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Can you imagine a cracker barrel philosopher holding forth in a mod ern supermarket? The Golden Rule is old but it's as good as ever. It hasn't been used often enough to result in ary ap preciable wear. VOLUME 27; NUMBER 14. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1963 ♦ $2.00 Per Year By The Way - By DORIS A. SANDERS NOT MUCH HOPE There doesn’t seem to be much hope of an employer ever getting a fair break in these days of New Frontierdom. It is a well known fact among those who have had dealings with the personnel of the National Labor Relations Board that the majority of the Trial Ex aminers—the “judges” in a labor dispute—lean strongly toward or ganized labor in their sympath ies. There was a time, however, when an employer could get a fair hearing and impartial decision from the National Labor Relations Board itself. This Board, in ordering a union election for employees of Daniel Construction company a year or so ago, did all in its power to try to assure that the union would win the election. As I recall ,it went to such extremes as to allow voting by employees who had worked for Daniels as little as a few months, as far back as two years prior to the election. This made an almost impossible situation—but the large majority of Daniel employees, present and past, apparently thought they would prefer dealing directly with Charlie Daniels from Avhom they received their pay- checks, rather than through a union, to which they would have to give a portion of that paycheck. They voted down the union. The union just couldn’t stand it —Daniel Construction company with its far-flung operations was one of the largest industrial con struction companies of the nation —it HAD to be unionized. So, “unfair labor practice” charges were brought by the union, and the election held last year has been set aside; it has been ruled that Daniel must go through a- nother election. Of course if an employer goes before the NLRB and doesn’t get a favorable ruling, he still has re course to the Supreme court. But with the unconstitutional, so ciological so-called decisions that have been handed down by THAT body in recent years, it is appar ent that the protection of private rights means little—and it is per fectly logical to assume, judging from past decisions, that the court would decide that even if a MIN ORITY of employees wanted a union while the majority didn’t, the minority must have the union or somebody might be denying them what they asume to be their “rights.” The New Frontier seems to be doing everything possible to stifle business even while it says the economy must move aread with “vigah.” It would seem that the New Frontier wants business to move ahead—right into government hands. ON THE SUBJECT While on the subject of unions, I am told by one who should know that if a presidential election should be held today, 70 per cent of the textile workers would vote against Kennedy. The unionists worked hard to help get h : m in office. Now they are realizing that they may soon be reaping the “benefits” of their success. When the all-out push on “equal ity in employment” comes—and there seems little doubt it is coming .soon—these people real ize that in Newberry, at least, they will be the first ones to feel the effect. Integrationists will push hard at the local textile plants because they are, of course, by far the largest employers in the county. This idea—which was plain enough to see in the Democratic platform which these people con veniently overlooked—is beginn ing to have meaning these days. As I recall, Kennedy carried Newberry county in the presiden tial election three years ago. Isn’t it peculiar that now you can’t find anybody who voted for him? most? The Almighty Dollar or j Integration ? Some brief notes from this re- | port were given by Congressman , Joe D. Waggoner Jr. to his con- | stituents in the 4th Louisiana | district. He calls the publication of the report, “the most sweeping at tack on + he separation of the races since the Black Monday decision of the Supreme court.” His letter to his constituents continues thusly: “It is the work of a seven-man civilian committee appointed by the President in June of 1902 and is known as “The Gesell Report”, after the name of the chairman, Gerhard Gesell, Washington at torney. The Committee is named, “The President’s Committee o n Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces” and the title of this ini tial report is, “Equality of Treat ment and Opportunity for Negro Personnel Stationed Within the United States.” It is obvious, from the first page to the last, that the true suoject is not “equality” but preferential treatment”. The re port was forwarded by the Pres ident to the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon where indications are it is already regarded by the branches of the service as “The Bible,” even though it was sup posedly submitted only as a report and not a directive. These are a few of the atti tudes and recommendations con tained in its 93 pages: More recruiting should be di rected towards Negroes to correct the “insufficient flow” of Negroes into the services and to increase the “pitifully small” number of Negro officers. Negroes should be located in jobs throughout the services re gardless of their individual pref erences in order to have a few everywhere and in all positions. Promotion boards should have more Negro officers on them be cause W T hite officers are “con sciously or unconsciously” dis criminating against Negroes on promotions. Special officers should be ap pointed (with bi-racial staffs) on every ba^e to handle all complaints of the Negroes Such complaints should be “en couraged.” More Negro girls are to be brought on bases for social func tions and fewer girls who believe in segregation. Negro hostesses should be con sidered rather than white. Military Police patrols used in neighboring communities should be integrated. Segregated busses should be boycotted. Base commanders should ap point bi-racial committees in the communities to break down seg regation practices. Civic clubs should not be joined if they are segregated. The past policy of complying with local segregation policies should be terminated. The practice of Negroes gravi tating to one base service club and Whites to another should not be permitted—even though this might Candidates For City Offices For Mayor Alderman Ward 1 Ernest H. Layton, age 58, was born in Newberry and his lived here his entire life. He has 37 years business experience as a merchant, and with his brother, operates Layton Brothers Grocery on O’Neal Street. He is married to the former Miss Dessie Minor and is the father of two children. Mr. Layton is a member of O’Neal Street Methodist Church; of the Masonic Lodge 87 and is a Shriner. He is also a member of the South Carolina Municipal As sociation, the American Municipal Association and of the Clinton- Newberry Natural Gas Authority. He served ten years as alderman prior to being elected mayor and is completing his sixth year in that position. John Howard Cook Jr., is 41 years of age. He was born in Newberry and his lived here his entire life. His wife is the for mer Allene Merchant of Prosper ity. Mr. Cook is manager of the Lo cal Finance Co. of this city. He is a member of Mayer Memorial Lutheran Church, which he has served as treasurer; a member of the Exchange Club and has been a member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Cook is a graduate of New berry College with a B. S. Degree in Commerce. His first venture in politics was two years ago, when he ran for the office of may or. Decision On Milk Prices Promised Now serving as alderman from Ward 1 and seeking re-election is Otto Franklin Armfield, Jr. f who was born in Charlotte, N. C., sub sequently lived in Saluda and Johnston before moving to New berry 35 years ago. He is 43 years of age, is married to the former Miss Agnes Templeton of Laurens and is the father of two daughters and two sons. Since graduation from Newber ry High school, he has followed the newspaper publishing and job printing trade. He currently is owner and publisher of the New berry Sun. He is a member of Aveleigh Presbyterian Church, the S. C. Municipal Association and is secretary of the Clinton- Newberry Natural Gas Authority. He served with the Army Corps of Engineers in the European and the Far Eastern theaters of operations during World War II Agent Busby Tells Of Wisconsin Trip BLACKMAIL It is probably just as well for Greenville that Donaldson Air Force base is gone, because it probably soon would have been anyway unless the folks in Green ville agreed to all-out integration in every phase of community life. If a recent report handed to the Department of Defense is imple mented, this will happen too, to Shaw Air Force base, Fort Jack- son, and every other government establishment—because the re port mentioned above recommends to the Defense Department that if commanders of military bases fail in bringing about integration in the communities in which they are located, the department “must consider curtailing or terminating activities at these installations.” In other words, what do you want be of their own choosing. Methods are suggested for get ting around local segregated hous ing by leasing homes in the name of the government and moving Negros in. ROTC units should be cancelled in segregated schools. The efforts of officers to bring about integration should be con stantly reviewed and rated. Pro motions should be based on their “initiative” and “accomplish ments” in this field. The traditional function of the Base Commander and Senior Of ficer to run a military establish ment and maintain good commun ity relations by staying out of lo cal controversies is misguided and should be stopped. They should be encouraged to lead the way to full integration. Military personnel should be allowed to patronize only those local establishments which are in tegrated and have express approv al of the Base Commander. A 11 others should be placed off-limits. Approved stores should display placards or decals on their win dows and doors to show they have been approved by the military. This gives the Base Commander life-or-death control of the eco nomic life of the community and the right to subject to military discipline all servicemen, their wives and children who shop at other stores of their own choos ing. Should all of these efforts fail State Circuit Court Judge J. B. Pruitt of Anderson announced Tuesday that he would render a decision “within a week” on the milk-price controversy which has been raging in South Carolina for the past few months. The decision will have a widespread effect on the 70-odd dairy farmers of New berry County, as well as the hundreds of other dairymen thru- out the State. The milk-price war began when some chain stores in South Caro lina began using milk as a “loss- leader.” This activity became wide spread, causing all major distrib utors to cut prices of wholesale milk, passing much of the loss along to the dairy farmer. Tom Bryson, assistant county agent, revewed the dairy situa tion in a xecent talk before the Newberry Business and Profes sional Women’s Club. Mr. Bryson said that the dairy industry in South Carolina repre sents a $120 million business. He pointed out that almost every busi ness in the county receives much of its trade from people in the dairy industry, which is an im portant factor in the economy of Newberry County. “The dairy industry in South Carolina is a young one,” Mr. Bry son said. “The average dairy farm er is 47 years old and has been in business only 14 years; as a re sult, at least three-fourths of them are heavily in debt averaging over $23,000 each, with many owing as much as $100,000. These debts have been taken on the basis of their milk prices prior to the milk price war, and they have extend ed themselves to the limit. Reduc tions in their prices would prove disastrous and result in many fore closures. S. “The implication has been made,” Mr. Bryson continued, “that the housewife has had out rageous milk prices forced upon her. The facts completely refute this. The price of 53c per 1-2 gal lon in this state is in line with all southeastern states and even lower than some.” “Loss-leadering is a sales gim mick,” Mr. Bryson said. “Cheap milk is used to attract customers into the stores. While there, they are expected to, and usually will buy other items. In many cases they are required to buy at least $5 worth of goods before getting the milk for 39c per half-gallon. to bring about integration, the The object is not to help the con Services must consider curtailing or terminating activities at these installations. (Continued on page 4) sumer, but to increase the store’s business. “Milk at 53c per half gallon is a fair price to the consumer con sistent with returning to the dairy farmer a small margin of profit. In fact, one could work up a very convincing argument that prices of milk actually should be in creased rather than decreased in order to return a fair profit to the farmer,” Mr. Bryson stated. A law was passed by the Gen eral Assembly in 1961 which pro vided for a Dairy Commission in S. C. with power to provide for the orderly marketing of milk, by pro hibiting sales below cost for the pui’pose of, or with the effect of restraining, lessening or destroy ing competition, creating a mono poly, injuring a competitor, un fairly diverting trade from a com petitor or otherwise impairing or disrupting the orderly marketing of milk in the state. After a public hearing on April 25 at which evidence was present ed proving economic destruction to the dairy farmers as a result of milk prices, the Dairy Commission ordered milk prices back to those prevailing prior to the milk war at the producer, wholesale and re tail level. Since that time, 28 in junctions have been obtained against the Dairy Commission pre venting the enforcing of the or der. “If this law is rendered ineffec tive,” Mr. Bryson said, “the dairy farmers have no protection at all. We will lose an industry worth $120 million to South Carolina at a time when the State Develop ment Board is actively looking for new industries in South Carolina. Why destroy an industry we al ready have ? The final decision,” the speaker concluded, “rests with the people and the courts. We firmly believe that the people of this state, after knowing all the facts, will not condone a practice which will destroy an industry of such importance to South Caro lina.” James M. Longshore, Sr., on his first try at politics, seeks the Ward 1 alderman office. Mr. Long shore, 41 years of age, is a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Longshore of the Bush River community. He attended Bush River school and Newberry Col lege, and served in the United States Navy from 1942 until 1945. After returning from service, he was with Newberry Dairies for five years, with Colonial Baking Company ten years, and for the past three years he has been con nected with Jackson’s Curb Mar- Mr. Armfield is completing his ! ket on College St. fifth term as a member of council.! J He is married to the former In the world’s concern with Left | Miss Maggie Cromer. They are and Right, it seems to us that j parents of two children, Martha most people have forgotten that I Jean and Jimmy, Jr., and live at there is an Above and Below. ! 2310 Henry Ave. Alderman Ward 2 Road Paving Contract Let More than 12 miles of State secondary roads in Laurens and Newberry counties will be con structed and paved by Hunter Brothers Construction Co., Gray Court, under a contract awarded on basis of the lowest submitted bid, $169,153, Chief Highway Com missioner Silas N. Pearman has disclosed. Included are roads in the vicin ity of Lake Greenwood and streets in Fountain Inn. George William Heller, com pleting his first term as alderman from Ward 2, is seeking re-elec tion. Mr. Heller, 57 years of age, was born in Newberry and operates a grocery store and service station in the city. He and Mrs. Heller, the former Miss Juanita Berry, have one son. Mr. Heller is a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church; a Mason, Past Master York Rite Bodies, Past Master Amity Lodge, Shrin er and member of York Cross of Honor. Mr. Heller owns his busi- Cornelius A. Dufford, Sr., a na tive of Lone Star in Calhoun County, seeks election as Aider- man from Ward 2, an office he previously occupied for 14 years. Mr. Dufford is 66 years of age and is the father of four children. He has been a resident of Newberry for the past 40 years. Mr. Dufford is parts foreman i for P. D. Johnson & Co. He is a< member of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, where he serves on the construction committee; a member of the American Legion, 40&8 and Rotary Club. During ness, which he has operated for World War 1, he served 18 months 22 years on Main Street Extension. Robert E. Gee Service Friday Robert E. Gee died Wednesday j at the Newberry County Memor ial hospital. He was 83 years of age. Mr. Gee was born in Union county, a son of th late Ruben T. and Gertrude Gist Lee. Before his retirement he was engaged in farming. He was a member of Central Methodist church. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Bessie Estes Gee; one son, Robert E. Gee Jr., of Kingsport, Tenn. and four sisters, Miss Mary Wil son Gee, Converse College, Spar tanburg; Mrs. Drucilla Gee Joy ner, Mayesville; Mrs. Gist Gee of Greenwood and Mrs. Wilson Gee of Spartanburg. Funeral services were conducted Friday at the Whitaker Funeral home by Rev. T. H. Vickery. Bur ial was in Rosemont cemetery. overseas, participated in seven major baUles, and served in the army cf occupation in Germany. He is a former member of the Clinton-Newberry Natural Gas Authority. Coast Guard 0CS Has Openings WASHINGTON.—The Comman dant, U. S. Coast Guard has an nounced that there are still op enings available in the Officer Candidate school class that will convene on September 15. Upon completion of 17 weeks training, graduates will be com missioned Ensign in the U. S. Coast Guard Reserve. College Seniors and graduates may ful fill their military obligation thru the Coast Guard Officer Candi date school program. For further information write Commandant (PTP-2) U. S. Coast Guard, Washington, D. C. Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Niemeyer have moved to 1934 Johnstone St., i By AL BUSBY, Co. Agent Sponsored by the South Carolina Banker’s Association and Clem- son college, 41 bankers, business men, agricultural workers, and farmers throughout South Caro lina spent the third week of July studying agriculture in the great Dairy State of Wisconsin. Leaving Columbia airport by chartered flight at 3:40 A. M on Monday, our four-motored plane covered the approximately 1100 miles in exactly 3 1-2 hours. Sun rise seen above the clouds is in deed a beautiful and inspiring sight. The day of July 15 was still quite young as our plane glided to a smooth stop on the runways at Truax Field of Madison, Wis consin at 7:30 A. M. We could hardly believe we had been whisk ed so quickly to this distant state of renown dairy and other agri culture that was to absorb all our waking hours for almost an en tire week. While our luggage was being unloaded, our flight crew wished us a good stay in Wisconsin, prom ising to be back for us on the fol lowing Saturday. Boarding a char tered bus we moved into Madison, going directly to the University of Wisconsin where we spent the entire first day of our tour. The sight of the huge campus located on the shores of Lake Mendota quickly brought back memories for yours truly who has attended summer short courses at this institution of higher learning on two previous occasions. We noted many new buildings already completed and others under con struction that were not present on our last visit to the University. We were reminded by our tour guide, Dave Williams, Assistant Extension Director, that over 23,- 000 students are enrolled in both undergraduate and graduate train ing during each year at the uni versity. I believe there are more students enrolled in Agriculture in Wisconsin than at anv other university or college in the nation. Our first stop on the campus was at Babcock hall, the dairy teaching and research center nam- cock, pioneer in dairy research and ed in honor of Dr. William E. Bab- who developed the Babcock test for butterfat, still the most basic test of all dairy products. Here Dr. H. E. Calvert, Chairman of the Dairy and Food Industry depart ment guided us through the huge research center. Since our prim ary interest in Wisconsin was to learn more about the dairy indus try, we were bubbling with ques tions about everything we saw. Mainly two things caught our interest here in the dairy research facilities at the university. The first was a canned milk technique that when perfected might revo lutionize the marketing of milk in this country. Th” other was a Dairisometer, an ntricate piece of testing equipment being developed that could simplify the butterfat and solids testing of all dairy pro ducts. Other things we learned were that there are about as many dairy cows as people in Wisconsin, which means there are over three million dairy cattle on approxi- mately 80,000 dairy farms ; that j approximately 85 per cent of Wis consin’s milk is sold to out oi state markets in various forms, in cluding fluid milk and manufact ured dairy products such as but ter, cheese and milk powder, also that the blend price of milk in Wisconsin is less than ours, more about this milk price later. Other points of interest on the campus included the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory which is the only research and testing facility of its kind in the entire U. S. Also the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation which tnrough re search has developed a number of products, the most famous per haps is the material Warfarin now used extensively through the en tire nation as an effective rat poison. We were delighted to see Joe Abrams, Education Director of the Foundation who spent a day in Newberry county back in May studying our rat control program here. We also met some other members of the research center and learned more of the work be ing carried on there. Leaving the University campus in late after noon we headed for our motel af ter completing a very full first day of our tour. Tuesday morning bright and early found us enjoying a deli cious breakfast at the Oscar May er and company, one of the largest and most modern packing plants in the country. This company (Continued on page 4) The Candidates For the next three weeks prior to the City Democratic Primary, The Sun wiil publish a brief biographical sketch of all candidates. The first in the series include candidates for Mayor, Alderman Ward 1 and Alderman, Ward 2, and may be seen elsewhere in this page. Break-Ins Occur At Five Places Five break-ins were reported Wednesday morning to the coun ty Sheriff’s office, according to Deputy Sheriff J. C. Neel. Deputy Neel and Deputy Charles Senn, who investigated, said the places entered were Newberry Concrete Company, Whitener Lumber Com pany, American Oil Company, the VFW Home and the Airport build ing. At American Oil Company, $6.40 was taken. A few dolllars were taken from the VFW Home, and $15 to $20 from the Airport. Noth ing was missed from Newberry Concrete and Whitener Lumber, and no other valuables were stol en from any of the places that were entered. The break-ins occurred some time during Tuesday night and as yet no arrests have been made. Investigating officers believe that all of the break-ins were commit ted by the same person or per sons. Weir Accepts Joanna Position A Clemson graduate, class of 1949, Fred Wier of Newberry, re cently took up duties as head of the Industrial Engineering De partment at Joanna Cotton Mills. Prior to accepting the position at Joanna, Mr. Weir was connected with Newberry Mills for eleven years and with the Kenda'l com pany for three years. Mr. Weir has a service recods of ten years in the National guard and four years in the Army Res- erve before he resigned. He is a member of the Lions club and of the Presbyterian church in New berry. Mrs. Weir is the former Mary Lou Anderson of Newberry. The couple have three children, Jimmy, age nine, and Bobby and Tommy, age six. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS July 28: Mrs, Bill Stuck, D. L. Nance, Thomas H. Pope, C. B. Parr Jr., Louis Ray Ringer, Mrs. E. E. Epting, Robert Hipp Copeland, Neal Dickert, Clara Coleman, Jackie Bozard, Mrs. George P. Hawkins, Woodie Livingston, Robbie Anne Creek- more, Hugh E. Merchant, Miss Bertha Gray Gallman. July 29: D. L. Wed a man, Hor ace Cromer, Mrs. G. K. Domi nick, Tomy Milton Folk Sr., Doris Goree, H. T. Oxner, Clar ence DeHart, W. Q. Williams, Fran Amis. July 30: Bill Hawkins, May- belle Yates, J. C. Counts, Mrs. C. S. Hazel, Mrs. Lillian Werts, Mrs. Hugh Ballentine, Lillian Vanderford, Cile Purcell, Ken neth Cook, Mrs. Joe Bedenbaugh and J. Chesley Abrams. July 31: Mrs. Danny Paysing- er, Mrs. Robert Lee Ruff, Mrs. E. B. Carlisle, C. E. Bauknight, Annie L. Sutherland, Roy Bed enbaugh, David Folk, Dr. Ralph Baker, Mrs. Walter Summer. Aug. 1: Tommie Len Hender son, F. A. Longshore, Mary D. Boozer, Ann Stewart, Mrs. C. E. Long, Nathan Culclasure, G. N. Clarkson. Aug. 2: Mrs. M. W. Clary, Rev. Louis Patrick, Debra Jane Bow ers, Mildred Chapman, Anna Bowers Neel, W. P. Lathrop, B. B. Leitzsey Jr., Willie Gra ham, Nancy Bouknight, Mary Ellen Gist. Aug. 3: Mrs. W. C. Schenck, Hugh Turner, Mrs. A. D. Hai ti wan ger, Mrs. T. H. Neel, Fur man Wright, Mrs. W. L. Hitch cock.