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• M 1 PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1959 ixm 1218 Coil«f« Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class postage paid at Newberry, South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR I’ve often wondered how many listeners I have the honor to address over the radio. One day, some years ago, Mr. G. Richard Shafte graciously remarked to me on the street that I had been delivering wholesome messages over the air for years and must have been of some degree of useful ness. I began my radio talking over WIS twenty years ago and today am speaking from the same studio under the gen erous cooperation of Mr. McElveen. I saw a statement recently by Mr. John M. Rivers, Presi dent of WCSC, Charleston, that caused me “furiously to think,” as the French say. With his accustomed thoroughness Mr. Rivers made a survey and found that his great station serves 137,000 homes plus 11,00 automobiles and truck radios—and many battery sets. I must have the opportunity and privilege to speak to at least a third of those folk, or, roughly, fifty thousand. If I add the other stations WNOK, Columbia; WJMX, Florence; WFIG, Sumter; Hampton; Barnwell; and WARN, Aiken, Bennettsville and Beaufort—those I’ve spoken over during this year, I must have had more than hundred thousand who willingly or unwillingly heard my remarks. Considering the importance of the Stations that, I think, is a very modest figure. It is a sobering thought and deepens my feeling of respon sibility to speak clearly and frankly, without conceit; but it heightens my resolve to be a sort of watchman on the tower, spying out the land. However little I may amount to, I promise to do my best all the time. In my years as a teacher, whether in a country school, in an elementary class of geography, or as a professor at An derson College and at The Citadel, I never went to a class without having made special preparation. So I approach my radio work and my writing of Spectator. I esteem all this a call to duty and I approach my work seriously. I Rave studied the Constitution of the United States as a special student. And I have taught and lectured on the Constitution for many years, lecturing to soldiers in France as well. I knew about the thirteen Colonies which fought Great Britain, won the war and established a Nation, but, as usual, I refreshed my memory before preparing my Spectator and radio talks recently on the Constitution, as well as the Dec laration of Independence, together with the historical ante cedents. Spotts Job Is Progressing In Abbeville Work is well under way on the grading and bituminous surfacing of various roads in Abbeville County. A. D. Spotts of Spotts and Co. said here today. Spotts said the $92,026 project consists of grading and suriacing streets in Calhoun Falls; and streets in the City of Abbeville. As the general contracior, Spotts and Co. is responsible for all phases of construction involv ed in the surfacing project auth orized by the S. C. State Highway Department. “Senator Olin D. Johnston reported to the Senate that in the balloting at the American Legion convention on the question whether the 40 and 8 should be required to drop its all white segregation policy, there were some surprising Northern and Western viewpoints. Canada for segregation 6 to 0; Illinois for segregation 211 to 8; Iowa for segrega tion 104 to 0; Missouri for segregation 72 to 3; Washington State for segregation 44 to 5; Kansas for segregation 67 to 0. Did Chief Justice Warren convert them with his Swedish sociology substituted for law? Or have they just always been that w T ay?” Speaking of the necessity for refreshing one’s memory I recall a meeting of an agricultural society of some years ago. One man present, himself a lawyer, suggested that the Federal Government might adopt a certain course in sup porting the farm program. A lawyer of ability and estab lished practice maizes this point: “But the Constitution forbids that; the Government can’t impair the obligation o fa contract. Whereupon the first lawyer remarked “The Constitution forbids the States fmm impairing the obliga tion of a contract, but says nothing about the Federal Gov ernment- That is wRy lawyers hesitate to give what is knowm as “horseback opinions.” Recently some Colored people of Charleston complained they have been visited by out-of-town Colored men and vir tually ordered to present their children for enrollment in the White schools. The Colored people who complained said that they were threatened with all sort of punishments if they did not act as the out-of-towm men directed. Well, now: must we adopt measures to protect our Colored people from Colored strangers who sow discord? You can’t ever be too sure, however often you may have used something. I always think of a pianist I was closely as sociated with in my teaching days in the O. C. I., Orange burg. That man practiced until midnight though he used many half hour intervals during the day. One night he was playing and suddenly he stopped, dropped his pipe and said “There is a rest there; I had never noticed it”. It is stuck in my memory; so whenever I want to be sure I look it up again. There may be a comma I have overlooked. Well, what of the future? Here is a forecast: “The decade of the Sixties will probably see a more rapid increase in population and production than ever before in American history. For one thing, the high birth rate of the Nineteen Forties forecasts accelerated family forma tion in the Sixties. For another, the remarkable advances disease control assure a longer life for the larger number of people who will be here. Then, too, the underdeveloped nations of the world are awakening to their opportunities for better living, with all that means in the way of mark ets for American goods. And if these events were not enough, there is the sharp challenge of Communism to spur America to the .fullest realization of its greatest potential ity in the shortest possible period of time. Indeed, the next ten years will be—must be—the decade of the richest promise.” A very outspoken editorial page is that of The Easley Progress. Let me quote something of interest: Two Associated Press items of recent days have made me wonder. Both refer to Colored people up North and in the Middle West. I quote from New York: “A Senate subcommittee investigating juvenile delinquen cy has ended its two day hearing here on a note of contro versy as to whether potential slum dwellers should be dis couraged from coming to New York City. Kings County Judge Samuel Leibowitz, appearing before the subcommittee Thursday, urged city officials to dis courage migrants ‘from all parts of the country and the Caribbean’ until the city has swept away its crime breed ing slums. Leibowitz presented figures indicating that Puerto Ric ans, with only 7 per cent of the city’s population were in volved in 22.3 per cent of the city’s juvenile delinquency cases in the first eight months of this year. The figures also indicated that Negroes estimated to com prise 11 per cent of the city’s population, were reported to comprise 46.3 per cent of the citywide cases awaiting trial in the Brooklyn House of Detention.” Now comes Milwaukee, Wisconsin: “Although Negroes comprise only about 4 per cent of Milwaukee’s 764,000 population, they committed 43 per cent of the city’s major crimes during the first six months of this year, the police department reported Thursday. A listing of major crimes by color in the department’s tab ulation section showed 682 were committed by Negroes, 916 by whites and 50 by ‘all others.’ Negroes were the offenders in two city’s three 1959 murders, four of the eight man slaughters and seven of the 11 assaults. The disclosure, made at the request of newsmen, came as city officials called for tightening up firearms purchase regu lations.” What’s at the bottom of all this? I do not believe that we have any such lawlessness in the South. John Bigham, in The Columbia Record, tells of Statesburg, Sumter County. The so-called high Hills region is said to be gin near Eutawville, in Orangeburg County, along the San tee River. Pm told that Stateburg almost became the Capital of South Carolina and was quite a town at that time. Years ago Chief Justice Stukes, then Senator from Clar endon, and I rode to Columbia together and talked of the one-time greatness of another community—Manchester— also of Sumter. Once there was a Rail Road, Manchester and Augusta. Manchester, too, was a town. It had a University, the Judge remarked. ^ Stateburg and Manchester flourished in a day of spacious living and dignified leisure. Today I recognize a man of Stateburg by his courtly manners. That courtesy is found in Hagood, too, as exemplified by the Sagacious “Rip” San ders. Site clearing and grubbing is now in progress, Spotts said. David Allen is the superintend- end in charge of the grading op erations and Grady Glymph is in charge of the clearing, grubbing and the installation of the pipe. The project, which is expected to be completed in 290 calendar days, will provide employment for approximately ten workmen at the peak of construction. Spotts and Co. was awarded the contract for the Abbeville County project Sept. 2. Looking A bead ...by Dr. Gtorg* S. Benson PRESIDENT—NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM Seercy, Arkansas MR. CONGRESSMAN, NOW LOOK HERE Senator Harry F. Byrd of Vir ginia, Chairman of the Congres sional Joint Committee on Reduc tion of Nonessential Federal Ex penditures, informs me that an other sad milestone in the growth of government has been reached. The cost of civilian employment in the Executive Branch of the Fed eral Government reached an all- time high in fiscal 1959. There are 2,352,242 people (not counting the armed services) on the Federal payroll, and the bill being footed by the groaning taxpayer of Am erica in this category alone is more than $12 billion a year for the first time in history. With the first session of the 86th Congress ended, and most of the Congressmen back in their districts attending to their politi cal fences, it is a good time for citizens to register their pleasure or displeasure with the way our national government is being op erated. Surely there are reasons to But, it is doubtful that any tax payer is pleased with the continu ing, whopping expansion of the Federal payroll and its cost. Sena tor Byrd, who for years has been the outstanding voice in Congress against waste, inefficiency and Federal payroll expansion gives us some documented figures with which to approach our Congress men. Too Many! There are 1,266,566 people now working in civilian jobs in the Executive Department, and 1,- 085,676 civilians working in the Department of Defense (not counting armed services person nel). In addition there are 185,- 182 citizens of other countries re ceiving pay from the U. S. Federal government at the rate of $287,- 000,000 a year. This boosts the payroll costs to $12,617,000,000, the highest expenditure in the his tory of the Executive Department. With taxes of all kinds—open and hidden—taking about one- third of everybody’s income, the continuing increase in the Federal payroll should move every citizen to make direct contact with hfs Congressman and register disap proval. No one can adequately jus tify having. 2,352,242 civilians working for the Federal Govern ment. No one can shrug off the danger of this ever-expanding bu reaucracy, the danger to our free dom and our material well-being. Coast To Coast Twelve billion dollars is a lot of money. It breaks down to about $252 for every family in America. And, this is just to pay the sala ries of Federal employees. The to tal Federal expenditures this year was $80.7 billion. Two and a half million civilian Federal em ployees—that’s a lot of people! If on Thanksgiving Day Federal civ ilian employees were to stage pa rades in every city in America with 250 thousand population (or more) ,each city simultaneously would have a parade many miles long, with a solid phalanx of marchers, 10 abreast, which would require nine hours to pass a given point! If all Federal employees were to stand in a single line, arms out stretched, hands touching, the line would extend eastward from the Washington Monument to the Em pire State building in New York City, circle New York’s West Side, cross Long Island and head west: the line would continue through Washington; Charleston, West Vmginia; Frankfurt, Kentucky; Memphis, Tennessee; Little Rock . . . Dallas . . . Tucson . . . and on to San Diego, California! A Serious Situation Perhaps this sounds silly. It really isn’t. Somehow we must dramatize the huge and constant ly expanding Federal payroll. Somewhere we must call a halt, and begin cutting. If side -by-side with the row of Federal employees stretching across the country a row of silver dollars were to be laid, each dollar touching the next, from Washington to New York and thence westward to San Die go, by the time the last of the 12 billion salary dollars had been placed in line, there would be 83 solid rows of them, coast to coast. Or, instead of laying the dollars out in rows, if you wanted to give each employee standing in the long transcontinental column a sheaf of currency equal to the av erage salary paid to each of the 2,- 330,000, you would hand each a bundle totalling $5,242.00. This isn’t to be considered as criticism of the people who work for the Federal Government. They are equal in character and ability to people employed in other occu pations. The point is, there are too many of them; all of the two mil lion, three hundred thousand are not needed! Half that many prob ably could do. the really necessary work of the Federal government. With the gradual cutting down of the huge force, we’d have better government, a safer future, and at least, some relief from the heavy tax burden. THURMOND Congressional Work Schedule Many proposals have been sub mitted for a reorganization of the work schedule of the Congress. Most have arisen as a result of the Congress’ difficulty in com pleting its business until late in the year. One proposal would pro vide that the Congress have two sessions each year—the first from January 7 until July to enact leg islative proposals; the second to be held in the fall to consider ap propriation (spending) measures. The volume of legislation con sidered by Congress grows stead ily. It seems that every year Con gress must stay in session later and still leave business not com pleted. The ineompleted business does not always result from a lack of effort on the part of Senators and Members of Congress, but is quite often due to time limitations. Some figures have been compil ed on the activities of the 84th Congress (1955-56) which will il lustrate the increasing workload. There has been a considerable in crease even between the 84th and 86th Congresses. Legislation Galore In the 84th Congress the Sen ate was confronted by a total of 7,290 legislative proposals. Each of these was either introduced by a Senator or sent to the Senate for consideration after passage by the House of Representatives. The Senate committees reported to the Senate for consideration 3,053 of the 7,290 proposals. Of thos6 re ported by the Senate committees, 1,028 were enacted into public laws, and 893 were enacted into private laws. The large number of laws en acted illustrates not only the workload of the Congress, but al so the fact that the Federal Gov ernment is ever expanding its ten tacles of control and regulation. During the 84th Congress the Senate was actually in session 224 days out of the 287 working days which the session lasted. During this period the Senate spent 1,361 hours in session, an average of about six hours per day. Most of the real legislative work in the Congress is performed by committees and subcommittees. Each Senator serves on at least two committees, and most of them serve on innumerable subcommit tees. During the 84th Congress there were a total of 3,971 offi cial meetings held by the Senate committees. These committee meetings consumed a total of 11,- 677 hours, or almost ten times the amount of time that the Senate was in session. Treaties, Nominations Too The committees of the Senate not only consider legislative pro posals but also executive nomina tions and treaties. Again, the number of nominations considered indicates the enormous size of the Federal Government. In the 84th Congress, the committees consid ered approximately 85,000 nomina tions. As a practical matter, some bet ter organization of the working time of Congress will have to be undertaken. It would be of much greater benefit to the people of the country, however, if the Fed eral Government could be restrict ed in its activities to those strict ly prescribed by the Constitution. If this were done, the number of proposals considered by the Con gress would undoubtedly be re duced substantially. As a result, more time would be available for consideration of those measures which did come before the Con gress, and deserving legislation would not have to be postponed due to time limitations. Sincerely, Strom Thurmond LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ELECTION Pursuant to a certificate and petition filed with the County Commissioners of Election for Newberry County, South Carolina, by the City of Newberry on Sep tember 19, 1959, the said certifi cate and petition now being on file in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Newberry County in Book 14 at page 37. This certifi cate and petition requests the or der of an election for annexation of the land described below to the City of Newberry. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 47-14 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina of 1952, an elec tion is ordered to be held on Oc tober 20, 1959, according to the laws governing general elections in South Carolina with the polls being opened at 8:00 A M. and closed at 6:00 P. M. for the pur pose of determining whether the following described territory should be annexed to the City of Newbery, to wit: All that piece, parcel or tract of land situate in the State and County aforesaid, lyipg immed iately adjacent to the City Limits of the City of Newberry, S. C. and being described as follows: Beginning at a point where Caldwell Stret intersects the City Limits of the City of Newberry and proceeding in a southeaster ly direction along said Caldwell Street to a point where the Ebe- nezer Road intersects with Cald well Street Extension; thence, in a southeasterly, direction, 120’ on a line perpendicular to the said Ebenezer Road; thence, north easterly on a line parallel to the Ebenezer Road and at all times being an equal distance of 120’ from the said Ebernezer road to a point 120’ from where Ebenezer road intersects with Glenn Street; thence, along a line always 120’ equal distance and paralled, and running in a northerly and northwesterly direction to a point southeast of where Glenn Street intersects with Rivers Street; thence on a line northeasterly and parallel to said Rivers Street and also 120’ equal distance from- said Rivers Street to a point intersect ing with Railroad Avenue; thence, in a northwesterly direction to the City Limits of the City of Newberry; thence, along the City Limits of the City of Newberry, to the point of the beginning. Prop erty more fully described by a sur vey made on September 9, 1959, and recorded in the Clerk of Courts office for Newberry Coun ty on September 24, 1959, in Plat Book P at page 126. Also, a copy of this plat is posted in the of fices of the City Clerk and Treas urer, Newberry, South Carolfha. The regular voting precincts are designated as polling places in each of the respective areas where elections will be held. They are as follows: Ward 1. Voting place at Police Headquarters. Marian Baxter, H. D. Whitaker, J. J. Hitt, Managers, J. E. Hazel, Clerk. Ward 2. Voting at Smith Motor Company. Coke Dickert, Mrs. Roy Anderson, Mrs. Doris Dufford Eargle, Managers. Mrs. Butler Holmes, Clerk. Ward 3, No. 1. Voting at Bound ary Street School. V. H. Wheel er, Mrs. Sue H. Hutchinson, Mrs. Evelyn Summer, Managers. Mrs. Maude Eskridge, Clerk. Ward 3, No. 2. Voting at Scout LACKLAND AFB, Tex.—Air man Charles L. Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Young of 989 Bess St., Newberry, S. C., has completed his initial course in Air Force basic military training here. He has been selected to at tend the technical training course for Personnel School at Lackland AFB. Airman Young is a graduate of Newberry High School. Basic Airmen at Lackland are selected for specialized training at technical schools on the basis of their interests and aptitudes. They are reassigned to the school after four weeks of basic, and are given additional military basic training along with the technical subjects. Cheese is made in some five hundred varieties. The Lapps and Eskimos make cheese from reindeer milk, the Arabs from camel’s milk; llama cheese is popular in South America and zebu cheese in Ceylon and India. Hall at Mollohon. J. B. Morris, C. J. Jackson, C. A. Shealy, Jr., Managers. C. A. Shealy, Sr., Clerk. Ward 4, No. 1. Voting at the Chamber of Commerce, Old Court house. Miss Corrie Lee Haviad, Mrs. Ethel B. Fellers, Tom P. Wicker, Managers. Mrs. M. K. Wicker, Clerk. Ward 4, No. 2. Voting at Lay- ton Bros. Store. Pete Parrott, Miss Minnie Havird, Mrs. Helen Senn, Managers. Mrs. Dovie Hamm, Clerk. Ward 5. Voting at Corley’s Bar ber Shop. Eugene Shealy, Edgar Hiller, Mrs. O. S. Goree, Manag ers. Mrs. Fred Jones, Clerk. Ward 6. Voting at Kemper Chevrolet Co., 1517 Main St. Mrs. Anna K. Hart, Mrs. John Walker Schumpert, Mrs. Gordon N. Clark son, Managers. A. G. McCaugh- rin. Clerk. Hartford Heights. Voting at D. W. Jones Store, 93 Player Street. Carol M. Hipp, Oliver H. Davis, R. Ansel Martin, Managers. Steve D. Reeves, Clerk. To vote in this election the vot er must be a qualified elector presenting a valid registration certificate bearing a date not ear lier than January 1, 1958, nor lat er than thirty (30) days prior to the election, and must be a resi dent of the City of Newberry, or the territory described in this an nexation election notice. The Managers shall administer to each person offering to vote oath that he is qualified to vote at this election, according to the Constitution of this State, and that he has not voted during this election. The Managers have the power to fill a vacancy, and if none of the Managers attend, the citizens can appoint from among the qualified voters, the Managers, who, after being duly sworn, can conduct the election. At the close of the election the Managers and Clerks must pro ceed publicly to open the ballot box and count the ballots therein, and make a statement of the re sults for each annexation election, ( and sign the same. Within three days thereafter the Chairman of the Managers, or some one desig nated by the Managers, must de liver to the Commissioners of Election the poll list, the box con taining the ballots and written statements of the results of the JOHN A. MAYER, Chairman JOHN W. HIPP, SR. P. N. ABRAMS, Newberry County Com missioners of Election. 23-3tc FAIR TIME HERE!! 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