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PAGE TWO THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1957 : Hospital Patients Robert A. Turner, Montgomery I Vows , v poken Tuesday tw 1218 College 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. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By Spectator “The Eisenhower Administration has made a dramatic last minute budget decision: To provide even more money for missiles than any sum planned so far.” As a result, total budget spending for the year starting next July will not only climb to another peacetime record but will at least approach, and may surpass, the Korean War high of five years ago—though a balanced budget is still the target. Are we Americans nervous, even hysterical? We act in that manner. Whatever the Russians may have achieved beyond our own accomplishment, that cannot be overcome merely by pouring out billions. We have already spent so much money on Atomic Power and missiles of every kind that we should have far surpassed all the rest of the world if money were the principle factor. Let’s be reasonable, even sensible. We need, apparently, a dozen super physicists, whose grasp and range equal that of the Russians. We shall ac complish very little by scares and frights and wholesale outpouring of money. The need of the moment is brains, training, super imagination in the realm of theoretical phy sics. We have been somewhat blind in dealing with the Rus sians. I have never forgotten the story of the American inventor who went to Russia with his submarine because he found no support in his own country. Years ago I read his tribute to the mechanical ability of Russians. It is still worth reading. He marvelled at their ability. What do our experts learn by living in foreign capitals? Is life just parades and a series of highballs? Is our for eign service only a social veneer? Or is it worthwhile? I must believe that we have as much ability here as may be found anywhere else. It may be that our Bureaucracy does not- attract or enlist the geniuses whose flights of fancy take them into the realms of speculation undreamed of by us ordinary intellects. But we must have them; surely they are available. Our reaction to the urgency of our need is typical of Americans: We will pour out a few more billions. With pomp and parade and bluster we put our trust in money. I am confident that we have in America enough real capability in obscure places to serve the nation compe tently in any crisis. We must remember that the same blundering staff w*ork before Pearl Harbor seems to be the order of the day; we never rise to the occasion except through numerous blunders. Everywhere we hear or read “Let’s appropriate another billion.” Well, why not examine the National budget and take off a few billions, using the money for the most ur gent matters? Why not put our house in order, doing away with favoritism and letting all stand on a plane of equality before the law? Why have tax favorites, or groups that do not pay taxes? Why not set about restoring that Equality before the Law which we used to cherish so warmly, but which we have utterly repudiated for the .sake of votes? We are spending too much money now; it is not more money we need but more prudent use of the flood now about to engulf us. ^ America needs nothing so much as a liberal dose of old time common sense; we urgently need it. We need a man of the Calvin Cooledge type in the White house, or another Grover Cleveland, sturdy old battler ierasedvtiywhottwM Grover Cleveland, sturdy old battler with his ready veto. Today the President and the Congress, Republicans and Democrats, are running a wild race to spend this nation of the Nation. Mrs. Frances Boozer, Prosper ity. Mi's. Margaret Brooks, Glenn St. Mrs. Esther Brown and baby girl. Circle Dr. Mrs. Nettie Brown. Christina Craig, Saluda. Dewey D. Counts, Newberry. Mrs. Mamie DeVore, Calhoun St. Perry M. Fant, Glenn St. Mrs. Elizabeth Graham and baby boy, Pomaria. John D. Harmon Sr., Saluda. Mrs. Mary Hembree, Wise St. Mrs. Lillian Hendrix, Newberry. Miss Ethel Koon, Boundary St. Miss Annie Knotts, Prosperity. Mrs. Kathleen Kinard, Prosper ity. Jacob Kurlat, Henry Ave. Will Kunkle, Newberry. Mrs. Hester Lee Morris, Pros perity. Ambrose Mayer, Newberry. Mrs. Elizabeth Minick, Prosper ity. Mrs. Estelle Marlowe, Harring ton St. Mrs. Edna Mize, Newberry. Robert Simmons, Newberry. Mrs. Vidalia Shearon, Newber- ry. Mrs. Savannah Summer, New- berry. Grover L. Todd, Johnstone St. Mrs. Shirley - Fellers, Prosper- Mrs. Ruby Wicker, Miller Ave. Mrs. Essie Wessinger, Newber ry. St. Colored Patients Henrietta Butler, Boundary St. Wates Cannon, Pomaria. Jim Chalmers, Boundary St. Hiram W. Dawkins, Whitmire^ Woodrow Glenn, Sunset Lane. Christine Gallman, Box 77. Baby Boy Gallman, Johnstone Minnie Suber, Newberry. Shirley Aim Sanders, Hunt St. Mildred Simpkins, Vincent St. Fred Valentine, Prosperity. J. C. Mosley, Newberry. Alene Glasgow, Prosperity. MILLS CLINIC PATIENTS Mrs. Linner Mae Corley, 402 Rice St., Newberry. Mrs. Frances Epting, 715 Glenn St., Newberry. Mrs. Minnie Frick, Chapin. Mrs. Minnie Reagin, 1222 Glenn St., Newberry. Mrs. Jessie Eargle, Leesville. Miss Florence Miller, Pomaria. Taft Morris, Rt. 2, -Prosperity. Carl Epting, Rt. 3, Prosperity. Maxey Bedenbaugh, Prosperity. Mrs. Georgia Mae Haltiwanger, Chapin. Mrs. Mattie Lee Hilley, New berry. Miss Cordelia Bowers, Rt. 1, Prosperity. ' Defense spending in this fiscal year had been estimated at around 38 1—2 billion dollars. But last week Secretary of Defense McElroy disclosed he intended to ask Congress for a billion more for use before June 30. It would be in vested mostly in the missile program. The Wall Street Journal, in a Washington dispatch, reported today the administration proposes that a special 500-million-dollar fund be made available to exploit any breakthrough in the missile-satellite field. The newspaper said this would be on top of the extra two billion reported to be going into the defense budget for the fiscal 12 months beginning in July. The Pentagon today made figures available to show that the United States has put more than 17 billion dol lars into research, development and production of missiles of various types since the end of World War 2. Most of the money has been invested since the Korean War broke out in 1950. From the time the armed services began analyzing- captured German missiles late in World War 2 2until June 30, 1946, the missile program amounted to about 70 million dollars. It has grown this way since by fiscal years. 1947, 58 million ;1948, 81 million; 1949, 98 million; 1950, 134 million; 1951, 784 million; 1952,1 billion, 58 mil lion; 1953, 1 billion, 166 million; 1954, 1 billion, 67 million; 1955, 1 billion, 470 million; 1956, 2 billion, 270 million; 1957, 4 billi,on, 284 million; 1958, estimated 4 billion, 638 million. DEED TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 William S. Langford to William H. Sterling, one lot on Shelly street, $85.00. ‘ : Robert M. Clary to J. Richard Clary, one lot and one building, $5.00 and assumption of a mort gage. Silverstreet No. 2 Estelle W. Senn to James D. Werts, 22 acres, $5.00 love, and af fection. (Grantor's 1-2 interest in property in Old Town section.) Thomas C. Sligh to Frank B. Sligh, 68 acres, $5.00 love and af fection. J. B. Moore to Continental Can Company, Inc., 134.2 acres, $7,- 381.00. Whitmire No. 4 Outside Walter Samuel Baker to Broad- us A. Baker and Mildred K. Ba ker, 412 Pickens St., Joanna, one acre, $5.00 love and affection. Pomaria'No. 5 W. H. Caldwell, Chairman and James D. Brown, Secretary of the Newberry County Board of Edu cation, toThe Jackson Community Center and Cemetery Association, Inc., two lots on the “Hope Sta tion Road.” Prosperity No. 7 Mrs. Mildred C. Werts to Rob ert W. Barnes and Dorothy Jean Barnes, 2.3 acres, $5.00 love and affection. Mrs. Laura Venetta Taylor to B. Edwin Wieker and Jae Wicker, 5.63 seres sad one building, $6.00 and other valuable considerations. Leona F. Motley and Althea F. Mack to J. W. Fulmer, 11 3-8 acres and one building, $6.00 and the premises. Harold C. Fulmer et al to J. W. Fulmer, 11 3-8 acres and one building, $6.00 and the premises. J. W. Fulmer to Lewis W. Rine hart, 11 3-8 acres and one build ing, $7,700. % THURSDAY, JAN. 30 Mt. Bethel Germany Community, Mrs. Minnie Leitzsey. Mt. Bethel Garmany Community, Mrs. Raymond Nichols. Keitts Cross Roads, Leo Van- Cleave Maybinton Community, Mrs. Ar thur Maybin Strother Community, Mrs. Jeff Suber Crooks Store, Homer Crooks. New Hope Zion Community, Miss Olive Eargle Peak Pomaria Community, Mrs. Ben Johnston. FRIDAY, JAN. 31 St. Phillips Community, Mrs. John Stone St. Phillips School » Pomaria School. ^ 4i X m What is on the docket? Let us read an Associated Press story from Washington that was carried in the daily pa pers one day last week: “Sen. Chavez (D—NM) tuning up for the congress ional battle over defense spending, suggested today the Eisenhower administration use the money it has before asking for a big increase. ‘New funds alone is not the answer to today’s needs,’ he said in a statement, ‘and no budget such as suggested by unnamed White House persons in the press will get .an OK.’ If President Eisenhower asks for a record peacetime budget of 40 billion dollars for the Defense Department, the Senator added, ‘there will be some rough going in the Congress.’ Chavez is chairman of the Senate Appropriations sub committee which handles the annual defense money bill. Eisenhower is expected to present Congress with a 40- billion-dollar-plus defense budget next month, including an extra two billion for missiles and space vehicles, antisubmarine defenses and new bases on which to dis burse the Strategic Air Force. The money would be for the fiscal year starting July 1. I quote with hearty endorsement an article by Henry Hazlitt in Newsweek of December 23rd: “The present pious professions of inability to cut the overall budget ignore the flagrant facts. It has been re peatedly pointed out that our nondefense spending alone now comes to something like $28 billion a yeai. It is only the taxpayers, those who earn the money, from which these handouts are taken, who are being told they must make further sacrifices. And what of so-called ‘defense’ spending itself? One hears not a word now of the huge wastes in overbuilding, overbuying and overstaffing pointed out by the Hoover commission. (In 1954 the Army had a ten years’ supply of women’s uniforms. The Navy had enough canned ham burger to last for 60 years, though it barely keeps for two.) We are still busily turning out obsolescent weapons. The most irrational response to the Russian sputniks and our own failure is the proposal to increase still fur ther the huge sums we are giving away to foreign coun tries. We have already granted them some $60 billion since the end of the second world war. This did not in the least deter the press of these countries from taunt ing and jeering when our Vanguard fizzled. Suppose we had given them not a cent and instead of dissipating our strength had used a fraction of that sum tq keep unchallengeably ahead of Russia in military weapons and research? We would have helped those nations as well as ourselves, far more than we.actually have. It is futile to try to buy a nation’s good will when one has lost its respect. The proposals in Washington to meet the new Russian threat by increasing foreign handouts, spending more in all directions, and resuming debasement of the currency by inflating still further, suggest a panicky motorist who, when he -suspects he is on the wrong road, refuses to stop and take his bearings, but frantically increases his speed in the same direction that he has been going.” Before we invoke the imponderable magic of mere bil lions let us see what has been spent. If we have thrown money all about with lavish profusion and still are lost in the dust kicked up by the Russian advance why con tinue to rely on just billions? “Scientific laboratories w r ere being built and equipped at a breakneck pace in the U. S. even before the Sputnik made its appearance on the astral- scene. More spectacularly, outlays by the Federal Government for scientific research in the fiscal year ended last June 30 amounted to $3.1 billion, nearly three times the 1950 figure. About half om this work is done by government under government contract.” The marriage of Miss Stelia Biddle, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Perry Harvey Biddle of Os wego and Rev. George Hanlin Fitzgerald, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Fitzgerald of Mont gomery, Alabama, was solemnized at seven o’clock Tuesday evening, January 28 at the First Pres byterian Church, Sumter. The double ring ceremony was performed by the bride’s father, assisted by Dr. Neil E. Truesdell of Newberry. The pulpit of the church form ed a setting of beauty and simple dignity with ferns and palms in terspersed with candelabra hold ing cathedral candles, flanked by two floor baskets of white glad ioli and chrysanthemums. The bride, given in marriage by her father, wore an original mod el dress of imported candlelight satin made on lines of simple ele gance. Her fitted bodice featured a deep yoke which capped the sleeves and extended into a soft neckline. The yoke of rosepoint lace was richly embroidered with imported graduated seed pearls. The long sleeves ended in similar bands of rosepoint tapering over the wrists. The floor length skirt extended into a cathedral train. Her veil was attached to a tiara of lace matching her dress, em broidered in seed pearls. She carried a white Bible with a white orchid and a shower of stephanotis. Miss Alice Ann Klostermeyer of Charleston, W. Va. was maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Miss Adville Winkles of Oswego and Miss Barbara Huey of Spartan burg. These attendants wore waltz length dresses of red vel vet fashioned with princess lines featuring round necklines and crushed elbow sleeves. They car ried cascade bouquets of golden yellow pompom chrysanthemums. The bridegroom had as his best man Rev. Hugh R. Esco of Pana ma City, Fla. Perry Harvey Bid dle, brother of the bride, Thomas E. Fitzgerald Jr. of Carrolton, Ga. and James E. Fitzgerald of Charlotte, N. C,, brothers of the bridegroom and Roy E. Watkins of Decatur, Ga. were ushers. The mother of the bride wore French blue silk chiffon over taffeta with lace yoke trimmed in rhinestones. She wore a shoulder orchid corsage. The groom’s mother wore pow der blue lace over taffeta with a shoulder orchid corsage. Prior to the wedding ceremony, prenuptial music was rendered by Henry Martin of Bishopville, or ganist and Mrs. Billy McSwain of Newberry, soloist. Mrs. McSwain sang “O Perfect Love,” “Entreat Me Not To Leave Thee” |md “Wedding Prayer”. The tradition al wedding marches were used for the processional and recessional. For her wedding trip, the bride changed to a tailored charcoal suit trimmed in brown velvet. Her accessories consisted of brown al ligator shoes and bag and tanger ine hat. She wore the orchid from her wedding bouquet. Mrs. Fitzgerald graduated from Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga. She has been Director of Christ ian Education at Aveleigh Pres byterian Church, Newberry, a po sition she resigned the first of the year. Mr. Fitzgerald is a graduate of Huntingdom College, Montgomery, Ala. He received his degree from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga. with the distinction of cum laude. He was also award ed an Alumni Fellowship for graduate study. He is now assist- . rit pastor < f the Shades Valley Presbyterian Church in Birming ham, Ala. The women of Tirzah Presby terian Church entertained at a lovely reception in the church par lor following the ceremony. The two refreshment tables were laid with white linen cloths on which were three branched silver can delabra with crystal epergettes holding candles and carnations. Serving punch from the crystal howls were Mrs. T. W. Greene of Athens, Ga., Miss Mary Louise r >t!ffie and Misses Virginia and Kathleen McLeod of Sumter, Misses Sinclair Kemper, Tucky Neel, Martha Dahl Harley, Anne Timmons and Marcia Todd of Newberry. v The bride’s table holding the a satin cloth, and a three branched four tiered cake was overlaid with silver candelabra was used on the table. Before the reception ended, the bride and groom cut the first slice of cake, and then were as sisted by Mrs. Hugh McLaughrin of Wedgefield and Mrs. Mattie Smith of Newberry. After a wedding trip to Charles ton and other points of interest in South Carolina, the couple will be at home at 901 S. 30th Street, Birmingham, Ala. Plan to visit the... HUNT STREET BRANCH —of— liXlZllit pplii sililililiiL,,.... ixii- main street •.v mm and take advantage of the outstanding / values which will be available at the OPENING SALE Wed., Feb. 12 at 1309 Hunt St. \ . W; %^j§' • M : i - £, Recent Marriages .Roy Jones and Betty Lou Watts of Newberry were married at Newberry on January 17th by Rev. W. A. Bell. Robert Franklin McDonald of Easley and Peggy Sue Price of Newberry were married by Rev. P. L. Grier at Newberry on Jan uary 24th. James C. White and Jackie O’Shields of Whitmire were mar-* ried on January 25th at Union by Rev. R. H. Cogdell. John Franklin and Martha Cal laway of Clinton were married in North Charleston on January 25 by Rev. David G. Anderson. Attention, Adults! The Foster School of Dance announces an Adult Ballroom Class Begins Thursday, Feb. 6th Youth Center, Speers St. For Enrollment Call Mrs. Dick Shealy, Business Manager, Telephone 582 Voigt Kempson, Instructor - Save Where Your Savings Are Insured Building & Loan Association 1117 Boyce Street Newberry, S. C. The State Building Pinckney N. Abrams, Sec.-l'reas. ■w- v ,'.’ f