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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1968
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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
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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.
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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.
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need. If you need extra cash in a
hurry, give us a call—it’s 197.”
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“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.
Laurie Bird McCrackin, six
pound, 15 ounce daughter bora
July 20 to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Thaddeus McCrackin of Rt. 3.
Mrs. McCrackin is the former Ed
na Ruth Webster.
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