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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1968
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By SPECTATOR
Call Linbergh; he is sorely needed. The many plane crash
es must prove that somebody, somewhere, somehow fails in
some way. How and why I don’t know. Perhaps in building
a plane we need the Yankee thoroughness of the man who
’ built the wonderful one-hoss shay. Do you remember it? The
crafty artisan of New England who observed that vehicles
broke down because the strain was greater in certain parts
and so calculated the strains and stresses so that every
strain and the degree of strain was foreseen and provided
for minutely and exactly, so that after generations of fre
quent use the wonderful shay just suddenly went to pieces
all at one time and completely because that sagacious New
Englander had so mathematically constructed it that no
part was weaker than another, considering strains, and so
when it was beyond serviceability the whole contraption lit
erally blew up, broke up, resolved itself into smithereens,
you know.
Linbergh seems to have the eagle eye, the calculating
brain, the mastery of detail all the essential qualities needed
today to assure planes that are built to withstand all the
strain of speed, vibration, pressure and whatever else re
sults in crashes.
Let us call on Charles Linbergh to train inspectors whose
zeal and skill will detect and provide against weaknesses in
the air craft.
The persistence of President Eisenhower in advocating
the futile throwing away of American billions for somewhat
childish programs of economic uplift in Europe, Asia, Africa
and South America appalls me and makes me wonder wheth
er our public men have come hypnotized or mesmerized; or
whether they merely suffer from acute hallucination such
as sometimes afflicts a man from a heavy berbecue supper
with liquid trimmings.
Money authorized, but still unspent might almost balance
the National deficit.
In mathematics it is found necessary to have a clear state
ment of the problem as a preliminary to solving it.
Well anyone can state our problem. Let’s see about it:
America is excessively taxed, overburdened with taxes.
Isn’t that correct ? Americans are unequally taxed: some pay
10^; some pay 20 % ; some pay 30 % ; some pay 50 % and on to
91 % . How is that for vicious discrimination in the land of
the free?
At bottom, what is the meaning of this as well as the re
sult of it? A discouragement of thrift, productiveness and
the availability of savings for productive capital invest
ment.
America has departed so far from equal justice that we
have wholesale, flagrant discrimination for one group and
against another.
. Through arbitrary rulings of Government Commissions
no one can tell what the law is today or what it may be to
morrow. We are becoming—or have become—a land ruled
by whims, fancies, prejudices and prepossessions. The ruling
idea is “Get it if you can or while you can”, right or wrong.
If President Eisenhower would retrieve his forgotten
pledges let him take an axe and cut off all foreign aid and
about 20^ of the welfare coddling. Let him veto the appro
priation Bill, even though it may include his pay and allow
ances and stop the whole machinery. I know that he has no
authority to veto items of the Bill, but would he veto
“Foreign Aid”? No; so he would fail to use the veto help
fully. But let him send the whole Bill back to Congress and
let him stand right there untp the Santanic Kingdom turns
to solid ice, if need be. That would be like old Grover Cleve
land, eh?
When I read about what goes on, the foolish regulations,
the oppressive and restrictive taxes—and all the rest—I’m
almost impelled to quote Patrick Henry: “If that be justice,
God save the Commonwealth”.
Who cares for Patrick Henry today? Or noble George
Washington? They were just the old fogeys, living in a
horse and buggy day, or, rather, a horse-back day. But thej
had a horse-sense at any rate. It is said that riding a horse
will result in acquiring horse-sense. Up to the present I do
not know what intellectual acumen or acuteness results from
driving a car seventy miles an hour. It calls for a lot of
c-e-n-t-s.
Sometimes I wonder if I read well, or understand what I
read. I do not refer to Political Platforms or politicians’ pro
grams, for they are not to be taken seriously. Rather, as in
the case of certain very potent drugs, they are to be taken
occasionally and in small doses, and with a lot of water. But,
who prepare advertisements, I still like to think that at least
a modicum of truth may be found therein, though they be
like chiffon pie.
My insurance brethren have me guessing. I have before
me an advertisement “How do you know your business is
really covered by adequate insurance? I’ve heard that and
read that. Adequate insurance; a sum necessary to rebuild,
having in mind the ever-increasing cost of replacement.
I recently was told by an insurance adjuster that a house
was over-insured, although the agents are supposed to in-
Orange Bread For Fall Entertaining
The fall season is a good reason to be baking warm, fragrant
fruit breads. You can build a PTA meeting, bridge club luncheon
or the family’s TV snack around this new blend.
Fresh, sunny California orange is combined with cranberries,
nuts and just the right amount of nutmeg to make a bread that has
everything . .. flavor, texture and looks.
Serve this golden west specialty with butter and orange marma
lade or cream cheese balls that have been rolled in grated orange
peel. Quite a treat!
Golden West
1 medium orange, cut up
1 cup fresh cranberries
Va cup brown sugar
2 eggs
Yz cup oil
% cup brown sugar
2 cups sifted flour
Orange Bread
2 teaspoons baking powder
y 4 teaspoon soda
y 4 teaspoon salt
y 2 teaspoon nutmeg
y 4 cup milk
Vi cup walnuts, chopped
Put cut up orange and cranberries through food thopper. Com
bine with Vi cup brown sugar. Set aside. Beat eggs until light and
fluffy. Add oil gradually beating constantly. Add sugar slowly and
continue beating until mixture is thick. Sift dry ingredients to
gether and add alternately with orange mixture and milk. Fold in
nuts. Pour into greased 9x5x3-inch loaf pan. Bake in moderate
oven (350°) for 1 hour. Cool thoroughly before slicing.
spect, I thought. It was suggested that the Companies should
rebuild the house, but they insist on disregarding the cost of
replacement. So, I wonder what is meant, don’t you?
Well, The News and Courier carries a message from New
York that reminds us that, in a day of rising costs, there is
an important service which is still very cheap and yet more
dependable every day.
“What costs the average home less today than 30 years
ago, or 20 or 10 years ago?
It is a kilowatt-hour (KWH) of electric energy. While
nearly every other thing has.gone up in price, the KWH has
gone down.
Thirty years ago, a KWH in the home, cost about seven
cents; today, about three cents. When you consider that the
purchasing power of the dollar has gone down, and the con
sumer’s price index has gone up 90 percent, the comparison
is still more astonishing.
Compare the cost of the electric energy used in the aver
age home, with the cost of an equal amount of energy sup
plied by human muscle.
The average home today uses about 3,000 KWH a year,
costing—at three cents—about $90.
An average, able-bodied workingman exerts in a year
energy equal to 67 KWH. If it were possible for men to do
the job, it would take over 40 men to produce 3,000 KWH a
year.
How much would 40 house servants cost a year, not count
ing free board and room, and no vacations? Not less than
$80,000, compared to $90. Some bargain!
This is what the privately-owned electric power industry,
together with the manufacturers of electric appliances—
from washing machines to curling irons, have done for you.
Yet the public power Socialists call them ‘enemies of the
people’.”
It is quite a coincidence, but The State, the same day, car
ried an Associated Press dispatch from Richmond which
tells us:
“Sales of electricity in the 5th District have increased 125
percent in the last 10 years, says the Federal Reserve of
Richmond.
However, the increase was 8 per cent below the national
gain, the bank adds in its monthly review of business in Vir
ginia, the Carolinas, West Virginia, Maryland and the Dis
trict of Columbia. Sales to industrial consumers in the dis
trict did not equal those of the country as a whole.
Commercial sales of power in the district have far out
stripped United States growth, the reserve said. Residential
sales of power also have been above average, mainly as a re
sult of gains in the Carolinas and Virginia. One large affect
ing power consumption in these three states is that their
population increases have been exceeding the country’s rate
of growth, the monthly review said.”
Have you any idea of the ever-increasing vigilance, the
constant planning, the ever-increasing millions that make
the splendid service we enjoy?
Do you know Bowman? Once called Bowman Town, it is a
wide-awake community in Orangeburg County. Perhaps
you’ve heard of Providence and North Providence, Elloree,
Holly Hill and Harleyville.
Have you ever driven through Vance? Did you take note
of the opulence of Summerton?
Well Bowman once was associated by me with Bob Conner,
the one and only Bob who was an inimitable figure in the
General assembly some years ago and whom I still cherish as
a rugged individualist.
But Bowman is the center of twenty nine dairies. Think
of it 29. Quite an enterprise, eh? 29 dairies.
I F YOU have a freezer or even
a freezing compartment, use
these suggestions.
Freeze leftover fruit juice in
cubes and store in freezer. For a
quick beverage place several
cubes in glass, fill with gingerale
and serve.
Waffle sections and pancakes
may be frozen. Place several
thicknesses of waxed paper be
tween them and wrap in package
dr foil. Reheat pancakes in broiler
and waffles in toaster before serv-
THIS WEEK’S RECIPE
Minute Chutney
(Makes (% cup)
V 4 cup chopped pear or apple
% cup canned mincemeat
1 tablespoon chopped green
pepper
1 tablespoon vinegar ,
1 teaspoon grated onion
Combine all ingredients and
serve as a relish with meat.
ing They need not be thawed
first.
Frozen sliced bread may be
toasted without thawing. It takes
a few seconds longer than fresh
bread, but it’s Just as delicious.
Keep rolls of cookie dough
wrapped in freezer paper, then
slice and bake, while still frozen,
if you need cookies in a hurry.
Use the drugstore wrap for
freezer packaging. Bring the edges
of paper or foil together, then
fold several times until fold is
flat against food, press out air,
turn edges under and seal with
freezer tape.
Assorted pieces of cake, fruit or
chiffon pies may be wrapped and
placed in the freezer. In this way
you can serve a surprise assort
ment when the occasion calls for
refreshments.
Package sliced roast meat or
turkey in small amounts, placing
a double thickness of freezer pa
per between layers for easy sep
aration. Thaw in original wrap
pings when needed.
1 REMEMBER”
tv THOU TOURS
From Mrs. Ollie S. Branden
burg, Beattyville, Ky.—I remem
ber well 00 years ago when I was
0-years-old, hearing my parents
and grandparents tell of their child
hood days. My great-grandmother
told how they made their own
clothes and shoes (they only had
one pair) and that they went bare
footed through summer. And the
difficulty they had in getting flour,
sugar, etc. They had to dry ber
ries, com and other items for
winter use ... no jars to put
things up in those days.
My father and mother bought a
small farm on a wooded section
and father paid for it in work at
50 cents a day and I’ve heard
them say many times they had
only bread for breakfast.
I am the oldest of seven children
and used to tend to the small ones
while mother helped dad outdoors.
When my brother and.sister were
old enough to use a hoe, we three
children wen* to the fields with
dad early in the .morning and
worked until sundown. About four
o’clock in the afternoon, mother
would bring us some milk and
bread. We would eat and feel
greatly refreshed—and could go
ahead until sundown.
Mother spun and wove blankets
and I have filled many quills on
the little spinning wheel for her
to weave with. Dad raised sheep.
I helped shear them, wash and
pick wool which was sent to Boone-
ville. where there was a carding
factory.
(Send contributions to this column to
The Old Timer. Box 39, Frankfort, Ky.)
ITALIAN FISHERWOMAN? . . .
It m. It's a new style ns Clara
Cappola, M, testifies. She is
Miss Italy is Cbe Mias Mserse
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There’s so much more in a home
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Homes should be planned with
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A home represents the ultimate
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It should be planned with
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The Newberry Sun now offers
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Each week, The Sun will pub
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SCNB Announces
Dividends
Payment of a regular quarter
ly dividend of 50 cents per share
and an extra dividend of 50 cents
per share has been approved by
the Directors of the South Caro
lina National Bank.
W. W. McEachern, President of
SCN, announced that the Board
of Directors, in their regular mon
thly meeting, had approved the
regular and extra dividends to be
payable on January 2, 1959, to
shareholders of record on Decem
ber 15, 1958. Dividends to be paid
by this authorization will total
$373,400.
The Board of Directors also
authorized the bank to become a
member of the Business Develop
ment Corporation of South Caro
lina and to participate in loans
made by the Corporation.
The purpose of the Business
Development is to provide long
term credit to certain agricultur
al and manufacturing enterprises
to help develop the State induct-
rially and agriculturally. The Cor
poration is subject to the 1958 Act
which created it and to the regul
ations of the Board of Bank Con
trol.
Approval by SCN’s Board of
Directors for the bank to partici
pate in the newly organized Busi
ness, Development Corporation as
a member marked the first such
announced action by a major bank
in South Carolina. The Corpora
tion is a privately financed organ
ization which has as its primary
objective the greater development
of the State’s industrial potentiaL
In comenting on this action by
the Board of Directors, Mr.
McEachern said:
“The purpose of the South
Carolina National Bank in becom
ing a member of the Corporation
is to try to assist to an even
greater degree in the business
and industrial development of our
State. Through our Business and
Industrial Development Division
and through the efforts of our en
tire organization, it shall always
be ocr objective for the South
Carolina National Bank to work
for the greater benefit of the
State and its people, and we be
lieve that this is a forward step in
the direction of greater progress."
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