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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, SEPT. 29, I960 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. WA SHIN GTON AND SMALL BUSINESS” By C. WILSON HARDER Because it is understood by so few people, a few huge en terprises are getting from gov ernment a ride on the greatest gravy train yet devised. • * * Rep. Frank Thomson Jr., Sen. Jos. O’Mahoney, Sen. Rus- sell Long, and m n y others in Con- gress are seeking to ping the loop hole which enables huge firms with government financed re search work from continu- c. W. Hardar ing to capture this biggest of all bonanzas. * * * In 1959, for example, almost $8 billion, or over 60% of all re search expenditure spent by all industry, was federal money, put up by the taxpayers. Of these huge grants, small busi ness received only 5%. * * * Now these grants were made primarily to develop new de velopments for use in the na tion’s defense complex. But the matter of defense has be come so entwined with the ci vilian economy, that out of this research comes a host of non-defense applications. * * * For example, advances in metallurgy, drugs, plywoods, processed foods, electronics and in many other fields which are now found in con Turner goods and services originated in research for defense. * * * There Is perhaps no doubt that the government expendi ture of billions for research for new products and methods to i meet defense needs in an age i of technological warfare is (g) N'aiiur.al Federation of Independent Busin: - needed. But that is not where the problem exists. * * * A huge firm, receiving mil lions or billions from govern ment to carry on research to solve a defense problem, de cides that there is also a com mercial application to the ma terial or method developed with the taxpayers’ money. * ♦ * The firm then seeks and re ceives a patent on the commer cial application of the material, or process, thus acquiring an asset of incalculable value, all paid for by Uncle Sam. * * * This is nub of problem. * * * And it is a particularly grave problem because the Defense Dept., others in a position to hand out these research grants, give 95% of them to a few huge combines. If it were not for the Senate and House Small Busi ness Committees, it is unlikely that even 5% of these huge sums would trickle down to small business. * * * This situation, then, has opened the road to monopolies undreamed of in the past. * * * Sen. O’Mahoney has a bill which would correct this situ ation. * * * Unfortunately due to highly technical nature of the m-etter, the issue will be fogged in a lot obscure language. * * * Taxpayers are spending bil lions of dollars to finance a few big firms to develop new prod ucts on which these firms then take out a patent and force the public to pay additional mil lions or billions in the form of patent royalties. In other words, until corrected by Congress, a method has been at last found to have your c^ke and eat it, too. From The South Pasadena Re view, South Pasadena, California: In 1947 the United States export ed about 250,000 jars annually arid imports were about 10,000 cars annually. In 1959 our Exports are a shade over 100,000 cars and Imports have risen to almost 700,000 cars —A long ways from the 10,000 cars in 1947, 12 years. With the Imports—our miners did not mine the iron ore-—nor the copper or lead. Neither did we produce or grow the rest of the materials in these 700,000 cars. The job time on producing these cars was also Imported. 13iis is proof of Ruether’s state ment that 425,000 United Workers who paid dues before the last strike are not paying dues now. In the Auto Workers Union if you are not working in the auto busi ness you do not pay dues. From The Independent, Fuquay Springs, North Carolina: Protests against the over-emphasis is on school athletics which are certain to rise again as high school bas- ketball seasons roar toward clam orous state-tournament conclu sions. The primary purpose of schools is to educate, but at the high school and college levels this goal often seems to become secondary to the spectacular ap peal of forward passes and jump shots. Dr. James B. Conant is among the more articulate and influen tial spokesmen for the idea that sports should be played down more. He regards as disgraceful the disproportionate emphasis placed on athletics, “a disease that has spread from the college campus to the high school and junior high school.” Conant’s indictment is based on studies of schools throughout the country. Kis report on the nation’s high schools is a best seller. More recently he has been focusing on junior high schools. He and his staff have visited 125 schools and 60 com munities in 17 states since last fall. The extensiveness of his sur vey adds to the importance o>. h\- comments. At a time when federal aid to education is a congressional is sue, when school construction, teacher shortages and improve ments in methods and curricu lum are of great public interest, Conant’s views deserve thought ful assessment. A more rational attitude toward school athletics is plainly overdue WHICH WAY, LOLL? . . . Tamarkin Collision, an auto repair company in Brooklyn, N. Y., attracts attention with the dual- headed repair truck, a hybrid containing two dash boards, two hoods, two stoprlno- nrhoolc and ono pretty driver. AMERICANA Rcanoke, Virginia Cities To See The earliest known facts of the origin of Roanoke, Virginia, indicate that it is on the site of an early village known as Big Lick established sometime prior to 1798. After the War of 1812, a Roanoke Navigation Company attempted to make Roanoke River navigable, but the real beginnings of the city date to 1882, at which time the Shenandoah Valley Railroad linked with the N. the community changed from Big By 1884, the town had passed the 5,000 population mark and was incorporated by the Virginia, legislature. Today, Roanoke is the fourth largest city in Virgin ia, with an estimated population of 106,000 and a metropolitan population of some 160,000. It is the largest city in Virginia west of Richmond and is an important manufacturing center, distribution point and trade center, providing many services for a market area including 25 counties. Roanoke—Star City of the South —is symbolized by a huge lighted star on Mill Mountain, towering 1,000 feet above the city. To the east lie the scenic Blue Ridge mountains; to the west, the ma jestic Alleghanies. Products manufactured in the metropolitan area include rail road cars, fabrics, metal prod ucts, fabricated steel, apparel, furniture, flour and feed, chem- & W. at Big Lick and the name cl Lick to Roanoke. icals, locks and hardware, found ry products, printing, paints anc varnishes, food products, plastic stone, concrete and clay products, electrical equipment, wood prod ucts, steel bars and fire engines Hotel Roanoke, one of the mosi famous hotels in the entire South is a modern version of an Old English Inn. Children’s Zoo. lo cated on Mill Mountain, 1,000 feet above the city, was built especial ly for children with live animab in a setting of Mother Goose anc other familiar stories. The Blue Ridge Parkway is one of the most famous and scenic autc routes in the country. It links the Shenandoah National Park of Vir ginia and the Great Smoky Moun tains National Park of North Carolina and Tennessee, serving as a gateway to a historic regior and to some of the nation’s best- known points of interest. NOT MOONBEAM McSWINE! ... She Is Marseilles, France, model Marie-Antoinette Cecora, who Just happened to strike a “Li’l Abner” pose with this wild bear. ROYAL CREW . . . Crown Prince Constantine of Greece and his sister, Princess Sophie, stand aboard his sailboat at Genoa, Italy. He competes In the International sailing regattas there. 61 Week^ I “I’m sorry we can’t hire you, but your tests show that yon are temperamental and emotionally immature.” 61 74e Week^. “If you’re looking for a place to do a heap of living, I doubt if yon could find a better heap.” T1IE RANDY FAMILY BY LLOYD BIRMMGRAM CAP MADE SO*AE SLIDING CLOTHES HOOKS LIKE THIS... /O Cur hooks from V PLYWOOD WITH JISORC0P1N&SAW YQ SAND AND VARNISH. DRILL HOLE TO FIT V METAL ROP. Attach to POOR OR WALL Tj 3* CURTAIN ROP BRACKET Bakersfield, California Kern County Civic Center—Bakersfield The designation “America’s Newest City” is more than a Chamber of Commerce catch phrase for Bakersfield, California. It is an ade quate description for a town nearly leveled by a severe quake ii» 1952. The jolt which damaged much of the business district of Bakersfield might have discouraged some other people in some other town, but here in this city of some 89,000 inhabitants in California’* southern San Joaquin Valley it merely resulted in a post-quake re building program that brought new economic activity into an are* predicted to see California’s biggest boom in the days yet to come. Some 100 miles north of the* Los Angeles basin, Bakersfield is the site of the ruins of Fort Tejon, the only fort in U. S. history built to protect the Indians from the white men. Here, too, is the spot where a bear killed Peter Lebeck, and this Daniel Boone-in- reverse occurrence duly record ed by carving on a tree. A full century has not yet passed since the days when horseback riders traveling between Los Angeles and San Francisco rested and fed their animals at “Colonel Baker’s field.” Today, however, Bakersfield and oil-rich Kern County are con sidered “big city” to residents of an area as large as the state of Massachusetts, with a popula tion greater than that of Nevada or Alaska. Some 300 downtown buildings are either entirely new or have been extensively remod eled within the past five years. Kern County supplies 27.7 per cent of California’s total petro- leum production. Manufacturing employment has grown more than 120 per cent since 1949, with petroleum refining, food proces sing and metal fabrication as major sources of manufacturing employment. The area ranks in the nation’s “big five” in farm production, with cash incomes exceeding $232 million annually. Total cultivated acreage is 689,- 209, with farms averaging 1.25C acres. The range of recreational ac tivities, from swimming through skiing, reflect proximity to moun tains, desert, fishing stream* lakes and beaches. Here N' There An unidentified bettor won $!•«» 932.60 on a $2 wager by rectly forecasting the of six races at Lincolr Downs, RJL race track. He was the .in the Papeleta, * arrangement . . . Cary Middlecoff, Jimmy BOWLED OVER . . . Hypno tized by Baron Van Brenner, rear. Dale Anderson, who says he never bowled before, estab lished a new world endurance record for bowling: 120 straight hours, 242 games. Average: 106. the top professional golfc on the -tournament circuit, have agreed to play in a round-robin $50,000 “match-of-the-century” to be filmed for A.B.C.’s All-Star (TV) Golf series. The four play ers will meet one another in 18- hole matches with the winner of the round robin determined by the tow total score for 54 hole* . . . Providence Coach Joe Bful- laney was honored by Philadel phia Basketball Writers Associa tion as eastern “Coach of the Year.” The group also named Wilt Chamberlain of the Phila delphia Warriors “Top N.B.A. Rookie” and **Pro Player of the Year” . . . Jockey Johnny Long- den is in his 31 season as a race rider and his victories total more than 5.000. Dress Up Pork With Glazed Pineapple Pork, pineapple and rice combined in a bndget-saver casserole. Pineapple with pork is a hard-to-beat combination. Golden, spiced pineapple slices are the perfect flavor blend for browned and juicy pork chops in a new casserole which also features rice. As lovely to look at as it is nutritious, the party appearance of this dish belies its simple preparation. Accompany thifl oven meal with garden relishes, hot rolls and tea. Pineapple Pork Chops *n* Rice 6 slices canned pineapple 2 ribs celery, diced 18 whole cloves 6 pork chops, salt, pepper 2 tablespoons butter or mar garine 1/2 green pepper, diced 1 large onion, chopped 1 cup raw rice (converted-type) 2 7 /2 cups hot chicken stock or bouillon 1 teaspoon salt Generous pinch dried thyme Brown sugar, butter Drain pineapple, stick with cloves. Put in small .dish with 3 tablespoons pineapple syrup. Cover; let stand at room tempera ture. Season chops with salt and pepper, brown in greased skillet. Remove from pan. In same pan, heat butter till bubbly. Saute green pepper, onion and celery. Add rice. Toss and cook until rice is a light golden tan. Stir in stock, salt and thyme. Bring to boil; then pour into 2-quart casserole. Lay chops on top. Cover tightly and bake in moderate oven (350° F.) 1 hour, until rice is fluffy and liquid absorbed. Lay pineapple over chops, drizzle with a little pineapple syrup and a light sprinkle ot brown sugar. Dot with butter. Cook uncovered until fruit is heated through and lightly glazed. Makes 4 to 6 servings.