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' # x ■ mjHj , -T 4 >> 8 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Cfetoa* & Cn Tkoraday, </ « ». K Battery Members Get Pay Checks Members of Btry B, 1st AW Bn (Sp) 263rd Arty., the local National Guard unit, lined up Dec. 17 to receive their pay checks for the final quarter of 1963 (upper photo). The total for the last quarter was more than $9,000. During the calendar year 1963 the National Guard has brought more than $62,000 into the local economy. The lower photo shows Sp4 James R. King as he receives his check from Capt. Van C. Oxner, Jr., com mander of the unit. Sgt. Bobby Meadors (at right) does the paper work as the checks are delivered.— Photo by Paul Quinton. Bv SPECTATOR ... j " ^ ^ ■ COMMENT* ON MEN AND THINGS Yoik Chamber of Commerce Bul letin recited some facte which in dicate the colossal interests con centrated in New York. “Nw York City is the largest community in the Nation, with a 1960 census population of 7,781,- 984. The New York Northeastern New Jersey Standard Consolidat ed Metropolitan Area has the largest population of any metro politan area in the United States, with a census enumeration of 14,- 759,429 in 1960. In terms of aggregate income of its population, the New York Northeastern New Jersey Metro politan Area leads the Nation with a total income of $35.6 bil lion in 1959.” And certainly is much greater now. ‘The labor force of the New York Northeastern New Jersey Metropolitan Area is the largest in the United States, and total mployment aggregated 5,997,- 381 in 1960. The New York Northeastern New Jersey Metropolitan Area leads the country in the numbers of people employed in 1960 in all major employment categories: construction, 277,421; manufac turing, 1,741,609; transportation, communications and public utili ties, 495,858; wholesale and re tail trade, 1,099,334; finance, in surance and real estate, 428,122; educational services, 245,851; and public administration, 269,- 502. The New York Northeastern New Jersey Consolidated Metro politan Area is the nation’s most important manufacturing center, with 50,415 establishments in 1958, and with a value added by manufacture of $15.3 billion in that year. It is the nation’s largest retail trade area with total sales in 1958 of $18.5 billion. It also leads the nation in the number of wholesale trade establishments— 38,022 in 1956-with total sales of $54.7 billion. In selected services it ranks first in the nation wah 96,000 es tablishments in 1958, and total receipts of $6.5 billion. from here? Where do we go That is the question. Recently I drove quite a bit over our state and while driving let my thoughts play at random. So now! I thought of the vast areas of the United States which wait for settlers whose labor will bring to reality the vast possibilities of enormous areas. How shall we bring to pass the great potential of undeveloped resources? Because I cannot prescribe the remedy does not mean that the need is not great. Ride to Cali fornia, taking a note of all the territory, beginning with the pos sibilities of South Carolina.- You may recall my prediction that some day explorers will find incalculable wealth in our sandy strecthes from Cheraw to Au gusta, running through the coun ties of York, Lancaster, Ker shaw, Richland, Sumter, Lexing ton, and Aiken, And we have a potential in our large areas of swamps. Some time ago a very acute and constructive businessman negotiated for the purchase of some swamp areas I have been holding for the dawn of a new era. Who can tell? In the marvelous economy of Jehovah there is no waste, no useless areas. Swamps sandy stretches and marsh stretches will some day be made to serve the needs of a new day as our understanding grows. • • How great is New York!! An article recently in the New 'Tales Of Beaufort" Ndl S. Graydon Photographs By Eugene Sloan ‘ ■ '^T • THE CHRONICLE 11, mercial banks which are domi ciled elsewhere maintain offices in New York City. The New York Metropolitan Area is headquarters for nine of the nation’s fifty leading life in surance companies, including five of the top ten; and twenty- three other of the fifty largest life insurance companies main tain offices in the New York Area. Nine of the top fifty transpor tation companies have their headquarters in New York City; and all of the-remaining forty-one have offices in the New York Metropolitan Area. Seventy-two of the one hundred largest foreign industrial com panies have offices in New York City. Of the fifty largest utilities in the nation, eleven have their headquarters in New York City, and eight more maintain offices or other establishments in the New York Metropolitan Area. According to the 1963 Classified Manhattan Telephone Directory, fifiy-nine foreign banks maintain offices in New York City. tional and world leader in bank ing and finance. Bank deposits in 1960 totaled $58 billion—more than four times the total shown by the second-ranking banking center. It serves as the nation’s money market, being the center of finace and investment. The two major stock exchanges are located in New York City; and it is the headquarters of the leading investment banking and securi ties firms. New York also leads as the na tion’s principal terminal for for eign commerce by air. During the first three quarters of 195$, 41.7% of the nation’s total for eign commerce by air was han dled in the New York Customs District; and the value of the im ports and - exports handle! through New York was 70% of the total value of the country’s airborne foreign commerce. Of the 500 largest industrial corporations in the United States as reported by Fortune Magazine in August, 1962, 135 maintained their headquarters in New York iCty, and an additional 24 have headquarters in other parts of the New York Metropolitan Area. Of the remaining 341 companies, 270 maintain major plants or of fices in the New York Metropoli tan Area. Six of the ten largest commer cial banks in the United States are located in New York City with total deposits in 1961 of $34.6 billion. Including these, nine of the top fifty commercial banks in the nation are located in the New York Metropolitan Area. In addition, eleven other of the nation’s largest fifty com- vention center in the United States. According to the 1961 re port of the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau, there were total of 789 conventions and came a model for law reformers throughout the world and is the ancestor of mnay laws that gov ern us to this very day. H is the basic law of Louisiana. • • • Joanna Children Have Holiday forty Joanna Cotton Mills and Joan na Foundation played hosts to all children 10 years aid and under of employees and other residents of the community on — at the Joanna Club house and Woodson Center. ' Thirteen hundred mammoth stockings and an equal number of bags of assorted candies were given by Santa to each child who attended. EVERYDAY COUNSELOR Rv Hish p Herbert Spaugh ‘‘How to make work a pleasure —the art of getting along,” is the title of a set of rules by an un known author which has come to It is the most important cop-J my desk. I pass them on. ‘‘Sooner or later a man, if he is wise, discovers that business life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take. “He learns that it dots not in one place than la another, and that ’getting along’ depends about 90 per cent on his own be havior. If your mind is functioning properly you realize the truth of these rules. You realise that life when we are living la [ for all of us is give and take, and ! with God, making Him ! that there is no limit to what man can do if he doesn’t care about who gets the creon for it. These rules work beautifully Partner. But when we push God out or over to second piaeb, oar troubles commence. There is no substitute for divine partnership. expositions in New York City in that year, with a total attendance of more than three million peo ple. Moreover, it is the leading city in the number of business and tourist visitors, nearly 11 million of whom came to New York in 1961. Being the home of the United Nations Organization, New York is the center of international gvoernment. Currently, 107 na tions maintain missions to the United Nations in New York City. According to the New York City Deparament of Commerce and Industrial Development, during 1961 the airports under the jurisdiction of the Port of New York Authority handled 16,- 301,047 passengers, of which 13,- 397,017 were domestic and 2,- 904,030 were overseas. New York affir general. ing center in the United States both with respect to domestic as well as overseas passenger move ments; and it is the principal center for air cargo. What a town! What a town! The references to New York Northeastern New Jersey area is bcause Nw Jersey is just as close to New York as Mt. Pleasant is to Charleston; or as Cayce and West Columbia are to Columbia. « * • Napoleon Bonaparte shaped our lives in more ways than peo ple realize and in ^musingly di verse ways, from beets to cognac and from codes to cans. In 1895, in the midst of a mas sive European war, Napoleon of fered a 12,000 franc award to the first patriot who could devise a method of keeping food fresh until it reached the front. Nicolar Appert came up with the solu tion; food boiled in containers which were then sealed with corks and waxed around the edges. Voila, the tin can! Thirteen of our United States, in whole or in part, owe their existence to Napoleon’s decisiqn to sell all French holdings^Adt 000,000 acres between the Rockie and the Mississippi, to the United States for a mere 15 million dol lars. Napoleon’s name still graces a many-layered, cream filled French pastry. Courvoisier cog nac bears the legend, ‘The bran dy of Napoleon’. Napoleon found ed the Legion of Honor. Perhaps Napoleon’s best- known contribution to mankind was his Code Napoleon—a code of laws. The Napoelonic Code be- pay to be a sensitive soul—that he should let some things go over his head like water off a duck’s back. ‘’He. learns that he who loses bsi temper usually loses. ‘‘He learns that all men have burnt toast for breakfast now and then, and that he shouldn’t take the other fellow’s grouch too seriously. ‘‘He learns that carrying a chip on his shoulder is the easiest way to get into a fight. ‘‘He learns that the quickest way to become unpopular is to carry tales and gossip about oth ers. v ‘‘He learns that it doesn’t mat ter much who gets the credit, so long as the business shows a profit, tint flung business could run along per fectly well without him. ‘‘He learns that even the jani tor is human, and that it doesn’t do any harm to smile and say ‘Good Morning,’ even if it is raining. “He learns that most of the other fellows are as ambitious as he is, and that they have brains that are as good or better, and that hard work and not clever ness is the secret of success. ‘‘He learns to sympathize with the learner coming into the busi ness because he remembers how bewildered he was when he first started out ‘‘He learns not to worry when things go wrong because expe rience has hown that if he always gives the best his average will break pretty well. “He learns that no man ever gets to first base alone, that it is only through cooperative effort that we move on-to better things. ‘‘He learns that the bosses are not monsters trying to get the last ounce of work out of him for the least amount of pay, but that they are usually fne men who have succeeded through hard work, and who want to do the right thing. ‘‘He learns that the folks are not any harder to get along with ^ M. 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