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CLINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 14. 1958
A Proposed Hospital for This Area
of the County
Alxmi the best news, we’ve heard lately
broke Monday nipht at a meeting of a num
ber of men interested in the project when a
proposal for the establishment of a modern
hospital to serve the lower part of the county
was presented.
We don't know of anything that this pop
ulous and growing area needs more.
And that is not to disparage the service
now being rendered by the two private hos
pitals in Clinton and the Joanna Memorial
Hospital. They are giving service as best
they can. Their owners would be the first to
state that that is not good enough. They
would agree that they cannot hope to keep
pace with modern medical practices and give
the kind of service to which residents of the
area are entitled by keeping the present small
units in operation. They have agreed to close
their hospitals in favor of a new modem
plant.
A group of men representing physicians
of the community, tax-paying property own
ers. business elements, city officials—all in
terested in the welfare of this section—ex
pressed themselves as being in favor of the
project and willing to assume the responsi-
bility for formation of a hospital district
and building and operation of an up-to-date
and adequate hospital plant.
levy of seven mills would be required to fi
nance the project to cost $1,200,000, with
$500,000 of that sum coming from fed
eral funds. The balane of $700,000 would
come from a sale of bonds at an estimated
rate of 3 3-4 per cent, requiring from $37,500
to $41,000 annually to retire the debt in 30
years.
The seven mills tax levy would require an
annual payment of about $3.00 by the aver
age owner of a small home.
You won’t find a better bargain anywhere.
Plans are just now in the formative stage,
and we earnestly hope they can be success
fully terminated.
Jack Mabley of the Chicago Daily News
looks at current female fashions; “I think
the fashion operators in Paris and Italy are
playing an enormous joke on women. They
have deliberately set out to design the most
unflattering, ungraceful, bulky and idiotical
ly draped dresses they can dream up.” The
sack dresses, he adds, “are fine for expectant
mothers and shoplifters,” but no one else.
Babson Discusses
Best Summer “Buys”
The meeting, held at a local hotel, was at
tended by responsible men who projected the
movement and. if it is the wish of the resi
dents of the area as expressed in a referen
dum, will earn* it through to a successful
conclusion.
The proposal is to form a hospital district
along the boundaries of the present Laurens
County School District 56, which includes
Clinton. Joanna. Lydia Mills. Mountville and
Cross Hill.
The convenience—even the necessity—of i
having modern and adequate hospital facili- {
ties available close at hand cannot be over
estimated. It could mean the difference be
tween life and death in some cases even
many cases.
This area is amply able to build and sup
port such a plant as proposed and reported
in the news columns of this paper today. With
a property valuation of $6,000,000, a tax
An Ad In the Paper
One of the most valuable tools that has
Babson Park, Mass . August 14—Most people think
the best place to invest money is the stock market
So they give their money to some broker, who sends
R to New York City. This may or may not be a good
place to get a quick profit, but the best investment
for the loag pull may be waterfront land in your own
neighborhood
OITBOARD MOTOR GLAMOUR
Speaking of the stock market I am greatly im
pressed by the relative action of railroad stocks and
automobile stocks vs outboard motor stocks For m-
stance the first mortgage 4', SI.000 bonds on the New
■ York. New Haven, and Hartford
Ratlruad can be bought for about
1450 00. or at a discount of over
50*>. General Motors sells today
just under the 45 of a year ago.
while Chrysler setts near 50 today
compared with 7* a year ago The
Ford Motor Company has just re
duced the dividend on Ks stock
While declines have taken place
HsomJF^jOhsm to the stocks of compaatrs whose
product operates on wheels a big advance has taken
place in motor boat stocks Outboard Manar. ad ,
justed for stock splits has increased to a pnee of 25
from an equivalent of ? l « in 1003. a gam of loth
Thu is because people are Ursd of using automobiles
for pleasure driving, owing to crowded highways, lack
of parking space, and increasing accidents Families
get more peace and quiet m a small outboard la
been used for combatting the current rece*-
sion is the advertising power of home town
and neighborhood newspapers. At the end of
every production line stands the consumer
and national prosperity it but the sum total
of local prosperity. In thousands of commu
nities all across the country* because of edi
torial comment encouraging people to buy in
their own neighborhood or in their own home
town and as a result of newspaper advertis
ing programs undertaken by local merchants,
local retail sales, the pulse beat of national
prosperity, have been much encouraged.
An ad in the local paper has always been
the mark of a aucessful business and the ex
perience of recent months has only served to
prove the point. ^ .
All Set For Inflation
Barring another shooting war, the great-
test problem this country must deal with is
further depreciation of the dollar.
The stage is all set for a massive new
round of inflation. This year’s federal defi
cit is expected to reach $10 billion. It may be
much more.
Inflation can be compared to war in its
destructive capabilities. It wipes out sav
ings. If it goes far enough it can lead to in
ternal disorder on a vast scale and even to
revolution. It can produce dictatorship and
the death of all the freedoms. It can bring
on economic collapse — which is what our
communist enemies are hoping for.
Labor and business are asked to show re
straint in the important matters of wages
and prices. This is certainly needed. But
the foremost need of all can only be supplied
by government. Unbridled government spend
ing. accompanied as it must be by huge defi
cits, is the most powerful of all inflationary
forces. It bears the principal responsibility
for the fact that the dollar's value has been
fthort. the automobile u becoming largely a button*
arenaory the glamour at driving w fading away.
Thu la a fundamental reason for the decline in auto
mobile tain
WATERFRONT REAL ESTATE
There will always be intenor land to buy At roads
are extended, more land constantly comet to the mar
ket Interior land is like money, it drprrcitan just
as the dollar unless backed by increased population
and industry • But, there is only so much waterfront
property There never was. and never will be. any
more Thu is another reason why waterfront land,
wherever located, is probably the best investment
for the long pull for both residences and industry.
Cities and towns bordering oceans, lakes, or rivers
will continue to grow and their waterfront properly
will continue to increase in value
As an illustration ot the increasing popularity of
water, note the advertisement for backyard swim
ming pools which can be bought at department
stores' Children at a very early age are being educat
ed to love the water. This popularity has so spread
that the Babson Institute has built probably the best
swimming pool in New England, costing over $200,-
000.00, to satisfy the demand for water sports and
to make sure that every student who graduates can
swim like a fish. _
SKIING AND OTHER SPORTS
When I was a boy the only water sports were
rowing a boat or swimming; but today these are “old
hat.” The outboard motor has taken the place of row
ing; while skiing and underwater exploring have ta
ken the place of playing on the beach or in the “old
swimming hole,’’ wipi which most'readers are ac
quainted. This underwater exploring is a most fas
cinating sport which just recently started. Those
engaged in it put long plastic fins on their feet, and
either a can of oxygen on their back or a tube lead
ing up to the surface. They discover marvelous new
kinds of fish, crabs, and curiosities of all kinds, in
cluding the wrecks of vessels, some of which may
contain pirate gold or silver.
The' way to make money is to invest in corpora
tions in some new industry of permanent value. When
1 was a boy, it was the railroads that held the gla
mour; later, water power and the development of
electricity. Recently it has been the automobile; but
the future will deal with the discovery of unknown
wealth under lakes, riven, and oceans Thus far this
has been done by haphazard dredging, but in the fu
ture it wftt be done by underwater diving.
Thmtfore, if you are buying property today, try
to get some waterfront If you own waterfront, da
"not nfi it IM make money in any investment, buy
Kiwanians To Hear
Bank Agriculturist
A talk on agriculture by an offi
cial of the Wachovia Bank and
Trust Company of Charlotte, N. C.,
will be the feature of the first Au
gust meeting of the Clinton Kiwanis
Club this Thursday night.
Speaking to the group at tnis time
will be Henry M Simons, Jr., man-
HENRY M. SIMONS, JR.
ager of the company’s agricultural
department. The meeting is sche
duled for 7:00 p m. at the Hotel
Mary Musgrove.
Simons, a native of Georgia, who
holds degrees in agriculutre from
both Clemson and the University of
Maryland, was southwestern re
gional editor of Farm Journal mag
azine before joining Wachovia. In
his present position he works close
ly with community bankers, county
agents, extension specialists and
other agrciultural interests in the
two Carolinas to increase farm in
come and improve rural living.
He also currently serves as chair
man of the Chralotte Chamber of
Commerce agricultural committee
and as director of the Piedmont
Carolina Development Association
Domestic Relations
Court Term Cancelled
A week's term of the Laurens
County Civil and Domestic Rela
turns Court, schtxlulcd to begin
August 25. has been catted off. it
was announced this week
At a meeting of the county Bar
Association early this month R was
determined that not enough caaes
would be on the docket to warrant 1
the session, it was said.
Robert L. Gray. Laurens attar
ney, is judge of the court
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SATURDAY NIGHT—
CASH NIGHT
Mrs. Smith To Direct
Episcopal Nursery School
All Saints Nursery School, a dsy
school sponsored by the Women’s
Auxiliary of All Saints Episcopal
Church, will open Tuesday, Sept-
2, in the newly constructed parish
house adjacent to the church on!
Calvert Avenue, with Mrs. Milford!
Smith as director.
'Hie play school, which was op
erated last year for the first time
under the sponsorship of the
church, is for children between the
ages of two and four years. It is to |
be open between the hours of 8:30;
and 11:30, Monday through Friday,
during the regular sessions of the
public schools. Registration blanks
may be obtained from Mrs. Smith ■
or from members of the Auxiliary.
An advisory board from t h e
church appointed to assist Mrs.
Smith in the administration of the
school includes Mrs. Giles Lewis,
Items Stolen From
Several Churches
Several churches in the county;
have been victims of thieves during
the past several weeks, it was re
ported this week by the office of
Sheriff C. W. Wier in Laurens.
Among the churches and the j
items taken were: Shady Grove
Church, bell; Wateree Church, two
gas lamps and a 350-lb. bell; Lang
ston Church. Bell; and Bethany
Church, window fan and other ar
ticles.
HOME FROM HOSPITAL
Friends of J. Henderson Pitts will
be glad to know he is convalescing
following an operation illness last
week at the General hospital in
Greenvile and returned to his home
here yesterday.
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donald. and R. Michael Turner.
Mrs. Smith, who for the past few
years has conducted private classes
in art. served as director of the
city-sponsored recreation - project
held during the summer at the
scout grounds. She taught art in the
elementary grades of the public
schools at Blacksburg before com
ing to Clinton.
Plans are underway for the mov
ing of all nursery school equipment
and supplies from the rectory to
the new parish house this week
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