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Thursday, July 31, 1952
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Page Seven
TO LEAD REVIVAL
the
TRUMAN
APPOINTED
NOMINEE
‘ By ROBERT RUARK,
Syndicate Writer
Bermuda. — After a
away from the confuskm of ljrill . „ 11U t ... w.^.
conventions a sudden thought ck pj-ggi^ency and had to be drafted
firmly establish Stevenson in
public consciousness.
These have been two highly un
usual conventions: in the Republi
can you saw how Eisenhower, as
an amateur, by sheer weight of
personality, triumphed sweepingly
over a highly developed political
approach by Senator Taft. In the
j Demorcratic conclave, the reverse
a ' w as true. Estes Kcfauver seemed
a to be the people’s choice over a
mon who disclaimed interest in the
the
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REV. V. w. McCRARY
The Rev. V. W. McCrary, of An
derson, is conducting a series of re
vival services at the Church of God
on Elizabeth street. Special music
and singing each evening. A feature
of the meetings is Rev. McCrary
playing the hand saw. Services are
at 7:30, to which the public is in
vited.
curs that never has the idealized
concept of government by the peo
ple been less evident than in the
just- concluded Democratic con
clave in Chicago.
If the Democrats should happen
to win in thp fall, we will have
what amounts to a president and
vice-president by appointment. ♦>
Harry Truman, while still president 1 S.«
of the United States, arbitrarily ap- $£
pointed his own to the presiden- g
tial candidacy and implemented g
his appointment through the with
drawal of another Truman pet, Av-
erell Harriman.
It is quite truthful to say that
the American people as a whole
had never heard of Adlai Steven-
son, a good man but a national po- g
litical nonentity prior to this
spring, when Harry pulled him
out of the hat and stubbornly set
him up on the stage. He may be]
eventually elected through popular
processes, but he was selected
through the pressure and power of
one man. i
It occurs to me that Mr.Truman J.;
does not speak for a great many g
million Democrats, but he assumed
the spokesmanship - and made it
stick. Ttns a shaft UTne from Ttcrw-^
to November, possibly too short, to tt
to run. But sheer political weight
installed Mr. Stevenson. The Re
object lesson in how not to run a
nomination race, and the Demo
crats promptly outdid them in
brawling, bickering, disunity and
general vulgarity.
How either party hopes to re
capture complete public trust as a
party is beyond my comprehen-
sit5n after all the fishwifery and
angle shooting that has occurred,
for the public eye to see. It seems
to be the opinion of a great many
people, after years of boss rule in
the selection of candidates, that
the time has come to abolish the
convention as we know it now as
publicans set the Democrats a fine archaic and highly undemocratic.
The people of the country have
little or no .part in the selection of
their favorites. Delegates are own
ed outrgiht and manipulated by a
very few; their votes are swapped
as casually in the conference rooms
as a man might make a deal for
cattle.
There has been some feeling that
the only honest approach to presi
dential nomination is universal
primaries ,with the results to de
termine that man. I'm not smart
enough about this stuff to pre
scribe, but I’m smart enough to
know that almost any method that
departs from the current process is
better than the one we’ve got. Any
thing at all would be less phony,
more dignified abd a lot less noisy.
We may thank television a great
deal for bringing to general public
consciousness a vivid picture of the
true dimensions of a national con
vention. The complete picture of
its stupidities and vulgarities for
merly has not been possible to por
tray by word alone. The mysteries
of just bow the man who became
an aspirant for national leadership
were fairly dark They are dark
no more. I think the oid-fashioned
way is finished and there will be
some changes made for 1956.
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Clinton, Ware Shoals
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Those batting Ware Shoals Rie-|8
gels jumped into the Central Caro- 1 jnj
lina league driver’s seat Tuesday I it
night with a rousing 7-3 victory jg
over Joanna’s Hornets at Joanna.
Souhpaw Earl Gray for
Shoals chalked, up his lb
without a loss. Prater banged out. ^
a pair of doubles and a single to £*
pace Joanna. !•:
Over at Ninety Six, home runs
by Charlie Gaffney and Pete MishJ-J
supplied the big sparks as Clinton
took a 7-6 victory over the Indians.
BUT* Rowland scattered eight hits
Ware t\
th victory I
to win for the Cavaliers.
Games This Week
Friday — Joanna at Clinton, i.t
Ninety-Six at Ware Shoals.
Saturday — Clinton at Joanhi.
Ware Shoals at Ninety-Six.
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Saucers Are Not
Menace-To U. S. .
Washington.—The Air Force says
it’s still checking into flying sau
cer reports, but it’s certain of one
thing: the saucers-whatever they
are-don’t seem to be a menace to
the United States. Most of the
sighings traced to date have turn
ed out to be natural phenomena.
A flurry of reports that scores
of unidentified objects had been
spotted by radar in the Wsahington
area during the past 10 days led
the Air Force to call a special
news conference yesterday to tell
what it knew—or thought, of the
saucers. )
The official Air Force conclusion
announced yesterday:
About one-fifth of the sighting
reports are “from credible obser
vers, of relatively incredible things
—so we keep on being concerned
about them.
Of the one-fifth for which there
is no explanation, Maj. Gen. John
A. Sanford, intelligence director,
said:
“No pattern has ever been found
that reveals anything remotely like
a purpose or consistency that can
in any way be associated with any
menace to the United States.”
Sanford is one of the Air Force’s
two top experts on saucers. The
other is Maj. Gen. Roger Ramey,
director of operation*. Both at
tended the news conference to an
swer whatever questions newsmen
tossed their way.
Sanford and Ramey announced
that since 1947 the Air Force has
analyzed about 2,000 reports of
sightings of strange objects in the
sky.
The bulk of these, after cross-
well identified as the product of
checking, have been reasonably
friendly aircraft, out-and-out hoax
es, or electrical or meteorological
phenomena.
But every effort is being made
to identify the mysterious one-fifth
One new step being planned is use
of a newly-developed telescopic
camera which can photograph a
150-degree area of sky on one
plate.
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