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CLINTON CHBONICLK CUatM, 8. Cn Thursday, July 15, 1965 Welcome To Greenwood Mills The Chronicle today is delighted to wel come Greenwood Mills to this community and to Laurens County. Long known as one of die most pro gressive and sucucessful textile manufac turing corporations in the country, their decision to “move across the river” and extend their operations into this area will be hailed by every segment of the citizenry of Clinton and Laurens County. When it was announced last week that Greenwood Mills had purchased the Joanna Cotton Mills Company, six miles southeast of Clinton, a subsidiary of Joanna Western Mills Company of Chicago, the news was received with the knowledge that the same high type of operation woud be continued as had been maintained at Joanna for many years. It had been rumored for some time that the nearby textile plant would be sold, and since the deal finally took place, we are pleased that Greenwood Mills was the buy er. _ •« . The corporation by far is the largest in Greenwood County, with 12 plants of vary ing size, 5,000 employees, and an annual payroll of 622,000,000. Their plans for integrating the Joanna plant with the Greenwood operation in clude, we are sure, a high regard for and consideration of the interests and welfare of the excellent employees and community of Joanna. President James C. Self said, “These are the same type people who have contrib uted so much to our successful operations in Greenwood County. I welcome them into the Greenwood Mills organization, and look forward to a long and pleasant rela tionship.” Mr. Self will find, too, that the people of Joanna will welcome Greenwood, and becoming a part of Greenwood will be not at all difficult. - And Clinton, “just six miles up the road,” will do all it can to be a good neigh bor, and is happy over the prospects for “a long and pleasant relationship.” statutory minimum wage ; a shorter week and extension of the Fair Labor Standards Act would not only impede economic growth but would erect higher barriers to the creation of employment opportunities for young and unskilled workers. W. P. Gullander, president of the Na tional Association of Manufacturers made great good sense in testifying before the House Labor subcommittee, it seems to us, when he said: ‘These proposals are defeatist and not in the interest of a growing America. Em phasis should be placed on the creation of jobs, rather than on rationing them. We should encourage employers to grow and thus create more jobs, by providing a good economic and competitive climate.” According to News Front, manufactur ing’s upper middle class, open to corpora tions with annual sales of 6100 million to just under 61 billion, welcomed 27 new members to its ranks in 1964. These addi tions brought total membership in the 6100 Million Club to 408 for the year, the high est number in history. The Camel Again The bill for creating a Department of Housing and Urban Development at the Cabinet level, in the form in which it has passed the House is now before the Senate, is a fairly mild sort of proposal. Its prin cipal effect would be to combine certain activities now carried on by existing agen cies. But, it seems very clear, this is intend ed to be only a start. For, as one ’of the bill’s principal congressional supporters sees it, the new department would ultimate ly be responsible for “all activities and ‘problems making up the life of the city dweller.” This is quite a mouthful. The city Dweller’s problems run a wide spectrum in deed—traffic congestion, air pollution, rec reational wants, unemployment, soaring lo cal taxes, and so on and so on. Is the fed eral government to assume the responsibil ity of trying to solve them all? If so, we might as well abandon city and other local governments and hand Washington a blank check. The camel, one remembers, just got his nose into the tent in the beginning—but before long he filled the whole tent The current bill looks like an example of that. To Create Joba^ The need for concerted action to create long-term job opportunities for American youths is vital to national well-being. However, positive measures to create more jobs for the unskilled, paricularly those just entering the work force, could be jeopardized by the wage and hour pro posals being considered by Congress. For instance, increasing the penalty rate for overtime work would not result in any spread of job opportunities, but in stead would inflate prices and increase competitive difficulties of domestic firms in international markets. The proposals for an increase in the CLINTON, 8. C., THUB8DAY, JULY IS, ISSi (Slintim (Siprmrtrlr Jaly 4, IMS — WILLIAM WILSON — Jaae IS, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Bate (Payable in Advance) One Year 6440; Six Months 0.90 -rear One Y« Second Qnss Postage Paid at Canton, S. C. POSTMASTER: Send Form S97S Is CMntan Chronicle, CMnlnn, 8. C. all times npt be Sm cooperation of tts anboerlhors and renders — the Mggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will are not of n defamatory a !or the is not for the views or opthkms of Its Member: South Carolina Proas Association, Nattoaai Editorial Association Babson’s Point of View v On Autos Hastening Cities of The Future By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass., July 15—We are heading for swift changes in our cities and their suburbs as a result of the traffic explosion. Already most urban craters—particularly those that overflow into one another, such as all along the Atlantic Coast—are swamped by highway and parking problems that are becoming more desperate ev ery day. Fortunately—with the population sky rocketing, and per capita auto ownership along with it—solutions are closer than most of us real ize. MORE HIGHWAYS NOT ENOUGH AN ANSWER Our huge highway programs, both federal and state, are fine for the long haul, but they are no answer to the in-city dilemma. That requires imagination, ingenuity, and an entirely new con cept of transportation planning. Those who take the long view have been trying for some years to alert government officials, city planners, and the apathetic public to the need for taking realis tic steps to keep the auto invasion from choking the life out of downtown areas. Now, at long last, more than one metropolis has planners and engineers at work plotting the inevitable city of the future. That city will, of necessity, rely more and more upon rapid public transit—requiring the re habilitation of feasible railroad and trolley sys tems once thought obsolete and the construc tion of new very fast-moving conveyances, both between city craters and into them from the key suburbs. Monorail transport, already tried out in a few places in this country and even more ambitiously in Japan, is in the cards for a num ber of jampacked localities. It is no longer a question of whether we can afford it; it’s a mat ter of simply having to do such things to save our cities from traffic “death.” OUTER-RING HIGHWAYS-WILL CONNECT In the years not too far away, our modern ized cities will have strict regulations on traffic movement, especially in busy commercial cores. There will be convenient highways looping around the urban limits, connecting with strate gically placed rapid transit terminals with spaci- ious parking faciltiies. From these terminals passengers will be whisked downtown to, or very close to, their destinations. Even in heavily populated suburbs there will be increasingly drastic restrictions. While it may sound a fantasy right now, there will be wide reliance in restricted areas upon tiny motor—or electric- driven—carts and buses, as well as upon more conventional shopping scooters and bicycles. Heavy auto traffic will be prevented from tun neling off cross-city highways and turnpikes into urban and suburban streets which rfmpiy cannot handle the input. The idea of blocking off one or two city streets and turning the area into a pedestrian shopping mall will be greatly extended. Presi dent Johnson’s beautification and urban renewal programs will fit in nicely with the planting of trees and flowers, the installation of fountains, benches, tables, entertainment areas for chil dren, etc., where auto traffic is excluded. Pe destrian mobility will be aided by more escala tors, even by moving floors and sidewalks. PLAZAS AND MALLS WILL FLOURISH City craters will be enhanced by pliTss--snrh as those already successfully established in Ro chester, N. Y., and Fresno, Calif.—which will be easily reached by transit Bnss coming from Hie outer-loop highways. Access win be available in these attractive, heated aad/er air conditioned to the finest department stores, rants, offices, museums, and entertainment ten. As new plans are Mocked out fes mere and more cities, business men, bankers, architects, and designers should take full advaatake of the opportunities offend by these emerging aMM ef the future. Businesses dspsndsnt span auto traffic alone should be sure Mat they an not left holdtag the bag ia a locality destined to be come nearly—or maybe entirely devoid ef Me auto traffic that What Price Security! Stories Behind Words by William S. PeafieM So Long British soldiers stationed in Malay-speaking coun tries became acquainted with a new form of saluta tion. Upon meeting or bidding someone farewell, a Malay would utter the word “salang” and bow low, with his right pahn against his forehead. *■ - The Malay word was corruption of the Arabic “sa laam” or “salam,” which meant ‘'peace” or “health.” The British soldiers adopted the Malay word, but omitted the ceremonial bow which accompanied it. In adopting “salang,” the British soldiers corrupted it to “so long” and used it only in bidding someone fare well. The soldiers introduced “so long” to Britain, and it spread to the United States. Telephone Talk By D. H. MARTIN Your Telephone Manager AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Clinton’s NUMBER ONE TIME SAVER! That’s your telephone, wherever you are ... at home, the office, in public places . . . just about anywhere you go. And when it comes to saving time, your Clinton telephone directory runs a pret ty close second. Naturally we’re all familiar with the listings of names, addresses and phone num bers. But when is the last time you’ve looked at the front pages of your phone book? You’D find all sorts of useful information about Long Dis tance calling, a list of Area Codes for cities all over the country, and general information about your telephone and its use. So remember, if you don’t know a number, or you’re not sure how to place a Long Distance call, the first place to look is your telephone book! Make the most of those two great time savers . . . jrour book and your phone. DON’T KNOW WHERE THE MONTHS HAVE OWE, BUT ITS VACATION TIME AGAIN! What’s it going to be for you and your family this year? A beach resort, the mountains, maybe die New York Fair? Whatever you decide, why not make plans the easy way ... by tele phone. If you call now about transportation and hotel reservations, you won’t be disappointed at the last minute by not getting what you warn. And wbea vacation time arrives, don’t forget those last minute phone calls to slop newspaper and milk deliveries and, of course, phone your friends to say good-bye. Getting the family ready for a trip can be a pretty complicated project. Pbone calls to Bn right people and places can make It eariar m every- MMyi • • a IN WEST GERMANY YOU CAN DIAL A NUMBER AND GET THE RECIPE-OF-THE-DAY) In Switzerland you can dial for help with your crossword puzzle. In various places in our own country yon can DW-A-Prayer, get a bird watcher's report, get World Series scores, or get the day’s pollen count. And, of course, anywhere there’s a telephone, you can call the neighbors, make appointments, keep in touch with out-of-town family and friends. What m the world did folks do bejore telephones? SELL IT WITH A CHRONICLE WANTADt _ . Z7 “ Jamas Tarry Brawiagton and Joanne Waldrop of Laurens. Pubbc Record* Gan Roper ef CHMan. J«raM * •••mm Pl'mdJ '.'V mini) James Latimore of and Edith Frances Grant of terlOo. Robert Leon Counts of Ware Shoals, and Shelby Jean Chaa- teen of Honea Path. Charles Wesley Hellams ef Laurens, and Mary Frances HUl of Gray Court. John David Snelgrove and Frances Lanette Cato of Clinton. Lee Otis Goode and Gennie Y. Nance of Laurens. Lewis David Yarborough of Enoree, and Rachel Owens Skin ner of Cross Anchor. Charles Edward Anderson and Roberta Pulley of Laurens. Rexter Conway Bryant of Burnsville, N. C., and Wanda Leigh Griffith of Relief, N. C. Willie Earl Allen of Gray Court, and Shirley Ann Jackson of Honea Path. //A/iAIV'AlW I TODAY -SATURDAY I inw I niM UHDu BCHD PLAYS ? mOtV MUSI Stephen Babb of Lau- Bvuy •ejpue ■■en** «« and Batty Stephens Mirtttffla of William Paul of Wood- ± • na sanar * Mlch ' run, muu eiuumwH. biuiii* “ 5* cIbUm® Gray Court. unbare, .nd e.tr!£ £XZ of CtinSoa. 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