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PAGE 6—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, August 22, 1968 Glymph wins freedom award U. S. Air Force Captain Robert P. Glymph, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Glymph, of Route 2, Pomaria. is a winner in the 1967 Freedoms Found ation at Valley Forge letter writing contest. He received the George Washington Honor Medal at Sioux City Air Base, Iowa, from General R. H. Dot- tre, commander of the 30th Air Division. Captain Glymph, who is sta tioned at the Sioux City base, won the medal for his entry on the subject, “Freedom—My Heritage, My Responsibility.” The captain wrote i n part, “Americans are on guard to night. We are proud to write our paragraph In the history of freedom.” He is an information officer at the air base. The Freedoms Foundation contest was part of the organi zation’s 19th annual awards program to recognize unusual understanding and appreciation of the American way of life. Capt. Glymph, a graduate of Pomaria High School, received a B.A. degree in journalism from the University of South Carolina, where he was com missioned upon completion of the Air Force Reserve Offic ers Training Corps program He is a member of Sigma Del ta Chi. The captain’s wife, Gloria, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irving I. Seidenberg of East Brunswick, N. J. 1 k Dr. George S. Benson President NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM Searcy, Arkansas i HIGH COST OF LIVING When you go into • your grocery store or super-market tomorrow the cashier’s tabula tion of your basket of groceries will be approximately 5% more in dollar cost than it was for exactly the same selection of items a year ago. This is the rate of inflation in which all Americans now are caught. It is a high rate, a very danger ous eating away of financial stability — in our nation and in everybody’s home. The two basic causes are these: Wage rates being boosted without regard to how much the worker is producing, and Federal Government spending of borrowed money. We have discussed the Federal Government deficit spending factor. Now we want to look at the “Cost-Push” inflation in the grocery basket and on everything else you buy. Wealth Must be Produced Wealth is created when a natural resource is made into something useful that people need or want. The market value added to the raw re source by processing, manu facturing, distributing and marketing services is the new wealth being created. Real wealth is created in no other manner. The American economic sys tem for 150 years has provided improving economic progress for all Americans by constant ly making merchandise avail able at constantly lower prices — in other words, spreading the new wealth. Mass produc tion and volume sales get prices down — unless labor cost (which represents about 80% in the total price of most goods) goes up faster than man-hour production. If it does, the price of goods goes up instead of down. This is an over - simplified explanation, but it is basically correct. Because it is so important to the welfare of all Americans, let's look at an example of the basic economic law: If 1,000 automobile workers, who are producing 100 new automobiles a week and receiving wages of $30 a day, would next month' demand wages of $40 a day while their output of automo biles remained at 100, the cost of producing the automobile would, of course, be greater, if their wage demand were granted. Who Foots the Bill? Who, actually, is to pay the added production cost? If the manufacturer attempts t o “absorb” it, he would jeopar dize and in time undoubtedly eliminate the funds he must save for improvement and re placement of machine tools, plant expansion, improvement of working conditions, im provement of mass production techniques, and for product and production research. This would jeopardize the future economic progress of the workers in that plant. The plant soon would be out of step with progress. If the manufacturer decides to make stockholders take “the rap” for the added production cost — with a drastic cut in dividends — the manufacturer is jeopardizing his credit and his ability to raise money from investors later when he wants to build additional plants and create new jobs and perhaps new products. If the manufacturer decides to increase the price of the product, the price rise goes through the entire chain — wholesaler, distributor, re tailer, consumer. The product becomes higher priced on the market. Ip the case of the automobile, the increased price could wipe out the manu facturer’s foreign market; it certainly would make him less competitive with foreign market, and it certainly would make him less competitive with foreign automobile im ports into the U. S. And this jeopardizes the jobs of all the 1,000 automobile workers. If the company’s sales go down, the work force will have to be cut. And so forth. The Dangerous Koad This is one way inflation-fed depressions are brought on — with their widespread suffer ing by all the people. A little inflation is like a little mor phine when taken over a long period of time — destructive and ultimately fatal. For 20 years, because of the habitual deficit spending of our Federal Government (making every dollar cheaper), and the con stantly rising cost of produc tion and services due to wage rate rises above man-hour pro duction improvement, inflation has been sapping the dollar value at an average rate of about 2% a year. But now, in 1968, inflation is climbing at the rate of 5% . . . extremely harmful and dangerous! We want to see wage rates rise, of course; it is in the in terest of every American for everybody to get higher in comes. But we must not forget that higher incomes must come from higher productivity — or else, in the end, they will col lapse, unemployment will be come widespread, and every body will suffer. Vegetables Grow—On Americans “Eat your vegetables” is an age-old exhortation by mothers around the country, and it’s no surprise that most of us grew up regarding assorted greens with little love and less respect. Yet vegetables have delicious person alities and need only a dash of culinary ingenuity and TLC (tender loving care) to bring out their best sides. “In America most homemakers give vegetables a raw deal,” says Jane Morris of Pennsylvania’s Wise Potato Chip Company, one of the nation’s largest vegetable processors. “They’re either un dercooked, overdrowned, or pre pared in such routine ways as to bring sighs of dismay rather than delight from family diners.” A vegetable dish is only as in teresting as you make it. And there are many inventive ways to treat this step-child of food. Here are some recipe sug gestions from the Wise test kitchens that can turn yester day’s vegetable gloom at your dinner table into tomorrow’s vegetable boom. The tomato, usually sliced and saladed, or pureed into soup or sauce, can also stand on its own as a marvelous side dish. Con sider making a baked tomato with a tangy chip-cheese topping. Easy does it: halve it, season with salt and pepper, and bake in a moderate oven for 15 minutes. Then add a slice of cheese and top it off with half a cup of finely crushed potato chips. Back into the oven for another ten minutes, and it’s all finished ... except for the oohing and ahing. Another way to make vegeta bles more appealing is to serve them in unusual combinations. Frozen corn and fresh mush rooms are a tender duo with half a cup of crumbled potato chips to add the final filip of flavor, this combination takes on a gourmet flair. Even vegetable leftovers get a new lease on life with a little bit of originality. Take leftovers. Add a can of creamed soup — mushroom, celery, potato, or to mato will do nicely. Put the mixture in a casserole dish and garnish the top with crunchy, flavorful Wise potato chips, coarsely crumbled. The chip, the all-American snack, is great as is, of course. But when used as a cooking ingredient, it transforms the most pedestrian vegetable dish into an exciting delicacy. You’ll find your family will take a fancy to vegetables when you get a little fancier in prepar ing them. The fish known as “sea trout” to Southerners is the spotted weakfish. In Nova Scotia, the name applies to a sea-run brook trout.—Sports Afield The Alaska brown bear is the largest carnivorous animal on earth.—Sports Afield BARBECUE SUPPER The Jolly Street Community Center will serve a pork supper on Saturday, August 31. Supper will be ready at 5 p. m. Meat and hash will be on sale at 5:00 p. m. The public is invited. 2tc Smokey Says: In any language, Smokey’s message is Hie same! HAPPY BIRTHDAY Aug. 25: J. W. Earhardt, Jr. J. Boyd Robertson, Wayne Mar tin, J. W. Warner, Ila Mae Sub- er, Homer O. Epting, Sr., Mrs Herbert Bedenbaugh, Miss An- inee Dominick, Jean B. Brown, Donna Shealy, O. L. Cook, Jr., Mrs. Sarah Graham, Mrs. F. C. Merchant, Billy Nichols. Aug. 26: Bobby Summer, Faye Langford, Mrs. Effie Hen drix, Charles Cromer, Ijinda Cousins Hutson, Delora Patricia Leslie, J. O. Jenkins, Winnie D. Senn, Mrs. T. A. Scarborough, Nichols. Aug. 27: Jeanette Bergen Kirkland, M. L. Youmans, Sue Ward, Mrs. W. H. Ashbaugh, Mrs. Hprace Cromer, Andrew David Eargle, Mary Margaret Parr. Aug. 28: Louise Wicker, Mil dred Long Unger, Jane Fellows Sandra Kinard, Julia Hazel, Lawrence Graham, D. P. Folk II, Mary DeHart. Aug. 29: Mrs. George Way. Carrie W. Whitener, Mrs. Bill Long, Mrs. L. B. Davis, Joan Fuller, Marshall Lipscomb, Sandra Kay Stewart. Aug. 30: Maude Spotts, Da vid Dominick, Nancy Senn. Harold Bennett, Rosalyn Fret- well. Aug. 31: B. F. Dawkins, Prof. T. E. Epting, Collier Neel, John W. Chappell, Sammie Cook Graham, Mrs. David Ringer, Frasier Sanders, Harry Stone, Jr., Mrs. Robert Daniels, Linda Swygert, Fannie Mae Sease. BEAUTIFICATION MEETING SET The Newberry County Beau tification meeting will be held Wednesday, August 28 at 11:00 a. m. in the council chambers at city hall. Newberry County has been named the second quarter win ner for Group I in the Gover nor’s beautification program. The presentation of the plaque will be made at this brief meeting. Three Newberry fireman have completed training cour ses and received certificates from Mayor Clarence Shealy during council meeting last Tuesday night. From left are Mayor Shealy, Earl L. Dominick, and David L. Whitman, who completed a special fire problems course sponsored by the N. C. Department of Insurance; and B. Boyce Bun- drick, who attended a structural fire fighting school at the U. S. Naval Station, Norfolk, Va. (Sunphoto) CLASS Limited Number Can Be Accepted For CLASS To Be Held TUESDAY, AUG. 27 At 5:00 P. M. CALL 276-5210 Sponsored By NEWBERRY LUMBER CO. and GUDDEN PAINT CO.