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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY ,DECEMBER 6, 1956
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
, By SPECTATOR
Looking into the future and dreaming dreams is a pleasur
able pastime. How does this impress you, especially the
young men planning to become devoted husbands, eating
three meals every day at home, every day, every month and
every year, including leap year? That's the way we raised
men for the Revolutionary War: they became the great
soldiers of George Washington, by eating at home — made
men strong and sturdy and tough, eh ?
“If the approach of meal time puts you in a flop maybe
you’ll be interested in some of the changes designers are
planning in appliances for cooking. For instance, instead
of having a series of heating elements in a range or built-in
unit as at present, the food cooking or preparation area may
consist of a counter with a series of electrical outlets into
which individual cooking units are plugged.
‘Cooking by controlled heat will eliminate pot-watching’,
explains one engineer. Tt also eliminaites guessing and the
need for those old-fashioned skills our mothers and grand
mothers acquired through long hours and hard work over
hot stoves. It will mean that even the newest bride will be
able to cook as ’well as her mother’.
If you think these things sound pretty fanciful, wait till
you hear some of the things engineers see in the more dis
tant future.
T can envision the day’, says one engineer-designer with
a straight face, ‘when a simplified computer will do a number
of household chores. Such a machine, for instance, could be
programming to adjust the thermostat in the morning, turn
on the radio to awaken you, start the coffee, turn on the
lights, close the garage doors after you’ve driven out, start
the dinner on time and turn it off when cooked, kirn on the
porch light at the correct time each evening and turn on the
automatic washer in the wee hours of the morning so there
won’t be a drain on the hot water at bath or dishwashing
time’. v i
Would you like a bedcovering that will not only keep you
warm in winter but comfortably cool in summer?
Or as appliance that at the turn of a tap will give you a
choice of hot water, soda or hot instant coffee ?
Or a kitchen incinerator which disposes of combustible
materials — food,'paper, cartons and the like — without,
odor, smoke or ash?
Well these and a lot more eyebrow-raising household gad
gets are being planned for you by industrial designers and
appliance company engineers. Many are already taking
shape on factory drawing boards and in designers’ model
shops around the country. Some of them are closer than
you think; others are more remote.
What will be the effect on the homemaker of work-savers
which gradually take away the opportunity for expressing
initiative, creativeness and ingenuity? Are we slowly
breeding a race of package cooks and bored homemakers ?
Air conditioning won’t be necessary for a peaceful night’s
sleep on hot, sultry, summer evenings of the future. West-
inghouse foresees the day when an,electric bedcovering or
blanket will not only keep you warm during the winter but
pleasantly cool during the summer.
It is predicted that instead of blankets, beds in the home
of tomorrow will have heat-producing radiant canopies.”
ALONG THE RUBBER TIRE CHRISTMAS TRAIL
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The threat or menace to Clemson College, due to the
proposed Hartwell Dam, has aroused the people of our
State. The question is pertinent, whether water-power has
become out of date.
Years ago Mr. Duke sponsored great water-power pro
jects, but more recently the Dukes have built great steam
plants. That is true also of The South Carolina Electric &
Gas Co., which built the great Saluda Dam. That Company
since then has spent a hundred million dollars on steam
plants, as I understand. As to so-called Public Power, we
can cite both our own Santee-Cooper, with its mammoth
new Steam plant, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, which
has spent more than a hundred million on steam plants, I’m
told.
If it be true, as has been said, that electric power by
steam is cheaper, as well as more dependable, than power
by water, what reason can there be for flooding hundreds
of thousands of acres of land for water-power?
Within ten years the likelihood is that nuclear power
may be used, or something else may be brought into avail
ability, that would make new water-power not only waste
ful but somewhat ridiculous.
Says The Greenville News:
“Is it too late to prevent the damage that will be done
to Clemson College’s campus and teaching program if the
Hartwell Dam project on the Savannah River is completed
according to present plans.
“Is it too late to abandon, or extensively modify the pro
ject if the review we hope is going to be made indicates
that it should be done? Again the answer is an emphatic
'NOT -.Igiliil
“Conditions have changed considerably since the Army
Engineers first recommended construction of the dam as
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part of the development of the Savannah valley. They
have changed since Congress first authorized its beginning.
“If changing conditions have made Hartwell no longer
feasible, it would be far cheaper to abandon it, or complete
it as a low-level dam for irrigation, flood control and rec
reation purposes as part of a modified watershed develop
ment prjoect. Only a few millions have been pledged for
Hartwell thus far. Completion will cost $100 million more,
and to prevent irreparable. damage to Clemson will add to
that.
“The full realization of the damage that Clemson would
suffer has served to reopen the issue of Hartwell. And that
alone is sufficient reason for drastic modification, or even
abandonment.
Clemson has shown beyond the possibility of contradic
tion that its campus and experimental farms will be ruin
ed unless:
“1. The maximum water level is lowered by at least 50
to 60 feet. Since the dam is to be about 660 feet above
mean sea level, it may fall into the low-elevl class with
that change. Fifty feet, we would guess, would make a
vast difference in the dam’s hydro-electric power poten
tial; or,
“2. The Seneca River is diverted into a new channel, by
means of a canal and retaining dams to save more than 1,-
000 acres of the most valuable experimental farm lands.
This would cost an estimated $8 million, and could cost more.
It would require construction and perpetual operation of a
huge pumping station to drain the natural drainage basin
that would thus be obstructed.
“It has been estimated that Clemson stands to incur
damages amounting to about $20 million dollars. Rather
unofficial assurances again are being offered that Clemson
would be ‘compensated.’
“To pay Clemson for the lands and other facilities it
would lose is one thing. To replace them is quite another.
“A man can be ‘compensated’ for the loss of a limb or an
eye in an industrial accident, but the limb or the eye can’t
be replaced.
“Clemson can’t replace its experimental farm lands at
any price and it can’t duplicate certain other agricultural
and engineering teaching facilities within a reasonable and
practical distance of the campus.
“But Clemson should not be made the ‘dog in the man
ger’ or the sole factor in bringing about modification or
abandonment of Hartwell.
“Everi if Clemson were not in the picture, which it ap
parently wasn’t in a practical sense when the project was
born, it still would be open to serious questions and grave
doubts.
“The aids to ‘navigation’ claimed for it are a farce. The
flood control purposes probably could be served far better
by local watershed development. The ‘irrigation’ idea is
far-fetched and hope’essly hedged about by restrictions
placed on taking water from a government dam, even if it
could be transported er-piped to the farms needing it.
“As for the general, jn of power, we pose a hypothetical
question: Would a private power company, which would
have to pay taxes, a. ept it as a gift and operate it?
“If the present n tices of both public and private pow
er enterprises are ary indication, the answer is: Not with
out a couple of steir r generating plants thrown in.
“Private compan>< now use their hydroelectric installa
tions for meeting ‘ cak* power loads during short periods
of operation. A st am plant which will produce as much
power as Hartwell, or more, can be built for a fraction of
its cost.
“Furthermore, the Tennessee Valley Authority, with its
vast system of da~~s, has had to build steam plants and is
begging Congress for money to build more. Santee-Cooper,
with one steam plant, is talking about borrowing money to
build another.
“And this leaves entirely out of consideration the fact
that the era of generating electricity by means of atomic
energy may have arrived before Hartwell is completed. The
project is not without its merits, of course. It would provide
cheap power for a favored few, when the water supply is
sufficient. And it is dear to the hearts of its promoters who
have labored long and hard to get Congress to approve it,
and see in it a monument to their efforts. But the taxpay
ers would save a lot of money by building for them a much
simpler monument, say on the comparatively modest pro
portions of Washington Monument or the Lincoln Me
morial.”
I need not quote “The State” or “The Record” of Co
lumbia on this; nor need I cite “The News & Courier” and
“The Evening Post” of Charleston, for most of my radio
audience read those great papers.
S PURRED by tile need to boost
their volume of sales to pay
fixed costs and family living ex
penses with lower farm prices,
farmers have succeeded, by work
ing longer hours, increasing use of
fertilizer and through other
means, in boosting farm produc
tion so that 1956 may set an all-
time high record. This seems ap
parent in spite of serious drouth
in large sections of the west and
sharp reductions of acerage for
crops under marketing quotas.
Although Secretary of Agricul
ture Ezra Taft Benson has not
at this writing called a meeting
of tiie Annual Outlook Conference
in which the nation’s leading farm
economists gather to predict the
year ahead for agriculture, the
agricultural picture ahead is not
bright. It will be remembered that
this annual conference formerly
held in October, was postponed by
Secretary Benson after the 1954
election when depressing predic
tions were made.
In spite of this postponement
these facts have been revealed
by the Department of Agriculture:
Farm prices dropped two points,
or 1% in the month ending October
13, the fourth month in a row that
farm prices have^ dropped;
farm costs set an all-time high
record for October; the farmers
share of the consumers retail
food dollar is down to about 40c
as compared to 47c in 1952, and
the Department predicts it will
drop further in 1957; and the
parity ratio is at 82%, or the same
as in October 1955.
The Wall Street Journal, in a
staff report on price and, produc
tion trends affecting industry,
has this to say of the Agriculture
picture ahead:
“Federal experts predict total
1956 farm production will set a
record at 113% of the 1947-49 av
erage. That would edge the
old high of 112% hi£ last year.
Production of livestock and live
stock products is expected to
climb to a record 125% of the
base period, 2% over last year.
Hog slaughter is due to rise 5%,
cattle 4%. Livestock bounty will
offset a tiny dip in crop volume.
While output of cotton, tobacco,
hay and peanuts may fall short
of last year, com and wheat pros
pects are up 4% and soybeans a
thumping 27%. This year, under
federal curbs, farmers planted
only 350 million acres, the small
est since 1941. For drought and
other reasons they won’t harvest
crops on 20-million-plus acres. But
fields in non-drought areas are
thriving. And fertilizer, irriga
tion, insecticides and other tools
of modem agriculture have helped
to wring huge per-a ere yields from
land that is harvested. This year’s
average crop yield per acre
shapes up to equal the 1948 record
and 33% greater than the pre-war
1935-39 average.’’ <
The indications are that this
year’s emergency subsidy on the
soil bank program will give way
to a flat and non-remunerative
effort to reduce farm production
in an effort to reduce surpluses.
There will be no publicity about
it, but the administration, unless
Congress rules otherwise, will not
continue a subsidy for over-pro
duction or inefficient family-type
farm operation. The best farmers
can expect is farm income not
far from the 1954 level. And that
is based on the present level of
continued prosperity of all other
phases of the nation’s economy.
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Insensible
state
5 Measure of
wood (pi.)
10 Command
to cat .
14 To state
15 Constellation
16 Persian
gazelle
17 Ship officer
18 Loop with
running knot
19 Large dog
20 Entreats
22 Kind of
orange I
24 Cruise
25 Fall in drops
27 Sack
30 Egyptian
deity
32 Bird (pi.)
36 Beverage
37 Walks
39 Growing out
40 Pittsburgh
ballplayer
42 Cookies
44 Insect
45 Trojan hero
47 Condition
49 Compass
point
50 Bird dog
52 Makes
mistake
53 New Guinea
city
54 Goddess of
discord |
56 The Orient
58 Esteems
62 Tidier
66 A hodge-
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25 Charge upon
podge
Dr
rove golf
ball in cup
69 Knowledge
70 Gloves (var.)
71 Feminine
name
72 Ireland
73 Time gone
by
74 Estimated
75 Let it stand
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tents .
2 Race track
3 To apportion
4 Extent of
land (pi.)
5 Is composed
of
6 Gold, in
S. American
countries
7 Rivers (Sp.)
8 Gave medi
cine to
9 Scoffs
10 Old Indian
custom
11 Cabbage
12 Macaws
13 Convert* Into
leather
21 Raised plat
form ,
23 To eat
property (pi.)
27 Large
bundles
28 Unaccom
panied
29 Animal
31 Freshet
33 Jury list
34 Tried to
mount to
heaven on
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35 Mediterranean
vessel
38 Extra tire
41 Post of a
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48 Actual being
51 Wealthier
55 Roman
matron’s
garment
57 Stories
58 Gambol
59 Lamb’s.
pen name
60 Occupies a
seat
61 Cut length
wise
63 Civil wfong
64 Great Lake
65 To lease
68 Compass
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Answer to Puxle No. 422
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1. A davit Is usually found (a) In a house; (b) on a shrip; (o)
In an airplane.
2. From French, the word dejuene means (a) young girt; (b)
morning; (c) breakfast.
3. Esculent means (a) edible; (b) transparent; (e) luminous.
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Can the Democrats hold South Carolina? If the relatively
heavy vote cast i for the Republican Party means anything—
and it does—then the Democrats will meet strong Republi
can opposition hereafter, in South Carolina.
It has been suggested that the Independents may remain
in the Democratic Party, crowding out the Democratic
leadership of 1956.
If the Republican vote and the Independent vote should
develop into one faction it would control the tSate. As is
well known, those two, together, far outnumber the Demo
crats of 1956 (137,820 to 163,859).
If a fusion of Independents and Republicans, would be
effective, let them be realistic and win at the polls.
ideas From other editors
From the East Oklahoma Trib
une, Vlan, Oklahoma: Like a
giant, threadbare ball that’s been
pommeled, unmercifully, the civi
lized world seems to be splitting
at the seams.
Russia has been the Captain of
one team, the Satellites. Uncle
fcam has been calling signals for
me Western power squad.
But now we find both sides
breaking training rules. In a sin
gle urge the players on both sides
seem to have begun throwing dust
in the eyes of their respective
captains.
Poland and Hungary laid down
the law to their Big Bear coach
until he can no longer control
their play* peaceably, so he’s try
ing other tactics.
v John Bull and France caUed a
special huddle and came up with
fantastic plays, deliberately cal
culated to catch their trusting
captain unawares. On one end
plajr they teamed together to tvai
interference for Israeli, and in
effect, became the aggressors in
what may touch off disastrous
losses.
Incidentally, these two team
mates which Uncle Sam hay trust
ed so faithfully, have diverted
world attention from a losing Big
Bear squad to this unheard of re
volt against their captain and con
fidant. If they lose the crucial
game, it will be because they beat
themselves. They not only disre
garded their captain’s caution, but
defied his coaching brazenly.
Deep down. Uncle Sam has
spoiled his adopted brats as well
as half the people of the crazily
spinning universe. He’s ladled out
billions to them, including some
of the gear used in ‘this new conr
test. Sadly, their gratitude has
turned to deceit and scorn . . •
From the Dove Creek Press,
Dove Creek, Colorado: Judging
by news reports of automobile ac
cidents, modern cars with, their
multi-hundred horsepower engines
wnd super-sonic speeds react in
strange ways to the temperaments
of their drivers. Almost daily one
reads “car left highway on curve,
crashed into tree and killed driv
er.” Or “car pulled out of traffic
line without warning, struck on
coming car head on—occupants of
both cars dead.” Or “car went
out of qontrol and rolled over bank
into river—bodies not yet found.”
Owners must be protected from
the irresponsible actions of cars
or it will soon be suicide to drive
one of them.
One way to show your car you
are boss when .it shows signs of
taking the “bit into its teeth” is
to cut its feed supply and spur it
with well adjusted brakes—that
might teach it a lesson, if you live
through the experiment.
Q—Can yon tell me if the Gerald D. Morgan, recently named special
counsel to President Elsenhower Is the same Morgan who was with
the National Tax Equality Association?
A—Yes, he was a registered lobbyist for NTEA seeking to tax patronage
refunds paid by Farmer Cooperatives to their customers.
Q—Can yon tell me why Dr. Martha M. Eliot resigned her post as chief
of the Childrens Bureau of the Department of Health, Education
' and Welfare?
A—The announced reason was to accept a position at Harvard Univer
sity.
Q—Can yon give me number of cases of polio this year as compared to
1955?
A—Number of cases of poliomyelitis reported to the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare for 1955, all types totaled 27,090. For
1955, with about a month to go, only 14,152 cases have been re
ported.
Q—Do all U. S. paper earreneles boar the pictures of Presidents?
A—No. The $10,000 bill bears the picture of Salmon P. Chase, Secretary
of the Treasury under Lincoln.
Q—Can you tell me the name by which Arkansas is called, and when
it was admitted to the union.
A—Arkansas is called the “Wonder State.” It is a part of the Louisiana
purchase, was organized as a territory in 1819 and admitted to the
union in 1836, as the 25th state.
Q—When was the Erie canal opened?
A—The first boat on the Erie canal left Buffalo October 26, 1825, and
arrived in New York the following November 4.
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RED BIG THREE . . . Soviet foreign minister Shepilov, his deputy
Kuznetsov (left) and. soviet UN permanent delegate Sobolev
(right) heard U. S. tell UN of merciless Russian suppression of
Hungarian freedom revolt.
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This an’ That '
Charley Grimm, new vice presi
dent of the Chicago Cubs has said
there will be no “front office run
ning of the baU dub.” Grimm, »
determined fellow, says there wffl
be no excuses about “rebuilding”
during the 1967 season. “We’re
out to win,” he told a quarterback
club . . . Turnabout is fair In any
sport, so sixteen yosr old Atie
Voohi), Netherlands swimmer,
captured the world record for the
1M meters butterfly swim which
was taken away from her by
American Shelley Mann of Arling
ton, Va., Atie waa docked In
1:10.5. Her previous
1:11.9, which Miss Mann
tered by one-tenth of a
Bobby Maastd, former
partner of Jack Dempsey
years an East
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on a tour of the U. 8. in
of a car for his first entry
In the Indianapolis 500.
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