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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1956
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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-
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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.
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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.”
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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-
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forces
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compounds
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of Sumatra
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blackthorn
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property
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spring
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lettuce
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and snow
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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.
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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
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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.
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ROCKET CARRIER . . . Navy's McDonnell F3H-2N Demon leaves
shock wave trail from 27,640 thrust horsepower of its Allison J-71
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engine.
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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.
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