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♦ fw. PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1962 nn 1218 Colinye Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0 F. Armfield. Jr., Owner Second-Class postage paid at Ne: ’ ^^ry, South Carolina. SUBSCRIP'flON RATES: $2.00 per year m ad vance: six months. $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS should be attending to affairs at home. As a matter of fact we have brought these calamities <.n our selves!. We meekly, mildly hand ed Poland, Hungary Czechsolo- vakia half of Germany to the rhu-sians; we by our utter fool ishness made possible all the trouble in China. The vast conceit of Mr. Roose velt prepared the world for dom ination by Russia and China. So now! With a play-boy in the presid- er- and a me-too aggregation of _ called Democrats in Cong ress ^ are about to sell Amer ica down the river. The . readiness of Congress, the Executive Departments and the Courts to assume great powers outside and beyond their consti tutional functions should be curbed by clearer definitions of the rightful prerogatives of the Federal government. I have no special attachment for the great steel industry; I am no special pleader for them, but I wonder where the Congress finds the authority to issue war rants for steel men because they don’t tell how they compute their 1 costs. Let's get nearer home: Is there any legal warrant for compelling a small grocery store to reveal its costs? Well, then, what about a larger store ? , Because we may think the steel business is gigantic—and it is— how does Congress validly probe their costs of manufacture? I am not primarily interested in steel; I am thinking of the gen eral encroachment by Congress into the affairs of it quite conceivable late the Search and Seizure pro visions of the Constitution. in bowing and scraping to the President. the people. It this may vio- The papers told us that the President was willing to accept the House Bill or the National give-away instead of the bill he submitted. Of course this is old- time stuff but thje President is supposed to approve or disapprove an Act of Congress. Why not ask Congress to decide about the laws and tell the President to let Con gress cany out its constitutional function. I I grow weary with the weak, very feeble attitude of Congress The papers have brought us more disquieting news: Russians are in Cuba and arming Cuba. Why? We protect Cuba against the world, but Cuba invites the Russians to come in. Now let’s see: Cuba is about 60 miles, tip to tip, from us. We, with magnificent strategy are gravely concerned about Asia, Africa ,sending billions of dollars far away, while at our very dodrs within long range cannon fire, we ingloriously let Russians come in to Cuba with men and weapons. How’s that for our Monroe doc trine ? Apparently ojur tea-pot strat egists are so deeply moved by the plight of far-off people that w r e let the Russians advance to our front doors! The only reason given for all our billions in Africa and Asia is to keep the Russians out, but here, almost within sight come the Russians!! Surely an inspir ing example of utter frustration and military imbecility. The master minds in Washing ton are probably thinking w e should wait until Cuba is com pletely armed. Then we could lose a hundred thousand men in stead of none today! As of today we are side-tracking the Constitution and the Sover eign attributes of the States and we are throwing the Monroe doc trine to the winds also. We are a great people, aret. ; we? Sons of the great American patriots! We have no business policing Europe, Asia and Africa; we SENATOR STRO HURMOND Reports PEOPLE The Price of Politics IN RECENT WEEKS there has been much speculation that the Administration will soon issue an order to integrate all federally-assisted housing, in cluding VA and FHA home loan guaranties and federal money loaned to savings and loan asso ciations to make conventional loans. It is even possible that the order could apply to any loans by savings and loan associations whose deposits are insured by an agency of the Federal Gov ernment. According to these re ports, one coming from the At torney General himself, the or der is to come after the Con gress adjourns, so as not to in cur Congressional wrath among Southerners supporting New Frontier proposals, and just be fore the general election in No vember. This, however, is not the only indication that the order is politically inspired. DURING THE 1960 presiden tial election Candidate Kennedy chided President Eisenhower for not having ordered integrated housing with “the stroke of the pen.” What Candidate Kennedy perhaps didn’t know is that Eisenhower considered issuing such an order but declined to do so. He was advised that an inte gration order on VA housing loans would be illegal. President Kennedy now has this informa tion available to him. IF A COURT were inclined to favor the order, it might stretch the Federal Housing Commis sioner's discretionary authority j to withhold an FHA loan com- j mitment far enough to permit him to force FHA-insured hous ing integration. The law whfch authorizes the Federal Housing Commissioner to insure FHA loans says that the Commission er “may'' insure. Even an inte gration order on FHA loans, however, would be contrary to the intent of the law authorizing FHA loans, and would also run counter to Congressional defeats of attempts to tie integration riders on FHA legislation. SECTION 1810 OF TITLE 38 of the US Code spells out clear ly the right of a veteran to his GI loan. It provides: “(a) any loan to a veteran, if made pur suant to the provisions of this chapter, is automatically guar anteed, if such loan is for one or more of the following purposes: (1) To purchase or construct a dwelling to be owned and occu pied by him as a home.” Section 1902 (c) of Title 38 of the US Code provides: “An honorable discharge certificate shall be deemed a certificate of eligibility to apply for a guaranteed loan.” WHEN A VETERAN has found a home he wants to buy and has agreed on a price with the builder or seller, he takes his honorable discharge certificate to some lending institution to arrange to secure a loan which will be guaranteed by the VA. If the lender finds the veteran to be a good credit risk, he will apply to the VA to have the property appraised. If the j agreed purchase price is found not to exceed the VA appraised value, the lender will proceed to close the loan and disburse the proceeds of the loan to the seller. Under the terms of the law on VA loans, such a loan “is auto matically guaranteed” upon dis bursement by Act of Congress, and it is not within the power of the President to prevent it. j UNFORTUNATELY, when 1 the President issues any execu- | tive order all executive agencies ’ are legally bound to assume that 1 the order is correct and valid, { unless and until the U.8. Su- 1 preme Court declares it invalid. If such an executive order is issued, the FHA and VA will both abide by it. With the doc kets of the federal courts being crowded as they are, it is clear that nearly all, if not all, vet erans of World War II will have lost their eligibility before the validity of the President’s order could be tested in court, as World War H eUgibility is being phased out during 1962-65. THE ECONOMIC ramifica tions of such an executive order would reverberate throughout the economy. Many builders, in defense of their own sale values, would refuse to sell to veterans using 61 lo^ns and buyers using FHA commitments, and would require commercial financing with usually higher interest rates and the usual 25 to 30 per cent down payment. Few vet erans or others would be able to acquire homes under such ar rangements. Thus, the building and lending Institutions, and all businesses and labor connected with the vast home building in dustry. would suffer catastrophic economic losses. SUCH IS THE PRICE the home buyer, builder, lender, and the entire American economy may have to pay for someone else’s act of political appease ment. Sincerely, ^^juuryyy\J0rr\jJ. I have before me an interesting article from Barron’s Business Magazine about heating the home which I quote. Something new under the sun? Perhaps you have heard our S. C. Electric and Gas Company’s radio advertisements for electri cally heated homes. “Some 25 miles from downtown Los Angeles these days, a unique cooperative apartment project for older residents is abuilding. On its completion next year, Ross- moor leisure World will be the largest community of its kind in the nation, bringing together in one location extensive housing, recreational, religious and medi cal facilities. Under the slogan: ‘America’s prestige community for happy people over 52’, it will offer many unusual conveniences to its residents. Steps and stairs will be eliminated,' in favor of i*amps and gentle grades. As a precautionary measure, showers will be equipped with seats, while ^built-in night lights will give every apartment added protection. All sidewalks, including those leading to individual units, will be brightly lighted at night. Move- over, this will be the first senior- citizen project in the U.S. to in clude in the regular monthly pay ments an insured program cover ing medical care (except hospitali zation) and drugs. The development, located in the town of Seal Beach, Calif., has still another claim to fame; each of its 6.700 units will provide what the promoter calls ‘total electric living’. Every range, dishwasher, garbage disposal unit, water hea ter, clothes washer and dryer will be electrically powered. Wiring in every department will be ade quate to run everyone of these appliances at top efficiency with no concern about blowing a fuse. Even more remafkable is the fact that the entire project will allow every apartment owner to adjust the temperature in each room to the exact level he pre fers. Leisure World, is, a noted, a unique community. Yet through out America, the use of electricity for residential heating, after a slow start during the earlier post war years, today is making rapid gains. Annual ^sales of electric heating appliances and fixtures are now estimated to represent 11 per cent of the dollar volume for all heating facilities, as against a mere 5 per cent in 1959. (For comparative purposes, gas burners now account for 63 per cent, oil burners for 25 per cent and auto matic coal stokers, which as re cently as 1945 rang up 37 per ct. of all sales, for only 1 per cent.) In the past five years, moreover, the number of electrically heated homes in the U.S. hr»s more than tripled—from 301,000 in 1956 to 1.1 million in 1961. The devices which provide elec tric heating subdivide naturally into two main categories—room heaters and central urdts. Under the former heading come radiant heating cables imbedded in the ceiling; with units using ei ther natural or forced convection; baseboard units with natui’al con vection; and radiant wall panels. Central heating, in turn, is of two main types. The heat pump uses the same principle as the electric refrigerator, bringing heat into the house in winter and car rying it out in summer. The so- called resistance furnace produces heat at a central point and forces it through ducts to the rooms. The latter type of equipment is still relatively new, and is not being produced on a large scale. A major advantage of electric ity—aside from the convenience, cleanliness and comfort which the industry stresses—is more even heating, through the use of indi vidual room thermostats and in stallation of proper capacity for each room. Equipment can be placed just where it is needed to offset cold spots, such as windows and outside walls. The heat pump, for its part, has strong appeal, es pecially in the South, because of its year-round usefulness. Despite all these selling points, many utilities have begun to pro mote electric heating only in the past two or three years. Their increased interest stems largely from the fast-growing demand for summer air conditioning. Many electric companies of Hate have found that their peak loads now occur in that season, instead of in winter, as they used to. Thus in the week ended August 11, U. S. output of electric power topped the previous high for the year, es tablished in the week of January 12. Utilities which have built up extra capacity to handle this sum mer demand are now turning to house heating as a winter offset just as the gas companies are trying to offset a heavy winter I heating load by selling gas a,r- | conditioners. Another leader in promoting all electric service is the huge Ameri can Electric Power System, which now has nearly 31,000 heating customers. A number of them, such as apartment houses, have multiple installations. In 1961, al though new home building in its setrvice area was considerably less than in previous years, the com pany added 5.600 residential cus tomers. Two intensive campaigns for conversion of older homes were outstandingly successful; about one-quarter of the concern’s heat ing customers have switched from other types of heating.” A great builder is our Clemson College man, S. C. McMeekin. He and his able Board of Directors have been in the very forefront of South Carolina’s notable devel opment. Now we have electricity from water, steam and atomic pow er; also natural gas. All this costs enormous outlays of money, but it is intelligent business providing for the ever-growing needs of to morrow. Whenever a business plans to come to our State we have the power; we have the water; we have the people. ITEM. Families, as a group, do most of their traveling on a week end. The National Safety Council has a word of advice about week end driving. Records show that more fatal accidents happen on Friday, Saturday and Sunday than other days of the week. As a matter of fact, 54 per cent of the fatal accidents in 1961 oc curred on these days. • • • ITEM. Cantaloup and melons of all kinds should be a good buy for family managers for the next week or so. Price at wholesale are about one-half of last year. • • • ITEM. The industry reports the sale of TV sets will hit a record, the best since 1957. If you are in the market, however, it might be well to shop around before buy ing. Competition among retailers has become fierce and prices, on many models, have been cut from last year’s high. ACROSS the DESK IDEAS FROM OTHER EDITORS From the Seville Chronicle, Seville, Ohio: We are disturbed by the growing tendency of legis lative groups to seek taxes by methods not under direct control of the voters. And we’re more disturbed over the apparent enthusiasm of many voters when such actions are con sidered. When voters turn down a bond levy, our elected representatives regard it, not as a desire for economy in services and govern ment by a concerned citizenry, but rather as a defect of the dem ocratic form of government. We have a campaign, aug mented by policy meetings at all levels, and a propaganda program well supported by our most con servative news media, for income taxes to replace voted assess ments for both operating funds and building programs Such proposals, along with “fed eral and state” aid, are popular with property owners who must dig up real money twice each year to pay real estate and personal taxes. They seem to think money from above will not be taken, thrice-fold, from them. But this is beside the point. When your legislators must come to you and ask, every two or five years, for a renewal of existing levies, or for proposed new ones, you control the purse strings; you decide how much and, to an ex tent, for what, money is spent. ^ With income taxes, once au thorized, the increases aref almost automatic, and beyond taxpayer control. Legislators, safe in Wash ington or Columbus and faced with the need of money, can and will increase income taxes in definitely. You as an individual will have no voice. YT>u may be so busy worrying about Elizabeth Taylor and the important things that you won’t know there has been a tax increase until it is taken from your wages. Be wary of legislator and bu reau-controlled taxation; it can destroy your way of life. 5lIcIfl/r a ~X7 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 keroeena We deliver promptly, as promised You can count on us. Call us today and you'll J! see — At Sinclair we cere... about you about your farm. Sinclair* FARMERS ICE & FUEL CO. —DISTRIBUTOR— Phone 154 Newberry, S. C. m Rev. ROBERT H. HARPER HONESTY IS BEST T AST week 1 wrote of examples ' of profiting by the mistakes or the connivance of others. This leads me to write of the old state ment that “Honesty is the best policy.” We have heard this from childhood and we are constrained to agree with it. Also, every youth, perhaps, has been told that it pays to be polite. These and similar statements we all have read or heard. JUST A THOUGHT: It is a pleasant experience to achieve the satisfaction and happiness that comes with the realization that an effortless good deed has brought sunshine into the lives of someone a boat as. Ever wonder how much coaid be accomplished if we coaid learn to work at the busi ness of doing good for others? Notwithstanding, there may be a fallacy in such statements that we should be careful to avoid Else these statements should be like Jacob’s sheep, they may be ringstraked and spotted and bear on their own backs the marks of their shame. For, as said, there is a fallacy in such statements that we must be careful to avoid Honesty certainly is the best policy, but if a man is honest only because he thinks it pays, he may bear watching if something seems to indie, e otherwise And it does pay a young man to be poiite. But, if that is the only reason that he is polite, he may laugh at you “up his sleeve” and mock you when your bacK is turned. Let us strive to be right in all things because God is t/^d and it is God’s will that men be good. By LINDA NORRIS P) IN AH SHORE has been on the entertainment scene long enough now for everyone to know she’s from way down s^uth so when Capitol comes up with her latest album of songs and titles it “Dinah Down Home!” music fans just automatically know it’s going to be chock full of tuneful ditties of the southland and neither Dinah nor Capitol let us down in quantity or selection. Dinah is at her best with the easy-swinging Dixieland tunes and mellow blues of the deep south and her appealing voice does much for such tunes as “Moon Country,” “South,” “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans,” “Caro lina in the Morning,” “Mississippi Mud,” “Sunday in Savannah,” “Down Heme Rag” and others in which she is equally at home doing in her own inimitable style. Dinah has been with Capitol a good many years now and she’s still one of their best bets despite the many new stars that come and go. In singles, Capitol comes up with Lorin said the Robins doing a song whose title we heartily en dorse: “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid” . . . There’s quite a change of pace on “Algiers” which appears on the flip side . .. Lou Rawls pulls lightly at the heart strings with “Save Your Love for Me” backed by a rather appealing ditty called “Trust Me” ... Stan Kenton and his orchestra do a whale of a job on “Warm Blue Stream,” a disk that intro duces Jean Turner to the Kenton clan and a welcome addition she is . . . Reverse has “Come On Back.” <S, BY HELEN HALE Park tenderloin, stuffed and roasted, gives a wonderful main dish. Use small amount of your favorite bread stuffing and place in-between two long, split and flattemd pieces of the tenderloin. Tie with cord, roast in a moderate oven,covered for 50 minutes, then uncover for last 10 minutes to allow browning. Chopped bacon and onion cooked until golden makes a fine dressing for greens. After they’re cooked, add diluted vinegar (about Va cup to 4 slices of bacon) and a bit of sugar and salt for season ing. Pour over greens while hot. Helen’s Favorite: Green Garland Salad (Serves 4) U* cups chopped raw spinuc.* cup dairy soured cream teaspoon salt v 4 teaspoon onion salt Vt teaspoon lemon jnice 1G enps cottage cheese and green salad mix Blend together sour cream, salt, onion salt and lemon juice and gently mix with well chilled spinach. Spoon Mi cup of this mixture into the shape of a ring and place % cup of the cottage cheese and green salad mix in the center. Veal stewed and then creamed with hard-cooked eggs and a sea soning of mace and cayenne is wonderful with steamed rice. Slice frankfurters and mix these with cooked macaroni and cheese sauce. You’ll have a meat and macaroni dish all in one, nice to serve in squares. Tiny lemon chips can replace chocolate chips in your favorite drop cookie for a refreshing change. 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