The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, December 28, 1967, Image 18
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Rati Station Suggestions
Made: Voice Is Needed
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"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.
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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
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A
Cuban Money Transferred
To Movement f in U. S.
By THE CHRONICLE’S
Capitol News Bureau
(Final of II parts)
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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
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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.
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“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-
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