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t Clinton, S. C., Thureday, April 25, 1968 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE/ i»i r r rf rrrrr r i — By SPECTATOR... /_ ' COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS / Our policy In the Cuban mat ter seems to be weak and grow ing weaker. \ Our relation to Cuba is un usual; this nation won the free dom of Cuba in the war with Spain; then we delivered Cuba to the Cubans after a year or so of American administration under General Leonard Wood. We had a reservation, known as the Platt Amendment which Mr. Roosevelt (F. D.) somewhat mis- stakenly abrogated. He recom mended it strongly and the Con gress weakly acquiesced. Cuba owes us a debt of grati tude and honor. Certainly she owes us a loyal cooperation. But, we should oust the Castro regime and give Cuba a year to redeem herself, following a fair election and with something like the Platt Amendment. We have frittered away a lot of time in a policy of weakness. Of course we have no imperia list designs on Cuba, but she must be a peaceful neighbor. The time is long overdue for a policy which shall curb Russia’s attitude toward Cuba (and to ward us) and whether by tight blockade or actual invasion is a military problem as well as one of psychology. We do not wish to stir up enmity or a revenge, ful spirit but we must act forth with and vigorously to oust all Russian forces. • • • Here is something about heart- surgery: “Critically ill infants whose defective hearts and cir culation systems normally pre clude corrective surgery have been successfully operated on in a submarine-like pressure tank at Children’s Hospital Medical Center surgeons say (Boston). Further development of pres sure tank surgery and medical techniques may be useful in treating older patients ior a number of diseases, including heart attacks, some surgeons be lieve. The presure tank is used to subject patients to greater air pressure than is normal in open atmospheric conditions. Atmos pheric pressure at sea level is GRADE “A” LB. FRYERS 26c IRBY’S BACON ... . 3 lbs.-99c GRADE “A” MEDIUM DOZ FRESHLY GROUND HAMBURGER 3 5 SPICED , lb LUNCHEON MEAT-29c IRBY’S 8 . L R PAIL PURE LARD .... 99c HOT FT. BAR-B-Q HASHr. .60c FERGUSON'S MEAT MARKET (FORMERLY IRBY’S MARKET) 207 Musgrove Street Telephone 833-1886 14.7 pounds a square inch. Pa tients here have been operated on in the tank at pressures over three atmospheres — nearly bd pounds a square inch and equal to the pressure exerted on a sub marine diving at a depth of 80 to 00 feet. Infants who have undergone surgery in thestank were what are commonly called blue ba bies, those suffering from a con genital cyanotic condition. This is a medical term used to des cribe patients born with a heart or lung defect that prevents the blood from absorbing enough oxygen to meet the needs of body tissue, according to a clinical as sociate in surgery at Harvard University Medical School and an associate surgeon at Child- drens* Hospital. Dr. Bernhard has charge of pressure chamber studies here. The increase in pressure en ables the blood of the patient, who breathes pure oxygen while in the tank, to absorb much more oxygen than normally, Dr. Bernhard says. If the oxygen saturation of a normal person’s blood is considered as 100, the blood of a normal person brea thing pure oxygen under about three atmospheres of pressure can absorb up to 2,800 Dr. Bern, hard says. Four infants, whose condition was so critical that doctors con sidered their cases hopeless, have undergone surgery in the pressure tank. Two died, one from an incurable defect and one from causes unrelated to sur gery or the heart condiUon, hos pital spokesmen said. The two other infants are lead ing nearly normal lives. One ba by whose blood was getting on ly 24 per cent of normal oxygen now has blood with 70 per cent of normal oxygen and another whose blood was getting 40 per cent of normal oxygen now has blood oxygen saturation of 75 per cent to 80 per cent, a hospi tal spokesman said. Further cor rective surgery may be done lat er when the infants are larger, Dr. Bernhard said. Surgeons have been perform ing heart surgery on blue babies for years, of course. The pres sure tank, however, enables doc tors to perform surgery on in fants too weak to stand an oper ation under ordinary circum stances, says Dr. R. E. Gross, professor of children’s surgery at Harvard Medical School and surgeon-in-chief at Children’s Hospital. Like deep sea divers, both pa tients and members of the oper ating team must undergo a per iod of decompression after work ing in the pressure tank. Dr. Gross estimates 25,000 ba bies with heart abnormaliUes are born yearly in this country. ‘Probably a fourth to a third of these are desperately ill and die within the first few months,’ he says. Pressure tank surgery may enable doctors to save a substan tial number of these babies. Additional uses of pressure tanks for treatment and surgery currently are largely theoreti cal, Dr. Gross says, but he adds that the technique may be valu able in other fields, including treatment of cardiac patients, by reducing the workload on the heart; treatment of massive in fections of the abdominal wall, in which extra oxygen can help fight infection while antibiotics work; operations for gastro-in- testinal obstructions complicated by pressure within the body; treatment and operations for blood vessel problems; treat ment for carbon monoxide poi soning, in which extra oxygen helps flush poison from the sys tem; lung and breathing passage obstructions which reduce the in take of oxygen. Wonderful, isn’t it? • 9 • How much government can we afford? I quote from an address by Congressman Curtis of Mis souri to the New York Chamber of Commerce: “The continuing budget defi cits of the last 30 years did not occur in times of depression nor in times of little or no change in government fiscal affairs. In deed, relative prosperity has marked the post World War II period and the government’s fis cal experience has found budget expenditures and tax collections increasing more than twenty-fold in the last 3 decades. We have had the opportunity to do some thing about paying our way, but we have instead chosen a course of government on credit — we have chosen to let our children be the fall guys for our fiscal im prudence. But we need not go back three decades to measure an alarming growth in levels of spending and taxing. I will not belabor you with endless statistics but the facts are there as conclusive proof that our spending increases for civil matters exceed the re- Itive increase in military spend ing. If these spending increases had been for government goods and services that were provided within the framework of a bal anced budget, they would have represented expenditures which we were willing to pay for rath er than pass on as a charge to succeeding generations. The fact is we did not pay for the cost of those goods and services and as a consequence we have a federal statutory debt in excess of 8300 billion. The present annual in terest charges on that debt with out providing for any debt re tirement are more than double the total budget expenditures for all purposes by the Federal Gov ernment three decades ago. But this $300 billion figure does not tell the whole story. The truth is that our Federal indebtedness today exceeds one trillion dol lars and it means that every American family of 4 has a share of $22,000 of this debt This trillion dollar debt includes such items as $250 billion for unfunded obligations of the So cial Security System, $70 billion for unfunded obligations of gov ernment retirement programs, help y oWi&ell ^ m F| Ntsr foodTand savings too !. FRESH 1 CORN .T........ SWEET LB. POTATOES 5c VINE RIPENED LB. TOMATOES 10c LARGE HEAD LETTUCE WHITE EACH 15c PdTAT0iS1(Hbs29c GOLDEN RIPE - - BANANAS LB. .... 10c FRESH 1 La TURNIP SALAD . ... l»c . CRISC0 3 lbs 79c MEN’S' PAIR SOCKS .... 15c SOUTH CAROLINA EGGS 3 doz. $1.00 Guaranteed Meats GRADE -A” WHOLE . EACH FRYERS 69c T-BON E-SIRLOIN L& STEAKS 69c END CUT Pork Chops . BOSTON BUTT —~ Pork Roast . GROUND BEEF . . 3Ibs.$1^0 HICKORY SMOKED BACON . 3 lbs. $1.00 PORK 1 LBS. Neck Bones 25c PURE 8-LB. BUCKET LARD 99c LACE , ^ ROLL ” ‘ Tissue — 5c PINTO BEANS • eeeeeaa WHITE KING SELF-RISING FLOUR 25-Lb. Bag $1.59 VEGET BAST CAROLINA AYRNU1 RMET • A. M.-I1 P. M. DAILY CREDITOR’S NOTICE All persons having claims against the estate of Ruby Lee Giles, deceased, are hereby JDO- tifled to file the same duly veri tied, with the undersigned, and those indebted to said estate will please make payment likewise CHARLES C. GILES Executor Apr 1», TO CREDITOR’S NOTICE All persons having claims against the estate of Ryan Floyd Pitts, deceased, are hereby no tified to file the same duly veri fied, with the undersigned, and those indebted to said estate will please make payment likewise. SARA WIER PITTS Executrix Apr. 12-TO CREDITORS’ NOTICE All persons having claims against the estate of Marvin Todd Poole, deceased are hereby notified to file the same duly verified, with the undersigned, and those indebted to said es tate will please make payment likewise. Marjorie Weathers Poole Executrix Dated April 2, 1963. 3t CREDITORS’ NOTICE All persons having claims against the estate of Hubert J. Pitts, deceased, are hereby noti fied to file the same, duly veri. fled, with the undersigned, and those indebted to said estate will please make payment likewise. MRS. HUDDIE YORK PITTS, Executrix, 818 E. Caro. Ave., Clinton, S. C. April 5, 1963 Sc-A-25 CREDITORS’ NOTICE All persons having claims against the estate of Nicodemus Sorrow, deceased, are hereby no tified to file the same, duly veri fied, with the undersigned, and those nidebted to said estats will please make payment likewise. MARY LOUISE SORROW, Executrix April 5, 1863 3c-A-25 >BiU« _ Ye therefore shall be per* feet, as your heavenly Father is perfect.^-(Matt 5:28). We should replace memo ries of past mistakes with supreme desires to be what God wants all of us to be— God’s perfect children. Laurens Drive-In THEATRE Laurens, S. C. FRIDAY APRIL 2€ JACKPOT DRAWING HOME FROM THE HILLS R. Mitcham—E. Parker G. Hamilton—G. Peppard Wildest Show Of The Year Sat. 2 First Run Features Arch Hall Jr. WILD GUITAR He wast a country boy but He played the Wildest Guitar Alee WILD HARVEST He harvested choicest women First This Area BARABAS See what happened to the man of violance in whose place Christ was crnscUML Barabas begins where the ether Mg movies leave off. Adm. Me Child under 12 Free $300' bTllioo of commitments to Veterans; $150 billion for unfun ded public works and similar charges to the statutory debt. These are currently securing ob ligations of our government that we arp not paying for and that will represent demands on the productivity of succeeding gen erations. Regardless of the fact that our Federal Government is the big gest spender, the biggest employ, er, jthd biggest property owner, the,' biggest tenant, the biggest insurer, the biggest lender and the biggest borrower in all the worid, we find a growing impa tience on the part of many hold ing high office in our land to make government even bigger. ThUsAfFe are told that it is the Federal Government which must grant aid to schools, compulsory medical care, a permanent sys tem of extending unemployment compensation benefits, an ex panded food stamp plan, an\ex pension of area redevi and public works, enlarged pub lic assistance programs, increas ed public power projects, enlar ged housing programs^ increased subsidies and other items on a staggering list of so-called gov ernment give-aways—give aways that inescapably cost the taxpay ers of today and tomorrow for programs that involve the mas sive Federal intervention urged by the Government spenders.” • • • What do you know about heat except that it is hot? “A child asks, What is heat?’ and probably you’re stumped for a simple answer. You know heat is something you install a fum- 4 ace to get, and install an air con ditioner to get rid of. But what is it? • ' If and when you are asked, you can expUin knowingly that heat is the result of the friction of molecules and atoms rubbing against each other. The faster they move, the more heat they generate. The atoms and mole cules in your iced te§, for ex ample, are practically compared with those: Jrfyour cup of steaming coffee. ’ Cavemen didn’t know about atoms and molecules, hut they knew that a fire made a cave more comfy and meat more palatable. They didn’t do much except sit in their cozy caves and cook meat until one bright caveman discovered how to in tensify a fire’s heat by building a kiln. With his kiln, he made pottery, and civilization was on the road. As a matter of fact, whole civilisations have been based on the ability to create and control heat, even our own space age life. . . .” Clinton Chib’s Annual Broom OFFICE SUPPLIES CHRONICLE PUB. CO. PHONE 8SL8M1 Thursday and Friday, April 25-26 These brooms are of high quality, made by die blind. Proceeds from the sale will go to the Lions Sight con servation Fund and other programs for underprivileg- • - v ed. * ' / Home-Type Brooms Only $1.50 Lions Club solicitors some 70 strong wifi moke concerted house- to-house caffs tonight and Friday night. People of the rural sec tions may buy a broom ot soles on the street Saturday. Please do your port — buy o year's supply for this worthy couse! You Help Two Ways When You Buy a Lions Broom: You Help the Blind Earn a Livelihood and Also Help Those Who Need Visual Attention! Swee|> QmtoiiWHh a lions Brown! Street Sale* on Saturday, April 27 FINAL SETTLEMENT Taka notice that on the 7th day of May. 196$, I wfll rate afinal account of my acts and dMngs as Administrator of the estate of Calvin Adams in the office of the Judge of Probate of Lauras County, at 10 o’clock a. m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge tern my trust as Any purson indebted to said es tate is aotiOed and make naytMat on or dte ; teTSl mn duly provon, hi JOHN ADAMS, CITY OF CUNTON Unpaid Business License L (■ _ ■'v . * Taxes for 1963 Are Now Subject To % . ■ ,... 10% Penalty Pay By May 1st And Avoid Other A And 4,1 ■ - - \