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V Pajr* Four l’" THE CLINTON CHRONICLE On TJ, X dl^p (Elinton (Ehrantrlr KsUblUhed 1900 1955 Jmb 4, 2*it — WTtlJAM WILSON HARRIS — June IS. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) Entered as Second Class .Mail Matter at ' One Year S3.00, Six Months $2.00 the P^it Office at Cfinton, S XI., tinder Act of .Congr-esa March 3. 1879 The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of ita subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice The Chronicle ,will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature Anonymous communications will not be noticed This paper is not*responsible foj- th? views or opinions' pf ita correspondent! Member South Carolina Press Association, National Ed.torifcl Association • • National Advertising Representative; "' —■ > AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION , New York,.Chicago. Detroit . Philadelphia:. . CLINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY. JX2'AL: —^ JANUARY 2. 1958 The New Year \ The. New Year conifeth and the old year must depart, and so has it been for centuries. XA (>nce every 365 days, the world pauses for a moment of reflection, for a brief "but mean ingful examination of self and aurroundinjrs. Then; with a shrug, a new, unlettered page is prepared to record the fulfillment of a new set of ambi tions, intentions and purposes. ■ • '' / Through the centuries customs and traditions-have contributed to the New Year ob'servance to make it more than a time to mark the passingof another era. It is a sea son of awakening to the. realization that we have not ac complished all of the things once planned. It is a time to be grateful for the blessings received. It is a time to plan^and hope; to lay the mental foundation for new ambitions and aspirations. ■ * ’ 1 While New Year resolutions are no mpre worthy, nor more likely to be kept, than resolutions mad?, at Thanks giving or Christmas, there is a psychological .advantage that favors the custom of making New Y'ear promises. The New Year marks the beginning of another era and. in a sense, we start with “a clear slate.” There are other ad vantages, too. We are older, \viser, and should have prof ited from our experiences, good and bad. One need not make resolutions, .however, to profit from the coming of a New Year, blue print ambitions and dreams are no more important than a determined effort to do things a little better, learn a little more and give whatever talents we may possess to the making of a better world in which*wx live. And there’s no better time to start than with the New Year, when each bright new page on the-ealendar has ample room to record every achievement. _ . ■'.» / ^ ■ • can reap the. rewards of his/ endeavors and shoulder his losses without a whimper. ’ - . > We had better be much more concerned about losing the system, by which we attained greatness, about losing our traditional way of life, than abqut losing our ‘prestige’ abroad. ItAis this system which we must keep if we are to remain great. If we keep it, then loss of -prestige’ abroad need give-ip no con cern, and criticism at ttpme will n;t amount to any thing. If we lose it. then it makes no difference. LOSES BROTHER » ' Friends trf Mrs. George Reid will sympathize with her .^h the death of her brother,. George Lipford, ursday, January 2, 1958 which occurred recently. Mr. Lip- ford, a native of WTutmire, passed away suddenly at his home in San Antonio, Texas. Burial was in Rosemont cemetery, Newberry. are Death Is Clinton’s Worst Enemy 1 We don’t know of any city that has been called upoii-to give up more of its prominent citizens by death in the past two or three years than has Clinton. • Slowly, but persistently, the Grim Reaper has laid his hands upon the shoulders of Clin ton meh and led them away to a realm from which there is no earthly return. . Beginning hack in 1955. first one. and then another was forced to answer the call—men. like Gary Dillard. Wilson Harris. Frank Bo-, land. Spurgeon Sumerel, Bob Owens, and jusi a day or two ago, R. E. Ferguson. Others might be mentioned. Clinton can ill afford to losse such men— men that the city depends upon for its lead ership. in church life, business life, social life, home life—activities that make up the day do day calendar of existence and accomplish ment in the community. Men upon whonf the city depends for its progress and growth. What is Clinton going to do alxmt the loss of.such men? As we view it—nothing except in one re spect : Clinton can, and does, offer the oppor tunity to those who are left behind to step into the footprint's of those who have gone on before. Their’s is the sacred obligatiqn to those of blessed memory to grasp firmly the reins of leadership and make of Clinton'what these men dreamed of and strived to make it. It is no easy task—that of being a well- rourided citizen in a .community. It requires hard work, endless planning, sleepless.nights, constant effort, mistakes, successes, frustra tions, prayer, laughter, tears, cooperation— all the facets of human experience that make up a lifetime on this earth. . _ I^et us mourn the loss of stalwart citizens and shed tears with their loved ones, but nev er let us lose sight of the fact that the con stant battel of attrition that death wages against our community can be overcome by seeing to dt- that the ranks will be clsoed by worthy successors. * ■ • w Only then can we square away our shoul ders and face our enemy with the challenge, Where is thy sting!Where is thy victory! the county to issue certificates in accordance ' ^with a recently published schedule." ' Voters must appear in person to make ap- plication for registration ^certificates—no one can get them for you. Other dates-scheduled for the lower part of the county include; Whitten Village. Jan. 9; Mountville. Feb. 25; Long Branch, Feb. 28; II ope well, March 6; Renno. March 7; Grove, March 10. SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Executive Vic* President Southern State* Industrial Council * *• •• •• »**W*«*•*« * ~~ ** * * Have You Got Your Registration Certificate? If you want to vote in city, county, and state elections next May and June, you’dybet- ter get your registration certificate. Your old certificate expires next May-1. When the I^aurens County Registration Board closed its three-iiay session in Clinton on December 18, something over 4,000 citi zens had secured new’ certificates. That is a!>out one-fourth of the number in the county expec ted to register. fThe board has no date scheduled for a re turn to. Clinton. Therefore,, citizens of the Clinton and Joanna area who did not apply for' certificates earlier in ^he fall when the l>oarfl met at those precincts will be forced to go to Laurens or other points in the county to secure them. The board will be in session at the court • • - house in Laurens on the first Monday, Tues day, and Wednesday in each month through March. On the first three days of other weeks the board will meet at various precincts in . 4' WHAT PRICE PRESTIGE’? We have heard in recent months, and especially during recent weeks, to-the effect that the ‘prestige’ of the United States has ‘‘sunk to a new low.” Such comments come mainly from abroad, of course, but ihoy also reach back into this country. This is a strange attitude for anyone in the world to take, unless it be our communist enemies, and es- pecudly for anyone in this country. As for the people in the resf of the world,-most of them have received varying amounts of aid from this country during the past twelve years, the total amounting to almost $70 billion. Apparently this aid brought lis no ‘prestige' at all. Perhaps this whole attitude on the part of ‘friend ly' nations in playing up our loss of prestige, center ed around some of our missile failures in particular, is simply another illustration of ‘‘biting the hand that feeds you.” We should know by now that nations act very much like individauls, which is only n^ttjral as they are composed of numbers of individauls. It is a well known trait of human nature that individuals are rarely grateful when everything is given to th&m, that if it .is given .long enough they finally come to consider it theirs by right. It is well known that the individual is often simply jealous and envious of the means and ability of the donor to make the gifts, that he often likes to see something happen that will place the donor in an unfavorable light. What we just cannot get used to, perhaps, is the fact that nations act in the same manner. In the early days of Marshall Plan aid. it was the common im pression in Great.Britain, to our certain knowledge, and probably in many other countries that this aid was helping us more than it was^them, that it was keeping our factories and our people busy when they might otherwise have been idle and unemployed. Any argument to the effect that we wpuld have been bet ter off by using this aid to reduce taxes or reduce prices to the American consumer, fell on deaf ears; they just wodld not believe it. In later years, it was and still is their belief that our fbreigr aid is extend ed for selfish purposes, that we are primarily and mainly interested in helping and defending ourselves. All of which brings up the vital question, “Are we or the world any 'better off by our having expended $70 billion in this manner?” Without going into any extended discussion of the question at this time, the answer is very likely an emphatic “No.” We would unquestionably be much stronger economically had we kept it at home; our prestige almost surely would have been higher And the free nations of the world would have been better off if they had made their comebacks by their own efforts and not depended up on our generosity. The nations who actually believe in freedom would^ be just as free—if not more so—as they have become with our aid. ? But the most serious aspect of the failure of the first Vanguard, for instance, is the attitude of goom and criticism it produced among our leaders and our people generally here, at home. When a people ‘quit’, when they no longer beheve in themselves, then they have real cause to worry. Others may apparently lose as much faith in us as they like, but we cannot afford to lose faith in ourselves. We have had, and let us believe, we still have, the greatest nation on earth. That is because we have lived under a system that made this possible. It is not because of numbers of people, other nations have greater population; not because of area, other nations have larger; not because of raw materials, others have more. It is because our resources have been utilized to their fullest possibilities; and these re sources have been utilized because we live under a system that gives people the courage and the incen tive to use them, a system wherein a man can risk and refuse to be frustrated, a system where a man PC Basketballers Resume Schedule Here Saturday Presbyterian Cbllbge cager^ poised lo return fropi the Christ mas holiday break with a two-game home stand which opens this'” Sat urday night. i . . College of Charleston will invade Springs gymnasium at that ^time, arid a strong * Pheiffer squad is scheduled te* hit Clinton next Mon day night Both games will strat at 8:00 p. m. „ - 1 The hustling Blue Hose, piling s p.i'r.i.t ? d fast-break . jMsketbaU against the superior height of op ponents. will start the next frhase of their season with a record of two wins and two losses.; In the .pre- Christmas part they clipped the College of Charlestoh and Furman while losing to The Citadel and At lantic Christian. , ** Although the starting PC quintet averages a comparatively short • feet even in height, speed and ac curate shooting have combined to help offset this disadvantage. As a team, the Hosemen are hitting with 45 per cent accuracy on field goals. Statistics for the four games show 118 field goals sunk in 263 attempts. •Co^aptain Ken CSawell, Paris, Ky,. guard, leads the Presbyterian scorers with a total of 70 points and a 17.5 g’ame average and 42.3 field goal accuracy. Forward Ralph Chambers of Clinton, has registered 68 points for a 17' average and 46.2 accuracy to prVss the leader closely for scoring honors. Two other starters also are in the double figures in scoring. Forward Bob Stratton of Lawrenceville, Ky., averages 14 2 points on 57 total and tops all in accuracy with an im pressive 52.9 per cent. And Guard Bill Sullivan, the other co-captain, from Frankfort, Ind., has combined dynamic floor play with an attack averaging 12 points on 48 total and hitting to the tune of 50 p?r cent of his attempted shots. Among the other Blue Hose regu lars, Forward Clayton Adams of Spettiter. Mass., has a 617 point average, while Wyatt Aiken of Grbenvile. hits at a rate of 6.5 points-per-game. Aiken tops all oth ers in rebound work with 45 picked of the backboards for a nightly av erage of 11.2. Coach Courts Redford expects to start this lineup, against the Col lege of Charleston on Saturday night: Forwards Chambers and Stratton; Guards' Caswell and Sul livan; Center .Aiken. ' ; r - Clinic Staff Is Entertained Dr. and Mrs. George.R. .Blalock, Dr. and Mrs. Raise M. Fuller with their families entertained for the? staff at Blalock Clinic on Christmas Eve afternoon, ' . ' traditional holiday decorations and greens were used and gifts were presented from a cblorful /Christ mas treerCheese biscuit, cake and coffee w$re served with other party foods. ; Auto Driver Dies By Own Negligence ‘Ware Shoals, Dec. 31—A Laurens County foroner’s jury today found that Artnur C. Jenkins, 57-year-old Ware Shoals Negro, killed in an au tomobile accident Christmas night, “came to his dcath’by his own neg ligence.” Jenkins was killed about 7 p. m. Christmas night when the car he was reportedly driving overturned on the curve on the Laurens high way about seven and_ a half miles from here. ■'. X He w as accompanied by five’other Negroes, none of whom was serious ly hurt in the wreck. LEAVE FOR BRAZIL Friends here of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sanders will be interested to know they will leave soon for Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the former has accepted a position with Wer ner Textile Consultants. Mrs. Sanders is the former Miss Louise Singley and they with their two children have been spending the holidays here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Singley. They will be with Mt. Sanders’ parents in Henderson, N - C ; ,' until they leave for Brazil. Mr. Sanders, a graduate of Clem- son college, w’as formerly resident manager of Halifax Mills of the Pacific Mills division of Burlington Industries, and they resided in Hali fax, .Va ^ , Ijillard Bolanlj J. M. FLEMING Lanford, Jan 1—J. M. Fleming, j 87, lifelong resident of Lanford, died early Tuesday afternoon in a Spartanburg hospital following two months of illness. Mr. Fleming was a member of Lanford Baptist Church. A Mason for t»4 years, he was a member of Enoree Lodge 222. He was a retired i farmer and an agent for the C&WC Railway here for mapy years, and served as postmaster here for sev eral years. Surviving are five sons, Dr. John M., Fleming of Spartanburg; Har old Fleming of Laurens; Courtney Fleming of Lanford; Frsmk Flem ing of Pickerts; and Dr. Sam Flem ing of Spartanburg; one sister, Mrs. Janie F^atterson of Lanford; and nine grandchildren. Funrt-al serveies were conducted at Lanford Baptist Church at 11:00 a. m.; Wednesday, by the Rev. W. W. 'Willingham. Burial was in the church cemetery. 103 E. Pitts St. EXPERT WATCH REPAIRING Frankdma Pottery Watches Kimberly Diamonds Towle, Reed and Barton Phone 1699 I-arge Rack Of I NECKWEAR . . Values to $2.50 —. ‘ • ^ \ . January Clearance Super Savings From Head to Foot! One Group , 'X MEN’S HATS. . 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Select fine vellum, textured or sheer paper ... all with — hand deckled edges. $1.00 and up. Chronicle Publishing Co. STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF THE Federal Savings & Loan Association < Clinton, South Carolina At the Close of Business December 31,1957 Assets Firs! Mortgage Loans $3,562,929.31 Loans on Savings Accounts 17,513.53 Investments and Securities 458,475.16 Cash on Hand anddn Banks 116,637.33 Office Building & Equipment— ' Less Depr. 35352.82 $4,190,908.15 LIABILITIES Savings Accounts $3,683,605.70 Advances From Federal Home Loan Bank 75,000.00 Loans In Process Specific Reserves General Reserves $374,046.20 Surplus 50,556.12 6,700.13 1,000.00 t 424,602.32 $4,190,908.15 Member Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation * $123,342.03 Paid in Dividends » -y t..,. to Our Investors in 1957 CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE 3'/H V Home Loans-Invest With Safety, Profit and Convenience-Insured Savings .OFFICERS B. Hubert Boyd, President J, P. Prather, Vice-President J. Sloan Todd, Secretary-Treasnrer Mrs. Henry Htmter, Asst. Sec.-Treas. ederal Savings lAND LOAN ASSOCIATION J. P. Prather J. B. Hart) T. D. Copeland J. W. Finney, 8r DIRECTORS 1. H. McGee T. Heath Copeland B. Hnbert Boyd J. Sloan Todd A CLINTON INSTITUTION SERVING CLINTON PEOPLE FOR 48 YEARS sis