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i K7V' Rf #T K 31 -• ■.•*- ■---! 5-®0» • .¥'• THURSDAY, DEC. 15, 1960 WASHINGTON AND SMALL BUSINESS By C. WILSON HARDER In some recent hearings, the Federal Trade Commission has been getting the answer that is somewhat akin to the old gag ‘There ain’t nobody here but us chickens, boss.” * * * In the Macy case in which the New York department store is charged with seeking and collect ing over a half million dollars suppliers partication in an anniTer-] sary event 1958, th Macy ex tives all C. W. Harder swear solemnly that uo supplier was actually threatened. * * * In the pending matter against Food Giant, a big supermarket chain, charged with a similar practice, the executives deny there was any pressure, ass However, in the case of Grand Union, one of the na tion’s biggest food chains, the FTC has taken a major step in holding the chain in violation of the Robinson-Patman act in so liciting nearly 30 suppliers from 1952 to 1958 to pay to the chain $1000 per month each for a mov ing panel on an outdoor spec tacular at Times Square on Broadway. This decision will quite possibly face a court test, s s s In making this decision, the FTC took the position that while it had not specific authority in the matter, Grand Union was in violation of the spirit of the Robinson-Patman act. * * * It will be interesting to see if and how the FTC position will be backed up ... by court decision, or by Congress pass ing the required technical © Natl ipal Federation of Independent BiuIdmi amendments to the anti trust laws. » * * It is a certainty that vet erans of the Senate and House Small Business Committees such as Rep. Wright Patihan, Sen. John Sparkman, Sen. Hu bert Humphrey, and others, would place little credence in the defense of these huge retail operations that there is not an implied threat of reprisal when suppliers are solicited to ‘ kick in” with some cumshaw. * .♦ * The Macy executives have argued that their buyers were } Instructed not to press any sup plier for a donation if any re luctance was shown. * * * It is hard to imagine, for example, a buyer for Macy, or any other big operation report ing back to the top echelon that none of the suppliers that buyer interviews agreed to make a contribution. Such a buyer would probably have some doubts about his job tenure. ♦ * * The vast majority of sup pliers need the stores more than the stores need them. In those cases it does not take too many “friendly” talks with a buyer for the supplier to figure out why he should contribute. * * * It is possible that out of these episodes will come a strength ening of the anti trust laws. It is obvious it is not in the public interest to permit such practices to continue. ♦ * * In fact, there are some ex perts in the merchandising field who claim privately that if big chain operations were not able to get special concessions no one else gets, their operating costs are so high that they could not compete with well managed independent opera tions. 4< 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 furnishing’s. Just ’phone; then trip in for your money. PURCELLS “YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS” 1418 Main St. Newberry T -V. *■ Mi ■' THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA 9 . * . ... _ ....... ?rv i’-f vv:' v PAGE SEVEN „ rr FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Ciemaon Extension Information Specialist Lookout House Flies You know science seems to have finally eradicated the screwworm from the whole southeast. Now they are trying to work out an eradication process for the house fly. By spraying our lit tle town of Clemson against mos quitos several times the past summer, it seems to have gotten the flies too, for we saw hardly any all summer. But spraying can’t be done everywhere. What science is looking for is a way to make them became infertile, as they did with the screwworm. And that gets rid of them for good and you don’t have to be fighting them each season. I note where the laboratory at Orlando, Florida, has found a sub stance which when fed to flies in very minute amounts makes the females infertile. It was the male that was made infertile in the screwworm case. But it should work just as effective to turn the thing around this way. v This is still in the experimental stage, but surely is good news to every one. Just think, what it would mean to comfort and health of i.ian and beast to be rid of the pesky housefly! new bean for release in 1962. They are now doing extensive work on this crop. But this survey showed harves ting losses to run a little over 9 percent. Engineers Park and Webb at Clemson are working on means for lowering this harvest loss. BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER Best Apples After an exhaustive study of apples, USD A feels that Johna thans and Stay mans make the best applesauce, Johnathans and Rome Beauties are tops for bak ing, and the Delicious stores best. They didn’t say which are pre ferred by most folks for eating fresh. New varieties are coming along that might displace some of these. A lot of them are being planted in that apple develop ment up at Long Creek in Ocon ee county, County Agent Morgan tells me. Clemson is planning some experimental work along this line up there too. Read and Go By the Labels We have all manner of effective sprays and dusts for insect and disease control. Some are very powerful and can only be safely used in certain ways. So I6t*s read and go by the labels. Then no one will be hurt. Remember the cranberry disaster! '/ Soybean Triumph Once we couldn’t do much grow ing soybeans for crushing here, as we did not have a suitable non-shattering sort. We could grow ’em. But they’d just all shatter out before we could har vest them. Now we grow a lot of ’em for crushing. A survey on 62 farms across the state showed that less than 1 percent of the beans shat tered out before harvest. So the breeders have about whipped that. County Agent Cain has kept me in touch with the great work John Wannamaker of St. Mat thews has done in this. Beans of his breeding predominate in our plantings now. His and those from USD A and other breeders now ripen and await the com bines. Coker has a most promising DIAMOND PRISCILLA^ Two fiery diamonds In a beautifully fashioned watch. 17 jewels. $39.75 RHAPSODY Half moon link bracelet spirals around your pretty wrist, sets off a tiny circle of a case. 23 jewels. $59.50 SB PARENTS! Take A Jeweler’s Advice: GIVE THEM THE WATCH THEY WANT mm ill .pili unusually styled cats and ■ala, st/jck-mtstant, precl- for tasting accuracy. $5L5o AS LITTLE AS ■ A WEEK Fennell’s Jewelry Store 1505 MAIN STREET NEWBERRY, S. C. The gentle patter of rain on the roof in the fall had its meanings too, just as that of summer did. We talked of that last week here. To us kids it meant the cotton would be too wet to pick the next day. And that was just fine. And the hay would be too wet ,to haul too, and the corn to break. So the patter of rain on the roof was just to our liking then. School hadn’t opened yet. So the show er was all that stood between us and work, a thing we hated. Talking about work, I wonder if all kids were as lazy as I was? I’d think it was t^e chills and fever (malaria) we always had that caused it but for one fact. When it came , to building a dam down on the creek, chopping a large tree to get a little ’possum, building our railroad and trestle with old slabs from a sawmill, and so on, I never got tired. So I must have just been allergic to work that was not of my bwn choosing for I hated it in the/ field. The shower made the leaves of autumn heavy, and they fell fast to the ground. Soon limbs were bare. We could see the walnuts, sc&lybarks, and hickory nuts, and muscadines stood out on the vines. The black haws too were just right then, and the sandberries sparkled temptingly from the bared branches. As with the summer patter of rain on the roof, the fall show ers had a different meaning to our parents too. They meant the grain could be sown with the assurance- it would come up. And they meant the fall garden collards, turnips, and greens would grow fast, lush, and ten der. They meant soil moisture and ground water, depleted v by summer’s droughts, would be re stored. And they meant the air was cleansed of dust or pollen that brought hay-fever to some. The fall showers meant damp ness on the roof and woodland too. And that was security against fires. And the first one gave us a chance to burn out the chim neys so the dry soot from the win ter before might not catch at some unsuspecting moment and set the roof » bn fire. _ Showers, showers! They meant a lot to us in the Stone Hills -at all seasons. Rev. Robert H. Harper DRAGON’S TEETH T HERE is a story of a man who sowed dragon’s teeth and reaped a harvest of armed men who worked cruel havoc around them. The conditions in the world at the present indicate that some one has sowed the dragon’s teeth of unrest and dissension far and wide. Reports in recent months from Korea, Japan, Tibet, Turkey, South Africa, Cuba and elsewhere have told of unrest, violence end death. JUST A THOUGHT: Peace on earth is not a com plete impossibility, bnt we may rest assured that we shall never see a world without con flict, aggression, prejudice and hatred until every individual in the world learns to respect the freedom and the individual rights of his fellow men every where. Men are stirring up hatred and strife in the name of freedom, while here in the United States there has been difficulty enough. And it seems that fatal accidents on the land and in the air have never been so prevalent as in re cent months and the bitter weath er and ravaging floods that have beset our country. It was in the month of June, 1815, that the Old Guard of Napo leon perished almost to a man at Waterloo and the long sway of the great Corsican came to an end. Let us hope that this June of 1960 may mark the time when new nope of peace springs in the hearts of men. this week’sA< ’ patterns., •YAUOeiYLANf 1495 10-20 CNt: (M-lfcM) Drts faff •in No. 1495—Youthful culottes—Fashion's pet style this sea son—the comfortable, practical ruiottes shown here in a young, sleeveless ver sion. No. 1495 w.'th PHOTO-GUIDE is in sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Bust 31 to 40. Size 12, 32 bust, 4 s /s yards of 35- Inch. Needlework Pattern No. 292—Giant c'ze pockets with an embroidered rose- border add a pretty touch to this sew- easy frock/ No. 292 has tissue—sizes 14, 16, 18 Inclusive/ hot-iron transfer/ full directions. Send 35c for each drees pattern, 25c for each needlework pattern (add 10c for each pattern for first clou mallingl to AUDREY LANE BUREAU, Dept. "NWHS,” 367 West Adams Street, Chicago 6, III. MardjtoftDim& She Dedicates Herself to Helping Blind > - At one despairing point during Mary Jo Phillips* seven-year confinement in a hospital near Boston, and while she was an iron-lung prisoner of polio, a nurs ing,nun read aloud to the frightened little girl these words of the tormented Job: “I was eyes to 4 the blind.** Mary Jo, herself tormented after seven operations and three months in an iron lung, never forgot Job’s words. At Ken nedy Memorial Hospital, Bright on, a nun and physical thera pist suggested that since the plight of the blind touched Mary Jo deeply, she might want to try her hand at tran scribing. Braille. Nothing interested her more. Mary Jo’s fascination with learning to Writ* for the sight less was healthy m two ways. manual effort Braille ayrl to berboar* strengthened her thin ajwu' ind fingers once paralyzed by polio. And spiri- tually, this labor of love for those even more terribly af flicted than she, expressed her gratitude to God at surviving her own ordeal. The first words Mary Jo wrote in Braille, for the blind to read through their finger tips, were those of the unhap py Job. (The Old Testament patriarch was reminding the Lord of his own succor to those whose eyes had failed.) Mary <Jo, who is 14 and has spent half of those years in hospitals, now is home With her overjoyed parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Phillips of Whit man, Mass. In her wheel chair, the child continues her plucky fight today agaihst the ravages of bulbar polio. With $32,000 in March of Dimes contributions, The Na tional Foundation has brought Mary Jo along to t}ie point where she can type slowly, write, paint water colors, dress herself “with just a little help,” and even walk a few steps sup ported by her crutches. > But above'all, the little-girl i$ devoted to her labors with Braille. When she completes the “bible* that is never far ^orr her, “Standard English r ('<(*•* fWM m Mm . .■■■•$ ... ■.£<: 4 >- ilBgli | A 4 * ' f* f :• Hi ; W. Using owl for in punches out text on fiberboard. Jo Ph 6L' : ^ JOB X X ! X Mary Jo's first line of Braille; written for the blind during her seven-year hospital stay, fighting polio. Braille in 20 Lessons” (she sleeps with it under her pil low), Mary Jo is planning to transcribe fairy tales and Mother Goose rhymes into the pointed-dot vocabulary of those who live in darkness. When four, years hence her .VJ, home histriictor gives Mary Jo her high school diploma, she plans thereafter to study the teaching of braille to blind children. 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