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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Clinton, S. C., Thursday, January 2. 1964
The New Year
The New Year cometh and the old year must depart, and so it has been for centuries.
Once every 365 days, the world pauses for a moment of reflection, for a brief but
meaningful examination of self and surroundings. Then, with a shrug, a new, unlettered
page is prepared to record the fulfillment of a new’ set
of ambitions, intentions and purposes.
Through the centuries customs and traditions have
contributed to the New Year observanve to make it
more than a time to mark the passing of another era..
It is a season of awakening to the realization that w’e
have not accomplished all of the things once planned.
It is a time to be grateful for the blessings received. It
is a time to plan and hope; to lay the mental founda
tion for new ambitions and aspirations.
While New Year resolutions are no more worthy, nor
more likely to be kept, than resolutions made at Thanks
giving or Christmas, there is a psychological advantage
that favors the custom of making New Year promises.
The New Year marks the beginning of another era and,
in a sense, w'e start with a ’‘dear slate.” There are
other advantages, too. We are older, wiser, and should
have profited from our experiences, good and bad.
One need not make resolutions, however, to profit from the coming of a New Year.
Blue-print ambitions and dreams are no more important than a determined effort to do
things a little better, learn a little more and give whatever talents we may possess to
the making of a letter world in which we live.
And there’s no better time to start than with the New Year, when each bright new
page on the calendar has ample room to record every achievement.
considered unrealistic and visionary. But—and
this is my point—even though the ambitious
efforts to meet competition during the recovery
years brought about ever-greater technological
changes, jobs actually became more and more
plentiful
So with the spectacular influx of automation
in recent-Vears, the number of jobs has steadily
increased. Total civilian employment stands now
at better than 69 million, a figure that nobody
would have believed if it had been predicted only
15 or 20 years ago. A gradual but definite change
in the pattern of employment has helped the
situation: Not only have new industries sprung
up.-such as electronics, instruments and con
trols, and aerospace—but more workers have i Clinton for $10.00 and other
been absorbed by trade, finance, service, and considerations
government.
WAGES HAVE ALSO SKYROCKETED
Moving up with employment have been earn
ings. Back in 1909, manufacturing workers were
making less than 20c an hour, on average; but
now they are making $2.47. The trend is still
upward and will be as far ahead as we can see.
The weekly take of such employees amounted to
$9 74 in 1909; it has now passed the $100 mark.
So those who expected that fewer jobs and lower
pay would result from belt-line processes and
automation have been wrong thus far. It is my
feeling that they will continue to be proven wrong
over the years ahead.
Our Physician
Population Grows
It is periodically charged that the num-
Financial columnist Sylvia Porter says;
“We now have the first solid dollars-and-
conts signal that the current 33-month-old
business upturn will continue into 1964.
The signal lies in this one fact: American
her of practicing physicians in this country businessmen already plan a 4 per cent hike
is not large enough to meet the need and in their spending on new plants and equip-
the demand for medical services. men ^ in 1964 to a r ^ r d dollar amount of
If such a fear has any validity at all, it Million,
would seem that the lack is being rapidly
made up. The American Medical Associa-
A quotation from Abraham Lincoln:
"Every man is said to have his peculiar
tion recently reported that the ratio of ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can
doctors i>er 100,000 polulation has increas- say for one, that I have no other so great
as that of being truly esteemed by my fel
low men.”
ed from i37.6 u> 146.7 in only three years.
There is every reason to believe that the
trend will continue. More students are en
rolled in our medical schools than ever be
fore, and this year’s graduating class to
taled the highest in history. The number
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of those schools has grown from 77 to 87 „ .. . .. . 0
__ Bab son Park. Mass. January 2 Whenever;
in 17 years, five more are to be built short- there is a new upsurge in technological efficiency,
there is an immediate outcry that this will mean 1
Babson Says Automation
Means More Jobs
Public Records
MARRIAGE LICENSES
ISSUED
David Dial and LiUie Ella
Finley of Laurens.
Larry Gene Medlock of Kin-
ards, and Florence Nell Farm
er of Clinton.
Harrison Evans Williams,
Jr, of Columbia, and Gladys 4500.00.
Rosetta Satterwhite to Mort
gage Investment Traders, Inc.,
lot in Laurens County for $1.00
and other considerations.
Albert H. Hopkins to Claude
L. and Martha A. Hartline, lot
in Watts Heights Subdivision,
Laurens, for $8,780.00.
Legare B. Padgett to Rich
ard A. Wasson, lot in Laurens
County for $380.00.
Nannie M. Taylor to Edwin
Henry Lyons and Loree Cook
Lyons, lot in Laurens County
for love and affection.
Marshall W. Abercrombie,
Special Referee, to Family
Mortgage Co., lot in Laurens
County for $8,500.00.
Marshall W.
Special Referee, to Family
Mortgage Co., .48 of an acre in
Young’s Township for $2,500.00.
Continental Land Co. to C. B.
Alexander and Louise H. Alex
ander, lot in Lakewood for
Edwin N. Richardson, Jr.,
and Jo Ann B. Richardson to
Don Miles Smith and Patricia
Ann A. Smith, lot in Laurens
County for $10.00 and other
considerations.
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ly, and another six are in the planning
stage.
The AM A News urges that physicians
contribute to the future of medicine by
giving guidance and inspiration to secon
dary school students who may be consider
ing medical careers and must soon make a
positive or negative decision. In its words,
“By assisting these schools in their search
for dedicated ami w’ell qualified students,
today’s physicians can assure a strong pro
fession and a healthy America for tomor
row.” No one who knows the calibre of
the medical profession will doubt that such
a challenge will be met.
So, there would seem to be no grounds
for believing that the standards of medical
care in this country', which certainly are
not surpassed anywhere, will suffer. There
is, on the other hand, every reason for be
lieving that those standards, aided by new
discoveries and techniques, some of a lit^
erally revolutionary character, will surely
improve.
“Part-Time Keynesians”
A group of university economists re
cently signed a statement of fiscal prin
ciples. One plank holds that current gov
ernment deficits are neither dangerous nor
Inflationary; another minimizes the imjxtr-
tanee of huge federal debt.
If these economists are correct, the fis
cal history of nations has embarked on a
new direction. Continued deficits on the
part of government, like continued deficits
on the part of a family, have always led
to disaster. The difference is that govern
ment, with its ability to draw upon all the
savings and earnings and resources of its
people, can stave off the day of reckoning.
This is mindful of the old argument of
what might l>e termed the "part-time Key
nesians”—those who used the writings of
the late Lord Keynes as justification for
deficit spending. But they skipped over
the fact that Keynes regarded this as a
proper course only under cretain conditions,
such as a great depression.
less employment and reduced earnings. It has
long been my opinion that technical improve
ments -even in the radical form of modern auto
mation-do not mean fewer jobs or lower wages
WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS
On the contrary, more rapid and cheaper
methods ol doing work mean more jobs in the
long run I believe this is prov
ed by the statistics that chart
the progress of employment
and earnings over the more
than 50 years that 1 have been
forecasting economic changes
in the U. S. A Unions and work
ers are naturally upset when
they see jobs taken away from
men and women and given to
machines But they are look-
Boger w. B«bMa in g at ^ s hort-range problems,
not the long-range benefits
It would be foolish to deny that there are
serious immediate difficulties posed by automa
tion Retraining, replacement, and other pro
grams are necessary to cushion the initial im
pact Management, union, municipal, state, and
federal authorities well recognize the temporary
confusion that must be alleviated For one thing,
there is more need for workers of high skills,
less for thoic with no training
ALWAYS THE SAME ALARM
When Henry Ford, long years ago. started
his fantastic belt-line going, many economic ob
Stories
Behind
Words
by
William S. Penfield
Morning Glory
Morning glory is the name of a family of flowering
plants of many varieties. These climbing plants grow
rapidly and twine about any object nearby, and thus
are often used to cover fences and porches.
The morning glory gets its name from the fact
that its multi-colored blossoms are in full bloom, or at
peak of their glory, when the sun rises. The rays of
the sun cause the funnel-shaped blossoms to close be
fore noon.
A person may start out strong in some endeavor,
and fade under the heat of prolonged competition. Re-
cause of the ^similarity, a person displaying this trait^ Xr
Ann Williams of Laurens.
Calvin Nathaniel Fleming
and Dorothy Lee Cunningham
of Laurens.
Leroy Pitts and Rosemary
Hunter of Laurens.
Clyde Edward Vaughn and
Brenda Ruth Terry of Gray
Court.
Robert Edward Gray and
Hazel Frances Allen of Foun
tain Inn.
Russell Gray Eeaton and
Barbara Beatrice Martin of
Clinton.
Willie Earston Thompson of
Gray Court, and Ethel Strother
of Laurens.
Charles Hampton Bolt of
Laurens, and Judith Lee Coop
er of Greenville.
Paul Calhoun and Magdaline
Thompson of Laurens.
Richard Arnold Wasson of
Laurens, and Pauline Gentry
Matthews of Saluda.
John Terry Manus of Spar
tanburg, and Barbara Edna
Epley of Whitney.
Douglas Edward DeYoung of
Clinton, and Maida Thackston
Jones of Fountain Inn.
Maxie Dean Davis and Bev
erly Kay Hill of Clinton.
John Howard, Jr., of Lau
rens, and Jessie May Linda
Faye Medlin of Clinton.
Reid Oliver Chaney and Sal
ly Ann Beaman of Clinton.
PROPERTY TRANSFERS
John Ralph Bagwell to Re
becca Bagwell Butler, 15 acres
near Waterloo for $5 00 and
other considerations
J. J. Bailey to Jeff R. Rich- !
ardson, Jr., 45.0 acres in
Young’s Township for $10.00
and other considerations
Sara Culbertson and Jones
Culbertson to Mary E. Bayne,
2Vi acres for $10.00 and other
considerations.
T. C. Williams to Bessie Wil- 1
liams, lot in the Town of Foun-
Continental Land Co. to C. B.
Alexander and Louise H. Alex
ander, lots in Lakewood for
$849.00.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sincer
ity and gratitude for the kindness
and friendship shown during the
sic kness and death of Clarice B
Nelson.
It was extremely generous of
j each one to have so much
thoughtfulness and to make our
grief a little easier to bear.
Family of Joe R. Nelson
CITATION FOR LETTERS
OF ADMINISTRATION
The State of Sooth Carolina,
County of Laurens
By J. H. Wasson, Probate
Judge:
WHEREAS James A. Sober
made suit to me to grant him
Letters of Administration of
the Estate and effects of Jesse
Suber.
These are, therefore, to cl
and admonish all and singular
the Kindred and Creditors ( of
Abercrombie, the said Jesse Suber, deceased,
that they be and appear before
me, in the Court of Probate, to
be held at Laurens Court
House, Laurens, S. C., on Janu
ary 2, 1964, next, after publi
cation hereof, at 10 o’clock in
the forenoon, to show cause, if
any they have, why the said
Administration should not be
granted.
Given under my hand this
23rd day of December Anno
Domini 1963.
J. HEWLETTE WASSON,
J2-2C-J9 J. P- L. C.
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FARMS AND FOLKS
By L. C. HAMILTON
Clemson C ollege Extension Information Specialist
considerations
Mrs. George Crapps to the
Laurens Electric Cooperative.
Inc., lot near by-pass leading
from Watts ville to American
Lava Corporation for $625.00. !
Venie Carver Caldwell to
Raymond S. Benson and Daph
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miles northwest? of the City of
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RICE VENTURE ON
LAKE MOULTRIE
Rice—is it coming back to the
Palmetto state’
Jasper Jeffers of Cross in
servers and the working groups generally were Berkeley county thinks it might.-
(Misitive that the result would be wholesale un- 1 saw recently a new rice mill
employment and lower pay Mr Ford answered the first to be built in South
the last part of the charge by immediately pay-| Carolina in many years on his
mg his employees the biggest hourly wage in farm. It embodies his hopes that
history: and the prediction of wholesale unem-j this once important crop will
ployment was proved wrong by history itself, i move trom the pages of our ro-
At each step during the “industrial revolution" I mardic history into bloodstream
when new ways of speeding production were the economy,
undertaken, the same alarm was sounded But, ! Jeffers gave two reasons he
each time, there turned out to be more jobs in thinks rice may return, recent
the lom? run rather than fewer-better pav m-1‘ hanges in allotment regulations;
stead of ‘sweatshop" rates. | and because, "It’s a good money
It is often forgotten that when new Jabor-sav- cr °P
ing machines are brought out, these products
themselves have to be manufactured, serviced,
and repaired. This opens up a whole new web
of jobs. Even a casual examination of fundamen
tal statistics will reveal the vast increases in
employment that have paralleled history-making
technological advances and greater efficiency in
all lines.
60 MILLION JOBS ONCE VISIONARY GOAL
Many of you will remember the dark time
in the 1930s when unemployment constituted
about 25G of the labor force. Even after the
pump-priming and business aids of the New
Deal, the jobless in 1940 still made up about
15 f ‘; of the work force. Vice President Henry
Wallace wrote a book called "Sixty Million
Jobs", a hopeful work which many economists
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1%4
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"Formerly, the rice allotments
stayed with the land. However,
the 1964 allotments are producer
allotments This menas a per
son may apply for an allotment.
He can grow part of it himself
and lease the remainder to an
other farmer
This greatly expands the geo
graphic area on which rice might
conceivably be grown—also the
number of possible growers.
"A rice crop should yield about
80 bushels an acre. At this time,
rough rice brings about $2 50 a
bushel. That’s $200 an acre," he
says about possible returns.
Contrary to some thinking,
Jeffers thinks rice has a low
labor requirement compared to
most major crops g
"I decided to go into the busi
ness about five years ago after
having a heart attack and get
ting orders to slow down.”
He purchased 150 acres of land
next to Lake Moultrie reservoir
just north of Moncks Comer. An
agreement with the Santee-
Cooper Authority gave him water
rights. He ditched the land into
neat squares and planted a trial
acreage three years ago.
Encouraged by what he found,
he expanded the acreage to 100
lats year. Despite a serious bout
with rice birds, the harvest con
firmed his belief that a rice
comeback was possible.
Jeffers’ mill is capable of mill
ing 1,1000 pounds of rice in an
hour. "This is small as rice mills
go. It is actually about one-
twentieth as large as most
mills.”
Despite its small size, the mill
turns out the various compon
ents of rice milling: white rice,
bran, and hulls. Jeffers has
found litlte trouble in selling the
products. The white rice is sold
to a wholesale rice merchant in
Charleston, Jacob B Sherman
and Son Jeffers is not concern
ed about overproduction
"It would take about 30,000
acres to supply the annual de
mand in South Carolina -produc-
own shop, to be known as the
ers says.
This year’s state production of
about 100 acres is a far cry from
that
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FRIENDLY PARTING
South Carolina swine produc
ers now have their own state
organization.
By mutual agreement and
carrying a share of the funds,
swine producers in the South
Carolina Livestock Association
have pulled o#l and set up their
own shop, to beknown as the
South Carolina Swine Producers’
Association.
Fred Mathias, I^exington coun
ty farmer, was elected tempor
ary chairman at a recent Colum
bia meeting, a big organization
al meeting, with prominent
speakers from the swine field, is
now being contemplated for Lex
ington, about January 7.
The cattlemen have begun to
pinpoint their own industry too.
The name of the old livestock as
sociation has been changed to
the South Carolina Cattleman’s
Association. Sam Wright, York,
is the new president, succeeding
Ed Small, Gaffney.
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woman, she thinks you don’t
love her anymore: keep it up
and ahe’ll eventually think
■he’s too good for you."
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