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■; ■/ / ^ ^ THB CHRONICLB StrlTM IVi B« a Clmm Nawa- paper, Ctwpleta, Nawaf, ulbf Olltnton Qllfrnttirlf If Toa OoaH THE CHRONICLB Too DoaH Gat Tha Nawa. VOLUME XXXVIII CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1938 NUMBER 28 cmr SCHOOLS FACULH GIVEN Six Changes Made in the Staff For Coming Year. Monts ' Named Superintendent For Fourth Year. Session To Open Early In September. Thinks Sales Tax To Be Proposed County Considers • Farmers Of State Spending Program To Get $7,000,000 PWA Opens The Floodgates Wide Tm'o Lawmakers See It Coming At Next .Session of '^General Assembly. Columbia, July 11.—Two lawmakers predicted today South Caiolina’s gen- I f Plan Approved $545,000 Would Be Spent For Road Im provements, Remodeling'Court House and County Home. This Amount To Be Paid In Sub sidies. Quicker Payment Pro vided By Senator Smith Than Originally Planned. Lending-Spending Campaign To Prime Pump Starts With Pro ject For Transmission Lines. TWO HIGHWAYS TO BE SURFACED Wa.<»hington, July 12.—The Agi icul- Laurens, July 10. — The Laurens, „ eral assembly would consider a STcn-1 ]e{|risiative delegation and the board tural Adjustment administration has • j 1 * sales tax at its next session to, county commissioners, headed by set in motion the machinery which ^ ^e revised faculty for the Clinton|provide revenue to meet a deficit. jthe county supei^nsor, are promoting will distribute $130,000,000 over the, city 8ch<»ls for the 1938-39 session j m. Ward, of Georgetown, veteran j an ambitious program that tentative- cotton belt as subsidies to farmers on, open^ m September, has been com-j chairman of the senate finance com- ly calls for the expenditure of $545,- their 1937 pix>duction. Between seven i ^etfed. and was announcM yesterday {^ittee, said additional funds would j 000 for roa<i improvements, several and eight million dollars of this fund; for the tiret time by the board of 5c needed next year, adding “I am, additional thousands for extensive is expected to reach the ^KK'kets of| CTUSt^. The schools are headed for, satisfied we will have to get the reve- repairs on the court house and the'South Carolina cotton farmers. i taie fourth year by W. E. Monts asjnue from ymewhere and I think the erection of a large sized dining halL Subsidy-aWHcatitm blanks have I sales tax will be brie ibirvg sug-jand kitchen at the county home and ready beeh prepared and soon they I Six changes have been made in thejgested.” corps of teachers. Members of last Removal I farm near the city. j ^.j] 5^ sent to the various cotton eoun- of the entire five-mill I The road program, which would be ties for distribution. To .swuw the years staff who will not be members property le\T and the approximately,' financed .through a .PWA loan and subsidy, which will range from two to $1,000,000 increase in appropriations | grant if application gets approval, I three cents a pound, the grower must contemplates the construction of 100|p].o^y^^ cotton sale receipts. In miles, 84 of which would be new grad- the application- he must certify that of the faculty the coming year are: £. B. Barrett and Miss Sarah Ken- nerty of the high school, Miss Celia Lathner of Florida Street school, Mrs. for the welfare department. Ward said, would cause a deficit, the tothl jof which he declined to estimate. L. B. Dillard and Mrs. B. B. Ballard i - Both he and Representative C. W. of Academy Street achoof, and Mrs. I Derrick, cf Marion, pointed out the Etifene Johnson of Providence (Ly- welfare department’s two years of dia) school. The above vacancies will be filled operations had been financed largely by the f<rflowing: Mire Laura Lynch of Brunrwick, Ga., MIm Jessie Newby of Hertford, N. C., Miss Caroline Lane out of aurpluses. Derrick, who is not seeking reelec- tkm, explained that the past two state appropriation bills would have been of Newberry, Miss Elisabeth Brooks! in line with recent ones except for the of Athens, Ga.', Miss Beatrice Heron * welfare department ed, top soiled and surface-treated he has not knowingly overpH nted' his roads and 16 miles of previously grad- 1938 acreage allotment under the new ed and top soiled. aAA program. P«limin^ l«n .p- p, ^ to plications have been prepared by a to . 1 PWA engineer The aver^ cost ner difference between 12 cents and •1 • T* ...1 ♦ market average price on the mile 18 placed at $5,450, of which the . A* r j j • . ij -ten 1 A\. I date of sale of cotton produced in county would pay $1,750, plus the use • j ' . 11937 was authorized in an amendment of certain equipment and engineering; r, . ct « . . TT J # It ,rl which Senator James F. Byrnes had costs. Under the terms of the appli-i i • .. „ * ^ .V attached to the deficiency appropn- cation, all or any part of the program I . .. ^ ... . . ation bill last summer. At the time of Jenkinsville, and Miss Evalyn Mc-| “If any additional tax Ls added,” he can be carried out over a period of*. j . 1 -j CnuT of Clinton. loaid. “it should be .n nmendtnent to tpo ye.rd. . »“» “"J'-- oonsider- Following is the complete list of I the public welfare acti” with the re- teachers for the respective schools, Suiting revenue earmarked for that with their home addresses: [department. . , , 1 1 o. ation in conference the department of An architect ha.s been employed to , * , , . . . agriculture insusted on a provi.sion draw plan.s for court house improve- .v ♦ *• u 1 j . , that no payment bi* made under the Washington, July IL^—PWA mil- lion.<« started flowing into public ppw- or development once more to<iay. The big lending-spending program will build transmis.sion lines for the project of the lower Colorado river authority near .\ustin, Toxa.s. It was the first allotment of public work.s funds for a power project .since the new lending-spending act replen ished., J-WA!a -Coffers. - Action upon moix? than $56,000,000 of proposeil iww’er projects had been delayed by the administration pend ing the formulation of a power policy. The formulation of policy was nec essary, officials felt, because of a promise Senator Barkley, .of Ken tucky, made in the senate some weeks ago. He said the president did not propose to allocate money -from the relief and public works fund to set up public power plants competing with private plants “without giving the privately-owmed plant an .oppor tunity to sell its property at a rea sonable price to the public which de sires and is authorized to engage in the construction and operation of such a plant under the laws of the stale w'here locate<l.” Section of 56, Between Clinton and Newberry County, Includ ed In Reimbursement Agree ment 'Sigrned With Highway Department by County Board. ments and the county home building. High School I Derrick estimated a deficit of $700,-1 The county’s «hare of the court house anundim nt f^he growera W. R. Anderson, Jr., Clinton, prin-’OOO w'ould result on June 30 next bill would be pai<l out of a $3,000 ap- vomp lanct wi 1 t year if revenues pnd taxes w-ere un- propnation made by the delegation at • .L 7 4 • . J * J /•• • ■ 4- lu 1 4. • /■ 41. 1 • I r -ru During the last session, (hairman changed. A deficiency appropriation the la.rt session of the legislature, The ,4 4. # 4. 4 Kill ♦u ^ the senate agriculture Death Claims Aged Woman cipal R. P. Wilder, Woodruff. J. L. Cochran, Ware Shoals. J. P. Todd, Clinton. P««l K. Harmon, Milledgeville, Ga. Miss Laura Lynch, Brunswidc, Ga. Mias Rosa Mahaffey, Clinton. Miss Frances Roper, Clinton. Mias Margaret Webb, Dawson, Ga. Miss Margaret Ctilpepper, Hc^ns- vUle, Ga. Miss Margaret Sadler, Rock Hill. Miss Alice Gaines, Greenwood. Miae Eloise Miller, Pauline. Mias Jeasie Newby, Hertford, N.C. Miss AUie Garvin, assistant libra- ^WPA). Florida Street School J. A. Cheatham, Abbeville, Prin cipal. Miss Lily Yarborough, Enoree.. Misa Etla Little McCraiy, Clinton. Mias Nancy Owens, Clinton. Bfiss Agnes Davis, Clinton. Miss Caroline Lane, Newberry. * Miss Ruby Norris, Newberry. Miss Virginia Bums, Clinton. MfTs. Myrtle Blakely, Clinton. Miss Irene W’orkman, Clinton. Miss Marie Smith, Liberty. Mrs. J. Will Dillard, librarian, (WPA). Aaadeay Street School H. F. Harris, Bishopville, principal. Miss Elizabeth Bro^s, Athens, Ga. Miss Beatrice Heron, Jenkinsville. Miss Collette Griffin, Clinton. Miss Elizabeth Copeland, Clinton. Miss EJisabeth Nelson, Clinton. Mrs. Nene D. Workman, Clinton. Mrs. Hugh Elonnan, Clinton. Miss Odette Mauney, Clinton. Mims Martha Davidson, Clinton. Miss Mkry Johnson, Clinton. Miss Georgie B. Blakely, Clinton. Miss Julia Ferguson, librarian, (WPA). Providence School Mrs. H. A. Copeland, Clinton, prin cipal. Miss Lou Belle Nabors, Clinton. M iss Bearice Highsmith, Clinton. 'Miss Evalyn McCrary', Clinton. Miss Margaret Blakely, Clinton. bill at the next session would boost county s part in the cost of the county ... u 1 • i i i • 4U ., . 4. .4 . ., * 4 i- 4U * *4.1' u „4 11 u -1 4 / •' committee, had includi-tl in the neW the deficit to the extent of the total home project would be paid out of a ^ of the measure, he said. “If the sales tax comes,” the Mar ion legislator commented to news- $1,500 surplus turae<l back to the treasury out of a $5,000 fund appro priated 10 years ago for a<lvertising men, “it will be in sufficient amount j purposes through the Laurens Busi- whereby part of it can be returned to ness league. the counties so as to permit a reduc- tion of the county levies on real prop erty. “Some additional tax is going to be necessary unless the appropri ations are cut drastically and I see no likelihood of that.” Reprssentativs Marvin E. Grainger of Msuion, also visiting in the capital, said the matter of a deficit “depends altogether ion the ability of people to pay their taxes this fall. “If therek a slump tMs fall, we will have a deficit 'bcloause this year we are spending $2,000,000 in sur-; plus.” I He made no prediction regarding a| 'sales tax The above mentioned borrowing- spending proposal follows close on the announcement of a $225,000 highway reimbursement agreement and a city paving program to cost su'ound $87,- 000, soon to be effective. Learns Of Fate From Newspaper McCall Reads That He Is To Sit In Electric Chair During the Week of July 25. Thomwell Campus To Be Lonesome With the.children of the orphanage leaving tomorrow on vacation, the campus will present a deserted ap pearance for the next several weeks. As last year, the entire population of the home will be on vacation at the same time, with all cottages closed. Only a few of the older boys will re main for the month to carry on the work of (the farm, dairy and poultry plant. About 250 of the boys and girls, together with teachers and ma trons, will J be scattered throughout this and otner states for their usual summer visit with relatives and friends. Raiford, Fla., July 9. — Franklin Pierce McCall, 21-year-old clergy man’s son, learned today for the first time when he read a newspaper in his “death row” cell that he is to die jin the electric chair during the week of July 25 for the kidnap-killing of little Jimmy Cash. Superintendent L. F. Chapman of the state prison farm here, said Mc Call took the news that Governor Fred P. Cone signed a dea>th warrant for him yesterday very calmly. **I don’t think it was any surprise to him,” Chapman explained. rni bill a provision to spoexi up the sulisidy payments ‘and not require farmer.H to wait until this fall for the money. The comptroller general ruled against this amendment but during the closing days of the ses sion an amending act was passed which permita the AAA to make pay ments without waiting until fall for the grower to demonstrate compliance with the 1938 program. It is provid ed, however, thwt if H is subsequently found (the grower did overplant his vlWTi ffVIv ntlTMIKfy payment must be refunded. Under the regulatiohs announced by the AAA in carrying out the new amendment, cotton not aold prior (to September 10, 1937, will be eligible for a flat three cents a pound pay- ment. It wa« on this date that the 10 S(pot market avojwge fell 'below nine cents and to simplify administration all cotton not sold by then will be treated as sold and eligible for the full $15 a bale subeidy. This means that growers who put their cotton un der the nine-cent loan may receive subsidy jiayments without transfer ring title. The rate applicable for cotton sotd before September 10 will be governed by the spot average on the date of, sale. For example, if a farmer sold his cotton before September 10 and on a date when the aipot market aver age was 10 cents per pound, the pay- Mis.s Martha Neighbors, An In valid for 62 Years, Dies At Home of Brother Near Here. Mis.s Martha Caroline Neighbors, 79, affectionately known by every- l)o<ly as “Aunt Sis,” died last \Ve<l- nesday night at the home of her brother, George M. Nabors, in the Hurricane stx'tion where she had lived her entire life. Funeral services were conducted Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock from the graveside in Hurricane cemetery by the Rev. W. N. Long of this city. T^e services were attended by a large •oneours* of frieAds and relatives who gathered to pay a last tribute to one who wa* loved and highly regard ed by all who knew her. Miss Neighbors was a daughter of the late Nathan and Nancy Johnson Neighbors. At the age of ^6 she was stricken and had been an invalid from then until (her death. Since 1876, for a period of 62 years, she ha<l been confined to her bed and during that long period had been to Clinton only three times. Besides her brother, with whom she lived, she is survived by several nieces and nejihews. Austell Enters House Race Laurens, July 12. — Following a meeting last Tue.sday between the county board of commissioners .'and the county delegation, at whiclj all the members of were present, announcement was' made that a reimbursement agivemcnt'fof^$2257-' 000 had been signed between the county board and the s(tate highway department calling fqr the bituminous construction of two highways in the county now unpaved. The two highways are sections 0(f R<Tute 56, between Clinton and the Newberry county line in (the direction of Chappels, and a section of Route 30 between Watts Mills and Yarbor ough’s Mill, generally called the Yar borough’s Mill road. Under the agreement, the county is to issue the bonds and turn the pro ceeds over to the highway department for the consitniction of the roads. The highway department is to assume* re sponsibility for the repayment of the bonds and for all interest theron ex cept for the first four yrars. Accompanying the blank forms for the commis.sionera to sign was a let ter from Chief Highway Commission er Ben .M. Sawyer reminding them of an agreement previously juade that the bonds are not to lie sold and no demand by the department for the advance of the money “until after the state highway commission causes t<\ 1)0 sold state highway bonds in an amount sufficient for financing the completion of the present two-yeer statewide construction program.” Commenting upon the paragraph, members of the delegation and of the board were not in full agreement as to its significance. Senator Cromer and Representative Huff were of the opinion that actual construction would begin in the fall. Super^sor Martin said (that his impression Was that the two-year program would be nnappe4l out in the falll and that construction could begin at any time during the two years. The agreement follows a correctory act introduced during the last session of the legislature by Representative Huff and voted for by the other mem bers of the delegation, including Sena tor Cromer, which remedied constitu tional defects in a previous act. The act provides for several other roads “and any and all roads in Ijau- rens county 'that are now in or may be hcTtafter added to the state high way system.” Cotton Acreage In State R^uced “I don't believe McCall ever held much hope that the efforts made to meirt rate will be two cents, the dif save him from the electric chair wouW I ference between the price on that date succeed,” Chapman said. 12 cents. McCall’s young, pretty wife visited him for 15 minutes today, but, accord ing to the prison superintendent, no mention was made of the unsuccessful plea to the state pardon board Thurs- Fifty children will go tomorrow toj^jay or the signing of the death war- Riverside cottage near here on En-1 rant, oree river, for an outing under the Laurens Woman Publishes Book :..up«rvi.ion of MiM L^y .. Candidates Must matron, and Misses .Sara Rector of, ' Inman, and Mary Pressley of Chester as counsellors. The vacation season at 20 Million Found Upon Relief Rolls the institution will close the latter Candidates in I^aurens county who Washington, July 9.—With a total of 20,200,000 persons receiving public relief in one form or another in May, the social swurity lioaixl today re- i 11/^ ,, corded the seventh consecutive rise in | me W CuiieoOny jgent'ral relief "costs, to $247,7.50,000 for the month. L. A. Austell, of Laurens, who made the race for the house of representa tives two years ago, definitely an nounced during the week that he will be in the race again this year. His announcement appears in the regular randidate’s column. Mr. Austell has been a merchant of Laurens for the pa.st six years. He says he is thoroughly acquajnted with the nee<]s of the county and pn>mis(*s, if electe<i, to represent the jieople with faithfulness and impartiality. Area Planted To Staple la 23 Per Cent Under Last Year’s Planting, Statistician Says. Revival Services < At Long Branch part of August. Dr. Kate V. Wofford Is Author UlUOIl ScrvicC of ^'Modern Education In Rural School.” • ^ - ... . i May represented nearly a 2 per cent I plan to offor for vanous ..ffHraa in _ ^ increase' the August primary must file |„ costs. I Ipkxiges and announcements by next . . . , - yiftn a_. _• „r , , , , or... J. Approximately 6,400,000 Amencan] Wednesday noon, Juy 20th, according , V ii - f \ * 4 1 4- ^ 4L 4 14 (households were receiving relief aid With Baptists to regulations of the county Demo- The city union sendee next Sunday i in one form or another during the cratic committee. month, the lK»rd .aid. The report Up to the present time a number 1,^ wide moVero«nts~'fe study *nd^ iin- ~ prove the rural schqolz. In addition,' she has had specialized training, in-1 duding an M. A. degree from Cornell. university an a PhJ). degree from Columbia university, both in rural ed- iKation. I Enroll Now! BOOKS CLOSE JULY 26 CITY BOOK OF ENROLL MENT AT L. a DILLARD’S STORE to enter the field before the deadline hour. The offices of state senator. showed the following ^breakdown in relief costs: Under the social security act, spec ial public assistance, $41,857,000; earnings under the federal works pro sheriff and coroner are the only ones; • 4,u *10010 I ^ grams, $147,695,000; the OC, $18,218,-! not to be filled in this year’s primary. Woman Named As Member Of Board 000; farm security grants, $2,267,000, and general relief adminisftered by states and localities, $37,713,000. Laurens, July 12.—“cModem Edu<»''evening will be held aH the First Bap- '^ candidates have announced for va- tion In the Small Rural School” is church The pulpit will be occu- offices, and others are expected title of a new book by Dr. Kate p j Wofford of Laurens, who for the part.^^ First Presbyterian church, with several years has been professor of ■ ^ cordial ihvhation extended all oon- education and direct^ of ' gradations to unite in this service. cation at State Teachers college, Buf-1 fak>, N. Y. I The author of the new book dedi-! cates it: “To jny father and mother| who exemplified in their day and gen-1 eiatMn, all that ia best in modem ed-j YOU HAVE EXACTLY Senator C. A. Cromer said Monday ucation.” j I that Mrs, Gladys Ray O>ok of Owings Dr.^ Wofford’s experience as teach-1 1 1 "" i Station area, had been recommended er, 'high school principal and county, A ; ss a member of the Laurens county; Battery G, 263rd Coast Artillery, superintendent of education in her HAYS LEFT IN WHICH registration board, adding that Palmetto regiment, of Clinton, will n^e Laurens county gave her first-' governor had agreed to make the ap-ileave early Sunday morning for Fort hand knowedge of the te^eris prob- ^ pointment at once. Mrs. Cook sat with' Moultrie in Charleston harbor, to un- l«ns and point bf view: Then as an KUL.L1. ^ ^ Monday. She is filling tbejder^ its annual two weeks’ period of official of tha rural education de- V ^ vacancy caused by the receipt death'training. The battery will go to partment of the NEA and active in Be a Better CHizen By Casting |Of A. Wright Sims. She is the first] Greenwood over the Seaboard to join other constructive phases^ of the Your BaOct. woman to be named to this office in'units from Abbeville and Greenwood work she became a leader in nation- - ^ Laurens county. ’ jjand, travel-<m- the Southem fcom that A two weck.s’ revival meeting will begin Sunday, .July 17th, at Long Branch I'entacostal Hoiine.«.s church near here. Tivo service.s will lx* held daily, at 11 a. m. and 7:4.5 p. m., to which the public is invite<l. There will be an all day .service at the church on the fourth Sunday of thi.s month with singing in the after noon. Columbia, July 8.—Frank O. Black, .federal statistician, estimates the I South Carolina cotton acreage at j 1,313,000 acre« on July 1. j In a report, he said “this acreage j i.s a reduction of 2.3 per cent from the 1,705,000—acfpx-xjn cultivation last iJuly, is close to the state’s smallest acreage of 1,299,000 planted in 19.34, and comjiares with an average of 1,435,000 acres for the five years 193.3-.37.” ^ Reports, Black .said, “indicate a range of reduction from 20 per cent I up state to 27 per cent down staU*, or the rever.se of the 19.37 acreage trend when the increase was ptogii'ssivelx^ gr<,*ater from north to south. “Above a liniTdnrwn rouglily from the counties of Abbeville to Ker.shaw ! the decrease is about 20 per cent, about 23 i»er cent through the mid<ile section and some 27 jier cent in the ! more southerly counties.” ' 4\<) foreca.-yt of proiluction will lie made until Augu.st 8. / Battery G Off To Camp Sunday point to their destination. Battery G is commanded by Cap- KIWANIS PICNIC TODAY The Clinton Kiwanis club will hold tain Walter A. Johnson.'J. H. Davis, its annual picnic at John T. Young’s''Jr., is first lientenant and B. F. Win spring near here, this afternoon at ! 6:30. The members, their families and j friends,* will, enjoy the outing. gard second lieutenaii)t. Sixty men will accompany the officers on the trip to Charleston. i- DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE! 6 DEATHS from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY 1938 - Strive To Make 'This a Safe Year On the Highways. \ This date last year, 2. } Unit Here Given Excellent Rating The aqnual army inspection report by Lieut. Colonel J. deB. Wall)ack. U. S. regular army, gives to the local ■National Guard unit a rating of ex cellent. While the Clinton battery ha.s been organized only four years, it has received this high ratipg for the past three. The report of the inspecting offi cer .state.s that the battery is well ad- ministeriHl, trained and instructed, and that the new armory greatly fa- cilitate.s training and instruction. The arrangement of all facilities in the building deserves special mention and is regardefl as the best in the regi ment, the report included. Officers an<L members of the unit are gratified over the fine showing they have made the past year as shown by the report of Col. Wa]ba(ck. St.. vr-.. t