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Pace Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, December 8,1955 i (Slinton (Cljrnntrlr Established ISM PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 'QY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance)* —Ot» Year $2.50. Six Months $1.50 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Poat Office at Clinton, S. C., under Act of Con$res« March 3, 1879 The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chnoniele will publish letters of faceral interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. Member: South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association National Advertising Representative: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York, Chicago, Detroit. Philadelphia CLINTON. S. C., THl'RSpAY, DECEMBER 8, 1955 Clinton Cattle Farm Takes National Spotlight Clinton and one of its cattle farms jumped into the national spotlight last Thursday. The occasion was the International Live stock Exposition at Chicago, the grand-daddy of all livestock shows in the United States— or the world, for that matter. Only the best of the best can gain entrance to that show. And for an animal to be awarded grand champion honors—well, he’s got to be just that—best of the best. And a Clinton-bred Shorthorn bull was chosen fur that high honor last Thursday, when Creek land Lancer was pronounced as the best polled Shorthorn bull in the show. * Lancer was bred by Creekland Farm, own ed by P. S. Bailey of Clinton, and managed by L. L. Norton. The farm is located five miles from Clinton on the Spartanburg high way. It has been developed in a few short years into one of the outstanding cattle breed ing farms in the nation. Lancer, a summer yearling (May 17, 1954, therefore about a year and a half old), was sold in the Creekland Farm sale last April to Oakwood Stock Farm, Ashville, Ohio, for $2,050. His dam was CF Cinderella, and the sire was Lovada Developer. The sire was import ed from Scotland and is the leading herd sire at Creekland Farm. We are sure the people of Clinton will be delighted to assume some of the reflected pride that is rightfully borne by Creekland Farm upon the high honor that has been giv en one of its products. And congratulations are certainly due Messrs. Bailey and Norton. It must be of great satisfaction to them to know that their labors have been accorded such recognition. A fine part of the story is that both the sire and dam are still at Creekland and their calves and others by Louada Developer will go into herds of this state to further de velop the growing cattle farms of this sec tion. And one of those who will be most happy over the event, we think, will be our old friend, County Agent C. B. Cannon, who has been trumpeting the virtues of Laurens coun ty farms for more than twenty-five years to any and all in range of his voice or pen. It verifies what he has been preaching, and what Messrs. Bailey and Norton evidently knew when they went into the business: that with intelligent management and know- ledge, these red, rolling Piedmont section hills can produce the best. Sound Principles The report of the Commission on Inter governmental Relations is a vitally impor tant one. This Commission was given, and has ably executed, the tough job of studying the proper role of the federal government in relation to state and local governments and to clearly define what each should and should not do. The Commission’s set of guiding princi ples is particularly impressive. Here it is: “Leave to private initiative all the functions that citizens can perform privately : use the level of government closest to the community for all public functions it can handle; utilize cooperative intergovernmental arrangements where appropriate to attain economical per formance and popular approval; reserve na tional action for residual participation where state and local governments are not fully adequate, and fof the continuing responsi bilities that only the national government can undertake.” This amounts to saying that no govern ment should do what private enterprise and private citizens can do; that state and local problems should be met at,the state and lo cal level, and that the federal government should act only when it is clear that no other agency can perform some required function. That is more than a blueprint for good gov ernment. It is a blueprint for maintaining and strengthening every one of our free doms. Slow-Burning Fuse Publisher Tom Anderson of Farm & Ranch magazine defines Socialism as “Communism with a slow-burning fuse.” He adds: “Wheth er we call it Communism, Welfareisn or So cialism, it leads to the same,thing: ruinism.” Probably the best word describing any and all forms of total government is Statism. It creates an accurate picture. More and more individual responsibilities and rights and ob ligations are turned over to the state—until the people wake up one dismal day and find that the state is the boss of everything. Applies Only To Building Funds A news dispatch from Washington says that a government official emphasized that the Eisenhower administration’s promise of “broadened and improved” aid to schools ap plies only to building funds. That was the clear intent of a statement to the closing session of the White House conference on education last week, said Dr. Harold C. Hunt, Under-Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Gains For Free Enterprise Out of the long struggle over the Dixon- Yates contract—under which taxpaying pri vate enterprise was to build a big plant to feed electric power into the TVA system— “have come a number of distinct gains in the interest of free enterprise.” That statement was made by one of the principals—E. H. Dixon, president of Middle South Utilities, Inc. He added the struggle also produced “a better understanding on our part of the strength and tactics of forces in this coun- try which have been well described ... as a privileged class for America’ . . . referring . . . to the tax-supported and government subsidized power groups.” All sorts of wild and malicious charges were made against Dixon-Yates—each and every one of which was refuted by facts of record. The contract was an extremely favor able one for the government and, at best, the 200 Midget Football Players Honored At Banquet Thursday Clin^axing a season of success ful play, 200 boys representing teams in the local Midget football league were entertained at a ban quet Thursday night at the Pres byterian college dining hall. Guests included the queens of the Various teams and their coaches. Speaker for the occasion was Vincent Peroni, member of the coaching staff of Furman univer sity, who told the young athletes to keep up their enthusiasm and love for the game. Joe Delany , of Joanna, was master of ceremonies, and Dr. W. Redd Turner offered the invoca tion. Guests were introduced from Joanna, Whitmire, Spartanburg, Greenville, Laurens and Clinton, and included those interested in promoting Midget league activi ties. King Dixon, of Laurens, intro duced the speaker. Presentation of the trophy to the league winner, the Joanna team, was by Robert M. Vance; to the runner-up, Academy Street team, Dr. Fred E. Holcombe; to the best offensive player in the Tom Thumb bowl game, Butch Roberts, of Whitmire, by Rudy Mankey, of Spartanburg, repre senting Crutchfield’s Sporting Goods company; to the best defen sive player, Terry Rowe, of Jo anna, by Harry McSween, repre- sentir>g Greenwood Supply com pany. Presentation of 52 silver footballs to the all-star players was by Russell Cooper, president of the City Recreation commis sion. ready to mall, you will do yourself and Postmaster Adair a real favor by putting the cards with local ad dresses m one bundle and those for out of town destinations in an other. Then mark each bundle with special identification labels you can get free at the post office which real “all for out-of-town delivery” and “all for local delivery.” Spe cial places have been provided for depositing the mail thus marked ■which will assure speedier hand ling. Junior Closs Presents Ploy Subacriba To THE CHRONICLE Phona 74 The junior class will present “Best Foot Forward," a three-act comedy, Friday, December 9, in the high school auditorium at 8 o’clock. Between the acts, Charlotte De- Vinney will introduce the football team who will appear in a fash ion show. Patricia (Norman and Georgia Young will give two hu morous monologues. Proceeds will go to the Junior- Senior banquet. Mrs. George Reid Loses Mother —♦— f Friends of Mr. and Mrs. George Reid will sympathize with them in the death of Mrs. Reid’s moth er, Mrs. Linnie Bedenbaugh Haw kins Lipford, who died Friday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. M. (Lowe, on the Clinton highway near Whitmire. Services were conducted Sunday arftemoon at St. Timonthy Luth eran church near Whitmire by the Rev. N. D. Yount, and the Rev. George B. Shealy. Interment was in the Rosemont cemetery at New berry. Keeping butter in acceptable condition over a period of stor age is a problem encountered in all dairy-surplus countries. The Dutch have come up with a new answer to this old problem. In stead of storing butter, they freeze cream and make butter from it as the need arises, ac cording to a report in the Octo ber issue of the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s monthly maga zine, Foreign Agriculture. 'Mail Eariy For Christmas' Urged Postmaster W. D. Adair urges lo cal postal patrons to “Mail early for Ohristmas.” To accommodate the postal patrons desiring to use postal facilities, Postmaster Adair states that the Clinton post office will be open for normal week day- company’s profit would have been modest, service hours on Saturday, Decem- ♦ .\ V, }&s, you actually get The Thunderbird Y8 engine in the ’56 Ford And this Thundurbird Y-8 is th« standord eight in all Ford Fairlano and Station Wagon models, at no extra cost! 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Come in and Test Drive the fine car at half the fine-car price. More important, the federal power groups didn’t win. They wanted the TVA itself to undertake the development, and they were denied that. The contract was cancelled when Memphis, officials said that the city would build its own municipal plant, thus making Dixon-Yates power unnecessary. Finally, because of the Dixon-Yates fight, more people know more about socialized pow er, TVA-style. They know, for example, that TVA pays no federal taxes and relatively small sums in lieu of local taxes. They know that it represents an investment of $1,600,- 000,000 of tax money, on which it has not paid a single cent of interest. They know that it is tax-subsidized to the hilt. And that’s the kind of knowledge this country needs. SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Exacutiva Vica Praaidant Southern States Industrial Council PARTY REGULARITY A recent article advocating party regularity made the statement that the variable voter is un stable and lacks a continuing political philosophy. It said that most all those who will vote in the great Political Decision of 1956—now just less than a year away—already know how they will vote, and that all the political ballyhoo we shall hear between now and then will therefore be di rected toward this wavering voter. The author seemed to think it unfortunate that this should be necessary. It seems to me this writer misses the whole point of the two-party system. One can very well believe in the two-party system—and we do—and still vote either way when election time comes around He does not have to be a slave to either party. If he is, it means he has no mind of his own. It would seem that, rather than lacking a “con tinuing political philosophy”, it is this wavering voter who has the political philosophy. He be lieves in principles rather than politics. The party regular only has political blindness. How can one say that the Republican platform will always be the best platform, or that the Dem ocratic platform will always be the best plat form? That is just not even reasonable. One who takes pride in party regularity, therefore, is simply taking pride in political stupidity, is tak ing pride in swallowing whatever is handed him to swallow without using any judgment on his part. These variable voters control the election. They will control it any year in which they think either party’s platform and candidate are superior to that of the other. They should take pride in this fact because in doing so they place patriotism above party. PEOPLE VOTE FOR PRIVATE ENTERPRISE A highly significant news item came out of the State of Washington in the last few days that will probably receive very little, if any, comment in certain quarters. It is not comforting at all to those who believe in politically managed business enterprises, < wned and operated by the state. The peogie of Stevens County in Washington held an election and voted on whether to sell their public power facilities to a private power facility operating in the same area, or whether to buy out the private power facility. The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of pri vate enterprise. Needing only a 60 per cent ma jority for approval of safe to private enterprise, the actual vote was slightly over 71 per cent jn favor of this move. The Chairman of the Stevens County Public Utility District declared, “Appar ently we took quite a trouncing here. Evidently it might be called a trend.” There does seem to be a trend back to free en terprise in this country—and the better people are informed on the subject, the more likely it is that the trend will be accelerated. Placed on an equal footing, without subsidization of any sort, private management is always more efficient and less costly to the people than political management Evidently the people of Stevens County realize this fact, and when given an opportunity to say so, said it in emphatic terms. ber 10 and 17. He urges patrons to buy their supply of stamps now to avoid long lines later. •'When you use three cent stamps on your Christmas cards, you get first class mail service,” he said. “First class friends deserve first- class mail and the use of first class postage makes it certain that your Christmas cards will be delivered promptly. Also, use of first class postage insures forwarding service if the addressee has moved or the card will be returned to you if the recipient cannot be located. Then, too, on Christmas cards sent by first class mad, you can include hand-written messages making your greetings more personal.” It is perfectly correct and, in fact, advisable, to include your re turn name and address on each Christmas card envelope. This helps your friends to keep their mailing .list up-to-date and insures correction of your list if the card is returned as undeliverable. When your Christmas cards arc Try the Thunderbird Y-8 in the fine car at half the fine-car price! BALDWIN MOTOR CO. North Broad St. — Clinton, S. C. -GREAT TV, FORD THtATRI,* ^ EXTRA! to* _ INCLUDIO AT NO EXTRA COST! BUIE NILE DIAMONDS HILUREST WATCHES