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a* *■ .•«L ■ r * a i -J THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Clinton, S. C., Thursday, March 23, 1907 A Man Who Wondered Once upon a time there was a mail who lived in a town and spent all his money away from home. He was sure that he could take care of himself and that his town didn’t need anything from him. f ** After a few years, his business Wasn’t as keen as he had hoped it would be, his friends didn’t seem tto think he habits of the rising generation. Minorities are for tolerance except when they browbeat the majority. ****** If you're satisfied with yourself, take another look. * •":* * * * * It is surprising how much time one thinks he will have tomorrow. ****** Elders seldom approve of the new Irene Dilfard Elliott Wittes. THE AMERICAN WAY m be, his friends didn’t seem to think he was and trade seemed to flow by his doors. The man began to watch his competi tor, who, was an intelligent advertiser, a contributor to the public purse, a man anxious to give his time and thought to community projects and a believer in the fact that it pays to keep money at home. After noting all these factors, the man continued to wonder why some of his old customers went to the newcomer and why almost everybody had the idea that he was a tightw r ad, but that his competitor was a public - spirited leader of community life. This is a good time to catch up with your work before spring fever catches up with you. m wm rinsM NkISM \ County Named for Henry Laurens, Patriot f • • r Laurens County, from be- came known simply as Lau- fore its beginning as a county rens. to this very day, has a rich and fascinating history. This column will tempt your imag inations by publishing bits of special interest discovered Senate, little River 1784-1788 (elected in 1788 but failed to qualify)! Justice erf Peace, Justice of Quorum; TWt Col lector 1777-79. Chairman Com mission to lay °ut Laurens District 1786-1787. Surveyed for “Soldie^s , Lands,”.. 1786; Member Episcopal Church. Died between Aug. 18, 1818 .will dated) and Sept. 7,, 1818 (will proved). Probably bur ied in Downs family grave yard near Lick Creek . . . More names to be claimed! % C3 "If You Don't Face Reality, It'll Go Away!" World Calendar • One proposal of interest to all peoples of the world is that in favor of a new world calendar. The proposed world cal endar would have many advantages. Each quarter would have a first month of 31 days and two remaining months of 30 days each. Quarters would always be gin on Sundays and end on Saturadys, and each quarter would be equal in length. The quarters are not equal in the present calendar, nor do they have thir teen weeks and ninety-one days each, as would each quarter in the new calendar. The new calendar would feature twenty-six week days in every month and days and dates would always agree from year to year and holidays would al ways come on the same day of the week. Moreover, holidays would be arranged to fall on Saturdays or Mondays, so that long weekends could be worked out for working people. Objections from churchesc have thus far blocked adoption of the world calen dar- One would hope that new dates, or comparable dates, could be adopted by the churches for traditional observances and that the advantages of the newly- proposed calendar could be enjoyed by all people. Stories Behind Words Point of View On? Minerals Under The Sea Prepared and distributed by Publishers Financial Bureau, founded by Roger W. Babson). Babson Park. Mass,, March 23--Once the Vietnam War is out of the way, hopefully Uncle Sam will turn his time, attention, and money toward more effective development and use of our natural resuroes. These in clude the land itself and its produce, the min erals under the land . . . and also the min erals under the sea. MATTER OF SELF-PRESERVATION We have set many records in the field of agricultural production and nave built up, a promising chemurgic industry. Yet there is so much more we need to do to make our land still more fruitful and to use our agri cultural wastes to better advantage. We pos sess vast mineral resources. Yet there is a great deal more we could do by way of re search, development, and extraction. Still we have at least been aware of the po tential of our land and mineral resources, by Comparison, we have sadly neglected the mineral Wealth that lies at the doorstep of our long coastal borders. The small begin nings made by us so far in this field must be greatly expanded—and soon—for the eco nomic pressures of the coming years will be greater than those we are now encountering and we shall need our ocean % wealth to keep us a strong and self-reliant nation. FUTURE OF OCEANOGRAPHY ' ' > As we look back over the two decades that have passed since the end of World Was II, we can see the many changes that have oc curred in our everyday life. Our nation has become more highly industrialized. Our metals and chemicals industries have ex pend far beyond our expectations. Vast mar. kets have opened up as new uses have been found for traditional raw materials and as new materials have been introduced. Thgre is a very good chance that a break through resulting from oceanographic studies and explorations will open up a marine min erals industry of huge potential. Within the next ten or fifteen years, we may well have a government-sponsored National Oceano graphic Agency to rival the National Aero- jfave you ever considered times you fel so rushed by nattitics and Space Agency. Before the year tha( thcre arc ccrtain thinl!s lhe ,^^0,, or 2000, we could be extracting from our off- How many of you claim de scent from any or all of those early leaders? Where was the Aim j see how Texas has claim spring? Who can send me a ed them; he largest D. A. R. either by research in Colum- short history of the Court Chapter in the world Is the bia or sent in by readers of House? And how many of you Jane Douglas Chapter In Dal- wiil put ta k ptea to the new- las, and right over in Waco, ly formed Commission to Pro- Texas is the Henry Downs cure a New Court House for Chapter! saving the beautiful one we (Please send your contribu- now have? Had it occurred to 512 Congaree AVenue, to you that Federal money Columbia 29205). 1 vou know that the might be had for the asking if some organized or elected By William S. Penfield this newspaper. You know, of course, that the county was named for Henry Laurens, President of both the Provincial Congress and the Continental Congress, but did _ people wished to,name it for Jonathan Downs who repre sented the Little River Dis trict in the S. C. Congress? Downs declined the honor but asked if he might name the county for his friend Henry Laurens. Quoting 'from a scrapbook of Miss Sallie Griffin, Dallas, Texas, the “Barksdale Family History and Genealogy,” com piled by John A. Barksdale savs: “On the 13th day of July 8, 1772. July 1792, Samuel Saxon sold mill in Little group submitted plans for con verting it into a civic center? Reynolds and Faunt in “The Senate of the State of South FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on th£ 20th day of April, 1967, I wiU ren der a final account of acts and doings as Executor of the Carolina 1776-1962” p. 207, estate of Charles Ernest Chap- say: man in the office of the Judge Downs, Jonathan, Senator of Probate of Laurens Coun- from kittle River District Ha- ty, at 10 o’clock a.m., and ter Laurens) bom in Orange on the same day will apply Co., Va. the son of Captain for a final discharge from Henry Downs and Lady Jane Douglas. Married Sara Gary Owned cotton River District, Rank and File “Rank and file” was originally a military term used to refer to soldiers drawn up in form ation. Later, it was used to denote a body of sol diers as distinguished from the officers. “Rank” referred to the soldiers drawn up abreast in rows. The men in each row were uni formly spaced so that each man in the front row stood at the head of a line or “file.” “File”, is still preserved in this sense in “single file,” a line of men each directly behind the other. “Rank and file” was borrowed from military parlance and applied to a general body of per sons as distinguished from the leaders. four acres of land to the Deputy Surveyor before Rcvo- Judges of the County Court lution. In Revolutionary War, of Laurens, to wit: Jonathan first lieutenant Oct Downs. John Hunter, and tain Dec., 1775, Thomas Wadsworth Esquires, Camp’ campaign; Major for the use of the county court 1776; wounded Sept. 1776 in of said county: Also the right “ring fight” with Tories and to the use of a certain spring. Cherokee Indians . . . S. C. The price paid was two guin- eas. The lot was eight chains east and west, and five chains north and south, and was sur-. veyed by Jonathan Downes and John Rogers ... In those days Main Street was known as the Charleston Road, and Harper Street as the road to Cambridge . . .” The town - was first named Laurens Court House but it later be- roy trust as Executor. Any person indebted to said estate is notified and-required to make payment on or before that date, and all persons hav ing claims against said es- 1775; Cap- late will present them on or in “Snow before said date, duly proven or he forever barred. J. B. Hart, Executor # March 20, 1967 4C-A13 Your Program Today, March 23-March 28 Youth Wants to Know By RANDY GRIFFITH time, you grading, and a well-organized answer is given more value than you might guess. Not many of us can organ ize our thoughts without pre vious preparation. Outlines are the best way to think through your ideas. An outline he\ps you sort out your ideas and relate them to each oth er. learning to organize one’s thoughts is perhaps the great est skill one can acquire while in school. Most teachers will appreci ate your thoughtfulness in pre paring an outline; in fact, Excitement! Adventure under the sea! 4 rjSrm 3:15, 5, 7 and 9 P. M. — Sat.—1 P. M. Starts Wednesday, March 30 shore areas commercially valuable deposits >' ou sh ? ukl k ^P in mind when spend the whole .perM writ- u»o» teachers who have ad -•<, SCREAMING WHEELS - RECKLESS PLEASURES of minerals, including precious metals. you take a school? A Note Qn Fishing Now that fishing weather is here, we take this occasion to point out to fisher men that they are now permitted by soc iety to practice the sport without doing damage to their reputations. What brings this^thought t&mind is a state ment by the Olft^rio Department of Lands and Forest several years back. That statement recalled that, years ago, fishing was thought to be strictly for the peasants. ^An some countries, fishing was a mis demeanor and those who were caught fishing were put in the same classifica tion as mischief - makers. The only re spectable fishing was done by small boys and the rest of it was done by hoboes, village cutups and misfits- The society gentleman did not participate in the sport at all. - Fishing today brings no reproof from society, a sign of progress in itself. In fact, in today’s fast pace of living, fish ing plays a vital role — relieving the tension in everyday life ... to say no thing of the delight in having a^savory dish of bass, crappie, trout, flounder or catfish on our dining tables. discussion es t ^ . sn , t a j wa y S w j se . quired the skill of outlining In such instances a student will be happy to share their .DEEP-SEA FLOOR STUDIES Answering discussion quest- usually substitutes a Vquan- thoughts with you. Ask any First, we must prepare to penetrate the ions requires a lot of infor- uty” 0 f words for a “quality” teacher. When you make an secrets of the sea. Steps are already being mation and organizing skill. answer. On a discussion-type outline during a test period, taken on both the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts It is always important to test, it’s not how much you just make sure you let it be of ContinentalfU. S., and in Hawaii. In the think through the question be- say but how you say it. Most known that you are preparing New York area, local capital is financing fore starting to write. Some- teachers try to he fair in their an outline and not cheating! the construction of the ultimate voyage of : a deep submergance vessel in which Swiss 1 oceanographer, Dr. Jacques Piccard, will • ; . make a six-week, 1,500-mile observatioh journey beneath the Gulf Stream. Dr. Pic card plans to submerge to a depth of about 300 feet off the Miami coast, drifting with the current to Nova Scotia and descending to depths of as much as 2000 feet. In California, a somewhat similar proj ect is underway, sponsored jointly by a Bu reau of Mines Marine Technology Center and the Coast and Geodetic Survey. There the emphasis will be more on exploring and mapping the continental shelf with a view to minerals exploitation, while Dr. Piccard’s journey will perhaps concentrate more on observing marine life.' \ AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL^** nNNMH&tUSS —w PMUVISION and COLOR. <B1M7 American International Pjcturet 3:15, 5:00, 7:00 and 9:00 P. M. ECONOMIC PROSPECTS Of course, we know so little about the sea and her secrets that there are bound to be disappointments and setbacks in the effort to discover the extent of the ocean’s wealth and how to best extract it. Right now any minerals taken from the sea would be costly to haul up and to trans port to refineries and ultimate markets. But one day we shall learn to make them truly competitive with land minerals. In the pro cess we shall also learn a great deal about marine life and its vital potential as food for man. R • -;sv 1 Am fife my CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1967 (Htp (Elintmt (Mjrmtirl? 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