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Clinton, S. C., Thureday, April 25, 1968
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE/
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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
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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 ^
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• 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
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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€
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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-
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ed.
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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
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