The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, July 29, 1965, Image 1
After trying to read the names they've
given craters on the moon photograph
ed by Ranger II, it’s a comfort to know-
most of us will never have to look for
them on o moon road map.
Have you ever noticed that the party
checking in a motel with only one light
bag gets a ground floor room and the
ones with a dozen pieces of luggage are
placed in the upper floors?
VOLUMN 29—NUMBER 15
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1965
VIEWPOINT
DEAR WORLD, MOON, MARS tion government and be good. We
AND ALL: have made such trades, highly
successful in China, in neutralist
By TOM ANDERSON
We don’t like to brag, but we’ve
built a debt several times greater
than the combined debts of all the
nations of the world. Our total
public (iebt, including all commit
ments, is now more than one tril
lion dollars. How much is a trillion
dollars? End to end, a trillion dol
lar bills would reach around the
middle of the earth 4,000 times.
But after all, this is the Space
Age. We don’t blame the fact that
we’re bankrupt entirely on you.
We confess that we have amassed
twice as much debt spending for
our own selfish interests as we
have on the rest of the world.
In “Marxism and the National
Question,” Franklin Roosevelt’s
great friend, Joseph Stalin, wrote:
“It is essential that the advanced
nations (countries) render aid,
real and prolonged aid, to the
backward nationalities in their
cultural and economic develop
ment, to bring about peaceful co
existence of the toilers of the var
ious nations within a single world
economic system . . .this is essen
tial for the triumph of Socialism.
“There are four principal fac
tors in the new features: (1)
Emancipation of the Colonies . . .
whites and colored peoples must
be amalgamated. (2) Self-determ
ination to be used as a slogan and
principal point of attack in des
troying imperialist nations. (3)
Overthrow of Capitalism, succeed
ed by the dictatorship of the pro
letariat- (4) Utter equalization of
all nations into one world govern
ment.”
Since we are, or used to be, the
world’s richest country, 20 years
ago we set out to buy your friend
ship and to level ourselves down
so we could share some of your
disadvantages. While we had two
cars in every garage, millions of
our friends in Africa couldn’t even
afford two missionaries in every
pot. Or even afford pots.
The Communists at that time
had a total of only 7 per cent of
the world’s population. Roosevelt,
Hiss, Lattimore, Rusk, Hopkins,-.
Marshall, Acheson, Eisenhower,
Truman, Kennedy and other of
our great leaders realized that
only by helping our communist
allies become “haves” instead of
“have-nots” could we bring about
lasting peace and brotherhood. So,
our government officials gave
them various little helps, like our
money plates, our atomic bomb
secrets, ships, tractors, textile
mills, East Berlin, China, Laos,
Cuba. And now our communist
friends HAVE—they HAVE al
most half of the world’s people
and 40 per cent of the land mass.
We have tried.
Some other peoples are just as
intelligent, some even physically
stronger, and some have even
greater natural resources than
ourselves. It is unfair for us to
retain a system, a race and a cul
ture which has enabled us to ach
ieve a so-much-higher standard of
living, so we are replacing Capi
talism with Socialism, religion
with humanism. We are destroy
ing our restrictive immigration
law. We are amalgamating with
the Negro.
The Mooch-you-all Security Pro
gram, the Civil Rights Program,
the War on Poverty, the United
Nations, and killing the Right-to-
Work all embody the same princi
ples: 1. De-emphasize our relig
ious convictions, and as Senator
Fulbright has proclaimed “We
naust recognize that the Secular
Puritanism which we have prac
ticed with its principles of abso
lute good, absolute evil and in
tolerance of dissent, has been an
obstacle to the practice of democ
racy at home and the conduct of
an effective foreign policy.” 2.
By-pass our “out-of-date” Consti
tution by giving the President
more personal power. 3. Destroy
Capitalism, state and local sover
eignty, thus creating a socialistic
way of life more in keeping with
that of the rest of the world.
Our friend Killer Khrushchev
said: “The American people are
too liberal to fight.” We are not
completely sure about that yet,
but recent college polls indicate
that he’s right. Why fight and die
for a Declaration of Independence,
a Constitution, a Bill of Rights, a
moral code, a Judeo-Christian re
ligion and an economic system, all
of which are old hat and unsuit
able for today’s needs?
We are deeply embarrassed by
our continued involvement in Viet
Nam. But, as you know, our Pres
ident offered the North Vietnam
ese a sease fire and one billion
dollars if they would form a coali-
communist Laos and other places
too numerous to mention in this
letter. Evidently, the North Viet
namese are holding out for two
billion. When the Panama govern
ment severed diplomatic relations
with us, we reduced our aid to
Panama. This caused Panama to
charge us in the United Nations
with “economic aggression,” a
grievous indictment. We now j
speak softly and carry a big stick ;
—of candy—an all-day sucker for * 1
all. We now realize that our cold j
war allies are not for sale. They
are for rent. One of our problems
is that you folks don’t stay bought
as long as it takes us to raise
taxes. Like our union leaders, you
keep on escalating the price.
We are now almost bankrupt.
We are fresh out of gold and are |
even having to remove the silver
from our coins. When we’re broke
will you rush to our aid? Or will
you just rush us?
For 20 years our foreign aid
has been the life-blood of Com
munism, has redistributed our
wealth, eaten up our gold re
serves, provided free see-the-
world vacations for congressmen, ;
concensus-rats, their families and |
girl friends. Some of our super
patriots scream that aiding the ;
enemy is treason. Perhaps our ;
super-patriots are the ones guilty
of treason. Depends on who finally
prevails: “For if it prosper, none
dare call it treason.”
Our Constitution says that “no
money shall be drawn from the
Treasury but in consequence of
appropriations made by law.” Yet
we never bother our people by
asking them to vote on foreign
aid bills. Congress just appropri
ates a blank check to our foreign
aid administrators. A recent Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of
Arizona, the late Marvin T. Phelps
said, “I find not a word, a line,
a clause or a promise in the Fed
eral Constitution that authorizes
the foreign aid program.”
We may either have to finish
doing away with the Constitution
or with these extremist who are
continually trying to hold us to j
it. We are fearful lest our people
might some day rebel and throw
another Boston Tea Party. Or
maybe have a tax-in. Just con
sider the risk we are taking: sup
pose the American people should
suddenly decline to send us these
billions to send you. We don’t
have enough jails. We might have
to resort to firing squads, and
such is not desirable at this point.
Not until we register and then col
lect all their guns and build more
mental institutions to take care
of misguided patriots. Some of
our super-patriots claim that war
is not unthinkable, but slavery is.
I haven’t read the papers to
day, but day before yesterday,
there were 125 recognized govern
ments, so-called, and I’m ashamed
to have to admit that we give to
only 99 of them. But what we
have given to you folks over there,
plus the interest we’ve had to pay
on the money, now totals $136
billion and is 39 per cent of our
bonded federal debt. Please bear
in mind that we must save some
money and things for the moon.
It may be a terrible disadvantaged
area.
We now have 71,416 govern
ment employees, 22 federal agen
cies and 19,000 overseas paymas
ters dispensing some type of for
eign aid to 99 foreign “countries”
and nine territories, at an annual
cost of $7 billion. More money and
more people than we spend on our
entire farm program. (Our collect
ivists now out-vote our farmers.)
We provide the equipment and the
know how to build such things as
textile mills in Russia so we won’t
be bothered with having to grow
and weave and ship so much cot
ton. We sent 2200 dress suits to
undertakers in Greece. They’ll
be the last ones to let us down,
no doubt. We have provided mil
lions for the Sheik of Kuwait for
his palace, pool and harem. He
provides his own girls. We give
wheat, Metrecal, bubble gum, false
teeth, birth control equipment and
sex rejuvenators. Take your
choice. “From each according to
his abilities, to each according to
his needs.”
Our best friend, Great Britain,
used to rule the waves. Sh e now
waives the rules, and the expen
ses. Britain has received only $9
billion from us. She is so grate
ful, she sells buses and things to
our neighbor, Dr. Castro. Britain
has cut her armed forces in half
to.provide tax cuts and expansion
for her welfare state Socialism,
(Continued on page 2)
DISPATCHER ADDED—J. P.
Lever, shown with Police
Chief Colie Dowd, is at the
desk and familiarizing himself
with the duties of dispatcher
at the Newb e rry Police De
partment. Lever and two oth
er men have been added to the
force to replace police officers
who have resil
Mr. Lever was recently re
tired from the U. S. Navy af
ter service of 20 years. He has
been in Newberry three weeks.
Mrs. Lever is the former Miss
Margaret Redden of Whit
mire. They are parents of ten
children. (Sunphoto)
BY THE
WAY
By DORIS A. SANDERS
SOON BE HERE
Whether the children like it or
not, vacation is two-thirds over
and school time will soon be here
again. And teachers have a month
to ponder the many and varied
tasks they will be asked to do
during the school year. Not en
ough people know exactly how
much a teacher is asked to do but
I thought a cartoon I ran across
recently pretty well summed up
the situation. It was published in
the National Education Associa
tion journal in 1953, but is just
as timely to day. The cartoon de
picts a school superintendent in
terviewing a prospective teacher.
Underneath is the following:
“Let’s see now. Says here that
you have taught art, music, Eng
lish, history, geography, penman
ship, speech, science, arithmetic,
spelling, reading, health, citizen
ship, physical education, folk danc
ing, and have performed varied
surgery and first aid on children
and have acted as a playground di
rector, scout leader, psychothera
pist, moving-picture projectionist,
bookkeeper, cashier, janitor, par
ent and child counselor, librarian,
mother, father, sister, and broth
er. Any other qualifications?”
WHAT HE THINKS
Those of us who think the
preachers should get out of the
demonstration lines and back into
the pulpit aren’t alone. Many
have wondered why they do it.
One answer comes from George S.
Schuyler, a Negro writer in New
York City, who says:
“Having failed in their relig: us
mission and surrounded by the
shambles of sin, the reverend cler
gy have too often figuratively
abandoned the pulpit and entered
with a rush into the already
crowded field of politics. They
have abandoned the pulpit for the
soapbox, preaching for what they
call the social gospel; seeking sal
vation in picket lines, street dem
onstrations and the cotton patches
of Dixie. Perhaps theirs should be
called socialist gospel. They mouth
abstractions like ‘universal equal
ity’ and ‘one man is as good as
another’. Sin to them is no longer
personal but collective; and all
evil is to be cured by government
reforms which affect the taxpay
ers more than anybody.”
Mr. Schuyler, it seems, has it
pretty well summed up.
NO HARM MEANT
If anyone was offended by what
I had to say a couple weeks ago
about the beautification project in
Newberry, I regret it; however, I
did not see that anything I wrote
could have caused resentment. The
City Manager, who had a big
part to play in the endeavor, told
me he enjoyed the column.
Frankly, I do not like what has
been done to the square, but that
doesn’t mean my judgment of
beauty matches the majority. I’m
sure it is most attractive to most
people and I am glad to see the
city beautified. But the fact re
mains that the grass wasn’t mow
ed and the weeds weren’t pulled
out for weeks and weeks. Now that
some care is being taken of the
project, it looks much better.
Registration of
Negroes jumps
Registration of Negro voters
took a sharp jump in July with
253 Negro names being added to
the books. In the meantime reg
istration of whites is said to be
lagging. There are now 1,885
Negroes registered in the county
with five more days to register
before the city primary.
Negro registration by wards in
the city is as follows:
Ward 1 162
Ward 2 46
Ward 3 No. 1 81
Ward 3 No. 2 79
Ward 4 No 1 73
W’ard 4 No. 2 329
Ward 5 9
Ward 6 112
Oakland 16
Whitmire youths
charged in injury
of rights worker
WHITMIRE—Warrants charg
ing three Whitmire white youths,
one unidentified, with assault and
battery of a high and aggravated
nature in connection with the al
leged beating of a young civil
rights volunteer worker here on
Monday were issued by Newberry
Magistrate B. Eugene Shealy
Tuesday afternoon.
The warrants were issued at
Newberry instead of Whitmire be
cause the Whitmire Magistrate
is vacationing out of the State.
The warrants named Jerry
Thomas, Jimmy Hunnicutt and
“John Doe” for the unidentified
youth, according to Magistrate
Shealy.
Shealy said the warrants were
signed in his office by the alleged
victim, Mark Dinaburg, 18, of
Berkeley, California at 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday.
Dinaburg, a University of Cal
ifornia student, is working in a
Negro voter registration drive in
Whitmire.
Dinaburg allegedly was attacked
by three white youths as he walk
ed along a street in a Negro sec
tion of Whitmire Monday after
noon. He was treated at the Whit
mire Medical Center for a cut
over one eye.
Newberry County Sheriff Tom
M. Fellers .said Tuesday night
that the three warrants have been
turned over to him for service.
Bond for each of the youths was
set at $750. The warrant naming
“John Doe” will be changed when
positive identification is learned,
according to police.
Dinaburg, at the time of the
alleged assault, was with Mac
Suber, 14-year old Negro, and
they reportedly were returning to
the school where the teaching pro
gram was in progress after a
trip to the library for books to be
nsed in the program. It was Su
ber who ran to call police.
SCHOLARSHIP
William L. Brice, son of Mr.
and Mrs. L. L. Brice, 2015 Main
Street, Newberry, is among sev
eral students to win scholarships
at the University of South Caro
lina. The scholarship was award
ed by the Geer Drug Company for
the 1965-66 academic year in the
School of Pharmacy.
NEARING COMPLETION—
Another sign of industrial pro
cess in Newberry County is
the Columbia Products plant
of Shakespeare Corporation
going up on the Clinton High
way just outside of Newber
ry. Production workers have
just finished a training course
at the Columbia division in an
ticipation of the plant’s open
ing the first of August. Ini
tially employment in produc
tion will be about 75 persons,
nearly all of whom are from
this section. (Sunphoto)
• $2.00 PER YEAR
Negro Files for
Democratic race
Sampson T. Spencer, Negro,
paid the $60 fee here Monday as
a candidate for nomination to the
W T ard 4 City Council seat in the
Sept. 15 city Democratic primary
election.
Although two other candidates
Cecil E. Kinard, Ward 5 and Clar
ence A. Shealy Jr., Ward 3, have
announced in this newspaper, at
noon Wednesday neither had paid
the entry fee.
The books for filing of candi
dates were opened Monday morn
ing. Filing deadline for candi
dates is noon Saturday, August
14, according to A. P. (Pete) Par
rott, city Democratic club secre
tary.
A mayor and six aldermen will
be nominated in the primary.
Filing fees are $60 for alderman
and $115 for mayor. In case no
opposition develops for any race,
fees for unopposed candidates will
be doubled.
Add dispatchers
at police office
Three radio dispatchers have
been added to the Newberry Po
lice Department to take the place
of three officers who resigned re
cently to take positions with the
county. Hired were J. P. Lever,
Larry Luther Chapman and Wyatt
L. Moates. Chapman and Moates
are Newberrians and Lever moved
here three weeks ago from San
Diego, California. Their duties
will be strictly desk jobs, whereas
in the past police patrolman have
handled dispatching as well as
other police functions.
,Chapman, son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Chapman, is 21 years old
and a graduate of Newberry
High School. He formerly worked
as a truck driver for Newberry
Lumber Company.
Lever retired from the Navy in
1963. He is 40 years old and a
graduate of Newberry High
School. He received training in
military police work, riot and traf
fic control at Fort Gordon, Ga.
Moates is also 40 years old and
a graduate of Newberry High
School. He is married to the for
mer Miss Betty Livingston and
they have two children. He is a
veteran of World War II and the
Korean War. He has been a dis
patcher for the county forest fire
control for two and a half years.
Redskin tickets
advance sales
nearing end
This week is the deadline for
Indian Club members to purchase
advance tickets for 1965 Newberry
College home football games.
The tickets are on sale in the
office of L. C. Graham, assistant
to the president, Wright Hall,
Newberry College; telephone 276-
5010, extension 48. Mail and phone
orders will be accepted.
Indian Club members may buy
a season ticket (including five
home games) for $11 during the
month of July. Anyone who wishes
to become a member of the club
should contact Meredith Harmon,
treasurer, P. O. Box 303, New
berry.
Tickets will be mailed after
August 1, according to Graham.
Advance sales for the family plan
($11 per adult, $1 per child) will
be conducted during August.
After the priority periods for
Indian Club members and the fam
ily plan, tockets will be sold at
regular prices, $2.75 per game.
Motorists beware
during August
More motor vehicle deaths occur
in August than in any other
month, the American Insurance
Association points out.
In 1964, 4,810 persons died in
car accidents during August, al
most four percent more than in
October, the next most dangerous
month for driving.
According to the Association,
the high total for August is at
tributable mainly to the large
number of vacationers who take to
the roadways during that month.
If you plan to be among them, the
Association advises, observe all
the rules of driving safety and
most important of all, don’t over
load your car or trailer.
Although he lacked a college
education, George Washington was
the recipient of five honorary col
lege degrees.
ROUNDS OUT 39 YEARS—
Welton P. Phillips Sr., retir
ed from Oakland Plant of the
Kendall Company July 3rd
after being employed in the
card room for 39 years. Mr.
Phillips, right, is shown re
ceiving his “Certificate of
Service” from G. R. (Bobby)
Hawkins, supervisor of the
card room. Phillips, a slubber
section man, came to Oakland
from Greenwood and has been
employed here since then. Mrs.
Phillips also was employed at
Oaklaind until 1960 when she
retired because of a back in
jury suffered prior to her re
tirement. They live at 2604
Clyde Ave. Mrs. Phillips is an
avid flower fan and spends
many hours with flowers and
shrubs in their yard. Mr. Phil
lips says he has no special
plans for his retirement, “but
I can’t just sit around and do
nothing,” he told The Sun.
“I have some painting and
other jobs around the house
I plan to get done, and some
fishing to catch up on, too,
then after that I would like to
find employment for a couple
days a week,” he declared.
The Phillips have five child
ren, three girls and two boys.
One daughter and two grand
children live in Italy. The oth
er daughters live in Mary
land. The two Phillips sons,
Welton P., Jr. and Harold,
both live in Newberry. Mr.
Phillips is 62 years of age.
(Sunphoto)
Boosters Club
meets tonight
A meeting has been called of
the Newberry High School Bull
dog Boosters Club tonight (Thurs
day) at 7:30 in the athletic dress
ing room at the high school.
Charles Vernon, vice president
of the club, announced that offi
cers for the coming year will be
elected at this time. He urged at
tendance by all members of the
booster organization.
Smith of Laurens
district governor
Exchange clubs
Lloyd Smith, 297 Fleming St.,
Laurens has been r e appointed
district governor of all Exchange
Clubs in the South Carolina dis
trict No. 3 of the National Ex
change Club, is was announced
today by J. Herbert Grimsey, nat
ional president of the service, club
organization. The Exchange clube
of Clinton, Laurens, Chester and
Newberry will be the clubs in his
district.
Dist. Gov. Smith, a past presi
dent of the Exchange club of
Laurens, will maintain contact be
tween the Exchange clubs in his
area and the National Exchange
headquarters. He will make per
iodic visits to the clubs, informing
them of national procedures and
policies, and will report on the
clubs’ plans and programs.
The educational programs and
service projects Mr. Smith will
asist area Exchange clubs in per
forming include: Book of Golden
Deeds Awards to persons contrib
uting to the welfare of their com
munity; Freedom Shrine gifts
(28 U. S. historical document ser
ies) to schools and public build
ings; National Crime Prevention
Week observed each February;
community service activities;
working with youth, and sponsor
ing new Exchange clubs.
Exchange clubs will be noting
the 55th anniversary of service
next March 27 as the largest truly
American service organization, the
1100 clubs active only in the U. S.
and Puerto Rico. It is estimated
the clubs give a million dollars and
another million volunteer hours
for the welfare of their communi
ties each year.
ON DEAN’S LIST
AT ST. ANDREWS
Margaret W. Abrams, daughter
of Mrs. Margaret C. Abrams of
Newberry, was among students
at St. Andrews Presbyterian Col
lege, Laurinburg, N. C., recently
named to the Dean’s List for aca
demic excellence during the second
semester of the college year.
Miss Abrams earned an average
grade of 4.6 or more on all sub
jects out of a possible 6.0.
High speeds top
list of cases
made by patrol
Traffic law violations involving
excessive speed headed the list of
cases made by the highway patrol
during June, the State Highway
Department announced today.
Patrolmen made 12,845 cases for
various offenses last month, re
sulting in the posting of bonds
totaling $307,386 with city and
county courts thruout the state.
Speed law violations were res
ponsible for 5,941 arrests, the
lergest number for any single
cause. Drive license violations
brought 1,135 cases, followed by
559 arrests for operating vehicles
without license plates, 482 arrests
for passing unlawfully, 433 ar
rests for reckless driving and 345
arrests for driving under the in
fluence of intoxicants.
A summary of traffic violations
for the fiscal year ending June 30
indicated that ptrolmen made 158,-
470 arrests since last July 1.
Bonds posted with county and
city courts during the year totaled
$3,209,931.
Andrew Johnson could hardly
GREETINGS
BIRTHDAY
July 30: Harriette Morehead,
Bill Hawkins; Maybelle Yates,
J. C. Counts, Mrs. G. S. Hazel,
Mrs. Lillian N. Werts, Mrs.
Hugh Ballentine, Lillian V. Van-
deford, Cile Purcell, Kenneth
Cook, Mrs. Joe Bedenbaugh,
Beverly DeHart, J. Chesley Ab
rams.
July 31: Mrs. Danny Paysing-
er, Mrs. Robert Lee Ruff, Mrs.
E. B. Carlisle, Boyd Bedenbaugh,
David Folk, Dr. Ralph Baker,
Mrs. Walter Summer.
August 1: Mrs. W. H. Spivey,
Tommie Len Henderson, F. A.
Longshore, Ann Stewart, Mary
D. Boozer, Mrs. C. E. Long,
Nathan Culclasure, Gordon N.
Clarkson.
August 2: Mrs. M. W T . Clary,
Rev. Louis Patrick, Berba Jane
Bowers, Mildred Chapman, Ann
Bowers Neel, W. P. Lathrop,
B. B. Leitzsey Jr., Willie Gra
ham, Nancy Bouknight, Mary
Ellen Gist.
August 3: Mrs. W. C. Schenck,
Hugh Turner, Mrs. A. D. Hal-
tiwanger, Mrs. T. H. Neel,
Furman Wright and Mrs. W. L.
Hitchcock.
August 4: James S. Price, Su
san Senn, Mrs. John F. Clark
son, Sadie Mae Graham, Gary
Lee Ringer, Frances B. Boozer,
Thomas Cromer, Mrs. Bennie
Burn, Mrs. B. G. Langford,
Harry and Larry Longshore,
Sandra Smithy Jimmy Komi, G.
S. Parnell Jr., Elise Chaney.
August 5: Mrs. C. T. Sum
mer, Mrs. Pearl Smallwood, Jer
ry Graham, Mildred P. Setzler,
Mrs. J. W. Davenport.