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m $■ PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1959 wn 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class postage paid at Newberry, South Carolina. "■ ' — — I— I !■ .1 ■ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Do we need a new Constitution for the State of South Carolina? Throughout the years I have talked about contra dictions in the Constitution and repetitions and loosely thrown together parts of it; and I have also commented on the very extensive amendments to permit the several coun ties to do various things; and I have shown at length how frequently the clear intent, even the plain and unmistakable language of the Constitution is constantly disregarded, but I am afraid of what might result from a Convention of pres ent-day attitudes. In other words, the Constitution, appar ently, need not stand in the way, however loaded down and contradictory it may be. What I wonder about is tnis: How does the Constitution stand in the way of our industrial development? I do not say that it does not impede progress, or that it is just by the side of the road wdiile progress passes by; but several citizens of eminence have recently been quoted as saying that we need a new Constitution. Since I assume that those gentlemen—all respectable and resourceful figures of large affairs—must have in mind something that we of this State should consider very carefully. What is it? What do we need in the Constitution that will promote our industrial development; or what is there in the present Constitution that militates against the promotion of the best interest of our State? Do we urgently need a new Constitution? Let’s put a fin ger on what is wrong, specifically; or what is lacking, speci fically. If the principal objection to the Constitution is its hap hazard, unedited, unrespected self, would it serve the State to have a new Constitution merely because this one is a hodge-podge; or would a new Constitution really serve an ungent need as an instrument of government? I do not ask whether a new Constitution would be strictly adhered to. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Ciemson Extension information Specialist mm *•: Dairy Cattle Improvement We have long known that bet ter and better bulls were the main key to cattle improvement. And we preached it and the farmers practiced it as best they could along throagh the years. But few farmers could afford the better bulls until artificial insemination came along. This breeding technique was started in this country up in New Jersey in 1938. Clemson started it in its own herd the next year, 1939. Then in 1945 the College established the first bull stud so formed to serve a state. And for 12 years semen from these bulls was used over the state where Clemson trained technicians work ed through local cooperatives in the leading dairy counties. Two years ago arrangements were made by our associations, with the cooperation of Clemson, to get superior semen from the Northern Ohio Breeders Associa tion. And now service from some of the finest bulls in the land is available to our farmers large and small. When this work was started up in New Jersey in 1938, 1,050 cows were thus bred that year. It has grown by leaps and bounds since then. Last year 6,645,568 cows were thus bred in this country to far finer bulls than would have otherwise been possible. Clemson has 6 generations of artificially bred cattle in its herd now. No wonder fewer milking cows in this country are producing more total milk. Many of the fine cows of today are really milking mach ines, turning feedstuffs into na ture’s finest food product, milk. And, with better and better bull service available through artificial insemination, we can go far yet in production per cow. Witchweed Spreads County Agent Johnston of Hor- I am not reflecting adversely on our Courts. Unless the departures from the mandates of the Supreme Law are challenged in Court the Court cannot act. Speaking of Courts: The State of Texas challenged the validity of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court of the United States refused to consider the validity of that so-called Amendment. That, to me, raises a question: What right has that Court or any Court to refuse to consider a matter of law when it is properly presented to the Court? Of course Courts are not expected to “pass on” irrelevant, unrelated amendments or Statutes, but when a case goes before a Court involving the Constitution or a Statute I challenge the right of the Court to refuse to consider the point raised and properly presented to the court. If courts may adopt that attitude we have lost the last refuge of a citizen in a free oountry of Constitutional gov ernment. Of course the Court will declare that the Fourteenth Amendment is a political issue. What is the function of a court if it denies a hearing on any point of law properly be fore the Court? Is the Court itself a tribunal of justice; or is it part and parcel of errors flagrantly contrary to the Constitution itself? Would the Supreme Court; or any Circuit Court of South Carolina render such a decision as that on a Constitutional question properly before the Court? No; I don’t think so. If a constitutional question comes before our Courts as the basis of an action our Courts will give full consideration to the issue at Bar. Americans are always trying something new. Like the ancient Greeks, our industrialists are always interested in new things. .Americans are not always the inventors, but Americans are quick to see the commercial possibilities of new products. Sometimes we are handicapped for a time by our unreadi ness to go “all-out” for the promotion of products because if millions of dollars are invested today to make a machine it is not easy to scrap all the investment tomorrow for a “new wrinkle,” but if the big manufacturers don’t use the newest idea some small manufacturer will develop it, and very soon the big boys will fall in line, too. Observe the small cars! Well here is another product, perhaps, in its essence, bor rowed from the British. I might make a point: There‘may be geniuses in medi cine and surgery in Italy, Austria, France and Germany. Perhaps Holland, Norway, Sweden and Belgium. But their hospitals and physicians are few as compared to ours. Am erica has a competent surgeon and physicians—and a good hospital—for every fifty thousand of our people, more or less. So Americans seize opportunities resulting from ex periments of geniuses of other lands. What about flying honeycomb? It has nothing to do with honey as told that sturdy old figure of the Bible, Samson, who went to Timnath in quest of a bride because that Phil istine girl pleased him well, he said; and on the way he slew a lion with his bare hands. Afterwards he returned and looked at the carcass of the sjain lion and found there a swarm of bees and honey in the lion. He ate the honey, as you may recall. Well, there is nothing related to lovely Phil istine girls or lions or real edible honey, but somthing else again, that I now would tell about. “The Air Force bomber, designed to fly at speeds three times that of sound, last month got off the drawing boards and went into the tooling-up stage. This achievement touch ed off a flurry of activity among the five prime contractors and hundreds of actual and would-be sub-contractors. The stir was particularly noticeable among a group of companies which make up one of the nation’s youngest industries, the fabricators of honeycomb core and sandwich. The honyecomb makers, of course, have nothing to do with beehives. They are engaged in turning out a new type of construction material which has a high ratio of strength to weight. It can be made of wood, paper, cotton, fiberglass, aluminum or a number of other substances, but the one at tracting particular attention at the moment is stainless steel foil. Tissue-thin strips of stainless steel are corrugated and then welded together in a honeycomb pattern—whence the name—to form a core resembling an automobile radiator. This is placed between twe sheets of slightly thicker stain less steel, to which it is attached by brazing, to make the sandwich. Since it is 90% air, the resulting material is ex tremely light, yet sturdy enough to resist the high tempera tures and strains encountered by an aircraft zipping jpfotig at 2,000 miles per hour. As far as can be foreseen at the moment, honeycomb is destined to be the fabric from which tomorrow’s supersonic planes, intercontinental ballistic missiles and space vehicles will be constructed. Although it has been used in limited quantities its first large-scale application will be as struc tural material and ‘skin’ for the B-70 which will take about 20,000 square feet of honeycomb sandwich. When used in aircraft, the material must be virtually custom-made and it costs from $400 to $1,000 per square foot, depending upon, the guage. Thus, each bomber will constitute at least an $8 million market for honeycomb. As new production tech niques are developed, prices are expected to drop sharply; nevertheless, by the end of 1963, annual sales of honeycomb for airframes should climb at least to $172 million. To what extent its use in missiles, spacecraft and in as yet unfor- seen commercial applications will boost that figure is any one’s guess. Although it is only within the past five years that the potential of honeycomb as a construction material has been recognized, an impressive number of companies have gone into the business. Honeycomb was first used by the British during World War II as an ersatz material to replace scarce metals in air frame construction. Panels of balsawood core faced with birch were used in the de Havilland Mosquito bomber. Tow ard the end of the war, in this country, Chance Vought came up with a material called ‘Metalite.’ consisting of balsawood between metal facings, which was used in the F5U, F6U, F7U and F8U series of naval planes. Before the advent of supersonic planes, the best method of cutting down the weight of aircraft without sacrificing strength was through the use of honeycomb sandwich made of aluminum or, to a lesser extent, fiberglass. Core of these materials is made with film or foil ranging from .0007 to .006 of an inch in thickness. The narrow strips are spot-bonded with resin and then pulled out, accordian fashion, to form the honeycomb pattern. Facings ranging in thickness from .005 to .06 of an inch are glued to the surface with ad hesive. Civilian markets are opening up for aluminum honey comb. The block-long canopy over the new ticket bureau in New York’s Pennsyvania Station is made of this material. Convair’s engineering division headquarters in San Diego recently was given an aluminum honeycomb facade, and the main building of the San Francisco airport has a fa cade of aluminum honeycomb core faced with porcelainized steel. Hexcel officials are building up a sales force to push the use of adhesive bonded honeycomb in packaging and for the construction of curtain walls, movable partitions and doors. In sum, the next decade in likely to see man building more and more like the bees. Honeycomb construction will find important uses on the ground, and it will be essential if he is to fulfill his dreams of cruising around the globe at three or four times the speed of sound, hurl bulky missiles to the moon and ultimately explore outer space. PROSPERITY NEWS The William Lester Chapter of the U. D. C. will meet Friday, No vember 7 at 3:30 with Mrs. J. S. Thomason. The Crepe Myrtle Garden Club will meet Wednesday, Nov. 11 with Mrs. G. H. Caldwell. The Iris Garden Club will meet Wednesday, November 11 at 3:30 with Mrs. J. C. Metts. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Tyler of Jacksonville, Fla., returned home Saturday. Mrs. Tyler had come on the sudden final illness of her sister, Mrs. B. T. Young. Mr. Ty ler came later. Some of the relatives here at tending the final rites for Mrs. B. T. Young were Mr. and Mrs. George Cutts Wise of Washing ton, D. C.; Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Richards Sr. of Health Springs; Dr. and Mrs. A. J. Richards Jr. of Columbia; Mr. Kreps Zeagler Sr., ry tells me they found the dread ed witchweed in several new com munities the past summer. They have now found it on over 200 farms in that county. And these is a scattering of it in a number of counties down there on each side of the Carolinas line. The witch weed experiment station near Whiteville has all sorts of work under way seeking effective con trol measures. Soil Fertility Program Clemson has launched an in tensive Soil Fertility Program in South Carolina. It is based on ac curate soil tests as guides for pro per liming and fertilization. The oid samples are assembled through the local county agents and sent to Clemson. They are tested and reports sent back to the agents, who in turn interpret them for each farmer in terms of lime and fertilizers for the individual fields for best results. Change Farming hasn’t been the same since the boll weevil came to South Carolina in the early twenties. It brought less cotton and more of other things, after breaking many a farmer. And it also changed cotton a lot. But for the better early fruiting cottons the breed ers gave us, we would likely have been out of the cotton business long ago. Before the weevil came, the cottons we had then started open ing out in September. County Agent Qilliam of Allendale tells me a farmer there ginned two bales this year on the last day of July. Science is ever at work helping us overcome difficulties as they arise. The experiment stations and plant breeders develop new and better things. The county agents demonstrate them in the fields, where farmers can read the les sons from the soil and apply them. BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER »> Boys Are That Way Memory brings back the churn. There was one in every home in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork when I was com ing along there. We churned sour cream to get our butter. That was the only sort we could get the but ter to form from. And, my that buttermilk, with little flakes of butter still floating in it! In the summer there was no trouble getting sour cream. We stored the milk in crocks in the cellar. The cream soon came to the top and the milk clabber ed. Then the cream was easy to get off in a rich yellow sheet. After the weather got cold, the milk would not sour and clabber in time. So we just skimmed the sweet cream from the milk, put it in the churn, and sat it by the fireplace. There it would get warm, soon sour, and was ready to churn. That churning was a chore, almost a daily one in most homes. And with all of her oth er duties, it added to the busy schedule of the average house wife. Oft’ have I seen her hold ing her baby in her left arm, rocking and singing it to sleep, and at the same time keeping the rythmic beat of the churn going with the right hand. Now, folks, that takes coordination! I always liked to mess around there at churning time. As the dasher was pulled up I’d put my finger against it and get a licking of that sour cream. And I’d almost get a real licking for that too, because they figured my finger was not always clean. After churning, in the sum mer, we’d let that buttermilk down in the well with a rope to cool. Then we’d have it for sup per. That, boys and girls, with cracklin’ cornbread and cold vegetables left from dinner was a meal to be remembered. Easy on your stomach too, and seem ed to induce sweet dreams. Mr. and Mrs. Kreps Zeagler Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Shirer, and Mr. and Mrs. David Slawson, all of Lone Star; and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hemmingway of Summer- ton. Mrs. Pat E. Wise, who had re turned to Prosperity to be with Mrs. B. T. Young returns Thurs day to Melbourne, Fla. where she is with Mr. and Mrs. Austin Scott and family. Mrs. Carlisle Taylor and Miss Rebecca Taylor of Charleston are visiting Mrs. J. Frank Browne. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Connelly and Miss Ophelia Connelly, together with Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Connel ly of Columbia, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Wefester Gray son and children of North Augus ta. While there they celebrated the fourth birthday of Tony, the older son of Mr. and Mrs. Gray son. On the weekend, Mrs. A. B. Hunt, Mrs. Joe Spotts and chil dren, Frances Ann and Larry, joined the James Hunts of Spar tanburg for a trip to Henderson ville, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Rudy C. Barnes, Rudy and Susan of Columbia were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Barnes Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Summers and Pamela of Lexington were supper guests of Mrs. Helen Summers, Saturday. Mrs. M. E. Layfield and Miss Annie Wheeler of Columbia spent Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. Edd Counts. ' Mrs. Hoyt A. Boland was in Louisville, Ky. the past week to attend the Grand Chapter meeting of the Order of the Eastern Star of Kentucky as a Grand Represen tative from South Carolina. While there, she was made an Honorary Member of this body as was the Junior Grand Matron of South Carolina, Mrs. Irene B. Whitting ton. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schumpert of Jacksonville, Fla., visited his mother, Mrs. Mattie Schumpert, on Friday. Dr. and Mrs. E. P. Paine of Honea Path are visiting Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Harmon. Looking A. head m ,. by Dr. Georg* S. Benson PRESIDENT—NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM Searcy, Arkansas MRS. SPENDTHRIFT AND UNCLE SAM Mrs. Spendthrift is a house wife (not a real one, of course). A few years ago, when the month ly household accounts she ran with local tradesmen were getting out of hand, her husband suggested they go on a cash budget. She ap proved. Each Monday he gave her cash allowances for her various expenses—so much for groceries, so much for incidental expenses for the. children, so much for her personal use, etc. The allowance for groceries was $40. For a few months she kept within her $40-a- week grocery budgets Then, hav ing use for some of the $40 else where, she began running an ac count at a little neighborhood gro cery store. She quickly found that this way she didn’t have to be so careful to keep grocery expenditures at the $40 ceiling. She bought grocer ies with less restraint. There came a time when the husband’s $40 cash for groceries each Mon day barely paid her bill at the lit tle store. Soon she was paying only a part of the bill each Mon day, using some of the $40 at the beauty shop, some for frills that her regular clothing allowance didn’t permit, etc. Her indebted ness mounted. The little grocer finally had to suggest larger pay ments each Monday. Mrs. Spend thrift went to the bank and, with out her husband’s knowledge, bor- row’ed a tidy sum. Part went on the grocery bill, part to the dress shop, part to other creditors. Practice Didn’t Change In the succeeding months Mrs. Spendthrift maneuvered her hus band into increasing all her al lowances; the grocery balance went to $60. But her financing practices didn't change. Soon she was again in a serious plight. Her bank borrowings, in three banks, were rising, her grocery store ac count, although she was paying more each week on it, was stag gering; her personal spendings were increasing. Finally, there came the show down. The little grocer was oblig ed to cut off her credit until she could pay half the staggering bill; and when she went to the banks she found she could not bor row another dime. She faced the reality, too, that her husband’s income simply couldn’t finance the measure of spending which she had practiced for several years. She had brought the family to lit eral bankruptcy. Spendthrift Government Probably there aren’t very many housewives who practice such frenzied financing. But, our Federal government does; it has practiced just such spending, and borrowing, and covering-up op erations for many years. Now it has come to the reckoning. It ow'es $290 billion on which it must pay $8 billion a year interest, and which it must constantly be fin ancing and re-financing, fts “gro cery allowance”—the annual take in taxes—is spent before it is col- $85 billion this fiscal year to keep up with “grocery” back bills com ing due—and the current grocery bill, as well as the rising nation al debt. £>ur spendthrift govern ment’s reputation as a money manager is tarnished in the money markets of the world. All this would be ironic and per haps even amusing if the Federal government were some far-off ac quaintance, or cousin, whose problems did not affect us per sonally. The fact is, however, that we are personally involved in the financial problems of the Government in two specific ways. First, the government must get the income from us—the citizens. It is our debt and all our posses sions are its security. In the sec ond place all of our dollars go down in value as inflation in creases, and this could become serious. A Prodigal Country The Wall Street Journal says editorially: “The truth, in its sim plest form, is that time has caught up with a prodigal country. For more than a decade this country has spent money like the prover bial drunken sailor . . . with a blatant^ disregard , of the deficit the billions accrued in our ac counts.” Maurice B. Stans, director of the Budget says: “I must pass on to you solemn warning. Unless we as a government insist right now upon living within our income, we face certain hard inevitabilities. Either there will be more tax in creases piled on top of our already heavy tax load, or there will be a mounting national debt and growing inflation with disastrous rises in the cost of living and a dangerous weakening of our na tional strength. Either way the prospect is menacing.” • THC ■ STARS by LYN CONNElA xttitH the emergence o* Vr “Flower Drum Song” as a nit album, the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein has no less than five albums ( riding the best selling charts, which is surely something of a record in itself In addition to “Drum Song** there are two versions of “Soutis Pacific” and the sound track al bums of.“The King and I” and “Oklahoma” - The Capitol sound track album of “Okla homa” has been a best seller for more than five years—another record?—and “The King and I has occupied the charts for 2% years. As a close friend of Sinatra and Dean Martin, it was probably in evitable that actor Peter Lawferd would write a song . . . His, first effort is titled “The Thin Man’s Woman” and was introduced on the “Thin Man” TV show in which Lawford stars . . . Law- ford says the song is one that should be spoken rather than sung .which just suits his style— and that of many other pseudo- singers cutting wax these day*. PLATTER CHATTER WARNER BROS:—This embryo company has come up with a jam series that should find a Mg market . . . The “jam festival** is composed entirely of n terial performed by top tras a 1 *** groups . . • Jus^ gr^a* are such Individual albums as “Roberts’* done In Jam by tbs Morris Nanton trio; the First Jasa Piano Quartet featuring four pianists, Berale LeigMsa^ **▼ Joseph, B Nanton Youmaaa Hart music along wtth standards: a Jam by Rady Brail of Gershwin’s fine production “Girl Crnxy;** Disk Cathcarft on his trumpet to “Bto MCMLJX” in which he emnistss the late, great Bix Blederbeeha and the songs popular in his hey** day. v> NO OTHER PORTABLE gives "hunt and peck” typists PRINT PERFECT RESULTS! NOW! Even beginners get professiopal looking results with the amazing new Smith-Corona Electric Portable. Touch the keys and electric power takes over . . . giving you crisp, dear uniform typing. 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