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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1962
1218 CoLbjre Street
NEWBERRY, S. C.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
O F. Armfield, Jr., Owner .
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. Carolina.
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«ix months. $1.25.
We are in the first days of
State campaign ana soon county
men will talk to us.
Our State has many excellent
men and in this campaign many
capable men offer to serve us.
a handed out in foreign aid $124,
000,000,000—overlooking a paltry
six hundred million. And it con
tinues not only unabated, but in
creased!
Now, if we are Democrats tell
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The greatest issue before us is me what we believe. And the same
how to preserve our great const)-
tutional republic. We are badly
divided about that. Our Republican
friends must remember that Pres
ident Eisenhower sent troops to
Little Rock and probably gave a
push to interference by the Fed
eral Government. And President
Eisenhower appointed Earl War-
fen Chief Justice. Although Mr.
Eisenhower was—and is—an ex
cellent man that shows what an
excellent man can do. And since
teh days of Mr. Eisenhower the
whole condition has worsened.
I In the muddied and muddled
applies to the Republicans.
So, where are we ?
“Any government agency, once
established, tends net only to con
tinue in existence but to expand.
Thig is. true whatever may happen
to the problems the agency was
set up to solve.
One example of this bureaucrat
ic principle is the Rural Electrifi-
catio i Administration, an agency
founded in 1936 to help bring pow
er to rural areas. The REA made
low-cost loans to rural electric
cooperatives and the co-ops, to-
condition we find Democrats and j gether with private utilities, now
Republicans altogether at sea. The supply electricity to 97 per cent
Democrats of the North are at
variance with the Democrats of
the South. And this condition be
gan with Mr. Roosevelt, was ag
gravated by Mr. Truman and was
not halted by Mr. Eisenhower.
Some Republicans are Conserv
atives; some Democrats are con
servatives; most Democrats are
free spenders and some Republi
cans are.
In the days of Mr. Eisenhower
we spent entirely too much money,
»nd beginning with Mr. Roosevelt
we had such utterly unjust taxes
as the graduated income tax. Un
der Roosevelt and Truman we had
the Pay-In-Advance estimated in
come tax and Mr. Eisenhower did
nothing to relieve that. Again we
had—and still have—a tax of 52
per cent on corporation earnings.
Under Mr. Roosevelt we gave
money freely to our allies and
then virtually gave much of the
world into slavery to the Russians.
Under Mr. Truman we hatched
another give-away and poured
money by billions all about. Mr.
Eisenhower did nothing to correct
that. Today the great give-away
continues full sway. And as of to
day, beginning with 1946, we have
of all farms.
In the meantime, a great deal
has been happening to the farm
economy. Increased efficiency
makes it possible for the nation's
farmers to produce all the food
we need—and then some—with
fewer acres. And the nation’s; cit
ies and towns have been expand
ing outward.
With rural areas thus shrinking,
it might seem that the role of the
Federally-sponsored rural electric!
co-ops would be shrinking, too.!
But the fact is this is not happen- j
ing, and both the co-ops and the
REA seem ’etermined to see that
it doesn’t. The co-ops want ex
clusive rights to continue to serve
all their areas, no matter how cit
ified they become and no matter
how accessible they may be to pri
vate or municipal power systems.
If the power v ompanies move in
the co-ops will be left with fewer
customers.
It seems to us that neither ar
gument carries much weight. It’s
not a question of who should prof
it from the expansion of the cities.
While it’s true the power compan
ies did not by themselves cause
the expansion ,the same can be
said with even greater certainty
of the rural co-ops. And the thriv
ing residential and industrial dis
tricts newly added to our cities
certainly have no need to get pow
er from utilities partially subsi
dized by the Federal government.”
One of our great dailies has
recently published an interview
with S. C. McMeekin, president of
The South Carolina Gas and Elec
tric company, a very quiet and
modest man, is one of the great
est builders of the South. He uses
no fanfare and trumpets but his
great company is rated as having
an investment of $303,000,000 in
our State; (three hundred and
three millions) it pays about four
teen million dollars a year in tax
es; and, has the cheapest rate in
the United States for private pow
er!
Now that is the milk in the
cocoanut—a rate cheaper today
than it was ten years ago; and it
is appreciably cheaper than the
average rate in the U. S.
Do you know of anything else
that is cheaper today, starting
with peanuts and including flour,
meal, meat, beef, shoes, clothing,
lumber, real estate.
Do you know of anything else
which is cheaper today than in
1939?
Only electric power.
Now, that is especially good
news because I’ve just read a
statement issued by the Labor de
partment in Washington telling
us that “Average consumer prices
rose for the second consecutive
month in March to a new high.
And another increase can be ex
pected this month.
Wonderful, Mr. McMeekin. How
do you do it?
Let me tell you something else:
the McMeekin plant is rated as
the most efficient in the United
States. Now that’s just a part of
the achievement of Silas C. Mc
Meekin, native of Fairfield county
and a Clemson graduate.
Do you \e maple syrup? I’m
not sure the I ever ate any ma
ple syrup, chough I’ve plastered
a lot of syrup and molasses of all
sorts, kinds and conditions, on
slices of bread.
I had a teacher, a lovely lady,
in my schools days in Charleston,
and she returned from Vermont
full of enthusiasm for the maple
syrup of a farm house in the
area of Green mountains. By the
■way, if I may be pedantic and
show off my Spanish, that state
means Greens mountain.
Well, here’s something about
maple syrup and later the sugar:
“Every spring since the first set
tlers started eating pancakes, the
ELECT
J.Thad McCrackin, j r
Probate Judge
Educated in Newberry Schook.
Graduated froi
B.S. degree
Clemson College with
Has had extensive business experience,
familiar
• Will devote full time to serve the people of
Newberry County.
VOTE ON JUNE 12 FOR
J. Thad McCrackin,
CANDIDATE FOR PROBATE JUDGE
farmers hereabouts have been col
lecting maple sap in buckets, haul
ing it on horse-drawn sleighs to
their ‘sugar houses' and boiling it
down into syrup.
Recently, however, a growing
number of farmers have 'been in
creasing their syrup production
and their profits by turning to
modern labor-saving methods and
equipment. They’re draining the
sap into plastic tubes, instead of
buckets, and substituting trucks
for sleighs. And from Wisconsin
to Vermont, the leading syrup
producing states, many farmers
are taking their sap to be boiled
in central evaporation plants in
stead of in their own houses.
Introduction of these and other
techniques helped the 11 syrup
producing states boost their total
output to about 1.5 million gallons
last year, up from about 1.1 mil
lion in 1960, reversing a 40-year
slide in production. It's expected
that modernization will not only
help farmers turn out more syrup
this season, but also will aid them
in improving quality.
Comments Fred Winch, Cornell
forestry specialist: ‘The long de
cline in production resulted from
a labor shortage created by a
drop in the number of small dairy
farmers who used to make all the
syrup. Now more people are mak
ing a real business of maple
syrup.’
To be sure, the final step in
producing syrup hasn't changed
much over the years. The sap is
still poured into evaporating pans
and heated until most of the water
content boils off; it takes about
35 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon
of syrup.
But in the central evaporation
plants, such as the one operated
here in Southern Vermont, the
sugar content of the sap is meas
ured scientifically. And oil or gas
heat, instead of the traditional
wood fire, is generally used to boil
the sap.
‘When we burned wood we had
to haul slabs for a month to get
ready’, Mr. Nye recalls. ‘And when
we boiled the sap it took one man
to fire the boiler, three more to
drag in the slabs and another to
make the syrup. Now one man
runs the whole sugar operation,
and because the heat is easier to
regulate he makes better syrup.”
Many farmers who don't have
the time or facilities to make their
own syrup have started taking the
sap from their trees to central
evaporation plants. Mr. Coombs
says five of the nine farmers he
buys sap from hadn't tapped their
trees for five years before they
started selling the sap. Some
gross as much a« $150 an acre
from their ‘sugar bush’, compared
with the estblished $120 an acre
yield from a good corn crop.
Now farmers are frequently us
ing power equipment, instead of
hand braces and bits, to drill tree
tap holes, about one half inch in
diameter and three inches deep.
Into each hole they drive a spigot
on which they can hang a bucket;
or they can connect the spigot to
as a kind of plumbing system,
plastic tubing. This tubing serves
carrying the sap from the trees to
large collection tanks and saving
the farmer the chore of collecting
buckets.”
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Recent Marriages
Dewey J. Icard Jr. and Nancy
Mae Dill of Whitmire, were mar
ried on May 19th at Pomaria by
Rev. John P. Griffith.
Paul Edward Tinsley of Whit
mire and Shirley Rae Baker, Route
1, Whitmire, were married at New
berry by Probate Judge E. Maxcy
Stone on May 25th.
John W. Chappell and M. Suz
anne Ellis of Newberry, were mar
ried at Newberry on May 29th by
Rev. R. Archie Ellis.
Harold Deland Raeford of Fay
etteville, N. C., and Caroline Edge
of Clinton, were married at Laur
ens by Rev. Victor R. Hardman on
May 26th.
Larry Thomas Danielsen and
Tommie Ann Werts of Newberry,
were married May 27th at New
berry by Rev. Arden J. Stewart.
Hospital Births
DO&ROH
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Dor-
roh of Rt. 1, Sllverstreet, announce
the birth of a six pound, 14 ounce
son, Robert Lee Jr., on May 23th
at Newberry Hospital. < Mrs. Dor-
;iroh is the former Sallie Ruth Shir
ley.
MERRITT
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Clinton
Merritt of Prosperity announce
the birth of a seven- pound, 13
ounce daughter, Sandra Dee, on
May 27 at Newberry Hospital.
Mrs. Merritt is the former Eliza
beth Lucille Sisk. - *
CHALMERS
Mr. and Mrs. James William Ry
an Chalmers of Rt. 3 announce the
birth of a seven pound, five ounce
daughter, Donna Terisa, on May
28 at Newberry Hospital. Mrs.
Chalmers is the former Evelyn
Patricia Crowe.
DOWD
Rev. and Mrs. Hugh Wyman
Dowd of Rt. 1, Pomaria, announce
the birth of a seven pound, nine
ounce son, Maffett Warren, on
May 28 at Newberry Hospital.
Mrs. Dowd is the former Edna
Many of our citizens, perhaps a
majority of them, apparently re
ceived with rejoicing the news
that* President Kennedy had put
the big steel companies in their
place when, as result of pressure
he was able to apply through big
government and personal power,
the major steel companies gave
up their plans to increase prices.
There was jubilation at the White
House because of the enhanced
political prestige, the sheer vote
getting power of this kind of vic
tory. There was admiration for a
leader who so fearlessly unhorsed
the enemy.
As time goes on, however, we
are going to have to take a more
sober look at who has really won
dhd who has really lost in-this
battle with steel. Even before the
first flush of victory receded, the
President himself apparently rec
ognized the extremity and rash-,
ness of his accusations against [
steel, for he soon was assuring
the nation that his administration
was not anti-business. This is an
assurance that is going to require
more than mere words, if it is to
make a lasting impression.
A Look at Facts
All cf us, including those who
have already crowned Mr. Ken
nedy the hero in this batt’e with
steel, need to thoughtfully anal
yze what happened. We shall have
to conclude that the basic issues
are much more significant than
the price of steel, although we be
lieve the facts show an increase
was entirely justified. We do not
complain about the President’s
anger when things do not go to
suit him in the world’s most frus
trating job, only we wish he would j
get angry about the right things, j
The cause of the President’s!
anger reveals the basic problem.!
His administration already had |
supervised a political victory that!
the president (not the steel indus
try) hailed as a “non-inflationary”
agreement between the steel in
dustry and the union. In other
words, the government was al
ready in this thing up to its ears,
ignoring economic facts all the
way. It had been four years and
four wage boosts since steel had
increased prices. Average costs
of steel labor in this period had
increased 45 cents an hour, or
about 12 per cent. The “non-in-
flationary” agreement of 1962 ad
ded 10 cents more, raising the
total to about 15 per cent, and this
1962 wage increase alone is ex
pected to cost steel about 100
million dollars a year.
Government Out of Place
The fact that the new r wage
increases were for “fringe bene
fits” rather than hourly wages
makes no difference in costs to
the companies. This did not serve
to make it non-inflationary. All
production cost increases, and the
price adjustments that follow, add
that much to the inflation picture.
But, compared with the influence
of a government that never cuts
back its spending and even bor
rows w'hile it seeks new ways to
spend, the effect of wage^-prices
in the steel industry is small in
deed. Here was the biggest infla-
tor of all—the federal government
—saying “yes” to unions but
banging away at industry.
The whole experience is reveal
ing. It shows a President’s anger,
yet it involves a situation where
the president and his government
had no right to be. If Mr. Ken
nedy wants to fix wages and then
deny business the liberty of pric
ing its products, he must aSk the
Congress to enact wage - price
control laws that will give him
this power. The President, o f
course, denies any tendency Qf
his administration toward - State
Socialism, but what is this if it is
not federal dictatorship.?
Who won? Advocates of naked
power, believers in government by
political favoritism, not law, nor
order, nor principle. Anybody who
believes it proper to scold “big
business” and help create the
image that business is out to take
advantage of the public. Those
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Please order by size for JOi/j-inch. 15
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Needlework Pattern No. 840. Hand
knitted bed socks and knee warmers art
welcome gifts for young and old. Also,
we give instructions in this one pattern
for a hand-knitted scarf. Ask tor No. 840.
Send 35c for each dress pattern, 25c
for each needlework pattern (add 10c
for each pattern for first class mailing)
to AUDREY LANE BUREAU, Box 1490,
New York 1, New York.
A ceremony Sunday, April 22,
united in marriage Miss Barbara
Louise Wood and Richard H.
Briggs, son of Mrs. Abrani J.
Briggs and the latfe Mr. ■ Briggs semble. The mother of the bride-
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whether the people have the facts
Those who abhor property rights
and see no relatioit between eco>-
nomic freedom and political lib
erty
of Newberry. The Rev. Bill N
Bennett performed the ceremony
at 3:30 p.m. in the St. Luke's
Lutheran Church at Thunderbolt,
Ga. The bride is the daughter of
Mrs. Herbet Lee Wood and the
late Mayor Wood of Thunderbolt.
The bride wore a street-length
dress of Chantilly lace designed
with a square neckline, bracelet
sleeves, and lace bands which
formed the controlled dome of
of the skirt. Her double-tiered
veil of illusion fell from a brow
cluster of organza petals, and she
carried a white Bible topped with
a white orchid and showered with
feathered carnations.
Acolyte was the bride's cousin,
Ambos Tisdel.
For her daughter’s wedding,
Mrs. Wood was attired in a di
of aqua Italian silk With beig<
and pink accessories. A corsage of
pink carnations completed her en-
m
groom, Mrs. Briggs, chose a two
piece navy blue suit with blue and
white accessories. She wore a cor
sage of a white orchid.
Following a reception in the
home of the bride, the couple left
for a trip to Beaufort.
Mr. and Mrs. Briggs will reside
at 1225 ^ Hunt Street in New
berry, where both attend Newber
ry College.
Out-of-town guests included
Mr. and Mrs. Vincent C. Exley, $
sister and brother-in-law of the
bride, Jacksonville, Fla.; Mr. and
Mrs. William Briggs, sister-in-law
and brother of the bridegroom,
Chicago, III.; Billy, Bob, and Jack
Briggs, Chicago, HU.; and Roder
ick Wallace, Brooklyn, N. Y.
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all easy to make. Whether you uiix or
match the fabrics, they give the suh-jrjok.
No. 3169 comes in sixes 10, 12, 1*, 16,
18} in any of these sizes 1 yard of 54-
inch fabric makes any one piece.
Needlework Pattern No. 1801, One
dozen Christmas designs in red and
green may be ironed am children'*,
clothes, towels, place mats, aprons anJ
other gifts: They measure from f bjr1*fy •
to 2 by 4 inches. Complete instructions
are included. Ask for No. 1801.
Send 35c for each dress pattern, 25c
for each needlework pattern (add 10c
for each pattern for first class mailing!
to AUDREY LANE BUREAU, Box 1490,
New York !, New York.
Recent Movings
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy B. Harris
have moved to 1153 Clarkson to
make their home.
Mr. and Mrs. j. T. Amick are
who want votes,' without caringf now residing at 2009 Lee St.
TRANSFERS
OF REALTY
Newberry No. 1
Lawrence H. Jordan, et al^ to
Newberry County Board of Edu
cation, 4.59 acres, $5.00 and other
valuable considerations.
Mrs. Celie E. Hill to Tabor L.
Hill, one lot and one building on
Crenshaw St., $5.00 and other val
uable considerations.
Newberry No. 1 Outside
• Frances L. Shealy to Harry W.
Shealy Jr., two lots, $5.00 love and
affection.
Silverstreet No. 2
Willie E. Dominick, et al to
Champion Paper, Inc., 50 acres,
$2350.00.
Bush River No. 3
Bush River Fire Station, Inc. to
The County of Newberry, S. C.,
one lot, $5.00 and no other consid
eration.
• Whitmire No. 4
Tohams D. liueble and Dorothy
M. Hueble to M. E. Lindler, one
lot and onj building, 1104 Sinc
lair St., $5.00 and the assumption
of a mortgage.
Regina W. Sartor to Elmore F.
Suber, two lots and two buildings,
$10.00 and other valuable consid
erations.
Newberry Federal Savings and
Loan Association to L. E. Mal-
pass and Bertha S. Malpa^g, one
lot and one building, fronting on
Spring St., $5.00 and ' othftr Val
uable considerations. 1 S
Whitmire No. 4 Outside
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Bernard
have moved to 1636 .Clarkson to
i-make their- home, r
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MILLS CLINIC PATIENTS
Who lost? All of us. Time may I, Mrs.- Shirley McCormack and
prove this incident one of t h e-baby girl, Leesville
greatest blunders made in Amer- Mrs. Bonnie Richardson, New-
ica. If the President and his aides u
can tell big steel how it must op
erate its business and whether it
dare set its own prices, how long
Until the comer" druggist, • -t h e
filling . station operator,^ the.^vil
lage grocer are told what prices
to charge and whether the profit
they make is enough? One can
view these new actions only as
definite steps taking us into soc
ialism and away from dependence
upon a private enterprise that is
free to meet its problems as it
thinks best, and that has given
Americans the highest wages, the
best working conditions, and the
highest standard of living any
segment of mankind ever exper
ienced.
berry
Mrs. Brent Lindler, Chapin
Edgar Hiller, Newberry
Miss Jo Cousins, Chapin
•' Miss Lalia Martin, Newberry
, v.Ida Loijg* Pj-Qsperitjr _
Counts Cook, Columbia
X. Anderson, Batet^ rg
Mrs. Margie Jumper and baby
girl, Leesville.
CALVIN CROZIER
CHAPTER MEETS
Calvin Crozier Chapter,U. D. C.
will meet at the home of Mrs.
Thompson Price on Tuesday, June
5 at 8 p.m. Co-hostesses are Mrs.
James Smith, Mrs. D. L. Nance,
Mrs. Floyd Bradley and Mrs. E. B.
Hume.
HOSPITAL
PATIENTS
Mrs. Rita Black. Rt 3, Batea-
burg
Lindsay J. Bowers, Rt 1, Pros
perity
Mrs. Carrie Bedenbaugh, 27-G
Springhill Apt.
Miss Ava Lee Brooks, Rt 4
Mrs. Carolyn Brown, Rt 1
Silas O. Bundrick, 1403 Trent
St
Mrs. Evelyn C. Chalmers Mid
baby boy, Rt. 3
Mrs. Velma Chappell, 2301 Roaa-
lyn Dr.
Mrs. Edna Earl Dowd and baty
boy, Rt. 1, Pomaria
Miss Mazie Dominick, 1801 Col
lege St.
Larry Dplin, Rt. 3, Prosperity
Mrs. Minnie Elliott, Rt 1
Mrs. Ennis B. Franklin, Rt 2 r
Prosperity
Mrs. Annie B. Fellers, Rt 3,
Prosperity
Mrs. Julia Gregory, Rt 1
Mrs. Janie Gentry, Rt 1, Salu
da
Baby Boy Hamrick, 2116 Ola
St/
Henry Humphries, Rt 1
Johnnie J. Kodek, Rt 1, Chapin
Mrs. Mary Livingston, Rt 3,
Anderson
Mrs. Bessie Lewis, 2019 Me-
Gravy St.
Miss Nannie McKittrick, Rt 1,
Kinards
Mrs. Elizabeth Merritt and baby
girl, Prosperity
Mrs. Allie Mae Morris, Rt 1
Mrs. Connie Miller, 2804 Hunt
Joe H. Bonds to Edward L. Bos
tic, one lot and one building <m Ave.
Jine St, $10.00 an dother yal-1 Mrs. Elizabeth Minick, Rt
uable considerations.
- ^ ponixri* No; 5 —-■
Town of Pomaria to Newberry
County, .21 of an'fccre, $6.-Q6 f yU J
' Little Mountain No. 6
Town of Little Mountain, to
Newberry County, one lot, $1.00.
; . FnjawjdtxJNd-
; C.«S. Holland to Charles E.
(Dukes, two Idfft,’ $54)0 and' other
valuable considerations.’
C. S. Holland to Cfrarl&s Du&jes>
one lot, $200
; Charles E. Dukes to E. W. Dick*-
ert, two iots, $5.00' mid~ctfrer vajh
uable.'CattsidecaUQns.^^,^^
E. W. Dickert to W. E. Mitchell,
two lots, $5.00 and other valuable
considerations.
T. J. McNeace to John N. Black-
well and Emma Lee Blackwell,
one lot, $5.00 and other valuable
considerations.
Annie R. Gilliam, 70S Hunter St.
Robert Johnson, Caldwell St.
Annie Mathis, 819 Reese Sq.
Alberta Shelton and baby boy,
2205 Benedict St.
Prosperity
k Louis Morris, 2012 Main St.
Doras Phillips, 1102 Purcell St.
Benny.. Efrgene Parrott, Rt. 2,
Prosperity
, , Bennie R. Roton, 520 Green St.
Mrs. Leila Ruff, Rt. 2
gaby Girl Schumpert, 801 Cald
well St.
Mrs. Ina »W.. Singley, 701 Cros-
son St.
V I. T. Timmerman, 1831 John
stone St.
U Fred Thomas, 1803
'St.' ^ •*’ w.'
Arthur C. Turner, Rt. 1
Mrs. Clarice Whitman, Rt. 2,
Prosperity
James H. Westmoreland, 1416
Milligan St.
Mrs. Edith Summer and baby
boy, Rt. 2
Ted Bledsoe, Rt. 5, Saluda
Mrs. Hattie Monts. 2000 Main
St.
Johnstone '*■■■*
Alberta McGowan, 2345 Emory
St.
Helen Chapman and Baby boy,
638 Hill St
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