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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thoriday, November 19, 1988
decline of something less than 5 per if we, all, get scared, we shall make
cent in rubber consumption next real difficulties,
year from the high 1953 level. ; Our American hatbit of speech-
Collyer, - whose viewpoint was making and giving interviews all
said to be typical of that of the 90- the time has its drawbacks. Life
odd businessmen here, held that h as always been full of ups' and
such a modest decline w’ould be downs; we are accustomed to that;
normal and not alannin.p Indus- the incessant predicting may,
try he advised, should follow a pol- make the talker seem like a wise j ning of games and dancing
Mrs. Perry M. Moore and Mrs. D.
Scout Troops
Planning Party
Boy Scout Troop 111 and Troop
174 will have a party on Saturday
evening at 7:03 at the armory. Each
scout will invite a guest for an eve-
—v Can we talk ourselves into a pe
riod of business dullness? We speak
of it as a recession, sometimes de
flation, then re-flation, £9 ; compar-
od with inflation. But the words
are of secondary importance.
When a businessman hears or
reads predictions of bad times, poor
business—and all that—how does it
affect him? Apply it to yourself,
each ppe. If a man has ten thous
and dollars for investment, will he
invest it when men predict unfa
vorable prospects? Now the $10,-
000 man is just a small business
man, but think of ten thousand men
with $10,000 each and you have
quite a sum of money. W r e have
more than ten thousand men in our
little state who have $10,000 each
for investment. That is a hundred
million dollars—quite a tidy capi
tal If they invest that money it
provides work for men and women;
wages, sales for stores, money for
savings which will be lent again
and so continue the good work. But
if we freeze it—and if it remains
frtven, we become like a man on a
vrrv strict slimming diet, one so
tat&:ng in essentials that the man
becomes a shadow, but isn’t able to
carry even his ghostly shadow.
1’e just r P a d the following: “The
country’s biggest businessmen ex- i
plored some economic ‘soft spots’,
and decided that prosperity will;
la.~.t mto next spring at least. Mem- j
bers of the Business Advisory
Council of the Commerce Depart-!
mem. reported their judgment to
Set rotary of Commerce Weeks,
S«t rotary of the Treasury Hum-
phroy and a dozen other high of
ficials at a closed meeting.
Twelve corporation heads, repre-
senting as many key industries, re
ported their own business outlook 1
jn a round robin discussion intend
ed to guide the administration on
policies which would prevent the
post mobilization Teadjustment'!
from turning into a recession. Some
rise in employment, as light dip in
retail activity, hotter price compe
tition and a moderate further deline
of industrial production from its
prt >ent near-record rate, were fore
seen. according to what information
could be obtained from the confi
dential session.
Robert E Wood, chairman of
Stars, Roebuck and Co., was known
to * xpect a drop in retail sales of 2
to Li per cent, varying from city to
city, in the next three months. He
bay d this forecast mainly on fall
ing farm income and tightening
credit.
C arence B Randall, president of
Inland Steel Co, was quoted as
forecasting a further moderate de-
cbm of steel production in 1954.
Stet 1 output has fallen in the past
year from virtually 100 per cent of
capacity to about 90, then recovered
some ground.
Industry leaders here have em-
phn -ized, however, that production
rau*s close to 100 per cent are ab
normal for the industry—especial
ly in view of its 20 per cent expan-’l
sion since 1930 They contend that
a drop of 5 per cent or thereabouts j
would make for different operation
without adverse effect on industry 1
in general. Before the BAC session
®p< ’ ed. John F. Collyer, president;
B F. Goodrich Co., forecast a
O. Rhame are assisting the group
with plans for the party. Troop
111 is sponsored by the Kiwanis
club /t and Milford Smith is scout
master. Broad Street Methodist
church sponsors Troop 174 of which
M. Q. Higginbotham is scoutmaster.
BLACK LACE
Black lace may be washed and
still look like new Lf washed in a
I solution of one tablespoon of am-
icy of caution but not pessimism, man .but it may do more than
Virtually all the members, it was tickle his vanity; it may create real
reported, believed that the eonomy difficulties, upsetting • confidence
will remain at a high level for six and promoting stringencies and
months or more. business repressions.
Continued high government ^
spending, a big reservoir of con- _ _
sumer savings, high income rates Clergyman jQyS
certaft? 0 safeeuard^against I'Te' ^sia Full of DfUnks
rious recession in that period, they . „ i.
London, Nov. 15. t- A British
The administration view, it was, clergyman back from Russia said
reported, is that some easing of the today ‘T saw more drunks during : . f ff
’rubber band stretch’ in the econo- my fortnight in Moscow than I have p
my would be healthy, rather than *en during my 17-year ministry in
alarming because it would stimu- t* working lass parish in Bristol.”
late competition and improve tech/| “ we nt to a smart night club and
nique in sales and production. Some at least 20 people were revoltingly
officials said they could not be con- j inapable,” Canon Mervyn Stokwood
cerned as long as the business ad-j of Bristol said in a letter to the
justments continue in the ’serial’ Daily Herald. "At a rather smart
or ‘rolling’ pattern of the past 10 hotel I was eventually ompelled to
months. eat privately in my own room.”
While textiles were going down But he said that in Moscow pros-
they explained, autos r and other titution seems unknown and that
durable goods were on the rise; “family life is far more strictly
now textiles have recovered sub- guarded than in Britain.” j-
stantially and some slippage in the
durables is reported. Unless a con
certed downward movement in
volving a number of major sections
of the eonomy develops, they said,
no very serious 'slump may occur.”,
• Did you ever think of the inh-,
ponderables? Recently I read that
Americans think they can plan ev-i
ery detail and put up the money
and all will work out according to
Hoyle, as we say. The writer oT*
that says that the British move
along, more or less, with the cur
rent, and take advantage of any and
all favorable “breaks”. I can’t ans
wer for the British, nor did I think
we Americans were so hide-bound,
but certainly all life presents, at
times, the imponderables, the fac
tors not foreseen, not provided for.
but powerful and sometimes con
clusive.
Dr. W. W. Adam*
VETERINARIAN
614 Musgjove Street
Clinton. S. C.
Phones:
Office 958
Residence 991-W
V.‘.
SPARKLING WINDOWS
A small atnount of furniture pol
ish added to water when washing
windows will make the windows
shine.
GOOD DUSTER
A piece of chamois that has been
dampened make an excellent ddst-
er: It makes furniture look like
new.
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NOTICB-TO ALL AUTOMOBILE
AND VEHICLE OWNERS
OF THE CITY
The City Co[incil passed an ordinance November 2nd
requiring all •tesidents of the city of Clinton to register
their automobiles or motor vehicles with the police de
partment by the first day of December, 1953, and to get
a decal with a number which will be put on the wind
shield of the car or vehicle, and to all new residents to
register their’s within 90 days after becoming resi
dents of the city.
There is no charge for this registration and the po
lice department will appreciate the cooperatioh of the
public in this matter.
B. B. BALLARD, Chief of Police
Clinton, S. C.
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Here are two points to remember when you buy a car!.. •
VALUE
The Germans might have crossed
to England, we are told. They
seemed ready and fully prepared,
but something happened. What was
it” Did Hitler have a pernhoni-
tion? Was it an urge or an inspi
ration? At any rate certain de
struction was averted. And when
the Kaiser’s troops were within
reach of Paris, in the First World
War, the great army turned at the
Marne, near Paris—why 0
When I went to the Marne river
and looked around I wondered why
that remarkable army turned
around It was one of the classic
questions of military men.
When Pizarro and his intrepid,
though brutal, men marched into
the heart of the Andean heights in
Peru, the natives under the Inc *
Atahualpa may have crushed them
to death, even by more weight of
numbers, but they did not. They
surrendered. What an imponder
able! Who could have foreseen it?
In our business life men have
been predicting recessions every*
year since 1945, eight years ago!
Why recessions? We have fif
teen million more people to feed
and clothe since 1945. Fifteen mil
lion more workers probably; fifteen
million more spenders. All the
basic factors seem favorable, in an
economic sense. The difficulties
are man-made.
I am not exactly a Micawber .al
ways expecting some golden dream
to come true, even without work.
But our nation can stand readjust
ments without so much being said.
When big men talk they are re
garded as knowing, but no one can
truly know, so it would be well to
keep on an even keel, operating
prudently, instead of rocking the
boat all the time. After all, that
little squall we think we see might
turn out to be harmless. However,
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Phone 26
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EASTBOUND
Bases Leave:
3:10 P.M.
7:56
P.M.
5:25 PM.
16:45
PM.
COLUMBIA
$1.60
CHARLESTON .....
4.50
RALEIGH. N. C.
6.10
WASHINGTON. D.
C
10.36
MEW YORK CITY
15J6
WESTBOUND
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LS8 A.M. 16:53 AM. -
A.M. 1:46 P.M.
CKXXLVYILLE $1.16
ASHEVILLE, N. C 2.70
KNOXVILLE. TENN 5.66
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