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A Thursday, December 8, 1949 THE CLINTON CHRONIC!,E Page Five Yule Shoppers To Get More for Money Than Last Year around $195,000,000,000. willing to let the expecting refund] 2. Overall retail sales averaged receivers buy now and pay later, i around $10,445,000,000 a month in when their checks come along, the first 10 shopping months of 1949] Installment credit terms, easier i and held within two per cent of last' now than a year ago when they were year’s comparable period. j still urider controls, were another j Washington, Dec. 4. — Christmas 3. Prices are about three per centi* act ° r as supporting 1949 sales, snappers, now commencing to crowd lower than last year, in a general; particularly when demand has been the stores, are likely to spend almost sort of way, so that the chances are stron g f or such big-cost items as as much in record-making 1948—and i that buyers are getting a slightly autos anc * television sets, bot stan- tet more goods for their money. I greater quantity of goods for their dard time-payment items Rated as another buoy to particularly in the luxury sales, goods Checks with a number of govern- outlay. inent economists indicated today that' Some economists said this year’s u j u tensensus view. It is backed with | buying would get a boost from the l ,nes have had harder 8omg arguments that: $2,800,000,000 in refunds on GI in-i thls y ear than last * was availability 1. Consumer income, the main- ! surance policies although refund of . man y im P° r ^_ f 00<1 ? L .spring of retail sales, has been run- checks won’t start going out until; P^ces, aue rung only about two per cent under | after th e start of 1950. ’948’s record high at an annual rate 1 Many merchants, they said, are ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ : ♦ ♦ ♦ : ♦ : ♦ : ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ! ♦ t : MIDWAY Drive-In Theatre NEWEST AND FINEST CLINTON — JOANNA THl T R8DAY-FRIDAY DECEMBER 8-9 ON AN ISLAND WITH YOU (In Technicolory With Esther Williams and Peter I*awford SATURDAY DECEMBER 10 THUNDERHOOF Preston Foster, Mary Stuart, William Bishop 8UNDAY-MONDAY DECEMBER 11-12 THE NOOSE HANGS HIGH With Bud Abbott and Ia>u Costello TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 13-14 HIGH WALL With Robert Taylor and Audrey Totter ALSO SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS ADMISSION 40c C hildren under 12 admitted FREE Sunday Show Starts at 9 P. M. — One Show Only Other Shows Start at 7:00 — Complete Show After 10:00 SPECIAL SAVINGS! each week at s Birdsey Flour & Feed Stores Birdsey's Best Flour ~ ' '! (Dec. 8th thru 14th) 10 lbs 84 25 lbs 1.95 50 lbs. 3.80 FOUR BROTHERS FLOUR 10 lbs ... .81 25 lbs. 1.88 50 lbs 3.65 100 lbs 7.22 MONEY SAVER < FLOUR 10 lbs .73 25 lbs 1.69 50 lbs. 3.28 100 lbs 6.45 Special Discount on Barrel Lots BIRDSEY’S FEEDS • 25 Lbs. 100 Lbs. All Mash Starter 1.33 4.80 Growing Mash (Print Bags) 1.25 4.60 Laying Mash (Print Bags) 1.25 4.60 Dairy Feed 20% (Print Bags) 3.75 Pig Cr Hog Feed (Print Bags) ’ 3.95 Mascot Dog Food 1.85 6.95 Horse Feed 3.50 - -4 BIRDSEY FLOUR & FEED STORE 130 Musgrove Street — Clinton, S. C. V. P. ADAIR, Manager largely to the foreign currency devaluations of last Sep tember. The record total of retail sales set last year was $130,942,000,000 by de partment calculations, and a fairly common forecast by economists was that this year will be “almost as much—but not quite.’’ Department store sales were far ing less well than retail stores gen- jerally, with an average decline from i last year of *ix per cent to the end I of Novenrvber, and five per cent in ! the latest week reported by the Fed eral Reserve board. One reason department store sales were under the general retail level was that the latter has gotten a tre mendous lift from the record-show ing made by automobiles. , Kiwonis Gets $1,500 Check For Activities Gentle Spirolator washes more clothes cleaner 3*minute Automatic Spin-rinse double-rinses clothes brighter Whirling bosket spins clothes 25% drier than a wringer Has exclusive Built-in Water Filter, Handy Swing Faucets. It's today's b>ggest washer value I (HRISTMiS tVl DlllVlim EASY fiEEBf PORTABLE WASHER THK IDEAL "SMALL FAMILY’* GIFT! Partible Whirldry ic tmill enough for tiniest apartment ... easy to store .. * ciay to more. Use in kitchen or bathroom. Washes, rinses, dimp-dries ill in one compact tub. See itl. Iasy TIR/.iS l During impressive ceremonies at Valley Forge. Pa , recently, General i Dwight D. Eisenhower presented Ki- ! wants International with a most 'honored medal award and a check ! for $1,500 on behalf of Freedoms Foundation, Inc. The Foundation is designed as a vehicle to provide an- J nual cash awards tor American citi zens and organizations that perform .the most outstanding job each year in bringing about a better under- j standing of our American way of life. J. Belmont Moser, immediate past president of Kiwanis Interna- 1 tional, accepted the award for his organisation. Kiwanis International won the award for developing and success fully promoting the “It’s Fun to Live, in America” program, a series of j four-page pamphlets devoted to the I basic principles of our American way of Life. Designed to combat. Communism, Socialism, and other un-American ideologies, the first . pamphlet was issued in January. 1948 The pamphlets, in plain, sim ple language, set forth the common.' everyday advantages that we Amer- 1 leans enjoy under our system of government. . A new issue of “It's Fun to Live in : America" has been published each month since January, 1948. Distri- .» bution now totals over 27,000,000 j copies Business and professional ] i men are utilizing the pamphlets as inserts in payroll envelopes, state ments, laundry bundles, grocery i packages, and in many other'ways. Thousands are being distributed each month to school children ! The current "It’s Fun to Live in America" pamphlet condemns waste , in federal spending and appeals to elected representatives to support the recommendations of the Hoover j commission report. Morrison Furniture Company The Best for Less" Clinton, S. C. FREE BICYCLE! BRING THIS ADV FROM THE C HRONIC LE EACH WEEK The boy or uirl with the large-st number of ad\s deposit ed at our store will be awarded a bicvcle absolute^ FREE for Christmas. ii :: :i ii :: :: Presbyterian College 1949-50 Schedules Wrestling — Basketball i The Presbyterian college wrestlinp schedule is as follows: Team Place Jan. 7—-High Point Y. M. C._A., IClinton. * Jan. 13—The Citadel—Clinton. Jan 14.—.High Point Y. M C. A - f+Hght Point. N. C j Jan. 21—North Carolina State— Clinton. Jan. 31—Westerh Carolina Teach ers college—Cullow-hee, N C. Feb. 4—Appalachian Boone, N. C. Feb. 11—Appalachian—Clinton. Feb. 17—North Carolina State— Raleigh, N. C. Feb. 25—The Citadel—Charleston. . Feb. 28—Western Carolina Teach- ers college—Clinton. . {jj* BIG CHRISTMAS SPECIALS! Chocolate Covered CHERRIES, lb. box 49c PEC ANS, lb. 29c ENGLISH WALNUTS, lb. 29c BRAZIL NUTS, lb. 35c FRESH COCOANUTS, lb. ... 8c ORANGES, dozen 19c HOME CIRCLE FLOUR, 24 lbs. $1.45 The basketball schedule is listed as follows: “ ,Dec. 6—Monaghan Mill—Clinton. Dec. 7—Pelzer Mill—Clinton. Dec. 9—Akron, Ind. Independents Clinton. Dec. 10—Clemson—Clemson. Dec. 12—Pelzer Mill—Pelzer. Dec. 13—Piedmont Mfg. Co.— Piedmont. Dec. 15—Piedmont Mfg. Co.— Clinton.- Jan. 6—College of Charleston— Charleston. Jan. 7—The Citadel—Charleston. 13— Mercer—CJ inton 14— Furman—Clinton. 17—Catawba—Salisbury. N. Jan. Jan. Jan. Made and guaranteed by the makers of Red Band COMO TISSUE, 4 rolls ENGLISH PEAS, can CIGARS, King Edward, box In Christmas Gift package APPLES, box • CHEWING GUM, 3 for Assortment of Regular $5.00 PIPES, only MERITA FRUIT CAKES 4-lb. Cake with Cake Plate 2-lb. 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