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■H ■ ? The Chronicle • Strive* To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable She (Elwtfmt (Hhrmtirlr If Yea Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don’t Get the News Volume LVI Clinton, S. G, Thursday, April 14,1955 Number 15 nttfflC MODBUS KUB 116 SOUTH ODOUU PBKSniUS M IK4 ■ About one out of every five persons killed in traffic accidents in South Carolina in 1954 was a pedestrian, according to e report issued by Chief Highway Com missioner Claude R. McMillan. The report showed that 116 pe destrians were killed and 742 in jured last year. Hie total num ber of persons killed in all types of traffic accidents was 564. An additional 9,266 persons were in jured. Over three-fourths of all pe destrian deaths resulted from two traffic violations. About two-thirds of the total occurred when pedestrian was crossing between intersections. The re port listed 75 deaths and 372 in juries under this heading. Walk ing with traffic in the roadway, another major traffic violation, caused 13 pedestrian deaths and 22 injures. There were three pe destrians killed and 14 injured walking in the roadway against traffic during 1954. Crossing at intersections resulted in death for 11 pedestrians and injury for 196 others. Two people were killed and 11 were injured get ting in or out of vehicles dur ing 1954. Two children were kill ed and 39 injured while playing in the roadway. Accidents Involving pedestri ans appeared to be more serious at night, according to the report More than half the pedestrian fa talities, 60, occurred at night compared to 56 fatalities during the day but 215 pedestrians were injured at night compared to 525 injured during daylight hours. The largest number of pedes trian accident victims were chil dren in the 5-14 year age group. This group had 34 deaths and 303 injuries. The next largest num ber occurred in the 50-69 age group where there were 31 deaths and 87 injuries. Ten of the fatalities and 107 of the in. juries were children under four. Persons over 70 years of age made up 18 of the pedestrian fa talities and 38 of the injuries. The age group 15-29 had 10 deaths and 85 injured, while per sons from 30-49 years accounted for 9 deaths and 86 injuries. The state’s trfafic law enforce ment officers arrested 4,014 per sons for walking along rural highways while intoxicated. Seventeen pedestrians were ar rested, resulting in 16 convic- Court Begins Hearings In Segregation Case BOATING’S LOTS OF FUN WITH OUR NEW, QUIETER WITH BAIL-A-MATIC l reV|g| m if You’ll enjoy wonderfully ■nooth, quiet rides with the new Scott Atwater . . . the outboard that bails your boat Bail-a-matic, Husk-Spring Mount Aquamute Rylumst, Stowaway Tank, Complete Gearshift, Twist-Grip Speed Control make Scott-Arepter the outboard buy of the year! 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Washington, Monday, April 11 —The Supreme Court opened hearings today on how the South should break its century-old tra dition of segregating White and Negro school children. Attorneys general for the bor der states of Kansas and Dela ware led off the arguments with optimistic reports on how inte gration has progressed in their states. They will be followed Tuesday and Wednesday by representa tives of southern states where of ficials, fear that immediate inte gration might provoke violence. Attorneys for Negro groups, however, contend that an abrupt shift is the best way to solve the problem. The Supreme Court first scheduled the § arguments, ex pected to last about three days, when it struck down last May the doctrine that “separate but equal" school facilities for Whites and Negroes are consti. tutional. The court now must determine how the historic, decis ion should be carried out. Kansas, first of 10 states to be, heard, said that as far as it is- concerned there is no need for further Supreme Court action. Almost all schools in the state now admit children regardless of race, Attorney General Harold R. Fatzer told the court Delaware reported that inte gration has worked out smoothly in the northern section of the state. But it said that southern counties, where there is strong pro-segregation sentiment should be allowed time for “ a gradual transition program.” The positions of the state were set forth in briefs that are fol lowed closely by attorneys argu ing before the high tribunal. The District of Columbia, Vir ginia and South Carolina, the other parties to the original seg regation suits, will present their recommendations Tuesday. They will be followed by the Justice Department, representing the administration, and Florida, North Carolina, Arkansas, Okla homa, Maryland and Texas. Each side is allowed one hour. The District of Columbia, where integration already is tak ing place, reported in its brief that no further court action is needed in its case. But all of the southern states joined in asking for unlimited time to lower school color bars. Immediate integration would not work, they assert, and might wreck the existing public school structure because of public op position. The administration asked the justices to allow lower federal courts to handle the integration problem and to order that it be accomplished as rapidly as pos sible. However, the Justice De_ partment added that considera tion should be given to the prob lems of southern states in setting any deadlines for compliance. Lawyers representing Negro parents take the position that tolerance follows association be tween the two races. They say the Supreme Court has decided that Negroes’ rights are being violated and therefore should take prompt action to remedy the situation. A ruling probably will be forthcoming before the end of the term in June. SPRING TOUCH Pretty as a spring garden is a deviled pear salad. Just mix dev iled ham, cream cheese, and chopped nuts, shape into little balls and set in pear cavity. The pear rests on a lettuce cup, gar nished with a small bunch of grapes and a spoonful of mayon naise. A Good Example By JAMES C. KINARD Sometimes there arises a sus picion that there is no limit to the depths of depradations to which partisan politics may go. A case in point is the caustic criticism which reportedly a prominent politician has made at President Eisenhower’s regular church attendance. The infer ence is that the President goes to church to have his picture made This critic goes on to elab orate that “any man who tries to parade his religion that way be fore the public is ungodly.” It is to be hoped that this man has been misquoted. Such un warranted and unfair criticism is to be resented by every fair- minded American citizen. The charge implied rests upon no basis of fact One is inclined to accept it as just a raucous echo from the sonorous sounding board of noxious noise that evi rions, for walking along the right hand side of the road (the law requires a pedestrian to walk on the left hand shoulder facing traffic). There were 4,182 per sons warned for this violation. IF YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DONT GET THE NEWS Ring the Bell! 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