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Thursday, March 8, 1956 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Seven By SPECTATOR., COMMENTS on MEN AND THINGS Do you know Charleston? Are you like many who say that Char- It leston is, as it was in the begin ning, is now and ever shall be? Well, such croakers really don’t know Charleston. But that’s quite a story and only a Chamber of a Commerce booster can do full credit to It. Well, what do you know even of old Charleston, the scene of so much history? Let’s imgaine ourselves skim ming over Charleston. Tut, tut! Such an expression is tantamount to impiety. The real Charleston ian feels like the policeman I saw One day. I was coming out of the Francis Marion hotel, when Radio Station WCSC was on the 12th floor of the big hotel. At the Cal houn Street entrance a stout and her car. A Charleston policeman pompous lady stood waiting for "was standing by, observing but saying nothing. Said the lady to herself, I think, “Huh, I don’t see anything to rave over here.” Then she rode off. When she was be- * yond hearing, the policeman said, ~ apparently to himself, ‘Huh, you got to know something to apprec iate Charleston.” All right. You have been to St. Michael’s, the famous chvirch? You haVe visited the beauitful Battery Park? You have enjoyed Hampton park, in all the amplitude of its splendor? You looked out over the bay to Fort Sumter and strolled along East Battery? Of course you saw The Citadel, botn the old and the new? And did you drop in at a typical comer grocery store? Well, there is a store in Char leston, no Wentworth street, that carries in stock two hundred kinds of cheese,. beginning with every type, kind, flavor and strength of American cheese and including the cheeses of Europe, South America, Turkey and other lands. It is a treat to walk through that rich assortment of delicacies. I suppose they sell hog and hom iny, too, but I don’t know; what impressed me, and always stirs rich, warm, gustatory sensations is that extraordinary variey of everything, ranging from fifty ap petizers, to 75 spices, herbs and seasonings. Between the first group and the last are biscuits and cookies from Belgium, Germony, Holland, Canada, England, Swed- Irby’s Meat Market MUSGROVE STREET PHONE 489 SMOKED BACON lb. E-Z CUT (WHOLE OR HALF) HAM 59 BEEF ROAST -19 GRADE A LARGE 'EGGS Doz. 49 BEEF RIB STEW 09 en, France, Scotland, Ireland, In dia; bakery products, such as English Celery Rounds, pumper nickel crackers, French ginger cookies, wheatality coffee cakes, as well as all kinds of tea, coffee and everything else. Christmas has its special relig ious significance but most house wives also serve the most tempt ing dishes they can think of. Among the fifty appetizers I saw Norwegian Puree of Shrimp, smoked mussels in olive oil, cav iar, miported Romanoff. I count ed more than a hundred kinds of biscuits and bakery products. Those cheeses are from Argen tina, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, Germany, Greece, Holland, Italy, Norway, Sardinia, Sweden, Turkey, Yugo slavia, Switzerland — and fifty kinds of American cheese. I think I counted more than two hundred kinds of cheese. Say, do you like cheese? My introduction to that store grew out of a request that I buy some bread for the Communion Service of an up-country church. Later I was adzed to buy some German chocolate which Mrs. Eis enhower had suggested. I didn’t know where to go, but someone had a bright idea and said, “Try Harold’s Cabin Wentworth Street, back of Kress’ store.” Well, there it was. I am asked to do many things, from buying toy pianos for a lovely lady in Columbia, to Bibles for Manning. So I started out with a brave heart and reckless daring to buy Mrs. Eisenhower’s recom mended chocolate. But Harlod had it. How much would Harold charge to turn a lad of big appe tite loose in that store? Perhaps I’ve made a mistake in regaling you with all this story of food. It makes me think of the lad who came from Europe to a great wheat farm in Iowa. He wrote to his people about the abundance erf everything - in America, topping off the account with this statement: "We h*ve meat three times a week.” His employer read the letter and snorted, “Three times a week! You have meat three times every day.” ”Yes,” said the lad, “but Dad Couldn’t believe that. “I told him all he would believe." • • • Before I went to Peru I didn’t spend much time visiting stores. My first effort probably was in Paris, where I roamed about the Galeries de La Fayette, as I recall it. Later, in Lima, I had to look around because the storse sell Dr. David T. Mixon OPTOMETRIST 201 N. Broad St. Phone 1308 Office Hours 9—5:30 SUITS - SHIRTS - HATS - TIES . SHOES - ACCESSORIES It’s a man’s world of fashion, too ... On Easter Sunday, and we've grot everything: to put you on top of that world! Come, choose what you need to complete the picture of your “Easter Sunday Best!** SUITS $39.95-$45.00 By Michael-Stern, Curlee and Capitol DRESS SHIRTS $3.95-$4.50 By Manhattan merchandise from Italy, Spain, Fmace, Germany, Switzerland, China and Spain those especial ly. - \ When I covered Macy’s in New York, two years ago I was pil oted around for five hours by a yuong lady; I was preparing a broadcast dn that great' store. Well, that place in Charleston— Harold’s Cabin—is quite like strolling thruogh a dozen foreign lands. This is no ad; it is my travelogue of Charleston. You can eat a different cheese every day for six months. Do you like cheese? Really, the nearest approach to Harold’s Cabin in my experience was something of the long ago. When I attended New York Uni versity I had rooms in Gould Hall, main campus, up in the Bronx. Frequently I walked forty to fifty blocks for exercise and looked in the bakery windows, often think ing I could buy a different kind of bread, foreign and domestic, every day of the year. I didn’t do it; I just thought about it. If I had gone in 500 or more bakeries I might have been so dumfounded by the confusino of tongues that I should have done as most of us had to do in Perc at first, when someone ordered something: “Para mi lo mismo”—“For me the same.” * * * “A 10.9 million maze of pipes and silvery pots is. about set to turn out a sugar-like cyrstal that may make house paint more durable and suit cases stronger. It’s a plastic muscel-builder, spelled isophthalic, and pro nounced T-so-thal-ic’, which up to now has been produced in pilot plant quantities of less htan 20,- 000 pounds a year. That figure is expected to zoom to 50 million pounds a year as the new plant percolates into production. TTus sudden avalanche- will push even higher U. S. produc tion of petrochemicals, which in 1954 scaled 27 billion , pounds, more than twice the 10.5 billion pounds made in 1945. The concern that will market the new chemist’s material, is touting it as a sore of vitamin pill for plastic products, including synthetic paints and enamels. Most paint makers agree, though, they note problems in using the material. Like many other pertochemi- cals, isopthalic is a building block that go into the manufacture of other products. -It’s impossible to guess at the scope of its use at this point,’ an official claims Tests show that using isopthal-; ic in the base of synthetic paints makes them more flexible and therefore less apt to crack and peel because of the contraction and expansion of the surface the paint covers. The outside sur face of a building, for instance, undergoes almost continuous movement due to temperature changes. Soft exterior huose paint could be made tougher with iso pthalic, and would also retain their color and gloss longer, says a specialist. Derivatives of the versatile new chemical maks such soft plastic goods as shower curtains and seat covers more supple, and inhibit their tendency to get brittle as they get old. As a binder ingred ient, isopthalic makes items such as plastic luggage and glass fiber boats and fishing rods stronger. Thirsty World War H fighting plants were the beginning of iso- pthalic’s saga, as a refinery to pro duce aviation gasoline was es tablished. Chemists involved in the operation discovered that this high actane fuel contained sizable proportions of the potentially val uable chemical family of ‘xylens es’. , I The first member of this fam ily isolated by scientists was used in pthalic anhydride. Standard now makes approximately 15 mil lion pounds of this chemical a year at its Richmond facility. This ingredient of many paints and plastics is also produced by other firms from coal-tar-derived nap- thalene. U. S., output of pthalic anhydride in 1955 is expected to reach 300 million pounds. According to reports, isopthal ic will supplement pthalic anhy dride in many of its uses. The technical director at the South San Francisco plant which makes paint resins, says there’s been a perpetual shortage of the older , hemical, and he expects produc tion of both chemicals to expand. Scientists began concentrating on the source of isopthalic in 1948. At that time it was a laboratory freak costing $25 to $100 a pound. The search then began for ways to utilize it and a means to pro duce it commercially. Processes are kept under tight secrecy. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS COUNTY COMMISSIONER I hereby amvounoe myself as a candidate for County Commis sioner of Laurens county and pledge to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic pri mary. J. WARREN CRAINE I hereby announce myself as a candidate for County Commis sioner of Laurens county, and pledge to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic pri mary. FURMAN E. THOMASON CORONER « I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Coroner of Laur ens county and pledge to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary. JOE F- SMITH SHERIFF / I hereby announce myself a candidate for sheriff of Laurens county and pledge to abide by the rules of the Democratic primary. CALDWELL W. WTER I hereby announce myself a candidate for sheriff of Laurens county aiid pledge to abide by the rules of the Democratic primary. WILUAM A. LOWERY NERVOUS? Try Chiropractic DR. C. J. HART Laurens, S. C v - PHONE HOURS 22501 9-12 2723 3-6 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I hereby announce myself a candidate for the House of Repre sentatives from Laurens County, and pledge to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary. 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