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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, Avgust 24, 1961
Omton-Spartanburg
Link To Open Soon
When the State Highway Department an
nounced during the past week that the
Clinton-Spartanburg link of Interstate High
way 26 would be opened to traffic sometime
this fall, it was good news to motorists of
this area and points in the lower part of the
state.
From Clinton access points, the highway
is already open to Columbia. Orangeburg,
and well on the way to Charleston. The
Charleston end will not be completed for
some time, maybe a year or two. But the
four-lane road is proving its worth to trav
elers from this section.
When the leg from Clinton to Spartan
burg is finished, one can travel almost from
one end of the state to the other on as mod
em a highway as is being built.
And the stretch from Spartanburg to
Asheville and beyond will bring the moun
tain areas that much nearer to l^aurens
County travelers and vacationists.
Clinton residents then will be fortunately
situated, whether their vacation plans call
for mountain or sea shore, or for just a day
or weekend sightseeing trip.
People Count Most
The tangible assets of a commercial en
terprise can be detailed in a standard lal-
ance sheet—the investment in plants and
other property, along with a listing of in
come and profit and such matters.
But there are vastly important intangible
assets which can’t be so simply covered.
Their name is people.
The president of a great American oil
company, which operates on the internation
al scale, recently visited a new refinery built
by a Norwegian affiliate. In writing alstut
it. he said: . . more important than the
' physical attributes of a new refinery $re the
things one is not able to see—the thousands
of hours of (-operative eliort of the experts
in design, engineering, purchasing, shipping,
construction, air and water pollution, and
administration which have contributed to
making it a leality. ... It is really the peo
ple who count, and the organization which
can bring all these talents together with a
real spirit of'cooperation and enthusiasm
has a great intangible force working for it.”
And that force, in the long run, exceeds
any other. An enterprise must have tangible
assets—money, land, tools. But it must nev
er be forgotten that the intangible assets—;
jieople—count most.
Good Tax Collecting Job
Early this week. Miss V’ivian Blakely, de
linquent tax collector for I^aurens County,
stated that her l>ooks show she has received
$6,873.38 from delinquent taxpayers during
the first 21 days of August.
Collections during July totaled $3:224.63,
which brings delinquent tax collections of
$9,098.01 since the beginning of the fiscal
year on July 1.
Prior to that, June collections were- $2,-
366.03. Added together, that makes a total
of $11,463.04 in delinquent tax collections
for June, July, and the first three weeks of
August.
However, it has to be said that these pay
ments of past due taxes were not made with
out prodding by the tax collector—and it is
hoped they will continue. Both the prodding
and the payments.
Delinquent taxpayers should know that
when they delay payments or seek to avoid
them, it will cost them additional sums in
penalties and costs. The total penalties and
added coats for the above three-month per
iod amounted to $1,388—all of which could
have been avoided.
Crazy Situation
Babfton Discusses
Children’s Inheritances
Either intentionally or unintentionally
Congrees is setting the stage for socialiHm
of American railroads. It is doing this by
failure to repeal or correct outdated laws of
its own making. When the rails face Itank-
ruptcy, the friends of socialization will start
their drive for government ownership of our
transportation system.
Congressional inquiries for years have
gone through the farce of "studying” the
railroad problems, which Congress largely
created. Then nothing of real importance is
done to correct injustices.
At the present time an inquiry launched
by President Eisenhower is to bring in rec
ommendations by the first of the year. But
if Congress follows its usual procedure of
playing politics with the rails, it will do
nothing. That is the pattern, instead of
granting the railroads relief so they can
solve their own problems.
Forces in and out of Congress that have
been promoting a socialized electric power
industry- will use a rairoad crisis to start
their drive for government ownership of the
rails.
Russia's railroads and power plants are
socialized and Khrushchev says our grand
children will live under socialism. Our law
makers seem to be giving him grounds for
that statement as they undermine our cap
italistic system with socialistic projects of
one kind or another.
What confidence will the rest of the so-
called free world have in us as it sees our
own lawmakers failing to support our free
enterprise, capitalist system. Russia backs
communism in no uncertain terms while we
Sell our private property system short right
here at home. It’s a crazy picture any way
you look at it. We don’t deserve the bless
ings we have when we fail to appreciate
their source—individual liberty and oppor
tunity free from socialistic restraints.
Babson Park, Mass., August 24—For thousands
of years scientists have been interested in al
chemy, or the turning of base metaJ like lead into
some precious metal like gold No one has thus
far succeeded in doing this. Attempts have also
been made to insulate gravity by mixing two or
more elements and finding an alloy which will
shield gravity. Here again this has failed ever
since the days of Sir Isaac Newton, some 280 years
ago Recently, various studies have been made of
inheritance, which I will discuss in this column
under the general subject of "polymers ”
WHAT HAS BEEN TAUGHT
It has been generally accepted that both the
father and the mother supply certain genes which
are attached together into
I "strings" known as chromo
somes. These genes carry special
talents down through the genera
tions As to how far back they
originate, or how long they have
i traveled through some mother's
body, we do not know
We further do not know just
what traits or talents will come
| through, or when. History, how-
w. B«kMa ever, does show that the greater
the number of children a mother
has, the greater her chance of having one or more
famous children. This helps to explain why our
nation has been built up by large families and
why so often an "only child" has not amounted
to much
THE FAMOUS IBM ADVERTISEMENT
The stock of International Business Machines
Company is one of the highest-aelling stocks on the
New York Stock Exchange. Furthermore the
company has a great reputation to uphold. Hence
its advertisement on the inside front cover of U.
'S NEWS AND WORLD REPORT for July 24,
1961. has created great interest It shows in a
spectacular way that what we are depends upon
the arrangement of the molecules which comprise
the «lls of which we are made.
Last spring an article on polymers appeared
in the MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW, written by
F W Rillmeyer, Jr., and A. S. Michaels. In ad-
dllioa, 1 have been much interested in the re
port of the Long Island Biological Association re
cently in session at Cold Spring Harbor, New
York, attended by the leading biologists of the U
S. and abroad, Including Dr. Monod, whom I en
deavored to meet when 1 was In Paris. Conclu
sions were that the basic unit of all living things
is the cell—consisting of an inner part, known as
the nucleus, surrounded by the cytoplasm, which
contains the sead of life that transmits heredity
from generation to generation It determines
whether the fertilized egg—a single cell—will be
come a mouse, an elephant, or a human being.
OUR MOST REMARKABLE CHEMICALS
In the creation of life the biologists thought the
enzymes were important factors In the polymers'
manifestations, but these reactions are too techni
cal to discuss here The two principal polymers
have very long names, hence they are commonly
referred to as the DN Agroup and the RNA group
Dr. Conrad and Professor Jacques Monod In
sisted that the genes appear comparable to a com
plex computing machine governing the operations
of an automatic factory. These regulate the out
put of the factory and the endurance of the fac
tory. They also stated that, accidents excepted,
we could live to be 100 or 120 years old; further
more. that many people have been buried as
dead when they might have been revived by these
wonderful chemicals.
Conclusions: This brings us back to the IBM
advertisement. 1 am neither a chemist nor a bi
ologist, but I do believe that the discovery of these
polymers is the most wonderful discovery of this
generation W'hen people really understand their
possibilities, both in peace and in war, we may
enjoy our gratest prosperity-with occasional
economic readjustments—during the next ten
years,
It also means that we should urge our children
and grandchildren to seek good mates and raise
large families History shows that good land and
good children are the best investments Stocks
and bonds will come amf go; but polymers will go
on forever.
News Of
Bonds Cross Roads
Shady Grove Home Demonstra
tion Club members, 4-H Club
members and young people of the
community with a number of pa
rents enjoyed a final summer out
ing with a swimming party at the
Joanna pool and a picnic follow
ing. About 35 children and 12
adults enjoyed this outing Thurs
day afternooh This was the fin
al day of recreation for the youth
of the community before opening
of school
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Fairvfew Baptist Church will j
observe homecoming Sunday.
Friends are invited to attend
Regular Sunday school at 10.00
a m. Worship services at 11
o'clock, with dinner served on
the grounds following worship (
services !
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A number of local people at
tended the Jarred Johnson reun
ion held at Johnston Sunday
Among those from this commun
ity were: Mr. and Mrs. James
Johnson and son, Jimmy, Mrs
J. IV Johnson, Mr and Mrs. C.
W Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Johnson and sons, Kenneth and
Frank, and Mrs. Texie Johnson
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Billy Johnson, son of Mr. and
Mrs V C. W. Johnson, is visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Ned Tiner and fam
ily in Charleston.
Miss Sally Pitts returned home
Friday after visiting relatives in
Spartanburg.
Mrs George Cobb and young
son. George III, of Rock Hill,
spent several days recently with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. David
Pitts.
Miss Martha Pitts, member of
the Rock Hill schools faculty,
will return to Rock HU1 next week
to resume her duties for the
school year.
Friends of James Evans will
be glad to learn he has returned
to his work in Joanna after sev
eral months of Illness.
Mrs. Maggie Marshall, Mrs
Margaret Berry, and Margaret,
and Mrs. Ola Wages were visitors
in Whitmire on Friday.
On Wednesday, August 16, Miss
Ida Smith, Mrs. Richard John
son, Mrs. Myrtle Johnson. Jack
ie Kelly, and Frank Johnson
were dinner guests of Mrs. J. P
Johnson
Mrs Emmie Shipes and chil
dren spent Thursday with her
mother, Mrs Virgie Crapps. Mrs
J. P. Johnson and Jimmy John
son were also guests of Mrs
Crapps
Mrs. Bailey Donates
Amplifier To Thornwell
Mrs. P. S. Bailey, of Clinton,
has presented a portable ampli
fier for use on the campus of
Thornwell Orphanage, according
to announcement by Dr M. A.
Macdonald, president of the in
stitution.
The flevice will be used in the
dining hall for morning devotion
al s and announcements, and at
other places on the campus.
Stevenson To Judge
Awards Competition
Dr John W. Stevenson, chair
man of the Presbyterian College
English Department, has been
appointed a judge in the annual
achievement awards competition
of the National Council of Teach
ers of English.
Dr. James R .Squire, execu
tive secretary of the council, to
day announced that Dr. Steven
son will judge South Carolina
contestants in this effort to grant
public recognition to some of
the nation's outstanding students
of high school English The com
petition is now in its fourth
year.
€idtelberger At
LowndsvHle Church
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Eichel-
berger, Miss Barbara and John
Eichelberger with Miss Lulie
Eichelberger of Laurens were in
Lowndsville Sunday, August 13
to alter 1 -.erviccs at Providence
Presb. L, an Ch ,ret>.
Their son ail brother, Hugh
Lee Lichelberstr, Jr., is supply
pastor for the summer for the
Providence and. Rocky River
chu lies end they are residing
at the mar x there. In the fall
he will beg n his final year at
Columbia Theological Seminary,
iJc^atur, Ga.
Wheat Referendum
Slated For Today
A wheat marketing quota ref
erendum is being held today
(Thursday) in all major wheat
producing areas of the United
States, according to Hugh B
Workman, chairman of the Lau
rens County ASC Committee In
Laurens County there will be two
boxes for the convenience of vot
ers—one at Hubert Pitts' store at
Clinton for Hunter, Jacks and
Cross Hill Townships; and the
other box will be at the ASC of
fice in Laurens for the voters of
the remaining townships of the
county, the polls will open at
8:00 a. m. and close at 6:00 p. m.
Dixie Sullivan, William Robert
Richardson. Mrs. Marion Grif
fis, Mrs Jennie Watkins, Mrs. |
Henry Suttles, Mrs. W. L. Gro
gan. Mrs. Clyde Peterson.
Mrs. J. D. Rushton has re
turned to her home from Hays
Hospital w here she was a sur- j
gical patient.
Ernest Graham is improving
at Hays Hospital from an oper
ation illness.
Mrs. Carolyn Webb is con
valescing af home following an
operation illness at Hays Hos
pital.
Sammy Holtzclaw, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Boyd Holtzclaw, has
returned home from Hays Hos
pital where he has been a medi
cal patient.
Dismissed from Blalock Clinic
earlier in the week were Mrs.
Olivia Wertman, Mrs. Lula Mae
Stevens, Mrs. Lodena Graham,
Mrs Kenneth Lawson and Mrs.
Louis Fuller.
William Gregory, who under
went surgery recently at Hays
! Hospital, is convalescing at
home
Donnie Reaves, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Carl D. Reaves, is improv
ing at home after an operation
iat Hays Hospital.
With the Sick
Friends of Robert E. Johnson
will be interested to know he is
improving at Blalock Clinic fol
lowing surgery.
Patients at Hays Hospital in
clude Mrs Mary Sue Cantrell,
Mrs. Edwin Huggins, Mrs. L. C.
Heaton
Gene Lucas has returned to
Thornwell after being a patient
at Blalock Clinic.
Friends of Mrs. J Hamp
Stone will be glad to know she
is improving at Hays Hospital
where she has been a patient sev
eral weeks
Ray Tucker is convalescing at
Hays Hospital following surgery i
Friends of Mrs Downs Mon- j
roe will be interested to know |
she is a patient at Hays Hospital. 1
Mrs. Lloyd Marshbanks is a
surgical patient at Hays Hos
pital.
Bobby Ashe, of Thornwell, is
a patient at Blalock Clinic.
Mrs. John Boyd continues ill
at Hays Hospital where she has
been a patient for some time.
Mrs. Quinton Jones and Mrs.
Leonard Scott are patients at
Blalock Clinic.
Patients discharged from Hays
Hospital include Terry Massey,
Mrs. Frank Cauley, Mrs Tom
Davis, Ricky Gooch, son of Mrs
Social News
Ray-Lay Rehearsal
Preceded By
Buffet Supper
A buffet supper at a the Hotel
Mary Musgrove on Saturday eve
ning preceeded the rehearsal for
the Ray-Lay wedding. Hosts for
the occasion were Mr. and Mrs
B. W. Crouch and Miss Dot Tay
lor.
Place cards in a wedding
theme marked places for the 24
guests, including members of the
wedding party and out-of-town
visitors here for the rites. Pink
roses and lighted pink tapers
graced the supper table. The
bride and groom were remem
bered with a gift of silver and
at this time their attendants
were presented gifts.
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