The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, February 15, 1968, Image 2
PAGE 2—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Feb. 15, 1968
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COMMENT
on
Men & Things
B> J. K. BREEDIN
Rack yonder, in the distant
and remote aeo of our fathers
and grandfathers, wood was
the fuel and ome elderly men
of
today can
n member
how-
am
i win
ui the
v M \\'
ung the
axe,
if
not
m tin
for
est certainly
i n
thr
back
\ ard.
Although I
am
Still
in robust
youth I,
too
r- i-
aa t
boo
day
of vino
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and
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b, coal.
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pi i\vr r
and -o on.
Life
1 -
now
l'r|,lr'
tr W
itb comf
o r t s
arii
1 run vr n iron ■ *
)ur boys
and
Mir
n arc
glow
111 g -
oft w ith t
1 a S y
livi
ng.
(
lid i
lad ci
mid
tell a
fi’W
till
n g s ;
about
thr
problem
of
flM
•1 m
cold,
wet
weal her.
bake
you r
choir
■r today
and
-rt
a -
r a Sr.
( boo.
r from
oil.
L’; t
S, r o;
a 1 , r 1 r
rtricity and t
'cvef
i n
joyful living.
V mv,
as to
ci >a!
: it is 11\
' Ill)
me
ans
so m r t lung
of the
dis-
(ant pa
q. Lot
this
-ink in now:
•
‘ Tim
■c bun
dl'rd
t rainload
s of
ri.nl will he pureha .'d annually
h\ tin South < a ro! i na 1'lleet rie
A- fins ro,n pan y to p rov uh t ml
for its ttiree major steam pen -
erati tip plants, aceordmp to
N'irpil Summer, vice presid
cut of operations.
'1’he unit trains, of 72 cars
each and containing at least
ri.OOO tons of coal, hepan ar-
rivinp at f’anadys in Colleton
county. Plant rrquhart in Ai
ken county and at Plant Me-
M.ekin at l.ake Murray last
week.
Summer .aid that the com
pany had contracted to huy
l.r.nnuno tons of coal a \ear
from mines principally in east
ern Kentucky and western \ ir-
wmia Coal i.- luoupht from thi 1
mines hy three railroads —the
Clmchfield, the Chesapeake <5:
t )hio and the Louisville A’ Xash-
vi 11 • and passed alonp to the
Sealioard ('oastline for delivery
tu the three plants.
Special equipment is used to
unload the coal to conveyor
holts which lift it to storupe
areas fn>m which other convey
or, take the coal into the pen-
oratmp plants.
Before tin* company entered
mtii the contracts for unit
trains, coal was delivered in un
oven lots as tin 1 railroads also
arned shipments of other
poods in the same train. Now
the entire train is devoted to
coal, all of it helonpinp to the
Klectric & Cas company.
Summer said that he estim
ated a savinps in freipht of he
tween 10 and 15 per cent an
nually hy use of the unit traini
and he cited the new arrange
ment as another effort on tin
nart of the company to con-
inue to provide electricity at
o\v rates.
'Because of risinp costs in
many otlu'r f iclds, we must
make economies, such as this to
“YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS”
1418 Main Street Phone 276-1422
keep the price of electricity at
the present level’, Summer said.
Joe Ford, fuel coordinator,
said he gives the mines and rail
roads seven days notice prior to
the required shipment date and
allows three to four days for
transit. Railroads notify him
when the train will arrive and
specially trained power comp
any crews begin the unloading
as soon as the train arrives.
The company has 16 hours to
complete the unloading but so
far has accomplished it in
much less time.”
Three hundred train loads,—
not carloads; a train of coal
may have 72 big gondolas which
may contain five thousand tons
of coal each.
That great company uses
every means which a resource
ful experience can suggest to
oawe its vast company of pat
rons at the lowest possible cost.
We art' a people difficult to
understand. At least our gov-
ernment is difficult to under
stand. For example,, we are
-pending billions of dollars,
thousands of young lives, more
than a thousand planes—and
only tlie fjreat Jehovah knows
the full extent of our spending.
If we are trying to curb com
munism why go to Asia when
Cuba is at our door?
If we try to wage war why
don’t we devite our vast re
sources to puprosefel battle?
If we have great fleets at
hand why didn’t we take a firm
hand with Korea? Can you im
agine a more wavering, wishy-
washy policy than that of our
leaders? Are we tying the
hand- of Admirals and Gener
als? Are we waging wa» from
desks in W ashington? It is
difficult to reconcile ou»' coarse
with real war.
One hesitates to impu‘e er
ror to Commanders in the field
but why was that lone little
gunboat in Korean waters?
and why did not the Command
in' call for aid at the first in
dication of hostility?
And now that we have sent
the mammoth Enterprise to
Korea one or two bombs or
mines may disable it.
What is the trouble with us;
we act like weak people. Even
in Vietnam, why are we carry
ing on a sort of limited war
fare? Why limited? Why
aren’t we using full force if
we are there at all? What, why
and how? Ask yourself, each
one of you.
I wish the American Com
mando)' of the ship captured at
Korea h;
;ni
1 had a
few
grains of
the old-
! ::
nr trac
iition
al s
punk.
such as
D
ewev had. He
would
have go
IU
■ down
sho(
iting. If
the ('apt:
litl of
the
mammofh
Lnterpri
■ would
havt
* St ‘
nt an
of fit U' W!
th this
message
: Re-
lease tin
shin am
d nn
ii and re-
turn thr
m
safe and so
und
w i t h -
in Jn minutes or
I'll i.
1 (> w
every
ship y"
{i
have
to d
amn
at am.
But alas
and alar
k. Th
osr
brave
day- ati
over. T
k ida v
we
an’
more tin
a i
i Ike! y
to S
end
floW-
• rs and
i
■oni i'll :merit s
to
I he
Koreans.
I thin
k
the A
mm i(
■an
-pi rit
nmi- a
h
it of bi-
a r i n y
'. a
good.
.-tiff do
t •
of ataui
-rd s
nitiment ;
wr havt
become
vie!
i ms
of a
profoum:
!
inertia.
t hat
has
en-
freolrd
m
Where
is the s
udr :t
of
t he
leaders
w
ho call.
■d oi
t th
e e n -
rmv to .
mi
rrender
"In
tile
name
of the groat Jehovah and the
('out mental (’ongress. "
I > thoro a Robert F. Lee. a
Stonewall Jackson, a Jeb
Stuart in our leadership today?
Or are we paralyzed by the in
ertia of desk leaders?
We have a great navy and
a mighty flotilla of planes; and
we spend billions every year
on defense, but at the first
breath of war we find ourselves
impotent. Why?
Why do we have reserves if
they are not subject to call in
emergency ?
Mr. afid Mrs. Charles B.
Payne have moved to 1524 B.
Martin street to make theii
home.
“WHATSOEVER
THINGS”
By DONALD E. WILDMON
We have three children.
Timmy is our oldest. Angela is
next and Donna Lou is the
baby. Donna Lou is two. Timmy
will be five on March 6 and
Angela will be four on the same
day. We love our children and
like most parents have dreams
for them.
On June 1, 1963 I wrote a
letter to Timmy which is today
also a letter to his two younger
sisters. In it is included my
dream for all our children.
Timmy was three months old
the day I wrote it. I would like
to share it with you.
“Dear Timmy—Today you are
three months old. Not very old
to have brought us as much
happiness as you already have
to your mother and me. One
day before long I will look into
your eyes and see a grown man.
Now when I look at you I al
ways see a little laugh upon
your face. I pray that you will
remain laughing all your life.
May you not grow to accept the
world hut to make it a better
place to live. May you face
enough disappointment to ap
preciate happiness and enough
happiness to overcome disap
pointment. May you be rich in
the material blessings of lift 1
hut in love for your fellowman.
May you trust in God hut not
depend upon Him to do the
work He depends upon you to
do. May you be strong not only
in body, but in mind and spirit
and love of God’s wonderful
world. May you never forget
that there are people in this
world who are not as fortunate
as you and that they, in a real
sense, depend upon you to help
them better themselves. I hope,
son, that you will accomplish
the things I fail, yet he an in
dividual unto yourself. Be brave
—yet cautious. Re strong—yet
gentle. Be true and honest and
harm no man because he, too,
is a child of God.
Yes, son, now you are small
and depend upon your mother
and me. And when we lift you
up you laugh. You are worth
more to us than all the gold in
the world. Yet some day you
will grow to be a man. Accept
the responsibility and protect
your rights. Little Tim—that’s
what w r e call you now—will be
a man some day and your
mother and I pray that he will
be good and just and true. Any
thing less would not be what
God expects. I love you, son.
Daddy.”
That letter doesn’t mean much
to our children now. They are
too young to understand. May
be when they are old enough
to realize that they are living
in an imperfect veorld with im
perfect people it will help to
keep their values straight. And
you know, if we can keep their
values straight other things
will have a way of falling into
place.
It could he that we adults
need to take another look at
our values. Some of them seem
a little confused. Have you
looked at yours lately?
ON DFTY IN ENGLAND
A L('ON BURY, ENGLAND:
Technical Sergeant James J.
Da veil putt, whose wife, Come,
is the daughter of Mrs. Geneva
Long, Route 3, Prosperity, has
arrived for duty at Alconbury
RAF Station, England.
Sergeant Davenport, a main
tenance scheduler, is assigned
to a unit of the U. S. Air
Forces in Europe. He previous
ly served at Webb AFR, Tex.
The sergeant attended Bush
River High School.
STEADFAST...LOYAL
... THRIFTY!
This month, we celebrate the birthdays of George Wash
ington and Abraham Lincoln.
Great men. whose steadfast loyalty in the face of ad
versity has inspired Americans ever since Both men
also emphasized the Importance of husbanding part of
today’s resources for tomorrow.
The greatest honor we can pay these illustrious fore
fathers is to imitate their virtues—steadfastness, loyalty,
and thrift!
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