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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. SOUTH CAROLINA
THURSDAY. JANUARY 2. 1964
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an area surrounded by territory
ceded to Russia. In order for us
to reach our side of Berlin w e
must pass over 90 miles of land
between Berlin and our side. Can
j-ou conceive a more colossal blun
der than that?
Today, because we still meddle
in Europe, Asia and Africa Russia
slips into Cuba—at our very door.
And we negotiate and earnestly
plead, whereas all this might have
been sensibly adjusted in the be
ginning
THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN
I’ve been thinking about figures.
You will understand that my
thought is about arithmetic. Or
dinarily we say that figures don’t
lie, but that liars figure. Boiled
down to the basic truth figures
are sometimes padded, even fig
ures in arithmetic. So now: Let’s
see what’s what, boiled down to
fundamentals. The teachers want
more pay; Mr. Anderson calls for
astronomical flights up into the
millions. And why not? It is just
as easy to suggest thirty millions
as it is to dream of one million.
The Tax Commission dreams of
more pay; everybody wants more
money.
That is natural. Today we must
ride all the time. Someone has
said that there are so many gad
gets to simplify the arduous and
monotonous labors of housekeep
ers that the women are rushing
to clinics and hospitals, or enrich
ing pharmacists, with ailments
sometimes due to lack of the vig
orous efforts of our grandmoth
ers; and the men must ride even
a few blocks and eat even more
than their grandfathers, so now!
The grandfathers rose with the
sun to eat the abundant breakfast
prepared by grandmother before
sun-up.
So today we substitute pills and
powders and liniments and shots
for the ailments due to easy liv
ing.
. Whereas grandfather wielded an
axe grandson today turns -a but
ton and rejoices in electric heat
and power, or gas or oil.
But the figures; If everybody on
the public payroll draws more
money, where will the money come
from ? Can we in South Carolina
do as they do in Texas and Okla
homa, bore a well in the yard and
find a gusher of oil? If not, all
the pay and the increases thereof
must come from somew’here or
some one.
If the budgets of the public ser
vices are increased there is only
one source for all the money hop
ed for: where is that source:, or
who is that source? The taxpayer
is the source of all our public rev
enue. He is the one who must
“foot the bills.”
Now it is a fair question? Is
everyone to enjoy more. Well,
shall we pay more to all except
the poor taxpayer? If he bear* all
the burden who will grant him a
bonus? Alas and alack; the tax
payer pays to all but he must
grin and bear it.
The only boon for the taxpayer
would be to reduce his taxes. Sure
ly he deserves consideration. But
if the taxpayer must pay more
how can his. taxes be reduced?
Will no one say a word for the
taxpayer ?
Why do we waste time and suf
fer indignities and insults from the
Russians ? Time passes rapidly, so :
many citizens and voters of today
do not remember that our nation
shunned the Russians until Mr.
Roosevelt took them to his bosom.
There are so many afflictions of
today that grew out of Mr. Roose-!
velt’s blundering that I am re
luctant to enumerate them. All
our trouble with Russia grows out
of the incredibly stupid blunder of
dividing Berlin and giving the
territory 90 miles west of Berlin
to Russia.
Just imagine. Berlin sits within
Just as the one-sided unemploy
ment tax, resting entirely on the
employer, even hitting him hard
est when failure of business com
pels him to lay off help. In his
misfortune the employer is taxed.
Then we have the individual in
come tax, which ranges from 20
to 91 per cent.
That is a piece of incredible
folly, unsound, unfair and iniqui
tous. If a tax of 20 per cent is
fair all should pay 20 per cent. If
a man has an income of $100,000
isn’t $20,000 enough in all cons
cience? If he has an income of a
million isn’t $200,000 enough?
Why the graduated tax ? It was
frankly a scheme to discourage
wealth. It is one of the Commun
istic ideas which Mr. Roosevelt
adopted and which Congress ac
cepted and endorsed in a day of
weakness beyond understanding.
Let’s boil it down in reverse.
Suppose you say that a home-
owner whose house is worth $3500
shall pay 20 mills to his town and
county, but the levy would be
graduated so that a man with an
estate worth a million might pay
90 mills.
That would be on par with our
graduated income tax.
Just why the congress sits su
pinely while all the Roosevelt
Communism flourishes I can’t un
derstand.
What we need in America is a
serious consideration of and for
Americans and let the foreigners
manage their own affairs.
I value more our South Carolina
standard of ethics than I do Gov
ernment contracts. But, just for
your information ponder these
figures:
‘The United States in the fir"
half of this year bought gc us
and services in all States valued
at some $13,778,509,000 of which
firms in the South received nearly
a fifth of the total value of all
contracts awarded, the Charles
ton field office of the U. S. De
partment of Commerce reported.
Passing along data compiled by
the Department of Defense in
Washington, the Commerce De
partment said businessmen in Al
abama, Florida, Georgia, Mississ
ippi, Tennessee, the Carolinas and
Virginia, Arkansas, Louisiana, Ok
lahoma, Texas, Kentucky, Mary
land, Delaware and the District of
Columbia participated in the nat
ion’s buying program for military
purposes from January through
June of 1962 to the extent of ap
proximately $2,476,186,000, a 15.3
per cent increase over the same
period last year.
Contracts awarded this year in
Arkansas totalled $24,010,000;
Louisiana $57,441,000; Oklahoma
$50,927,000; Texas $575,390,000;
(sixth largest amount of all the
states); Delaware $33,367,000, and
South Carolina $30,472,000.
But, due to the genius of our
industrialists we have great cot
ton textile plants—our greatest in
dustry.
“The South’s production of cot
ton broad wovens, concentrated
primarily in the States of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Tennessee, Alabama and Texas,
with smaller quantities coming
from some of the other States in
the region, was 94.7 percent of
the national output of 4,492,573,-
000 yards of that product, Paul
Quattlebaum, Jr., director of the
Commerce Department field of
fice said.
South Carolina continued to
lead all States with 1,937,066,000
yards, followed by 854,398,000 in
North Carolina, second largest
producer, Georgia’s 759,944,000,
third in the nation, Alabama’s 387,
833,999, Tennessee’s 82,842,000,
and Texas’ 61,410,000 yards, 6th
down the list. Elsewhere in the na
tion, mills in Pennsylvania turn
ed out 13,081,000 yards, New Jer
sey 2,530,000, and New rYok, 219,-
000.”
FARM £
N OT E S
Announcing...
Beginning Today, Jan. 2
The Bank of Commerce
WILL BEGIN REMITTING CHECKS AT PAR
THROUGH FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
We are happy to advise, that as another service for our
good customers,
There will be no charge for any check
sent through Federal Reserve System
We would also like to remind our customers and friends
that the Bank of Commerce offers complete banking
services:—
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS
CHECKING ACCOUNTS—with no charge if
balance exceeds $100.
QUICK & EFFICIENT LOAN SERVICE
. . . and we remind you that it isn’t too late to
START A1964 CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB
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The Bank of Commerce
Jacob L. Bowers, Pres. Chapin
Says the Saturday Evening Post
editorially:
“‘Back in January Adm. H. G.
’ickover had some pointed things
to say about the laxness of some
portions of U. S. industry and its
failure to maintain adequate
quality controls. ‘During the past
few years’, the admiral said,
‘hundreds of major conventional
components, such as steam gen
erators, have been produced for
naval nuclear-propulsion plants.
Less than 10 per cent have been
delivered on time. Thirty per ct.
were delivered six months to a
year or more later than promised.
Reinspection showed that over
50 per cent had to be reworked to
meet contract requirements.*
Early last month, when the Nat
ional Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration issued its report on
Project Mercury, Admiral Rick-
over’s charges against American
industry were reinforced by a
whole new catalogue of glaring
examples of industrial laxness and
inefficiency.
On the surface, Project Mercury
seemed like a model of efficiency,
even though the project was mark
ed by such suspenseful mishaps as
the sinking of Astronaut Grissons
capsule, loss of contact with As
tronaut Carpenter in the final
stages of his flight and the elec
trical failure that forced Gordon
Cooper’s manual reentry. Beneath
the surface calm, however there
were numerous equipment failur
es. The first manned orbital flight
(John Glenn’s) was delayed 22
months by slow deliveries of
equipment and problems encount
ered in development and qualifi
cation tests. ‘During 1962 and ’63”
says the report, ‘approximately 60
per cent of component spares were
rejected after testing. There was
an average of 10 spacecraft com
ponent malfunctions or failures
per manned spacecraft mission
despite the level of effort to dis
close and correct all anomalies
prior to flight.*
Shortly after the report the
House Appropriations Committee
whacked $250 million off NASA’s
budget authorization for fiscal
1964 bringing the figure to $5.1
billion, which was later approved
by the House. Predictably, NASA
howled. Director James Webb said
the cut would mean that the U.
S. would not put a man on the
moon in this decade. Another
space official told the New York
Times, ‘We can’t live with $5.1
billion’. Maybe not, but the way
they throw money around, it’s go
ing to be hard to convince any
one that a quarter of a billion
dollars really matters.”
Are you proud of that? Once
we were the master-builders of the
world!
FORT KNOX, KY. (AHTNC)—
Second Lt. William O. Martin, son
of Mr. and Mrs. George Martin,
who live at 1919 McHardy street,
completed a nine-week officer ori
entation course at the Army Ar
mor Center, Fort Knox, Ky., on
December 12.
During the course Lieutenant
Martin received instruction in the
duties and responsibilities of a
newly commissioned armor officer.
Lieutenant Martin is a 1959
graduate of Newberry high school
and received his B.S. degree from
Clemson college in 1963.
YEAR’S END!
Another year draws to a close.
We hope it has been a successful
one for most Newberry County
farmers. But we know that for
( some, dry weather and lower
prices during the year will mean
less total farm income for 1963.
Yes, it could have been a better
year in some respects, but on the
other hand, it could have been
worse. Dry weather hurt most of
the eastern part of the country.
Up in Virginia and Pennsylvania
we hear of dairy and beef herds
being sold due to no feed on hand.
Silage and hay crops were com
plete failures in that part of the
country .
Feed may get a bit short on
some farms in Newberry county
this winter, but we know most
everyone will manage to pul]
through.
So, let’s be thankful for the
blessings we’ve received this year
and now look ahead to a New
Year in 1964.
MORE OF THE SAME
Price-wise, 1964 looks little dif
ferent from this year. At least we
can’t expect much increase in the
prices of farm products we pro
duce as compared with this year.
So it looks to us as if we either
must become better managers or
look for new farm income oppor
tunities. Fortunately there’s pot
ential for both. Here’s an exam
ple. Milk production per cow has
increased 38 per cent faster for
cows enrolled in the DHIA pro
gram. Yet only about one-third of
our dairy cows are enrolled in this
proven program.
Here in Newberry county there
is still room for increased product
ion of eggs, turkeys, feeder pigs
and beef cattle. For those who fav
or crop production, soybeans will
continue in strong demand next
year. So it‘s up to us. We can con
tinue to make progress in Agri
culture during the coming year.
Let’s plan now to do so.
END OF YEAR TAX
MANAGEMENT
Chances for a tax cut next
year grow more hopeful each day.
Therefore it might just pay to do
some fast figuring with the idea
of shifting deductible expenses
from next year to this year of
1963. Maybe it’s new equipment
you know you’ll need during the
coming year. Or fertilizer, feed
and seed that could be bought now
for later delivery. Pay up interest
on debts or mortgages. These
are a few hints that might mean
a tax savings in the long run. But
you’ll have to act quickly. A talk
with your accountant who pre
pares your income tax will pro
vide more help along this line.
CONTROL EXTERNAL
PARASITES
Most livestock farmers make
some attempt to protect their cat
tle from flies, etc., during the hot
weather, but fail completely to
provide any protection against
winter pests. Lice and grubs can
cause as much loss in winter as
do flies in the summer.
A number of control materials
are available that will get results.
We have complete new recommen
dations for both dairy cattle and
beef cattle just received from
Clemson college. Ask for informa
tion card 78—Control of External
Parasites. Be sure to specify if
you want it for beef cattle or dairy
cattle. We’ll be-glad to send you
either or both at your request.
PROPERTY
TRANSFERS
Newberry No. 1
J. H. Cook Sr. to Heber Ris-
ter, one lot and one building, 421
Crosson street $5.
Bertie H. Griffith to Eugene C.
Griffith, one lot and one building,
one-forth interest, on Harrington
street, $5 love and affection.
Newberry No. 1 Outside
Ernest C. Longshore to Willie
O. Hawkins and Mary J. Hawkins,
one lot and one building on Pope
street Extension $5.
J. Dave Caldwell and Hazel W.
Halfacre to J. M. Holsonback 3.33
acres $5.
Willie O. Hawkins and Mary H.
Hawkins to Lesie B. Hawkins, one
lot and one building, High Point
Circle, $3324.41.
Bush River No. 3
Mid-State Homes, Inc. to Wilbur
S. Wallenzine and Margaret Wall-
enzine, one acre and one building,
$6,493.60.
Forrest E. Miller, et al to Len-
on T. Wright, 48.7 acres $5.
T. D. Davenport to T. D. Daven
port ard Everette H. Davenport,
49.8 acres $5 love and affection.
Whitmire No. 4 Outside
Mrs. Ethel S. Hugg to Loyt E.
Calloway, 33 acres and one build
ing, $1300.00.
Pomaria No. 5
John W. Taylor Sr. to W. M.
Fennell, one lot and one building
on Main street $5.
Little Mountain No. 6
Esther Mae Metts to Jimmy
Daniel Metts, 491.5 acres and one
building, $5.
PATIENTS IN
THE HOSPITAL
Joe Boazman, Chappells
Miss Annie Bynum, Newberry
Harold Cromer, Newberry
Glenn Davis, Batesburg
Mrs. Lucia Eargle, Newberry
Walter I. Edwards, Newberry
Mrs. Patricia Peele Farmer,
Newberry
Mrs. Sally Horne, Saluda
Mrs. Catherine Connelly Hawk
ins, Newberry
Mrs. Lola Joyner, Whitmire
Leland E. King, Newberry
Mrs. Lizzie Kinard, Newberry
Bertie Avon Lewis, Newberry
Mrs. John A. Mayer, Pomaria
Louis Morris, Newberry
Mrs. Mary Dove B. Nichols and
baby boy, Newberry
Drayton Nance, Newberry
Gilder M. Neel, Newberry
John T. Oxner, Newberry
Mrs. Carrie Sanford, Newberry
Mrs. Eunice Wilson, Newberry.
Colored Patients
Steward Sligh, Newberry
Sylvester and Tony Stephens,
Prosperity
Mrs. Mattie J. Sumter, New
berry
Louise Whitner, Newberry
Ulysses Wilson, Newberry
NOTICE OF JURY DRAWING 4
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We, the undersigned Jury Com
missioners of Newberry county,
shall on Wednesday, January 15th,
1964, at 9 o’clock A.M. in the of
fice of the Clerk of Court, openly
and publicly, draw the names of
thirty-six (36) men to serve as
Jurors for the Court of Common
Pleas (Civil) which will convene
on Monday, January 27, 1964 in
the County Courthouse at ten
o’clock A. M.
Burke M. Wise, Clerk of Court
Ralph B. Black, Auditor
J. Ray Dawkins, Treasurer.
Dec. 30, 1963, Newberry, S. C.
CALVIN CROZIER
MEETING SET
Calvin Crozier Chapter U. D. C.
will meet with Mrs. Jesse Frank
Hawkins on January 7 at 4 p.m.
Associate hostesses will be Mrs.
R. E. Leavell, Mrs. R. E. Hanna,
Mrs. James Werts, Miss Dorothy
Buzhardt and Mrs. A. T. Neely.
Recent Marriages
Victor Burrell and Carol Grace
Cook of Whitmire, were married
on November 30 at Whitmire by
Rev. Earl Wilson.
William Voight Counts and
Peggy Joyce Hill of Little Moun
tain, were married at Chapin on
December 14 by Rev. John D.
Zedgler.
Frank Glymph Summer of New
berry and Clara Marie Tuberville
of Columbia, were married at Col
umbia on December 22 by Rev.
Roland T. Fielding.
Robert Garland of Newberry
and Shelby Jean Bedenbaugh of
Joanna, were married by Rever
end Floyd Brewer at Joanna on
December 20.
Herbert Laurena Dennis, and
Margy Ann DuRant of Lynch
burg, were married on December
27 at Lynchburg by Rev. L. C.
Tuberville.
Arnold M. Gilliam of Pomaria
apd Ina Sandra Shealy of Pros
perity, were married at Grace
Lutheran church on December 21
by Rev. Ben M. Clark.
Jimmie E. Barber Jr. and Rita
Ann Whitmire of Whitmire, were
married by Rev. B. R. Nichols oh
December 28 at Whitmire.
Pete Coleman will return to L.
S. U. in Baton Rouge, Sunday af
ter spending the holidays with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Cole
man and brothers, “Bubba” and
Charlie on Crenshaw street.
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