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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1965 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, Soutii Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance :Six Months $1.25. THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN “All we have we offer; all ve hope to be; Body, soul and spirit. All we yield to thee.” Do you know that sweet hymn V I think the binding force of a beautiful hymnology binds the Protestants together. I don’t know the hymns or the chants of our Catholi’ brethren, thoug . in South America I at tended services frequently in the Cathedrals and parish churches. But in Episcopal, Methodist, Bap tist, Presbyterian and Lutheran churches I have heard the same appealing songs of praise and worship. In the long days aione in the hospital my memory brought forth the services of praise and devotion of the days when I was an Episcopal choir boy in Char leston. Frequently we sang: “Saviour, blessed Saviour, hear us while we sing, hearts and voice* singing praises to our King. All we have we offer; all we hope to be, Body, Soul and Spirit—all we yield to thee” How can we say that? One day in the quiet of the hos pital my mind ran back to those far-off days when I was a sopra no in the choir of the Holy Com munion church, Charleston, and sang my head off and killed my voice as Jules Huguelet gave us the cue on the organ. I didn’t think so then, for I was just an average boy keen for baseball and little esteeming the training as a choir boy, for as a boy I sang all over Charleston on special occasions. Alas and alack! The voice is gone, the opportuni ties are no more and the wond rous beauty and appeal of the church service is mine no more. Just think of corn! Perhaps farmers may gain through com what they’ve lost in cotton and tobacco curtailment. Quiem sabe, as the Spaniards say. (Who knows —for it may be that in the utili zation of corn in industry T&re may yet gain what we’ve lost in cot ton and tobacco. “Corn—not cotton—is king now- a-days. The prolific yellow* grain' annually yields more wealth' thafri all the silver, gold, coal' and iron produced in the United States. Annual harvests regularly ex ceed three billion bushels, and in 1963 farmers brought in a record crop of four billion. Though a native American grain, corn is more widely cultiy^ted a- round the world than any other crop, the National Geographic So ciety says. Corn flourishes from Canada to China, from Italy to India. The plant thrives below sea level on the Caspian Plain and as high as 12,000 feet in the Peruvian An des. The hardy stalks adapt to less than ten inches of annual rain on the semi-arid plains of Russia and withstand the 200 in ches that flood the Hindustan tro pics. Farmers using more and better machinery, fertilizers, and pesti cides have made corn probably the most productive of all grains in terms of man-hours per bushel. One agronomist even gave his corn music to grow by. To see if corn might be affected by sound —the enthusiastic experimentalist set up test plots with loud speak ers blaring twist music. Gersh win’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’, and other selections during the grow ing season. Though experts were skeptical, the agronomist reported a higher yield in the test area. The growing volume of golden ears spilling from the world’s cor nucopia has been largely the re sult of hybrid corn. Hybrid corn obtained by inbreeding selected strains to develop desirable quali ties, then crossing the strains. Often tw’o hybrids are interbred to create what is called—in the sense of the word—a double cross. Most hybrids are sturdy enough to be picked by machine, can be adapted to different growing sea sons, and can be made resistant to diseases. Unlike other cereals, corn can not grow wild. The highly special ized tall grass is dependent on men for survival. American Indians, who cultiva ted corn long before Europeans arrived, did not try to develop hybrids. Keeping strains pure was a matter of almost religious sig nificance among some tribes, not ably the Hopi. Many American farmers acci dentally or deliberately crossed corn, but it was not until early in the 20th century that scientific crossing of corn began in earnest. After World War II, hybrids were introduced ona large scale in Eu rope, Asia and Africa. Though corn is an important item in the human diet, only a small portion of the world’s vast Props is eaten directly. Some 85 per cent stays right on the farm to feed livestock and poultry. The remainder moves to industries for processing into hundreds of foods and other products. Versatile corn goes into paints and pipe bowls, soaps, salad oil, paper, matches, margarine, hair- waving preparations, vinegar, cheese, chewing gum, bay rum, and face powder.” ember, the Administration has de ferred all requests for nuclear cratering tests since the test ban treaty was ratified in 1963. Now Lawrence Radiation officials are hopeful that President Johnson will approve a proposed 100-kilo- ton nuclear test in Idaho, late this year or early next year. The trouble with the present Panama Canal is that it’s costly to operate, because of its complex system of locks, and it’s too nar- j'ow for many ships. It would cost an estimated $2.3 billion to do away with the locks and convert the existing canal to a sea-level passage.” SENATOR^ ■STRO URMOND Reports PEOPLE Military Preparedness: The Threat—II THE UNITED STATES main tains military forces not for the purpose of enforcing its will on others, but to protect its inter ests from potential infringe ments through the use of mili tary power by other nations. As a result, both the need and ade quacy of U. S. military pre paredness depends to a large ex tent on the threat posed by the military power of unfriendly na tions. A QUESTION posed to the Secretary of Defense recently, and his answer, are, therefore, particularlv significant. THE QUESTION: “Mr. Sec retary, is it just a matter of time before the Russians catch up with the U. S. in strategic nuclear forces?” THE ANSWER: “There is no indication that they are catch ing up or planning to catch up— I’m simply saying that there is no indication they are in a race at this time.” THE CLEAR IMPLICATION of the answer of the Secretary of Defense is that the Soviet Union has given up attempting to achieve strategic nuclear su periority over the United States. SUCH AN IMPLICATION is in conflict with the intelligence briefings given this year to the Armed Services Committees and Defense Appropriations Sub committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives, by the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The information furnished in tho?e briefings cannot be made public for obvious security rea sons. However, enough informa tion has appeared in public sources to show that the Soviets have not abandoned. their at tempts to achieve nuclear su periority. IN THEIR most recent mili tary parade in Moscow, the Sov iets exhibited new anti-ballistic missile missiles. LESS THAN two months ago, the Soviets tested a large new ballistic missile by firing it 8,000 miles down their Pacific test range. IN RESTORING the 33% cut made by Secretary McNamara in the Navy’s nuclear attack submarine program this year, the Senate Armed Services Com mittee unanimously reported: “The intelligence estimates con sidered by the committee give no indication that the submarine threat posed by our potential enemies is diminishing. Instead, the evidence is that they are continuing to improve their sub marine fleet.” THE SOVIETS have not aban doned their hopes of attaining strategic military superiority over the United States. IT IS NO secret that tho* Soviet Union is handicapped by inferior capabilities for mass production. They have never mastered the techniques of main taining “quality” while manu* Jacturing goods in large quanti les, nor have they been able to assemble the production base necessary to produce tremendous quantities of materials rapidly. THE SOVIETS are acutely aware of this deficiency. As a consequence, they cannot hope to achieve military superiority jy producing greater quantities of the same type weapons-sys- tems built by the United States. THE SOVIETS have proved, however, that they are worthy opponents in research and de velopment. This was evidenced in the early 1950’a when the Soviets exploded a thermonu clear bomb long before we be lieved them capable of doing so. It is also evidenced by the ad- vantage they have held in great* er thrust for their missiles, en abling them to nse larger war heads on their missiles, and to put larger payloads in space orbit. It is evidenced in the nu clear field by their development of “super” bombs, with the know-how to develop them with power up to 100 megatons. We have witnessed within the past few weeks the Soviet capabili ties in space. SINCE THE SIGNING of the Treaty of Moscow, which includ ed banning nuclear testing in the atmosphere, the Soviets have been taking advantage of the period of “relaxed tensions” to perform intensive programs of research and development, in tended to perfect “qualitative” breakthroughs in weaponry. The Soviets are desperately attempt ing to develop new type weapons, sufficiently far advanced that a few of such weapons, rather than a Large urmber, could pro vide the edge over tiie western nations in strategic power. UNDERRATING the enemy threat and capabilities leads to military UNpreparedness. Sincerely, “What’s the fastest, cheapest cheapest way to lig up 10 billion tons of soil and rock? The question confronts Federal officials planning a new sea-level ship channel to replace the clog ged and costly Panama canal. The answer, many scientists believe, lies in the use of nuclear explo sives and, as a result, they’re stepping up research in nuclear excavation techniques. Sandia Corp. of Albuquerque and the Lawrence Radiation Lab oratory in Livermore Calif, have been working in this field for 7 years as part of the Plowshare program, which seeks to apply nuclear energy to peacetime uses. But their work has taken on in creased urgency since President Johnson announced that the U. S. plans to build a new canal, and Congress authorized a commission to make on-site engineering stud ies to determine its best location. ‘The new interest in the possi bilities of canal construction has been a spur to our research pro gram’, says G. W. Johnson, as sociate director of Lawrence Rad iation. The President has asked Congress to allocate $18 million to the Plowshare program in the next fiscal year, up from an an nual level of between $10 million and 12 million in the past three years. About three-fourths of the Plowshare effort is directed to ward technology. To avoid using expensive nu clear devices, and to avoid the need for special Presidential ap proval under the nuclear test ban treaty, scientists are using con- vential explosives such as TNT in much of their testing. Through complicated mathematical formu las they’ve learned how to scale various results of TNT so they often can project what would have happened if the explosive had been nuclear. Sandia scientists are now ex perimenting with the explosion of TNT charges buried in Coyote Canyon near New Mexico. By set ting off charges in various ar rangements and combinations they hope to learn more aboiit the way debris is distributed after a nu clear explosion. From previous experience with both conventional eiplosives and nuclear devices, Plowshare re searchers already have assembled considerable data about the costs and engineering problems of dig ging a new canal with nuclear blasts. ‘Depending on the route involved, nuclear explosives can reduce excavation costs by as much as 90 per cent and the total cost of canal construction by near ly 65 per cent,’ says L. J. Vort- man, Sandia’s director of research in the project. Tests so far have shown that it would be cheaper to use nuclear devices to blast out a wide canal then a narrow one. Doubling the width of a channel from 750 feet to 1500 feet would reduce excava tion costs about 20 per cent, Mr. Vortman estimates. That’s because a few big nuclear devices could be used to blast a wide channel while a greater number of smaller de vices would be needed for a nar row channel. Generally, the fewer the number of devices needed, the lower the cost. Although relatively small tests with conventional explosives are helpful, scientists say they also need to conduct more large tests with nuclear explosives. Except for one small test shot last Dec- THE MANION FORUM In order to understand the cur rent alarm over recent interpreta tions of the United States Cons titution by the Supreme Court, we must first understand the purpose of and the need for the Federal Constitution, and that the Cons titution, in itself, represents the difference between a Republic and a despotism. The only difference between slavery in Russia and liberty in America is that, until the recent past at least, we have been gov erned by law, whereas in Russia the people are governed by men. This is so, notwithstanding the fact that the Russian Constitu tion is much like our own, and its guarantees parallel those written in our own Constitution. The Russian Constitution pro vides for equal rights for citizens of all races, for women, for separ ation of Church and State, for freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of assembly. Russia is a prime example of what can happen to a nation when cen tralized power is substituted for constitutional safeguards. In the formation of our govern ment, centralization had its strong advocates but a majority of the Founding Fathers, being convinced that centralization is synonymous with tyranny, required the histor ical division of authority between the executive, legislative and judi cial branches of government, and reserved in the States all powers not granted by the States to the Federal government. It is elemental that the keystone of stability in a Republic is mu tual respect on the part of the in stitutions for the rights and wel fare of the people and respect by the people for the government. We have an obligation to pre serve the Constitution as it safe guards the rights of the people and of the States, the separation of the three branches of govern ment and the historic checks and balances. No court is sacrosanct, and if courts are to be respected, they ARE YOU LISTENING? Several years ago a pastor vis ited in the home of a young wo man who had recently undergone “electro-shock” treatment. She was suffering some mental dis orders and her physician felt that such treatment would benefit her. During the course of the treat ment she was caused to forget much of the past. She even forgot how to cook. When the pastor ar rived at the home he found the young woman in quite a dilemma. Having forgotten how to cook she had put a whole box of rice on to boil. Suddenly she had enough rice for the entire community. It boiled out of the pan, all over the stove, and was running all over the floor. It was a pathetic scene. The apostle Paul must have had a similar scene in mind when he wrote to the church at Corinth and spoke to them of the marks of love .He reminded them that love is long lasting, patient, and kind. He wanted them to see that love does not brag, neither does it display itself proudly. The pic ture painted by the words Paul used show us that love never boils over in jealousy or envy. Jealousy and envy are promin ent sins of the day. They exist in the business world, the mill, the classroom, the home, and all too often in the church. They cause one’s spirit to boil over and create an unnecessary mess. They closely resemble a box of rice put to boil in a one quart sauce pan. Jealousy and envy are the results of selfishness. They are derived from the desires of a person who wants the best of everything for himself and the worst for others. One of the most harmful influ ences among Christians today can be found right at this point. The Bible says, “A sound heart is the life of the flesh; but envy the rottenness of the bones.” Are you listening ? must earn respect. Any time a * citizen observes transgression by any court upon the Constitutional rights of the people, they should express concern. A look at the record of the pres ent Supreme Court will disclose some alarming statements by the Justices and some alarming decis ions purporting to interpret the Federal Constitution. It is not beyond the realm of understandnng that a Court, in the glow of an illusion of omnip otence, would be inclined to abol ish God in the theory that there is no such phenomena as TWO omnipotent forces. Remember, William Penn said if we would not be governed by God we would be governed by tyrants. An illustration of how far be yond its original Constitutional purpose the Court has gone can be seen in the words of Justice Douglas in the Lincoln Mills case when he said that the Court was authorized to “fashion a body of Federal law” and that “the range of judicial inventiveness will be determined by the nature of the problem.” By their own statements, there is no doubt but that the Supreme Court has set about rewriting the laws. As described by members of the present court, in rejecting a majority decision, the Court was guilty of a “massive repudiation of the experience of our whole past in asserting destructively novel judicial powers.” LITTLE BOYS BASEBALL All boys interested in trying out for one of the six Little Boys Baseball Teams are asked to re port to the Little Boys Baseball Field (behind Boundary Street School) on Monday, April 26th at 4:00 P.M. Boys between the ages of 8 and 12 as of August 1st are eligible. This means that any boy who is 8 years old by July 31, is eligible. All boys who will be 13 after August 1st are eligible. Boys who have taken part in any tryouts before will not have to tryout again. There will be a Little Boys Training League for all boys, in the above stated ages, that do not make one of the six teams. BY LINDA NORRIS L ess than two months ago, a pair of young Britishers re placed The Beatles in the No. 1 position. on the English best seller charts with their recording of A World Without Love . . . A month later, that same duo found themselves heading for the No. 1 position on the American best-seller charts ... In three weeks, A World Without Love zoomed into the top 5 and is safely ensconced intop spot even yet . . . The rapid rise of Peter (Asher) and Gordon (Waller) is due somewhat to the efforts of the Beatles’ John Lennon and Paul McCartney who wrote World Without Love for the popular new singers . . . Both groups met through Jane Asher, the sister of 19-year-old Peter and a frequent date of Beatle McCartney. The Beatles wrote the song when Norman Newell, recording manager for EMI, signed Peter and Gordon to a contract after he had seen them at London’s Pickwick Club . . . Prior to that, Peter and 18-year-old Gordon, the sons of prominent London physi cians, played guitar and sang to gether at school concerts and local coffee bars and folk-music clubs ... On their first album for Capitol, Peter and Gordon sing the hit title song and dis play their songwriting ability with three of their own compo sitions: If I Were You, You Don’t Have to Tell Me and Last Night I Woke. Others include Lucille, All My Trials and Five Hundred Miles. Some country hits from the pens of Hank Williams, Fred Rose, Jenny Lon Carson, Willie Nelson and Don Gibson get tra ditional, homespun readings from Tennessee Ernie who uses only guitarist Billy Strange and bass ist John Mosher for backing in Capitol’s Country Hits: Feelin* Blua . . . NEWBERRY HIGH SCHOOL ♦ CAMPUS COMMENTS By Gail Phillips and Barry Shealy Newberry High school students returned co the “ole” school Tues day, April 20, after a long Easter weekend. The Easter bunny still visited some of the students and teachers even though they are “big boys and girls” now. The parking areas at NHS are finally being paved and marked off so as to give a few more park ing spaces for the students and teachers. This is a long-awaited improvement at the school. Al though the seniors will only en joy this convenience for a few more weeks, it will be somewhat of a luxury for the future genera tions. ' On Wednesday of last week, tike fire alarm sounded over the halls of the school. The students were rather slow getting out of the school during this fire drill. In fact, the band did not even hear 1 the alarm, so according to rules and regulations, the band members were all burned up! But I’ll bet we’re the only school in the state with a “well done” band. Since the students were rather slow getting out of school on Wed nesday, another fire drill was held on Thursday. We’re happy to re port that the students did much better in getting out of the school this time. Even the band made it. On Friday of this week, April 23, members of the high school paper staff, “The Cordial” will journey to the USC campus to at tend their annual press conven tion. It is at this convention that awards' lire made to the various school papers throughout th e state. Wa would like to take this opportunity to wish the members of “The Cordial” staff all the luck in the world. Until 1 next week, remember: ‘Friendship buys friendship.” Final rites for Mrs. Underwood Funeral services xor Mrs. Lois Underwood, 69, who died in a house fire in che Oakland com munity Wednesday morning of last week, were held Friday at 4 p.m. from Hunt Memorial Bap tist church with Rev. Charles H. Lucado conducting the service. Burial was in Rosemont cemetery. Active pallbearers were Horace Buffington, W. P. Phillips, How ard Phillips, Colie Vaughn, Pascal Rogers and A. B. Stribble. Honorary escort was composed of Dr. E. G. Able, Sam Wilson, James M. King, W. E. Holsonback, Roy Cotchcroft andW. P. Phillips, Sr. Mrs. Underwood was born and reared in Anderson county, the daughter of the late Lewis and Evaline Dunn Burkett. She had made her home in Newberry for the past 38 years, and was em ployed in the spinning department of the Oakland plant of the Ken dall company until her retirement several years ago. She was a mem ber of Hunt Memorial Baptist church and the Oakland Retirees Club. Her husband, , Robert Clayton Underwood, died in 1948. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Harry M. (Frances Halhnan, Belvedere; three sisters, Mrs. Paul Johnston, Mrs. Hoke Hughey and Mrs. Eva Hair, all of Greenwood; TV course for nurses is set Angiocardiography, heart cath eterization and some of the in tricate new equipment now being used to monitor and regulate the hearts of patients with heart con ditions will be described on the third program in the statewide educational television series for professional nurses, “Nursing for Today, 1965.” Entitled “Equipment and Procedures used in the Diag nosis and Treatment of Cardiovas cular Conditions,” this third closed circuit ETV offering nurses of the current year will be shown on April 27 at 7:45 P.M. and again on April 29 at 4:10 P.M. The pro gram is part of a continuing edu cation series on cardiovascular nursing. “Nursing for Today” may be seen in . 23 locations throughout the state. In Newberry, the pro gram may be seen at Newberry High School. mm ■tm. II mm itm wm mm mm mm llli U V -ilH mm * When it comes to housing for people, we’re the experts. We’ve financed a lot of homes. (And a lot of back yards for little girls and bird houses.) Why not come in today and let us tell you about our complete home loan service? BRANCH OFFICE—BATESBURG, S. C. syfc fAvrjvas and Loan Association DIRECTORS JOHN F. CLARKSON M. O. SUMMER W. C. HUFFMAN J K WILLINGHAM E. B. PURCELL G. K. DOMINICK