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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, May 23, 1957
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51^ Clinton C^rontrlp
Established 1900
July 4. 1889 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — Jane IS, 1955
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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
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