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PAGE TWO THE JSEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,1990 — tw 1218 Collate Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. 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. Medical Care for the Aged DURING THE past week the U.S. Senate scored a very refresh ing and surprising victory—espe cially in a presidential election year—against socialism when it rejected by a 51-44 vote the com pulsory Forand approach (the Anderson - Kennedy amendment) for providing medical care for the aged. I spoke and voted against the effort to place this plan under the Social Security program for a number of reasons: (1) the pro posal is socialized medicine, for it would be compulsory and would provide not the funds with which to obtain medical care, but it would have the government pro vide the medical service itself; <2) it would have jeopardized the aolvency of the entire Social Se curity program by increasing dis bursements from the Old Age and Survivors Disability Insurance program, which last year ran a deficit of $275 million in disburse ments over contributions; (3) it would have led to increased So cial Security taxes which are al ready schedule J reach 9% of the first $4,800 of wages; (4) it was designed to make a political campaign issue; and (5) it. would have been premature since many more facts will be brought out at the White House Conference on the Problems of the Aged next January. THE SENATE did finally ap prove the version recommended by the Fi nance Commit tee. Like the House bill, it would set up another feder al aid program for the States at an initial per annum cost of approxi mately $325 million. Only two of us, Senator Goldwater and I, opposed final passage. THE COMMITTEE bill was preferable to the Forand proposal, hut it violated a principle which has been trampled upon all too often in recent years by the do- gooders, the radicals and the ad vocates of an all-powerful cen tral government. This important principle, local self government, fiVot printed at government expense) The photo above shows the International Bridge over the. Rio Crande River—^boundary line of the United States and the Republic of Mexico. The picture looks north across the Rio Grande to capture the buildings and church steeples of Laredo, Texas. This “friend- Jhip” bridge serves as an important link in the commerce between the United States and Mexico and is the major stimulus to the •conomy of Laredo. Laredo was founded in 1775 by Thomas Sanchez de la Barrera y Gallardo, acting in the name of the Spanish colonizer Jose de Escandon. Before Sanchez died in 1796, Laredo had grown to the gtatus of the largest and most incCessful permanent Spanish set tlement in what is now Southwest Texas. In 1854, at the end of the Mexican War, the Rio Grande was designated as the interna tional boundary and Mexico re linquished all claims to Mexican settlements north of the river. Laredo then became the seat of government for newly - created Webb County. Today, Laredo is a city of 65,000 population, the major ave nue of trade between two nations and the northern terminus of the Pan-American highway. Laredo’s climate is considered by many to be the most equitable and agree able in the United States. The average temperature is 74 de grees. Summer heat is tempered by cool, gulf breezes, with an average 350 days sunshine each year. The International Bridge is a busy artery for commerce be tween Laredo and Neuvo Laredo, on the Mexican side of the river. Traffic, both foot and automobile, travels freely between these two great cities. In a recent year, 1,529,463 automobiles carrying 5,530,805 persons crossed into Neuvo Laredo, and a greater number of both crossed north ward into Laredo. The Laredo Cactus Gardens is the oldest and most famous cac tus nursery in the ;> world. =A major industry in Laredo" is the'" world’s largest antimony smelter K . which smelts ore imported troha . Mexico, major supplier of this strategic raw material to the United States. Laredo’s Washington Birthday Celebration is known as the “Mardi Gras” of the Southwest. The date was selected for a fiesta because Washington is greatly revered in Latin Ameri ca as one of the great liberators who overthrew European tyr anny. is one of the two main principles which the Founding Fathers built into the Constitution to insure that Americans would be forever free. Those 'of us who hold fast to the right of the States to exer cise those powers they refused to delegate to the central govern ment cannot with any degree of consistency advocate one program which disregards this principle and oppose some others, such as federal aid to education and so- called civil rights legislation. THE STATES have not ig nored the medical and financial problems of its elder citizens, nor have many employers. Forty States have some form of medi cal care provisions in their old age assistance plans, and 16 States have direct money pay ments for all essential items of medical care. South Carolina has a program which provides for di rect payments for hospital and nursing home care. BY 1965, private pension plans for workers are expected to rise from present assets of $40 bil lion to $70 billion, and the Health Insurance Association of America reports that 43% of all Americans over 65 are now covered by some form of health insurance. ASIDE FROM all this, the na tional debt of $290 billion, plus the future commitments and c.o.d's of the national govern ment — which altogether total $750 billion—proves that the na tional government has already committed itself to all the non defense programs it can handle. MY POSITION on this issue is not taken with any degree of im sensitivity or callousness to the plight of some of our elderly citi zens. I feel that the national government can grant income tax relief to the aged and to those who help them with their medical costs—the Congress passed such a bill earlier this year—but inso far as government grants and benefits are concerned, the people of the individual States must look to their own State governments for solutions to problems within the scope of State jurisdiction and responsibility. Medical care falls in this category. Sincerely, x..;.x-y>Xv Snapshots: A City Salutes The Rose [IS {mm All the world loves a parade, and that’s why visitors come from all over to Portland, Oregon. A grand Floral Parade highlights the June Portland Rose Festival. This year visitors are apt to see every thing from the Eiffel Tower, to GraOman’s Chinese Theater, the Colosseum of Rome, the Brandenburg Gate, as the Festival will salote “Famous Cities of the World.’’ Some 50 floats, representing as many famous cities, will roll through downtown Portland streets at parade time. The 1960 Festival will be historic In that its night shows will be held for the last time in 35,000 seat Multnomah Stadium; in 1961, the shows will be held in a new city Memorial Coliseum, now being built. The Rose Festival lasts for five days and includes several parades, some with humorous floats, noisy bands and clowns. Part of the affair is the nnique Junior Rose Festival Parade, in which some 10,000 youngsters stage their own pageant. Wind-up comes with traditional Marine Day events on the Williamette River and the Golden Rose Ski Tournament at nearby Mt. Hood. craft capable of IDE HANDY F lies an hour. VENETIAN FIRETRUCK ... In the city of wet streets, local citizens have to%pend on fireboats. Here is the latest, a sleek BY LLOYD BIRMINGHAM si HOW WP MADE A HOME “INTERCOM" Marriage Vows Spoken Friday a m * v liy§ ‘ l»li mmm m mm Ei:' wm >• m illi§ I IN Vjr | N\£ msi Q i I C I M £ C * 7 gig! mm mm mm mm i i iii mmm m m I iH HI'' 'R mmmm immmm mk WM m m mm By MRS. A. H. COUNTS A wedding of wide social inter est was that of Miss Harriet Anne Bruner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Raysor Bruner of Newber ry and Eugene Cannon Griffith, son of Judge and Mrs. Steve Campbell Griffith of Newberry which took place at eight o’clock Friday evening, August 26th. in Central Methodist Church. The Rev. George F. Hodges of Myrtle Beach, a former pastor of the bri dal couple, performed the double ring ceremony. The church was decorated in stately palms, cathedral candel abra made in a bridal arch, bask ets and vases of gladioli, pom pom chrysanthemums and feather leaf fern. The pews were marked with sprays of gladioli and rib bons, interspersed with pom pom and ferns. Mrs.. James E. Wiseman, or ganist, and Mrs. Dave Sokovitz of Baltimore, Md.., soloist, presented a program of wedding music. The bridegroom’s father served as best man. The ushers were Steve C. Grif fith Jr., brother of the bridegroom, Robert R. Bruner III, brother of the bride, Frederick L. Vigodsky, Harrison Smith Summer and Dr. James E. Wiseman Jr., all of New berry and George Epps Lipscomb of Augusta, Ga. The senior ushers were Neil Sif- ford of Clover and Jefferson D. Griffith Sr., of Saluda, uncles of the bridegroom, and Samuel P. Bowers of Fitzgerald, Ga., and William W. Bruner of Columbia, uncles of the bride. Miss Harriette Lipscomb More- head of Newberi-y was the bride’s maid of honor. She wore a full length strapless hyacinth silk or ganza dress over taffeta. It was fashioned with a fitted bodice, full bouffant skirt, separate brief jacket which formed capelets over sleeves. The bridesmaids, Misses Betsy Livingston Bruner of Newberry, sister of the bride; Miriam Su zanne Wilson of Charleston, cou sin of the bride; Mary Jo Griffith of Newberry and Washington, D. C., cousin of the bridegroom; Mary Leslie Arial of Greenville, Cecilia Ann Shirly of Anderson, and Kathleen Patricia O’Hagan of Charleston. They wore dresses identical to the honor attendants. The maid of honor and brides maids all carried cascade bouquets of blush pink glameliaias, feath ered carnations and tuberoses. The bride, given in marriage by her father, was lovely in her ori ginal wedding gown of imported silk and mist taffeta and reem broidered alencon lace. It was fashioned with a modified sabri- na neckline, fitted with a semi basque bodice with soft lace out lined in irridescent beads and seed pearls and three quarter length sleeves. The bouffant graceful skirt of un pressed pleats ended in a chapel train. The veil, selected in Belgium this summer by the bride’s aunt, was of hand made Brussel iace falling in soft pleats around her face and over the com plete length of the chapel train of the wedding gown. She carried a cascade bouquet of white roses, tuberoses and white Cattleya or chids. The mother of the bride wore a floor length original gown in pure silk buccaret chiffon featuring a shirred bodice having a sheath skirt with sides swirl with a cor sage of white cattleya orchids. The mother of the groom wore an original floor length gown in candle light peau de soie. It was featured with a sheath skirt hav ing gathered french bustle back. Her corsage was of symbidium or chids. The bride’s parents entertained with a reception immediately after the ceremony in the church social hall. The couple left during the even ing lor a wedding trip. For trav eling the bride chose a transit on cotton dress in tones of black and brown plaid with a matching jack et and black accessories and the orchids from her bridal bouquet. Mrs. Griffith graduated from the Newberry High School and is. a rising senior at the University of South Carolina. She is a mem ber of Alpha Delta Pi social so rority at the University. Mr. Griffith, also graduated from the Newberry High School and the University of South Caro lina. He has completed a three year course in the Navy and is now attending Law School at the University of South Carolina. He is a member of Sigma Chi social fraternity. The couple will make their home in Columbia While attending the University. Tfcts ix • silly story* Yet it reflects the silly times. * * * A 22-year-old girl, owner and operator of a grocery store in Woodbnrn, Oregon, near Port land, that was known aa Shir ley’s Market, after her first Jftas ed F e d e r a Court to charges ef nraft'frsnd btonght by taspee- tqr»« Port land’*. Fed eral Jndge William East, at last C. W. Hsrdsr word, had ordered a pre-sen- tencing investigation. 'Tij'iV • * * The facts are fantastic. The enterprising young lady found that trying to operate a grocery storo in an area where over 50% of thfUTUsiness is controlled by the bis chains was quite an uphill battle. In fact,- after be ing picked up by postal inspec tors she admitted it was not possible to operate her store “just by selling groceries.’’ * • « She just worked out a plan whereby the hydra-headed Gen eral Mills, Lever Bros., the U. S. branch of the world-strangling British Unilever Monopoly and a few others, made it possible for her to continue operations. * * * As is well known, these huge firms make many offers, such as money back coupons, other offers, all designed to drive the local and regional packers of food products off the market. * * # Miss Shirley, with the help of her family, developed a list ef | some 1500 fictitious names, all ' of which were used to take ad- , vantage of the offers of the | © National Fe-Jeratlon of Independent Builnesa huge packers. For a period of eight months, from $50 to $75 per day was taken in by just sending in coupons. o o o For example, one margarine offered the full purchase price, back if the buyer would send in one end of the box. Miss ShlHfcy ' ntfbonly used theiends, bUftthe top, bottom, and sides of each box, receiving money back un all, while the margarine was sold in cubes in the.store. * « * It also developed that these huge combines, so intent on killing off competition, don’t even enforce their own rules. * * * The mighty British monopoly, Unilever, is apparently quite upset about this young lady. • • * The difference between “mod ern corporate strategy’’ and skullduggery, apparently lies ( In where and who. Thus, ac tions taken in a London oak panelled directorates room by Sir Haw, Sir Hem, and Sir this and that are on a different plane than those taken in the backroom of a grocery store in Woodbnrn, Oregon, by a 22- year-old girl. * • * The post office cannot ad judicate between evils. • * * Actually, the Federal Trade Commission should have been into this entire situation a long time ago. But of course, the present FTC chairman, Earl Kintner, is much more inter- [ ested in finding out what radio disc jockeys last Christmas got presents of $10 neckties for playing on the air “Cha Cha Cha Cha Boogey’’ more iimes than the competitive “Ta Ta Ta Ta Boogie’’ than in attvek- ing the who’esale defr.'xuding of American independent business and consumers. “ Vv - •slSs FOR ALL YOUR SEWING NEEDS - , •* J.. A - .' PATTERNS, DRESS MATERIAL, INTERFACING, ZIPPERS, BELT & BUCKLE SETS, BUTTONS and SEWING GAUGES CAROLINA REMNANT SHOP life L 1 A • # m m ■Mt HI* -HMWW cu fit Former Teenager Discusses Being 'Liked' By C, A. Dean, M.D. (Q) “A member of my fam ily has conjunctivitis. Is this a serious eye disease? What causes it?** ■’? Mrs. R. A. (A) The cobjQfe^tiva is a thin, transparent mefhbrane lining the inner part of the eyelids and covering the eyebgB. Any irrita tion or inflammation of the con junctiva is called a conjunctivitis. There are n**ny, l; *iftkny causes of this condition. A common one, known as pinkeye, is of bacterial origin. Other 1 forms result from wind irritation, dust, smoke and intense light (electric arcs, sun lamps and snow reflection). Child hood diseases (especially mea sles), allergies (bay fever), colds, etc., also can cause inflamed con junctiva. In most cases conjunctivitis is not a serious disease and can be easily cured. There are stubborn cases, however, in which an eye specialist (ophthalmologist) should be consulted. YOU CAM'T BECOME A SOCIAL BELLE" THROUGH SOME MAGIC FORMULA ... IN THE MAIL: A recent column about making people like us brought a letter from Marilyn Alexander, Champaign, Illinois. Fresh out of the “teens,” Mari lyn outlined some of the things that helped her to get along with people. She says: “Most of ns who are shy, 1 be lieve, have a few negative feelings toward others along without na tural desire for their approval. We should try to minimize these be cause they conflict without desire for approval. This can be done merely by looking for something to share with othpra—a common idea, an assignment, a favorite pipe dream, a shared experience involving a third person, and so on. We should accept others” feel ings with an open mind, remem bering that we all have similar needs for friends. “Becoming socially poised is not a matter of suddenly becoming a ‘social belle’ through some magic formula. It is built on everyday experiences that occur, whether it is eating lunch on tiie school steps at noon, participating in a club with others, or chatting at one is an opportunity that is wait ing to be taken advantage of. “There are times when attempts to assert yourself seem almost fruitless. Just be patient and don’t forget to stage a ’comeback” of that friendly, optimistic attitude. Nev er let yourself give up completely. There has never been a rainy day that was not followed by sunshine. But whether the sun ’shines’ de pends almost entirely on one’s mental attitude. That is all-im portant. “Don’t be airaid to trust some one for friendship, even if it’s casual, when they show signs of genuine interest in you. This friendship is built on the little things—in fact, these small re wards are what life mainly is made from. “And—don’t believe for a min ute that ‘tomorrow will be differ ent’ or next week, or next year— they won’t be. UNLESS you start to do something now and continue to do so from now on. Developing confidence is a matter of small ingredients.” If yon have a teenage problem yot want to discuss, or an observation tc make, address yonr letter to FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS, NATION AL WEEKLT NEWSPAPER SERV- “See, dear? Fve been after you and after you to see PURCELLS for an auto loan to buy a new carpet!” " The friendly Purcell people roll out the carpet for folks who need cash for new furnishings. Just 'phone; then trip in for your money. PURCELLS “YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS” 1418 Main St. Newberry if '■~Sr 0:. 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