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THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1965
THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
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Dean Manion
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THE
MANION
FORUM
An old saw says that people who stand for nothing are
ready to fall for anything.
i Those who doubt the truth of this maxim need only to
look at our existing state of irresolution in the presence of
our Communist enemies, and to trace the construction of
that irresolution through the sequences of unprincipled
.sophistries of that convenient political philosophy, known as
^“existentialism” as offered by one Jean Paul Sarte.
That philosophy teaches that God is dead; that there are
no absolute values, man is responsible only to hijnself. His
job is to exist. But in a quarrelsome world, to exist means
to co-exist—with Communism or anything else. We might
then call our official doctrine for current management of the
-cold war “co-existentialism.” 1
r More and more people apparently feel that the Commun
ists are going to be around for a long time and that disputes
with and about them are as useless as they are disturbing,
nnd that it is better to be Red than dead.
The trouble with government officials and others who
urge a broadening policy of co-existence with Communists,
is that they have never been face to face with our Red ene
mies on the Communists’ home grounds—without telephones,
cameras, or anything or anybody to help them except the
strength of their own unshakable personal convictions.
Many Americans and others have been in that position
.and some have lived to escape and tell about their exper
iences. They recount arrests and imprisonment, without any
formal charges having been placed. The fact that a man is
arrested proves to the Communist captors that he is guilty
of something.
The continuing efforts of our own government officials
and others to “sell” all of us on the proposition that we
should leave no stone unturned in our search for possible
benefits “to all humanity” make it increasingly difficult for
the average citizen to stand upright against the wily “winds
of change” blown at him constantly through every medium
of communication.
Silverstreet
School News
BY
HARRIET
BURGESS
Mrs. Marguerite H. Havird,
with the 3rd and 4th grades, pre
sented a very interesting program
(on the month of February) in
Chapel Thursday, February 25. A
large number of visitors were
present to enjoy the special pro
gram with us.
Miss Coleman, our 7th grade
uome room teacher, was very
surprised on Friday, February 26.
The 7th and 8th grades gave her
a surprise birthday party. Re
freshments were served and games
were played. The president of the
8th grade class, Debbie Epting,
presented Miss Coleman a beau
tiful blue sweater in the name of
the sponsoring grades. The total
action was indeed a pleasant sur
prise and deeply apreciated by
Miss Coleman.
/ We were very happy to have
Miss Sarah Folk back with us on
March 1. We really missed her
while she was ill. We are delight
ed that she is with us again.
The girl’s 4-H club met Wed
nesday, i March 3, in the 5th
grade classroom. Diane Longshore
was in charge of the devotional
period. The minutes of the last
meeting were read and approved.
Then Mrs. Bussey, Assistant Home
Demonstration Agent, collected
the homework from last month.
Her demonstration was on room
ideas. She showed us how to
make different things for our
room to keep it clean and at
tractive. We were reminded of
Club Achievement next month.
The meeting was then adjourned.
What was clearly recognized ten years ago as the essen
tially evil nature of Communism, is now in all but total
eclipse. What we are witnessing now is not just an absence
of conviction about Communism, but the progressive collapse
of all conviction straight across the board of what was once
called “objective truth.” Conviction is the fixed conclusion of
the mind on the truth of a thing. Cynics will tell you that
there is no such thing as truth. Pontius Pilate expressed
some doubts about truth, but his place in history is some
what less exhalted than the high places now occupied by our
Founding Fathers of our United States of America.
If we are to have a war on poverty, let us fight it first
against our spreading poverty of irresolution and against
the doubt and decadence that now lays waste to our whole
supporting structure of moral conviction.
Each member of the 1st grade
wrote a letter to Little Jack just
after the Dental Health show had
been presented at our school.
Everyone had tried to learn and
practice the rules for having
good teeth. Each member of the
class was very thrilled to get a
reply, addressed to them per
sonally.
The Junior Beta Club held their
regular meeting Wednesday, Mar.
3, at 2:15 in Miss Coleman’s room.
The attendance was 100 per cent.
The minutes were read and ap
proved as read. When the roll
was called each person answered
with their anticipated vocation of
the future.
Local men on
S&L committees
national trade org^nizatipn for the
savings and lean business and
represents more than 5100 sav
ings associations.
CHICAGO.—Pinckney N. Ab
rams, secretary-treasurer of State
Building and Loan Association,
and John F. Clarkson, president of
Newberry Federal Savings & Loan
Association, Newberry, have been
appointed to 1965 committees of
the United States Savings and
loan League.
The appointments were an
nounced by John W. Stadtler of
Washington, D. C., president oif
the U. S. League, which is the
Mr. Abrams will serve on the
Trends and Economic Policies
committee, and Mr. Clarkson will
serve on the Insurance committee.
The objective of the Trends and
Economic Policies committee is to
encourage the dissemination of
factual and informed opinion on
the policy phases of the savings
and loan business, and the com
mittee also serves as the coordi
nating committee for the broad
research activities of the League.
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Mr. J. V. Kneece, Superinten
dent of Newberry High school
visited Mr. Long, Principal, and
the 8th grade Thursday morning,
March 4. He talked about entering
high school next session. Also,
explanations were given concern
ing subject offerings during the
1965-66 school session. We ap
preciated his visit and are looking
forward to the time when we will
visit the high school in April to
get better acquainted with the
general set-up.
The student body and faculty
are looking forward to two basket
ball games that will be played in
the local gym Tuesday, March 9,
beginning at 1:45 P.M. The 7th
grade girls will play the 8th
grade girls. The 6th grade boys
will play the 7th grade boys. The
referee will be Mr. Bill Montgom
ery. The scorekeeper will be Mr.
Jakie Arant.
i The boy’s 4-H club meeting
was held simultaneously with the
girl’s club in Mr. Long’s room.
David Dorroh was in charge of
the devotional period. After roll
call and the reading and appro
val of minutes of the last meet
ing Mr. Tom Bryson, Assistant
County Agent, instructed the boys
how to prune shrubbery.
On Wednesday morning, March
3, Dr. Von Long, Mrs. Foy and
Mrs. Eargle, were at Silverstreet
school to conduct a pre-school
clinic,.
The Parent-Teacher Association
has presented the school with an
additional $50 to be applied on
the purchase of more needed lib
rary books.
Some parents, along with Mr.
Long, viewed one of the special
classes on Modern Math (for par
ents) on Tuesday night, Febru
ary 23, in the schoolhouse, at 8:30
o’clock, over chanel 29, open cir
cuit, Greenville, S. C. Mr. Long
says he will make this program
available every Tuesday night un
til the completion of the series.
Mr. Long reports that he at
tended a meeting of Elementary
School Principals in Mr. Watkin’s
office on Monday afternoon, Mar.
1. Also, he attended a meeting of
Boy Scout Leaders at Whitmire
on February 25.
Looking A. head
...by Or. G«org. S. 6«nson
PRESIDENT—NATIONAL
EDUCATION PROGRAM
SMrcy, AritMM*
LOOK FIRST, LEAP LATER
So often, in the advent of today’s creeping socialism, you
hear the propaganda that this or that is a sure thing, ac
cording to the polls. Your favorite lobby has won its battle,
friends, if the pundits hint that it’s as good as in. And so,
it appears, with Medicare. With Congressman Mills having
relented to offer tentative approval, the American Medical
Association actually proposing a “government” plan, and
LBJ making his bill first priority-—well, the nation is going
to get it whether it wants it or needs it or not. And it seems
to be only the beginning.
The population group of over 65 is said to be one of the
wealthiest categories of citizens in the nation, but we cannot
stop to quibble about that. Everyone of them must have it.
The State of South Dakota is reported to have identified 349
cases of need. Other states may have fewer, depending on
the population and the standards you use. Certainly one
should not assume, as the Administration bill does, that
everyone of our 19 million Americans over 65 needs this
help, even if costs have soared. The Kerr-Mills program must
be helping the needy, since it and similar programs spent
more than a billion in 1964. But Mr. Johnson ignores this.
Eventually, Everyone
Despite the dismal record of socialized medicine in Britain,
West Germany, Canada, and other countries where much
public dissatisfaction is found with it, we Americans allow
ourselves to be marched right into the trap. U. S. News &
World Report has published an extensively documented ar
ticle showing that one-fourth of U. S. health care is already
being provided by the government (federal, state and local.)
Some 30 million persons, or about one-sixth of our pop
ulation, already are eligible for treatment in government
hospitals and clinics, the article says. In addition, 16 million
others fall under health plans in force that are partially un
der federal and state auspices. The Johnson hospital care
plan for those 65 and older would cover 19 million more, at
the outset. Eventually, the remainder of the population would
fall under the system.
Counting Costs
The President, appearing to take Mr. McNamara’s “sav
ings” of perhaps a half-billion, makes it appear that for only
a few hundred millions the U. S. can set up a wide health pro
gram that will whip every dread disease—with no emphasis
on the fact that his program would be costing billions by
1970. Not many people will object to conquering disease,
whether the money used is public or private, but we ought
not to allow that kind of budgetary “backdoor” behavior, in
which the costs as well as the socialization creep upon us
from behind.
As for the Johnson “medicare” plan itself, which largely
will come out of the pockets of taxpayers themselves and
their employers, some $2 billions will be required in its first
full year. Social Security taxes would be raised from 7 1-4
per cent of wages to 10.4 per cent, and the base on which it
is taxed from $4,800 to $5,600. This means the Social Secur
ity tax on $5,600 income would go up from $348 to $582.40,
and would only be the beginning of the bite out of paycheck
withholding. For many a wage earner, this would mean
another payroll tax about as high as his federal income tax.
How Much Higher?
And nobody doubts that it would keep on going higher
than that. Experience has been, generally, that costs soar
when the government system takes over. And it is being
made most clear that if the Administration plan is passed,
only a little push would be required to have it cover medical
and surgical costs as well as hospital care, and even to spread
it to include those under 65 years. Nobody seems to ask
whether the general population, a growing number of whom
have private p’^ns, wants socialized medicine.
But once the J ection is charted, and it clearly has been,
the destination will be the same: socialized medicine for the
whole nation. We are not convinced that even medicare is
wanted by Mr. Johnon’s “almost half the aged” who have
no insurance; surely very few of the more than half who do
have insurance wouM welcome the added costs and doubtful
benefits of medicare. We are convinced that the general
public does not want to put the health services of the whole
country under government operation and make our basic
doctor-patient relationship a matter of government sponsor
ship. It is the modern “medicine men” of our time, the poli
ticians, who insist on doing that.
The Newberry Cooperative
Breeding Association staged a
pancake supper and held a busi
ness meeting in the school cafe
teria on Wednesday night, Feb.
24. A special poultry meeting will
be held in the school auditorium
on March 11 to follow up the first
such meeting which was held in
the Silverstreet School auditorium
on the night of March 5.
The 5th, 6th and 7th grades
put on a magazine campaign cov
ering three weeks in February.
They set their goal at $375. How
ever, they ended up with total
sales of $535.51. Many prizes
have been presented. Other prizes
and numerous awards will be
ready for presentation in a week
or so. We hope to supply some
of the profits towards the pur
chase of either an opaque or over
head projector for the school.
Twenty seven students and four
teachers enjoyed an ice cream
party in celebration of the most
successful campaign of its type
ever sponsored by the elementary
grades.
Building Permits
Building permits, most of them
for repairs to dwellings, were is
sued by the City last week in the
amount of $7615.
They were: Murray Garber, re
pairs to store, Main street; R. E.
Reynolds, erect garage, 2125 Ade
laide street; and the remainder,
repair to dwellings: Ralph Mc-
Intire, 1424 Ebenezer Road, Geo.
Sligh, Main street; Viola Wells,
Wallace street; Mrs. Wallace, 1503
Evans street; Frank Sligh, 1908
Charles street; W. E. Hamilton,
2003 Main street; D. E. Folk, 812
Pope street and 1808 Harper St.;
Tolbert and Coppock, 2035 Ade
laide street; William Graham, 20-
17 Adelaide street; George Wall,
2133 Mower street.
Marriages...
James Gordon Shealy of New
berry and Janice Gale Nix, of
I Whitmire, were married March 7
at Whitmire by Rev. B. R. Nich
ols.
PATIENTS IN
THE HOSPITAL
Mrs. Rhoda L. Amick, Pros- i
perity.
Mrs. Curtis R. Bush, Kinards
Mrs. Joyce Bedenbaugh, New
berry.
Miss Annie Bynum, Newberry.
Mrs. Kathleen Brown, Newberry
Mrs. Doris Brown, Newberry
Mrs. Eunice A. Bradley, City
Mrs. Corine L. Berry, City
Mrs. Wilma Cromer, City
Mrs. Ida Cromer, Pomaria
Mrs. Reba Chapman, Pros
perity
Mrs. dice R. Cothran, City
Mrs. Narvis Cook, City
Miss Fannie Mae Carwile, City
Mrs. Shirley Fellers, Prosperity
James Floyd, Silverstreet
Mrs. Bessie Floyd, Newberry
Mrs. Shelby K. Gilliam, Pros
perity
Mrs. Cora E. Gilliam, Whitmire
Mrs. Willie Mae Hentz, City
Mrs. Olivia Jones and Baby boy,
Saluda
Mrs Rubye H. Jordan, Whitmire
David P. Kinard, City
Charlie King, City
Ira Koon, City
Alton Otis Livingston Sr, City
Mrs. Loree Lunceford, City
Fred N. Ledford, City
Mrs. Josie Me Albany, City
Edward F. McConnell, City
Mrs. Addie Mae McConrfell,
City
Rev. James McKittrick, Kinards
Sam L. Marlowe, City
Calvin T. Millstead, City
Thomas M. Nichols, City
Mrs. lone Nichols, Saluda
Mrs. Florence Nobles, City
Tommy Plumbee, City
Mrs. Evelyn Reed, City
Mro. Evelyn Rister, City
Mrs. Mae Ruff, City
Mrs. Margaret Rinehart, City
Wilson Rowe, City
Holland Ruff N,ewberry
Floyd Smith, City
Rev. Walter Shealy, City
Paul Taylor, City
Roy Lawson, City
Ira Taylor, City
Mrs. .Veda L. Wilson, Chappells
Mrs. Thelma E. Woodyard, City
Mrs. Faye Wilson, City
S. T. Boyd, Prosperity
David Dp Walt, Prosperity
Mrs. Mary Lou Greeley, Little
Mountain. : ;•
William Gibbs, Jr., City
si Mary Alice Hiller, City
trford, Pomaria.
Williams, Silver-
liss Mildred Cooper, City.
Miss Betty Jo Farrow, City
Mrs. Elizabeth Glymph, City
Mrs. Bertha Hiller, City
Local woman’s
father dies
Frank Boone Kirby, 66, of 641
Glenwood Dr., Spartanburg, died
at the Mary Black Hospital o it
Sunday morning after a long ill
ness. ‘
He was a native of Spartanburg
County, and was the son of the
late Moses and Janie Allen Kirby.
He was a member of the New
l Hope .4j^aptist Church.
r Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Nora Beck Kirby; one daughter,.
Mrs. Gordon Leslie of Newberry;
three brothers, S. L. Kirby of
Spartanburg and A. A. and J. C.
Kirby, both of Columbia.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday at 3 p.m. from the J. P.
Floyd Mortuary. Interment was in
the Greenlawn Memorial Gardens.
SETTLEMENT
IN GEORGIA
Mrs. George L. Epps, Sr M left
over the weekend for Columbus,
Ga. for a visit with her son. Dr.
George L. Epps and family.
I will make a final settlement
of the estate of Ella Marie Cook
in Probate Court for Newberry
County, S. C., on Tuesday the 16th
day of March, 1965, at 10 o’clock ^
in the forenoon, and will immed- (
iately thereafter ask for my dis
charge as executor of said es
tate. :• ' X'
Virgil W. Cook,
1255 Kinard St.
Newberry* S. C.,
Executor
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mayes are
now residing at 1221 Glenn St.
Mr. and Mrs. William Cassidy
Jr. have moved to 1616 Calhoua
street to make their home.
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Floyd are
now residing at 1604 Park View
Court.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jones have
moved to 1403 Third street.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bigby have
moved to their new home on Har
rington street.
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