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* * M? 4 PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 195S mn 1218 Coikc« Strict 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 Since the Congress and many of our leaders have agreed on the intervention by us in Asia it would seem propitious to have national conventions of citizens to arrive at a sane national policy. Are we to police the world ? Let us face the facts: we are assuming the duty of maintaining order throughout the world. Why should we feel it as our obligation to combat Communism everywhere? We would do well to combat it in America. And we mean to fight it why not go to the source Russia? It is quite proper to hip—hip hurrah in a spirit of knightly mission, but our policy may lead to further entaglement and to war unless we are willing to wage on all fronts, from Dan to Beersheba, we should concen— trate our strength here in America. After all, we are only a few days from any zone of battle; we need not to maintain forces all over the world. Russia is not deterred from offensives and aggrandize— ment by our forces in England, France and Germany, but by the unlimited potential of America at heme. We are losing our ancient spirit, even in Congress. And we are submitting to all manner of usurpation of authority. I am in no sense interested in any steel plant, corporation of operation, so I speak only as a Commentator when I ask to oppose the price of steel? It may be too high, or it may be too low: I don’t know. But are we to have Congress ional intervention all the time? Is Congress all-powerful and omniscient? We are not drifting; we are plunging headlong into a government of unlimited powers. Is that wholesome? I am a very small figure and of no importance, but if thousands of us small fry had the spirit of our Revolution ary ancestors we would draw other thousands to us in the name of sound, constitutional government. I still think the president is an engaging figure, a patriot a man who means supremely well, but must we accept Mr. Eisenhower in preference to our Constitution and the long, established American tradition? And now the light of publicity has been turned on those quiet, retiring druggists, pharmacists, oneje called pill- rollers. What’s it all about? When I was a boy in Charleston a glass of “soda water” cost five cents, with extra ice and perhaps, a wee bit more syrup. I wonder if my distinguished and revered friend, Mr. Julian Mitchell, could support what I’m saying. In the good old days a drug store was a drug store; you couldn’t buy hot dogs there. In fact there were no hot dogs. Today, in many drug stores, the druggist is hid den away, while alert clerks sell everything from alarm clocks to bracelets and straw hats. Even so, Edgefield, the fine old town of friendly folks, is far ahead of the procession for my remembered friends, Doctor Penn and Mr. Jule Holston, had a combination store of drugs,toiletries, groceries of all kinds - -staple, fancy, light, heavy and medium. They were years ahead of the times. “While many a merchant is scouting around for new products to put pep in his sales, lots of the nation’s drug stores are finding a new lift in an old line. These happy druggists, elbowing their way through stacks of magazines camping equipment and toys, have rediscovered prescription drugs. Some druggists are so enchanted by rising drug sales that they’re actually kicking out that long-time earmark of the corner drug( store - the soda fountain - to make room for more pills and powders. And in most new or re modeled stores, the prescription counter is being pushed out to a more prominent position. The reason is not hard to find. Prescription sales last year totaled $1.7 billion, nearly four times the total for as recent a year as 1947, and another gain seems sure even in this recession year of 1958. Says Justin Dart, ‘Prescriptions are the life blood of our business. Along with self service, the increased em phasis on prescription sales is the most important trend in our business’. A few of the moves required of stores: Move the prescription counter up front where every customer can see it. Raise the prescription department eight inches above the mainfloor - - to show it off and to permit the pharma cists on duty to boss store operations. Pay more attention to drug displays by use of colorful containers and catchy signs. Drug stores are finding this good advice. Walk off the street into the air-conditioned atmosphere, of a Drug Store in Torrance, Calif., and the first thing you’ll see in the large, general merchandise drug store is a brightly-lighted prescription counter, raised on a platform above the rest of the store. In Clarksburg, W. Va., another enterprising druggist has abandoned everything but pre scriptions; for customers’ comfort, the front of his store is deeply carpeted. And in Ventura, Calif., a Midway Pharmacy is featuring a drive-in prescription window. Not only are prescriptions sales rising - - they’re also accounting for a steadily growing share of the druggists’ total business. Lumping all drug stores together - -big and little, chain and independent prescriptions now account for 25.5% of total store sales, up from 21.1 in 1953 and from a mere 16.2% back in 1947, according to American Druggist, a trade magazine. By contrast, during the last five years the tobacco dep artment declined in percentage of total drug store sales from 6.8% to 5.8%; fountain sales from 12.5 to 10.6%, and toiletries from 10.7 to 10.3%. Helping to push up prescription dollar value has been a swift rise to the price of the average prescription. Ac cording to figures compiled by .a big drug maker, the average prescription in 1942 cost 99 cents. By 1947, the figure had risen to $1.41. And by 1957, according to the American Druggist, the average American was shelling out $2.93 each time he had a prescription filled. To a large extent, the upswing is explained by inflation; a dollar, as everyone knows, just doesn’t buy as much as it did in that early World War II year of 1942. But that’s only part of the story. Modern medical research has dev eloped a lot of new drugs for sufferers who a decade or so ago simply would have had to grin and bear it, or just plain bear it; some of these new drugs are costly enough to give a hefty upward push to total prescription sales. And, with swiftly rising individual incomes, doctors are more free to prescribe more of these expensive drugs. Still another factor tending to push up prescription prices: The pharmacist’s own wages. In southern Calif ornia, for example, a pharmacist with a fresh professional degree can command a starting wage of as much as $4 an hour, compared with a top of $2.50 as recently as 1947. A spokesman for a Los Angeles-based chain, figures the average pharmacist pulls down $10,000 a year, fig uring in fringe benefits, for working a 40—hour week. Just what a druggist charges for a prescription, how ever, depends a lot on competition. A operator of a inde pendent drug store in Duarte, Calif., heads a pharmacists’ trade group in his area, includes a fixed charge on every prescription he fills and is trying to encourage other druggists to do likewise. He adds to the cost of materials a 40% markup, plus a flat fee of $1.25 which he says, is supposed to offset overhead, such as rent light and labor A manof Bangor, Maine, adds 40% to wholesale drug costs and lets it go at that. Other druggists fiddle with pricing charts prepared by pharmaceutical trade journals.” In a small town the druggist is sort of general helper to ■all and sundry. “Doc”, I’ve got a pain”; “Doc”, what’s good for this, that and the other” ? And the “Doc” fixes him up and sends him on his way rejoicing. Strom; lurmond FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension information Specialist SOUTH CAROLINA PEACHES In all of the crop improvement recent years have seen, none has been more than with peaches. By following best orchard practices and quick chilling the fruit soon after it is picked, the public, even in the far places, is getting South Carolina peaches in their prime, and second to none. I was talking with one of our best orchardists, B. B. Jolley of Chesnee, back in the spring. I never saw neater, bettier kept orchards than his. He told a group there: “If you violate Clemson’s orchard schedule, you pj*y for it. There’s a time for everything, and it sometimes varies from season to season. Roy Ferree keeps us posted on that in his weekly broadcasts from Clemson. Just Monday he said we had better add a little sulphur, that was not in cluded in the printed spray sched ule. I stopped my spray rig right then and did as he said. For I’ve found he really knows peaches.” Now folks, that’s just about what it takes in every farming line now. You had better plan and try to do it right, or let it alone. We don’t know everything. But a lot is known. Clemson has it, and it’s available to you through the specialists and local county agents. All you have to do to get it is call upon ’em. The Little Rock Case I hope that the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals will sustain the decision of District Judge Harry J. Lemley suspending integration at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. However, I am not at all confident that the court will, inasmuch as none of the judges are from the South. This circumstance is a dangerous deviation from the principle that local judges, familiar with local problems, should, whenever pos sible, have jurisdiction over legal controversies arising from the in famous 1954 Supreme Court de cision on segregation. The sevent judges who will hear the appeal from Judge Lemley’s order are residents of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, and Missouri. Even attributing full sincerity to these men, they cannot be in the best position to decide questions involving education and local law enforcement in other sections of the country. Need For Understanding I have contended all along that he Federal courts have no juris diction over problems of educa tion. Under our Constitution, edu cation is a subject reserved to the States, since it was never dele gated to the Federal government by the States. In my opinion, ev ery order of the Federal courts in the Little Rock ca^se, from the ori ginal Supreme Court decision to Judge Lesley’s recent order sus pending integration, is unconsti tutional. However, Judge Lemley’s order, in which he agreed with the Lit tle Rock Board of Education that integration at the present time is not feasible, at least had the merit of recognizing the facts of life in the South. Judge Lemley, a na tive of Virginia, is a resident of Arkansas. He is in a position to understand the problems of Ar kansas. There is a great need for such a local understanding in adjudi cating legal cases growing out of the segregation controversy. Judge Davies’ Order The tragic events of last Sep tember, when the President un lawfully ordered Federal troops into Central High School, grew from an unwise court order by Judge Ronald Davies, a resident of North Dakota. Judge Davies, sitting temporarily as the District Judge in Little Rock, ordered the Governor of the State to withdraw the National Guard from the posi tions to which the Governor had assigned it, in his efforts to main tain order in Little Rock. Subsequent events proved that this North Dakota judge did not understand the depth of feeling in Little Rock in opposition to the integration of the public high school. If a local judge had heard this case, the President might not have had the occasion to order Federal troops into the school. Dangers In Centralization This is clearly another example of the dangers in over-centraliza tion of the government. The Founders of our govern ment realized that the best govern ment is that which is close to the people. The principle of local self- government, which permits the government to adjust itself easily to local needs, is one of our best safeguards against tyranny. Federal interference in local systems flies in the face of the Constitution and the principle of local self-government. It is a step toward centralized tyranny. Recoving After Car Accident Mrs. Thompson Dennis has been released from the Newberry Coun ty Memorial Hospital where she underwent treatment for injuries received in an automobile accident near Cheraw early Friday morn ing. Mr. Dennis is still hospitaliz ed and the passenger riding with them, Jennie O’Dell, is in a hos pital in Charleston. She is report ed to be recovering satisfactorily. The Dennises were en route to their home in Newberry after a visit with . their daughter, Mrs. Billy O’Dell and her well-known husband who is a pitcher with the Baltimore Orioles. COTTON NOW We once grew close to 3 million acres of cotton in this state. This year we have only 384,815 acres not rented to the Soil Bank, ac cording to ASC records. Our planted acreage to cotton has been down, down, down each year now for years. Some blame the farm program for this. But I don’t know about that. Hardly a county has ever planted its full allotment since the farm program started. And this year we put 48 percent of our 739,758 acres al lotment in the Soil Bank. We have large areas not spec ially suited to cotton under all of the present conditions. From CARD OF THANKS Due to our inability to thank each of you personally, we wish to take this means of expressing our sincere gratitude and apprecia tion for the many kindnesses so graciously bestowed upon us dur ing the sudden death of our hus band and father. All of the flor al offerings, trays of food, visits, cards and prayers were so deep ly appreciated. Especially with humble and grateful hearts, would we like to say “thank you” to the personnel of McSwain funeral home, Dr. V. A. Long, Dr. E. J. Dickert, Mr. F. J. Hipp and all of his employ ees. Your thoughtfulness will always remain as a cherished memory. May God bless each of you. The family of the late John C. Wilson. NOTICE OF SALE State of South Carolina, County of Newberry. In the Court of Common Pleas these, the crop is fast going. Take the county where we live, Pickens. As late as 1930 it planted over 40,000 acres of cotton. This year we have only 691.1 acres. But there are farming areas in some counties that would like to have more cotton. They have the lands suited to mechanization, the la bor, and everything that goes into the making of cotton. But they h^ve fared much like other farms that are ill suited to cotton and dop’t want cotton. Many feel it is there our unwanted allotments should be going, and not out of the window. Clemson’s Dr. G. H. Aull sug gested the need for this shifting acreage away back in 1941. Last winter the Sumter Cotton Com mittee passed such a resolution and County Agent Bowen pre sented it at our state cotton meet ing in Columbia. I understand a bill has been introduced in Con gress that would permit a state’s cotton acreage to be thus allocated to areas that want and are in po sition to handle it. We sure need something like that, or cotton seems long gone from these parts eventually. DAIRYING IN BAMBERG Dairying has developed into a major farm income in Bamberg of late. County Agent Hubbard tells me at least half of their dairy cattle are in the test programs that are under way. Building for sure there. Have Benefits Veterans and Federal employees who have exhausted their benefit rights under current regulations and who are still unemployed may be eligible for additional benefits for weeks of unemployment be ginning August 4, 1958, it was an nounced today by Keith R. Aull, executive director of . the South Carolina employment security commission. Mr. Aull stated that the com mission which he represents has arranged for an extension of the «vriating agreement with the Fed eral (Jovernment to pay up to 18 additional weeks of benefits to eligible Federal employees wWb have exhausted their benefit rights to unemployment compensation since June 30, 1957 and are still unemployed after August 4, 1958* The first week for which addition al benefits will be paid is the week beginning August 4. Mr. and Mrs. George will spend the weekend in v—#- leston, where Mr. Dominick WpEt attend the Methodist Conferenjat as an official delegate. Mrs. Mamie Payne, of Mont gomery, Ala., is visiting Mrs. W. L. Miller on Johnstone St. Mrs. J* W. Rawlinson of Marietta, Ga. Is also spending a while with M&. Miller. • i. , A.- Mrs. Fred A. Stewart and chil dren, Peggy and Ricky of Green wich, Conn, are spending tfcfe week with Mrs. Stewart’s grand mother, Mrs. Claude F. La than on Main St. - > '•V ’■m Regina W. Sartor, Plaintiff —vs.— Ernest Carter, Jr. and Fanny S. Wideman, Defendant. Pursuant to an Order of the Court of Common Pleas issued in the above entitled cause, I shall sell at public auction the real property hereinafter described at 11:00 A. M. Monday, September 1, 1958 at the Newberry County Court House. The terms of the sale shall be cash. The successful bidder shall be required to deposit ten (10%) per cent of the bid im mediately after the sale and pay the balance within ten (10) days thereafter. The deposit shall be forfeited upon the successful bid der’s failure to comply with his bid within the time specified. The purchaser shall pay for the cost of the deed and documentary stamps. All that lot or parcel of land_ .known as Lot No. 22 of the J. F. McPherson Survey, lying and being situate in the Town of Whitmire, Newberry County, State of South Carolina, being fifty feet in width and facing on New Street, being one hundred and fifty-two feet in depth and being bounded by Lot No. 21, Lot No. 19 and Lot No. 23, the same being the identical lot of land conveyed to H. L. Parr by deed of Ida Sanders and An- dersons Sanders, recorded in the office of the Clerk of Court for Newberry County, in Deed Book 32 at page 41, and being the identical lot of land conveyed to Mary E. Sartor by Deed of H. L. Parr said Deed being record ed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Newberry County in Deed Book 32, at page 69. E. MAXCY STONE, Master 16-3tc. In Memoriam Whereas, John Crouch Wilson was a faithful and loyal member of the Baraca Class of the First Baptist Church of Newberry, S. C., always ready and willing to do anything called upon for the bet terment or advancement of the class or his fellowman. Now, therefore, be it resolved that we the members of the Bara ca Class, recognizing the fine qualities and loyal devotion of our departed brother, extend bur deep est sympathy to the bereaved fam ily and friends, and hope that the fine Christian life of our brother will continue to be a guide and inspiration to all who knew him. Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forward ed to his fanjily, the Baptist Cour ier and the local newspapers. Committee: W. C. Wallace, Frank Sutton, A. W. Watkins. . August 10, 1958. 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