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1 a PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1964 un 1218 College Street, Newberry, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. 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 When I was in France I was en gaged in lectures to the men of the A.E.F. Men from California used every opportunity to regale the troops with the advantages, wonders and marvels of Califor nia. There was a story of a man from Tennessee who, after ten years in California, came home on a visit. With even more enthusi asm than a native could show he regaled everybody and all occa sions with the wonders, marvels, and miracles of California. The soldiers good-naturedly laughed and jeered but he persevered, for there is no cure for Western en thusiasm even to the nth degree. The story was told of the man returning to Tennessee after ten years in California. He was full and running over with the Cali fornia spirit and so he became a sort of unresting apostle of Cali fornia and its wonders. It was said that this man while at his old home in Tennessee on a visit, at tended a funeral in his rural community. At one point in the service the Minister invited tri butes from any of the friends of the deceased. There was quite a solemn silence, no one venturing to speak, but up rose our ex-Tenn essee brother at home from Cali fornia on a visit. He addressed the assembled mourners with these words: “Friends, if no one else wishes to speak I’d like to say a few words about California.” Now then, although I am a nat ive son of South Carolina, bom in Charleston, son of a daughter of Society Hill, South Carolina, Dar lington county, my father coming from Winchester, Virginia, I am about to quote something about San Francisco, California. “San Francisco, accordin fe to San Franciscians, is the most beautiful city in the New world. This self-esteem on the part of the natives is understandable, for few cities have a more 1 breath taking site, built on 14 hills and surrounded on three sides by the waters of San Francisco bay and the Pacific ocean. It is a dazzling town of white and pastel homes and buildings rising cliff-like on its 14 hills, wreathed in ocean, mists by morn ing, basking in the sun by day, bathing in moonlight by night. It boasts a climate akin to the mythical Shangri-La’s eternal spring. In summer, when much of the nation swelters, San Francis co’s mean temperature (‘mean’ in the weatherman’s sense, that is), is 59 degrees. In January, while blizzards blow elsewhere, j t h e mean temperature drops to a mild 50 degrees. The perpetually ^pleasant clim ate makes San Francisco an in vigorating place but other ele ments are at work too, for the climate was always there and the city was not always so energetic. Spanish padres established a • church on San Francisco’s site in 1776, the year of American Inde pendence. It was then a sleepy little village known as Yerba Buena. It was still little (popula tion 400) and sleepy 71 years lat er, but then something wonderful happened. In the next two years, the population exploded to 26,000. The ‘something wonderful” that happened was the discovery of gold in the California hills. Yerba Buena, by now known as San Francisco (a name derived from Saint Francis of Assisi), was the gateway to the gold fields. In a single year, some 70,000 would-be millionaires poured through town on their way to get rich quick. Some did. Most didn’t. But San Francisco became their headquar ters, and a wild, lawless, wicked town it was. Saloons never closed, and they far outnumbered the houses. Those who had houses boarded up their windows and bar ricaded their doors at night while the mobs caroused in the jungle outside. If it was necessary to go out after dark, one took his life in his hands, literally. More ex actly, one took a pistol in one hand and a lantern in the other, for the streets became bottomless swamps whenever it rained. In San Francisco today, visitors need neither pistol nor lantern. Some of t ie excitement of those boistrous beginnings is preserv ed to be sure, but the excitement is often staged, as in the case of the nightclub which reenacts mock shootings every night for the amusement of guests and with no ill effects suffered by the actor ‘victims'. Today the accent is on culture rather than crime, most of which went out when the city's famous Vigilantes came to restore (or, rather, to establish) law and or der. Now San Francisco is a queen city of arts, with such rarities as a city-owned opera company and a symphony orchestra that ranks with the world’s best. The Latin quarter is a great center for working artists, a fascinating place to visit. The Quarter centers on famous Telegraph Hill, and centered on the hill is a tower that affords a magnificent view of the city, its lacy bridges (the or ange Golden Gate and the eight mile long Bay bridge) and the Pa cific. Near Telegraph Hill is the once notorious Barbary Coast which is no longer on the coast and no long er barbaric as it was in the Gay Nineties and before. For more birds-eye viewing, visit the Top of the Mark on the Mark Hopkins hotel (every visitor does) and the Crown Room at the Fairmont. Both have spectacular panoramas. ^ Mi 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 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 -at- The Bank of Commerce Jacob L. Bowers, Pres. Chapin After getting the long view you will want to move in for a closer look at the city. There is China town, for example, the largest Or iental community outside the Or ient. There’s also a much smaller Japan town, and both are lined with shops to tempt you with their Far Eastern treasures. Fish erman’s Wharf boasts delightful seafood restaurants and picture- esque working fishing fleets. The Farmer’s Market is well worth a visit, and there are flower stalls almost everywhere. The bridges themselves are exciting. You can stand on the Golden Gate and look down at the ships passing beneath you, some heading out to sea and the far corners of the world; others coming home again —to the beautiful city by the bay.” Now, does that enchant you, if you recall the glories of Charles ton and all South Carolina. Do you know the languorous charm of Beaufort? Have you left the business areas of Columbia and marvelled at the beauty of the home gardens? We South Carolinians have much to show: we are not as often en shrouded in the mist and fog as is San Francisco, named as you recall, for Saint Francis for whom the Franciscan monks were named. I recall a story: during my time in France there was an army doc tor from San Diego. The people of San Diego may abound in merit and even excell in stem virtues but they are not such advertisers as the people of Los Angeles. That name, you recall, means “The Angels”. Honesty compels me to say that all the angels had left before my visit to the great city. But the story: A man from Los Angeles was so boastful of that city that my old friend, a major from San Diego, asked “How far is Los Angeles from -he Pacific ocean”? The reply was about 20 miles. “Well,” said my friend, if you people could suck as hard as you blow you would have the Pa cific ocean at your doors.” So, if we South Carolinians could suck and blow we would convince the world that in Char leston, Georgetown and Port Royal we have finer ports than in Cali fornia. * What do you know about corn? The word “com” originally was probably applied to grain gener ally. You recall that the early settlers of our country referred to “Indian Com”, that being our com of today although agricultural science has given us both a sur passing quantity, acreage yield and quality of com surpassing the dreams of our early American In dians. I am discussing the corn, field corn, Indian corn, the com eaten on the cob, etc. I am discussing the com we eat and the com we feed to livestock. So. “A company has received U. S. Patent rights for a process that could revolutionize the markets for com* By separating the two b.vsic molecules of com starch at a reasonable cost—something re finers have tried in vain to do for generations—this company has opened up a whole new vista for the industry. One of the molecules extracted from the yellow kernel in the process—amylose—makes possible the creation of a family of plastic films which, since it has an edible vegetable base, could become important in food pack aging. Another version, because of its superior insolubility in water, could conceivably supplant cellu- losics in the making of plastics, photographic films and cigaret filters. They are turning out the useful ingredients in a pilot plant which already has had to be ex panded twice to meet the demands of customers who wish to use them in experiments of their own. The starch fractionation process is merely one example of the in genuity being displayed by com refiners in wresting imaginative new products from the lowly ker nel. To keep up with the times, they have transformed their plants into chemical beehives. Out of the test tubes are coming new low-priced syrups that are snatch ing major markets away from su gar producers; exotic starches that are finding their way into everything from dynamite and oil well drilling to artificial flowers; fast-forming adhesives that are playing a key role in speeding the production of autos and con- stmetion of homes and making possible improveed packaging for foods and household items. To serve the burgeoning demand for their wares, aggressive refiners are growing bigger through ac quisition and mechanizing product ion lines for greater economy.” PANAMA RIOTS . . . (Continued from front page) suits. In little more than 15 min utes, the group grew to about 1500 men, women and children. They were allowed to raise their flag at the Cristobal Administration building, then removed it and started dispersing, many shouting insulting remarks as they passed the Cristobal police station. They roamed through Cristobal, again inflicting much damage, and dur ing this time, sniper fire killed three American soldiers and Huston Long, 68, Rites Saturday Huktpn Hilliard Long, 68, died Friday at his home on Nance St. after an extended illness. A native of Newberry, son of the late Wilson H. and Sara L. Chapman Long, he was a veteran of World War I. was a member of the American Legion and the Forty and Eight Club and a mem ber. of Colony Lutheran church Walter Edwards Died Thursday Walter Irving Edwards, 75, of Adelaide Street Extension, died Thursday night at Newberry Mem orial hospital after several years illness. Mr. Edwards was born and reared in Charleston, a son of the late Capt. Danielson G. and El len Riggs Edwards. He had made his home in Newberry for m wounded many others, including;! Surviving are h\$..wife*, Mrs. than 48 years, where he was em URMOND ii PEOPLE I™ Meeting the Red Offensive in Panama LATIN AMERICA has pre sented major problems for the United States in recent years, and particularly so since Cuba was converted into a communist bridgehead in the Western Hem isphere. Within the past two weeks, events have moved Pan ama to the top of the list of Latin American problem areas. PANAMA became an inde pendent Republic in 1903. Prior to that time, it wae a pan of Colombia. In that year, the Unit ed States signed a .treaty with Colombia-giving the U. S. rights to build a canal across the Isth mus of Panama, but Colombia did not ratify the treaty. Pan- amenifns, fearing loss of the prospective canal, revolted and set up an independent Republic Almost immediately, a treaty with the U. S. was signed selling the U. S. the rights te .build a canal and operate it in perpetui ty for $10 million cash and $14 million per year. The U. S. also agreed to guarantee Panama's independence, which even at that time needed guaranteeing. U. S. gunboats were sent to prevent Colombia from taking back the territory. In 1914, the U. S. paid Colombia $25 million to recog nize Panama, after having al ready paid $40 million for all rights of a French Canal com pany which had been granted by Colombia. THE CANAL cost the U. S. more than $V£ billion, and only slightly less than $% billion is still unrecovered. Only in recent years has the Canal shown a slight net profit, after payment of interest, operations costs and the annual payment to Panama, which has been voluntarily raised by the U. S. to $1,930,000. ECONOMIC problems under lie some of the intense pressures against the U. S. Panama has a trade deficit, and despite indirect benefits from the Canal totaling $50-00 million annually. Panama has a public debt near $100 mil lion and per-capita income less than $420 annually. DEMANDS for revision of the Canal treaty and for outright gift of the Canal to Panama have been increasing. Election year in Panama has heightened these pressures. Concessions have been made to the Pana manian demands in recent years, such as increasing the annual payment and agreeing to fly the Panamanian flag in the Canal Zone. These concessions, granted under pressures, have encour aged Panamanians to demand more and more. THIS IS THE background against which communist agita tors, trained in Cnba, assisted by local communists, some of whom (such as Solis Palma, Minister of Education) are in in fluential government posts, have not only instigated riots which took lives and destroyed proper ty, bat have caused Panama to "break” diplomatic relations with the U. S. EVEN IN tweaking diplomatic relations with the U. S. and de manding that U. S. diplomats in Panama leave, the Panamanian Government was careful to spe- dficall) state that U. S. AID officials were exempted from the order to leave. Panama la now threatening to bring charges of "economic aggression” against the United States, if we persist in suspension of AID programs. THE PANAMANIAN Govern ment, by breaking diplomatic re lations, making demands that the canal be turned over to Pan ama, and by making irrespon sible charges of aggression against the U. S., has created an internal crisis as well as an international crisis. There are real possibilities of 2 coup at tempts to overthrow the gov ernment—by the responsible ele ment in Panama which realized the tragic damage being done to Panama itself, and by the com munists who are constantly fan ning the flames of the contro versy. WE MUST, at all costs, main tain our treaty rights in Panama. The Canal has a very critical importance to U. S. and world commerce which cannot be sacri ficed. Of even greater import ance. however, any real or ap parent appeasement of mob pres sures by the U. S. would com pletely undermine already weak ened confidence of non-commu nist Latin Americans in the U. S. ability and will to meet communist tactics. Not only must U. S. treaty rights in the Canal be firmly maintained, but our treaty guarantee of Panama’s independence also requires that whatever steps are necessary, must be taken, including use of U. S. military forces, to prevent Panama from falling under com munist controL Sincerely, John W. Cooper of Newberry was awarded the Bachelor of Ar chitecture degree at the mid-year commencement exercises of Clem- son college Saturday^ . civilians. The Colon National Guard was called on to help keep order. No Americans were involved, except as victims, in the burning, looting and other violence in Pan ama. No Canal Zone police or U S. troops entered the Republic of; Panama. Canal Zone residents re mained at their residences and did not participate in nor provoke any violence. i In addition to the extensive; damago to property in the Cana Zone, in Panama, within sight oJ the Zone boundary, rioting mobs^ partly students but with many an ults, overturned and burned ca and burned and damaged a num her of buildings in Panama,! es pecially those occupied by U. S.L firms. . (In the same issue of Spillway,' appears an article telling much money flows into Pan* Portions of the article follow; In dollars, $82,465,000 was p^id out from the Canal Zone to Pan amanians in salaries, retirement and disability payments, and thru purchases of goods and service^in^ 1962. These figures were submitt- 1 ed in April 1963 by the Embassy of the United States of America to the Ministry of Foreign Rela tions of the Republic of Panama in response to a request for sta tistics by the Comptroller General of the Republic. The $82,465,000 does not include the Canal 1 Zone annuity of $1,930,000 which the United States pays to Panama. Salaries to non-U. S. citizens em ployed in the Zone accounted for $33,025,000. Retirement and ois- ability payments to Panama resi dents amounted to $3,469,000; di rect purchases by the U. S. Gov ernment agencies totalled $11,781, 000; purchases of goods by U, S. $10,479,000; purchases of services $1,302,000. Purchases of goods by private organizations added ano ther $4,400,000; contractors pur chases were $10,668,000. U. S. citizens spent $19,165,000 in the Republic. *\ fv i p ■ .% Thelma Wilson Long; one son, H, Wilscn Long of Newberry; ' two sisters, Mrs. Clarence C. Duncan and Mrs. Walter A. Davenport of Newberry; two grandchildren, Bill Long and Miss Mary Susan Long, both of Newberry and one great-granddaughter, Donna Ma ria Long of Newberry. Funens? services were conducted at 3 p.m. Saturday at Colony Lu- themu - .church by Rev. H. A. Dunlap. Burial was in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were Bobby Duncan, Henley Davenport, J. H. Long, T. J. Kinard, Leroy Wilson and Grady Lee Ylatfacre. Honorary escort included Dr: W, J7. King Jr., W. D. Summer, J.’fF.'Tiferiey, Marion Baxter, Tom Cromer, George Heller, William Heller, Henry Chappell, Otis Johnny Werts, H. L. Hedgepath, Ned Purcell, J. C. Neel, Slip! Henderson, C. L. Dowd, Buddy Sch urn pert, Richard Lorn- inick, jyL Willingham, Joe S. Boland and members of the Forty and EiglU club. 'S «*OiaP’ y. 4- - VA Hospital ployed by the Mollohon Mills r.fttil his retirement in 1943, and several- years was custodian of MoMohoiv schools. He was a member of the Summer Memorial Lutheran con gregation. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mamie Ballentine Edwards; two. sons, Irving Charles and James Haskell Edwards, both of New-, berry; and two grandchildren, Mrs. Elmer Mayer and Mrs. Jimmy Crooks. Funeral services were conducted Saturday at Summer Memorial by Rev. Kenneth Hewitt Jr." Burial was in the Newberry Memorial Gardensi Active pallbearers were Capers Bowers, Monroe Bickley, Jake Kib- ler, Ray Rinehart, Q. L. Shealy, O. L. Shealy and Richard Parkins. Honorary escort included mem-' bers of Adult Class IH of Sum mer Memorial church and Dr. Syd ney E. Carter. Recent Mai riages Raymond O'Neal Richardson and Rachel Smith of Newberry were married on January 24, at Newberry by Rev. Clkrence L. Richardson. PROPERTY TRANSFERS •> Newberry No. 1 v, * W. Fulmer Wells and Henry B. Wells to Earl S. Cobb, two lots, $5.00. Clyde Teaster to L. E. Hazel, one lot and one building on Boun dary Street, $5 and assumption of a mortgage. H. L. Cockrell to William L. Johnson, one lot and one building, $5.00. Myrle H. Purcell to Don ,E. Worley and Kathryn R. Worley, one lot and one building in Coates- wood Place $5. Newberry No. 1 Outside W. Rea Feagle to Guy V. Wi ener, Sr., 103 acres $5. The Kendall Company to Bobpy Ray Taylor and Margaret L. Tai lor, ,106 and J41 acres $675. Hoyt Turner, et al to Eunice M. Turner, one lot and one building on Country Club Road, $5.00 love and affection. R. B. Rikard to Grady F. Rik- ard and Patricia W. Rikard, one lot,, $ Sand assumption of a mort gage. Whitmire No. 4 Fred M. Grubb and Donnie G. L. Grubb to Claude H. Stone, one lot and one building, 44 McDow ell street, $10. Whitmire No. 4 Outside Claude H. Stone to Jimmy F. Lominick and Lynda S. Lominick, one lot, $10 and assumption of a mortgage. Pom aria No. 5 Midstate Homes, Inc., to Lonzo Stephens and Dorothy L. Stevens, one lot and one building $5. Walter J. Wicker to Jacob D. Dominick, 7acres, $5 love and af fection. Little Mountain No. 6 B. M. Davis and Nora M. Davis to Kathryn S. Pender, one lot and one building (Holiday Acres) $5. Prosperity No. 7 D. H. Hamm Jr. and J. Walter Hamm to E. Charles Simmons, one lot, $5. R. Wright Cannon and W. Ful mer Wells to W. O. Powell, dnd Hester Powell, one lot $5. Carl Melvin Stuck, 68, of Route 2, Pomaria, died early Friday at the Veterans Hospital in Colum bia after an illness of the past year. Mr. Stuck was born and reared at,Peak in this county, a son of the late Japheus W. and Minnie Ellisor Stuck. He had spent most of his life on Route 2, Pomaria, where he operated a farm. He was a member of St. John’s Lutheran church and a farmer member of the church council. He was a vet eran of World Warl and a mem ber of American Legion Post 24 1 He is survived by his wife, Mm. I Minnie Wicker Stuck; two sons, Kenneth E. and Carl Gumie, both of Pomaria; one daughter,„ „ Mm, George Wicker of Aiken; four -ais- !- ,t^rs^lit*s. HarVey Chapman, of Lexington, Mrs. Evans Chapman I* ^ tain. Mra. Ben W5es- l singer oi Chapin and Mrs. Ernest nflColumbia; four brothers and Charlie, both of Pt>- onnie and Ansel Stuck, ttle Mountain , and eight hdchildren. Funeral services were conducted Saturday at St. John’s by Rev. Donald B. Loadholt. Burial was in the church cemetery. Active pallbearers were Dave Charlie, and Clarence Miller, J. B Berley, Andrew Mayer, and W. D Summer. m I Attention Home Owners . . You coo combiao your bills Into ono (HI your monthly payment os' 'much os 75% • • * (Ivon if your bomo is not poM for)!!! m OUT-&F-TOWN*tS MAIL JI'oui'iMaa rhwusni. W*l0f: ’V****** >»*>«»»■«■ "YUI i .* . .. i [FHOMff Statewide Mortgage Cor" O D 406 Howard Street TeL 254-7875 Colombia, S. C. Notice r V v AT THE CLOSE MILLS CLINIC PATIENTS Margaret Rihehart, West Co lumbia Mrs. Victoria Stockman, Pros perity. Miss Lalla'Martin, Newberry. •Baby Boy Wise, Prosperity Mrs. Naomi Kinard, Leesville Mrs. Elmira Griffin, Newberry John Bedenbaugh, Leesville Mrs. Eva Mae Taylor, Prosper ity Olin Fulmer, Prosperity. ff: •v4»f .'i St, 1964 Penalty WILL BE ADDED TO ALL UNPAID 1963 STATE AND COUNTY TAXES J ■ » i ♦ r|» r> . J j . - - Af < /f 1 ,“,03 j . J. RAY DAWKINS, Comity Treasurer