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PAGE 2—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, March 9, 1967 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in advance. Six months $1.25. SENATOR STRO HURMOND Reports PEOPLE VIC TORY IN A SI ( CESSFT L ( ONOH SION to tho wnr in Vietnam ran mean two things. It ran rr«,ean an all-out virtory on the battlefiekl which calls for the unconditional surrender of the insurgent forces in the South. Or d can mean an honorable. ne', r ' a i.ated [Kaacc ^fUt lenient, based ujKin th n cessation of guerrilla warfare by the Viet (’on^ and their sufjfHirters fron. the North This wouki guaran tee the security and the sov ereignty of the profile of South Vietnam from foreign domina tion or from having a f'rreiKn ideology forced ufron them. THE FEELINCi (.ROUS that a victory of the first kind is necessary to ensure an hon orable. last mu peace, "Phis feel ing was reinforced in my own mind by my recent trip to Vietnam for the Senate Armed Services Committee TWO STEPS THERE ARE "two steps" which the United States can take to bring us closer to vic tory. FIRST, UE MIST BOMB all the strategic and military targets which exist throughout North Vietnam. It is true that, prior to the recent truce, we were bombing in North Viet nam virtually every day. NEVERTHELESS, THE FSE of airpower alxive the DMZ (demilitarized zone i is of little consequence if it is not cal culated to eliminate the war- making potential in the North The question is not one of merely increasing either the scale or the frequency of the bombing attacks Rather, it is one of making a more selec tive choice of targets and concentrating the a t tacks where they are calculated to do the most damage to our f<H^ MILITARY TARGETS UE CANNOT ASK Amer ican fighting men to n>k their lives to damage one span of a relatively innocuous bridge, while more important target- are left unlou< bed Our bomb ings should !>e aimed at all ob vious military target.-, -uch as airfield-, troop concent rat ion- and military convoy- It would also include certain basic war industries such as f>etroleurr storage dump.-, steel mills, cement factories, and power generating facilities. amonr others North Vietnam should be notified of this policy so ( ivilians can evacuate these a re as the second essential step must be to close all the ports In North Vietnam. The most notorious of the**e, of course, is Haiphong. It i* moat important that Haiphong be closed. But there are others a* well through which supplies and material are received; and they should also be closed. PORTS CAN BE CIXJSED by bombing, embargoing, or mining. The weight of military opinion leans toward mining the port; ?s the most efficient and quickest method possible UE HAVE JUST BEGUN mining be rivers in the north, but this operation is aimed VIETNAM principally at light native river traffic. It will not have any effect u[>on the major sources of supply reaching the country. This operation only affects the distribution of supplies which have already arrived. CLOSING THE PORTS ACCORDING TO RECENT ovt incites, 120,(XX) to 200,000 tons of goods a month are be ing sent to North Vietnam. Almost all of this comes in by -hip. It is further reported that me Soviet ship docks at Hai- phong every other day. This sea traffic will undoubtedly in crease >ince the internal dis turbances in China have halted ail shipments across the con tinent Moscow and Hanoi should l>e put on notice that North Vietnam's ports are to ae mined, and that further sup ply ships enter the harbors at their own risk. THESE TWO STEPS—more selective bombing and cloalng the ports of North Vietnam— would, in my judgment, hasten the conclusion of the war ir Vietnam. THE UNITED STATES has unquestionably shown the enemy, if it needed to, that we have the power to win the war in Vietnam; and yet the enemy persists Obviously the enemy is not convinced that the United States has the will to use that power in the manner necessary to bring the war to a successful conclusion. We must convince them that not only do we possess the requisite jxiwer. Injt that we also possess the necessary will. A display of will is as necessary as a dis play of [X)wer SIX FI AGS Over Georgia’s 1,000-seat Music Hall will be the site of an original musical revue performed by talented collegians from all over the South. This will be one of 75 adventures, shows, and attractions at the historical theme amusement park when it opens in early June. CAPITOL, '£ /iLZji From the Office of GOVERNOR ROBERT E. McNAIR The toll of deaths and ac cidents on our highways is one of the greatest tragedies of our times and one of the most dif ficult problems faced by South ('arol ina. Although we cannot expect to achieve the safety record we desire overnight, or even in one year, I can report that progress is being made in sev eral important areas. Within the week, the Gover nor’s Traffic Safety Advisory Committee met and endorsed measures which promise to ac celerate our total effort. The Committee gave unanimous support to the stiff* r enforce ment program which we earlim recommended to the General Assembly. By bringing together expeils and advisors from many fields, we are putting together a Stato Safety Program which will t a c k I e immediate problems and provide prevention U-ch n i - (pies for the future. According to a spokesman for the N'at- • ■nal Safetv Gouncil. South Carolina is far ahead of other stat“- in this planning. Once again. w<- have the opportunity to demonstrate that given ade- Light-hearted salad quate resources, we can effect ively deal with problems at the state level. T am hopeful that South Carolina will take the lead in this and other projects which can result in a more meaningful role of state gov ernments in an age of federa' expansion. One of the key features of the new StaU- Safety Program 's a “total involvement” con cent which will affect all of nor communities and every in i’ ideal driver. The interest that is being -hown bv members of the Ceneral A<semblv in drafting new safety legislation indicates rhat our people and their lead ers are determined to come to ns with the problem of 1 ghway -afety. WATER RESOURCES A hill creating a State Water Resource- Planning and Coord- ir.atmg Committee has now G en -Igned into law. The new lommittee. in effect, consoli date- the planning and policy in iking activities of eight sep arate -‘a*e agencie-. A grow.ng population, indus trial expansion, irrigation needs and oth‘-r facto-s have require)* u- a, cor. tract a nasic water no! cy. Wat- ]■ i- to South Car -dina a- oil is to Texas and - a::n to refp-ct this reality • all ou-’ planning which in v■ dve- the- use of water. Mrs. Price, 74, rites Thursday Mrs. Beulah Dennis Price, 74, died early Wednesday morning at her home on Caldwell street Extension after several months serious illness. Mrs. Price was bom and reared in this county and was a daughter of the late Nathan Y. and Cornelia Longshore Dennis. For a number of years she had made her home here and was a member of Sum mer Memorial Lutheran church, a life member of the LCW and a member of the Ad ult Sunday School class. Mrs. Price is survived by her husband, Lester F. Price of Newberry" four sons, Grady F. Price, Newberry; Irby Price, Washington, D. C.; E. Lewis Price and Jason 0. Price, both of Newberry; three brothers, H. H. Dennis, West Columbia; .1. Lee Dennis, Prosperity; James N. Dennis, Villar, N. C.. and six grandchildren. Funeral services were held Thursday from Summer Mem orial church with Rev. Ernest T. Burns conducting the ser vice. Interment was in Baxter Memorial cemetery. Active pallbearers were Le- land Gantt, J. Lee Dennis, Roy Price, Paul Price, Grady Shea- ly and Van Price. Honorary escort was compos ed of members of Summer Memorial Council and members of the Adult Bible class. Marriages Gene Kenm-)h Shealy and Joyce Elaine Wicker of New berry \vf-r- married on Feb. 23 at Newberry. Ronald Alec Lee Woodruff and Goldie Huckaby of Whit mire were married at Whitmire on Februarv 8. PET COTTAGE CHEESE adds the light touch to every winter menu. Dairy-fresh flavor, that’s the light cottage cheese — PET, YOU BET! AUDITOR’S 1967 TAX ASSESSMENT NOTICE Returns of personal property, boats, motors, trailers, mobile homes, real property, new buildings and real estate trans fers and poll tax are to be made at the County Auditor’s of fice beginning: January 3rd, 1967 THROUGH February 28th, 1967 All able-bodied male citizens between the ages of twenty- one and sixty are liable to $1.00 poll tax. All returns are to be made by Tax Districts. Your failure to make return calls for penalty as prescribed by law. JANETTE K. HAMM Auditor Newberry County