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I : >>:'. PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1956 1218 CoUepe 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. Governor Timmerman said recently that a whopping $1,- 278,000,000 has been poured into new and expanded indus tries in South Carolina since 1945. In a prepared speech at dedication of the Sangamo Elec tric Co’s, new plant Gov. Timmerman said 67 million has been spent on plant expansion in the state in the first nine months of this year. He credited the people of South Carolina as ‘the principal reason’ for the record-breaking industrial advance. ‘They are ndependent thinkers who look upon industry as a valuable partner in their community,’ he said. Gov. Timmerman said that business officials have told him that ‘South Carolinians produce from 20 to 50 per cent more than their counterparts in other sections of the DON’T BE A SLACKER COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR An up to date picture of our great Nation: “Despite a decrease in farm employment, there were an estimated 66,752,000 people at work in August. Factory worker’s pay, both hourly and weekly averages, also reached all-time peaks. There werel,264,000 more persons at work in mid-August than a year earlier. Unemployment decreased more than seasonally, and the total of 2,195,000 was the lowest since Feburary. Consumers have maintained a steady rate of spending, but it does not appear to have kept pace with increased in comes. Personal income was at an annual rate of nearly $325 billion, or almost 7 percent above the year 1955. Retail store sales exceeded $16 billion in both July and August for gains respectively of 3 percent and 4 percent from 1955. Cumulative sales so far this year have been $123 billion, or 4 percent above a year ago. Further evidence that consumers have not been passing as large a share of their disposable income across retail counters as during last year may be found in the tally of liquid savings. According to Federal Home Loan Bank Board, individuals added $7.1 billion to their bank accounts, in surance reserves, and savings bonds during the first half of 1956. This was $1 billion or 5 percent above the like period of 1955, and nearly 13 percent greater than during July— December of last year. College and university campuses have recently opened their gates to nearly 3 million students, while our secondary schools have admitted around 8 million boys and girls. By 1965, less than a decade away, these numbers will expand by nearly one half. Nor will this mark the end of the rising tide of enrollments. With teachers and physical facilities al ready overburdened, an increase of 4million additional high school students and of nearly 1,500,,000 college students poses one of the most pressing problems facing America. How we meet this challenge and how the bill yill be paid is of prime concern to private business enterprise, which needs a growing reservoir of manpower possessing greater skills and creativeness. Here are some of the things men of science and industry expect around 1960-65 and later: Individual flying machines to help conquer problems of traveling in congested urban areas. Chemicals that can radically influence the groth of plants and animals, even perhaps remove some of the physical dangers of infancy and old age. Plastics to replace many of today’s non-ferrous metals plus new rubber-like materials to fill a host of yet-undefined needs. Chemical means of producing electricity, and vastly im proved methods of storing and transmitting energy. New metal alloys for high temperature, high pressure applications in jet aircraft, guided missiles and industrial processes. These peeks at the future were made at a round-table meet ing of some of the nation’s top industrial research directors and editors of The Wall Street Journal. 7- Most of today’s laboratory work, by creative people as well as the scientific plodders, is evolutionary, not revolut ionary. It is keyed to improving existing products and pro cesses. Success of these experiments won’t give consumers radically new products, but it will mean better, cheaper goods. But in many areas of research, such as difect conversion of atomic radiation into electricity, the most creative men in research are looking for a ‘breakthrough’ idea that will open up a new field to commercial exlpoitation. A recnt 1 breakthrough was the discovery of a way to use super pres sures to make synthetic diamonds. Developments of safe, lifht-weight, high-energy fuels is one of the keys to individual flying machines. .Chemical control of plant life is another rapidly growing area of research. Weed-killers used by professional and amateur gardeners are only the beginning, researchers pre dicted. ‘Startling effects on plant growth are being obtained,’ commented one scientist. Compounds are being investigated that make plants grow slower or fasten, taller or shorter, increase flowering, grow ’more beans or fewer beans.” nation.’ He added that ‘this espirit of cooperation is not confined to the employe. It prevails throughout the community where a desirable industry is located and extends all the w r ay to the top echelons of state government, including the legislature.’ « Gov. Timmerman cited as other reasons for the state’s attractiveness to industry a stable government, sound tax structure, abundance of natural resources, moderate cli mate, strategic location, and excellent harbor facilities. He said the state ‘also is alert to the importance of edu cation to the progress of the state and industry. Youth, recognizing industry’s need for highly specialized personnel, are preparing themselves for our industrial future. ‘The percentage of high school students taking courses in physics, alegebra, geometry and chemistry is well above the national average; and in the field of higher educa tion, it has the highest percentage of white college grad uates in any state in the nation. This means a continuing supply of educated personnel for management.’ The Sangamo Company has three plants in the U. S., and four affiliates in foreign countries. It manufactures elec tric measuring and control equipment.” When Frankin Roosevelt was Governor of the State of New York he had a small group of advisers who became known as “The Brain Trust”. The leader of that group was a studious, thoughtful, scholarly man, Raymond Moley, a professor of Columbia University, New York. Dr. Moley later served President Roosevelt very notably. I quote from a recent article by Mr. Moley: “The American people had waited a long, long time for a restoration of the normal, rational relationship between them and their government. For twenty years they had endured a succession of crises, some genuine, many others generated by political expediency. There had been war abroad and at home—rage among the nations and hatred here among neighbors. In politics, tough talk degenerated into rantings. Social reconstruction had tarried too long on the stage and, like a poor player whose audience is spent, it substituted noise for sense. True, there was a measure of war-made prosperity. But there was also the degeneration that always comes with long-held power. The American public had suffered enough at the hands of people who preached social justice and prac ticed petty graft. It was sick of claptrap about the com mon man while politicians bought the votes of the incom petent with subsidies. It was enraged at a government that prated of security while it legislated financial poli cies that swindled people out of the security they had pro vided for themselves. The alternation to a continuation of that regime was embodied in a kindly, reasonable, decent man who wore his honors with comely modesty and who promised little but to restore dignity and integrity in the public seryice. That man never conce. od himself to be eithef a scourge or a savior. He spoke i simple terms of confidence, common sense, self-reliance, go d taste, and conservatism. Elected, he fulfille he expectations of those who swept him into office. He la >ored patiently to heal the differences in his party. He worked with all nations toward the goal of a world at peace. He dealt with Congress as a coordin ate rather than as a 11aster. He saw great talent for man agement among men of the business community and the injustices as well a? me waste in past policies of treating them as untouchables. Instead, he invited many of them to join him in the c nossal tasks of managing a super-gov ernment. He askerl for the participation of local authori ties and private capital in developing great public works. His ’dynamic consei vatism’ recognized the abiding value of economic decisions made by countless individuals, in contrast to the planning of a bureaucracy. ff brain bui 1. In concinnity, there most be (a) distrust; fb) harmony; (c) fear. * 2. C our ante refers to (a) a recluse; (b) a dance; (c) food. 3. The Cremona is (a) a famous landmark; (b) Italian pal- are; (c) violin. ANSWERS *«n*iA •» *s 1 h i n c t o n Q—Can you tell me what is “Euratom" as compared to “NATO” in Europe? A—“Euratom’' is a proposed six nation treaty to create an atomic energy pool in Europe participated in by France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg.” NATO is a military organization in which England. Hie United States as well as European countries pool resources under a treaty agreement, for the protection of these nations against outside aggression. Q Has the Government ever paid any dividends on five year term U. 8. Government Life Insurance (USGLI) originating in World War I? A—Yes, the last dividend was paid about 25 years ago. Another divi dend is due in 1957 on 5-year term USGLI amounting to approxi mately $1,000,000 distributed among about 20,000 policyholders. About 330,000 persons holding permanent World War I USGLI will get about $25 million, also in 1957. 1957 will be the jackpot for serv icemen’s insurance, for the VA also will pay out about $210,000,000 in 1957 in NS LI insurance for World War II holders as compared to $185 million this year, to about 5 million policy holders. Q—I am planning to sell my home purchased with a GI lo—. When should I apply to VA for release from liability to the Government? Does this effect the guaranty of the loan? A—Apply to VA before signing the contract to sell your home. No, the guaranty will continue in effect. Q—What is a quorum of the United States Supreme Court? A—When the court was enlarged to nine members in 1863, the law prescribed a quorum of the court to be six justices. . V'-*. ■ r ** <• - ■ V ■ ROYAL VISITORS... Prince Ranter and Princess Grace of Monaco paid informal visit to White House for chat with Pres. Eisenhower. TELL US V0UR PROBLEM] AND LIT SB PASS IT ON TO NBLP OTHERS M SOLVMO THKWS. BY JOHN and JANE STRICKLAND "When troubled have faith in your God. All fails where faith fails." A FTER World War H, Harris Walters, 3862 Qrchard Street, Cleveland, Ohio, came home to find himself deeply in debt, debts about which his wife had written nothing. “If we had been so un fortunate as not to have you come back,” she said, “I didn’t want you to be worried. And you couldn’t have done anything about jt, anyway, until you did come back.” Harris knew that it wasn’t his wife’s fault that she had had such a difficult time when the twins had been born just a few weeks after he left, nor that there were con tinuous doctor bills for her, as well as for them. Nor was she to blame that his mother and father had had to live with them. He had planned on his allot ment of six months from the gov ernment to set him up in busi ness. Now he would have to use it to pay on those debts, and find a job to carry them along. It was a very discouraging state of af fairs; sometimes he wished he were still back on some Pacific Island, and he wondered how many ex-soldiers were facing just such a problem; wondered how many were capable of solving such a prob- em? Was he? Those five little words “capable of facing a problem” caused him to stop and think. Was he really capable? He had been considered so in the Army. He had been relied on time after time both for judg ment and activity. Was he going to let down now, let down not only himself but his family? The quotation above became his motto. It took him several weeks to really get back into his stride. But he got a job, and he skimped and saved until the debts were paid, then he settled in a business of his own. 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The dill Giving off fumes Persia Girl’s name To cut off Slender flniel p £ R T A R L, 0 £ A L N 1 A lV P A R 1 J N 5 S c R A M A 1 0 E R V k S s H 0 0 A p m i R s 1C T r Topi p 0 R T rrr A MERICAN consumers are hav ing to meet debt payments totalling approximately $3 billion a month on installment purchases, or something like $230 million more a month than a year ago, accord ing to figures recently released by the Federal Reserve Board. This not only is adding to the increased cost of living, but is also preventing the average fam ily from taking on more install ment purchases st this time, which is one reason why the Board has clamped down on installment purchases before now. In the meantime, the total installment debt reached a new high of $29,- 427 billion at the end of August. To this figure add such consumer debts as charge accounts and single-payment loans, and the total consumer debt soars to $37,- 503 billion, some $3,876 billion more than a year ago, and also a new high. Another reason for the new high cost of living is now showing up in the nine-month bank statements which are being filed on call from the Federal Board. This is the in creased cost of interest. The bank statements are showing that the banks are collecting from eight to 17% increases in net profits on these interest rates, and at the same time are show ing that bank desposits are on the downgrade from five to 10%. As an example the nation’s second largest bank, the Chase Manhat tan in New York reported net operation earnings for the nine- month period of $35,480 millions, up from $31,563 millions for the same period last year; total loans of $3,554,909 billion, up from $3,- 230,918 a year ago; and total de posits of $6,492,985 billions on Sept. 30, down from $6,573,504 on June 30th. Meanwhile at the American Min ing Congress in Los Angeles re cently, a warning was sounded by one of the country’s leading brokers, B. F. Pitman Jr., presi dent of Pitman & Co., investment brokers of San Antonio, Texas, that the nation’s horde of gold re serves at Fort Knox is in danger. He pointed out that while the na tion’s stockpile of strategic metals and materials was growing fan tastically, our gold reserves re main virtually unchanged at some $21,800 billions, while at the same time foreigners hold more than $17 billions in short term claims against it. In viewing the present cost of living which reached a new high recently there is a growing move ment that the base of the Labor Department Statistics upon which the living cost index is based should be changed to more clearly indicate the real costs of living. For instance, it is cited that many factors are not included in these living costs which are today going into the average family’s budgets —such items as notions, thread, needles, pins, yard goods, and much of the stocks of the nation’s five and ten department stores; sueh services as haircuts, clean ing A pressing, shoe half-soles and heels, parking costs, beauty parlor lervices, filling station, services, toll roads, radio and television service, newspapers and magazines, various forms of in surance, and many other items ... all of which have increased from 100 to 300% during the past four to five years. tm P«Mta M*. 417 III K ■! • f-ign fl | T* \ mm »■■■ -s 'm 'it in % U. ^ ^ fc"’i* SftiW * p is |» ifc’I" A* jr - i ’ ** '3Br fTS T-fit ■}<*£ P-J* -A- ... ■ ' CORNER POSTS . . . Heavy concrete posts ss shown eliminate need for diagonal bracing in fence corners. Wire is attached to galvanized pipe which has been 'inserted through large eyebolts set in the concrete. , •', ■ •J.’ ! •• .* SUEZ DEBATE • • • Soviet foreign minister Shepilov (U UN his nation opposes international Sue* control, as Selwyn Lloyd and U. S. state secretary John Foster Dulles This an" That- When they finish writing the record books for the 1956 World Series there should be a footnote indicating the fact that Casey Stengel, the Yankee mastermind whose charges humbled the Brook lyn Dodgers piloted the Brooklyn team three years, 1934-35-36, fin ishing 6th, 5th and 7th, respec tively, in the National League . . . The first public race course, was the Smithfield Track, built about 1174, in London. The date is gen erally recognised as the birthday of organised racing under saddle . . . The Greek word “Olympiad” concerns a measure of time, and means a period of four yean. The early “Olympic Games” took place at the end of every “Olym piad,” or every four years. Accord ing to legend, the idea for the Olympics originated with the Idaean Heracles, a diplomat, and the games did much te Greece, ((then known as Hellas) which was made np of war! unrelated tribes . . . Soccer fa favorite sport of such na NEW CUB PILOT . . . er P. K. Wrigiey Schefflng, 41, field succeed Stan Hack ex-Cub catcher and Lee Angeles club. m W:&:.