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The Summerville News, Thursday. August 29, 1963
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Speeding in the County . . .
Complaints arc beginning to be heard
over the county about excessive speeding.
Os course, this problem cannot ever
be completely eliminated but diligent law
enforcement,' including an adequate num
ber of deputies to assist the state patrol,
can hold it to a minimum.
One of the latest and loudest com
plaints comes from the Farrar Drive area
just outside the City of Summerville.
Speeds there are "high and unreason
able,” it is stated in a recent petition to
the county commissioner. The petition
asks for the erection of speed signs, the
ones put up in 1957 having apparently
been torn down. The commissioner said
this week he has ordered more.
Labor Dav, 1963 . . .
We are on the threshold of another
l abor Day. And a vast change has taken
place in this institution and the cause it
stands lor in the decades that have passed
since its first observance. Labor has grown
strong stronger, very likely, than its
leaders of another and simpler age could
have imagined.
Nowhere else in the world has labor
earned and gained so many material bene
fits as it has in the United States. The
“blue collar” man has caught up with his
“white collar” counter-part in earnings
and living 'standards and in many in
stances passed him by. Labor can take
School Bella Again . .
Everyone's view of summer is diffe
rent depending on his responsibilities, op
portunities, and role in life. Many mothers
very probably feel it has been long, noisy,
busy and hot. But a good many million
children and dogs probably find it hard
to believe that three months could have
sped so quickly and that the school doors
are about to open once again.
The sounds and smells and experiences
of summer vacation are still an important
part of growing up. But there have been
changes the old swimming hole may
have become a concrete-lined chlorinated
pool. The automobile and airplane have
vastly extended the scope of things that
Tough Talk On Cuba
Though some do not like to realize it
the success the United States experienced
in forcing Soviet rockets from Cuba last
October was not without its price. The
latest words from Moscow make that quite
clear.
Included in the communique giving the
Soviet side of the ideological dispute be
tween Russia and Red China was a de
fense of Soviet tactics last fall, including
the withdrawal of Soviet-made rockets
from Cuba. At one point the communique
read:
"If United States imperialists violate
their promise and invade Cuba’s territory,
we will come to the aid of the Cuban
people. Every sensible man will under
stand that in case of an invasion by the
American imperialists we shall aid the
Cuban people from Soviet territory.
"Naturally the rockets will take longer
in flight but their aim will be no less pre-
Notes From 20 A ears Ago...
The Summerville schools will
open Monday. Aug. 30. The
high school pupils will meet
Friday. Aug 27 to register First
faculty meeting will be held
Saturday. Aug 28. at 4 pm
Owing to teacher shortage it
has been unusually difficult to
secure a complete faculty At
present we have only three
vacancies
• • •
On Saturday afternoon in
front of the courthouse Rev
Wilson Culpepper spoke to a
large audience on "Winning
the War on the Spiritual
Front " With force and deep
seriousness he delivered this
address.
• • •
Mr Bill Whaley, a cooperator
of the Coosa River Soil Con
servation District, who lives
nd farms in Dirtseller commu
r.'y is grazing approximately
ne and one-half acres of kud-
Tlns is the first experience *
Mi Whaley has had in using ■
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this crop in this manner, but
he reports that all of his stock
seem to like it fine Conserva
tion News by John K Thomas.
Jr.
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The annual protracted serv
ices at Ebenezer will begin the
fourth Sunday in August and
run through the following
week.
• • •
Mr and Mrs Leon Story an
nounce the marriage of their
daughter. Betty Jean, to John
William Edwards, of Lyerly, on
Thursday. Aug 12
• • •
Stuart Marks leaves Friday
for San Diego. Cal . where he
will take up work as a U. S
marine.
• • •
Miss Claire Dodd visited Mr.
and Mrs Fred Carter in Chat
tanooga over the week-end and
was accompanied home by
Mrs Ethel Buford for a short
visit.
A Prize-Winning
Weekly Newspaper
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
We hope the signs will arrive and be
erected at the earliest moment. They
should be of some help in this speeding
matter.
Although the signs are a concern of
the county commissioner, control of speed
ing is not. It Would be interesting to know
whether a petition was sent to the person
whose duty it is to control speeding, the
sheriff. If not, it would seem feasible to
consider this possibility.
Speeding is a problem which cannot
continue to be ignored ... it is especially
urgent now that school is open and many
more of our children are out on the streets
and byways.
well justified pride in this achievement.
But the high status of labor, and
labor’s power, involve another element.
That element is responsibility. Labor can
no longer be content with just pursuing
its differences with management. It has
another and a larger duty. That is to help
provide the quality of industrial states
manship that is so urgently needed if
this country is to maintain its position in
an increasingly competitive world.
Next Monday 2. deserved honors will be
paid to labor. May it go and earn, through
wise accomplishment, still higher honors.
can be seen on a vacation trip. School has
changed too, as the frontiers of man’s
knowledge have been pushed back so
rapidly in recent years. The amount of
knowledge that must be packed into the
heads of children in grade school and high
school has vastly increased.
As school bells ring again, let’s salute
our young people and those who guide
them through ever more complicated
fields of learning. In the great affairs of
nations, in science, and in the complicated
business of leading a good and worthwhile
life, our need has never been greater for
concerned, intelligent, educated men and
women.
• • •
rise.”
The Russians feel President John F.
Kennedy gave them a no-invasion pledge
in return for their removal of rockets on
the island. Under criticism by the Red
Chinese for having removed the rockets,
the Soviets have pointed to the no-invasion
pledge. To support their argument they
have committed themselves, on the rec
ord, to aid the Cubans with rockets from
Russia itself if the United States invades
Cuba.
Thus the Russians are now threatening
with a grimer challenge than that posed
by the limited number of short-range
rockets in Cuba as of last October. They
threaten retaliation with ICBM's if we en
gage Fidel Castro's forces in Cuba. We do
not. therefore, seem to have gained any
thing. and we have not accomplished
much in the way of weakening Castro.
The seniors of Gore Hi"h
School elected their class offi
cers Wednesday, Aug 11. 1943.
They are as follows: President,
George Edd Gordon Vice Pres
ident. Margaret McCiain. Sec
retary. Maynell Owens Treas
urer. Dorothy Young Reporter.
Dixie Lee Willingham Class
Adviser. Miss Mildred Hennis
Gore School News
• • •
The Beta Club had a party
in the school gym Friday. Aug.
13 The refreshments were
chicken salad sandwiches, po
tato chips and Coca-Colas. The
following were present: Vir
ginia Chapman. James Kim
bell, Helen Toles. Branson Gay
lor. Margaret Brewer. Raymond
Gaylor. Bessie Lou Gaylor.
Duane Gaylor. Frances Busbin.
Bill Reece. Peggy Crawford.
Mrs Tom Hardy, sponsor. Ly
erly School News
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Life magazine. discussing
‘ plans to protect the returning
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.rd THIS IS being written, tht
annual debate on the foreign aid
authorization bill is under way.
Even though more severe cuts
have been made this year than
in either of the previous two
years, I am still of the opinion
that the amount asked for by the
Administration is too high.
From the best information I
have been able to develop, there
is no reason why American ex
penditures for foreign aid could
not be held to $3 billion, and I
do not feel I can support a bill
which provides money in excess
of this amount.
On yesterday I received a let
ter signed by two members of
the President’s Cabinet, Secre
tary of State Dean Rusk and
Secretary of Defense Robert Mc-
Namara. strongly urging that
the foreign aid bill be supported.
• * ♦
IN FAIRNESS TO the pro
ponents of foreign aid. I can see
that the program does perform
many good things for America
and for the free world. For ex
ample. the program does enable
the Republic of South Korea to
support its own army and there
by confine the Red Chinese to
North Korea. If the program
were stopped, this same job
would have to be performed by
American troops at an expense
of at least $6,000 per year per
soldier.
I can see, too, that the coun
tries who receive aid from Amer
ica in the form of machinery, for
instance, would, from this very
fact, become acquainted with
and accustomed to American
systems of measurement. To ex
plain what I mean, a native of
Indonesia who uses an Ameri-
Letters
TO THE EDITOR
I would like to ask a question
of the residents of this city who
are objecting to a convalescent
home being opened in their
neighborhood.
In what way could it decrease
the value of your property?
Is is because of the character
or the appearance of the aged?
We all show the marks of time.
Don’t, you think the majority
of the elderly people have earned
the respect and good will of the
entire community? That they
deserve every care and consid
eration for their comfort and
well being, including a nice place
to spend the very few remaining
years left to them?
Jesus said (Matt. 25-40)
“Verily. I say unto you, inasmuch
as you have done it unto these,
my brethren, ye have done it
unto me.” t
He was speaking of the hun
gry, the needy, the sick and the
afflicted.
Wouldn't a comfortable, well
kept nursing home fit into this
category. Wouldn’t it be a shel
tering fold for the aged?
NORA M. NEWMAN
Age 72
Menlo, Georgia
August 23, 1963
Dear Sir:
Over two years ago, in 1961, I
was horrified to read in The i
Summerville News that the po-1
litical power structure of Chat- !
tooga County which controls i
educational planning forced im-;
mediate consolidation of the I
county white high schools be- i
fore providing for adequate |
housing facilities. In the August
22. 1963 issue, I read that the
bid for the proposed Chattooga
County High School project has
not been let and that perhaps
even more than a year will
elapse before actual construction
will begin.
To gamble with the youth of
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LATE SEASON COTTON INSECT
CONTROL
Let me again urge you not to
let up on your cotton insect con
trol program. Some farmers
have eased-up on this particular
phase of their control program, i
soldier from misfortune, urges
a "big-confident America" as
the goal for everybody.
Exactly what the magazine
has in mind is doubtful. Cer
tainly. the United States is big.
and prior to the present war.
nobody ever accused the nation
... of a lack of confidence.
In fact, one of the troubles
. . . was the absurd contention
of confident Americans that
"we could lick the world."
We were so confident that
most of our congressmen were ■
sure that Japan would not dart
to attack us and. if they did.
that it would be the immediate
end of Japan.—(Editorial.)
JOHN DAVIS
fam
| CONGRESS
can tractor would learn to ask
tor replacement parts in terms
of three - quarter - inch bolts,
nine-sixteenth-inch nuts, and
what not; whereas if this same
person were using a Russian
tractor he would find himself
using the Russian system of
measurement and the Russian
names for the parts.
This same thing happens with
respect to arms and ammunition,
to motor vehicles and to aircraft.
Any under - developed country
will feel a strong orientation tow
ard the country which supplies
machinery and equipment for its
development or military material
for its army.
It is also an inescapable fact
that the dollars spent to buy ma
chinery, equipment and supplies
to go overseas provide a most
significant stimulus to the Amer
ican economy. Furthermore, it
must be admitted that the for
eign aid program is a valuable
weapon against the further
spread of Communism—in fact,
it is the only weapon short of
brute military force.
♦ * *
ON THE DEBIT side of the
foreign aid picture, I cannot get
over the fact that there is a flow
of gold from South America to
the Swiss banks each year which
about equals the amount of for
eign aid we furnish for South
America. Neither can I forget the
fact that the gold outflow from
the United States itself is still
continuing at an alarming rate.
For this reason, and for the
reason that I do not believe that
all the fat has been trimmed out
of the foreign aid budget request,
I shall vote against the foreign
aid bill this week.
the county in such fashion is
। reckless planning. It clearly in
dicates those citizens in control
■ । want quantity and not quality
I for education. Teachers cannot
1 be expected to perform the task
. for which they are trained and
' students cannot be expected to
, learn what they need to learn
in the currently existing poorly
planned, over-crowded condi
, tions,
■; When does the political power
structure aim to add quality to
its educational planning of
which now it possesses excessive
quantity? This question, among
! others, remains unanswered in
the local press.
Sincerely yours,
HUGHIE MAJORS
Lecturer in Education
Queens College
' of the City of University of
New York
New York City
(EDITOR'S NOTE: We be
lieve that the writer of this
letter did not read closely
enough the article in the Aug.
22 issue of The Summerville
News. It did not state in any
way that a year might elapse
before actual construction of
the school will begin. It did
state that the board was con
sidering postponing construc
tion “of the (CHS) gym” until
next year when state money
will be available for that pur
i pose.)
Dear Sir:
I would like to ask all the
people who have said they did
not want a nursing home near
their property one question. If
you intend not to have elderly
people near you here, will God
single you out in our eternal
home?
Yours truly,
MRS. D. M. HILL
Your County
Agent Speaks
By M. H. PURCELL
and it has cost them.
It is necessary to do a good
job of late-season insect control
in order to have bolls in the top
of the plant. Remember that it
is usually the top crop of cotton
that makes the profit. Remem
ber. too. that it takes the bottom
crop to pay the bills, so both are
important, but usually the profit
is made in the top crop.
It is essential to obtain good
insect control throughout the
entire growing season if you are
to make a bale and a half or two
bales per acre
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PECAN TREE LIMB
BREAKAGE
That noise you heard in your
pecan grove the other day was
probably a limb falling to the
ground.
With a heavy crop of nuts and
lots of heavy foliage you can ex
pect those pecan tree limbs to
fall. Stuart variety pecan trees
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Looking Ahead ...
BY DR. GEORGE S. BENSON
President National Education
Program
Searcy, Arkansas
LISTING THE CULPRITS
Some of the columnists, in
cluding Edith K. Roosevelt,
have been looking into the
background, activities and ap
parent intentions of a so
called “educational” and “re
search” organization that has
been operating for more than
a year in Washington, D. C.
Columnist Roosevelt became
interested in this “educa
tional” and “non-profit” or
ganization, Group Research,
Inc., when she discovered that
it held a dossier on her with
information that she has “dis
cussed the folly of shipping
foreign aid to India.”
She found, despite an icy
reception and orders to leave
the premises, that listed along i
with her was an eminent com
pany of writers, scholars, and
educators of world renown.
These included Dr. William
Roepke, the widely respected
conservative scholar who
helped keep the West German
economy free for an amazing
postwar economic recovery.;
Others having to do with |
Young Americans for Freedom
and publications like Modern
Age, a scholarly but conserva
tive journal, were fully dos
siered.
The Usual Smear
An office chart, she re
lated, listed a dozen organiza
tions opposed to Communism,
such as the Farm Bureau Fed
eration, the Association of
American Physicians and Sur
geons, Freedoms Foundation
at Valley Forge, and even
Harding College. Above the list
Minister Speaks ...
By the Rev. William E. Hotchkiss
Pastor, Summerville First
Presbyterian Church
Recently, the Supreme Court
has come up with a decision to
declare unconstitutional any
fixed form of prayer or de
votional reading of the Bible in
the public schools of America in
the form of a religious exercise.
This has caused a great stir of I
alarm in both public, private and
religious circles throughout i
America.
An interesting tale has been
told recently of a school board
trustee who decided to visit one
of the local schools to find out
what was being taught in the
classes. He picked one classroom
at random. Going into the class,
he called upon one boy to answer
a question. He asked the boy,
“Who was responsible for tearing
down the walls of Jericho?” The
boy looked very troubled and
said, “Honest, Mister, I didn’t do
it!”. The trustee was very upset
with this answer. Turning to the
teacher he said, “I just don’t
like what you’re teaching these
children these days.” The teacher
seemed rather upset with the
trustee’s question and said, “Sir,
I know this boy and I am sure
he didn’t do it.” The trustee said,
“I thing we'd better talk this over
with the principal.” All three
went to the principal. The trus
tee told the principal, “I don’t
like what you’re teaching these
children in this school.” The
principal wondered “Why?” The
trustee related what had hap
pened. Then he turned to the
trustee and said, “Sir, I’m very
proud of this teacher. She is one
of our best and I’m sure that if
she says this boy is not respon
sible for tearing down the walls
of Jericho, you can be sure of
her word.” The principal con
tinued, “I believe we had better
take this to the superintendent.
Going to the superintendent’s
office, they confronted him with
the problem. The superintendent
looked at the trustee and said,
“Sir, I think that you are mak
ing too much of this problem.”
Then taking out his checkbook
he looked at the Trustee and
said, “If any damage has been
caused, we’ll be glad to pay for
it and let’s just forget the whole
usually suffer from limb break
age. however other varieties such
as the Mahan. Success. Mobile,
and certain seedling trees may ,
also experience limb breakage.
There is nothing you can do I
unless you want to prop the'
limbs from the ground or tie
them to the most upright limb ;
nearby.
Remember that some breakage
may be helpful for the tree. It
helps in pruning.
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GET READY FOR
HARVESTING COTTON
It’s time now to get that
mechanical cotton picker ready
tor harvesting operations.
Modernize your old picker if
needed, and replace those worn
parts. Make sure those adjust
ments are proper, too.
If you are to employ a new op
erator for your picker, make sure ■
that he knows what he is to do.
No matter how expensive your
machine is. if the operator
doesn’t know how to run it, you
are still in trouble.
So check your mechanical cot
ton picker and your operator,
and make sure that when the
time comes for them to hit the
fields, they will be ready . I
were found smear labels such
as: “racism,” “book-burners.”
“bogey-of-inflation—the bal
anced budget,” “pro-military,”
“anti-cuban extremists.” “anti
s e m i t i s,” “anti - medicare,”
“states rights primitives," and
“anti-federal aid to educa
tion.”
She also found some of the
officials of Group Research,
Inc., to be presently or for
merly associated with the Na
tional Farmers Union and the
American Civil Liberties Union.
Certainly the latter is known
as vigorously opposing any
thing that looks like dossiers
on fellow-travelers or pro-'
Communists. An official, ask
ing her to leave, explained that
the organization did not want
publicity. We can understand
why. Open and free discussion
is not in this group’s best in
terests.
Uses of Democracy
It now develops that among
the best customers of Group
Research, Inc., is labor's Com
mittee on Political Education
and other labor union publica
tions. COPE has in fact urged'
labor officials to use this out
fit’s materials to “head off” j
and “dry up” anything that'
looks like “right-wing” or “ex
tremist” activity before any
damage is done. It urges pre
ventive action “to alert demo
cratic groups to the possibility
of trouble.” This democratic
approach calls for smearing ■
and discrediting conservative
speakers and writers before
they had had a chance to have
their say.
M. Stanton Evans, writing >
in the National Review, has:
reported a few examples of the ■
use of this material by “lib
eral” figures in Congress, I
matter.”
Whatever the outcome of the
court’s decision, a greater re
sponsibility has been placed upon
the church as a whole to do a
better job of teaching and train
ing children in the Christian
faith. We can never again rest
upon the public schools to do
that which should be done in
the church and in the home.
It is true that the public
schools must seek to teach chil
dren moral values and no educa
tion is complete without these.
The point of all this still goes
back to the home. It is difficult
to teach children honesty at
school when dishonesty is taught
them either by word of deed in
the home.
The “old- fashioned” family
altar or family prayers have
never been more needed than
now. As our family gathered
about the table following break
fast, we read from the Bible a
passage which is quite meaning
ful for today: “Therefore, we
ought to give the more earnest
heed to the things which we have
MAH TAiMADSS
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■■iSHINGTOW j.|
THE DWINDLING gold sup
ply recently prompted the Unit
ed States to take steps which
hopefully will prevent further
undermining of the dollar.
Viewing the situation as a ma
jor financial problem for the en
tire world as well as this coun-
try, the Ad
ministration
set higher in
terest rates on
short - term
b orr o wing,
tightened up
on longer-term
exports of
U. S. money,
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and arranged to borrow from
the International Monetary Fund
if necessary.
This, it is hoped, will slow
down the flow- of gold—and the
resulting weakening of the dol
lar — from United States re
serves. The gold supply already
has dropped to a 24-year low of
$15.7 billions, with only $3.5
billions in so-called “free” gold
over the $12.2 billions required
by law to back U. S. currency.
Nations of Europe, which are
thriving economically as never
before, could decide they want
to demand gold for their dollar
credits, and with foreign claims
on gold now totaling about $25.4
billions, it would be virtually im
possible to meet their demands.
IN SHORT, the weakness of
the dollar can in large part be
traced to the increasingly heavy
burden it is required to carry.
At a meeting last fall of world
bankers, it was generally agreed
that much of the United States'
money troubles came from heavy
spending abroad.
The recent actions of the Ad
ministration may to some de
gree relieve the gold and dollar
problem, but other steps could
be taken which in my opinion
■would help even more.
For one .thing, we could strive
prepared or printed at expente)
mostly involving attacks on
conservative groups and indi
viduals, such as Americans for
Constitutional Action and the
publication Human Events. He
points out that its findings are
being put to political uses, that
it freely uses the guilt-by
association techniques, and
that it is far less educational
than many of the groups it
calls “extremist.”
Who Is Behind It?
Earlier, Mr. Evans said of
Group Research, Inc.: “A na
tionwide blitz is underway via
all available media ‘to expose’
conservatives as the minions
of ‘hate.’ He who opposes
statism at home and appease
ment abroad is to be portrayed
as the familiar of anti-Sem
ites, blackhearted tormentors
of school teachers, and de
votees of the anonymous
phone-call. The effort is being
made to connect all conserva
tives and anti-Communists
with the most deranged speci
mens of political eccentricity
and so to bring them all down
in common ruin.”
One wonders if it is mere
accident that this activity is
synchronized so well with
other efforts to smear anti-
Communist activity and to dry
up interest and financial sup
port for an effective anti-Red
groups. It may not be a mere
coincidence that this and other
developments have come about
since the November 1960 sum
mit conference at Moscow of
the 81 Communist Parties
throughout the world, includ
ing Gus Hall and the American
communists, who got their
orders there to enlist every re
source in battling anti-Com
munism.
heard, lest any anytime we
should let them slip.”
We live in an age where moral
and spiritual values are slipping
away from us. They will continue
to do so until we realize (if it is
not too late) that the task of
teaching the things of the spirit
is that of the home and that of
the church. God gives us the
choice as he gave to Joshua,
“Choose you this day whom ye
will serve.” We must say, “As for
me and my house, we will serve
the Lord.”
DENTIST DRILLS MISSILE
Tucson, Ariz.—A missile turn
ed up to be the “patient” of a
dentist. Dr. Robert Ratcliffe was
called to Davis-Monthan Air
Force Base to remove a broken
draft pin from a 103-foot-long
Titan I intercontinental ballis
tic missile.
The machine shop did not
have a drill delicate enough to
remove the broken pin. The
dentist removed the pin after
two hours drilling and two brok
en drills.
to balance the budget. The Unit
ed States has been spending be
yond its means, piling up mul
ti-million dollar deficits one af
ter another, year after year.
Also, our favorable trade bal
ance is being offset by exces
sively pouring out foreign aid
money and by the cost of main
taining large military establish
ments in our- allied countries
which now are able to share
more of their own defense bur
den.
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U. S. AID to our allies in
Europe since World War II to
tals approximately S3B billions.
The American people now
spend about $5 billion a year
aiding other countries, often in
wasteful and ineffectual pro
grams, as pointed out by the
Clay Study Committee. On the
other hand, other NATO coun
tries spend about half as much
and mostly for the promotion of
trade.
The United States pays almost
all the bill for the defense of the
free world, and this, of course,
accounts for another big drain
on our dollars. We run up a de
fense budget of more than SSO
billion a year, amounting on the
average to about $290 per per
son, while all NATO nations
combined budget only about sl7
billion for defense, or about s6l
per average citizen.
Thus, the U. S. keeps export
ing more dollars than we bring
in from foreign trading, the gold
supply dwindles and faith in the
dollar suffers accordingly.
But it seems to me that our
European friends, instead of
■ fretting over the dollar, could
better concern themselves with
paying more of their own de
, sense costs and sharing more of
| the foreign aid burden.