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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
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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
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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
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Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships,
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Time and savings deposits of individuals,
partnerships and corporations
Deposits of United States Government
(including postal savings)
Deposits of States and political subdivisions
Deposits of hanks
Certified and officers’ checks, etc. _______
TOTAL DEPOSITS
(a) Total demand deposits
(b) Total time and savings
Other liabilities
$ 2,506,187.03
570,846.63
41,741.37
284,824.34
24,831.55
11,272.06
.$S,46SJQS.88
$2,773,807.25
deposits $ 664,846.63
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CAPITAL ACCOUNTS
Capital: Common Stock, total par value _
Surplus
to
CLINTON, 8. C., THURSDAY, MAY IS, ISIS
Undivided profits
Reserves (and retirement account for preferred
capital)
25,560.74
$ 3,484,364.62
$ 125,000.00
125,000.00
110,088.08
10,270.92
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