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4 • -^—7 ■ \.y / V ' Clinton, S. C, Thursday, January 23, 1964 v % fHE CLINTON CHRONICLE I- . Mr*. Ruth A. Roper, of Laurens, Writes of Tour of Holy Land ^ A Mrs. Robert H. Roper of Lau rens is spending several months countries bordering on the Mediterranean sea. At present she is visiting relatives in Beirut, Lebanon. She spent the Christ mas season in Bethlehem and a letter which she wrote to her grandchildren tellihg of her ex periences there follow?: Bethlehem „ Christmas 1963 To my lovely grandchildren —- Beth, Anne, Robert, Houston, and Ruth: In the past tep days I have visited so many ancient shrines in Jerusalem, Samaria and Ju dea that it will be remarkable if I keep them all in their rightful place, for our guide, Dr. Bonnett, of the .Near East School of Ar chaeology was so anxious for us to cover the entire area that I often frit that I needed at least an extra pair of eyes and hands as I tried to see everything, take notes and operate a camera that I was not too familiar with all at the same time. I have told you something about iriany of these interesting places, but this letter tonight will tell you especially of the trip from Jerusalem to Bethleham on Christmas Eve. We had visited the Church of the Nativity sev eral days earlier, but men have made the place where the Christ Child was born so ornate that it suggested nothing to me of the story as revealed in Luke 2, and I left feeling only that here was the area where Jesus was born and certainly it was in far more sim ple surroundings that Mary brought forth her first born child. With Christian folk the -world over we have sung “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” and always we connect it with the music of ’ carols and all, of childhood’s Christmas joy, but here in Jeru salem now, in this Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, as I followed the road to Bethlehem, the place of our Saviour’s birth has sud denly become no longer just a place on the map — but a place teeming with people, most of whom are dressed in clothes very similar to those worn by their ancestors more than 2,000 years ago. ■ • . , .. • l The rofcd :from Jerusalem to Bethlehem that was in use long before the Christian era is only about five miles long, but due “to the dispute over territory be tween Israel and Jordan, the Arabs have had to build a longer road through the Judean Hills (that look like mountains to me) in order to reach Bethlehem. We left the old city of Jerusa lem by the Damascus gate, pass ed Stephens gate, and crossed over the brook Kidron, and on past the walled in Garden of Gethsemane and the beautiful Church of All Nations. After passing Olivet, we wound around some 11 miles of the Judean Hills. Drivers go flying around blind curves on narrow streets and mi raculously seem never to crash, perhaps because the horn is go ing full blast and goats, sheep, shepherds, and chicken as well as children and other vehicles give way seemingly in the nick of time. The roads have no pro tective barriers to keep cars from going over the steep precipices. After a few miles we come back in to the old road to Beth lehem and pass Rachel’s tomb. A little Moslem domed building has replaced the st(ones that Jacob set to mark her grave. In passing we recall the story of beauty and love for the Bible tells us that Jacob loved Rachael who was “beautiful and lovely,” and through tricked by Laban into having to serve fourteen years for her. they seemed “but a few dajrs so great was his love for her.” It seems incredible that now 36 centuries later Moslems and Christians alike pause and remember their love story. As we draw nearer Bethlehem, the moon now half full sheds a glow on all the creamy native limestone buildings and terraces. We know from earlier trips made in daylight how these terraces are cultivated with a little donkey or camel pulling a wooden stick plow. It is extremely difficult to cultivate the land because of the rocks and steep hillsides. I am often reminded of what Dr. Coop er hold me before I left home— that I could readily see why ston ing was common method of ex ecution here in ancient times. There are weapons (deadly wea pons) available wherever you are. In Jericho I saw a maiden getting water in her 10-gallon can and then put it on her head to be on her way when she saw one of our group taking her picture. She reached down, picked up a rock and threw it with much force without upsetting the can of water the least bit. As we move on toward Beth lehem, we can faintly see in the moonlight the olive trees, the big fig trees — now bare of fruit and leaves, and we recall the open grassy space which still bears the the name Shepherds Field in hon or of those shepherds who were watching their flocks by night on that first Christmas eve. We re member, too, that it was in one in one of these Valley fields that Boaz reaped and Ruth gleaned. Along narrow goat paths stroll shepherds, the modem embodi ment of the good shepherd of whom Jesus told us. They still lead their slow moving, fat tailed sheep and black goats, for shep herding has not changed in these Bible lands since David on these same hillsides tended and defend ed his father Jesse’s flocks. Here the men still live with their an imals. They lead their flocks and the sheep have complete confi- dnee in the shepherd and will not follow a hireling. They name their sheep and the sheep, know ing the voice of the master, re respond only to his call. The shep herd protects his sheep, sleep ing out in the open at night (or in caves in bad weather); sens ing their shepherds watchfulness, the sheep “fear no evil.” Watch ing herds here in Bethlehem as well as in Samaria and in the wilderness around Jericho makes the twenty third Psalm become truly the perfect symbol of Christ.. (I’m sureoyou will re member that the twenty third Psalm was always f favorite loved bit of scripture to Daddy Bob.) But I have gotten sidetracked. Let us move on and approach the city itself. It is an every day sort of place, with markets, a police station, dozens of the small inevitable souvenir shops with hand wrought beautiful work in olive wood and Mother of Pearl. The people dress in an cient costumes, some wear mix ture of western and ancient, but all are exceedingly friendly, and often as you pass they* will say “Ahlan Wasahlan” meaning wel come. I remember that this is the highway that Mary and Jo seph traveled to be enrolled in the census that Caesar demand ed, and as we approach the Church of the Nativity we pass on by and wind around some hair pin curves to arrive at the place on Shepherd’s field that has been assigned to a rather small group of ChrisUan Arabs who have invited our group along with several missionaires of dif ferent faiths to meet with them. Around a bonfire we gather with many teen-age Arab boys and girls and many bright eyed boys and girls of about your age, Ruth. It was quite a chorus as perhaps 200 of us sang the famil iar carols, each singing in our own Language. There was a Scotsman near me that really could sing, and I’m afraid we made it kind of a duet. It would certainly not rate as a finished production such as Handel’s Hal lelujah Chorus, but it was a song of praise and thanksgiving from truly grateful hearts for the com ing of the Christ Child. I ex pect that some of these boys were among the many that we have seen walking along the highway to and from school, reading as they walk. We talked with sev eral groups, and they were all anxious to show us their text books. Some were studying as tronomy out in the desert near Jericho; others said they hoped to study medicine; and all are proud that they are learning to speak English. The familiar Christmas story 'rom Luke was read in Arabic and in English. Then a group of perhaps twenty five girls from the girls school for the blind sang two very beautiful Christmas songs without accompaniment. The air was crisp and clear; the evening star looked as if you could .almost reach up and touch it as an Arab Evangelist who represents the Southern Baptist Convention in all of the Arab countries spoke. I am told that he started off in classical Arabic, but sensing that his grojup did hot understand, h e quickly changed to a level they could un derstand. Would you believe that We stood through the whole serv ice and that f didn’t see even one that was restless? Though I knew only one word that he spoke “saloam,” meaning "peace,” I felt that he had presented the Christrtnas story in a way that we could all understand. I was told later that he is considered by some to be the Billy Graham of the Arab world. I hope to have a chance to hear him in English while I am in Beirut. So now another Christmas has passed, the first one that I have been away from you, but I send you much love and Best Wishes for happiness in the New Year. “Mama Ruth” Hv-SPECTATOR . . , COMMENTS A ON >+»»»»»»« ********* elation of Manufacturers 6lth annual^ Congress of American Industry at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. • ‘The Negrb believes that the lack of civil rights legislation and the lack of integration have kept him back, but this is not true. If he would learn to use the laws of obsrevation, concentration, memory, reason i and action, he would realize there is a world of opportunity right in his own back yard.’ S. B. Fuller, who is president of the $10 million dollar Fuller Products Co., a cosmetics firm with 10 subsidiaries, started the comany in 1935 with $25 in ,working capital. “The Negro must learn how to think,” he said. “You can’t can’t change the system to ac commodate the Negro. You have to change the Negro to MEN AND THINGS »*»'»****« j fit the system. You can’t legis- of initiative, courage, integrity, . ia . , . , - . The business man also at- loyalty and wisdom for their tacked the approach of ^ Na _ limited opportunities, accord- tional Association for the Ad- ing to S. B. Fuller, one of the; vancement of Colored People, country’s leading Negro busi-iA questioner asked him what ness men. the NAACP was doing for the He. spoke at a panel discus- individual Negro, sion before the National Asso- Ui-* -> Five Petticoats on Sunday" Caroline Coleman Collection of Published Columns (2nd Printing) The CHRONICLE _ STATIONERY SHOP 109-111 Gary Street Dial 833*0641 Is this a fair question? Is a Senator bound by reasons of personal integrity and patriot ism to think and plan for the well-being of the Nation? Or is his prime obligation to boost the president and sacrifice the fiscal condition of the Nation because measures of economy may be regarded as imparing th standing of the President. Behold the scholarly patriot, Senator Humphrey, who ar gues against cuts in our foreign aid waste because he thinks the President’s prestige requires the additional millions. Indeed, indeed!! Our national prestige 'calls for solvency. » « • Governor Donald Russell very appropriately calls atten tion to the industrial exapnsion in South Carolina. The figures are impressive: New plant con struction, $154,359,000; expan sion, $108,634,000. Said the Governor: “This was the fifth consecutive year of industrial development. The five-year value of new and re freshed industrialization was more than a billion dollars with 70,000 new jobs.” I have heard a radio broad cast of our great South Caro lina Company, the South Caro lina Electric and Gas Co., which is a four hundred million dollar investment in South Carolina and which, according to a recent talk over radio, will spend more than seventy- f o u r million dollars during 1963, 1964 and 1965 for new work, rebuilding and every thing necessary to provide all the power needed during those years. Whnever a great new en terprise comes to our state the power must be available so planning and building marches far fchead of immediate needs so that future needs are pro vided long in advance. This great company not only employs nearly two thousand men and women but pays in taxes nearly sixteen million dollars a year. Throughout our state new in vestments have been made, heavy fresh spending, notably by our great textUe plants, the greatest business we have in South Carolina Great operations, such as the mammoth Joanna Cotton Mills, have been our principal source of economic progress during years. They employ many thou sands of people, provide a mar ket for our cotton and pay hun dreds of millions of dollars in taxes. By the way our Nuclear plant, our Atomic energy elec tric plant, it now in operation. I quote a news dispatch from Parr: “The Carolinas-Virginia Nu clear Power Associates’ plant here sent electricity produced from atomic power through lines in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia for th« first time Monday. The electricity was produced by a chain reaction set off at 1:59 A. M. and flowed into the lines of the South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. Later it was connected into systems throughout associates’ three- state area. The Parr reactor was design ed and. built in cooperation with the Atomic Energy Com mission by the associates’ member companies — Carolina Power and^Light Co., Duke Power, South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. and Virginia Elec tric Power Co. The companies began the project in 1956 and the reac tor began operating last March 80. It has been providing data prior to the actual generation of dec tricity.” Our own native son, S. C. McMeekin, is the prime mov ing spirit in this notable en terprise. He hails from Fair- field County and is a graduate of Clemson College. Two great industrialists, both from coun ties still awaiting full develop ment, though reducing two grtat men, at least—I refer to James C. Self of old Edgefield and C. of old Fairfield. The New York' Herald-Tri bune publishes an acount of the carrer of a colored man who has achieved wealth and prominence in business. Quoting the Herald-Tribune: **1110 Negroes of the Uhttod States must blame their Tack “Nothing” he^ answered. “They are trying to change the white, man not the Negro.” The audience applauded. He also accused the Ameri can Negro of lethargy.*4le said that fhany a Negro, with an an cestral slave background, “learned to, hate work, and is not enthusiastic about doing anything for, himself.” “The Negro must pool his capital in order to help him self,” he said. ' “If the Negro had the amount of initiative, courage and imag ination required, he could con trol the retail selling in bis own community. “Since our capitalistic sys tem is a competitive system, the Negro must learn to com pete with his fellow man. He must not only seek jobs, but he must own establishments which will give jobs to others.” A vice-president of NAM reel ed off Fuller’s business accom plishments and added, “He was 15 years old before he knew there were more white men in this country than black.” Ful-jal Thursday for a substantial ler was born of poor parents increase in,parcel post mailing in Louisiana and went to rates. school only through the sixth : The increase averages 13.1 grade. per cent above the present rates It is refreshing. to read the suggestion of a Colored who has achieved success in the big world of affairs. I know some Colored farmers in State who have succeeded not ably. —^ A refreshing idea is the one offered by B. Fuller: “The Negro,” he. said,* “must learn to think; you can’t change the system to accommodate the Colored man; you have to change . the Colored man to fit the system. You can’t legislate equality.” The underlying truth of that observation applies to the White man also. Thousands of White men who seem to bewail conditions need to change themselves rather than condi tions. . v • • Parcel Post Rates To Be Raised 13% Washington—The Post Office Department won Interstate Commerce Commission approv- which have been in effect four years. It also would' apply to catalog mailings. It it now op to the Pott Of fice Department — faced with risihg parcel poet deficit*—to decide when the rates *haH take effect. f , - The ICC said the proposed rates would promote service to the public. * \ School Lunch Menu MONDAY Milk, hash, cole slaw, navy beans, buns, butter, sihd apple sauce. TUESDAY Milk, stew beef with carrots, black-eyed peas, - rice, corn bread, butter, and peach pie. WEDNESDAY Milk, spaghetti with meat sauce tpd cheese, ".carrot and cabbage slaw, corn, hot rolls, butter, and doughnuts. THURSDAY Milk, chickeQ Maryland, green beans, rice, biscuits, but ter, and strawbeiry shortcake. ' FRIDAY Milk, salmon croquettes, stewed tomatoes, cooked cab bage, corn bread, butter, and crackers with peanut butter. JOANNA ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH Clinton Highway, Joanna Ben F. Jones, Pastor 10:00 A. M , Sunday School 11:00 A M.,’Morning Wor ship. 7:00 P. M., Evening Wor ship. Tuesday, 7:00 P. M., Youth Hour. Wednesday, 7:00 P. M., Mid week Service. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 303 S. Broad St., Clinton J. H. Darr, Pastor 9:45 A. M., Sunday School. 11:00 A. M., Morning Wor ship. 6:30 P. M., Training Union. 7:15 P. M., Evening Wor ship. Weauesday, 7:30 P> M , Mid week Service. CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH Sloan St., Clinton J. W. Splllers, Pastor 10:00 A. M., Sunday School 11:00 A. M., Morning Wor ship. ‘LSO P. M., Training Union /:30 P. M., Evening Worship Wednesday, 7:30 P. M., Mid- Week Service. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Magnolia St., Joanha James B. Mitchell, Pastor 9:45 A. M., Sunday School. 11:00 A. M., Morning Wor ship. 6:15 P. M., Training Union. 7:30 P. M., Evening 1 Wor ship. ^ 8:30 P. M., Youth Fellow ship. Wednesday, 7:30 P M„ Mid week Service. FIRST PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH Jackson St., Clinton I. H. Webb, Pastor 10:00 A. M., Sunday School. 11:00 A. M., Morning Wor ship. 7:00 P. M., Evening Wor ship. Wednesday, 7:00 P. M„ Mid week Service. FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH North Broad St., CUntoa Jesse D. Stephens, Pastor 10:00 A. M., Sunday School. 11:00 A. M., Morning Wor ship. 7:00 P. M., Evening Wor ship. Wednesday, 7:00 P. M., Mid week Service. v % * LYDIA BAPTIST CHURCH . Lydia Mill, Clinton M. J. Sanders, Pastor 10:00 A. M., Sunday School. 11:00 A. M., Morning Wor ship. 6:80 P. M., Training Union. 7:30 P. M., Evening Wor ship: 10 A. M. and 7:30 P. M.. Wednesday Prayer Sendee. 8:80 P. M., Choir Practice. THORNWELL MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Thornwell Campus, Clinton Malcelm A. Macdonald Pastor 10:00 A. M., Sunday School. 11:00 A. M., Morning Wor ship. 6:45 P. M., Youth Fellow ship. 7:30 P. M., Evening Wor ship. 7:80 P. M., Evening Wor-, ship. ASSEMBLY OF GOD BETHEL TEMPLE 114 N. Owens SL, CUntoa James W. Weleh, Jr., Paster 10:00 A. M.—Sunday School 11:00 A. M.—Morning Wor ship. 6:45 P. M.-C. A. Service 7:80 P. M.—Evening Wor ship. Wednesday. 7:80 P. M- Mid-Week Service. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Mtltrn Read Joanna 10:00 A. M., Sunday School. 11:00 A. M., Mominf War •hip. The Church i> tlw . factor on earth for the huiM mg of character and *. i d ulitenahip. It u a atorehnu..- of epintual valor* Without a •tronjt church, nnlher democracy nor uvilitaticn ran eurvive. There are four round reaaons «hy every ehould altem! aerv ue* regularly and eupiHirt the church. They are: ill For hi* own sake. (2) For Kia chil dren’e aakr (.11 For the n ke of hia community and na'ion. (4) For the *ake of the church itacit, which needa his moral and material •uppur Plan to go to chunh regularly and reed your ttiblr daily Keister Advert mu ng Service. 1m . Street V* Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Psalms Matthew Mark Luke Luke Luke John 48:1-5 18:18-23 7:1-8 9:51-62 18:1-8 18:9-14 1:1-13 This Page Is Made Possible Through the Cooperation of Local Firms • Community Cash Florida St. Citizens Federal Savings and Loan Association 220 W. Main St. Johnson Brothers Super Market S. Broad St. * .4 LEESVILLE SOUTHERN METHODIST CHURCH Rev. Legrand Adams, Pastor Member of ACCC ft ICCC 10:15 A. M., Sunday School. 11:00 A. M., Worship Serv ice 6:30 P. M., Epworth League. McGee’s Drug Store 100 W. Main St. \ T. E. Jones and Sons Furniture 200 W. Main St. Golf Oil Products J. A. Addison, Distributor City Tire Service ” S. Broad St. Chronicle Publishing Co. 109 Gary St. Gray Funeral Home Phone 8334720 ** Newberry County Bank Joanna Beacon Drive-In Whitmire Highway ST. BONIFACE CATHOLIC CHURCH . Joanna . Father E. Gerald Erast Pastftr Phone 6$7-4581# Sunday Mass—10:00 A. M. Confessions before the Mass DAVIDSON STREET BAPTIST CHURCH Davidson St., CUntoa M. Floyd Hellams, Pastor v IJ 10:00 A. M., Sunday School. 1J 11:00 A. M., Morning Wor ship. 6:30 P. M., Training Union. 7:30 P. M., Evening Wor ship. Wednesday, 7:30 P. M., Mid week Service. LYDIA CHURCH OF GOD Lydia Mill, CUntoa J: D. W. Moody, Pastor 10 A. M. Sunday School.\ 11 A. M., Morning Worship. 6:30 P. M., Young People’s Endeavor. 7:30 P.\ M.,- Evening Worship. 10 A. M. and 7:80 P. M., Wednesday Prayer Services. PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH. Whitmire Highway, - Ioanna Floyd Brewer, Pastor 10:00 A. M., Sunday School. 11:00 A. M. t Morning Wor ship. 6:00 P. M., Lifellners. 7:00 P. M., Evening Wor ship. Wednesday, 7:00 P. M., Mid week Service. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 410 E. Caro. Age., CUntoa W. Redd Tnraer, Pastor 9:45 A. M., Sunday School. 11:00 Ik. M., Morning Wor ship. 6:45 P. M., Youth Fellow ship. - ' p Wednesday, 7:80 P. M., Mid week Service. SHARON METHODIST CHURCH • ■ Kinards J. Richard McAlister, Pastor 10:00 A. M., Morning Wor ship. ELIZABETH STREET - CHURCH OF GOD 312 Elisabeth SL, CUntoa J. L. Jenkins, Pastor 10:00 A. M.. Sunday School. 11:00 A. M., Morning Wor ship. ‘ 6:00 P. M., Young Psoplt’s Endeavor. 7:00 f. M., Evening Wor ship. Wednesday, 7:00 P. M., Mid week Service. LYDIA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Lydia Mill, CUntoa 10 A. M., Sunday School. 11 A. M., Morning Worship. EPWORTH METHODIST CHURCH Magnolia St., Joanna J. Herbert Thomas, Pastor 9:55 A. M., Sunday School. 11:00 A M , Morning Wor ship. 7:00 P. M., Evening Wor ship. Sunday, 8:00 P M. ( Senior M. Y. F. Tuesday, 7:00 P M., Junior High M.' Y. F. Wednesday, 7:00 P. M., Mid week Service. BAILEY MEMORIAL METHODIST CHURCfe Julian Weisner, Pastor 10:00 A. M., Sunday School. 11:00 A. M., Morning Wor ship. 7:00 P. M.. M. Y. F. 7:30 P. M., Evening Wor ship. Wednesday, 7:30 P. M., Mid week Eervice. HURRICANE BAPTIST CHURCH RFD, Clinton C. E. Russell, Pastor 10.00 A. M., Sunday School. 11:00 A. M., Morning Wor- •ship. 7:30 P. M., Evening Wor ship. ^“7“ Wednesday, 7:30 midweek prayer service. PROVIDENCE ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH C. Bynum Betts, Pastor 10:00 A. M., Sunday School 11:00 A. M., Morning Wor ship. 6:45 P. M. t Y. P C. U. 7:30 P. • M. f Evening Wor ship. Wednesday, 7:30 P. M., Mid week Service. LYDIA METHODIST CHURCH Lydia MU1, Clinton Rev. Dean Sawyer, Pastor 10:00 A. M., Sunday Scbolo 11:00 A. M., Morning] Wor ship. 6:00 P. M., ‘MYF. 7:00 P. M., Evening Worship SANDY SPRINGS METHODIST CHURCH 10:00 A. M.—Morning Wor ship. 11:00 A. «M.—Sunday School 8:00 P. M., Evening Worship BROAD STREET METHODIST CHURCH North Broad St., CUntoa A. S. Harvey, Pastor 9:45 A. M., Sunday School. 11:00 A. M., Morning Wor- ship. „ 6:30 P. M., M. Y. F. - ' 7:30 P. M. t Evening Wor ship. Wednesday, 7:30 P. M. B4 b’e Study. * LYDIA PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH Poplar St Ext, Lydia J. Roscoe Bryan, Pastor 11:00 A. M., Sunday School 11:00 A. M., Morning Wor ship. 6:00 P. M., Lifellners. 7:00 P. M., Evening Wor ship. Wednesday, 7:00 P. M., Mid week Service. ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH Corner Calvert Avenae and S. Holland St, CUntoa John Riven, Pastor 9:00 A. M., Holy Communion 10:00^. M., Church School 11:00 A. M., Morning Prayer Holy Communion 2nd Sunday 7:45 P. M., Evening Prayer HOPEWELL METHODIST CHURCH RFD Ne. 3, CUntoa J. Richard McAlister, Pastes 10:00 A. M., Sunday SchooL 11:15 A. M., Morning Wor ship. 7:06 P. M., MYF ST. JOHN’S EVANGELICAL ^LUTHERAN CHUBOI - 205 Hampton Ave., J. Gordon Peery, 10:00 A. M. 11:00 A. M., ship. , 4:00 PH., Yt