Florence Morning News from Florence, South Carolina • 1

The "Only Daily Paper Published in Eastern South Carolina VOL NO 55 LORENCE SUNDAYMORNING EBRUARY 24 1963 DAILY 5c SUNDAY 15c Decision on TB Sanatorium May Come Soon cease 7 Records Topple Drake Edens on cold' drizzle Saturday Cuban reedom Seen I Managed News Talked A This Week in the Legislature years but George Sam is taking no chances in Columbia Williamsburg counties Harrell now js serving as a marshal for the insurance department attendance and takes an active part in legislative matters His recent bill proposing four year terms for House members has provoked a lot of discussion Most being seen and not heard He fanned the smouldering ruins of county government into a flame Now letting the boys fight it out get the DRAKE EDENS State GOP Chairman Concern has been expressed in both private and published state ments that provision be made in any sale to assure continued use of the property for eleemosynary purposes only In a letter to the editor publish ed in the Morning News Saturday Allen Wyndham lorence elec trical contractor proposed that a reverter clause be included in any title transfer requiring that any of reasons of health The lorence and Darlington delegations finally have the legal machinery moving for the tech nical education center and have their eyes turned in other direc tions Rep Thad Saleeby of Harts ville (who continues to ignore that glaring red carpet in the SC Republicans Name Chairman present members favor the bill but it is doubtful vote for it more taxing to cam paign every two years but it is a bit easier to get elected delegation is hard at work on some new legislation A huge road building program is expected to be announced with in the next few days Rumor has it that approximately $1 million is involved That can pave a lot of miles' Dillon Sen Roger Scott has WASHINGTON AP) A gov ernment spokesman said Saturday that local school boards will be asked to operate racially inte grated schools planned at six mili tary bases in the South By BOB WEIRISH COLUMBIA The long fuss in the Senate over the Allendale County seat is over but eyes now are turned toward the House of Representatives where Rep Paul Moore of Spartanburg is waging a junior size filibuster Moore is concerned over a bill which would provide some state funds for those counties which are touched by the Santee Cooper power development Sponsors want cash payments in lieu of taxes because they claim real estate values have gone up since the state took their land Tax payments are based on original evaluation Moore hopes to kill the bill by MIAMI BEACH la (AP) The AL CIO proposed Saturday a much quicker tax cut than Presi dent Kennedy has recommended plus a big boost in government spending to avoid a feared new recession The federation? Executive Council politely patted Kennedy on the back in a sheaf of eco nomic policy statements but said his programs lack enough impact to jolt the economy into more widespread prosperity In essence the labor chiefs called for condensing net $10 billion proposed tax cut over the next three years into an immediate reduction of that amount retroactive to Jan 1 They complained that Ken program if enacted would reduce taxes less than $3 billion during the current year to bolster support among workers in Venezuela where Communist forces have been active 5 AL CIO President George Meany sitting next to Betancourt said the president had been wag ing a courageous fight for true democracy that stands as an ex ample for other Latin American countries American labor is fully aware Meany said that a loss of liberty for workers anywhere represents a loss of liberty for workers every MIAMI la Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt met Saturday with US labor leaders then assured Cuban exile colony in mo tion will result in the freedom of the Cuban them to have faith that the Communist regime in Cuba supported by the Soviet Union will be Betancourt said The short mild appearing pres ident described himself as mili tantly aggressive in the move to an end to the enslavement of Cuban by Prime Min ister idel Castro and the Rus sians Betancourt climaxed a four day visit to the United States in meet ing with the US labor leaders who described him as cham pion of human liberty and an ad vocate of free trade meeting with the Executive Council of the AL CIO in a private dining room of the heavily guarded International Airport Hotel was not explained But it was seen as an effort serving embraces Darlington Dil lon lorence Georgetown Horry Marion Marlboro and land with no down payment add the giving of a 20 year amortized note and mortgage for $300000 and an interest rate of three and three fourth per cent Initial pay ment on the principal would be made 13 months after the date of purchase In addition to the Rev Mr Law ton who is listed as vice presi dent of the corporation other of ficers and directors are: Thom as White lorence president McDonald lorence secretary treasurer Dr Brockington county in that he says I did was bring it out into the open getting blamed for all happened but the re cord is there do all I can to help get things straightened out but not my job to do it alone Those directly involved must take a hand and they must let me know they want something His colleagues Rep A (Red) Bethea and Rep Jewell McLaurin saying much but they are keeping an eye on things McLaurin in particular has shown a great deal of con cern and constantly is in touch with the boys Chorles Ave in New had 17 floats in the (AP Wirephoto) days ago to a jbint meeting of the lorence governing board and the Darlington commissioners McLeod Infirmary proposes ei ther to purchase or lease the prop erty for use as a nursing home and convalescent center as an ex pansion of that services Its purchase offer is $200000 for the total property including approximately 108 acres of land with 20 per cent of the total cost being paid with the transfer of title and the balance to be paid at the rate of 10 per cent of the such as President with respect of the Soviet rearmament of Krock says Kennedy and high subordinates indirectly manage news by of Wash ington reporters and commenta tors and by "selective personal In the latter category he includ ed exclusive interviews attribut able to the President which he says have ceased to be a rarity Mr he writes the intimate background briefings of journalists and their publishers on a large scale from which members emerge in a state of protracted enchantment evoked by the charm and the awesome aura of his office success bf hit: efforts is attested by a continent wide glow in news reporting editorializing and comment which otherwise might register the lower tempera ture of impersonal uled one for the lorence delega tion will be held at 10 in the county office The lorence governing board and the Darlington commissioners have been presented two proposals for use of the sanatorium proper ty one from McLeod Infirmary the other from a private elee mosynary corporation for which the Rev Lawton pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of lorence has been the spokes man The proposals were made 10 purchase price each succeeding year with interest rate at five per cent The lease offer bf McLeod In firmary is for the sanatorium buildings and 25 acres of adjacent land at an annual rental of $5000 The term of the lease would be for 20 years with renewal option for another 20 The purchase offer from the lor ence Darlington Nursing and Con valescent Home private corpora tion for which the Rev Mr Law ton is spokesman is $300000 for stands that should be taken state and national issues Mrs A Dabney Barnes Greenville woman had expressed the thought that others be considered for the post that went to Edens In addition to White she mentioned Boineau former Rep red Worsham of Charleston and Robert Knight of lorence i Last fall Edens directed the campaign of the Republican sena torial nominee Workman Jr crats But Hollings added than give a purpose many of us Democrats in the South have wan dered aimlessly The platform the decisions and other things have displeased usA "We have sat and pouted We have mumbled or remained silent We have held ourselves aloof from our own party We have sapped the political marrow from the bones of our strength move In on our party with firmness give purpose and vitality to our beliefs act like Hollings said the Democratic party blends "the greatest diver sities in emotion environment and The frustration encountered "in reconciling these extremes could at times seem a loss of principle compromise too he added you can't score points un less you are on the team It is our responsibility as Democrats of Southern heritage to assert once again influence and sway over the party machinery and Moore Wins Tourney Moore Junior High of lorence won rhe Big Eight Junior High School conference championshhip last night with a 5045 win over Alice Drive of Sumter Story Page 10 A He The district which Snow is the fre has Meanwhile Arthur Harris associate commissioner of educa tion said segregated schooling at government expense will still be available to children living on military bases? Last week the government said it would build integrated elemen tary schools at certain southern bases after school officials said they could not provide integrated classes The bases affected are Jackson and Myrtle Beach Air orce Base in South Carolina Stewart and Robins AB in Geor gia and McClellan and Rucker in Alabama Under the program the government will spend about $3 million to provide school facilitiM for 2700 children on the six bases Harris in announcing parents can still use segregated off bass schools said "We attempt to exer cise no jurisdictional control in that matter and the military plans to exercise no such control" The question of segregated Southern schools came up under the federal program of helping public school districts which are overloaded with tbo children of servicemen nothing to do with the House got his eyes on another and more lucrative iob that of a post on the Public Service' Com He bowed out of the House for mission The job now held by John Snow of Hemingway be cold drizzle Saturday and lined St Orleans for the carnival parade Iris parade I COLUMBIA U) Drake Edens Jr Columbia insurance executive accepted the South Carolina Re publican chairmanship Saturday with the declaration that are a unified Edens was chosen to succeed Robert Chapman of Spartan burg as state party chairman at a meeting of the South Carolina Republican Executive Committee Edens was' elected unanimously after Cooper White Jr a candidate from Greenville asked that his nomina tion be withdrawn ollowing his election Edens said it is his hope that can broaden the base of participation to include everyone in the party where they v(ill have an active voice and they will feel we are the South Carolina home of con Edens declared that party is not a closed shop in any He added that he thinks the Gop represents the thinking of nearly one half of the population The executive committee passed a resolution thanking Chapman for his service as party chairman Chapman submitted his resigna tion in order to devote more time to his law practice In other action the executive committee appointed a permanent committee on issues and position The group will be headed by for mer State Rep Charles Boineau of Richland County The committee will study all facets of political activity in South Carolina It may hold public hear ings and will recommend to the state executive committee WASHINGTON (AP) Arthur Krock prize winning newsman accuses President Kennedy of managing the news with a cynic ism boldness and subtlety un matched in peacetime history1 But the veteran newsman says if Kennedy has achieved any suc cess in these efforts prin cipal on us rests on the printed and electronic press Krock for 21 years chief of the Washington bureau of The New York Times and more recently a Washington columnist for' the Times levels his indictment in the March issue of ortune magazine He cites as an affront to Jef fersonian principle? of a free press 'informational direct prescribed for the Pentagon and the Department of State when the crisis over Cuba began to He said the of news management has been im properly used to inflate success or gloss over error the after math of half won showdowns By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Arctic cold numbed parts of the South and East with record low temperatures Sat urday and threatened the first known freeze over of Lake Superior the largest fresh water lake Subzero temperatures were re corded in the Midwest and North east Northern lorida had frees ing weather with Tallahassee re cording 23 degrees a record Jo for the date A new push of Canadian air hit the northern Great 'Plains assur ing continuation of the deep freeie weather in the midcontinent that has made this winter one of the coldest of the century As far as is known Lake Su perior never has been completely frozen over But Arthur Myers US meterologist at Sault Sts Marie Mich said an airline pilot reported riday that the only wa ter visible in the 40 mile long 100 mile wide lake was in scat tered patches not more than one to two acres in size Myers said the freezing weath er is expected to continue for a week or possibly two weeks anti could have a complete Until the advent of the airplane man had no convenient way of looking at the entire lake and no one knows' for sure whether there ever was a complete freezeover Scattered light snow fell from the northern Rockies eastward through the Missouri Valley and into the middle and upper Mis sissippi Valley Hazardous drivingi warnings were issued as sleet or freezing rain spread into eastern Missouri and southern Illinois Cold records for the date top pled for the third consecutive day in Charleston WVa and Louis ville Ky Charleston had a 3 reading and Louisville 5 above WASHINGTON (AP) The Sen ate minority leader Sen Everett Dirksen of Illinois reportedly has told President Kennedy the Republicans will continue to pound away at the administra handling of the Cuban sit uation Administration leaders in and out of Congress have accused some Republicans of making in accurate irresponsible and dan gerous charges about Cuba for political purposes And these Democrats have urged a return to what they call the tradition of bipartisanship in inter nation af fairs A gesture in that direction was made last Monday night when Kennedy called 17 congressional leaders of both parties to the White House to report on Soviet Premier assurance that he will withdraw some of the Russian troops now in Cuba But one of those present at that briefing said Saturday Dirksen was not impressed and quoted the Republican leader as saying: President I think you should know going to con tinue to pummel you about Cuba There are going to be some brick bats thrown at you and not of the embroidered kind We regard this situation as extremely critical and we are not going to be Long familiar with the ways of politicians Kennedy was repre sented as taking this in stride But Secretary of State Dean Rusk was said to have made it clear he was disturbed at the blunt language Dirksen had used Dirksen and House Minority Leader Charles A Halleck of In diana plan a fresh blast at the Cuban policies at their joint leadership news conference of the year early this week This is familiarly known as the and show where He added that misery and huriger are threats to the en tire Western Hemisphere wher ever they exist Betancourt said American labor has been constant in criticizing dictatorial regimes even at times when the US State Department was supporting totalitarian gov ernments in Latin America Betancourt told the union chiefs that he has ousted Communists from high posts in the Venezuelan government and labor organiza tions ties as expressed in general con versation and letters for news paper publication has appeared strongly to favor the McLeod In firmary offer as the sounder business proposition and the best way for the facility to be made to serve to the greatest advantage the people of the two counties Principal objections expressed to the offer from the private cor poration is that it offers no down payment promises a lower rate of the property revert back to tho interest and lacks the experience two counties should its use by an and staffing facilities offered by eleemosynary corporation evor MCLeoa innrmary of national committee School Integration Request Scheduled CARNIVAL TRINKETS With a plastic raincoat draped over her costume this maskee member of the Krewe of the Iris tosses a handful of trinkets to crowds who braved a Answer to the long time ques tion of what will be done with the more than 100 bed hospital once used1 as the lorence Darlington Tuberculosis Sanatorium may be near The question is scheduled for discussion at a meeting of the lorence County legislative dele gation when members of the Dar lington County board of commis sioners and the lorence County governing board are expected to meet with them Hie meeting a regularly sched ALrCIO Wants Quick Cut in Taxes In Arctic Cold Weather Mostly cloudy and a little warmer today with occasional rain this afternoon and tonight Today's high near 55 Tonight's low around 40 High Monday near 57 asking that if the measure is approved it also would include payments to all counties on a cash basis at present day values for lands taken by the state in the past He has held the floor with his talkathon for three days and come vacant for another three scheduled to return Tuesday In a parting remark Thursday he said be there going frequently shaking hands and at to get special treatment for my tempting to muster support throat over the weekend so It could be very interesting be in top A number of others are interest A familiar face always in the ed in the job and they include a State House) continues in regular taken on a new character State House is that of George present House member Sam Harrell of lorence spent considerable time in House But his appearance quently in recent weeks the buildings and 108 acres of i lorence A Pendergrass riorence Herbert Jordan Tim monsville and Harry Ulmer Hartsville all directors The property has been idle since July 1 1961 when it was closed as a two county tuberculosis sana torium Public concern over non use of the facility in the face of over crowded hospital conditions in the two counties has mounted in recent months Public reaction to the two pro posals now in the hands of th? governing bodies of the two coun 10 in amily Dies in ire In Missouri Morehouse mo (ap disabled World War II veteran his wife and their eight children perished Saturday in a fire that swept rapidly through the four room frame house The family of Paul Saville 47 was found in two beds They ap parently had no warning police said Dead are Saville his wife Shir ley 25 and their eight children Paul David Jr 10 Glenda Sue 9 Hester 8 Everett 7 Alvin 5 Michael 2 Henderson 1 and Zelda Mae 4 months the time the fire depart ment got to the house the place was all in Kindred chief of police said think those folks ever had a Kindred said only thing we can think is that the sparks from the coal stove might have set the house government disabilitytension was the only means of support police said GOP Hits About Cuba Predicted Hollings Tells Southern Demos To Assert Selves RICHMOND Va (AP) South ern Democrats were urged by a former South Carolina governor here Saturday night to on the and Reassert leadership in the national party Disagreement liberals in the party ranks has caused South ern conservatives frustration Er nest Hollings said in a speech prepared for the Jefferson Jack son Day dinner of Virginia Demo Latta Grabs State Title In Class COLUMBIA Latta overcame a deep freeze as cold as the weather oiitdoors Saturday night to win the state Class basket ball championship The title came on a 24 20 victory over University High of Columbia The victory marked the only state title for a Pee Dee boys team this year Olanta lost in semi finals in Class competi tion riday night Details on page 10 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