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THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1958 SUN 'Aim Newberry Men In Service At Stations Around The World FORT BLISS, Tex. (AHTNC) —Pvt. Richard P. Richardson, 22, son of Mrs.' Ruth Koon, Route 2, Pomaria, recently completed the final phase of six months active military training under the Re serve Forces Act 'program at Fort Bliss. ' Richardson was employed by the State-Record Co., Columbia, before starting his RFA traning. He is a 1953 graduate of Pomaria High School. in 9 days as South Carolina’s original 2-cent gas tax brought in during a whole year following its enactment in 1922. The federal tax was not added until 1932. “This 42-fold increase in annual gas tax revenues can be explain- T FORT BLISS, Tex. (AHTNC) —Privates Alfred D. Metts and Walter D. Wicker, of Little Mountain recently completed the final phase of six months active military training under the Re serve Forces Act program at Fort Bliss. Mette, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Olin L. Metts, and Wicker, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Wicker, are 1957 graduates of Little Mountain High School. *TH£ * STARS FORT BLISS. Tex. (AHTNC) —Pvt. Jimmie L. Hendrix, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Hend rix, Route 2, Prosperity, recently completed the final phase of six months active military training under the Reserve Forces Act program at Fort Bliss. Hendrix is a 1957 graduate of Prosperity {High School. Gasoline Tax 44% Of Cost By today, January 9, the taxes on gasoline paid by South Carolina highway users, just during the first 9 days of 1968, will reach the sum of $1,601,000—as much as was onee collected in gas tax revenues in South Carolina in a whole year. This was pointed out today by R. A. Smreker, chairman of the Palmetto State Oil Marketers’ Association, in commenting on present estimates that South Car olina’s 7-eont state gasoline vax will take in $48.9 million during 1968, while the 3-cent federal tax will swell the total tax cost to motorists in this state to a ore- dieted $68.1 million. This, he noted, means that South Carolina highway users are now pouring ga« tax revenues into the tax coffere at the rate of $1 mil lion every 6^ days, or as much as By LYN CONNELLY W E HAVE read many newspa per accounts and columnists' comments on the death of Jimmy Dorsey and every one mentions how unfortunate it was that he died Just when he finally came up with a hit record for the first time in 14 years . . . This bit of philo sophy somehow doesn’t seem to check in with the fact that most people, and show people in par ticular, like to die with their boots on . . . Untimely though his death was, and missed as he will be, we think if Jimmy had a choice he would have preferred to go out while on top as he did PLATTER CHATTER MERCURY:—Helen Merril! has a bright new number in “Blue Guitar” that spells hit . . Backed up by the Hal Mooney ork, the gal sings up a storm . . “Listen” is on the flip side . . . Nick Noble has a really splendid voice and though he did his usually fine job with “Fallen Star" he was left at the post by the country and western singers who covered However, in his latest, “Moon light Swim," we think Nick really has a big one . . . The wave effect is clever and adds immeasurably to the overall result Flip over has “Lucy Lou,” also a good side This company's two top groups have cut new disks and while they’re not the greatest, they have promise . . . The Diamonds come up with “Oh, How I Wish" backed by a cutle called “Zip Zip” . . . The Crew Cuts do a fine job with “I Sit In My Window" with “Hey, You Face,” a real candidate for the top ten, on the reverse side. . . CAPITOL:—Les Baxter turns in another one of his excellent in strumentals in the ever-popular "Manhattan” backed by “La Panse". . . . That popular teen group, The Four Preps do up “Band of Angels” as well as they could considereing the weak ma terial . . . Flip is better"—How About That?” KVACUAYION PLANNING for Jacksonville, Fla., made difficult booanoo tfco city la divided by the St. Johns River, got a boost recently when Operation Dunkirk proved with the help of 188 boats that the river could serve as a highway to safety. One of the boats la shown checking In al the CD evacuation point, where Its passen ger capacity waa noted and It was sent on a mock mission to one of two "destination points." Ttmen-Umon Photo» >4 '*Now ro*yb« John will believe me when 1 tell him a r*«w car, financed by Purcells would save,us money.” Come to think of it. why wait to tell John. 1*11 start looking around for that new car myself. /'urcellJ “Yciir Private Rankero" 1418 Main St • Newberry ed partly hy the fact that there are now 8.3 times as many motor vehicles in South Carolina as there, was in 1922, but it must also be noted that the present combined tax rate is now 6 times as high,” Smreker said. He added: “An interesting thing about gas oline is that this is one product on which the price today, exclud ing taxes, is actually lower than it was back in the 20’s.” He noted that in 1920, the average price of regular gasoline in South Carolina was 29.2 cents a gallon. Today motorists are getting a far better quality of gasoline for less, but taxes now add 44 percent to the cost. ■V.' ,i Ramage-Powell By MRS. A. H. COUNTS Miss Dolores Nancy Ramage of Newberry and Washington, D. C.. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Ramage of -Newberry became the bride of Billy Arnold Powell of Washington, D. C., son of Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Powell of Los Angeles, California, on Saturday afternoon, December 28th at 4p. m. in Bush River Baptist Church. The Rev. J. R. McKittrick, assisted by the Rev. T. B. Altman performed the double ring ceremony. Baskets of white snapdragons and white chrysanthemums, fern, ivy and white candelabra decorat ed the church for the ceremony. Darr Wise, organist and Rev.' Johnnie Lee of Newberry, vocalist, rendered the program of wedding music. The ushers, Donald Ramage, brother of the bride and Nod Workman lighted the candles. The bridegroom’s best man was Eld- ward E. Martinez of San Antonio, Texas, and Washington. Mrs. Donald Ramage, sister-in- law of the bride was matron of honor and her only attendant. She wore a dress of pink net over-taf feta with lace jacket and carried a nosegay of blue and pink carna tions. The bride, given in marriage by her father, was lovely in her wed ding dross of lace and white taf feta. The bodice was designed with a lace yoke and long sleeves. The ballerina length skirt of net ruffles was fashioned with a wide front panel of lace. Her fingertip veil was caught to a tier of seed pearls. She carried a Bible topped with a white orchid. The brides’ mother wore a light blue lace dress over taffeta and a corsage of white carnations. The brides’ parents entertained with a reception in the Fellowship Hall of the church immediately af ter the service. For traveling the bride wore a small black and white check tweed wool suit with black accessories complemented with the orchid from her Bible. Mrs. Powell is a graduate of Bush River High School. The bridegroom received his education in California. The couple are em ployed hy State Department in Washington. They are making their home at 2121 Virginia Ave., Northwest, Washington, I). C. * m mg * ' A, ~,r.. , .v » , : * & ^ • ** t' V * PEGGY AND LAMB . . . Select- * •d for her charm, beauty and polae, Perry Seay, senior at Trinity II, In San Antonio, waa named Mies Wool of 1958. i COMRADS . . . Yureelev Marshall Tito embraces Alex Alekaandar Rankevioh at tth session of central committee el League of Yuroslav Oommn* •lata. By Tom Farm mad Magazine “We will bury you,** Krushchev has told ua. (He means under rub ble, not under ground.) And many Americans in the know say Russia could win the war today. Is it true? If so, how did we get in this position? To know where we are and where > we’f-e going it helps to understand where we’ve been. Let’s look back to 1933. Our so cialist-labor welfare state was just getting underway, so it was per fectly natural for its sire, Frank lin Roosevelt, to “recognize” the Russian' Communist dictatorship. Then came the beer hall putsch and a little mustached madman took over Germany. And Hitler, (whom we all hated) and Stalin, (whom Roosevelt and Truman said they liked) agreed to carve up the world between them—until such time as one could swallow up the other. Our great leaders were determ ined to “make the world safe for democracy,” again. So we saved our Russian allies from Hitler’s hordes. I believe historians will eventually say (if Kruschchev doesn’t bury all them, too) that Germany and Russia would have destroyed each other had we sat on the sidelines and watched, as many of us reactionary “isola tionists” (people who believe Am erica comes first) pled for. We were fighting the wrong war, at the wrong time, against the wrong enemy. We were fight ing a war we couldn’t win. Be cause we were allies with Christ endom’s and history’s worst men ace: Godless, Communist Russia. Our Army was even made to hold back entering Berlin, so our Rus sian Allies could share it with us. Then, when we had Japan on her knees, Russia committed what should have been an act of war against us: she jumped into the Japanese war, a few days before we ended it. Our political history is a little “indefinite” on this, but I believe it is generally agreed that Russia was asked by our leaders to get in the Pacific War and share the spoils. “Good Old Joe” was not really had, you know. All Russia needed was to “understand” us. Remember that nauseating line which the “Liberal*” relentlessly spoonfed us with? Having been in Italy with the Navy, I happened to return to the states in early ’46 on a ship car rying musterouts from the Per sian Gulf Command. They had been delivering your food, fiber, and war goods to the Russians who spit in their faces as they took delivery. “Time Is on Our Side,” They Said Many of us would have much preferred to stay and fight Rusj sia then, and get it over with, while we could win. In fact, that would have been the only war I could have gotten my heart in . . . how nice it would have been to have been fighting for something! ' So our “boys” came back, most of them, from the jungles and the seas, from the villas and from the hell-holes of the world! We had won the war—for our enemy. And obviously, time was not on our side. But “time is on our side,” the Administration drummed into ua, as our American Communists and fellow-travelers were busy gising the rest of our atomic and military secrets to Russia, which had kidnapped about 2,000 of the best German scientists when the war ended. Finally, in 1946, Mr. Truman began to question Russia’s friend ship. Our “containment o Russia” policy got under way. We’ve con tained her, ao far, into enslaving only 700 million people—in fifteen nations, I believe, at last count. In our futile efforts to buy friends we’ve given $120 billion (that’s $120 thousand million) to friends and enemies throughout the world-including $12 billion to Russia l Store-bought Friends Don’t Stay Bought Nations, like individuals, don’t stay bought. They keep on raising the price. And once you refuse to pay it, you’ve made an undying enemy. We need foreign allies who’ll join us for freedom—not beggars who compete for our handouta. Our problem is not to he loved but to he respected. Not to he generous but to be invinc- I IMBROGLIO . . . Dick Ricketts (84) of dndnaat! Royals “oov- »n** St. Leals Hawks* Cliff Hag an In basketball gases won by Hawks 10£~M. ible. We can depend on no nation risking atomic annihilation in war because of gratitude or friendship for us. Our allies will be those who can’t stay out and who think we’re the winner. With “time on our side,” Russia has seemingly caught up with us in nuclear development and gone ahead in missiles. Russia report edly has more and better jet bombers and fighters . . . an army 10 times bigger ... the ability to destroy U. S. cities with missiles from foreign bases and from sub marines 500 miles at sea. Work, Save, Be Strong and Be Ready Time is on < . . the march. What do we do now? We must get to work. End union labor racket4K;r- ing and monopoly. Kill all unnec essary public spending, kill all government programs which can be postponed, including vast un necessary spending on veterans benefits, the farm program, wel fare, and most “Federal Aid” pro jects J . . think more about guns and less about butter ... we must stop inflation, balance the budget, reduce the debt so we won’t spend ourselves into bankruptcy and ob livion ns Lenin predicted. We must get ready for blood, sweat, and tears, even though our leaders have yet to muster the courage to tell us that. We should disperse key indus tries to small towns throughout the less populated areas of the na tion. We should put aside saving the world and concentrate on sav ing ourselves. We should put aside thoughts of how to save our poli tical party and think only of how AIm 1100 to 9475 Wedding Ring $12.50 [Permanently Registered land Guaranteed Pertecf [by the famous Keepsake 1 Certificate end by this store. W . E. TURNER JEWELER The Newberry Steam Laundry & Dry Cleaning Co. 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