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\ 1 Pape Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, May 23, 1957 ; i 51^ Clinton C^rontrlp Established 1900 July 4. 1889 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — Jane IS, 1955 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 Us subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice,. The Chronicle will publish letters of general .nterest when they are not of a defamatory nature Anonymous communications will not t?e noticed This paper is not responsibfe for the views or opinions of its correspondents Member: South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association National Advertising Representative: AMERICAN. PRESS ASSOCIATION New York, Cnicago, Detroit. Philadelphia CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY. MAY 23. 1957 Quiz Sheet On Polio Vaccine You have been urged tp get polio,^vacci nations. for your family. Naturally you want to know the facts about it. JQ: Is the Salk vaccine safe? A: Since the spring of 1955. 51 million people have ' had injections with an excellent s&fety rec- uord. Before being approved by the U. S. Public Health Service, it was giveji in field trials to more than 400.000 children. The American Medical Association now has of ficially endorsed it. Q: Is it effective? A: Two shots, two to six weeks apatf, are 70 toJIO per cent effective. A third or “booster” shot, sev- en-tnonths after the second, provides effec tiveness estimated at 90 per cent. After widespread inoculations among elementary school children polio cases in lO'SG dropped 47 per cent as compared to 1955 and 59 per cent as compared to tjie 1951-55 average. Q. How many have had it? A: By March 1, 1957, 51 million Americans had had at least one shot; of these, -27 million had received two shots; 11 million the re quired three shots. This means that only 11 million polio-susceptible people-(under 40 years old) are properly protected for -rhe 1957 polio season. Q: How hiany still heed it? A; Some 58 million Americans under 40 are without any protection at all. Pre-schooi children (under fiye) need vaccination mosjt. Teen agers are next in 1 urgency; the from 20 through 39. Polio cases\among adults have risen to 25 per cent of tflie total number. Furtherrnore, when poli mother or wage earner, disruptio ily life is especiallx ruinous. Roll up your sleeve and start your vac c in at ion series as soon as possible. “A Hitler Tactic” Opponents of right-to-work laws (which simply say that a man can join a union if hC wants to and can refrain from joining if that is what he wants, ahd that in either case he can work at his job free from coer cion bv union official or employer) argue that they are anti-labor, and that those who advocate them are trying to under mine the labor movement. In this connection, a remark by Senator Coldwater is apt. He recalled that the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was one of the greatest friends of labor ever to occupy the White House, stated his abso lute opposition to the requirement that a man must join, a union, and characterized is as “a Hitler tactic.” And that is precisely what it is. hits a 'to fam- Cause and Effect Arthur Krock, of The New York Times, is widely regarded as one of this country’s most authoritative writers on national af fairs. So something he said recently about the natural gas situation is of unusual im portance. • The price of natural gas which ulti mately goes into interstate commerce, is now federally regulated at the wellhead— right where it comes out of the ground. This regulation came about as a result of a Supreme Court decision and a subsequent Presidential veto of a bill which would have freed the producers of these controls. The veto, incidentally, was used because of lobbying activities pursued by a few of the bill’s advocates—and even in his veto message, the President'strongly endorsed the bill’s objectives. Now Mr. Krock writes: “Fifty per cent of the natural gas that is marketed in Tex as is consumed inside the state. The other 50 per cent provides heat and power for private and industrial consumption in other states. But there is a growing disposition among Texas gas finders to quit searching for gas and hold what they have found un til one of two developments occurs. The first is the arrival of a state market for as much gas as Texas can yield. The second is the abolition of Federal control of prices for gas sold at the welhead.to the compan ies which put it into interstate commerce.” If this trend continues, Mr. Krock adds, “. . . it is entirely posvsible that within a few years—maybe ten—the outside communi ties that are dependent for heat ir and power on natural gas will bcome hardship cases. The proponents of regulation claim it is in the interest of gas consumers all over the country. Actually, it threatens to deprive those consumers of being able to get any gas at all. Here is an example of cause and effect with a vengeance. Interest in these developments covers a wide area beyond the bounds of Texas—in cluding Clinton and other sections of South Carolina. Any move to put gas users of other states at the mercy of Texas gas well owners should get the attention of Con gressmen from all parts of the country. Your Battle Courageous men in Congress are fighting your battle for budget and tax reduction. Newly elected Senator Lausche opposed a $5 million federal appropriation for Pan Ameri can games to be held in Cleveland in 1959, saying: “The federal budget must be cut. I cannot support for Ohio something that I would oppose in another state.” Cleveland is tbe brggest city Hubhe senaiorls home state. There has been a prairie fire of protest mail from men and women in all walks of life, de manding heavy cuts in the budget followed by tax reduction. But, pressures for spending by minority groups, seeking hand-outs from the Treasury, are terrific. The people themselves will have to curb their own demands* for public spending if they ever hope to reduce the burden of crush ing taxation. In Group Polio Vaccine Plan Greenville where he was a star playing guard and tackle for the 11HI a _ w 9 . a at Greenville High. Last year, Tedards racked up a 10-T record at Honea Path, his team losing only one game, and that to Clinton. Thornton is a native of Florida, and is a graduate of Furman, Purple Hurricane for two years after playing at the University of Tampa and the University of South Carolina while serving in the Navy. He was graduated from Furman in 1048. Clinton will be<|ome a Class AA school this ibll, as will Pickens, under new/ class!fioations that have been^set up. Clinton will be a member of the Upstate Western division, while Pickens will be in the Eastern division. The two teams are not scheduled to play each other this fall. Bryan Coates, ©f the M. S. Bailey & Son, Bankers, staff is being vaccinated by Dr. James L Walker in the first pairoitipation in the group polio vaccine plan in Clinton. He was one of those to get -shot” -when personnel of Howard’s Pharmacy and the bank got the movement underway last week. The County Medical Society, local druggists, and the Clinton chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis are work ing in cooperation with groups, which include business organic- tions and clubs, urging every person up to 50 years of age to become immunized against polio. Drug stores will supply the vaccine at cost, it was stated, and physicians will donate their services in giving the shots when groups are assembled. Those interested in the movement urge the formation of such groups, whether rsidential or business, block by block, club, etc. Fpr information concerning the group vaccine plan, residents may call Miss Rebeccaf Speake, secretary of the County Polio Chap ter, Hugh S. Jacobs, chairman of the local vaccine program, both of Clinton, or Dr. D. H. McFdden, president of the County Medical Society. . / Basset, Nebr., Leader: “At the present time with the greatest prosperity our na tion has ever known nothing is being done to reduce our national debt, but rather the spending is at an accelerated rate, f It is said the high rate of taxation is a curb to inflation. Perhaps it is, but for our money we would prefer to see some of that money used to retire the national debt rather than spent on ‘programs.” SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Exoculiv* Vic* President Southern State* Industrial Council "THE NEW SOUTH" Less than three decades ago, the South was pointed out as an impoverished region of the land and its people were described as "ill-clothed, ill- housed, and ill-fed.” It was during the days following the Civil War that the South knew real poverty. At that time the people of the South were left as impoverished and as destitute as perhaps any people anywhere after any war. The investments of the South were in large part wiped out, the property was destroy ed and the land was laid waste. “Cash money” was hard to come by, and the people had to scrab ble hard for the bare necessities of life, to say nothing of the luxuries. Henry W. Grady, of Georgia, dramatically il lustrated the situation in the South at the time in the most famous of his lectures, ‘The New South.” Grady did not make his fame as a humorist, but as a newspaer man and lecturer. However, he used humor to good advantage, ar)d if he mixed it with seriousness, perhaps it was all the more effective. Grady’s famous lecture was delivered in New York City not too long after General Sherman’s devastating “March through Georgia,” yet he paid his respects to Sherman in the lecture by saying that the Georgia people had a pretty good opinion of him as a general but they did think he was sort of careless with fire! This lecture is quite often referred to as the first rumbling of the resurgence in the economy of the South w'hich was to follow and which has been steadily advancing ever since. But the pres ent generation in the South would do well to re mind themselves once in a while what their fore bears endured during those days, and would do well to be familiar with the well known quote from this lecture .whereby Grady attempted to call attention to the desperate need that the South manufacture some of its own raw materials into finished goods: “I .attended a funeral once in Pickens county in my state. . A funeral is not usually a cheerful object to me unless I could select the subject. I think I could, without going a hundred miles from here, find the materials for one or two cheerful funerals. Still, this funeral was peculiarly sad. It was a poor ‘one-gallus’ fellow, whose breeches struck him under the armpits and hit him at the other end about the knee—he didn’t believe in de- collette clothes. They buried him in the midst of a marble quarry—-they cut through solid marble to make his grave—and yet a little tombstone they put above his was from Vermont. They buried him in the heart of a pine forest, and yet the pine coffin was imported from Cincinnati.. They buried him within touch of an iron mine, and yet the nails in his coffin and the iron in the shovel that dug his grave were imported from Pittsburgh. They bur ied him by the side of the best sheep-grazing courr 4 - try on earth and yet the wool in the coffin bands and the coffin bands themselves were brought from the North. The South didn’t furnish a thing on earth for that funeral but the corpse and the hole in the ground.’ There they put him away and the’clods rattled down on the coffin, and they buried him in a New York coat, and a Boston pair of shoes, and a pair of breeches from Chicago and a shirt from Cincinnati, leaving him nothing to carry into the next world with him to remind him of the country in which he lived and for which he fought for four years, but the chilled blood in his veins and the marrow in his bones.” Read these lines—and then lopk at the South now, which for many years has been advancing at a more rapid rate than the country as a whole. ’The New South” of which Henry Grady breamed is now here, containing all the necessary elethents for sound and enduring prosperity and beginning to utilize them to thf fullest. 'Ihe South is inev itably destined to become the mos| prosperous re gion of the nation. As we approach the 107th anniversary of his birth on May 24, we should pause and pay tribute to Henry W. Grady! Thornton Leaves Successful Career At Clinton High Fleming Thornton, whose res ignation as football coach at Clin ton High School was announced last week, will leave behind him a successful record as director of the Red Devils’ gridiron cam paign during the past four years. Coming to CEnlon in 1953 from Central, where he produced three state championship teams in four y<ears, stock in his Clinton foot ball crew immediately shot up and his teams gained the respect of their opponents. Last year he lost only two games, to Greer and Union, both by two points. Thornton resigned to accept a similar position at Pickens High School. Succeeding Thornton at Clinton will be Ralph (Buzz) Tedards, who has been at Honea Path since 1955. He previously served as a coach at Gaffney for five years. /, Tedards is a graduate of Pres byterian College, where, he was a quarterback for the Blue Stock ings, graduating in 1950. A na live of Pickens; he grew up in Dobbins To Manage Sumerel Ins. Agency William C. Dobbins, of Joanna, has assumed the management of the Sumerel Insurance Agency, according to an advertisement appearing in The Chronicle today. The agency, owned and operat ed by the late' S. W. Sumerel, handles all forms of insurance, in cluding life, casualty, hosprtali- zation, etc. Miss Dorothy Pinson, who has been associated with the agency since 1944, will continue to serve as secretary. Offices are located at 101 S. Broad Street, in the Clinton Hotel building. Good Luck GRADS OF *57 Canada Dry Bottling Co. 108 Enterprise St. Phone 99 AT YOUNG’S In Time For Graduation Tjssy summer BATH SPECIALS! (and such good gift ideas, too) MOW ‘1.25 ^ REGULAR *2 SIZES The*e aie this summer’s best bays. 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