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Thursday, December 13l, 1956 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE / Page Thirtee* A By SPECTATOR.. : . COMMENTS . on MEN AND THINGS The threat or menace to Clem- son College, due to the proposed Hartwell Dajn. has. aroused the people of our state. The ques tion is pertinent,, whether water power has become out of date. Years ago Mr. Duke spnosored great water power projects, but recently the Dukes have built great steam plants. That is true ^also of the South Carolina Elec tric and Gas Co., which built the great Saluda Dam. That company since then has spent a hundred million dollars on steam plants, as I understand. As to the so- called Public Power, we can cite both our own Santeek^ooper, with its mammoth new steam plant, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, which has spent more than a hundred million on steam plants, I’m told. If it be true, as has been said, that electric power by steam is cheaper, as well as more depend able, than power by water, what reason can there be for flooding hundreds of thousands of acres of land for water power? Within ten years the likelihood *is that nuclear power may be used, or something else may be brought into availability, that would make' new water power not onfy wasteful, but somewhat . ridiculous. Says The Greenville News: “Is it too late to prevent the damage^that will be done to Clemson’s campus and teaching program if the Hartwell Dam , project on the Savannah River is completed according to present • plank? ' . , Is it too \pte to abandon, or ex- tensviely modify the project if -the review we hope is going to be made indicates.that it should be done? Again the answer is an emphatic ‘NO!’ Conditions have changed . con siderably since the Army Engin eers first recommended construc tion of the dam as part of the de velopment of the Savannah val ley. They have changed since Congress first authorized its be ginning. - If changing conditions have made Hartwell no longer feasible, it would be far cheaper to aban don it, or complete it as a low- level dam for irrigation, flood control and recreation purposes as part of a modified watershed development project. Only a few millions have been pledged for Hartwell thus far. Completion will cost $100 million more, and to prevent irreparable damage to Olemson will add to that. The full realization of the dam age that Clemson would suffer has served to reopen the issue 6f Hartwell And that alone is suf ficient reason for drastic modifi cation, or even abandonment. Clemson has shown beyond the possibility of contradiction that its campus and experimental farms will be ruined unless: 1. The maximum water level is lowered by at least 50 to 60 feet. Since the dam is to be about 660 feet above mean sea level, it may fall into the low-level class with that change. Fifty feet, we would guess, would make a vast differ ence in the dam’s hydro-electric power potential; or, 2. The Seneca River is diverted into a new channel by means of a canal and retaining dams to save more than 1,000 acres of the nfost valuable experimental farm lands. This would cost an esti mated $8 million, and could cost more. It would require construc tion and perpetual operation^of a huge pumping station to fl ra i n the natural drainage basin that wpuld thus bfe obstructed. It has been . estimated that Clemson stands to incur damage's amounting to about $20 milion dollars. Rather unofficial assur ances again are being offered that Clemson would be ‘compensated.’ To pay Clemson for the lands and other facilities it would lose is one thing. To replace them is quite another. A man can be ‘compensated’ j for the loss of a limb or an eye in an industrial accident, but the limb or eye ^an’t be replaced. 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Once on the lift, your car’s underside is also inspected for muffler and tail pipe holes, tire cuts and other possible trouble makers. Drive in for Marjah lubrication. STOP IN AND SEE YOUR TEXACO DEALER SOON H. D. Payne & Co Your Texaco Distributor Laurens County tain other agriculutral and en gineering teaching facilities with in s reasonable and practical distance of the campus. But Clemson should not be made the ‘dog in the manger’ or the sole factor in bringing about modification or abandonment ’of Hartwell. - Even if Cemson were not in the picture, which it apparently wasn’t in a practical sense when the project . was bom, it still would be open to serious ques tions and grave doubts, ed for it are a farce. The flood The aids to ‘navigatiori’ claim- control purposes probably could be served far better by local wa tershed development. The ’irri gation” idea is far-fetched and hopelessly hedged about by re strictions placed on taking water from a government dam, even if it could be transported or piped to the farm needing it. As for the generation of pow er, we pose a hypothetical ques tion; Would a private power com pany, which would have to pay taxes, accept it as a gift and ope rate it? If the present practices of both public and private power enter prises are any indication, the answer is NOT without a couple of steam g e n e r a t i n g plants thrown in. Private companies now use their hydroelectric installations for meeting ‘peak’ power loads. A steam plant which will produce during short periods of operation, as much powefr as Hartwell, or more, can be puilt for a fraction of its cost. ) Furthermorer-^the Tennessee Valley Authority,- its vast system of dams, has had to build steam plants and is begging Con gress for money'to build more. Santee-Cooper, -with one steam plant, is talking about borrowing money to build another. - And this leaves entirely out of consideration the fact that the era of generating electricity by means of atomic energy may have arrived before Hartwell is com pleted. The project'is not with out its merits, of course It \Vould provide cheap power for a favor ed few, when the water supply is sufficient. And it is dear to the hearts of its promoters who have labored long and hard to get Con gress to approve it, and see in it a mobument to their efforts. But the taxpayers would save a lot of mohey by building for them much simpler monument, say on the comparatively modest pro portions of Washington Monu- ! ment or the Lincoln Memorial.” : I need not quote ‘The State” or “The Record” of Columbia on | this; nor need I cite "The News and Courier" and “The Evening Post”* of Charleston, for most ot my radio audience read those , great papers. • • • r- Can the Democrats hold South ! Carolina? If the relatively heavy j vote cast for the Republican party means anything—and it does—then the Democrats will meet strong Republican opposi tion hereafter, in South Carolina It has beep suggested that the Independents may remain in the Democratic party, crowding out the Democratic leadership of 1956 If the Republican vote and the Independent vote should develop into one faction it would control the state. As is well known, those two - together, far outnum ber the Democrats of 1956 (137 - 820 to 163,959). Here is the official vote by counties: “Here is the county-by-county breakdown with all of the state’s 1,577 precincts reporting: ' FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 29th day of November, 1956, I will render a final account of my acts and doings as Administratrix of the estate of Ruth Alexander in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens County a tl0:00 A. M. ,and on the same day will ap ply for a final discharge from my trust as Administratrix. Any person indebted to said es tate is notified and required to make payment on or before that date; and all persons hvaing claims against said estate will present them on before said date, duly provne, or be forevere bar red. —VIVIAN ALEXANDER McMATH Administratrix Nov. 15, 1956 4c-D-13 Here is the county-by-county breakdown with all of the state’s 1,577 precincts reporting: * COUNTY Democrats Republicans , Ind. Abbeville ' 2,985 339 257 Aiken ft 4,280 6.195 1,821 Allendale . 380 262 675 Anderson '11,344 2,186 *1,241 Bamberg 430 • . • 326 1,118 Barnwell / 1,914 * 520 575 Beaufort 710 _ 1,051 1,016 Barkeley 901 1,065 ‘ • 1,799' Calhoun 341 146 6931 Charleston 3,927 -v 7,300 13,3951 Cherokee . -j ; 3,687 907 308 • Chester .• “ 2,951 1,007 741 , Chesterfield » 3,559 795 634! Clarendon 661 224 1,787 1,943 * 2,603 Colleton 1,463 636 Darlington 2,908 1,697 Dillon 1,879 862 313 792 Dorchester * 504 1,851 1,001 j Edgefield 525 516 ' Fairfield 961 519 1,168: Florence" Georgetown X!> 3,463 1,020 1,855 1,067 . > 4,447 2,284 Greenville 11,819 10,762 - 4,622 | Greenwood - 4,386 1,120 1,247 Hampton 564 359 1,133 Horry 4^35 1,092 2,244 Jasper 210 403 658 Kershaw 1,875 1,518 1,906 Lancaster ^ 4,398 1,610 629 Laurens 3,726 1,377, - 1,545 Lee . . . 943 260 ' 1,272 Lexington 2,094 .1,188 2,455 McCormick 484 102 282 Marion 1,390 417 1,353 Marlboro ...a*. _... 1,769 507 , 522 Newberry * • » 2,671 1,061 1,398 Oconee ; ... ■_ 3,510 911 376 Orangeburg 2,511 1,467 2,943 Pickens 1,847'- 1,747 648 Richland ■ t- 6,154 6,714 i 9,516 Saluda 1,080 341 865 Spartanburg 16,637 6,822 2,124 Sumter 937 1,356 , 3,7-43 Unioij . 3,760 i . 1,252 676 Williamsburg 683 330 2,739 York 6,385 3,508 1,192 TOTALS .. .137,820 15,513 88,346 Greenville. Hampton ' Kershaw, Lancaster, Laurens, Pickens, Richland, Spartanburg and York In a few counties the Republi cans polled more than old line (the same 'day will apply for a j final discharge from rr(v trust a* 1 Executor CREDITORS' NOTICE AIL persons having claims agaipst the estate, of Edgar F. Any person indented to *sa;d. Dunaway, deceas'd, are hereby estate is notified and required to notifies to file th* ' same duly ‘make payment on or before that Democrats: Aiken Beaufort. Ber- date; and all persons having keley. Charleston; Edgefield, nip.;claims ag^iftstSaid estate will prre- and tuck (525 Democrats—516 Republicans) Georgetown, Jas ; per, Richland, Sumter If a fusion of Independents and Republicans would be effective, let them he realistic_amL win at. the polls- FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 21st day of January, 1957, f will render a final account of my acts and do ings as Executor of the estate of Myrtle A Hunter in the office of the Judge of Probate of Lauren.; sent them on or before said, date, duly proven or b» forever barred JOHN HOLLAND HIaVTER Executor ■ _ . * Dec. 3. 1956 * P w-D27 .verified, w;th the undersigned, and -those indebted to aid estate wiil plea <■ make .payment like wise. VJNOLA MOORHEAD DUNAWAY. ’ Fixer utfix .V,' 26 1956 ;r D-u3 DICKEY Western Jeans Sl.95-S2.95-S3.50 L. B. DILLARD W&s Mta-Tto-fcti It’* Liquid - 39 f Bottle Observe the vote: The old line Democsats were strong in "the counties of Abbeville, Anderson. ] Barnwell, Cherokee,'*'* Chester, j Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, i Greenville, Greenwood, Horry, j Lancaster, Laurens, McCormick, M a r i o,n, Marlboro, Newberry, Jasper, Kershaw Lee, Lexington, Orangeburg, Richland, Sumter, I Williamsburg The Independents 1 and Republicans, if combined, j woul'd have carried Darlington, | Greenville, Newberry, Pickens, Saluda counties also, and they would have been added to those I Oconnee, Pickens, Saluda* Spar-, counties which voted a majority tanburg. Union, York. The In dependents were very strong in SPECTATOR NO 3 the folowing counties: Allendale, Bamberg, Berkeley. Calhoun Charleston, Clarendon. Colleton. Dorchester, Edgefield. Fairfield, Florence, Georgetown. Hampton, for the Independents. Aiken,and Beaufort toed the mark squarely and .voted Republican. 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