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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Clinton, S. C^ Thursday, May 13, 1965 A Committee To Serve the Communtiy The appointment by Mayor J. J. Corn wall of a three-man inter-racial commit tee to serve in the community is a move that should be well received by local resi dent®. The committee would be a sort of clear ing house for suggestions and ideas pertain ing to race relations in the community and act in an advisory capacity principally in re lation to city council, and any other group • that may need their services. The appointees, Tom Plaxico, Barry Meadows and David Dendy are men in whom the city can place confidence. We are sure they are patriotic citizens who have a high regard for the community and will serve it well. Clinton has been free of any race dis turbances, and without doubt that is due to the vast reservoir of good will and friendliness that have been built up over the years. There is a great amount of respect be tween the leaders and general public of both races, and we feel they would do everything in their power to see thaf such excellent relations continue. Hie last thing any of our citizens would want, we are certain, would be for outside agitators to come in and take over. No one could accomplish anything that com pares in value with what is presently maintained in the community. And it could destroy the respect and good will that has been apparent here for years. Mr. Dendy, a substantial citizen, is a leader among his people in whom they can put their trust. And the same can be said for Messrs. Plaxico and Meadows. We are not saying everything pertaining ,to race relations in the community is per fect, but we do say that any problems that may arise can be worked out and amicable solutions reached. molded by a negotiating committee appoint ed by Gov. Dan K. Moore, both the elec tric companies and cooperatives gave con cessions aimed at achieving peace. The resulting law provides for the es tablishment of electric service areas by the**North Carolina Utilities Commission; that a certificate of convenience and neces sity be obtained before constructing ad ditional electric generating facilities; that cooperatives now pay state and local taxes themselves under the authority of the Utilities Commission. • This is landmark legislation. It means savings with the elimination of duplicate electric transmission facilities, lower costs that will benefit the electric consumer, and the freedom granted the state to proceed with other important matters. The investor-owned electric companies and the rural electric cooperative associa tions can live in harmony. They have a common aim in that both seek to give their customers inexpensive and efficient electric service. The majority of cooperatives na tionally, as a matter of fact, purchase their electricity from the invetsor-owned com panies. Solutions to problems of this type are possible, as North Carolina has shown. A Wee Bit of Comfort. • •; I Gradual Graduation time will soon come again. Annies of young people will venture out into what they hope will be an exciting and receptive world. It will, for a certainty, be a world which is vastly different from that their forebears knew. It is troubled, complex, and restive. Its demands are enormous and implacable. Change takes place at a diz zying pace. The challenges are all but end less. Yet, at the same time, it is a world of marvelous opportunity. New frontiers are constantly being opened—in industry, busi ness, government, medicine, the physical sciences. In the space of a few years, more material progress has been made than in preceding centuries. And the future will bring more and greater wonders—all the way from homes of virtually incredible com fort and convenience to the landing of hu man beings on the moon. The world will welcome the young peo ple who will soon leave the schools and colleges. In return, it will ask much of them. It will, often, require skills that didn’t even exist a comparatively short tkne ago. Above all, it will demand a willingness to keep on learning. For formal education is a beginning and not an end in itself. One more thing may be said. Surround ed as we are by material abundance and achievement, it is easy to lose sight of the old spriitual virtues. But, without them, the world is essentially meaningless and empty. This is a truth that never changes —and a truth that, one profoundly hopes, our young pepole will not forget. Peace Among North Carolina has shown the way in which the investor-owned electric compan ies and the electric cooperatives can live together in peace and harmony. ; Years of acrimony between the two public service groups came to an end the other day when the state General Assem bly unanimously passed a ‘Territorial In- tegrity” bill spefitaf out the rights and obligations of both groups. Under the ‘Territorial Integrity” bill, Babson’s Point of View On Proapect* For Desalting Sea Water By ROGER W. BAUSON Babson Park, Mass., May 13—Purification of salt and brackish water has been much in the news in recent years, but few people appeair ap- pearto realize that this is one of the most impor tant projects now underway *ta this country. It is not exploration for the sake of science— like sending a man to the moon—but a true ne- cessity-for the future of our country. OUR WATER NEEDS OUTGROWING RESOURCES Let’s take a look at our water needs. Every establishment of any sort requires water, usually for a variety of purposes and often in substantial amounts. At the beginning of this century, the United States consumed only about 40 bilion gal lons a day for all purposes. Today, the daily water requirement stands at about 350 billion gallons; and the growing population, industrial and agricultural totals give some idea of how quickly utilization will increase in coming years. By the year 2000—and that is only 35 short years ahead—it is estimated that water needs will have reached an astronomical 880 billion gallons a day. This projection is all the more startling when it is realized that conventional fresh water sources throughout the nation are capable of suplying only 515 billion gallons daily. Based on these figures, prospects are in 35 years we will need 365 trillion g»nrmy a day more than our conventional sources will be able to provide. To put it another way, by the year 2000 our shortage of natural fresh water will be greater than today's total usage. This poses a nuunmoth problem for our nation. DESALTING ESSENTIAL TO FUTURE GROWTH It is dear that our natural supplies must be augmented as swiftly as possible, or the situa tion will be dire. Scientists have for a long time been working on desalting ocean and brackish water. In 1952 Congress set up the Office of Saline Water for the purpose of coordinating and extending research in that field. Recently President Johnson recommended doubling the appropriation fo*r this office, and called for a real breakthrough in the cost of desalting sea water to make it economically feasible. Much progress has been made in terms of de* satting expense; in fact, in 1062 it cost H6& per thousand gallons and today it costs only about $1. The point is, however, that desalted water at $1 is still far from competing with the 30c or 40c paid by most communities for the currently available fresh water. But there are that distillation expenditures can eventually be reduced by combining a desalting operation with a nuclear plant turning out steam for turbines simultaneously. DESALTING UNITS ALREADY IN USE There are, actually, many desalting units be ing used, not only in this country but in overseas areas that are badly in need of water. But most of these units are relatively restricted in ouptut, and may be considered “transition” distillers and sterilizers to meet temporary needs. Later on, it is expected that large-scale nuclear pie* 1 ** will be constructed, turning out enough fresh water at sufficiently reasonable prices to per mit use even for agriculture. Only obstacle to a dramatic revolution in the world’s conversion of bad water into gqod is the expense of processing. And today it looks as if our scientific leadership may be en the threshold of a significant breakthrough. With our grain bams fitted to overflowh* by prodace ‘In loan," such m advance may seem Uke "ear- Stories Behind Words hr William 8. Panfield necessarily, sent troops Into Ar- that not only has a good musical whittle down the promises and kansas. education been wasted, not only commands of uoo to our own A repeat performance in has the list of victims to com- thinking and convenience. Missisippi was during the fol- monplace living been increased, lowing administration. How- but also something has happened ever, earlier in this new 1960 to the moral and spiritual fibre administration Red Russia of those who made promises to moved in with our little neigh- others, to themselves, which bor to the south. After some they failed to keep, tmidity and much hesitation a Make promise, sparingly, and protest was made concerning keep them faithfully. Children the nearness to our shores of q U i ck iy learn whether promises of , We made by their parents are going have little knowldege as to the to be kept. Far too many parent- number of. foreign troops and ^ prom ises are empty threats equipment m Cuba. for reward or punishment. Th* present admlnUtr.Uon U xhc unfoau^te reguU of this beaet by a strange undeclared habit of making promises pro- '““.J™. ^ <> *Jf r sld< L °' thc fusely and keeping them occa. world in Viet Nam, where we ^onnUy is that we carry this ^ tromloe. From ldea 0T , r tot0 our relations with the shuttling of top brass there God. We seem to think His prom- appears to have been llttle def- lle , c „ ^ regarded m the same inlte ptans as to the handling mamur Wt ^ , gr , lUr ^ eg tta Far East situaUon Late- ^ Wt he „ those say that God J? , V 1 * application of the old „ g ood, Is love, that He will GoMwater plan to defoliate tha never punish We wutt to take W “ * ppli * d reward and Ignore the pun- W v ^ hope for suueen. ishment. Peter reminds us sole- —^Unlike our foreign problem mniy. we have a domestic one that \ w , . w has been pre-planned and some , bel oved, be not ignorant definite decisions made with of ,.V lis ° ne t* 1 ®* 006 < i*y i* G. H^Q.’s from Washington for with ^ J Lor ! ®» ®, thousand the assured victory of the army ^ e ® r8, an< * ® thousand years as of Field Marshall M. L. King. ^ *** The Lonl n °t alack This new army’s new weapon concerning His promise, as some is claimed to be non-violent; me n count slackness; but is long- however, it does get out of hand 8ufferln g to us-ward, not willing ocasionally as the blow to the abould perish, but that face, administered by the hefty 811 8,M)uld come to repentance.” Amazon at Selma, that sent a it might be well for us to re- “It MIGHT take me an HOUR or SO, Carroll . . . but I’D CATCH on to things!" No, Junior, we let wily skill ed, trained men work on our customers’ cars! Young BroHiers GULF SERVICE .. 212 N. Broad 833-1487 Stool Pigeon The term “stool pigeon” originated in a trick which hunters used to decoy wild birds, mainly passenger pig- eons, into a position to be netted or shot. The hunters would take a captive pigeon, tie a string to one of its legs and fasten the other end of the string to a perch mounted atop a pole. The pigeon’s fluttering and its cries would attract passing birds, and those that descended in the vicinity were trapped or shot. The perch was called a stool, and the pigeon that was attached to it, a “stool piegon." Later the name was applied to any person who acted as a decoy or spy, or who informed on another. sheriff to the hospital. Another weapon that has been employed that will not prove conducive to the cause is con tempt for the past and for those in authority. Upon reaching Montgomery and seeing the Confederate and Alabama flags afloat atop the capital build ing, a speaker that shared the microphone with peace prize receiving Martin Luther King and Ralph Bunche remarked, *‘A dead flag’s afloat that will never revive." If the speaker was a respon sible one his remarks were nothing less than a flaunting of a proud and glorious his tory of a people who understand and have done more for the Negro than any other in so short a span of time. EDWARD C. HENDERSON member this when we try to Views Of Our Readers EVERYDAY COUNSELOR By Bishop Herbert Speech Do yotL-keep the promises you able while some was unneces- make? How many promises have sarily drastic. Naturally the lat- you made t to others, to yourself, ter lingres longer in the minds which you have failed to keep? of the people of the present Do you remember some of those generation. you promised yourself you would In the ’30’s F. D. R. let down never do? the bars by recognizing Red How many thousands of dollars Russia with her Communist re- are spent by devoted parents to giving music lessons to growing In the following administra- boys. and girls? While many of Editor, The Chronicle: Few of us would know the remedy for the multiplying glme woes of Uncle Sam. Consider- " . ..... able numbers have detected, bon one of the most famous these never really learn to play b y differing interpretations generals was fired for a whim- a musical instrument, some at- many blunders of the present sical reason, just as he had un- tain proficiency and graduate in and three or four of the late derwa y the banishment of the music. They look around and see past «Hmtn<«»patlons During Communist oppressors from Ko- many middle-aged people who this period much history has rea - were once good performers, but been written, some commend- 111 1867 b** Popular war hero have g iven it up. They vow they president, uncalled for and un- wil1 never grow old that way. There are other things which oc- BEPOBT OF CONDITION OF Newberry County Bank ef Newberry ie the State ef Sewth Carottna at the cleae of April 26, 1965 Cash, balances with other banks, and cash items in process of collection United States Government obligations, direct and guaranteed Obligations of states and political subdivisions Loans and discounts (including $616.40 overdrafts) Bank premises owned $18,750.00, furniture and fixtures $18,067.40 ^ Other assets TOTAL ASSETS $ 685,603.06 1,182,411.57 314,000.02 1,620,455.40 36,847.40 7,114.25 $ $.865,621.62 cupy their full attention concern ing which they make the same promise. Time marches on. Mid dle-age arrives. Now their favor ite musical instrument is collec ting dust. Not all go this way, but many have. The sad part about it is Your A Progr&i Last Day Today, May 13 [Muni 3:00, 5:00, 7:00 and 9:00 Friday (Saturday Night) Mon.-Tues. 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