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Par* Twtlft THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Bf SPECTATOR.. COMMENTS on MEN AND THINGS What about the new continen tal highways: Are they designed primarily,. for example, to run from Dillon to Savannah? Why Savannah*’ Is there any immu table law prescribing that a great highway shall run a straight line to Savannah? I have nothing against Savannah, or Jackson ville. If there are hiilitary con siderations of supreme import ance why not consider Tampa Fla . It sometimes is desirable to have direct connections, but what connections? The effect on towns has been <* carefully studied so I quote an exploratory' article: First what California says; “Highway traffic through this rural, sun-drenched community usually quickens with the Cali fornia spring into a week-end stream of impatient, honking mo torists. But this year, complains a mo tel keeper, 'You could fire a shot gun down Main Street and not hit anyone. The reason? Petaluma, a chick en and egg center 38 miles north Announcement! 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The by-pass at first produced anguished squawks only from chicken fanners who fretted that zooming traffic would diminish the output of nervous hens. But now, some merchants on the old route, in rickety one-room diners and alongside dusty gas pumps, are bitter—and worried, too. The proprietress of the Casa Frande Motel, balefully predicts that Petaluma, with four banks and 13,506 inhabitants, is on the skids. ‘We’ll have 14 to 16 empty buildings in the next 30 to 60 days,’ she says grimly. ‘Petaluma is only a ghost town.’ This city’s plight, whether real or imagined, soon will be faced by growing numbers of small towns across the nation. Strict engineering standards under the giant Federal road building pro gram mean high speed highways will be routed around many ttuall communities and their businesses which cater to travelers. It’s too early to estimate the exact num ber of by-passes because many stretches of the 41,000-hdle in ter-state system remain to be precisely located. But they will be numbered in the hundreds, says die Bureau of Public Works. We think our studies show that the tremendous traffic congestion relief will be more beneficial than the through traffic ever was,’ states Frank C. Balfour, chief right-of-way agent for Califor nia’s Division of Highways. In stead of hurting a community, contends Mr. Balfour, by-passes usually bring a healthy boost in retail sales. His reasoning: Lo cal trade picks up after street congestion is relieved and park ing facilities are improved. The California officials get an argument, however, from high way engineers in neighboring Or egon. Researchers at the Univer sity of Oregon put eight by-pass ed Oregon communities under the microscope. 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It’s optional at Turboglide is something really new and different in automatic drives. In the first place, there’s only one forward-speed position on the con trol panel. There’s no * “Low” needed. Turboglide har dies everything with the oil-': tOoih action of triple turbine-. You travel from a standstill to top crui^-mg* -peeds with never a lurch or lag to mar your motion. extra cost—and worth it. MORE PEOPLE DRIVE CHEVROLETS THAN ANT OTUER CAR .Chevrolet with Turboglide! 9 Only franchised Chevrolet dgflero See Your Local Authorized - -iitv lay this famous trademark Chevrolet Dealer Ttmrafay, Juny IS, IWT Were hurt Stroll the street* of Petaluma, including Main Street* formerly U. & 101, and you’ll get the same mixture at views from the com munity's merchants. Main Street is a quoit street now; local traf fic flows leisurely past service stations, drug stortrs and feed dealers. Parking space is easy to find. Other downtown businessmen agree. ‘Traffic going to the Rus sian River resorts during the summer used to be terrific,’ ex claims Claude Bradford, Chamber of Commerce manager, and a by pass advocate. ‘Now, generally speaking, you’ll find people fa vor the by-pass.’ But bitter statements tumble from the lips of the town’s two motel operators. Their claim, relatively modem establishments are geared for heavy tourist trade. Few states have studied eco nomic effetes of urban by-passes and none with the thoroughness of California. However, research ers at the University of Oregon insist that by-pass benefits hold true in .CalifomifiL-Only because of the state’s tremendous rate of growth and its particularly heavy traffic. It is the fear of lost business, of course, which sparks many of the often vociferous complaints when a by-pass is proposed. To help overcome this fear, the Cali fornia Highway Commission re lies on public hearings, also a part of the Federal highway act. While the commission isn’t le gally required to follow advice offered by these sessions, by pol icy it delays a by-pass until it reaches agreement with local of ficials.’’ Atomic power stirs our imag ination. One of the nation’s stu dents of the general theme writes so suggestively that I quote him in part: “It is a plain fact that Ameri cans are more interested in their future than in their past. Stun ned by the horror of atomic bombs, we have created an eco nomic myth of nuclear energy. Too much of our economic ana lysis in this field has dwelt iiDonU._ the marvelous future, and too lit tle upon the present and the past. Most analysts have directed their forecasts at the potentialities of nuclear energy as a producer of electric current. These prospects —along with the demonstrated medical and industrial uses of radioactive isotopes — are unde niably important. But they are by no means the only aspects of the new wonder deserving of ex amination. - And so we have our myth. It is not a rich mythology yet: all we have is a very expensive horse, but it could take us any where if we only know how to bridle it. Will the hero who finds the golden bit be a free enter priser named Westinghouse Elec tric, a desperate British state* gambler staking its uranium pile on Calder Hall reactors, or an infant giant named Euratom? The first decade of nuclear technology has shown it to be not a producer but the fnost in satiable consumer of electric pow er in history. And perfectly well known facts indicate that it will continue a consumer, not Chly of electricity but also of billions of dollars worth of industrial equip ment, for decades to come. The basis of power in Europe has changed deeply in the last twelve years. Iq 1945, Western Germany was a defeated power; France, by some sort of reasoning or sentiment, was a victorious power. In 1957, France has re verted to something like its 1938 condition; Western Germany has demonstrated that the roots of its industrial power were not destroyed by military defeat. • Events of the last ten years in dicate that industrial Europe may be building up pressures which will result in a new grouping. The rate of Europe’s.industrial growth has now surpassed the rate of growth in the United States. The United Kingdom is developing nuclear technology on a large scale—not only with its make-or- break reactor building but also in the sale of isotopes and in the manufacture of equipment. Since 1M1, the Netherlands and Nor way have been partners to nu clear retard* and development. All the Western industrial powers have aoone individual equivalent of our Atomic Energy Commis sion. Since the Geneva Confer ence, there has been little skep ticism concerning Soviet ability in basic atomic'research. West ern Germany’s Industrialists swiftly announced plans for nu clear cooperation when they were permitted to do do.” # • # Lord Montgomery of the Brit ish army seems to be willing to offend everybody. He criticized General Robert E. Lee who com manded Confederate at Gettys burg and General Meade who Commanded the Union Army. Lord Montgomery, striking a particularly offensive note said that he would have removed both General Lee and General Meade for bungling at the Battle of Get tysburg. Maybe «x Mow Who ti Lord Montgomery? He comtouded British troop* in th« daecrta of Africa. His cam paign there ended successfully but he owed something to that great soldier, General Patton, one of the greatest field generals in the entile war. Lord Montgomery must have had a part to the Battle of the Bulge which was far from an ad mirable military exploit. Gen eral Patton saved the day there, too. General Lee had no HmKlets stores of food qr munitions; he fought under severe handicaps, but brilliantly, notwithstanding. General Robert E. Lee will be studied and admired and revered when Lord Montgomery will so long have been forgotten that he will have just four or five lines in some encyclopedia. General Meade was a, respec table officer of more than ordi nary ability, but is not rated by anybody wfih General Leo. I have aSwiys hdd a warn* in my heart for General . He was a cadet aft Wert I think, whan General Lae was superintendent; and he prob ably fought under Lee in Mexico. At any rate, General Meade, as I recall, mounted his horpe and rode out to meet General Lee fol lowing Lee’s surrender at Appo- matox. He remenibered with re spect and admiration Us former commander and removed his hat as Lee approached and said, ‘^General Lee, I am ' George Meade.” I cant think of General Meade except as a modest, lovable gen tleman. 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Sometimes we say that sports build character. We really mean that fair play —the religious principle we have tried to incorporate in our games—turns mere competitive effort into a character-mold ing experience. But life is more than a game . . . and Christian character is more than sports manship. The Church teaches all of us the prin ciples of moral and spiritual living. It brings us into a reverent relationship with God himself. Its truths not only inspire fair play .. . but victorious living. C^nUU mi. K*M» A*. Sarin. StraA.rg. V> ill This Series of Messages Is Being Published Each Week by the Following Clinton Firms in the Interest of Increasing Church Attendance BANK OF CLINTON ,—————t-~- Phone 121 Bank of Clinton Phone 121 Howard’s Pharmacy Phone 101 Clinton Tire & Recap. Co. Phone 1206 Carolina Service Station Phone 61,4 C and L Concrete Co. Phone 538 Mary Musgrove Coffee Shoppe — Phone 1000 - Todd Grocery Co., Inc. 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