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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.
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If you're satisfied with yourself, take
another look.
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It is surprising how much time one
thinks he will have tomorrow.
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Elders seldom approve of the new
Irene Dilfard Elliott Wittes.
THE AMERICAN WAY
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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.
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County Named for Henry
Laurens, Patriot
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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!
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"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
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shore areas commercially valuable deposits >' ou sh ? ukl k ^P in mind when spend the whole .perM writ- u»o» teachers who have ad
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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.'
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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.
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CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1967
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