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Page Four _ THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday. October 20. 1049 MdNTOSH'S SHOE SHOP Send Your Shoes To Us for Best Materials and Workmanship. As Washington Sees It. IHE NATIONAL SCENE HEAVY AND FANCY GROCERIES We Deliver H. J. PITTS STORE • i m$m**xxxKxaammaatxsaatxaaat* Gray Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ...and... EMBALM ERS AMBtXANCE SERVICE Phones 41 and 399-J L. RUSSELL GRAY and V. PARKS ADAIR, Gen Mrn. wmmmaMammamtmmammtaaaaam Goodyear Tires and Tubes BATTERIES AND ACCESSORIES McMillan Service Station Sinclair Products Phone No. 2 Special to The Chronicle.. Washington, Oct. 19.—Current de bate in the seriate on the Anderson farm bill is expected to take up most of the time in the upper house dur ing the next ten days or two weeks. In the meantime, with the house back in session, committee activity took on added significance at this session, they were being set up for action at the second session of the congress which starts in January, 1950. One measure important to veterans was approved by the senate finance committee without amendment from the house-passed version and would increase disability and death com pensation rates listing total disabil- ty at $150 instead of $138 a month .with partial disability rates at a corresponding raise. Payments t^..de- pendents-of wartime casualties would be raised from $100 a month for a widow with one child to $105 plus $25 for each additional child instead of the present $15. The governmnet would pay 100 per cent compensation to World War I veterans for service-connected disa bilities instead of 75 per cent, would make extra compensation benefits available to dependents of veterans with 50 per cent disability, instead of the present 60 per cent, would ex tend time for compensation for ar rested cases of tuberculosis and would liberalize requirements for disabil ity incurred during confinement where felony or dishonorable dis charge were not involved. A senate judiciary sub-committee heard testimony on a house-passed measure to plug a loophole in the Clayton anti-trust act. The measure provides that one corporation may not acquire the assets of another cor poration if the move lessens compe tition or trends to create monopoly. Sen. Joseph C. O’Hahoney of Wyom ing told the committee that the bill would close a loophole “which is driving the country toward mon opoly and totalitarianism.” “What has happened in Europe," Senator O’Mahoney said, “is proof that monopolies and cartels create unemployment ind accelerate the drive toward a totalitarian state. Monopolies and cartels are the foe of free enterprise.” Senator O’Mahoney said the bill would not hurt small business as wording of the measure would put mergers of small business outside the prohibitions of the Clayton act. “Obviously.” he said, “those mergers which enable small companies to compete more effectively with giant corporations generally do not reduce competition but rather intensify it.” The measure is opposed generally by groups allied with the National As sociation of Manufacturers. Two other measures affecting ru ral areas were considered by the senate agriculture committee dur ing the week. One would remove the price support from dried eggs. Following a statement however by Ralph S. Trigg, president of com modity credit corporation, that the bill would break faith with the far mers who produced eggs this year in accordance with the support price, the committee announced no more hearings would be heard. The other was a resolution to in vestigate the spread between prices paid for food by housewives and the prices paid farmers for the same food. Sen. Guy Gillette of Iowa, chairman of the sub-committee, said extensive hearings would be held within the next few weeks to find the- reason for the stable prices to the consum er and the dropping income of the farmer. Another measure with political re percussions was one introduced by Congressman Jesse P. Wolcott of Michigan, a Republican, to increase the borrowing capacity of the com modity credit corporation by a bil- lin dollars. Wolcott said the OCC would soon be scraping the bottom of the barrel for money available for farm price supports. The Republicans do not intend to watch a “planned” surplus of farm products pile up this fall and then have Democrats go to the coun try on behalf of the Brannan plan during the campaign. Congressman Wolcott remarked that "additional funds must be made available at this session if the government is’ to keep its* prbmises and eomifiitments to the American farmer.” He also said he would ask the house banking com mittee. of which he is a member, to imestigate the operation of CCC. Congressman Brent Spence of Ken tucky, Democrat^ committee chair man, however said there would be no investigation or action soon. No Forest Fires Reported In County During September Special to The Chronicle. Columbia, Oct. 19.—Laurens is one of the twenty-seven counties in South Carolina to have no forest fires reported during the month of Sept ember. according to a report this week from the South Carolina State Commission of Forestry. During the lirst two months of the 1949-50 fis cal year, one forest fire broke out in Laurens county, damaging four wooded acres. There are a total of 237,952 wooded acres in Laurens county. Forest fires in South Carolina since the first of July have damaged '512 acres of timberland, with an av erage of approximately five acres burned by e»eh of the 104 woods fires. Of the fires, 31 were reported I last month, burning 92 acres of wood land. Ten persons have been pros- secuted in South Carolina since the first of the fiscal year, and seven have been convicted, in connection with forest fires. The total forest area of the state consists of 11,780, 643. THOMPSON'S MORTUARY - Complete Funerals $150.00 up AMBULANCE SERVICE Phone 450-M Clinton, S. C. B L. THOMPSON and E. M. THOMPSON, Gen. Mgrs. Dr. Felder Smith Optometrist Laurent, S. C. ^ 126 EAST MAIN STREET South Side PabHe Square HOURS FOR ETt EXAMINATIONS: •:M to 5:3t Wednesdays 9:0# to 12:3# Phone 794 for Appointment JFFICE BOOKS — Ledgers, Ledge: Binders and Sheets, Cash Books, Books — full stock. Chronicle Pub lishing Co. No Red Tape! 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