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Pope Sgvw* Thursdoy, February 28', 1946 !, WEST ClIKTOH SOCItL tHD PERSONAL NEWS Mr. >1111 Mrs. D. M. Sanders, Mrs. Curry and daughter ot Charlotte, N. Rodolph Barker and children, Mr. C„ and Mrs. W. C. ‘Gilmer ot Sum ter, Patsy, recently visited Mr. and Mrs. Telmedge Sanders In SparUn- Mrs. John E. Ivey and daughter of Laurens, visited Mr. and Mrs. Bre vard, Patterson Monday. Pvt and Mrs. Jack Griffin of Ware Shoals, spent the j*eek-end with Mr. and Mis. Clarence Thomas In Whlt- Mrs. Betty Lawson Greenville Saturday. daughter, Mrs, R. P. Harris, an< Harris. Mfk Harris returned Anchor Friday. StUetOn” Miss- Gayneli Barbery spent the week-end with relatives in Simpson- THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Don’t Blame Your Dealer if You Can’t Get G-E Appliances and Radios It’s not the dealer’s fault. We don’t think it’s our fault. Maybe it’s nobody’s fault. But here’s what happened: Augusts, Ga., were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. MoGInnU. children ' Mrs. X liinnlc IXidd of Hickory visiting her daughter, 4SX‘ and Mrs.' Neiffer - Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Quinn and family of Anderson, have moved near Clinton. Mrs. G. F. Downs and Dad Arnold Here’s how fast G. E. and its affiliated companies .were making and shipping things for you: OCT. NOV. DEC. On hood Dec. 31,1945 IRONS ' 60,440 67,564 85,968 ■2*S day*’ production ‘clocks 181,998 177,681 256,038 2!< day*’ productioa REFRIGERATORS 12,755 17,577 28,432 4 day*’ productiop WASHERS ,3,068 4,672 6,874 4)5 day*’ production RANGES 3,056 8,973 8,996 3 day*’ production radios v ; TOASTERS j 85 5,129 312 9,401 .2,386 day*’ production 2698 'J&Z5ZZ5Z Oo. toproMt Out of ffc* 2,485,'138 qppOenoM manufactimd in 1944 and 1945, G*n*rof Svcfric shipped 98%. AFTER the war ended, we weren’t able 98 per cent of thoee we'd built since ax to get back into production of some reconversion began were out of our appliances as eoon as we had hoped, factopee. Meet of them were in the and production rates weren’t as high hands of users, as we had hoped. A number of unfore- Then, on January 16,1946, our plan ta seen things like material shortagee made were doeed by the strike. Not a single But there ware only 120 days be- or assembled there since. And, because tweenV-d Day and December 31,1945, our warehouses are practically empty, and in thoee 120 days we partly recon- your dealer won’t be able to obtain ’Dming the yearwetu re ready, waiting to be set in heae factors will help us ti even; faster job then we did in the months before the strike. But we can’t pick up production quite where we left off. Production lines are too complicated for that A great many things have been dislocated by the strike. When the strike is over, and the refrigerators and toasters and radios you’ve been waiting for begin to come off the lines again, we'll get them into Hands of our dealers just as fast as we can. 'Ihey’U .be competitive in price. They’ll be General Electric qiality. So, pleiee don’t be impatient .with, your dealer-or with us. GENERAL ® ELECTRIC