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PAGE TWO KEWBEBBT SOM THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 1959 • V xm 1218 CoUtgv StMt NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class postage paid at Newberry, South Carolina. Strom, lurmond SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per ji vance; six months, $1.25. in ad- COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR The dear old Doctor. How many times have you heard that? You had in mind the physician of the family—the old family doctor, the man who knew you from infancy; who knew all the medical facts based on the personal individual idiosyncracies of each patient, his father, mother and per haps grand-parents, too. The first time I ever heard that word “idiosyncracy” it was spoken by Dr. Clarendon Barron, while I, a small boy stood by. Now when the old-time “doctor” felt your pulse, looked in your eye and thumped you a time or two and spoke of your idiosyncracy, then wrote a prescription in Latin, you commanded the sympathetic indulgence of the family—and they prepared tempting delicasies to beguile your palate. The old “doctor”—he was the only “doctor” we knew then. Today we have doctors of all kinds—bugologists, rock- explorers, oil-diggers—and what-not. Even some men who write are learned doctors; and almost all teachers are doc tors. Successful farmers should be doctors because a good farmer has learned quite a lot. The Aiken Standard and Review carries on the first page a tribute to a doctor who has retired, after serving all humanity many years. Yes, he did that—White and Col ored, young and old, good, bad and indifferent—all who suffered and called him. Day and night, summer and winter, rain or shine, he went long distances, up and down and through the high hills and sand beds of old Aiken County, so Dr. J. H. Brodie went on his mission of helpfulness, frequently unpaid, of course. And such ministers of healing were the doctors I recall, Dr. Chester Smith of Williston; Dr. D. M. Crosson of Leesville; Dr. Frontis of Ridge Spring; Dr. Geiger and Dr. Dickson of Manning; the beloved Doctors Barnwell Rhett and Joseph Maybank of Charleston—and all this ap plies to all these dedicated and devoted ministers of heal ing. Longer Sessions, More Trouble Much legislation has been ap proved by the Congress in the fi nal days before adjournment. We have been meeting from early in the morning until late at night almost constantly during the past few weeks in order to complete action on that legislation which the leaders of the administration and the Congress feel are “must” items. This first session of the 86th Congress has been the longest session since I came to the Sen ate in January 1955. I don’t mind the long sessions from the stand point of work, but they do cause me considerable concern from the standpoint of the South and our fight to maintain local self-gov ernment. With the current trend of federal legislation, we would be better off with shorter sessions and less legislation. The longer we stay in session the more trouble we are apt to have shoved at us by the so-called “liberals.” Integration and Crime I believe our day-by-day ex poses in the Congressional Record o fterror and racial strife in the large Northern cities, particular ly New York, Washington, and Chicago, have contributed im measurably to the success we have had in holding down strong and obnoxious legislation in the field of so-called civil rights. When the police and such notable ministers as Dr. Billy Graham ack nowledge the incontrovertible link between crime and forced integra tion in these large cities, then the evidence speaks ever louder for itself. We must continue to seize every opportunity to prove to the so-called civil righters and do gooders the follies and failings of forced integration. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemaon Extension Information •pselallat This is a day of remarkable practicality. Our great grand fathers found a lot of useless stuff cluttering up the lot, but today that useless stuff is found to be rich in oil. That is cottonseed, today rich in oil, hulls, meal and other uuseful products. Next we shall do something with sawdust, heap ed in piles near sawmills, big and little. Here comes something else which for ages had no value, except to use as fuel, perhaps not even ideal for fuel— corn-cobs. What shall we do with corn-cobs? Asking that question reminds me of the story of the Minister who was expound ing the Scripture naming the Major Prophets and the Mi nor Prophets. As you can see by looking them up in your Bible, that covered quite a bit of ground and quite a bit of time. At one place in the sermon the Minister was ready to dis cuss the great Prophet Jeremiah and asked, just oratorical- ly: “Where shall I place Jeremiah?” One brother was aroused from his nap and exclaimed “He can sit here; I’ve got to go home.” So, then: What about these corncobs? “From the medicine men comes a new drug, compounded from the lowly corn cob. Tradenamed Altafur, the latest addition to ethical drug line is right in step with pioneering interest in nitrofurans, a promising line of chemical drugs which have proved effective antibacterial agents against stubborn antibiotic-resistant germs. ‘Altafur is effective in such diverse conditions as pneumonias, wound infections, ab- cesses, ear and throat infections, conditions due to staphylo coccus, streptococcus, pneumococcus and certain other bac teria. Many patients with these conditions failed to respond to prior treatment with antibiotics and sulfonamids but Altafur proved effective.’ Altafur joins a number of other nitrofurans in the ex panding medicine chest of ethical products.” So this seem/like another chapter in the utilization of ev erything. You may remember that some wag once said that American meat packers used every bit of a hog but the squeal—and made phonograph records of that. I’ve had quite a bit to say about plastics, you may recall. Well, there is a story of a plastic film said to replace paint and last five times longer. “Chemists show a fiber they claim is more versatile that nylon, and in a hospital, a doctor temporarily relieves a can cer patient’s pain by giving him several injections of a sy rupy compound. These three widely-varied products have one important feature in common: They’re all made from the same ma terial, acetylene. The -uses of the gas have multiplied in the last few years. The increase promises to continue. ‘We’re on the threshold of a vast new field of industrial chemistry,’ states a chemist. ‘There are literally thousands of uses to which chemicals made from acetylene can be put,’ he said. To the average person, acetylene evokes an image of a welder putting his torch to metal. Indeed, because of the intense heat it generates when it burns—up to 6,000 de grees Fahrenheit, acetylene long has been useful in welding and cutting metal. But, with electric welding making big gains, purchases of the chemical for welding and metal cutting uses totaled $115 million last year, almost unchang ed from 1956. On the other hand, manufacturers’ sales of acetylene as a material to make other chemicals rose to $75 million last year, compared with only $45 million in 1956. One reason for this rise is that the methods of handling acetylene have been improved considerably in recent years. One of acetylene’s advantages is that it combines readily with many other substances. This property, however, also is one of the gas’ disadvantages, for acetylene combines readily with air to form a mixture that is explosive in any combination of from 3% to 80% acetylene. Thus, although acetylene is produced readily by joining water with calcium carbide, this process must be carried out in a vacuum. Sim ilarly, when acetylene itself is used in the production of other chemicals, the conditions again must be highly con trolled. Acetylene joins with hydrochloric acid to form neoprene, a synthetic rubber. With acetic acid, it makes vinyl ace tate, the principal ingredient in water-thinned, quick-dry ing paints. And with hydrogen cyanide, it makes acrylonit rile, a material used to make the acrylic or wool -like syn thetic fibers. Simply burning acetylene turns it into carbon black, one of whose uses is in making rubber tires black. While handling problems have been reduced, a contin uing obstacle to wider use of acetylene in some fields is its price—currently about 13 cents a pound. This is substan tially above prices of competing chemicals. For example, ethylene, from which polyethylene, a plastic film, is made, costs only 4% cents a pound. The difference in cost stems from the methods of production. Ethlyene is a by-product of refining petroleum. The calcium carbide used in produc ing acetylene is made from joining lime and coal and the process leaves no useful by-product. Acetylene makers are confident of the future, however, and are demonstrating their confidence by pushing out put capacity well ahead of current demand. Last year less than 800 million pounds of acetylene was produced from an industry capacity of 1.1 billion pounds. Although produc tion is expected to increase this year, so is capacity, still leaving surplus facilities. Acetylene producers believe these facilities will be needed as markets for some of the more promising new acetylene-based products open up. One of these new products is a plastic film made of a chemical called polyvinyl alcohol, which in turn, is made from acetylene. Polyvinyl alcohol is ‘plasticised’ with an ingredient chemists won’t identify. The film itself has the unusual ability to resist heat, yet dissolve in water. Perhaps the most dramatic use thus far for acetylene is as an ingredient in a chemical that has had reported suc cess as a pain reliever for some cancer patients. The chemi cal has the jaw-breaking name of polyviylpyrrolidone sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate. A Brooklyn surgeon, Dr L. G. Bodkin, found that several injections of the chemical eased the pain of some of his incurable cancer patients for three to four months, and of one patient for nine months. He has tried it on about 95 patients in the last seven years, he re ports. Dr. Bodkin says he believes the chemical also some times prolongs a patient’s life for a matter of months. Word of the chemical has spread to other cancer research ers and it now is being used at Presbyterian Hospital at Drexel Hill in Philadelphia and at the Sloan-Kettering Can cer Institute of Memorial Hospital in New York City. Despite all these favorable developments for acetylene, its producers still worry that there may be severe competi tion in store from other chemicals.” And so there is no end to all the developments of chem istry. Someone has said that the manifold uses, voluminous mul tiplications of things which facilitate our way of modern living, have not been accompanied by any commensurate degree of spiritual development, that we still are creatures of fancies and foibles as were our ancient forefathers who plowed oxen with sticks. So far as man himself is concerned he is not as handsome a figure as the elegant gentlemen of George Washington’s day; nor has the rich and glamorous habilinents of a troop er of Her Majesty’s Scotch Highlanders. Indeed, we men cut a poor figure at best in this day of ineligant but com fortable clothing. That is dangerous ground, however, and I shall not tread any farther thereon. Furrow Irrigation Irrigation is rather new with us. At first it was just about all sprinkler. But of late I’ve seen signs of farmers adapting furrow or surface irrigation to their needs. Some deep sands won’t stand it, for it will all soak in and not move down the rows. But many of our soils will take water effectively that way. It calls for careful contouring and some land leveling at places. I was surprised to see the Bishops using it extensively on their sandy truck lands in Beau fort. By putting little dirt dams or baffles in the middles, they, made it soak in where they want ed it. They liked it better than sprinkler irrigation for their use. It keeps the water off the foliage of their truck, thus aiding in keeping down diseases and avoid ing the washing off of sprays. And it saved a lot of pumping ex pense that’s required to force water through nozzles. And while visiting with County Agent Martin of Spartanburg I saw* John Tinsley grading and contouring land, where peaches were being set, for surface irri gation. And he had been using surface irrigation a lot on his older trees too. This irrigation thing is coming. Experiment and experience will work out various adaptations of it to suit our varying soil types, topography, and needs. Growing With Cattle Nothing is more evident, as I ride over the state, than that we are surely growing into the cattle business. Many of cotton’s lost acres are going 1 to grass, and what follows is cattle. We are getting a lot of good cattle too. Our livestock man Lewis Cato, tells me over 1,200 feeder-stocker cattle sold in our three spring sales over the state. And many others sold on our regular markets all along. Almost half of those went to out of state buyers. Feed ers as far off as Pennsylvania and Texas are finding out that good feeders can be gotten here. And they flock to our sales. This is quite a tribute to the quality of our cattle. That large batch of feeders in Housing Dangers During the closing days of the session, the Congress passed a third omnibus housing bill after the President had vetoed the first two. Only seven of us— Senators Cotton, Curtis, Eastland, Russell, Sennis, Talmadge, and I—voted against passage of the bill. The President was able to sign this bill into law because the Congress finally cured most of his objec tions. My opposition ran much deeper, however. I dc not oppose the Federal Housing Administra tion’s home loan guarantee pro gram or other good features of our housing laws which promote home ownership. I am, however, against provisions in the housing bill which further expand on the socialistic public housing and ur ban renewal programs. ‘Scattered’ Integration Not only are both programs costly to the taxpayers—especially when the total cost is added up over a long period of years—but they also constitute an imminent danger to segregated housing. On two separate occasions I have been able to extract from housing leg islation some provisions which would have permitted integration of private housing areas by scat tering single public housing units with a family of a different race into the once-segregated areas. Now three of the six members of the Civil Rights Commission have suggested that this “integraton by scatteration” provision be put into effect by the Congress in order to speed overall integration of the races. The Commission has also, by a divided vote, urged that the President force by Executive Or der the integration of all housing which has any connection what ever with the Federal Government. This includes guaranteed home loans by both the Veterans Ad ministration and the Federal Housing Administration. It is thus very easy to see that the integrationists intend to use every Federal tentacle of control —and believe me there are many of them—to force their will on the unwilling Southern people of both races. The danger of forced inte gration is not as grave or immi nent in the VA and FHA loan pro grams as in the public housing and urban renewal programs because the Federal Government merely guarantees loans in the VA and FHA programs as against much more direct participation from the monetary and control standpoint in. the other two programs. Thus, I believe you can understand my opposition to omnibus housing leg islation. Sincerely, Strom Thurmond. the above sales averaged 32.56c a pound while similar fat steers were averaging 27.70c on the mar kets. That’S a very, unusual situa tion that has come about in the past few years. We used to fig ure we had to buy feeders for about 3c below what we’d get for them after fattening them out to make anything out of the deal. But relatively cheaper feed and more abundant grazing has chang ed this thing around. Cow parlor! / Ever hear of one. I had heard of and seen Pig Parlors. But County Agent Gilliam of Allen dale showed me my first. Cow Parlor on the W. F. Barnes farm when I was down there. Yes, the feed troughs are along the sides of a concrete area that’s cleaned frequently. Sprinklers keep the cattle cool while they are out there. From there they have ac cess to shade under an open-sided shed. And a convenient chute for loading is built in under there too. All very handy. And Mr. Barnes was feeding out about as fine a batch of steers as you gen erally see. Grew most of ’em, Gilliam said. And grows the feed for them too. Boys Are That Way Last week I started telling you about our blacksmith there at the foot of the hill below our house. He was the most indispensable man in the Fork. He could fix anything. When a rocking chair started squeaking, he could put an iron rod through it on each side and it never squeaked again. I still see those chairs when I mess around down home. Similar ones not fix ed by him have long ago gone the usual way of chairs. We had an old cat acting funny that we thought was mad. My brother shot her with his hand some muzzle loader that was hand ed down from a great uncle. He didn’t quite kill her, and in his hurry to finish her off with the butt of it, he hit too hard and (snapped the stock off at the small part. Our jjlacksmith fixed it with imbedded brass that look ed like an ornament. I just wish that talented man could have had the tools of today. No telling what he would have done. He did the most intricate jobs with nothing but his hands implements and forge. And the coal he used as fuel to heat his metal was homemade charcoal he burned at the kiln down in our pasture. I liked specially to see him shoe horses. Sometimes there was a mean one and it was something* to see him wrastle with it. Once he got a hind foot sunk in his groin, he could handle any of ’em. It was some nifty work with a hammer when he cut the shoe off to fit the foot and then bent the. ends back a bit for cleats so the horse wouldn’t slip. Once I was there watching him. I had been sitting on the edge of his home made furnace that was covered with clay. I wanted to go on out and watch him nail the shoes on. As I jumped down I didn’t no tice that red-hot piece of metal he had just cut off sizzling there in the dry black dust. But, boy, when my tough foot struck that hot metal it wasn’t long burning through the calloused sole and hit ting the quick. I let up a yell and ran for the ditch, where I soused it in the water. Yes, many memories linger around the village blacksmith, whose shop nestled under the big chinaberries there at the foot of the hill. Hospital Patients NEWBERRY COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Ridgell Bowers, Rt. 2, Prosper ity. Dr. James I. Bedenbaugh, Mc- Nary St., Prosperity. Mrs. Ida Baker, 619 Main St. Bobby. G. Chrisley, 1220 Kinard St. Mrs. Shirley Cannon and Baby Girl, 2003 Montgomery St. Wright Dennis, Rt. 4. Mrs. Janie Dawkins, 2130 Nance St. Mrs. Julia Dyke, Lowman Home, White Rock. Mrs. Maggie Denson, Rt. 3. Mrs. Thelma Graham and Baby Girl, Rt. 1. Harold Gilliam, 1425 Coleman St., Whitmire. Mrs. Evelyn Hunter, 308 O’Neal St. Robert Huffstetler, 110 Wayne St., Columbia. Mrs. Mamie Harmon, Rt. 1, Prosperity.' • Robert Langford, 1808 Mont gomery St. Walter Lake, 2626 Deloache Ave. : Miss Nora Lindler, 435 Reid St., Whitmire. Mrs. Evelyn B. McPhatter, 1828 College St. * Mrs. Euna Mize, Rt. 1. Mrs. Lucille Messer, Rt. 2. Mrs. Fannie Mayer, 1524 Mar tin St. Virgil Mopris, 1903 Piedmont St. Mrs. Estelle Marlowe, 1519 Har rington St. John C. Neel, Rt. 3. Mrs. Jane Roberts and Baby Boy, 1604 Friend St. Mrs. Ellen Ringer, Box 73, Po- maria. Mrs. Patsy Shealy and Baby Boy, 2429 Highland Dr. Mrs. Fannie Simpson, Whit mire. Mrs. Sarah Smith, Rt. 1, New berry. Baby Girl Shealy, Rt. 3, Pros perity. Hayne Shealy, 1416' Trent St. Charles Sheppard, Rt. 5, Sa luda. Mrs. Hassie Sligh, 1248 Hunt St. Mrs. Mary Shealy, 1207 Chap man St. Mrs. Adell Stockman and Baby Boy, Rt. 1, Prosperity. Robert A. Turner, 1907 Mont gomery St. James P. Vaughn, 922 Drayton St. Mrs. Clara Wright, 808 College St. ¥: Baby Girl Barron, Rt. 1, Little Mountain. Clarence Willie Cook, Rt. 2. John Lee Gary, Rt. 3. Marian Marks, Rt. 3, Lees ville. Pauline Mangum, 713 Coates St. Earline Means, 231 Boundary St. MILLS CLINIC PATIENTS Mrs. Minnie Johnson, Little Mountain. Mrs. Margaret Harmon and baby boy, West Columbia. Mrs. Martha Hall and baby girl, Batesburg. W. Leroy Gruber, Joanna. Mrs. Doris Bush, Chapin. Little David Farr, Chapin. Martha Livingston, Pomaria. OO NEWBERRY COLLEGE FOOTBALL Newberry vs. The Citadel, Sat, 7:45 p.m. CLEMSON vs. NORTH CAROLINA Saturday, 1:45 p.m. NEWBERRY HIGH SCHOOL Brookland-Cayce, Fri., 7:45 p.m. —ON— WKDK 1240 Kc. Consolidate WITH A Low-Cost LOAN! GOOD ADVICE! THERE’S GREAT PEACE OF MIND IN GETTING OUT FROM UNDER A PILE- UP OF BILLS You can pay them off all at oriCe with cash from a low-cost loan from us. Then you will have only one payment to make each month . . . saving you time and steps.. Come in today and let us explain this low-cost plan to you. m Purcells “YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS” 1418 Main St Newberry, S. C.