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Seaboard, Coast Line Merger •i. *• ■ .. Gets Court Approval At long last, the final stumbling runs from Richmond, vVa., to Birming- bloek has been removed from the path ham, Ala., furnishing freight and pus- FROM BAD TO WORSE of the merger of two major railroads in the Southeast. The way was cleared Monday for the Seaboard Air Line and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroads to proceed with their merger, originally scheduled for April, 1964, but delayed by the legal challenges of other railroads and rail labor unions. The U. S. Supreme Court gave final approval for consolidation of‘the two railroads and consummation of the long delayed plana no doubt will come about as soon as practicable. The effects of the coming together of these two rail lines will be felt in Clinton, which is served by both rail roads, though to what extent is not now known. The two separate offices now main tained by the roads in Clinton undoubted ly will be merged at some future date, which will include the dosing of one of the buildings used as office and station. The Seaboard line serving Clinton Striking Entertainers The recent strike of radio and tel evision performers, and newsmen (also performers), was an eye-opening event. During the course of dispute it was re vealed that the average striker was earning about $16,000. Many were earn ing more. The ridiculous side of the strike in the first place is that performers are the most overpaid group in the nation today — especially movie and television performers. Radio performer^ do not fall in the same category. , Yet striking were many ‘artists’ who were earning twenty and thirty and forty thousand dollars a year, more than most of the nation’s college presidents. One would, of■ course, defend their, right to strike, but that television performers now obviously overpaid because of the newness of television and the resulting boom should strike is ironical. senger service. The Coast Line controls and operates the former Columbta, New berry & Laurens (CN&L), a short line road supplying freight service only. The consolidated railroad will have 9,624 route miles in Virginia, North Car olina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama. Babsoa’s Point o# Visw On: What’s Ahead For Farmers Bsbsou Park, Maas. —^Although not all farmers had a good year In 1986, by and large agriculture did very well. Farm in come rose to new high ground and export volume was encouragingly large. This year the outlook for farmers Is not quite so rosy; nevertheless 1907 promises to be good over all and generally profitable. 1997 FARM OUTPUT • The Agriculture Department reports that 297 million acres will be seeded to 17 major crops In 1967, if farmers stick to their plant ing intentions. This would be 3% above last year’s acreage. In spite of expected heavy increases in corn and sorghum plantings, it looks as if total feed-grqin production would dlp^somc 7 million tons from the goals set earlier by the Administration. Although farmers plan to up corn acreage this year by a hefty 7%, there is no guaran tee that this would result in a proportionate output gain. Size of he final outrun will be de termined by the rate of yield per acre. Our forecast is that total corn supply in the 1967- 66 season (crop plus carryover) will be less than 9 billion bushels, and will top actual de mand by only a nominal margin. CATTLE AND HOG MARKETS Asumming farmers persevere in their in tentions to rebuild cattle herds—and chances are good that they will — cutbacks in cattle and calf marketings later this year may just about cancel out expected heavier-than- year-ago hog runs. To put it another way: Whatever increase we see in hog output this year will not make for larger total livestock production. Over the next couple of months slaughter of steers and heifers will continue heavy, re flecting the large numbers still in feedlots. This will tend to limit cattle price upturns well into May at least. Even so, the bulk of factors suggests that cattle prices during the second quarter will average a bit higher than in the January-March period. Youth Wants to Know By RANDY GRIFFITH School District 96 School Lunch Menu Week of AprU 17-21 MONDAY clpk it ever difficult for you world - shaking significance: Milk, beef with gravy, cole to make small talk? Some- the weather, homework, cloth-slaw, blackeyed peas, rice, times we need to make con- es. friends or sports. However hot biscuit, butter, and apple versation Just to be friendly. amall 8UC h talk may seem, P ie - Well then, just what is small ^ And a person who TUESDAY talk? It is the kind of conver- makes it interesting is a plea- Milk, hot dogs with chill, sation you use when you can’t sure ^ ^ w m, mustard, and onions, sliced think of anything important Perhaps the best way to tomatoes, green beans, hot to say. “Isn’t this awful wea- mgke smaU ^ more mean _ dog buns, butter, and Jello ther?” “Have you heard about i8 t0 t hink of the per- with strawberries and tbp- «—«-■>.. “ Lyne tte has a new son t a i k i ng to. For in-P»ng. . stance, instead of saying, WEDNESDAY “Some assignment we have vegetable soup wi for math, huh?’’ try to say beef, green pepper rings, something like, “What do you sandwiches, corn bread, think about the math assign- ter » and cake W1 , ment Mrs. Eagleface gave us Icin 8- for tomorrow?” The latter Thursday suggestion gives the other per- Milk, macaroni pie, bolog- son a chance to answer more na > orange juice, P 638 ’ P c than just “yes” or “no.” led beets, hot rolls, butter, Even though you may be and chilled peaches, talking about everyday, in- FRIDAY sfgnificant things; try to say Milk, chiliburgers with them in a manner that will cheese, tossed salad, potato bring the other person into sticks, hamburger buns, but- the conversation. ter, and chilled cantaloupe. Bonnie? Mustang.” These are all ex amples of small talk. You talk about things that are of no Stories Behind Words By William S. Penfieid Crocodile Tears . Centuries ago, it was popularly believed that the crocodile moaned and groaned as if in dis tress in order to attract a passerby. Ater catch ing its prey, the story continued, the crocodile shed tears while devouring it. This t a 1 e i s the basis for the expression “crocodile tears,” meaning hypocritical tears or pretended sorrow. The tale is not entirely fanciful. The croco dile does shed tears when it has a mouthful of food. The food presses against the* roof of its mouth, forcing tears from the lachrymal glands. Jewel Box Stores Undergo Expansion Jewel Box Stores Coropora- tion has acquired 19 addi tional stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia, according to an announcement released here today by Leon ard Caricofe, manager of The Jewel Box at 101 E. Main St. The latest expansion — the largest single acquisition in the compny’s history — more than doubles the number of stores ia^Ehe Greensboro, N. C. based company since its formation with 45 stores in 1961. The addition also ex pands the company’s opera tion from 7 to 10 Eastern states. The 19 new units include seven lease departments in the Northern Miller Furniture Store chain. The lease depart ments will carry similar mer chandise to that of regular Jewel Box stores, including jewelry, small appliances, lug gage, and radios and stereos. This marks the company’s en try in the lease department field. Earlier this year the rapid ly expanding organization pur chased a second store in Mar tinsville, Va., and a new store in Asheville, N. C. There are presently 93 stores in Jew el Box Corporation. but- chocolate Seaboard Again Offers Excursion Rates -si During the baseball season, beginning April 14th, and continuing through Oct. 1st, the Seaboard Railroad will again sell special bargain week-end tickets to Atlanta and return at the one-way coach fare plus 25c’ A further reduction will be made for children. Purchasers may use any train on Friday, Satur day or Sunday for the going trip, and return on any train Sunday of the same week-end, during this period. For adults the excursion rate is $5.77 round trip from Clinton or $2.89 for chldren ages 5 through 11. Further information and a schedule of week end baseball and soccer games to be played in Atlanta Stadium may be obtained from Seaboard Agents, who will also arrange for hotel reserva tions and the purchase of baseball or soccer tickets in Atlanta, if given sufficient advance notice. ' Irene Dillard Elliott Writes . Stocks, Business. Debt The current economic situation enough to puzzle many of the experts and certainly proves baffling to the average citizen. The stock market leaped ahead recently to a new 1967 high the very day industry production was reported down. * Automobile stocks went up in the face of slow sales and the possibility of a strike in the industry this year over the guaranteed wage demands. Business is definitely slower than the President predicted in his January economic report, so much so that Con gress is dubious about adding a six pet* It PRICES AND NET INCOME is widely expected that agricultural What's Historic Near You? Hfltfi 1*11 filling with the herd? If the Laurens County His- course, as a buffer against toric Preservation Committee the Indians, and as a balance prices will be higher this year than in 1966, but close evamination of supply-demands think I m taiking out for the too-rapidlj’ growing is trends indicates this will not be so. Best bet of turn, I’d like to tell you that number of blacks Not all poor to a ban ro&Uf^ the ame were too ir passage. In x in Spartanburg passport of John is that the average of farm product prices in it has plans up its sleeve that 1967 will actually show a small decline. Much will please you very much, larger corn and soybean crops, and a sizable If. it can iind and mark his- upturn at least in wheat output, will mearf toric places, the Highway lower quotes for these items. Hog, poultry. Commission, so the Slate Ar^. Craig; also his church token, and egg prices also promise to be down from chivist tells me, can probably Know what a church token last year. And these projected price declines (he didn’t say “projwrfrty”) was? Here’s the text of the are unlikely to be offset-^y higher quotes for build good roads ihto those passport: “I certify that the cattle, daijry products, and perhaps some se- places not now on paved bearer, John Craig, and his lected grains. roads. Wife, Ellen, are both Prot- Of course the larger farm productivity But Commission needs estant of the Presbyterian /help- course in prospect will result in some increase in yourxtfelp—everybody’s help. Persuasion and ar e free of all total receipts from agricultural marketings. ]ast ni g h L for instance, Public Scandal or Church A new record for gross farm income sggms" w e sat at supper with a four- Censure, and having a mind to be in the making. Realized net will be a som e from Hickory Tavern. I to remove to the Province of different story, however, for farmpivexpen- ask ed bow the place got it’s South Carolina with their six „ OIA FCX ses are rising rapidly. Labor costs, machine- name There was flrst a bick- children are hereby recom- cent surtax the President asked The ry P rices > , and taxes are alHrending up. As ory (orest, they said, then a mended to all they may apply crnvprnmpnf ^ a consequence, farmery realized net income stage-coach road, then a tav- (to?) as sober, honest people. g e nment already acknowledges that this year may be off "from 1966 possibly by ern bullt of hickory logs, then and worthy of Enccurage- the name. Easy does it, once ment. Dated at Agomiil in the you become interested. A Kingdom of Ireland this 6th marker ought to be put there; day of November. 1773. Jos. painted planks until we can Cumming. Dy. 6 Mo. It.’* - f slow- antici-^ tax collections, because of the down, are less that had been pated. Two things, then, seem certain: in flation is likely to continue (with heavy defi^if financing) and the danger of a loss of confidence in the American dol lar remains very real. These two pros pects are not assets with which to enter a political campaign such as that sched uled for!968. ^ as much, as 5% x Farmers and others who depend on farm purcha$irfg power for their own bread and butlari cannot fully insulate themselves from the impact of higher costs. But they can be come more prosperous by ke.ej^mR 7 abreast of the economic and technological, develop ments affecting agriculture. They must be prepared for a further decline in the number of farms and for additional increases in farm size Experience is rarely valued by those who need it most. afford a better. Who’d like to A receipt follows: “Rec’d volunteer? There’s a house, I trom John Crage (watch this was told, on the exact location spelling, further) one pound of the tavern. So, let’s begin 100 shillings and nine pens for with Hickory Tavern—mark- Seven Passengers for their ed for tourists to read. passage on board the Betty Fred E. Holcombe, Liberty from this Pore to Charleston. Make no mistake about it, farms bavins f' rec '' climon ’ is Seentuy of South Carolina, their allow- l?ss than $20,000 in product sales annually are on the way out. But larger farms will become still more highly mechanized and more profitable. And the market ..for feed, , , x seeds, and equipment will grow far beyond bor a "? ««' y™r ™mribution two quarts ol Water each day ' m ri r»ht it° Th<» f nmmic- fr>r s.noh taoccmrrnr l ’ 9_Q the Commission, and there’s ances to be seven pounds of a member for each township. Beef, seven pounds of Dread or Won’t you get in touch with Meal, and one pound of Butter Mr. Holcombe or your neigh- or Molasses each week and aie fc 0te - «>**%** current expectations. CLINTON ,S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1967 otyf (Clintmt (Etyrmurlp July 4, 1999 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — June 13, 1995 Establish** 1999 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rote (Payable in Advance) Out-of-County One Year, $4.00; Six Months, $2.50 One Year, $5.00 Second Clasd Postage Paid at Clinton, S. C. POSTMASTER: Send Form 1579 to Clinton Chronicle, Clinton, S. C. 29325 The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and*, kindly advice. The Qironicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anony mous conunuoicaions will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of li£ correspondents. ' No responsibility is assumed by tha publisher for omission or error occurring in advertisements or news matter, but correction will be made in the next issue when etiepticu if directed to OL In no event wifi liability be assumed when merchandise is mM at toeiirrectfy arfmfixd price. Member: South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association National Advertising Representative: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia in right away? The Cnmmis- for each passinger. L’ 2-9. sion is at work right now try- Larne, 19th Oct. 1773. Abm. ing to find every markable Woodside.” spot. By 1773 x Hunters and Mc- Where was the first group Clintocks were moving from settlement in our County? Milton, probably to escape Leon Hollingsworth, in his malaria and Tories, to the “Hunters Now and Then”— higher, safer Scuffletown. 1771-1952, thinks it might have Scuffletown. according to been in the Milton-Belfast sec- ‘‘HuntersThen and Now,” had tion, where Hunters, Simp- begun to he settled as early sons, and related families set- as 1770, when Michael -Mc- tled, and whore the Little Riv- C.uire, a Scot, received a boun ce Prsbytrian Church had ty of two hundred acres. In been established as early as 1768 came Stephen Hudson 1762. A year later, in 1763, and John McDowell. By 1800 the Duncan's Creek Presbyte- or long before, we find, in ad- rian Church was established, joining tracts, John Hunter, Here, in 1771,* came John II, who had married Mary Hunter, his wife, Margaret McClintoek. daughter of John Bryson, and their five chil- and Margaret Simpson Me- dren from County Antrim, Clintock; William Fowler. Ireland. Here came also John James McClintoek, Alexander McClintoek and his wife. Mar- Mills, Robert Ross, Francis garet Simpson, all Scotch- Ross, Marshall Franks. Alex- Irish Presbyterians trying to ander Taylor, and the afore- escape persecution for -non- mentioned early settlers. Add conformity in religion, and, in Flemings, Blakeleys, Craigs, some cases taking advantage and Hunters oi five genera- of the “Bounty” offered tions, and don’t you have the “poor, white Protestants” in modern village of Ora? the upper section of the Col- You may expect “The Scuf- ony. There was another angle fletown Special” next week, to that Bounty: those whites Meantime report, report, re- were to serve* unannounced of port! 1967 DODGE CHARGER-TOMORROW’S CAR TODAY! Fabulous fastback — a sport's model with family room. The disappearing head lamps are the most. Go Charger —new leader of the Dodge Rebellion. THE DODGE REBELLION WANTS YOU! TMSMNSm LYNN COOPER, ING 302 • 305 E. Carolina Ave. — Clinton, S. C.