Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WE COMMEND IT TO YOU Col. Powell Fraser, Presbyterian College Director of Development, gave the Clinton area a pat on the back last week. Speaking at a local civic club meet ing, Fraaer said that Clinton has set the spark to PCs 1969 Capital Cam paign. He pointed out that the Clin ton campaign set the pace for the Lau rens County drive which already has topped its goal. Over $700,000 has been raised in the county. Col. Fraser said this area is saying to the college’s other constituents and potential donors: “We know this school. We believe in its program. It is im portant to us. We give it our support. We commend it to you.” The colonel also listed several oth er ways that local businesses can assist Fraifirtohm CMf* and we commend them to you: —Provide part-time jobs for stu dents. —Offer responsible positions to seniors after graduation. —Utilize the faculty in research and consultant services. —Make available company person nel to assist in the enrichment of the college’s educational programs. —M a k e available personnel for community service to the college in volunteer leadership. —Include the college in advertising and promotion. —Invite the college students and faculty to become acquainted with the plant, machinery, processes and other resources. —Be sure the college is included in ill matters of cooperation with local community and area. —Keep the college aware of com munity needs and aspirations. ANY BOY CAN Unless you’re a real fan you prob ably don’t know that Archie Moore, the former light-heavyweight boxing champion, still holds the record for the most knockouts in the ring. He retired in 1962 after losing to Cassius Clay. In the arena where he does his fighting these days Archie Moore not only could win on points, he could mop the floor with the cynical Caasius. Moore is training for his 137th knock out and the opponent this time is youthful crime. The former champion has been croeetaf the nation to further his ABC (Any Boy Can) program. Recently, in Southern Calofomia, he told how, in one section of Vallejo, vandalism had coat 97,600 per month for five years, but was reduced to less than $70 per month after one year of ABC. “I'm not satisfied with the way America is going, and I’m doing some thing about it,” Moore declared. “That makes me a militant But I’m trying to build—not destroy—trying to build kfcU' N On the subject of America, Moore •aid: “It has been torn. Teeth have bona taken away from the police, the schools. .Sometimes a child needs a little touching up. I’ll spank my child in school or even in jaii if he needs a little touching up. “Every good boy does line if he gets a chance, but it’s up to you to give him a chance. Don’t stand in front of a bay and block him. Stand behind him and give him support— stand beside him and persuade him. It’s all possible. Give him that in centive. Give him a hand.’ Moore observed that the great civi lizations have lasted 200 years. “Our 200 years is up in 1976. You know who is going to lead us out of all this mess? The kids. Not the 20-year- olds of today, but the little kids. Let the Boy Scouts get in there and show ’em how to go right. In Scouts we got a beautiful bag. You can really help them.” Moore reported that some time back an agent of Vice-President Hum phrey visited him with a view to put ting h i s ABC program in federal hands. “He (the agent; wanted to tell me how to run ABC. That’s start- out on the wrong foot with me so I refused to work with him. After all ABC was never meant to be a govern ment program — it’s a people pro gram.” We think Archie Moore’s ABCs comprise a better education than some folks ever get. "CLEAN GENE" Remember all those newspaper photographs and TV shots of young volunteers who rang doorbells for Senator Eugene McCarthy ? The caption always read “Clean For Gene,” in the newspapers, and the TV com mentators were practically drooling on the linoleum about the change that had come over the anti-war demon strators who polished themselves up to present a spotless image. These presumably long - haired, bearded baretfoot protestors were sup posedly transformed into well-groom ed, visionary young America. And they were bussed allover the campaign trail from New Hampshire to Ore gon. They brought to politics their zeal for the new left, a new fervor and a new approach to the problems of the day. They brought enthusiasm —and now it appears, they took some thing with them when they returned whence they had come. It seems that a senior aide to the Minnesota Senator is trying to untan gle the mess that was left by some of the “volunteers.” And while the mess was left, some items of value were tak en by the activists, like more than a dozen $400 electric typewriters, and eight rented automobiles. At last ac count seven of the vehicles had been recovered, but one was still missing. Those “borrowed” items aren’t the only things troubling the aide, how ever. Tile youngsters left some things that the Senator wishes they had tak en along, such as a $77,000 phone bill from the Indiana campaign. The Senator's side wonders how the Clean For Gene Clique could run up such a high bill for phone calls in the Hoosier State. Apparently he haa no teenage offspring. Proposed S.C. Education Program Called "Crucial" GREENWOOD - Aftoptiac of Soatt Carolina’s proposed edo- caboc program for 1969-70 is crucial ‘not for education alooe bet for »hat it can do for standard of living, :<ir culture, our society, and particularly for tie ideatificatrjQ and self satis faction of the indivittoal. * State Superintendent :! Education Cy ril B. Busbee told 73 school officials and state legislators from four counties here Tues day night, November 36. Busbee spoke tc school trus tees, school superintendents, and state legislators from Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens and New berry Counties during a meeting in the Holiday Inn here. Dr. J. Calvin Koonts, head of the de partment of education at Erskine and Circuit 8 representative on the State Board of Education, arranged the meeting for the four c.unties which are members of his circuit. Those attending from Laurens County included R. F. Wilder of Clinton, District 56 superinten dent, K. C. Hanna of Laurens, District 55 superintendent, J. A. Elmore of Laurens, District 55 Area superintendent, and David Taylor of Laurens, State House of Representatives. Busbee and Jesse A. Coles, de puty superintendent of admin istration and planning for the State Education Department, out lined the proposed $257 million education program and explained the new programs that would in crease the budget request by $41 million over state appropriations for the current year. Coles stated that the new pro posals included an average $1,000 salary increase for teachers and supervisors; reduction of the teacher-pt^ul ratio by the hiring of additional teachers; creation of a pre-school kindergarten pro gram and of an adjunct educa tion program for secondary schools; and a reduction in the supervisor-teacher ratio. The State Education Depart ment officials explained that each new program was critical to the present and future needs of all South Carolina, not “education for education’s sake.” Busbee pointed out that the Moody Re port called “the low education mean’ of South Carolina an “eco nomic handicap which will not permit us to close any gaps in per capita income or in other southeastern average ot $6,785, the North Carolina average of $6,819 and the Georgia average of $7,005. Even the $1,000 prev posed increase would leave South Carolina well behind neighboring states who also pt»n snbstantial raises for teachers next year. South Carolina’s increase of$200 m teacher pay this year was the lowest in the Southeast Coles said that the need for a kindergarten program is indi cated by studies that show that 50 per cent of a child’s intellect ual ability is attained by the time he reaches four, and 80 per cent is attained by the age of eight Students from cultur ally deprived homes are in spe cial need of early attention, he said. The program of adjunct educa tion for the higher grades would include an expanded guidance program and vocational and aca demic remedial programs to re duce the dropout rate at the 9th and 10th grade levels, providing job skills for some students and salvaging other capable students for college. Busbee said this pro gram could be expanded for adult education and the college-ieveL Coles explained that programs to reduce the supervisor-teacher ratio to 1-20 and the teacher- p«g>il ratio to 1-26 would improve special services and organiza tional flexibility of schools and allow for strengthening of local school districts. Costs of the new programs would include $28,540,500 in new instructional costs (normal growth, reduction in student-pu pil ratio, increase in salaries); $4,897,580 m supervisory costs; $3,877,390 for the first phase- in year of the kindergarten pro gram, and $3,583,000 inmiscell- aneous costs. * Busbee said revenue for the new programs would have to be obtained from an increase in either the sales tax, the state income tax, or a combination of both. “If we mean to be ser ious about our school needs and staying in the education busi ness, a change m the tax struc ture will be necessary,” he said. Federal Estate Tax Takes A BY RICHARD GANTT Attorney Presbyterian College Any person who pays income ♦ x blows how much it reduces his income every year. Some thing many may not be aware of is how big a bite the Federal Estate Tax will take out of the property he leaves his family at his death. The Federal estate tax is on capital, rather than on income. Securities and real estate re tained by a family can grow and produce income over the years. However, capital paid out in taxes is lost to the family forever. Can this tax on a person’s accumulation of earning be a- voided? Sometimes it can, but it takes planning. Such financial planning can reduce estate tax and save your family thousands of dollars. A Federal and South Carolina estate tax return must be filed for every estate having a gross value of over $60,000. Big Bite row on the policies or cash them in, or any other of the incidents of ownership. The full value of property that you purchased with another per son and hold jointly with right of survivorship will be included in the estate of the first to die. The only way the surviving spouse can prevent this is to prove that he or she purchased half of the property. Next week more on the Fed eral estate tax. * * * THEY JUST GROW! THIS PROBLEM MIST BE SOLVED Eederal bureaucracy piven words a new meaning. For example, “temporary'’ is synonymous with “forever"; “emergency” becomes **a way of life”; “failure” becomes “an incentive for expansion.’ While business will drop an ineffective project after a short trial run, government is more likely to expand it on the theory that a little more money will assure its success. So, old federal programs continue to pile up. New ones are adfled. In 1955, the Hoover Commis sion deplored the fact that 25 federal agencies had water resource development programs; in 1967 TO agencies were involved. In 1964, there were 239 programs of grants-in- aid to state and local governments; now there are more than 500. Ten cabinet departments and more than 15 other agencies are involved in education; 8 departments and 4 agencies operate major credit programs. There are between 15 and 30 separate manpower programs administered by public and private agen cies, supported by public funds, in each major metropolitan area. A privately published, l.OOO-page encyclopedia of government programs, not limited to assistance, lists more than 5,000 services—from “aerial photo graphs" to “zoological parks" provided by the na tional government in its 1968 edition. Congress should take a long hard look at the many overlapping and conflicting agencies and take the necessary action for consolidation and elimination. It’s time that cities and states look for problem solutions closer to home! What Will Nixon Do Permissiveness? areas. He said that the 1960 census showed an educational mean of 8.7 years in South Carolina, com pared to 10.6 years nationwide. He explained that this means that 50 per cent of South Carolina adults over age 25 have less than a ninth grade education, add ing to 50 per cent of the Negro citizens of the state over 25 have less than a sixth grade educa tion. Coles said South Carolina must raise teacher pay in order to compete for good teachers pay of $5,830 compares with the Actually, every asset that you own, will be included in your estate. Included would be real estate, stocks and bonds, sav ings accounts, cbecbngaccpunts, insurance jointly ownedproperty, plus other miscellaneous pro perty. Most of these assets are self- explanatory. However, two de serve more explanation. The face value of insurance on your life is includable in your estate. Even if it is payable to your wife or children, it is in cludable if you have the right to change the beneficiaries, to bor- About BY THURMAN SENSING Executive Vice President Southern States Industrial Council While administrative changes will occupy the attention of Rich ard M. Nixon during his initial period in the White House, in time he will have to address him self to the underlying mood and spirit of the nation. He will have to exercise leadership in altering the tone and attitudes that have grown up during the last eight years. The reference is to the unfortunate -- often tragic -- at mosphere of permissiveness. This permissiveness, which has appeared in the 1960s and been encouraged by the “lib erals,” is a cancer eating at the moral fiber of the nation. No where is this more evident than in California, our most populous and allfuent state. For all its wealth and emphasis on higher education, California is in deep trouble. It is trouble that is ap pearing at certain other points in the country. The trouble is seen by some observers as a forest fire, moving across the land. California’s splendid colleges and universities, created by the generosity of the taxpayers, have been turned into battlegrounds by a minority of dissidents. The youthfiil society-wreckers re present only a small percentage of the population. Gov. Ronald Reagan, who is working hard for law and order on these campuses, estimates that only about two per cent of the state’s youth are in volved, at the most. Neverthe- ‘ less, they have the capability of paralyzing great centers of learning and of denying educa tion to those who seek it The same phenomenon was observed last spring at Columbia Univer sity in New York City. The difficulty in dealing with those who seize classrooms and break into administration build ings lies in the permissiveness of many educatiors and other in fluential citizens. Offenders are excused on the alleged grounds that they are expressing them selves. Lawbreakers aren’t pun ished at all, or receive only token punishment Often the edu cational institutions have a built- in governing structure that de nies to the taxpayers any effec tive means or restoring order. It should be noted nationally, however, that the California voters recently rejected a tre mendous new bond program for the state’s centers of higher edu cation. The voters apparently de cided they weren’t going to create more classrooms for the anar chists to seize. Much more is needed, however, than a taxpayer rebellion. After all, the public wants the uni versities to improve; its desire is to oust the hippies and the communists from the campuses. Ways must be found in Cali fornia and other states to get responsible faculties that don’t attempt to propagandize and don’t lend encouragement to lawbreak ers and anarchists in their classes. In California, some of the teachers, as at San Fran cisco State University, aided and abetted the black power extrem ists who recently disrupted that institution. The country is suffering from an excess of tolerance regard ing dangerous social changes. Instead of being ’understanding* of users of marijuana, or of cam pus lawbreakers, parents and other adult citizens should a tough approach to behavioral problems. The President of the United States also has to be con cerned with these behavioral pro blems, for the nation is threaten ed from within by those who want to destroy all the ancient rules of a decent society. If the moral framework of in dividual life Is shattered, the United States win be lost Char acter, not wealth or sophistica tion, is the foundation of Ameri can greatness. Thus now is the time to end permissiveness and to stress the stern duties of life. "All This, Pat...And Pictures Of Dick Nixon In 33,121 Post Offices..."