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THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1957
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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.
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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. ^
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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.
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OPENING SALE
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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.
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