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!mE CLWTON CBRONlCtE, CUNTON. S. C.
Kue Stbckings To
Play WakeForest
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ERAL ROAD FUNDSfOR S. C.
NOW DNDER QUESTION MARK
Blue 7 Stockingrs face' on next
Saturday the Wake Forest Demo
Deacons, their most formidable ^Carolina hijfhw^ay department
«nt of the laat part of their today raised a question of the state's
Washinffton, Oct. 29.—Governor 01in|.tanburg', S.
Johnston’s military^control of
C., was "following devel-
After resting last week-end, the Hose sharing in federal aid road
should be in good shape to meet the fu^ds.
North Carolinians, with Captain Bill] Although L. E. ^ykin, federal roads
Home''tn tne uneup again. .bureau general counsel, said any sUte-
. Several” irljuries have cropped out ment at this time with^ regard to the
among the Hose first and second- Palmetto co&p would be “premature,”
string men, - but it is thought that he recalled that federal funds were
practically all of them will be able to!withheld for a longue from Georgia
take the field against the .Deacons.|where Governor Eugene Talmadge had
Roy Forehand has an injured shoulder,jnrilitia seize control of that states
and Alfred Plowden is suffering with highway department,
a twisted ankle. Johnny Hutchinson,! Boyjcin said the sending of federal
Moorfield formerly was chief, high
way ^engineer for the South Caroling
highway department. r •
Involved was |6,633,612 of the $7,-
454,864 allocated to the state under
the works relief program and the reg
ular federal highway aid program.
Of the $5;761,968 in works
THtUSDAY. OCTOBER 31, 193&
'XAND SALE
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Amid noises of riveted carpenters
and what notl remodeling'a building
on Broadway iip-tne fifties, two pig-
relief eons, too young to fly, were fOund on
substitute center, who has shov^ up;ai<i funds into states depended upon
federal roads hu
so well in the last two games, is fiav-j recognition by the
ing trouble ^th his back again. Prob- reau of existence within them of high-
ably all of these will be’in shape by way departments conforming to state
the time the Wake Forest game, rolls laws and with adequate power to han-jno action. /
ATvinn/) K/tur«vAr. with the nossible ex- die the work. | At present t
“As to South. Carolina,” he
oor,
funds apportioned' to the -state fori the .secon
grade-crossing elintination and high- a motl^ pigeon sitting on two eggs
way construciton, on]y_1821,252 so far' Gre^itconferences betw.een bosses and
has been obligated.^ None of the $l,-j^rkmen —and they decided to let
6^,896 m federal aid funds alloted tljj^hem stay for two months—when the
state has been obligated. S.P.C.A. will come in if they haven’t
Boykin, who discus.sed the<^uth|left of their own accord.
Ca^lina sittiation in the absence of
The State of South CaroJi^,
County of Laurenst'
In court of Conrmori Pleas. *
The Federal Land-Bank o£iColumbia,
Plaintiff, ' * r,
vs. . ■ r. • ’'
Bluford Henderspn Henry, et al,
Defendants, . ~
. Pursuant to' a Decree of the Court
iq thefabovd stated case, I will sell at
public outcry tcT the highest bidder,
either jn or m ^ront.pf the Court
j House, at Laurens C. H., S. C., on
and on another nest, i November next, being
Monday, the 4th day of the month,
during the legal hoUrs for'such sales,
the following described property, to
wit: ^
pear iy plat of^ same, bein^ a subdi
vision plat of the C. M. Ferguson es
tate, made September 11th, 1904, by
Paul H. Nash, Surveyor. ITh^s is/the
identical tract ^of land conveyed to"
William'J. Henry Sr., by John Fergu
son as Executor of the estate of C. M.
Ferguson, deceased, fan the 4th day ol
November, 1904, by his deed duly, re
corded in the office of. the (Jllerk of the
Court for ^Laurens Xkiunty in Deed
Book 13, at page 252.
A plat of said land is duly recorded
in the office of the Clerk of the Court
for Laurens County, in Plat Book 3, at
page 16,
Terms of Saje: Cash. The successful
bidder, other than the Plaintiff herein,
immediately upon the conclusion of thp
bidding^ shall deposit with the Clerk
All that tract, piece or parcel of '°^ deposit of five (S'Tc)
Thomas H. Macdonald^^JFederal roads
bureau chief, made it-Olear the federal
agency so far has^considered qr taken
around, however, with the possible ex
oeption of Forehand.
pre^nt the
said, riocal,” he^aid. "•
trouble is' purely
The Blue Hose varsity, with only a “we will Jiave to satisfy^ ourselves as
few starting players out of the lineup,
oppbsed the Chunks Friday in a regu
lar 6Q-minute game, the third string
nien using Wake Forest plays. The
Hunkies used the Deacon’s deceptive
aystem with good effect, coming out
ahead to the tune of 14 to 12.
The varsity scored once after a short
drive down the field, when Jeff "Bo
land carried the*ball over, and andth-
time when' Boland made a touch
er
down on 4 pass. The third stringers
also made^’one touchdown on a pass,
Degner to Montague Jacobs, and tem
porarily had thd lead at 7-6. iTT^e
last minute of the gamo. the Bohjabks
recovered a lateral fumbled by/Boland
on the' varsity four-yard^ine. After
one play had lost 15 yards, Degner
faded back to pass Rnd, not finding a
receiver, went amuml end for a touch
down. After tfae point was kicked, the
game ende^Lw’ith the Bohunk.s in the
lead.
Tfae^regulars .seemed a bit off form
irKtheir game with the Bohunks Fri-
''ilay, but several more days of practice
should make them much better on de
fense against Wake Forest plays.
Three or four of the men who probably
will start against the Deacons were
not in the scrimmage, a fact which ac
counts for their poor showing.
to what has transpired and reach our
own conclusion as to the effect. • Jfn
“The effect naturally must be cjjm at
sidered from the standpoint o
era! requirements.”
Boykin said the federa^agency so
far liad received no official report as
to conditions in -Squtn Carolina, but
arles H. Moorfield,
that he assumed
in charge of a regional office at Spar-
ave no official information as
to,What has transpired in South Caro-
na, and anything that can.be said
this point would be a little prema
ture.”
Withholding of federal, funds from
the state would depend upon any ac
tion Macdonald and Secretary Wal
lace, whose agriculture department
controls the roads bureau, might de
cide to take.
Forty-first street and Broadway
seems to be the favorite hang-out for
the racing touts. Big cars packed to
capacity make their start from the
land, containing two hundred one andiP**’ centum of the bid as a guarantee
28-100 (201.28) acres, more or less, ly-i®^ good faith in the bidding. The
ing, being and situate in JackaTown- ^ applied to the purcha.se
ship, in the CountyV Laurens, in the IP"®® “P®" complying with the
Sta^of South Carolina, located on thelj^™* 8ale,_otherwise to be paid to
Publi^-Road leading from Clinton to ^ indebted-
neighborhood foi; the race ^tracks every
day during the season, leaving streams
of cigar smoke in their wakes.
7h^Xwfqfthe
on^tttlio
•ky Caub Johnson
A friend, noted for his absent-
mindedness, leaned the stepladder
again.st the front door while reaching
for the hall-light globe for cleaning.
Just as he had the last thumb screw
loo.se, and holding the globe in mid
air, the door bell rang and he respond
ed, “Come jn.”
the Gle^n Brick House, about five and "®*®- >*'® ®'^®"^ ^ successful bid
der should fail to make such deposit,
or should'' fail to comply with the
terms of sale, the said lands shall be
re-sold on the sdme or some subse-
A gracious lady of the old.school,
doing her be.st to keep up with the
times, was asked by her modern
daughter whether she had cocktails atjes and
an afternoon party. She shook her
white locks ever so slightly as she re
plied, “No, but we had something they
call .Manhattans.”-
one-half ^(5H) mihes northeast of the
City of Cu^on, on^ the waters of Dun
can Creek, V>unded on the North 'by
Duncan’s Creek, an<) the Hunter lands,
and the Byrd lands, on the east by
lands of G. A. Copeland, on the south
by lands of Tom Pillard’s estate, and
lands of the estate.of William Phip-
ney, tract No.' 1 of\^e C. M. Fergu
son estate, on the we^t by lands of,
Robfh Adair’s estate, being tract No. 3 I
of the C. M. Ferguson e^te and also!
by the Hunter lands. Said tract of
land is known as the Potter tract, or
tract No. 2 of the C. M. Ferguson es
tate, and has such .shapes, metes, cours-
bounds as will more full
quent Salesday on the same terms, at
risk of the defaulting purchaser.
The purchaser to pay for papers,
stamps and recording.
THOS. W. BENNETT,
C. C. C. P. & G. S.
Dated October 16, 1935*—31-3tcb.
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WOOL TIE^
A lA)rd Baltimore for F’all—
Only 50c.
L. B. DILLARD
THE WEST INITIATES MORE
AMENDMENTS
The two-party political syster* un
der which the nation ha<l grown fioin
its carlie.st days was threateneu in I that upon congressional au
1892, wh^n.^the so-called Populist (thority. Only 21 of the 48 states have
movement, originating in the wheat
the supreme court held that this was
an invasion of the rights of the states
and therefore beyond the power of
congre.4B.. .The 68th congress, in 1924,
submitted an amendment \
‘ And the same good lady appeared
in the pantry holding a bag and a
bottle on a recent holiday. Very much
concerned about gaiety, she addressed
removing,her son-in-law, “Gin and oranges. It’s
growing states, swept the Western
country and parts *of the South, This
new People’s party elected mar.v mem
bers of congress, and its canduiate for
Several new men who have teen do- pr^^'^ident. General James R \\eav.*r,
■ - received 22 electoral, votes. This had a
profound effect upon the Gonsttiution
of the United States, for the demands
for Constitutional changes,-maJe by
HO large a group of voters, could not
be ignored.
One'of those demands was the in
come tax,, which, as has been pointed
as yet ratified the child labor amend
ment, which must be ratified by. 36
states before it becomes a part of the
Constitution. \
..all we have in the hou.se.* Is there any
kind of a d<;ink you can make out of
that?” ' - .
ing well in recent pi::actices and the
last two games may start the game
in North Carolina Saturday. Hipp has
been doing well at tackle and seems
to be getting ahead in the race for a
regular place on the right side of the
line. Glenn Beeman, one of the scrap
piest guards who even went to P. C.,
may show up on the field when thej®^*’ later adopted,
whistle blows at Wake Forest in view I Another demand of the People s
of his performance against MerCer and'® change in the Consti-
in Bcrimrfiages last week.. T^hen Bill l^^tional metho<l of electing United
Degner, a clever runner off-tackle and^^^®''” senators; they should be chosen
through a broken field, also has shown
Local Lions Go To
Batesburg Tonight
Merpbers of the Clinton Lions club
will 'go to Batesburg tonight for a
district meeting of Lions clubs, with
the Batesburg-Leesville club a# host.
The members will gather at the. Caro
lina Service station at 5:30 and will
make the trip by bus. The program
and dinner will tegin at 7:30. Robert
S. OA^ens, of the local club, is chair-
New Yonk sophisticates are insist
ing, these days, that their cocktails be
.nerved in heavy, thick stemmed glass
es to keep the drinks cooj, and in size
sufficient for about twice the amount
of liquqjr ever put in them—to prevent
them slopping over.
great improvement after an early .sea-
flon handicap of a bad leg. He has
shown that he deserves to .ste muchly®*" l‘ttle of the tradition of state
the
service from now on. \ independence which prevailed in
As for the Wake Forest team, Jim'®!^®*’ They'-were creatures of the
Weaver, the Deacon mentor, has al^^eral government, with no ■previous
strong team ready for the Calvinists, exi.stence. To the i>eople
First of all, there is Kitchin, who is,®^ there was nothing espec-
field general for the Baptists, and is original plan of the
understood to be about as goo<l as any'which rt^garded the state
quarterback in the South. The Dea-^®''®»'®"'®®t«- ®-‘’ rep^'t-stmted in their
^ _ ... .man of organizations in .
by direct popular vote instead of by Qoorge Bell Timmerman, a member of
state legislatures. The new states thatjthe Batesburg-I^eesville club, is gover-
had been carved out of the public do-, orihe South Carolina Lions dis
trict. '
Other clubs
Gome out of a Manhattan office
building after working all afternoon,
and rain is a surprise—because tell
buildings frequently hide the skies,
and it’s rare to .see the rain very clear
ly in a small alley-way between build
ings. ‘ , '
It is reported that at the moment
this group^^l*®*’® ft*"® about two thousand scripts
of plays on Manhattan producers’
desk.s—and some, only some, will be
produced!
in the group, in addi
tion to Clinton 'and Batesburg-Lees-
ville, are Newberiy and the newly or
ganized unit at Laurens. '
cons have a heavy and fast line, somehow superior to
that Clem.son and Furman found al-1^^® P®opIe. The We.st had no especial •
most impossible to penetrate. Their i'’®'^®*®"®® f®® O"’® leKislatures; its
Clinton High
Publishes Paper
“IVpartraent .of Hospitals —- Mortu
ary Department.” That’s the sign on
an official looking New York city
truck. And at the wheel, the gauntest,
most death-like head I’ve seen in
years.
T
NOTICE
FOR PAYMENT OF Cin TAXES
^rkTaji
ab^ 1
ye^
Notice is hereby given that TowrKTaxes for the Town
of Clinton will be due and collectabre between October
ist and November 15th, for the year 1935. The Tax
Books will be opened for the collectionVof taxes at the
office of the Town Clerk on October 1m, and will re
main operi each jlay thereafter, Sunday ex^cepted, up to
and through November 15th. —
A i^nalty of ten (Kljuper cent will accrue on all taxes
not paid on or before Friday, November 15th, which pen
alty will be in force through Tuesday* Deceml^r 31st,
after which an additional five (5) per cent will Accrue.
The levy for current fiscal year is thirty-seven (37)
’mills; twelve (12) mills for current operating exposes
and twQnty-five (25) mills for interest and sinking^nd
on various Bond Issues outstanding.
The foregoing notice is given pursuant to Ordinance
passed by the Town Council.
D. C. HEUSTESS,
- Town Clerk.
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backfield is good all the way around,' P®ople were mainly farmers, with all
'and Kitchin. the afoi-ementioned quar. farmer tradition of personal lih-
ter, throws passes with deadly accu
racy.
The line-up for P. C. probably will
be as follows: le, Bradley; It, Prather;!
Ig, Cori-ell;
Beeman; rt, Hipp; re,
Waldrep; .qb, VVilbanks
rh, Jacobs; fb, Holliday.
erty and "rugged individualism.”
Another of the demands made by
the People’s party for a Constitutional
change was equal suffrage rights for
c, Horne; rg, Plowden ori
The first issue of “The S<*ntinel,” a
six-jmge news|vaper in mimeographed
form, publishe<l by the student body
'of the local high .school, made its ap-
l>earance during the past week. It was
produced in the commeixial depart
ment trf the' sebont and wHl appear
Foivhand ori
The Democratic party, in 1896, cap-, once a month, the foieword stetejs
Ih,
Higte-' the People’s party by adopting
’•j most of its tenets. These, therefore,
became partisan political issues, so it
\ [was not until the IVmocratic party
PIXiK!, C«PllVp I had obtained control of congress that
these People’s party amendments to
the Constitution could be submitted to
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the states for ratification. Like the in
come tax amendment, it took 20 year.s
and more of public discussion tp bring
about the 17th amendment, for direct
election of senators, \Chich was rati
fied in 1913.
The 19th amendment, giving nation
wide suffrage to women, was ratified
in 1920. Prior to 1920 women had been
I granted the right to vote in 22 states,
[beginning with Wyoming. This was
anorther great popular movement j
which, like prohibition, had its origin
in the East but it.s .strength in the
-West.
When the Unked States entered the
World war the majority of the states
had already voted them.selves dry. As
a war-time emergency measure con
gress enacted a temporary national
prohibition act. The opportunity was
! seized upon for the submission of a
I Constitutional amendment for the per-
' petuation of national prohibition. 'ITiis,
The edition contains editorials,
.school news, jokes, .sports, items about
former graduates,., and a number of
local advertisements.
The paper is headed by the follow
ing staff: I ’ j;
E<litor-in-chief—Bill Wade.
Assistant Editor—Adelaide jloterts.
News Editor—Frances Boukpight.
Sports IMitor—Mbrion Chaney.
Columnist—Carroll Barnes.
Business Manager—Billy Pitts.
Chainber Spoi^rs^
Loyalty Campaign
Beginning thi.s week, the Chamber
of Cojumerqe is sjwnsoring an educaj
tional cami>aign wh4eh has as its pur
pose the arousing of a 4Ci'eater civic
loyalty in the community and support
of home enterprises.
A series of attractive slides present-;
ing the idea are appearing weekly at
Broadway theatre. A similar cartoon
beginning today will appear in this
paper regularly. The campaign is made
possible without cost to the Chamber
.Mayor LaGuardia’s campaign against
noise in the city started October fir^^.
No auto horns in the city after eleven!
p. m.—and tickets if you’re caught.
There’s hope and a goo<l deal of skep
ticism about the anti-noise campaign,
and in lime the commission hopes to
get around to the biggest noise-mak
ers— the elevated trains and trolley j
cara..._ — — |'
We Drivers
A StritM of BrUf DucusAoiu on Driving, DodU
c^od to tho ^f«ty. Comfort and PIoomuto
of tha Motoring Public. Prepartd
by General Motore
No. 1—CURVES AND TURNS
matteb how expert we may be at drivers, we are all ipt to fall into
Gray
Funeral Home
• Clinton, S." C.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
and
EMBALMERS
Ambulance Service
Phones 41 399-J
U RUSSELL GRAY and
V. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. Mffrt.
habita of driving that don’t quite measure up to what we really knOw is
right
Tor inatimoe. we all Jmow that we ought to be careful about paaaing
cara. especially when another car ia approaching from the opposite direction.
And yet there poisibly isn’t one of ua
who haanH; at one timeor aBOther. moved
over in the road to pass a car, and then
wondered if we would get around in time.
Now here’s an interesting thing about
that 'When we try to pass a car that’a
going forty miles an hour, it’s Just the
same as if we tried to pass a standing
string of ears 126 feet long. In other aQorda,
it’s like passing eight cara parked bumper-
to-bum^ in the road. It wa tsT to paaa
one going sixty, it’s lika trying to pass a
Una of more than sixteen para standing in
tha road, and sixteen cars in a row will raadx half a blodi^tnils is probably
a new idea to most of us. If wa kept it in mind, wa wow nevei
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of Commerce through the courtesy of
the 18th amendment, wa.s ratified m |The Broadway and The Chronicle man-
January, 1919. After 14 years of un-jagemente.
8uccess|!ul efforts to enforce prohibi-.
tion, this 18th amendment was repeal
ed by the^lst amendment, ratified in
lis^
1933. This ^ the only instance of
a!
•e-
Con8titutional\amendment being
pealed by another amendment. |
1 It ha.8 been pointy out that supr-eme 1
■court decisions have rarely I'esulted i
j directly or indirectly nn amendments
I to the Constitution. One iMipreme court
j decision, however, holding a law of
I congress unconstitutional, brought
j about the submission of an amendment
which has been awaiting ratification
for 11 years. It would prohibit inter-
' state commerce in the products of
child labor.
The 66th congress enacted a law
which was intended to prevent the ex
ploitation of children in industry, but
provisiobk became effective
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navar pan a car
unlaaa wa wara aura that thara wara no oneoming^cara for a good long
diatanca abaad. _
But turning aaida to paaa ia not the particulu' kind of tnmliig that wa
ara interaatad in discussing here. Wtet we ara now
concerned with is taking curves and cqrders. From
time to time In these discussions we^Will find that
Um same old laws of Nature will heibivolved. Fore
most among them will be the law* of momentum, and
momentum xdays the major in going around
curves. Because momenti^ 'not only wants to keep
us going but going in the same direction. When it |s
g^>-^traight instead of curving our
trying to make us
course, it operatea'vmder an assumed namerif you
please. For thoxdm call it '^centrifugal force.”
Now. of WflLiU Imow what centrifugal force
is. We fe^ it when we go around aurves. Highways
and rgStoads are banked at ciu-vea to offset centrifu-
gal^tjuee. Aviators bank their planet at turns by tip
ping them with the controls. But even though we all know about centrifugal
'force, few of us realize how powerful it isy and bow much greater it gets the
faster we go.
A 3000-pound car making g turn of SOO-foot radius, has to ovart>ntna •
centrifugal force of only about 156 pounds at 20 mUes an hour. But at 90 milaa
an hour, that forea has grown to 360 pomxds, and at
60 it is nine times as great as at 90 ... over fourtaan
hundred pounds trying its best to puA us (df dm
roadi Tha only thing ttet kaepa us on the road in the
flrst place is the trictioa between our tires and the
road. The minute tha centrifugal force giRs stronger
than tha force of that Metion. off tha road wa go.
Tha trouble ia that wa often don't roaliaa how fut
we’re going. On road trips, for Instanca, after wa
havt driven at a oartaia apdad for a lo^ thna, it
seems a small matter to incraasa our upasd a few
mUea an hour. Then gftat a whfla wa aiay do the
aama thing agalm Is odwr words, wa hasp putting
forward our basis hC comparison till by-and-by wa
hava loat our usual nnse of how fM wa ara going.
Than, tha first thing wa laow, wa ara. foca-to-faca
adth a tura or evan half aray around It and wa lad OW Centrifugal
Force trying to posh us off tha road. ‘I
So what do we do? Wa damp down foe brakaa'I^s the only thing wa
m Sira aarKMi awim - a. m a a.. «
- — increase speed as wa go
arottid a cuw. As long as our rear wheels are not being retarded, but ara
adtt^y push^ us around the curve, our steering is effoctiva and our Sr
Is tmiisr controL i ,
J The long and diort of it is that we cant take liberties with the Igws of
ro^ntim Md centrifugal force. laws may not always bai
observed, but Nature’s speed UwB always aref ways oai
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