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THE CLINTON CHRONICI
Thursday. October 23, 1958
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
A SPECIAL PROMOTIONAL
SALE
Of
CAROLE KING
HENRY ROSENFELD
DRESSES
AT
PRICE
$25.00
$22.50
$ 19.95
$ 17.95
$ 14.95
$ 12.95
$ 10.95
$ 8.95
DRESSES - SPECIAL
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SIZES 5 to 17-8 to 20
$12.50
$ 11.25
$10.00
$ 9.00
$ 7.50
$ 6.50
$ 5.50
$ 4.50
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