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** ■' ■* ■ • . . • |i^>ii|rn , . >— .« ■^1 Rati Station Suggestions Made: Voice Is Needed i "Cool Yule And A Hippie New Year, Cats! Rufrgestions are comirif in about hotv to best use the old CN&L Rail- r'.’dd station for tlie betterment of Clkon. A Chamber of Commerce office, a ibuaeum, a Scout headquarters— those are a few of the suggestions Signs Aren't Toys For Eranksters Because a road marker was miss ing, three persons died in Alabama last week.’ A woman, her daughter and an other girl were killed when their car plunged into a river while re turning from a righ school basket ball game. The two girls were cheerleaders. Police said the woman took a wrong turn and the car fell into the river where an old bridge had been removed. She took the wrong turn because a road barricade had been pushed aside. Highway and police officials in Laurens County say that it hae been a fad in this area for young people to pull up or steal highway signs. Some teenagers use them to dec- crate their room. This is not a small problem for highway and police officials. Some young people ride the countryside at night and pull up or push over dozens of signs. To the young people, it may be a prank but there’s a viciousness in the methodical way which some go about it. The tragic accident related above shows what can happen when a sign is out of place. It’s not hard to imagine serious accidents occurring at intersections where stop signs have been stolen. Highway officials are patrolling the area at night in an effort to enforce laws concerning damaging, destroying or stealing highway signs. Some youngsters were caught recently and now are hav ing to make restitution for oevr 20 signs they damaged. The highway markers are put there for very specific purposes. Usually, they warn of danger. Re move the warning and a young person’s prank may result in death. The stop sign in a teenager’s room may represent a life. Veterans Deserve Adjustment Help Most of the three quarter million veterans returning to civilian life dur ing the coming year will find jobs without our help. But most is not good enough. It’s not good for the American citizen who appreciates what the returning veteran has done for him . . . it’s certainly not good enough for the veteran himself. In addition new emphasis to our country’s continuing campaign to help the returning veteran President John son has set in motion “personalized employment assistance” to help over come the problems of the returning veteran in finding steady, honorable . employment in civilian life. Last year, more than 100,000 vete rans experienced some difficulty in finrling employment upon their re turn from military service. This lack of readjustment was costlv to the young veterans themselv^sand' cost our country a valuable source of man power as well as som^\$30 million in unemployment compensation pay ments. for the station which was built be fore the turn of the cfentury and features handmade wooden and long heart of pine beams. The station is scheduled tosbe demolish ed or moved within the next few months. 41 Author Julian Boliek, whd re cently was appointed to the State Tricentennial Commission, suggests tnat the building might be used for a combination Chamber of Com merce office and railroad museum. Boliek points out that Clinton has a railroad heritage and there is much interest in railroad anti ques. Such a museum would be an attraction not only for local people but for out-of-towners. A local scout official says the Poy Scouts need a building for camporees. He -suggests that the building might be moved to some area outside town to be used for this purpose. F. M. (Slue) Boland, (|N&L agent, says he has received many suggestions about the possible use of the building but adds, “There is no organized effort yet to do anything about it. So far, the in terest which has been expressed has been that of individuals.” There is much interest in the building but some organization is going to have to get behind the project before anything can be ac complished. • Some established board or or ganization—such as City Council or the Chamber of Commerce— should represent, those interested in the project in dealing with rail road officials. As was pointed out previously, now is the time to act. 4t would be a shame to lose the buHding for lack bf local effort. THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., Dec. 28, 1967 utyr (Eltntmt dljnmirlr DONNY WILDER, Editor and PubUsher Established 1900 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) Out-of-County One Year, $4.00; Six M One o^ths, $2.50 Tear, $6.0$ Second Class Postage Paid at Clinton, S. C. POSTMASTER: Send Form 35?» to Clinton Chronicle, Clinton, S. C. 29328 Member: South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association National Advertising Representative: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION — .. . New York, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia A Cuban Money Transferred To Movement f in U. S. By THE CHRONICLE’S Capitol News Bureau (Final of II parts) • Economic Indicator The recent announcement that Southern Bell Telephone Company will form a new company to ope rate in five states is another indi cator of economic progress in the South. Southern Bell will continue to operate in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina, with headquarters remaining in Atlan ta. The new firm will take over the business and operations in areas of Alabama, Kentudky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee now served by Southern Bell. Each of the two companies will be comparable in size to the entire nine-state company’s operations in 1957, just 10 years ago. In the past 20 years, the Bell Sys tem’s growth has been approxi mately 195 per cent and growth in Southern Bell has been about 325 per cent. Southern Bell is the larg est company in the Bell System in terms of telephones in service. There are more than 10.8 million Southern Bell telephones in service, over 675,000 of them in South Caro lina which will be unaffected by the company change. A news release from the com pany points' out, “Southern Bell’s area is among the fastest-growing in America^ economy-wise and tele phone-wise. Thirty years ago Southern Bell reached one million telephones in the nine states. Twenty years ago, the number was up to 2.5 million* Ten years ago, there were'5.8 million.} The num ber has doubled in the last 11 years ...” COLUMBIA nation have to viouence in the future? Does it appear that violence will increase or decrease? These are crucial questions to our country and to every citizen. No one can predict with absolute certainty the answers. However, there are omnious signs. Take for example a report ed quote from Attorney General Ramsey Clark. When speaking of a “black power” trend, he commented, ‘A guerrilla movement is the real danger” :n the more re mote future. Consider also that evidence has been accumulating showing that money has been transferred from Cuba and more recently from Algeria for political uses in this country. In the case of the Cuban money, there are fur ther indications that some of it has found its way to the ; “black power” movement, especially the Student Non- Violent Coordinating Com mittee (SNCC). Although the Presidential committee to study last sum mer’s riots has not made a public report, there have been leaks to the press. One item was an exerpt from an urgeht message from the commission’s staff to the staff at the White House which said in part, “Under no cir-l cumstances must the Pres-! ident be allowed to commit himself to the position that there was no conspiracy be cause there may have been one. w - . Sec. of State Dean Rusk j -was reported , v by the noted columnists Ev^ns and Novak in the WASHINGTON POST of Oct. 11, 1967, to have said that the ommunists were significantly involved in the alleged peace movements., Rusk was further quoted as aying, “We haven’t made public the extent of our knowledge. W’e don’t want to set off a new McCarthyism.” ' In; a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, Congressman Gerald R. Ford tension of the burning and i (R) of Michigan said that looting we saw in Detroit last ! President ^fchnson had im-l.summer and in Watts, Los Will ou T | plied in 'k private briefing ^ n f e ^ es suffer more f 0 r House Republican lead- before that. I think >ve’ve about seen the end of what I call ‘Gandhi’s Note- ers that Communists were book’ — the kind of non- intsrumental in directing the violent movement which goes stormy anti-war protest ati no further than the nuisance the Pentagon on Oct. 21, 1967. demonstration. When ‘Gand hi’s Notebook’ ends, then you reported that start getting a taste of of the Presi-i‘Stalin’s Notebook’ — some- R . , thing much more explosive on It was also two members dents’ Commission , . . ;and violent. recently met wlih certain .... . .. ,, Although it seems the leading black nationalist;cities will be the leaders. In a confidential memorandum to the Presi dent the attehding members quoted these leaders as say ing, “For 400 years the Negro has tried to appeal to the major targets for this in creased violence, one can not be certain that it will not hit here in our nation will feel the impact one way or another. We are fortunate in South 18—THE CHRONICI.E, Clinton, S. C., Dec. 28. 1967 — — * —i : Kindness, Brings Beautiful Letter BY DR. HERBERT SPAUGH The Christmas and New Year season is a good time for me to report a portion of one of the most beautiful letters I have ever read. It may prompt you to put some of your resolutions into action. At an alumni reunion two successful businessmen were talking about their college days. One asked the other which of his professors had influenced him the most for good. Both, agreed on the same one and each promised to write a letter of appre ciation. The letters reached the old professor short- , ly before his earthly career was suddenly closed. I am permitted to quote excerpts of his wife’s reply: “I have been looking oveiT John’s files recently. Among them I found the letter you him last winter. It was a most unusual letter in every way—brief, but there was more heart in it than many a ten volume edition . . • 4t was one of the few letters that repaid him as no money could have done for every day’s work of 40 years. It paid him for wearing last year’s suit and col lars frayed at the edges. It paid him for turning his back on a position at a large university when he much wanted to go. It paid him for never seeing England and all the banks and brae of Bonnie Dourt. So you see, it was n<* only a rare letter, it was worth more than its weight in gold. “You wrote it to him before he stepped over into Eterpitv with scarcelv the missing of a heart beat—I think he would have liked to carry it m his breast pocket up there to show the greatest Teacher of all time that he. too, had taught not for money or fame, but for the love of the lesson and the boy. • % “More and more T have come to realize how he hungered for a word of praise such as you wrote him before it was too late, before his mortal ear was forever closed to all the sounds of this ■world, berore his eyes were dim to all the sights of mor tal man. How shall I ever thank you for your kindness ... It was better than a month’s check, even though that meant bread and meat for all of us. It was the white hyacinth that Elbert Hub bard speaks of because the perfume and beauty and permanence of your praise was far more en during and sweetening and heartening than the coin of this realm. “And now we will fiave to draw the moral to it all. Every good story has a moral and this one has one, too: If you. love and admire and respect people, tell them so. I am sure you do that al ready because your letter shows that you do. Well, keep on doing it. We are never fcorry that we have been kind, and particularly towards those who are on the western side of the hill . . . I wanted you to know truly what your brief letter meant to John and me.” This lovely letter ought to provoke some long- delayed letters of appreciation to old and neglect ed friends. The New Year offers a good time to do such. Remember, you have time to do the things you reallv want to do. morals. It could carolina because the tremely White man’s not be done White man had no morals. The system the Whites have erected to protect their poc- ketbook is without moral base and is wholly corrupt. We were wasting our time with talk. The time for talk was past. Since the White man could not be reached morally, he wouud be reach- <* to have the. ex- capable leadership of men like J. P. Strom, Chief of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Agency. The responsible citizen in any communnity can help by supporting and cooperating with the various law enforce ment agencies. They can al so take preventive measures by assitsing in community activity which will help those ed through his pocketbookicitizens who have just griev- It was fruitless to talk of re- ances. form within the system. The system must fall.” This particular “black power” group forecast that the next riots would use sophisticated guerrilla war fare to hit u public utilities, urban expressways and oth er large centeilf to criple the complex techndlogical socie ty. There have been many other reports which, give fur ther evidence that;there will be increased violence in our nation. In the Dec. 23 issue of U. S. NEWS AND WORLD! REPORT, there is an article by 'Richard H. Sanger who is a consultant to various gov ernment agencies and is rec ognized as one of this coun try’s top authorities on caus es and patterns of politicall violence. He states, “I would n’t be surprised if next sum mer we didn’t see a dramatic and perhaps wide-spread ex- We will be closed Monday and Tuesday to give our employees a much needed vacation. Our shoppe will be open Wednesday, Jam. 3 at 8 a.m. RUBY'S BEAUTY SHOPPE After , Christmas GORDON'S ‘Shoes for the ‘Entire Family ” ! 107 E. Main St. Phone 833-0667 FALL and WINTER CLEARANCE! Starts Today! Many Styles To Select From •\ LIFE STRIDE • CALIFORNIA COBBLERS • RED CROSS Everything Reduced J. C THOMAS, Jeweler CLINTON “It’s Time That Comti” JOANNA