Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 Dr. Felder kith Optometrist Laurens, S. C. 116 EAST MAIN STREET South Side Public Square HOURS FOR EYE EXAMINATIONS: 9:00 to 5:30 Wednesdays 9:00 to 12:30 Phone 794 for Appointment Proposed For County the piecemeal and ill-conceived plan under which the army engineers and the bureau of reclamation had been (working for the past'two years had ■resulted “in utter failure” and re pudiation of the present piecemeal ! Columbia, May 27.— (Special tO| me thod of treating the problems of !The Chronicle).—A community hos- the Missouri River Valley.” 1 pital at Laurens is included in the| introduction of the measure was DO YOU HAVE . PROPER FIRE PROTECTION? Is your coverage adequate? Should you suffer a disastrous fire would your insurance cover your loss? Think this over. See us for all kinds of Insurance, Surety Bonds and Real Estate. We Invite your business. CLINTON REALTY & INSURANCE CO. B. Hubert Boyd Phone 6 : hospital program for South Carolina s ig n al for the private power ■ announced last week by the Hospital i 0 bby to start the s^me pressure Survey division of the State Re- tactics which kept the 1946 version search, Planning and Development of the biU baU led up in committee, i board. That the power lobby has not been The Hospital Survey division was'inactive is seen in the report of the ! necessitated by a congressional act house appropriations committee on taxoavers" oTthe^count’ry payThe authorizing funds for the investiga- th e department of interior, budgets| tion of states into their hospital re- where the public power division was Km wi11 „ oec ^ maine in coan quiremepts and for construction and all but eliminated, appropriations i expansion of medical facilities. {for reclamation projects slashed ! According to the survey, 15 hos- 1 some 47 percent and a provision set ever he find§ proper cause, levy an additional import fee on foreign wool despite the already heavy tariff. He would do this whenever he finds that imported wools interfere witfi domestic wool price support pro gram. This would add to the cost of wool and at the same time is in contradiction to our established reciprocal trade practices. Thus the so-called “wool boys” are setting up an embargo on foreign wool, fixing their own domestic wool prices at ! prices no one can pay and making bill will pass remains to be seen. In the meantime, the senate civil service committee is holding up pital service areas would be estab- up whereby interest charges mustjconfirmation^ several ^thousand 1 lished which would be subdivided be included in'public power costs 1 P atrona 2 e jobs, including 22,000 ashed which wou a consumers thereby raisins the' P ostinasters > Pending an mvestiga- into 37 hospital communities. The Mnsumers^thereby raising the ^ ^ ln , he postoffice department. plan would be graduated into foiA price to consumers, general types of hospitals. The one: One of the measures which • base hospital, largest and most elab- claimed the spotlight in the con- orately equipped, will be located at | gress during the more or les^ unin- Charleston and is to serve the. entire terestlng debate on the senate labor state. The district hospital, next in the scale, would serve the commu- measure which goes on and on, is that, in spite of the President’s ap- nity in which it is located and also i peal for lower prices, the senators provide diagnostic and other special • and representatives of the wool facilities for the smaller community! growing states have just about put hospitals, which are third in the, over a prbposition which prices scale. The community hospital would i American wool out of the market serve one county usually, and in \ but at the same time forces the some cases more than one. Lastly' consumer taxpayers to pay for a tre- would be 14 community clinics to be mendous subsidy and also to pay a Rich in Flavor All-Meat | located in counties where population and income are not enough to justify the erection of a hospital but also in counties where there are communi ties too small to support separate hospitals but are located at a consid erable distance from a hospital. The clinics would ordinarily serve a ra dius of ten miles and handle emer gencies. The patient would be trans ferred to a community hospital if further treatment were needed. In .tv-a. BARBECUE HASH The Meal-In- A-Minute! $38,000,000 loss on the commodity credit corporation sale of surplus It appears that both Republicans and Democratic congressional policy on farm produce prices will be to support the attitude of Secretary An derson of the department of agri culture, to the effect that the gov ernment support prices are not re sponsible for the high current food prices. On the contrary, Secretary Anderson says price support has ac tually held off higher ('food prices by encouraging farmers to produce at new all-time record rates. Only four farm products are getting direct government price support at this wool. It’s one of those arbitrary and j ^i me wool, dry milk, potatoes and artificial scarcity measures which! ‘turkeys. But approximately two bring about price jumping, whereby the CCC pays the wool growers a support price of 42 cents a pound for uncleaned domestic wool which makes it come out in fabrics at $1.20 a pound. At the same time foreign wool, after paying 34 cents a pound tariff, can be sold at 10 to 12 cents addition to the hospitals, a health ■ a pound under domestic wool so in center would be located in the coun- (its wool operations CCC has built up * thirds of the farm crops are entilted to support and this floor under these crops will remain until 1949 when the guarantee expires unless con gress renews them in the meantime. ty seat of every county. The Laurens county district hos pital would be in Greenville. The survey recommended a total hospital bed cap^tity for' the s a syurplus of some 400,000,000 pounds! which it is bound to hold off the market creating the artificial scar city and it is not permitted to dis- se of the wool at below the so Repef At Last For Your Cough DOUBLE PLEASURE • CreomuMon relieves promptly be* cause it goes light to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ ‘ re to a ‘ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe by 1957, after ten years of construe-; called parity price. Despite this it and heal raw, tender inflauned bronchial tion and expansion, of 6,975. This is I has disposed of some wool taking a an increase of 2,856 beds over the 38 million dollar loss on it which the ! existing 4.119 beds. By reason of its scheduled community hospital, Lau ren? county is to have 150 be&s m ! 1957. ! A total of 19 hospitals in the state taxpayers must pay. And in addition, the house agri cultural committee has added this to the confusion. . . it says that the secretary of agriculture shall, when- mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulskm with the understanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION For Coushs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis i PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING CO. GREENVILLE, S. C. Read The Chronicle-Your Neighbor Does were not considered “acceptable” under the federal act authorizing the The reasons for this were because the buildings were either not survey. TTnefateeC Goodbye fo banging when SLATS-O-WOOD Awnings go over doors, windows or verandas because tbey’re sturdily an chored to form a part of the house. Let in light, keep out sun Coax the breeze, repel rain. Bring lasting comfort at low cost. Phene NOW for free estimate. Slatsdwood Nothing Down to Pay Buy the F. H. A. Way Up to 36 Months Ventilated Wood Awnings Corp. 1804 Anderson Rd., Phone 7167 Greenville, 5. C. fire-resistant, were proprietary, or | were incapable of expansion up to 50 beds as required by congress. The ♦♦ proprietary hospitals were excluded,; as no hospital operated for private 1 profit was eligible, and hospitals not | g capable of expansion were not in cluded because they could not ' be j operated as economically as larger i hospitals. The program depends on ■ the assumption that many of the small hospitals will continue to op erate although not in the integrated program, in order to give adequate •hospital coverage. The Hays^hospital [ in Clinton was not included in the ! state plan because it is proprietary. : The Laurens county hospital is in- I eluded in the plan. The intention is that all the pro- posed hospitals are to be supported by patients' fees in a reasonably short time, with whatever public support is customary. Accordingly, income as well as population was considered when the hospital program was de signed. Ranking in the second income per capita bracket, which is from HAVE YOU TRIED AMAZING NEW. CURLERS? JV Youll never use any others once you've fried Million Dollar "IOCK-TITE” Curler with your next Home PERMANENT Wave Here U the riKracr Curler you're been weitinf far. Utterly. different, an indeitnictible pure •luminum curler covered with unitary white rubber make* the "Loca-Tm" curia efficieu. comfortable and eaay to uae. Cuts “Putting Up” time in Half Only Qurm-Kur lha* the marvdou, "Loct-Tm" Curia. It's a aenution wherever abown. Links curia an jlace, can't posubly tlip—yet easy to boa borne cold wave. rmtMt " 25 with CtfJMf Solvtloa nus I4C TAX Sadler-Owens Pharmacy and Drug Stores Everywhere $500 to $649 per year and includes every man, woman and child in a county, Laurens’ per capita income was $629. Berkeley was the lowest income county in the state with a per capita income of $284. Greenville was highest, with $986. ~ A notable lack of sufficient medi cal facilities in the state was shown by the survey. The accepted standard is one physician per 1,000 popula- ; tion, not including institutional or : resident physicians. The state as a (whole has 1,659 persons per physi- ' cian. Laurens county has 25 active physicians, or 6.9 per 10,000 popula tion, according to statistics compiled last year. The accepted standard number of dentists is one per 2,000 population. The state has one den tist for 5,541 persons. Statistics in 1946 showed that Laurens county had six non-institutional dentists, or 1.6 per 10,000 population. The sur vey states that 572 more dentists and 710 more physicians are required in the state, as well as additional hos pital facilities. McGEE’S DRUG STORE PRESCRIPTION SERVICE Phone No. 1 Buy Your PHONOGRAPH RECORDS, NEEDLES Etc. Large Selection—at BURRISS- HARR1SON CO. Phone 435 We Clean Clothes Clean! SUNSHINE CLEANERS Phone 436 Pitts St. on FA CHEVROLET CO. SALES and SERVICE Your Kelvinator Dealer As Washington Sees It.. THE NATIONAL SCENE Special to The Chronicle. Washington, May 13. — Senator James E. Murray, Montana, picked a time during debate on the approval of the nomination of Gordon Clap]} as head of TVA to introduce his 1947 version of the Missouri Valley Authority bill, modeled after the lines of TVA. In discussing his new bill Senator Murray declared that it is construct ed upon the experience gained from the extensive hearings and the num erous discussions and events which have transpired' in the ten Missouri valley states since he introduced the original Missouri Valley Authority bill in 1944. He further declared that YARBOROUGH OIL CO. Goodyear TIRES — BATTERIES ACCESSORIES Open All Night UNCLE JOSH Copyri;ht 1945. Publishers Feature Sir vice, Inc. COOPER MOTOR CO. Phone 7-J Dodge — Plymouth Sales and Service Electric Hot Water Heaters Cabinet Sinks Well Pumps T.C. JOHNSON CO. 8. Broad St., Phone 4-J CHANDLER’S GARAGE General AUTO REPAIRING Phone 71 MAXWELL BROS. & WILKES FURNITURE RADIOS, FRIGID AIRE Phone 257 The Benny Klutz's are workin' 'n' sav in' hard so's when they git old they can have the things that young folks like The best way to throw dice is away. R. E. WYSOR, III Jacobs Building Phone 85 Insurance Real Estate F. H. A. Loans YOU WILL ENJOY GOOD MEALS WHEN YOU EAT ••eat.ee RODDY’S Reitaurant DEPENDABLE —^Lubrication —Tire Service —Washing & Polishing CAROLINA Service Station Phone 27 D. E. TRIBBLE CO.' BUILDERS SUPPLIES Phone 94 We Are Now Ready To Serve You Call 458 Service Laundry and Cleaners “Service With A Hop" ii m n ii i a ■ ri m inr ~r r Trrr“i"'timrrmmmrTnfr—rTTwriirrTttmrinmnirni—r'lnnimrif-^n--- \ \ 1 X n'f. V .. • . ■, V '* A. ■ ■ \ '