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PAGE TWO THE NEWBEREY SUN THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1959 .%■ Sun 1218 College 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: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR I can’t endorse the suggestion of my esteemed friend, Mr. Wiggins, that the State must inevitably increase income and sales taxes. I applaud Mr. Wiggins for his courage, for he is himself a big taxpayer and also represents some interests which pay heavily in taxes. I’ve known and appreciated Mr. Wiggins for many years; he is a very admirable gentleman, a thoughtful man and outstanding in his citizenship. But the suggestion to increase the tax burden should come only after a really exhaustive study of what we now spend, as well as the merits of our various services. As a proposition I sub mit that an increase in taxes should be the last expedient and not readily agreed to. Every public service tends to develop some fat. That fat should be “fried out”. . A State has no more right to spend and spend without commensurate benefit than has the father of a family. About every ten years we should examine carefully the full program of the State so that reductions, restrictions and eliminations may be made. And this is a good time to turn the full light of investi gation into our public program. Most citizens who propose new taxes are not themselves very heavy taxpayers; Mr. Wiggins is a very notable except ion, for he is an exceptional contributor to the public with time, ability and money. Nevertheless, in his nobility of pur pose I think he is too generous as well as gracious. Father may not buy a new overcoat and suit this year so let’s send the well-worn garments to be cleaned and press ed, and behold’. Father will look resplendent in his refur bished raiment. A little cleaning and pressing will do wond ers. And so for the State!! Our Congress in its spending spree, reminds me of some one ordering a lot of nice things from numerous mail-order houses, on the installment plan, and then buying on credit from several out-of-towm stores within the State, straining credit at the local stores and having very little cash for church, needing the cash for those other items not found in the catologs. We do not need some of the services; land we could drasti- callycurtail others. Now that requires courage, my brother, for every service, every employee, is vigorously supported by someone and that particular service is the one indispen sable service and must not be touched. We are all alike, aren’t we? We can’t really do what should be done because of X Y and Z, or their father, bro ther or somebody else. We are not free-men, but men owing or assuming a score of obligations which must be paid at the expense of all the taxpayers. Even so. We take our religion very calmly, don’t we ? No longer are we valiant soldiers of the Lord; nor do we sing purposefully “Onward, Christian soldiers”; and recalling “Like a mighty army moves the Church of God, brothers we are treading where the saints have trod”. Ever think of that? Ever wonder who built the first church in your community? I’ve been thinking; we have been fraternizing with the bloody-handed leaders of the Soviet, knowing full w’ell that their purpose is to supplant all that our religion has built for us. Jehovah w r as very strict with the ancient Jew r s, lest they be contaminated by associating with heathens; we wish to enfold the Soviet in our brotherly embrace. At bottom w ? e have very little faith; we still marvel at the Israelites for murmuring when the Red Sea lay before them and the em battled hosts of Egypt were coming from the rear. But w r e fear that the might of Russia may overwhelm us; and so we put God to one side and deal kindly with those whose pro claimed purpose is to banish God and uproot Christianity. Now what sort of people are the Soviets? I quote the Eas ley Progress: “As America moves further and further into the Social ist State protesting the name, but eager for the so-called benefits it is incumbent on all thinking citizens to reflect on the warning of Cardinal Cushing of Boston. ‘When I was a boy living in a poor section, it v r as unknown that the poor would not go to Church. It w’as the last thing they would ne glect. Now with social security and welfare checks, they are not interested in the Church. They go from day to day know ing that tomorrow will take care of itself. Their former de pendence on Gofl, upon the charity of those representing re ligion, has been pshy.chologically unsettled by the welfare state. The Church lost the poor in Europe, and they became easy victims for the propaganda of the Communists’. Many would cast this warning aside as inappropriate in America. But it should be remembered that in many parts of the w’orld all religion except worship of the government check and gov ernment’s support has been abolished.” Strom Aurmond m® SWoooWooooojf RLE Civil Rights So-called civil rights bills are beginning to make their appear ance in the Senate. Almost with out exception these bills are poli tically inspired and serve only to cause further deterioration in race relations. It is my firm conviction now, as it has always been, that the greatest safeguard for civil rights lies in the Constitution as written. The minority pressure groups inspiring these new bills would bypass the Constitution by leaning on Supreme Court decis ions, Executive Department de crees or Federal legislation in a field where the Congress has no right to act. . Gambling Loss A bill co-sponsored by me would make losses and expenses of illegal gambling non-deductible on Federal income tax returns. Of course, winnings would still be re ported. This bill is designed to clarify the inconsistency of rewarding with income tax deductions those persons who are violating gamb ling laws. Armed Services You have probably read and heard criticism directed at closed- door committee meetings in the Congress. Almost all hearings are open to the public, but as a gen eral rule, sessions in which legis lative action is taken are closed to the public. I would personally fa vor opening more committee ses sions to public attendance because there is much merit in Woodrow W ilson’s principle of “open coven ants openly arrived it.” There are some committee meet ings and hearings, however, that of necessity must be closed to everyone except the witnesses and the committee members. As a member of the Senate Armed Serv ices Committee, I have been at tending executive sessions of a se ries of top secret briefings on our defense posture. During the past week we have received testimony from the Honorable Neil McElroy. Secretary of Defense; General Nathan Twining, Chairman of the Joint Chief of staff; the Honor able Wilber Brucker, Secretary of the Army; and General Maxwell Taylor, Army Chief of Staff. These hearings will continue for the next few weeks. It is neces sary that the committee members be fully briefed on every phase of our national defense program be fore we begin consideration of de fense legislation and defense spending, which is estimated in the proposed Federal budget to be approximately $40 billion. Luncheons Senator Johnston and I are having Mrs. David R. Coker of Hartsville, American Mother of the Year, as our luncheon guest in the Senate this week. All the members of the South Carolina delegation, their wives, and a few others have been invited. Ar rangements have also been made to have Mrs. Coker received at the White House by President Eis enhower. We are very proud of the high honor which Mrs. Coker has brought to our State and also the able representation which she has given our country both abroad and at home while holding this title. I am giving a luncheon later in the week to introduce the new na tional president of the Reserve Officers Association, Rear Admir al Leon J. Jacobi, to Congression al leaders in the field of national defense. Sincerely, Strom Thuurmond. Straight Talk (By Tom Anderson in Farm and Ranch Magazine) Ever since there’s been a farm program the rich have gotten the gravy—because when the govern ment gravy bowl runs over the rich have spoons and the poor have forks. The farm program is for everybody except the little family farmer it ought to be for. Many people have written me proposing plans, which would pay heavier proportionate sudsidies to the little fellows than to the big. That’s socialistic—^like free medi cine for everybody, rich and poor. I’m for givjng tjj^rich nothing— except freedom to farm, without government help or interference, and the' right to sell all they can produce to anybody they can—ex cept the, government. Dividing the right to produce on an equal-share basis will so cialize and pauperize American agriculture. During the past several years, I’ve advocated a farm program which would: 1. Make corporation farmers, tax-deduction farmers, absentee landlords, and urbanites ineligible for any government assistance. No government agricultural ser vices and subsidies to any but the family farm: the farm in which the family has management con trol of the operation, whose main business is farming, who are de pendent on it for their living, and who actually work their land. All others- should furnish their own county agents, financing, drouth relief, conservation and price sup ports. Many of the big absentee farmers don’t cultivate anything but the ASC offices. The Soil Bank is a ridiculous bipartisan monstrosity which pays farmers and non-farmers for not farming. Thousands upon thou sands of lawyers, doctors, real es tate men, and speculators are get ting a $5,000 annual gift from the Soil Bank for owning land. Thou sands of other non-farmers have tobacco allotments in their back yards. 2. Make every farm stand on its own legs, tax-wise. No more rich men farming for a loss in stead of a living, at taxpayers’ expense. 3. Make all subsidies tempor ary—no permanent dole. 4. Subsidize hopeless farmers to leave the farm and go into in dustry. 5. Expand markets, domestic and foreign, through research and competition. Sociological or Farm Program? Much of the so-called “farm problem” is not a farm problem but a sociological problem. A man who exists in the country on a little piece of ground which couldn’t support a family if he knew how to farm, ought to come la under the welfare program stead of the farm program. To a large extent the farm pro blem is manufactured by politi cians buying votes and by gov ernment workers deliberately ex panding and perpetuating useless departments and jobs. Many self- appointed apologists for agricul ture blame “poor public relations” for the fact that agriculture has become a whipping boy. The pu> lie “Just doesn’t understand,” they say. That’s right. If the pub lic did understand, there’d be a lot of congressmen plowed under. The best way to develop better city-farm relations is to develop a farm program which makes sense. The expense of give-aways to foreign nations, disaster relief, school lunch programs, etc. should be shared by other depart ments of government and not charged entirely to agriculture. The extent of the give-aways, of course, is dictated by the fact that we already have unmanage able surpluses, which are better used in hungry stomachs than in ocean bottoms. A while back I was at a nat ional meeting of extension editors. One of the problems which came up was what to do in counties where subdivisions had devoured practically all the farm land. One editor moaned that he couldn’t even get the newspaper to carry his farm stories anymore. The ingenuous solution offered was “quit telling how to treat masti tis and tell how to take care of parakeets.” In other words, when there is no more job to do, create one. Fewer the Farmers, The Bigger the USD A The fewer the farmers there are to serve, the more money and people it takes to do it. The few er the chicks the bigger the gov ernment brooder. In the 17-state FARM AND RANCH territory last year, 7,273 county agents served 2,165,470 farm families, 953,867 rural non farm families and 1,348,876 ur ban families. Since more than half the families served were non farm families, why not change that part to welfare? Or maybe there should be a new department to take over that work: The U. S. Department of Socialism. Maybe the Agricultural Extension Ser vice should bere-named the Peo. pie’s Extension Service and be put under the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. In 1950, 16.6 percent of Amer icans lived on farms. In 1958, only 12 percent did. Soon there may be more people in the USD A than there are living on farms—more people farming the farmers than there are farming the land. If you’re a lower-half farmer, Prosperity News Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Amick, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Amick and their three children of Columbia visited Mrs. W. O. Amick Sunday. Mrs. Amick has been sick for two weeks. Mrs. Helen Danielson of Bates- burg spent Sunday with the Ed ward W. Countses. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Edmund and their small son Arthur of Asheville, N. C. spent the week end with Mrs. Edmund’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Taylor. Miss Annie Wheeler and Mrs. Lucy Mayfield of Columbia visit ed Dr. and Mrs. C. K. Wheeler and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Counts Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Fellers of Beckley, West Va., are visiting re latives in and near Prosperity. Mrs. Eugene Long of Leesville spent Sunday with Mrs. Horace Shealy. The Azalea Garden Club will meet Wednesday night, Feb. 4, at 7:30 with Mrs. Glenn Hamm. The Prosperity Garden Club will meet Monday afternoon, Feb. 2, at 3:30 with Mrs. George W. Har mon. The Dogwood Garden Club will meet with Mrs. Jacob Bowers, Monday afternoon, Feb. 2, at 3:30. Mr. and Mrs. Billy Ackerman and their son of Columbia were Sunday guests of Mr. Ackerman’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Ack erman. Messrs. D. H. Hamm, Sr., D. H. Hamm Jr., and J. Walter Hamm attended the Furniture Market in High Point N. C. last week. Mr. and Mrs. Cole W’essinger spent Sunday with the Woodrow Montjoys in Gi-eenville. Weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll S. Mills were Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Camp and their three children of Greenville. Miss Martha Counts of Savan nah, Ga., spent the weekend with her mother, Mrs. H. E. Counts Sr. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ballentine, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bedenbaugh, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Leaphart atten ded the funeral of Mrs. Edna Shealy. Sunday afternoon at Sum mit. Mrs. Shealy was the niece of Mr. Ballentine. Mr. and Mrs. Luciuss Frick were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Karl Frick and Family in Colum bia. Frank McMillian III of Savan nah, Ga., spent the weekend with his grandmother, Mrs. Lillian W. Harmon. Mrs. Gus Schattenburg and her son, Gus Jr., of Columbia spent the weekend with her mother, Mrs. W. L. Mathis, Sr. On Sunday the Schattenburgs, Mrs. Mathis and Mrs. Helen Summers spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Summers in Lexington. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Paschal, Mrs. J. C. Schumpert of Columbia visited Mrs. J. Frank Browne at Mills Clinic Sunday afternoon. the agricultural bureaucracy is spending more money on you than you make farming. In other words it costs government more to^ keep farmers farming than most far mers make out of farming. Certainly, all government ag ricultural effort is not bad. The consumer benefits greatly from government research and educa tional and marketing programs. Hundred percent parity won’t provide a decent living for a fam ily with a cotton allotment of five acres or a tobacco allotment of nine-tenths of an acre. No “farm program” can solve the farm problem unless it’s accom panied by a labor program, a tax program, an anti-inflation pm- gram, and a foreign trade pro gram, which release the farmer from his cost-price squeeze, im prove his competitive position, and broaden his markets. The farmer needs an end to labor racketeering, not unioniza tion of farming. The farmer needs lower prices for the things he buys, not artificially higher prices for his government con trolled production. The farmer needs a balanced budget, not more billions of dollars spent on a sprawling government bureau cracy from which he may get no visible benefits. The farmer needs less non-farmer subsidies, not more farmer subsidies. The farmer needs the right to pro duce, not more curbs; more mer- kets, not less—and less govern ment, not more. hospital Patients Miss Anelia powers, Rt. 2, Pros perity. Mrs. Barnett Boland and Baby Boy, 577 Glenn St. Thaddeus L. Boinest, Prosperity Mrs. Julia Bowers, Little Moun tain. Mrs. Ida Baker, 619 Main St. Mrs. Ruth Culclasure, 1411 Si las St. Mrs. May Derrick, 1728 Harris St. Lon S. Davis, Drayton St. Baby Dorothy Fulmer, Lexing ton Apts., West Columbia. Mrs. Betty Bobb Fulmer, 824 O’Neal St. Miss Georgia Faye Graham, Rt. 2, Newberry. Miss Wanda Giles, Vincent Apt. Mrs. Ruth Hamilton and Baby Boy, Springhill Apt. Mrs. Minnie Hipp and Baby Girl, Mockingbird Lane, Aiken. Mrs. Sarah Houseal, 722 Cald well St. Miss Annie Knotts, Prosperity. Mrs. Lula Livingston, P. O. Box 114. Mrs. Lula Langford, 603 Bound ary St. James Manchester, Box 501, Leesville. Effice Metts, Little Mountain. Mrs. Mary Sue Mitchell, Rt. 5, Saluda. Miss Lalla Martin, 1531 Main St. Mrs. Euna Mize, Rt. 1. Mrs. Estelle Marlowe, 1519 Har rington St. Mrs. Inez Rose, Whitmire. Mrs. Mary Shealy, Rt. 1, Little Mountain. Luther Shealy, Rt. 2. Mrs. Emma Shealy, Rt. 1, Little Mountain. Mrs. - Lillie Timmerman, 726 Boundary St. Mrs. Callie Thomas, 1210 Fair St. Holley Hipp, Rt. 5, Saluda. Miss Tommye Sue Duckett, Rt. 1, Silverstreet. Master Billie Ringer, 2121 Har per St. Thomas Virgil Cromer, Rt. 1, Pomaria Worth Bedenbaugh, Rt. 2, Pros perity. Mrs. Rachel Wise, Rt. 1, Pros perity. Mrs. Virginia Gqff; Rt. 1, Sa luda. /, ' Johji W. Parrott, Rt. 2, Pomaria. Mr*. Dorothy Newbold, 109 Caldwell WK Little Ttaffiotfcy Warren Frick, Little Mountain. Mrs. vAnnie’ Mae King, Chap pells. ^ ; • 1 ' • ’k V Elizabeth Davis, 917 Booker St. Janie Doner, Et. 3. Pearlie Mae Myers and Baby Boy, D33 Gilder St. Mary Elizabeth Miller, Rt. 4. Baby Girl Neal, Rt. 4. Addie Lee Suber, 212 Boundary St. Homer Faris Abney, Rt. 5, Sa luda. o MILLS CLINIC PATIENTS Mrs. Claire Vaughn, Newberry. Mrs. Frances Epting, Newberry. George Cook, Prosperity. Mrs. Annie 'Bell Brown, Pros perity. Mrs. Bessie Bedenbaugh, Pros perity. ,, Joe Turner, Prosperity. Mrs. Myrtle Attaway, Newber ry. • . Mrs. Marjorie Warren and Baby Boy, Batesburg. Mrs. Minnie* Reagin, Newberry. Ralph Matthews, Batesburg. Joe Gree, Prosperity. Mrs. Mesta Metts, Prosperity. Miss Annie Robins, Pomaria. Nance Mae Hair and Baby Boy, Prosperity.' DEED TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 Lowman Home for the Aged and Helpless to Mrs. Mildred Har mon, one lot and one building, 2308 Main St. (formerly Mrs. J. Augustus Fellers property) $5.00 and other valuable considerations. R. B. Baker to City of Newber ry, one lot (Power House Alley) I. 96 acres, $8,500. Harold O. Cook to Thomas K. Cook, one lot and one building on Henry Avenue, $5.00 and other valuable considerations. Newberry No. 1 Outside J. O. McMeekin and Thelma Mc- Meekin to Roy Procter and Vera Procter, one lot and one building, $5.00 and other valuable consider ations. A. O. Willingham to Alda M. Willingham, .69 acres, $5.00 love and affection. Lather H. Folk, et al to John F. Boozer and Peggy F. Boozer, 2.1 acres, $5.00 love and Affection. Carrie P. Harmon to Daisy Bell J. Harmon, 2.64 acres, $5.00 and other valuable considerations. Virginia C. Busby to H. O. Graddick, one lot and one build ing, 1313 Fourth St., $5.00 and other valuable considerations. W. Fulmer Wells to James Law- sen Reagin and Myrtle Hughes Reagin, one lot on Rosalyn Drive, $5.00 and other valuable consid erations. Silverstreet No. 2 . Hugh F. Longshore, Sr., to Vir ginia Longshore Medlock, and James E. Medlock, 15.6 acre 5 } and one building, $5.00 love and affec tion. 4 , ,, Sf* Whitmire No. 4 David Lee McCullough Jr., to Ordie R. Campbell, one lot, part of 83 acre tract, $400. Pomaria No. 5 H. C. Ruff et al to Ray L. Ruff, Rt. 2, Newberry, one acre, $6.00, love and affection. L. O. Stoudemire to Ruby S. Vaughn and Grover C. Vaughn Jr., 1328 Dothan Rd., Columbia, S. C-, $5.00 love and affection. Clara H. Jones to Pinckney J. Bouknight one-half of an acre, $5.00 and other valuable considera tions. E. Maxcy Stone, P. J., to Clara H. Jones, one-half of an acre, $5.00 and other valuable consid erations. S. A. Cook to Harold B. Cook and Max S. Cook, 176.94 acres, $5.00 love and affection. Prosperity No. 7 The Newberry County Board of Education to Charles J. Lake, 31.51, acres and two buildings (Stoney Hill school and teacher- age), $9l25. . The Newberry County Board of Education to The Stoney Hill Center Association, 1.44 acres and two buildings, $100. J. W. Taylor Jr. to Joseph V. Taylor and Edna M. Taylor, 3.1 acres, $5.00 Icve and affection. m I'll ■ WSCS Circles Meet Monday The WSCS Circles of Central Methodist Church will meet Mon day, February 2nd as follows: No. 1. at 4 p.m. with Mrs. Har vey Kirkland. No. 3 at 10:30 a.m. with Mrs. R. K. Harmon, Miss Sallie Lee Cro mer, associate hostess. No. 3’at 1030 a.m. with Mrs. R. F. Bruner. No. 4 at 7:30 with Misses Fran ces and Mabel Boozer. - No. 5 at 10:30 a.m. with Mrs. C. A. Kaufman. No. 6 at 4 p.m. with Mrs. Jack Hove. > SAVE DOLLARS ON OUR HOMELOAN PLAN , fV * It is amusing- sometimes to see people ride eight or ten miles to save a few pennies on groceries. Groceries are definitely on of the necessities of life. No more so, how ever, than your home. Our interest rates have not gone up on Home Loans, as a matter of fact they are the same as they were when Newberry Federal was organized almost twenty-four years ago. You can own your home on our plan with a low down payment, monthly installments like rent. See us today. ASK US ABOUT OUR DIRECT REDUCTION HOME LOAN PLAN omxcr mmovenoN "0*4* LOAN* 'avijstgs and Loan Association institution F O U N D 18.SU COLLEOB STREET, NEWBERRY, R. C. “Use our Modern Night Depository for after office hours business.’ “NEWBERRY’S LARGEST SAVINGS INSTITUTION”