and you can grab an
other car there. The coppers yill be
looking for this cab, since my
Uncle is sure to repor: it stolen.”
They were approaching Hills
boro from the south when the red
lights of the road block flashed
on ahead of them, and two motor
cycles roared out into the road be
hind the cab.
Jimmy shoved down the brake
pedal and clawed desperately for
the jsun with his right hand. The
cab skidded, slammed Into a
police car. It was all over in a
moment.
As the officers snapped hand
cuffs on the skinny gunman, one
of them slapped Jimmy on the
shoulder.
“Good work, lad, he said, “If
it hadn’t been for that conversa
tion over the cab’s two-way radio,
we wouldn't have known where
to set up the road bloctai”
This an' That
The San Francisco Forty-Niners
have sent three linemen, tackles
A1 Carape 11a and Sid Youngelman
and Guard Eldrcd Kraemer to the
New York Giants. Terms of the
deal between the National Foot
ball League teams were not dis
closed ... The Washington Red
skins have signed Steve Meilinger,
a 1953 second-team All America
choice at end for Kentucky. Meilin
ger, from Bethlehem, Pa., com
pletes Army service early in July
. . . Singer Frank Sinatra now owns
one-half interest in Cisco Andrade,
a contender for the lightweight
boxing title. Ralph Gambina, An
drade’s manager, holds the other
fifty per cent . . . Joe Vancisin, for
eight years an aide at Minnesota,
Is new head basketball coach at
Yale University ... The Australian
Olympic Committee has announced
completion of 669 of toe houses
to be used by visiting athletes
during the Olympic games Ir No
vember and December. A total of
181 houses and 12 shops In the
Olympic village are still under
cons traction.
FITT POWER . . . Dale Long,
Pittsburgh Pirates’ slugging first
baseman, hit heme runs to 9
consecutive games, breaking
old record of 9. Long Is batting
.379, with 17 homers, 37 rwm
and 46 RBI’s.