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m ■m ’$k$£a& : m PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1968 m i 1218 CoU*c« Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. 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: 82.00 per vance; six months, 81-26- in ad- COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR I read many business papers and magazines, but The Joanna Way carries at times a statement by Mr. Walter Regnery which states clearly and briefly the age-old prin ciples of sound economics as applied to industrial produc tion. I quote, a part of Mr. Regnery’s editorial: “Everyone knows there is a general business recession. In our textile industry we have had slow times for over two years. Now that other businesses are slowing down, this is making our activity ever slower so that the textile industry is in a real depression. In terms of you and me at Joanna, this means that we must produce cloth cheaper and better than we ever have in the past to even get an order. Since all of our regular customers are moving fewer yards, we must find new cus tomers to keep our looms going at near capacity. In our con\bed production, it was necessary to get into miich higher thread count goods to get orders. This re sulted in the most difficult weave we have ever attempted at Joanna. One weave room was able to make this change with fair success, both as to quality, production, and cost. The other weave room could not match this performance so that this project had to be stopped in this room and the looms changed back to print cloth fabrics. This will keep the looms in operation, giving work to our people—making it better than a complete shut down. We do feel that in this room, had we been able to meet the quality and production standards of the high count combed goods, this would have been the best fabric to weave as it holds a more stable fu ture than the mass-produced print cloth market. We must operate at top efficiency and quality, at the same time holding down costs in every possible way. We at Joanna Cotton Mills are fighting for our very existence. Our future, our jobs depend on our operating in such a way that we can offer good cloth at low enough prices that it will sell despite the very tight, depressed market. If we have the will to win and each one does his or her part, Joanna Cotton Mills can weather the storm, but we must all give our best efforts or we fail. Beat The High Cost of Clothing IT PAYS TO SEW! AD Notions and Materials in easy-to-reach shopping at CAROLINA REMNANT SHOP. DRAPERY AT THE BEST PRICES New Fall Materials arriving for your best selections. New Cotton Sateen Prints for Fall Sewing. “IT’S ‘SEW’ SMART TO SEW!” CAROLINA Remnant Shop Main Street Newberry, S. C. CAROLINA METAL WORKS Sheet Metal - Heating - Air Conditioning COLLEGE ST. EXTN. TEL. 115 A. G. McCAUGHRIN, President & Treasurer. “Where do we get the money?” This is a'real question and it presents a real problem. The Sun, a greatly esteemed weekly of Newberry, carries the question as a headline. What’s the trouble? Let’s read the story, as carried in The Sun: “We realize the Grand Jury has broad powers,. Mr. Keitt continued. We had a bond issue to try to get all of this work done, but the people of the county turned it down by a two-to-one vote. If they provide the money, weTl put in all the fire escapes they want, even to putting them in the court house. I haven’t seen any there, he added; I guess that building is fire-proof. Continuing his denunciation, the board member said ‘we are getting hopped on by the Grand Jury, by those inter ested in athletics, by the band people. They all say 'you’ve got to set up a budget for us.’ It appears to me that we are sort of in the fix of a snapping turtle with a bunch of dogs all snapping at him. We haven’t been out to defend ourselves we have nothing to hide. After asserting that ‘operational costs’ are so high that ‘we cannot set aside any money for repairs’, Mr. Keitt ad vanced the opinion that T feel people should know where every cent is going’ and made a formal motion that expen ditures for teachers, fuel, janitors, athletics and all be re leased in its entirety if the newspapers wished to publish it. No one seems to know exactly what are the powers of a Grand Jury, but, in general, the function of a Grand Jury is to look around and make sure that the laws are being obey ed or enforced; and that citizens enjoy their legal rights. In the case before us, the County Board of Education does not seem to have violated any law; nor did the Board fail to do anything that the law requires. I am not meddling in Newberry County; I am deeply interested as a student of law. The Grand Jury may present to the court certain findings or certain recommendations, but what can the court do? The County Treasurer of Newberry County cannot dis burse public money on the order of the Grand Jury or of the Court. The budget for Newberry County is an Act of the Legis lature and the only money expendable must be authorized by the General Assembly. So where are we? I do not for a moment question the necessity for the course suggested by the Grand Jury; nor do I doubt the wil lingness, even eagerness, of the Board.to provide all sug gested facilities, but unless the funds are provided what is to be done? Well, now, lets do all that may be possible to develop South Carolina. The General Electric people have just sent out a bulletin which is headed, ‘WHAT ABOUT PAY INCREASES WHICH STARVE RECOVERY AND FEED INFLATION?” They say they have this escalator clause in their contract and it is a terrible mistake and is retarding recovery. They present a chart which shows that during the years 1950- 1956 the production per man hour, with all the benefits of modern machinery and equipment, increased less than 1%, while in the meantime wages increased more than twenty times that amount. I was in a little argument with Leon Keyserling recent ly ; he now gets out quite a bit of information on our Econ omy. He is a native of Beaufort County and for several years was one of the principal advisors to President Roose velt. He sent me one of his booklets in which he wrote that wages had not contributed to inflation. I wrote and told him I just couldn’t understand how that could be the sit uation, that the best I could calculate somewhere in the neighborhood of 90% of the cost of everything used, both durable and non-durable goods, was represented by cost of labor; the raw materials amount to less than 10%. And if an article in 1941 cost $100 and was now costing $200, and meanwhile the cost of wages had doubled, then I asked how he could possibly say that increased wages had not caused the increased price in these goods and thereby caused in flation. He acknowledged my letter but didn’t answer it. To be perfectly frank about it, he didn’t have a lie that would fit.” Prosperity News MRS. B. T. YOUNO, man*. Mrs. Ollie Rankin, Rt. 4, Lees- ville. Mrs. Myrtle Ellen Ruff, Rt. 2, N* 0wfo©nry. Mr. W.’ D. Stillwell, 112 Glenn St., Newberry. Mrs. Ethel Shealy, Prosperity. Welborn Baby Boys, 1203 Ke- roes Ave. James Cannon, Rt. 1, Silver- street. Roseanna Caldwell, Rt. 1. Mollie Moses, 815 Bess St. Anna Marshall, 1125 Turner St. Rosa Lee Rutherford 2172 Dray ton street. Willie Lee Suber 713 Coates St. Mildred Simpkins 1693 Vincent street. John Henry Turner Route 1, Newberry, S. C. “You don’t spend money, you save it when you pick up bargains like this with an auto loan from Purcells.” There’s an auto loan to fit every need. If you need extra cash in a hurry, give us a call—it’s 197.” (f'urcelli “Your Private Bankers” 1418 Main St. Newberry I’ve just read the address of my very able friend, B. M. Edwards, which- he delivered over in Hampton, to those worthy citizens and their thousands of friends. I am an adopted son of Hampton myself, for I have the honor to speak to those good people over their radio and through their excellent paper which Tom O'Connor sends out with sound editorials every week. You can’t fool Tom by a fake delivery; he keeps his eye on the ball—to use the language of base ball. Anothr friend there is an honored son, George Warren, a mellow philosopher and sage. And I am so fortunate as to have many other stalwart friends in Hampton, some of whom I taught years ago. I like to quote Mr. Edwards because he courageously says what he thinks. Often times Mr. Edwards says what most others think but have not the courage to say—in public. From the fullness of a varied and fruitful experience, Mr. Edwards brings a forthright message of great timeliness. When I began reading the address and saw his compli ment to the manly beauty of “Dusty” Rhodes, the Comp troller General, I thought “B. M.” is so full of watermelon he loves everybody; but all those words of praise and appre ciation were just his happy method of introducing very ser ious topics. “I say positively that I am not opposed to organized La bor, but with equal positiveness I say that I am opposed to Labor racketeering. I believe in the RIGHT TO WORK Bill which is on the statute books of South Carolina, and I wish it could be adopted nationwide. The Constitution of the United States guarantees freedom to its individuals, and I don’t think it right or proper that any man or woman should be required to join and pay dues to a Labor Union in order to have employment. I am opposed to many of the ethics and operations of some of the Labor Unions, such as boycotts. Many of the economists of this country today say that or ganized Labor, through its continued demands for the ever and over-all increase in wages annually has been respon sible for ‘recessing us into a recession’. Many of the workers in this country today—steel, rail road, auto and electric, altogether about five million, have escalator clauses in their contracts that provide for auto matic increases based on the cost of living index. This is a vicious thing, and I don’t know of anything that has con tributed more to the inflationary spiral. If a worker covered by one of these agreements is buying an article that costs a dollar and the price goes up to $1.10, the cost of living in dex indicates a 10 percent rise in the cost of living. Then he automatically gets 10 percent more and will still have the money to buy that same article. But that doesn’t apply to some sixty million other workers in America, of whom more than forty-five million do not belong to a Labor or ganization, and they are suffering. Mrs. Carrie Eargle of Colum bia is spending this week with her sister, Mrs. J. A. Sease. Mr. and Mrs. Cornell Beden- baugh, Rodney and Sally Beden- baugh, Mrs. J. L. Counts and Mis? Annie Hunter spent Sunday in Easley with Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bedenbaugh. The Clyde Beden- baugh home was the scene of a family reunion joining the Pros perity group from Easley for the reunion were Mrs. Lena S. Wheel er, Webb Wheeler and Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Samson of Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. J. Frank Browne and Mrs. P. W. Smith went to Denmark Sunday to see Mrs. EM Pri^e whose husband d’ed suddenly Sat urday night. Mrs. Price is the former Carolyn Wise. Peggy. Pat and Mike Harmon of Dallas, Texas, are visiting their grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. George W. Harmon. Mrs. Wallace Harmon brought the children here but has joined Mr. Harmon on a visit to Washington, D. C. Mrs. W. J. Wise of Columbia, Mrs. Ed Price and her two chil dren of Denmark were guests of Mrs. J. Frank Browne last Wed nesday and Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Luther Sr., Mr. and Mrs. James Luther left Tuesday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kislevitz and family in River Edge, N. J. Misses Crystal and Rebecca Reynolds of Georgetown spent last week with their cousin, Debra Caldwell. John Sease of Dunnellon, Fla. and Mrs. J. J. Shannon and her four children of Columbia were guests last Friday of Mrs. J. A. Sease and Miss Grace Sease. Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Mills spent the weekend in Greenville. They went to attend the christening of their youngest granddaughter, Gayle Camp, on Sunday. Mrs. Pat Wise and Miss Phyl lis Wise spent the weekend in Athens, Ga., as guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Scott. Sonny Scott, who had been with his grandmoth er for two weeks returned home with them. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Foster and their two sons, Rick and Lee spent the wekend with Mr. Fos ter’s parents in Kings Mountain, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hill and their two sons, Russell and Mike, of Chattanooga, Tenn., spent last week with Mrs. Hill’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Connelly. Misses Susie and Mary Lang ford spent last Thursday in Wil- liamston as guests of the J. C. Rentzes. Mrs. J. C. Taylor and Miss Re becca Taylor of Charleston came to Denmark for the Price funeral and came on the Prosperity for a short visit. Hospital Patients Mrs. Dorothy C. Amick, Rt. 4. Miss Eleanor Amick, Rt. 1, Prosperity. Mrs. Rossie Avery, 305 West Columbia Ave., Clinton. Mrs. Janet Adams, Rt. 1, Pros perity. Ira Bouknight, 346 Crosson St. Brenda Bowers, Little Moun tain. Mrs. Lula Bundrick, Pomaria. Henry Boozer, Player St. Tiller Connelly, Rt. 3, Prosper ity. Mrs. Janie Dawkins, 2130 Nance St. Billy Dominidk, Box 31, Silver- street. Mrs. Jim Denny, 2120 Glenn St. Mrs. Annie Darby, 820 Bound ary St. Mrs. Ruth Frick, Little Moun tain. Mrs. lola Franklin, Rt. 3. Mrs. Annie Graham, Rt. 2, Po maria. Mr. Charle* Hendrix, 509 Floyd St Mrs. Margaret Hanna, Rt. 1, Newberry. Mrs. Josephine Harris and Baby Girl, 2540 Fair Ave. Mrs. Vinnie L. Hinnant, 2128 Harper St Mrs. Malie Koon, Rt. 3, Pros perity. Miss Annie Knotts, Prosperity. Mrs. Mary Lipscomb, . 2309 Johnstone St. Mrs. Ruth McCrackin and Baby Girl, Rt. 3. Mrs. Grace Mills, Prosperity. Mrs. Thelma Mars, Whitmire. Mrs. Estelle Marlowe, 1519 Harrington St. Mrs. Euna Mize, Rt 1. Mrs. Martha S. Nickhols, Rt. 3, Prosperity. Freddie Pitts, 942 Cline St. Little Marty Ruff, Rt. 2, Po- DEED TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 Harvey Driggers to Curtis Hipp, one lot on Adelaide St., $5.00 and other valuable consid erations. Dens ton J. Bedenbaugh to W. R. Dickert, one lot and one build ing, 1900 Milligan St, $3100. Marie L. Gallman to J. Dave Caldwell, one lot on Emory St, $250. Newberry No. 1 Outside Elvia D. Burton to Helen B. Bedenbaugh, one lot and , one building, 2007 River St., $5.00 love and affection. Walton B. Halfacre to F. M. Schumpert, one lot $600. Lillie E. Wright to Sallie Werts and Thomas Werts, Rt 4, Box 20, three acres (Helena Village) $250. Naason Sheppard, Bryant Shep pard and Everwright. S. Griffin to James Sheppard, 22.33 acres, $1.00 love and affection (1-2 interest). Dana L. Sawyer to Lynette M. Sawyer, one lot one-half undivid ed interest on Alex Avenue, $5.00 love and affection. Silverstreet No. 2 G. T. Epting to Marvin S. Les- ter* .75 acre, $5.00 love and affec tion. Whitmire Now 4 Electria Huckaby to Olin Huck- aby Jr., one lot, one-half interest $5.00 love and affection. Whitmire No. 4 Outside Earl Whitmire to Joe H. Bond, one lot on Lake Street, $505.00. Joe H. Bonds to JF. P. Nance and Edith W. Nance, one lot and one building on Lake St, $10.00 and other valuable considerations. Pomaria No. 5 William H. Caldwell, Chairman and James D. Brown, Secretary, The Newberry County Board of Education, to The Mt Hebron Community Center, 2.11 acres, $500. : Mrs. Faye E. Chapman to Wal ter Kiker, one lot, in Town of Peak, $1000. Capers W. Crumpton to Dr. A. J. Bedenbaugh, 36.43 acres, $150. Building Permits July 17: Evans Williams, four room wood frame dwelling on Hol loway St, $2495. July 18: Roberta Baker, gen eral repairs to dwelling and small out house, 826 Hunter St, $500; G. Wayne Martin, general repairs to dwelling, 1002 Glenn St, $2,- 000; Mrs. W. J. Swittenburg, re pairs to dwelling on Harrington St, $90; Rudolph A. Fugerson, one five room wood frame brick veneer dwelling on Evans St., $7,962. Recent Births Recent births at the Newberry County Memorial Hospital in clude: > Barbara Alice Gilliam, six pound one ounce daughter bom July 14 to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jessie Gilliam of 1106 Marion St The mother is the former Ida Catherine Smith. Janet MaHe Metis, seven pound, two ounce daughter bom July 16 to Mr. and Mrs. Everett Lester Metis of Little Mountain. Mrs. Metis is the former Janice Edith Huffstetler. Lauren Lyon Coats, six pound, six ounce daughter bOrn ' July 17 to Mr. and JImu Howard' Eugene Coats of 2803 Hunt Ave. Mrs. Coates before marriage, was Mild red Rose Eargle. Ranie Miller, eight pound, 15 ounce baby born July 18“*to Mr. and Mrs. Alton Ray Miller of Rt. 3, Batesburg. The mother is the former Hazel Magalene Perdue. Teresa Ann Harris, eight pound* eight ounce daughter bom July 19 to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Raymond Harris, of 2540 Fair Ave. Mrs. Harris before marriage was Jos ephine Walker. 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