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Volume LI 11
Clinton, S. C., Thursday, July 3, 1952
Number 27
▲ Regular Chronicle Feature
Babson Discusses
Automobile Accidents
By ROGER W. BABSON
New Boston, N. H., June 27.—
The death of a friend has brought
to my attention this week both the
economic loss to the country and
the personal loss to relatives from
needless automobile accidents.
Need of Better Roads
First, let me admit that these ac
cidental deaths have not increased
proportionately with the number
of motor vehicles,
although t h e
deaths may have
increased propor
tionately with the
mileage . operated
When I was a stu
dent at the Massa
chusetts Institute
of Techno logy,
there were only
four automobiles
W. BsbMa in the- United
States! When I was married in
1900, this had increased to only
8,000 automobiles, one of which I
owned. Today there are about for
ty-five million automobiles and
about nine million trucks in opera
tion. Truly this is a miraculous in
dustry.
Unfortunately, most of the roads
used today were, laid out before
automobiles were even dreamed of.
The improvements in these roads
have not begun to keep pace with
the number of automobiles. This
is primarily responsible for most
accidents. We, however, are now
entering a new road building in
dustry of tremendous proportions.
Great toll-roads, and super high
ways, costing nearly $1 million
per mile, are being built. Those
looking for employment opportun
ities or business profits should
study super-highways, under-
ground parking, outdoor theaters
and allied developments.
Statistics On Accidents
It is estimated that there were
about 40,000 persons killed by au
tomobiles last year, and many,
many times this number injured.
Over one-third of these deaths
were due to collisions; and about
one-third from non-collision acci
dents. such as running off the road.
About 10,000 needless deaths were
the result of hitting careless pedes
trians.
These new super-highways and
improvements in existing roads
should reduce the collision and
S. C. Rural Nonfarm
Population Shows
Biggest Increase
Washington, July L! — South
Carolina’s rural non-farm popula
tion showed a larger increase than
any other group during the last
10 years
The urban increase was 30.7 per
cent and rural farm population de
creased 28.2 per cent. Rural non
farm population increased 54.9 per
cent
These figures were announced
yesterday by the Census Bureau.
Of the state’s 2,117,027 persons,
777,921 live in urban areas, 638.495
in rural non-farm areas and 700,-
611 in rural farm areas, the Bu
reau reported.
City people have the highest
median age in' South Carolina—
26.8 years, compared with a me
dian for the entire state of 23.C.
The rural non-farm population had
a median age of 23.2 and the rural
farm • 19.5. The percentage oL
n
News" Tops Names
South Carolina
Weekly Newspapers
Columbia, June 19f. —r“News” is
the most popular name among
South Carolina weeklies, according
to W. G. Hazel, advertising mana
ger of the Capital Life & Health
Insurance company, who has just
completed a survey of the non
daily newspapers of the state. Fif
teen papers carry the word News
as their name or one of their
names.
This is closely followed by Her-j
aid and Times, which tie for sec
ond place with eight each. There
are four each. Sentinel, Messenger,
Tribune, and Chronicle; three each,
Advertiser, Observer, Press, and
Citizen; two each. Sun, Journal,
Record, and • Standard; and one
each, Dispatch, Star, Democrat,
Enterprise, Eagle, Scene, Courier.
Way, Enquirer, Banner, People,
Gazette, Advocate, Reporter, Field,
Progress, Ledger, and Era.
This is a total of 87 ,names, —
whereas there are only 76 newspa
pers. This is accounted for by some
publipations having combined or
hyphenated names, in which ca-e
both are counted.
DR. L B. MARION
NATUROPATH
Res. Phone 939
500 South Broad St.
non -collision accidents, as well as population 65 years of age and
save time, gasoline and mainte
nance. (The only group to suffer is
investors in railroad stocks, which
so many people are now rushing to
buy due to temporary high defense
earnings.) Very little is now being
done, however, to reduce the
deaths of pedestrians. Ninety per
cent of these are in cities and
towns and could be eliminated.
Any reader of this column may be
the next pedestrian to be needless
ly killed.
Obey Existing Police Rules
Every up-to-date community has
traffic lights and traffic officers,
but neither of these safety meas
ures supply the necessary brains
and self-control to prevent people
CONCERT PIANO TUNER
FROM CALIFORNIA
WILL TUNE IN AREA FOR 3 WEEKS
Formerly with Steinway Agency
NORMAN MILLER
Telephone 22501
Box 355
Laurens, S. C.
MIDWAY
Drive?In Theatre
over was 5.4.
Non-whites constituted 38.9 per
cent of the total stato population.
The non-white population was 52.8
per cent rural farm; 34.1 per cent
rural non-farm; and 30.3 per cent
urban.
While the median number of
persons per household for the en
tire state was 4.01, the farm area
had 4.91 persons per household;
the rural non-farm 3.87; and the
urban 3.50. The percentage of mar
ried conuples that did not have
their own household was 7.J.
Of all South Carolina population
aged 14 to 17 years, 72 per cent
were in school. Of persons 25
years old and over the median
number of years of school com
pleted was 7.6. Years of schooling
were highest among urban dwell
ers^ They had 8.9 year®, the rural
non-farm 7.3, and the rural farm
|6.3.
, Of the persons 14 years old anJ
| over 798,187 were in the labor
: force, of which 80.3 per cent were
I males, and 33.5 per cent females.
The percentage of unemployment
in the civilian labor force was 3.4,
and the percentage of workers en
gaged in manufacturing was 27 9
per cent.
The median dollar income for
the entire state was $1,647. But in
the cities the median income was
$2,173, in rural non-farm areas $1,-
706, and on the farms $915. This
income figure did not include farm
produce for home consumption.
The percentage of South Carolin
ians having incomes of less than
$2,000 was 57.2.
NEWEST AND FINEST
CLINTON — JOANNA
THURSDAY
COUNTY FAIR
JULY 3
Rory Calhoun '
COMEDY — TWO CARTOONS
JULY 4-5
FRIDAY-SATURDAY
FEUDIN’ RHYTHM
Eddie Arnold—“The Tennessee Plowboy’’
TWO COMEDIES — CARTOON
MONDAY-TUESDAY JULY 7-8
PAINTING THE CLOUDS
WITH SUNSHINE
Dennis Morgan — Virginia Mayo
COMEDY — CARTOON
WEDNESDAY
KIT CARSON
JULY 9
Dana Andrews — Lynn Bari
CARTOON
PRIZE NIGHT WEDNESDAY
PH I ICO REFRIGERATOR GIVEN AWAY
WAHOO THURSDAY
ADMISSION 40c
Children tinder 12 admitted FREE
First Show Starts at Dusk—Second Show at 10 PJL
from disobeying traffic regulations.
Pedestrians cross streets in any
place without regard for them
selves, their families or the unfor
tunate auto driver who runs them
down. In addition to 10,000 pedes
trians being killed, 200,000 were
injured.
Readers should resolve at one*'
to cross streets only at intersec
tions, and to obey carefully traffic
lights where they exist. Children,
at home and at school, should be
trained to do this. Diagonal cross
ing of streets should be forbidden,
should be fined, and the rr\oney
used to employ more traffic offi-
Those who are caught doing so
cers.
A New Source Of Traffic Officers
One economic problem today is
finding work that the aged can do.
While automobiles are increasing
the number of deaths, modern
drugs are increasing the length of
life. This situation is being met by
pensions, social security, relief, and
old-age assistance. Unfortunately,
politics has seriously entered the
later and the politicians are fight
ing over whether names should be
made available to the public. Re
lief and old-age assistance are
greatly increasing each year; in
many cities the cost is second only
to school costs. A large percentage
of the tax dollar now goes to old-
age assistance and relief.
Now ' h«r« is my suggestion:
Let us organize the able-bodied
men and women who are now on
relief as “Safety Monitors” in uni
form. These individuals would
work only a few hours a day; but
contribute their time without pay.
They should be stationed at differ
ent locations to prevent people
from crossing the streets except at
marked places. The very presence
of these ‘‘Safety Monitors” would
tremendously reduce the death and
accident toll. By taking the names
of those who fail to observe the
traffic rules, fines could be collect
ed which would materially reduce
the cost of relief assistence. I am
vrey serious about this suggestion
and hope that every one of the 400
communities in which this column
is published will give some thought
to it.
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