The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, January 18, 1968, Image 10
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Concerned About State Reserve Fund
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Gov. McNai r Is Caught In State Money Squeeze
By THE CHRONICLE’S
Capitol News Bureau
COLUMBIA — Gov. Rob
ert E. McNair faces one of
hit first major dilemmas
thia year.
With the statement that he
intends to remain responsible
with the state’s money, Mc
Nair announced there isn’t
enough to meet all the re
quests this year. The major
problem is the state s 25,00©
school teachers, all wanting
a raise
Although a governor whore
iclose contact and friendship*
with the legislature are well
known, he has found already
that election-conscious
lators don’t feel thay can af
ford to tell teachers and
employes the same
money.
This gave his Republican
opponents a chance to inti
mate that they, not Demo
crats. seemed to be the only
ones interested in finding pay
increases somewhere in the
budget.
Not to be outdone, Demo*
cratic Lawmakers bounced
back with the reply that
they, too, dedicated to com
bing the budget in hopes that
the money’s there some
where.
Thus McNair finds himself
in the position of being the
outstanding figure to say
there isn’t any.
Some say he can afford to
do this politically because he
does not face an election this
year.
He maintains that being
fiscally responsible is the on
ly way to keep the state sol
vent and that its citisens will
just have to go without some
things to keep it that way.
McNair is deeply concern
ed with the state’s reserve
fimd. Some lawmakers want
to tap it for pay increases.
The chief executive holds
t-that the fund—somewhere
around $17 million at the
end of the year—is no sur-
City Council Meeting:
Grass Roots' Government
Clinton City Council meetings are
grass-roots government in action.
Discussions range fiami potholes to
streetlights to major budgetary mat
ters to planning for the future. Many
of the topics are triggered by sugges
tions or complaints from the council-
men’s constitutents.
Mayor Noland Suddeth presides. In
addition to council members, City
Clerk Brooks Owens and City Attorney
Cecil White are there to assist with
discussion and opinions involving their
specialties.
Suddeth keeps a list of major items
which need to l>e considered. After
the topics are covered, he calls on
each councilman individually to bring
up any matter which might need dis
cussion. These matters usually con
cern the councilman’s specific ward.
This is where the “grass-roots” as
pect comes in. This is the citizens’
direct access to the local governing
body.
The Clinton councihnen take their
roles as representatives of the peo-
Rusk’s Financial Problems
This nation’s Secretary of State has
financial troubles. This is both an
embarrassment and potential danger
for the United States.
Dean Ruak says that his service at
Secretary of State has been a finan
cial drain on him. He is expected to
keep certain social conMnittm—ta and
standards which have been beyond
the reach of his $30,000 income.
In recent years, this country's Sec
retaries of State have been finaneUd-.
ly independent. They had private for
tunes or financial reserves to fall
back on. Rusk is not a wealthy man.
He says he has had to borrow $6,000
to make ends meet.
No man in Rusk’s high-security po
sition should have such problems.
Rusk is a man of high integrity but
he should be indebted to no one. Such
a man is vulnerable, regardless of hsa
personal code of efeies or dedication.
A man in the Secrstaiy of’State's po
sition must be invulnerable.
Unless the Secretary of State’s sal
ary is made more realistic, in view of
the ohUjgations of the position, then
tile alternative is that only wealthy
men will be able te serve ia that poet
This |stion, needs its meet able,
. qualified man in such a position and
can not afford to place financial re
strictions on its search for such ne**-
ple seriously and no suggestion is too
minor for council consideration. Ad
mittedly, some of the suggestions may
be'so trivial that they merit little con
sideration but *$t least they are
breught up for discussion, ,
If a. citizen complains of a pothole
in «the street, council hears about it.
Couneihnen welcome legitimate sug
gestions and complaints. However,
they are burdened with many unnec
essary requests—things which could
be better handled by calling the City
Water Plant. If a street light needs
fixing or if there’s a water main leak,
call the Water Plant. The Water Plant
is manned 24 hours a day. If you
call your councilman, he, in turn, has
to call the Water Plant so you might
as well cut out the middle man, the
councilman.
Moat council meetings are impres
sive because of the obvious “grass
roots" contact. However, councihnen
usually conduct their sessions with
out an audience. Citizens hirely show
up just to watch council in action.
The only time private citizens attend
the meetings is when they have an
ax to grind.
It would be encouraging to see more
interest hi the metiiod of operation
by council We beDcve.tiie result would
be a keener appreciation for council-
men’s service. * .• *.
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plus and not to be used as
one.
Further,( he says, use of it
now would leave the same
situation . again sometime—
you’d have to get it some
where else.
And that place would be
like the reserve fund. It’s not
a regular thing that is avail
able every year. Once used, it
appears to be gone.
McNair is in the unenviable
position of wanting to hold
down spending while two
Peace Overtures
solid segments of the elector
ate-teachers and state em
ployes—disagree.
PRIMARY
A second problem that
raises political hackles was
touched on by the governor
this week:
He wants to move the
Democratic Primary election
from June to September.
Republicans say this ap
pears to be a move to prevent
their holding a presidential
preference primary because
the primary would come af
ter the national conventions
had already named their
nominees.
Back of it all are the dis
gruntled Democrats who say
they now have to run from
March to November because
of the rise of Republicaa op
position.
Not long ago they geared
themselves to run in the
June Democratic Primary
with the certainty that vic
tory there was all they need
ed. They faced little, if any,
GOP opposition in Novem
ber.
However, Democratic rep
resentatives who run every
two years say they’re spend
ing most of their second year
campaigning with great ex
pense and time involved.
The last word from the
governor was that he hopes
legislators find the money.
But he remains certain
about one thing: he doesn't
believe it’s there.
10>-»THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., Jan. 18, 1968
Man Makes
Own Problems
(<k
How To Prosper In
of/the
^ * that dur
ing 19* tfrei* wduld be many pdbfle
thBt Vietnam pence Ulka
aire Typay, J ^
!. A newsletter said such hidkalions
with a grain of salt
and Jboqtd bear in mind that
it's m *ar. ^ '- 'y
struck ..us as being a rather
viewpoint.
However, here it is in early 1|68
and peace rumors are indeed flying.
It tyuld be that semethhag will de
velop dbich will lead to sin honorable
settlement in Vietnam but it's hard
to imacine now. The war is too eom-
pticat* and the. *akea art too hi*
to ha’Balled off last because of an
eiectieB year in *e United Stat*.
We would efcpept the Communists
to tqke advantage of toe situation and
ptft additional pressure on the Pyepi-
dtot when he is moat vulnerable to
Public opinion in the form of votes.
IJteO&tYmek
BAB SON PARK, MASS. —
Most J>1 biervers of the politi
cal, economic, and sociologi
cal scene are convinced that
nm will be a year of recur
ring crises for our nation.
Wk*t are the difficulties most
likely to be encountered and
Hew beat can you preserve —
pr extend — your prosperity
pits year?
HOW MUCH MORE
INFLATION?
The Federal Reserve still
has not really tightened up
on money yet. With cash sup
plies still large by most past
criteria, with continued hea
vy foverntnent spending for
Jboth defense and non-defense
Items and programs, and
Witp the project of expand
ing activity in the automobile
ihousiry over coming
months, business should be
op the rise through much if
not all of the first half. But,
<B> the whole, it will be a very
Ipghreest boom. In . other
Words, profits will not be
commensurate with the in
crease In volume turnover.
Chances are the economy
Will Start to “overheat”—af
ter which you may expect the
Federal Reserve, the Presi
dent, and Congress to take
bolder measures to cool it off.
When the flood of money is
at
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ed domestic economic con
trols. . . when the Congress
cuts deficits and perhaps
enacts higher taxes. . . how
will jo* and year business
fare? Will you be is a posi
tion to take what comes. . .
to ride through tot 19s and
downs that lie ahead?
MANPOWER, LABOR
Whether you are an em-
devel-
and
some effect
<m ftif euenunfte sitattton
this year. At least in the
forepart of toe rear, skilled
to be in
bile the
need will mwm for sdent-
ttota and meehdists. Hew-
of
OMkfltod labor
12*Wa MM* apfsaling
M mwee Owtog toe Erst six
by
janiii sett
to toe
living cotis,
~ in tha
to all.
pr ptodRiri 01 Wipes <R
uisoirs
cess In bucking the higher
price tags on borrowing cap
ital funds. You can’t buck the
mandatory boost in the mini
mum wage. But you can ex
ercise a tighter control over
your operations with a view
to cutting unit costs and to in
creasing the productivity of
your employes. . . for your
benefit and theirs,
pteryer. Mend your fences, or
you may be among those laid
off when labor cutbacks be
come necessary.
HOLD THAT NEST EGG
No matter whether you
own your business, work for
someone else, are a student,
length damned. . . when
Prsaident imposes select-
epmentn to
labor wffi haw
or are retired, hold
thing in reserve for a rainy .
day. As other costs rise, so
too will the cost of credit.
Borrowing from tomorrow
to pay for what you feel you
must have today has become
fashionable under toe “new
economics.” But H can b*
very risky business H.
don’t exercise a measure of
self-control. In any event, it’s
costly. . . and you ought not
to be paying heavy
charges if yeu can possibly
avoid them.
If — aside from your re
serve for a rainy day -r you
do have funds tq toVMt. la
selective, be cautious,.be
patient. bonH jump at any
opportunity without investi
gating its prospects. Ang re
member that if the ecoaomy
does turn down later this
year, cash may well be your
best friend.
By DR. HERBERT SPAUGB
Moat of man’s problems
tune of his own making, ac
cording jo my ebeeryatjon
after writing this cohupn for
more than $0 years. In the
course of these years many
letters have come to my
desk; many people with prob
lems have come to my office.
We've learned that there Is
certain similarity to all of
these problems. ’ Regardless
0 f the problems, we’re learn
ed there is a similarity to all
of these letters. There has
been difference in details, but
♦he majority have had much
in common.
There was first the prob
lem which made them un
happy and sometimes ill. But
for every problem there is
always a solution. There is
One who knows that solution.
As a man seeks God with his
whole heart, places his prob
lems before Him, he gives
the answer.
A number of years ago we
published “Ten Oommand-
m e n t s for Contentment,’’
which applied in a general
way to all problems present
ed to us for counsel. Hun
dreds of these have been
distributed. Here they are in
brief: 1. Surrender your life
to God to your Shepherd,
Guide, and Counselor. $. Start
where you are. Accept life
where and to yob Jlpd it.
3. Go to wekk to
look down; TooirVr f
nurse and cutUtoto
bad thinking. A Have
in God. 6. Don’t worry; R’e
unchristian. 7. Seek the ad
vice and counsel of God. 8. As
you get your direcHope* fol
low them sad go ,Iq. work.
I. Don’t measure your con
duct by andther man. lo.
Confess your Lord
EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
written to apply to specific
Ufs problems and situations.
Many of these have been used
ia reprint form for counsel
ing with those in difficulty
and trouble.
This new combined volume
is a pocketsize paperback it
can be purchased at your lo
cal bookstore or ordered from
The Everyday Counselor ’ m
care of The Chronicle. The
price is $2.25, postpaid.
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lo spacecraft, one of the most
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is honeycombed fiberglass-ce
ramic material which can
withstand temperatures up to
20,000 degrees.
before
.; Wa expanded these ten
steps by teller discussion in
m IRtle book, “Pathway to
Contentment.” It has had
gfr primings. It has,, m
Beeft republished to the sixth
printing, combined with the
fourth pjjatijig of my book,
“Everyday Couiaei for Ivertt-
dey Living.”
All the material included
in this book eonaitte of e«
tain colutob* *Mdh wete
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