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i THE CLINTON CHRONICLE CUatoo, S. C, Thursday, October I, 1X4 Pro or Con? AD Take And No Give schools throughout the United “Tun. About is F«r PUy*’ end “Pr«- _ yeer the det-te teems are ep- tice Whet You Preach" are erdoos that before student and adult assemblies “* m to be given wide berths by federal Catering a nationwide contest debating regulatory agencies. This has become Question of international control of painfully apparent in Congressional hear- ‘ - ' - - — — - ings over a bill that would require govern mental agencies to divulge a great deal more about their activities than they do “BUT HOW ABOUT YOU?** weapons—UN control. The Univer- r Extension Service chose this subject and the Government in Washington pre- jNuwd a special recommended reading list on the topic for distribution to every par ticipating high school in the country now. , The very agencies that demand, and get, all manner of information from business shortTouiThiigii school students sre industry are putting up a stiff fight the issue which both politieal per- of legisUtkm. They should be making the central issue of obviously do not believe in a two-way flow the political campaign, and on which we »f information even though thy have load- adults should be taking aides. «* P* 1 ™* b “““f » **** Three yean ago, in September '61, our workload of huge porportwns. As an ex- ample, one company of medium size had to submit more than 88,000 reports in a single year. We believe $hat by enacting the legis lation Congress will not only have aoceia to the information it wants but it will also Government submitted to the United Na tions a “Program for General plete Disarmament'’ Senator Clark of Pennsylvania, said of m«it: “It represents the. fixed mined policy ofjhe Executive U. S. Government” For ahnoet our Government has been Geneva to work oat with other nations a formula for program into operation. Here is what the U. S. poses: “States would retain forces, non-nuclear armaments, lishments required for the twining internal order; they port and provide manpower for Force . . . The manufacture of Wdhld be prohibited except * #t«* » Jr agreed types and quantities to the UN Peace Force ... All ments would be destroyed or converted to Even •* • yow»*st«r Chart** Martin Hall had n.,rrv—determined to be an taveslar. While he was an peaceful purposes. undergraduate In Oberlin College, he wee eper- In plain language, that says all military red on by a remark hy Frink P. JeWett^proffcs- might In the world should be transferred to UN control. Under the plan, no President of the United States would have his finger on the atomic war button. Instead, offic ials of the United Nations would decide if and when to press the trigger; U Thant, Secretary Gneerml (A Burmese), and his tfbdersecretary for Political and Security Council Affairs. Vladimir P. Suslov, (a Russian). And that is what our high school stu dents are debating. isn’t it about time that our political asked the Amercian voters to that issue, too? Where do you or coa—on having the UN, in- a tl. S. 'Vutton? *1* Bahind Words t I of chemistry end mineralogy that great benefits end flnsnctal of five years he conducted of Over a of experi- SS. im, he dissolved In a tiny producing tbs first tiny beads of As had happened in ether cases. efcouTthe in Fmaei at same time by another B-year-old by the name of Paul Herouit. The commercial method of re duction of aluminum today is knows as the Hall- Herouit President, guarding the We Don’) Have To Loee A showdown in South Vietnam, when America must put up or shut up, can come most any day, according to informed ob servers and comentators. Our bitter choice. In their view, b to accept or to abandon the smoke-screen of “military advice” and en gage in direct action against the Commun ist enemy. “If defeat in South Vietnam is passive ly accepted," wrote Columnist Joseph AJ- Young Hall had his troubles hi expanding his discovery into a succesful business. Most busi nessmen he approached were not interested, or offered to take all the profits and leave him only the glory. Finally a group of Pittsburgh busi nessmen raised the necessary tM.OOO to form the Pittsburgh Reduction Company. Further diffi culties were encountered fen trying to sell the metal to firms that would fabricate it. Hall and his ssoecistes learned to cast, roll forge, draw, and stamp the metal in order to sell it as a finished product. Thus the traditional method of expanding the use of aluminum took shape as the primary manufacturer first showed the way and then passed his knowledge along to Log RoWpg In frontier America the e*tt!ef r often ted to dear wooded Mnd to ntake way for fields and pastures. Each man cut his own trees. He chopped off the limbe and piled the smaller into’hfap* and horned them. He cut tte tree trnnte a^ lim Unibi Ion and then invited his neighbors over to help him roll the logs into piles and horn them. This particular form of mutual aid was called a log rolling. The name was applied later to a practice in law-making bodies. might have a pet bill which, ordinarily no chance of passing. He invites Tor his WD with the unddr- for one of theirs. The unl ive practice gave rise to SUBSEQUENT GROWTH The most popular form of aluminum sold in the early years was sheet aluminum. Than around the turn of the century the extrusion pro- Public Records J. L. Tumblin and Mamie Ruth Tumblin to Eddie W. Morgan, lot on Lake Greenwood for $400. (River Driggers and Mary A. Driggers to Tom Taylor, lot near Boyd’s Bridge for $300.00. James E. Sawyer to Landrum manufacturers. . MK*'9lAnes and chil dren of Greenwood, visited Mr. W. Kennedy, lot on Smythe St., and Mrs. John Simmons Sunday. Watts Mill for $10.00 and other Visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. E. considerations. ___ weTtfl have V nro- Carter Sunday were their son, Eddie Lou Wallace and C. E. found aluminum pcodirt.. PkU'P * nd c “ ter Walluc. to R. K. Crtcut.X In to. tarlr 1M0'. ft wu ranlitod thM to lncr«to S P^ U “5 u f 1 L „ „ . wre. for »10 00 nnd other comM- the use of aluminum it must be strengthened. erations. sop, who is considered an expert on the Far Hence methods for making aluminum alloys « en J « “ e “ cal CoUege Ho ** East, “all admit that this defeat will be the introduced P iul in "■ e#ton Most of the early supply of bauxite came from France Theodore M. Anderson, Jr., to Jackson W. Ham brick, lot on worst and most costly that the United States has submitted to in this century.” But the magazine Human Events re ports that “a quiet cabal of appeasers in the Administration” has long been prepar ing that defeat—which is to be called “neu tralization.” Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Jones of Lake Greenwood for $10.00 and A btg atop tonrard occurs whM thr “L •f Mr *: W . 1U f* m oth " con.ldM.tloiu. ore was discovered in Arkansas. Later discov eries were made in the Caribbean, in Canada, w . South America, and Australis. On January 1, d ^ lg w ^ 1007, the Pittsburgh Reduction Company changed its name to the Aluminum Company of America. BECOMES BIG BUSINESS World War I saw great growth in the uses of Jones of Charleston, visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Miss Crisp is teaching math in Edgefield High School. Rev. and Mrs. Nicholas Im- Mrs. Roily Bannister is much bastaro and daughters of Simp- improved and returned to her sonville, were guests of Mr. and work Monday after being in Self Mrs. Jerome Finley Sunday. Memorial Hospital, Greenwood. Miss Zelle Crisp was with She is home economics teacher Human Everts goes on to suggest that aluminum by both the Allies and the Germans. £ oUu gyring the week-end. at Thornwell Orphanage. During the WEs there was rapid expansion in former Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Roger Hilsman, revealed State Department policy in saying that “we should ‘threaten to bomb North Vietna mese installations’ but be ‘willing to nego tiate’ when the military tide turns better.” And it gave as the Hilsman conclusion: “But one thing ie dear, we’re not going to be able to make South Vietnam into an anti-Communist bastion . . can hope for in the long run is an inde pendent state, neither Western new* pro- Communist.” Thus does Washington cling to the naive idea that “neutralism” can be neutral even where the forces of capitalism aban don the field in despair—as in Laos, and as f seem about to do in South Vietnam. ft. / : 8Kf Us use for foil, auto bodies, pistons, furniture packaging, and home products. Steady growth followed in the IMPs. It took World War II. however, to produce the “Aluminum Revolu tion,” which enabled the Allies to win final vic tory over Hitler’s Germany. Although more than 75 years have passed since Hall’s discovery of the electrolytic method of reducing aluminum, the basic process used to day is the same as that discovered In his wood shed in Oberlin. From one single plant produc- The beet we au.WU pound! of aluminum lu MSI, the ladus- try has grown to an annual capacity of nearly six billion pounds. BILLIONS IN IDEAS This story of the Aluminum Company of America—major factor in the aluminum success story—should encourage all young people who have an IDEA. Starting with a modest capital of $20,000 scraped together to found the company, ALCOA has multiplied that original Investment a fantastic 140J00 times with gross properties val- us* it doe# tb $2 billion today! z CLINTOW ' g -1 — j U, Mi SBSHSRfR Iff f? wumdat n m Kfiilvir COMPANY One Year $4.00. Six months $>J0 L One Year $0.00 Second Class Postags Paid at Clinton. S. 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