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I Thureday, December IS, 1955 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Sierra Former Clintonian, Teaching In N. C, Striving To Make Courses Interesting The following excerpts from a recent feature article in a Hick ory, N. C., newspaper, will be of interest to friends and relatives here of Mrs. Clinton Cilley, the former Miss Loree Adair of this city: By JEAN RADCLIFFE (A Member of Hickory High School Squill and ScroU) To teach appreciation of American heritage, to encour age students to become inter nationally minded, and to try to get students to like history by making it as interesting as pos sible are the main aims of Mrs. Clinton Cilley, Hickory high school history and geography teacher. Perhaps the reason Mrs. Cilley is so interested in history is that her whole life has been centered around historical places and events. She was born aft Clinton, S. C., on land granted to her family by King George II and still owned by her family. Mrs. Cilley grad uated from' Winthrop college, where she majored in history. During her teaching career, Mrs. Cilley, lived with her Mrs. Claude Abernethy, of ory until her marriage to Clin ton Cilley. “I have tried to see personal ly every important historical place in American history,” says Mrs. Cilley. And that she has done. Ads Aa Quid# Mrs. Cilley has accompanied the Abernethy family on travels throughout the United States and Europe, acting as a guide and map reader. During summer vacations and- xaajii Stat (Son holidays she and the Abernethy family have toured the United tales, starting at the East coast then touring the middle sec- ion, the West coast, Canada, and part of Mexico. In 1952 the group took a sum mer trip to Europe, going on the Queen Elizabeth. The purpose of the trip was to visit Lt. Claude Abernethy,Jr., nephew of Mrs. Cilley, who was stationed in Ger many, and tp see the historical points of interest in Europe. While there, the group visited fifteen countries by car. Although Paris, Vienna and London were considered the most interesting points of the tour by Mrs. Cilley, she was thrilled by going one hundred miles behind the iron curtain. Highlight of Trip “One highlight of my Euro pean trip wds the finding of an old beautifully-bound book con taining my family’s crest and motto, in a fashionable London INTVSE1S gJWART ** FILTER system See the Capehart "easy-on-the eyes’ picture ... no eye-straining glare ... no eye-fatiguing reflections. Only Capehart has it. SEE the big difference a Capehart makes in television viewing today. You con buy a Capehart for aa little aa per week Captkut Polaroid^ Picture Filter Syecaa. 21-inch aluminized tube. *m BALDWIN APPUANCE CO. SOUTH BROAD ST. PHONE 82 shop Fortum and Mason, at Pic cadilly. “The book plate was that of Sir Robert Shafto Adair, whose name I recognized from family history- It is one of -my most treasured mementos,” stated Mrs. Cilley. For several years Mrs. Cilley worked for a Girl Scout camp and the Palisades Park commis sion in New York State during the summer vacations from Hickory high school. While working in New York she saw President Franklin D. Roosevelt review the fleet fifteen miles out of the New York harbor, and heard him deliver a commence ment address at West Point Academy. Nona Surpass N. C. Mrs. Cilley has attended meet ings at the United Nations build ing in New York and at th{ old League building in Geneva, Switzerland; and she has seen the World Court building at The Hague in the Netherlands. Al though she has covered much of the world’s surface, she con siders the western part of North Carolina as beautiful as any place she has ever seen. Mr. Cilley is a mechanical en gineer and is a partner with his brother, Joe, in the firm of Cilley Foundry and Machine Co. Mrs. Cilley finds it amusing that one one side of her mantel is a picture of Mr. Gilley’s grand father, a Yankee, and on the oth er side a picture of her grand father, a Confederate. Mrs. Cilley gets many calls from former students wanting her to identify places, events, and quotations. “My safest ans wer is T’U call you back’,’' laugh ed Mrs. Cilley. Written In Berlin Knowing her interest in his torical places, former students frequently write her while visit ing such places. For instance, she received a card last week from Howard Zerden 1952 grad uate of Hickory high school, written in the Russian Embassy ^n East Berlin. Mrs. Cilley now has former students at West Point, Annapolis, Duke, UNC., and many other places and is teaching sons and daughters of some of her first students. Mrs. Cilley takes a special in terest in each individual student and regards them as her chil dren; some of them, in return, send her Mother’s Day cards. PUBLIC FORUM CORRESPONDENT CALLS FOR SAFER DRIVING Editor The Chronicle: As the father of two small chil dren, who live on a highway that passes through town, I am very much concerned about the gen eral disregard for safe driving which prevails throughout the community. During the past ten years I have lived in seven dif ferent are^s of the United States and I rgeret to say that our cur rent home in Clinton provides less safety for our children than •/t |W] BMVS Here’s a deal can’t afford to miss any previous location that I have seen during that period. The main causes of this ap parent lack of safety are speed ing and failure to observe stop signs. It is virtually a normal occurrence for cars and trucks entering the town to speed until they are well within the city lim its. The average drives does not stop at stop signs, but only slows down. If you are inclined to doubt my statements,- I recom mend to you that you get in your car and see for yourself; follow a given number of cars for an af ternoon and keep tally. The re sults could possibly make inter esting copy for your readers. This prevalent disregard for safe driving is dangerous to the unsafe drivers, it is dangerous to the other drivers on the road, it is dangerous to the aged, to the children of Clinton, and to the pedestrian. It is a very real dan ger for each of us. There are several corrective measures that I would like to recommned for your considera tion. First, a “get-tough” policy on the part of the police. This pol icy should, be backed up by the city leaders. Second, more signs posting the legal speed should be erected. Third, the maximum legal speeds within the city limits should be examined to see if a speed limit erduction to 20 or 25 miles per hour is desirable, Fourth, me speed limit in con gested areas and around schools should be restricted to 15 miles per hour. Fifth, this city should own and operate a radar spaed trap. The knowledge that such a trap ex ists is sufficient to deter most speeders. Sixth, higher fine should be exacted from violators of safe driving procedures. I believe that if the above measures could be put into ef fect we would provide for our selves and for our children a safer community. In my opinion The Chronicle should take the foremost posi- i tion in urging the application of these corrective measures. 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