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Pa*f Four THE CUiNTUN CHKOMCI.E Tmi riuUy. April 17, 1958 iJIjp (Elintmi (£brunirlp F.«Ubllahr4 Jaly «. IKRfi — WIM.IAM WILSON BARKIS — June IS. 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THK CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY SuOtmpUon Rate (Payable In AdramTi Out Yt\tr v ^ i ‘. SIR llontha $2 00 •■entered a> Seeand Clas.» Mail Matter at the Poa: Offit'e at Clinton, S C., under Act of Conureaa Mlrek 3. 1879 ' The Chronicle seek* the cooperation of it* auhscriber* and readers-the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions andJundly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest vfhen they ire not of a defamatory nature Anonymous communications will not be noticed This paper is not ’■esponsible for the viVwa or opinions of its correspondents Member: South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION — New York, Cnicago, Detroit Philadelphia CMVtON. S. C.. THURSDAY. APRIL 17. 1958 A Threat To Wildlife And Fish A program that is a definite threat to wildlife and fish in South Carolina is in, the making by the U. S. Department of Agricul ture, according to Director A. A. Richardson ,of the S. C. Wildlife Resources Department. Richardson says he is alarmed over the threat to wildlife and fish populations through the use of highly toxic chemicals in the planned fire ant eradication program in the Southeast. The Department of Agriculture. Richard son said, plans to apply two pounds of diel- drin per acre on infested areas in Alabama. Florida. Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi, while Arkansas. North Carolina and South Carolina, and possibly Tennessee, may also become involved. Twenty million acres will be treated under present plans, much of the super poison being sprayed from airplanes, although there will also be ground treatment. Laboratory work and limited field obser vations, according to Richardson, have shown that dieldrin. which is 20 times or more as toxic to animal and fish life as DDT, is to tally destructive to birds, fish and other ani mal life in quantities well below the appli cation rate for fire ant control. Dieldrin washed into streams and farm ponds by rainfall can bring devastating kills of fishes and aquatic organisms, and diel drin remains toxic for years after dispersal. In addition to the direct threat to fish and wildlife. Director Richardson pointed out that the poison might destroy many of our song birds. which do much to control insect pests. He also cited the treatment of 2,000 acres of Florida marshland with one pound of diel drin per acre to kill sandfly larvae, this re sulting in the complete kill of all fish and crabs in the area. Scrap The Delusion Authoritative sources report that govern ment spending, fedelhkl, state and local, will rise this year from the present annual rate of some 8120 hi^^on and that this will be a powerful “prop” which we can count on to hold up our economy. But where will this money come from? Little of it will be “new money.” created through deficit financing, which would certainly la* stimulating but would also further reduce the value of the dollar and encourage individual and nation al irresponsibility. Instead, this money will l>e taken from people by taxation in thous ands of guises, and when spent by govern ment will certainly be no “prop.” Had it been left with those who earned it, it would, for the most part, have !>een spent anyway and certainly with far more satisfaction ami ef fect. The necessary expenses of government are very high. The essential costs of this coun try's survival and position of world leader ship are great. But it’s time to scrap the de lusion that growing big government with its ever swelling spending and taxation can “prop” up anything. It can but lead to dicta torship and enslavement. Who Is Double-Crossed? Under the law, government loans to the Rural Electrification Administration are made at a 2 per cent interest rate. That is substantially less than the rate the govern* ment now pays on its own borrowings. The taxpayers make up the difference, which is simply one form of subsidy to REA. The administration has proposed to raise the interest rate on these REA loans. And that has brought blast after blast from REA 'spokesmen. One said the administration had ‘ double-crossed” the REA program, and that proposed legislation would leave the co-ops j “hopeless and helpless.” This amounts to an admission that REA can’t stand on its own feet, anti'that if it is forced to pay anything resembling a reason able rate of interest on the money borrowed from the government it will be in grave trou- ble. ' That to orte side, another important mat ter is involved. The rural electrification move ment is almost 1<K> per cent complete. Very few farmers who want power can’t get pow er. So REA has grandiose schemes for un dertaking big power projects that would serve industry and other non-agricultural , users w here power is now available. This | would permit its expansion on an almost un- 1 limited scale. But it doesn’t want to pay its ' own way —it asks already overburdened tax- | payers to carry part of the coat. The Community Life Recorder In honor of National Newspaper Week, the Putnam County Courier of Carmel, New York, sponsored an essay contest among high school students. The assigned topic was “What My Hometown Newspaper Means To Me." A distinguished panellof judges chose the winner. She is Estelle Duhrels, of Carmel, and her essay was devoted to what the home- town paper means to an average, busy teen ager. Miss Duhrels listed many features of the paper that help her keep contact with the community — vital statistics, social and church notes, news of sports and entertain ment. the comings and goings of people, and so on. Then at the end she said: ‘‘The home town newspaper is an essential part of the American Way of Life.’ It stresses the im portance of the everyday citizen in the mod ern world, and I am one of them!” That is an interesting and accurate point of view. The hometown paper is a unique institution. Nothing duplicates it, nothing can take its place. It provides a running his tory of its community, and of the people whose lives influence the community in one fashion or another. It is the backbone of community life and progress. Readers of a California newspaper were asked if they believed the paper should print the names of juveniles who commit serious offenses. The result: 58 per cent voted “yes,” 27 per cent voted "no,” and 15 per cent gave no opinion. <iwncKWMiiximMwiiMwnxicxwiMnuMMexx:aa«>a SENSING THE NEWS B r THURMAN SENSING Ex*cuiiT« Vie* PrMidaal Southern State* Industrial Council Kx«npnnHciaPMoat>ootwwiniiiawiotx»ooc , ALL THLS AND A TAX CUT. TOO? Original)) set off by the Russian sputnik, and then spurred on by the domestic rreesuon. there ha* been some feverish activity going on in the Congrms during the first three months of the current session Now that Congress has recessed for ten day*, it would be s good time to take stock of what has happened and what the future portends. In the first place. Congress approved another tem porary increase of IS billion m the debt ceiling, to a total of S2M0 billion Then an emergency $1 9 billion housing measure wa> passed which, strangely enough, while approving, the President condemned in words stronger than are usually used in vetoing a measure For one thing, he said, it “means that a wholly unnecessary burden of| up to SI billion will be added at this time to the al ready heavy load on the taxpayers of this country *’ But the pressure was so great from all directions that “something be done that he did not have the political courage to \eto it. Nothing else than politics would 1 have caused him to approve a measure which he. 1 himself, labeled as “a wholiy unnecessary burden." 1 Then new defense spending authority of $1 26 billion for missies was approved Who is to say that Dus' amount could not have been taken from other phases: of our $40 billion defense budget w ithout harming our defense effort in any way - * But, no. it had to be new money .Also. Congress passed a $1 6 biUtop authorization | for new Rivers and Harbors projects—the traditional • pork barrel " item of the budget It remains to be seen whether the President has the courage to veto this measure, as he did have the courage to veto a less fla 0 rantly extravagant Rivers and Harbors mea sure after Congress adjourned in 1956 Now. on top of all this. Congress speeded to the White House just be*fore its Easter recess another emergency" $l 8 billion bill to accelerate highway construction The passage of this measure illustrates the completely inconsistent attitude of Congress, under "stress and strain,"’ toward certain fundamental prin ciples, principle's which the Congress itself recognized when it passed the big Interstate Highway System measure in 1956 When it was passed, Congress very sensibly placed the measure on a pay-as-you-go ba sis, and levied certain additional taxes to pay for it. Now, Congress has thrown ‘‘pay as you go” out the w nidow, w hich makes the 1 whole basis on which the original measure was passed meaningless. Just be cause- the additional taxes were not paying for the highways as fast as they liked and just because this was another “something'’ they could grab hold of to offest the recession, the Congress appropriated this additional money from the General Treasury—in oth er words, borrowed money. These are just some of the measures that the Con gress has already passed, and do not by any means include all the measures that are being proposed in Congress to meet the recession It would probably do no good at this late date, of course, to point out that in their great haste to use government intervention, as well as the desire of each party to gam “political credit.” the Congress has been placing the cart before the horse. In the 1953-54 re cession, taxes were reduced, and, as a result of the impetus thereby given to expansion and investment, government total income was higher and total em ployment was higher than before taxes were cut. TTiere is no reason to believe that tax cutting should not have been the first step taken in the current re- cesion—or to believe that we would not have had the same results. % It may be that after the Easter recess, Congress will go back and cut taxes anyway, but it would be folly to believe that the resultant improvement to our economy would be sufficient to pay for all these pure spending ‘ projects, plus others that may be added, m addition to the necessary oprraboas of gov ernmeot To take cart sf the latter is all that be asked af any tax ROIC Officer At College Promoted The promotion of Hal Clay Ben nett from first lieutenant to cap tain was announced today by the Presbyterian College military de partment. ‘ Capt Bonnet thas served as as sistant pfofessor of military science and tactics at PC since lat Septem ber and has another year remain ing on his tour of duty here. He came to his present assign ment after attending the Advanced Officers' Artillery Course at the Fort Sill Artilery School Doirymen Go To Ohio To Purchose Cottle Ed Copeland and R L Wickham of (Minton, and P Eugene Brown of the Bailey community, dairy men. left Monday for West Chester, Ohio, to purchase Holstein cows at a dispersal sale. They were ac companied by M L Outz, assist ant county agent. The sale was held Wednesday, and the men are expected to return today. Selected For Instructor At University Of N. C. Of interest to Clinton friends is the announcement by the Univer sity of North Carolina that Mrs. Wade Mobley of Red Springs, N C., has been selected for instate- torship at the university for the ac ademic year 1958-59 She has the choice of nine or twelve semester hours of teaching and will be per mitted nine semester hours of graduate work per semester. Mrs Mobley. th«. daughter of Dr. and Mrs. George C. Belling- rath, of this city, is head of the mathematics department at Flora McDonald College and plans to work on her PhD. degree, com muting three days a week and con tinuing her classroom wo$ at thd college the other three dfcys- IF YOU DO ITT READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DO NT GET THE NEWS Phen* 74 Revival Services At Calvary Baptist A series of revival services will be conducted at Calvary Baptist Church April 21-27. Services will begin each evening at 7:30 o’clock. The music will be under the direc tion of Mrs. Eva Land and the church choir Dr. James A. Howard will con duct the services. Dr. Howard is superintendent of Evangelism and Associations! Missions for the Baptist church in this state Rev. J. W. Spillers, pastor of the church, invites the public to at tend these services. Leoman Resigns (cpntinued from page one) Laurens County Democratic pri- # mary on June 10 (or in the suc ceeding second primary, if one is necessary), therefore, will face a five-year term of office, one year of Leaman's unexpired term and the four-year term to which he is nominated. Mr. Leaman's withdrawal as a candidate in the primary was ad dressed to R. L. Plaxico. county Democratic chairman, who has called a meeting of the county Democratic executive committee for Saturday morning to consider whether or not to open the books for the qualification of other can didates for the office of treasurer. Only one other candidate, George S. Adair, of Owings, had qualified for entrance in the primary Mr Lea men. a resident of Cross Hill, is completing 114 years as treasurer He was nominated in the 1946 pnmary to take office on July 1. 1947. However. U»e death of Treasurer T. Lane Monroe in January. 1947, created a vacancy and O L. Long, who was senator at that time, recommended to the governor that Lea man be appoint ed to serve out Mr. Monroe's term. He was renominated in the primaries in 1950 and 1954 MIDWAY ( LINTON, 8. (\ FRI. A SAT. APRIL IK-19 REVOLT AT FORT LARAMIE With JOHN DEHNKR GRECO PALMER In (’olor SI T N„ MON. & TI ES. APRIL 20-21 *22 JAILHOUSE ROCK With ELVIS PRESLEY JUDY TYLER Cinemascope WED. & THI R. APRIL 23-24 JOE BUTTERFLY With AUDIE MURPHY GEORGE NADER In ( olor Thursday Night Family Night 50c Per Car DRUGGISTS DISPENSE Doctor and Druggist, two indis pensable men in your community who collaborate on your health problems. In time of sickness they are the most important men in your life. Their skill assures you that you are in safe hands. Place your trust in Doctor and Druggist. When you are ill both team up to make you well. Bring your Doctor's pre scription to our Rexall drug store. YOUR DRUG STORE HOWARD’S PHARMACY PHONE 1*1 FOR VACATION FUN! 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