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THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., July 2, 1970—1-R
Final Census Check Under Way
DIS(TSS M OIU L E HfMTSINGw-
Shown ahove at the recent annual
convention of the Mobile Housing
Institute of South Carolina are. left
to rieht: Tommy Lloyd, executive
dimtor of the Mobile Housin'/ Insti
tute of S.C.: Allen White of Clinton,
president of the Mobile Housing In
stitute of S.C.: (low Robert McNair:
and Jim Barnes of Clinton, president
of Bareraft Homes,
Governor Soys Mobile
Housing May Be Key
Covered wagons made pos
sible the settlement >1 the West,
and so can modern mobile
homes help to ease the nation's
housing problems, Governor
Robert E. McNair told those at
tending the annual mid-year
convention of the M >bile
Housing Institute ofSouthCaro-
lina held in Charleston last
week.
Attending from Laurens were
Allen W. White, executive
vice president of Palmetto
Homes and president of the
South Carolina AsS'Knation;
James A. Barnes, president of
Bareraft Homes and a member
of the board of directors of the
association; Jim Holland, vice
president of Palmetto and
Princeton Homes; Frank Gur
ley, plant manager of Prince
ton Homes, and Jim Powell,
advertising and promotion di
rector of Palmetto Homes.
The meeting including dis
cussion of highway movement
in South Carolina, FHA and
other types of financing of mo
bile homes, standards and re
gulations for all mobile homes,
in addition to other business.
McNair said that lack of suit
able housing is a problem of
magnitude in South Carolina,
and challenged all elements of
the housing industry to help fight
the problem.
Pre-Schoolers Should
Start Their Shots Ngw
Housing problems today “are
too big for any one single or
ganization, governmental unit
or industrial interest," he said.
“Thus, as we seek effective
approaches to this problem, we
solicit the assistance of all re ;
sources--the homebuilder, the
mobile home manufacturer and
dealer, the federal agencies. ..
and all the technological know
how which is producing the new
concepts in modular and pre
fabricated units.”
Governor McNair said that
research by his office showed
last year mnre than 300,000
housing units classified as sub
standard, and mere than a third
of ttiese were overcrowded.
“Housing is a necessity, not a
luxury,” the governor said.
“When costs outpace the ability
of people to purchase adequate
housing, then technology must
resp >nd with innovation and
creativity."
County HealthOflicer Dr.Von
A. Long said today that child
ren who will enter the first
grade in the fall should start
their shots now.
“State law requires that
every incoming first grader
get a smallpox vaccination,’ Dr.
Long said, “and most of the
children will need polio and dpt
(diphtheria, pertussis or
whooping cough, and tetanus)
boosters. Y<amgsters who have
not received German measles
and red' measles shots or had
the diseases will need those
shots.
“For many six-year olds the
opening days of school will pro-
Non Dixon
Attends Prep
Editors' Meeting
Nan Dixon, editor of “The
Sentinel”, Clinton High School
news publication, attended the
South Carolina HighSchoolEdi
tors Conference at the Univer
sity of South Carolina, June 21-
26.
As a participant, Miss Dix
on, 17-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Arnold Dixon, attended
classes in news writing, edit
ing, columns, editorials, pro
ductions and newspapers make
up.
Being the 1969-70 Junior Co
editor, Miss Dixon gained
newspaper experience. By as
sociating with the other high
school editors during the
various sessions, she has been
able to exchange ideas, and
share her problems with other
high school editors. She is a
rising senior at CHS.
vide their first contact with
large groups. Only those who
have received all their immuni
zations will be protected dur
ing the increased exposure.'
Many of the young pupils will
be exposed to German measles
for the first time this fall.
Epidemics of the disease occur
in six or seven year cycles
and the last one was in 1964.
Dr. Long urges parents to
take the prospective pupils to
their family doctor or health de
partment now in order to avoid
the late summer rush. And he
reminds that all babies should
start their immunizations at
three or four months of age
instead of waiting until they are
ready for school.
More than 600 cases of Ger
man measles and almost 500 of
“red” measles have been re
ported in South Carolina this
year. There has been only one
case of polio since 1965.
Darby Returns
From Vietnam
Sp/5 George Darby, son of
Mrs. Maggie L. Darby, of Route
2, Box 321, Clinton, departed the
Republic of Vietnam recently to
return to the United States.
He served with the US Army’s
largest division, the Americal,
as a medic. Th • Americal Di
vision Headquarters is located
in Chu Lai, Vietnam; 50 miles
south of Da Nang, along the
coast of the South China Sea.
The division’s 24,000 s udiers
operate from the sandy coastal
plains to the rugged inland
mountains of southern I Corps.
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One of the final steps in the
1970 census in rural and small
city areas of the southern States
--a check by mailmen--is now
under way, according to the U.
S. Department of Commerce’s
Bureau of the Census.
The ’70 census was taken by
two methods: by mail-out and
mail-back of questionnaires in
most major metropolitan areas
and by census takers in the rest
of the United States. The latter
procedure entailed the mailing
out of questionaires and subse
quent visits by census takers
who would pick up filled-in
forms or, lacking this, in
terview families while follow
ing a house-to-house route.
Canvassing in the metropoli
tan areas required checking of
addresses by postal employees
before the mailout. A similar
step is now beingtaken by mail
men following the visits by cen
sus takers.
This is the procedure: When
census district offices complet
ed the preliminary counts, they
turned over to the post office a
set of white cards listing every
address canvassed. The mail
men, in turn, check these ad-
County Road
Contract
Is Awarded
Award of a $265,915 contract
for 17.3 miles of highway re
surfacing in Laurens county has
been announced by the State ^
Highway Department.
Ashmore Brothers, Inc. of
Greenville was awarded the
contract on the basis of the
firm’s low bid, according to
Chief Highway Commissioner
Silas N. Pearman. Three bids
were entered ranging as high as
$283,639.
The contract calls for as
phaltic concrete surfacing of
8.5 miles on S. C. Route 49
from U.S. 221 north of Laurens
to the Spartanburg County line;
and of 8.8 miles on S. C. Route
101 from U.S. 276 to secondary
system road S-54.
Contractor's bids on the work
were opened June 16 and ap
proved by the Highway Com
mission June 18.
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dresses against the households blue card noting this fact. The
on their routes. If the mailman blue cards are referred to the
discovers what he considers a Census Bureau, which will
“misseef address, he fills out a check the against the census
records.
The Census Bureau has found
from experience that many
households for which such cards
are filled out have already been
enumerated. This can happen
for a number of reasons. For
instance, some people get mail
at two or more addresses, or
there may be differences in the
way a rural address is describ
ed.
The Census Bureau will check
the blue cards turned in by
mailmen and then take appro
priate steps to provide a com
plete census count
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