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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1963
1218 College Street, Newberry, S. C.
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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.
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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
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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.”
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(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.
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