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t U ] Page Four * (CUntmt (Ehrmttrlp Established !»«• PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Paydble in Advance) One Year $3.00, Six Months $2.00 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C., under Act of Congre . ' March 3, 1879 -4r The Chronicle? seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—thd publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chnonicle will publish letters of genera! interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents *. ^ Mehiber: ’South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association National Advertising Representative: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York, Chicago, Detroit. Philadelphia i^ag THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Winners Th Jacobs Blocking Trophies Named Herman Hugh Wilson, Macon, Ga., and Nannie Holden, Clinton. Wade Elmore, Charlotte, and Edna Pearson, Enoree. Wilfred Ram bier Laughlin, Pinellas Park, Fla., and Dorothy Mae McLaughlin, Lerwtatown, Pa. Bobby Leonard Gibson, Spar tanburg, and Martha Jean Coker, Spartanburg. , Willie Briggs, Gray Court, and Ella Wease Workman, Gray Court. Nathaniel Neely, Fountain Inn, and Lanell Parka, Gray Court Joseph Cecil Shirley, Thursday, Jan nary S, 195$ Shoals, and Hazel Louise GUbert, j Ware fihoals. Clarence Mahue Caraway, J r ., Waterloo, and EmiUe Elizabeth ) Ware Horton, Greenwood. „ N A standout offensive and de fensive fullbacks Mississippi’s' Paige Cothren, was announced tQi^ght as the 1955 winner of the Jacobs Blocking Trophy for the Southeastern Football Confer-. / CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1956 /> Our Felicitations < With the opening of the doors of its new building Tuesday morning, the Bank of Clin ton enters upon a new phase of its relatively short business life that augurs well for the business .life of the comrntmityrTf simply serves notice to residents and business in- -terests of the city that it is prepared to go all the way ip providing financial service to an area of a tyr'e that it so richly defserves. .And if beauty of design, utility and con venience of facilities it now offers mean any thing in a bank.structure, we are sure the ers and those who are not, will be gratify ing. The thanks of Clinton .citizens can be taken for granted. Happily, they will not have to be taken for granted, for already we have heard expressions of delight from many upon this excellent addition to the city’s bus iness houses and officials of the bank will be the recipients of hearty congratulations from a well-wishing public upon this, auspicious occasion. agencies — police, firemen, schools, town fathers, newspapers and' clubs—into a co ordinated'force for safer driving. 6. Support community and state efforts to expand street ajid highway policing, forces. ^Katimates ahow only 5,000 law-eftfbrc^nnntT officers engaged In traffic-control \Vork for 3,000,000 miles of paved highways—one for every 600 miles)! 7. Encourage nationwide adoption of uni form traffic l£»s^ 8. Beliet^fin, learn and practice courtesy on the highwray. (Let’s adopt a “drive and a uaiiK.SU uciuic vve aie suu. u.c ^ ^ve’^rintiple). response of the public, both from ffs custom-^ 9 Encou'rage safety engineers and oth- Norman Thomas States A Principle ' Organized labor has no stronger supporter than Norman Thomas, the long-time Social ist party leader. For that reason, if no other, union heads and the rank-and-file alike shoulder ponder something Mr. Thomas said in a recent newspaper column. He endorsed the political activities of the .great unions, on the grounds that “so deeply do government actions affect all workers and • Ujeir families that labor’s own organizations daughoir^interests must speak out on social % B -ies.” But then Mr. Thomas added an all-impor tant qualification: “What a jabor union or federation has not a right.to do is to coerce its members by ordering them to vote thus of so or face union discipline. Neither has it a moral right to tax individuals against^heir will to support this or that candidate. “Morally, aside from any present legal provision, labor contributions to political cam paigns should be separately raised by volun tary gifts or assessments which the dissenter from the union’s endorsement may refuse to pay.” It is equally important, on comparable moral grounds, that every man should have the right to work whether he chooses qr does not chooser© join a union — and that he should be protected from coercion by either the union or the employer. Useless Slaughter Will Continue-Unless... A record toll^of more than 41,000 deaths and 2,000,600 serious injuries will occur on American highways during 1956 unless an aroused public immediately takes construc tive 'steps to end accidents. This prediction has been made by Arthur S. Johnson, Direc tor of the Institute For Safer Living, in hi§ annual New Year’s report to the institute’s advisory and directive staff. Mr. Johnson, safety engineering vice pres ident of the American Mutual Liability In surance Company, made his prediction on the basis of current and prospective high way conditions and traffic behavior in 1955, “More drivers, more cars on the road, more congestion, more bad driving, more frustra tion lead inevitably, under the present state of mind of the driving public, to one conclu sion—more accidents,’’ Mr. Johnson said. In his report Mr. Johnsqn recommended a comprehensive ten-point highway safety prograin, adding: “No one wants bo bei a forecaster of bad jiews, but all of this bad news is going to happen unless the public gets mad enough at useless slaughter to take the steps necessary to stop accidents.” His ten-point program follows: 1. Keep the. pressure for new highway con struction. ‘(Many:,thousands of miles of sec ondary roads still need widening, straighten ing, and repairing). 2. Support driver training in your com munity and state. (Only eleven states have what can be considered top-level driver train ing courses in public and private high schools, yet driver training is one of the surest ways of developing skilled, safety-minded drivers). 3. Encourage every move to have only safe cars on the road by promoting effective state inspection programs. (Recent National Safet> f Council studies show one in every five cars in need of maintenance to parts affect ing safe operation). 4. Abolish the widespread practice of tick et-fixing. Disregard of traffic Regulations making us a nation of scoffla 5. Help the community orgi all its ers to intensify their attention to human factors in car design, highway design, and traffic regulations. 10. Let us become a nation of better driv ers for our lives are in the drivers hands. (Let each driver learn how to control the power at his hand, let him learn what caus es accidents and how to avoicl them, let him learn the rules of the road and obey them). SENSING THE NEWS B t THURMAN SENSING ExacuiiT* Vic* Prwidani Southern States Industrial Council ORGANIZED LABOR CAN DESTROY ITSELF We have heard a public debate recently be tween the highest representatives of. industry and the merged labor Unions. The representative of the former raised the question as to whether the merged unions might not turn into a labor monopoly and a ghost gov ernment,' pulling the strings behind the scenes to direct the destinies of the nation. The representative of the latter said that if the philosophy to disenfranchise the unions were to prevail, then there could be no answer but to start a labor party. Without debating the pros and cons of the question in detail, there is one aspect of the situa tion that stands out quite clearly. If the leaders of labor have the real welfare of unionism at heart, they will never attempt to draw the merged unions into politics. Nothing destroys an organization more quickly than to abandon principles for personalities. As Long as it supports principles, it is on safe ground; the moment it starts supporting personalities, it is treading on quicksand. A DAM ON THE NILE Word came out of Washington that the United States and Great Britain .have combined to give Egypt $70 million to begin construction of'a dam at Aswan the Nile River, the United States to furnish $56 million and Britain $14 million. It is estimated that the dam will eventually cost one and one-quarter bilHon dollars. How much more we shall furnish is not now known, except that a loan of $200 million is contemplated by the Inter national Bank, most of which, of course, is pro vided by the United States. No doubt a dam is needed to help pull that part of the world out of the stagnant condition in which it has existed for some thousands of years. No doubt the resultant irrigation, electric energy and flood control will bring great benefits to many people. But there7are certain aspects in connection with our country taking part in the project, that we should reflect upon. -It is said that the main cause for our immediate interest is that we want to provide Egypt with help before Russia can get in ahead of us. There certainly should not be any hurry about that. In a race with America to give away money, we can well believe that Russia will not even try to fin ish first. We can be quite 1 sure that Russia does not mind seeing us give away our money; she has always maintained and expected that we shall spend and tax an^ give ourselves into bankruptcy. They also know, as we and anyone else should, that you cannot buy friends with money. There is another aspect to this dam. If it is such a wonderful project—as it seems to be—why shouldn’t the government of Egypt be able to fi nance it without gifts from abroad? If Egypt does not have the resources herself to do the job there is no reason to believe that there is not enough venture capital still existent in the world that could be attraefed to do it. And why should we give away $56 million to begin with, and nji telling how many more mil lions before it is ov^r with, to Help undermine our own economy. ‘Diat part of the world Is fine for growing cotton; the daih will no doubt make pos sible its production there manyfold. We now have 9 million surplus bales on hand in government warehouses and more is being added eaqh year. Our export market is already just about dead. Cheap cotton textile imports are doing great harm to our own mills and will do greater harm if something is not done about it. This is not to criticize Egypt for building the dam; she should build it; she should bring the standard of living in that codntry to the highest possible level. But is there any reason why the United States mould give her millions at dol lars to help do it, with resultant ’destruction of our export market for raw cotton, increasing com- petition with our own cotton textile mills and attendant financial loss to Amercian investors and unemployment to American workers? Charity is all right in its place, but it is still -true that charity begins at home.. If we don’t look after our own people and our own economy, no nation now appears on the horizon that is like ly to begin giving us money with which to build dams. There is a classic example in American literature of the man who was always helping his neighbors while he let his own place go to riick and ruin. Is that to be our fate as a nation? ’ ^ Of course, this is just another in a long* list of the to of ence. ' TTie annual award for Southern Confe'rence went senior tackle Bruce Bosley West Virginia. Placing second third, respec tively, behind Cothren, also a senior, who led the Southeastern Conference in scoring this year, were Georgia Tech quarterback Wade Mitchell and guard Scott Euber of Mississippi State. Center Jack Prater of VPI and guard Gene Lathey of West Vir- gmia« were iimrier-UD choices in the Southern Conference. The Atlantic Coast Conference winner, Bob Pelligrini of Mary- j land was announced earlier. The wniner of the trophy among South Carolina college players will be announced later. The trophies, instituted ^n 19211 by the late pr. William P. Jacobs I of Clinton.^ will be presented to the winners in ceremonies at their schools later . Following the death of. Dr. Ja cobs in 1948, the blocking awards were continued by his two sons, William and Hugh Jacobs. PUBLIC RECORDS' Andrew J. Jones and Lucile C. Jones to Gaynelle J. Brooks, lot in Sullivan Township, $1,000 and other valuable considerations. Charlie Patterson to Vera A. Patterson, 10 acres in Scuffletown j Townflhip, $5.00 and love and af fection. John P. Hellams, Sr., to John P. Hellams, Jr., lot on Woodrow avenue, Laurens, $J.0O and as sumption of mortgage. Mrs. W. J. Manly to W. M. Manley, .88 of an acre in Sulli van township, $500. , W. I. Elledge to E. (H. Elledge, 18 acres in Sullivan township, $1,- 000. • ; James H. Watts to T. Heath Copeland and Carol W. Copeland, 185 acres known as '‘Old Alsie Coleman place,” $10.00 and other considerations. Jesse Walker to Charleston and Western Carolina Railroad com pany, .35 of an acre, bounded by lands *of Jim B. Miller, $75.00. Carol R. Patterson, et al, to Char lie Patterson, 10 acres in Scuftfle- town township, $5.00 and premis es. Carol R. Patter^pn, et al, to Hembree Paterson, tract of land in Scuffletown township, $100 and I other considerations. j Carl (R. Patterson, et al, to Geor gia Patterson, 2 acres in Scuffle town township, $5.00 and premis es. Elmer E. Murr to H. L. F< lot on McDowell Ave., La $500 and assumption of mor Annie Sue Bagwell to Fortner lot on State Highwa 101, $1.00 and premises. , John Fortner to Annie Su well, lot m Gray Court, and.premises. A. L. Neighbors to Erski Jacks and Eugenia N. Jack acres founded by lands of Neighbors, $5.00, love and tion. Louise Humbert MiLburn Frank Posey, lot on Mill Lauren,s i$1.00. W. C. Irby to B. F. Posey, the City of Laurens, $100. Newberry Federal Savin* Loan association to R. G. lot on North Holland street ton, $6,750.41. E. P. and Mary J. Boa an Fred D’ Bragg, Jr., lot on Greenwood, $200. Pelham H. Holliday to Brunner, lot on old Greenv Laurens highway, $1,400 issue Marriage licenses Laurens county; Laurence Stewart Arm. Fountain -Inn, and Shirley Campbell, Pelzer.. Eulis Jerome Fortner, ruff, and Patricia Ina Woodruff. Furman Lee Coggins, ruff, and Myrtle Hawkins, ^ ruff. James Washington White, ens, and Freddie May Cop Laurens. BiHy Frank Tumblin, Sp burg, and Elizabeth Anti Chastain, Honea Path. Chester tleld Adams, La- and Camelia St urges*, Laur Charles LeRoy Tidwell, Greenville, and Vera Mae Go Greenville. Ybu can’t deal better at your Whitmire Halves Two With Clinton Whitmire, Jan. 3—Clin Whitmire split a twin bill night as the Clinton girls 32 and the Whitmire Is’ game: Glinton (48) — Merchant instances wherein millions of dollars of Ameri-1 Rober t* 2. Elder 17, can taxpayers’ money have been profligately scat tered abroad. For instance, as Senator Byrd has discovered and revealed in recent days, we have given Denmark $100 million to help pay off her debt and we have given Great Britain $200 mil lion to finance a tax cut. Isn’t it rather strange that we can help Denmark pay off her debt while we can’t pay anything on ours, that we can help Great Britain cut taxes while we can’t cut ours? Are the American taxpayers step-children in their own home? If we are to keep this practice up without sur cease, we must keep in mind that there is always a straw that finally breaks the cameTs back. Meadors, Smith, Nelsoq* Whitmire (32)—Smith 8, eycutt 6, Hite 18, Glenn. O’Shields, Hartman, Bright. Boys’ game: Clinton (34)—Foreen 8, ford, Nedley 1, Cauble 2, 3, Smith, P. Smith LI, Lark. Whitmire (69)—Brown 9, MoMuny 10, King 6, Johnson 2, Rose 3, Nichols Raines 30, Weling 2, Lawson. We’re the only Dealers who can offer you a “factory-fresh” ’56 FORD ... the fine car at half the fine-car price! No matter what you've heard ... or read ... or seen . . . our deal still stands. We Ford Dealers offer you a Thunderbird-styled, Thun- .derbird-powered. Lifeguard-designed Ford at far less than the fine-car price. A lot.of folks have taken us up on our offer for we’re currently selling more cars per dealer than any other dealers in the industry. Natur ally, We can afford to offer you just tnat much more on your car when you come in to trade. 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