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a < THK CLINTQN CHRONICLE Cttatca, 8. C, Thondajr, Ummxj 28, IMS At Long Last... Clinton and Laurena County breathed easier last Friday shortly before noon. For it was then that a dramatic, long- awaited event took place at city hall. A suspect was charged with the murder of a woman which occurred in an office in the business district of Clinton <^7 months ago. After the immediate shock which came with the knowledge that a vicious crime had been committed in the center of the city, citizens were uneasy, deeply concerned, apprehensive. No arrest was made —- and the unrest continued. Police officers---city, county and state —were on the scene immediately and began their investigation. Clues were meager, if not practically non-existent. The officers doggedly went on with their work—going here, there and yonder, exploring every avenue that gave promise, questioning and interviewing many people, some of them suspects. ‘‘We'll solve it,” officers quietly stated. Early in the investigation, one little due appeared—a hair—brought out by lab oratory analysis. t The investigation continued through these many months—with the prime sus pect in jail on another charge. He was questioned many times. Officers have given out no information on the case. One of them was quoted as * saying, “As far as the case is concerned, we are in good shape.” It will come out at the forthcoming trial. And it may be that the determining fac tor in de^gloping the case was a hair. The investigating officers—city,, coun ty and state—are to be commended for their diligence. Boy Scout Week The theme of Boy Scout Week, to be observed ftwn February 7 t£ 13, is “Strengthen America's Heritage.” A bet ter one could not have been choeen. AH manner of activities will character ise die Week. Churches of every denomi nation will develop the theme in their ser vices. Newspapers, radio and television win give the Week the notice it so ri&ly deserves. Schools and civic groups will par ticipate. Patriotic organisations wiU play their important part. The goal is to bring home to everyone American principles and ideals which are eternal and which the Scouts are pledged to sustain. The Scout Oath and Law is worth re reading and remembering: “On my honor, I wiU do my best to do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the Scout law. To help other people at all times, and to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.” Every Scout thus gains a philosophy to live by all his life. The week wiU mark the 65th anniver sary of the Boy Scouts of America. Some 5.5 million boys are now members. May their tribe hrrease, and may the movement last for centuries to come. ONMIMD IREE SPEECH EVERYDAY COUNSELOR Fair-Play . Needed Here Evidently some members of the Nation al Labor Relations Board have not kept abreast of recent U. S. Supreme Court rul ings upholding the right of free speech. How else can you explain the NLRB de cision in the General Electric case which, if allowed to stand, will in a large sense, deny the constitutional right of free speech to employers? The crux of the accusation against GE was that it acted in “bad faith” because it informed its employees and the Interna tional Union of Electrical Workers of the limits beyond which it could not go in grant ing wage and fringe benefit increases prior to the beginning of contract negotations. Since there is no real restriction on the union’s right to communicate with its mem bership over proposed contract terms' the virtual gagging of management would leave employees with a one-sided and conceivably distorted picture of whether it is st all pos sible for a company to meet the terms laid down by the union. The gross inequity of the NLRB split decision was pointed up by one of the five board members. In his dissent from it, he held that in order for collective bargaining to be free both parties must, with a mini mum of exceptions, be able to resort to such tactics or take positions that they be lieve necessary and desirable. It is ironic that the deprivation of a management right has come at a time When civil liberties are being legally expanded. The Supreme Court, therefore, should lose no time in rectifying NLRB's grotesque mistake. Babaon’t Point of View On: Labor Prospects For Year By BOGEB BABSON Baboon Park, Mass., January 28.—There will be a welter of labor wrangles nettling the lion’s business during 1965. The temper of the times has already been established by the dock workers, who turned down the generous agree ment won for them by their union leaden, and struck. The strike along the East and Gulf coasts was attributed to a “misunderstanding.” Readers can expect to hear of quite a few more “misunderstandings” in other fields in 1965. REASONS FOR EXPECTED DISTURBANCES Looming on the not-too-distant horizon is trou ble on the steel front. In the two previous pacts, Big Steel and the steel workers have agreed on fringes instead of wage boosts. This time the union wants raises of at least 15c an hour and a doubling of the shift differentials. So far, the White House has let labor go way beyond the 3.2% normal annual productivity guideline in pay hikes (auto workers got about 5% last year), even though it has warned company manage ments against increasing steel prices. President Johnson, anxious to hold the loyalty of both labor and business, would prefer to stay on the sidelines during important negotiations. He very evidently believes in free collective bar gaining. But will he dare to permit an industry wide strike that might throw the entire economy out of whack? There’s no question but that there will be interesting doings in the steel industry very soon. AUTO GAINS SPUR TO OTHER UNIONS In addition to the innumerable built-in wage boosts automatically given employees by multi year union contracts already in force (last year the hourly average gain in such deferred raises was 7/lc; this year it will climb to 7.S), the stage is set for heavy wage demands right through this year. Almost always at bargaining tables union negotiators ask for new wage ad vances that are substantially greater than those included in the deferred contracts. We can get some idea of the upward pressure that will be applied this year from the realization that these “built-in” raises do not include such costly items as more liberal medical care, insurance, longer Stories Behind Words WUHmi & PwfMd Shibboleth . ’’Shibboleth”—a watchword, slogan or pet phrase of a party—was orginally the Hebrew name for an ear of corn. Its present meaning was derived from a story in the Bible. The story is told in the twelfth chapter of the Book of Judges. The Ephraimites, or men of Ephraim, quarreled with Jephthah, the leader of the Gileadites. In the ensuing battle the Ephraimites were defeated. The Ephraimites who survived sought to flee across the Jordan River, but Jephthah had stationed soldiers at the fording places. Any man who tried to cross the river was forced to say the word “shibboleth.” This word was chosen because the Ephraimites could not pronounce the sound of “sh.” Any man who pronounced the word “sibloleth” was slain, for the pronunciation identified him as an Ephraimite. We live in an age of hurry and speed. Just because we are In perpet ual motion Is no reason to bo- lieve that wo are accompMBiing anything. A friend of mine from the north came to visit our North Carolina mountains. He told of stopping at a filling station for directions, and then after an hour of trying to follow them be despaired of reaching the town of his destination. Spying a filling station ahead, he drove in and asked for directions. The operator came out, looked him over, and said, “I told you an hour ago. What are you doing back here?” He who does nothing more in human life than make a living for himself and perhaps his fam ily, is accomplishing little. There is far more to life than that. Yet there seems to be many who are not even able to do that. In an issue of Nation's BusL ness some years ago there ap peared an article, “This ISM America Wants.” The writer gives is as Americanism, and of fers this deflniton. “American ism is that way of life where each individual has the right to pursue unmolested the satisfying of his own personal collection of wants in his own way.” This reads like selfishness, but he ex plains, “You have to get what you want by satisfying the wants of others. That builds prosperity for an.” Our lives are so entwined that personal achievement involves assistance ta others. Going turkey with through the motions of activity sauce, cabbage slaw with without thought of result is like carrots, g r e o n beans, a dog chasing his tail: it gets no- bread, butter, and paaqut butter where. chews with coconut. There is no point of being in a hurry to get somewhere, if we don’t know what to do when we arrive, which boils down to the ,*• bro f™ 1 *®*7 en , fact that we had better take cel J er y ** time to think what we are going and a P p * e > banana, data, pmaap- to do before we start. ple saiad - We might add, that many of us TMUR1BAY are so taken up with going Milk, vetegatbio soap with HERE that we give no thought beef, pimiento cheese saadwicb- to where we may arrive HERE- es, carrot sticks, corn bread, AFTER. butter, and chilled peach halves. “Enter ye in the narrow gate; Friday for wide is the gate and broad is M4lfc . the way that leadeth to destine- -,» M hn’ttpr^rf lt£*£ani. tion, and many there be which ^ £5“ ^ ^ go in thereat, because straight bol- biscuit, butter, and lemon is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” District M School Lunch Menu Week ef Feb. 1-6 MONDAY Milk, sloppy Joe with cheese, lettuce and tomato salad, navy beans, hamburger buns, butter, and apple pie. TUESDAY Milk, spaghetti with meat “Foam rubber telephone poles would cut down on n lot of automobile ainafth-uM." Highlights From Clinton High People have finally started do ing things again after the post- Christmas lull. The Science Club met last Thursday in the chemistry room. By CAROL SANDERS ford. Lee Davis gave the devo tional. Clinton High has picked up a number of new students since Christmas. Nancy Blease n nd Dayna Windsor, two freshmen, just moved here from Virginia Beach, Virginia. Lonnie Bisler, also a freshman, came here from Bradenton, Florida. Tony Wind sor, a junior, also came from Forum. Then Eddie Sheely, Rob- Virginia Beach. Sheryl Jackson •till ert Blackwell, And! Stroud, and came from Laurens; but even if zooming along with the example of the 5% pay Carol Sanders led on *he is pn arch rival we want her and fringe-benefit gains that have already been detection of radioactivity. and the others to feel welcome awarded the auto workers. Yesterday the National at C* 18 - At B*** Club Jam- EMPLOYER RESISTANCE WILL STIFFEN Society visited the Torrington meeting, Ann Stroud present- One reason for expecting more labor difficul- Company for a tour an ex- ^ program, “I Am An Amer- ties this year is that management’s determina- pUmation of the manufacture of te* 11 -” emphasized the fact tion to reject excessive demands is as strong bearings. that a good American possesses as labors’ yen to make them. It wifi be seen -n* Future Homemakers of *** fofiow ing qualities: thought- that many employers—particularly those in tfct America recently had a program ^ness, cleanliness, honesty, loy- more experienced group—will prefer to risk an on “Marriage CaRa for Preoara- obedience, responsibility, expensive strike rather than allow labor costs tion.” This program, which brought out areas where young people need more preparation be fore marriage, was lad by Shir- vacations, and more holidays. Neither do they take into account cost-of-living allowances, which mem bers made plans for a almost invariably become part of the base pay. program to be given by a team There are many contracts that will be exoir- o{ re »earchers from Oak Ridge, mg and reopening this year, with raises and f or « trip to the Owmstiand fringes being granted in many instances large pyi^ pi ant a t Greenwood and enough to encourage fresh drives throughout the foctbe up^ming Science Career rest of the affected industries. And pressure will be especially intense with and friendliness. Gooding, Idaho, Leader: “If social cority were ended by public choke there would be no money available for refunds. The money is not there; it has been spent The total paid annually into social security ia about equal to the outgo for that year. The program is growing larger. If aodal security is burdened with another complete new and growing program such as medi care, the combined costs would be prohibi tive and would greatly complicate the soda! aocurity program's future.” to move any nearer the danger point They rea son that business will not always be this good, so they must plan against less prosperous time*. Also, many feel that they will have to fight the profits squeeze without being able to lift prices very much, to avoid antagonizing the White House and weakening their competitive position in the market place. Management, in general, is also getting its back up over the efforts being made by unions to have a say In a number of areas that employers have always considered their prerogatives. These include such key issues as automation, contract letting, and the shutting down or even sale of ’businesses. Managroent is finding that the Na tional Labor Relations Board and other referees” are Inclined to favor unions in such incursions; and they know that the whole problem must be fought out at the bargaining-table level. Such dissensions will stir up considerable trouble in 1965. 'ey Simpson and Carolyn Brad- IF YOU DONT READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON’T GET THE NEWS CLINTON, 8. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1MI « Sty* (Elurtmt dtyrmrtrl* Jaty 4,1881 - WILLIAM WILSON 8lARRI8 — Jane 12. 1866 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Rate (payable in Advance) One Year $4-00, Six months $2J0 ' . One Year 68.00 Second Class Postage Paid at POSTMASTER: Send Form 1979 to Clinton 8. C. Cttnton. 8. & As Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and an time* appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice The general Intorosl when they are not of a defamatory nature, not be noticed. 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