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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1964
SENATOR
STRO
t THURMOND
Reports
PEOPLE
THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN
Sarannah Pollution Reprieved
SINCE THE passage of the
Federal Water Pollution Contro
Act in 1961, the Public Health
Sendee of the Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare
3iaa been charged with the re-
epenaibility for discovering anc
abating in navigable rivers and
Streams pollution which endan
ger* public health or welfare.
ONE OF THE primary pollu
tion problems in the Southeast
exiata in the lower 28 miles of
the Savannah River flowing past
the industrial area of Chatham
County, Georgia, and the city of
Savannah and into the Atlantic
Oeean near Savannah Beach.
Also affected are portions of the
eoaaecting tidal waters of the
New, Wright, and Cooper rivers
fai South Carolina.
ALREADY, in this area, ap
proximately 11,000 acres of
coastal waters have been closed
: to shellfishing. These waters once
supported commercial American
shiul and oyster fisheries. How-
over, because of pollution dis
charged to the river, these in
dustries no longer exist. The
tidal waters of the Savannah
Jtiver are also used for naviga-
tion, commerce, recreational
boating, sport fishing, and water
contact sports such as swimming
and water skiing.
THE DEPARTMENT of HEW
conducted a field study of this
area of the Savannah during
August, 1963. After long and
careful analysis of the samp-
Hugs from the field study, a re
port on pollution of this portion
of the Savannah was compiled
and printed. The report is dated
Jane. 1964.
AMONG THE conclusions of
the Public Health Service is the
following:
Calculations based on data
from dye studies of the U. S
Army Corps of Engineers Sa
vannah Harbor Hydraulic Model
indicate that about 99 per cent
of tiie sewage associated bac
terial pollution in the main
channel, and from 85 to 94 per
cent in the Wright River can be
attributed to sewage from the
tfty of Savannah. In the New
River, from 57 to 86 per cent
are attributed to the city of
Savannah, ard 14 to 43 per cent
to the unchlorinated effluent
from the Savannah Beach sew
age treatment plant.”
THE CONCLUSION further
states:
‘‘Sewage and industrial waste
discharged to the Savannah
River from Georgia caused pol
lution of the interstate waters in
Savannah River Estuary, which
endangers the health or welfare
of persons in South Carolina, and,
therefore, is subject to abate
ment under the provisions of the
Federal Water Pollution Control
Act.”
THIS REPORT, scheduled for
release on August 21, 1964, is
still gathering dust in a Public
Health Service warehouse. Its
release was postponed, and no
new release date has been set.
There are indications that it will
be released in mid-November.
IN THE MEANWHILE, shell
fishing and recreational use of a
substantia) area of South Caro
lina waters is precluded. Until
mid-November, or whenever the
report is released and action
taken by the Public Health Serv
ice based on the report, these
waters will remain closed. It has
not been expected that South
Carolinians would protest the
delay, for, after all, the report
has not been released officially,
and South Carolinians are not
supposed to know the findings.
OF COURSE, the people of
Savannah and Savannah Beach
are not expected to be upset,
either, for a while yet, by the
release of a report that would
foretell action by the Federal
Government causing them to
spend huge sums for sewage
treatment.
WITHHOLDING the informa
tion now is only a reprieve to
pollution of the Savannah, for
in November, or sometime there
after, the report must be re
eased and abatement proceed
ings commenced.
Sincerely,
£lbCe*ri*^t&juLn/rMnriJl
When a citizen of the quality
of Thomas P. Stoney of Charles
ton endorses Senator Goldwater
we have the call from a real
Statesman to stand out for the
fundamental virtues of American
patriotism and to disregard the
clap-trap of cheap and insincere
political posing.
It is the real glory of our State
that we have such men as Thomas
P. Stoney. Fortunately we have
quite a number of citizens who
stand up for the heritage be
queathed by our fathers and mo
thers.
When you remember that vir
tually every passenger ship
changes money for the passen
gers; people in hotels “make
change,” and there are few, very
few, experts in money aboard
ships and in hotels, I marvel that
counterfeiting isn’t carried on
more extensively. I think all U.S.
money is printed here, but money
for some South American nations
was at one time printed in the
United States.
“A record $7.2 million in coun
terfeit currency was seized during
the fiscal year which ended June
30, Chief James J. Rowley of the
Secret Service reported.
The Secret Service uncovered
44 counterfeit plants and arrest
ed 737 persons during the year.
Of the known bogus currency,
agents confiscated $11 out of ev
ery $12 before it was passed.
The total seized in the preced
ing year was only $2.8 million but
the comparison was distorted by
the seizure of more than $2 mil
lion in one case in California in
early July 1963.
However, the number of cases
investigated increased from 10,-
378 to 12,166.
The Secret Service attributed
the increased counterfeiting ac
tivity to:
‘The growth in the crime rate
and the fact that the constant
pressure on gambling and other
illegal activities have driven crim
inals from these fields into other
illegal enterprises, such as coun
terfeiting.’
Improved printing equipment
which has enabled individuals to
turn out counterfeits more easily
and faster.
Employees in printing shops who
are using equipment after normal
working hours to manufacture
counterfeit money.
\ In the California case, agents
arrested nine persons and confis
cated almost $2.2 million in coun-
teifeit money. Less than $2,000
of the money printed was put into
circulation.
In another case, the report said,
a thief stole for months from
church poor boxes until he accu
mulated $4,500 to set up a coun
terfeiting plant. Agents seized
$1.7 million in counterfeit money
and 194 plates in his car.
In an Ohio case, th" report said,
an undercover agent acted as look
out while a printer ran off some
counterfeit plates. The printer had
agreed to sell $250,000 in counter
feit bills for $30,000.
During the 12-month period the
service also investigated 41,236
cases involving more than $4 mil
lion in forged Government checks.
There were 5,795 cases involving
$730,000 in forged U.S. savings
bonds.
The service said there were con
victions in 98 percent of the cases
it brought to trial during the
year.
We hear so much about the
campaign to promote the interests
of the Colored citizens that I
can’t avoid the impression that
much of what is said is unfounded.
All over South Carolina I have
heard a hush-hush report that men
in Federal positions of all kinds
have issued instructions that Col
ored people are to be given posi
tions even if without qualifications
or capability. That certainly
would not be a favor to the Color
ed people. No man or woman
White or Colored is secure in any
position unless fully qualified to
hold it and perform the duties
required of the position.
Politicians are making much
ado all the time about something
or other. Our Colored farmers
seem to prosper and are given full
consideration, I think.
As to employment and un-em
ployment figures I quote some
thing from The Wall Street Jour
nal:
“About one out of every four
nonwhite boys in the labor force,
and one out of every three non
white girls was unemployed in
the first half of 1964, the Labor
Department reported.
‘The problem of finding jobs is
still very serious’, the department
said in a report on the employ
ment situation. This was true, the
department indicated, even though
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that the United States has done
more for the people of the out
side world than any nation has
ever done in • ecorded history.
Since 1947, American taxpayers
have paid out more than $100-bil-
lion in foreign aid to nations at
nual interest (we had to borrow it
before we could give it away) in
creases the amount of $126 bil
lion, more than a third of our nat
ional budget. We have undertaken
to protect the free world from
Communist penetration and inva
sion—our military forces have
been employed and deployed in
every part of the world still
outside the Iron and Bamboo
Communist Curtain. We have
been paying more than a third
of all expenses of the U. N.
where we have but one small
vote—the same as Cuba, Liberia
or Morocco, who pay little or
nothing. Our Peace Corps has
been sent in all directions all over
the world. I submit that this is
a pretty good record of contin
uing concern by this country for
the welfare of people in other
countries.
But in spite of all of this Am
erican money, effort and self-sac
rifice, there are well-organized
groups of people who maintain
that we are not doing enough for
people of the outside world.
Through their noisy efforts, ev-
everybody on earth is being en
couraged to assert, as a mater of
right, some sort of claim upon
the resources of the United States.
We are told that if we do not I
respond to all the calls and the
claims from everybody, our
“world image” will suffer.
The loudest and most energetic
of these groups are those agitat
ing for the relaxation of our
present immigration restrictions.
Under present laws we admit a-
bout 300,000 people into the U.
S. for permanent residence each
year. Bills are now pending in
Congress that would increase the
number of immigrants and abol
ish the existing national quota
system.
One proposed amendment would
admit immigrants on a first-
come, first-served basis. Another
one would set a quota for each
country on the basis of the pro
portion of its population to total
world population. Without qualifi
cation, that would mean that of
the one million people this bill
proposes to admit each year,
more than 300,000 could come
from China. Next in population
is India, followed by Africa and
Russia.
In March 1963, President Ken
nedy expressed grave apprehen
sion about “the tide of manpower
flooding our labor market with
pools of idle men.” He called at
tention to the five million unem
ployed, the 14 million working
only part-time, and said that two
million workers were being dis
placed annually by automation.
At that time our Federal Govern
ment was spending 4 four billion
dollars a year for various form*
of welfare to alleviate indigence
and unemployment throughout
the country.
In the face of these figures,
what prompts the Administration
and/or the Immigration Lobby to
agitate for the admission of one
million unemployed immigrants to
this country each year?
Under the proposed new r immi
gration pattern, 90 per cent of
these new inhabitants will be un
skilled laborers. We will support
these people until they learn our
language and find jobs ? Who will
pay to teach them American prin
ciples of government and econom
ics? Where will they find hous
ing? With five million Americans
currently unemployed, whose job
will be taken by these newcomers?
The late Senator McCan*an, a
co-author of the present immigra
tion laws, said: “The solution of
the problems of Europe and Asia
will not come through a trans
planting of these problems en
masse to the United States. A
solution remains possible only if
America is maintained strong and
free ... If enemies of this (im
migration) legislation succeed in
riddling it to pieces, or in am
ending it beyond recognition, they
will have contributed more to
promote this Nation’s downfall
than any other group since we
achieved our independence as a
nation.” Remind your Congress
man of this statement.
The job you save may be your
own.
A Tribute
To President
Tyndon Johnson
• «
“Our country owes a great debt
of gratitude to the late President
for his foresight and vision in se
lecting as the man to succeed him
in office, in the event of such a
tragedy, one of the most experi
enced and capable leaders I have
ever known.”
J. Strom Thurmond
p. 21*112—Congred&ioncU Record
December 11, l?9<f$.
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