The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, November 22, 1962, Image 2

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2 THE CUNTQN CHRONICLE Clin ton, S. C„ Thursday, Nuvsmbsr 22, lf62 Now Thank We All Our God Now thank w’e all our God, With heart and hands and voices. Who wondrous things hath done, In whom His world rejoices; Who, from our mothers’ Inns, Hath blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love, And still is ours today. 0 may this tkwinteous God Through all our life be near us, With ever joyful hearts And blessed peace to cheer us; And keep us in His grace, And guide us when perplexed, And free us from all ills, In this world and the next. All praise and thaPks to God The father now be given, The Son, and Him who reigns With them in highest heaven ; The one eternal God, Whom earth and heaven adore; For them it was, is now, And shall be evermore. The Work of Many Hands We are often told that big business is the enemy of small business—as the dog is the enemy of the cat. But dogs and cats are often firm friends. And the big busi ness is often the best commercial compan ion the small business has. A striking example of this is provided by one of the spectacular achievements of all time—the communications satellite, Tel- star. It was developed and financed by the country’s largest telephone company. But —as that company makes clear in a maga zine advertisement—Telstar “is the work of many hands.” Some 1249 different com panies, most of them small, were subcon tractors and suppliers. Their billings ran from $100 on up. They are located in ev ery section of this huge country. They provided resistors, transmitters, antennas, and other essential and highly specialized equipment. They were chosen because of competence in their respective fields. Size was of no imortance. The parent company says of Telstar: “Many shared its creation so that all might share its accomplishments.” This felici tous phrase is true of almost everything that contributes to the progress, the well being, the happiness of mankind. There is room in this country for enterprises of ev ery size—for quality, not dimension, is the criteria. reeling and guiding out-of-control vehicles until they can be safely brought to a halt. In achieving, at long last, effective pro tection for the innocent against being met head-on by the unwary, reckless or drunken driver, or one at the wheel of a defective car or with unsafe tires, the road-builders have something to cheer about. And cer tainly, this solution to the most terrifying single threat to highway safety should be of utmost concern to every community as well as to every highway engineer faced with the task of modernizing its roads. From here on, when we drive a “divid ed” highway, we shall look for that steel guardian—and feel thankful when we see it. The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing.—Jean Baptiste Colbert. Stories Behind Words by William S. Penfield Babson Talks About Advertising The word “ambition” originated in the ancient art of politics, specifically from a practice employed by Ro man candidates for public office. On market days the candidates went about the mar ket places making speeches to the crowds. In the lat ter stages of the Republic they went from house to house seeking votes. They would call each person by name, shake his hand and urge his support In cases where a candidate did not know a person’s name he had a companion whose business it was to whisper the name in his ear. This seeking of votes was called “ambitio” from the Latin verb “Ambire,” meaning to go about. Ambitio evolved into the English word ambition. Highway Death Preventer Head-on crashes—the bloodiest of all highway casualties which took 4,000 lives last year—can be prevented. This is the lesson traffic engineers and drivers have learned from the New Jersey Turnpike—the busiest toll-road in the world. The “preventer” is a tough, foot-wide, continuous guard-rail down the median strip of the divided highway—which keeps it divided, even when speeding cars go out of control. Since completion last year of the 118- mile barrier (begun in 1957), there has not been a single head-on crash fatality along this teeming expressway. Similar reports from California, wherever these tough steel dividers have been installed on heavily- traveled, high-seped freeways, and from the Pennsylvania Turnpike—where a center ribbon of steel now protects about half of its 470 miles—confirm New Jersey’s expe rience. This is impressive evidence that the “cross-over” accident, where a car or truck careens into the lefthand roadw’ay and crashes mercilessly into helpless oncoming traffic, has met its master in this barrier of restraining steel. The twelve-and-a-half- foot, deeply corrugated beams, bolted to gether and mounted on rugged steel posts, have now proved their capability of with standing the shock of impact and of redi- Babson Park. Mass., November 22—Advertis ing does not need to be defended against its crit ics; it can defend itself. I am quite aware that tremendous sums of money have been wasted in advertising., but think how much money has gone down the drain in drilling for oil or mining for gold. When the right media and techniques are used in advertising, they can bring tremen dous rewards, just as can drilling in oil-rich ter rain or mining in promising lodes. Advertising is, of course, a risk, and it should be sold as such. CHANCE WORTH TAKING Nevertheless, it is a risk well worth taking. I can think of few gambles more likely to pay off. It is obvious from the rec ord that officials of American companies agree with me on this, so their outlays must have been profitable indeed. When the final total is figured for 1962, I expect that both na tional and local advertisers will have shelled out about $8 billion for ads in newspapers and magazines. This repre sents a most spectaculer chan neling of cash into newspaper advertising. Proof of the success of advertising is found in its steady growth of popularity. Ten years ago, for example, expenditures for newspaper and magazine advertising totaled only $3% billion, while they amounted to only $1V& billion just twen ty years ago. For some years a steadily greater part of corporation costs have been going into advertising, and I am cretain that this trend will continue over the years ahead. It is interesting to note that, along the way, those concerns do ing the greatest amount of advertising have near ly always been at or near the top in their fields. ADVERTISING HELPS EVERYBODY Some labor publications tend sometimes to complain that companies are putting too much money into this type of publicity. Union officials want higher wages for their members, and more and more expensive fringe benefits—and often think of advertising as mere diversion of money that should go to the employees in one form or another. Hence, company officials should make plain to their personnel the value of advertising in holding up production and keeping employment high. A well-run firm is careful not to waste funds in profitless advertising. Results are al ways carefully studied, and directions are pur sued that bring about greater sales, which in turn lead to larger payrolls. Newspaper advertising is to a great extent responsible for our having the highest wage rates and the best standards of living in the world. There could be no mass selling without newspa per advertising. Mass production would be an impossibility without mass selling. Without mass production, our standard of living could not con ceivably have reached its present historic height. SMALLER CITIES IMPORTANT Many corporations located in or immediately outside of big cities place most of their outlays in national media, but more and more are recog nizing the value of local placement. For instance, even some r' the biggest concerns are giving more attention to small dailies and weeklies. I expect this tendency to increase over the coming years. Surveys have indicated that people of small communities read advertisements with great care. In fact, I should say that I still consider news papers, both large and small., as a safe invest ment. This is particularly true where there is only one newspaper which controls a given area, with the focus in a smaller city. True, production costs are moving upward, but it is still relatively easy to raise the price of a newspaer by a cent or two. People still want written news, and the more they pay for a paper the more carefully they read both the news and the ads. This means that the advertising space becomes very valuable. ADVERTISING AND YOU Occasionally I hear somebody say, “What is advertising doing to help me?” That is an easy question to answer. It is helping you, for one thing, to hold your job 52 weeks out of the year. It is helping to up your ‘Hake home” pay. It is increasing employment, so that your children too can get a good education. All of us should en courage newspaper advertising. Clinton Hi-Lights By MARJORIE ARNOLD The past week-end was full of activity for many C. H. S.’ers as they took time off from their studies to attend concerts, foot ball games, and parties and to visit various college campuses throughout the state. Students who attended the Greenville concert of interaatioir- ally famous pianist Van Cliburn in November were Mary Harvey, Janet Johnson, Dlshie Delaney, Janet Hamer, Sister Blalock, Charles Cooper and Janice Pin son. Many members of the C. H. S. band and glee club, majorettes, and other students taking music attended the afternoon perform ance of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra last Friday in Belk Auditorium. Other students who attended the evening perform ance were Sally Pitts, Janet Johnson, Hap McSween, Dianne Ledford, Mary Harvey, Kay Trowbridge, Jane Johnson, Bev erly Muller, Ty Smith, Jim Adair, Charlie Nettles, Mary Locke Simons, Jackie Robbins, Phil Rogers, James Jacks, Charles Cooper, Sister Blalock, Billy Ballard and Dishie De laney. From all the comments around C. H. S. the students really en joyed hearing both Van Cliburn and the Atlanta Symphony. C. H. S.’ers who watched Eas ley defeat Newberry at Easley were Mary Bart Stump, Eddy Madden, Anne Black, Carl Fin- cannon, Johnny Glover and Cyn thia Boyle. Several C. H. S. seniors visited college campuses last week-end. Anne Black visited former C. H. S.’er Murray Addison at Converse College in Spartanburg. Jane Ellen Fowler spent the week-end at Winthrop College in Rock Hill and attended the Sophomore Dance on Saturday night. Journeying to Columbia College in Columbia for High School Day last Saturday were Shirley Aim Timmons, Ellen Lawson, Mary Harvey, and Mar jorie Arnold. The girls enjoyed touring the campus and talking with many Columbia students They were also treated to special entertainment by the students and a coke party in the beauti ful new student center. The top magazine salesmen have been awarded prizes for their fine work in the drive. Bruce Mills received a watch and Jackie Robbins, a table model radio. Billy Bishop and Mary Jo Devore each chose a 35 mm camera, nineteen other seniors received stuffed animals for selling twelve subscriptions. CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1962 $lfp (Hltntmi (Hljrnntrlr July 4, 1889 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — Jane It, 1956 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBUSHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) Out-of-County One Year $3.00, Six Months $2.00 One Year $4.00 Second Class Postage Paid at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and rrarhin — the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general Interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous eommunlrstkiinif will not' be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. Member: South CaroUna Press Association, National Editorial Association National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION —_ New York, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia Now that the Thanksgiving sea son is here, students at C. H. S. can be heard discussing their plans for the holidays and what Thanksgiving means to them. The consensus of the students seems to be that people are be coming so wraped up in the “Christmas Rush” that they hardly take time to remember Thanksgiving any more. Let’s all hope that this fact is not true, for not only we students at C. H. S., but also those all over America have more to be thank ful for than any otter group in the world. Loving parents, nour ishing food, warm clothing, good schools, and a democratic gov- erament—all of these things which we are prone to take for granted are only dreams for those who do not have them. Let’s keep this fact in mind as we sit down to our wonderful Thanksgiving dinners and strive to make this holiday just that— a real Thanks-Giving. Mountville News MRS. MAUDE BRYSON Mr. and Mrs. Olin Stewart and family visited in Spartanburg on Sunday afternoon. Miss Carolyn Bums spent the week-end in Gaffney. She was ac companied home on Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. Marion Olephand and Miss Jennie Pattrick. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Miller spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Hugh McCarter and Mr. McCar ter in Fountain Inn. Mrs. Arthur Alexander is with her daughter, Mrs. Agnes Bailey who underwent surgery in the general hospital last week. Mrs. Roily Bannister, Sr., of Clinton visited her son," Charles B. Bannister and family on Sun day. G. C. Watts is in Bailey Memo rial Hospital in linton. IP YOU DON’T READ THE CHRONICLE rou DON’T GET THE NEWS PHONE 8334541 CALLING THE COACHES Coach Frank Howard of Clemson Each Saturday 12:15-12:30 — Over — WLBG — AM-FM - By - Citizens Federal SaviMS & Lean Assodatioe 220 W. Mate St. Otetaa, & C News Of Bonds Ctom Roads Friends of Mrs. Jsff Brewing- ton will regret to learn that she is undergoing treatment at Self Memorial Hospital in Green wood. Mrs. Brewington spent several days in Bailey Memorial Hospital last week-end, returned home on Saturday. Miss Shirley Spivey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hub Spivey is in General Hospital, Room 320 Greenville, S. C., where she un derwent serious surgery last week. Friends of Miss Spivey will be glad to know ate is im proving and whan she is able to leave the hospital will be at the home of her grandmother, Mrs. H. L. Blackstone, Route One, Owing*, S. C. Miss Spivey has been with her grandmother this fall she is employed at a garment manufacturing plant in Green ville County. Kenneth Johnson, student of Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Ga. David Pitta, student at Oemsoa, Braes Morgan and Wayne Morgan, stu dents at Qemson are spending Thanksgiving holidays at their respective homes. 1 Mrs. B. W. Cooper and Mrs. J. C. Nabors Members of the of Shad] ity Club will most at 7:20 at home of Mr. and Mrs. Earle Johnson. Subscribe T# The Thasksghmg Dimer CLOSED THURSDAY EVENING Traditional Menu With All Trimmings 11:80 A. M. — 2:00 P. M. Mary Musgrove Hotel N. Broad St. Phone 823.1621 Yes... We’re Open 9 a. n Including Wednes Close at Noon On Saturdays. 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