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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1956 4 1218 College 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 From the 1934 to 1955 fiscal years the total cost of TVA to all states was $1,950,000,000. Texas’ share of this costly enterprise was $83,000,000 and Florida’s was $27,500,000, for example. Folks of each State have been called on to pay their full share of this nearly 2 billion, plus loss of huge taxes and huge interest each year. Tennessee, where the TVA is located and has its head quarters, paid in only $24,000,000, over the same length of time, although it’s the State which supposedly benefitted most from TVA. One would think that Tennessee would be leading the pa rade of Southern States in business expansion. Wouldn’t you? But such is not the case. Tennessee is far from being in the lead. As a matter of fact it is next to last in the pro cession. This is shown by repeated surveys. RESULTS The Chattanooga (Tenn.) News Free-Press in a recent editorial had the following to say about TVA: ‘All Tennesseans ought to be proud of theif state and anxious to see it progress. That is why it is disturbing to note the low rating of Tennessee in Southern business prog ress as rated in a recent Kiplinger Letter. The Kiplinger survey rates the States of the South in order of business progress during the past five years. This is the older of standing and the percentage of expansion, according to the rating system: Florida, 28 percent; Louisiana, 18 percent; Georgia, 18 percent, North Carolina, 16 percent; Alabama, 15 percent; South Carolina, 13 percent; Arkansas, 12 percent; Virginia, 8 percent; Kentucky, 6 percent; Tennessee, 3 percent; Mis sissippi 1 percent. It’s distressing to find Tennessee next to the bottom of the list, above only highly agricultural Mississippi. Of course, the Tennessee Valley Authority has made a habit for two decades of claiming credit for everything good that has happened in Tennessee as though there would have been no progress without TVA. Perhaps TVA wants to claim credit for seeing Tennessee rank tenth in the 11 Southern States in business progress. The leading States dont have the blessings of TVA and seem to be doing very well with the American free-enterprise system. We hope progress isn’t by-passing Tennessee because of the socialism that has been established here.’ CONCLUSIONS Since the dawn of civilization, all fair reports show that socialism has destroyed. When will Tennessee be rescued from the Socialism of TVA. ? When will the drain and sudsidy from the rest of the coun try be stopped? P. S. Private utilities pay an amount equal to approxi mately one-half of their gross income in taxes and interest.” Let me add a note: “Of the $1,950,000,OOO.OCf (billion) that has been appro priated for TVA, Tennesseeans were taxed only $24,400,- 000.00 (million). The people of South Carolina were taxed $13,500,000.00 (million) for this purpose (facts from Con gressional Record).” Now the government wants to develop Atomic Power plants, based on TVA ideas: ‘Senator Gore of Tennessee has proposed that the Gov ernment build six atomic-fueled electric power generating plants in various sections of the country. He suggests that private industry is unable or unwilling to develop such facilities. Regardles of the Senator’s intention, his proposal is simply another device for promtoing thepubli c power viewpoint. It is certainly not essential to the rapid development of atomic power. As a matter of fact, private indutsry has demonstrated that it is eager to get into the nuclear field. Some 5 Scompanies have already committed more than $350 million for construction of nuclear reactors. It was only as late as 1954 that the Atmoic Energy Act was revised to permit private companies to plan and build nuclear lacilities. Within a few months the AES began re ceiving a variety of proposals. According to a study made by the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. ‘it has not been the lack of initiative on the part of investor-owned utlities and equipment manufac- aurers which has delayed rapid construction of nuclear fac ilities. Rather it has been excessive governmental regula tion and red tape and the necessity to find solutions to technical problems.’ ' The extent of excessive government regulation, the Chamber said “is manifest in the months of delay experienc ed by private firms in theid attempts to obtain licenses, clearances, construction permits, and fuel allotments from the Atomic Energy commission. Even so, the United States is far ahead in construction of reactors. We will have completed through the end of ths year a total of 55 units, as compared with 7 for Great Brit- ian, 6 for Russia, and 10 for all other countries. Moreover, we have in the planning stage 35 units, as compared with 23 QUESTION for Great Britian, 11 for Rusia, and 14 for other nations. As further evidence of private industry’s interest in this matter the electric light and power companies have formeh a new technical appraisal task force. This nationwide group will evaluate and stimulate research, and will promote de velopment and constructor that will further advance the promise of economical and practical atomic electric power. The task force is composed of some of the nation’s leading nuclear engineers and scientists. Most observers see the Gore proposal as an attempt to create six new ‘atomic TVA’s’. If the purpose were simply to promote nuclear power development, the proposal would take an entirely different form. The Government might simply take competitive bids for six power stations to be built by interested firms in areas where economis factors are most favorable. Moreover, it has already been clearly demonstrated that private industry can handle major atomic developments more efficiently than Government agencies. The AEG real ized this at an early date and has established a policy of employing private firms to design, build, and operate ma jor nuclear installations. For example, the AEG called upon DuPont to build Sav annah River H-Bomb plant. Carbon and Carbide runs the atomic units at Oak Ridge and Paducah. Proctor and Gam ble runs the huge plant at Amarillo. And private industry has demonstrated capabilities in a variety of other nuclear activities. Just a few weeks ago Babcock and Wilcox began operation in its nuclear plant at Lynchburg, Virginia. This historic unit is the first major facility in the nation erected entirely at private expense to manufacture and test nuclear fuel elements and related products for peacetime use. Elsewhere in the South, industry has also demonstrated a willingness to tackle atomic de velopments when given the opportunity. Are we Americans willing to swallow more and larger doses of socialism or are we ready and willing to fight for private enterprise—a far opportunity for all? And no pre ferred customers and political hand-outs like Esau’s mess of pottage? ▲—An analysis of tha figures would seem to Indicate that Stems the farm er buys from other Industries ware increased, and Stems he would buy from other farmers wore down In price. Here are examples: As at July, 1996. Farm interest rate on debt was up 0?%; building and fangfaig, op 8%; Building materials up 6%%; Autos and supplies up 6%; Household supplies up 6%; clothing up 4%%; Taxes, per acre, up 29%; Household furnishings, down %%; fertilizer down 4%; seed down 12K%; Feed, down 19%; livestock, down 34%; food and to- . bacco, no change. ' Q—My father la military service. I am eligible for training under the new education p ogram for chUdiea of deceased veterans. May 1 take on-the-job training? ▲—No. Tha law prohibits oo-tha-Job training. It must ha taken in Hhe a law passed In tha 34th Congress which wffl permit War a and pset Karaan vetarsna te reinstall _ term GJL Insurance? Applying to those who failed to pay either or both of their last monthly premiums. Veterans administration wffl notify you if axe eligible under the law. They are now checking their records. nshtmiT transportation week? 22 to 28, 1956 wffl be observed as National Transportation Q—Who ooteed the word M Americanise** and how was It first used? A—John Jay. Governor of New York In 1797 in a letter to CoL John Trum bull, wrote *T wish to see our people more Americanized, if I may use that expression. Until we feel and act as an independent nation, we shall always suffer from foreign intrigue.** 9,M0 BOLES IN 28 MONTHS . . . P. E. Tobin, left, greets Carlos Londono who drova^ family to Cleveland from Bogota, In 1920 track. • ideas from other editors From the Lincoln Times, Lin- colnton, N, C-: Every newspaper office is familiar with the “tramp printer,** and so by now are most newspaper readers. He is usually highly competent, widely experi enced typesetter, by hand or ma chine, or both, and an able press operator, to boot. Often he is a writer as well, and almost always a philosopher. But he won’t stay put Be is fanatical about avoiding the rut that most of us find comfort in. Having looked upon this peri patetic printer as a distinct phe nomenon. we are stunned at the discovery that there are upwards at **>.000 lady office workers in America who share bis phfloaopby. They are trained secretaries, stenos, bookkeepers, office machine and PBX operators, billing and clerks, every sort of worker any office might use. They are wives and old maids and wid ows, college girls and grandmoth ers. Their average age Is on the sunny side of 40, and most of them work (when they feel like it) for the s* man. He is Russell Kelly, of Detroit, with branch offices in 45 other US cities from Miami to Tacoma and San Jose to Portland, Blaine. This year, his tenth in the business of supplying temporary office help, he expects to do seven rnfflinn dollars worth and provide interim jobs to 18 to 20 thousand women. Kelly clients include both the smallest and the largest of busi nesses. When the Girl Friday of the one-girl office—who may be secretary, bookkeeper, reception ist file clerk all in one—takes her vacation, Russell Kelly can save her boss from going nuts during the next two weeks. When the Ford Motor Co. wants a slew of girls to tabulate production schedules— as it does once a year—Kelly girls are ready to march in. Many of his big customers, says Kelly, need 100 or more girls dur ing peak seasons, sometimes eight or nine months of the year In these situations, the difference in cost between permanent and tem porary help adds up into Large figures. The small employer, particularly, hates hiring temporary help—and having to train them. When he leaves it to Kelly, he gets girls who know their jobs. He doesn’t have to bargain with them because he’s already settled the price angle with Kelly. He pays Kelly, not the temporary help. Thus, he has no concern over setting up new pay roll accounts. Income tax and so cial security deductions, etc., etc*r etc. And since Kelly is the paymas ter, they don’t hit toe road without notice—like the tramp printer^ Vice President Richard M. Nixon President Dwight D. Eisenhower (For use in convention coverage) (For nse in convention coverage. HUNT BLAST CAUSE . . . Explosion of 7 dynamite-laden tracks aft Cali, Colombia, killed estimated 1,860 people and caused dam age of 340,000,000. 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FAMILIAR FUGITIVE By William L Roper >•. C ROUCHING behind a boulder, Old Sam Salters squinted down the long barrel of his Winchester and waited. Far below he could see Moccasin Joe Brown-Bear stalking up the trail Moccasin Joe was coming to get him. In a way, it was natural. Joe was now the acting Sheriff of Nava jo County. Ahead of the sheriff scampered his spotted hound, Gero- nimo. As he watched toe strong young man striding up the steep trail. Old Sam’s mind became filled with pictures of the past—the day'Moc casin Joe’s father was killed in a drunken brawl, and Sam had found toe boy, cold, hungry and fright ened in a shack on the edge of town. He remembered how toe small, bright-eyed boy had dung to him. A tear slid down Old Sun's leathery, weather-beaten cheek. He had taken the boy home, fad and clothed him, and during toe pesaing years trained him to be a good citizen. And when Joe was twenty-one. Old Sam had used his fnflttanee to get him^ppointed dep uty under Sheriff Otto McKJneey. Old Sam remembered that day proudly. Joe had made good. No one could dispute that. Single handed, he had brought in the deadly Hanawalt boys altar they had robbed the Ooldvffle bank and shot Sheriff McKinsey. When Mc- Kinsey died of his wounds, Joe had become acting Sheriff. Now here be was coming up toe trail with toe Sheriff’s star glisten ing on his chest in toe morning sun—coming to get toe man who had raised him. Old Sem felt a choking sensation in Ms throat. He was tom between his love for Joe and his desperate determination to escape. Painfully he recalled the strange occurrence that had pan icked into flight. Walking down toe alley behind toe Crystal Palace in the dusk, he had seen someone climbing a lad der. Or had he imagined it? The whole picture was fuzzy. Nothing had been quite clear since his wife l died a month ago. Yet this had seemed real The ladder appeared to be under a window of the Welle Fargo office. Astonished, Old Sam had called out, “What you doing there?** Instead of replying, the man on the ladder had sprung at him—a knife flashed. Staggering back. Old Sam had jerked out his forty-five and fired. For a moment, he felt dizzy and confused. But as his head cleared, he bent over his victim. It was then that he made his shocking discovery. The dead man wore the uniform of an express company guard. Too rattled to think clearly. Old Si,m ran out of the alley as znsai began pouring from the back door' at the Crystal Palace. Only aAtr he had reached his cabin and be gun cans of food into a gun ny sack, did he remember his hat. He had lost his battered Stetson, probably in toe alley near toe body. He had not dared to go back for it Shooting a Wells Fargo dates live was a hanging offense. The hoarse yapping of Genonfaao jerked his mind back to toe pros ent Trotting through the mesquite. toe spotted hound was coming straight toward his hiding place. Old Sam raised his rifle. Then shaking Ms head, he lowered It. He whistled softly to Geronixno. The dog bounded forward, his tail wagging. As toe dog trotted around toe rock. Old Sam noticed a note tied to Ms ooQsur. He took it, and unfolding it, read: “Dad: quit playing jack rabbit. That feller you shot was fits ban dit, Ringo, masquerading as an express company guard. He most have been trying to break into toe express office. You'll get the $1,000 reward if you’ll come In and claim, it Joe.** Old Sam patted Geronimo on toe head. Then he climbed upon toe boulder and standing stiffly erect, he waved to Moccasin Joe. Joe waved back, his white teeth flash ing in the morning sun. W ITH the national conventions out of toe way, the electorate of the country will be continually harangued from television, radio, tnd speakers platforms about ’Who Done It?*’ Who was responsible tor what happened in Congress? Who was responsible for toe Farm bill? Who was responsible for kill ing this bill and who caused toe defeat of that bill? . Theoretically, of course, toe Democrats control Congress. They have a two-vote margin in the senate where there are 49 Demo crats and 47 Republicans. They have a 29 vote margin in the house where there are 232 Democrats and 203 Republicans. Actually, how ever neither side actually con trolled the 84th Congress, for as has been the case in the past several Congresses, it was con trolled by a coalition of conserv ative southern Democrats and Con servative northern Republicans, who could and did take over when ever they saw fit. A more realistic division of toe House vote for instance, would likely be 95 Democrat conserv atives, plus 190 Republican con servatives for a vote of 285, as against 137 Democrat, liberals, plus 13 Republican liberals for a vote of 150. Senate disaffection in toe vote showed about two or three Republican liberals going over to 39 liberal Democrats and from 8 to 10 southern conservatives deflecting to toe 45 conservative Republicans. So toe conservative vote in the Senate would wind up often as 54 as against 42 liberals, despite toe stand taken by either party leadership. So despite the theoretical Demo cratic leadership in the Congress, it was controlled by toe Republi cans and their southern allies, <r* if you want to put it toe other way around, by southern Demo crats with their Republican con servative allies. Many lines have been written about the passing of the big Rin- gllng Bros-Barnum & Bailey cir cus with nostalgia and pathos, toe passing of an institution as American as America itself. All of which is true, but toe real sig nificance of the closing of the Big Top, is the fact that all is not well with toe American economy, p For if there was ever a barometer of good and bad times in this country, the Ringling-Barnum- Bailey circus was one. • » • Are farm prices really rising, or are they going down? On ^uly 26, 1956 Mr. Earl Butz, Assistant Secretary of Agricul ture put out an official statement from the Department of Agricul ture saying that prices received by farmers in mid-June were 2 per cent over mid-May to a level of about 11 per cent above the lows of last December and 2Vfc% higher than last June. He saidgi emphatically there is no longer any political revolt among the farmers. On July 27. 1956, the Depart ment of Agriculture Official Bul letin on farm prices was released at 3 p.m. which said “Prices re ceived down 1 per cent parity index up slightly, parity ration down one point.” On July 28, 1956, Senator Wil liam F. Knowland, chairman of the GOP policy committee and Senate pto^rity leader said on the floor of toe Senate: “The decline in farm prices and incoma haa been ended.” OLYMPIC HOPE • • • San Fran- efeso's Pamela Kurrell, 17, set new U. 8. records in discus (149 feet, 11 Inches), (269 feet, Stt Inches), Javelin throw (lit faet, OH inches) at This an* That club to begin training. Couch Walt Ktesltng commented: “We*ve started off fast for toe last few Maybe we've had too work. WeTI find out • • . Pro football la isn’t dirty, Alan Amoeho of Baltimore Colts said rookie of the year says toe players in ben are bigger and at toe collegiate • • • Paul Cameron, former U, C*- L. A. and Pittsburgh Steeler half- back, wffl play for toe British Columbia Lions this oessc w • • • Frank O. Dubree, former pitcher tor toe New York Giants s Ad CM- cago White Sox, died root rnOy at