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THK CLINTQN CHRONICLE
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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.
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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-
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