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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, January 19, 1956
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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.
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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.
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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.
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