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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thtirsday, October 18, 1945
(Eltnton (ChrnntrU
Established 1900
WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher
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.s and insisted that we open a
NOBODY'S BUSINESS
By GEE McGEE
charge account.
! A fellow agreed to mow our lawn,
i trim our hedge, and cut some weeds
| in the backyard at 25c per hour with
i dinner furnished, only day
f yesterday. ■ "• , w
of Laurens county where he spent
most of his life. He was a well known
farmer of his community and a
member of the Baptist church.
He was married twice. His first
marriage was to Miss Stella Ste-1 dersigned, and those indebted to said
before phens. By this union three children j estate will please make payment lifce-
survive: Mrs. J. T. Ellison, Mrs. Mar- wise. ' r - •
MOLLIE S. McMILLAN,
Executrix.
CREDITORS’ NOTICE,
All persons having claims against
the estate of William M. McMillan,
deceased, are hereby notified to file
the same duly verified, with the un-
vin Sanders and J. W. Carley. His
A clerk insisted that we let him second marriage was to Miss Nellie
Flat Roek-ites Are Disturbed
some miss-creants broke into the
scholl house one night last week and
stole the “eyes” off of the 4 c£al/wrap up our packages yesterday and | Hughes ’ who survives him with three
heaters, cut the blackboards all tov tote them out to the car . . . and go! chiiaren: Mrs - Tom Jack;s -Car-|
pieces, carried off miss jennie veeve ; and have a soft drink with him. j
smith’s powder box and. lipstick,; .—.— ^
poured ink all over the desks, and _ , . _
robbed the canteen monney box and KODGIt A. C-GnGV
got 75c. ,■ “ ‘ - - -
Dated Oct. 2* TlfaS.—18-3cw.
Dies Suddenly
f ffr!
CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1945
mi
Need for Houses Acute
With building restrictions now re
moved by the federal government,
the way is opened up for home-
building.
There is a serious shortage of
the policeman thinks he has some' ' j
clues, but is not reddy ot crack down! Robert (Bob) A. Carley, 71, died
yet. he saw where somebodfiy rote | suddenly Tuesday morning at 7:30
oh the window of the drug stoar with'o’clock at his home near here in the
jwhat appeared to be a lipstick thej 0ak Grove sectlon He ^
followermfi: “beat cedar lane next;
| training over and over. They should friday;*’ that sounded like a football!
! be discharged and sent home. f an an d the hand-riting looked like
President Truman was reported 1 5.1^ c hance’s boy, hadder.
yesterday as drafting a plea to con- > -
gress to pass a law for peacetime uni-1 a right smart of stealing and ban-
versal military training for young iditry have benn going on in flat rock
men in the age group of 17 and 21. here of late. mrs. art square missed
Congress should quickly kill the pro- 4 nice hens and 3 roosters last week.
ley and Oza Carley ; also two broth-1
I ers and one sister: John and Walter!
Carley and Mrs. T, C. Busbin; and j
eleven grandchildren.
Funeral services were held yes-!
terday afternoon (Wednesday) at 3
o’clock at Belview Baptist church
with Rev. Hazel, Rev. W. H. Clark
and Rev. Jodie Martin in charge of
the services.
Nephews served as pallbearers.
TYPEWRITERS AND
ADDING MACHINES
Sales and Service
CLEANING A SPECIALTY
Reasonable Charges
KENNETH N. BAKER
Phone 306
housing facilities all-over the coun
try, with this community no excep- posal. The American people are op-'john skinner claims that someboddy
families are cramped up j posed to this plan to make oug boys 1 gip pet i his 2 front tiros from his ford
tion.' Many
in small 'apartments and badly need. war-minded. Armaments ^oftn o t' recently, the handle on the town
enlarged living quarters. Newcom- make for peace. To the db^lrary,';pump is missing, someboddy turned
ers and -others are hunting houses, j they lead to war.
Others who have been renting have! Congress
post-war dreams of owning their there is a war-
over mrs. bert green's flower pots on i
should understand that p u -> front piazza last night, and broke
-over. And brass hat same.
\vn manes.
I officers shpuld be made to under-
With all construction controls lift-j stand that they have no right to cause
rev. wall waite said in his sermont i
hardship on others by making it as last Sunday that such devilment as !
difficult as possible for a>young man reported above always follows,a war,!
desiring such, to receive a discharge.
It is time for congress to act.
And Still We Spend
With the Sky the Limit
eri. home-hungry citizens are con-
ironted with inflated building costs.
There is a scarcity of both materials
and labor. This means, that those who
build will find a sizeable increase.
. ,-:!>• one-thrd or more, attributable
mainly to steeper labor costs.
But m spite of these discouraging
c> nd it inns, there will be new build- At last in response to an insistant
mg. repairing and remodeling to demand from the nation’s taxpayers
meet family requirements. This town. a small, start at least, is being made seat -
mu?t have a number of new homes j n Washington toward tax reduction,
m the immediate future if it expects Well, a small beginning is better
i grow. There is hardly, a day that than no action at all. When we re-
inquiry is not made at The Chron- fleet that our national debt is now
icle office concerning places to live, j almost three hundred billion dollars
and most of. the inquiries are by new — a fl of us who use our brain to
people desiring to move ? into the think must realize that the time for
it s gets j
and he looks for more, if
much lyorse, the mayor will call in'
the f-bTfeh-finrs. slim chance, jr.;' 1 says-
she saw a peeping tom at her winder;
one night last week while she was;
trying pp her new fall frock, trimmed !
in frenen lace, with gold buttons, and;
which cost her 19.94$ at the county;
yores trulie,
holsum moore, rfd,
corry spondent.
community. We have
as long as we can.
waited about
retrenchment in spending taxpayers
money Icng ago passed. Unless indi-
Stranger Than Fiction
A man came to our front
yesterday hunting work.
door
Small Industries Needed i
A guest speaker at a Chamber of
C- mmerce meeting here a few nights
ago emphasized the need of small f
bus.nessfes in a community like ours!
we plan and look to the future. He
also pointed out the responsibility of
the community to be up and working
to help itself, and not expect govern
ment or outside business interests to
come in and build the town and com
munity.
We walked into a store the other i
viduals and business are given tax day and a clerk came up smiling and
relief we will not see the business! said “What can I do for you?”
expansion our nation must experi-1
ence if we are to go into the post- Our old grocer phoned last Friday
war period with a favorable outlook, and offered to sell us a round steak
With the war over there is no plaus- and some breakfast bacon,
ible reason why federal taxes can-!
not be drastically cut. Unless this
Another grocer is advertising, “Wei
happens, initiative and venture will deliver,” and “your credit good
be discouraged, production halted, here if good anywhere.”
and jobs made scarce. ^
The only way to accomplish this 1 ° ur cook sta y ed two hours over -
desired goal is to stop spending every Iime ^t Thursday to help with a
The Chronicle has over and over d ' d ' a! P'-'-ssiblc foi all
We must i?et purposes. And that is exactly what
non-essential P art - V - No pouting w^as in evidence.
imp hasized this fact.
away from a sort of inferiority com
plex feeling and have faith in our
selves. Things in the highly competi
tive period that lies ahead will not
“just happen,” so we needn't fool
ourselves.
There probably won’t be any large
textile or other plants erected in this
sect.on for years to come As we
un to the postwar period with its
'pc-ttntialities and needs we should
net under-value a variety of small
industries operating on a profitable
b.ois. Small businesses build a eom-
n un.ty and give employment and
- : i ' rtunuies to many families. The
b.g di;>wback, of course, is housing
-j a v lor such industries. Inquiries
... < . : i .uiy ; >ming to our town, as
v t!! as others, in regard to securing
space for the operation of such en
terprises. The, answer must be: we
have no such buildings. And unless
local capital becomes interested in
providing such facilities outside in
terests can’t come into the commu-
n.ty. * . . ' .
'We need small industries. They
give employment, create payrolls and
increase buying power. We should
keep this goal before us and back
it up with something besides talk
congress has refused to do. In this
state alone postwmr construction pro
ject financing requests filed in Wash
ington yesterday have neared $40,-
000,000. State colleges and institu
tions are asking for millions, towns.
We found some old-style full-
cream cheese in a store this week.
The pound we bought didn’t taste
like putty and stretch like rubber.
A filling station operator solicited
... ... , our gas and oil business on a credit
cities, schools, etc., are likewise mak- , • , j
. .... , . . W- . basis a day 10^ so ago.
ing their begs to Santa Claus. This
is only one state. Think of the bil
lions such requests will amount to by
all the states grouped together. If
granted, where is the money to come
from? There is only one truthful an
swer—from the pockelbooks of tax
payers. ■ \ '
It seems futile to talk about tax
reduction when we see millions of
dollars being sought all over the
country for improvements, nevf
schemes and every conceivbale pro-
; ject, many of which are not necessi
ties, Congressmen and senators yield
to certain pressure groups to seek
such appropriations. And then they
ask congress for billions of dollars
Saw the following ad in a paper
last week: “Wanted: A job as cook
and housekeeper, will also do some
washing and ironing!”'
A merchant wrote us the other
day that he was expecting to have a
full line of everything within two
FINAL SETTLEMENT
Take notice that on the 12th day of*
'November, 1945, I will render a final ;
iaccount of my acts and doings as!
: Executor of the estate of Susan Ruth |
Schrum in the office of the Judge of!
Probate of Laurens County, at 10 j
o'clock a.m., and on the same day
for such schemes and to. further put . .
government in direct competition' u ‘ U1 f a PP ! - v fo I a fl " al dlscharge from
^ Trticf no h V'tsr*iifr*r
my trust as Executor.
Any person indebted to said estate!
with private enterprise. And these
government projects are tax exempt,.. , , . , , ,
while private business is vveighe d j is n « tided and / edu ‘f ed ^ ake P a y-
dewn with every form of taxation ment 0! \ 0r before that date; and all
possible'to maintain government and P e P ons daving c + la ‘ ms against K f ld
its tax-exempt activities, if is an un _i Mate will present them on or before
said date, duly proven, or be fGr
and resolutions. The next ten years,. , _ , ,,,,, , ....
will determine whether Clinton is to .if 1 competition with a political sig-1 barred,
remain a small town or develope into; ‘ dcance f or _ vote catching which is
a thriving city comparable to a num- beading u s f or state socialism,
ber of other promising towns in the! ^ ax induction will encourage busi-
Piedmont area. Our future is at j ness to expand. One fact stands out
<take startlingly clear. Under our present
■ : tax laws business is taxed to the!
limit of their earnings. Then if any-J
; thing is left corporations are allowed j
Though the war has been over sev-: to declare a dividend to stockhold- j
DENNIS S. SCHRUM,
Executor:
October 11, 1945.—8-4cw.
There Is A War—Over
eral weeks, young men are still being ers. which dividends are immediate-
■. ailed into the service by draft ly assessed the limit by the tax col-1
boards. For what reason, nobody lector—double, taxation,
knows. 1 j The ballyhbo by politicians that
The selective service act should be the rich pay the taxes has been ex-
a-epealed and all draft boards abol- ploded. There are not enough rich
ished. There is no longer a need for peopl to even make a drop
in the j
11. their!
>uch agencies created for a war; bucket of our tax demands if
emergency now no longer existing,! income was taken. .
Drafting selectees now has the sus-;, Congress ought to know that from
pie ion that we may be preparing for how on out unless spending is cur-
another wafr »lMany young men in tailed drastically, government must
the service have no 'inclination to take the lion’s share of net earnings
make a career out of the army. They!either from corporations or' Individ-
should be released as soon as possible, uals. There is no other way to meet
They are needed at home. There afe : ah alarming unbalanced budget,
thousands of others, as we all know. The people have been “soaked”
who have made the best livings of long enough, and much of It under
their lives in the army a$d are re- the guise of war. It’s time now to
luctant to part with rank. : ;stand up and demand action. We!
Not only should drafting cease, but need a political uprising. We can’t
camps and training uA||s should be keep on spending and wasting as we ;
declared surplus and closed up. Why have the past twelve years under the :
in this state should camps,and train- New Deal regime without winding
BEFORE YOU BUY!
A NEW CAR
ing units ber continued in Greenville,
Spartanburg, Columbia, Sumter and
else where. They should go, regard
less of commercial pressure. We need
to get away* from a war atmosphere
and thinking to a peace sentiment.
Their abolition will save millions : of
taxpayers’ money no longer needed
to be spent.
Overseas and in this country, there l
are several million young men who.
should be released. They are restless
and will tell you they are doing noth- :
ing but “killing time.” In inariy i
camps they are assigned to cutting}
grass, gathering up trash or similar,'
up in bankruptcy. Should we be
plunged into an unexpected depres
sion period there would be no hope
either for small or large business.
MclNTOSH'S
SHOE SHOP
Send Your Shoes To Us for
Best Materials and
Workmanship.
jobs. And many are taking the same
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Jacobs Building—Phone 80
s. c.
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Watch For Opening!
THE ARMY STORE
Located on West Main Street in building for
merly occupied by the James Pitts Store.
CLINTON’S NEWEST STORE, OPENING
WITH MANY HARD-TO-FIND ITEMS THAT
MANUFACTURERS HAVE FAVORED US
WITH.
WORK
CLOTHES
MEN’S WEAR BOYS’ WEAR
MATCHED WORK
SUITS.
OVERALLS.
COVERALLS.
WORK PANTS.
WORK SHIRTS.
WORK CAPS.
OVERCOATS.
SUITS.
PANTS;
JACKETS.
HATS.
SHOES.
SHIRTS.
Ties.
socks.
, SUITS.
PANTS.
JACKETS. ,
SHIRTS.
SWEATERS.
OVERCOATS.
SHOES.
HUNTING CLOTHES
RUBBER BOOTS, WORK SHOES, OVERSHOES, OVERALL PANTS
it,..
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