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THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1958
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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-
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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.
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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»
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'*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.
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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.
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•d for her charm, beauty and
polae, Perry Seay, senior at
Trinity II, In San Antonio, waa
named Mies Wool of 1958.
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COMRADS . . . Yureelev
Marshall Tito embraces Alex
Alekaandar Rankevioh at tth
session of central committee el
League of Yuroslav Oommn*
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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-
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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
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to save America. For only if we
save America can we save the
world. Don’t believe people who
tell you the budget cant’ be cut.
We could kill at least $20 bUlibn
of the current $70 billion budget
and get better government and
better “defense.”
Let’s vote against every politi
cian, from the courthouse to the
White House, who refuses to kill
unnecessary spending programs—*
or who tries to raise taxes or raise
the limit on the Federal debt. Our
congressmen will soon be iii ses
sion. Let’s Miry them under an
avalanche of letters. The chickens
—and the Sputniks—have come
home to roost.
League Thanked
For Help Given
Korean Orphans
Dr. Mamie S. Summer, presi
dent of the Newberry €ftrie
League, recently received a letter
from Capt. R. Clindinst, com
manding officer of the 7th Quar
termaster Company, 7th Iniantrjr
Division in Korea, expressing
gratitude for the response of the
league to “Operation Suita
Claus.”
The letter states “This day* the
7th Quartermaster Company has
received some 315 pounds of cloth
ing from you. We are sponsoring
a nearby Korean orphanage whieh
accommodates approximately 50
orphans, ranging in age group of
2 to 11 years old. Numerous prob*
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