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Page Pour THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, January 19, 1956 Ultfr (Clinton (Cbrnnirlr Established 19M PUBLISHED EVE^Y THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable 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 Congress March 3, 1879 v . T The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chnonicle will publish letter^ of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonyflpfrus 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., THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1956 Clinton Is Fortunate In at least one respect, we know of no city anywhere that is more fortunate than Clin ton. . We are referring to its magnificent bank ing houses. One can look the country over, and he will not find more modern buildings or better fa cilities and appointments for doing banking —Jboth from the standpoint of the bankers and the banking public—than Clinton has to bffer. . . ' . ' There.are larger’banks, but the comparison . ends there. „ The structure opened only a .few months ago by M. S. Bailey and Son, Bankers, and followed last week.by the new building of the Bank b'f Clinton, gives Clinton two facilities of which any city could be proud. And we think. Clinton is proud of what the two banks, have done for themselves and for the community. Banks are semi-public institutions, but they are owned by relatively few people. They are in business to make money for their owners. At the same time, however, they seek to render a needed service to the public and earn their way and the goodwill of those .they serve. ' ^ And in assuming and discharging their ob ligations to the community, the.two Clinton banks have done no more than the residents of the area knew they would do when the city was presented such beautiful structures in which to do business. The Republicans Are In A Dither The Republican party lias the jjtters-^yea, even more than that. Panic is a better word for the state in'which' the OOP find's itself this week. President Eisenhower couldn’t have creat ed more ■pandemonium in Republican ranks if he had tossed a hornet’s nest right' in the mid dle of them, than he did when he made a statement at a press conference in Key West ten days ago. The President daid : • “Remember th&; Now, it is not merely,' what the doctors say to someone else, what the doctors say to me. It is a very critical thing to change governments in this coun try at a time that it is unexpected—we ac custom ourselves and so do foreign govern ments, to changing our government every four years, but always something happens that is untoward when a government is changed at other times.” Normally, governments in this country are changed or re-elected every four years. Eisen hower said it is, a critical thing to change when it is unexpected. When is it unexpected? Only when a presi dent dies. \\ hat was the President trying to say at that pfess conference? Was he telling the country that he was unwilling to take the risk of forcing the nation to change govern ments in the middle of his term should he i^yn and be re-elected—dby not living out the term? / , ^ And that statement — since Eisenhower himself brought it out into the open—will be seized upon as' a definite (but handled subtly) campaign issue if the Presidenlts-re nominated. \.. It is doubtful Eisenhower would have pre sented'the Democrats such an,-issue if he. had to answer it in the campaign. •*> „ Was that statement Eisenhower’s tip-off as to his intentions on seeking re-nomination ? - The Republicans would like to know. a year. This means more jobs must be creat ed, and more jobs can be created only if we have expanding markets and Americans with the faith and incentive to invest in the fu ture. Wages may go up, yes, but wage, in creases are economically sound only when they do not exceed the increase in produc tivity. • . “Above all else, we must have management and labor working, not at cross purposes,,but for the Same ends.” ,, . . V To Be Welcomed . The fear that automation will create wide spread unemployment flies in the face of his tory. Every iruprovement in production meth ods, along with every invention of impor- tanee, has ultimately produced not fewer jobs, but more and better jobs. The automobile destroyed the horse and buggy’ businesses—but an almost infinite in crease in employment and opportunity fol lowed. More recently, prophets of gloom fore cast that dial telephones would bring a cata strophic degree of unemployment among op erators. Yet there are 70 per.cent more phone operators than there were 10 years ago. Automation is to be welcomed, not feared Eichelberger Writes On Clinton-Laurens Highway Condition Ashmore Names Clinton Boys As Alternates To National Academies Two Clinton b<vs have i been named as alternate appointments to West Point and Annapolis by Congressman Robert T. Ashmore. Eugene Adair Howell is second alternate to an appointment to the U. S. Military Academy at West Mayor Hugh L. Eichelberger of Clinton on Monday w^ote a letter to the two newspapers in the county, the Chamber^ of Com merce of Clinton and Laurens, and the Laurens city administra-| Johnnie Roy Webb is second al- tion in which he termed highway I ternate appointment to the Naval 76 between Clinton and Laurens j Academy at Annapolis, Md. “one of the worst highways in, Howell is the son of Col. and South Carolina.” He quoted Chief Mrs. T. A. Howell. Col. Howell is Point, N. Y. Highway Commissioner Claude R. McMillan is indicating he held presently stationed in Washington. Webb is the son of Mr. and Mrs Bellingham, Wash., Herald: “Crawford Green wait, president of the DuPont com pany, told a congressional hearing that Uncle Sam took 91 per cefht of his $569*000 pay last year. He expressed the fear—citing this ex ample—that high taxes will make it in creasingly difficult for young men to enter industry, with a resulting loss in industrial efficiency and consequently, a decline in the nation’s economy. There are, of course, rela tively few men who turn 91 per cent of their take over to the federal treasury alone. They cast .few votes. But the economic issue in volved cannot be dismissed lightly.” the same views concerning this j. R . W ebb of this city and is serv- stretch of road. * ing in the navy. Eichelberger requested con certed action by agencies in the two cities in an effort to secure relocation and a new highway built between the towns. The proposed “thru-way” from Greenville to Columbia, he said, would by-pass both Laurens and Clinton and therefore would have no effect on the traffic artery be tween Clinton and Laurens. Following is Mayor Eichelber- ger’s letter: “January 16,' 1956 “The Laurens Advertiser, ' The Clinton Chronicle, ‘The Laurens Chamber of Com merce, * i £ “The Clinton Chamber of Com merce, “The City of Laurens, “Gentlemen: SENSING THE NEWS . By THURMAN SENSING Executive Vice President Southern States Industrial Council KifflxreffltttfflUXRKX ttw it k k H khh Rimemw:::::::: THE NATIONAL DEBT 1956 Business Will Be Good The consensus of a great many business men from all parts of the country is that there will be more employment, better busi ness conditions and more take-home pay in 1956 for the average employee, Cola G. Par ker, newly elected president of the National Association of Manufacturers, .has reported. Industry^ the prominent business execu v tive predicted, will produce from three to^ five per cent more goods and services in the new year. “There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind about this,” Mr. Parker added. “We are mov ing upward on the economic charts into a period of prosperity, of expansion, of living standards higher than ever before. The NAM president continued: . "I think I can best sum up the business out look for 1956 this way. The picture is bright. The picture is good. Our population grows at the rate of more than two and a half million The most heartening and patriotic statement we have had. from a Ghref Executive on the sub ject of the national debt in 25 years comes in the President’s State of the Union message to’ Con gress on January 5. • . • * In this message, he said, “It is essential, in the sound management of the government’s finances, ♦hat we are mindful of our great national debt and of the obligation we have toward future Americans to reduce that debt whenever we can appropriately do so.” The President makes two points here that should be taken to heart by all the American peo ple. * ° * Certainly, we have not been ‘'mindful of our enormous national debt”, as we should have been, j ^ When it grew to such staggering proportions un- in P r °e ress tier the regime of the New Deal, they didn’t know what else to do except laugh it off and say, “it makes no difference They even got to the point of convincing themselves that ‘♦a~4arge debt ,is a national blessing.” The fact is. of course,- that both to nations and individuals nothing is more depressing than overpowering debt. We all know deep in our hearts that it must be reckon ed with sooner or later. . - Tt is this “later” which the President mentions fh his second point—“the obligation we have to ward future Americans. ” In piling up our pres ent national debt, we have spent the accumula-' tions of our forefathers and mortgaged the fu ture of our children. We could hardly commit a more dastardly crime than to pass this debt on to our children and our children’s children as if we were in'no way responsible for it. Yet for twenty years—the last ten of them prosperous years—that is what we have given every indica tion of doing. * If w'e have t any sense of decency and honor left, we will begin paying off the national debt without further delay. THE FARM PROBLEM There is nothing wrong with American Ag^ riculture that the law of supply and demand could not curp^—if we would only give it the op portunity. The trouble is that neither of our po litical parties wlil give it the opportunity. Most all our politicians are more interested* in ob taining votes than they are in finding a solution to the problem. Simplv stated, our farmers are producing more than they c^n sell in a free market. We keep the prices so high with government price supports that they cannot compete in the world market. As for the domestic market, they would long ago have cut down on the production of thv.se crops which are now in great surplus if they had been raising only enough to meet the demand. For a number ,pf yea,rs now, many crops have been- produced for the price support guaranteed them, not for the fnarkef. This miikes the con sumers in this country pay twice for the crops— once in taxes with which to buy the surplus crops and once again in the higher prices that must be paid in the stores. As long as this system is kept up it will be a vicious circle from which there is no escaping. Nor does the Farm Program submitted by the president solve the problem. If actually put into effect, it might result in lower production— though continually increasing farming skills make this doubtful—but it will continue to soak the consumers with taxes. The only difference is that under the new plan, the taxes will be used to pay the farmers for not growing the crops, while under the old plan the taxes were used to. buy up th surplus crops. So long as the government continues to med dle with any segment of our economy, there is not much chance to retain for that part of our economy any vestige of the traditional American free enterprise system which has made this na tion great. “Highway'76 between Laurens and £iinton is- one of the worst highways in South Carolina. Mr. Claude R. McMillan, Chief High way Commissioner, indicated in 1954 that this stretch of road was the poorest in the state. About •twq weeks ago one person was killed on this highway and on Saif|rday night another wreck co- curred in which several people were seriously hurt. “I am of the opinion that if the two newspapers in the coun ty, the Town Councils of Clinton and Laurens, along with the Chambers of Commerce of Lau rens and Clinton, should mak^ a concerted effort supported by resolutions passed by -all service clubs' of the two towns, along with merchants associations ‘to the Laurens County delegation and the South Carolina highway department, we could get some immediate action in the reloca tion and construction of a new highway between Laurens and Clinton. “The proposed thru-way from Greenville to Columbia is plan ned to by-pass Laurens and Clin ton several miles to the north. This will require an act of the legislature before sqch a thru- way can be entertained. This highway would not solve the sit uation that exists bewteen Lau rens and Clinton. “I urge your serious consider ation to the above proposal. “Cordially yours, “H. L. EICHELBERGER, “Mayor of Clinton.” — ‘ * Tax Collections Good In County Laurens, Jan. 14 — County Treasurer Sam M. Leaman said this week that collection of coun ty and school district taxes to January 1 was about five per cent better than to the same date last year. Collections this year were 85 per cent of the total and last year about 80 per cent of the to tal. , • ‘ . Beginning January 1, he said, the first penalty of,two per cent went into effect, to be increased in later months until March 15, the final date before unpaid taxes go into executiqnx' Collections through Dec. 31 this year were $477,933.80 on a total to be collected of $556,867.24, leaving a balance of $87,933.44 yet to be collected with penalties added. • - 1 _ Of Men-Of-Church Meet 1 Tonight Joanna Workers / Will Be Honored Joanna, Jan. 14—One hundred and Eighteen Joanna employees will receive service awards this year based on records as of last Dec. 31. All honrees will be pre sented awards at banquet occas ions to be set in the next few weeks and to whicn their wives and husbands will be invited. Seventeen Joannians who have completed 25 years of service will receive 25-year pins and will be inducted into the Old Timers club, which now numbers 166 members. - The recruits are: Virginia Boyce, H. P. Bragg, Cora Brewington, Nell Ellison, J. C. Farmer, C. N. Franks, Alda Rae Fulmer H. B. Gaskin, F. M. Harris, H. E. Hunnicutt, L. A. Marshall, Ruth Mitchell, J. S. Prater, J. O. Ray, Ruby Saxon, F. M. Templeton, Sr., and W. P. Thomas. The regular monthly supper meeting of the Men-of-the-Church of the First 'Presbyterian church will be held this evening (Thurs day) at 7:3.0. John S. Glover, professor of ro mance languages at Presbyterian college, will be the guest speaker’ on the subject “Why I Believe In God. M '- ” - . NEED If you need feed come to see us. We are now manufacturing our Own feeds as well as distribut ing “’Spartan” feeds. - 1 Our quality is the best—our prices are low. 25 lbs. SQ Lay Mash $1.25 25 lbs. Scratch $1.05 25 lbs. Spartan Dog $2.10 io lbs. Spartan Dog 90 Piedmont Horse Feed $3.45 Big Bucket 16% Dairy ....$3.50 Ground Corn A Molasses $2.50 White Block Salt 90 Salphnr Block Salt , $1.00 ALSO: Flab Meal, Meat Scrap. Soy Bean Mori. Bone Meal, Cat tle Minerals, Vit-a-Way, Lime for yoor yard. Dow-fnme Soil Fumigant for gardens. TIME TO FERTILIZE year Pe can Trees,' Lawn Trees and Dormant Shrubbery. Use 4-8-12 for pecans. BABY CHICKS —We can get heavy Cockerels for yon at 5c to 6c in lota of 50 or more. C-W-S Guano Co. • (fnc.) Cooper Motor Co. Opens Dodge-Plymoutfi Agency In Laurens A new firm, Cooper Motor Co., has opened a Dodge-Plymouth dealership in Laurens. Ovifned by L. W. Cooper, of Clinton, and iR. A. (Jack) Hud gens, the agency Will be managed by Mr. Hudgens. Cooper is owner of Cooper Mo tor Co„ of this city, which also has the Dodge-PTymouth fran chise. ^ Cupids choice# ik lS JUST RECEIVED! NUNNALLY’S VALENTINE CANDIES . Assortment Beautifully Gift Boxed T Valentines ... 5c to 35c t For That Special Some One Comic Valentines Also. OPEN SUNDAY 9-11 A. M. - 2-6 P. M. Pharmacy Your Prescription Pharmacy Since 1886 PHONE 19 John Wilson Family Makes $10,000 John M. Wilson, Sr., of Fay : etteville, N. C. prominent Pres byterian College alumnus and former trustee, and his three sons, John M. Wilson, Jr., ’36, James H. Wilson, ’34, and George H. Wilson, ’42, donated $10,000 for the Diamond Jubilee Devel opment campaign, which is now The money will be designated as a memorial for' the Student Union Building which has been estimated to fcost $100,000. Spe cifically th$.gift is made to pro vide and furnish the recreation room in the new building. These men are prominent busi ness and civic leaders of Fay etteville and members of the firm of the Highland Lumber Company. Wallace Tells Of Like, Work In Israel At Lions Club Meet Curtis Wallace, of Gray Court, who was an International Farm Youtb Exchange delegate to Is rael, spoke to the Lions club Fri day evening and told of his ex periences in the Middle Eastern country. He lived and worked on farms in the country from'Jtme to No vember of last year. From what Wallace said, there is very little home life in Israel as it is known in this country. Most people live in commercial villages made up of larger living quarters or apartments. Their farms are small tracts, devoted prinripfclly to vegetable growing, witfi rew cattle being raised. iv Wallace showed a number of slides in color, which gave some good scenes of the people and the country. ’> Family Night At St. Sunday Broad Sunday evening, Jan. 22, will be observed as family night at -Broad Street Methodist church. All church families are asked to bring a covered dish and have supper together ir> the social rooms. La ter an infdnnal worship service -will be held ip .the church audi torium. Family night will be held the fourth. Sunday night in each month with various circles of the Woman’s Society of Christian Ser vice in charge of arrangements. V I 1 TRADITONAL STYLING « * ‘ OF TIMELESS BEAUTY! YOURS IN 4- If I ,-y e — by Drexel 4 1- You’ll appreciate the graceful 18th century design inherent in our Travis Court pieces. Their dignity and charm will always complement your rooms, regardless of changing furniture trends. Each piece is made of lustrous swirl mahogany on selected cabinet woods. Each is satin-smooth finished by hand-rubbing and polishing. You’ll find sound Drexel construction features inpluding dust-proofed, dovetailed, center-guided drawers. Come in soon! We know you’ll be pleased with the wide variety of pieces, as well as their moderate prices. T. E. JONES & W. MAIN'ST. FURNITURE PHONE 181 / k