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Reapportionment of Senate
Still To Be Accomplished
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
THE AMERICAN WAT
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CMnk>n, S.\ C** Thursday^ A^ril 6, 1067
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The legislature of South Carolina
is still in the process of reapportioning
the State Senate in accord with the one
man-one vote mandate of the U. S. Su
preme Court.
' The temporary legislation enacted
l&st year which set up a system of sen
atorial districts with 50 Senators ,for
the 46 counties (with some districts
having more than one Senator) will
have to be scrapped, as expected.
By a recent opinion of the South.
Carolina Supreme Court, the state can
have only 46 Senators.
While restricting the legislators
somewhat in comparison with the 50-
member plan, it does give them a start
ing point. But it can only add to the
anguish of members of the Senate from
small counties, more of whom will lose
their posts. Some were eliminated in
the 50-member plan when membership
from the larger counties was increased.
In fact, the 50-member plan was a con
trived set-up, which, with its so-called
negative residency clause, favored se
veral small-county Senators. It was
never expected that the courts would
agree to such a plan as a permanent
arrangement.
The moment of truth has now ar
rived and it is up to the legislators
(principally the Senate) to approach
the job in a statesmanlike manner and
come up with a reapportionment plan
that wdl be as fair as possible and that
will be acceptable to the three-judge
federal panel under whose orders they
will be working.
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New York’s Schools
From time to time the rest of the na
tion is disturbed over violence and dis
order in some of the nation’s metropoli
tan school systems. The latest evidence
of a deplorable state of affairs came to
light when 79 teachers recently resign
ed their jobs in protest against contin
ued assaults on them—assaults which
continued after earlier protests brought
no action.
This shocking development occur
red in New York City’s east Bronx—
where public schools' are known by
numbers instead of names— in public
junior high school 98.
One doesn’t blame teachers from
resigning when unprotected against
physical violence. In addition, the ex
perience of recent years in non-south
ern metropolitan school systems indi
cates that in our efforts to combat dis
crimination we sometimes have coddled
students as a result of a guilty complex,
and out of fear of what an organized
minority group might say about it—
meanwhile leaving teachers unprotect
ed.
Thus champions of the free, public
school system and ideal in America
watch such process, which drives more
and more of those w’ho can afford it
to private schools, with genuine regret.
Asking the question is much easier
than finding the right answer..
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Give the other man credit for some
sincerity of purpose and you might be
at)le to understand him better.
Time is not so scarce. What is rare
js the proper and intelligent use of
time.
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One of the most valuable discover
ies about so-called big men is that un
der the skin they are just ordinary little
men.
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Th,e explanation of many automo
bile accidents is in the fact that the
driver of the car did not believe in signs.
Babton’i point of View On! ^
Schemes To Defraud
The Innocent
Customer
Babson Park, Mass., March SO. There
is today a flourishing underground of con
games aimed chiefly at victimising the nai
ve, the poor, and the elderly. Involved are
essential services and products, and the ap
proach generally appears to be both help
ful and honest. But the Better Business Bu
reau and other protectors of the buyer warn
that millions of dollars are being mulcted
from unsuspecting customers without their
even becoming suspicious.
* WIDE RANGE OF COME-ONS
The schemers don’t have to try to sell
Brooklyn Bridge or make an old lady with
draw her life savings to cover some alleg
edly “found” money that will be shared with
her. Today’s extortions take place in a most
“natural” manner, in the marketplace, in the
home, by mail. They have an everyday fla
vor; they look innocent enough . . . until it’s
too late. Frequently they are directed at the
18 million senior citizens whose incomes may
be low but whose bank accounts are too of-'
ten just big enough to be vulnerable.
Heating, plumbing, and house* repairs
proposals should never be accepted from
strangers without a complete investigation of
the prestige of the companies involved. Far
too commonplace is the furnace “renova
tion” that finds the unit a “fire hazard”. A
new furnace costing several hundred dollars
is suggested. For most householders, it is
easy and necessary to take .the word of the
“expert” ... . too often the furnace is already
disassembled. Most victims don’t bother to
get professional help; they ante up the cash.
STORE LOSS-LEADERS
SOMETIMES BAIT
Irking the Better Business Bureau in
many areas Is a retail strategy including ads
offering fantastic bargain prices for brand
merchandise. When the customer arrives he
is shunted away from the prefered article
by one excuse or another. Far more expen
sive merchandise is demonstrated, with a
big spiel on how much better it is than the
advertised product. So many unwilling cus
tomers have been hooked this way that F.du-
cational TV has been showing films to teach
the guileless or the weak-wiled how to avoid
being bilked.
This sort of thing also goes on in some
frozen-meat centers. Advertising ridiculous 1 -
ly low prices for beef, for example, can end
up in clever diversion of customers to far
more expensive cuts. Then, too, many buy
ers find that they pay regular supermarket
prices — or higher — for meat after the
Changing weight” has been slashed by boning
and fat removal. Some customers have re
ported that they ended up paying more than
$1 a pound few beef cuts that included ham-
burg. •
WATCH OUT FOR WORK-AT-HOME AND
MAIL-ORDER GYPS
Beware of the glamorous ads that tell
you how to go into the mail-order business or,
how to make things at home that you can
sell for a fortune, usually to the company
doing the advertising. Here again the Better
Business Bureau advises against responding
to any glittering claims, particularly when
you must send money to find out what it is
all about. There hqve been instances where
customers have bought expensive machines
for turning out textiles, novelties, or cloth-
. * n g, with the promise that the company will
buy the results. More often than not, fault
is found with the customer’s product; all
that the firm cared about was unloading the
costly machine.
. There is no riper field for “pkdding the
bill’ than auto service. One prevalent gim
mick of some quick-buck garages is to offer
a tune-up or a special overhaul for such a
pittance that it is difficult to resist. Then,
once he car is in the station, it is simple for
the workman to find a few other things that
need repair since he “had the hood up.”
Best way to avoid this trouble is to belong
to an association such as the AAA or the
ALA and have your jobs done at their rec
ommended agencies. The association lawyers
will often fight back if you report serious
overcharges or work done that you did not
agree to in advance.
Isn’t that HIST6RIC PRE
SERVATION of the very fin
est sort! And isn’t that the
sort of thing every Laurens
County native or resident
could entertain himself With
forever! More next week.
(Please send your contribu
tions *- records, not mcttiey
to 512 Coftgaree Avenue, Co
lumbia, 29205).
News of Bonds
Cross Bonds
MRS. N. A. SHOUSE
Correspondent
Telephone 897-0829
Shady Grove 4H Club will
hold its regular meeting Tues
day, April 11, at 4 p.m. Su
san Shouse, president of the
club, reminds all girls that
April is Achievement Month.
Girls are to bring project
books completed and bring an
exhibit tit the project.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Morgen
have returned after spending
several days in Charleston
with Mr. and Mrs.' Hulon
Howard.
Mrs. David Pitts has re
turned from a trip to Atlanta,
Ga. Mrs. Pitts was in Atlanta
due to the death erf her bro
ther. While in Atlanta she vis
ited her daughter, Sallie Pitts.
The Pentecostsfl Holiness
Church held the regular
monthly singing on Sunday.
Mr. bpd Mrs. James John
son were recent visitors to
Greenville to visit Mrs. Mack
Blakely who has been a pa
tient at Greenville General
Hospital.
Maxine Spivey attended a
birthday party for Jon Ab-
brams on Saturday afternoon
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Abrams on Joanna - Whitmire
Highway.
Hoyt Blackstone and Jopel
Blackstone of Gray Court vis
ited their sister, Mrs. Hubert
Spivey on Sunday.
Shady Grove Home Demon
stration Cltfb held its regular
meeting-Tuesday, April 4, at
5 p.m.
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V-WiJliam S. Penfield
- Welsh Rabbit
For centuries Englishmen looked upon the
Welsh as poor relatives. A great many Welsh
men at melted cheese spread on toast. The Eng
lish called the dish “Welsh rabbit,” strongly im
plying that the Welsh were too poor to afford
rabbit.
Centuries later, w'hen it had become popular
in England and other English-speaking countries,
many persons tried to lend some dignity to the
• humble dish by calling it “Welsh rarebit.” This
affectation made some headway, but it still has
not replaced “Welsh rabbit.”
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Irene Dillard ENiott Writes . ..
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John Wells Simpson Built
the Court House
Joe Simpson of Whitmire Wistar and William Dunlap
sends this, quoted from a one- ^Simpson,
hundred page book compiled “William Dunlap Simpson
by.Rev. Z. L. Holmes and an- . . . born in Laurens County
other by John Wells Simpson, on October 27, 1823, (was)
both descendants: Lieutenant Governor while
“William Simpson and his Wade Hampton was Governor;
wife Mary Simpson Simpson himself Governor of South Ca-
(probably cousins) came to rolina in 1878, during the
America (from County Ant- State’s most trying period;
rim, Ireland) in 1770 and set- an d Chief Justice of the Su
ited in Laurens County with preme Court of South Carolina
four of their five children. from 1880 until his death in
•■The fifth child. Col. John , 1890 u Practiced law with his
Simpson, after his eSication brother John W istar in Lan
in Belfast, moved to London ""? “ ■' ''° hn W ' St ? r '“ S hlS
and became a merchant. Here health then moved to Colum-
he married Mary Wells of bia where ho lived until his
Burfort, Oxfordshire, apd six eat *
weeks later they too . . . set- ( have seen a type-script
tied in Laurens County (built book ol ‘ Simpson genealogy
a beautiful house) and named which 1 .b^'eve to he more
Belfast. (This) three story complete and scientifically
brick structure still stands documented, but the Mr. x
(very close to the line between Simpson who lent it to me
Newberry and Laurens 'and about 1930 ,( *lt South Carolina,
near that section of the Saluda and I have lost sight of him
River which separates Lau- completely. Can anybody help
rens from Saluda). me find him and his book
“John Simpson and his wife a " a ‘ n >
Mary Wells were the parents Turning to th<> present, Mar-
of three sons and four daugh- Kuerite Tolbert, a Laurens
ters. One daughter married County girl now making fine
John Nickles, a physician and history (Woman of the Year
planter; another married Tho- 1966. was chosen by the state-
mas Wright, a General of the wide Council for the Common
Militia; another married John Good) is charting her ances-
K. Grififin, a member of Con- tors for every young member
gress; and the fourth married of her family. She has one
Anthony Griffin, a planter, line that goes back to the year
The thj-ee sons were W. W. 1615. proven, with dates and
Simpson, Judge of the Ordin- everything! Can anybody beat
ary Court; John Wells Simp- that? And wouldn’t you like
son; and R. F. Simpson, a to take a look?
lawyer and member of Con- Well, here goes, in Biblical
8 re ss. verbiage for the sake of bre-
“John Wells Simpson attend- vity: Richard Major, born in
ed the South Carolina College England in 1615, emigrated to
'(now U.S.C.) and Jefferson Virginia in 1638; begat George
Medical College in Philadel- Major, 1651; George begat Sa-
phia. (He) practiced his modi- muef, 1712, whose wife Eliza-
cal profession in Laurens and beth Jones of Middlesex Coun-
with the help of trained slaves ty, Virginia is buried in Pick-
built the stately Court House ens, South Carolina; Samuel
and also established and en- begat John, 1740, married En
dowed the Laurensville Fe- zabeth Epps 1760, fought in the
male Academy, . . . later part Revolution, and died 1799;
of the Laurens School System, J 0 hn begat John P o r r y Ma-
and from it is now the Lau- jor, 1775-1853; John Perry and
rens High School building his wife Mary Marshall Major
across the road. begat Isabella Major, 1806-
“(Dr.) John Wells Simpson 1^7, who married William Tol-
was twice married, first to bert; William Tolbert and Is-
•Elizabeth Satterwhite of New- abella begat James Franklin
berry, formerly of Virginia. Tolbert, who married Mary
She was born April 3, 1803, Elizabeth Cromer; J a pi e s
and died September 24, 1824. Franklin. Tolbert and Mary
Dr. Simpson was born in 1802 Elizabeth begat the junior
and lived eighty-four years. James Franklin Tolbert, who
To Dr. Simpson and Eliza- married Emma Medora Gray
beth were born two sons, John and they begat Marguerite.
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Maybe
if striped bass
were electric eels
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W#"... we wouldn't have such a hard time
% letting all you people know our business.
We’ve even tried to figure out a way
to put an electric outlet on catfish.
AC and DC charges in a crappie.
A kilowatted rockfish.
But there’s no way.
Can’t be done.
A fish is a fish.
And electricity is electricity.
We should know.
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We handle more of the two than just
about anyone.
A million fish a year.
Almost two billion kilowatt hours of
electrical power.
That’s enough fish to feed every man.
woman and child in South Carolina
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at the world’s largest fish fry
(you bring the hushpuppies).
That’s enough electric power to
light up the state
like a Christmas tree for a month.
But it’s, a good thing we don’t get
our fish and electricity mixed up.
You might, but we can’t.
We’d look mighty funny trying to serv
ice our customers with a ton of fisln
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