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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1962 uu 1218 Coikfft 3tr90t NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class postage paid at Ne*. ' South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vanced six months. $1.25. Comments On Men And Things By SPECTATOR Mr. Kennedy seems to have taken the heart out of business men. Billions of dollars have been lost in stocks. Some day all the stocks will recover, but the faint hearted will have lost billions. Men and women who have never invested their capital in business seem entirely unaware that invest ment is based on confidence. Some politicians and ignorant people spread the idea that all business is a mere digging for gold with no expense—a pan to wash the nuggets—to see if the gold will pan out. This is still an undeveloped country and there are fortunes to be made whenever men take the chances our grandfathers took. True it is that grandfathers did not pay personal and corporate in come taxes which absorb 52 per cent of corporate and up to ninety one per cent of individual incomes. But they had difficulties we may not have. At any rate, we have robust people who will learn to surmount all difficulties. ! There are interesting swings from prosperity to poverty and then back again. Today there is fierce competition in the fuel field. We have natural gas, manu factured gas, coal, oil, electricity. There is the matter of manage ment, of course, and general con ditions, as where money is plen tiful and demand great, etc. As to coal consider this: “Layoffs, short work weeks, price cuts, are beginning to spread through the Eastern bituminous coal fields. The main cause is a 27 per cent drop in steel production since the end of March; the steel industry is a major consumer of soft coal. But the decline also stems from keener competition for electric ut ility business from fuel oil on the East Coast and from natural gas in the Midwest. . The Tennessee Valley Authority —the nation’s largest coal buyer— reports it is buying coal 10 cents cheaper a ton in eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee and Virginia than it did two weeks ago. The stepped-up competition from other fuels, partly a seasonal mat ter, complicates coal’s outlook. Coal competes with low-grade or residual fuel oil for the business of utilities, which, like steel mills, (Continued on Page 3) Agent Reports On Texas Trip By COUNTY AGENTS Texas Agriculture Big Business Livestock and oil makes Texas Agriculture Great! That’s the im pression received by 91 South Carolina Farmers, Bankers, Busi nessmen and County Agents on a trip to the Southern part of Texas the first week of June. Four New- berrians including P. D. Johnson, S. C. Paysinger, Ralph Waldrop and yours truly made this over 3,- 000 mile jaunt to study another part of this, country’s great agri culture. After casting a critical eye upon the part of Texas that has always been described as fabu lous, we returned more convinced than ever that right here in South Carolina we still have a rich po tential for livestock and other types of farming. Now to start at the beginning and give you a few of the high lights of this flying trip sponsor ed jointly by Clemson College and the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company of Charlotte, N. C. Monday morning found us as sembled at the Columbia Airport bright and early to board a chart ered 4-motor DC7 for the first leg of our journey. Big planes such as this one can take off from the Co lumbia Airport but cannot land there when fully loaded because of too short airstrips. Three hours and twelve minutes later our plane glided smoothly to a stop at the huge airport in Dallas, Texas. Al ready we’re over 1,000 miles from home. As we stepped off the plane we were greeted by a brass band and Dallas Chamber of Commerce officials who welcomed us warm ly and presented each of us with a 10 gallon hat. Now we are ready to take over Texas. Quickly we boarded chartered buses that whisked us to the Dal las Trade Mart. First we pause for a sumptuous meal and then tour this merchandise mart con taining some 2 million feet of floor space. Furniture and Textile Manu facturers from all over the coun try, including 43 from the two Carolinas maintain permanent dis plays in this building. Next we move quickly to near by Garland, Texas, to visit the Safeway Store Distribution Cen ter and Egg Grading Plant. Here we saw 14 1 2 acres of floor space under roof as well as a new 22,000 sq. ft. egg grading and packaging NOTICE! VACATION PERIOD We will be closed during the period July 2nd through July 7th, in order that our employees may enjoy a needed vaca tion. We will open again on Monday, July 9th. Please anticipate your needs and let us serve you prior to July 2nd. We hope that you, too, will have a happy and safe holiday. Odorless Dry Cleaners Royal Dry Cleaners Newberry Steam Laundry & Dry Cleaning Company Shealys Laundry T & C Cleaners plant. This plant has a capacity of over a half million eggs daily. Here we looked for the latest in materials handling methods being used to cut down on labor costs and to obtain the flow of inven tory to the various stores served from this warehouse center. Next a quick tour of the State Fair of Texas fairgrounds served to complete the first day of our to ir. After a restful night in the fam ous Sheraton Dallas Hotel we were up at dawn to ready ourselves for another full day of looking and asking questions. All of this day was spent in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area looking over livestock and feeding operations. First at Fort Worth, where the west be gins, we visited the famed Fort Worth stockyards. In addition to the vast facilities for handling cattle, we saw how this large ter minal livestock market has adapt ed to change by installing regular livestock auction facilities to en able them to do a better job of handling-livestock. Here we were reminded that at home in Newber ry County we are primarily de pendent upon livestock but do not have adequate processing or mark- TRANSFERS OF REALTY Newberry No. 1 Robert H. Tobias et al to Mrs. Bertie H. Griffith, one lot and one building on Harrington St., $10 and other valuable considera tions. Ralph Young and Kathleen D. Young to Euston H. Mayer and Lola Young Mayer, one lot and one building on Eleanor St., $5 love and affection. Newberry No. 1 Outside Juliette M. Wise to Colie Clark, one lot on Wise St., $150. Little Mountain No. 6 Tullious Calkovvn Stoudemayer to H. J. Smith, 58 acres, $10 and other valuable considerations. Prosperity No. 7 Edward Hugh Bright and Jua nita Floyd Bright to Earl B. Epps and W illie S. Epps, one lot, $10 and other valuable considerations. Thelma S. Rawl to Clara L. Spight, one lot, $150. T. J. McNeace to James Blan chard and Alice Blanchard, one lot, $5 and other valuable consid erations. Lillie Glasgow to Teanell Ox- ner, one acre, $20. Future Homeowners, Inc., to Virgil L. Cotney ,one lot and one building (Forrest Swittenberg Prop.) Pender Ridge Road, $10.00 and other valuable considerations. Virgil L. Cotney to Ollie Eu banks and Jack Williams, one lot, portion of South Carolina Electric and Gas Company, Prosperity, $5. and other valuable considerations. eting facilities within our county. Now on to The Tadlock Feed Lots near Fort Worth where we saw facilities for feeding out over 12,000 head of cattle each year. This is an old established feeding operation that is run on a contract basis. That is, nearby ranchers consign cattle to this feed lot and pay feed costs plus 5c per head daily to the owner. The ranchers retain title to the cattle and sells them when ready for market. Now it’s eating time again so we head for the well known Cattleman’s Restaurant on Frontier Street in Fort Worth for lunch. A sizzling Texas steak was a real treat for all of us. Early Wednesday morning found us airborne again enroute to Brownsville, Texas. This most southern part of the entire U. S. is mostly cotton, vegetables and citrus production. A hard freeze last January put most of the cit rus growers out of business. This demonstrates most vividly that farmers are always at the mercy j of weather, insects, etc. that can dash his best made plans. At Brownsville we saw the larg est cotton growing operation of the entire trip. One farm, Porter and Wertz, Inc. had 6,000 acres of cotton. Most of the cotton we saw was already heavily fruited with bolls. Picking will begin in about 3 weeks we were told. Much of the cotton we saw was good cotton. However, we found that the average production of that area was around a bale per acre. Also cotton growers must abide by strict regulations of cotton pro duction. Law requires that all cot ton be plowed up by August 31 each year in order to control the~ pink bollworm and other cotton in sects. At this point we were re minded that in Newberry County we can easily produce over a bale per acre by following proven prac tices of fertilization and insect control. That evening we visited the close-by city of Matamoros, Mexi co. It was almost impossible to be lieve that could be such a vast difference in the living standards of two cities separated only by a narrow river and international law. Now, I’m . beginning to realize just how much we did see during this whirlwind trip. Since my day by day account will run too long I’ll just finish up with the main highlights. We visited the fabulous King Ranch that covers nearly 1 million acres of land. This is the ranch that developed Santa Gertrudis breed of beef cattle, the only pure breed of cattle ever developed on the American continent. We saw many head of cattle and some beautiful quarter horses. 45,000 brood cows and 2,000 horses was the total number on this ranch we were told. Be Featured In Circus Here x: -.: fcv-: 1 Termites? CALL wife touce-Terminix/ "WorkF* largest termite control organtcatioa $5000 GUARANTEE bpnaated nOoaafljr bjr aw HOD kntar Newberry Lumber Co., Inc. Authorized Representative For TERMINIX SERVICE 913 CLINE ST. TELEPHONE 56 ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ RAD THE SOUND CITIZEN The Best Sound Around WKDK 1240 Kc. Igf';, x.", v. After just a little while though, we found out the real financial backbone of King Ranch. We were allowed to visit the recently com pleted 30 million dollar gas and oil refinery located on King Ranch to handle the production of its 1300 oil wells. We visited the sea ports of Brownsville and Corpus Christ! where shipping of cotton, grain, oil and livestock has contributed mightily to the economic develop ment of these areas. At Sugarland Plantation which owns 67,000 head of cattle we saw an imported bull bought from Scotland at a cost of over $1.3,000. Sulfur mining operations at Gulf port, Texas made us aware that nature’s products such as sulfur makes possible many of the things we tend to take for grant ed. Without sulfur, we would have few of the products that make for today’s high standard of living in this country. At Huston we saw a complete cattle production and marketing operation. United Feed Lot there keeps 7,500 head of cattle on feed at all times. Gain costs of 23 cents per pound quoted us there made us wonder if we couldn’t produce more beef in Newberry County and thereby compete for their mark ets. Just completed auction mark ets and packing house locate adja cent to this feeding operation dem onstrated our new era of automa tion—where fewer people put more products on the market by way of modern machinery and equipment. Yes, we saw many things in Tex as. We saw a stallion that costs over $100,000. Also a Santo Ger trudis bull that weighed 3,120 pounds, the biggest any of v.s had ever seen. We found out that Tex as mosquitos and Jack Rabbits are as big as Texans claim. We stayed in some of the finest hotels and ate some of the best meals you ever saw or heard of. Also we saw conditions of pov erty just across the border that made us awfully glad to get back into the good old USA and thank ful that we are citizens of this great nation. God forbid that we permit it ever to become other wise! As our plane took off from Huston Sunday morning and head ed into the sun toward South Caro lina we felt we couldn’t wait to get back to our own loved ones and home. Most important we came back with the feeling that we have i just begun to deve lop our own Ag ricultural potential here in New berry County. When it comes to livestock and many of the cash crops, we are suited to producing and growing these products just as well as Texas or any other part of the Country. Certainly Texas has some ad vantages we don’t have. The main one being Capital from oil to fi nance their agricultural opera tions. That’s a hard one to over come. Dan Clinton, retired County Agent at Huston said, “The best thing that ever happened to the livestock business in Texas was when they crossed oil wells on their native cattie.” However, we have the advant age of climate, plenty of water, and better soil than they generally { have. We already have fairly ade quate markets and can certainly develop more. The only real thing we need is a grim determination that we are going to keep up with ! Texas or any other part of the country and go ahead and find ways of developing the rich poten tial we do have. Yes, it was good to visit Texas. But its better to be home again because we feel more strongly than ever that South Carolina and Newberry County is still the best spot in the world to live and that we can do anything here once we set our minds and backs to doing 3 WAJS tWN6To|l?5k T . _ ■':>‘*B v y ! p3i.WrtSON HARDER. It may not be necessary for a career bureaucrat to not know j v/uat he is talking about, but ' it seems to be helpful. * * * A case iu point is the recent testimony g*. eu by Paul Dixon, current chairman of the Fed eral Trade Commission, in op posing one of the fair trade bills. Ever since he grad uated from law school Chairman Dixon has been a re spected gov ernment law yer. He is in-] telligent. c. W. Harder ♦ * * There is no question, either of his honesty according to all observers. Thus, his complete ly fallacious statements before the Congressional committee are all due to ignorance of how business is transacted in these United States, a common mal ady among bureaucrats. * * * Apparently ignoring the fields where fair trade laws would be the most beneficial, Dixon chose to confine his remarks to the grocery business. * * ★ He made a great fuss and bother over the high percen tage of volume done by the major chains on their own private brands. He then as serted that if food items were fair traded, the independent grocer, unable to get private label brands, would have to sell national brands at fair trade prices, while chains would cut under these prices with their own private brands. * * * It was an eloquent presenta tion. Only one thing was wrong. It was not based on facts. ♦ * * First of all, any independent <c) National Federation of Independent Business grocer but the very smallest can have his private brand on practically any item he wants from bleach to coffee. He can get prices lower than the na tional brands, and the packers of “Joe’s Market Tuna’’ of whatever the stores name hap pens to be, will not only run the product under Joe’s label, but will warehouse it until Joe has room for it in the store. This is done every day. * « * But by and large, indepen dent grocers find they do little business on private label be cause the consumer wants na tional labels. * a a In addition, Dixon warned against a danger that cannot happen. a a a Major chains refuse fte buy a fair-traded item. And no packer can afford to turn his back irrevocably on potential chain store sales, as without chain store distribution, ho is practically closed out of many, many markets. a a a The historical chain position in this respect is quite easy to understand. Chains feel when they stock a brand, they not only promote it, but also lend prestige to a brand. If they cannot sell it for less than their independent competiton, they would then be doing nothing but helping that competition, a a a Thus, Dixon jumped on his horse and galloped off on much the same basis as if Paul Re vere had warned the Patago nians were coming. He sounded a solemn warning on a situa tion that cannot happen as any food packer, food salesmen, or food broker could have told him. If government lacks any thing, it does lack in its ranks practical, experienced busi nessmen who know how busi ness is done. Newberry Mon. July 9 Afternoon & Night 3 & 8 P.M. One Day Only NEWBERRY FAIRGROUNDS —Sponsored by the NEWBERRY JAYCEES— DAN CARSON WILD WEST AND BIG HIPPODROME CIRCUS FEATURING THE GREAT j CHRISTIAN I BAREBACK RIDING TROUPE Starring LUCIO, World’s Greatest Riding Comedian Aerial Ballets • High Wire Marvels. Performing Elephants • Crazy Clowns Beautiful Horses • Acrobatic Thrillers SENATOR! ■STRO URMOND Reports PEOPLE Billions for Defense THE CONGRESS is putting the final touches on the defense spending bill for fiscal year 1963 which begins July 1. This bill, as passed by the Senate, appropriates $48.4 billion for de fense pei’soimel, operations and maintenance, procurement, and research development, testing, and evaluation. THIS LEGISLATION passed both houses without much con troversy and in accord with Ad ministration requests except for a few items. Foremost among these exceptions were amend ments to put a mandatory floor under * National Guard and Re serve forces and to speed de velopment of the RS-70 super sonic strike aircraft as a full weapons system. THE ACTION in requiring a floor of 400,000 National Guards men and 300,000 Reservists vir tually assures that the Secretary of Defense will not go forward with his plan to reduce person nel by 10 per cent, cutting the overall total of Guard and Re serve forces to 642,000. Some defense civilians ad^ oca ting thi« change that the Congress cannot require the De fense Department to maintain a certain level of defense forces. However, the Secretary of De fense, who proposed the cutback, has indicated in a news inter view that he will go along with the wishes of Congress on this controversial point. IT IS STILL questionable, however, what action the Secre tary will take on reorganizing the Guard by eliminating 800 units and converting 8 divisions (one being the 51st Division of S. C. and Fla.) into brigades. The Senate wrote into the b*ll a provision that in view of the State need for adequate Guard forces to meet local emergencies, “it is hoped that any reorgan ization of the Reserve compon ents will not affect their readi ness nor through geographic or unit changes affect their value to the several states which they also serve.” THE RS-70 aircraft has had overwhelming support in the Congress as against opposition from the Administration, espe cially ftL* Secretary of Defense. It wouk be equipped with air- to-surface missiles and advanced radar and communications sys tems and would fly at three times the speed of sound at 80,- 000 feet over glohal ranges. It would provide a capability to observe and report on the effec tiveness of missile attacks; to seek out and destroy those tar gets against which missiles could not be employed by virtue of imprecise locational data; and to provide characteristics of flexibility, discrimination, judg ment, and precision which are readily available only in a manned strategic capability that has proved so successful in pre venting enemy aggresr.' m. THE SENATE voted 74-13 to go along with the committee's recommendation to spend $491 million to proceed with the full development of the RS-70 weap ons system. This action is caus ing the Secretary of Defense to‘ reconsider his opposition, so it is possible that the program may be pushed forward, though not on the full scale voted by the Senate. AN ANNUAL defense expend iture of $48 billion is a stagger ing sum, bat it is necessary be* canoe this eonesrne our very survival as a nation. Wo have mifatitwod oar freedom frees communist destination hecanea we have kept our deftness strong. The Soviets may neb be certain about our willingneoe to use ear defense power, but they do recognise our superior ity in destructive power, long- range bombers, eoUd propellant missiles, and Polaris subma rines. THIS $48 billion appropria tion should insure continuation of our power to win a hot war and to deter overt cold war ag gression against what the com munists consider U. S. vital in terests. What we need now is communication to the commu nists of our will to win. To add this important ingredient will j require a complete alteration of our foreign policy from a no- win to a win policy. Sincerely, J&Cotn*‘i4LuvisynJOrnJL (Not prints* at povommont oxponso)