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THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1965
THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
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THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN
The Government asks for only $1,700,000,000—one billion,
seven hundred million dollars! Don’t let familiarit\ w ith big
figures make you indifferent to colossal expenditures. There
was a time when a billion dollars was real money. A billion
dollars?
Say that’s just chicken feed today. What’s a billion dol
lars. To you and me that is a sum in big figures; that s real
money.
Now our little excursion to Vietnam will probably call for
mere and more billions.
Say, do you know why we went so far to pick a fight; or
horn in on a fight? Cuba is right at our doors, but we go
eight thousand miles to fight Communism in Asia, while
Cuba holds us in scorn.
“Ammonia supplies nitrogen to the soil as one of the three
'vital plant nutrients; the other are potash and phosphate.
Ammonia is sprinkled directly on the soil as a liquid or in
combination with other chemicals.
About 70 per cent or more of the ammonia produced in
the U. S. goes into fertilizer. The rest is used in industry as
refrigerant gas and to make other chemicals, such as pes
ticides, explosives and rocket fuel. Monsanto Co., for instance
uses about 40 per cent of its annual capacity of 800,000 tons
mostly for making acrylic fibers and nylon.
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“The continuing controversy over the cost of funerals is
liaving an unexpected side effect: More people are willing
their bodies to medical schools.
An ample supply of bodies for dissecting is vital for train
ing in anatomy and for medical research, the schools say.
The recent increase in bequests of bodies is an especially
welcome surprise to medical school staffs because most had
feared an impending shortage.
These fears were based partly on rapidly growing demand
for bodies created by rising medical school enrollments, ex
panding research and new dental and nursing schools which
offer laboratory anatomy courses. Meanwhile the number
of unclaimed bodies from city morgues and state institutions,
the traditional sources, has been shrinking as living stand
ards rise the burial benefits become more widely available
under various private and public programs.
But now the trend toward willing of bodies has grown so
much that Dr. Charles Sawyer, professor of anatomy at
the University of California at Los Angeles Medical School,
says he is forced to turn down bequests daily. ‘We have so
many wills on file that we open our donations program for
only a few weeks a year’, he says. Dr. Russell Fisher, Mary
land state medical examiner, adds: ‘The number of willed
Bodies being received by medical schools must have increas
ed ten fold in the last five years’.
Most schools say they still can use all the bodies being
offered and a few, particularly in large Eastern cities, still
report a severe shortage. But even most of these schools
^re confident increased publicity about body bequests soon
will solve their problem. The University of Michigan Medical
School five years ago had only a handful of donations on
file; today it has nearly 1,000.
U. S. medical, dental and nursing students require more
than 3000 bodies each year for anatomy study, it is esti
mated. Most are used by first-year medical students; typi
cally, one body is needed for every four students.
Dr. O. P. Jones, professor of anatomy at the University
of Buffalo, remarked: ‘Many of the people writing us to
donate their bodies say they are doing it so they won’t con
tribute to keeping the embalmers and undertakers in plush
living.’ Undertakers, of course, have hotly denied charges
that funeral costs are too high or that their incomes are
excessive.
For some donors of limited incomes, a medical school be
quest in a way to spare a family big funeral expenses, ana
tomists say. But many people in middle and upper income
brackets also will their bodies. Jim Erwin, a Dallas publicist,
Is giving his body to Texas Southwestern Medical School. He
complains of ‘the high cost of dying’ and notes that ‘the
medical schools need the bodies.’
Medical schools officials still are bothered by the erron
eous conception among many people that they can sell
their bodies to science. Although body snatching from cem
eteries and sale of bodies were not uncommon in the 18th
century, it is presently illegal in all states to purchase cada
vers.
Nevertheless, one anatomist tells of an old man who
walked into his office with a suitcase in which he hoped to
carry home money for his body. ‘He demanded $10,000, the
.anatomist recalls. ‘When I told him we Am’t buy bodies, he
.got mad, said he had a steel plate in hfl head which made
bim a bargain at that price and then insisted that a friend
of his had ‘property of Yale Medical School’ stamped on his
back for $15,000’.”
When Arthur Goldberg
succeeded the late Adlai
Stevenson as our Ambassa
dor to the United Nations he
assumed a pledge to work in
that assignment for the es
tablishment of peace under
international law. However,
without a clear definition of
the kind of peace that is
sought, and exact specifica
tions for the international
law which is to maintain it,the noble quest may be ab
orted by the complete des-truction of this country.
Lawyers and most laymen know that for the adjudication
of every enforcable law, there must be a competent and duly
authorized court. When we think of international law, we
naturally think of the World Court, so-called.
The name World Court is a misnomer. The “court” was a
creature of the United Nations, and was established by the
charter of that organization. The charter provides for a
court of 15 judges to be elected by a majority vote in the
General Assembly and a majority of the Security Couricil,
voting separately. A judgment of this court is final and
unappealable.
The objection to the selection of the judges that has been
made often and continuously by Americans is that the char
ter provides that only one jurge from anw one nation at any
one time can be on the court, which means that while we
could have only one judge there is no limit provided for the
number of judges from the ten nations behind the iron cur
tain. Since the beginning of the Court, the Iron Curtain
countries have had two judges while we have but one, and
there is no guarantee that we have even one.
The one protection we have had under the present juris
diction of the so-called World Court is to be found in the
Connally Reservation which periodically is challenged by
the advocates of absolute power of the court to determine
questions of international law, because the Connally Reser
vation reserved the right to determine what matters are
purely domestic and what ones are international, to the de
termination of the United States.
If the Connally Reservation should be removed from our
document of acceptance of the jurisdiction of the World
Court, we could expect an expansion of the World Court’s
jurisdiction by its own interpretation of the terms “inter
national” and “domestic”. It is easy to see the disastrous
consequences that would result if a court, with a majority
of Iron Curtain judges, were permitted to decide whether a
question before it is an international matter. If the Connally
Reservation is ever repealed, the door will be wide open to
th invasion of all of our domsetic institutions and our very
right of self-determination. Such repeal could very well be
the end of our freedom as we have known it.
County Permits Mrs. Gunter dies
at nursing home
“There are 19 states where right-to-work laws are in
force, 31 states which permit compulsory unionism. The evi
dence is that right-to-work laws have not proved to be
"slave-labor or ‘union busting’ statutes. Under them unions
have continued to grow. And these basic facts from the U.
S. Department of Labor and Commerce, compiled by the
National Right to Work Committee, speak for themselves.
From 1953 to 1963, hourly earnings of manufacturing
workers increased by 46.7 per cent in right-to-work states,
by 42.4 percent in those without such laws. *
New manufacturing jobs rose 12.2 percent in the right-
to-work states, fell 7.6 percent in all others.
Unemployment rate in right-to-work states as of 1962
was 4.6 percent; in others, 5.6 per cent.
Per capita personal income rose by 43.7 percent in right-
to-work states, 35.4 per cent in all others.
The right-to-work states outstripped all others by wide
margins in the increased value of added manufacturiiig,
capital expenditures, bank deposits, motor vehicle registra
tions, annual retail payrolls, retail sales and many other in
dicators of economic progress. Right-to-work laws have not
been primarily responsible for this progress, but they may
well have contributed to it.”
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Clyde Hill, repairs to dwelling,
229 Drayton street.
Ed Floyd, repairs to dwelling,
712 Bates street.
B. C. Cannon, repairs to dwell
ing, 709 Wise street.
Wright Cannon, repairs to
dwelling, 712 Caldwell street.
E. G. Griffith, erect dwelling
on Griffith street.
Mary Singley, repairs to
dwelling, 1611 Vincent street.
Ronald Williams, repairs to
dwelling, 1517 Simpkins street.
Lillie T. Penn, repairs to dwell
ing.
Robert C. Odell, repairs to
dwelling, 2305 College street.
J. G. Shealy, repairs to dwelling
23 Glenn street.
Claude P. Summer, alterations
to dwelling on Harrington street.
Arthur Eargle, repairs to dwell
ing! 1320 Summer street.
Durwood Bost, erect dwelling on
Hutto Avenue.
Janies Williams, repairs to
dwelling, 1240 Player street.
Pearl Shealy, repairs to dwell
ing, Brown street.
C. P. Williams, repairs to
dwelling, 2018 Rivers street.
Total for above permits $35,-
615.00.
Mrs. Allie* Mae Burkett Gunter,
79, died Monday night at a local
nursing home.
Daughter of the late Andrew
and Emma Burkett and widow of
Ernest Gunter, she was a native
of Lexington County, but lived in
West Columbia most of her life.
She was a member of Samaria
Baptist Church near Batesburg.
Surviving are three sons,
James, A. Gunter of New Ellen-
ton, 6urtis A. Gunter of West
Columbia and Alvin C. Gunter of
Seattle, Wash.; two daughters,
Mrs. Ola Mae Rinehart of West
Columbia and Mrs. Irene Boland
of Newberry; three sisters, Mrs.
Cora Cockrell of Batesburg, Mrs.
Ada Busby of West Columbia and
Mrs. Effie Durst of Leesville;
three brothers, Clarence Burkett
of Augusta, Ga., Percy Burkett
of West Columbia, and Robert
Burkett of Leesville; 15 grandchil
dren and 22 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Mt.
Ebal Baptist Church near Bates
burg by Rev. M. B. Lee and Rev.
Ted Sims. Burial was in the
church cemetery.
Clarence Pitts
died Tuesday
at Greenwood
Clarence Wister Pitts, 60, died
Tuesday afternoon at a Green
wood hospital after several years
of declining health.
Born and reared in Newberry
County, son of the late William
David and Lydia Pitts, he lived
in Ninety Six and Joanna sever
al years.
Surviving are six sisters, Mrs.
Maybelle Werts and Mrs. A. R-
(Emmie) Kyser of Newberry,
Mrs. Earl (Dessa) Holsonback of
Joanna, Mrs. Nora Hastings of
Ninety Six, Mrs. Hennie Jones of
Boston, Mass., and Mrs. Oleen
Pilot of Miami, Fla.; and a broth
er, Lewis Pilot of Leacock, Pa.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed at 11 a.m. today (Thursday)
at Me Swain Funeral Home by
Rev. M. B. Fryga. Burial will be
in Trinity Methodist Church Ce
metery.
July bond sales
Combined Series E and H Sav
ings Bonds sales for July in this
county totaled $14,310 reports Joe
M. Roberts, County Savings Bonds
Chairman.
In South Carolina, combined E
and H sales totaled $2,193,310, re
ports Robert G. Clawson, State
Chairman of the U. S. Savings
I Bond ’Committee r ' *
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Marriages...
Larry Kenneth Wise and Bar
bara Jane Martin of Prosperity,
were married on August 1 at
Prosperity by Rev. Fletcher A.
Rise III.
Thomas Edward Boyce of Field-
dale, Va., and Barbara Ann John
son of Kinards, were married on
August 9 by Rev. L. Bryson Har-
ber of Joanna.
James Ralph Waldrop and Dixie
Jo Livingston of Newberry, were
married by Rev. Robert L. Fraser
on July 30 at Silver street.
Luther Harold Fowler Jr. and
Susan Dickert of Newberry, were
married on July 31 at Newberry
by Rev. H. A. McCullough.
. Junior Wesley Sharp and Myr
tle? Ruth Tucker of Newberry were
married by Probate Judge Frank
H. Ward at Newberry on August
20th.
John Calvin Nation and Marie
Cleo Fordham of Savannah, Ga.,
were married by Rev. Kenneth
Hewitt Jr. on August 3rd at
Newfberry.
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