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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C
Thursdoy^ November 21, 1940
NOTICE OF
COUNTY TREASURER
•1940
The books of the County Treasurer |
will be opened for the collection of j
taxes for the fiscal year. 1940, at the'
Treasurer's office from October 1, to
December 31, 1940. After December
81 one per cent will be added. After
January 31st. two per cent will be I
added. After February 28th three per|
cent will be added, and after March \
SI .seven per cent will be added and j
the books closed. I
All persons owning property in'
more than one school district are re
quested to call for receipts in eachj
of the several school districts in which
the property is^located. This is im
portant, as additional cost and pen- ^
alty may be attached.
All able-b(Klied male citizens be- j
tween the ages of twenty-one (21).
and sixty (60) years of age are liable;
to pay ’a poll tax of $1.00.
Dog Oumers! Your dog tax is on
the tax books. You are entitled to
abatement of dog tax by reason of
rabies treatment. But it is necessary
that you present inoculation certifi
cate to the county treasurer at the
time of tax payment or before. Un-
les.s presented then, tax cannot be
abated.
Proper attention w’ill be given
those who wish to pay their taxes
through the mail by gheck, money |
order, etc., giving name of township |
and number of school district.
The tax levy is as follows: i
Ordinary’ County 10 mills
Constitutional School 3 mills j
Road Bonds 10 mills j
Past Indebtedness 1 mill I
"W’cak Schools 1 mill '
Hospital 1 mill
.State (retirement State
Bond.'-)
Italian Submarine Surreilders To British Deetroyers
sliithtly more than 20,000 plan^Tbe
production schedule, which may be
stepped up, is for 1,250 planes a
month for early 1941, 2,000 a month
from July 1 ooward, and S,0(^ a
month beginning in 1941. Production
of light tanks is going ahead at the
conqip^on
le wmy. '
would
with the'lbxlfny. Amilicauhi’ tnust' have
finished their first year in high
school, be willing to work and be of
good moral character. They will do
office and clerical work, serve as
helpers in mechanical and construe-
rate of 100 a month, with heavy tank • tion work or assist in any other way
production planhed to begin early
next year. Besides tanks, ^e army is
buying trucks, expecting to to have
25,000 delivered by the end of this
yeal-.
Besides the more than 200 qaval
craft of aU types, from battleships I Present NYA rolls, she said
in which th^ m, qualified^
Fun information as to othSr re
quirements, rfie said, may be secured
by writing or seeing her in Clinton
on Thursday. Most of those sent to
the cainps will be selected from me
MEDITERRANEAN SEA . . . This Italian submarine was blown to the surface by British depth chutes,
and forced to surrender. The crew of the submarine line up on her deck, waiting to be ti^en aboud
sted to the
one of the surrounding British destroyers, after which the submarine was blast
bottom.
eF
A Privote Citizen Speoks His Mind
SPECTATOR COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
Party Label In Politics Now Means Ndthing
Younge of Wofford recovered. On the
next play Taggart, Terrier quarter
back, tried a pass to Maness. Meisky
intercepted and moved the ball to
the Hose 45. But the intercepted
pass was of no avail and Presbyte
rian ran into trouble with penalties.
The final whistle sounded with the
11^ ■ • possession of the Terriers on
Lawyers In the Legislature—and the Constitution, their own 44.
_______________________________________________ The Hose tried eight passes, com-
pleted three -for 23 yards. Wofford
•When the fro.st is on the punkinltent of the constitution is manifest;'■‘completed two out of six fbr 17
.J tv... oKaaIt Mov Hiif fHc loncTiiooc ifcAif vards. The Hosemen intercepted t^vo
the Terriers none.
and the fodder’s in the.shock.” Nay, but the language itself is as limpid
1 mill brother; there’s very little fodder injas a translucent mountain stream, .piisses ^
this day of advanced agriculture.! An interesting question is that of' Presbyterian’s 12 punts averaged j laboratories and nurses ,
27 mills would have to say tax-exempt property. The constitu- 30 yards and Wofford’s 11 averaged; make her into the finest hospital ship
when the trost is on the “taters” and •ttrm--in exempting property of cotmr 39. ''
down to harbor tugs, for whidi the
government has let contracts since
the begiiming of 1940, the navy has
begun to purchase auxiliary vessels
in the open market. Since July 1
I more than 110 such craft have been
I acquired, at prices ranging from $1
I for seagoing yachts whose owners
jhave shown their patriotism by giv-
iing \heir ships to the nation’s ser-
j vice, to as hi^ as $7,000,000 for some
of the passenger liners which are to
be used as transports, and in one or
two instances converted into airplane
carriers.
One of the most important of all
auxiliary naval craft is the oil tank
er, and some of the largest and fast
est tankers afloat have been bought
by the' navy from the big oil com
panies. Several modem cargo ships
constructed under the orders of the
maritime commission for 'jadvate
owners, have also been bou^t byf
the navy to serve as carriers of am
munition and supplies.
Bought the "Iroquois”
One of the navy’s recent purchases
is of the spe^y passenger liner “Iro
quois,” originally built for the New
York-Miami run. The “Iroquois”
brought some of the first loads pf
refugees from the war zone across
the Atlantic last year. Nqw she is
' being equipped with operating rooms,
quarters to
Total
Laurens School Districts j the hay is in the barn—and even that ties, towns, schools, college, “chari-
No. 1,. Trinity Ridge 9 mills j won’t do, because they tell us to dig'table institutions in the nature of
No, 2, Prospect 8 mills: (grabble) taters afore ary frost bites ', asylums for the .infirm, deaf, dumb,
Presbyterian -made 16 first afloat
downs to Wofford’s one, made 277
yards from scrimmage to Wofford’s
42.
No. 3. Barksdale-Narnie. . 8 millsithe vine and predisposes the, luscious [blind, idiotic and indigent p>ersons;j
No. 4, Bailey 7 mills iyams (q rot. ■ --
No. 6, Oak Grove 6 mills |
No.
No.
Watts Mills 17 mills
11. Laurens 22 mills
Youngs School Districts
4. Bethany 15 mills
also libraries, churches, parsonages,
I burying grounds, says “'That as to
Well, the election is over and goes'real e.state, this exemption shall not
down in history. It‘ was'a singular j extend beyond the buildings and
campaign in many of its phases. The'premises actually occupied by them.
Democrats "not only disregarded all:although connected with charitable
No 5 Grays ^ .11 milis sages, and advocated a third | objects. In the same section the su-
As Washington Sees It
THE NATIONAL SCENE
No' 6 Central .9 mills Republicans, long the preme law says; “Property of asso-
No.
V Youngs 10 mills entrusted with power, could j ciations and societies, although con-
No 8 Warrior Creek 12 mills i^**’*^ *^0 public man with a wide popu-tnected with charitable objects, shall
No 10 Lanford 12 mills“PP«al, and had to choose a busi-jnot be exempt from state, county or
Wt 1 o 1 * J * ,ne.<s man of fighting qualities, who municipal taxation.”
DUls Scho.1 District, ,aa«ht the imagination and the fancy'
No. 1 Greenpond ...13 mills: ” '
No. 2. Eden . 10 mills 1^*
Specia/1 to The Chronicle?
Washington,. Nov. 13.—Some relia
ble facts are beginning to be avail
able about the progress of the na-
There is little for congress to do,
and little is likely to be done on Cap
itol Hill, before the new 77th con
gress meets in January. Many mem-
jbers are taking the vacations which
they didn’t dare to take before elec
tion; many others are beginning to
■pack up and get ready to go back
home to stay. If a situation arose in
which it was necessary to assemble
a quorum of either house it would
take a week or so to get enough to
gether to do business constitutionally.
There is no clear-cut policy of man runneth not to the contrary, the
. .. . s tion’s rearmament program, concern-
In spite of the custom which hM mg which there has lately been much
en in effect, since the memory of «nrt somiSime. mail.
No. 5, Gray Court-Owings 26 mills| j-nere is no cl j , au *1
No 3-B Fountain Inn 24 mills'party which permits ones po- constitution declares the ancient law
SulliifMli School Districts litical allegiance to mean more than with great clarity; yet the general
No 1 Princeton 22 mills ^ label. Long ago, in the days of the j assembly and city councils have fre-
No! 2 Mt. Bethel . 2 mills-simpl® tit®, when men were just or-Iquently granted exemptions contrary
No! 3. Poplalr Springs ".!!!..”20 mills i binary people, and not giants of in-jto this easily undrestood prohibition.
No! 7 Brewerton !!!!!! 16 mills i^eli®®!. as they are today, we could Could farmers do worse? No; rather
Kn 17 Hirknrv Tavern 2Q mills I distinguish between a Democrat and better, I think; for a farmer would
W.«r rschll Dls.ri.S f ”'h^' r*' r
T I- r.h^itsi;r ? “ill: "Jis
JJ”-2. Vn m U'»>'><' » “ffoctored” the tariff that
ft milu ^^ttUiern farmers were in perpetual
sj^' fi' Mf PI., nt R'miiu:*.®ftdage to Northem industrialists.
ulBut since our Demoeratic party has
has “gone after” the colored vote
with an energy, zeal and enthusi
asm almost incredible, the party la
bel means nothing. I don’t know
what the Republicans will do, when
No. 14, Waterloo 8 mills
Cross Hill School District
Nb. 13, Cross Hill’ 27 mills
Hunter School Districts
No. 3, Rock Bridge 6 mills
No. 4, Wadsworth 6 mills
No. 5, Clinton 18 mills
No. 6, Goldville 11 mills
No. K-19, Kinards 8 mills
No. R-42. Reederville ■■.■■^..■13 mills
No. 16, MoiihfvnTe*.. . !..18 mills
vious purport. He would not try to
prove that a club is not a society, or
that a society is not an organization.
The letter of the law killeth, but
the spirit giveth lift I recall. Until
we respect the spirit of our consti
tution, why talk about a new consti
tution? We need a hew attitude of
respect lor law, more than a new
fundamental law.
contradictory and soifnetimes mall
clous gossip in circulation.
It is true enough that the United
States is trying to do in two years
what Germany took seven years to
do; that is, to equip and train the
greatest fighting force the world has
BOYS AND GIRLS
TO GET WORK IN
DEFENSE* CAMPS
Several hundred boys and girls be
tween the age limits of 17 and 24
years will be offered $8 a month plus
subsistence to do civilian woik at
Fort Moultrie and Fort Jacksem to
ever dreamed of, on land, on the sea. relieve soldiers now doing similar
and in the air. But the members ofl^ork, according to an announcement
♦u *1—, Mamie S. Summer, NYA
the national defense commission, the
high officers of the army and navy
and the “big wigs” of the air forces
are now satisfied that it can be done^
and that the job has got off to a fast*
start.
“About the only thing we’re not
sure of/’ said one of the men con
nected Ih® working out of the
defense program a few days ago, “is
Meetii; Defense
Ceaannieitioi
Needs Today
and Teaorrow
area supervisor for Laurens, New
berry and Fairfield counties.
She quoted Dr. R. L. Coe, state su
pervisor, as saying that the young
men and women would be housed
[away from the army camps and
iwho we are getting ready to fight.
How much revenue has been lost j and when.”
to the state, counties and towns The air preparations are coniid-
they get an opportunity; today their. through unlawful exemptions will ered' the most Immediately impor-
pnncipal plank is anti-Roosevelt, never be known, but I think it more tant, particularly as one of the ma-
though they seem to swallow most | than a trifle. In some cases endowed jor objectives is to furnish more aid
of his policies. What has happened? . •..j'-'
4Just this: nearly everybody can vote;
Jacks School Districts
BUYER MEETS
To be prepared for
emergencies of whatever
magnitude 6r urgency is a
requirement to which tele
phone company workers
are accustomed.
The National Defense
Program is a new eniergency
to bemet.NewswittA hoards
are being installed, several
thousand miles of telephone
lines have been strung and
large scale telephone en^>
neering projects are under
way to serve the fifty newly
approved and existing army
and navy posts and air bases
located in the territory
served by this Company.
£6ng distance communi
cation ftdlides are altd~be-
ing expanded and new cir
cuits have been established
to assure ample long dis
tance telephone service be
tween these military bases
and all parts of the nadoo.
Soutnern Bell and the
entire Bell System ate in hi^
gear, meeting the nation's
present defense needs and
prepared to adequately
meet those of tomorrow.
No. 1, no white school 4 mills'
so today anything, everything, which
can win votes is offered.
charitable institutions have -acquired , to Brltato as speedily as possible, and
farms, stores and town h o.u s e s ^ that can best be, done by augmenting
through foreclosures or by will (de
vise) and have rented out such prop-
Since the beginning of time — or; erties in competition with other
No. 2, Shady Grove 13 mills afterwards—some few got, landlords, receiving the same local
the British air force.
Production of army airplanes i«
not. yet up to the announc^ sched-
SELLER
N OJR A!
CCLU'MNS
SoiTIHH Btu TllEPatSE
«KD TEIEMAPICOMMHT
fHBatPiaATCB
No.
No.
3. Renno 10 mills
.4 mills
acquired, or secured, more than oth- protection, without paying any taxes.
No. 6. O’Dell’s 10 mills
No. 7, Garlington .5 mills'
No. 15. Hurricane : 6 mills
Scuffletown School Districts
ers. As people multiplied, the number Do our legislators kno\y nothing
men without property increased!of the constitution; or ate they in- Hpw _of those are combat
■e rapidly than the number with | different to it? ' f | planes and how many training planes
more
property. Npw, since Abraham, if not
tho^
ule, but it is gaining. The program
for October called for 1,133 artoy
planes, and only 900 were produced.
»cunicM.wn before, those without property envied i 111
o 12 with proj^rty; but only recent-1 WOftOrO IriininCQ
ly have politicians unashamedly of- i
I fered every conceivable thing to vot
ers, however fantastic, in order .to
ride to power.
No. 2, Musgrove 10 mills
No. 3, Langston 7 mills
No. 4, Sandy Springs 8 mills
No. 12, Ora 10 mills
Persons sending in lists of names
to be taken off are requited to send j whenever some one says that we
'them early and 6*ve the township, have lawyers in our legisla- <
wd school district of each as ^qw does it impress a farmer?
Treasurer is vep’ busy during the^^g would'not be struck with admir-•
ation if he should study the consti-
itution of our state, or some of our
Homecoming Day
month of December.
T. LANE MONROE,
Tannery and Calloway
Score To Win 12-6 Tilt
Here Saturday.
, are items which are regarded as mili-
itary secrets.
! Trateing Planes Needed
I It is certain that a high proportion
I of all military planes must be lor
[training purposes, for the plans call
for the training of at least 12,000 ad
ditional pilots annually, and fiiat will
take a lot of airplanes. How many of jo
8 are to [:
the present output'of planes are (0|
go to England is another point on
which there is official silence; but it
iis apparent that allowing for every-
Coach Walter Johnson’s silver an,-[thing, the army is beginning to get|
County Treasurer. gta(u(eg j doubt if any farmer could niversary and homecoming celebra-! planes faster than fver before, andj
— 'do worse than has been done. Let us tion was culminated here Saturday'the navy is getting iis share. j
WE DO ALL KINDS OF PRINTING see: Section 17 of Article 3 says that' afternoon by- a 12 to 6 victory rttog A year ago the total of military I
tf
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CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO.
Dr. FeUer Smith
Dr. Duncan S. FeMer
OPTOMETRISTS
Specialists In
Eye Examinations
Ofllee Hewrs:
Dr. Smith. Daily, 4:15 to 6.
Dr. Felder, J>aily, 8:39 to 6.
Phone 29 for Appointment
CLINTON, 8. a
“Every act or resolution having the t,y Presbyterian over Wofford. j planes of all kinds being produced
force of law shall relate to but one Calvinist eleven gevji the Ter-1 per month was 120; now it is above
subject, and that shall be expressed riers a taste of real Johnson football . 900 and increasing. From 700 air-
in the title.” Clearly a bill relating<Respite Wofford’s score .in the open-[plane engines a month the manufac
turers have already stepped up pro
to the local affairs of Oconee county, jng minutes,
and that expressed ip the title, can-, j. Hilton, speedy Wofford back.lduction to 2,000 a month, and great
not constitutionally carry an extra _ bj^xiught the fans to their feet in the [new plants are under way to treble
pi^igion dealing with o^er mattors, first thr^ minutes when he received that output in a year or less.
of state-wide import. TThat is clear
if language means anything and if
we respect the constitution. But rid
ers or bobtails are conmum practice.
BENJAMIN &
SONS
PLUMBING
HEA'HNG
SERVICE
TdcphdM 92D8
WE ARS HUNTING
. TROUBLE
a Presbjrterian punt on the Wofford j Ther has been a great deal of criti-
20 and raced 80 yards for a score. [ cism of the deMy in producing the
The try for extra point failed. new semi-automatic (Jarand rifles.
The Jedmson men came back with:So long as there semed to be no
so that a bill with one subject passes!a drive from their 28 into pay dirt|hurry, the goveriunent arsenals at
by unnoticed, oftentimes, because joe Mclfeill, Hose end, on an end' Spri^ield and $tock laland ambled
something entirely different, and un- around play placed the ball within [along turning otR 500 a month of the
related, has been tacked on. All such I scoring position and Fred Tannery [new weiqi^ons. Now the productUm in
measures should be challenged in > moved across the stripe. Sufton’s try 'Government plants b dote to 3,000
the courts and a watchful citizenship for point was blocked. i rifles a wedc, and private manufac-
Midway the second quarter after | hirers are about to begin making the
the ball had twice changed hands,|Same type of guns. '
the Hose began a long drive downi The defense commission has given
field fallowing an 18-yard dash byloift a partial list of the contraets
eral assembly shall not authorize i Captain Dick Meisky to the Wotfmd' vriiich have been let. Among them is
payment to any perspn of the si^lary 40. After a series of off plays one for the building of the world’s
should be alert to keep the stream
of legislation reasonably clear.
Another section commonly disre
garded is 32 of Article 3: “The gen-
of a deceased officer beyond the date which netted flic Presbyterians twOjfirat and only plant lor the mass pro
of his death.” This is so plain that I firgt downs Meisky’s flat pass to End dtxrtion of thoaa tan
wonder how the legislature
mobile lots on cat-
gets [Billy Galloway resulted, in a toudi- erpUlar treads which the British in-
around it, unless it tries a quibble, down but again the convar^on tir
assuming that since the constitution [tailed
Irodtseed in the MForld war under, the
forbids payment after the date of
death: and since death is a continu
ing ^te or condition, the salajor
should continue, too. !^t the plain
intent of flte ooostitiitkm sbodld
guide us; not the word twiatfaig and
juggling. ;
Of course we recall the clear inhi-
bftkm against holding two ottkm or
poattiona. Any work ia aUbar an of
fice or a position, obviously. The ha-
At ttia-op«a|ag of the second half,
Taanezy raoSlved the kidc for Prea-
bytarian on his own five and return-
sH it to the Presbyterian 80. Fram
thefa hk pushed deep into. Wg^foed
tacritory but. lost the ball on dawns*
Hirougbout the’ haU Woftetfk
kida kd^t the Predayterians
Wofford threat
a punt hy Hiiteo Aown
nanie of “tanks” and whiA^iil Hi4*[J [
ler’s baadS' hawa-^fproved .fiie moat
deatruetive of land armamoils. Two
suaD^aiaas powder plMta.. bs'va baan
contracted fol, two plants lor aukim
hidi explosh^ five *daall>'ldadtef
gtets ud several oomplate new
T*** tor gnoa.
«f thorn are privately owned and op-
NOTICE OF SALE OF LANDS
AND PERSONAL PROPERTY
OF the ESTATE OF J. F. BELL
On Qeeember 3rd, 1940, CMiinencingr at the hour of
10 o'clock in the forenoon, the Executon ^ the last will
and testament of J. F. deceased, will offor tfiir sale
to the highest bidder, the real estate and pmonal intip-
erty of said estate, at Renno, S. C.
The real estate will be divided into convenient tracts
and consists of the following property:
The H. y. Bell place, at Renno, containing 800 acres, more or
less. The Copeland place,' near Renno, containing 298 acres, more
or less. The Brick House place, near Renno, cemtaining 400 acres,
more or less. The residence house ai^ lot at Renno. The store
house lot at Renno. The crib lot at Renno. Other small lots at
Renno.
^The personal property consists bf: 4 mules, farming imple
ments, mower, poison machine, 2 wagons, feedstufls, household
goods. And 10 shares of the capital stock of the Bell Company.
All other assets of the estate.
'Tern^ of Sale: perso^l {sroper^ fw.eash, ea ^ of sale.
luu^ to de-
AU bidders, other than the heirs at law, will be reqv
posit, with the Executors, before bidding, a sum equal to 20e per.
unt to DC returned to the unsuc-
acre, 00 the farm lan<]p> the amount
cessful bidders, and the amount daposited by the succcasful bidder
to be applied on me purchase price. ’The succeasful bidder
make m« deposit on the lands b^ng knocked down to Mm, of
five per centum of the amotmi at his bfal, ak a guarantee of his
Mth in the bidding. deposit inate prior to the bidding
Tiie sale of the real
will be a portion of the five
ve jper centum,
cesh, bahmee payable in one add two
a por
estate will be tor one-third
3rears from the date of the sale, wifii InterMt from date, at the
rate of five per centum per annum, payable anmudly, and me
credit portion to be represented by notes of the mseghSscr
W fends pur-
cured by first and purchase money mortgage over
chased, the notes and mortgages to contejn me usual obvaniata.
The purdiascr will be permitted to pay a larger amoiMd« orTiis
entire bid. In,cash. The cash payment will be made*en teu mracu-
ti<m and dolivery of deeds to the lands purdiased. TImi
wiU be required to pay for stamps 00 tha^^eds, gmd
ration and recording and stanms on notes
heir bidding on me
recording the deed. Any heir
interest m
the estate as a guarantee of hJs gopd
ding. In the event a successful tedder should fail
by toe Executors sBi
at the risk of the defind^iig purchaser. Prospectfev
may be shown the luds on application to J. R. Bsl
Copelaad at Renno.
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~ llqpildtead^iimagM atfiTtoe msrfy ra-aoU
JM tor
his.
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Of J. D.
Signed: J. H. BIDX, ^
MARY HENRY AET|>Um .
U3tA B. COPELAND,
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