Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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8 SUPPOSE YOU AND YOUR this large truck sped around and self at all times, and keep an eaglt may not he as careful. TenSecom He pushed his sleeve back, held his wrist close to the lighted speedometer and squinted to read the time. A little after nine. Five, ten minutes after. Ought to be home from fishing in half an hour. If he'd known he had only ten seconds to live, he might have cheeked the time more closely. He might have done several things differently. Ten second? to live. Ho massaged his eves with thumb and middle finger, trying to rub out some of the sand. Nine seconds to live. He'd driven for hours since lunch and was beginning to feel it. Eight seconds to live. Lousy driving in the rain. Light from your windshild just seems to soak in along with the water. Seven seconds to live. Probably need a new windshield wiper. Old one just spreads the water instead of wiping it clean. Get one tomorrow or next time it rains. Six seconds to live. Somebody threw a cigarette out of an oncoming car. The red glow dissolved almost before it hit the pavement. Five seconds to live. He planted his heels on the Nothing has happened tomorrow. The man who gives in when he's right is weak, spineless and probably married. . * BOBBY WAYNE is the threemonths-old son of Bobby and Frances Kitchens of Lydia. He is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Smith Kitchens and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hedspeth. T - ' f Uw \ " %m -nsi CAR were on this bridge when overturned. Drive carefully your2 eye out for the other fellow. He Is To Live floorboard, squirmed back in the seat, trying for comfort. Four seconds to live. At 60 miles an hour, a car covers 88 feet of pavement every second. Four seconds, 352 feet. Three seconds to live. Something looked >v r o n g through the blurry windshield. A dab at the brake stiffened into desperate pressure as he made out an old unlighted truck m o v i n g slowly ahead. Two seconds to live. Panic moved in. Turn to the left. No, car coming. Headlights too close. Can't make it. Turn to the right. One second to live. Horror numbed everything into slow motion. He was floating right into the near corner of the truck bed. He opened his mouth to scream. No seconds to live. It's happened to lots of people; maybe not just that way but similarly. Drive too long, eves get tired, reaction slows down. Rain, darkness, a windshield that's hard to see through. Driving too fast. A car or truck ahead that you can't see. It's happened to lots of folks. It could happen to you. Secret of Success: "You can get almost anything done you want done?-just as long as you don't care who gets the credit. ^B 1 -*" r < BUNNY, three, and ALFRED, two, are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rhodes, No. 2 Carding. Clinton Mills. They are the grandchildren of G. W. Brazil. HE CLOTHMAKER Use Of Air Is Costly At Both Clinton-Lydia The air we use at both Clinton and Lydia Cotton Mills for such purposes as humidity, blowing-off looms and other machinery, and other uses is manufactured by huge compressors in both mills. The cost to make this air is many thousands of dollars each year. The purchase and installation of these compressors was another heavy investment of many more thousands of _1 _ 1 1 uoi tars. An air compressor operates in two stages?pumping and idling. It is during the pumping stage that the greatest amount of power is used. After the compressor has built up the required pressure iti the air receiver, it then idles, using less power and continues to do so unless the pressure is dropped at which time it begins to pump again. As air is being used for a regular prescribed job in the mills, the compressor continues to pump and idle at regular intervals, depending on the amount of air used. The cost of air. therefore. can be controlled when properly used and turned off when not in use. It can also be wasted and costly. For example, even the proper selection of the size of the opening in an air hose is important. An opening of 1 4 inch will use four times more air at the same {iressure as will an opening of 1 8 inch. It costs about 50 cents an hour to operate an air hose with 1 4 inch opening and only 12-1 2 cents if it has an 1 8 inch opening. Air is necessary and use ful, but costly. Help us control the cost bv usin^ it wisely and properly. mm&W yiMYBACKfr, y % '' * KENNETH is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Meeks of the Lydia Community. He celebrated his 13th birthday July 12. FROM A FULL HEART. HE 7 am Happy . . . One day last year, a grate and wrote a letter to the ed He had something on his mi wanted to express, through newspaper in his native state written by Elmer Supinger: "1 am an industrial worker, have been one all mv life T have had but one employer for the last 25 years, the Chrysler Motor Corp., NewCastle plant. I have a trade I have followed for 40 years, a hard, hot, hazardous job. I have loved my job. I have always been well pleased with the treatment I have received from my employer. "I have raised a family of eight children in this city and have had a lot of ups and downs in my time, just as many downs as ups. I own my home, not much 1 r ii. _ . ..il l.. l e i st* oi i n est? eariniy goons do I hold title to. "This is why I class myself as a common man. with half of our adult population in my class, so to speak. Yet I am happy. In my estimation I am a wealthy man. When this class of our people think of wealth they do not think deep enough. My family that God has given me is worth more to me than any or all earthly goods. For that I am thankful. I am thankful that I live in a country whose economic business system has given me so much to enjoy. "When most common men think of men of wealth they think of the Fords, the Mel Ions. Rockefellers, R. J. Reynolds. duPonts and many others. These so-called wealthy men do not hold this wealth, if we know what wealth means. I enjoy the use of this wealth they have brought forth, and distributed. "The auto pioneered bv Ford, and many others; my radio, the comfortable things in my home, all were made possible bv these men and the wealth they made from them. These men. most of ' cm, are gone from this earth. The wealth they produced is still here. They did not take that with them. I now hold title to some of this wealth by paying for them. We enjoy our fine PATRICIA Ammons was three years old June 20. the daughtei of Mr. and Mrs. James Ammons of Lydia. The Ammons work or Third Shift Weaving. JULY 15. 1953 WROTE: a Wealthy Man' ful American citizen sat down it or of The Indianapolis Star, ind and in his heart that, he the columns of the biggest of Indiana. Here is the letter. streets and highways, our police and fire protection. All of this we pay for, too. As we use them, through taxes. "We should thank God for planting in the minds of some of our great men the foresight to conceive and formulate such a system of government, a system that has made this the wealthiest nation on earth, and at the same time kept us free men. This national wealth is enjoyed by rich and poor alike. Each and every one of us should be thankful for and protect a system of government that has made it possible for our people to use this wealth. "Let us stop preaching boss hatred. Let us stop calling these great producers of the good things parasites. Let us praise their accom plishments and bo thankful for a system of government that has made it possible for use and enjoy that wealth. I hope this will change the way of thinking of some of our people who think in their own mind and hearts that they are the under-dog in our society. "Lot them take stock of just how wealthy they are. Let us make and keep them free men. free to express their own opinion, free to vote as they please. If we can do that we need have no fear of Communism or Socialism as a concept of government, replacing what we have." Eight months after his letter teas printed. Mr. Supin ger and his icife were "gone from this earth." killed in an automobile aeeident. This "wealthy man" left a legacy for all Americans?in his letter. Facts arc worthless to a man if lie has to keep run? : ? i i.. .. l c mill; 10 M >i i it uiHI \ uim" uu advice on how to use them. I Iv- Ms ^ ( LOUIE BLACK, son of Harry L. Black. Clinton No. 3 Weavi ing, now is serving aboard the i USS Orca out of Hong Kong. China.