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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, SEPTEMER 15, 1966 un 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance :Six Months $1.25. SPECTATOR As I’ve written and also said over the air I do not understand many, many things, multitudinous things, such as the reason for the little military expedition in Viet Nam that is said not to be a war. I don’t understand the so-called Public Power which was started years ago. So far as I know, there is very little need for this so-called public power today, but, as we can readily understand, there are officials and leaders who now r feel the urge and the surge of nation wide ambition and, like the ancient hero, are almost ready to cry because there are no more worldsto con quer. As you can imagine, there are great problems vexus and perplexus and even mystify us. Even so. As I survey the world I find so many unsolved mys tifications that I can’t hope to understand even the simplest. Now, here is a perplexing intellectual confusion which grows out of a daily vexatious confusion. Name ly, to wit: I read the Charleston News & Courier daily for all world embracing information and I feel re-assured when I read: Waring, Editor. I turn for enlightenment to the beacon from Colum bia. The State and read William D. Workman, Editor. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday I sit under the inspiration of my breth ren Waring and Workman; I rejoice in them and their contribution to bring about a rejuvenated humanity. But when I scan the papers on Sunday neither Tom (Mr. Waring) nor Bill (Colonel Workman) appears at the masthead. I marvel. As some people ask How come.. It can’t be that my remembered chums are off for Sunday School, for those great papers are busily en lightening humanity before even a late breakfast. It must be that both old friends rebel against Sunday work. Whatever the reasonwe see our great dailies without sponsorship, like neglected orphans hoping to get breakfast somewhere. I do not wish to engage in theological dialectics with such accomplished rhetorists as my erudite chums; but the absence of the assurance their name would give us who blunder about seeking enlightenment in this world of dull care, makes us wonder, so we ask to know. Boiled down to essentials what’s what and why? May we presume to think that great editors repent of their weekly effusions and serve a sort of penance on Sunday? As I grow older I am depressed by my ignorance so I start here and herewith in my quest of knowledge. One of my brethren of the Press makes the point that the Attorney General of the state does not make the decisions; he is not a judge, but, rather, is an adviser to Administrative officials. Even they are not entirely culpable if they disregard th admonition of the Attor ney General; he is a sort of fond Uncle ready to sug gest the right course to his nephew 7 . At this time we are having experience with the weakness of our scheme of things. Why not may the Republicans nominate men, just as the Democrats do? In all matters of administration we are not Democrats or Republicans, but free Americans. If not, why not? Redskins open Grid season here Saturday The Newberry College In dians open season play against a young but tough Appalachian football team Saturday at 8 p. m. in Setzler Stadium. The Indians show' promise of having a strong running attack with returning halfbacks Neal Dufford, George Taylor, Bob Nash, and a converted end, Oz- zie Witt. Taylor and Dufford were two of the leading rushers last season. Nash, a speedster from Bethesda, Md., has ma tured into a dependable runner and Ozzie Witt has undergone metamorphosis from a letter- man end to a promising half- SENATOR STRO HURMOND Reports PEOPLE THE BOOK-BURNERS CONTROL OF EDUCATION in the United States is con tinuing to shift from the local to the national level. For many years following the establish ment of our Republic, educa tion remained under the juris diction of the States, counties, and local school districts. In recent years, however, with the passage of far-reaching and all- encompassing aid-to-education bills, the real authority over education now resides in Wash ington. THE ONE SINGLE legisla tive enactment that has granted the most power and authority to the bureaucrats, however, is not contained in any of the aid-to- ecucation bills. This item was contained in the so-called Civil Rights Act of 1964. It is Title VT of that Act, the section authorizing withholding of funds under all grant-in-aid programs if the local administrators fail to comply with the demands laid down in Washington. This provision has become the silent partner to all federal grant-in- aid programs, and although it applies to all such acts, it has been applied, so far, primarily in the field of education. THE AUTHORITY GRANTED to the Office of Education and the social plan ners by Title VI has been used to best advantage, from their standpoint, to arrogate unto themselves dictatorial powers not envisioned by Congress when the Act was passed. This has been done by the simple expedient of issuing “guidelines” purportedly for the purpose of assisting local school districts in formulating plans of com pliance. Compliance with these so-called “guidelines” is being required as if they had the force and effect of law, which they do not. They are no more than extra-legal means of re quiring that which the law does not require. THE EXTENT OF federal government control over the school systems of the United States has reached a point which no one could have imag ined just a few short years ago. Yet, there are ominous signs that the end is not in sight and the worst lies some where in the not too distant future. Recent developments indicate that those of us who warned of efforts to establish federal control of the curricu lum in the public schools were, unfortunately, right. THE EDUCATION AND LA BOR Committee of the House of Representatives, chaired by Adam Clayton Powell, recently held a series of hearings which provide an insight into things to come. PowelTs'hearings were to investigate the extent to which textbooks and library materials used in the public schools, particularly those in the South, fail to accord the treatment to minority groups that Powell desires. The hear ings were begun with the pre ordained conclusion that not enough emphasis was placed upon the accomplishments of minority groups and their con tributions to our society; there fore, the only real purpose of the hearings was to consider ways to require a rewriting of the textbooks to accord the proper respect to the minorities, j OF COURSE, the answer that came through loud and clear was to withhold funds to those school districts whose text books failed to comply with the standard of treatment of these minority groups. THIS IS NO MORE than a subtle and sophisticated form of book-burning which in the past has been most frequently attributed to anti-intellectuals and has been condemned by those who profess to believe in intellectual freedom. There is really no difference between burning books for what they do not contain and burning them for what they do contain. The liberal press has taken up the cudgels on many occasions in the past to roundly condemn what they consider book-burn ing, but on this occasion they are conspicuous only for their silence. IF BOOKS CAN BE banned because of their treatment of racial minorities, they can be likewise banned because their treatment of history to biased, according to the official line, or because they teach an “out moded” variety of economics or because the treatment of com munism dwells too much on the sordid, bad aspects and does not present a “balanced” pic ture for the students. ONCE THE PRECEDENT for dictating the contents of textbooks is established, local control of the schools will have been forever assigned to a by gone era. The latter-day book- burners will continue to mnlrp their pious protestations deny ing any intent to completely control the schools, but the only local control to be allowed will be that which conforms with the standards set in Washing ton. With guide lines by the President (whatever they are) he virtually dictates a course of action, or prices or wages. x We need a return to the freedom of the individual to act, even if we think he may be in error. What man is always right? Even the man who agrees with us may be in error; likewise the man in disagreement may be right. We must not have a one-man dictatorship, nor even the compulsion of a group. Here is an illuminating article on oil, I’ve taken from The National Observer: “Fur is fading, fishing is fickle, and gold is losing its glitter, but oil—there’s a short word that is grow ing mighty tall in Alaska’s economic and political life. First discovered in commercial quantities on the Kenai Peninsula south of here in 1957, oil is the prec ious fluid that has kept this largest state economically afloat since statehood arrived here in 1959. ‘The oil strikes saved Alaska from bankruptcy’, was the 1965 veridct of U. S. Senator Ernest Gruening. Foreign as figs to the Far North only a few years ago, oil and gas are transfoming the way of life in Anchorage-dominated Cook Inlet area and affecting life throughout the state. Greater changes lie ahead. Pan American Oil Co. reported in a recent issue of its company magazine; ‘To its long list of superlatives, Alaska has recently added another. It is now the hot test oil exploration area in North America.’ Union Oil Go. officials recently predicted that by 1970, Alaska would be producing 200,000 barrels of oil a day, which would move the 49th state right up in the big league with Texas, California, Oklahoma, and Lou isiana . . . ‘We added more crude oil reserves in Alaska in 1965 and Pat Murphy at quarterback than any other addition in the Pacific Coast division in 30 years,’ said George Pichel, Union Oil s chief geologist. . . . The growth of Cook Inlet’s fields is so promising that five major companies formed the Cook Inlet Pipe Line Co. to build a new port on Cook Inlet’s west side. Feeding oil to the new port will be wells along a 12-mile line of 20-inch pipe. The new pipeline will cross country once considered the private domain of bear, moose, and beaver. Joining in the project, which will eventually provide port space for 100,000 ton tankers, are Atlantic Richfield, Cities Service, Marathon, Mobil, and Union Oil companies. No Cook Inlet well tested to date has been rated at less than 1000 barrels a day, and the quality is high. The incentive for rushing Alaska’s oil fields into pro duction was explained recently by G. A. Burton, Shell Oil Co. vice president for the Pacific Coast area. He reported that Alaska’s oil is needed to make up- the difference between supply and demand on the West Coast. i t i The incentive is great enough to bring to Cook Inlet the giants of the industry, Phillips, Skelly, Sinclair, and Standard of California among them. But the incen tive is not limited to oil. The natural gas supply in the Cook Inlet basin is large enough, according to some geologists, that Alaskan gas some day may be piped through Canada and the states. Only a few years ago, readers would smile when R. B. Atwood, influential editor-publisher of the Anchor age Daily Times, predicted that lights would some day ring the wild shores of Cook Inlet—-the lights from oil rigs atop platforms out in the inlet. Today Mr. Atwood is considered more a clear-headed visionary than a wild dreamer. Only a decade ago, the comment, ‘He’s one of the oil people,’ would have been equivalent to saying, ‘He’s a man from Mars.’ Today, the ‘oil people’ are a very much ‘in’ group, identified closely with Anchorage’s welfare and the state’s solvency. The plush ‘members only’ Petroleum Club atop the Anchorage-Westward hotel is the highest social level attainable by an Anchorage businessman. The Petro leum Wives Club is one o fthe most active and influen tial in the city. Thousands of Anchorage residents to whom gas was simply a liquid for running cars only a few years ago now heat their homes with natural gas from the Kenai field. . One pauses and surveys the sea where oil is now more important than the life-sustaining salmon runs.” Coach Harvey Kirkland back. At fullback, Don Burton is yet untried in game experience, but appears to have what it takes. Burton is backed up by Tommy Thompson, a junior who only has spring practice of last year for experience. Other than Thompson the depth at fullback is untried freshman strength. Senior Benji Kirkland re turns at quarterback and is backed up by junior Ray Hesse, and Bill Prichett, a freshman from Beaufort. The Mountaineers have the choice between Donnie Ferrell Ferrell is a promising runner while Murphy is more adapted to the passing attack. Both are sophomores and are likely to share the position, depending upon the offensive outlook. Halfbacks Jackie Roten, Bill Bobo, and Bill Green will be ex pected to spearhead the rushing attack. All three placed in last year’s Newberry-Appalachian match. Roten was the leading rusher of the three picking up 24 yards in five carries. •Both teams field strong lines. Newberry lays stock in five seniors, three juniors, and two sophomores. The seniors are Ray Solomon, Barry Groce, guards; Tommy McAdams, cen ter; Steve Robertson, tackle; and Bobby Carlton, end. All five are first-unit lettermen from last year. The returning juniors are Dennis Swygert, end, Chip Shealy, tackle, and Pete Peter son, end. Tackles Rusty Ander son and Bill Kaigler are the two experienced sophomores. Anderson was one of the pleas ant surprises from last years’ freshmen. The youthful tackle filled in during the second game of last season and claim ed a first string position for the remainder of the season. Kaigler lettered as a guard for Newberry in 1960 which was his freshman year. The next year he took on a different kind of uniform and served a four-year hitch in the Navy. He returned to Newberry this fall and has already claimed a first unit spot on defense. Appalachian fields a line composed largely of junior and seniors. Senior Bill Mauldin is a big threat to the Indians. In last year’s game against New berry Mauldin caught two passes for 50 yards. Marriages Teddy R. Hawkins of Pros perity and Cornelia Ann Baker of Newberry, were married at Newberry on September 4. James Roy Kunkle and Ka thy Bedenbaugh of Prosperity were married at Prosperity on September 2. Robert Wallace Taylor, of Laurens and Betsy Livingstom Bruner of Newberry were mar ried at Newberry on August 27th. Donald V. Wessinger and Carol A. Nichols of Whitmire, were married at Whitmire on September 2nd. Donald Shealy of Prosperity and Patricia Shealy of New berry, were married on Sep tember 3 at Newberry. Frederick Earl Toms, of Columbia and Pamelia Senn of Newberry, were married at Newberry on September 4. James Robert Muray of New- berary and Evelyn Ramage of Kinards were married Sep tember 3 at Newberry. COUNTY BUILDING PERMITS Donald Shealy, Route 3, Prosperity, one six room dwel ling $10,000. John Wheeler and Daisy Lee Wheeler, Route 2, Newberry, 1 six room brick veneer dwelling (Loblolly) $17,000. Lee West, Spartanburg, ad ding room to boat house $1200. A Frazier Taylor, 1538 Trent street, Newberry, brick veneer dwelling $15,000. Francene Harmon, Pine St., Prosperity, one six room brick veneer dwelling $10,000. SMYOUR IOCAI t. marini mem RETURNS HOME Miss Lucy Senn has returned to he! home on Glenn street after spending several months at her summer home in Mon treat, N. C. HOSPITAL PATIENTS Miss Elizabeth Attaway, City Mrs. Jerry Bass, City Mrs. Maybelle Bledsoe, Sa luda Master Allen Bobb, City Walter Leroy Bouknight, City Mrs. Alice Bowers, City Bradley Bowers, Prosperity Baby Boy Brooks, City Hubert Brown, City Ollie K. Brown, City Mrs. Edie Mae Bucket, Salu da Miss Annie Bynum, City Willis Cannon, Pomaria Raymond Caldwell Jr., City Angie Chaplin and baby girl, Pomaria Mrs. Nellie Church, Laurens Mrs. Virginia Cox and baby girl, City Mrs. Marie W. Cronk, City Carrine J. Daniels, City Mrs. Y’Genia Dominick, Chap pells Mrs. Effie B. Durst, Lees- ville Mrs. Sadie B. Epting and baby girl, City Mrs. Christine Ellison, City Euston Farr, Little Mountain Mrs. Bessie Foy, City Eddie L. Fulmer, Prosperity Eugene Harmon, City Mrs. Doris C. Higgins, City Mrs. Gussie Holsonback, City Glen Kinsey, Whitmire Mrs. Lula Livingston, City Mrs. Mamie W. Longshore and baby boy, City Mrs. Willie Mae Morgan, Blairs Charles N. Martin, City Jesse B. Martin, City Mrs. Eugenia H. Mayfield, City Herman Means, City Miss Jeanette Myers, Chap pells Henry O. Newman, Prosper ity Mrs. Julia T. Norman, City Vernon L. Oxner, Prosperity Mrs. Cora G. Pitts, City Mrs. Lizzie S. Rikard, Lees- ville Mrs. Ola Riley, Saluda Miss Mable Robertson, Whit mire Mr:,. Polly Rowe, Saluda Robert A. Senn, Whitmire Mrs. Helen L. Sease, City Joseph P. Stewart, City Miss Cora Shealy, City Mrs. Eva Mae Somers, City Dupre W. Stone, Whitmire Marion J. Sumner, City Mrs. Lenora H. Taylor, City Mrs. Frances W. Thompson, City Booker T. Turner, City Mrs. Jeanette M. Vaughn and baby girl, City John Henry Wesson, City Mrs. Eva E. Wicker, City Miss Ernestine Williams, City Herman Wright, City. Building Permits Construction and repair per mits issued by the City last week were valued at $12,470. They were issued to: Claude Calloway, erect dwell ing, Calloway Drive; C. D. Rin ger, addition, 1210 Hunt St.; Mr. Bush, locate trailers, Riv ers St.; Sam Hunter, 1916 Harper St.; J. F. Tribble, 1109 Turner St.; Eddie Suber Jr., 225 Werts Ave.; Carroll Eargle, 1611 Col lege St.; Ely Adams, 231 Har deman St. and A. W. Willing ham, 2221 Harper St, repairs. I accept the write-in candidacy tor House of Representatives. These are some of the principles that I believe in and stand for: 1. An elective govern ment; not appointive. 2. (Government close to the people. 3. Private ownership and private enterprise. 4. One set of laws for all (no exceptions). 5. Free flow of informa tion. 6. The people setting the tax millage. 7. The government pro moting Ideals (the in alienable right of man, etc.), Principles (hon esty, integrity, justice) that bring freedom to its people. 8. The office holders being servants to the people; not masters. JACOB P. HAWKINS Talk About Service We give the kind of service other people only talk about... you’ll talk about our service too! Your money grows here at the anticipated rate of per annum, compounded semi-annually. This new Dividend Rate became effective July 1st, 1966. Yes, we’ve been in business since 1935 and our serv ice has increased greatly since then. But we continue to live and learn each day; speeding our service, strengthening our reserves and expanding our scope of operation. Today we can serve you better than ever before. We await your call. ppr annum (Current anticipated dividend rate effective July 1,1966)