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PAGE TWO 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. GUNS AND BUTTER It was a dramatic scene in deed. There, before a joint session of Congress, and in front of television cameras that beamed into millions of living rooms, stood the benevolent President. He looked soulfully into the teleprompter. “Whom would they sacri fice?” he demanded, his voice full of tender emotion. We were embarassed for him, lest he burst into tears in front of the whole nation. “They,” of course, refers to those selfish capitalists who think that the Federal budget can stand some rather drastic cutting; that top priority ought to be given to winning the war; and that the Great Welfare State is not the cure for what ails the United States. Being members of the “they” sub-species ourselves, we should like to suggest whom and what could be sacrificed. A cursory reading of the morning papers reveals such a long list that we can include only a few examples. First: the holiday jaunts for members of the Job Corps. This Christmas, 13,500 enrollees were sent home at the average cost to the taxpayers of $65 each, or a sum total of $877,- 500. However, 900 vacationers failed to return to camp. Since it costs you $4,500 to train each corpsman, add $4,050,000 to the above total. Remember that as you fill out your income tax return, and try not to feel sel fish. Another project that merits examination is the “Feed The World” campaign. It sounded so charitable at first (unless one wondered where the money would come from). Then we learned that certain Texas con tractors had. been busily min ing phosphate at a greatly in creased rate months BEFORE the program was even announc ed. They are even busier now. What’s phosphate? A major in gredient for fertilizer. And what do you do with fertilizer? You feed the world. At least the Great Society could be hon est enough to label it “Grease Friendly Palms” instead of ‘ Feed The World.” Do you feel generous now, dear taxpayer? Or take a look at the Pres ident’s rent subsidy proposal. Middle income families—some of whom, it is estimated, could be making more than $10,000 per year—would be able to get the Federal Government to pay part of their rent. We have not yet discovered what contractor is building the eligible apart ments. Nobody has added up the jet fare, hotel bills and entertain ment expenses for our wander ing peace envoys, who were seeking negotiation with the Communists during the same period that the Communists were having a world-wide meet ing in HaVanna, where they discussed putting an end to Yankee imperialism once and for all. The popular question to ask today is “^ell, can we have both guns’ and gutter?” We A ' -l * , \ % State Bank No. 67-693-532 REPORT OF CONDITION OF The Bank of Commerce*" OF PROSPERITY, IN THE STATE OF S. AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON DECEMBER 31, 19$5 ASSETS Cash, balances with other banks, and cash items in process of collection Z $ 288,712.13 United States Government obligations, direct and guaranteed 409,623.82 Obligations of States and political subdivisions 257,154.31 Other bonds, notes and debentures (including $244,977.85 securities of Federal and corporations not guaranteed by U. S.)_^___. 244,977.85 Loans and Discounts 1,102.334.66 Bank premise? owned $17,243.32, furniture and fixtures $6,395.50 23,638.82 Other Assets 15,044.66 TOTAL ASSETS $2,341,486.25 LIABILITIES Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations $1,460,677.66 Time and savings deposits of individuals, partnerships and corporations : 442,646.52 Deposits of United States Government i( including postal savings) 48,023.74 Deposits of States and political subdivisions 138,842.07 Certified and officers’ checks, etc. 7,053.37 TOTAL DEPOSITS $2,097,243.36 (a) Total demand deposits $1,549,101.65 (b) Total time and savings deposits__$ 548,141.71 Other liabilities 38,259.88 TOTAL LIABILITIES $2,135,503.24 CAPITAL ACCOUNTS Capital 50,000.00 Surplus ’ 100,000.00 Undivided profits 55,983.01 TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 205,983.01 TOTAL LIABILITIES & CAPITAL ACCOUNTS__$2,341,486.25 MEMORANDA Assets pledged or assigned to secure liabilities and for other purposes (including notes and bills rediscounted and securities sold with agreement to repurchase) 219,825.34 (a) Loans as shown above are after deduction of valuation reserves of 33,853,38 I, Jacob A. Bowers, President and Cashier, of the above-named bank, do solemnly affirm that this report of condition is true and correct, to the best of my knowledge and belief. JACOB A, BOWERS Correct—-Attest DIRECTORS: RUDOLPH C. BARNES J. MONROE FULMER W. G- LYLES State of Soutii Carolina, County of Newberry, ss: Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of January, 1966, and I hereby certify that I am not an officer or director of this bank. ANNIE R. HUNTER, Notary Public My commission expires at the pleasure of the Governor. jp*'' • V * ■ ’ s'? THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1966 submit that the butter is fairly flooding the land, and that if we don’t start using our guns with more determination, the question will be academic. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF Forty years ago, Germany was infested with members of a ghastly conspiracy. But the German Supreme Court did not permit the exposure of the con spirators. The German Repub lic, having ignored the traitors in its midst, was overthrown by Hitler’s Nazis, and one of the worst wars in history began. Today, the United States is inhabited by agents of an in ternation conspiracy called Communism. The Supreme Court refuses to curb the sub versive activities of these Com munist agents. In fact, the Court has given Communist more and more free rein to pursue their aims. The Reds have used this free dom to good advantage. They announced that they had been working in Watts, California for two whole years “ttowards the agitation of the uprising” there. They march in the ranks of “Peace” demonstrations. They have infiltrated every ar ea of American life. Yet, the Warren Court con tinues to hand down decisions that serve to help, rather than hinder, American C o m m u n- ists. It would take a book to record them all. (There IS a book, which we shall mention in a moment.) But look at just a few samples of recent court decisions, as described by Mr. J. Fred Schlafly over the Jan uary 2 Manion Forum program: “In U. S. v. Archie Brown, decided June 7, 1965, the Su preme Court held unconstitu tional a section of the Labor Management Relations Act, which made it a crime fqr a member of the Communist par ty to hold office in a labor union. “The dissenting judges said that the effect of this decision would be to prevent the Cen tral Intelligence Agency or the National Security Agency from firing employees just because they were Communists. “In Gastelum-Quinones v. Kennedy (374 U.S. 469) the Supreme Court reversed two Federal courts and ruled that an alien Communist who was a ‘regular dues-paying member of the Party’ and had been seen 15 times at meetings ‘restrict- PATIENTS IN THE HOSPITAL F. L. Anderson, Kinards Mack C. Austin, Whitmire Mrs. Nancy Bouknight, New berry Ernest Baker, Newberry Travis Bianchi, Blythewood Miss Nellie Boozer, Prosper ity Miss Eveline Bouknight, Newberry Miss Cordelia Bowers, Pros perity Ned Brewer, Newberry Mrs. Ella Brock, Newberry Miss Isabelle Brooks, New berry Mrs. Ellen Brown, Newberry Hubert Brown, Newberry Mrs. Leila Brown, Newberry Miss Annie Bynum, Newber ry Mrs. Lois Cromer, Newberry Mrs. Betty Clopton, Newber ry * - Mrs. Willie Belle Caldwell, Newberry Hugh Chapman, Pomaria Mrs. Eva Clary, Newberry Marshall Clinton, Newberry Mrs. Dorothy Cook, Prosper ity Mrs. Henrietta Cook, New berry Mrs. Carrie Cureton, Newber ry Mrs. Louise Davis, Newberry Mrs. Lynn Fulmer and baby boy, Newberry ed to Party members’ could not be deported because he may not have had a ‘meaningful as sociation’ and ’deportation is a drastic action.’ ” Then there was the case of Steve Mesarosh, a Communist who heloed steal our atomic secrets. The court ruled that he could not be convictfed by the Pennsylvania Sedition Act, because the Federal Smith Act superseded State laws. But when Mesarosh was convicted by the Federal government un der the Smith Act, the Court set aside his conviction. Evid ently the court felt that this Communist had the right not to be convicted by anybody. These cases are only a sam ple. For the whole story, read Mr. Schlafly’s entire broadcast. Soon available from the Manion Forum, South Bend, Indiana, will be the report on “Commun ist Tactics, Strategy, and Ob jectives,” published by a spec ial committee of the American Bar Association. Copies will be ready in late January for 50c. Matthew Fulmer, Prosperity Miss Betty Jo Farrow, New berry Mrs. Alice Guise, Newberry John Harp, Whitmire Dewey Hazel, Saluda Mrs. Willie Mae Hitt, New berry Mrs. Mamie Hornsby, New berry Benjamin F. Jackson, New berry Robert Johnson, Newberry Mrs. Mary Alma Joiner, Prosperity David Kinard, Joanna Mrs. Lizzie Kinard, Prosper ity Ralph Kirby, Newberry Claude Laird, Newberry Drayton Minick, Prosperity Mrs. Grace Metts, Newberry Jimmie J. Nabors, Newberry Mrs. Annie Plowden, New berry Mrs. Mae Rnff, Newberry Lance Reid, Newberry Mrs. Jessie Roberts, New berry Mrs. Rosa Roddey, Newberry Mrs. Louise Rister, Newberry Mrs. Bertha Stoudemire, Po maria Tyrus Senn, Newberry Harry Shealy, Newberry Bobby Stephens, Prosperity Samuel Turner, Laurens Mrs. Ella Whitney, Pomaria James Weaks, Pomaria Mrs. Minnie Weaks, Pomaria Mrs. Elizabeth Wicker, New berry Roscoe Williams, Proserity Mrs. Margaret Wilson, New berry Herman Wright, Newberry. SPECTATOR Our Nation has departed so far from the ideas and ideals of the illustrious founders that one must believe that not only would Madison, George Wash ington and the other renowned fathers of our Nation stand aghast and in amazement at the Government of today, but coming later — Calhoun, Clay and Webster would feel lost to day. Just think of this: we talk and preach about Civil Rights: Whose Civil Rights ? The sons of the men who made this na tion would be shocked. Equal rights? Equal rights for whom? Observe the arro gance of the Labor Unions in New York. Who has come to the aid and relief of the citi zens of New York: they have no rights. oNow, again, who enforces law and order when the NAiACP STRO URMOND Reports PEOPLE The Price of Being “Equalized” IN HIS State of the Union message to Congress and the Nation, the President proposed, “by the repeal of Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act — to make the labor laws in all our States equal to the laws of the 31 States which do not have right-to-work measures.” For the second year in succession, battle is now joined in the Sen ate on the President's proposal. Many Senators, realizing the high price of “equalization,” are determined to. save Sec tion 14(b). \ UNDER existing Federal law, there is an equality of oppor tunity, or freedom^ for the peo ple of each State to determine whether or not thev wish to permit union membership to be imposed as a prerequisite to getting or keeping a job. Nine teen States, at present, have chosen . to prohibit compulsory unionism. Thirty-one States, at present, have chosen to permit compulsory unionism. Each of the 19 States and each of the 31 States has the right, under Section 14(b), to change its position. The laws of the States differ, but the people of each State now have “equal” free dom of choice. THE REPEAL of Section 14 ^H) would achieve “conform- itv” at the price of freedom. All States would be “equal,” be cause no State would have any choice on compulsory unionism. Conppulsory union membership as a condition of employment would be legal In every State. “Equality” would be imposed at the lowest level of freedom for the people of all the States. THE COST of this equality would have to be paid princi pally in diminished liberty for each citizen. There would be an additional cost to the 19 right-to-work States, which would have to be paid in lost economic benefits to citizens. UNIONISM is normally as sociated with conditions of em ployment, such as the availabil ity of jobs, the level of wages, and the prospect for continued or future employment The im pact of compulsory unionism on the 19 right-to-work States, should Section 14(b) be re pealed, can be measured in these same conditions. FOR INSTANCE, between 1959 and 1964, personal income in right-to-work States in creased by 32.5%. In the rigbt- to work State of South Caro lina it increased by 37.7%. In non-right-to-work States, per sonal income increased by only 25.5%. IN THE LAST decade, 1955- 1965, the average weekly wage of production workers in right- to-work States increased by 46.8%, and in South Carolina by 48.5%: but in non-right-to- work States, the average weekly wage of production workers in creased by only 42.8%. THEN THERE is the matter new jobs, which are created by capital expenditures. Between 1953 and 1962, capita] expen ditures in right-to-work States increased by 37.1%, and in South Carolina by 179.7%; but in non-right-to-work States by only 27.2%. In the same period, the rate of increase in number of production workers in right- to-work States was 3.9%. and in South Carolina was 7%: but in non-right-to-work States, the number of production workers decreased by 14.1%. In right- to-work States, the rate of in crease in manufacturing jobs was 12.8%, and in South Caro lina. 19.0%; but in non-right- to-work States manufacturing jobs declined at the rate of 7.6%. THE REPEAL of Section 14(b), therefore, would not only "equalize” the States at a lower level of freedom, but it would also “equalize” the right-to-work States at a lower rate of growth in persona] in come and average weekly wages. In the right-to-work States, there is a possibility that the rate of gain in new jobs might be “equalized” to the rate of loss in manufactur ing jobs being experienced in the non-right-to-work States. WE WHO are fighting to re tain Section 14(b) are deter mined that those we represent shall not have to pay the high price of such “equality. 1 * Sincerely, goes on a turbulent binge ? Is •^i«re no : right of the rest of u$j? Must ,we endure disorder, public rioting and every sort of malevolent assertion of priv ilege, aided, abetted, supported and encouraged by our great Government ? So far as the maintenance of peace and order is concerned all organizations of disorder seem privileged, except the Ku Klux. I am no apologist for the Ku Klux, but I observe that the forces of law and order see no threat to our peace except the Ku Klux. As I see it, the Police Power of the Nation owes a solemn duty to all citizens, but ,any large group apparently may subvert the rights of most of us if the Political Powers can hope for political support from the masses of malcontents. Our Nation is in the throes of cheap political officials who can’t control groups of dark skins, but can deal vigorously and harshly with any group that tries to enjoy the rights of freedom such as were inherent in the government a few years ago. In the days of Rome mob rule was frequently triumph ant, and so are we face to face with it now. The Government can see only one side of a question and if that aspect of a problem has a dark hue then the rest of us must such our fingers and re joice in what used to be and no longer is. What about oil? It is so gen erally used that we find oil stations everywhere, side by side with gasoline. Of course there are all kinds of oil—from oil to burn to oil for home use and on to a hundred other kinds of oil. But it is interesting to study about oil. “Perhaps the first human to benefit from oil was a cave man who farmed himself at a gas seep set ablaze by light ning. Such ‘eternal fires’ were common throughout the world, and inspired the fire worship ing cults of antiquity. The an cient Egyptians used oil deriv ed asphalt to preserve mummies and for brick-laying mortar. Noah’s descendants used it to build tire tower of Babel. Today in the Chaldean city of Ur there are asphalt gutters nearly 6,000 years. Biblical writers speak of oil and its by products as ‘slime’ and ‘pitch.’ The latter was used for caulk ing, and floated the infant Moses’ cradle until the pha- roah’s daughter found him among the bullrushes. American Indians skimmed seep oil for medicine, a practice copied by the pioneers. The In dians also set fire to the oily waters of Pennsylvania’s fam ous Oil creek, and danced around it in ceremonials. Farth er Joseph de la Roche d’Allion, a Franciscan from Quebec, wrote in 1627 of Indians using oil from Seneca spring, an oil seep in western New York state. In the early 1880’s, ‘Seneca Oil’ was bottled and sold far and wide as a cure-all. Three teaspoonsful a day, it was claimed, would ‘make the lame to walk and the blind to see.’ No one ‘discovered’ oil in Am erica—it was there. It is the only basic industry to be start ed and developed here. It be gan one day in 1849 when Ebe- nezer Brewer, a Pennsylvania lumberman skimmed five gal lons of oil from Oil Creek and sent it to his son Francis, a young doctor in Vermont. The smelly stuff scored high with his patients. The doctor was so gratified that he took a flask of it to his old professor at Dartmouth, Dr. Dixie Crosby, who examined it and agreed that it might be good for chilblains or the croup. Four jmars later the flask was still sitting on Crosby’s desk when another graduate, George Bissell, a young lawyer, came back to Hanover to visit. As he listened to Crosby talk Bissell got an inspiration: Whale oil for lighting was getting scarce. What if this new oil could be made to yield a substitute? Bissell organized a stock company to buy land along Oil Creek. He also went to Yale University to hire Prof. Benja min Silliman, the country’s leading chemist, to analyze the oil. Tests- yielded kerosene, a much better illuminant than whale oil. Silliman became president of the company and so was born the firm - which hired Col. Edwin Drake, the man who wus to become the first to drill for oil and pump it in mass quantities. Although only 38, Drake had been forced to retire as a rail road conductor because of spi nal neuralgia, but he had deter mination to spare. He ignored Titusville hecklers who jeered when three salt drillers ran out on him, and on Aug. 27, 1859, he struck oil at 63 feet. ‘Uncle ‘Billy’ Smith, a former blacksmith, was running the rig when the drill bit came up frothy with oil. He leaked the secret, and while Drake refused to break the Sabbath, hundreds of townspeople flocked to the little wooden derrick. ‘Mad Monday’ followed, with a stream of carriages pouring land specu lators into town until they ‘hung two on a peg’ in the little AUDITOR’S 1966 Tax Assessment Notice I, or an authorized agent, will be at the following places on the dates given below for the purpose of taking tax returns on all personal property, boats, motors, trailers and mobile homes; also real property, new buildings, and real es tate transfers. Persons owning property in more than one district must make returns for each dist rict. All able-bodied citizens between the ages of twen ty-one and sixty are liable to $1.00 poll tax. At the Auditor’s Office to March 1st., after which a penalty of 10 per cent will be added. Ralph B. Black, Auditor Newberry County 12-30 NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE MENT I will make final settlement of the estate of Joseph M. Hove in the Probate Court for New berry County, S. C., on Wed nesday, the 9th day of Febru ary, 1966 at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon, and will immed iately ask for my discharge as Executrix of said estate. CAROLINE J. HOVE, Executrix January 18, 1966 l-20-4tc FOR SALE ONE SLOT CAR RACE TRACK—Long Oval. 174 feet around—nine lanes. Complete with timers. For further information - > , % telephone Chester, S. C. 385-5616 or write to P. O. Box 546, Chester, S.C. No increase in deaths of pedestrians Pedestrians are getting kill ed on streets and highways at about the same rate they did 25 years ago, records of the State Department reveal. Last year 164 persons met untimely deaths as a result of being struck by motor vehicles. Actually, the total was -15 few er than in 1940 when 179 ped estrians were killed. During the intervening years the pedes trian death rate has remained fairly constant. In 1943, a WW II year with reduced vehicle travel because of gasoline and '■tire - shortages, only 93 pedes- ' trians were killed. The 1940 pe destrian toll was the highest in the 25-year period, i The pedestrian death toll has remained relatively low despite greatly increase number of ve- 'hicles using the roads, officials feel. In 1940 there were only 319,249 registered vehicles of aft kinds in South Carolina. The 1965 total soared to 1,069,- 408. ^ The big question now is how to keep the total vehicle acci dent fatality figure down. In 1940 there were 609 motor ve- tasisted'tharthe'5i'ta?viS ,r $oi jfe 1 | deatlw compared 40 870 in was nothing more than whale American hotel. Drake was left behind as the army of sharpers snapped up leases for 20 miles along Oil creek. Many a fancy deal was transacted: Stubborn farmers who wouldn’t lease their lands for a mere one-fourth oil roy alty were persuaded to take one-eighth or one-twelfth — it sounded bigger. One farmer’s wife who refused to sign for $40,000 was a willing lessee when the contract read $40,000, ‘and for Mrs. Story, one new silk dress.’ Derricks shot up everywhere —800 of them in two years. Using a witch hazel diving ro4, one aged charlatan located a well that gushed 1,200 barrels a day. Newspaper reporters filed such outlandish stories that, their editors telegraphed them to sober up. It was true, though, that one well flowed only* on Sundays, while another flowed on a clockwork cycle, seven min utes on, then off for 20. And the mud! The hundreds of oil wagons churned it until a jjioom town poet described it as ly unclassable, almost imp^s sable, scarcely packasgatle.^. Each night the bedraggle< fortune hunters expoupde^ pet theories on where all that .oil came from. Some held that oil was a ‘crop’ produced each year from chemical sources. One old New Bedford whaling captain oil from a huge shoal of whales marooned ashore after Noftii’s flood. Dozens of men got rich,- and » certain ‘Coal Oil Johnnie’ set the pattern for Texas million aires by going through a mil lion dollars in a year. For Ed- k win Drake, however, the bonan za proved bitterly disappoint ing. His well yielded only mod est profits, and a couple of years later he wtnt broke pro moting an oil brokerage firm in Nev^ York city. In the following years the boom spread across the land, but nobody really saw oil before Spindle top. On Jan. 10, 1901, in a hog wallow outside of Beaumont, Texas, four tons of drill pipe shot out of < the hole and over the derrick, followed by a 175 foot geyser of dil that for nine days. In that time'ev*' ery house in Beaumont was MEN IN SERVICE FORT HOOD, Tex. (AHTNC) -—Harry C. Amick, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Amick, Rt. 1, Prosperity, was promoted to specialist four Jan. 13 at Fort Hood. *• Specialist four is an enlisted tank equivalent to the rank of corporal. v Amick, a chaplain’s assistant in Headquarters Company of the division’s 3d Brigade, enter ed the Army in March 1964 and Completed basic training at Fort Garden, Ga. He was graduated from Mid- Carolina High School in 1961 and was employed by the Old School Manufacturing Co. be fore entering the Army. sprayed black, the town’s popu lation jumped from 9,4Q0 to 40,- gushed 100,000 barrels, la day: 000 and land prices in the area soared a million dollars an acre ft V ; Returns of personal property, real property, new build ings and real estate transfers, and poll tax are to be made at the County Auditor's Offoce beginning: IE? :.-fS All able-bodied male citizens between the ages of twen ty-one and sixty are liable to $1.00 poll tax. AH returns are to be made by Tax Districts. Your fail ure to make return caUs for penalty as prescribed by law. RALPH B. BLACK, Auditor Newberry County And What’s Your Recommendation? . Customers rely on our advice and sug gestions in buying insurance. We are prepared to give you a professional opinion basedon many years of experi ence and there's no sugar coating. You may find this useful in improving your coverage and reducing expense.