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4* nra CLINTON CHRONICLE Clinton, S. C., Thursday, September 7,1967 popular sounds which come over the air hour after hour, is a Herculean task. h * nn;. LL „ European visiting the United States ® IUT1C rOT i/WV . ^ thunderstruck when he hears the To Watch For Pupil* wild sounds which are beamed out With the openih* of kinder*arten* over so many radio stations, and schools across South Carolina this Gimmick music, or something new week, all automobile drivers afe fe- every day, is often substituted for ap- minded by the State Highway Depart- preciation of really good and proven "ment to be extra vigilant in the days music on many American stations. Our to come ' schools do what they can but trying Children unaccustomed to traveling to teach young people appreciation of to and from school by themselves will good music in the face of the deluge of be on their own and it falls to the mo torist to watch out for them as they may forget to exercise caution them selves. South Carolina law calls for every driver to stop and wait for loading and unloading of school buses which are stopped in the road or street. No such bus must be passed by a motorist. Fail ure to heed this law will bring a stiff penalty. Youngsters walking to city schools may decide to dart into the street with out warning. Bicycle riders are un predictable. They may ride into your path. By driving at a reduced rate of POOR REl [ON Irene Dillard ENiott Writes... Babson’s Point of View On: HIGHER INCOME TAXES Babson Park, Mass., August 31—Chair man Mills of the House Ways and Means Committee is now working day and night on President Johnson’s proposed 10 per cent surtax. Mr. Mills is a man of great intelli gence, boundless energy — and is a skilled parliamentarian. Prodding here, delving there, he probes witness after witness ... to satisfy his own mind and the minds of his committefe members. You can be sure there speed in school areas and by keeping he no tax jump unless Chairman Mills is cdhvihced it is in the best interests of the "fin extra sharp lookout for trouble, traffic accidents involving children may be kept at a minimum. Particularly between the hours of 8:00 to 9:00 a. m. and 2:00 to 4i00 p. m. should motor vehicle drivers use ex tra care near school areas. In many cities, low speed limits of 20 or 25 miles an hour are imposed in such areas. A moment lost could mean a life saved, the Highway Department points Out. Need For A Change Over the years there have been nu merous proposals for revision or elimi nation of the electoral college system under which the President of the Unit ed States is elected. Some proposals have called for pledged electors select ed by the people within districts, oth ers for a direct popular election, and still others for a proportional plan of casting electoral votes. Hearings have been held by the Constitutional Amendments Subcom mittee of the Senate on these various plans for electoral reform. But to date no action has been taken beyond the hearings. Additional hearings are planned by the Subcommittee and when they terminate, it is believed that fome form of reform proposal will be approved for consideration on the floor of the Senate. We would favor improving the mo- jdus operand! of the electoral college United States. SAfOltfe OF BATTLE Back in July we told you in this column that the great tax battle would soon begin. Then there was growing belief that both the President and the Congress were going to pass up a new tax. But Mr. Johnson was just waiting until his economic advisers told him that a business upturn was reasonably well assured. When they did, he fired off his 10 per cent tax hike message forthwith. Just as the long lull in any tax action prior to August led many to think there might be no Presidential insistence on higher levies ... so the din and smoke of battle in the Ways and Means Committee obscures the final outcome of the big tax set-to. Lis tening to the sharp questioning directed at top Presidenial witnesses one might conclude that the Administration is losing, that Con gress would vote no tax. But the opposite may well be the case. HORSE TRADING AND THE PATIENT’S HEALTH Two major points are at issue: (1) Is the federal budget deficit going to be big enough to require raising additional revenue? (2) Is the national economy strong enough to stand a tax boost without being thrown into a tail- spin? In grandpa’s day, horse trading was a necessary art. The first rule for success was: He who names tvs last price first is lot! There is a lot of horse trader in all politicians. That is why we feel that the President’s first-named budget deficit of $29 b'llion may not be his last. But even if he comes down to $24 or $25 billion, an awful lot more tax revenue will be needed. We doubt if he or the Congress can slice it thinner. And, for the health of the business patient, our staff No. 22 Who and Where Were Your Neighbors in 1670? FAMILY WEEKLY, «n. ar ticle, or iti condensed form in the READER’S DIGEST, September, 1967, a delightful plea caUed TRY CLIMBING YOUR FAMILY TREE. If not, you must have noticed the DIGEST advertisement' carrying a bearded Great Uncle John under the caption. There’s more coming Another paragraph from our ^ ° U ** Family about Methodists in Laurens SOCIAL WHIRL editor adds Tee * ... . , when some good corre- this: “Not only was it a£pro- In the article you not on y spondent sets us straight on priate that the Hon. Robert are entertained with stories the FIRST METHODIST McNair receive the marker, of things that might happen CHURCH in the city and for South Carolina by virtue to you, but you are given fac- how it was organized. Today of his being the state’s gov- tual information about Where you must join me in the de- ernor, but also because Mrs. and at what prt Jf lightful game of ancestry- McNair (who looked chic in books and pamphlets that hunting. black and white) is one of help both beginner and pro- There took Diace in Lahdgrave Smith’s descend- fessional genealogist in their Charleston on Sunday Au ants, a bond she shares with searches. You are told a little, gust 27, 1967, a double event a number of South CaroUn- Mormons are doing which may well be the first *ans.” A population - con- i * t w* i important celebration of the scious wag reports that it was my good fortuhe, in founding of the Carolina Col- there are probably ten thou- 1954 to be a class-mate in toe ony in 1670. First event was sand of' Smith s descendants institute for Genealogical Re- the marking of the date of ^ now ! sear ^ h - National Archives, Landgrave Thomas Smith’s Still quoting: . . Med- Washington, D. C., of a town house. Let me quote: way Plantation, boldest brick time researcher in the Tem- “. . . the unveiling and dedi- residence in Carolina! . . . pie, a man who has compiled cation of a South Carolina after the death of Smith’s or composed most of the Department of Archives and first wife, in March, 1678, he Mormon genealogicol books, History Memorial Marker married Sabina de Vignon, from whose unforgettable of the dowager Van Werhaut, wid- conversations I learned much Memorial commemeorating one Carolina province’s leaders: “ ‘Thomas Smith, earliest ow of the Dutch nobleman who had built Medway on a Govern- 12,000-acre grant . . . Smith’s Stories Behind Words By William S. Penfield Family Names Webters and Weavers have one thing in com mon. Some ancestor of both were weavers, for “webster” is an archair English word for weaver. Smith, one of the most common English names, comes from the occupation “smith,” a worker in metals. Ancestors of the Goldsmiths made or fashioned objects from gold. A skilled worker was known as a “wright,^ hence another common English name, “Wright.” Early Cartwrights made carts. The old English word “ark” meant chest or coffer, from Apglo-Saxon “arc,” which was de rived from the Latin “area,” to enclose. Early Arkwrights were ^nakers of chests. or of Carolina, 1693-1694, Planter, Merchant, Surgeon, arrived in Charles Town in 1684, with his first wife, Bar bara Atkins, and sons, Thomas and George. A CA CIQUE by 1690, he was cre ated LANDGRAVE by the Lords Proprietors on May 13, 1691. He died in his 46th year on November 16, 1694. His brick town house with a grave may be seen there to day . . . many of his de- scendants who were at Charleston’s Sunday cere monies drove out to the tree- bedecked, moss-draped set ting afterward in response to a courteous from Medway’s more than the Digest reports. I’m likely to have more to say about those Mormon rec ords later. • , Let me close with a few more quoted passages: “. . anyone can participate in the Pedigree Referral Service of the Mormon Church’s Genea logical Society simply by reg- invitation istering his research to date present with the Society . . . Every owner, Mrs. Sidney LeGen- Mormon is expected to search dre.” out his geneaology and cotn- Not all of us can claim ti- pile books of remembrance wharf on Cooper River was ties of nobility or fifty thou- .... At the Salt Lake Genea- here on the corner of East sand acres, but we can all logy Library, the world’s and Longitude Lane. Erect- have “the time of our lives” largest (italics mine),^ you ed by his descendants and looking up our less famous can have your records' itii- South Carolina Colon 5 al forebears. Ask Mr. R. E. crofilmed free of charge, Dames XVII Century, 1967’.” Babb! with a copy for yourself.” Thus read the inscription. Maybe you have read, in Happy hunting! Your WOAM&i f '~ r Yypc\]'- i Program TODAY and FRIDAY ^TOMf” Franoosa Youih Wants to Know By RANDY GRIFFITH SATURDAY ONLY The desire to be treaated as Perhaps the hardest lessons is convinced that the worst of the 1966-1967 a ma ture young man or young y° u have to. learn is that you business slowdown is now ? over. The coun- .u .... ; can’t have your way all the try should be able to take the surtax in stride. lady rather than as a child is Ume Even whe „ your re . one of your strongest needs, nupst^ srp lecitimote.’ You WFLATTON THE ALTERNATIVE A fcw years ag0 you didn . t Zy be unknowingly over- What, you ask, would happen if no surtax , „ , \ * ,, ‘ J » «« were voted? With hardly a shadow of mind being called “The Man- stepping rules,^ regulations or father than abolishing it altogether, doubt, your Uncle Sam would go on spending son’s daughter” or ‘‘The other’s “rights and pecu iari- ... for war, for foreign aid, for farm sup- White’s son.” But now you do ties - port, for veterans, for anti-poverty, for slum mind. You’re a special person So it happens that in order clearance, etc. And, without new taxes, he and you want the adult world, to be an independent person, would have to cover ALL the deficit by is- especially your parents, to re- you must understand and ac- suing additional scads of U. S. bonds. These S p ec t y 0 u, your opinions, your cept without making a scene would have to be sold to either (a) investors privacy. In short , your that you can’t be independent and investing institutions, or (b) commercial “ r jf»hts.” ’ all the time, banks. JThe faults of th« present method sup ply compelling reasons for a change. It is time for a Constitutional amendment under which the electoral College system would more genuinely Reflect the difference of opinion and jthe preferences of the voting within pach state with respect to the election of the President and the Vice-Presi dent. I . Our Popular Music One of the failings of American society is that we surround our young with music composed to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Because we are thoroughly commercialized, in radio and television, and because every station is competing for the largest .possible audience, this is the music most often stressed. If we were able to hear music composed for the upper levels of our society, at least some of the time, our young people would learn to under stand and to appreciate good music. But we seldom hear it. It is little wonder that the average CMEMASCOPE’COLOR by DELUXE: FOB THOSE WH6 MISSED BLl ■WMur - STARRING ■JOHN RICHARD LAURENCE WAYNE VIIIDMARK- HARVEYI - MjjjjgM TECHNICOLOR noouu« k-kuakbtmm MON.-TUES., SEPT. 1M2 Double Feature ChHterof < I the year! * FROZEN 3:15, 7:00 and 9:00 P. M. I 1:00, 4:00, 7:45 P. M. With business picking up and selling bonds It’s only right. Why should- We Do Not Run Straight Through COMING—“BONNIE and CLYDE” ■ -- Ammumos.stm»MnKUM< Monster of the year! MC0UM FROZEN DEAD 3:30, 7:00 P. M. IT—5:00, 8:00 P. ? funds, there is little room for heavy n * you have all these things? ition from U. S. bonds. So probably ^ ou aren t a baby any more. to raise competition from U. S. bonds. So probably Uncle Sam would have to meet his deficit by on - Simply stating selling his bonds to the commercial banks, that you’re all grown up does- History has proved this to be highly infla- n ’t make it so. The adult pop- tionary. Hence, if we fail to tax ourselves in ulation wants proof of your this year of soaring war and welfare costs, desired place in society. To we will surely run the risk of becoming swamped by surging prices. J. SOFTENING THE BLOW We are betting that Mr. Mills also will finally come to the conclusion that a tax in crease is better than a rip-roaring inflation. Of course, the administration may do a little horse trading, too . . , cut the personal levy to 8 per cent, let the corporations pay 10 per cent. When? The October date is touch and go. January 1, 1967, seems more certain. One thing looks sure: You will pay more tax es in 1968 than in 1967. What can you do to soften the blow? Not much if you’re on regular pay, but business men and professionals can get relief by post poning expenses to next year and moving all income possible forward to this year. Plan in advance. Consult your accountant now, before the year-end rush. win the independance you want demands you fight in mature and respectable ways. That means no tears, no tan trums, no sulking. “The kid who butters up the teacher may end up with a cheaper grade spread.” CLINTON, 8. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1967 Gttf? 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