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h PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1956 V pt> lUtt 1218 ColWare Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. 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 ‘Four major power companies serving most of the Caro- linas and Virginia announced plans to pioneer in atomic pro duction of electricity for industry and homes in the three states. Target date for building the atomic Alladdin’s Lamp plant somewhere in the Carolinas probably will be several years away. The companies will undertake a joint effort to establish a nuclear power generating plant, producing electricity with atomic fuel, which may win the race to be the first such in stallation in the South. United Press learned that Carolina Power and Light Co. of Raleigh, Duke Power Co. in Charlotte, Virginia Electric and Power Co. of Richmond, and South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. of Columbia, will form a joint organization to be known as the Carolinas-Virginia Nuclear Associates, Inc. This group, to be chartered under state laws, will work to establish the plant and operate it under joint agreement. Officials of the four companies have conferred with the Atomic Energy Commission on feasibility of the project. No definite site has been chosen, but it is expected to be in North Carolina, either near here or near Raleigh, site of the nation’s first private nuclear reactor on the campus of North Carolina State College. The group is expected to establish headquarters in Char lotte. Plans for the plant are not yet on the drawing board. The first step will be to obtain corporation status. Present plans call for a research committee to be estab lished to draw up plans for the atomic plant. The four companies thus will enter the race now going on in many parts of the nation to bring everyday atomic age benefits to private homes in the form of cheap, al most unlimited electrical power. At last count, a total of 44 investor-owned companies in this country were singly or in groups participating in nuc lear power projects which, when completed, will provide generating capacity of 1,112,500 kilowatts and cost more than 3000 million dollars. None of the projects now underway is in the South, al though a group of three Florida investor-owned electric companies have announced plans to build a reactor by 1962-63.' Also, the Southern Company, which controls four big southern power corporations, is participating in 150,- 000 kilowatts capacity atomic plant at Monroe, Mich.” I think we South Carolinians may feel a special interest in that announcement. True it is that three of the four Companies operate in South Carolina, but two have major interests in North Carolina. The South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. is all South Carolina, operating in twenty-three counties, as I recall—from Charleston to Beaufort, to Jas per and then to the Savannah River; then from Columbia to the Savannah, covering Edgefield and Saluda also. Recently I spoke of Major James Lide Coker, the tower ing figure of the Pee Dee; we have extraordinary native sons still young and vigorous. I have in mind S. C. Mc- Meekin, President of our South Carolina Company, The South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. Mr. McMeekin is a native son, coming from Fairfield County. If I were discussing great genefactors from out of the State whose service was notably great I should mention at once two really great men, the late W. H. Regnery and B. M. Edwards. And you will recall my high regard for two native sons now in the Great Beyond—James C. Self and James L. Co ker. Today we have a man of vision, who is no visionary, but a man trained in all the intricacies of electricity and its utilization; a^man who brings to his great task of manage ment a firm grasp of all the essentials of practical admini stration, superbly blended with trained imagination that is splendidly disciplined vision. Within the time of Mr. McMeekin’s active career we shall have so-called atomic power in everyday use and “Mr. Mac” will have played a very important part in the develop ment of this vast new resource. Mr. McMeekin will be surprised and shocked by my little tribute, which only faintly porstrays my admiration for him, for with all his achievements and programs he is a very modest, retiring gentleman of marked urbanity and self- effacement. Before me are public pronouncements from the organiza tion known as South Carolinians for Independent Electors. This is the group which, rebelling against both Demo cratic arrogance and Republican ioolshness refuses to vote for the ticket of either Party, so brings forth its own ticket. If I know South Carolina this Independent ticket will re ceive the endorsement of our voters. The eight citizens on that ticket are: J. Fred Buzhardt Sr., McCormick; Robert M. Kennedy Jr., Camden; John Ad- SERIOUS THOUGHTS AT A SERIOUS TIME iH 1 ® 'll i t| * . v ." •**£• U An election g ESSENTIAL!*' A ■PEOPLES'* IT IS A STRue^LE. Jj FOR MAINTAINING’ IN THE WORLD §g tuat form and substance, of VUWrtE IBAPN6 c6JECTf9 ELEVATE TWE. OONPCTION OP MEN ; m To lift artificial weights from all 9UOULD&R?; To CLEAR THE RtXM? FOR Laudable pursuit forall; To afford all am unfettered start and a §§ BUS OUNCE IN 1M& RACE OF LEV* g tMCOkM _ AA ORE THAN 2 million young- people nrzm WHO VOTE FOR. THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR cjraaB ger Manning, Columbia; Shepard K. Nash, Sumter; Mrs. Belton R. O’Neall, Greenville; Paul Quattlebaum, Conway; Dr. Thomas Parker, Greenville; and Thomas P. Stoney, Charleston. A Declaration—By The Independent Electors. Because the platforms of the National Democratic and the National Republican parties, and the declarations of their nominees are detrimental to the best interests of the citizens of South Carolina and of the Nation, and mindful of our solemn obligation and responsibilities to preserve for posterity the sacred rights and heritage so dearly bought for us with the blood and sacrifice of our forefathers and transmitted to us as a hallowed trust, we dedicate ourselves to fight for the following principles: 1. The restoration of constitutional government in these United States. f 2. The preservation of the rights of the state so clearly de- fined in the Bill of Rights. 3. Specifically to oppose interference in our schools and the centralization of power in the Federal government. For the accomplishment of these purposes, we pledge ourselves, if elected presidential electors to exert our ut most efforts to cast our votes for such candidates as will best bring about the fulfillment of this trust.” “We believe in the time honored and cherished tradi tions and customs j of the South and are opposed to any legislation, movement and policy which seeks to destroy or impair them. We believe in and demand social and educational separa tion of races. We are opposed to and will not accept inte gration, gradual or otherwise. There can be no integration without destroying both races. We are opposed to repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and we believe that the state should retain ‘right to work’ privileges and that an individual’s employment should be in his own hands as a free agent. We believe that the present trend of amending the Con stitution by Supreme Court decision and Executive order is America’s most dangerous enemy. We believe that a Supreme Court reform is necessary and that it should be accomplished by Constitutional amend ment. 1 We believe that the women of South Carolina will recog nize that the only hope of protecting their children from the evils of integration lies in a sweeping victory of the Inde pendent Electors. We believe that the young people of South Carolina will not tolerate dictation by politicians and will go to the polls and vote (many for the .first time) for the Spirit of Inde pendence hich characterizes the youth of today. We feel that if you believe in the principles of the par ties of our fathers, you cannot believe in the National Democratic Party of Truman, Kefauyer, Eleanor Roosevelt and Stevenson or the Republican Party of Warren, Brown ell, Dewey and Nixon. You can now vote your convictions because thirty-seven thousand South Carolinians have de- maftded that we ha\^ ^hat right of choice.’ Now here is something from The National States Rights Conference: “We believe in th„ limitation, by the people, of Govern ment power, (a) Le Believe the judicial, the legislative, and the administrative branches must not encroach the one on the other; vO we bevlieve that all power not speci fically granted to Lie Federal Government is reserved' to the states or to the people respectively. We denounce ah forms of centralized power, be they so cialist, communist, facist, or other. We believe that the heart of American Government is local self-government. It is the duty of the several states to protect this right. We believe that Constitutional principles should deter mine and control all practical measures. We believe that taxes should serve the people, not punish the people and that the sole purpose of taxation, under the Constitution, is to secure revenue for the expenses of a con stitutionally limited government and the defense of the country. We hold that in foreign policy, the sovereignty of the United States and the rights of its citizens should always be kept paramount and should never be subordinated through treaty, executive agreement, or alliance to the interests of any foreign nation or to any combination or as sociation of nations. ■ V We affirm that the national states rights movement is the first defense of American constitutional principles and is unalterably and forever opposed to the major party mer ger which now confronts us.” mm mb ideas from other editors From the Port Umqaa Courier, Reedsport, Oregon: It’s Adlai and Estes against Ike and Dick. It’s the OUTS against the INS, so far as the presidency and the vice presidency are concerned. If a the Eisenhower administration which is on trial before the voters, but the record is confused by the fact that the Democrats, most of the way, have had effective control of the Congress. For the accom plishments and failures of the last four years, neither party can be assigned all the blame or all the credit. Not for many, many years have the issues been so vague. The Democrats have expended a vast amount of convention time and oratory and platform verbiage to create an impression of crisis, at home and abroad. But for Mr. Average American this “crisis” does not exist. Mr. Average Ameri can is reasonably prosperous^-in spite of living costs which have hit an all time peak; he feels rea sonably secure in his Job, despite intimations of depression or reces sion. There are the usual rumors of wars—but Mr. Nasser and the Suez are a long way off; our Armed Forces are on guard in nearly every part of the world— but die slaughter in Korea has stopped and our sons are not bleeding for defense. “How can the issues of this cam- CROSSWORD PUZZLE 17 14 21 31 36 42 47 56 60 67 73 77 32 33 22 52 68 43 61 18 19 28 37 SB 23 44 69 74 78 38 70 34 62 8 29 24 45 25 39 50 71 75 79 35 46 55 63 76 30 51 64 72 12 40 13 66 ACROSS 1 Incline 6 To stuff 10 Places 14 Dameer 15 Military assistant 16 Kind of sandwich 17 Form of “to be” 18 To astonish 30 Genus of olives 31 Part In play 23 Female ruff 24 Faucet 26 Land measure 27 Contends 29 Swordsman’s dummy stake 30 Pronoun 31 To debase 34 To correct 36 Fourth calif 37 Of a branch of the armed forces 39 Washing compounds 42 Island, west of Sumatra 44 Conserves 46 Fruit of blackthorn 47 Item of property 49 Pares 51 Anger 52 To leave tn helpless Isolation 54 Makes Into law 56 Mineral spring 58 Make mistake 59 Line of PUZZLES No. 417 Martinique 60 Juncture Child Id for father 61 Radical 62 To choose 63 Throw 67 Tunc 69 Exit 72 Tear 73 To color 74 Magic 75 Turkish decree 77 Actual being 78 Secure 79 Heaped DOWN 1 To box 2 Dodecanese Island 3 Russian city 4 3.1416 5 Tree . 6 Worries 7 To split 8 American writer 9 Liquefied with heat 10 Store 11 Elongated fish 12 Negotiate 13 Flies 19 Place of combat (pi.) 22 First woman 25 Word of sorrow 28 Scotch for John 29 Volcano In / Martinique 30 Designating certain type of printing 31 Wrote “Two Years Before The Mast” 32 Nome in Greece 33 Noxious effluvium 34 Bird 35 Race of lettuce 38 Substance in gaseous state 40 Kind of wine 41 Observes 43 Body of water 45 Showers rain and snow 48 Woody plant 50 Nahoor sheep 53 Commands 55 Danish ter ritorial division 58 A freshet 57 French city 59 To climb 61 Estimate 62 Trieste wine measure 64 Spoken 65 Border 66 Went fast 68 Those in power 70 Two-stringed viol 71 Drink slowly 76 Japanese measure A N l e p * 1 « 1 0 1 T E u E ? □ □□ □□a □ 33 Answer te Fussle Ne. 416 7mm m it 6 paign be dramatized?” This is a campaign in which, so far, there is no focal point for fear or hate. In the mid-thirties there was always the sharply de fined choice between the New Deal and “reaction.” Today most of the Republicans are more advanced In their social thinking than some of FDR's early cohorts. Under Harry Truman, corruption became a clearly defined issue but the corruption has been cleaned up. The Democrats have made a great effort to build the so-called “give aways” into “scandals,” but they have failed to find any “deep freezers” or “mink coats.” One of the many orators of the Democrat convention (and our memory says it was Stevenson himself) suggested that we must accept as settled most of the issues of other years and turn toward the future and the prob lems it presents. With this we can agree. We are now well into the ERA of ANXIETY which was predicted when the first atom bomb was un veiled. We are enjoying peace but it is the uneasy peace of the armed camp where a single mistake could precipitate disaster. We are enjoying a prosperity, which is precarious because we have mortgaged the future as well as the pash T HE result of the presidential election Nov. 6th may very well be determined in the agricul tural mid-west, the nation’s bread basket, with both presidential can didates bidding for the farm-vote as the prize which may turn the victory one way or another. President Eisenhower’s strategy in selecting Peoria, HL, for his major farm speech, rather than the annual plowing contest in Iowa, as originally scheduled, may backfire, or again it may prove to have beeh a smart move on his part. Only time will tell. There is no question but that the huge farm audience which gathered at the plowing contest to hear the presi dent make a farm speech, was “let down” when the President announced that he would make his farm speech later, and his audience was given a speech on generalities. In selecting Peoria, the President chose a very rich fanning community, a trading center for a prosperous and diver sified farm area. Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic standard bearer, chose to make his agricultural pitch in an open 'field, and in an area where drought, hail and insects, had added to the woes of the unhappy farmers on top of falling prices. Both candidates avoided specifics. Mr. Stevenson vigorously attacked the record of the Eisenhower ad ministration and Secretary Ezra Taft Benson on administration of the farm program, and the prom ises made by the President at Kasson, Minn., four years ago. Stevenson contented himself with promising 90% support of parity; that he would find a way to assure the farmers income parity as well as price parity; that he would work for a food stamp plan, a stepped- up school lunch program, a world. food bankall to get rid of food surpluses, and he attacked the administration on the soil bank program, declaring the adminis tration was subsidizing the farmer in an election year and that the soil bank program was a Demo cratic program anyway. He failed ffc go into specifics on any of these programs, saying he would draw up a bill of particulars later in the campaign. President Eisenhower at Peoria, declared he stood on his record, that farm prices were on the up grade. that he was sure that farmers, as Americans, were in terested in something beside farm prices; that farmers were making progress, but there were penal ties to be paid for this progress. He spoke of a “free” Agriculture, and assailed Democratic “regi mentation”, but he hailed the soil bank program which requires and deponds upon government con trols. He placed blame for agri cultural woes on Democrats and said that his administration inheri ted these woes; he claimed credit for what he termed the brighter side of the picture —. increased value of land, higher farm assets, fewer farm mortgages. He blamed the Democrats for fall of farm prices after the Korean war, but at the same time blamed Demo crats for persistence in keeping price supports on. which were preventing farm prices from fall ing sooner and further. Mr. Eisen hower also failed to be specifii about a nqw farm program. tf';! Q—Does the Food A Drug Administration seise destroy food for human consumption? If so on what grounds? A—Yes, the Food & Drug Administration seizes and destroys thou sands of tons of food each year after determining it unfit for human consumption. For instance in August the agency seized 600 tons of food of which 68 tons were contaminated by deleterious chemi cals including ice cream cones containing boric acid: Wheat treated with mercurial compound; frozen spinach with an excess of DDT residue; imitation vanilla flavoring containing coumarin, etc. 532 tons of wheat was seized containing filth contamination; . one seizure was made for mis-branding. Q—Can you tell me If people with mental handicaps are Included in the state-federal vocational rehabilitation program? A—Yes. For the year ending June 30, 1956, approximately 3,000 per sons who had mental handicaps were placed in jobs, about 12% more than in 1955. Q—Who recevies the monthly Veterans Administration allowances un der the War Orphans Educational program—the student or the parent? A—If the student is under 21, his living parent or guardian will re ceive the allowance. If he is 21 or over the allowance will be paid directly to him. Q—What is the latest figure on Commodity Credit Corporation sur pluses? A—As of July 31, 1956, the CCC reported $8,130,919,000 Invested In price-supported agricultural commodities. $2,311,000,000 in outstand- • ing loans, and $5,819,000,000 in inventories. This was more than a billion-dollar increase over July 31, 1955. CCC reported it lost $66,071,434 on price support operations during July alone, almost double the loss in July 1955. Q—What police power does the Federal Government maintain over the states? A—The Federal Government controls inter-state commerce, communi cations, and such police activities as come within the jurisdiction of the FBI and other units of the Department of Justice. TELL US VOUR PROBLEm AMO Ut « MU IT ON tO Ml# OTMU M MLVMt TMHtt. BY JOHN and JANE STRICKLAND mm 0 . H enry shackleton, 12 Endview Avenue, Lynbrook, New York, solved a problem com mon to many. The problem? Usual- / ly he couldn't remember the name of a man after meeting him. He was embarrassed practically every day for Henry was a sales man of electrical appliances and frequently a customer would make twb or more calls before he bought an appliance that ran into fifty dollars or more. He questioned his friends and found that most of them had the same difficulty. But most of them didn’t sell appliances. Finally a friend told him how he had con quered the poor memory trait. Here are the rules he gave to Henry, which worked wonders and virtually doubled his monthly sales. 1—When you meet a person whom it will be to your advan- tange to recognize later, look at him (or her) study his features and while doing so, silently peat his name. 2— Make a mental note of w' you talk about, looking at him closely all of the time. 3— The moment you part, down his name, and visu his features. 4— Afterwards go about your af fairs visualizing the man and re call his interests. 5— At the end of the day, peruse your notebook, connect each of the names you have entered with a visual image of his features. “I did just that,” says Henry - Shackleton. “and I now seldom fail to recognize anyone to whom I have applied this memory for mula. In addition to making sales for me, it has greatly increased the number of my personal friend ships. • m ' - ssSS ; 'm ROCKET CARRIER . . . Navy's McDonnell F3H-2N Demon leaves shock wave trail from 27,640 thrust horsepower of its Allison J-71 »— j engine. *• V PERFECT PITCHER . . . YAN- kee's Don Larsen, 27, hurled first perfect world series game in history to beat Dodgers 2-0 with no runs, no hits, no errors, no man reaching base. Hie 8 foot five, 225 pound right hand er had 11-5 record for regular This an' That Pewee Reese reportedly helped the Dodgers to the 1958 National League pennant by suggesting that the Brooklyn club purchase Sal Maglie. Without Sal (The Barber), most observers feel that Brooklyn would have wound up in third place in the tight pennant race . . . Bo- fore winding up at the University of Houston, Claude King, a Missis sippi high school back had been practically “landed'' by snob schools as L. S. (He Miss, Mississippi State, and University of Washington , . . Noodles, wfn- er of the 1958 Kentucky Derby, is being prepared for the $198,998 Widener Handicap to be run at Hialeah in late February, 1957 . . . Lightest man mi the Syracuse football team is quarterback Chock Fogerty, a 168-pound soph- more . . . eighty per cent of Tale University's undergraduates par ticipate in some form of athletics . . A September daily double at Atlantic City R%ce Course was rorth $1,449.89 to lucky ticket holders ... In 22 games against the Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati titters walloped 44 home runs, a major league record for against one rival team. Mi -m » <