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Page Two THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1963 1218 College Street, Newberry, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance :Six Months $1.25. THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN I read that a patient who re ceived a dead man’s kidney is still alive nearly seven months after the operation. It seems that the time is com ing w’hen surgeons may order kidneys, bladders, livers, hearts, etc as spare parts available on the market. “Dr. J. E. Murray, surgeon at j Fetter Brent Brigham hospital in Boston and an authority on kid ney transplants, described the case to the American College of Sur geons annual meeting. Before the operation his patient had a life expectancy of a few r weeks or months due to kidney disease. The kidney for the opera tion came from an unrelated man whose family consented to its re- nu U upon his death from other cauov The Kidney was rushed into | cold storage for an hour or so and ! then quickly implanted in the man ! dying of kidney disease. The doctors reported that one 1 case in London and one in Paris had survived two years wdth kid neys from live donors. ‘The challenge is to find better drugs and this is what we are working on’ said Dr. R. L. Varco, professor of surgery at the Uni versity of Minnesota. Dr. David M. Hume, chairman of the depart ment of surgery at the Medical College of Virginia, added: ‘The problem of kidney transplants in humans is going to be solved.’ but he declined to predict when the I solution may come.” “Week in and week out, doctors and researchers learn new things about the human body, its ail ments, and how to keep it healthy. Some of their findings come af ter years of careful experimenta- kJ ■ 1938 1943 1948 1953 1939 1940 1941 1942 1944 J945 1946 { 1947 1954 1955 1956 1957 J958 1959 1960 1961 1962 r Not a penny lost Since 1934, when Congress established the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, no one has ever lost a penny in insured savings accounts in any of America’s F. S. L. I. C.-Insured Savings and Loan Associations. We are F.S.L.LC.-Insured-and we offer excellent earnings, too! Where you save does make a difference! CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE (Compounded Semi-Annually) IftSO COLLBOB STB BBT, MBWBBBBY, 0. C. DIRECTORS J. F. CLARKSON G. K. DOMINICK E. B. PURCELL M. O. SUMMER J. K. WILLINGHAM W. C. HUFFMAN BRANCH OFFICE — Batesburg, S. C. SENATOR STRO HURMOND Reports PEOPLE Deliberation or Manipulation? THE BEGINNING of each new Congress in recent years has been marked by efforts to change certain rules of the House and Senate, and 1963 is no exception. Although these bi ennial rules fights are propa gandized as attempts to elimin ate devices of “obstructionists,” they are, in fact, attempts to demolish the last vestiges of stability in the National Govern ment — orderly deliberation and procedure in the Congress. ORDERLY PROCEDURE is essential to rational conduct of business in the Congress, par ticularly since the activities of the National Government have expanded so greatly. In the last session, more than 20,000 bills and resolutions were introduced. Rules designed primarily to in sure orderly procedure, however, provide, as a by-product, a measure of stability which re sists manipulation and emotion alism, and to some extent even prove impervious to “fact” ma nipulation and “news manage ment” by the Executive Branch. THE HOUSE RULES Com mittee is vested with the respon sibility of scheduling the flow of legislation through that body. This committee has been accused of “obstructionism” by those who have sought the rules changes. In 1961 and again this ; year the President led a success ful fight to enlarge the Rules Committee from 12 to 15 mem bers, a “packing” attempt rem iniscent of the Roosevelt Su preme Court episode. THE ABSURDITY of the “ob- > structionist” charge is demon- - strated by the fact that any bill in the House can be taken out of the Rules Committee by a petition signed by a majority of i Members. The real issue is not whether a bill is scheduled for action by the House, but what kind of action is scheduled. Not only does the Rules Committee normally decide whether and when a bill is scheduled for ac tion, but also whether any amendment may De offered whether only specified amend ments may be offered or whether no amendment may be offered. If a bill is brought to the House floor by a petition, there is no limitation on amend ments. For certain types of bills, it is to the Administration’s ad vantage to have the legislation considered under a rule where no amendment is permitted so the House is faced with a take- it-or-leave-it choice. IN THE SENATE, the fire is directed at Senate Rule XXII, which provides that debate can be ended only by a vote of at least % of the Senators present and voting. This rule was adopted in 1959 as a change from the requirement of a vote of % of all Senators to end de bate. THE CHARGE that the pres ent rule allows a minority of Senators to block legislation was conclusively rebutted last year when the Senate invoked cloture and ended the extended debate being conducted by a small band of radicals against the Presi dent’s Communications Satellite bill. In fact, many of those try ing to restrict debate now were engaging in extended debate then. IN PRACTICE, the present rule does prevent a bill from being rushed through without debate. This in turn often per mits time for sober second thoughts to intrude on inflamed emotions and sometimes hasty action by the House, where de bate is restricted. Occasionally, the rule permits time for the truth to catch up with wide spread misinformation. FAR FROM BEING attempts to remove “obstruction” from the path of “progressive” legis lation, the efforts to further emasculate the tried and effec tive rules of Congressional pro cedure are actually aimed at creating machinery which can be manipulated to grease the skids for controversial legislation which might well fail the test of careful Congressional delib eration. SHORN OF THE technicali ties, the furor over rules which occurs at each new session of Congress boils down to whether legislation will proceed through Congress by deliberation or manipulation. If the deliberative process is further deteriorated in the current rules fight—and this has been accomplished in the House—it will have been de teriorated by means of manipu lation. for sober thoughts and truth would never permit it Sincerely. series in milady’s wardrobe: paper fabrics that can be washed, dry- cleaned and re-used as many as 30 times. Clearly, paper is ready to take its rightful place alongside the other miracle materials iA our space age. And, of course, paper possesses one special talent that spurs all progress on. It has the ability to be printed upon with green ink— and cut into delightful little rec tangular sheets called money.” What do you know of this: “Credibility, as the Cuban crisis has shown, is a fragile thing; once shattered, it is difficult to re store. Whatever progress the Kennedy Administration has made on this score with the Russians, it has assuredly lost ground with the American people. In the eco nomic sphere especially, its pro nouncements have proved unwor thy of trust. Thus the much-tout ed gain in the U. S. balance of payments, cited everywhere as gospel not so long ago, suddenly : has vanished; instead, we learn that the break-even point, once confidently looked for by the end of next year, remains as elusive as ever. A^ain, wuh the Congress ional elections safely out of the way, the Bureau of the Budget, to nobody’s surprise has made a drastic revision in its earlier es timates. An unexpected spurt in the cost of living is shrugged off as non-Tw erring; a sharp drop in the work week is blamed on Col umbus Day and Yom Kippur. Such forecasts merely involves a recognition of what has been going on for many months. Since the Kennedy Administration took office, the U. S. has plunged into an unprecedented era of free-and- easy money management. The Federal Reserve, which once took pride in leaning again:t the wind, i has chosen instead to flirt with 1 the whirlwind. Thus, throughout the upsurge in business activity which began in mid-1961, it kept the banking system amply suppli ed with reserves. In July it low ered margin requirements; in Oct ober, through a reduction in re quired reserves on time deposits, it gave the banks a fresh source of credit. The Treasury has not Final Rites For 0. E. Wessinger Oscar Elmer Wessinger, 70, died early Saturday morning atNew- berry Memorial hospital after an illness of several months. Mr. W’essinger was born and reared in the O’Neal section of the county,, a son of the late Silas Walter and Mary Kinard Wessing er. He was a merchant and was associated with Prosperity Ice and Fuel company. He was a mem ber of Grace Lutheran church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Pearl Harmon Dominick Wessing er; four daughters, Mrs. E. C. Ab rams of Bennettsville; Mrs. R. A. Oswald of Columbia; Mrs. E. W. Pinson of Cross Hill, and Mrs. R. R. Thomsen of St. Louis,Mo.; two brothers, Voight E. Wessinger of been idle either. From nearly $4 billion in the past 12 months end ed June 30, 1961, the Federal def icit climbed to $6.3 billion last fiscal year and to an estimated $7.8 billion (or $10 bollion, more likely) in the current one. Even without a tax cut, as high Admin istration officials admitted last week, fiscal ’64 will see the fourth successive Kennedy deficit. The red ink, however, has yield ed precious little in the way of jobs. Unemployment, which in 1960 averaged 3.9 million, or 5.6 per cent of the labor force, last year stood at 4.8 million and 6.7 per cent. Even after a substantial ad vance in production and trade, the number of jobless this year has hovered around four million, or 5.5 per cent of the total number of people seeking work. As for 1963 the outlook, as noted, is far from clear. Nonetheless, the De partment of Labor evidently has a pretty good idea of what to ex pect. Last week one of its econo mic advisors said it would prob ably be a ‘good’ year, with an in crease of over $20 billion in the output of goods and services. Nonetheless—and here is the sig nificant point—she added that the rate of unemployment, far from declining, as one might expect, would probably rise to 6 per cent. Leesville and W’ilbur E. Wessing er of Prosperity; and three grand- childran. Funeral services were conducted Sunday at Grace church by Rev. Ben M. Clark and Dr. George E. Meetze. Burial was in the Pros perity cemetery. Pallbearers were A. Z. Wessing er, Dr. J. E. Wessinger, Dr. Carl Wessinger, Bill Hawkkins, Har mon Bedenbaugh and Ben F. Daw kins. Honorary escort was comnosed of: E. S. Blease, Dr. B. M. Mont gomery, Dr. W L. Mills, Tom M. Fellers, H. B. Hendrix, Harvey Lake, Dr. C. K. Wheeler, Frank Dennis, J. W. Taylor, Billy Daw kins, Hunter Fellers, Buck Taylor, Moody Bedenbaugh, Brooks Ep- ting, Dan Hamm, members of the Grace Lutheran church Council, Floyd Goodwin, Cornell Wise and Bill Wicker. Rites Saturday For Mrs. Hipp Mrs. Gladys Ruth Hawkins Hipp, died late Thursday night at her home on Green street after a long illness. She was 56 years of age. Mrs. Hipp was born in Newber ry county, a daughter of Mrs. Sula Taylor Hawkins and the late Gary Hawkins. She was a teacher in the West End Grammar School before her retirement and was a member of O’Neal Methodist church. Surviving in addition to her mother are her husband, Johnnie Osborne Hipp; a son, Ned Hipp of Newberry; four brothers, Furman Hawkins of Ware Shoals, Fred Hawkins of Kingsport, Tenn., Chester and Hazel Hawkins, both of Newberry; two sisters, Mrs. Helen Morris of Prospvrity and Mrs. Ben Chapman of Newberry; and tw'o grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted Saturday at O’Neal Street Meth odist church by Rev. M. B. Fryga and Dr. A. H. McCullough, Jr. Burial was in the Newberry Mem orial Gardens. Pallbearers were Tony, Benji and Jerry Chapman, Joe Higp, Ray Coleman and Gary Lee Harmon. YoiCll make the wisest choice no matter which Chevrolet you choose! tion, such as the discovery that last week won a Nobel prize in Medicine and Phy siology for three biochemists. Other findings come quite by accident, such as the dis covery by doctors that a hair streaking substance can cause death. A surgical adhesive that may eliminate the need for surturing wounds will go on the market next month. The rayon tape is porous and can be peeled off with out pain that accompanies removal of stitches. Dr. Leonard Malmore of the University of California at Los Angeles said doctors may soon be able to transport peripheral nerves —those outside the brain and spi nal chord—from one person to another by applying heavy doses of radiation to the nerve before it’s transplanted. The technique has been successful in tests on dogs. If feasible for humans, nerves could be stored in hospitals for emergency use. Researchers at the Tulane Uni versity Medical school reported that the burning of garbage in New Orleans city dumps may have contributed to waves of asthma attacks in the city. Nine died in the most recent attacks; more than 300 sought treatment. The Tulane doctors said the burning garbage released unburned parti cles carrying the mineral silica. They found the number of asthma cases fluctuated with the amount of silica in the air.” Wouldn’t it solve one of the vexing household problems if all the pots and pans and knives and forks, spoons, dishes and what not, could be raked into a large bag after meals and thrown into the garbage? We are approaching that time so long devoutly to be wished, if we may make Shakespeare speak for us. “Picture a Mars-bound astro naut rocketing through space at 25,000 miles per hour. All systems are functioning perfectly. The spaceship’s cabin is small but comfortable. He has plenty of food and water for his 300-day journey. He has taped music and reading material to keep his mind occu pied. But how in the world does he do his laundry ? The answer, of course, is he doesn’t. Washing clothes in outer space would require prohibitive amounts of water and energy. Disposable clothing is the only solution. Warm, light clothing that can be jettisoned. And of all the fibres and fabrics known to modern man, one that is being seriously considered for the job is paper. Good, old, plenti ful, inexpensive paper. Until comparatively recently pa per would never have been in the running for a role like this. Pa per was to write things on. And to wrap things in. And that was it. But today, paper has undergone a startling transformation. You can decorate a room with wallpa per that not only pastes itself, but kills flies and repels dirt, too. You can brighten your kitchen with vinyl-coated paper flooring. Manufacturers are even experi menting with a paper bathing suit. This paper breakkthrough really began back in the early 1940’s. Until that time, paper had one fatal drawback. When exposed to water it degenerated into a soggy useless mass of pulp. No bathing J suit material, this! i Then one day a chemist added a small amount of a melamine- formaldehyde resin-acid colloid to paper stock. And a practical pro cess for making wet-strength pa per was born. An Industrial Chemicals Divis ion, which supplies a broad range of products to paper manufactur ers, was rushed into action. In a relatively short time, an inexpen sive and commercially feasible wet-strength process was develop ed. Special wet-strength resins were created for the paper indus try. However, it remained for the U. S. Army to dramatize the advan tages of this exciting new kind of paper. During World War II, the army had an urgent need for paper maps that would stand up under battle field conditions. The Chem ists turned the problem over to the new wet-strength resins. The resulting maps not only stood up under pelting downpours, they stood up under the treads of a Sherman tank! This new map sparked the pa per industry’s interest in resin- treated products. Wet-strength facial tissues, rainproof grocery bags, shower scuffs and paper bathmats were just a few of the many practical uses for this new and better kind of paper. Today, paper’s progress has really just begun. Chemically- treated paper can now be woven or knitted into upholstery mater ials extremely resistant to weather and wear. These same fabrics have been used for fashionable acces- These four different cars are alike in one important way. Each is a product of Chevrolet Division of General Motors. So each will give you more performance, beauty, comfort and good news at trade- in. But each is tailored to a certain kind of buyer. 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