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ilf 1' 4 Thursdoy^ November 20, 1941 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Page Sevwi Dr. Ellis B. Gray Opens Laurens Office From The Laurens Advertiser: i , Dr. Ellis B. QvtJt who recently moved* to his home near the city al ter residing in Florida for two years, has announced the opening of an of fice at 116^ West Main street in Laurens for the practice of his pro- fessitm. His practice, he annouxiced, will be limited to the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. S Dr. Gray is a son pt MH. R. L. Gray and the late R. L. Gray of Gray Court. He received his acadonic de gree at Duke university and later took his medical degree at Harvard. He was formerly on the staff of the Mayo clinic at Rodiestar, Minn^ end is a Fellow of the American College of Suigeons. For a number of >ears be was engaged in practice in Spar tanburg. While living in Spartanburg Dr. Gray purchased the old Allen Dial homeplace in the Trinity Ridge sec tion of this county and carried out a considerable restoration program. He has made his home there since re turning from Florida. } AMERICAN BOMK k ^P^i B..................B....a...M..........M.. ^ a VMM sa os JAMES W. CALDWELL Special Representattve CaU i Ptetared above is the oxdlege crack drill platoon composed of 42 E.O.T.C. cadets commanded by Cadet Captains J. Gnyten Thompson and' Heath Blake. On the left, the cadets are pictined Just before taking 9B tale one of their tatrteate formations. Pletnre number two shews the phUoM In the "tC” formation which always draws thundemos Mtplanae from the Presbyterian stands. ' > UDIA MILLS NEWS FOR THE WEEK Firglala Bladksrsil, Cwrsaiiondent THE NATIONAL SCENE As Washington Sees It f> for COLD DISCOMFORTS Liquid 3Sc "Han That Nan* Orap Effect” O. E. Godfrey of Florence, was Special to The Chronicle, the week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs. j Washington, Nov. 18.—It looks as Matt Davis. I though no new taxes will be passed Miss Nellie Jackson visited Mr. and «m«re8s at this session in spite of Mrs. M. M. Moore in Spartanburg. the proposal by Secretary of the Monday. i Treasury Morgenthau for heavy new Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Phillips ^dj taxes to be deducted from 1942 in children and Mrs. Frances Watkins' Q_g_ of Camden, spent Sunday with Mr.' _ ’ . , • , x*. and Mrs. A. M. Shumate. ! The secretaipr’s aim of putting our llt1 gressmen would have preferred a{ Our navy is now in a position to vote on an actual declaration of war do whatever part is necessary in get- on Germany, but it is now thought ting munitions to the anti-Axis pow- unlikely that such a vote will be tek-1 ers and for the time being there is en this winter. i no further role which it fs consid ered necessan^ for us to play. PTota- ably not until there is a demand lor an American expeditionary force wfll any further vote on war be presented to congress. war effort a little closer to being on a pay-as-we-go basis and at the Mrs. Effie Tinsley of GoldvUle, visited Mrs. Rachel Moseley Sunday. Misses Amber and Aimette Eskew' game time curbing inflation by high' spent the week-end with friends in' Spartanburg. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Grant and daughter, Carolyn, of Whitmire, vis- er taxes is being carefully side- tradeed by congressmen who already are acting with an eye on the con gressional elections a year from this I Will ramov* yosH eom with osu| mck* I ajaor uMuay bauta J JlFFY-25< Far 8i^ By 8AOLER-OWBH8 PHARMACT W. J. BlplN JAMIN SERVICE STATION Standard Products Cara Waahad and Oraaaad Tour Boainaaa Appradatad ited Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Brown Sun-1 month. , The secretary had suggested that a Johnny Brandt and Marion Me- j new tax be passed before the end of Minn spent Sunday with Mrs. Dor- jjje year so that it could be collect- ot^ Griffin in Laurens. jed Ijaginning with the flrst week in Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Black, Sr., and 1942. He proposed a tax of as much son, Thomas, and John Henry Bur-1 15 pgr cent of the taxable income nett Were guests of J. R. Castle in i of au wage earners, to be deducted Lockhart recently. by employers from wages and sal- Mr. and Mrs. Joe Stukes of Bel-1 aries. It was pointed out that tHi* ton, visited Mr. and Mrs. C. J>lplan would really call for the pay- Blackw^ll on Sunday. 1 jng of two income taxes- in one year Mr. and Mrs. Russell Cobb and j —since the new tax would be paid children motored to Kings Mountain, j out of 1942 income and 1941 income N. C., Simday. j taxes would also be paid during Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Brooms, Fran- 1942. CM and InM McDonaM spent Simday, Congress, however, is not expected V. TYPEWRITERS Aathorisad Underwood Donlor. Cleaning and repairing aD wnkm, roasonaUe ehargoa. Kenneth N. Baker Phono m with Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Dye in Great Falls. Mrs. DeShields of Spartanburg vis ited Mrs. Pauline Lawson on Wed nesday. Harold Ervin of~Fort Bragg, N. C., j Almost as frightening as taxes to spent the week-end with his parent!, 1 congressmen is the demand for price to act ujpon new taxes this year. And as the 1942 elections get closer they are less and less apt to pass tax (measures unless the president puts on great pressure for their passage Mr. and Mrs. Tom Ervin. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Bridwell of Woodruff, Mrs. John Littlefield and daughter, Bobby, visited Mr. and Mrs. T(»n Ervin Sunday. :^^Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Black, Jr., spent KEROSENE... I IQc Per Gallon YARBOROUGH OIL COMPANY WEST MAIN STBEET. I E AkLY ! * • ' CHRISTMAS CLUB PLAN PENNEY’S CUNTON, S. C. BENJAMIN & SONS PLUMBING ..4Uld • M HEATING SERVICE Telephone 9268 Wl^ ARE HUNTING TROUBLE control legislation which they are now forced to act upon. It is expect ed that some form of price control will be passed but unless the con gressional attitude toward it changes radically it is unlikely that a meas- SUBday in Spartanburg with Mrs. A.'! ure with enough teeth in it to stem M. Eihery. (inflation will be enacted. Opposition Roy Waldrep of Selma, Ala., is by farmers to price control and by visiting Claud Singley for a faw days. Habor to wage control is expected to Miss Avis Wilkes motored to Spar- prevent passage of any adequate tanburg Sunday. {measure. Therefore, it is predicted Mr. and Mrs. Charlie James were by economic experts here, that we week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. R.; can expect high increases in prices L. James in Greer. (during 1942 and therefore continued Mr. and Mrs. Dorroh Hairston,; demands by labor for more increases Jim Bailey and W E. Johnson visit- ip wages. ed C. A. Patterson in Spartanburg^ xhe railroad situation, with a gen- Sunday. 'eral railroad strike threatened for Johnny Eskew of ^lumbia, spent, December 5, has centered attention the week-end with his mother, Mrs. j on labor problems again. The rail- B. E. Eskew. , j-oad mediation plan, which includes Johnny Wanack of Luftin, Texas, | a 30-day “cooling off” period before visited friends here th^ past week., a strike goes into effect, has bMn - Luther Hughea spent Sunday with j^held up as ambden^fim which should his uncle. Bob Tayler, in Ora. be followed to prevent strikes in oth- Mrs. Pauline Lawson visited Mrs. gj- industries. It is only because of Jessie Lee Smith in Greenwood Sun- ^bg cooling off period provision that i . jthe railroad strike didn’t begin on H. W. Williams and son, Edward, > i^ovember 6. At that time both rail- Charlie Estes, Posey Davis and John road employers and employes turned Nelson visited Mr. and Mrs. E. W. j(jown a compromise plan offered by Shirley in Seneca Sunday. ,3 fact-finding board appointed by the Mr. and Mrs. Burton Reeder visit-! president. The plan provided for ed Mr. and Mrs. Milton King in temporary wage increases which Greenville Sunday. j whch would have cost the railroads I $270,000,000. If, ^because of the cool- Honor^ at Dinner, Qff pgriod, the railroad strike is A dinner was given in honor of averted, it is held likely that con- Mr. and Mr^. Fred Ellis who were gress will make such a mediation pe- recently married. Mrs. Ellis was riod mandatory before any strike can formerly Miss Nell Tinsley of Gold-1 be carried out. But if the railroad ville. Guests for the occasion were: I plan doesn’t work out, then the pub- Mr. and Mrs. Owen Whitmire and 1 Hg dgmand for anti-strike legislation TOn,' Mr., and Mrs. Judsoa Whitmire j^jn again be strong. and Mrs. Effie Tinsley, of Goldville, Mr. and Mrs. James Dunaway and children, Mrs. Bessie Whitmire, El- ene and Nellie Brazil of Clinton. Birthday! As the United States becomes a, more active participant in the war,' following congressional action ending restrictions on our merchant marine and permitting the arming of our ships, this city is playing host to two Huntn^on celebrated his important diplomats who may have bx^day yesterd^, Novmber 19. ja lot to do with our next moves in Mrs. Charlie James observed her. ^g ^ar. One visitor is a well-known birthday November 18. Joan Kuykendall had a birthday November 12. Sunday ,wa\.the birthday of Jasoea Griffin. ' DON'T USE fMce mmcmtmnoK Modtra seleac* ttvwm on tlio noo oC ■troBf, explooivo notbods to rtiitvo ooaott^iOB. PRtnvOLi. tbo aMdora fnrtt I uleo laxatlT% provtdos gmUt |rot Uorouch roltof w ' lor ovtn bora COMO of a aetoatiflo oainlo iuieo oad lairrodloi i^U tbn WMBH* o • a pr thftnoA praptur tad luSrtcMloa. «da aid tuarai :ab« OU^^ Ofmioi fnfaafinai tiontro* Ntfwala- Tour dranlot h oaim«Bd« gMMrooa fOe oad ^4e aiMa. Japanese diplomat, Saburo Kunisu, whose conversations with our gov ernment officials may detarmine whether we will have war or peace in the Pacific. The other diplomat, with whom government officials are most anxious to work out plans for the part we will play in this war, is Maxim Litvinoff of Russia. With a leading Japanese and Rus- a diplomat in Washington at the A t # ^ V 1.* i time, it la wondered if any ef- formal ^thering be held 1 be noade to bring them to- S^day afternoon at 8 o’clockto aim.at working out the at the Srout Itoim, imder the direc-relationa which noV exist tion of Mrs. D. J. Brimm. between the Soviet and Japan, but it is probable that Mr. Kurusu’s mis- SlduMas Paul McLendon is suffering a spraiitad smkle injury. Mrs. Mike Allen is ill at her home. each D. J. Brinun. A community choir is being or ganized and ever]rone is invited to Join in the singing. At the meeting this Sunday plaiu will be made for a Christmas pageant v Birth Aonounceinent MeQUEIN Mr. and Mrs. A. H. McQueen of Loris, aimounce the birth of a son, Arthur Harrelson, Jr., on Friday^ November 14, at the Mullins hoa- pitaL Mrs. McQueen before marriage wag, Miss Mary Pinapn of ffils city. WB DO ALL KINDS OF PRINTING -^CBPTBAD CHRONiCLfc puBusHoro oa klcm will be confined entirely to re lations between his'country and the United States. j ^ Whether the strained relations which exist between tiiia country and Japan can be lessened by the conver sations with Mr. Kurusu is doubted, but it is expected that these conver- satkms will clarify the situation in thekPacilltf and thus aid our govern ment in determining whether our navy must be divided between two oceans or if we can strengthen our foroas the Atlantic to speed the delivery of munitions to tae anti- Axis powers. The shelving of our neutrality act is omsldered here as a green light for our jBavy to go to war. Beeauat of thgt interpretation, certain con You'll have more Christmas money if you buy your Gasoline from Me- Coy's — the $ovings will surprise you. Think of the ^nnies saved every time you buy a gallon of McCoy's gas- V’ oline and figure whot these pennies amount to over a period of time. Letfrn the SAVING WAY, os hundreds of Clinton motorists hove already learned, by buying . . —- McCOY’S REGULAR A Gasoline gal. 20c TUNE IN on THE RANGERS over WBT—Tuesday and Thursday, 8:30 to 8:45 A. M., Satnrday, 7:30 to 7:45 A. M. ■Mb McCOY’S CUT RATE Station Corner Florida and Musgrove Streets STATION SAVE 10 TO 152 ON GAS ! wrrmm Morricc NO OLDTCH TO I MOST BVBRYONB knows Hydra- Matio I>rhre*is a work tavo^. But few reaiiae that it*a a gaa aaver, too. Hero are the fects: Hydra- 'Matlc it engineered with four speeda forward. That permits Slower engine speeds. In fourth speed, foe ‘ example, 1,000 engine revolutions wiQ {mx^ your <Rds Hydra-Matic 3,130 feet as against 1,700 feet for a similar car with standard transmission. Hence, you get more mlleege on gaa—of^ oonversely, aara gas on any ghreo trip. 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