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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROMNA THURSDAY, OOTOBffil 22, 1959 un 1218 College 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 Do we want new enterprise in South Carolina? Let’s not overlook the possible expansion of the enterprises we have; those we have—those which have borne the heat and burden of the day, as it were, have poured millions upon mil lions in expansions. Our own big South Carolina Com pany, The South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. has spent nearly two hundred million dollars in seventeen years. That is expansion; all the wages and taxes are many millions more. How shall we approach prospective enterprises? North Carolina is running an advertisement that tells the whole story in few words: “In 1957 North Carolina reduced taxes and keeps them down in 1959.” Now that covers the ground. Men who are responsible for large investments are bound to consider dollars and cents, the overhead cost of operating. Here is more of that same North Carolina advertisement in a great National Magazine of business: “Not only has North Carolina added no new state taxes in a quarter of a century, but during the same period has made importand corporate tax reductions. The 1959 legis lature adjourned recently, again without a raise in tax rates and without the addition of new levies. At the same time, some other states were forced to raise taxes. Throughout this quarter of a century period, North Caro lina has met fully its fiscal responsibility, raised salaries of school teachers and state employees, made gigantic invest ments in capital improvements at its institutions, and end ed every year with a credit balance. How his it been possible for North Carolina to maintain one of the most stable and attractive tax structures in the Nation with no sacrifice in State services? The answer: ef ficient and progressive government; business-like purchas ing; no give-away programs; sound fiscal policies in every phase of the State’s business. The revision of North Carolina’s corporate tax structure in 1957 did not reduce the State’s income as much as had been expected because more and more industries have been attracted into this favorable business climate.” Let our legislators and City Councils ponder this. ties and all the miles between were men of the Telephone Telepgraph and Power Companies working all hours. If Beaufort had to bear the enormous storm loss the cost would be prohibitive. m Incidentally I passed twice near the conflagration at The Standard oil’s tank near Charleston. I’ve never seen such a spectable nor have I ever seen or heard of a finer job of firefighting. The Government forces and the Charleston and neighboring firemen were beyond all praise.. Their work was the finest example of the best tradition of public serv ice. At last or at length I understand what the trouble is. I’ve wondered about the somewhat injudicious public spend ing that seems to characterise our “day and time.” And the somewhat reckless abandon in public spending reflects the equally progidal private spending. I’ve wondered and wond ered; and perhaps you sober-minded people have marvelled at the outpouring spree that is the order of the day. Well now I know the why and wherefore: “The State” of Colum bia—at the moment I’m thinking of the well-known daily newspaper, not the State Government—well, anyhow The State newspaper tells the whole story in a headline: Here it is: RACE to put man on the moon still far from over. That explains it all—the constant and rapid rise in prices, spending, etc., etc. As a somewhat ignorant and unimportant student of Government and Economics I now T grasp the essential fact firmly: We are all up in the air and calculating on reaching the moon. But what we need most importantly now is peo ple with their feet on the ground. Let us stay out of the moon and renew our knowledge of this earth, planting our feet firmly on old terra firma and growing firmer on terra firma all the while. Who pays for the roads and highways we travel on? Who pays for police protection, fire protection, for public schools? Who pays for the Capa Canaveral Missle Programs; the De fense Program; for the Armed Services? Who pays Con gress, the State legislature and all other governmental groups? Who pays the bills to operate government? For the 12 months ending July 31, the South Carolina Electric and Gas Company’s system set aside $12,222,000.00 for taxes to local, state and federal governments. Is that great com pany our biggest tax payer? Other privately-owned, busi ness-managed utilities also provided their fair share. Most individuals pay their fair share of taxes, too. But govern ment owned and operated electric power systems such as the TVA did not pay the same kind of taxes or in the same proportion as private enterprise companies and their cus tomers. When some groups don’t pay their fair share, you have to make up the difference—and that’s not fair. Well, have we thought of that? We can’t go through life letting our neighbors pay our bills. We wouldn’t think of go ing to the grocery store and charging part of your bill to another man would you? And would you want him to pay part of the price of your wife’s dress? The recent hurricane, knowm as Gracie—proved the need for spreading losses over a wide area. In the little town where I live many men worked several days to restore all utility service. If the little town or the ayerage city had to bear the loss the burden would have been unbearable. For example consider Charleston and Columbia: For a week, or more, trained men worked day and night to bring order out of chaos. The tremendous cost of that was borne by big Companies which could afford to maintain experts and all the necessary equipment for immediate service in emer gency. I went to Charleston and Columbia and within those ci- I go about this State, North Carolina and Georgia and frequently meet someone from South Carolina. Recently in Charlotte I sat at a large table in a Cafeteria which serves nearly five thousand people at the midday meal. My handsome young business associate and I were hur riedly eating on a fast schedule when an elderly man and two elderly ladies come to that table. I thought they were a party of three but not so, as I soon learned. One of the ladies asked the elderly man if he were a Virginian. He said “No, but something just as bad.” Tut, tut! Virginians are not to be sneezed at. Being my self a grandson of Virginia I challenged the old boy. “Where are you from?” I asked. “South Carolina,” he said. Well, now! “What place in South Carolina? I asked. He hesitated. I have been to every nook and corner of our State, from Gillisonville, Burton, Bluffton, Beech Highland, Crocketville, Green Pond, Fair Play, Kings Mountain, Starr, Campobello, Hamburg, Grahamville, Pageland, Verdery—and foreign parts. Finally my friend mentioned his home-town, a small town, but important, in Oconee County, where once I had a friend, remembered as a faithful servant of the public. The gentleman was surprised. I might have added Elko any Sycamore, as well as Westville and Old Dorchester and Ladson. My companion and I were interested to see a tablet on Cedar Street in Charlotte, to a great son of old Edgefield. Edgefield has produced many men of distinction from the days before the Revolution, through the Civil War and in the turbulent era between the Civil War and the great days of Wade Hampton’s leadership in the redemption of South Carolina from the Carpetbaggers and Scalawags. We associate Edgefield with many great names, down to the redoubtable B. R. Tillman. Edgefield, however, did not exhaust her strength, but has continued to produce able, patriotic and notable figures. I remember Edgefield with a special appreciation for I taught there two years and shall always cherish those hos pitable folk. Even in my day the community was graced by Governor John C. Sheppard, Mr. Orlando, the Mims, and a host of others. But riding down Cedar, or was it Trade Street, or the corners of both? in Charlotte I saw this tablet, very con spicuously placed f—D. A. Tompkins. Crusader, Southern Industrial Developer, Manufacturer, Engineer, Author, Pub lisher. I never had the honor of meeting Mr. D. A. Tompkins, but I knew his brother, the inimitable Arthur Tompkins, lawyer and gracious personality. Mr. D. A. Tompkins still shines with splendor in the minds of old Edgefield whose glory we usually associate with Military renown and statesmanlike activities. Mr. Tomp kins was another of Edgefield’s remarkable industrial gen iuses, the greatest son of South Carolina in my day was James C. Self, illustrious builder of Greenwood yet born in Edgefield County, son of a Country physician wdio died when James C. Self was a boy of ten years. I am not writing a history of Edgefield, but that County has mothered sons of transcendent genius in all the arts of peace as well as in the smoke of battle. Prosperity News MRS. B. T. YOUNQ, Correspondent Mrs. W. E. Martin was hostess Thursday evening to the Iris Garden Club. Mrs. Hubert Stockman was pro gram leader. A devotional period wds followed by an interesting re port on the adoption and language of flowers. For recreation a contest was conducted. The prize was won by Mrs. Otis Shealy. The hostess served sand wiches and cola drinks.' The Crepe Myrtle Garden Club met Wednesday night, October 14 with Mrs. Essie B. Singley. The topic, “Grow Old Gracefully,” was ably presented by Mrs. W. H. Caldwell. Mrs. W. A. Ballentine gave gleanings. Recreation was conducted by Mrs. Raymond Ruff, the prize go ing to Mrs. C. K. Wheeler, who presented it to their guest, Mrs. H .B. Hendrix. The hostess served hot dogs and coffee. Those attending Annual In spection of Circle Chapt. No. 241, Order of the Eastern Star, from Prosperity Chapter No. 77, were Mrs. Essie B. Singley, Mrs. Jus tine Epting, Mrs.' Nancy Hamm, Mrs. Vida C. Thomasson, Mrs. Mabel Counts, Mrs. H. L. Fellers, Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Boland, Mr. Jim Williams and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dawkins. Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Lowe and John Mark of Allendale were weekend visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harmon. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hunt and Joann of Spartanburg were week end guests of Mrs. A. B. Hunt. Mrs. James Lee Counts and Mrs. Horace E. Counts joined friends on Sunday for a trip to the mountains of North Carolina. Mrs. Joe W. White Jr. and daughters, Clarissa and Rebecca, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Chappell. Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Ruff spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Livingston of Blaney. Mr v . and Mrs. Curtis Amick spent the weekend in Ware Shoals with Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Scott. On Sunday, they visited Mr. and Mrs. McFall Wise of Greenville and the Tom Eptings of Belton. Mr. and Mrs. E. Charles Sim mons and children, Susan and Emory, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Simmons of Sumter. Mrs. L. J. Fellers spent sever al days the past week with he* sister, Mrs. Mack Hall of Winns- boro. While there, she attended the commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Sion Presby terian Church, located near Winns- boro, of which she was a former member. Leslie Singley of Henderson ville spent Monday with his sis ter, Mrs. J. D. Luther Sr. Misses Susie and Mary Lang ford with their guest, Mrs. W. D. Moore of Newberry, visited friends in Kelton on Friday. Mrs. L. G. Outlaw returneed Tuesday from a visit with rela tives in Bishopville. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist What 4-H’ers Do At Camp Reflecting back on their very successful summer 4-H camp, that had an attendance of 285 from all parts of Lexington County, As sistant County Agent Hipp re calls “While recreation was one of the most important phases of camp-life, members also received instruction in citizenship, good manners, water safety, tractor op eration and care, beautification of home grounds, use of power tools, and tree and nature study.” Grapes As A Crop County agents tell me of grow ing interest in grapes as a crop, specially in the upper part of the state. Long experience at Clem son has shown we can grow good ones. Now the growers have formed their association for pro moting the crop. A juice plant is to be built, and leased to the New York firm that has been process ing our grapes that we trucked up to them the past two summers. County Agent Morgan of Oco nee says: “We are well pleased with the livability and growth of the 8,500 vines last season. More will be set this winter.” Wood of Pickens: “The grape program is well under way here.” Martin of Spartanburg reports: “All farmers who set out new grape vines the past season and signed up with the Palmetto Grape Marketing Association were visited during the growing sea son. Most of them have . good stands and the vines are doing well. Considerable additional plant ings will be made this winter.” Cochran of Union: “Our new vineyards are in excellent condi tion.” Some agents report trouble with black rot on many of their grapes the past summer. Our grape man, Roy Ferree, points to this as emphasizing the need for good spray equipment and for fol lowing a rigid disease control pro gram. A lot of know-how has to be de veloped in establishing any new' crop. We can get that best by following the written instructions until we have developed that in herent know-how from experience. Good spray equipment, like the peach growlers use, is needed for grapes too, Roy tells me. Dehydrating and Pelleting Forage Clemson has had a pilot dehy dration and pelleting plant for the past two seasons. The pelleted for ages have been used in feeding tests with poutry, hogs, and cat tle. The past summer a commer cial size plant was put in at Clem- son’s Edisto Station near Black- ville. Expanded experimental feed ing of dehydrated and pelleted roughages will result from this in stallation. And interested farm groups can go there and see a commercial plant in operation. A large plant of this sort has been built at Estill, County Agent Thompson tells me. And Willis of Chesterfield says interest is strong among farmers there for the erection of one too. With our usual high humidity and rainfall during the haying season, this new way of saving forage in its -very prime best is being thoroughly investigated. For forage cut at just the right time, regardless of weather, and quickly cured retains values that are normally lost in the sun and showers inherent in natural cur ing. Away back there, where the field we called the New Ground was, young timber had come across the old cotton beds that you could still see there, padded with a soft cushion of straw. And the same pile of rocks we had put in a terrace break, when that was a field, made a mound there and was overgrown with vines. From clean culture, and what not, the spring has long ago dried up. There I had lingered often as a kid, getting out of work in the fields. And on back across the Sites place I went. The old log house was gone and a wilderness of briers and bushes was all that marked the fruit ful old homestead of long ago. I walked on down where a won derful scaly-bark tree used to grow on the terrace. The field had come to pines, and had been cut. And I couldn’t even find where the fine scaly-bark tree had been. Along . through childhood’s delightful years, we never let any of those nuts go to waste. I swung back through the bottomlands that border our creek. Saplings had become great trees there and been cut. And a new growth was dense. The creek had about dried up, it did once when I was a kid, and I thought I could see a rough line of rocks across the channel where we once built % crude dam. , ^ Back up to where we had liv ed didn’t seem as far nor stee|K. And what used to bo “the big field” didn’t look big at all then. Memories, memories! I like to travel back through them at times/ Homeowners Policies WHY PAY MORE? Get 1. Dwelling Coverage 2. Contents Coverage 3. Theft Coverage 4. Comprehensive Personal Liability All in 1 Homeowners Policy One Agent, One Company, One Low Premium CALL 197 TODAY! r c e “Your PRIVATE BANKERS” 1418 Main St. Newberry BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER Last week we started through the paths of childhood. I didn’t have room to finish, I saw so much along those hallowed paths when I went there of late. So let’s tarry there a bit more today. From the wooded spot, where the old schoolhouse stood, I walked on to the back of the place. The early leaves of aut umn were gently falling yellow and crimson in the dim path. I thought of the two-score and ten seasons that had passed since I walked there as a dreaming barefoot boy. The honey locust was ripening on the selfsame tree, but the old per simmon was marked only by its rotting stump. 1959 Notice The Tax Books are now open for the collection of taxes and a Discount of \% will be allowed on taxes paid during the month of OCTOBER 1959 J. RAY DAWKINS County Treasurer FAIR TIME HERE!! 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