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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 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 We Americans have plunged in to Socialism rather deeply and the motive was to render help or to alleviate a bad condition. So it began. But we have continued our Socialistic trend year by year, even increasing it although the reason for its beginning has long since passed. We are not selling corn today for 20c a bushel; nor do we sell cotton for 6c. All that has long since passed, but the Federal hand outs have swollen enormously. To day the State is following into pronounced Socialism. I recall vividly when the San tee- Cooper project was being agi tated. I was in favor of it; I had fallen under the spell of my great friend, T. C. Williams who had talked to me time after time a- bout his explorations in the swamps seeking a site for a great dam. Mr. Williams advocated the Santee-Cooper project because he found that the Santee river was 52 feet higher than the Cooper river, only 20-odd miles away. Mr. Williams argued that this natural fall was so unusual that it should be used for a natural fall for water power. So the low er part of the State would have this natural resource of power and the waterway from Charleston and Georgetown would be open for transportation of freight. You will be able to refresh your memory of all this by reading the records of that time—about 1932 and following, as I recall. Now, where are we today? The navigation feature is a complete failure; the waters power only a fraction of its expected potential for today Santee-Cooper operates steam plants and, as you observe, is building • a - mammoth steam plant near Conway. The State of South Carolina owns the Santee-Cooper and the State is in immediate and direct competition with two great pri vate, citizen-owned plants which pay millions of dollars in taxes. The Santee-Cooper is paying a- bout three hundred thousand dol lars a year as a contribution to the State, whereas private comp anies would operate the Santee- Cooper and guarantee a million dollars or more annually, as well as direct supervision and regula tion by the State Public Service Commission, which controls the profits of private companies. The Santee-Cooper is not regulated or controlled or responsive to the State in its operations. -1 am not attacking directly or indirectly an old friend, Governor Jefferies, or another friend form er Chairman James H. Hammond. As long as the State owns and operates Santee-Cooper the State is fortunate in its arrangement. But why should the State own and operate a power plant ? The State lives by, with and from taxes. Private companies pay heavy taxes and cheerfully submit to public regulation. Our State could sell Santee-Cooper for many millions and collect millions in taxes every year. If the 30,000 stockholders of the South Carolina Electric and Gas company were colored and making one of those so-called demonstrations in Col umbia, Charleston, and other cit ies they would attract quite a lot of attention, would they not? But the compav.ies are not asking fav ors, or political consideration; they ask that the State and Na tion should not discriminate a- gainst citizens who pay taxes. The Santee-Cooper, as you see, is building a mammoth plant near Conway, using Government money —your money and mine, too,—at a heavy loss—>2 per cent interest— in competition with you and me and we having to pay 4 per cent interest, as well as a heavy taxes for schools, roads, colleges, wel fare, public safety, and a multi tude of other services. And now we are face to face with another Government extrav agance: the newest Savannah riv er project—estimated at about 78 million and likely to cost 15 0 million, (which will pay not a dime in taxes) although two great enterprises have offered to build near this proposed- misuse of money at a cost of three hundred ; million dollars, and heavy annual taxes to Anderson county and the State of South Carolina. What is the matter? Are we plunging heavily into Socialism? Or are we just thi’owing away the money paid by taxpayers in order to cripple or destroy the enter prises which pay the taxes ? As to Coop services being of | benefit by cheaper rates there are two farm homes near Manning, one served by the Carolina Power and Light company, the other by a Coop. The farmers across the road are cousins. The Coop rate is higher than the rate • of The private power company, so those gentlemen tell me. FARM |jg|F notesISBe? >I>iIu|IIMIIIIMI FARM AND HOME WEEK * By this time next week Farm and Home Week at Clemson will be in full swing, so now is the time toplan to attend as many of these informative programs as possible. The theme this year is Agricul ture—Our Basic Industry. The en tire program is planned with the family in mind as there will be something of interest for young and old. Tuesday, August 27, has been designated as Rural Young Folks day. Now all the other events will be going on the same as any other day except that the 4-H Talent Show will be Tuesday night. There will be a couple of bus loads of Newberry County 4-H members going up for the day. This is an event that is looked forward to each year at Farm and Home week. For those going up for the week or for just a few days registration and room assignment will begin at 4 to 8 P. M. Sunday. Meals will be available in the College dining room at very nominal rates. We might add for those of you who are going to stay overnight in the college dormitories to bring bed linen, pillow, towels, soap and other personal items. FALL PLANTING You know it wont be long until fall planting time will soon be here. First it will be time for planting fall grazing, then it’ll be small grains and winter pasture or 5AFETY JF VOUR gAVNCf INSURED V v Pay YOURSELF each month The average person pays someone else each month, never paying himself anything. Let's look at it this way — don't you deserve to have something from your hard-earned dollars in the way of security. Then — why not lay a portion of your savings aside each pay day. As little as $5.00 will open an account and you can add any amount at any time. Your savings are Insured to $10,000 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, Washing ton, D. C. quote fxom the Aiken Standard & Review: “Two per cent Loan For REA CO-OPS’ Conway Steam Plant Penalizes 473,000 South Carolin ians Whose Electric Bills Include Taxes! What is the real purpose behind this 2 per cent co-op loan? This is part of the continuing plan of the National Rural Electri fication Administration for its un warranted and unnecesary expan sion. Department of Agriculture figures show that 97.6 per cent of all the farms in the U. S. now have electricity. The original pur pose of the REA—to bring elec tricity to rural residents who did not have it—has been accomplish ed. In South Carolina the investor- owned power companies are ready to supply economically all power needed to take care of growth in use of electricity by co-op custo mers, as >Vell as by iheir own customers. By lending addition^ millions of taxpayers’ funds for generating plants, the REA is not bringing electricity to people in rural areas who cannot get it. It is a further subsidizing of electric service for co-op customers at the expense of the taxpayers.” c 1 (CURRENT RATE) AVJNGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION ’ NSCjPfCli A SAVINGS INSTITUTION FOUNDED 193 5 t»8R OOI<I<BOB Bl’BBBT, BBWBBBBY, B. C. J. F. CLARKSON M. O. SUMMER DIRECTORS G. K. DOMINICK J. K. WILLINGHAM BRANCH OFFICE —Batesburg. S. C. E. B. PURCELL W. C. HUFFMAN i “Shortly before the legislature convened, representatives of the cooperatives and of the investor- owned utilities commenced nego tiations in an effort to reach a compromise on these matters that would result in legislation accept able to both parties, and which would be compatible with the pub lic interest, including the rights of the municipalities. After many long hours of nego tiations, an acceptable compromise was reached on the second bill, per taining to areas annexed to mun icipalities. Basically, this compro mise provides that if an area be ing served electricity by a co-op is annexed into a town, that the town council may permit the co op to continue to serve in that area, or any portion of it, or upon annexation, or at any time there after ,the town, or the electrical utility serving the town (with the consent of the town) ma y pur chase the co-op facility. When the purchase is made, just compensa tion, as defined by law, must be paid for the facilities. This legis lation was passed by the General Assembly. Negotiations on the first bill, involving service in areas beyond the incorporated limits of municip alities, failed to produce a solu tion satisfactory to both parties. At one time, negotiators for the in vestor-owned utilities expressed tentative agreement with portions of the bill. However, when these were incorporated into a draft by the co-ops, the result as a whole was unacceptable to the compan ies. This is the instance which certain parties have tried to dis tort into saying that the utilities ‘agreed then changed their minds.’ There was absolutely no agree ment in this bill. This question, then, is still ' be fore the Legislature and the peo ple of South Carolina. It involves, basically, a tax-free, government- subsidized agency extending its operations far beyond what it was created for—to bring electricity to people who could not afford service without a subsidy.” We inherited a country built by the sweat and toil of our people who worked and stinted and built our country. We are rapidly becoming a lot of mollie-coddles and milk-sops, aren’t we ? NOTICE OF JURY DRAWING We, the undersigned Jury Com missioners of Newberry County, shall on September 4, 1963, at 9 o’clock, A. M., in the office of the Clerk of Court, openly and pub licly, draw the names of thirty- six X36) men to serve as Petit Jurors for the Court of General Sessions (Criminal) which will convene in the Newberry County Courthouse on Monday, September 16, 1963, at ten o’clock A. M. Burke M. Wise, Clerk ofC. Ralph B. Black, Auditor J. Ray Dawkins, Treasurer. August 21, 1963, Newberry, S. C. APPLICATIONS INVITED FOR POSITIONS AS SCHOOL GUARDS The Cl+y of Newberry is presently accepting ap plications for position of School Crossing Guard, Femals, four white, 2 colored. Applicants must be between the ages of 25 and 40, inclusive and have a minimum of tenth grade education. Applicants must have had some experience in operation of mo tor vehicles or any equivalent combination of train ing and experience, and must pass physical exami nation. Position will offer about ten hours per week employment. Applications will close at noon, 23th of August, '63. Application forms may be filled out at City Hall. CITY MANAGER SENATOR STRO HURMOND Reports PEOPLE ‘Who is Working for the Kremlin’ THE CONGRESSIONAL Rec ords of August 2, 7, and 13, and the Senate Commerce Committee hearings on S. 1732 are filled with information from public sources which prove that there is communist influence in and penetration of the current Negro demonstrations and agitational efforts in this country. Unfor tunately, all requests for inves tigations of these demonstra tions, which have caused vio lence and bloodshed across the country, have fallen on deaf ears and closed minds. The only an tidote suggested to solve all this —as if anything could, including complete surrender by the Con gress to all demands of the rioters—is passage of the Presi dent’s power-laden and uncon stitutional “civil rights” pro gram. FBI DIRECTOR J. Edgar Hoover has emphasized to the Congress and also to the public in his books, “Masters of De ceit,” and “A Study of Commu nism” that a primary objective of the communists in this coun try is to foment and exploit racial strife and disorders. In deed, the key propaganda terms used by the Communist Party USA are the words “equality” and “peace.” TESTIMONY by a former communist before the Senate In ternal Security Subcommittee in 1957 corroborates Mr. Hoover’s point about the Red goal in the U. S. A. Frank S. Meyer told the subcommittee: “The major drive ... to penetrate the move ment of the Negro people . . . has nothing to do with any in terest in tiie aims and desires of the Negro people, but is a realization by the Communist Party that that movement can be used as the most important and strongest cutting edge against the constitutional struc ture of the United States, by trying to develop a removal of division of power guaranties in the Senate, and secondarily, by the fact that they believe . . . that at this time in a prosperous country this is the only place in which serious trouble can possibly be stirred up, in which there are serious possibilities of developing what they call mass struggles, of building up extra constitutional and extra-legal actions, and so on.” HERE is a quote from Mr. Hoover’s book, “Masters of De ceit”: “The Party’s sole interes;, as most American Negroes know, is to hoodwink the Negro, ex ploit him and use him as a tool to build a communist America.” LATER he told the House Ap propriations Committee on March 3, 1961: “The sit-in dem onstrations in the South were a made-to-order issue which the party fully exploited to further its ends.” THE EVIDENCE in the hear ings and the Congressional Rec ord shows that the man most generally credited with inciting and organizing the riots, Dr. Martin Luther King, has had top assistants with questionable backgrounds. One of these, Bay ard Rustin, has admitted being a former member of the Young Communist League and having served jail sentences for sex perversion, lewdness, and re fusing to serve in our Armed Forces. He has also been arrest ed on numerous other occasions. Now he is “Mr. March on Wash ington,” serving as vice chair man of the August 28 march on Washington. How can ministers, rabbis, and priests march to Lincoln Memorial on August 28 under such leadership? DR. KING has been a lectur er at the Highlander Folk School with admitted communists and pro-communist characters. This school has been closed by the State of Tennessee and cited as subversive by the Attorney Gen eral of Georgia. There is much more public evidence in the Rec ord and even more to be ob tained by a penetrating investi gation into the current riots. THERE IS no question bnt that many persons participating in these disturbances are sincere ly seeking to obtain some end other than advancing the cause of communism. However, there are also some who are sincerely carrying out communist orders and aims ih the Communist Party USA. A recent article by the National Editorial Association says Gus Hall, head of the CPUSA, has issued secret orders for Reds to infiltrate the demon strations, especially the march on Washington. COLUMNIST Holmes Alex ander has made the point that “if it’s true, as seems evident, that the communists are trying to exploit the civil rights issue, the best way to spoil their game is to expose them.” The Wash ington Evening Star has also stated that “all concerned—both white and colored—have a right to know just who is working for the Kremlin in this matter.” WITH THESE COMMENTS, I concu. completely, as do many others who are likewise not sat isfied with the efforts to sweep this vital question under the rug with passage of more unconsti tutional “civil rights” legisla tion and addition of more dic tatorial police powers for the Attorney General. Sincerely, Htsunn*' *t&juvxsvY>J6rj\JL fescue. Now’s the time to get land ready for planting early fall grazing. It’s an expensive crop it’s true but still needed to get needed milk production and to keep up milk bases. Don’t forget to lime the land being put to grazing or permanent pasture. Lime is im portant in our grassland farming program. You simply don’t get full benefit of the fertilizer you use without lime. Right now, a- head of any land preparation is a good time to apply lime. Now too, is the time to go a- head and; your small grain cleaned and treated so it will be ready forplanting. Weeds and dis eases are taking a heavier toh of our small grains each year. There fore, we need to bear down on this point of planting only cleaned seed of all crops—but particularly our small grains. Federal Gas Tax Refund Applications These forms are now availabh* at our office. You have until Oct ober 2, 1963 for filing claims. Brood Sow and Pig Production In Newberry county much idle land, and land coming out of the soil bank, could be profitably put into grain or pasture. Hogs could supply a market for this grain and grazing. South Carolina is a deficit meat producing state, producing only 52 percent of the pork consumed. Swine producers are not supplying enough hogs for local packing plants. There is a good demand for hogs and this enterprise could be profitable on many farins. Farm ers with sufficient pasture ,labor, equipment, and know-how could produce feeder pigs, and farmers with enough grain and feeding fa cilities could grow these pigs out to market. Green forage crops should be provided for the brood sows and pigs. Green forage provides vita mins and minerals; .which are so important for growing pigs. Graz ing forage crops provides exercise for the brood' sows and reduces the labor requirements for a sow and pig operation. Greater re turns per acre will be secured from forage crops when grazed by brood sows receiving a limited grain ration. A rotation system of green forage crops is recommend ed to provide green grazing thru- out the year and to provide a bet ter sanitation program. One half of forage should be planted for each sow and litter. The following crops are suggested, but other may be added to suit local conditions. Winter crops are oats, barley, crimson clover, ladino clover or rape. Visiting Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Car penter on Boundary street last week were their son, Major D. O. Carpenter, Jr. who is stationed with the U. S. Army in the Canal Zone, and Mrs. Carpenter; also their grandchildren, Mike and Laurie Brannon of Columbia. true country-tasting buttermilk largest termite control organlxaHoa $5000 GUARANTEE AgcUnst Fetere Termite Damage 1800 Newberry Lumber Co., Inc. Authorized Representative For TERMINIX SERVICE 913 CLINE ST. 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