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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
CUnton, S. C, Thursday, Ju»y 18, IMS
■ | down” of this final effort at negotiation.
V/pinHMl» # He said: “Since every step of the Railway
Rule Against Legislators Act has been exhausted in an effort to
Two legal opinions handed down last reach an agreement with the rail unions,
week, while affecting only Laurens County, the railroads today notified the unions that
should go far in removing the basis for the new rules will be put into effect at
controversy that has existed for years in 12:01 a. m. on Thursday, July 11, 1963.”
practically every county in the state. A strike was averted on that date and
That is, who controls tho culture furto nogottstiona^oowin progr^.
of funds in the county, the legally elected
and constituted Board of Commissioners
(headed by the Supervisor), or the mem
bers of the legislature from the county.
The Board of Commissioners form the
business or administrative agency of the
county, through whose office all expendi
tures are directed before they reach the
treasurer’s office, where the checks are is
sued.
Both rulings, by the South Carolina At
torney General and the I^aurens County
Attorney, upheld the right of the Board
of Commissioners to authorize payment of
legal claims against the county without the
consent or signature of the House members
and Senator.
The opinion from the Attorney General
came upon query from one of the House
members, David S. Taylor, on just that
question. The opinion from the County
Attorney came upon request from the
Board of Commissioners for clarification of
an apparent conflict in provisions in the
new county appropriation bill passed by
the legislature.
The County Attorney ruled that legisla
tive control of county expenditures violat
ed Section 14, Article 1, of the South Caro
lina Constitution, which provides for sep
arate and distinct legislative, executive and
judicial powers. He also cited State Su
preme Court decisions in support of his
opinion.
In other words, after the legislators
make up the appropriation bill and enact it
into law, their responsibility ceases, and
the administration passes to the Board of
Commissioners.
Sections of the 1963-64 Laurens County
appropriation bilj provided for payment of
certain items only upon direction by a ma
jority of the legislators and gave Senator
King Dixon a veto power by providing
that he must be a part of the majority.
The House members are* Taylor and Mar
shall W. Abercrombie.
The opinion by the Attorney General
specifically ruled as invalid those sections
giving control of expenditures to the legis
lators. He also cited the same section of
the Constitution as the basis for his opin
ion.
It might be noted in passing that the
Attorney General recently made a similar
ruling in regard to the same question aris
ing in Anderson County.
And the same can be said for many
other counties in the state where the legis
lators, principally the Senators, have at
tempted to set themselves up as the legisla
tive and administrative heads of the coun
ties.
In some counties the Senators have so
I entrenched themselves that they have be
come czars, with almost absolute power, in
| their respective political subdivisions.
The rulings last week affecting Laurens
[County should do much to return local gov-
! eminent in South Carolina to a Constitu
tional basis.
If the unions stick to their declared in
tention, only Congress can now prevent the
calamity of a nationwide railroad strike.
And if Congress is to protect the national
economy, preserve the free enterprise sys
tem and defend the jobs of millions of
Americans, it must have the wisdom and
the courage to support a competitive, rail
industry. It must have the resolution to
avoid the easier path of nationalizing feath
erbedding.
In short, Congress must pfuss a bill to
require both sides to accept arbitration as
a means of settling this dispute once and
for all.
A fanatic is a man who does what he
thinks the Lord would do if only He knew
the facts of the case.-—Finley Peter Dunne.
Babsons Says Travel
A Good Investment
iRail Crisis Is Here
The case of the railroads against feath-
|erbedding is clear-cut.
Modem work-rules to eliminate work
| that is not needed and payment for work
that is not performed have been endorsed
by two Presidential commissions and by
the courts—up to and including the Su-
[preme Court.
But still, in four years of sparring and
. maneuvering and ducking, the on-train
[unions have refused to consider, discuss or
1 negotiate meaningful work-rule changes or
to submit the issue to arbitration. And in
the “eleventh hour” of the grace period re-
| quested by President Kennedy for “one
ast major ^effort to resolve the dispute,”
[they have rejected the proposals of Labor
[Secretary Wirtz.
Thus, on July 3, Chairman J. E. Wolfe
|>f management's National Railway Labor
Conference announced the “complete break-
t A
Babson Park, Mass., July 18—Last fall in
these pages I discussgl the bargains available in
foreign travel, and I pointed out that the cost of
touring was still on the way down while the cost
of practically everything else was on the way up.
This trend still continues. The reason is, in large
part, the bitter competition not only between the
air lines and the shipping companies, but also
among the various ambitious concerns within
these two categories.
MANY BUYING TRAVEL BARGAINS
Final, figures for 1962 show that Americans
shelled out close to $2.9 billion for foreign travel
during that year, an impressive
gain of 10% after the temporary
leveling off seen in 1961. Pre
liminary figures for the first
part of 1963 indicate that the cu?
riosity of Americans to visit
foreign countries is still^grow
ing. The travel-now pay-later
psychology is leading many
lower-budget Americans — who
never dreamed of traveling
W. HHK abroad a few years ago—to give
themselves a royal treat “on the cuff.”
Jet flights to far-away lands are so fast that
nearly all of one’s vacation can be spent in ro
mantic climes new to the traveler, instead of on a
slow boat getting there. Man-and-wife or entire-
family bargain packages are very popular, with
the cost often little more than that of a trip to
some distant national park or seashore in this
country. Visits to neighboring Canada or Mexico
are steadily on the Increase; but I am more in
terested in the tendency of Americana to go far
ther afield, to cross the open seas for new expe
riences.
WHERE PEOPLE ARE GOING
The most popular parts of the world for travel
ers right now are the European and Mediterran
ean countries. During 1961 about 299,000 Ameri
cans visited these areas, while last year the total
zoomed to 353,000. There was a somewhat small
er advance from the 238,000 travelers who visited
the West Indies and Central and South America
during 1961 to the 268,000 who toured there in
1962. Indications are that the same tendencies
exist in 1963, and will for some time to come.
I am told by a friend who is interested in ho
tels, motels, and apartments in the West Indies
that the Haitian trouble has done his business
more good than harm. True, many people have
moved away from the immediate area of Haiti
and the Dominican Republic—also from the coun
tries closest to Cuba. However, as a result, tour
ists have concentrated more heavily in other sec
tions of the "West Indies. Both the climate and
the nearness of these islands make them par
ticularly attractive to Americans, despite local
political tensions in Haiti and international ten
sions in Cuba.
TRAVEL A WONDERFUL GIFT
With world travel such a bargain, now is a
perfect time for parents to give their children or
their grandchildren trips abroad. They will make
wonderful new friends whom they never would
know otherwise, and will become for more aware
of the differences—aad the similarities—among
hte various people of the earth. What could be
more broadening for young, alert minds than
such a wonderful experience? I consider this
one of the finest investments that older people can
make in the future of their younger heirs.
I have traveled widely myself, having been to
most of the important countries on both sides of
the Iron Curtain. Never have I taken a trip
without coming home with the feeling that I have
learned a great deal that I could not possibly
have learned any other way. If you want to take
a trip yourself, or if you want to give a trip to a
relative as a gift, I advise you to deal with a
travel agency in or near a city close to where you
live. Details will be taken care of for you, wheth
er the trip is to be by ship, plane or some of each.
You will find that you can often get alternative
possibilities, making the actual decisions later.
Your local travel agency will keep you posted.
:
Stories
Behind
Words
by -
William S. Fenrieid
Dunce 1
John Duns Scotus wag a noted English theologian
and philosopher. He was born about 1266 and died in
1308. He was educated at Oxford University and later
became a professor of theology there.
John Duns Scotus was an eloquent speaker and a
man of subtle argument. His defense of the Immacu
late Conception was considered a great triumph over
the Thomists, or disciples of St. Thomas Aquinas.
During the Renaissance the disciples of Scotus, who
were called Scotists or Dunsmen, were ridiculed for
their hairsplitting arguments. Their opponents scorn
fully referced-to the Dunmen as “duns” or “dunces,”
with the implication that they were incapable of learn
ing. Gradually the word “dunce” came to mean a
dull-witted or stupid person.
RECREATION NEWS
DIXIE YOUTH STANDINGS
Player—Team
Avinger (L)
Power (L) —
Campbell (L) .
S. Elrod (W)
Hammet (L)
J. Lawson (M)
Brock <K)
Adair (L)
Rikard (J)
King (L)
Whitmore (E) .
Pierce (K)
J. Sanders (E)
Patterson (M) .
Lever (M)
Watts (K)
Willard (W) .....
Laney (E)
Howard (W)
51
49
52
_... 61
64
56
Johnson (L) *56
T. Saiders (E) 41
Shields (W) 49
Kiwanis Club did
„The
again. They defeated the Lions
Friday night, 8-7. This gives
both clubs a split for the sea
son. The Lions won the first two
from the Kiwanis Club and
it Monday at 2:00 p. m. An ad
mission charge of twenty-five
cents will be made for the
tournament games.
Whitmire defeated Joanna the
past week and this leaves Jo-
the Kiwanis Club won the las* * nn * Whitmire with three
two from the Lions. The Ki
wanis Club is the ohly team so
far this season that has been
able to defeat the Lions Club.
All the regular season games
ended this week, and the sub
district tournament will start
losses each, two games to be
played on the regular schedule,
and Whitmire has one make-up
game because of rain with
Hampton. <f '
Joanna won the Small Fry
trophy and Lydia was second.
LEADING PALMETTO
PiwvnrBfi
J. Willard (W)—56; Motes (H)
—54; Tucker (B)—50; Lott (J)—
46; J. Chandler (T)—45; Nobles
(J)—44; B. Grady (D—42.
LEADING DIXIE YOUTH
PITCHERS
Tedards (D—64; T. Motes (L)
-62; B. Willard (W)-80; Kemp
- (K)—40; Melton (W)—33; Hair
ston (E)—33.
PALMETTO STANDINGS
Team W L
Joanna 10 3
Whtimire 9 3
Bailey 7 6
Thomwell 6 7
Lydia — 4 9
Hampton 2 10
LEADING PALMETTO
HITTERS
Player—Team i. AB H Avg.
Tucker (B) 36 18 .500
B. Chandler (J) 37 19 .487
Lott (J) 29 14 .483
J. Chandler (T) 32 14 .438
Motes (H) 27 10 .370
Foster (B) _.... 30 11 .367
Nobles (J) .... 31 11 .355
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Moss (W) 33 11 .1
Hedspeth (B) # *-*-*0
PALMETTO HOME RUNS ?
Lott (J>—7; B. Chaindler (J)
—4; J. Chaidler (T)-4.
DIXIE YOUTH HOME BUNS
B. Willard (W)-«; S. .Elrod
(W)—4; Hammet (L)—4; Patter
son (M)—3; Elsinore (W)—1;
Motes (D—4; Turner (M)-|; J.
Sanders (E)—2; Johnson (D—
2; Avinger (K)-2.
FINAL 8F STANDINGS
Team 1 W L
Joanna J- 10 2
Lydia L. 8 4
Bailey 6 8
Hampton 5 7
Team W L
Lions 16 2
Whitmire 16 6
Exchange r 11 7
Kiurants .
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aiopse —
Joanna _
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May Is ScIttduM
Sunday Evening
At Joanna Oiurcfi
A playlet, “World Awareness”,
by Gwynn McLendon Day, will
be given on Sunday evening, July
21 at 7:30 p.m. at First Baptist
Church, Joanna, South Carolina.
A group of juniors, intermedi
ates, young people, and adults
will participate.
“World Awarness” is a dra
matic interpretation of Aim
One, of the Woman’s Missionary
Union.
The public is invited to attend.
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