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THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1960
ID* AMP ABOUT TEENAGERS ^
Should Every Teenager Be A Car Owner?
By C. D. Smith
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THIS WEEK'S LETTER: "I am
old enough to get a license. I’ve
saved enough money to buy my
self the jalopy I want. But my
folks won’t allow me to have a
car. Is this fair?”
OUR ANSWER: There are many
factors that must be considered.
In this writer’s experience, men
tion of two partichlar teenage
problems will provoke a spirited
discussion almost anywhere. One
is teenage dating; the other —
teenagers and automobiles.
The principal argument of those
opposed to teenagers having their
own cars is based upon the belief
that they aren’t responsible
enough. They drive too fast; they
drag race; and they get into a lot
more trouble than teenagers who
have to walk or ride public
transportation. Some of these
arguments are good ones. Most
teenagers drive too.fast; far too
many of them think it “chicken”
to turn down a drag race dare;
with a car to provide a quick
way to get there and to get back,
teenagers go places where they
shouldn’t go and do things they
wouldn’t do in their own back
yard.
It must be remembered, how
ever, that these are generalities.
teenagers do not fall into the
categories above. Some of them
are “responsible”—much more so
than many adults. Many of them
are expert md careful drivers.
And s<- that the question of
a teenager having his or her own
car must be decided on individual
circumstances. There are several
important considerations: Can the
teenager, or his parents, afford to
buy the car? All things evaluated,
including initial cost, insurance
and operating expenses, a teen
ager can spend in one year on a
car almost as much, or more,
than it would cost him to go to
college for a year. If a teenager
has the money to buy his own car,
does he have resources or income
to keep it operating—to buy ga*
and pay for repairs that will be
made from time to time? Will a
teenager use his car wisely, and
not at the expense of scholastic
activities?
Like shaving or smoking a cig
arette, some teenagers look upon
car ownership as a sign of adult
hood ... or a symbol of freedom
from adult authority. While this
is a wrong attitude, we must
admit that car ownership among
the teens should be restricted to
young adults only—no children
allowed. And when we say this,
we aren’t speaking of chronologi
cal age. We know some fifty-year-
olds who act like children behind
th.- wheel of an automobile.
If yon have a teenage problem yon
want to discuss, or an observation to
make, address your letter to FOR
AND ABOUT TEENAGERS, NATION
AL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SERV
ICE, FRANKFORT, KY.
THANKS
to the people of my
district for re-elect
ing me Magistrate
to serve the next 4
years.
L Your approval of
my service in the
past is deeply ap
preciated.
Tallye Hugh
Shealy
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From the Shamokin Citizen,
Shamekin, Pa.: Frailty exists at
every age.
The frailty of old age is easily
recognized in infirmities that
evoke our pity, summon our help
fulness, and command our solici
tude.
The appealing frailty of an in
fant wins a mother’s tender care
and a family’s devoted attention.
Frailty of middle age often
brings forth such warnings from
a concerned spouse as, “watch
your diet,” and “don’t overdo
it.”
But the frailty of youth often
provokes angry admonitions. It
may be that in vigorous, zest
ful youth, we can see no frailty
but a wilful disregard for all the
self-preserving rules of life.
It is not frailty but wildness that
adults see in the youths who rush
into the pitfalls that seem espe
cially to be contrived for them.
After highway tragedies in
which a young driver figures, there
is often an immediate, angry re
action from the public: “These
crazy kid driver*.” Even before
the facts of the accident are es
tablished, the judgment is made.
The frailty of youth goes un
recognized while oblivious youth
goes on to maim and to kill,
not understanding its own sus
ceptibility to speed and to power.
The energetic child with con
fident agility begins to climb a
high porch bannister, and the
worried mother runs to grab him
from danger. The life-loving teen
ager gets into the family car and
roars out of the driveway with
no hand to restrain him.
Youth, with a dim view of seem
ingly remote det»*h, can be ex
cused for not knowing the mean
ing of mortality. But adults, who
once were young themselves,
cannot be absolved of responsi
bility for failing to recognize the
frailty of youth.
By education youth might be
given a more adult insight into
the moral responsibility of driv
ing a car—but only if npore adults
set a better example on the high
ways.
MY DEEPEST GRATITUDE
to my friends from throughout the county, whose votes
and support were responsible for my election to the of
fice of Supervisor of Newberry county.
I have enjoyed meeting-many people throughout the
county during the campaign, and much of the credit for
my election goes to my friends in all sections.
You may be sure that I shall endeavor to the best of
my ability to serve you well.
THANK YOU!
HAROLD B. HENDRIX
MY SINCERE THANKS
To the people of Newberry ‘county who did so
much to help me win re-election to the office of Solicitor
of the Eighth Judicial circuit by such a large majority
througbout the circuit.
I wish to repeat that my office is always open, and
any citizen who wishes to discuss any problem pertain
ing* to the work of our Courts is welcome at any time.
My thanks again for returning me to office for a
third term.
WILLIAM T. JONES
THE NEWBERRY SON, 'NEWBERRY, SOOTH CAROLINA
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GAS GOES THROUGH... Track carrying LP-gaa fuel plow*
through flooded road to deliver fuel to inundated site of the Win
ter Olympics. Fleodwaters, caused by torrential rains, threatened
to wash away Olympic rid runs. The disaster was averted when
the rain turned to snow.
HOSPITAL
PATIENTS
Mrs. Verda Beck, 2016 Pied
mont St.
Mrs. Annie M. Courtney, 1403
First St.
Miss Teresa Coward, 2707 Fair
Ave.
Miss Sarah Duncan, 315 North
Main St., Whitmire.
Mrs. Annie Haltiwanger, Rt. 2,
Chapin.
Mrs. Mary Hembree, Rt. 1.
Carl Harris, 2012 Adelaide St.
James I^brand, P. O. Box 424,
Batesburg. /
Mi’s. Gladys Layton, ^303 Silas
St.
C. Lambert Matthews, Rt. 3,
Batesburg.
Mrs. Euna Mize, Rt. 1.
Mrs. Mary Rinehart, 68 Glenn
St.
Mrs. Thelma Shaw and Baby
Boy, Rt. 5, Saluda.
Charles Zobel, 2328 College
Ave. ,
Colored Patients
Rhoda Anderson, 65 Harrington
St.
James Corley, Rt. 3, Prosper
ity.
LauraJ Dowdy, Rt. 1, Bo.': 76.
Gertrude Moffett, 837 Hunter
St.
Daisy Penn, 216 Drayton St.
Eva Reeder, Rt. 1.
Martha Sims, Rt. 2, Pomaria.
Addie Lee Suber, 212 Boundary
St.
Joe Williams, Pomaria.
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EDITORS
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MILLS CLINIC PATIENTS
Mrs. Petty Saunders and Baby
Boy. Batesburg.
Mrs. Clara Sue Waites, Po
maria.
Hiram Bowick, Newberry. ,
Mrs. Eddie Pugh, Prosperity.
Carl Epting, Plosperity.
Miss Lalla Martin, Newberry.
Mrs. Beatrice Hope, Columbia.
H. O. Newman, Prosperity.
Yoder Addy, Little Mountain.
Eva Ray Williams, Little Moun
tain.
Lucy Kesler, Little Mountain,
A veteran Carolina Light and
Power Company engineer has
been named .superintendent of the
Southeast's first atomic power
plant now under construction at
Parr.
Walter E. Selkinghaus, sup
erintendent of CP and L’s new
Darlington County steam-electric
generating plant near Hartsville,
will leave his present post Aug-,
ust 6 for a year-long nuclear
training program with the Atomic
Energy Commission at Oak Ridge
before assuming duties at the
* Parr plant.
LENGGRIES, Germany (AHTN
C)—Army PFC Duane E. Bran
non, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A.
Brannon, Route 1, Chappells, re
cently completed the 15-week tele
type equipment repair course at
The Quartermaster-Signal School
in Lenggries, Germany.
Brannon was trained to install,
maintain and repair teletypewriter
equipment.
Regularly assigned as a radio
repairman in the 124th Signal
Company in Vicenza, Italy, Bran
non entered the Army in October
1958, received basic training at
Fort Jackson and arrived overseas
last July.
The 20-year-old soldier is a
1958 graduate of Newberry High
School.
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with one click of the camera, this photograph has captured
several Interesting subjects. Taken from a hill In Washington
Park, Portland, Oregon, the picture shows public courts,
the International Rose Test Gardens, the city of Portland,
majestic 11,245-foot Mt. Hood in the background. Portland’s
International Rose test gardens are world famoiw. Covering a
large acreage in a perfect setting, the gardens are at their peak
of bloom in June, at which time the annual Portland Rose Festi
val shares the beauty spotlight.
per. Cedar Springs, Mlehigaa:
There’s a great deal of contro
versy over Russia's economic and
scientific achievements. But one
thing is sure—the Soviet leaders
are masters of propaganda. The
Russian 'people are deluged day
and night with z^ords designed to
make them behove HUM com*
munism does more for the mass
es than any other system. And
Russian visitors to this country,
from ]£krushchev down the link
take every conceivable oppor
tunity to try to “sell” Russia’s
progress, and superiority.
Well, no one can blame tnem
for that—it’s'their job. as dedi
cated communists. But when we
get down to the facts, the pic
ture takes on a very different-
hue.
There’s only one way to judge
the material well-being rf a peo
ple—and tout is by the yardstick
of how much the average man’s
income will buy in the market
place. With one mouth’s wages,
an American can buy 6Mi suits
and 24 pairs of shoes. With one
month's wages, on the other
hand. V Russian can buy half pf
Ttfe situation' is comparable to
the case of Aost other consumer
goods beyond the ba re-necessity
leveL
In Russia, the government pro
duces practically everything and
practically everything is sold in
government stores. Government
■MfdHI all question*—what shall
be produced and sold, of what
quality, at what price. There is
no competition.
In America, on the othe^ hand,
there’s competition eveiy inch
of the way from the source of
raw materials to the finished
goods offered at retail. The pro
ducer or retailer who is a We to
offer the widest choice and best
quality at least cost gets the
trade. And that’s onq of the main
reasons why the American
worker with his- month’s pay,
can buy so many suits and shoes
if he So' desires—and; the Soviet
worker so few.
Mass merchandising methods,
pioneered in the United States;
give customers super service?
in foods and ail manner of r j <
sonal and ho>ne necessities . ;
enjoyed elsewhere.
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Miss Ann Bowels has returned
to her home in Atlanta after vi
siting her grandmother, Mrs.
Wyche Dickert and aunts, Miss
Clara Bowers and Mrs. Ethel Fel
lers.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Senn, Mrs.
Clara Wertz and Miss Joan Bobb
spent last week -in New York vi-i
siting Mrs. Senn’s brother-in-law I
and sister, Mr. and Mrs. A1 Kel-
loff. While there they toured
many places of interest.
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GOOP THAT
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From the CatskiU Mountain
What does a retail store’s
show window stand for?
First of all, of course, it is de
signed to interest you in buying
goods. If you like what you see,
and consider the price fair, you’ll
probably become a customer. If
not, you’ll move on to another
store that meets your needs
better.
Beyond that, however, the show
window is about as good a visual
example of /how this country
works as we can find. We pride
ourselves, and justly, on our
magnificient system of mass pro
duction, which has given us a
vast abundance of goods of all
kinds, which provided much of
our employment, and which has
helped raise our living standards
far beyond that of any other ma
jor nation.
However, mass production
would not be a success, or even
a possibility, without mass dis
tribution. The goods from the
factories must be moved, swiftly,
efficiently and economically, inter
the hands of the people who will
use them. American retailing is
superbly geared to perform that
job. It believes that the sound
way tc do business is to turn over
a larj,e volume of merchandise
at a small unit profit. And what
keeps that principal always at
work is aggressive competition
between stores of all kinds and
sizes. <
Visitors from abroad, and es
pecially the ones who come here
from toe countries wi’nin the
Soviet orbit, ard always'amazed
and disbelieving whoa they see a
typical American shopping cen
ter—whether it be Fifth Avenue
or Main Street They are so used
to a subsistence standard of
living, and an economy of scarcity
at home, that they believe it to be
a universal state of affairs. Free
enterprise, as exemplified by toe
shop windows, shows them how
wrong they are.
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