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PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1965 ' UW 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, SoutJo Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance :Six Months $1.25. THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN Well a Representative from South Carolina in the National Congress has brought the Constitution of the United States to light. I do not know where the great document was hidden, but since the glamorous day of Franklin Roosevelt it has been sequestered, if not hidden. And now it remains for our Mendal Rivers to cite the Constitution to Secretary McNa mara. Mr. McNamara, as seems the rule in Washington to day, appears to feel that the Constitution is somewhat out of date and that his own judgment can be relied on to main tain the nation of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and those other worthies we have relied on heretofore. Little South Carolina is doing what she has always done, when she reminds the nation that “the Supreme lawof the land is the Constitution” and allthe fiddles, by whomsoever played, must keep in tune with the Constitution. Some months ago a young man serving as Attorney Gen eral of the United States with only small acquaintance with all the scope of the Constitution, was given a copy of the Constitution by our Senator Strom Thurmond. I have often wondered how much or how little of our Constitutional history is known to Senators, Representatives and others of our National Government, including, of course, members of the Cabinet and the thousands and one assist ants in the vast labyrinth of government which has head quarters in Washington, but holds sway in every way from Dan to Bersheba. I said something about cur military strategy recently. Well, here is something worth pondering: We have nearly 50,000 men in Asia in that fruitless campaign in Vietnam; we have an enormous fleet cruising off China to protect the small republic of free China from invasion by Red China. It Professorship for Newberry A Georgia surgeon and his wife who treasure the small, church- related college have made pro vision for the first memorial pro fessorship at Newberry College, Dr. A. G. D. Wiles, president of the college, has announced. The donors, Dr. and Mrs. Wil liam S. Boyd, of Augusta, Ga., have designated a major portion of their estate to establish a me morial professorship at Newberry College. The gift becomes effective upon the death of Dr. and Mrs. Boyd. However, to implement this provision of their will during their lifetime they are granting each year an incentive award to an out standing faculty member or mem bers. The memorial professorship at Newberry College will be used to honor a professor who demon- strtes the greatest ability as a teacher during an academic year. The selection is to be made by the president of the college after con sultation with the academic dean. The gift will be an honorary sup plement to the salary normally paid to the professor by the col lege. i “We wish to make eternal in the lives of others some of the" material assets which we have been fortunate to acquire through our combined industry and ef forts,” Dr. Boyd said in regard to the gift. He and his wife selected a small, non state-supported col lege for a memorial professorship because they feel a great need for this type of institution. Mrs. Boyd said, “Our real int erest in Newberry College jelled In 1962 when a representative of the college spoke at our church and presented the needs of the school.” Both Dr. and Mrs. Boyd have been a part of the teaching pro fession and thus know the neces sity of having a good faculty. “The important thing is not to get through college, but to receive a good education,” they said. Interest in Newberry College developed too because Dr. and Mrs. Boyd have family connections in Newberry County. Dr. Boyd’s ancestors have been traced from Scotland to Newberry County. The grandparents of Mrs. Boyd, the Rev. and Mrs. Muller O. J. Kreps, lived in South Carolina; and a great part of their ministry was in the northern part of the state. “My first recollection of my grandparents was when they lived in Prosperity,” Mrs *Boyd recalled. The Rev. Mr. Kreps was a Luth eran minister and was a member of the Newberry College Board of Trustees from 1908 until his death in 1929. ill Mr. and Mrs. Fred G. Slaton are now residing at 1116 Kereoes Are. Mr. and Mrs. Larry Kemper have moved into the Keitt Pur cell house which they recently pur chased, the Purcells having moved to their new home. Parr participates in ARP service B. Parr of Newberry will partici pate in one of the most solmen and traditional services of the General Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church next week, when he calls the roll of elders of the denomination who have died in the past year. The Newberry man, whose resi dence is on Rt. 3 and who is clerk of the Session of the Newberry A. R. Presbyterian Church, will con duct the laymen’s portion of the annual memorial service at 2 p. m. Wednesday, while ministers who have died in the past year will be recognized by speakers includ ing Dr. Paul L. Grier, former Newberry pastor. He will preside. The 161st annual meeting of the Synod will convene Monday, June 7, at Bonclarken, the denomina tion’s summer assembly center, near here. It will extend through Friday. The Rev. E. L. Bland, pastor of the Newberry church, will address the General Synod at 9 am. Tues day on this subject, “The Heart’s Imagination.” Delegates to the meeting will take final action on a proposal to changt the constitution of the church so as to permit the crea tion of synods in foreign coun tries, subordinate to the General Synod in America. The first auto nomous foreign branch of the de nomination was organized last year as the independent Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of Mexico, and this year for the first time the new organization will send a representative, J. A. Juar ez, as fraternal delegate to the parent body. Also on the agenda are a pro posal for a service office to handle records and correspondence for officers and boards of the church; and a proposal for a ministerial health insurance system. In addition to the General Synod meeting proper, the fourth annual Church Music Workshop will be held concurrently, and a special denomination-wide meeting of deacons is scheduled Tuesday af ternoon. appears that while we protect Juan’s small free republic we at the same time obstruct the free Chinese from attacking Red China. If free China can only exist because of our enor mous fleet how long can we maintain such a military condi tion. Are we prepared to maintain overwhelming neval forces to head off Red China for all eternity? Wouldn’t it be worth while to encourage Juan to prepare to attack Red China, hoping to enlist allies even within China itself? As it is we are maintaining an impossible condition in China. We forestall free China and Red China grows strong er. Once our enormous fleet is withdrawn, China, with con stantly increasing forces, will gibble up free China. Whereas free China might conceivably enlist strong support within Red China. Near us here we pass by Cuba—just 90 miles from Flor ida—and engage in military demonstrations in San Domingo. True that San Domingo is so near Cuba we may enlist sup port within Cuba. But we dilly-dally and let Cuba continue an enemy right at our doors. I recognize one factor about San Domingo: it is on the route to the Panama Canal. And so of course is Cuba. But we virtually stop at Cuba in order to chastise San Domingo. And while we maintain armies in Asia, Germany, France and San Domingo what an opening and opportunity for a few Cuban ships to make some forays and opportunity for a few unlikely? But adaring leader in Cuba could annoy us quite a bit. We are too extended for safety—Asia, Africa, France, England, Germany, San Domingo. Our wise plan might well be to build and support our forces here at home, prepared for any emergency. Our Washington bureaucrats might well ponder the widespread campaigns of Hitler before he finally overstepped the limit. ••••••••• Dean Manion THE MANION FORUM passes at Saluda Ranson Theodore Timmerman, 57 of Saluda, died Friday at a Columbia hospital after an illness of 19 years. He was a son of the late George M. and Maggie Hazel Timmerman. Surviving are a daughttr, Mrs. Lamar (Margaret) Hardegree of Charlotte, N. C.; two sons, Ted Timmerman of Williston and Ralph Timmerman of Charlotte; three sisters, Mrs. W. M. (Mary) Berry of Johnston, Mrs. F. A. (Corrine) Crouch of Saluda and Mrs. G. V. (Edith) Setzler of Newberry. Funeral services were conducted Saturday at 4 p.m. at Ramey. Funeral Home by the Rev. Lewis Sweat. Burial was in Bethlehem Cemetery. to Employees of the South Carolina Electric and Gas Com pany received 12 and two-tenths million dollars in salaries 16 and four tenths millions in new facilities to serve you bet- and wages during 1964. The same year the company invested ter. Now that’s a lot of money: more than 12 million dollars in wages and salaries, more than 12 million dollars in wages and salaries . . . more than 16 million for new facilities. But those weren’t the largest payments made by South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. No—the largest payment went to the government—right around SEVENTEEN million was pro vided for taxes in 1964—seventeen million dollars to help pay for the ever mounting costs of government at all levels. And in several of our state’s counties, South Carolina Ele ctric and Gas is the LARGEST single taxpayer. In fact, should you ask the folks who benefit from these funds— they’ll tell you it’s mighty nice to have an INVESTOR- OWNED taxpaying utility operating within theirboundaries.” “Dubious Distinction. The U. S. has the highest death rate from cardiovascular diseases—that is, diseases of the heart and circulatory system—of any country in the world, ac cording to a statistical study recently published by the Am erican Heart Association. The next highest rates are found in Finland, then Australia. Among the states, New Mexico is lowest. South Carolina’s rate is exceeded by that of the District of Columbia. For the country as a whole, cardiovas cular diseases now account for some 55 per cent, or close t6 a million annually. yy Why does the farm program, in spite of its absurdities, go on? Partly, no doubt, because pressure groups among farmers. But farmers are deeply divided about the wisdom of the program. Perhaps a more direct cause can be found in the 110,000 employees in the Department of Agriculture, most of whose jobsjdepend on the continuance of the pro gram, and inwhose interest it is to find arguments for that continuance. Let us turn to foreign aid. From the end of the fiscal year 1945 this has come to the staggering total of $110 billion. Congressman Yassman tells us that during the current fiscal year our government will be disbursing some type of foreign aid in 99 foreign countries and nine territories; that there are now 22 Federal agencies dispensing some type of foreign aid, and that the total for the fiscal year 1966 will probably exceed $7 billion . Has this enormous expenditure accomplished its purpose? The evidence shows that it has promoted dependence and government ‘planning and socialism abroad, discouraged sound international private investment, and on net balance retarded world economic development. Has it halted Communism? Has it even won friends and allies? The truth seems to be precisely the opposite. A shrewd Latin American commentator, Rodolpho Katz, in his weekly economic survey published in Buenos Aries, wrote recently: ‘There is no more pitiful role on the world stage than that of the savior. Help and aid are everywhere received grudgingly and resentfully. The United States is increas ingly experiencing the truth of this, but without apprehend ing it. Having intervened in many countries in the supposed interest of its nationals, having extended generous aid, pol itical and financial, the United States today is the most vilified nation of the globe, simply because it has proffered aid.’ And he illustrates this by recent divelopments in Indo nesia, Latin America, and Europe. Why does foreign aid continue and even expand? Again, a major part of the answer is the bureaucracy that has been built up under it As Congressman Passman points out; ‘There are 71,416 individuals, including participants, on its payrolls. No program in the history of mankind has had as many paid lobbyists as the foreign aid program. (It) is not in reality a Presidential program. It is a bureaucratic prog ram. The President has too much to do to be able to famil iarize himself with the many ramifications, misrepresenta tions, and claims of accomplishments by the paid bureau crats, government lobbyists, spenders, and recipients.’ May this not also be part of the explanation for the growth of the programs of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, with its 85,000 employees? Everywhere the full time experts on these programs are also the people with the greatest interest in expanding the programs. Congress is forced to depend on their figures and arguments, and the programs become self-perpetuating and self-accelerating. In recent months we have heard a lot about the project called “ur ban renewal.” It was obvious that this multi-million dollar face-lift ing project for our Country’s ur ban areas was conceived and is being executed on a very high plane. It is contended by many that the planners in charge of this nationwide operation have lost contact with the people who are directly affected by this big and often ruthless operation for clear ance and construction. The local projects for slum clearance and urban renewal are operated on much the same type of operation. A typical example of the procedure can be found in the city of South Bend, where I live. No contact was made with any resident in one of these projects, as far as we have been able to learn in conversation with more than two hundred families, and no inspection of any interior of any house was made. The houses were perhaps average or a little above average for a middle class neighborhood, and were lergely owned by the people living in them. The city officials, having decid ed to construct public housing, needed space, and in order to ob tain sufficient space in the area selected for the project, they first had to have a “slum clearance” project. When the owners of the houses in the area first learned of the ’proposed razing of their homes for public housing space, they were naturally alarmed and an gry. But these residents, unlike most, decided to do something a- bout it. They organized the resid ents of the area and protested to everyone who had anything to do with the matter. The result was that the “public housing planners” gave up the idea of locating the public housing in that area and went elsewhere, perhaps where the residents were not quite so ag gressive. However, the residents of this particular area did not quite free themselves of the problems of slum clearance because the people cleared from the area where the public housing was finally located, jare now crowding into the area of the single family houses where the residents had prevented the planners from taking. This over crowding may result in the area becoming a slum in spite of the determination of the residents that it be properly maintained. The fallacy of the entire urban renewal program is that the pub lic housing units do not house those residents who were displac ed from clearance areas*. These people were moved out long before the new housing was ready. The program attempts to help slum dwellers by building beautiful housing units. It proposes to cure low morals ,bad house-keeping habits and overcrowding by chang ing the place of residence of the people and giving them new homes .Slum clearance clears and beautifies an area while its for mer occupants are elsewhere crea ting a new slum. Genuine new life for a city can only be generated from within. It cannot be granted from above, or imposed from the outside by dras tic action which destroys the very civic values it must have to suc ceed. Firemen attend fire college Calvin T. Millstead and B. Royce Bundrick, paid drivers at the New berry Fire department, are at tending the 37th Annual Fire Col lege at Winston-Salem, N. C. For five days, May 24-28, fire men and industrial representatives from all areas of North Carolina and neighboring states will re ceive instructions and study of the latest fire control methods. Over 500 firemen and industrial representatives are expected to attend this, the 37th annual Fire College, held in Winston Salem for the first time since the college was organized. CARPENTER IS VISITING PROFESSOR Professor Harold G. Carpenter of the Department of History and Science at Newberry college will be a visiting professor this sum mer at Lander college. Professor Carpenter resides at 1801 Harper street, Newberry and is a native of North Carolina. Professor Carpenter will teach both terms, June 6-August 13. He will teach freshman American his tory courses, also advanced course in both economic geography and political science. After summer teaching, at Lander college, he plans to attend the New York World’s Fair and tour the New England states. Eargle joins intern program John Jay Eargle, senior at Newberry College, has been ac cepted as a member of the Intern Teaching Program in the College of Education, Temple University in Philadelphia. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Eargle, Chapin, Rt. 2, and has a major in chemistry and a minor in mathematics. The Intern Teaching Program at Temple University has been in operation for 11 consecutive years. It permits a student to emphasize his academic and cultural interests as an undergraduate, and choose teaching as a profession at the end of his college career. When a person enrolls in this program, he is virtually assured of a teaching position while acquiring the skills, attitudes and professional compe tencies necessary to become an ef fective teacher, and at the same time earn his mater’s degree. RIGGIN RECEIVES RESEARCH GRANT Dr. George T. Riggin Jr., asso ciate professor and acting head of the Department of Biology at Newberry College, has received a research grant from the Lutheran Church in America Education Fund. He will conduct research on a group of animals on marine forms of Tardigrada during the summer. Most of the collection and work will be done at the marine labora tory of the College of Charleston. Exchangites Name New Slate Officers Gordon S. Leslie was reelected president of the Newberry Ex change Club w r hen election of offi cers was held by the club Tuesday night. Carol Hipp was named vice president, and Buck Connelly was elected recording secretary. Other officers continuing in of fice are Frank Gilfillan, secretary, and Jack Goree, treasurer. Elected to the Board of Control of the service club were H. C. Smith, past vice president, Claude Summer, Woodrow Lathrop, and Gene Mathis. These officers will be inducted at the first meeting in July. Following the election, President Leslie gave a summary of the club’s activities for the past 12 months. MISS SENN WINS SCHOLARSHIP Patricia Mae Senn, Silverstreet, Route 1, is the winner of the 6th annual college scholarship pro- | vided by the Newberry Kiwanis Club. Announcement of the award was made Monday night at New berry High school graduating ex ercises. The scholarship is in the amount of $500 and will be used by Miss Senn during her freshman year at Newberry College. Miss Senn, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter William Senn, plans to major in English and prepare to teach at the high school level. lEdge paint to help motorists A program of painting edge lines on South Carolina highway pavements has been established by the State Highway Department in the interest of greater traffic safety, Chief Highway Commis sioner Silas N. Pearman has an nounced. The program, which is conducted by maintenance personnel, was set in motion last November by a memorandum establishing policies and procedures to be followed. Lines have now been painted on a large percentage of the State’s system routes, and the program will be continued and expanded in the future. Priority is being given to two- lane roads on which traffic vol umes are high, and special atten tion is being given to vertical curves and fill sections where potential hazards exist. Sections of highways with a record of numerous accidents are also being equipped with the lines. As time goes on, the edges of most two- lane roads and some multiple- lane highways will be painted. ft Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Watt are making their home at 1619 1*2 Calhoun St. Save by the 10th Earn from the 1st A new Dividend Date begins each month. All new savings accounts or additions to present ac counts received by June 10th will earn dividends from June 1st. Each six months, June 30th and DecembJer 31st, liberal dividends are paid to our thousands of in vestors. Savings are insured to $10,000.00 by the Federal . :.V ■* k. ’ • . ■ ■ j... * . 7r : ' , -4. Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, Wash ington, D. C. BRANCH OFFICE—BATESBURG, S. 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