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Pap* Four THE CLINTON CHRONICI Thursday. October 23, 1958 dlfr (Elintim (Elirnnirlr KsUbUshrd 19M JbIt 4. 1M9 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — Jon* 13. ISM PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S March 3. 1879 ..One Year $300, Six Months $2 00 , under Act of Conuresa The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—\h* publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestion* 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 ’■esponsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents Member: South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association National Advertising RepresentaUve: AMERICAN PRESS ASSCXILATION New York, Cnicago, Detroit Philadelphia Church Women to Gather At Ware Shoals Tuesday ♦' ■ .. . " ‘ ^ im CLINTON. S. C.. THI RSDAY, (KTOBKR 23, Citizens of opjxntunity on More On The Hospital Question Laurens County will have the November 4 to vote their wishes in'regard to hospital facilities in the county. First, citizens of the lower section of the county will express themselves on whether or not they wish to build their own hospital and assume the necessary tax millage in order to do so. Next, all citizens of the county will deter mine by their votes if they wish to continue the operation of the present Laurens County Hospital with its planned program of enlarge ment and improvement or to build an entirely new county hospital at a more central point. We think this is an extremely important matter that calls for an expression from as large a segment of the people as is possible. We strongly urge citizens generally to avail themselves of the opportunity. The county is now served by the Laurens County Hospital in Laurens, two small pri vate hospitals in Clinton, and one small hos pital in Joanna. A movement is underway in the lower sec tion of the county, including that area which comprises School District 56 (Clinton, Jo anna, (Yoss Hill, Mountville. and adjoining rural sections) to build a $1,000,000 hospital plant to serve this section, with $450,000 in federal funds and proceeds of a $550,000 bond issue. The bond issue would be amortiz ed by a six or seven mill tax levy over a pe riod of 30 years. A new hospital district would be created which would relinquish all ilaims to the property and assets of the pres ent Laurens County Hospital. We feel that if. in the referendum, voters in this proposed new district express them selves as desiring to build a hospital and are willing to assume the added tax millage, they should be allowed to do so. Present hospitals in the area are giving service as best they can, but a new, larger, more modem and better equipped plant is definitely neetled to give residents of the area better medical and hospital facilities. And in <>ur opinion it would serve patients infinitely better if such a facility were local- ed close at hand near most of the people whom it would serve. And if the residents of this area vote for a h.»spital and build it, that, of course would eliminate the necessity for an entirely new county hospital, which some have suggested. The present Laurens County Hospital is basically a good building. With some addi tions. renovation of the present building, and new equipment, it could be made into a first- ilaa* hospital, meeting any standards that may be required. It could then serve the up- l*er area of the county in an acceptable way. We think there should be no thought of ai»andoning the present Laurens County Hospital to build an entirely new plant for the county. For a relatively small tax bur den. say three or four mills, the people of the Laurens area can have a hospital of which they can be proud, being of sufficient size and equipped to render excellent service. The two school districts of the county are working well, and we see no reason why the two pn»posed hospital districts could not be operated just as efficiently. You Can’t Trust To Luck During the first 28 weeks of 1968 there were 791 cases of polio reported in the whole United States. In pre-Salk years (1950-54) the average for the first 28 weeks was 5.379 cases. This year’s figure shows a drop of some 85 per cent. Effective as it is, the Salk vaccine cannot entirely account for this drop. Only about 60 per cent of the population most susceptible to polio has had vaccine. Scientists have two theories about this de crease. Some think the Salk vaccine may have created “herd immunity.” Herd immu nity is a condition that occurs when a suffi cient proportion of a population is vaccinat ed against a given disease. The “chain of in fection” is then broken, and even |he unvacci nated get protection. Other scientists say that Salk vaccine does not create herd immunity, since a vaccinated person may carry’ polk) virus and infect un vaccinated people. They attribute the polio drop of the last three year* partly to Salk vaccine, partly to luck. They point out that in certain periods of the past, polio went through cycles of km rate of attack. because there is no scientific evidence that Salk vaccine does not create herd immunity, <formerly the Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis), which spearheads the polio fight, warns that] we cannot trust to luck. What we can trust is the Salk vaccine. The safest course, then, for you and your family is to get vaccinated now, Remember, there is no cure once polio has struck. / 1' > • - • , DR. JANIE McGAUGHEY DR. D. J. GUMMING The Bible-The Word Of Life The 18th annual National Bible Week is be ing observed this week, October 20-26. Once again it is sponsored by an all-faiths group, the Laymen’s National Committee, Inc. This year’s theme is: “The Bible—The Word Of Life.” It is taken from the 2nd Chapter, L6th Verse of the Philippians. National Bible Week is dedicated by men and women of all faiths as a tribute to the world’s greatest Book. By a daily reading and study of the Bible we may hope to arouse a newer and greater spiritual force— a force that is desperately needed in today’s troubled world. Those who know and follow the precepts of the Bible will always fight the effort to substitute the pagan state as arbiter of what is right and wrong in our lives. According to the New York Times, through June of this year the social security system had collected $57 billion in payroll taxes and paid out $37 billion in benefits. The system originally covered 26 million people; now it covers 74 million. Foreign car sales have increased 14 times in a few years. They accounted for onf half of one per cent of new car registrations in Tho 59th annual meeting of the Women of the Church of South Car- I olina Presbytery. Synod of South Carolina, will be held October 28 at the First Presbyterian Church, Ware Shoals. The Presbytery comprises Laurens. Greenwood, Abbeville and Newberry Counties. There are 39 Presbyterian Churches in the area and 2.506 women enrolled in the lo cal groups. “World-Wide Witness” is the theme of the meeting, and two out standing speakers have been secured for the session. Dr. Janie W. Mc- Gaughey. graduate of Agnes Scott College at Decatur, Ga., and Bibli cal Seminary, New York, former executive secretary of the Board of Woman’s Work, and professor of Bi ble at Assembly's Training School, Richmond, and at Mary Baldwin College at Staunton, Va., will pre sent the Bible study for the year 1959. The message of the,day will be brought by Dr. D. J. Cumming. secretary of the Educational De partment, Board of World Missions. Nashville, Tenn. He was graduated from Louisville Seminary and de ceived degrees from Columbia Uni versity and his doctor of divinity from Kentucky Wesleyan. He has .served in mission fields in Brazil. Africa and Portugal, and was prin cipal of Boys Academy in Korea for 18 years. Before going to Nash ville he taught Bible at Agnes Scott College for several years. Mrs. J. M. Thompson, Olanta. newly-elected Synodical president, will be in attendance at the meeting and greetings will be brought from Columbia Seminary, Presbyterian College. Queens College, and Pres byterian Home of South Carolina by Mrs. W. T. Moorman, Mrs. Ben Hay Ham met, Mrs. Robert M. Vance, and Rev. Charles Robert Tapp, respectively. The session will be concluded with Sacraments of the Lord’s Supper with Rev. John N. Ashenfelder, of the Ware Shoals Church, in charge. 50-Bed Hospital (Continued from page one) struction and operation of same? Yes. No.” “Do you favor continuing our present program of operation of the Laurens County Hospital on a coun ty-wide basis? Yes. No.” “Do you favor a separate hospital Clinton Girls Named 1954-and now account for more than 7 Perl Members Qf T our j ng Choir At Winthrop Babson Discusses Dictators Saint Helena. Oct 23—I was taught that Napoleon Bonaparte was a very wonderful man When attending the Gloucester < Mass ) High School many years ago. I won a prize for an essay on Napoleon' When I am in Paris the cabbies always point out to me variou- landmarks associated with Napoleon But recently 1 have been studying the life of Napoleon as recorded by modem historians My present conclusion is that Napoleon was really a temfle “gangster.'' or more po litely. an adventurer and wrecker. WHO WAS N A POE LEON* Napoleon was bom in 17M on the Island of Corsica He had various brothers and sisters He was bad tem pered. selfish, and overbearing, but had a good mother Through The French government of Corsica he secured admission to a mill tar. school in Pari* from which he grad uated in 1785 He became an unim portant officer in the artillery. He apparently secured no recognition until an uprising of the liberals in 1 Paris when he took a courageous stand and helped save the Directory * ■•>••• which then com rolled France He married a charming woman Josephine, who helped him tn his ambitions At the age of 27 Napoleon was sent to Italy, which France was then attempting to make a colony Na poleon was successful in this campaign but treated the Italians with barbarous severity Having become master of Italy, he started forth to conquer Egypt so as to become a “second Caesar ” He. however, was stopped by the British under Nelson. Napoleon was therefore cut off from France But by murdering his prisoners and forsaking his own army he got back to Paris. France, at the time, was beset by financial speculation which—fortunately for Napoleon—he had kept free of. He immediately went into politics, prom ising everything to s poor and unemployed nation Napoleon was appointed “First Consul” and put the people to sleep with a good dose of inflation. This story should be read by every American as a warning as to what may happen in the U. S. A. Learning that he could not give the people oi France all his political party had promised, he deter mined to become Emporor of Europe. His politics make me shudder because of the similarity with what we are seeing today. Napoleon assumed a form of re ligion and backed the organized churches. He cleaned up the slums, encouraging the building of homes, and pretended to be much interested in education—but ne* in elementary education. He had the govemmnt underwrite only scientific education—to train men along lines which would be helpful in war. He was one of the first in the modern world .to subsidize shipbuild ing, support farm prices, and to do other things our Congress is doing today. All of this was accompanied by inflation of the currency. NAPOLEON'S DOWNFALL Realizing that this artificial legislation was not go- ing to bring prosperity back to France, Napoleon gave up being a reformer and again turned to war. He be gan to place his brothers and other relatives in im portant foreign posts. When Napoleon was crowned Emporor, he thought that his satellites were all tied to him through agreement sand that Russia was his only enemy. He thereupon got together a great army of some 600,000 men and started for Russia, whose Tsar was Alexander. He told his people that if Alex ander could be eliminated the world would have peace and prosperity “forever.” But Alexander was giving the Russian people a similar story, vig: “Give us world dominion, and there #iH be no more war and no more unemployment '’ Napoleon was successful in conquering Poland and other “satellites." but the Margaret Bolick and Shirley Dun away. Clinton students at Winthrop College. Rock Hill, have been se lected to be members of the col lege's touring choir. The choir makes an annual tour of South Carolina in the spring in addition to giving concerts at the college Miss Katherine A director. tional levy of at least seven mills on said district for the construction of the hospital and any additional levy on said district which may be necessary for operation and mainte nance of same? Yes. No.” In showing the need for a new and modern hospital in the District 56 area, the Norman study revealed that during 1957 the three hospitals in Clinton and Joanna cared for 2,- 319 patients, while the Laurens County Hospital had 1,831 patients During the past five years (1963- 1957) the three hospitals in Clinton and Joanna had 11,174 patients, while the Laurens County Hospital had 9.063 “Further evidence,” the report stated, “that there is very little utilization of the Laurens County Hospital facility by residents of School District 56 is reflected in a tabulation of hospital insurance claims processed at three industrial plants which total 1552 claims with Pfohl is only S7 having been hospitalized at the Laurens County Hospital. Of the 57 using the Laurens County Hos pital, 3- of then were citizens of the town of Laurens.” Of a total county population of 48.500, District 56'has 42.3 per cent, while the assessed property valua tion is approximately $7,000,000 for District 55. and $6,000,000 for Dis trict 56 The report stated further that the hospital, if built, “should be leased for a minimum of 50 years to a non profit corporation for operation This would allow the hospital to par ticipate in certain foundation grants that would not be available to the hospital if it continued as a gov ernmental owned and operated in stitution. “The board of trustees operating this hospital should be carefully se lected outstanding citizens, whose terms of office should be a mini mum of five years. The corporation should be set up so that the board of trustees can become self-perpet uating; however, it is recommended that no member of the board of trustees succeed himself in office.” If the new hospital is built, it was pointed out, the proposed new dist trict would relinquish all claims to assets of the present Laurens Coun ty Hospital. At a meeting in Clinton Monday afternoon of about 25 representa tive citizens of the area, to which Mr. Norman submitted his report, it was pointed out in connection with one of the questions to be submitted in the referendum that if a new county hospital were built at a more central location, housing for per sonnel would be required at the new site. Too, it was brought out that no estimate was given on the cost of such a new plant, so the voters do not know what the facility would require in new taxation. Mr. Norman said that he had been connected with large and small hospitals and that a 50 or 60 bed hospital was an ideal size for economical operation. He stated that little or nothing would be gained from that standpoint by having a 100 or 150 bed hospital We are happy to join in the salute to our Clinton area industrial firms and to add our word of appreciation to officials and employees for what they mean to the economic life of the area. What a chatica to r^Sace ALL your old mattresses! smooth-top Sales Training School Completed Yesterday A three-day sales training school terminated yesterday for salesmen and sales ladies of Waddell and Reed, Ink., with assets in excess of $500,000,000. Twenty-six sales men from North Carolina, South for School District 56 and the addiA Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia at tended. Hie school was headed by the vice-president and regional man agers from Kansas City, Mo., At lanta, Ga., and Coral Gables, Fla. The next training school will be held in Tampa later this year, it was an nounced by Wolfe and Addison. The school was held at the Mary Musgrove Hotel. IF YOU DO NT READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DO NT GET THE NEWS •Trod-irc AdvartUad In Hm Jnanwl of lh« American Madicat Aitociallon LIMITED TIME ONLY Compare Serta-Lux with other POSTURE-TYPE mat tresses priced much higher. No tufts, no buttons. It’s smooth, top and bottom ... the modern way to sleep ... has extra levelizing layer for healthful spine-level rest. Come in today! Bo« Spriitl Sam* Im Met $1.00 Weekly N. Broad St. Phone 257 SALUTE TO OUR INDUSTRY APPRECIATION DAYS Outstanding Values THIS WEEK ONLY! All .Werchandiwe From Our Regular Stock! 41 SPORT COATS ...... $25.00 • AD Sizes—Regular $29.95 Values * « ONE LOT ALL WOOL SLACKS $9.95 Regular Values to $11.95 BOYS’ ALL WOOL SUITS ....... $25.00 Sizes 12 to 20—Regular $29.95 Values ALL BOYS’ JACKETS & 3-4 COATS 10% Reduction Sizes 12 to 20 x I * f ONE LOT POLISHED COTTON SLACKS . $4.95 Top Quality—Values to $7.95 ONE LOT SPORT SOCKS 2 for S1.00 Regular 65e and $1.00 Values Adair's Men's Shop “Fsr the WWC We happily join in Clinton's salute to industrial plants in this area during Industry Appreciation Days. To plant officials and employees our very best wishes. 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