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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1956
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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
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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*.
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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.
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THE BAFFLES
By Mahoney
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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.
BOOKMOBILE
SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, AUG. ^
Causes Store—Box Factory.
K. R. Riley, Whitmire Highway.
Fowlers Store, Queens commun
ity. '
Mrs. Ben Caldwell, Long Lano
community.
Whitmire Library.
Mrs. A. P. Ramage, Gary
Mrs. Willie Singley, Bush River
community.
Mrs. L. L. King, Bush River com
munity.
Mrs. Rosa Johnson, Tranwood
community.
Recent Movings
Miss Estelle Hightower has
moved to 1240 1-2 Calhoun St.
Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Revels have
moved to Apt. 1, 1110 Speer St.
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Wesson
are how residing at 714 O'Neal
street.
Prof, and Mrs. Milton Moor©
and family are making their home
at 1111 Keroes avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Beckham
have moved to 619 Cromer street
to make their home.
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Williams
are now living at 1323 College
strict#
Prof, and Mrs. Philip Kelly
have moved from the college cam
pus to 901 Caldwell St.
Mr. and Mrs. Manly Perdue are
now residing at 1620 O’Neal St.
Mr. and Mrs. Wade Bullard
have moved to 1110 Harris street.
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