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I * An Important Step Toward Beautification An important step toward the in creased beautification of Clinton was taken last week as plans for a Land scape Council were initiated. Members of the Sunbonnet Garden Club voted to get together with rep resentatives of other Clinton garden clubs to form the Landscape Council. This council could coordinate the ideas of all the garden clubs toward further beautifying Clinton. The council would work with Bill Ballard in devising a total plan of beautification for Clin ton. Mr. Ballard, a graduate student of landscape design at Clemson Univer sity is a native of Clinton. He has vol unteered to donate his services as a landscape architect. This is an oppor tunity the city must not miss. As Ballard said, something must be done soon. Clinton’s residential areas generally are extremely pretty, reflecting individual pride of owner ship. However, there are areas of city-owned or maintained p r o p e rt y which offer opportunities for beautifi cation. Ballard pointed out that many trees have been removed from the downtown area and the business dis- SUMMERTIME BLUES Easter is past and the vacation season is close at hand. The annual Cherry Blossom Festival in the Na tion’s capital is finished for another year, and will be followed by the Spring and Summer pilgrimage of tourists irom all over the nation. Our national parks and state camp sites will soon be full of trailers and tents, and the highways will be pack ed with overheated cars and equally overheated drivers. Beaches will be jammed. Mountain peaks will be scal ed by the hardy, only to find the prem ises occupied. Children will eat a year’s supply of ice cream cones, com plete with grains of sand. Motels will flash their neon signs of invitation or rejection. Much will be heard about the need for planning ahead. With the possiole exception of the Christmas season, summer vacation is the happiest time of the year. But it is not without a large measure of sad ness. How many cars will see their last traffic jams! How many will become just another piece of twisted steel, marring the scenery along the road side in auto cemeteries? Which camp site will be destroyed by a careless camper’s fire or cigarette’ How many children will be lost in the crowds, or forever lost in the depths of the waves? How many over-extended swimmers will lose an endurance race and their lives’ Most such tragedies needn’t hap pen at all, of course. The majority of accidents, forest fires and drownings can be prevented by reasonable care and precaution. Learn safety rules. And don’t forget to teach them to your youngsters. trict presents a hot and dusty appear ance. A Clinton resident who moved here about 10 years ago commented recent ly, “When I first came to Clinton, I was delighted with its appearance. The large trees and wide streets gave it a comfortable, attractive look. But the trees have been disappearing gradually. The appearance is chang ing and I don’t think it’s for the best. I’m certainly not against change but I do think it should bring improvement.’’ The large oak trees up and down Clinton’s main thoroughfares are, in deed, disappearing. They present prob lems for utility maintenance and many have had to make way for progress. Clinton was blessed in the past with citizens who could look ahead. The thoroughfares generally are wide, undoubtedly much wider than neces sary when they were built but they are a blessing today. And someone planted those oak trees which shade our streets and sidewalks. A landscape Council, coordinating the efforts of those interested in beau- tfication, could do much to enhance the beauty of Clinton in both the pres ent and the future. SCORE ONE FOR BEAUTY President Nixon recently declared that “sensitive and consistent atten tion to resource conservation will be a hallmark” of his administration. Early and encouraging evidence of this support emerged recently in a story from Kentucky describing Presi- dent Nixon's direct intervention in a controversy between conservationists and the U. S. Army Corps of Engin eers. The Engineers were on the thres hold of building a flood control dam in the remote Red River Gorge in east ern Kentucky. A number of conser- \atiomst organizations, among them the Sierra Club and the National Au dubon Society, formed the nucleus of the group that opposed the project. I heir opposition was based upon the conviction that the proposed site of the uam would destroy the wild beau ty of the area, which is part of Daniel Boone National Forest. Enlisting the efforts of Senator John Sherman Cooper and, through him, the Persident’s, the naturalists pointed out that relocation of the site just six miles below the controversial area would proivde the same flood protection to the affected county. Alter a two-year battle, it now ap pears that the conservationists have won an important victory, and the site will be relocated as suggested. We are happy with the outcome. The developers all too often win out over the groups who believe that we are fast developing our country into ugliness. Purely esthetic objections deserve to be heard and weighed in every case where the loss of natural, unspoiled beuaty hangs in the balance. Quality Still Important degree of defensiveness in periods of stress. It is true that many of the Blue- Chip and Pale-Blue-Chip stocks are selling at relatively high price/earnings multiples. But over the years this relationship has almost always been true. Fortunately, the well-establish ed, strongly managed companies appear able to increase their earnings continuously over a period of years. Hence, if the price (if the stock remains stable for any length of time, the price/ earnings relatiunship eventually improves. There is no denying that a nim ble trader can often make money by “playing* the market fa vorites -- switching from one to another on a short-run basis after a few points of profit. Here, the quality of the stock is of little or no importance. But trading in this manner takes a good deal of agility; one has to be in very close touch with the market at all times. And most investors are not in a position to do this. Hence, a longer-range investment pro gram, with emphasis on good- quality stocks, seems the best means of protecting and build ing up one’s capital and invest ment income. Campus Disorders Stir Reaction radical disruptionists who are trying to paralyze American edu cation and root out all patriotic values and programs. BY BABSON’S REPORTS INC. WELLESLEY HILLS, MASS.,- Those who have followed the mar ket closely over the past year or so are no doubt aware of the increasing popularity of the less- than-Blue-Chip stocks. The higher quality stocks have -- toa large degree --taken a back seat, much to the chargin of many in vestors who are holding a pre ponderance of good-grade se curities in their accounts. Doef this mean that the majorit) of high-grade issues have run their course and henceforth will be on the descendancy? Is this the time to shift out of them in favor of lower quality stocks? Our answer to both of these ques tions is “No.* In our judgment, this is definitely not the time to forsake quality. Naturally, we do not propose that an investor hold only the best-quality stocks to the ex clusion of all others. We believe a well-balanced portfolio should also contam some attractive stocks of average grade, as well as a few well-chosen specula tions. Over the past year or so, we have suggested many secon dary issues that must be classed well below the Blue-Chip category. Currently, among others, we favor the following: Medusa Portland Cement, Con tinental Oil, Addressograph- Multigraph, Southern Natural Gas, Bell & Howell, Columbia Broadcasting System. We have also recommended many speculative-grade stocks, and still favor such issues as: Eagle Clothes, Castle & Cooke, Coronet Industries, General Tire & Rubber, AvcoCorp. BeechAir- craft. Although all of the above stocks are attractive for purchase, in our opinion, we certainly do not suggest that investors “load up" on them, or sell high-quality stocks to buy them. Such premier issues as American Tel. & Tel., Eastman Kodak, du Pont, Gen eral Electric, etc., should repre sent the largest portion of most portfolios. The following are examples of other good-quality stocks that we currently favor for purchase: Sterling Drug, INA, Standard Oil (N.J.), Aetna Life and Casu alty, Union Carbide, Citizens U- tilities. Investors who have been active in the market for any length of time realize that practically all stocks, including most high-qua lity growth issues, have tempo rary periods of market price in activity. For instance, the stock of Union Carbide, an acknowledg ed growth company, has made no basic gain marketwise for sev eral years, now have Corn Pro ducts (now CPC Intnt’L), General Electric, and American Tel. 4 Tel. Nevertheless, we do not con sider that the investor who owns such ussues is losing out and should replace them with a group of secondary lower-quality stocks that may currently be popular. In our opinion, the stocks of the firms that set the pace in their respective industries will continue to provide the patient bolder with the long-term growth that most Investors desire. In addition, these issues are the one that provide the steady and usually increasing income and a BY THURMAN SENSING Executive Vice President Southern States Industrial Council The issue of law and order, which played so large a part in the presidential campaign, has become increasingly meaningful to Americans in recent weeks as strife has worsened on the cam pus and the prospect of another "long, hot summer" worries many citizens. Perhaps the most shocking de velopment of recent years was the appearance on the Cornell Uni- veristy campus, in Ithaca, N.Y. of a band of black militants who armed themselves with shotguns and rifles and required the uni versity president, under duress, to make a number of humiliat ing concessions. The picture of campus hoodlums, carrying wea pons, unquestionably shocked even many liberals who in the past have dreamed up all manner of excuses for campus protesters. Even the “New York Times" com pared the armed band to Nazi stormtroopers who attacked Ger man universities in Hitler’s rise to power. It may be that the sickening developments at Cornell proviced a shock of recognition to many liberals who have steadfastly re fused to see any evil or hear any evil in campus disorders. In deed the latest round of riotous events already has produced some healthy reactions. The New York State Senate unanimously approved a bill to impose a year’s jail sentence and a $1,000 fine on anyone who prevents college classes from being held. Other state legislatures are consider ing similar bills, aimed at thwarting revolutionary organi zations such as the Students For A Democratic Society. In Congress, U. S. Rep. Albert W. Watson (R-SC) has called on the House Committee on Internal Security to investigate the South ern Student Organizing Commit tee (SSOC), which is trying to foment strife in high schools as well as colleges. Another valuable step has been taken by Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-West Va.) who has introduced legislation that would make it a federal crime to disrupt any fed erally assisted college or uni versity. Tough state and federal legis lation along this line most pro bably is the best way to deal with the organized minority of Other types of action are need ed, however, to deal with career agitators who organize virtual wars against towns and cities, who harass communities for months over some absurd non issue. No reason exists why peaceful, progesssive communi ties should have to submit to weeks and months of marching in the streets and implied threats of riot. One resourceful agita tor can cost a city hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra police payments and can deprive a community of needed revenue. Hospitals and other vital com munity institutions can be im peded in their works of mercy and service by agitators who fly in each weekend for marches and demonstrations that pose the dan ger of riot and arson on a large scale. Law-abiding communities should have protection against demagogic individuals whose preachment of “non-violence* is simply a cover for engendering acts of violence. One system that states and the federal govern ment may be forced to adopt, to protect Americans against harassment and danger, is the system of preventive detention such as Britain’s Defense of the Realm Act has embodied for many years. Indeed President Nixon, in a speech on crime in the District of Columbia, already has ad vanced the idea of pre-trial de tention of dangerous hard-core criminals whose freedom “pre sents a clear danger to the com munity." Senator Byrd of West Virginia is another figure in gov ernment who has recommended a plan to allow judges to hold persons accused of threatening “serious bodily harm.’ F It is only reasonable to sup pose that communities must have some way to protect themselves against protracted demonstra tions that contain the threat of havoc and bloodshed. Detention of persons who might be dangerous to communities is an idea that certainly is going to receive much consideration in the months a- head. The American people simply cannot tolerate more strife and threats of strife, whether on college campuses or in the streets. 2rB—THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., May 8, 1969 SENATOR STROM THURMOND REPORTS TO THE PEOPLE WHY WE NEED SAFEGUARD Some parties are not taking the broad view about the need for the Safeguard Anti-Ballistic Missile Defense (ABM). Many of the arguments proposed against the ABM are based upon nar row technical objections of a sort which are difficult to settle in a public forum. One gets the impression that the scientists engaged in such discussion are more interested in raising ob jections than in solving defense problems. Emotions may be aroused by scare campaigns, but a calm and rational approach is necessary when the defense of the country is at stake. A broad view of the need for the ABM must take into consid eration the attitudes of the So viet Union towards the United States, the Soviet experience with ABM systems, and present and projected Soviet military capability. Such an approach tells us why President Nixon says that the United States needs the ABM, and why deployment of the two initial test and develop ment sites cannot be delayed even one year. TWELVE POINTS Here are twelve points about Soviet policy which explain why we need the ABM now: 1. The Soviets have just re stated the Marxist-Leninist doc trine that war with the West is inevitable, despite the dangers of nuclear warfare, and that the Communists expect to win. 2. In the past six months, the Soviets have accelerated the production and deployment of the SS-9, and other offensive missiles. The SS-9 is the most powerful ICBM in the world, capable of carrying a 26-mega ton warhead or 3 five-megaton warheads. One megaton is 50 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiro shima. 3. The United States has re peatedly underestimated Soviet intentions and capabilities on critical offensive items, such as Soviet development of the A- bomb, the H-bomb, advanced jet engines, long-range turbo-prop bombers, airborne intercept ra dars, and large-scale production of enriched fissionable material. deploying its own ABM since 1963. 5. Since deployment of the first Soviet ABM (called the GA LOSH system) in 1963, the So viets have produced two subse quent generations of improved systems. 6. The Soviet weaponry experts have repeatedly tested and eval uated their ABM, and recom mended further deployment. These realistic, on-site tests should be contrasted with the imaginary tests and evaluations of the Soviet system, made by s me U. S. so-called experts who say that the Soviet system is worthless. 7. The Soviets have gone one step beyond anti-missile de fenses, and are now testing anti-space, or anti-satellite de fenses. SOVIET INTENTIONS 8. The Soviets have repeatedly stated that an ABM is a purely defensive system, and does not have escalatory qualities in it self. Therefore, they will not misunderstand the purpose of the U. S. Safeguard system. 9. The Soviet Union has never displayed any real intention to reduce arms development or production of new systems through bilateral agreements that include on-site inspection. 10. The 5-year lead time neces sary for deployment and testing of an ABM system requires us to begin construction immedi ately. We have no way of telling what group will be in charge of Soviet weapons five years from now. 11. The Soviets have been will ing to finance an ABM, even though their gross national product is less than half of ours ($420 billion, as against $900 billion). 12. The Soviets have placed a high priority on their ABM even though the Soviet indus trial-technical base is much more limited than ours. For these and other reasons, we should support immediate deployment of the Safeguard Anti-BaHtdtic*''Miakile Def^nae 1 System. SOVIET HISTORY 4. The Soviet Union has been {wot prepared or printed at government expense) “Ted, wake up. I think you’d better take over for a while." Actions of drivers associated with deaths and injuries 1968 Persons Killed Per Cent Persons injured Per Cent Speed too fast for conditions 18,700 40.8 811,000 20.9 On wrong aide of road 6.500 14.2 217,000 5.6 Did not hsve right of way 6.000 13.1 745,000 193 Cutting in 50 .1 8.000 2 Pasting on curve or hill 200 .4 35,000 .9 Paasing on wrong side 800 1.8 89,000 2.3 Failed to signal and Improper signaling 100 2 19,000 .6 Car ran away—no driver 4,000 .1 Drove off roadway 6300 12.7 342,000 8.8 Reckless driving 6,760 14.7 1,540,000 39.7 Miscellaneous 900 2.0 70,000 13 TOTAL 100.0 1 ! 100.0