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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, December 28, 1961
The New Year
The New Year cometh and the old year must depart, and so it has been for centuries.
Once every 365 days, the world pauses for a moment of reflection, for a brief but
meaningful examination of self and surroundings. Then, with a shrug, a new, unfetter
ed page is prepared to record the fulfillment of a new
set of ambitions, intentions and purposes.
Through the centuries, customs and traditions have
contributed to the New Year observance *lo make it more
than a time to mark the passing of another era. It is a
season of awakening to the realization that we have not
accomplished all of the things once planned. It is a time
to be greatful for the blessings received. It is a time to
plan and hope; to lay the mental foundation for new am
bitions and aspirations.
While New Year resolutions are no more worthy, nor
more likely to be kept, than resolutions made at Thanks
giving or Christmas, there is a psychological advantage
that favors the custom of making New Year promises.
The New Year marks the beginning of another era and,
in a sense, we start with “a clear slate." There are other
advantages, too. We are older, wiser, and should have
profited from our experiences, good and bad.
One need not make resolutions, however, to profit from the coming of a New Year. Blue
print ambitions and dreams are no more im-portant that a determined effort to do things
a little better, learn a little more and give what ever talents we may posess to the making
of a better world in which we live.
And there’s no better time to start than with the New Year, when each bright new page
on the calendar has ample room to record every achievement. Q
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in college and professional foot
ball, the understanding of edu
cational problems gained in sec
ondary administrative work and
INTERMEDIATE PARTY
The Intermediate class of the
the Christian background he has 1 Hurricane BapUst Church was
as the son of an ordained minis- enterta ne I with a Christmas
ter give Coach Ehrhardt a com- ()ar ty December 23 at the com
bination of qualities which ideal- munity building by Mr., and Mrs.
ly fit him to head the athletic \y d Bishop. After games, re
program at Presbyterian Col- freshments were served and gifts
iege." were exchanged.
Clyde Ehrhadt issued this state SUNBEAM PARTY
ment: The Sunbeams met with Mrs.
“I leel honored to have been j \y. Caldwell last Friday at
chosen for this portion and deep- 4 30 w jth 13 members and two
ly appreciate the trust and confi. vis.tors present. Each child took
dence placed in me by President par t j n the Christmas program.
Brown Coach .tones and I have After the program the Christ-
had a very close personal and mas party was given and each
professional relationship for eight child received a gift. Punch:
years. He has done an outstand-, cookies and candy were served
ing job at PC, and I know he will; as refreshments
enjoy cointinued success at Miss- BIRTHDAY
issippi State Our entire staff ^j rs s ara h Lawson will cele-
will remain and •am fortunate to brate her birthday on Thursday,
have such capable assistants as December 28
Vic Spooner and Charlie Mussel- „ .
white We have had wonderful! n Mr , and M^ Wm^Craven and
backing for the past five years. Dav,d v,8,t * d Mr and Mrs Fran ‘
I would like to ask for the con
tinued support of everyone inter-
How About A Global Wage
We note that the White House has enlist
ed the Post Office in its tub-thumping for
increased exports at any cost. A cancellation
slug appearing on our mail carries the slo-
gmn: “Sales Abroad Make Jobs at Home".
That’s fine as far as it goes, but there is a
corollary that might read: “Goods^from
Abroad Take Away Jobs at Home”.* And
this applies with especial force when the
Administration strategy for pushing US
goods in foreign markets is to cut or eli
minate entirely what little protection now
remains to the American production work
er against his opposite number abroad
whose wage is 13 to 40 percent as much.
To solve the problem we might have the
UN establish a global wage.
U. N. Helps Communists
In Congo
By THURMAN SENSING. Executive Vlce-Preni-
dent. Southern Staten Industrial Council
cis Crowder and Gloria in Ninety-
Six on Christmas Day.
ested in maintaining our present The Charles Youngs. Charlene,
athletic program at PC. ” Benny and Tanru, and Mrs. Era
Frank Jones came directly Young visited the Ben Dickersons
from Decatur (Ga.) High School in Cow pens on Christmas Eve.
to take over the Blue Hose foot-j In Newberry Sunday were Mr.
ball reins from BUI Crutchfield and Mrs Carro11 Youn 8 and dau '
in 1957. Two years later he added « hter * Mr and Mrs Dan Wells
the title of athletic director on who were dinner guests,
the death of Walter A Johnson. CHRISTMAS SUPPER
After a bad first-year record of A Christmas supper was held
eight losses and a tie, his teams at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
bounced back for three winning Carroll Young and family on
seasons and a 1900 Tangerine Christmas Day. Songs were sung,
ards; Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Barnes and children of Joanna;
Mr .and Mrs. Archie Summer
and children, Mr. and Mrs.
Dewey Summer.
Grandchildren of Mrs. Era
Young were Christmas dinner
guests at her home.
On Tuesday Mrs. Era Young,
1 Mr. and Mrs T. C. Watts and
i children visited relatives in
' Greenwood.
The Harold Simmons and
Stevie of Aiken, visited the Gene
Simmons and the Mason Simp
sons over the Christmas week
end.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Simmons
were visitors in Greenville on
Saturday.
Milton Sadler and the Dave
Sadlers of Rock Hill, spent the
week-end at Lake Greenwood re-
cAuiy with Mr and Mrs C. W.
1 Copland
Guests over the week-end with
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Haupfear
were Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lau
rence and Steve of Greenville;
Dr. and Mrs. Mac Going of Wil-
liamston, W. Va.: Mr. and Mrs.
Oliver Haupfear from Washing
ton; Mr. and Mrs. Gene Haup
fear, Johnny, Pam, Buddy and
W'ent of Walton Beach. Fla.;
^Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Eubanks
and Dorothy Louise of Joanna
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Bartley
spent the holidays with Mr and
Mrs. J. D. Clegg and Landy in
Greenville.
Miss Dot Banister of Green
wood, was the Tuesday guest of
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Bartley.
On Sunday, December 17, the
J. R. Bartleys entertained with
their annual Christmas party at
their home. Those present for this
event were: Miss Wilma Hol-
senback, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin
Banistre, Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Banister, the Kirk Banisters, the
Lenslie Banisters, Kevin and
Lynne, Bradley Banister, Mrs.
Ralph Banister, Suzanne and
Danny, Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Ford,
Gail and Barry, Miss Dot Ban
ister, and Mrs. J. W Luquire,
all of Greenwood; Mr. and Mrs.
|J. W. Luquire, Jr., Randie and
Donald, of Warner Robins, Ga.;
: Mr. and Mrs. Joe McNeil and
son, Landy, of Greenville
The Ralph Lawsons spent the
holidays with Mr. and Mrs.
George King in Cross Hill.
Visitors over the week-end of
Mr. and Mrs. Dillard Young and
family were: Mr. and Mrs. Boyce
Wilson and Pam, from Charlotte,
N. C.; Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Kir
by, Jim and Kim, from Green
ville, had Christmas Eve dinner
with them.
I
Christmas dinner guests of
Mrs Mace Young wore: Mr. and
Mrs Sam Wallace, Ann and Don
nie, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Reeder,
Linda and Jackie, Mr. and Mrs.
Dillard Young, Cindy and Dill,
‘ Mr. and Mrs. Mason Young, Jim
my and Calvin.
Mrs. Earl M. Sparks of Gas
tonia, N. C., and her daughter,
Mrs. G. R Rhyne, of Charlotte.
N. C., and children, Michael,
Robin and Shannon, are visiting
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L.
N. Kilpatrick.
The Allen Youngs, Cathy and
Al, and the Brooks Dunaways,
and Mrs. Betty Lawson visited
Clarence Lawson in the Laurens
County home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Bishop and
Misses Sallie and Mary Frances
Nabors were dinner guests at the
home of H. F. Bishop near Cross
Hill Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Young of
Newberry, visited Mr and Mrs.
Clyde Young Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Young
were in Greenwood on business
Saturday.
Sunday dinner guests of the W.
P. Gastieys were Mr. and Mrs.
John O. Teague and Dianne, of
North Augusta; Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Craven and David. Al
so Mr. and Mrs. P. A Mosley
and Terri of Greenville visited
them Sunday afternoon. Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Gilliam of Joanna,
visited Mrs. W. P. Gastley on
Christmas Day.
Mr and Mrs. Jack Asbill visit
ed Mrs. Asbill’s mother. Mrs. J.
E Sheely, in Chapin on Sunday.
Visitors of Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
Scogin and Mitch over the week
end were Mr and Mrs. J. 0
Teague and Diane of North Au
gusta: Mr. and Mrs Arthur
Scogin and son of Greenville;
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Fennell and
son of Greenwood; Mr and Mrs
Ernest Franklin and daughters
of Whitmire.
The Way It Wat
In the 20 years that have passed since
the Japanese clobbered our sitting duck
Navy at Pearl Harbor and the grounded
warbirds at nearby Hickam Field of a Sun
day morning, Author John Toland has been
researching the event that triggered
World War II and the tenae, bitter six
months that followed before the Pacific tide
began to turn. ,
In a new book, “But Not in Shame”, a
title taken from a phase in General Jona
than Wainwright’s message announcing sur
render of the islands ih Manila Bay, Mr.
Toland reveals in great detail just what
happened on both sides during those terrible
six months. The facta, as might be expect
ed, are a little different from ‘what we heard
at the time.
There was not, for example, an army of
Japanese spies in Honolulu — just a lone
young man who obtained all the information
needed at an expense of only $600! Major
James Devereux at Wake didn’t say ‘ Send
us more Japs.” He was much too bus}’.
Colin Kelly did not sink a Japanese battle
ship.
But Kelly did die saving the lives of his
crew and in general the heroes stand up in
the light of the new information made
available through the years. There seem
to be no new villains and Toland says the
disastrous retreats and humiliating surren
der* were no fault of those on the spot.
“Nor did their military leaders deserve
the calumny,” he concludes. ‘The essen
tial blame for the disasters of these six
months should not have been laid on Kim-
mel, Short, MacArthur. Percival, Wavell or
Helfrich; even less on the political leaders,
Roosevelt and Churchill, who had been beg
ging for arms long before battle came.
The entire peoples of America and Great
Britain were responsible for the scandalous
state of unpreparedness in the Far East.”
It should be noted that the above is a
quote from Mr. Toland. Your may disagree
violently, but the thing to do is to read
the book and discover why he thinks as
he does. If all of us do, it might help
achieve the goal and the moral of his work:
We must not let it happen again.
George Santayama, the modern philosopher,
once said that those who refuse to learn from his
tory are condemned to repeat its mistakes
This philisophic truth comes home as Ameri
cans read of the outrageous attack made by the
United Nations on the one anti-communist gov
ernment in Africa—the government of Katanga
The tragedy is especially deep for Americans be
cause the U S . which is the bulwark against Red
rule of the globe, supplied planes and money in
support of the drive to destroy this anti-commun
ist African territory.
U S. support of this attack was almost incred
ible If the U. S were to give a division of troops
to "help the Chinese Reds invade Formosa, it
could be no more fanUstic. How can the United
States expect to win if it helps destroy those who
want to be our friends? By attempting to force
the rule of the Central Congolese government on
Katanga, we seek to impose the rule of a regime
whose No 2 man is a communist. Not only that,
but the Central Congolese government has renew
ed relations with Russian and Red satellite coun
tries
The explanation given for our action by the
State Department was that if the Congo were not
united under the Central Government, the region
outside Katanga, is so weak that it "might" go
over to the communist fold. That was ridiculous.
The Central Government. In effect, Is already
communist. If Katanga is forced Into the Central
Government, then all of the Congo not only might,
but almost certainly will go over to communist
domination
The U. S. government should have learned
from the Cuban fiasco some lessons that have
bearing on the Katanga issue. But the same State
Department gang that refused to back up anti
communist Cubans last spring are behind the at
tacks on anti-communists in Katanga. Adlai Ste
venson, who opposed attacks on Castro, now is
solidly behind attacks on anti-communist Katan
ga
This is a spectacle that strikes dismay and
anger into the hearts of American patriots con
cerned for the republic. How can we hope to win
against the Russians, they may well ask, If we
use our money and military forces to destroy
those who want to be free of Red rule?
No, the State Department wouldn’t recommend
action against Red Cuba or the Red attackers of
the freedom fighters in Hungary. But the State
Department is all for doing what Benito Mussolini
did in Ethiopia in 1936. Money is being supplied
to the Indian and Ghanian mercenaries of the
UN in order to bomb and machine gun anti-com
munist Katangans
How can this be? How can the chief anti
communist nation on earth help the enemy’s
course by backing the UN Invasion of Katanga,
the new Hungary in Africa*
Well, it should be no surprise to citizens aware
of the venomous attacks being launched against
anti-communists at home. Beginning with the in
famous Fulbright Memorandum, the administra
tion and its "liberal" spokesmen in the press have
directed an unceasing bombardment of abuse and
vilification on concerned citizens who want to
alert the country to the communist danger. An
ex president has condemned what he calls "super
patriots ” What was George Washington if not
a super-patriot? What we need is more super
patriots President Kennedy has censured what
he calls "right wing radicals,” but not a word
did he say against left wing radicals who pose
the real danger
Patriotic alert groups are smeared, but no one
says anything about the left wing Americans for
Democratic Action or the Fair Play for Cuba
Committee, the latter a front for Communist Cas
tro
Well, it is time for the "super patriots" to
rally, because the country is being sold down the
river by those deficient in patriotism. It won’t
take many more Cuban and Katangan sell-outs o(
American interests in order to have the Iron Cur
tain wrapped tight around this country.
Bowl appearance before dipping
back to the loss ledger this fall.
His five-year football record at
Presbyterian stands at 24 vic
tories, 22 defeats and 3 ties.
gifts were opened and supper
was enjoyed by the following:
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wells and chil
dren of Newberry; Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Summer and Alice of Kin-
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 2*. 1961
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