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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
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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.
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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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