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m THE CHRONICLE Clinton, S. C., Dec. 11, 1969—1-B Enemy's Gun Clicks Clintonian Wins Duel With Death Pfc. Lafayette Toland of Clin ton killed a North Vietnamese soldier last week in a confron tation in which Toland’s life was spared because a rifle misfired. Toland was in an American am bush position in the Mekong Del ta of Vietnam when he hear6 the footsteps of North Vietnamese soldiers creeping through the night. Toland kept low to the ground but a North Vietnamese soldier suddenly stumbled over him. Both soldiers struggled to get their weapons into firing position but the enemy soldier won. He leveled his automatic rifle at Toland and pulled the trigger. But there was only a metallic click. His rifle misfired. Toland fired a burst from his M16, killing the North Vietna mese. Toland said, “It really shook me up at first. If he had cham bered a round like he should have, it would have been me instead of him. * The incident took place about 20 miles south of Saigon, in the « f! LAFAYETTE TOLAND Mekong Delta, where Toland’s U.S. 9th Infantry Division’s third Brigade had set the ambush. Toland, who attended Bell Street High School, had been in Vietnam only two or three weeks. He entered the Army in May. He is a son of Mrs. Essie Toland of Route 3, Clinton, and Walter Toland of Prosperity. Prior to entering the Army, Toland worked at Clinton Mills and with Champion Paper Co. evie^yi Generation Gap —From 1932 BY LENNART PEARSON Head Librarian Presbyterian College Jorgen Stein. Bv Jacob Paludan. (Translated from the Danish). 704 pages. University of Wis consin Press. 1966. It seems to be a feature of the ‘‘generation gap” that each generation discovers it all over again—which may be one of the reasons it keeps recurring as a theme in literature. In Jorgen Stein, a novel set in Denmark, the two sides of the gap are represented by those who were old and those who were young that fateful day in 1914 when the Archduke Ferdinand was shot. Those who were old looked on the first World War as a regrettable but temporary inter ruption of a gracious way of life. Those who were young, like Jorgen Stein, were far more aware of the dislocations of war. They could recall just enough of that earlier life, however, to be haunted by its memory as they came of age in a nwrworW of jazz, movies, cars, beer-garden Reds, flappers, and assorted libertines. Jorgen is the central figure but only one of a number of interesting people in Paludan’s story. His father is a government official whose old age is hastened by his anxiety over social change. Ot-, to, Jorgen’s older brother, is an up-and-coming Co penhagen lawyer who becomes more reckless and more obese with each new misadventure. Karen is his silly and solicitous sister, whose irritatingly self-sufficient bore of a husband gets in a well- plotted scene. Erik, with the big nose, is Jorgen’s enemy; Leif, ruddy and rugged, is his tutor in de pravity. Among the women in Jorgen’s life are Inger, four years older, and eager to teach him things every sixteen year old should know; Ellen and Lily, Jorgen’s first (but strangely passionless) loves and Nanna, whose friendship with Jorgen is very tender, very poignant. For fifteen years, these characters, and others—finely drawn, believ able and appealing in their lostness—wander in and out of Jorgen’s life as he tries his hand at be ing student, philosopher, writer, and above all, aes thete. What happens to the ideals of Jorgen’s par ents when they are exposed to the acute malaise of the past-war period? If the answer provided by Jorgen’s wanderings seems a bit ambiguous, the reason may lie partly in Paludan’s essential con servatism. (“He speaks for proven values and comments wryly upon the false and the ephem eral.” So says P. M. Mitchell in his introduction to Jorgen Stein. Nostalgia for a more stable and less worldly society is an understandable, though not particularly constructive, sentiment. In Denmark, Jacob Paludan is known as a news paper critic, editor, and essayist, as well as the author of Jorgen Stein, his one great novel. Orig inally published in 1932, it has now been made available in a smooth and readable translation by Carl Malmberg. This is one of a series being trans lated by the University of Wisconsin Press as part of an effort to acquaint the English-speaking world with some of the modern classics of Scandinavian fiction. On, Wisconsin! NOTICE The City Fireworks Ordinance prohibits the sale or use of fire works in the city limits. The only exceptions are Sparklers and Ro man candles. Anyone found guilty of violation of the ordi nance is subject to a fine of $100 or knpris- onment for up to 30 days. Jacobs, Thomason Named To District Committee LAURENS - The Upper Savan nah Development District Board Members and Representatives David Taylor and Paul Culbert son announced the appointment of Furman Thomason and J. F. Ja cobs, Jr. to a District Trans portation Committee. Thomason, Laurens County Su pervisor, and Jacobs, who is as sociated with Jacobs List, Inc. in Clinton, will represent Laurens County on the regional Trans portation Committee Including Abbeville, Edgefield, Greenwood, McCormick, andSaludaCounties. Upper Savannah Board Mem bers for Laurens County, Leon Patterson, Marcus Cook, and Da vid Dendy, stated that this Dis trict Committee will study long range transportation systems as they affect the future of this re gion. Representatives Taylor and Culbertson indicated that the Dis trict Committee will also study highway safety programs and will assist in securing Federal grants for the District’s local govern ments in order to implement highway safety measures. Anti cipated safety projects are: dri ver education, emergency medi cal service, emergency police training, design and engineering of public roads, and other pro grams affecting transportation and highway safety. The District Transportation Comittee is one of six District Committees that have been au thorized by the Board of Direc tors of the USDD. These Commit tees will become involved in many programs affecting the develop ment of the region. Would Sail Farther If he set out on his historic voyage today, Christopher Columbus would have to sail 13 yards farther than he did in 1492, because the conti nents have drifted apart that much since then. Dr. Harris Joins Belton Church Staff Dr. James Harris, former pas- llgious education and youth work. tor of Mountville Baptist Church, has joined the staff of the First Baptist Church of Belton as as sociate pastor in charge of re- Dr. Harris served as part-time minister of education and youth while he was pastor of the Mount ville church. 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