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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-.
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CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1956
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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.
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