a of a The State: South Carolina's Progressive Newspaper COLUMBIA. S. SATURDAY, OCT. 27, 1951 The State: South Carolina's Largest Newspaper PAGE 3-A Dreher Wins 1951 Marching Band Festival The 31-piece Dreher high school band of Columbia is pictured above at the fair grounds shortly after it was announced winner of the $150 first prize in the marching band festival yesterday. Pat Garnett is director of the band and Hal Crosswell, drum major.
The band is outfitted in bright blue uniforms trimmed with white braid. (Munn-Teal photo.) Reporter Says Economy of SC and Adjacent States Is Being Disrupted by Labor Politics at Atom Plant (This is the fourth and concluding instalment of a series of articles on construction of the AEC'S bomb plant showing how labor and politics are combining in open violation of the federal labor laws.) By LESLIE GOULD New York, Oct. 26-In the construction of the bomb plant on the Savannah river, the a Atomic Energy commission is a party to an open violation of two federal laws and in doing so is disrupting the economy of South Carolina and the adjacent states of the Southexs' Living costs are skyrocketing. This inflation, plus waste and union racketeering is adding millions to the cost of the project. The region is caught in a boom, comparable to that of a gold rush town, with all the attendant headaches raised by the sudden influx of thousands of workers and their families.
Housing, school, hospital, water end sewage facilities and police and fire protection must be provided for 200,000 new people, all but 000 being temporary residents. The inflation catches the permanent residents as well as the newcomers, and in addition, the permanen residents must foot the higher local tax bill to meet the costs of the expended local services. The plant, being a government project, contributes nothing to the local tax bill. The situation is aggravated by open violation of the two federal Jaws--the Taft-Hartley and the Bacon-Davis acts. Taft-Hartley bars the union or closed shop, but in this project there's an unwritten contract bethe managers of the work tween, AFL building trades to hire only union men.
The construction 1 job at the peak will take 40,000 to 50,000 men, of which there will be a 40 to 50 per cent turnover. For the right to work on this defense job, a worker, not a member of the union, will pay from $15 1o $108 "initiation" fees and there are reports of the "take being as much as $200. Workers must pay weekly dues. If the dues are' not paid the man does not work. At least one union has a "kick per cent of the weekly check to the union's "operating plus 1 per from the employer for a "pension" fund.
This from and for workers who a year to a year and a half from now will not be in arrears. The "initiation" fee collections will run up to $2,000,000 and more if the turnover is 50 per cent. The turnover of workers on such a projest is always high. Since the plant have only 6,000 permanent employes, 85 per cent of the peak will be out of jobs on completion of the plant 1953. is what makes the forced joining of a union by workers on this defense project a racket.
The Bacon Davis act requires prevailing wage rates must be folOn the bomb plant, pay scales lowed on any, government project. are 20 per cent and more above the former prevailing local wages, plus a guarantee of overtime at time and half pay. Work currently is on a 9-hour day, 45-hour week, with an hour each day at overtime rates. Next month the hours are to be extended to 54 hours, or 14 hours a week at time and a half. On 8 labor force of 40,000, this will cost the government $500,000 extra each week.
Before work started at the plant, carpenters were receiving, in the area $1.65 an hour time, but the department of labor set the rate for the plant at $2. Brick masons who were getting $2.25 an hour are now down for electricians' scale was upped from $1.85 to common labor from 75 and 80 cents an hour to 90 cents and plumbers from $2.23 to $2.60 and sheet metal workeis from $2 to $2.20 and some of these rates are being hiked again. Another way of enticing workers from existing industries in the region is through upgrading of jobs. There is the case of the men who were offered stock room jobs. The pay was not attractive enough, SO they were classified as Diesel operators, given the higher, pay for that classification, but they did stock room work.
They had had no Diesel experience. This has inflated the whole wage level, and 1 for farmers and the like they are out of luck. They just can't get help to harvest crops. The boom has touched off a big speculation in land. So far only one scandal has been uncovered, where 8.
former AEC employe tipped off 8 "friend." who made 76,000 in 90 days on two deals. Acreage which sold at $20 has cone as high as $500, and those in the know have cleaned up. The government has paid an average of $70 all acre for 156,134 acres. The project will embrace 201.000 acres, nearly four times the Oak Ridge plot, where the original bomb was built. Behind this is.
politics- the bat- Columbia Area Schools Win 3 Marching Band Prizes Columbia area high schools copped three of the four prizes given at the annual State Fair marching band festical yesterday as more than 3,000 spectators jammed their way into the grandstand to watch the 12 contesting bands. Dreher high of Columbiai took first honors- a silver trophy and $150 in prize money; Blacksburg was the runner-up winning $100 and a silver trophy: Brookland-Cayce high school, near Columbia, won $75 with third place, and Columbia high school walked off with fourth place and $25. This is the second consecutive year that Dreher has been first in the contest. The band performed intricate maneuvers while playing under the direction of Pat Garnett. Hal Crosswell, drum major, led the 31 piece group in the precision drill movements.
The Dreher band wearing bright blue with white braid and trim "Hail uniforms. to the Varsity," "Persuit Squadron," "United Nations" and "Night Flight." Opening the festival yesterday the 12 bands, with approximately students taking participating, part, joined together to play' three numbers prior to the' individual performances of each. Under 1 the direction of J. R. Fogle, band director of Walterboro high school, the bands, enmasse, played "The Star.
Spangled Banner." L. R. Sider of Charlotte, N. director of the Shrine band there, directed the group in "Them Basses," a march, and the joint program was concluded with "The Booster," another march, directed by Leon Frieda of Charleston, music director at The Citadel and Porter Military academy. The individual bands then marched separately in front of the grandstand to perform within a seven minute time limit.
They were judged on the following three points: Required movements (30 cent) which included roll-off forward march (not playing). halt and play one march; forward march, column right and left, countermarch, right and left oblique, the latter four while playing. Marching technique and inspection (30 per cent), which included straightness of rank and file, personal bearing, position of instruments, condition and cleanliness of instruments a and condition and cleanliness of uniforms. Also, concert selection, (40 per cent): the attack, expression. phrasing, rhythm and general efof ensemble.
The bands were inspected by the judges prior to their movement to the marching field. Although each band had a corps of majorettes, they were not included in the judging. The following bands, in addition to the four winners, were participants the festival: York high school in green uniforms with white trim and braid, Charles Pruitt, director; Kingstree, in garnet coau and grey trousers, H. W. Williams, director; Laurens in blue uniforms with gold braid and trim, John co*ker, director; Sumter, purole uniforms with white braid and James Pritchard, director; Newberry.
blue coats, and grey trousers, Miss Lorraine Parris, director. Also, Beaufort, in coats, white trousers, R. W. Wood, director; Whitmire, purple jackets, white trousers. Mrs.
E. R. Baker, director, Aiken, green jackets, white trousers. W. T.
Slaughter, director. The Blacksburg band, second place winner, wore black jackets and gold trousers and was directed by Dean Ross who was also festival chairman. Brooklyn-Cayce, third, wore garnet coats and grey trousers. Tom Thornley is director. Heyward Moore directed fourth place winners, Columbia high school, who wore garnet uniforms with gold braid and trim.
The Aiken band was the largest present with 48 pieces, and due to its size, it performed in an area west of the judges stand instead of the track directly in front of the on judges. The Aiken group was the only one that did not halt and play the one required march selection. Judges for the festival were L. R. Sides, Leon Freida, and Col.
John F. Williams of the commandants office. The Citadel, Charleston, Roy Moody was the official timer and Charles Thompson, the official Both are University of starter. South Carolina students. All bands received $25 toward exfrom the sponsors, the penses South Carolina Band and Orchestra Directors association and the State Fair association.
Last Rites Sunday For Dillon Man Killed in Korea Dillon, Oct. 26- (Special) Funeral services will be held at 2:30 Sunday afternoon for Pvt. John C. Strickland, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. B. Strickland, at the Church of God with the Rev. Harold Douglas officiating. Full military honors will be accorded at Green Sea cemetery for the committal services.
Mrs. Harrison's Funeral Sunday Funeral services for Mrs. Callie Harrison. 69. who died Thursday evening in the Columbia hospital, will be held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the Ebenezer Methodist church.
at Poole's Mill. The services will be conducted by the William L. Faircioth, assisted by the Rev. T. L.
Bryson. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Active pallbearers will be J. C. Ingram, J.
C. Kerlin, Forest Quick. F. G. Dawson, C.
G. Thompson, and E. H. Drakeford. Honorary pallbearers will be Ryan Ott, H.
L. Berry, Everett Berry, Jean Jackson, Thomas Mack, Homer Spires, LeGree Hutto, Conklin Jackson, Graham Spires and Clarence Sims. The body is at the Thompson Funeral home, INVOKE T-H LAW Washington, Oct. 26 (AP) Senator Holland (D-Fla.) today asked President Truman to invoke the Taft-Hartley law in the Longshoremen's strike in New York and Boston "to uphold the morale of our fighting troops in Korea," Band Drum Majors Receive Trophies tle between the conservative Demcerats, spearheaded by South Carolina's Gov. James Byrnes, and the left wing of the New Deal, as represented by Secretary of Labor Tobin South Carolina is an "open shop" state, with only 20 of the 325 maindustrial plants having union representaion.
Of the major industrial plants, 256 are textiles, most of them attracted away from New England to the South by the labor situation The 325 industrial plants employ around 200,000 with 000 in the textile mills. Only 5 to 6 per cent of the 200,000 are unionized. Through the bomb plant, the administration is offering a chance 10 unionize South Carolina and the of the Southeast in return for labor support in next year's Presidential election. That the economy of a whole area is being disrupted apparently means nothing if there is political gain. and a pay off to the unions or their bosses.
(Copyright, 1951, King Features Syndicate, Inc.) T. H. Tatum Dies Suddenly T. Henry Tatum, for many years affiliated with the Marshall-Tatum men's clothing store here, died suddenly last night in the Baptist hospital. resided at 218 King street.
He was taken seriously ill Thursday night. Mr. Tatum had been identified with the mens clothing business in Columbia for many years, entering the field here as a young man. He was one of the men for whom the Marshall-Tatum company was named, joining the firm upon its organization and remaining with it until his death. He was active in religious circles and had a wide circle of friends both in Columbia and in central South Carolina.
A man of unfailing courtesy, of staunch character, Mr. Tatum had long been identified with the better things in Columbia. He was a member of the First Baptist church. Tough Luck Runs In the Family Malachi C. Wilson, 32, of Eastover we was driving his 1941 Ford coupe along the Wilson Mill road, just off Highway 76.
Thursday night when his car suddenly left the road rammed into a huge pine tree. Malachi was injured. A minute or so later, his brother, Walter Wilson, 25, also of Eastover. happened by. He saw wreck, put Malachi in his 1941 Oldsmobile, and started for the Veterans' hospital.
They both wound up there. Walter had driven only about a half mile when his automobile left the road and smashed into a tree. He was also injured. A third automobile came along and carried the brothers on to the Veterans hospital without further mishap. A hospital spokesman said last night that neither was in serious condition and that both were doing well.
Highway Patrolman B. O. Riley investigated the wrecks. Auto' Reported Missing Recovered by Columbia Police in Six Minutes Columbia Traffic Officer Jake Howell last night recovered car six minutes after it was reported missing. 11s two occupants were charged with breach of trust.
G. A. Black of 1916 Bull street reported to police that he picked up two soldiers to give them a ride into town and that they made off with his 1939 Plymouth sedan when he stepped into a rest room at a Five Points drive-in. Officer Howell caught the car at Rosewood drive and South Harden street. Egyptians Declare Ban On British Ships in Suez Cairo, Egypt, Oct.
26 (AP) -The Egyptian government today dea ban on British warships in the Suez Canal but the French operating company said it would defy any orders to interfere with canal transit. A tense quiet prevailed along the British-held canal except for propaganda moves. Egypt's announcement on warships was made by Foreign Minister Mohammed Salah El Din at a news conference. He sketched a policy of non-co-operation with Britain, the States and France, and indicated Egypt was too weak in arms to fight an organized war to get rid of the British. Two days after his widely licized 90-minute conference with the Soviet minister to Cairo, Salah El Din told reporters Egypt's relations with Russia "are the normal relations existing between friendly states which are bound by the United Nations charter." In the canal zone, Egyptians were reported circulating propaganda pamphlets at Port Said, Ismailia and Port Suez.
They lambasted the British and called for a boycott by labor, food suppliers and other Egyptians. The British command countered with an Arabic language news-sheet called the "Canal Arab News" for Egyptian laborers. It was also put-land Fat Barrows Judged at Fair Judges announced decisions in the final class in the Swine department of the South Carolina State Fair yesterday South Carolina owned fat barrows, judged after the breeding class of swine. The show was conducted under supervision of A. L.
DuRant, livestock specialist. Grand Champion single barrow was won by Fred Mathias and Champion pen by Windsor Plantation complete Georgetown. list of barrow winners follows: Single Barrow: (160-200): Lee Rawls of Lexington, first; Windsor Plantation, second and sixth; Fred Mathias, third; C. W. Goodman, fourth and Earl Goodman of the Sumter 4-H club, fifth.
Single Barrow: (201-260): Fair Oaks Farm, first; V. S. Bickley, second; J. Leslie Corley, third; Thomas T. Traywick, fourth and fifth and Joe Rawls, sixth.
Pen Plantation, of Three: first; (160-200): Earl Goodman, Windsor second: Sumter County 4-H, third. Pen of Three: (201-260): T. Traywick, first: Fair Oaks Farms, second; Windsor Plantation, third. Dog Adoption Day Is Sunday The weekly dog adoption sponsored by the Richland SPCA will take place at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the city pound. About 12 grown dogs and a numher of puppies who were to young to be given away last week end, will be available.
Iris Rabon, 6, Injured When Struck by Auto Six-year-old Iris Rabon, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis G. Rabon of 907 Woodside street, Eau Claire, was Injured at 4:20 yesterday afternoon when she was struck by an automobile in the block of Main street. An Eau Claire police report said that the driver of the automobile.
a late model Chrysler, was Lindy Hughes of North. child incurred a fractured arm, a blood blister on her leg, and bruises. Officer Hipp of the Eau Claire police department investigated the accident. High Cost of Living Catches Up With Santa Claus Parade, Even! The high cost of living has even caught up with Santa Claus. The trade promotion committee of the Columbia Merchants' association voted yesterday to discontinue Santa's gala parade-welcome and substitute another form of "pomp and circ*mstance." John Hills, secretary of the Merchants' association said last night that the committee had decided that "now was a good time to break with tradition" and that in doing away with the Christmas parade, Columbia is in keeping with the trend among larger cities.
He said that mounting expenses figured into the change in Santa Claus' method of entree. This year--at 10:30 in the out a mimeographed "Canal Zone News" to give troops British sports results and other home, zone and world news. The paper for troops replaces the British-owned Egyptian Gazette of Cairo, which is banned from the zone for alleged Egyptian-slanted reporting Bakers at Ismailia, mid-way point on the 104-mile canal, were reported withholding bread from British families. Salah El Din did not explain how Egypt hoped to enforce what he called a canal "boycott" on British warships. Egypt lacks the naval power to challenge the British cruiser Gambia, two destroyers and a frigate reported guarding both ends of the canal and, other British warships in the Mediterranean.
Most of Egypt's small navy was reported at Alexandria harbor in the Nile delta. The French- operating company pointed out that under its charter no ships can be barred from transit. The 1888 treaty of Constantinople (Istanbul) specifies that the canal is open to all ships of all nations in war and peace and is free from blockade. "We will hold firm and abide by our charter," a company official said. British warships continued to move at will but without benefit of the normal Egyptian labor pilot help.
Mrs. Dora Rhodes, Mother of Two Columbians. Dies Greenville, Oct. 26-Mrs. Dora E.
Rhodes of Greenville died at the Greenville General hospital last night on her 81st birth anniversary. Funeral arrangements are incomplete but the services will be held here Sunday at an hour to be announced. Mrs. Rhodes is survived by four sons and four daughters, including V. L.
Rhodes and Mrs. Allie J. Lever of Columbia. The body is at the Jones mortuary. Four Doomed Negroes Appeal To SC High Court (By The Associated Press) Four Charleston county Negroes scheduled to be electrocuted November 2 for murder appealing their convictions to the state supreme court.
Penitentiary officials here said yesterday they had received notice of the appeals. The four men were sentenced September 19 for the death of 57-1 year-old Horace C. Wilhelm. They are Leon Brock. 24; Theodore Failey, 17; James Little, 22; and Peter Nathaniel Short 29.
Wilhelm. a furniture salesman, was found dead in Wando creek near Charleston. Monroe Henderson, 14. pleaded when he was arrested with guilty, defendants. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, Columbain's Brother Dies Ivan Moul, 65, brother of Wilson F.
Moul, of 1630 Augusta street in West Columbia, died at Philadelphia Naval hospital in Philadelphia, Thursday night. Funeral services will be held Tuesday in Philadelphia. Spartan Youth Has 4th Broken Leg Within Year Spartanburg, Oct. 26-(AP)-Little 13-year-old Joe Jenkins suffered a broken leg again today-his fourth leg fracture in less than a year. Joe was watching his playmates in a football tussle and was tramduring one of the plays.
Joe's leg breaking series started November 7 when he was struck by a truck. Both legs were fractured then. Joe was still recuperating early in March when he fell from his wheel chair, breaking his left leg again. Friday's fracture brings the score to two each for each leg. Sizable Stills Seized Federal alcohol tax unit agents destroyed 15 illegal whisky stills and arrested 19 persons in South Carolina last week, Agent L.
W. West said yesterday. The biggest still of the week was a one in Beaufort county. Agents also wrecked A gallon still in Orangeburg county. Only about 50 cases of quintuplets have been recorded.
Hal Crosswell (left), drum major of the Dreher high school band, and Betty Wylie, the Blacksburg high school drum major, are shown above receiving the trophies given by the State Fair association to the two bands winning first and second places in the State Fair marching band festival yesterday. Dean Ross, director of the Blacksburg band, and festival chairman, presented the silver cups a on behalf of the fair association, sponsor of festival, along with the South Carolina Band and Orchestra Directors association. co the year trophies were given in addition to the monetary prizes. (Munn-Teal photo.) Most of Europe Applauds Return Of Churchill as Boost for West, US GOP Sees Good Omen in British Voting Washington, Oct. 26 -(AP)-Republican party leaders interpreted the fall of Britain's Socialist government today as a good omen for them in next year's presidential election, but the Democratic high command didn't see it that way.
"The issues in the British election were not those which will be debated in this country in 1952," the Democratic national committee said in a statement. Representative Martin of Massachusetts, GOP leader in the house, said the return of Winston Churchill's Conservatives to power will strengthen the fight against Socialism and "hearten every lover of freedom throughout the world." "The British took a fling at Socialism, and they obviously want no more of it," Martin said. "The election results in Britain should be ample warning to the Truman administration, which insists on advocating Socialistic programs, that Socialism is doomed to failure wherever it is tried. "American resentment against the socialistic trend here was demonstrated in the 1950 elections, and the final verdict against it will come in November, 1952. in a defeat for the administration now in power." The Democratic national committee contended that the policies of the two major British parties "bear little resemblance to the programs of the two American parties." "Neither party in the British election proposed to abandon the policy of seeking peace through international co-operation and neither proposed to scuttle economic and social advances of the last half century," committee stated.
"Neither party in Great Britain advocated the back to McKinley program for which the Republican leadership stands." Republican 1 National Chairman Guy George Gabrielson echoed Martin's sentiments. First Christian Church to Ordain Elders. Deacons A special service of ordination and installation for elders and deacons of the First Christian church will be conducted at the church, the Rev. James W. Sosebee, minister, at 7:45 Sunday evening.
A 15-minlute "Music in Miniature" will precede the ordination service. Elders to be ordained are: Richard Sturkie and W. R. Jackson. Deacons to be ordained are Herman Stevens, Guyon, James L.
Cowan, C. Nicholds, Williard Harold, J. Smith and J. C. McRae.
Elders to participate in the laying on of hands are: W. M. Jenkins, E. J. Wimberly, M.
O. Youmans, W. N. Rabon. H.
R. Scrivener and J. W. Bell. C.
D. Gordon is out of the city. All elders and deacons who have previously been ordained will be installed as a group. The hippopotamus is the largest living, non-ruminating even-toed mammal. existing primarily 011 aquatic plants growing in water but occasionally coming on shore Ito feed.
Assured of Victory Winston Churchill, British Conservative leader, makes his familiar for Victory" symbol of wartime, after he was assured of victory in the British general election, (AP, wirephoto via radio from London. Drive Seen For Unification Of Continent London, Oct. 26-(AP)-Return of Winston Churchill was applauded throughout most of Europe tonight as a boost for western world leadership and the prospect: of a United States of Europe. Even those politically opposed to Churchill conceded he would be welcomed into the high councils in leadership in diplomatic seeWashington to the western bolster, saw with Russia. Continental newspapers and politicians said they expected the new British prime minister to revive the drive for unification of Western Europe on the United States pattern of states, one of Churchill's pet postwar projects.
Communists saw it as a victory for the United States. The French Communist newspaper Ce Soir said Churchill's return meant "an aggravation of the imperialistic belligerent American policy." In Germany, which Churchill helped bring to its knees in unconditional surrender when he was Britain's wartime leader, his return was hailed as a favorable sign. Government circles in Western Germany talked mainly of his towards European unification, a project strongly favored by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's coalition regime. The Frankfurt newspaper Rundschau, normally slightly leftwing, said that "world. as well as empire policy, will receive a new impetus through the influence of that young old man.
Winston Churchill." French leaders were delighted with the prospects of a quick speedup in European unification plans. program in which British Socialists had shown only luke-warm interest. The Popular Republican party (MRP). whose leaders include Foreign Minister Robert Schuman and Defense Minister Georges Bidault, issued statement saying they hoped Churchill would start again on "the construction of a united Europe." Former French Premier Paul Revnaud said Churchill's victory undoubtedly would result in greater American aid for Britain "in all fields and notably in the monetary In Belgium, Socialist Leader Victor Larock said Churchill had won because "Conservative reaction 18 extending throughout Western Europe. It is normal in a period of intensive military preparation." But he said Churchill's return was good for Anglo-American cooperation.
In Austria. Federal Chancellor Dr. Leopold Figi said Churchill was confronted with problems. whose solutions was "of prime importance not only for Great Britain but for Europe and the entire world." "We have the fullest confidence that the main efforts of the new British government will be devoted towards the maintenance of peace and freedom," he said. ling, November 23-St.
Nick will be ushered into town astride his own, special float, which will probably be even more lavish than usual. Arrangements for the welcoming not yet complete, but Mr. Hills said that it will be quite as gala as in past years. The blanket of vari-colored lights that have formerly stretched from the State House to Elmwood avenue, will be more sparse this year. The scheme will be to concentrate the lights at the intersections along Main, with a featured Christmas scene on the State House grounds.
The Christmas scenes will be arranged by the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, James Sidney Sigmon, Jr. Sumter- Mr. and Mrs. James S. Sigmon announce the birth of a son.
James Sidney, on October 17 at the Tuomey hospital. Mrs. Sigmon is the former Mary Russell. Marion Elizabeth MeGill Woodruff (Special) Mr. And Mrs.
Clyde MeGill announce the birth a daughter. Marion Elizabeth. on October 20 at the Mary Black hospital. Mrs. McGill is the former Elizabeth Lanford, daughter lot Mr.
and Mrs. Ward Lanford, Sr..
