The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, May 02, 1935, Image 2
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SCHOOL TRUSTEES
CITIZENS MASS MEETING
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taxpayer and trustee, I* am' oppos^ed^
to extrMvajri^'
tion, statf and
cial proviso which is applicable to
Ijaurens County gave the Senator
complete power in the matter of /esr-
ulating special district levies an4 the
method of handling school funds. Mr.
Kance had stated thait he had had the
special provisaon put. in in reference
to LaurenS'County leaving out the lo-
... .. . , there 'were several matters’he. wished
onomy and there i, a false
This school district, is the
te or waste in the na
county, but there is a
ecasible
eeononv
—wealthiest in ^e' county and is far
the poverty stricken condition
thht some would have you believe. As
fathers and mothers we do not want
to see how cheaply we can operate our
schools, but how efficiently, the* same
.*chobls would run and als(f made a
'positive statement that thCre would
'not‘be any -additional taxes levied
. . , ii. . • 1- j a II a I against the people, but Mr. Nance had
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the questions. (First, that the schools
wduld run for nine months, and sec
ond, that het would abolish the board.^cal board of trustees and the county|situation of -the cotton industry.
Mr. Wade at this tim^ stated' that board of education. ^
^nator Nance had stated aC"^he
meeting, addressing his rerparlcs spe
cifically.to the teachers,./that he had i sociation in New Orleans,
made provision for the-payment ofj Mr. Jacobs stated that the textile
made the positive Stat^cht‘that the the teachers^ but that the Board of industry had.always migrated from
in reference to these two questions.
Mr.' Wade^said that the' senator had
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tai^/dlub Moqday, Rotarian W. P. Ja
cobs made an address on the preseht
In
this talk he used sdme of the facts
which;he had presented bn ApriL:_26
to the ^American ^Cotton dippers’ asr
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lan iq March, 1935. Legislative!cobs will present tbe problems of the
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policies which malte it iinprbfitable
for industries to continue are policies
which ’^ill ultimately work to the dis
advantage of agriculture, the consum
er,himself, and make it Impossible for
the government to secure adequate
revenues for the legitimate expenses
cotton industry before.,a cabinet com
mittee appointed by {^resident Roose
velt to study the textile problems.
The committee consists, lof Secretaries m.
Wallace, Ickes, Rerkins and Roper.
of government.
On Thursday of this week Mr. Ja-
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Trustee.s hud misiapplied the funds, re.striction to freedom, from. limited
of saccessful buxine,. Are w« expected to provide fund, to carry
to economize to the point that we be-l , ,
come little and stinity at the expend W „ .........
Senator Nance Propoees To Cut-,the
Negro School Term To 6 Montiha
Mr. Nance answered Mr. Wade’s
question as to how' he proposed to
provide funds to run the school for
the full nine months by cutting doi^
the negro schools to six months. Mr.
Wade said that Mr. Nance had assured
the teachers that they would be paid,
but did not state, when or how much
they would be paid. Mr. Nance
failed to give any answer to this
question.
Popiaf ^p^Tnis : . ::f:25 rhms j As^*Mr.H^^ade began-speakmgf
Hickory Tavern 24Vii mills!Senator Nance and Representative
Ixanford ' 24Vi mills (Witherspoon interrupt^ with ques-
Mr. Harris explained the expense tions but he called to their attention
enlarging Academy Street school 1 that he had the floor and that he did
which had been attacked by Senator!not care to be interrupted with ques-
Nance. He said that the board was'tion.s until after he had finished what
unable to get .skilled labor from the he had to say and that after he had
R.F.C. a.s luid l>een.,promi.scd, and this
made it noce?iary to hire skilled la-, .
bor to compjlete the 1/uilding and get wi.sne^l to. ask.- When Mr. Wade fin-
it rea<ly for occupancy last Septem-1 i^hinl his talk he asked \vhether or not
of the training and development of
our children?
In conclusion, he asked why the tax
reduction has centered on Cross Hill
and Hunter townships. For your in
formation, he said, I want to give you
the mills for the county districts:
Cross Hill f. 17* mills*
Clinton i .... 17V4 mills
Mountville 21 mills
Laurens 20 mills
Gray Court ... 24 mills
Fountain Inn .... 24 mills
in
using them for other purposes than
for what they were appropriated and
that was the reason that the school
was without funds. Mr. Wade called
NEW GOODS at
environment to fields of greater op
portunity. He sketched the rise of the
textile industry in England, its mi
gration to New England, and the in-
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attention to the fact that the only crea^ taxation, restrictive legisla-
funds used for any purpose other than
the current operating expenses of
the school was some $3800.00 that h«d
been used out of the general'funds for
the purpose of completing the addi
tions to the Ac^emy Street school.
Mr. Wade stated that the general
funds were not ear-marked for any
specific purpose but were left with
the discretion of the Board of Trus
tees and that the Trustees had the
authority to spend the fund in any
manner they saw fit so long as it^as
for the school and that he felt that
the completion of the school rooms at
.«^hool purposes. At this point Mr.
Wade said that he thought the only
quarrel Mr. Nance had with the Board
of Trustees was the fact that they had
not specifically souglit his permission
to use the funds for the completion of
Academy Street school and this seems
tion and labor troubles which caused
the industry to turn to the ^uth.
As the industry-prospered in New
England taxes were steadily increased
to a high pinnacle of 75c a^ spindle.
Then, as mills closed, thir legislators
reduced the tax load in New England
to an average of 49c a^ spindle in 1933.
In South Carolina the tax per spindle
reached a peak of 75c in 1930 and was
still at 65c in 1933.
In the pertod, 1925 to 1934, there
was an 18 per cent decrease in the
spindles in the United States. In the
same period Germany, India, Italy,
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NEW WASH PANTS
FOR MEN AND YOUNG MEN ‘
98c to $2.95
NEW DRESS PANTS
FOR MEN AND YOUNG MEN
$2.95 to $4.95
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Academy “51 reeL-was certainTy foryBrazTI, China “and Japan ' incr^sed
per cent to
finished he w'oukl* be glad to answer have seriously offended the feel-
any (jue.stions that either of them
their spindles from 6.4
74.1 per cent. We have reduced our
cotton crop 43 per cent in three years,
while India has increased her pro
duction 8 per cent, Egypt 22 per cent,
and..Rrazil 68 per cent.
The recent restrictive policies in the
United State.s, its" processing tax and.
NEW WHITE OXFORDS
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$1.98 to $2.95
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ings of the Senator. He said that he j government rej^lation meanihat wei^
thought thal the .schools belong to j are .stepping aside voluntarily and per-! ~
the fK'ople of Hunter School Uistrict
and the tax.es which provided the
her. We had two months of rainy [there were any (juestions any one
weather, he : ai<l, our building was wanted to ask, but neither .Mr. With-* for the school were paid by the
lorn oixm and being exposed, and, ei'^poon nor Mr. Nance came forward | district and he asked:
TuinedTTmd the expemlllUre \vas mad^'Jwith any questions. '
.Senator Nance Passes Law Giving
Him Large Powers
Mr. Wade called ;5pecific attention
to the law under which the schools
are oimratlng. Senator Nance had
made the statement that the present
law which was enacted in 1933 by the
General Assembly was a Statewide
law. Mr. Wade said that this law was
Statewide in its G(*neral terms, but
bad p . , cc.al proviso as to I.auren.s
solely to i)roti*ct the property, to,
provide school accommodations for
the^chiblren of the Clinton Cotton
Mills who attend this school, and to
relieve over-crowded conditions at the
P'lorida Slre^d school. I btdieve, he
said,^ that any other .sensible group of
men under the circumstances would
have acted pret’i.sely as the l)oard di3.
R. W. Wade, local attorney,, in ad-*
dressing the meetjng, stated that the
question before the people'was wheth-jt'ounty and thirteen pther Counties
er or not proviisions would be madc.a'hd was so peculiarly worded that-it
to continue the .school for the full nine, placed absolute and. complete control
months and whether or not provision as to the handling of .school matter.s
would be made to pay teachers. He in the hands of the Senator. He stat-
.stated that Senator . Nance had an- ed that Uuv Act in*tta general terms
.‘••werefl this first question, as the sen- as a Statewide measure left the mat-
ator had stated that the .'•'chools would tor of levies for school purposes in
be run for the full nine months and the hands of the local trustees, the
that ho would make provisions for U,
However, another iiuostion had been
injecte<l into the minding by Senator
Nance, and that was the mlatter as to
Senator and County Delegation and
the Coqnty Board of Education, and
it provided for the reduction of any
special levies as might be deemed
tne board of trustees, Senator Nance i advisable by the local Board of Trus-
having Stated that it was his purpose tees and-the County Board of. Elduca-
tp abolish the present board and sub-, tion,-and by^JJie Senator^ and half of
Mr.
stitute another board in its place
W’ade stated that Senator Nance had
given a positive answ'er to both of
the members of the Huose of Repre-
.sentatives of the respective Counties.
But the peculiar wording of the spe-
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"I would Ijke to know when it be
came neces.sary for the pt*ople of the
district to get special permission from
►Senator Nance to spend their own
money for their own school and for
their own children,”
Senator Nance Says He will Ap
point New Board
When Mr. Nance had the floor he
said that he had put the prc.sent
Board of Trustees in office and that
he would puL-ihem out as soon as
he returned to Columbia ,and would
appoint a board that would do what he
told them to do. ( _
Mr. Wade in replying to thi.s state
ment'smd ‘‘that any man who would
accept an appointfhent as Trustee
rnitting an ever-alert competitive |,
world to prosper at our expense.*
vSince August, 1934, seventy-one mills,
envploying 29,845 persons, have closed
their doors and have not since re-j
op**ned. There were.33,000 more-em-i
ployws in the cotton millp in. March,
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NEW DRESS SHIRTS
79c to $1.49
NEW SPRING HOSIERY
IN ALL NEW SHADES-
49c to 79c
that .Senator Nance had faithfully en
deavored to serve the interests of the
county and his sincerity should not be
doubted. . i .
I Members of the I house delegation,
Phil D. Huff, S. J.’Hunt and J. D.
Witherspoon were present upon invi
tation. Mr. Witherspoon asked sev
eral questions during the meeting,
seeking information he said, while
Messrs; Ilyff and Hunt did not ex
press themselves or take any part in
the meeting.
NEW STRAW HATS
FOR MEN
98c to $L98
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19c to 49c
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under the conditions as stated by Mr.
Nance, would not have the backbone!
to act as a trustee. , I
Mr. Wade Replies To Representative {
~ Witherspoon
Repre.sentative Witherspoon had
made inquiry from* B. H. Boyd. Chair-
^man of the Board of Trustees as to
the amount of bonds outstandii^
against the school district. Mr. Boyd
stated that there had at one time been
a total of $141,000 bonds oustanding
against the district'hut $41,500 of ihis
amount had matured and had been re
tired, leaving $99,500 in bonds out
standing and that the sinking fund*
had approximately $25,000 accumula
tions, leaving a net imiobtedness of
approximately $75,000.00. Mr. With-j
erspoon staUnl that this was only ap
proximately one half of the amount!
of bonds at one time outstanding and !
he did not see any-'reason why one
half of the taxes for bond purposes
-would not be sufficient to meet the
bond requirements.
In replying to this Mr. Wade stated
I that Mr. Witherspoon knew nothing
about bonds nor how to calculate ...the
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That Jack Anderson has
Rone out of the automobile
repair business and that
Anderson’s Garage is now
beinR operated by Dennis
Sowers and Andrew John
son as—
Sowers Garage
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LADIES^ HATS
NEW SHIPMENT
98c to $2.95
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LADIES^ WASH DRESSES
NEW SHIPMENT
98c to $1.98
LADIES? NEW SILK DRESSES
$2.95 to $5,95
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FRESH PORK RIBS, lb 20c
GOOSE LIVER, lb . r '45c
DRIED CHIPPED BEEF, lb. .- .45c
FRESH COOKED J’EELED SHRIMP, lb .r. ‘ 40c
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amount necessary for bond retire
ments. Mr. Wade stated that part of|
the bonds were term bonds and part'
were serial bonds. The amount neees- j
sary to provide sinking fund for thej
retirement of term bonds remain con-!
stant until the term expired. That
in the case of serial bonds the amount
necessary to retire the principal re
mains constant until the whole series
was retired.
At this time Mr. Wade addressing
his remarks direct to Representative
Witherspoon said “I would suggest
that you' go over to the high school
and get some boy or girl, not one of
the recent contest- winners, ¥ut just
any girl or boy, to give you some les
sons in arithmetic and show you how
to calculate the interest and sinking
fund on a bond issue.”
Mr. Wade asked which would
you rather have, your schools run by
yourselves through your local Boani
of Trustees or by politician^ ? Would
you rather have your schools under
the management of Mr. Donnan With
erspoon, who does not know how • to
calculate interest; or by his brother,
Mr. Harvey Witherspoon, a compe
tent educator?”
After Mr. Waile
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Witherspoon, superintendent of the
schools, took the floor and gave a re
sume of the development • of the
schools under his administration du
ring the.past fifteen years. He took
Senator- Nance, to-whom he referred
to as his “Cousin Carroll Nance,”
and his brother Doniian Witherspoon,
sharply to task for their position and
dictatorial attitude in regard to the
schools. •
At the conclusion of Mr.** Wither
spoon’s talk a motion was made that
the meeting give the BoarfI of Trus
tees a rising vote of conf^ence and
appreciation. When the m’btion was
put the orerwhelnung majority of
those present-stood. When the neg
ative aide of the motion was put no
one rtood.
Just before the meeting adjourned
J. F. Jacobs came forward and stated
that he had been ask^ by Senator
NaRce to say a few woz^ He stAted
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