The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, June 12, 1947, Image 8
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, June 12,1947
Local Girls Attend
Palmetto Girls' State
Misses Martha Galloway and Pol
ly Davenport attended a four-day
assembly of the first Palmetto Girls’
Clinton To Receive
$14,260 Liquor Tax
Money This Year
Columbia, June 11.—Special to The
State held at the University of South Chronicle) __ clinton ^nd Laurens,
Carolina in Columbia last week. • Lauj-^ns county, towns which
During their stay they were enter-previously received funds from
tained by a sightseeing tour of Co- t axes on liquor and liquor deal-
lumbia, tea at the governors man
sion and heard a number of speak
ers. «
ers, may receive a great deal more
this year due to the heavy addition
al taxes placed by the general as-
Gene Duncan read his winning es- sejn .5iy this year on liquor dealers,
say in the national Americanism accor{ iing to an announcement made j
contest. 4 i this week by J. NT Caldwell, secre-;
Misses Galloway and Davenport ^ ar y 0 f South Carolina Municipal
were sponsored by the local Cope- a SSOC j a tion.
land-Davidson American Legion 1 Qn the , basis of an a pp roxima te
post.
WE REPAIR
REPAINT and RETIRE
Tricycles, Wagons, Scoot
ers, Baby Carriages *and
Strollers
NEW AND USED
BICYCLES FOR SALE
COOPER’S
Bicycle Shop
49 N. Adair St.—Phone 210-M
Coughs
mon corns
,$2.5& per capita figure, Laurens 1
would obtain $17,235 in the 1947-j
48 fiscal year as compared to. $3,201 l
in the 1945-46 fiscal year, and Clin- 1
ton would receive $14,260 as com-1
pared to a previous $2,906.
Formerly, revenue on liquor and |
on liquor licenses issued in a town j
or county were distributed in pro- j
portion to the amount of liquor sold
i and licenses issued. After July 1,
jthe legislature provided that liquor
j revenues would be distributed ac-
! cording to the population in towns
1 and counties in the state. The secre
tary of 'the association said that $1,-
t9~ the counties by the increased li-
i 500,000 in revenue would be diverted
1 quor taxes, resulting in the approxi-
Imate $2.50 per capita or about three
j times the amount previously allotted.
In the last fiscal year $597,744 was
diverted to cities in the state as their
portion of the state liquor revenue.
Proponents of the heavy liquor
taxes estimate, Mr. Caldwell said,
on a similar plane as land bank com
missioners.
Many veterans and others are
buying farms today, the FCA official
said which will be worth less than
the loans granted for purchase in
ten years. He said that recently a
veteran purchased a farm for $25,000
paying $10,000 cash. Then he asked
for a $15,000 loan. Three appraisers
were sent out to look at the farm
by the government and reported
value of the farm not more than
$10,500. He cited many other in
stances.
Is the action of President Truman
in approving the portal-to-portal
pay bill any indication as to his ac
tion upon the labor bill which will
be presented to him, probably late
in June? Despite the fact that he
signed the portal-to-portal pay bill,
the odds here are that he may veto,
the labor bill, particularly if the
conferees make it any tougher than
as it passed the senate.
The department of justice has fi-J
nally started its anti-trust suit pro
ceedings against the Association of
American Railroads and other com
binations of financial and industrial
railroad interests charging them
with “the most far-reaching con
centration of monopoly power known
to law.” Defendants include 47 west
ern railroads, western association of
railway executives, J. P. Morgan &
Co., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and 89 of
ficials of railroads and railway asso
ciations. The government says these
groups maintain a non-competitive
rate system and suppress competi
tive transportation in the western
area and have prevented western
railroads from reducing rates and
improving service. Differentials in
class rate scales show a discrimina
tion varying from 112 per cent to
160 per cent against the West in
favor of the east, the government
charges. And in the meantime, the
United States Chamber of Com
merce presses for enactment of the
Bulwinkle bill to exempt railroads
from the anti-trust laws, calling it
“the badly needed Bulwinkle bill.”
Hearings before the senate and
house agricultural committees on a
long-rapge farm program which
likely will not be enacted into law
until next year, indicate the policy
to be followed largely will parallel
the recommendations of Secretary
of Agriculture Anderson based on a
program of abundance and full pro
duction.
Such a program will necessitate
according to the testimony of many
witnesses, expanded .markets at
home and abroad, continued sub
sidization to take care of surpluses,
such as school lunches and othei
similar measures and on foreign
sales to meet a demand for lower
priced food; extension of the sup
port price program to stabilize fartn
'income and continued production
cuit>s on certain crops.
Governors trom ten states west of
the Mississippi and the senators and
representatives from these states are
urging restoration of the cuts made
in the department of interior bud
gets, particularly forself- liquidating
reclamation projects. Senator Morse
of Oregon took the floor of the sen
ate to object to the cuts as one of
the “serious mistakes.”
Said Senator Morse: “It is because
of my devotion to the basic prin
ciples of the Republican party,
which I think need to be revived
and put into practice, that I feel so
badly regarding the many mistakes
which my party is making in the
eightieth congress. This is another
serious one. Earlier today we helped
to scuttle the effective administra
tion of the National Labor Relations
act to the great detriment of free
workers in the United States; and if
we go through with this fiscal pro
gram I think the party will do great
damage to hundreds of thousands of
people who have the right to be pro
tected from the type of damage
which would be inflicted upon them
if the appropriations program of the
party thus far advanced in the 80th
congress were consummated ... I
intend to try 4o point out what I
think are sad mistakes which the
Republican majority is making in
connection with both the labor pro
gram and now the fiscal policy ... I
hope that even yet such effective and
constructive action will be taken by
the congress, that, in spite of mis
takes, I can still make an honest plea
for a Republican administration.”
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CREOMULSION
For Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
Goodyear Tires
and Tubes
BATTERIES AND
ACCESSORIES
^McMillan
Service Station
Sinclair Products
Phone No. 2
£
trouble — r — .
laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe nue. However, he added, that these
and heal raw, tender inflamed bronchial es ti ma tes may be too high, and that
mucous membranes. Tell your druggist I . -, - nn n
to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with an increase to $15,000,000 over the
the understanding you must like the ] $13,500,000 estimated by the state
it_quickly allays the cough or you budget commission for the next fis
cal year would be more in line. The
$13,500,000 estimate was made be
fore ’the present tax was placed upon
liquor.
In addition, there have been re
ports from the Beverage Tax Di
vision that liquor revenue was on the
decline, and opponents of the extra
taxes have predicted a slump in
evenue as a result, which they
said might eliminate the increase in
revenue promised by those favoring
the tax. In the appropriations bill,
the tax was established as follows:
15 to 40 per cent extra, over and
above present taxes, on the gross sale
of wholesalers, ranging upward in
proportion to sales volume, and 25 to
50 per cent on the gross sales of re
tailers on the same graduated basis.
Cities in the state would receive ten
per cent of the liquor revenue, coun
ties 25 per cent on a population bas
is, and the remaining 65 per cent
would go to the state. The 1940
census would be used *to .determine
the amount allocated to counties and
cities.
HAMILTON’S
proudly presents
*49.50 to
*195.00
HAMILTON’S
‘A Credit To AH South Carolina”
pmcn weit**
FIDCRAl TAX
Board of Assessors
Named For County
—-♦—
Columbia, June 11.— (Special to
The Chronicle).—Last week 35 men
were appointed to the Laurens coun
ty board of assessors by Governor J.
Strom Thurmond.
The appointments made are as
follows:
Group 1: J. B. Blakely and J. W.
Tinsley, of Laurens, and Y. A. Gos
sett of Wattsville (succeeding S. R.
Sloan, deceased).
Group 2: George W. Blakely, B. L.
Clardy and A. P. Walker, all of Lau
rens.
Groups 3: George T. Cook, Fountain
Inn, G. C. Gwinn, Gray Court, and
J. Gray Harris, Owings.
Group 4: Arch C. Owings, Gray
Court (succeeding W. E. Bobo, re
signed), and John B. McCuen, Gray
Court.
Group 5: W. I. Freeman, Honea
Path, H. S. Ballentine, Ware Shoals,
and C. D. Wood, Ware Shoals.
Group 6: D. H. Wilson, Laurens,
E. L. Burts, Laurens, and L. H. Ab-
encrombie, Gray Court.
Group 7: T. F. Smith, Waterloo
(vice W. B. Sims, deceased), E. V.
Golding, Waterloo, and J. B. O’Dell,
Rt. 1, Ware Shoals.
Group 8: John Frank Griffin, J. T.
Hollingsworth and Charles R. Tur
ner, all of Cross Hill.
Group 9: Lawrence F. Davis, G.
Fair Buford, Clinton, and W. H. Mi
lam, Mountville.
Group 10: G. W. Hollingsworth,
J. H. Pitts, Jr., and J. L. Davidson,
all of Clinton.
Group 11: J. D. Copeland, Renno,
Raymond W. Dean, Rt. 1, Clinton,
Mason Young, Rt 2, Clinton (vice
W. J. Henry, Jr., resigned).
Group 12: D. W. McClintock, Ora,
G. M. Harlan, Lanford, end George
W. Cunningham, J, Clinton.
As Washington Sees It..
THE NATIONAL SCENE
Special To The Chronicle.
Washington, June 11. — How high
priced farm land is playing its part
in the inflationary picture was de
picted by I. W. Duggan, governor of
the Farm Credit administration in
testimony before the senate agri
cultural committee. Mr. Duggan tes
tified in favor of permitting federal
land banks to mike loans to farmers
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