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■ Pa^e Four V ■ ' ' ' - 7 • THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, March 1ft, 1956 ®hr (Eltntan (Cl^rnntrlr Established IMS PUBLISHED EVERY 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 , ^ 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 letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous conununications 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, MARCH 15. 1956 Fees At Our State Colleges South Carolina taxpayers are subsidizing college education for both state students and out-of-state students at the state’s colleges, according to a news story on a report of the Fiscal Survey Commission. Following is a summary of the report, made to the General Assembly as contained in the news story: It’s a wonder state-supported colleges and universities aren’t doing a record business in South Carolina—they’re providing education at bargain basement prices. A Special Fiscal Survey Commission report to the General Assembly shows that—on the basis of tuition fees—the University of South Carolina, Clemson, 'Hie Citadel and Winthrop make ‘ representative” schools in four other states look like clubs for millionaires. The commission, which made an extensive study of state institutions of higher learning, said it’s about time the fees were revised up ward. At all but Clemson, it points out,'tuition fees for state students is only $40 a semester. TTie charge is $125 for out-of-state students. Clem- son's fees are $10 and $25 more, respectively. In addition to the semester tuition charges, there are fixed expenses, ranging from $28 a semester at The Citadel to $57.50 a semester at the university. * The commission says none of these approach the fees charged at most state-supported insti- - tutions in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. / At Florida State University, for instance, the in-state tuition cost in 1954 was $150 a semester. Out-of-state students had to shell out $325. At the University of Georgia it was $60 and $160. The University-of Virginia charged $80 and $225, while at the University of North Car olina, fees were $75 and $180, aside from fixed expenses. The commission said tuition costs should be increased not only to bring them “in line with similar institutions in other states in this region but to place a fairer share of the cost of provid ing . . . education.” # “In the absence of reciprocal arrangements,” the report continued, “tuition charges of out-of- state students should be raised to a level charged out-of-state students by other states.” Pointing to the fact.that less than one-half of The Citadel’s students are from South Caro lina, the commission said: "While it is desirable to have a reasonable > proportion of out-of-state students attend South Carolina colleges, the state cannot afford to assume too large a part of the cost of their edu cation:*’ While many South Carolinians knew that fees at the state colleges w’ere “reasonable,” to say the least, not many, we suspect, knew’ they were as low as pictured in this report. We support the Commission’s suggestion that “it’s about time fees w’ere revised up ward.” ' 7 ' Z' We are of the opinion that Soujh Carolin ians are committed to giving the state’s chil dren free education through the high school level. But beyond that point, it seems to us that students at state colleges should pay sufficient fees to operate the colleges after the state has put campus and buildings at their disposal. For the state to make the huge capital in vestments necessary to build creditable in stitutions of higher learning, and then to take on the additional burden of paying a large part (probably a majority’), of the ex pense of educating its college students, i%, asking too much of its taxpayers. The General Assembly has an obligation to citizens of the state to study this report carefully and act on it in a forthright man ner. The additional point of equalizing fees at all colleges should also be included. And, of course, out-of-state students should pay on a par with what is charged South Caro linians at other states’ colleges. Fogging The Issue The Saturday Evening'Post, speaking edi torially, has something important to say about the public-power issue: “Electric pow er is one of very f(M| items in the cost-of- living index w’hichMro: remained steady, and in some places even declined, in an era of ex plosive inflation. Nevertheless, the private power industry has been the target of con tinuous virulent assault. “Why? Couldn’t the answer be that the pow’er business is more easily socialized than most other types of industry? That, at any rate, is the view of Kinsey M. Robinson, pres ident of Washington Water Power. Mr. Rob inson also believes that ‘the American .peo ple anywhere will vote in favor of free en terprise if they are given the opportunity to do so.’ “Unfortunately they seldom have this opi portunity. . . . The issue is usually fogged with irrelevancies and alleged scandals de signed to divert attention from the central issue—socialism or free enterprise.” Elsew’here in the same editorial the Post notes the nationally-publicized election in a Washington state county where the voters dealt with the issue in clear-cut form—to take power either from a taxpaying utility company, or from a publicly-owmed body. The region w’as supposed to be rampant with pub lic-power sentiment. Yet the vote went in favor of private enterprise by about a 7-to-3 margin. All minority groups (no matter how small the minority) claim to speak for the public at large. That certainly seems true of the public-power zealots.- Allendale, S. C., Citizen: “The federal gov ernment feeds on itself. The more power it gets the more it goes after. At times govern ment agencies are guilty of using the peo ple’s money to buy control of them in areas where the people can well do without federal control.” Knoxville, Iowa, Express: “The man who is hopelessly in debt is a lot worse off than the national government which is in the same fix. The individual is subject to laws w’hich can seize his property; the government just raises the debt limit a few more billions and pays more interest which accounts for much of your high taxes of today. SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Executive Vice President Southern States Industrial Council • e«eeee» to an INTEGRATION DECREE PLAYED INTO HANDS OF COMMUNISTS—PART II The yoke of communism in the United States, the Daily Worker, tries to give every pretense of representing the working men and the minority groups. Actually, it does not have the least inter est in either one and only attempts to use them as vehicles for advancing the cause of communism. In doing so, it never overlooks an opportunity to at tack the South. Here again it makes the pretense of doing so because the South has traditionally fa vored segregation of races, whereas it really does so because the South is actually the greatest de fense against communism left in the land. — Now that the Supreme Court has handed down the integration decree, the Daily Worker is happy; it has plenty of fuel with which to feed the flame, it therefore does so continually and consistently. An editorial of January 26th contains the following paragraph. The real roadblock to legislation advancing the interests of working men in general and Negroes in particular, is represented by the Congressional alliance of GOP-reactionaries and the Dixiecrats. It will require the united efforts of the combined groups pledged to support civil rights to overcome this roadblock. There can be no victory against reaction if one or another part of the pro-civil al liance breaks ranks and concedes defeat every time the Dixiecrat hyena howls.” If any proof were needed, this one statement would confirm what is generally known to all thoughtful people in this country—that it has been the alliance of conservatives in the South with those of like mind in other parts of the nation that has saved this country from communism, or at least socialism, which is only a half-way step communism. Another attack on the South "occurred in editorial in the Daily Worker of January 30th: “It is becoming clearer and clearer as to who is playing politics with the rights to an education of the nation’s school children—Negro and white. The Dixiecrat bloc of U. S. Congressmen has serv ed notice that its members will insist upon their right to continue the system of economic robbery of Negro children and mental maiming of all chil dren.” All these supposed ills—which we all know are non-existent—the Communists blame upon segre gation. They thus use segregation as the whipping boy in their drive toward communism. But again the Daily Worker stirs up racial strife i and hatred of the South in an editorial of February 2nd: “The White Citizen^ Councils are out to win by every means the un-American battle they are wag ing against democracy in Montgomery (Ala). In this uneven fight they have the full force of the city government on their side. If they win it will be because the nation permitted latter-day Confed erates and white collar Klansmen to- replace the Constitution with WCC’s racist code. We owe it to ourselves to exert every pressure for federal gov ernment and private aid to Montgomery’s embat tled Negroes.” "All of us throughout the land owe a deep, abiding debt of gratitude to the Negro heroines and heroes who, sometimes almost single-handed and always at the risk of life, have been battling the powerful, ruthless forces of subversion in the South.” All of this communistic rabble-rousing might be passed off as unimportant—and it would be unim portant if voiced only by the Daily Worker—but the trouble is that many well-known news com mentators and columnists, so-called ‘liberal’ news papers and national publications, and group® and organizations of various sorts go right to bed with the Daily Worker and spout the same communist line. They largely control the news and the press —so what can the South expect? We can be eternally grateful here in the South that most all our Congressmen and state political leaders vigorously champion the principles and- philosophy by which the South has lived and by which we may hope it shall always live. They have not been deceived by the communist line. Those who have not had the courage and the pa triotism to take the same stand are net worthy of the people and the land they represent Joanna Old Timers „ Club Inducts 17 At Banquet Saturday The annual Old Timers banquet honoring Joanna Cotton Mills em ployes with twenty-five years or more of service was held Saturday evening at the Joanna clubhouse. Seventeen Joannians reaching the 25-year mark as of Dec. 31, 1955, were inducted into the Old Timers club by Mrs. Ada Abrams, retiring president of the club, with appropriation initiation ceremon ies. Approximately 230 Old Timers and their wives or husbands at tended. Each new member was presented with a jewel-studded gold pin shaped like a window shade (the plant’s principal fin ished product), and an Old Timers membership certificate. • Including the Negro Old Timers, whose meeting will be scheduled at a later date, 201 Joanna em ployes have been inducted into the 25-year Old Timers club since the mill’s awards program was begun in 1947. All Old Timers have previously been awarded 10- year lapel pins, 15-year rings, and $100 gold watches at the 20-year mark, also, increased free life in surance up to $2,000.00. Named as new officers of the club to serve for the coming year were: Mrs. Sulie Stewart, presi dent; Frank Phillips, vice presi dent; and Charlie Coleman, secre tary-treasurer. Since initiation of the awards program, which included the 201 Old Timers, 335 have received $100 watches for 20 years service, 426 received rings in recognition of 15 years service, and 627 have received 10-year pins. $500 in surance policies for each employ ee are increased at 5-year periods to a maximum of $2,000 for those entering the Old Timers club. John Holland Hunter was mas ter of ceremonies of Saturday’s program. Walter Regnery, vice president of the company and general man ager of the mill, delivered the ad dress of welcome, in which he ex pressed the appreciation of the management for the long years of service rendered by the group and voiced the hope that the pleasant association would continue for many years. He said he looked for several years of more stabilized condi tions in the textile industry, fol lowing a number of years during which less stabilized conditions prevailed. A group of Clinton high school girls gave a number of songs, un der the direction of Mrs. James Von Hollen. Harry Whitestone, comedian- magicians, of Laurens, entertain ed the gathering with a number of magic tricks. The 17 members inducted Sat urday night were: Mrs. Virginia Boyce, H. P. Bragg, Mrs. Cora Brewington, Mrs. Nell Ellison, J. C. Farmer, C. N. Franks, Mrs. Alda Rae Fulmer, H. B. Gaskin, F. M. Harris, H, E. Hunnicutt, L. A. Marshall, Mrs. Ruth Mitchell, J. S. Prater, J. O. Ray, Mrs. Ruby Saxon, F. M. Templeton, Sr., and W. P. Thomas’. Chamber Of Commerce To Show Film At Broadway On March 20 The Chamber of Commerce will present, a movie, “The Town That Refused To Die,” at the Broad way theater Tuesday, March 20, at 10 a. m. Leland Young, manager of thcJBroadway theater^ has giv en the use of his building to show the movie. The picture is the story of a town whose industry died and what the people of the community did through their chamber of commerce to restore industrial pay rolls. It was shown on the Arm- tsrong Cork program last Novem ber and has been loaned by the National Broadcasting company. There will be no charge for ad mission, and chamber officials are asking that all business houses close for the hour and let their people attend. The film will be available to school, business or clinic groups ■for showing. It [will be retuAed March 23. Organizations that woul^l like to use it are asked to contact the chamber office. Boat And Motor Agency Formed Here The Clinton Boat and Motor company has been established to serve the boating and motoring needs for Clinton and surrounding areas. Thurston Giles, manager, announced that the company has a franchise for four counties, in cluding Laurens, Spartanburg, Greenwood and Greenville. Deal ers and sub-dealers will be estab lished to handle the sale of family type outboard cruisers. Boats f nd motors will be displayed at. their place of business on West Main street. CAKE SALE MARCH 24 There will be a cake sale Fri day, March 24, at Howard’s Phar macy at 9:30 a. m., sponsored by the Pauline Coleman circle of Broad Street Methodist church. Dr. Caston To Present Paper At Psychological Meet Dr. W. Frank Caston, one of the psychologists at Whitten Village, is scheduled to present a paper at the spring meeting of the South Carolina Psychological association which will meet in conjunction with the South Carolina Academy of Science at Clemson college on Saturday, April 14. The title of his paper is “A Com parative Study of Psychological Test Results,” and it is based on a study conducted several years ago while he was on the staff of the Veterans hospital, Columbia. Dr. Caston, a native South Caro linian, is a 1937 graduate of Fur man. He earned his M. A. degree at the University of South Carolina and the PhD. degree at Vander bilt university, Nashville, Tenn., both in the field of clinical psy chology. In addition to being a member of the state organization, he is a member of the American and Southeastern Psychological as sociations. and several other pro fessional organizations. Attends Workshop Mrs. Horace Horton, executive director for the Camp Fire Girls, Inc., for the three districts in the Clinton area, left Tuesday for Jacksonville, Fla., where she will attend a professional workshop the remainder of the week. IF YOU DONT READ THE CHHGNICLE YOU DON'T GET THE NEWS Morris Leads PC To Net Win for athletics until next week. Guy Filosof was the only Rol lins winner. He defeated Dick Macatee 6-0, 6-3. Morris wallop, ed Memo Garcia 6-0, O-F in the No. 1 match. sssrtrrrtr j Winter Park, Fla., March 13— The Presbyterian College tennis team, led by Allan Morris, No. 16 ranked amateur in the nation, de feated Rollins 8-1 today. It was the opening match of the season for Rollins, forced to play without its No. 1 man, Ren Sobi- etaji. He will not become eligible You Will Want a New Hairdo for the EASTER BEAUTY PARADE SO HURRY ALONG TO— DELLS THURSDAY—FRIDAY—SATURDAY Loree Wilkie Carolyn Thomas Amilee Staggs Gaskin PHONE 20 Announcement • • Opening DR. R H. DAWSON CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC 516 S. Broad St. - Telephone 1401 SATURDAY, MARCH 17th Office Hours 9 A.M.-1 P. M.-4-7 P. M. CLOSED ALL DAY THURSDAY AND SATURDAY AFTERNOONS Henderson Writes The President; Gets Reply From Adams Clinton, S. C. Feb. 17, 1956 Hon. Dwight D. Eisenhower, The White House, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. president: Congratulations upon your good health report. You might be sur- prisced at the number who are for you in this section. Unlike another well known South Carolinian, that you know, and who was for you at fever pitch stage prior to the last Presidential nomination, he later cooled off considerably. You probably will agree that our Jimmy Byrnes rates with the best. Although our every expectation has not been realized in this ad ministration, we still have confi dence in you and think you are the same “Ike” we saw at Colum bia. . ‘ I am only' a little one-horse farm er and World War I veteran. Very truly yours, EDWARD C. HENDERSON The White House Washington Assistant to the President Feb. 27, 1956 Dear Mr. Henderson: The President has asked me to I acknowledge receipt of your re cent letter. He is appreciative of your friendly thought in writing. He is also grateful for your as surance of confidence in his lead ership. Sincerely, SHERMAN ADAMS Mr. Edward C. Henderson Clinton, S. C. o M-Sgt. G. H. Ellis Woiks With Helicopters Fort Riley, Kan.—Army M-Sgt. Gayal H. Ellis, 32, son of William E. Ellis, Route 7, Clinton, S. C, recently completed the three-week helicopter mechanics course for enlisted men at Fort Riley, Kan. 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