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PAGE 4—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, July 23, 1970
New officers of the Newberry Exchange
Club are shown at the club’s Tuesday
night meeting. From left, seated, are Ev-
erette Summer, recording secretary; J.
Frank Gilfillan, secretary; C. W. Smith,
vice-president and F. V. Bradfield, presi
dent. Standing, from left, Waymon Gib
son, chaplain; Charles Bussey, editor of
the Exchange Bulletin for the past year,
holding a Certificate of Merit which the
club received for its bulletin; Gordon S.
Leslie, district president who presented
awards; Jack Goree, captain of the win
ning team for attendance; George W. Sum
mer, membership chairman, holding Cer
tificate of Merit for attendance, and An
drew Shealy with past president’s plaque.
Not present for the photo was Kibler
Moon, newy-elected treasurer.
(Sunphoto)
Dry weather
lowers
population
Hot and dry days have brought
South Carolina a low mosquito
rate. The State Board of Health
counts them by sending a brave
entomologist into a mosquito
area wearing a white shirt.
Without any repellent on his ex
posed skin, he stands absolutely
still for one minute and totals
the number which land on the
front o f his shirt. If one lights
on the back of his neck or even
bites him, he remains motion
less, moving only his eyes to
tabulate the ‘landing rate” of
mosquitoes.
These entomologists and all
the Board’s Vector Control staff
are amidst their summer war:
distributing 5,000 gallons of in
secticides to towns for spray
ing; contracting planes and heli
copters to fog inaccessible land;
draining and filling ditches, and
breeding predator (larvae eat
ing) fish to place in ponds and
streams. This is their many
pronged attack toward mos
quito control.
The real problem in South
Carolina is man-made, not pro
duced by nature, the Board says.
Man has dammed up streams,
changed the natural drainage
of lands by construction, stack
ed up moisture holding dumps,
and dyked in lifeless stretches
of salt silt on the coast—all the
most sought after suburbs of
mama and papa mosquitoes.
Forty-four of the forty-six
counties have some type of vect
or control program. (A vector
is an insect that transmits a
disease). Most of them larvi-
cide breeding areas with non
toxic sprays, new chemicals un
harmful to fish or wildlife—or
even man life. A child could
swim in the water immediately
after it is sprayed.
Airplane spraying is a last
resort. When mosquitoes get so
thick that they endanger health,
Vector Control contracts for
pilots and planes. Two hundred
ninety-three tons of 5 percent
malathion dust are being used
this summer. But this kills ad
ult mosquitoes only; it does not
get into the remote places where
the eggs have been laid.
The predatory fish program is
Vector Control’s newest biolog
ical warfare. With the S. C.
Public Service Authority at
Santee Cooper they are devel
oping a super fish which will
gobble up mosquito larvae. The
fish being crossbred is already
common in South Carolina—the
Gambusia affinis or top min
now. But the agencies are hop
ing to produce a strain that not
only eats eggs but can live in
water with a low oxygen con
tent (polluted water) and be
highly resistant to insecticides.
Hundreds of thousands of min
nows are being placed in ponds
near Santee Cooper Lakes now
according to Frank T. Arnold,
Board Entomologist. They plan
to crossbreed a strain of Gam
busia affinis from Mississippi
into their stock to come up with
this mosquito terror.
Our coastline is a great mos
quito haven Arnold says. There
is no area that the mosquito
likes better than the cracked,
dredged fills in the George
town and Charleston areas. To
keep channels open for big ships
the State Ports Authority uses
dredges and pipes to dig the silt
off the channel bottom and into
fills a mile away. Dykes are
built to keep the silt from flow
ing back into the channel.
No land is more useless than
this dredged fill. Because of its
salt content, nothing grows for
a generation, not even marsh
grass; therefore, no animals
can thrive. The sun bakes it
into a giant jig saw puzzle with
cracks from 6 to 18 inches deep.
In these moist cracks the
mosquitoes lay their eggs; many
so deep that sprays cannot
reach them. When rains come
filling the cracks, the larvae
hatch into millions of wigglers.
Some of these salt fills cover
800 acres and each acre can
hatch 43 million mosquitoes.
In years when rains are heavy
the insects can swarm off the
fills infesting nearby towns and
communities. Charleston Coun
ty sponsors its own vector pro
gram to reduce these mosquit
oes as well as to prevent an
epidemic of sickness.
But through the use of chemi
cals, source reduction, and bio
logy, and a public more con
scious of the ecological balance
necessary for land, there should
be a future with much less of a
vector problem for us all.
Mrs. Kinard, 70
rites Thursday
Mrs. Lizzie Long Kinard, 70,
died Tuesday night at Newberry
Memorial Hospital after a ling
ering illness.
Born and reared in Newberry
County, she was the daughter of
the late Abram and Alice Quat-
tlebaum Long. She made her
home in the Bachman Chapel
section of the county and for a
number of year she resided on
Route 2, and was a member of
Bachman Chapel Lutheran
Church.
Surviving are her husband,
Charlie F. Kinard, Newberry;
three sons, Fred Kinard, Joanna
Thurell Kinard, Aiken and Hey
ward Xinard, Newberry; two
daughters, Mrs. Robert Turner,
Ne .vben and Mrs. Broadus Ba
ker, Wh.ci lire; three sisters,
Mrs. Bertha Wicker, Mrs. Essie
Wicker and Mrs. Lola Bobb, all
of Newberry; 17 grandchildren
and 10 great-g' andchildren.
Funeral services were held
Thursday afternoon from Bach
man Chapel Lutheran Church
with Rev. W. H. Link and Rev.
J. L. Drafts conducting. Burial
was in Bachman Chapel Church
Cemetery.
WITH MEN IN
The SERVICES
KOREA — Airman First Class
Phillip H. Hiller, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Jessie F. Hiller of
Route 1, has received the U. S.
Air Force Commendation Med
al at Kimpo AB, Republic of
Korea.
Airman Hiller distinguished
himself by outstanding achieve
ment at Kimpo Air Base when
he rushed to the area where a
tent engulfed in flames endang
ered a refueling vehicle in the
process of refueling flight line
equipment. Despite the danger
of explosion from the gasoline
fumes, he succeeded in evacuat
ing all personnel from the dang
er area while extinguishing the
fire.
The airman is an air freight
specialist at Kimpo with a unit
of the Military Airlift Command
which provides global airlift for
U. S. military forces.
He is a 1969 graduate of New
berry High School.
VIETNAM - Army SpeciaUst
Five Jerry L. O’Donald, 20, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H.
O’Donaiu, 2026 Rivers St., re
cently received the Air Medal
in Vietnam.
Spec. O’Donald earned the At the time of presentation,
award for meritorious service he was a helicopter repairman
while participating in aerial in Headquarters Company, 2d
flight in support of ground oper- Brigade, 101st Airborne Divi-
ations in Vietnam. sion (Airmobile).
SENATOR STROM
THURMOND
REPORTS TO THE
PEOPLE
THE WORKING MAN
The ordinary working man is
the backbone of this country.
There is a widespread tendency
these days to glamorize some in
tellectuals, and to cater to the
demands of irresponsible pres
sure groups screaming for at
tention. We see some students,
who have been given wonderful
advantages at the expense of
others, set the tone of dissent
on many college campuses. We
see a tremendous concern for
the so-called “disadvantaged,”
and for population groups in
which the worthy and the un
worthy seem to be mixed in
equal proportions.
In the end, it is the ordinary
working man who has to pay
for these excesses. A high-level
study group has just reported
to President Nixon on the plight
of those who have to work for a
living. Forty per cent of the
American families—including 70
million family members—have
incomes between $5,000 and $10,-
000. These are the people whose
work is often tough and demands
manual skill. These are the peo
ple who turn the wheels of agri
culture and industry, and who
perform the services that are
essential to our daily living.
NO SUBSIDIES
For the first time, the Federal
government has realized that the
workingman has been taken for
granted, while the pressure
groups got most of the benefits.
It must be pointed out too that
the honest workingman comes
from both races, and that, with
in their own communities, they
face similar problems.
These are the people who get
no subsidies and no welfare;
hut they see their taxes going
to support many who get only
slightly less from the govern
ment without working. Wages
have increased 20 per cent since
1965, but purchasing power has
remained the same, due to the
tremendous flood of non-produc
tive government spending. Econ
omists within the Administration
have told the President that this
situation is like a man walking
on a treadmill, pursuing an il
lusion of a higher living stand
ard.
Moreover, the increased pres
sures of family responsibilities
I mil ))r< i>uri (l or /trintctl
add to the burden. Family budg
et costs for a two-child family
are three times the need of a
single individual. The cost of
maintaining a child in school
rises as he gets older; and for
many family budgets, college is
out of the question.
NEW CHANCES
The workingman needs the
chance to upgrade his opportu
nities. For many, the only chance
of advancement means moving
from semi-skilled to skilled jobs.
They must have the chance to
take special training, and their
children must be able to take
advanced vocational training
necessary for the highly devel
oped skills of the modern age.
We must also begin to realize
that there is nothirig undigni
fied about working with one's
hands. Many well-paying jobs
are going begging, because some
young men hesitate to enter the
manual crafts, where they can
earn as much or more than in
office jobs. One study presented
to the President pointed out that
teachers frequently do not know
enough about manual crafts, and
fail to present these occupations
in a favorable light. In the pres
ent time and circumstance, such
jobs may be the avenue of op
portunity for those who are
escaping from low income brack
ets. Yet a great majority of
high school drop-outs come not
from the disadvantaged in the
ghetto, but from the children of
the ordinary workingman.
It is time to ease the pressures
on this group which come both
from the inflation squeeze and
from high taxes. The Adminis
tration has allowed the 10 per
cent tax surcharge to expire,
and is considering proposals for
larger exemptions for depend
ents and for education. It has
tried to cut excessive welfare
and housing subsidies, which do
not go to the ordinary worker,
but Congress has not acted re
sponsibly.
The workingman has been
ignored in the spending orgies
of past Administrations, but
fortunately, his problems are
now getting attention.
at government expense)
The Moose Lodge baseball Pony League team coach,
John Riley, right, displays the trophy the team won as
Season Champions. At left is Richard Moose, voted Pony
League’s most valuable player. He was a member of Ed
Young Buick team. Mark Renwich, center, was voted
Pony League’s most valuable player. (Sunphoto)