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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1964 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 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 i Dean Manion THE MANION FORUM The current Congress has been criticized for its failure to enact legislation supported by the Ad ministration and believed necess ary to the country by a large group of liberals. But a lot of people do not agree with this crit icism and believe that Congress has done a good job. The United States Constitution has endowed the Legislative branch with the authority to make the Nation’s laws. The Executive may propose laws, but Congress, in due course, disposes. The protracted debate has pre vented the hasty enactment of legislation which, on closer scrut iny and second thoughts, has turn ed out to be ill-conceived, unneces sary and unwise. The public interest and the real Congressional intent would seem to be better served when such measures are permitted to die. The President has declared war on poverty which he plans to fight with billions of dollars. Dozens of specific programs are included in the plan submitted to Congress and to the country, to achieve this goal. But the money for these projects must be appropriated by Congress, and legislation to put them into effect must be debated pro and con before any such ap propriations are made. At the same time, we heard from the White House that tins Adminis tration would cut spending to the bone, and would follow the strict est economy consistent with good government. A tax cut would give taxpayers more money to spend and this will somehow stimulate the economy so that the end re sult will be more tax money for the Federal Government to spend on the so-called “war on poverty.” Early in December of last year, we heard that the Federal budget would be in the neighborhood of 103 bUlion dollars, and later this was reduced to 102 billion dollars. Still later, in the interest of econ omy, the budget was cut to 100 billion. And finally, the figure of 97.9 billion was produced as the amount of the budget for the fis cal year, and everyone applauded this effort of our President to cut spending. Practically nobody gave a thought to the figure from which the budget was cut to arrive at the 97.9 billion dollars. President Kennedy submitted a budget of $98 billion and Congress reduced that by several billions without en dangering the nation or the econ omy. President Johnson will be spending the budget money from the Kennedy budget until July of this year, and any spending before then, Will be out c£ the current budget. And we will still have a deficiency appropriations from the bills now pending in Congress for that purpose. Without the close supervision of Congress over spending programs offered by the Executive, bank ruptcy would soon overtake us as a nation. In terms of what Congress ach ieved as well as what they balked at, the lawmakers have done well by their constituents. It was once said “The less government we have, the better”, and the truth of that statement has just been affirmed by the first session of the 88th Congress. ARE YOU LISTENING? BY EARL WILSON Building Permits Hal Kohn, repairs to dwelling on Drayton street $1000. George R. Sligh Jr., contractor, addition to dwelling, 618 Drayton street $300. George R. Sligh, contractor, re pairs to dwelling 618 Drayton St. $100. George Sligh, Jr., contractor, repairs to dwelling on Main St. -in rear of Turner & Taylor Jeweliy store $200. Billy G. Berley, one dwelling, brick veneer, on Magnolia Terrace $16,500.00. COUNT YBUILDING PERMITSS Edward Griffin, one seven-room brick veneer dwelling on Route 1, Pomaria, $7,200. Esbom Wicker, one four room brick veneer dwelling, Route two, Newberry, $7000. James Wiston Hendrix, chicken house, Route 3, Newberry $2000. “Except the Lord built the house, they labor in vain that build it.”— Psalm 172:1. “Ours has truly become the “Do- it-yourself” age. With more peo ple owning their own homes, and with the high cost of labor, they have undertaken projects for which they have little or no prep aration. People are-quick to order “do-it-yourself” kits, and so we now have a generation of amateur mechanics, jack-leg electricians, and late-at-night carpenters and plumbers. It goes without saying that most of us have come to feel that we know a little something about everything. But even with all of our know ledge, we need to admit that there are limits as to how far we may go. We may order :a kit and as semble a small boat that will be appropriate for fishing, in .some pond, but this will not give us the knowledge to build an ocean go ing liner. And so it is in this matter of life. We are trying to. prove to ourselves that we havij no need for God. This is true of us as Am ericans and it is true of us as individuals. We have the mistak en feeling that we are the mas ters of our own fate. We are mak ing of ourselves gods, feeling se cure in our abilities to get our selves out of the troubles of life, and in so doing, we are forgetting the words of the Bible that say, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” ... Life must be lived- Life now and life hereafter are compulsory, and we need to determine in our hearts that we cannot live it .by ourselves. We do not have the knowledge of salvation to the degree that we can deliver ourselves from the sins of this world. The only know ledge that we will ever have must come from Jesus Christ, who knows no limits. If we willl but let Him direct our lives he will “lead us in paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.” As our text suggests, we will labor in vain un less we allow him to build our lives. Are you listening? PROPERTY TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 Simon W. Boozer to County of Newberry, one lot, 1.15 of an acre, on Kinard street $5. Newberry No. 1 Outside National Builders, Inc. to Carl Everett Epting and Linda Monroe Epting, one lot and one building on Henry Avenue, $5. J. Marshall Clinton to Mary Frances H. Ringer, Trustee, 5.45 acres $5. J. Eugene Stockman to Mary Miller Beck, one lot and one build ing on Nance street $5. Silverstreet No. 2 Inez Chaplin, et al to J. Carol Wessinger, 25 acres $5. W. R. Suber to Betty Ray Long, 35 acres, life interest $5 love and affection. Whitmire No. 4 Martin Guy Suber to Kenneth E. Bain, one lot and one building on Bishop street $10. Eugene Cabiness and William Cabiness to 'Bertha K. Cabiness, ore lot and one building, $5 love and affection. Whitmire No. 4 Outside T. J. Abrams to Joe H. Bond, one lot, $10. Pomaria No. 5 H. M. Hentz and W. S. Hentz to St. Matthews Lutheran church, 0.2 acres $5. Little Mountain No. 6 Rufus E. Dominick to John N. Dominick and Elberta D. Domi nick 9.94 acres, $5 love and affec tion. E. V. Wheeler, et al to John F. Wheeler Sr., 90 acres and two buildings, $5 love and affection. Prosperity No. 7 W. M. Harris to Gene Broome, Inc. one lot $5. John F. Wheeler, et al to James C. Wheeler, 90 acres, $5 love and affection. Presidents of our nation are assuming powers that belong to the Congress. The law-making authority is vested in the Cong ress; the Supreme Court and the Presidents are encroaching on the prerogatives of the Congress. The Supreme Court may interpret the Acts of Congress and the various 1 sections of the Constitution, but the word “interpret” is not used in the Constitution: rather the 1 idea is that the high court may apply the law, but the preroga tive of the court is not to go far afield thereby straining at what should be a clear meaning of the law. Likewise I refer again with commendation to the very proper course our South Carolina Sup reme Court in maintaining, cer tainly by clear implication, that the Supreme Court of the United States is not superior judicial authority empowered to intervene in cases not clearly of Federal jurisdiction. The States and the municipal authorities are clearly invested with full and exclusive police powers, except when a Fed eral issue is paramount. The President may submit rec ommendations to the Congress; he is not authorized to conduct dras tic campaigns to compel the Congress to do as he thinks best; or as he thinks politically helpful to him or his candidacy or the success o' his Party at the polls. “Almost every provision in the Constitution has a history that must be understood before the brief and sententious language employed can be comprehended in the relations its authors intended,” said a great jurist. “In questions of power,” said Thomas Jefferson, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” The Constitution says: All legis lative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States. Furthermore, “The Congress shall have power to declare war.” Our expensive forays in Africa and elsewhere have been by as sumed authority of the President, though only the Congress has that power. “The Congress shall have power to make rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and Naval Forces.” Keep that in mind when someone tells you that the President, as Command er-In-Chief is the Supreme Power and beyond challenge. _ If I may be flippant for a mo ment, the Constitution provides that the President shall take an oath to execute the office of Pres ident, and I think it must mean that the President shall execute not the office, which he really ad ministers, but in recent years the Presidents have executed the Con stitution, cutting its head off com pletely. The Constitution provides that the President shall “recommend, to the consideration of Congress, such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” Instead of a well-studied measure for the general good, recommendations, mark you, what is the practice? Didn’t you read that President Johnson is button-holding Sena tors and Representatives, even urging for forty minutes over the telephone that Representative Smith of Virginia shall do the President’s will because of old comradeship in Congress and be cause both of them loved the late Speaker Sam Rayburn? This is a good time to reassert the functions, prerogatives and powers of the Congress and put the Presidency where it belongs, constitutionally. So again I take off my hat to Representative Howard Smith of Virginia and to the Supreme Court of South Carolina. I do not suggest that the Presi dent become a mere dignified fig ure head of no real power, as is true of the British Sovereign, but that he stay within bounds pre scribed for his office in and by the Supreme Law of The Land. Now, then, we cotton-farmers hear that we have done too well. Here are the figures: “The Agriculture Department sharply raised its estimate of 1963 cotton production for the fourth time in as many months. Based in December 1 conditions, it said, 1963 cotton production will be about 15,548,000 bales of 500 pounds each. This would be up 226, 000 bales from the month-earlier estimate of 1,564,000 bales from the season’s first forecast on Aug ust 1st. The gap from tre original fore cast, more than 11 per cent so far, is one of the largest on record; forecasting errors of 2 to 3 per cent are considered normal. Superb growing weather, which held down insect damage while allowing late- forming bolls to mature, contribut ed most to the sharp upward re visions. Other factors include use of higher-yielding varieties of cot ton and extra heavy applications of fertilizer. What does a farmer do when he is restricted to 50 acres instead of the 60 acres of the previous year? He prepares the soil and pours in the fertilizer to make as much on 50 acres he made on 60 acres the year before. That is no secret. What are all the Agricul tural Agents doing? Are they teaching the farmers to make less? Of course not; they study how to persuade the acres to pro duce more and more. That is hum an nature and that is elementary. Even a farmer in the Department of Agiiculture in Washington should know that much of human nautre even if he never saw a farm except in a picutre. Some few years ago a lovely and talented lady of Charleston, operating a farm on Tradd street, as I recall, took me to task sharp ly for my contention that the only way, method or effective prescrip tion would be by pounds, not by acres. Tell the farmer that he may harvest and sell ten thous and pounds of cotton and ten thousand pounds of tobacco and that, regardless of whether he plants ten acres or a hundred ac res. That would avoid the some what fantastic practice of meas uring the farmers’ acres, a prac tice which does not guarantee cor rect results. My town and city friends may not have been reared on the farm but they will understand that when a farmer plants cotton seed in fifty acres he may not always “get a stand.” Frequently the farmer plants and then must re plant because late frost may blight the land. That is the argu ment, I think, of the enchanting lady of Tradd street, who reasons that if you plant a hundred acres even the perversity of nature may promise something on 50 acres, even acres sparsely fruited. I hope the lady farmer will deal gently with the young man Absa lom, as David enjoined his gen eral, you recall, for since breaking my hip I’m no longer able to with stand “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,” if I may im pose on Shakespeare. FARM NOTES Eiurs Newberry County Group Studies Hog Production Hog production is booming in our neighbor state. This we saw first-hand on a fast trip last week end to visit Hog operations in the Laurinburg-Lumberton area of eastern North Carolina. Charlie York, sales representa tive of a feed company, who now lives in Newberry, arranged the trip. Charles worked in the area we visited before moving to Newberry. His first-hand know ledge of thriving hog operations in that section led to our interest in making the trip. Also included in the group were Frank Senn and his two sons, Charles and Frank M.; Clifford Smith; Earl Boaz- man, Agriculture teacher at New- bery high school; Horace Boozer Jr., and Fred Kesler. Visit To Famous McNair Farms— Arriving in Laurinburg Friday night, we first located a good eating spot. Joining us as soon as supper was over was Hervie Ev ans, Superintendent of McNair Farms. Aware of the leading pro gress being made in all types of crops and livestock production of this vast operation, we plied our host with questions until a late hour. At an early hour Saturday we met Livestock Manager, Ira Ellis, for a look at the extensive hog operation at McNair Farms. We were keenly interested in the dis ease-free pig program. Usually visitors are not permitted in the farrowing house due to extremely rigid sanitation practiced in this scientific program. We were for tunate to be able to see it. The advantage of such a controlled program is that fantastic gains are made when pigs are kept iso lated from the normal diseases present in every ordinary hog op eration. Here we saw three-week- old pigs that looked to be at least six-weeks of age to us. We saw 50 pound pigs that were barely 8 weeks old, an almost unbelievable achievement. They were so sleek and thrifty it seemed you could almost see them growing. Liquid Feeding Stirs Boyhood Memories— Another new idea in practice at McNair Farms was liquid feeding of hogs. A scientifically balanced ration is blended with water and fed automatically in proper a- mounts according to age and size of the pigs. Big labor savings and better feed conversions are claim ed by some who favor this prac tice. We were reminded when as a boy on the farm, one daily job of ours was to mix the feed in a liquid form we called “slop” for the hogs. Our efforts then could hardly have been called scientific as compared to today’s new meth od for increased efficiency and better feed conversion. Over six hundred (600) sows producing pigs for an intensive feeding operation was indeed a sight to witness. That’s real mod ern pig factory, we’d say! Next Step More Practical On to Lumberton, North Caroli na, for a quick look at the more practical farm operation of Mr. Linwood Singletery. Here we saw old broiler houses that had been converted to a farrowing house plus several finishing houses for pigs produced by some 500 sows kept on the farm. The farrowing house was ar ranged to hold 70 sows at one time. A new group of sows had just been put in so there were few baby pigs on hand at the time of our visit. Some 2,500 pigs of var ious sizes and ages up to market weight, really captured our fancy, though. Some of the best looking market hogs we’ve ever seen were being produced in this somewhat crude but practical operation. Good brooding stock, plenty of feed and proper management, we learned was responsible for the success of this operation. This proved to us that we could build a thriving hog business in Newberry county. It could be done without the costly investment ...you bet it’s refreshing! AUDITOR’S 1964 TAX ASSESSMENT NOTICE Returns of personal property, boats, motors, trailers, mobile homes, real property, new building’s and real estate transfers and poll tax are to be made at the County Auditor’s Office beginning: January 2nd, 1964 through February 29th, 1964 All able-bodied male citizens between the age of 21 and 60 are liable to $1.00 poll tax. All returns are to be made by Tax Districts. Your failure to make return calls for penalty as prescribed by law. now a days required of most farm ing operations. At the Singletery farms we also saw some 3,000 cattle being fed out for market. Our lack of time kept us from visiting the 70,000 layer operation belonging to this same businessman-farmer. High Com Production Cause For Increased Livestock— Asked why livestock was boom ing to such a degree in that area, Mr. Singletery cited increased corn production during recent years as being the key. Adequate fertilization, chemical grass con trol and mechanized harvesting has doubled corn production in his county of Robeson in the past two years claimed our host. Up there, he says, they plant, spray, ferti lize and forget the corn crop un til harvest time. Now a hundred bushels per acre is expected on their good land. Yes, it’s good to go look at what’s being done in other places. But this does little good if we can’t put some of it to work here at home. Already our Newberry County Agriculture is based on livestock and poultry. Eighty per cent of our seven million dollar farm income now comes from these sources. And we haven’t real ly scratched the surface. A great demand now exists in our state for increased feeder pig production. This enterprise would fit most every farm in the county, large or small. Graded feeder sales would handle the marketing of all production in a most effi cient manner. But the time to move is now! Let’s not wait until some other part of the state grab this potential income producing business. Let us know if you’re in terested in helping Newberry county move forward by becoming the feeder pig capital of Sou£h Carolina!! ‘4 Income Tax Tips If you are retired, or are 65 or older, you may be entitled to a credit against your tax for a per centage of your retirement income. To qualify, you must meet the prior earned income test which means you must have had more than $600 of earned income in each of any 10 calendar years be fore the current year. However, if you are a widow or widower and your deceased spouse had earned income in a prior year, then you are considered to have earned in come in such prior year, provided you have not remarried. Earned income is the gross am ount of wages, salaries, or pro fessional fees, and other amounts you received as compensation for personal services actually render ed, and is not reduced by any ex penses incurred in earning the income. If you were engaged in a trade or business in which both personal service and capital were material income producing fac tors, a reasonable amount, not over 30 per cent, of your net pro fits therefrom is earned income. If no personal services were involv ed, none of your net profits is earned income. Interert, divid ends, pensions, annuities, capital gains, and rents generally are not earned income. However, up to 30 per cent of your net profits from rental property is earned in come if you perform personal ser vices in connection w’.th the rental of the property. If you are under 65, retirement income includes only a pension or annuity received from a public re tirement system. Retired Federal, State, or local government em ployees, armed forces personnel, public school teachers, policemen, and firemen are under a public J retirement system. If you are 65 or older before the end of the your tax year, your retirement in come includes all your taxable in come from pensions, annuities, in terest, dividends, and rents. How ever, rental income is retirement income only to the extent that it is not earned income. After you have determined *that you have received retirement in come, the next step is to determ ine how much, if any, is to be used in computing the credit. It is often possible to have retirement income and not be entitled to the credit. The credit is 20 per cent of the lesser of: (1) the retirement in come you received during the year; or (2) $1,524 minus the to tal of certain pensions and annui ties and current earned income. You must reduce the $1,524 re ferred to in (2) above by the amount of any pension or annuity which is not taxed. This includes Social Security, Railroad retire ment, or any other pension which is excluded from gross income. The amount of the reduction for earned income depends on your age. If you are under 62 at the close of the taxable year, earned income in excess of $900 redupes, dollar for dollar, the $1,524 lim itation. If you are 62 or older, but under 72, earned income in ex cess of $1,200, but not in excess of $1,700, reduces by 50 cents for every such dollar, the $1,524 limi tation. Such an individual’s earned income in exeess of $1,700 reduces dollar for dollar, the $1,524 limi tation. There is no reduction for earned income if you are 72 or older. There is one further limitation on the credit. The credit cannot exceed your tax/ reduced by any credits for: dividends received, partially tax-exempt interest, tax withheld at source on tax - free covenant bonds. TT WHERE you save does 1 U- ./(./ . ; y i ■ ■ \„. .n't*’ make a difference I: i The above emblem makes the difference, because your Savings are Insured to $10,000 by an agency of the U. S. Government. | And, because you are investing your funds with an institution that has paid high Dividends for twen ty-nine years and now has assets in excess of 20 Mil lion Dollars. * ¥ ’ Assets of this institution increased more than Two Million Dollars during 1963 and will continue to grow so long as Americans practice thrift. CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE j (Compounded Twice a Year) / i f *••• vollmom armamr, umwaaaar, m. c. DIRECTORS J. F. CLARKSON G. K. DOMINICK E. B. PURCELL M. O. SUMMER J. K. WILLINGHAM W. C. HUFFMAN BRANCH OFFICE —Batesburg, S. C.