The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, September 06, 1956, Image 2
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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1956
4 1218 College Street
NEWBERRY, S. C.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
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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.
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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service
officials
19 Footlike part
20 Part of
harness
21 Son of Adam
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bird
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water
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meat and
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potatoes
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measure
28 Blackhead
27 Stop
28 Bulgarian
coin
29 Feminine
name
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82 Container for
flowers
33 Story
34 Band for
encircling
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28 Levantine
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40 Faroe
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windstorm
41 Shaded walk
42 Quality of
sound
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44 Dirt
45 Warbled
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47 Game
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island arold
50 Fur
51 Of a period
of time
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53 Before
54 Fine particles
55 Reach
destination
56 By
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before noun
to indicate
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deity
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chair
5 Upon
6 Large dog
7 Place
8 Symbol for
cobalt
9 A direction
10 Measure of
Tripoli (var.)
11 Abstract
being
12 Merit
14 Fetid
17 Dispatched
18 To defeat
20 Part in play
21 To season
23 Corn bread
24 Deer
25 Armed galley
of old North
men
26 To rub out
27 Excavation
28 Deposited
30 Rant
31 Dispose of
for price
32 Ravine
34 Poster
35 Music or
verse
for singing
37 To post
38 Os
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from cipher
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42 Oriental
weight
43 Gather by
inference
44 Part of fool
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blackboard
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bird
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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