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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1962 1218 CoLWfe 3tr*«t NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O F Armfield. Jr., Owner Second-Class postage paid at Ne Carolina. ' r ry, South SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year m *d- <<iy months. $1.25. Mmw * BY 7^ FARM NOTES ICiyrs I ' I >IM||I|||||||,„|,,„ || | || By County Agents Farm and Home Week A Big Success In spite of some misgivings we felt about this year’s Farm and H ome Week, it turned out to be a big success. Not quite as much machinery and equipment on dis play as in previous years, but all classes, demonstrations and meet ings were well attended. Perhaps we are finally getting around to the real purpose of Farm and H ome Week. And that is to find out what’s new that will fit our farming operation. The general theme cf most of the meetings we attended was that farmers must awaken to the rapid changes taking place in today’s agriculture. Thus the handwrit ing on the wall becomes a bit 'Clearer. It indicates that this bus iness of farming is already keen ly competitive. Also that the farm er of the future will be the one who can adjust to change rapidly and can take advantage of the programs and profit opportunities available to him. Tuesday was the biggest day of the entire farm and home week program. Taking in the rural young folks day program were some 90 4-H members from New berry County. We were especially proud of our own Steve Lovelace who gave a masterful performance on the 4-H Talent Show held on Tuesday evening. The outdoor am phitheater was jam packed for this gala event of the Farm and Home Week program. We were delighted to see many of our Newberry farm families at Ciemson. We sincerely hope they feel as we that this year’s event was truly worthwhile. Fall Planting The next 60 to 90 days will see thousands of acres in New berry County seeded to fall crops including permanent pastures, an nual grazing and small grains. Don’t let these crops be a hit or miss proposition. How to make every acre you plant count? It’s still the same answer. Proper seed- bed preparation, adequate fertiliz er and good seed. Try to take a short cut on either one and you’ll most likely be disappointed. Along with fertilizer, don’t for get lime. Right now, before seed bed preparation is a good time to apply lime. Make it at least one ton per acre on all land not limed during the previous 3 years. With livestock now producing nearly three-fourths of our total agricul tural income, that means we’re mighty dependent upon grass and grasstype crops to support out- livestock. We must increase our use of lime in order to properly grow these crops. Garden Notes: Turnip Planting Time: The time for planting most crops var ies from the Coast to the Pied mont, but right now we can all plant our late turnip patch. Of course those on the coast can de lay planting until October 15; in the central area until October 1; but in the Piedmont it should be planted by September 15. Some prefer to broadcast the seed and SENATOR STRO HURMOND Repoets PEOPLE Cuban Policy Paralysis Costa THE POLICY of the United States on Cuba provides for his* tory an almost perfect record—a perfect record of errors. Castro and communism took over in Cuba without even fighting a battle, much less a war. The take-over was accomplished with an official nod of approval from the U. S., plus direct assistance in the form of a U. S. embargo on arms to the Batista govern ment which Castro succeeded in power. AT BEST, our government’s refusal to acknowledge Castro’s communist ties was an example of gross misjudgment. Castro’s participation in ihe communist insurrection :n Bogota, Colo ta bic, on April 9, 1948, was known -to almocf every intelligence agency in the Western Hemi sphere. EVEN AFTER CASTRO’S take-over, cur response to the danger was lethargic. A plan wa? finally set in motion to do someth? about the presence of a communist outpost in the Americas. The plan formulated and approved called for an in vasion of Cuba, financed and sponsored by the U. S. and car ried out by Cuban refugees. The invasion was originally sched uled for November 30, 19G0, but was delayed because of the change in Administrations. The mew Administration, like its predecessor, cqpsidered the dan ger of a communist Cuba so grave as to justify the invasion. It was therefore rescheduled for April 17, 1961. . THEN THE BLUNDERS be gan in earnest. Instead of keep ing Castro in the dark as to what level of force to expect when the invasion began, the S . S. announced in advance of e invasion that no American forces would go to the aid of a revocation against Cuba’s com munist government. This dis couraged a popular uprising and took much of the pressure off Castro. The plan called for a second air strike to follow that of April 15 to complete the de struction of Castro’s then-mea ner air force, but at the last min ute, diplomatic qualms caused it to be cancelled. The invaders were left at the mercy of the communist forces. The U. S. denied, then admitted, its major ^ part in the invasion. BECAUSE OF TIMIDITY and indecision, the justified and necessary invasion became a fiasco. The U. S. not only had to hear all the criticism which would have followed a successful liquidation of communism in Cuba, even had U. S. forces been directly committed, but the U. S. also had to bear the loss of confidence and respect resulting from the obvious incompetence which caused the invasion to fail and the invaders to be sacrificed. Since the ill-fated invasion blun ders, our policy toward commu nist Cuba can best he described as “timid,” and the situation has grown from bad to worse. COMMUNISM IS NOW firmly intrenched in Cuba. The com munists have had more than 2% years to purge and indoctrinate the Cuban people. Communist agents and specialists from all over the world have been moved into Cuba in large numbers. Castro’s military forces are the largest and best equipped—with Russian and Czech arms an i jet aircraft — in Latin America. From Cuba flows an ever in- < reasing tinj of communist prrp- rganda and subversion (krer;ed at Latin America. There'is sub- s'antia! evidence that there are now at least U iritenhediats range ballistic missile bases in I Cuba. Recent reports strong!v -j indicate that an undetermined number of Soviet military forces has landed in Cuba. There is also every reason to believe thpit the Soviets have built or are building a space satellite track ing station on the north coast of Cuba. This will constitute a major advantage for the Soviet space program because the So viets have no other such site available in the Western Hemi sphere. AS LONG AS Cuba is commu nist controlled, there can be no stability in Latin America. Wc can’t buy our way out with the “Alliance for Progress,” which has been aptly dubbed the “Alli ance for Socialism.” If, as has been proposed, we cut off mili tary aid to Latin American coun tries, ft will create a vanum of power in all Latin America as it did in Cuba and permit commu nism to take over without fight ing a battle. THE LONGER THE U. S. waits to expel communism from Cuba, the more difficult will be the job. All Americans are re luctant to commit American men to battle, but it is how clear that it is American liberty at stake. If circumstances in 1960 and early 1961 justified decisions by two Administrations that a U. S.-sponsored invasion of Cuba was essential, how can the far worse circumstances of today require less? Inaction can be justified at this point only by a no-win policy of paralysis. Sincerely, tbZovrL* ’i&juuTSYrv&nJL From A. .V Peters, Fresno, Calil.: I remember when the first intercity as well as the local tele phone came to the town of Baxter Springs, Kansas. Previous to th:s first telephone line the only news of the world was handled by telegraph opera tors at the old Kansas City, Fort Scott Zc Memphis Railroad Sta tion. 9 blocks from the city. The news of the national elec tion in 1896, Bryan vs. McKinley, was handled by messenger boys on bicycles riding between the city auditorium and the telegraph office. Plans to broadcast the elec tion news brought a crowd surg ing around the building. The lead and zinc mines in Galena, Kansas had reopened early in 1897 and as mineral prices went up new mines were estab lished and one of them was the Maggie Murphy, seven miles west, and the Green Horn, seven and a half miles west. A part- owner of both was Mr. Von Wed dell and the party line was ex tended to his home, only five miles from Baxter Springs. Our most progressive and in fluential businessman, Mr. George Bolster, extended this party line to his drug store in my home town. I was one of the first to use the line on that day in June 1897, and talked to my brother Walter Peters at his bakery in Galena. No numbers were used then, everything was referred to by name. For 10 cents I told my brother the bakery wagon he had ordered from the Studebaker Carriage Works at Elkhart, Indiana had been received. It was the thrill of a lifetime to stand on a Pyles Pearling box (held by the store proprietor) as the large crowd of important people stood amazed by the fact that the voice was being carried by wire. (Send contributions to this colnmn to The Old Timer, Community Press Service, Box 80, Frankfort, Kentucky.) Permits To Build Aug. 281 Henry Bickley, one 25x 11 feet yvpo4 $rajn$.. building, 327 Player St., $400. Aug. 30: p. W. Davis, repairs to porch, '621 Crbmef St., $115. Aug. "SO: Roland Gray, repairs to porch, 222 Boundary St., $60. Sept. - At, Jo^njiie ilson, one shed 20&4 Xeet, wobsDframe, 830 Bedenbaugh 'St., $25. others prefer planting in a row. Generally, planting in the row is preferable to -facilitate cultiva tion, pest control * • and harvest. Strictly for greens, Seven Top, Broccoli Raab, ‘ and Shogoin are the recoifimended varieties, and for both turnips and greens use Purpletbp* White' Globe. Avoid planting too thickly, especially, if turnips are desired.* One-fourth of an ounce is- sufficient to plant 100 feet of row. When Purpletop White Globe is used, it is preferable to divide the planting area and cut the greens from one area and har vest the turnips from another. When the tons are cut once and new ones grow out; the quality of the turnip is impaired. Don’t delay too long to plant that turnip patch for some good late fall and early winter eating. Rotate the turnip patch each year if possible. L^af spots seem to build up in an area planted to turnips year after year. Strawberries: One of the most important times to fertilize straw berries is a^nnnd'.the first of Sep tember. The plants are still throw ing runners and crowns are being formed; so if you expect good production; fertilization is neces sary. Apply an 8-8-8 fertilizer at the rate of 490 pounds per acre per 100 feet of row. Broadcast fer- or two and a half to three pounds tilizer over the plants. Be sure the plants arp After fertili zer is applied, brush the leaves with a burlap bag to remove any fertilizer flinging, to the leaves. I fdry weather prevails and irri gation is available, thoroughly soak immediately following the application of fertilizer. To have large better quality berries, space strawberry plants 6-8 inches apart. If the bed has matted closer than this, remove some of the. pktnte^aelacting the weaker plantS^ffiF Yemoval. Soil Testing: Any time is soil testing time, but right'»ow is an excellent time for the Lome gar dener to take a soil. sample. Your county agent has containers for mailing and will forward your sample to the laboratory: here at Ciemson. Upon receipt of results he will make recommendations for your garden. If your soil needs lime, you can make - application this fall and have your soil at op timum level -for next spring’s planting. Clean up the Gdrden: When har vest is completed for any crop in the garden, it is wise to destroy the plant residue as soon as pos sible by plowing under. This not only adds organic matter to the soil, but it also destroys food for insects as well as a place for plant diseases to build up. This also aids in the control of weeds and grasses. TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 Georgia Lee Boyd to Violet Boyd, one lot on Highway No. 76, 1 85.00 love and affection. Emma L. Jenkins to Violetta 1 Mobley Waited, one lot, quit i claim. $1.00. Ernest Clary to Minnie Clary, one lot and one building on Nance ' St., $5.00 love and affection. Young A. Kinard and Mrs. Otto K. Singleton to James O. Ruff, one lot and one building on Milligan St., $5.00 and other valuable con siderations. Matilda H. Crooks to James E. Hazel one lot on Highway 76, $5.00 love and affection. Newberry No. 1 Outside W. L. Buffington to Horace T. Buffington, et al one lot and one building, one lot and two build ings and one lot and one build ing. all on Fair Ave., $1,800. Eddie L. Rivers and Vera Has- kin Rivers to L. H .Bishop, two lots, $5.00 and other valuable con siderations. Ella Mae York to William M. Trammell, et al, one lot and one building on Country Club road, $5.00 and other valuable considera tions. Pom aria No. 5 Carrie B. Kinard to W. Horace Kinard, 2.8 acres, $5.00 love and affection. Little Mountain No. 6 i Lola S. Brady, to Lonnie C. Stoudemire, 71 acres, $5.00 love and affection. Frances S. Stoudemire to Lon nie C. Stoudemire, 71 acres, $5.00 love and affection. Prosperity No. 7 Bennie B. White and Salome D. Vaughn to W. K. Swygert and H. B. Swygert ,one lot and one build ing, $5.00 and other valuable con siderations. T. P. Mills to Helen E. Wilson, one lot, $5.00 and other valuable considerations. Claude W. Partain to Hazel W. Halfacre, one lot, $5.00 and ex change of property. N. V. Boozer and wife, Lucile T. Boozer, to T. Berley Hunter .3 of an acre, $5.00 love and other val uable considerations. When It Seems That No One Likes Us T- By Thomas Collins The Years Ahead—What Can You Expect? Y OU are around age 60. You face retirement at 65. You have begun cogitating about the matter, and you wonder.what de velopments there may be over the next five years that will affect plans you lay now. Or so it seems from the queries that are coming to me. Some of the queries suggest that I should tell the readers of this column what I think will be hap pening over these next five years. They say that what I think— whether I am right or wrong- will have some value because I have had 12 years’ experience with retirement problems and be cause I keep in closer touch with the subject than most people do. So here is what I see—given with the caution that I am no seer and that I may be wrong: —Som,- form of guaranteed medical care is coming for peo ple past 65. I believe it will be here in two years. Fd give odds that it’ll be here in five. I be lieve it will materialize from the Federal Government, with wealth ier people supplementing the care with private insurance compa- ni es# It will likely be tied in with So cial Security. It will start off meagerly, get better every time Congress meets and be adequate for most normal people in five years. —I think guaranteed medical care will start off with cries of “Socialism”—as Social Security did—and that •in years later the voters would tar and feather a political candidate who v/anted to drop it—which is about what hap pened on Social Security. —I think age 65, as a date for retirement, is on the way out— but slowly because the firms that underwrite pension plans, annui ties, and life insurance have the whole business world set up on an age-65 basis, and it’ll take time to unravel the thing. It seems prob able that a labor-management committee in each company will eventually decide whether an em ployee goes at 70 or 55. And the employee may get the same pen sion at both ages. —In five years the idea that an employee will get another job after retirement or start a second career will probably be on the wane. We’re on a culture kick, and painting pictures, reading books, etc., in the “new leisure” will, grow popular. Also, the peo ple 'who commercialize leisure— the sellers of boats, travel, cam eras, tools, and such, are really making hay. —Inflation in the next five years will probably be paced by in creases in your salary. Social Se curity and investments. Inflation for the five years after retirement will probably be about equal to your declining wants. —Your money. In the next five years, -no matter what, people are going to use electric lights, eat, make telephone calls and go to the bathroom. And with the population explosion more people are going to be doing these things every year. I think I would in vest any $25G I had in a company that supplied one of these things. (Editor’s Note: This colnmn by Mr. Collins first appeared in I960. It to re printed because we feel it contains timely first-of-the-year thoughts for those approaching the age of reUre- meut.) nation’s independent business men, voting through the Na tional Federation of Indepen dent Business, have expressed opposition to government help for firms injured by cheap im ports if the proposed tariff slashing plan goes through Congress. * * • And at same time, almost two- thLrds ef them ex- S52rU”C on & 9 legislation, ol d be to turn over the power to control the economy and employment of the United States to the State Dept. * * * Many people seem to hold the feeling on the basis of the past twenty years of experi ence that the State Dept, has not done an adequate job in running the State Dept, let alone attempting to run the na tion’s private business, a a * Actually, there is perhaps no ray of telling at this time vhat value, if any, the export siness is to the United States so-called “free trade” ef gw a a a / And while the business com munity did not vote on this further aspect of the proposed legislation, it also provides gov ernment funds to retrain work ers in industries wiped out by cheap foreign competition, a a a Ta many people this system seems too close to communism for comfort. In communist na tions, workers are told where they can work. This is compul sory labor. a a a Yet, compulsion need not al ways be at the muzzle of a gun. If government action wiped out, for example, a loom opera tor’s place of employment, and the worker is told instead, he will be trained as a welder, the worker will have little choice in the matter. While, unlike his Russian counterpart, he will not have a gun stuck in his face and told to become a weld er, except for the greater po liteness in his handling, the end result is the same. He will become a welder. * * * The net result of the pro- (c) National Federation at Indcpandtot Builowi see So much of the U.S. ship ments abroad since the war were engendered by the $100 billion thrown away in for eign give away echemes, that not one knows how much of the U.S. sales overseas have been real, honest bona fide business. * * * Perhaps If every cent of for eign give away spending was stopped for four or five years, it would then be possible to see just how much export bus iness there exists for the U.S. when the customers have to pay full price in cash. * * * As any businessman knows, it’s usually quite simple to run up a thick sales ledger during a prolonged, money losing dis tress sale. « * * But the only way to deter mine what normal business can be developed is some recent ex perience on the basis of sales made at a profit. Lacking this experience any prognostications on what could be developed for legitimate U.S. export busi ness is pure theory, with some of the theorists the same who a few months ago just Castro was no conn THIS WEEK’S LETTER: “I am thirteen and no one in my class likes me. I dress neatly, curl my hair and wash every night. I am average in school. They call me # names, which I ignore, but they persist in calling me names. What should I do?” OUR REPLY: Surely, you have at least one friend in the whole class. There must be at least one person who is kind to you—who does not join in the name-calling. If not, then there IS something wrong with your classmates—or with you. Many teenagers like to “tease” —and they tease boys and girls they “like” as well as the ones they do not like. Sometimes it is difficult to determine from their attitude toward an individual whether they like or dislike that person. It has been observed, and we think it is somewh t true, that teenagers can be unkind almost to the point of cruelty. They some times act without thinking. They put their tongue in gear before the brain has time to function properly. In truth, however, the times when teenagers deliberately set out to “hurt feelings” are quite few. After a while they learn to keep their brain in gear—and they discover that even the most unfortunate individual has “feel ings.” Sometimes the individual who is the object of teasing from class mates invites the teasing by arro gance or by a continuous “I don’t care” attitude. Other times, the person who is “teased” invites attention by some word or action; or by being unkind where others are concerned. But with it all, one thing must be true. Life is a two-way street and we must give the other fellow his share of the road. 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