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New City Hall Is A Step Forward *< •w* Within the next couple of weeks, many citizens will be c&JJed on to in dictate their support fot the proposed new Clinton City Hall. We support the proposal and hope that other citizens will lend their backing to this worthwhile project. City officials will circulate peti tions calling for a referendum on the question of a general obligation bond issue of about $250,000 to finance con struction of the city hall. The new city hall will cost about $600,000 but city officials already have set aside almost $250,000 for this purpose. City officials have been planning for this project for the last few years and we are convinced they are attack- £ ing the project in an economical, ef- ;5 ficient manner. There is no doubt that the city rj needs a new city hall. The current :j facility is inadequate for all of the city agencies housed there. The police and jail facilities are very obviously ; ; inadequate. The Fire Department .• personnel must park one truck behind f: the other and that’s inviting trouble. : : The city Clerk and his staff do not .*■ have the room or facilities to operate efficiently. For a town of about 10,000 people, : the current cubby-hole of a city hall is a handicap for the operation of an efficient local government. We do not believe in building gov- : emmental buildings for the sake of ~ adding attractive edifices to the land- f scape. However, city officials have : planned well and their proposed new city hall is conducive to efficiency and it is also attractive. The colonial de sign is in keeping with the architec ture of some of Clinton’s leading insti tutions. Bonds for the project will be re tired, probably within five to 10 years, through revenues from the Clinton- Newberry Natural Gas Authority so : no tax increase is involved. The city, of course, will pledge its taxing au- S DETERMINED TO SERVE In all the year-end excitement over the Apollo 8 moonshot, and the re lease of the men of the Pueblo, a - heart- warming news story out of Sai gon was overshadowed and obscured. It involved Rear Admiral Edwin W. Rosenberg, who took over command of the 7th Fleet Amphibious Force in Vietnam on December 15. His credentials as a fighter are ^ impressive. He was graduated from Annapolis in 1£M2 anld served as a navigator ;; on an aircraft carrier during the war. L : . Three years later, navy doctors forced i- : him to retire from the service- They i : found that he was a victim of cancer. : : But, it responded to X-ray treatment, :f. and the doctors who told him at one £ point that he would be dead in two % weeks were amazed. Ed Rosenburg had licked cancer of the kidney. But there were other battles with c that enemy to be fought. Four of them. On two separate occasions he fj persuaded the board that had retired £ him that he was cured; but the doc- ; r tors found another cancer, in the neck, y. and still again in the groin. Each l; responded to treatment however, and ►t; by 1950 he had whipped them all. ;* And he asked for return to active sta- > tus. He was informed there wasn’t a I chance; that it would take an act of I Congress to restore him to active du- | ty. Iowa’s Senator Bourke B. Hicken- £ looper introduced such a bill; Presi- : dent Harry S. Truman signed it. By 1962, Rosenburg was in com mand of a destroyer. In recent months he has been dep uty chief of staff for logistics, per sonnel and administration for the Pa cific Fleet, stationed in Honolulu. Now he’s in Vietnam, and Rear AAniral Edwin W. Rosenburg is the new commander of the 7th Fleet Am- phifrioua Force. It’s clear that Admiral Rosenberg is a special kind of fighter, and we thought you’d UIm to know what kind of a guy is commanding that unit. After General Grant’s bloody de feat at Shiloh, influential Republicans demanded that Lincoln remove him from command, Lincoln’s answer was brief: "I cant spare this man; he fights.” .The same may be mid for Admiral thority to back up the bonds but au thority will not be necessary, barring some unforseen disaster of major con sequences. City officials have said that all of the natural gas revenues will not be tied up with financing the new city hall- At a recent civic club meeting, City Clerk and Treasurer Brooks Ow ens said, “Last year, we received $117,000 from the Gas Authority. We expect those revenues to remain stable or increase. The revenue could approach $120,000 to $130,000 within the next year or so. Unless there’s some major catastrophe, we should be able to apply $30,000 to $40,000 of this revenue toward other needed projects, in addition to the city hall financing.” The project is needed and the city can afford it- All that’s needed now is your support. It’s a step forward for Ointon. BROADWAY JOE American sports heroes tradition ally are modest, clean-living and al ways have something nice to say about their opponent, particularly before the game. Therefore, when the New York Jets took the Baltimore Colts apart Sunday for the football championship of the universe, it was rather unset tling for those couched in the tradi tional values. We got the same feeling when Cassius Clay beat Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship It’s one thing for an underdog to upset the favorites in THE big game. It’s quite another for the underdog quarterback to call all of the shots, even before the two teams suited up. Joe Willie Namath, the man who got $10,000 to shave h i s Fu-Man-Chu beard, told the world that the Balti more quarterback was sixth rate. The closest “Broadway Joe’’ came to modesty was when he rated himself only among the top two in the busi ness. Namath also told the world, “We’re going to win. In fact, I’ll guarantee it.” There were a lot of snickers across the country. But Joe Willie did exactly what he said. The Baltimore quarterback looked sixth rate and the Jets lived up to Namath’s guarantee. Now we’re in for a long winter of trying to explain “Broadway Joe” to the youngsters. I STRIKE TWO Traditionally, the post of Secre tary of Interior has gone to a repre sentative of one of our western states. President-elect Nixon set a new prece dent by going to the very western-most of our States, Alaska, and chose Gov ernor Walter Hickel. There are a lot of axes to be ground in the Depart ment of Interior, and it was inevitable that there would be criticism of the appointment of Governor Hickel. The factions contending for favorable de cisions in the department had hoped for a man more closely identified with the problems of conservation. Thus, Governor Hickel had a strike against him because he was not com mitted to either camp, which is the test possible reason for Nixon’s hav ing selected him. But the good Governor how has heard strike two called even before he sets foot in that monstrous Interior building, and he collected this one swinging. It seems that the reporters confronted Governor Hickel with the comments of some of the critics and one asked, in particular, how he felt about Julia Butler Hansen’s lack of enthusiasm for his nomination. “Who,” said the Governor, “is Julia Butler Hansen?” For twenty years Julia Butler Han sen was a member of the State Legis lature in the sovereign State of Wash ington. In 1960 she went to Wash ington, D. C., as Congresswoman from the Third District in that State and last year was appointed Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommit tee on Interior and Related Agencies. It is good that Governor Hickel is accustomed to the sometimes bitter cold of Alaska. We suspect it will be as nothing compared with the atmos phere when he appears to present his first budget request and Madame Chairman begins to ask quetions. Where Are You Headed? 2-B—THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., January 16, 1969 SENATOR STROM THURMOND REPORTS TO THE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT PEACE BY DR. HERBERT SPAUGH Where are you headed in 1969? Take a look: Man has a tendency to become like that about which he thinks. The Bible puts it, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a great book on this, “The Great Stone Face.” Many men and wo men have achieved greatness by thinking greatness. The reverse is likewise true. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulle tin, blamed the growing racket of pornography for an alarming in crease in crimes of sex violence. He also questioned whether the stage, screen, and other enter tainment media are placing too much emphasis on “obscenity, vulgarity, incest, and homosexu ality." “But the legitimate production of these media are rather mild when compared with the hard- acre’ pornography flooding the country in the forms of films, ‘playing’ cards, ‘comic’ books, paperbacks and pictures. Such filth in the hands of young peo ple and curious adolescents does untold damage and leads to dis astrous consequences.” Those who sell and distribute pornographic material, whether in the form of pictures, books, motion picutes, or television en tertainment, are human beings; and human beings are all alike in that they will see how far they can go in selling their wares for money until they are stopped. For many years I and many others have contended that the continual and growing display of violence in the motion picture and television screen is cheapen ing human life and is showing young people that violence is a natural thing. We are harvesting a crop of young hoodlums now who have been raised on that diet. We are hearing much about the pollution of the air we breathe and the water we drink. We should be equally interested about pol lution of our minds. There is the other side of the coin. There are some inspira tional films which can be seen. For example, two of the best money producers have been clean films, “The Sound of Music” and “Mary Poppins.” There are clean inspirational books which like wise can be read. One of the best ones is the Bible which is now available in easy-to-read form. As you think, so you become. Think hell and you will head in that direction. Think heaven and you will head in that direction likewise. What’s your destination? * * * And God said, “Let there be light’’ and there was light. —(Gen. 1:3). Before we prepare to study or even open a book, we should affirm that we have God with in us. Then we will feel God’s presence and power in us and all around us. With assurance say “Let there be light.” Know this. Then through conscien tious meditation thank God for light. Pick up the book and through this light there will be understanding and wisdom. The marvel of God’s wonderful light dispels all shadows. The Preeident-Elect has an nounced the appointment of a new negotiating team for the Vietnam peace discussions in Paris. This event offers the op portunity for a fresh start in these talks which, to date, have brought little hope of honorable settlement. Meanwhile, during the period in which negotiations have been going on, more than 7,600 Americans have been killed and over 26,000 wounded and hospitalized in combat. It must never be said that this sacrifice was in vain. OUR DIFFICULTIES Our difficulties in Paris stem from the fact that we have tried to separate the military and diplomatic aspects of the war, in the nebulous hope of finding so-called points of agreement. The result has been the con tinued wearing down of U.S. military forces committed to fighting a holding action. The enemy has continued to operate from sanctuaries in Cambodia, Laos, and the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Thus the Com munists function from the best possible advantage for exhaust ing American patience. We have placed ourselves dip- lomsticslly in s position which we csnnot hold for long. In onr impatience, we have forgotten that the government of South Vietnam is not merely our ally, but our only hope for defending onr interests in that part of the world. Yet we have indulged in reckless attacks against South Vietnamese leaders, undermin ing the stability that onr mis sion seeks to build. This development is omi nously similar to our conduct in 1963 when we stood by and im plicitly approved of the over throw and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem. In retrospect, it is clear that Diem was a vigorous and brave leader. The increased Communist pressures which fol lowed his overthrow led directly to the expansion of the U.S. ef fort to the present high levels. Now that South Vietnam has painstakingly reconstructed its political life, it would be a dis aster to repeat the error of 1963 when our leaders undermined the South Vietnamese govern ment with criticism. HONORABLE GOALS If we are to achieve an hon orable peace in Vietnam, we cannot depart from the follow ing goals: 1. The termination of the war and of the terrorist attacks against the people of South Vietnam, and an end to the sac rifice of American youth. 2. A strong and energetic government which is able to survive and to promote the in terests of free people every where. 3. Demonstrating to the Com munists that they must aban don their plans for expansion, both in Southeast Asia and throughout the world, or suffer the consequences. If negotiations are to achieve these goals, they must be based upon realistic bargaining. Mili tary operations must be co ordinated with diplomatic de mands. If necessary, specific pressures, such as the resump tion of Iwmbing, must be ap plied toward specific aims to enhance the enemy’s interest in peace. To end the war, our bar gainers must seek, item by item, the evacuation of sanctuaries, the interdiction of supplies to the Viet Cong, and the with drawal division by division of North Vietnamese regulars. The concessions we offer should be the removal of such pressures when the goal has been accom plished. SAIGON’S ADVERSARY Similarly, if we are to leave behind a strong and energetic government that is able to sur vive, we should use the bargain ing table to strengthen Saigon’s position. Saigon’s bargaining adversary should be Hanoi, not the Viet Cong or the National Liberation Front. If a political role is assigned to the National Liberation Front, then a similar role, with guarantees, should be opened for anti-Communists in the North. If amnesties for Viet Cong are declared in the South, then amnesties for anti-Com munists should be declared in the North. Communist rule in the North was applied by force, and the North will not give up its attempted subversion of the Saigon government as long as Communism is allowed to oper ate in the Sooth. If such negotiations are re stricted to sharply defined is sues, under effective interna tional controls, and with the threat of continued military pressure, then the Communists will be deterred from further ntemational adventures. Airlines Suffer From Growth Problems WELLESLEY HILLS, MASS.,- Problems currently afflicting air transportation are the direct re sults of its rapid growth. True, the industry is gratified by the upzoom in its traffic; but, as contrasted with earlier in this decade, airlines stocks have at tracted much less investor in terest. The vast majority are quoted well below their previous highs. PROFITLESS PROSPERITY Although revenues have shown continued gains, costs also have soared. As a result, margins have narrowed so that 1968 produced virtually no profit growth for the nation’s airlines. Also, the in crease in carrier capacity and tin rise in overhead costs associated therewith have taken a toll on pro fits. Another factor limiting earn ings is the congestion at major airports. While efforts have been made to ease this acute condition by reducing the number of flights during peak hours, this has pro vided only a partial answer. Much more must be done in traffic con trol. SIZEABLE CAPITAL OUTLAYS SLATED A major difficulty confronting the airlines, and related to the industry’s rapid growth, is the necessity of huge capital outlays for new planes. In 1969, the new Boeing 747s will go into opera tion. These ships have a price tag of over $20 million each, with a passenger capability of 490 per craft. . .although most air lines plan to order models Fhlch will carry only 350 passengers. 1hs Old 1m&i “The moon will affect the tide—and the untied.” In the I970’s smaller jumbo jets (the so-called airbuses), the Lockheed I0ll, the McDonnell- Douglas DC-IO, the supersonic transport, and the short-take off-and-landing aircrafts will en ter service. During the next de cade the industry plans to spend approximately $17 billion for new planes and for ground support equipment, of which about $10- l/2 billion must be raised by 1971. EFFORTS TO IMPROVE PROFITABILITY Most important. .the airlines should continue to grow at a fast clip; thus traffic increase will help to narrow the gap of the cur rent excess carrier capacity. But, despite the expected impres sive revenue gains in 1969 and beyond, Babson’s Reports is con vinced that the lush benefits rea lized from the transition from propeller-driven aircraft to jets will not recur. 1 Furthermore, size is not the sole determining factor for pro fitability. Hence, while still reaching for new and lucrative runs, the airlines are trying to stem the erosion on profit mar gins by cutting back on promo tional fares and seeking selective fare increases. OUTLOOK FOR THE AIRLINES In the Babson view, the in dustry faces a formidable set of challenges which must be met be fore the airlines reach a new plateau of profitability. Relief of significant proportion may not be seen in 1969. Indeed, airport con gestion and delays, higher labor and operating costs, and excess carrier capacity could prolong the squeeze. The problems of the industry must, however, be viewed as growing pains. The longer-range outlook is still favorable, and continued growth progress is ex pected. Bear in mind that the air lines are rapidly becoming the dominant mode of intercity pas senger movement. While profits prospects for the current year are not particularly impressive, the air transporta tion stocks at current prices ap pear to be reasonably valued in most instances, especially when viewed in terms of the industry’s growth potential. Most of its problems seem already to have been discounted by the stock mar ket. Hence, it is the opinion of Bab son’s Reports that investors now owning the common shares of such carriers as American Air lines, Delta, Eastern, Flying Tiger, Northeast, Northwest, Pan American, TWA, Western, and United should certainly hold their positions. For purchase now, the common stock of National Air lines looks attractive for growth, along with the Continental Air Lines convertible 3-1/2% bond of 1992 and the Pan American World Airways convertible 4-1.2%bond of 1986.