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f PAGE TWO 121S ColWc* StrMt 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. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (The following article was eabmitted for publication last week, but was left out due to lack of space:) When in doubt, use caution. This is an instinct of self preser vation. Frightening things should ha wisely avoided. Lightning is brightening, not so much that it will strike the “onlooker" but that it may. The proponents of fluoridation do not mention any of the delayed damages which can and have hap pened. They avoid the whole case as they did in the experiment which was made in Grand Rapids, Mich. Fluoridation did reduce tsoth decay in the 6-13 age group by nearly 62 per cent. However, the avid proponents did not men tion anything about the fact that HEART FAILURES doubled; DEATH from kidney trouble in- -ereased 50 per cent in the same length of time. These are the bad things about fluoridation. If the campaign is to be educational, both sides must be presented. Otherwise, it is not playing fair, hecause those “not in the know” are at a disadavantage. This is no *ahell game” guessing. Authorities of unquestionable character and ability have said that the fluoride (sodium)— not chlorine) is one of the most dan gerous and toxic chemicals known and there is evidence that over a period of years, the “piling up” effects of sodium fluoride will en danger such organs as the heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, etc. A per- eon can lose his teetjh, but no one can lose his liver, his heart or his pancreas by disease and expect to get replacements. Besides, there are much safer anl more effective methods of preventing tooth de cay. These methods can begin at once without waiting for fluorida tion and thus avoid the frenzied tensions of waiting. As to the 18th century disbe lievers, one can also refer to the Wooden Horse that deceived the Trojans and caused their down fall, despite all warnings. Anoth er case of “doubting Thomases” who did not believe the Japs would attack Pearl Harbor, des pite repeated warnings, while the Professionals chanted, “Non sense”! The word ignorance can be loosely applied and covers much when the truth becomes too re vealing. The act of screaming “Ig norance” is a “two way street” and can be used by the opponents also, but this method evades the real issue, “DANGER”! If statements of “those who talk loud and sound good” are to be belittled by the ultra zealots, why listen to preachers in the pulpit, the lawyers in the Court Rooms or the lecturers on the platforms ? Dr. R. S. Harris of the Massach usetts Institute of Technology, stated, “Fluorine is not without its hazards. It is a calculated risk. The amount of fluoride which is effective in water supplies has been demonstrated to interfere with important processes in other parts of the body.” This man is no “nit-wit”. Can these words of warning from so prominent a per son, be “shrugged off” without any feeling of fear? Of course a Stoic has been known to burn his finger off and not flinch! Mild cases of mottled teeth have been found among those who con tinuously drink water, the fluor ine content of which is as little as .9 per cent parts per million. i ? Not All Black OUT OF THE vociferous abuse ? aimed at the Southern States dur- ' ing the so-called civil rights de- bate, there appears a pattern c* defeat for the NAACP and its spokesmen. Their defeat was by no means due to a lack of effort, for never in legislative history have so many vicious, unconsti tutional,, and unconscionable pro posals been pushed so hard and with such determination. The fact remains—the]/ could not reimpose Reconstruction on the South. MOST WANTED by the » NAACP and its advocates in Con gress was a proposal com monly referred to as “Part III,” which was stricken from the 1957 “civil rights” bill. This pro posal would allow the U.S. Attorney Gen- to bring shits at the expense of- frnd in vhe name of the U.S. 4or anyone who claimed his “civil rights” had been denied, thereby raving the NAACP the expense ft incurs from agitating in the Released from this finan- Aal limitation, the NAACP could anltiply its agitation. This pro posal and slight variations of it were vigorously pushed time and again and each time defeated. Another “pet” project of the - radicals was to have Congress fadorse the Supreme Court’s 1954 gefcool desegregation decision. This effort failed twice, the last time by a vote of 61 to 30. This S-l rejection of the Court’s sub- rtitution of sociology for law indi cates the repulsion of the whole cwmtry for the Court’s lawless desegregation decision. A PROGRAM OF grants by the National Govemmtnt to school districts which wou'd mix the i races in the schools was also re pulsed. This “bribe” section was tried -twice and defeated twice. BOTH THE SENATE and House bills contained a section which would authorize tho U.S. CoBimissioner of Education to seize school^ which were closed to prevent race mixing if they had received funds from certain federal aid programs. This pro vision was stricken from both bills in the Senate. AN “FEPC” proposal, which would have established a commis sion to force government con tractors to hire without regard to race, was another example of the radicals’ all-out attempt and . failure. The Civil Rights Commission’s plan for the appointmeat of Fed eral registrars—and several vari ations of it—who would not only register voters, but would accom pany them to the polls, supervise voting, and count the ballots, was also rejected on several occasions. This was an attempt to have the National Government completely take over the electoral process in the South, thereby making of the Southern States no more than, “conquered provinces.” NOR WERE ALL of our suc cessful efforts of a defensive na ture. On the offensive side, a section which made a. criminal offense of interfering with court orders in school desegregation cases was broadened to include interference with all court orders. Also—and this caused a real howl of panic from the radicals—a sec tion which made a criminal of fense of interstate flight to avoid prosecution for “bombing” reli gious or educational, property was broadened to include “bombing” of any property. The Northern radicals may And these provisions extremely difficult to live with be cause of the racketeering in their midst. THIS IS NOT the end of the rejected proposals. As long as the minority bloc votes constitute, or can convince politicians they constitute, the balance of power in heavily populated States, poli- | ticians will attempt legislative ! lynchings of the South to incur their favor. As shown by this year’s Congressional fight,- all is not black yet; and as long as we keep our guard up and fight vigor ously, all will not be black. Sincerely, jitsCenrU' '^t&JUUTSYYUOrnJL, (Vet prinUd at goeanmant atyrm) THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA ■■ ■ DERRICK HOSPITAL PATIENTS 1 NEWBERRY COUNTY {MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Mrs. Mary Amick, 1214 Davis St. Olin Broome, 1106 Purcell St. Ervin Brock, 2503 Fair Ave. Earl Bigby, 1217 Glenn St. Mrs. Myra Beavers, Rt. 1, Box 61. Master Benny Crouch, Rt. 2, Johnston. Richard Caldwell, Rt. 1. Olin Cousins, 84 Caldwell St. Mrs. Anna Creekmore, 1216 Davis St. Mrs. Vernelle Cromer, Rt 1, Box 282. Mrs. Mary Hembree, Rt. 1. Mrs. Lillie C. Hipp, Rt. 2, Box 189 - Mrs. EHen Harmon, Rt. 3, Pros perity. Wirt Jennings, 709 O’Neal St. Theodore Klaiss, 1413 Council Bluff Rd., N.E., Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Maggie Koon, Rt. 4. Kirksey Koon, Tanyard St. Miss Mteftfelou S. Long, Rt. 5, Saluda. Mrs. Virginia LeMack and Baby Boy, Box 108. Dunk V. Knight, Drayton St. Mrs. Idessie Kinard, Rt. 3, Prosperity. Mrs. Estelle Marlowe, 1519 Harrington St: Mrs. Euna Mize, Rt. 1. Otto K. tyichols, Silverstreet. Mrs. Do^a Nease, Whitmire. James T. Nelson Sr., Duncan St., Whitmire. Mrs. Minnie Perry, Rt. 5, Sa luda. Mrs. Maggie Willingham, Route 1. Jack Yates, 2025 Glenn St. Colored Hayes Alston, Rt. 1. Earvin Bartee, Rt. 1, Kinards. Ivery Chapman, Prosperity. Deborah Deloris Dawkins, '112 Berry Ave., Union. Bertha Lee Gallman, Rt. 1, Prosperity. James Willie Glenn, 901 Cline St. Irene Harp, 210 Hardeman St. Leila Henderson, Rt. 3. Mance Jackson, 1825 Boyd Alley. Rosa Jenkins, 809 Crosson St. Johnnie Mathis, Rt. 2, Po- maria. Martha Sims, Rt. 2, Pomaria. Ed Wise, Rt. 3, Prosperity. Mattie Werts, 1510 Drayton St. MILLS CLINIC PATIENTS Mrs. Clyde Hartman, Prosper ity. Mrs. C. H. Minick, Newberry. Mrs. Theda Gantt and Baby Boy, Batesburg. Mrs. Minnie Johnson, Little Mountain. Mrs. Z. W. Dennis, Newberry. Mrs. Annie Laura Harmon, Prosperity. Mrs. Leila Bickley, Chapin. Caldwell Ruff, Columbia. Carl Epting, Prosperity. Miss Lalla Martin, Newberry. Brooks Haltiwanger, ’ Little Mountain. L. H. Kn a ece, Columbia. Mrs. Le- li Hawkins, Prosper ity. Mrs. Cora Slo.^n, Little Moun tain. . ( Mrs. Ella Sat. '-rfield, Newber- r y- Colored Mandy Lee Kibler and Baby Boy, Prosperity. Unsightly blackened teeth create a serious handicap! Quoting from the booklet, “The Facts on Water Fluoridation,” published by Rodale Press, Inc., Dr. Frank Bull of Wisconsin, an avid proponent of fluoridation said, “This toiicity question is a diffcult one. I can’t give you the answer on it.-—because we had a city of 18,000 people which was fluoridating its water for six or eight months. Then a campaign was started by an organized oppo sition on the grounds of toxicity. It ended up in a referendum and they threw ^-out fluoridation.” Seattle, Washington, defeated the issue of fluoridation by a vote of 88,168 to 45,ffl2.“Do you suppose there is this much ignorance in Seattle ? There are hundreds of others towhs 'Which refused fluor idation. Dr. A. L. Millar of Nebraska, a former director of public health for his state and former president of the state Medical Association as well as a congressman, once believed in fluoridation but after hearing experts oh v the question before a committee, changed his< mind and said, “I was misled by the Public Health Service. Despite my best efforts and from the evi dence before my committee, I can not find any public evidence that gave me the impression that the American Med&al Association, the dental association or several other health agencies, now recom mending the fluoridation of water had done any original work of their own. These groups were simply endorsing each other’s opinions.” This writer does not question the sincerity, nor the privilege of any one supporting an issue of any kind but in the drastic meas ure of fluoridation, it is of ut- Mr. and Mrs. John Samuel Der rick, Little Mountain, are receiv- ‘ ing congratulations upon the ar rival of a seven pound, two ounce daughter, Laurie Lee, born at the local hospital on April 9th. Mrs. Derrick is the former Roxie Verleen Koon. Mr. ^nd Mrs. Sydney Carter and sons, Syd and Richard Baker, will spend the Easter weekend with Mrs. Carter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Baker on Walnut St. / New Postoffice For L. Mountain The following letter was receiv ed by Congressman Bryan Dorn from W. L. Crawford, Regional Operations director, United States Post Office department, Atlanta, Georgia: For your information, the Post Office Department has accepted the bid of Mrs. Dorothy C. Shealy of Little Mountain, S. C. to con struct a new post office building at Little Mountain. It will be lo cated on Main street. This will be an air conditioned building of masonry and wood Construction with flourescent il lumination. There will be 1026 square feet of interior space, 105 square feet of platform space, plus adequate space for patron parking. The monthly rental ag reement is for a fixed term of five years with two year renewal op tions. The estimated completion date of new building is August 1, 1960. l, City Musicians Rated High Many “Superior” ratings were awarded Newberry students at the State Music festival held Ap ril 5, 6, and 7 at Winthrop college in Rock Hill. Those groups and individuals receiving the superior rating I were: Newberry Elementary girls chorus; Elementary mixed chorus, Newberry boy’s choir, Newberry high school class A Girls Glee club, Newberry high school vocal sextette; Also, senior piano duet, Bill Moore and Andy Price; senior piano solo, Eva Jane Price; ad vanced piano solo, Bill Moore; low voice girl’s solo, Charlene Golden, Mary Linda' Mills, Dona Rook, Kathy Whitaker, Marcia Todd, Sandra Petty; boys’ low voice so lo, Dewitt Petty; boys’ soprano solo, Steve Rowe. Receiving rating II-plus, Excel lent, were: Boys soprano solo, Willie Gil- fillan, Kenneth Harmon; boys low voice solo, Jerry Satterwhite; girls high voice solo, Elizabeth Setzler. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence (Bub- ber) Graham arid three children have moved to the Dr. Kennedy home on Harper St. which they re cently purchased. ”1 REMEMBER” BY THt OLD TIMERS From Mrs. Mertie KeUey, Bloom ington, Illinois: I well remember March, 1892. My husband and I were just married and went to a hardware store in Bloomington to purchase articles for our new home. As I still have the bill of sale, I can list some of the items and compare them with difference of articles needed and the prices of the present day. Just to list a few: 1 Quick Help er Range, $40; 1 wash basin, 10c; 1 coal hod, 75c; 1 wash tub, 85c; 1 wash board, 25c; 1 tea pot, 10c; 1 coffee mill, 10c; 1 milk strainer, 20c; 1 rake, 45c; 1 hoe, 30c; 1 bread knife, 30c. I am past 87 years old and live just a few blocks from the loca tion of this hardware store. • • • • From Mrs. Beulah Frisby, Tah- lequah, Okla.: I remember when road and highway work was done by men of the counixy or district who either gave two or three days work, or paid someone to work for them. The work was done with common garden or field plows and what was called a scraper—pulled by a team of horses or mules. The men put in culverts of wood and built wooden bridges. My father was an “overseer” as they were called at that time in Mayes Comity, Oklahoma. He needed the money to buy cotton hose and calico material to make dresses for his two daughters. Mother made the clothing, every garment we wore, even the head covering in the form of sun bonnets which we wore to church and anywhere we went. <Sen4 •oatrlb&Uona to this colnmi. to The 014 Timer, Community Press Service, Box St, Frankfort, Kentucky.! most importance that both sides should be presented without intol erance toward any, but just con sideration for all. T. L. HILL. DEED TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 Claude H. Ragsdale Jr., to C. H. Ragsdale, two lots and two buildings on Main St., $5.00 and partition. Ralph B. Baker to Carson M. Bobb, one lot and one building on Harris St., $5.00 and other val uable considerations. Newberry No. 1 Outside Ralph Coats to Newberry Fed eral Savings and Loan Associa tion, one lot on Hunt Ave., $400. Howard Coats et al to New berry Federal Savings arid Loan Assn., one lot and one building, $5 and other valuable considera tions. Newberry Federal Savings and Loan Association to William E. Wood and Carrie K. Wood, one lot and one building on Hunt St., $5 and other valuable considera tions. Silverstreet No. 2 E. Maxcy Stone to W. F. Lom- inack, Jr., Strother D. Pay singer and James C. Atkison, 18 acres, $1000. James F. Sanders to O. L. Wil son, 1-2 acre, $5. Rosalyn H. Bowers and Edna H. Williamson, etc. to Louie F. Spearman, two lots on Main St., $165. Bush River No. 3 Lawrence K. Bedenbaugh and Lethia Mae Bedenbaugh to Claude M. Satterwhite, 47 acres, $5 and other valuable considerations. Whitmire No. 4 Outside C. B Jeter to Town of Whit mire, one lot, portion of Z. H. So ber Sr. estate, $50. Pomaria No. 5 Hattie May Graham to Forrest Lee Graham and Carrie Beatrice Graham, 119 acres and five build ings, $5 love and affection. Hattie May Graham to W. Ray Graham and Ada Belle Graham, 59.5 acres, and one building, $5 love and affection. Hattie May Graham, Forrest Lee Graham, Sarah N. Marshall and Hattie N. Werts to Louise Nance Caldwell, Boysie Nance and Hattie Nance Levey, 17.1 acres, $5 and no other consideration. Sarah N. Marshall, Hattie N. Werts, Louisea Nance Caldwell, Boysie Nance and Hattie Nance Levey to Helen Dreher, 16.8 acres, $5 and no other considerations. Little Mountain No. 6 Mrs. Bessie K. Lominack to Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Kemper, two lots, $1500. J. Earle Shealy, Gladys Amick, and Dorothy Stoudemire to Inez Shealy, 32.93 acres and two build ings, love and affection. E. Maxcy Stone, Probate Judge to Mid-State Home Incorporated, one acre and one building, $500. Prosperity No. 7 J. L. Koon to Lawson H. Har mon, one lot, $5 and other val uable considerations. C. S. Holland to George F. Sib- vers, one lot, $100. C. S. Holland to Troy L. Jor dan, Columbia, one lot, $5.00 and other valuable considerations. A WASHINGTON LETTER From OLIN D. JOHNSTON SOUTH CAROLINA'S SENIOR SENATOR THE PREJUDICIAL and unfair nature of the civil rights legislation now being consid ered in the Senate is vividly demonstrated by the Title III section which places party primary elections under the same Federal controls as the bill provides for general elec tions. * * * I lATTEMPTED to have primary nominating elec tions removed from the pro visions of the bill, but only one non-Southem Senator voted with us. This wa* Senator Long from Hawaii, who said he fully agreed with my arguments that pri mary elections were party affairs designed to nominate candidates and not to elect people to office. * * • IN REMARKS accompany ing the introduction of my amendment to remove primary elections from the bill, I ex plained that unless the bill was amended it would proba bly disfranchise millions of voters, both white and Negro, because many parties will abol ish primary electioris rather than be forced to come under the provisions of the law. * * * THE CIVIL RIGHTS bill does not include conventions, and in many parts of the nation political parties hold no primary elections but do all their nominating of can didates by convention. To say the least, it is prejudi cial and unfair to require political parties that give their members the right to vote in primaries to comply with the law, while exclud ing parties which use the closed-shop method of nomi nating candidates. The Con gress will make a tragic mis take if it succeeds in enact ing this bill into law. * * * IN A SPEECH to the Sen ate this week I commended the U.S. News & World Report for its, A pril 11th report on the explosive racial conditions existing in Philadelphia, and charged the Northern liberal press was guilty of not prop erly reporting the situation. They were too busy headlining the sitdown demonstrations in Southern states and too busy writing editorials encouraging violence in the South and join ing the State Department in criticizing the way South Afri can officials handle race riots in that country. * * * IT IS STRANGE the State Department and the North ern liberal press had the nerve to criticize South Afri can police for shooting at a mob of 20,000 people who were attacking 25 police men, but yet do not have time to even report the race crisis in places like Phila delphia where hundreds of extra police on round-the- clock shifts are arresting scores of people, halting automobiles, and searching hundreds of people. * * * THERE MUST BE a change in attitude in che leadership of this nation if we expect to survive. There must be a rec ognition of the difference be tween mob rule and the right of peaceful demonstration. As , the U.S. News & World Report | said, “The difference between a ‘mobocracy’ and a ‘democ racy’ is that in one there is no rule of law, while in the other there is respect for law and order.” HEAR Farm and Home Service Program 12:30 to 12:45 P. D. Johnson and Company Items for Sale, Swap or Trade PUBLIC SERVICE No Charge —ON— WKDK 1240 Kc. THURSDAY, APRIL 14. 1! e Days Mrs. Thomas H. Pope presented an unusual historical program for the meeting of Drayton Ruther ford chapter on April 5th. It was a dairy written by a great-groat aunt of Mrs. Pope’s and gave an account of a trip made by the writ er of the diary, her mother, Mrs. Jane M. Thomas, and her sister, Cornelia Thomas, from New York City to Hilton Head, S. C. in 1864. The diary states in part; Cornelia had been very ill, evi dently from tuberculosis and the three along with a physician friend decided to make the trip, theii destination being their plan tation home “Mt. Hope” not far from Winnsboro. A permit for them to go South was obtained from President Lin coln and they left on Dec. 19, 1864 on the S. S. Arago. Cornelia became very ill and had a pre monition that she was going South to die. The weather was stormy and all were seasick, Cornelia be ing delirious at times. On Christ mas night 1864 she passed aw;ay, and tql next day the ’party was transferred at Hilton Head to the S. S. Crescent headed for Char leston harbor. They had much trouble and many delays getting into Charleston, having to be es corted by Federal soldiers to a place where they could join some Confederates sent to meet them. It was ten days from the time they left Hilton Head before they could get out of Charleston on their way to Columbia. Permit? were necessary before they could board a train. It was dark when they reached Columbia. The fol lowing afternoon they left for Ridgeway, and placed Cornelia’s body in the church from which the funeral was conducted the next day. They had spent trying days and nights from Hilton Head to Ridge way, but these experiences were minor compared with those that followed at Mt. Hope. • Before Feb. 22, 1865 they had been hearing of Sherman’s ad vance, but no one seemed to think that he would take the Charlotte road as that would put him too far from his base. The Confeder ates had warned them to watch for the moving of campfires. In a few nights these were moved and the family knew that Sherman was coming that *ay. Other relatives had joined themt at Mt. Hope; ind although they were a group of. women and chil dren with no men to protect them, they were treated with the utmost disrespect by these sol diers from Sherman’s army. .The ruffians not only took all of the- animals on the place, all the chick ens, made the Negroes lift the^ flagstones for all of the meat, all grains, corn—in fact everything on the outside, but they went through every room in the house, emptying all of the dresser draw ers, breaking open every trank,, and spiling bed clothes, even dresses on their herSes. The fam ily was left with nothing to eat and little to wear. The mother found a few sweet potatoes under the house and roasted them in the fire for food for the family. One Yankee set fire to the barn, “to see it burn”. For nearly *. week there was a constant stream of these marauders so that the women and children never too off their clothes. The big planta tion house was a shambles on the- inside, and not one thing of val remained on the place. Mrs. Pope also had two valuable letters to show-one written by Gen. Wade Hampton and the other an order for a court martial issued and signed by Gen. Stephen D~ Lee. Earing the business session, a large attendance was urged ah the district meeting in Clinton on April 29th. A $10 contribution was made to aid the Children of the Confederacy chapters. Mrs. M. F. Bowler reported a good meeting of her enthusiastic group at Junior High. The state meeting of the C. of C. will be in Abbe ville June 7th. Mrs. Hunter Brown, and Mrs. Frank Lominack, Sr. were the hostesses, and sandwiches, cakw and coffee were served. The next meeting will be wi Miss Lucy McCaughrip, with Mrs. Bothwell Graham and Mrs. Jordan Pool as associate hostesses. IN COLUMBIA HOSPITAL The friends of Ed McConnell will be giad to learn, that he is getting along as well as could be expected in the Columbia Hospital where he underwent surgery about three weeks ago. Mr? and Mrs. James Ray Dawk ins Jr., and two children, Joan and Michael of Cleveland, Tenn., spent the past weekend in the home of Mr. Dawkins’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Ray Dawkins on Harring ton St. ' ■ MR. HENRY L. PARR, NEWBERRY, S. C. SAYS: “I tried LION £-2 this past season. It’s better than any ammonium nitrate l ever used!” r You, too, can get the i ‘‘lion’s share” of profit from I your crops with LION E-2* 1 AMMONIUM NITRATE. j Top dressed, side dressed, * ! or plowed down, a Healthy shot of Lion E-2 boosts up i yields and profits. Lion E 2 is 33.5% nitrogen (more than twice as much as “soda”). It’s super-dense... eliminates one out of every five refill stops! Monsanto Chem ical Co., St Louis 66, Mo.lSI!^a!^w E 2; T M '