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Page Six THE CLINTON CHRONICLE/CLINTON, S. C. Thursday, August 6, 1942 Want Ads WANTED — Two milk cows young calves. H. J. Pitts. LYDIA MILLS NEWS wlth FOR THE WEEK lc Mrs. W. P. McLendon. Correspondent Lands Safely Abroad KEROSENE—12c per gallon. Yar-I Mrs. Bill Crocker and daughter borough Oil Co. West Main St. tf spent last week in Winston-Salem, N. C., with Mr. Crocker. FOR SALE—Several used bicycles, Mr> and Mrs F . E. Brown and Mr. boys’ and girls’. New tires for sale. and M rs . Herbert Brown and son See Lewis Cooper. Phone 210-M. tf v i s jt ed M re> Herbert Brown’s mother, ' "* Mrs. Owens, of Gray Court, recently. FOR RENT-Apartment with Mr . and Mre . M . G . Overstreet of entrance and private MountvtUe, were weekend guests of in. Call 146-M. TiMr. and Mrs. Reuben Overstreet. OFFICE FOR RENT —^ In National Miss Vivian Clark is spending a Bank Building. See Copeland-Stone few weeks with her sister, Mrs. Co., or Heath Copeland. tf George Phillips, near Clinton. — “ ~~ , . . ! Otis Sanders visited his mother in FOR RENT — 3-room downstairs union the past week. ^rtmentMrs, Putn,m.Jc | ^ ^ ^ an(J Mr and WANTED RADIOS TO RE1PAIR— Mrs. Boyd Grant and children arei Called for and delivered. Reason-1 spending the week' in Asheville, N. able charges, prompt service. Call C.jC., with relatives. D. (Simon) Pitts. Phone 267-J. 6-5c Doyle Emery is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. J. L. Rhodes, near Mountville, this week. Mrs. Gus Tinley and son, Jimmy, of Goldville, are spending the week ALL KINDS OF FIREWOOD—Give me your orders for size and length wanted. Pet B^Adair, Phone 397-W. FOR RENT — Two-room apartment,, k er da ughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.‘Fred Ellis. Misses Mary Williams and Virginia, TYPEWRITER RIBBONS for aU ma- Sharpton visited the former’s uncle, J chines portable and standard Car- Wiley Shirley, in Norfolk last week V 1 r — « « mm M H JT _ TV T w-.v O T LJ 1 1 4 «• ^ private bath and entrance. Sham rock Apartments. A. O’DanieL tf bon paper, rubber stamps. Call 74 Chronicle Publishing Co. Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Hunter 1 family spent the week-end in , . i derson with Mr. and Mrs. S FOR RENT — Entire upstairs my Rowell , ■ ’ house—four rooms and bath. Ap-, Mr and Mrs W illiam Ellis had as ply 81 Musgrove St. •lc WANTED — More and iron in the pen Clinton Lions Club. their Sunday guests Mr. and Mrs. more scrap! James Dunaway'and family, Petej on the square.land Lucille Copeland and Mr. andj tf Mrs. Edgar Brazill and children, of near Clinton. chief dangerpoint in our efforts to stem inflation and may also interfere th our war production, as threat- by the synthetic rubber move. The next most important threat to our emergency program is the un willingness of the government go take a Arm hand with labor. The decision of the War Labor board to increase wages in the “Little Steel” induftries, by an amount equal to the increased costs of living—a decision which has! set a formula for the demands bf alii industry—is believed by experts here to be a move which practically forces inflation. Under that formula, each time there was an increase in living costs there would be more demands for pay rises, manufacturers would have to increase their prices to meet the increased labor costs and a vi-1 San Francisco’s Market street rail way cars . . . The WPB, taking the dilemma of conservation firmly by the horns, has prohibited the sale by all retail stores of officers’ insignia for use . as costume jewelry and has ordered that service men may no longer give such insignia to their “girl friends.” WOMAN OF THE WEEK: Since the bill providing for e women’s na- SUNNY SIDE UP: That the OPA does not wish to discourage buying of items not on the priority list is in dicated by the reported increase-in business in what are called the “lux ury trades.” Furs, fine jewelry, china and furniture sales are high and ap parently are going to be higher. But don’t be alarmed. We haven’t sud denly gone money mad. What ac tually is happening is that manufac- cious circle'would be put into oper- j /j] auxiTia~ry~was firs/ tatroduced ln turer * of luxury items are “trading ation in which wages and prices con gress, there kad apparently been! down-” Jewelers report sales of 100,- would race upward together. !uttle doubt that MUdred McAfee, the! 000 diam °nd rings a month since All of the “Little Steel" companies! 42-year-old president of Wellesley i Pearl Harbor, but most of these sold have accepted the War Labor board’s, college, would be chosen as its head ior le8S 111811 * 50 - And economical ruling because they have been forced Bom ^ Parkville, Mo she was grad-1 furs - U** muskrat, wolf, beaver and to under the threat of losing their ua ted from Vassar in 1920. Since theni°P OMum accoun t for the bulk of the idn’t comply. In s he has worked with girls and wo- * ur “l® 8 * businesses if they didn a statement made following accep- men as a teacher, administrator, dean y sar 1 - tance, the Inland Steel company said: of ^ director of girls’ work “In the name of patriotism, Inland f or a Chicago church. She is khown is compelled to do a thing which iti^ a capa bie administrator,* although believes to be wrong because the al- hfer yoS^i appearance and vi/id temative would interfere with war p^-sonanty are deceptive. Like the pr f!^ Cti0 ?' i ». ' j director of the WAAC, she can ac- p. IP 1 * rt** 1 workers threatened to complish _ a grtat deal without 0 b- if to* company did not com-; vious effort and without the desper _ ply. The War Labor board threatened a tely efficient manner sometimes to invoke the full power of the Presi-1 found in women who are «. doing dent to cqmpel the company to com-, things.” ply, meaning that the company’s RUTABAGA SEED. Plant your Rut- j abagas now. We have American LaurenS are spending • sometime Purple Top Yellow Rqtabaga and, with Miss Chaney ’ s sister Mrs Bill also Breadstone, Seven Top, Pur P le . McLendon . Top, White Egg arid Man y °to*Ji Roy Wilson and Lloyd Huntington Kinds of Turnip. Blakely ros. charleston, visited Mr. and Mrs. Store. Telephone 188. lc' M. C. Smith the past week-end. U. S. APPROVED CHICKS — Prices Mr. and Mrs. Lee Smith reduced. Bloodtested Barred and daughter and Mrs. Doshie Smith of White Rocks, New Hampshires, R. I. Laurens, spent Sunday with Mr. and Reds, $8.95 the 100 delivered. Hatch- Mrs. S. L. Oakley, es off every Tuesday. Farmers Hatch- Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ellis and Ber- ery 908 Main St., Newberry, S. C. nice Ellis visited friends in Green-j ——- 1 Etc., that need repairing at Blakely ^„ ey Spent Pvt. D. Kirksey Snelgrove bf this city, has arrived safely at some point Clara Bolt and Virginia Chaney of; in the Pacifjic, his mother has been " advised. Kirksey entered the service last October and several months before he sailed for foreign service was sta tioned at Camp Shelby, Miss. He is the son of Mjt. and Mrs. B. B. Srtftl- and^ grove of this* tity. THE NATIONAL SCENE As Washington Sees It Brothers Seed Store. Telephone 188. Sunday with Virginia Special to The Chronicle. j. Washingten, Aug. 4.—Undes a new Miss Inez McDonald and Mr. and p ro g ram announced by Leon Hen- STRAYED—From C. W. Stone home Mrs. CL Ml Broom visited Mr. , der s 0n( head off the Office of Price place, one white-faced Hereford Broom’s sisterr Mrs. Bessie Farr, in AdrrnntsTfafio'n, a purchaser can sue bull, weight about 1200 lbs. Anyone Union Sunday. a retailer for at least $50 if the re having information contact C. W. Mrs. Rosa Cole had as her Sunday tailer charges a price higher than lc guests Mr. and Mrs. Seemore Cole of Stone. , FOR RENT—Two unfurnished rooms. Hl11 - L. C. Duckett. Thornwell St. Ip . Mr - ? n _ d tyrs. Jim .Turner aT } d ———-r— ; . . , . , dren of Greenville, spent Sunday wth FOR RENT—Office in rear of Adairs Mr and Mrs M v p att erson. Men’s Shop, formerly occupied by Dr. Geo. R. Blalock. See I. M. Adair. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Lewis of ..‘ rens, spent the week-end with _ c Lewis’s sister, Mrs. I. G. Smith. that established by retail price ceil ings. Under Mr. Henderson’s order, which is expected to aid greatly in the enforcement of maximum prices, a civilian can sue for treble the over charge by a retailer, or for $50, whichever is greater, and the retailer will also be required to pay court costs, lawyer’s fees, etc. On many lines of goods the regu lation is expected automatically to take care of enforcement, but there daughter are s tilL many difficulties which Lau- Mrs. with engraved plate. Modern design. 'All for $3.50. Chronicle Publishing Co., Phone 74. FOR RENT — Two rooms and bath, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Cranford and to one or two men. Apply to Mrs. children of Charleston, visited Mrs. Ansel Godfrey. Phone 254-J. Ip Cranford’s mother, Mrs. S. W. Al- opes^on platinum 1 parchment paper and Miss Blanch Miller spent the, s t a nd in the way of permanent price ^ F , ,_„ F week-end in Andrews with relatives, stabilization. Mrs. Alma Harvey and family and The demand for freezing of farm Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Harris and son, prices and for the.freezing of wages - Billy, visited thd former’s father, Mr. h as increased greatly during the last BABY CHICKS—Blood Tested Bar- Medlock, in Whitmire Sunday.month. The rapidly increasing costs red Rocks, White Rocks, R. I. Reds, Mf. and Mrs. Claude Willard and 0 f certain meats, plus the shortage White Wyandottes and Buff«Orping- family sp^nt Saturday in Ware 0 f meats in some’cities, is blamed bn tons. Also Feeds, Feeders, Fountains, Shoals with Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Jar- the lack of control oyer farm prices. Remedies and Oyster Shells. Blake- vis. , Figures indicate that the cost of iiv- ly Brothers Seed Store. Telephone Miss Rebecca Todd is spending the mg continues to rise because of the plants would be taken from it. The company had no alternative. It had to comply.” Hoping to let these situations drift along until November before the BRITAIN AT WAR: In Canada the lotte Observer, provirvce ot Quebec is going “all out” for tank production, with 500 women already at work at welders . . .' The WITH THE PRESS Editorial Comment From Various Papers. PLENTY OP IT So far, nobody has suggested that sin be rationed, probably because there is always a surplus.—TheChar- EXPERTS IN SYNTHETICS Chief Justice Stone having refused an independent investi- *the rubber situation” for pubUe'sdemand for action become, | U-on of South Afric. h„ conduct too treat, many congressmen and: n T w °" g :l*nny stamp carry mg the senators have left Washington to go to talk to the homefolks to see how! the prospects are for votes. The en- lized with about of them doing toat service. In the recent years the tire house of representatives and one- t d0m£ , judgments of some of the gentlemen on the supreme bench have exhibited rubberlike qualities, and they have picture of a war nurse ... A dispatch 'toe president, perhaps Associate Jus- from England reveals that British tic « Black or Associate Justice * i women are almost 100 per cent mobi- Byrnes is complacently available for third of the senate is to be replaced^ 1111 time war Production work or reelected at the coming election and the members are extremely jit-1 HEADS “WAR BRIDES”: Mrs. . tim . S vmnnthi»tlrallv tery about the voters' reaction to Evelyn Richmah Kashuk, whose hus- .. w0 ^. JJlkhinc chlractcrkifcs 1 ^ what they have been doing during » corporal in the. »rmy. was ^ co ,S ilutlon One^ almost per? the past year. They all want to get ( "^ i X" suId’oTti^e s^rem, ^urteo^d on the home grounds and learn what Brides of America, an organization Drovide ^ neonle with a rnnstitn the people really think, but some of of women who have become brides p ™ vlde , them also fear they may irritate vot- ( since September, 1940. -I ers by being at home when so many* * ; important questions are now being SIGNS OF THE TIMES: Women decided in Washington. ^ are working as student conductors on SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLB of synthetic rubbeY were the present constitution captured by the Japanese.—The News and Courier. 188. lc week in Anderson John Saxon. with her uncle. FOR SALE—All in good order, ser vice of six- dinner set, Czechoslo vakian china: couch and., matching Frank Hoffman food products which are not under price control. According to figures chair; one solid mahogany rocker, two Majestic radios Mrs. Homer Richey spent last week released by Mr. Henderson, the price in Rock Hill with her sister, Mrs. of uncontrolled lamb rose 10 per cent between May 15 and June 15, the i Margaret Qauble is visiting Vir- Mountville this upholstered; iwu ginia Southern ;n (aerial type); one Victor vic.trola; wee k one portable Roya! typewriter. .Write Mr ‘ and Mrs Milton King of V. G-, Box -39, Clinton. Greenville, are spending the week with Mrs. King’s parents, Mrs. G. H. Jackson. CALL Wyman Shealy For Prompt Plumbing and Heating * Service 105 E. Ferguson St. Mr. OVER THE TO? FOR VICTORY UNITED SI»nS WU BONDS-STAMPS greatest increase there ever has been in such a short period, the price of uncontrolled roasting chickens rose 9 per cent. On the controlled foods, such as and beef, bananas and capned fruits .and I vegetables, the price has declined in j Mr. and Mrs. Claude Willard and most cases, but the increase in prices family and Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Land on uncontrolled items has offset all visited Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Farmer, in reductions and caused an increase in Greenwood Sunday. j the total cost of living. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Hairston, Mrs.) Although thousands of types of Sam Hairston, J. D. Hairston and products are under strict price con- James and C. D. Bailey spent the;trol, the cost of living, in the eyes of ; week-end in Hattiesburg, Migs., with 1 most people, is measured primarily by the cost of food: With- food prices rising there is an increasing demand With the Sick ] that all food prices be put under con- Wayne McLendon underwent a t rol of the OPA. But it is not likely ! tonsil operation Monday at Hays hos- 1 that congress will agree to this—at pTTaL ; least until after the election—because Mrs. Edna Glenn has returned 0 f t he strong farm bloc in congress home after being a patient at Hays 'which insists on watching out for hospital a few days. j the interests of the farmers jxo mat- L Mrs. S. J. Todd is ill at her home, j ter how contrary that procedure may Friends of Poppy Harris will re- be to the interests of the nation as SOTTUqltaDER AUTHORITY OF THI COCA-COIA COMPANY IV GREENWOOD COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY Will It Be ‘Too Little and Too INSURANCE Fire - Tornado - Automo bile - Surety Bonds - All Forms of Property Insurance. SOUND PROTECTION AT LOWEST COST. REAL ESTATE B. H. BOYD Clinton, S. C. gret to know she is in the Laurens hospital with a broken leg. Birthday* Jimmy Reeder will birthday August 9. observe a whole. This attitude of congress was "clear ly demonstrated when both houses, despite presidential opposition, pass ed a measure to establish a separate Patsy Fuller celebrated her birth- j manufacture ^’"synthetic” r'ubb"er day Sunday. Ifrom farm products. Because of the Jerry Harris, Jr., had a birthday controversy over whether synthetic Jul y 51 * rubber should be made from farm Bruce Austin celebrated his birth- product*, f rom oil, or from both, day August 3. ! congress decided to take this matter ■Leon Abercrombie has a birthday into its own hands and see that tiid August 6. Swimming Party group with the largest number of votes got the break, no matter which method was adjudged best by ex- A group of boys and girls of the ^ on ^ War Production board. Gray Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ...and... EMBALMERS Ambulance Service Phones 41 and 399-J •V JSp'ImBBr ■ L. RUSSELL GRAY mmi Y. PARKS ADAIR. Gen. Hern. community went to Curry’s lake Fri day afternoon for a swimming party. .They were chaperoned by Mrs. Mae Madden and Miss Katherine Eichel- berger. Abercrombie Mr. and Mrs. Caskey Abercrombie announce the birth of a son, Jimmy ^Douglas, August 2. Mrs. Abercrom bie Is the former Miss Gertrude Steen. * ■4