The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, May 08, 1969, Image 10
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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
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“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
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100.0