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*1 j > Thursday, November 25, 1943 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. ■ ■ I Ml.—■■■hi I • ■■ ■ ■ - — 1 _ I H Page Seven IN LOUISIANA SOUTH CLINTON NEWS FOR THE WEEK As Washington Sees It THE NATIONAL SCENE CpL Orin D. Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Davis of Clinton, jloute 1, who is now stationed *t Camp Clai borne, La. His wife, the former Miss Woodie Shumate and small son re side at 68 Pitts street. ' Mrs. Edith Cox of Laurens, spent the week-end with her sister, Mrs. HaUie Campbell. Mrs. Marion Lawson and daugh ter of Savannah, Ga., are spending some time with Mrs. Pauline Lawson. Mrs. Grovel 1 Kirby, Mrs. Eugene Kirby and Mrs. Ruth Fowler of [ Laurens,' visited Mr. and Mrs. Walter ! Kirby and Mrs. Ida Kirby Sunday. | Mrs. Carrie Nels% and children of Woodruff, spent the week-end with her sister, Mrs. Louise Lawson. Friends of Billy Jones will be glad to hear of his promotion to corporal. Jim Bailey visited relatives and friends in Greenwood Sunday. Mrs. N. E. Hill of Enoree, has re turned home after spending a few days with her daughters, Mrs. Eula Quinton and Miss Ada Hill. Mr. and Mrs. James McC arson were visitors in Newberry Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Haupfear of Mountville, and James Hauppfear of Goldville, visited Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Land, 6r., during the week-end. Special to Hie Chronicle. Washington, Nov. 23. —Until re cently, the cost 6f living index fig ures issued by the bureau of labor statistics of the department of labor seem to have been accepted as gos pel. But now, with labor groups ask ing for higher wages because of high retail prices and the OPA,working to bring prices down to normal, consid erable doubt has been cast on the accuracy of the bureau’s figures. Consequently, a committee of the War Labor board; which must deter mine whether to recommend higher wages, is investigating current figures to find out if they do reflet the true cost of living. According to the bureau’s figures, the cost of living has increased 22.9 per cent since January, 1941. But since the cost of some groups of items has risen more than that aver age and others less the increase in the cost of living probably varies ac cording to the requirements of each family and of each income group. The bureau figures, for example, show that the! cost of food has risen STATIONERY — YoU will find a complete line in our Stationery de partment, all sizes and popular pric es. Chronicle Pub. Co n Phone 74. BRONCHIAL COIGHS! •r toatMal InttiMe— Dm to NMi Buckley's Famous “CANADKH ,J Mixture Acts Uko a Flash Spend a few cents today at any good store lor a bottle of Backley'a . Mixture (trt|‘ * A.DIOL Mixture (triple acting).I a couple of sips at bedtime. — itant powerful effective „ thru throat, head and bi tube*. It starts at dnce to loosen thick, choking phlegm, soothe i membranes and make-breathing eaa Sufferers from those persistent, nasty Irritating coughs or bronchial Irrita tions due to colds find Buckley's quick and effective relief. Don’t wait get Buckley's Cansdld today. You relief Instantly. SMITH’S PHARMACY “The Rexnll Store” Gray Funeral Home Clinton, 3. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ..•&nd.,. EMBALMERS Am balance Sendee Phones 41 and S99-J L. RUSSELL GRAY and f. PARKS ADAIR. Gen. Mgra. Any Exeats Yaa CaaFMFarNat Uppi*Yasr BaailayinWI P&G Paints Linseed Oil Turpentine If you don't want to put it on yourself, we will brush or blow It on. for you. Portland CenAnt Lime, Plaster Stone and Sand Sheetrock . Felt Roofing . Asphalt Shingles RoU Rpofing Brick Some Rough and Dressed Lumber Doors, Sash Glflfa John Deere Tractors and Implements That Work No Job Too Small— Plenty Too Bif m Crawford Charles Patterson spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Patterson, in Spartanburg. Rev. and Mrs. Floyd Brown on Sunday visited their daughter-in- law, Mrs. Hubert Brown, who is a patient in the Newberry hospital. St. and Mrs. Fred Ellis and daugh ter of South Dakota, and Goldville, spent-several days with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Ellis. N. W. Medlock of Whitmire, visit ed his daughter, Mrs. Alma Harvey, and son, John Medlock, during the week-end. Misses Eva Mae ^nd Bernice Ellis spent the week-end with Mrs. Hous ton Ellis and daughter in West Clin ton. S. 2-c B. F. Harvey, has returned to Virginia after spending a ten-day leave with his mother, Mrs. Ben Harvey. J. A. Mills of Spartanburg, spent the week-end with his son, Rufus Mills, and Mrs. Mills. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Chandler of Goldville, visited Mr. and Mrs. George Pressley Sunday. S. 1-c Earl A. Glenn has returned to Newport News, Va., after a four- teen-day leave with Mrs. Glenn. Fletcher Bennett of Savannah, Ga., spent the week-end with Mrs. Ben nett and children. Mrs. Clarence Blackwell and Mrs. W. N. Blackwell visited Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Patterson near Clinton Sunday. Miss Eloise Brown visited her sis ter, Mrs. Boyd Grant, in Whitmire Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Blackwell vis ited Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kellett ur Ninety-Six Sunday. Misses Mamie Willard and Frances McDonald are spending Thanksgiv ing with friends a in Augusta, Ga. Mrs. Milton King and son of Greenville, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Jackson today. Among The Sick Jimmy Reeder has measles. Little Edward Taylor is ill. Jimmy Davis has chicken pox. Paul Davis has measles. Little Nancy Harvey is improving after a week’s illness. Mrs. Louise Harvey is ill. Miss Nellie Owens is a patient in a Greenville hospital. $ Birthdays and Wedding Anniversaries Miss Nellie Ruth Campbell wiH observe a birthday November 27. Mrs. Boyd Wilkes of Savannah, Ga., is observing a’ birthday today. Mr, and Mrs. J. E. McLendon ob served their second wedding anniver sary' November 22. Miss Maude Harvey will observe a birthday November 29. Luther Hughes observed a birth day November 18. Frank Farmer dbserved a birth day November 22. Miss Ada Hill observed a birth day last Wednesday. Birth Announcement Campbell Pvt. and Mrs. Fred Campbell of Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., and this community, announce the birth of a daughter November 21. Mrs. Camp bell is the formerRffiss Evelyn Cald well. Dr. Jones To Preach Dr. F..D. Jones, former pastor of Lydia Presbyterian church, will preach Sunday morning November 28, at 11:15. The public is cordially invited to attend the services. Birthday Dinner Mrs. C. L. Hairston hoqored her husband with a dinner on Thursday celebrating his 66th birthday. Those enjoying the occasion were Mr. and Mrs. Glynn Hairson and children, Mr. and Mrs. Dorroh Hairston and children and Miss Roberta Chaney. 40.5 per cent while the cost of elec tricity has risen only 6.8 per cent and the cost of rent only 2.9 per cent. Thus it is obvious that the total cost of living for a family which has al-i ways paid low rent, uses little elec tricity and spends a large proportion of its income for food, has risen con siderably more than average. It is also a question how much consider ation the bureau has given to quality. If a man, now earning more money than usual, buys more expensive shoes, that does not indicate an in crease in basic living costs, but if he has to pay more for the samef kind of shoes he has always worn, that does represent an increase. Organized labor Is claiming that the “Little Steel” formula, which permitted wage increases up to 15 per cent more than they were In January, 1941, should be scrapped because living costs have risen much more than 15 per cent The bureau of labor statistics admits they have risen 22.9 per cent. The WLB com mittee will therefore try to deter mine whether the bureau’s figures are too high , or too low and will make its recommendations for more wage increases in accordance with its findings. But even before the Investigation had been started, most labor rela tions experts here were taking for granted that the present ceiling on wages would bd'discarded and a gen eral increase would be permitted. How much the increase will be is more apt to be determined by nego tiations with the railroad unions and the steel workers than by the find ings on cost of living. The govern ment, in its dealings with the coal miners, has indicated that It will give in to most any of labor’d de mands before it will permit work stoppages. The way the wind is blow ing can be seen by the fact that the railroad employees turned down as, insufficient an increase which would have brought them a total of almost 200 million in extra wages and the steel workers are asking Mr 15 cents more per man an hour. Chester Bowles, head of the Office the chief argument for higher wages, but he is finding it increasingly dif ficult to keep prices under control. And, even if he does succeed in low- money is worth as much as it before. , The new tax bill can have little effect on labor’s demands for ering some prices, unions are apt to money* gince only increases pay little attention to that fact for they, realize that their strength de pends on getting more money for thetr members—whether or not that vidual income tax slightly and concerned almost entirely with on luxuries and higher excess prof its taxes on corporations. of Price Administration, is making a determined effort to bring the cost of living down and thus eliminate SPECIAL— LIFE MAGAZINE One year 94.50 Two years $7.96 Renewals JAMES W. CALDWELL Anything hi the Way of Magazines WE DELIVER Delivery will be made anywhere in the city twice daily—from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. and from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Phone your orders in before or during these hours. .. COMPLETE LINE GROCERIES PRODUCE -- CANNED GOODS — MEATS BREAD — CAKES — DRINKS OPA Ceiling Prices Johnson's Service Station <&* Grocery South Brood St. Robert Johnson, Prop. The Home Front Pledge -TI PAY NO MORE THAN TOP LEGAL PRICES. — I ACCEPT NO RATIONED GOODS WITHOUT GIVING UP RATION STAMPS. > - — I CHARGE NO MORE THAN TOP LEGAL PRICES. — I SELL NO RATIONED GOODS WITHOUT COL LECTING RATION STAMPS. .WE ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO LIVING COSTS DOWN AND TO SHARE FOOD FAIRLY ON THE HOME FRONT From coast to coast patriotic citizens, consumers and retailers alike, are waging neighborhood campaigns against rising prices. They are determined to keep down the cost of living ... to stamp out black markets in food ... to "hold the price line” in their communities. Your government has taken two important steps to eliminate increases in food prices and to assure every one a fair share of food. Essential foods have been ra tioned. Top legal prices have been established on prac tically every essential food Item in the family market basket. These are wartime prices for your community. The American housewife is making it her personal war job to keep down the cost of living. Now she knows what she should pay for things! She has made the Home Front Pledge and she is dedicating herself to make it work—every day! She watches for the published list of top legal prices for her community, clips them out of her newspaper, and carries them with her when she shops. It’s her responsibility to check her dealer's sell ing prices against the top legal prices. She knows that. And she is doing it—faithfully! The retailer is giving his full support to this pro gram. He is working side by side with consumers to uphold the principles of the Home Front Pledge. It is his defense against dishonest dealers. By giving ration goods only in return for ration stamps he guards himself against profiteers and black market operators. And he is able to keep his own shelves well stocked! Visible prices protect him—as well as his customers. We are all on the firing fine at home — in the fight against rising prices. It’s up to every one of us to help —to protect the value of the American dollar—to pre serve our present way of life—to plan for a sound econ omy in the future. Let’s keep faith with our fighting men by keeping our home front strong. This is one contribution you can make to the war effort, within your own community. Team up today! Join the Home Front Pledge Army. Your community needs your support! This Advertisement Is Sponsored By These Potriotic Orgonizotions In Support of the Wor Effort Me Ida Carroll Melda Carroll Bowen, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. & B. Bowen, died Friday night following several weeks illness. Surviving are her parents and her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Mimms, and Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Bowen. Funeral services were conducted Sunday at 4:30 p. m., at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mimms by Rev. Annopr. Burial was in Calvary cemetery. ENGRAVED Calling Cards for army and navy officers. An ideal, useful gift for father, husband, brother or friend. Ask to see samples. Chronicle Publishing Co. Phone 74. J. C PENNEY CO, INC. COPELAND-STONE CO. SUMEREL'S DEPT. STORE YOUNG’S PHARMACY SMITH’S PHARMACY A & P. FOOD STORES SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY CHANEY’S DRESS SHOPPE JOHNSON’S SERVICE STATION AND GROCERY BELK’S DEPT. STORE JOE’S ESSO SERVICE STATION MOORE’S DRESS SHOPPE CLINTON MERCANTILE CO. \ LYDIA MILL STORE L B. DILLARD IRA C. BOLAND W. C. BALDWIN MOTOR CO. H. D. PAYNE & CO.