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X v-%' v m. ’v'V-’ - mm v>- * ■) riZi* mi 5 •/. 3 •. m v-V- mm ymm FACE SIX THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1962 ffr;> RELY ON US TO DELIVER TO YOUR FARM We supply you with a complete line of top-quality Sinclair Petroleum Products for your farm: gasolines, motor oils, trac tor fuels, lubricants, greases, heating oils and kerosene. We deliver promptly, as promised. You can count on us. Call us today and you’ll see — At Sinclair we care... about you... about your farm. Sinclair- FARMERS ICE & FUEL CO. —DISTRIBUTOR— Phone 154 Newberry, S. C. COMMENTS ON MEN, ETC (Continued from pake 2) requirements of modern society, are fights over water rights made. One of the most monumental of these fights is now approaching a final decision. The principal disputants are California and Arizona and the water they are squabbling over is the Colorado River, to which both states have access. Sometime before recessing in June, the Supreme Court is expected to decide how the waters of the river are to be apportioned. In so doing, officials of the states involved be lieve, the Court will also be deciding to a considerable ex tent the future course, for better or worse, of two of the nation’s fastest growing areas. The turbulent Colorado originates high in the Rocky Mountains north of Denver. It rushes southwest, cuts across a corner of Utah and then surges west through Arizona’s Grand Canyon. After forming the Arizona-Nevada border, the river heads south and divides Arizona and Cali- 1 fornia before emptying into the Gulf of California, 1,450 miles from its headwaters. For a region larger than France and covering portions of seven states—242,000 square miles of the most arid land in North America—water from the Colorado River and its tributaries means the difference be tween prosperity and economic stagnation. Great as its flow is, the Colorado cannot meet the rising water demands of the parched Southwest. The growth of population, agriculture and industry has set the stage for what has been described as ‘the most important and com plex water struggle in the history of the West/ Fighting for water to sustain their rich farmlands, bustling industry and growing cities, Arizona and California for almost 10 years have waged a legal battle to justify their conflicting claims to the Colorado’s flow. However, the Supreme Court’s imminent decision resolves the argument, one state will be dealt a severe blow, officials of California and Arizona agree. They say there isn’t nearly enough water in the Colorado to meet the needs of both states. Southern California, including metropolitan Los Angeles and San Diego, currently uses more water from the river than the six other states with access to the Colorado River system combined. The river’s water has nourished the South ern California boom, which since 1930 has seen population rise to 8 million from 1.6 million and assessed land values in crease to $15 billion from $2.2 billion. But now, Arizona, enjoying a boom of its own and worried about insufficient water supplies, claims it has the right to construct a $1 billion aqueduct to siphon off a vast quantity of Colorado River water presently used by California and carry it to the Phoenix-Tucson area. This thriving region in south central Arizona now receives no water from the Colo rado, though it does draw some from a Colorado tributary...” “Arizona, whose claim was favored over California’s in • ••••••••••I Dean Manion THE MANION FORUM ELECT Clayton Doing business with New berry County Folks tor the past 27 years. i - Pf Educated in Newberry City Schools; a graduate of New berry College School of Business Administration. Honorary member of New berry Fire Department hav ing served twenty years as an active member. m Member of the Board of Deacons of Aveleigh Pres byterian Church. Served in United States Air Corps 46 months during World War 2. IfH Honest, capable and want ing to serve the people of Newberry County. YOUR PROBATE JUDGE for NEWBERRY COUNTY If elected I will devote my full time to the office. I will perform the duties o fthis office to the best of my ability in a fair and honest manner. Vote On June 12-YOUR Vote Counts! Medical Aid Bill — A Play On Hearts By Clarence E. Manion Logical argument has many natural limitations. For in stance ,emotions cannot be refuted. Sympathy, sorrow, joy, fear, hate and love are among the emotions that are imper vious to reasoned debate. Every skillful politician knows this and when he ad vocates an illogical course of action, you may be sure that he will aim for the hearts and not at the lieads of his listeners. In the present campaign to sell the American public on the medical care for the aged bill, the King-Anderson bill—we are given a graphic picture of sick and helpless aged men and women who need medical attention and hospi tal care that cannot and will not be provided, unless the bill is made law. This sad picture is amplified from the Execu tive Offices adjacent to the White House and is tuned into the heart strings of the American people by publicity spec ialist hired by the Federal Government to push the bill. Public meetings of “Senior Citizens for Health Care through Social Security” have been arranged as sounding boards for the publicity. In this way, reason is being dis solved in a solution of melting hearts. For who is so callous ed as to remain unmoved by an appeal from and for our piti ful indigent old people? Now, let’s dry our tears and look at the facts. By the pro visions of the King-Anderson bill, sick penniless old people will get precisely nothing. The bill’s plan would pay for 90 days of hospital care in any one year, but only if and after the patient has paid $10 a day for the first nine days of his stay in the hospital and then only if the patient is eligible for Social Security or Railroad Retirement benefits. There are about three and one-half million people now over 65 who will be excluded from any benefits under this bill, because they are not entitled to Social Security or Rail road Retirement benefits. The plan pays no doctor bills and pays for no medicine or drugs unless they are administered in a hospital. However, i fthe patient is entitled to Social Se curity or Railroad Retirement benefits, he is eligible for all of the benefits under the bill, even if he is a millionaire. Of course, the Social Security “insurance premiums” will have to be raised to pay for all this. In 1963 when the tax for this plan would first be deducted from the employee’s paycheck, he will be paying 40 percent more Social Security taxes than he paid in 1961. By 1968, if there are no further increases in the meantime, a worker earning $5,200 a year will pay 76 per cent more Social’Security taxes than he paid in 1961. A man with a wife and four children will pay more in Social Security taxes in 1968 than he will pay in income taxes, if the tax assessment remains the same. Without the additional tax to be imposed by the King-An derson bill, a young person now starting to work will pay $176 for every $100 worth of benefits he will receive at re tirement. Taxpayers are assured by government publications that their contributions go into “special funds” from which bene fit payments will be made at retirement time. But even the Supreme Court of the United States knows better. In a re cent case, the Government, in its brief, said: “. . . A belief has developed that (Social Security) benefits are paid as a result of a contractual obligation on the part of the United States government. This belief has been fost ered ... by publications and other statements of responsible preliminary legal proceedings, contends it must have more Colorado water if it is to maintain its present rate of agri cultural production and to continue urban and industrial growth ...” Why don’t they come to South Carolina where there are no deserts? Here nature smiles upon us: A balmy climate, good soil, fine people, a day’s easy ride from the Atlantic to the Mountains, with a richly-favored territory all the way. officials of the Social Security Administration. “. . . (But) there is no contract. These facts and their im plications have not, for some reason, been conveyed to the public.” Just as there is “no contract”, there is likewise no trust fund into which the Social Security “contributions” taken out of employee paychecks are stashed away for withdrawal when the taxpayer retires, is disabled or dies. All the fund has are promissory notes given by the Government, and the funds are spent for current benefits, for national defense, foreign aid or any other expenditure of the Government. The interest on these “notes” is added to the Government's debt. For the old, sick and penniless people of this country, the King-Anderson bill offers nothing. For our employed peo ple, it proposes more taxation, with gross misrepresenta tion. For the people now drawing Social Security benefits, it is a cruel delusion and a deliberate political snare. 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We consider yon rather as a ‘member of the family* in that your attention to our jurisdiction and re sponsibilities has been of great assistance to us. I am particularly mindful of your vast dissemination of my pamphlet, "The Communist Party Line/ in your home state. This is another example of your long-standing fight against communism/*—J. ED GAR HOOVER. “The people of Sonth Carolina and the Nation are fortunate to have the leadership of a man of the ability and integritv of Olin Johnston.**—SENATOR HERMAN E. TALMADGE (D-Ga.). "He is a man of courage and vision and great personal integrity which transcends netty partisan ship.**—SENATOR ROBERT S. KERR (D-Okla.). "You have once again earned our respect and appreciation for your continuing support of the ef forts to stem the unconscionable one-way traffic in textile goods.**—THE AMERICAN COTTON MAN UFACTURERS INSTITUTE, INC. (Pali far toy CaamlttM far Jahastaa. Mill Watsoa. Seer.)