The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, July 21, 1966, Image 8
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
The Announcement of Clinton's
New Industry
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THE AMERICAN WAY
Youih Wants to Know
Ay RANDY GRIFFITH - , -
Clinton. S»C, Thursday. July 21, 19^6
Mountville News
MKt^MAUDB BRYSON
The long-awaited offical announce
ment*’6T' the coming of Clinton’s new
industry is published in today’s paper.
Negotiations have been underway
for some time between representatives
of the then unknown company, city of
ficials, and state and county develop
ment boards. It is now a source of
great satisfaction to all concerned that
preliminary developments have ’cached
the stage where definite commitments
can be announced.
Playing a leading JP? r t prelim
inary negotiations was/the well known
Daniel Construction Company of Green
ville, which, under the leadership of
the late Charles E. Daniel, and continu
ing under the present officials, has done
more to bring industries to South Caro
lina than any other agency in the state.
They have secured, designed and built
more plants than all others put togeth
er.
The new Clinton industry, to be
built in the city’s industrial park two
miles east on U. S. Highway 76. is As-
coe Felts, Inc., a new company, but
largely a subsidiary of Asten-Hall Manu
facturing Company of Philadelphia.
The product to be manufactured is
“wet felts,” of which little is known in
in this section, to be used by paper
manufacturers. It will, therefore, add
to the diversification of Clinton’s indus
trial complex. And that fact augurs
well for the economy of the community.
We welcome Ascote Felts to this area
and hope their operations prove to be
more successful than they themselves
expect.
This new industry ho doubt means
the bringing in of new people to Clinton,
especially key personnel, and also many
in the labor force of the 150 required
at the start of operations. Included in
the planning is one or two expansion
programs for the future. Which, of
course, means more jobs for more peo
ple.
Moving to the city within the next
few weeks, along with the start of con
struction will be Mr. Kenneth Fryfogie,
who will manage the affairs of the com
pany. He is already known to a few'
persons in the city, having been active
in premliminary negotiations.
As far as this community is con
cerned, we are sure we express the sen
timents of all when we say, “What Mr.
Fryfogie wants, Mr. Fryfogie gets.”
We welcome him, too.
Babson’s Point of
View On Men,
Machines, and Money
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass., July 21—Even with
auto production and sales turning down, gen
eral business has just swept ahead to new
all-time highs. Home building, another of
the really big and powerful parts of our
economy, is also seriously stumbling. But
many of the little fellows—home furnishings,
television, textiles, and mining—have march
ed steadily upward, planting production flags
on new peaks. And the biggest capital goods
upswing ever keeps right on breaking all
records . . . contributing mightily to the
stretching out of the longest economic boom
in history. How much longer can it -last?
A DEMAND ECONOMY
The men who run the government in
Washington are bound by law to keep busi
ness booming, so that all who are willing and
able may have jobs. This, in a few words,
is the gist of the FULL EMPLOYMENT ACT
OF 1964. This has been discussed many
times in this column. But we wonder wheth
er it has ever been clearly emphasized that
the method of producing full employment is
largely one of stimulating demand.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was one
of the first to make an all-out effort to stimu
late demand ... to purl us out of the great
depression of the 1930’s. His prescripiton
was to put money in the hands of consum
ers. They would buy, and that would make
the retailer prosperous and he in turn would
buy, making the wholesaler, manufacturer,
miner, etc., flourish. Yet, years of boost
ing the consumer’s buying power did not
bring prosperity.
MORE THAN THE CONUMER NEEDED
Before other experiments in prodding de
mand could be tried. World War II swept
over us. Employment soared. So did prof-
tis. We had an old-fashioned war boom. But
when Japan surrendered, everyone feared
that a huge depression would soon come.
Out of this fear the FULL EMPLOYMENT
ACT OF 1964 was born. Each President was
to have his own Council of Economic Advis
ers to help him judge when to recommend,
and what. And it began to be realized that
more than consumer demand had to be
stimulated in order to keep the economy
big and strong
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Recently I wrote about poi- ten marked “double* * jjia* Crisp accompa-
son personalities in fellows, Others considered to be way ^ g r Blanqhe Badger
from the girl’s point of view. ar f joined-Rev, W. E. (Bill) Crisp,
NOW, let’s lOOk ' ■■ Coliuln
poison in girls.
at teenage »»o study ***- 7 r "“^"£ '.t Saluda.
and let It be known ,- nd N • ^ ^ we , kend
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For the intelligent guy one think athIet ^ s bttFes. The 1V v ' - “*“**•» — -
date is enough for the’ girl profession al faultfinder and Visiting Mrs. Roily Bannis-
who is “just too bored to do 1116 smart “ know R all” are during the weekend were
- — , ,. also “out.” ~
anything." She gives indica
tion of having no imagination
Most
for both
Mr. ahd Mrs. Roily Bannis
ter, Jr. and sons of Raleigh,
N. C. Also visiting were Mr.
magination ”*”" v > rn P° rta " t —- . n A1BU
even if there is “nothing to b °^ S ? nd 5i rls . s th ® and Mrs. R. 0. Bryson of
do around herb.” Most fellows abllltv to be friendly, to act g £
casual and on good terms . . „ _
with everyone without seem
ing “stuck-up” or'“too in-
avoid like the plague girls
who think kissing or dancing
are wastes of time. Equally in ? j SIIK ^v, UH a' n n
■ . . ., „ . , . . ,, volved with one gang
contagious is the glad girl,” .
the hip-hip-hooray type who
thinks everything is “alright sucb as barley are harvested,
tonight.” The 8 ivin g up of corn m this
Smith Ramsay and
daughter, Miss Lucy Ram-
Say of San AugUstine, Texas
are visiting Mr. and ’ Mrs.
John Simmons this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wylie
LUltglil.
Those who giggle constant- P r ' me corn area
ly, always try to be the life rnuc b to ask.
of the party and repeat old But even so the attractive
> f corn in mis ^ ^ Lake utall were
i would be too . _ . Mrc «r,i-
spent Saturday with Mrs. Roi
ly Banlilster, Sr.
Mrs;- Rhett Bryson, aceom-
pariy anu repeal um
and puns often lessen ness of grain sorghum as a I ”. r8 ; "‘■'JT'’ “
chances of endearing late-planted summer grain P an * e d by Mrs. John Aycock
„„ ♦ v,,, inrrpnsp in of c ** ah i n g. attended a
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Needed:
A Probe of Big Government
Stories
Behind
Words
By
William S. Penfield
Midas Touch
Midas, according to Greek legend, was a
king of Phrygia. The god Dionysus, obligated
to him because of a favor, offered to grant any
wish that Midas made.
Midas requested that anything he touched be
turned to gold. The request was granted, and
for a short while Midas was happy. His happi
ness ended, however, when he realized that he
faced starvation, for even his food turned to
gold. i
Upon Midas’ request, Dionysus took back the
gift, and Midas returned to a normal life.
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their chances ot endearing „ 0I uufnuiK wnio . „
themselves to the male popu- may be on the increase in luncheon given by Mrs. Ed-
lation. The clinging vine type the Coastal Plains. w}n A B i akes a t her home
who latches on to a special Recently L. R. Allen, anoth- Saturday i* 1 Greenwood,
boy and acts affectionate in er Olemson agronomist, said i , , . , ....
front of a guy’s friends is of- two bird-resistant grain sorg- sorgh ^ loses its bitterness
hum J ariet ; es "e™** 0 * when the grain becomes com-
the whole system can be com- enough for trial plantings in •, .£< mature And then the
pletely mechanized. the Coastal Plains w h e r e £S Sbines and stores
Moreover, there is increas- farmers wish to^ follow small ^ grain out of reach Qf the
ingly a more attractive mar- grain with another late-plgnt- '
ket for feed grains in South ed grain crop. Bot ’ h b a' rte y and grain 5 org-
Carolina where the livestock These varieties, Arkansas bum are high-quality live-
population is increasing and 614, and Georgia 619, have ^ 6cl{ teeds Rogers and Wise
where a more active com- open-type heads and are es tj ma te that when the two
mercial market is brought brown seeded. They are bird^ are planted in a double-crop-
about by more exporting and resistant because, in the early nih „ thp total vield
more processing. development ? t a g e of the ^ 0 ® 1(J ^ equal in feeding val-
Grain sorghum and barley seed, the grains are bitter ue to 500 t0 130 bushels 6f
in a double-cropping system and the birds won’t'eat them,
would perhaps not be as at- Allen says the birds, a big
tractive to Coastal Plains problem irr the Coastal Plains,
farmers as to others. And normally eat grain sorghum
there is a good reason. In the in the early milk or dough
Coastal Plains spring-planted stage of the grain. Finding it
corn is a highly satisfactory bitter, they look elsewhere
grain crop. for their food.
East of the Fa-11 Line corn What the birds don’t know,
is planted before small grains perhaps, is that the grain
corn.
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and stron * n a ^ u ®° n *° m y^» anyone skillful in
Under President Kennedy the theories something to his gain is said to have
a demand economy reached new heights. the “Midas touch,”
Profits, once looked upon as suspect, gained
The makers of heavy capital goodv ~ —————————
Old Stuff - New Twist
To hear certain self-serving politic
ians tell it, you’d think that Civil Rights
was a brand new invention, another of
the great boons conferred upon a back
ward and needy nation by the advanced
thinkers of the Great Society.
Actually, this is the 100th anniver
sary' of a truly meaningful Civil Rights
Act, introduced in the Congress in 1866
by Senator Dyman Trumbull, of Illinois.
Its purpose was to nullify statutes in
Southern States which denied Negroes
“fundamental rights as belong to every'
free person.” One of its objects was to
secure the right to acquire property . ..
to make contracts, and to inherit and
dispose of property.”
It did not, signifcantly, take the line
now being promoted by the draftsmen
of the Great Society. While it gave ev
eryone, Notably the Negro, the right to
“inherit, purchase, lease, hold and con-
eryone, notably the Negro, the right to
not go beyond this. In other words, it
did not violate the rights of others.
FARMS and FOLKS
By L. C. HAMILTON
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it was recognized, had to be prosperous "if»•
they were to hire men. In a word, business**
itself must have its purchasing power raised, »•
not just consumers. Investment became as *
popular as consumption. Even the wealthy ™ TT . •* ^ < • * * 0 • i*
might have their taxes cut . . . to provide;. cle,nson University Extension Information Specialist
more funds that would be spent for plant
and equipment. To push business up, de- The more bountiful rainfall ists representing agronomy
mand would have to be spurred in all sec- an( i i ess severe drying condi- and livestock areas, respec-
tions of the economy. This has been dope t | ons of the Carolina lively, suggested two Crops
with great success during recent years. Em- . that fiH both requirements,
ployment has faUen to nominal levels; » winter make 11 an td s Perhaps their ideas warrant
growth spurted to peacetime records. son f° r growing crops that more attention
FULL CYCLE can stand the cold. W by not, they asked, plant
As prosperity burst into full bloom, the Similariy, South Carolina’s grain sorghum following
feeling spread among Administration leaders warm summers W ith rather small grain, and seed it after
that they had discovered the key to perpet- severe drying conditions, es- the small grain is harvested
ual propserity. But then the situation went p ecial ]y in the piedmont, in tfie spring or early sum
from bad to worse in Vietnam. A great ma j {e t hem suitable for grow- mer?
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new demand load—for arms and men—was
added to our business machine already
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ing crops that are tolerant of Then after the grain sorg-
straining at capacity. Many wholesale and hum matures in the fall, har-
then consumer prices climbed. The real Now find crops that fit both vest it and immediately
gains of expanding business prosperity are of these requirements, give break the land and plant the
now being threatened by an inflation fire that them enou « h time for g row ' same acrea 8 e to barley. This
could be all-consuming. So now we have in S and maturing, and you system involves continuous
come full cylcle—from too little demand to have some interesting possi- cropping a n d is commonly
too much. Hilties called a double-cropping sys-
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Established 1886
Member FDIC
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hilties. called a double-cropping sys-
me ecuuuu^u, — Several months ago H. V.
the tremendous importance of the rehl sub- Rogers and John F. Wise, One advantage of producing
stance of prosperity. This substance is men, Clemson extension special- these particular grains is that I
"4'/2% Interest Paid On One Tear Savinas Certificates"
—-r- » ‘or- ,
The economists seem to have overlooked
Tenino, Wash., Independent: “The
problem of taxation is quite simple. You
can shear sheep repeatedly, but you can
skin it only once.”
machines, and money. Demand is the stimu
lant. We may have already gone too far
along the road of super-demand. Too much
demand for money means- too high wages;
too much demand for machinery leads to use
of less efficient units; hence upped produc
tion expense; too much demand for money
pushes interest costs higher and causes ra
tioning of credit. All of these together force
prices up, and the advantages of full employ
ment are lost in the resulting inflation. We
must recognize that there is a time to lower
demand pressures as well as a time to
increase them.
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