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* s. c.. July % 1M4 THB CLINTON CSBON1CLB South Carolinian In Washington opinion in the state as Inog as Byrnes will also bs felt. We pee- possible before Issuing any did an early meeting between statement. Byrnes and Goldwater following The influence of James F. the Repubican convention. If by Brent flreeihi GOLDWATER IS FAVORED TO WIN SOUTH CAROLINA Remember the political senti ment in South Carolina seven months ago. Polls showed that voters in our state, and in most of the other Southern states as well, favored Senator Barry Goldwater over President John F. Kennedy. The reason: Ken nedy's approach to the so-called civil rights legislation and its enforcement Such sentiment was so obvious to the politically astute Kennedy that he had already curtailed certain parts of the proposed civil rights package, feeling it might not get through Congress. The week-end before he was killed, a national radio comenta- tor blasted President Kennedy for “giving in” to conservative groups both in the case of his battle with U. S. Steel and in his conflict with Southern Demo crats. Even this willingness to - gl y, Wdl, U» — TOUR FRIENDLY — MIDWAY DRIVE-IN THEATRE • Tonight And Friday • ELSA MARTINELU • Saturday Only • July 11th Double Feature NO. 1 nMBHRQiSr mEZZgllor, no. a With Pally Bergen Sun - Mon. • Tues. July 12-14 TWO BIO HITS NO. 1 IBHNSMMIB-Iffil NO. 2 ilBSBMtr I muon ABSDMIDIBCKS average Southerner to his cor ner, however. This all changed immediately following the Kennedy assassi nation. Goldwaters’ support in the South faded before the tidal wave of sympathy all felt toe the late President and his family coupled with the ascension of Southerner Lyndon B. Johnson. GOLDWATER RACK IN BUSINESS In his attempt to be all things to all men. President Johnson has suceeded* in keeping the South behind him to date through heavy persuasion with a Southern accent. He was hop ing to avoid any civil rights is sue by having full Republican support for the Kennedy-Johnson bill aimed at the South. Senator Goldwater’s refusal to give up the Republican Presiden tial nomination and his unwil lingness to sacriflce his prin ciples in supporting what he con siders a bad bill have now made an issue out of civil rights. His “nay” vote against the “rights” bill may have supplied his opponents in both parties with a year’s supply of ammuni tion, but it has also put the Ari zona Senator back in business in the South. It sets the stage for a Southern revolt behind a nation al polticial figure—the first time such has bean possible since negro'block votes began deter mining elections in many of the industrial states of the North and Midwest. WHO WILL LEAD IN STATE? There seems little doubt that Senator Goldwater will run strong in South Carolina if he gets his party’s nomination. If approprUte local leadership is forthcoming, he might very well win the state in his Presidential bid. Senator Strom Thurmond, who led all Southerners in offering amendments to weaken the “rights” bill following cloture, is the logical South Carolinian to assist Senator Goldwater. Un less he does a complete about face, Thurmond will do what he can for the Republican Senator —fully realizing that he will bring the full wrath of the Demo cratic President down upon him. Senator Olin D. Johnston will support the Democratic ticket no matter what. He always has and always shall. The state's Representatives to Congress are expected to do as so many Southern Congressmen have done in recent Presidental election campaigns—stay out of sight. Governor Donald Russell would like to hide as well, but it’s unlikely that he will be able <o do so. His is a tricky decision, and he will likely weigh public / •War ea Poverty’— Paadora’s Bos of Sedalisai NOW THAT the so-eaUed “civil rights’* bill has been rammed through , the Congress, the pressures and propaganda are being focused on the “war on poverty” bill “POVERTY” has been a plagae to mankind throughout history. The word has different meanings in different times and in differ ent places, however, (n many areas of the world today, pov erty literally means starvation. For the purposes of the hill now before Congress, the deflahion of poverty is based ou a cash income of M.W or less per year, regardless of how many stocka, bonds, or other assets are owned. In ItZf, using IM2 dollars as a standard, Vi of the families in the United States were in this category. However, today, only about 1/S of Amer ican families fall into this cate-‘ gory, oven though the cost of Vviag is 2.4 times as high today as It was SS years ago. THB $S.«M STANDARD for “poverty” means little. More than a million members of the U. S. armed services make less than this amount. If a Social Security retiree earns enough to raise his income to 18,000, he loses his Social Security. And if all with incomes less than $8,000 are in “poverty,” by “govern ment” definition, it seems con tradictory that in 1968 the “gov ernment” collected tSSi billion in personal income taxes from the 4.1 million Americans having incomes of less than $1,500. THE FACT that what is de fined as “poverty” in the U. S less than $8.fiM annual income— would be considered a regal eco nomic stains in many parts of the world is primarily due to our unexcelled free enterprise sys tem. The Federal Government, however, has not been inactive in attempting to alleviate “pov erty.” Secretary of Health. Edu cation, and Welfare Celebresse testified that the Federal Gov erament is now admiaistertai 42 separate programs deuignm to overcome the causes of “ erty.” These 42 prograsss car ried appropriatieue of all 182 billion in 1M4. THB “WAR on poverty” bill contains a collection of pro grams, many of them previously rejected, which would carry ap propriations in tbs' first year of slightly less than $1 billion. This "anti-poverty package” of $1 bil lion is purportsd to bs tbs legis lative panacea for poverty — something the 4t programs aad $82 billioe per year have not THB BILL would crests a i level of bureaucracy called the “ORee of Economic Opportun ity,” la which would bs vested vast arbitrary and discretionary powers to begin aad operate an innumerable collectiou of large ly unrelated programs. Some of these progranu would duplicate programs which already exist. Others of the programs have been repeatedly rejected by Congress because they were impractical aad unrealistic. Still ether pro grams have been tried and found unsuccessful. Other pregraau are authorised by the bill which are so undefined and vagus that one can only guess as to the pur pose, much less as to the effect. NORMAN THOMAS, the many-times socialist candidate for President, has praised the >111 as “a socialist approach.” The “land reform" program of the bill comes straight out of the Communist platform. A very similar program with which the Farm Security Administration experimented in the 1980’s was described by the House Agri culture Committee as a “com munistic resettlement project” THB VAST powers of the “poverty Czar” created by this bill would include the power to accept a boy or girl of 16 years and put him or her in a “job corps” camp, even without the consent of the child’s parents. The “poverty Czar" would also have the power to finance pro grams of private organizations, such as the NAACP, CORE, and ACT, for “community action programs,” and no approval or even comment of community of ficials would be required. The “poverty Czar” would even have the power to finance the Nation al Council of Churches’ current invasion program for Missis sippi. Unlike most Federal pro grams, the “war on poverty” completely by-passes State and local governments, vesting vir tually unlimited powers in the Czar. IN THB SBNATB bill, an anti-South amendment has been added te bar use of any develop ment funds for industries mov ing te another section of the country. THERE 18 no basis for HOPE that this bill would eliminate, or even reduce "poverty." In the long run, the bill would probably create more economic distress. The “war on poverty” hm In a power-grabbing HOAX, which would open wide Pandora's bos of socialism for Sincerely, Sooth Carolina’* elder statesman is impressed with the Arizonan’s views, the Goldwater bandwagon will be ready to roll in the state. REPUBLICAN-SOUTHERN DEMOCRATIC COALITION The South’s mustering of only six Republican votes against both cloture and the “rights” bill itself causes one to question the effectiveness of the oft-men tioned Republican - Southern Democratic coalition. An inform ed cource blamed the lack of effectiveness this time on the Southern leadership’s unwilling ness to “trade” with the Repub licans. Most Republicans are more economy mined than Democrats (the exceptions being people like Thurmond, Harry Byrd, Frank Lausche). Then there are the Southen Democats as a whole who lean towad economy— though making many excep tions. And there are Northern Democrats who feel that spend ing federal money is the answer to aU ills. ^ Republicans feel that the Sou thern Democrats have learned more toward the Northern Dem ocrats on all matters but civil rights matters in the past year or two, and, as a result, they did not go out Of their way to assist their once-cooperative al lies. A guarantee of Southern votes against some of President Johnson’s big spending program later this year might have got ten the South sufficient votes to prevent cuoture. EVERYDAY COUNSELOR By Bishop Herbert Speugh Parents of college students and those who hope to be col lege students this fall should make a matter of urgent and immediately reading “The Blight On The Ivy,” by Rich ard K. Gordon, M. C., and Katherine K. Gordon (Prentice Hall, $4.96). Students in col lege and those about to enter college should read and study it. It points to a crisis in American education and makes some astonishing revelations: (1) “Half of America’s col lege students either quit or flunk out before graduation. (2) “Many students suffer STATEMENT OF CONDITION WOOMUfF FEDERAL SAVMCS & LOAN ASSOCIATION 206 S. Main St. ASSETS First Mortgage WMdruff, 8. C. Phone 476-8144 At Ckxso of Bwofai— Jane SO, 1964 LIABILITIES Loans on Savings Accounts Real Estate Owned . Investment and Securities Prepaid FSLIC Secondary Reserve Cash on Hand and in Banks Office Building and Equipment Other Assets Total Assets $12,920,401.44 100,144.07 4,906.40 686,700.00 119,512.36 678,180.80 21,080.M 1,887.96 $14,142,291.00 Savings and Investment Accounts $12,074,206.48 Advances, Federal Home Loan Bank . .. Loans in Process _ Other Liabilities Reserve for Taxes Specific Reserves General Reserves . Surplus Total liabilities None 325,021.00 125.00 15,300.00 18,630.03 742,661.06 ’*-85,306.75 $14,142,201.90 Growth In Aaaeta December 31, 1957 $3,875,535.41 December 31, 1960 $6,987,967.98 December 31, 1962 $10,870,101.56 December 81, 1963 $13,069,763.68 June 30, 1964 $14,142^91.90 On June 30th, Woodruff Federal paid its 59th consecutive semi-annual dividend in the amount of $260,892.10 at the annual rate of 4Vi% to its 4,000 Savings and Investment Members. DIRECTORS C. L. R. E. T. W. Cox, Jr. W. P. Dr. H. J. W. M. Swiak T. W. Cox, Jr. — OFFICERS AND STAFF Dr. 1L J. Pi W. F. Jos W. M. Swiak — Attorney B. E. Rams — Ass’t Sec-Treas. k VMMp Banter — Ass’t Sec-Treas. H. A. Batman — Ass’t to Sec-Treas. NeHle Waddell — Head Teller Jane Tamer Abb Neal — SAVE BY JULY 10TH — BARN FROM JULY 1ST ACCOUNTS INSURED TO $10,000 RT FED. BAY. k LOAN DfSU^ ANCE CORPORATION CURRENT DIVIDEND PIR ANNUM COMPOUNDED SEMI-ANNUALLY WOOMUFF FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION WOODRUFF, S.C from emotional and psychoso matic disorders. (8) ‘The suicide rate among young people Is rising dramati cally. (4) “Mental instability among college students is increasing at an alarming rate. (9) “In the last 10 years, young men of college age hos pitalised with peptic ulcers has nearly doubled. (6) “The percentage of pep tic ulcers among girl students has nearly tripled In the last decade. “Written by the authors of one of the most talked-about best-sellers, ‘The Split-Level Trap,’ the book exposes the harsh realities, fears, anxieties and tensions running' rampant through today’s campus gene ration. Through documented case histories, the authors show how the patterns and the unrealistic pressures and goals in America today are creating problems of emotional illness, sexual deviation, insecurity, and a lack of moral fiber in the lives of college students. “You’ll read about the less- publicized scandals of campus life—the sharp increase in preg nancy, ‘free love, perversion and sadism—which often result in IMaaoa or suicide’.” Dr. Gordon is researcher and consulting psychiatrsit at Wag ner College and Fairteight Dickinson University. The book is not one that only points the accusing finger. The authors make suggestions, alert parents to the danger signals of mental illness in their chil dren, and point out to students ways to avoid academic and emotional pitfalls. Parents who have never had a college education are par ticularly prone to insist their children receive such and ap ply the pressure, not only for college entrance, but also for high grades. They seem to for get that education is more than academic knowledge and tech nical skill. The most important element is character. This has recently received emphasis and we are beholding the sorry re sult. The authors point to the fact that “ a number of the most notorious cheats and embez zlers in finance and industry in the past quarter century have been college men—some of them fMMHMt schools.” This book finger at the hard look at realize that character and ethics la ure. Parsnts of children, read fully! Blessed are ■akers: for called sons of The more we promote , personally, the more wo tribute to peace universally. The more we eradicate hatred, and intolerazteo our own heart, the mor help to eradicate them the world. OFFICE SUPPLIES CHRONICLE FUR. OO. PHONE 8SM641 Thanks I wish to thank all of my friends In Laurens County for electing me to the Senate. My time and effort for the next four years will be devoted to good govern* ment, the welfare of the citizens, and the growth and progress of Laurens County. My objective will be to weld Laurens County into a county united in one com mon cause — that cause being the growth and pro gress of Laurens County. WILLIAM C. DOBBINS Why Hasn’t FARMS DAIRY Cut Its Milk Price? |* The nearly one hundred South Caroline dairy farmers who produce milk for Edisto Farms Dairy ere still suf fering from the effect* of lest year 1 * "price war" in milk Edioto abhors the idee of driving theoe worthy citizens, who have invested heavily in their superior herds and equipment, to financial ruin. Many would surely be forcea out of business should they be required to sell their milk et e lower price. Even now, their profit margin is only about cent a quart. Edisto F*™* Daily hopes to maintain this price protection of Hs milk prooucers* who at present have no- other touroe of pff*» taction in the price war. 2: Edkfo recognizes the value qf a thriving dairy Industry in South Carolina — a $100,000,000 indoriry whiob is seriously threatened by marketing practices of oortoiu interests which are attempting to force mtk prices bo- low Ike dairy farmer's break-even point, 3* Edisto processes end sells o premium-quality milk, from 100 per cent Guernsey herds which must meet high standards. It doas not want to compromise thb quality by lowering these standards or by purchasing inferior milk et cheaper prices from surplus sources outside ef South Carolina. v By eootfcmiug your pvehsMot of Mtfo wm assure yourself of roeoiyfag m than my other brand soM iu Sooth also bo doing your part to omy In your state. Dairy mtt. yon hrii iiiubui