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PAGE 1 — The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, August 7, 1969 P218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $3.00 per year in advance. Six Months $2.00. COMMENT on Men & Things By J. K. BREEDIN Here we are greeting August. Now what is AugusU My mem ory goes back to August of many years ago when, as a lad, I worked for a time in a tabacco warehouse. The word warehouse is still list'd in tiie towns where the tobacco farmers sell their tobacco at auction So far as I know the same method of sales are used today Now .August can mean some thing other than a big room, hot and choked with dust, it may be used with thought of some great old Roman named August in the days of August, t h e Romans, the} rode on horseback and not m a SoU thousand ear such as being prepared for the President of the Piuted States, according to reports Tobacco is a groat crop thru out the Pee 1 >ee For example, the acreage allowed tor to bacco. ordinarily a harm allow ed a hundred acres oi cotton may not have more than an allowance of ten acres nl to bacco. except m cases of those whose land has been producing tobacco probably a generation or two. We do not plant all the crops favored bv our great grandfath ers. but cotton and corn and to bacco are still found, but the soybean has invaded the land and is becoming a great favor ite. We have, for example, cot tonseed oil and soybean oil. In my childhood we had cot ton on virtually every farm and corn for feeding the stock and the people. Then we discovered oil in the cotton seed, but we found more; cotton seed meal and other by-products. ('i! That is the great sub ject of the day Ships c o m e from Asia. Africa, with oil. The world uses oil in unbelievable quantities. <nd for everything. 1 am not a chemist and can't tell you all the uses of oil. hut if I could tell you the wonder ful service of oil in lubrication, illumination, and the scores of other things you would be amaz ed. Oil is the modern magic, and so I w< mler too about some small matters; do you think we will ever extract oil from peach es or the peel from peaches - .' It seems highly unlikely but who can foresee the marvelous dev elopment and utilization of scores of kinds of oil 9 The genius of man is so un predictable that we can be pre pared for new oil every gener ation. Let me remind you of the marvelous utilization not only in the fiber but the vast wealth in the seed; oil, meal and whatnot. Along with the use of cotton and corn, vegetables and a score of fruits and erains. we Direct Writer Independent Agent WHEN YOU BUY INSURANCE YOU HAVE A CHOICE A dir i*c t wi iter sells for one company. In settling claims he repuesents you against the firm that employs him on a full time salary. An independent agent represents many compa- mes but only on a commission basis. Your inter ests come first and if a difference of opinion arises the agent is for you. WHO CAN BEST REPRESENT YOUR INTERESTS? YOU DECIDE! “YOUR PRIVATE RANKERS” 1418 Main Street Phone 276-1422 may hope for a commensurate development of the human brain as well as the human spirit. The enlargement of intellectual ach ievement and the human spirit offers the vastest development of both brain and spirit. The human brain and the di vine spirit within us will be the hope for an enlargement of hu man beings of a scope like the development of the many ele ments of ordinary products to enrich the world. You have heard much said about the Constitution of the United States. It was once a very valid power; that was in the days of John C.Calhoun, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, remembering also Robert Y. Hayne, one time the eloquent Senator who almost backed Dan iel Webster off the boards. In the days of the National lead ership of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and L B. John son the Constitution was allow ed to stay on a shelf out of sight and the Congress held full sway. More recently the Federal Su preme Court has seemed inclin ed to make its own laws. For some time 1 have urged the Congress to exercise its con stitutional authority over the Supreme Court. In order to be entirely accur ate I may quote what the Con stitution says about the powers of the Supreme Court: '‘In all cases affecting ambassadors, ot her public ministers, and con suls and those in which a State shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original juris diction. In all other cases be fore mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate juris diction, both as to law- and fact, with such exceptions and under such regulations as the Con gress shall make". So you see, the Congress has power to define the scope of the Supreme Court. The General Assembly seems to have adjourned, though like the strike settlement in Charles ton, it may not be definitive. Some of us had begun to think that the Legislature would ad journ just in time to vote a Christmas present for each one from the funds of the State. The two outstanding Demo crats of South Carolina are Ed gar A. Brown and Solomon Blatt both of Barnwell County; both top ranking members of the Le gislature. So now the United States government has dealt a sharp blow at Barnwell County, depriving it of about $200,000 in school money. 1 challenge the right of the Federal Government to w i t h- hold that money from Barnwell County; but I challenge the right of the Federal Govern ment to give any money to any county. The scope of authority of the Federal Government, as laid down in the Constitution, does not include or contemplate the granting of money to school dis tricts within a State; nor has it any lawful authority so far as the States and the Schools are concerned. We urgently need a John C. Calhoun to define powers of the Federal Government and its limitations. Forestry Board / accomplishments are reviewed The Annual meeting of the Newberry County F o r e s t r y Board was held recently to re view the S. C. State Commis sion of Forestry’s program in the county, according to Legare M. Duke, District Forester of the Newberrry District. Highlights of Forestry Com mission activities and accom plishments in forest fire preven tion and control, reforestation, and forest management assist ance programs during the past fiscal year were given. In sum marizing 4he fire control acti vities, it was noted that 28 wild fires burned 91.6 acres. This compares with 34 wild fires that burned 175.9 acres during the same period last year. During the past fiscal year Newberry County personnel pre sented 65 fire prevention pro grams to various groups in the county. Following a review of the 1968-69 accomplishments, t h e Board discussed plans for the county for the 1969-70 fiscal year. Members present at the Board meeting were Chairman H. M. Hentz and J. W. Henderson of Newberry, C. C. Wallace of Ja- lapa and Sam Derrick of Little Mountain. County Ranger Alf Dorroh, Fire Control Assistant Hugh Westbury and Newberry Dist rict Forester L. M. Duke also attended the meeting. Youngsters to be tested for handicaps “Many South Carolina young sters are suffering from handi caps at birth that are never dis covered until they enter school” Dr. E. Kenneth Aycock, state health officer, said. “To deal with this the State Board of Health has begun screening cli nics for handicapping conditions in children in many counties. “At child health conferences nurses will look for all the phy sical. emotional and develop mental handicaps which pre vent a child from doing his best in his earliest years. And these handicaps can be anything from poor hearing to club feet. “We plan to get a picture of the child’s progress in four areas. First of all his ‘gross motor progress'; a check to in sure that he can sit and walk normally, etc.; the second is a test for ‘fine motor development’ one example of this is placing a raisin near a six-months-old baby to see if he can pick it up. There will also be a lan guage development test which will show whether the child's speech is progressing on sched ule. This particular test gives an indication of his hearing abil ity as well, and suggests the de gree of intellectual stimulation he receives at home. “A test for his social develop ment will be whether he can play pat-a-cake at six months, another check which indicates home stimulation more than act ual basic intelligence. “Our county health nurses will be trained to give screen ing tests and will have kits con taining such simple devices as a hand bell to check hearing, a small box of raisins to test motor development. One or more nurses from each of the 18 Health Districts attended a two- weeks course in this field in Columbia on February 17-28. This course, taught by Miss Jean Rebentisch of the Michi gan State Health Department, was designed to strengthen the nurses ability to observe the over and under development of the children, as well as to ob serve physical defects.” Dr. Aycock said the Board of Health now has on its staff a pediatrician and pediatric nurse who will give assistance to any county healthdep artmentinset- county health department in set ting up such a screening clinic and that the Board plans to of fer a consultant to every county within the next six months. “One of the important aspects of these clinics is that they can be conducted by the trained nurses. This will allow the county physicians more time to attend to routine health clinics” he said. “Our next aim is a level of care in which each Health Dis trict will have a pediatric (chil dren’s) clinic, every one man ned by a pediatrician and other team members needed for the evaluation of abnormal children who have been referred to them by the screening program, from schools and from private phy sicians. “Of course these clinics are not designed to treat children with acute diseases. Rather they are to evaluate abnormalities, and make recommendations for further treatment. Nowadays so many children are entering school with defects that should have been treated earlier. It has been demonstrated many times that a defect discovered early can be corrected more effect ively and at much less expense. Since there are not enough doc tors to serve all these children in the initial evaluations, we ex pect this new system to utili- ize to the fullest the medical talent that the Board of Health has ” NOTICE OF SECOND READING Second Reading’ of An Ordinance which would amend the City of Newberry Code of Ordinances, 1960 , as it pertains to the adoption of the Southern Building Code, adopted in 1963 as the “'latest Edition, thereof” | and substitute in lieu thereof, “the 1965 Edition,” will be held at Reg ular Meeting of City Council in Council Room, City Hall, Newberry, S. C., on August 12, 1969, at 7:30 P. M. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL