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Clinton, S. C., Thuradoy, Stplomter 11,1941
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Number 37
ynuste Reds Sacrificed $111,000,000
LOCAL BOYS TO
PARTICIPATE IN
FALL MANEUVERS
KIWANIS LEADER
SPEAKS HERE TONIGHT
•Ilk
^st^a^fsisssx
The Kiwsbis chib will have as its
SHORIffiCOnON
ctot IS FOiaasi
BY eovajiMBn
^Production of fOJOOXXX)
Boles Indkotdd; te^_
Than Oh~August 1.
HOW TAX BILL
WILL HIT YOU
Here are the key provisions of the
$8,5$S,900.0i}0 tax bill —the biggest
tax measure in history — passed by
the U. S. senate and designed to
bring an estimated 4,911,000 addi*
tional persons under the federal in-
eone tax structure.
W$ilUagtQn, Septi g.—HoU weevil
damgge fa the central part of the
cotton belt reflected today in an
ricufanre deportment estimate faat
the 1941 cotton crop would be 10,-
710,OpO bales. This was a reduction
of lOTjpOO bales from its forcent of
a moMlIi ago.
Weather was less favorable than
Georgia to Arlrat)gas and Louisiana,
average during Apgust fa states from
the board s^ and flboU' weevils
have, caused stiddlip falury ^'ttia
crop faroughout this wea.*’
Favorable,w^tber was said to
have stimulgted ,ijK>duction in Ok
lahoma and '^xas and weevil dam
age was repotted not gmerally seri
ous there fats year.
A crop of the size forecast on the
basis ' of September / 1 conditions
would be the smallest in several
Increases all personal income taxes
by ralsi^ existing surtaxes and add
ing a siartax on loarer-bracfeet in-
coaMs which formerly were tajced aftenKKm at Cantrell’s home.
only at the neimal rate of 4 per amt
Rates range from 10 per cent^.ltae
loarest bracint reached by surtaxes
aBd.Apnnal fax to 81 per cent fa the
highest
Lowers present income exomptions
from $2,000 to $1,800 for married
persons and from $800 to $750 for
sinile individuals, the treasury esti-
nsates this provisicm would being
4,011,000 additional
the facome tax structure.
Clinton and Gk)ldville boys, mem
bers of thV 101th Separate Battalion
CA (AA), now in training at Camp
Stewaft, Ga., will take part in the
fall maneuvers to be held in South
and North Carolina from October 6
to November 30. The troops of the
First army will move fnxn faeir
present stationing along the Atlantic
seaboard into their designated areas.
Battery “B” is commanded by
Capt. Jack H. Davis, Jr., of this city.
Other units and places of origin
are: /Medical detachment, Columbia,,
Captain Robert W. Ball, command
ing. Battery ‘AA," Lancaster, Captain j J
William G. Williams commanding.
Battery “C,” Newberry, Captain T.
H. Pope, Jr,, commanding. Battery
“D," Hampton, Captain Nathan J.
Johnston commanding. Headquarters i
battery, Dillon, Captain Robert B.
Murchinson commanding. The bat
talion is commanded by Lieutenant
Colonel J(fan C. Henagan, of Dillon.
Major Walter A. Johnson of Clin
ton, is executive officer, and as a. _ i. i
Rembert B. Burgess, president of
Textile Institute, Spartanburg, and of,
the Klwanis club of that city. The
dinner-meeting will be held at 7:30
at HoteLClfaton.
Dr. Burgess has Just cmnpleted 25
years outstanding service as presi
dent of Textile Institute, which was
founded in 1911 as the IMoneer Part-
Time School of the South. It is a co
educational Junior college, owned and
operated by the General Board of
IiKssions of the Methodist Church of
America, New York city.
The school’s mroUment is 350, with
all scents employed cm a part-
time program of work and study,
4herdt^ «i^t>ling fa«n to eanr «
great part or all of their expenses.
Practically every occupational classi-
fleatkm is represented in the school’s
program of instruction. Four per
manent buildings'have been erected
on its caitopus within the past decade.
Active fa Kiwanis woric for a num
ber ot yeara. Dr. Burgess will speak
on a subject of interest to Kiwanians.
This being his first address in Clin
ton, He will be heard with interest
by the membenhip of the club and
several invited guests.
RUN-OFF PRIMARY
IN SENATE RACE
NEXT TUESDAY
Governor Burnet R. Maybank and
his predecessor, former Governor |
Olin D. Johnston of Spartanburg, |
will contend for the Democratic nom-!
ination to the United States senate in
a run-off primary next Tuesday, Sep
tember 16.
{ The winner will take office about
i October 15, succeeding Senator Ro
ger C. Peace, who was temporarily
FARMRSIR6ED'
TO RAISE FOOD
FOR WAR HEHIS
Requirements for Home
Use Stressed; Prices To
Be Kept At High Level.
Wa.shington. Sept. 8.—The admin
istration asked American farmers to-
appointed by Governor Maybank fol- day to step up production of most
lowing the death of Senator Aiva M. essential foods to a record high next
Lumpkin who served only a few
days,
I year in order to assure adequate
Following the"primary the elecUon^consumption and
will be held on September 30, which
is merely a formality in this state
where nomination is equivalent to
election.
The Clinton voting will be held in
the vacant storeroom in the hotel
block, the same location as the first
primary.
Refafas existing normal corporation
taxes, but imposes surtaxes of 6 per
cent on the first $25,000 of net in
come and 7 per cent on income above
$85,000.
fall in' 35 ^ears that Major Johnson
has not played or coached *fpotbaU.
Willard Cantrell
Fatally Wou nded
Three Brothers Jailhd In
Shooting Neot Here Sun
day. Inquest Soturdoy.
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Willard Cantrell, 30, residing about
two miks north of Clinton, died at
the local hospital early Mon^y night
of gunshot wounds which Deputy
JStfaiffi H. It. Jones said were fa-
fliqted during an altercation Sunday
Increases from 25 to 35 per cent
yeari. It would compare with 1940] the present tax on the first $20,000
produetkm of 12,466,000 bales, and] of excess corporation profits. The
an averagb of 13,246,000 balei^ for i rate would be lifted by 10 per cent
the 19S0-S9 period. 1 In each bracket, with the top Jevy 60
The -crop importing boa^ said the per cent on excess profits over $500,-
ShoHfl C. W. Wier stated yesterday
tlfat three, brothers identiflfd as Made
T^lor, Bdgar Taylor, and D. B. Tay-
Jor,iare.bei^ held fa connection with
the homicide.
An inquest in the case has been aet
for 8 o’clodc Saturday morning, after
a coroner's Jury bad viewed the body.
Cantrell, who keakfad at Cherokee
Springs ln l^nartafanug
moving fait farm haai
vived by his wife, Ifrs.
Cantrell; three sons, George Edward
Cantrell, 6 yeers old, Jdm William
Cantrell, 4, amj Willa^ Cantrell, Jr.,
2; two brothm, Arthur Cantrell of
Harris, N. C., and Boyce Lee Cantrell
of Converse; his mother, Mrs. Bessie
Cantrell of Cemverse, and a sister.
Miss Grace Cantrell of Converse.
Farm Tmln Is
m^ii Ti : J
Wwll iivCwITwy
Lorge Number of Citi-
zens View Exhibits
For Better Living.
for sending abroad to nations re
sisting aggression.
At the same time, it promi.sed to
prevent any sharp slump in price.s
due to the expanded output. Prices,
officials said, should continue near
present levels.
Announcing the ’ 1942 program.
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard
said it would assure "plenty of the
commodities for which there is in
creased need while continuing to
hold in check the production of com
modities of which we already have
large reserves." In the latter cate
gory are wheat, cotton and tobacco.
' Wickard called particularly for
expanded production of hogs, eggs,
milk, cheese and chickens, and an
nounced the agriculture department
would support prices for these com
modities until December 31, 1942, at
not less than 85 per cent of parity.
All are selling now above the par
ity price—that level at which the
The Better Farfn Living train of
Clemson college, the first demonstra
tion train of Us kind in this state
since 1928, drew hundreds of inter-1 commodity has the same purchasing
ested persons here Txiesday afternoon P®^**’J* j*®**
Wickard said the expanded' farm
COIL8CE B8CINS
ito JJZ; NEWYEAR'S WORK
from 2 to 5:30 pun. The cight-ewF
special was parked on the C. N. & L.
frei^t yard, coming here from Co
lumbia and Newberry as it started
on a 23-day tour of the state.
The train is a carefully prepared,
compact display of ideas, practices,
and object Icescms of better farming
and better living, to demonstrate to
the public the progress being made
and the roads to furtlMr, progren
needed tb make South Carolina a
more parosperous state agriculturally
and otherwiae. ,
‘*rhe subject matter demonstrated
indicated yield per acre was now
226.8 peunfa compared vdth 252.5 in
1940 and a ten-year average of 205.4.
It was; estimated that 3.8 per cent
of the acreage fa cotton <» July 1
has been, or will be abandoned,
harvest. Tlie 1040 abandonment was
4.4 per cent,— —
Cottfn gfanings prior to Septem
ber I were ligted as 504,125 bales,
about 190,000 less than to the same
date last season. ^
Uplagd cqtton ginned fa Georgia
totalled 104
94,586 ^al«8 last year. In Alabama,'! tertidnment ti^fa «vi«tinf
88328 vbales against 37,191 bales; ‘
Florida, 7.045 bales against 5,101
bales; South Carolina, 13365 bales
(badss.
000 compared with 50 per cent at
present. Excess profits would be de
termined by present methods.
Sets'up a special 14-man commit
tee to investigate the possibility of
reducing non-defense expenditures.
Levies $5 annual use tax on auto
mobiles aiMl 7 per cent excise tax on
automobile manufacturers.
program would not repeat “the mis
takes of the first World War which
brought a long series of difficulties
for the farm people."
“The fact that we are asking for
greatly .increased production of some
commodities does not mean that
the lid is off on production of all
commodities," he continued.
' “We have adequate reserves of
grains for increased production of
livestock products and it will not
be necessary to increase total crop
acreage next year."
We need to consume more dairy
cotton ginned fa Georgia: imposes 10 per cent levies on local
4,947 bales compared with teleifaone bills, theater and other «x-
agafast 15,7541
Will Open Dove
Seoson Defcewriber 1
The 1941 dove season, of interest
to thousands Of fportsnen, will open
Monday, December 1, and continue
through Janugry U. A bag limit of
12 birds has been fixed.
In contrast to the season of last
year, the new season will be cur
tailed. liast year, the season opened
Septmber 16 and continued imtil the
end of October; fa«i reopened the
that of the yeer for anofacr period
of several we^a.'
I 10 cents
and mdre; radios and phonograhpa,
musical fastrumenfa, club dues over
$10 annually, sporting goods, refri-
gmtors, luggage, electrical, gas and
oil appliances, photograifaic appara
tus, electric sigi^ busing and store
machines, weahing machines and op
tical e<|fapment
Taxes at 5 per cent night club bills
and transpmfation tickets costing
over 15 cents.
CITY TAX LEVY'
SET AT 38li MILLS
The town of Clinton tax ordinance
for 1941 to levy annual taxes upon
all taxable property appears in to
day’s Ifaper as • approved by city
council on Sept. 1.
(The fax le^ has been fixed at
38^ miUs, fae same as last year. The
levy is divided 12 mills for current
expenses, 26 H mills for the purpose
of raising taxes to pay interest accru
ing on outstanding bonds and provide
a sinkfag fund 'for retirement of
same. In the total millage, mills
is Included to meet interest accruing
I on $85,000 public library bonds is
sued May 1, 1939, for the building on
South Broad street which has been
under construction more than two
years as a WPA project
Taxes under the ordinance are
payabW by the 15th day of Novem
ber, 1941, after which a penalty of
10 per cent will be added.
Ja frrya ^4 Mjigiproducta in this country for im-
ewmSka M a^IcXrirali sffihglh arid the
from the standSfa^Mtional de'- tremendous quan-
fense; and it has great possibilities .fvaporated milk and
for farm people of the state," says milk.
Director D. W. Watkins of Clemson , the production of
college, who expresses the hope that'po^ds of milk in
there will be a large attendance not I about 8,200,000,000 pounds
only of farm people but citizens gen-j®^''® the estimated 1941 production,
erally wherever the train stops. 1 **** ** 4,000,-
All phases of farming and farm' ®^'®®® a" increase of about
living are represented from soils and 330,000,000 dozen over this year
‘The new session at Presbyterian
college began ’Tuesday with the ar
rival of a large freshman class. Up
perclassmen will arrive today.
The annual orientation period for
new students began Tuesday evening
with a “welccmie" meeting in the
college chapel. On Saturday evening
the Brinual Y.M.CA. reception will
be given in honor of the new stu
dents. Sunday ' afternoon a special i show gpurebred beef ’ cattle, dairy
vesper service, will be held with the
Rev. McLeod Frimpton, pastor of the
Third Presbyterian church of Green
ville, as the guest speaker.
New members of this year’s facul
ty are Dr. John W. Forsythe of
Princeton, N. J., Dr. John W. Frey of
Stedton, Pa., Dr. John W, Harris 6f
Spartanburg, H. G. Prince of Char
lotte, who has been added to the ad-
minijrtrative staff, and Maurice Hold-
graf of Houston, Texas, assistant var
sity football coach.
IncrtMes the pfasent whJilcey fax
from $8 to $4 a galkm and raises ex
isting wine faxes approximately 100
per cent.
Mr. and Mrs. £. C, of At-t
lanfa, Ga., were ffu^,'Satimiay at
J4r,.«QcL Mzi. iXnA. ^Burton. —r-----
Alfaough the dates of the new sea
son M^ifOr to cause numerous cma-
plsfafa M) the part 4>ortsmen, It
was pointed out fa a fatter by ^ A.'
Richardson, difaf game werdm for
South Carolina, faat tha aeas'on is
flxe(^ by faderal\attthoritfaf and there <
is notbfag that can be done locally i
fa dianiiMhe dates fa this sfate. i
Twice, Mr.'Richardson aaid In his!
latter, he had feconunended to the,
U. S. Fish and WOdlilt strvice that;
' South Carolina be permlttod to obr,
ferve the same saaaon as last year.
aBoUi raquesta, he said, had been dls-
^ regarded.
SO FAR THIS TIAR THERE
HAVE BEEN
DeloMtes Nomed
Fdir School Meet
Dr. Bothwell Graham
Locates In Clinton
Bothwell Graham^ M. D., son of
Prof. B. Graham and Mrs. Graham,
and a grandson of Mrs. W. S. Bead
and the late Dr. W. S. Bean, has lo
cated here for the practice of medi
cine, with offices at his residence on
North Broad street. .
Dr. Graham is a graduate of Pres
byterian college and of the Univer
sity of Virginia where he took his
medical course. For two years fol
lowing an internship in New York,
he was engaged in public health
work in Pennsylvania, Washington,
F. W. Taylor, of Laurens, presi
dent; Mrs. IfaVld Copeland ox Renno,
vice-president, and J. Leroy Bums of
Lajurenk, sacrefary, of the Laurens
Cou^ ,Education association, wiU
atte^ the annual meeting of county ^
edueaftloB -ogfafafa with Eoutlx CaroMur. Grahain wtR team* with Tmbwt
seeds to marketing and home con
sumption. The livestock exhibits
f '’
ogs, and poultry, along with
efficient equipment and methods of
handling.
Visitors enter the eight-car special
at the front, where an accurate count
is kept, and the first exhibit is head
ed “Timl^r Aids the Fanru’.’ Timber
management and utilization is illus
trated and its relation to wild life
made plain. Soil conservation is il
lustrated with a miniature farm in
relief where proper conserving prac
tices are illustrated and a companion
farm is carried faat shows the cor
responding ills of erosion goirxg on
unhindered.
“Better Farm Living,” the theme
of the entire train, is the title of the
next large display.
A car is devoted to “Quality Hogs
for Home Market."
The train will be in Laurens Fri
day, Sept. 12, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30
p.m.
The Coes Move
To Gaffney
An increase of 7,700,000 in the
number of hogs slaughtered was^fix-
ed as the pork goal for 1942 while
increases also were asked in the pro
duction of beef and veal, chickens,
lamb and mutton.
The 1942 acreage goals for cotton
and fobacco were little changed from
1941. The. wheat goal was placed
at betYveen 50„tc) 55 million acres,
compart with an estimate of 83,-
503,000 this year.
Increased acreage goals were set
for sweet potatoes, potatoes and
conunercial vegetables.
Since fruit production can not be
quickly increased, the department
said emphasis would be on better
distribution and prevention of waste.
Wickard said the 1942 goal pro
vided for a total farm production
15 per cent higher than the 1925-
29 average and about two per cent
higher than this year.
He added that total British needs
for the United States farm products
were expected to amount to about
six to eight per cent of this coun
try’s production, and that all exports
might amount to as much as eight to
ten per cent of total production.
Ifaa Educntkm association officials
Saturdhy, Sept. IS, fa Columbia^
The county offidals will plan co
operative woric between the. local and
state gnM4)a, will discuss county pro
grams outlined fa a handbook Just
issued by the association, and will
I outline a drivt to make membership
fa the state aasociation 100 per cent
fw the fifth consecutive year.
Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Coe and daugh-
_ _ _ ter, Miss Louise, left Monday for
Baltimore and New’ vork. For'th’e' p®^*}®^ ^h®”* '*'®y ^heir
past -year he has been doing post | home.
graduate work at JXike university, i p®®* ^® several
The frimds and acquaintances of’^®®” ^®* state NYA director,
CLINTON HIGH
SCHEDULE GIVEN
Moyo Resiani
Lumens marches
The Rev. E P. Moye, pastor of
Watte Mill iod Todd Memorial Pres
byterian churches fa Laurens, has
ledlPMd his pastorates fa accept a
^ to the Bateeburg-LeesviUe and
Saluda Ihresbyterian churdies. Mr.
Moye, who caaoe to the Laurens
charge fa !Deee»ber, 1937,'expiMte to
enter upon his new work next week.
FATALITIES
tnOKL
AUTOHOBILB
ACODINTS
bi
LAURffi«}S COUNTY
Ltt’g Strivo TV* Main
1941 a Safa Taar On
Uit Hifhwaya.
Witherspoon Jobs
Greenville School
of his return to the city for the prac
tice of his profession.
LIONS SEEKING
100% MEETING
Offteers of the Lions club have an
nounced a q)eeial dfort wUl be made
to have a 100 per cent attend
ance at the meeting Friday evening
to be held at the club’s den.
The drive is being made to begin
the new season’s activities after the
summer vacation with enfausiasm
and also to honor tha recently-elected
new president, T. Heath Copeland.
Officers of fae club urge all mem-
J. Harvey Witherqxwn of Cross
HUl, has accepted a position as in
structor fa social scfattce at Ellen , , _ ^
Woodslde high school near Greenville,fa «*k® • epeclal effort to be
and entered upon his new work theipr®»®nt Friday ev^ing.
past week after serving five years' *
A ten-game schedule released for
^ ..... Clinton high school’s team gives the
resigned the ixwiitiop recentljrWije^T®®*^^'^*^ tvHteiis wiin the leading
come a member of the Limestone col-1 ***)[**“ °^ section of the state,
lege faculty as head of the depart- ^® '“®®* ^ the
ment of jcducation. Their daughter, i curtain-raiser Sept. 1 and close the
card>with Thomwell here Nov. 19 or
20.
The complete schedule:
Sept. 19—Belton here.
Sept. 26—Greenville there.
Oct. 3.—Union there.
Oct. 10—Laurens here.
Oct. 17—Greenwood there.
Oct. 24—Easley here.
Oct. 31—Gaffney there.
Nov. 7—Newberry there.
Nov. 14—Honea Path here. ^
Nov. 19 or 20—Thomwell here.~
Miss Louise, will become a student at
Limestone.
The Coes have many friends here
whose best wishes will follow them
to their new home.
This
JMT. U
as superintendent of the Cross Hill
■fthnoL
Mr. Witherspoon Is a graduatf of
Davidson coUb®> tke University of
South Carolina and Columbia univer-
sityyHa is well known here, having
eoecessfuUy heeded the Clinton
schools for the fifteen year period
1980-1938.
CARTER IN ADt CORPS
Walter Carter of this city, a gradu
ate of tiees-McRae college, Banner
Elk, N. C., this year and employed
at the college during the summer,
was inducted into the United States
army xir corps a few days ago and
left Monday f<Hr Maxwell Field for
his preliminary training.
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Official Vote For
County And Stote
In the special senatorial primary
held in Laurens county September
2nd, a total of 3,420 votes were cast
from an enrollment of 12,706. The
vote was divided: Bryson 1,436,
Johnston 930, Maybank 1,054.
The total state vote stood: May-
barii 59,017, Johnston 40,296, Bry
son 25357.
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