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PAGE 2—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, June 15, 1967 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 advance. Six months $1.25 COMMENT on Men & Things By J. K. BREEDIN Well, Well!! So the great enemy of our day is not the cigarette!! In The Wall Street Journal, New York’s great daily and beacon light, I read the following: "A team of cancer research ers found wide variations in the amounts of tar and nicotine yielded by 5f> brands of cigar- etts, and suggested that manu facturers could aid m the con trol of diseases associated with cigarettes by changing their products. The study, conducted by Or. (leorge E. Moore and his associates at the Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., was presented in Cancer, a magazine of the American Can cer Society. The researchers found that tar yield in filter cigarets was influenced by the length of the cigaret and the weight of the filter, while tar yield in non filter cigarets was influenced largely by the length of the cigaret. ‘It seems clear that the man ufacturers are able to produce cigarets with almost any yield of tar and nicotine from very low to very high’, the report said. ‘This potentiality is im portant in the control of diseas es caused by cigaret smoking'.” So you see. As a mere layman, knowing very little of the chemistry of food, or drink, of the great theories and guesses of path ologic, my guess is that alcoholic beverages are many times more harmful than even the regular smoking of five packs of cigarettes each day. Mark you, 1 am not arguing that the con stant smoking of anything is helpful. f think over-eating and the consumption of some fancy con coctions at the table can do more harm than smoking cigar I do not refer to over eating as to quantity, but the mixtiue involved in many fancy dishe. E very 11 me 1 read t lie cant ion which appears on a package of cigarettes 1 think of it as dis playing an exaggerated fear, which means very little more than the daily bottle soft drinks i ..lining up to eight or ten bottles a day Even a dozen cups id’ srong coffee may prove deleterious, though neither the coffee nor the soft drinks will incite one to crime. Nor will the c.gareltt do that But no war ning of cautam or admonition appeal s on a flask of hard liquor or on several glasses of wine. Information abounds on .ev ery hand. I> Id you know that Sears, Roebuck publishes a very fine, informative and read able magazine? So does The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. I read both of them with enjoyment. Often annual reports of great corporations contain very readable and informative ar ticles. From a quarterly report of Standard Oil I quote: “At the Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi, Texas, while planes take off and land. Hum ble Oil is producing oil an 1 gas from reservoirs directly be neath several of the runways. The company now has 29 oil and gas wells on the base, all of which had to be drilled witHout interference with flights or other base operations. No rigs could be erected either in the developed portion of the air station or in flight patterns that extend well beyond the sides and ends of all the run ways. What made the job pos sible was directional drilling— drilling at an angle away from the drill site instead of straight down in the conventional man ner. The deepest well extends slantwise under three runways and was completed G,7f>5 feet below a taxi strip which is more than three quarters of a mile from the drill site. “Humble has carried on an active exploration and produc ing program in the Pacific Coast states since 1948, and the company’s share of crude oB production from California fields now amounts to 28,00b barrels a day. Probably the most interesting of its hold ings is the offshore Belmont Field, developed from an arti ficial island which was built up from the ocean floor. Currently, Humble is operating 45 produc ing wells from the island. In recognition of the growing importance of road transporta tion in Pakistan’s expanding economy, Esso Packistan has opened a new trucking facility which offers, in addition to complete automotive servicing, a variety of services for the truckers. Located 15 miles out side Karachi, it is appropriate ly named ‘Manzil,’ which means destination or home. Daily, around the clock, hundreds of truckers use the station’s ac commodations, which include a 25 bed dormitory, baths, a res taurant which serves meals on a 24-hour basis, a barber shop, and the services of four mass- uers. The success of the ven ture is already evident from the rate at which sales are elimhing. In the kingdom of Libya, two and a half times the size ot Texas, most of its 1.5 million people are concentrated in two cities. Tripoli and Benghazi, which aic more than GOO miles apart, while the rest live in .-cat Vi ed, and m .Mime cases ,ulated, villages and towns. To help overcome this problem of communication, the government is undertaking a massive road building program m which Esso Standaid Libya's marketing de partment is a major participant as a supplier of asphalt, fuels, and lubricants. The largest project is the widening and resurtacing of the road which runs along t h e Mediterranean from the Tun- i.-ian border on the west to tin' l mted A rah Republic on the east, a distance of 1,81)0 miles. There has probably been a road along this coast from a t least Roman times. The existing road was built in the 19,'H)s, and, ac cording to long-time residents, tli ■ foundation, consisting of large stones, was built entirely by hand. Even with modern methods, the project now undei way will take two and a half years to complete. A smaller but equally imag inative program is the 130-mile extension to a road which al ready runs 700 miles into the desert. For this project, Esso will supply all the asphalt, fuels and lubricants. Servicing this account will mean setting up one of the longest supply lines The Year That Was As the General Assembly ap proaches adjournment, it seems appropriate to look backward to the legislative “year that was.” What kind of year was 19G7, and where do we go from here? First, the facts clearly in dicate that no other Legisla ture in recent years has had to face up to so many complex and controversial issues. Reapportionment and a reas onable law on liquor have caus ed many difficult moments and headaches galore. However, when the smoke clears, we believe that 19G7 will be considered a year of responsible legislative action positive progress for the State of South Carolina. One of the major accomp lishments we’re especially proud of is the streamlining of State Government which has occurred. As a result of either consolidation or re-structuring, the following new bodies were created: The Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism. The Higher Education Co ordinating Commission. The Mental Retardation Commission. The Water Resources Com mission. The Department of Archives and History. These changes in the struc ture of State Government should enable us to provide THE MANI0N FORUM By MARILYN MANION America is a land in which the “common man” has come into his own. The average citi zen—not the wealthy, or the elite, but the AVERAGE—en joys a wealth of material things. It is no longer a mark of status for one to own an automobile, or to be able to buy canned and 'frozen foods for daily use. Millions of “av erage," middle-class Americans take for granted such former luxuries as ready - to-wear clot H ing, electrical appliances, television sets, and handsome home furnishings. This mass consumption by "the masses” is made possible by mass production, by free en terprise, and by business as a whole. Yet, the average man who reaps all of the benefits is likely to consider “business” as a bad word. Why ? Because the average person doesn’t know what bus iness has done for him. Be cause the subject of economies is widely misunderstood. Mr. Donald I. Rogers, for mer Business and Political Ed itor of the New York Herald- Tribune, addressed himself to this subject on a recent Manion Forum radio program. He commented on an economics textbook prepared by the Com mittee for Economic Develop ment—a book designed to be used in our secondary school svstems. in the history' of petroleum product marketing. The run from Esso’s product supply- terminal in Tripoli to the con struction site will take three and a half days, and trucks making the run will consume over 300 gallons of fuel.” our people more services at less cost. At the same time, we are continuing to stress inter agency cooperation at all lev els. In the months immediately ahead, we will be pursuing numerous studies ranging from total health needs to space utilization at our educational plants. On the basis of these studies we will develop long- range plans enabling South Carolina to meet needs sys tematically. Next year, major emphasis will be placed on agriculture and continued progress in ed ucation. We are grateful to be moving forward so fast and to be moving forward together. “Let me list just a few of the points made in that book,” said Rodgers. “These, inciden tally, were offered as facts. The book says that advertising increases the cost of products. Most children know that ad vertising results in mass-con sumption which permits mass- production, and that mass pro duction produces lower prices. “The book says that individ ual economic incentives in the Communis societies do not differ greatly from those in the American economy. In other words, kiddies, there’s not much difference between a tot ally socialistic economy and ours, so what’s all the fuss about?” Fortunately, not too many children will be forced to “learn” such “facts,” for Mr. Rogers points out that “gener ally, the secondary schools of the nation forego economic in struction in depth. Less than half of those who go to col lege will receive any great ex- Your Medicine Chest Every six months your medi cine chest should b6 cleaned out and all drugs thrown away! Did you know that? Many peo ple don’t. The fact that drugs can change their chemical com position with age makes it risky to keep them longer than six months; in fact, what was last year’s mild sedative can be to day s lethal toxin. Nov/, when it comes time to re stock that shiningly empty cabi net, the Metal Tube Packaging Council offers these tips on what to put in it: • A supply of gauze, band ages, adhesive tape, adhe sive dressing, sterile gauze squares, absorbent cotton, safety pins, and a pair of scissors. • A modern, soothing antisep tic ointment. Get it in a metal tube to be sure it will retain its strength. • Several skin burn ointments, again in a metal tube for strength protection and eas ier application. • Spirits of ammonia. • An infection-preventing ointment for cuts, bruises, or various types of skin breaks. • A medicated ointment to soothe pulled or strained muscles. A duplicate of these items makes a good first aid kit, too, to keep in the glove compartment of your car. You never know when you might need them. Aspirin? Should you include a supply of aspirin? Well, with such a convenient collection of health necessities, being pre- pared is no headache! That’s how easy does it. posure to economic fundamen tals. They grow up, eventually, to become business leaders, but still lack general comprehension about economics. This is true also with the future political leaders. But the major portion of all campaign issues are economic. These people grow up to be voters and they are asked to select between candidates who have espoused different eco nomic points of view. The de cision, then, rests in the hands of a population which, for the most part, lacks sufficient knowledge to make a sound de cision. “The wonder is,” concluded Rogers, “that as a nation we do so well.” Don’t Forget The Insurance In storage, on the road or in the water your boat and accessories are subject to fire, theft or loss of some kind. Give your investment the protection it deserves. Insurance, including liability, is available in any combination at a reasonable rate. I “YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS” 1418 Main Street Phone 276-1422