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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1956 1218 CoU*g« 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. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR Relating last week my effort to translate for the South Americans who were in the Clarendon Hospital, due to a disastrous wreck, another experience comes to mind. Our Ambassador to Peru—Alexander Moore, the Pittsburg mill ionaire who married the lovely Lillian Russell, was sched uled to speak on some occasion in an institution of our Cat holic bretheren in Callao, Peru. The institution was under my office and I was expected. My driver lost his way anc I arrived a bit late, deeply mortified. During a prayer the Secretary of the Ambassador tip toed to me and said “The Ambassador wishees you to tran slate his speech and here is a copy”. I felt so ashamed of being tardy that I readily agreed. I would have agreed to anything to salve my conscience. At the close of the prayer, and before I had read the speech, there stood the Ambassador becking to me to stand by him. He asked whether I prefered to translate the entire speech at the conclusion of his reading, or to tran slate more or less by paragraphs. Well, I was still so chag rinned that I offered to do whatever seemed most appro priate to him, being sure that it would be equally bad, regardless. I had one enormous advantage over both the Ambassador and the distinguished audience of Cabinet Ministers and other notables: the Ambassador spoke no Spanish; they understood no English. So then—. The Ambassador reared back and read a bit in English; I translated in Spanish, having a free hand, since neither side knew what was what. At the conclusion of the speech the applause was so great that the Ambassador adlibbed at length, somewhat carried away by his own eloquence. I pretended to listen with complete absorption but I could’nt remember what he was saying. So I had to bluff it out. What I did was to make the prettiest speech I could think of, replete with compliments and gracious phrases, praising everything and everybody, laying it on with a heavy shovel, not a trow'd, and at fre quent intervals ascribing this to the Ambassador, saying; *‘Su exetencia me encarga deeirles” (His excellency charges me to say or “El Senor Embajador dice”. (The Ambassa dor says). Naturally the applause was tumultuous. I felt like a fraud however, when the Minister for Foreign Affairs— and others sang my praises to the skies for a masterly bit of translating. As you see, I was’nt translating most of the time, but saying all the pretty things I could think of and putting them in the Ambassador’s name. At any rate, it did’nt do any harm; as a matter of fact I was introduced by the Ambassador and his Secretary during a Fourth of July party in the Embassy as the man who rendered such a beautiful translation of the Ambassador’s address. My, My, My!. Es la vida, no? (That is life, eh?) What an innocent fraud!! • Twice recently I have had something to say about the Southern Regional Education Board. The first time I was basing my remarks on what I understood from a news paper report. In fact I cited the reporter. The second time I quoted at length from a foremost magazine of business, t, Now!' come letters from two friends, both telling me that I am in error. Those two gentlemen I hold in the great est esteem, as well as in firm affection. The first letter came from a member of the Greenville delegation, Honorable Preston S. Marchant, well and aff ectionately known as “Pete’^ Pete is a son of an outstand ing industrialist whose friendship greatly honored me,— Mr. Thomas M. Marchant. I’ve known and admired Pete these long years. And now comes Bill Workman, Major Workman, the indefatigable newsgatherer, an ornament Service ON LAUNDRY and DRY CLEANING BY REQUEST sr - Damp Wash, Fluff Dry or Finished Bundle SANITONE “STYLE SET” resizes and restores the newness to your nice cotton dresses. SANITONE “SOFT SET” restores to newness, gives body and luxurious feel to woolens. Newberry Steam Laundry and Dry Cleaning Co. to journalism, and would put my straying feet in the right path. My two chums think I kicked before I was spurred, as used to be said, in the days of horses; I suppose they think that I started my car with a rabbit jump, without looking at the turn in the road. At any rate, the sum and substance of both letters I now quote: Says my friend Pete: “Today your weekly mimeographed letter ‘Spectator’ came in, and I have read it, as I always do, because I am very much interested in what you have to say, but for the first time I am going to have to take very positive issue with you on something about which I believe you have been misled and which I feel, in all fairness, should be corrected. I realize that you believe that the power companies of the Nation are doing a good job and that public power is just another excuse for the Government to stick it’s finger into the business man’s world, where it has no bus iness at all, and on this I have always and shall continue to agree with you 100 per cent., but somehow in this matter of ‘SREB you have been mistakenly led to believe that because the ‘SREB’ is looking into the field of Nuclear Energy that they are pushing public power. To my mind nothing could be further from the truth. In Aiken Gov ernor Timmerman made it very clear that the ‘SREB’ was not interested in the development of public power, and it was so publicized in all papers I saw. As long as the Board of the ‘SREB’ is made up of men who think as I believe they do, then I feel that your attack and that of McKinley Conway’s on the ‘SREB’ is not only unwarr anted, but certainly unjustified. In regard to the ‘SREB’ looking into the field of seg regation: here again, knowing the make-up of the ‘SREB’ I feel that you have been most unfair. The fields in which the ‘SREB’ makes it’s studies are assigned to it by the Southern Governors’ Conference, and they would no more go so far afield to look into the segregation issue than they would look into developing a trip to the moon. If you and the Manufacturers’ Record are interested in the “SREB’ looking into the question of segregation, then you should talk to the Southern Governors’ Conference, who, as I have said, assign its topics and its fields of endeavor. The ‘SR EB’ was not formed to study segregation and in my opinion a study of it on a regional basis would be worth nothing. You can see what has been accomplished in reference to cooperation among the Southern States, before the Dem ocratic convention, and with the differences in ratio of the Negro and White population, the differences in the make-up of the States’ constitutions and tne differences in the actual variances of the people, Ipersonally believe that the question of segregation^ will be far better pro moted in individual state and county governments than by anything the South might try to do in a United effort. Our Citizens Councils, the Gressett Committee and our alert citizenery are better answers to the segregation pro blem than any study by the ‘SREB’ could be. ' I would be delighted to sit down and talk to you about the ‘SREB’ and its functions. I have been closely assoc iated with it for the past several years and I believe that its potentialities are just beginning to be shown. I believe if you will take the time to sit down and really study the organization and what it is doing, you wil} realize how unfair you have been in printing the editorial of McKinley Conway, which is not based on true facts.” Without knowing that Pete had interposed diplomatic ally, Bill laid it on the line, thus: “ ‘Tis seldom that you and I disagree on government philosophy, or things in general for that matter, but I must rise to a point of personal privilege— of a sort— with res pect to the recent attacks on the Southern Regional Educ ation Board. * I know that your information has been drawn from the Manufacturers Record, but I think Mac Conway has been grossly uiilair in his censure of SREB. Your wide circul ation of Spectator has had the effect of spreading the ill effects of criticism which I think is quite unjustified. Since by inference, I have been linked with some of the criticism, but more particularly because I think the whole situation needs full clarification, I have written an editor ial calumn for Sunda: . July 15, which I hope will put the matter into better pe rspective. My whole stock h. .rade is facts—and I find ho facts at hand to justify die attack on the Southern Regional Educational Board. > ave observed its operation from its inception—yea, even before its inception, and I find that it merits support r. t-.er than condemnation. With respect to segregation, it i: _ OT charged with any responsibilities in that field, as I s: e . to point out in my column. The Southern 1 * nonal Education Board is purely a service agency, crc.ited by and responsible to the coll ective state gove. .nents of the South. Its functions, its enterprises, and Its ery existence depend upon the will of the Southern Sta f s, and more particularly, the will of the Southern Governors. In large measure, the Southern Governors ARE the Board, for each governor within the regional compact is a Board member and himself appoin ts the other three Board members from his state. The SREB’s current project of surveying the South’s potential for nuclear development was ASSIGNED TO IT by the Southern Governors, Conference at its Alabama meeting in October of last year. Florida’s Governor LeRoy Collins initated the undertaking in an address embracing these words: ‘Left to chance, nuclear energy for indust rial use will gravitate to the existing industral areas, mostly in the North. The South, already short of industry, is likely to be left still further behind unless we do some thing about it ... To blaze the way for the pioneering job which can be done in regional nuclear planning and development, I make this specific proposal to the Confer- ence: , THE SOUTHERN REGIONAL BOARD should be called upon to arrange a Southern Regional Conference on ind ustrial Development through Nuclear Energy*. 99 South Carolina Boys Win Honors I 'mmi mf-m TEEN-AGE DREAM CARS—Someday you may be riding in automobiles that look like these smartly-styled miniatures. These “dreams” won first place awards for their builders in the 1956 Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild model car competition. Upper car was designed and built by Parker Petit, Isle of Palms. Lower car is the work of Glenn Lyons, Fairfax. llff"*v. m r& K :■ < ^ ' v- . • • •• IflllllM&f '&M fM ‘zM iki&vr* OFF TO RACES . . . Portucuefte training ship * Lisbon to enter International Ball Training Ship ships of rarlons nations. THE BAFFLES By Mahoney YOU BUSHER! TOt-O YOU COULD HIT \ WHO YOU YOU CALL YOURSELF A MANAOERTYOUkE JUST a biq n ■ umm m YES SIR-NOTHING X LIKE BETTER THAN COMING OUT AND SUPPORTING THE TEAM. Newberry Men In Service At Stations Around The World, 24TH DIV., Korea—Pvt. J. E. Hair, whose wife, Vivian, lives on Route 2, Prosperity, is a mem ber of the 24th Infantry Division in Korea. A gunner in Company C of the division’s 21st Regiment, Hair completed basic training at Fort Jackson. SAN DIEGO, Calif—Selected at theNava 1 Training Center, San Diego, Calif., as apprentice petty officer second class was Jimmy S. Minick of Route 2, Newberry. The Apprentice Petty Officers, scheduled to graduate July 14, are chosen from the ranks of the seamen recruits to assist the com pany commanders. The selection is made on the basis of aptitude and leadership qualities of each individual. AMBERG, Germany.—Cpl. Da vid Thomas, whose wife, Cathy, lives in Newberry, recently play ed the part of an “aggressor” in VII Corps battalion tests in Ger many. Corporal Thomas’ unit, Com pany H of the 3rd Armored Cav alry Regiment, helped provide op position to other units participat ing in the tests. Thomas, a gunner, entered the Army jn 1952. Hospital Births Mr. and Mrs. James Harold Sei bert of Route 1, Prosperity an nounce the birth of a nine pound, eight ounce son, James Harold, Jr on July 24 at the local hospital. Mrs. Seibert is the former Betty Jean Adams. Mr. and Mrs. John David Bow ers, route 1, Saluda, are parents of a six pound, four ounce baby, Beverly Kim, born July 24 at the local hospital. Mrs. Bowers is the former Carolyn Elizabeth Ruff. BYARS Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hicks Byars Carol Court apartments, announce the birth of a five pound, 11 ounce son, Ralph Lee on July 24 at the Newberry hospital. The mother before marriage was Lillian Ger trude Me Waters. - KOON Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Leon Koon junior of Pomaria route one, an nounce the birth of a seven pound 10 ounce son Wendell Kelvin on July 25 at the Newberry hospital. The mother is the former Betty Jo Angel. NORVELLE Mr. and Mrs. Glenn David Nor- yell became the parents of twins, Glenn William weighing 6 pounds 15 ounces and Rynn Elizabeth, weighing four pounds five ounces at the local hospital on July 26. Mrs. Norvell is the former Anna Elizabeth Ringer. Deed Transfers Newberry No. 1 Harriet H. Clary to John David Ruff and Ethel K. Ruff, one lot on Nance street $5 and other val uable considerations. Andrew Gary and Luther Gary to Roberta Middleton, 1.5 acres $100. Forest E. Miller and Lillian Mac D. Miller to Philip Kelly, Jr., two lots on Forest Drive, $5 and oth er valuable considerations. Lula Williams et al to Annie V. Buzhardt, one lot and one build ing ' on Caldwell street (Rufus Williams estate) $5 and other valuable considerations. Silverstreet No. 2 Newberry County Board of Ed ucation to Herman S. Langford, 4 acres and one building $502. This deed was made April 12, 1955, and recorded July 1956. Mrs. Effie M. Hendrix to Edwin B. Young, Jr., .35 acres, $35. Whitmire No. 4 Colie Joyner to Murray Lumber company, one lot and one build ing, 100 Duckett street, $5.00 and other valuable considerations. Fidelity Mortgage Oorp to Tom mie Lewis and wife, Mary Lewis, one lot and one building $5 and other valuable considerations. Whitmire No. 4 (Outside) Marie R. Sprongs, Helen Black, Margie R. Bucholz, Ruth -K. Ray Crouch, John H. Ray, Jr., J. Wil liams Ray and Myrtie M. Ray to Helen R. Black and Theodore Black, one lot and one building on Coleman street $4390. Pomaria No. 5 Louis H. Senn and T. Ed Senn to Mrs. Annie Senn, 14 acres, $5 love and affection. 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