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Page Four a. THE aiNTON CHRONICLE .‘.four*: Thursday, August 1, 1947 alhf QHtntott (ElirnnirU Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance):- One Year $2.00 : Six Months $1.25 Entered as Second Ciass Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters, of general interest yhen they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. - MEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION » a Exclusive National Advertising Representative GREATER WEEKLIES New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia CLINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 7. 1947 BOLL WEEVIL - SITUATION STILL CRITICAL IN STATE i Clemson, Aug. 5.—The boll weevil situation in South Carolina continues serious, Cedric R. Jordan, assistant extension entomologist for the Clem* son extension service, reported to- I day. % | This week’s survey of 117 fields in 26 counties throughout the state ! showed 116 fields infested with an , average of 36 per cent punctured squares. Last week the average was 135 per cent. j Federal entomologists at the Pee Dee experiment station at Florence .reporting on 114 fields in 19 Pied- mont counties found all fields infest- ied with an average of 47.3 per cent squares puncutred. .The Piedmont section of the state has been helped to*some extent by the recent hot dry weather, Jordan ! said, but the situation still was criti- !cal. He said dusting could be profit ably carried on wherever the cotton still was blooming. and Mrs. Young and family were:i Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Simpson and 1 family, Tan Ray and sons of this city, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Dehart and family, Mrs. Willie Mae Reighley and (family, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Shan non and family, and Mrs. Jennie Shannon of Newberry; Mrs. Sara Suber and son of Whitmire; Mrs. T. L. White and daughter of Green ville; Mrs. James Shannon and fam ily and Douglas Smith o« Fort Mill; Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Mitchell and family of Charlotte; Mr. and Mrs. John Shannon, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rush and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Buck Lawson and daughter of. Green wood; Mr. and Mrs. Alan Reighley and family of Laurens. — H. D. HENRY > 1898-1947 F. M. BOLAND H. D. HENRY & COMPANY INSURANCE ' 9 STOCKS — BONDS — REAL ESTATE Let Us Analyze Tour Insurance Needs Telephone 121 Repairing the Streets The State Highway department has had crews in the city the past ten j p^j-p^ days resurfacing three of the main thoroughfares under its supervision and doing repair work on another. How well the type of work being done will stand up we are not pre pared say, though it appears to us as a rough job. to get out from under high rents and become home owners through financ ing agencies in operation for this Local Firm Secures Hotpoint Agency Building costs are excessively high >p^ e Home Supply company has still, and will remain so for some time to come. Contractors in many of the larger cities complain that the principal factor in such costs is over time pay^. They are even going so far , as to suggest that work on buildings Generally speaking, the streets all > 5 e limited to 40 hours a week, point secured the exclusive agency in Clin ton for the . nationally known Hot point home appliances, manufactured for nearly 50 years and sold in every part of the country. B. Ferguson, manager of the firm, i states that they will handle the com- !!'*•’‘. ng OU ‘ that this W °. uld s . e 5 ve t0 r *': p' ete Hotpoint line ot electrical in, and those out of the state system. And the longer the streets go with- duce costs by as much as 30 per .cent. con veniences for the home and that a steady increase in deliveries is ex pected in the near future. The Home Supply company, head- tl has been said that 98 per cent of out repairing the Worse they get,. the cost orf building is in labor, mean- only to add to the final expensive re- j n g that the cost of the raw materials, P a - r cost. , ; before they have been processed, 1 ed by M ' x Ferguson and Hamp Boyd, The main thoroughfares in the city: runs only about two per cent of the! has enjoyed a large volume of busi- were turned over to the department total cost. , ness since opening here nearly a year Another element contributing to i ago and the owners express them- the high cost of building is the non-' selves as optimistic over the future productivity of labor. The production! outlook for business. several years ago, giving it control over the streets, with the projnise of maintenance. The maintenance has not been provided; to the contrary, j cf i a bor ail along the line has tre- the streets have been neglected, mendously dropped and this is more broken, in m <|ny places, and rough and more pushing up construction costs. We need to get back to the principle that a man should not try and bumpy. The city should be in sistent upon the department to make the improvements as needed on “their streets" or else assume respon sibility for their repair and upkeep. to see how little he can do for his hire, but how much. A reckoning day rs coming and those who are taking advantage of present condi tions are headed for trouble later on as sure as two and two makes four. Why Unemployment? A report is released from the state employment agency in Columbia that’! there are now 41,000 unemployed ^ Day In LonCOSter persons in South Carolina. | Q ne 0 f fastest growing towns With business conditions such as j n South Carolina is Lancaster, the center of the enormous Springs tex tile interests. Predictions are being they are, and with an ynprecedented demand for labor of all kinds,, the public is asking, why does this con dition exist? Try to employ white or .colored labor and it is almost impos- made that the 1950 census will give that city the largest percentage pop ulation increase of any town in the J£~ Shannon Family Holds Reunion Here The Shannon family reunion was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mace Young near here Sunday. A barbecue chicken dinner was served to about 55 relatives and friends. Those attending in addition to Mr. We AnnOunce With Pleasure That We Are Now Authorized Dealers In Clinton For Hotpoint Home Appliances The name HOTPOINT has meant DEPENDABILITY since the days when horses were more common than automobiles. WE WILL HANDLE HOTPOINT — ELECTRIC RANGES r ’ — ELECTRIC REFRIGERATORS — ELECTRIC HOT WATER HEATERS — ELECTRIC DISHWASHERS — DISPOSALLS STEEL CABINETS — SINKS — HOME LAUNDRY EQUIPMENT We^ invite you to call and let us know your needs. ' «r - Home Supply Co. Next to Bailey's Bank Clinton HAMP BOYD — B. C. FERGUSON Phone 423 WHMmiHXBXWHiaXUIHUHCnUWI sible. The first thing one asks when; state ^ special edition of The Lan- approached is, What do you pay.: caster News contains these words "n what are your hours? .. j the front page, "Greater Lancaster Most of this unemployment ,is has a population of 12,SOOTahd within doubtless from choice rather than! ano ther year and a half this is ex- inability to secure work. We heard pected to be i ncre ased to 20,000.” a young man say the other day, ‘Tf .. . u . It was our pleasure as a member the job the unemployment office of» , .. .. ... . .. . , ... , of the executive committee of the fers doesn t suit your taste you don t 0 . .. . . c -iSouth Carolina Press association to n would iem US that the num-i ^ a day th * re during lhe , , i , . . I week, and our visit was an eye- ber of unemployed in a,ny county: ’ Everywhere one looks the* now would be negligible. There is no opener - ^verywnere one iooks mere , u, , j- j . are signs of progress, new homes, excuse for any able-bodied man W’ho. . f .. . ,, . .i , / i i new business houses, city improve- is willing to honestly work for a live- . . ’ . K , , ... , . ments, and an expansion program lihood, to be unemployed. | ’ . K . v 9 ! representing millions of dollars by . ~ - Col. Elliott Springs, who heads mills Welfare Funds Go Higher in Lancaster, Kershaw, Chester „and The South Carolina Department of Fort Mill. » _ *. t Public Welfare awarded - $833,336 Our group was entertained at during the month of June as against luncheon by Col. Springs . and the $552,446 during June 1946, according Rotary club, with their wives pres to the state director. On this basis ent, was host at dinner. One quickly the distribution wiir amoun't to more j discovers that the Lancaster people! than ten million dollars for a year’s | know how to boost their, fast-grow-j P er i°d. - 1 ing, attractive town. The report further states thatj rThe group was taken on an inspec-1 40,773 awards were made during the|tion tour by Col. Springs of his enor- month as compared with 32,378 the mous plants. The big show was the Gray Funeral Home Clinton, 8. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS .. and... EMBALMERS AMBULANCE SERVICE Phonea 41 and S99-J L. RUSSELL GRAY and V. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. Men. corresponding month a year ago. The pendent children and the blind. bleachery now being constructed, distribution goes to aged persons, de* whish has already cost 912,000,000 and is expected to cost $15,000,000 This public welfare department was j when completed. The building has set up years ago as an emergency | eleven acres of floor space and when agency, and yet it has grown larger each year since it was started at an finished will be the largest plant of its kind in the world, capable of Annual Picnic! JOHN J. McSWAIN CAMP NO. 20 United Spanish War Veterans ' .. f Wednesday, August 13' #..<t i... BRAMLETT’S SPRING Near Barksdale-Narnie School BARBECUE HASH FOR SALE EVERYBODY INVITED WALTER F. LYNCH, Cook enormous cost to taxpayers. Today j bleaching six million yards of cloth there .» full employment, high Wages! a week. Construction of 500 homes* are prevalent, and yet relief rolls nearby is already underway to house continue to mount. Taxpayers are' the 2,000 people who will be em- asking why. and rightly so. Why is I ployed in the plant. Its new filter it necessary for the federal govern- plant will produce 20,000,000 gallons ment, intent on spending other peo-J trf water a day, about twice the pie's money, to liberalize the social! amount, we were told, needed for a security act. There is no plausible! city the size of Columbia, reason. i Another interesting development is The Chronicle, we say with due j the new Springs park on a lake modesty, feels as kindly to the' un-; formed by the backwaters of the fortunate and needy as anyone else,; Great Falls dam. The park is a beau- including those who direct these Uiful spot, furnishing clean, whole- charitable agencies. What we would! some amusements for the 11,000 em- like to know is this—who provided ( ployees of the Springs mills. Recre- for these thousands of beneficiaries; ational enthusiasts should visit this before public welfare handouts be-1 park. gan? We didn’t hear of people starv- j There is much that could be writ ing in this or any other county. Too!ten about Lancaster, its growth^ its many people are shifting their fam-1 hospitable people, but space forbids, ily responsibilities to government— Suffice to say that the press crowd which means taxpayers. Building Costs High ^ . A general building boom is noted everywhere one travels now due to the fact that materials are more plentiful and contractors will take contracts, which they refused to do until recently. All over Laurens county there is building activity which if continued in the course of several months will considerably relieve the housing shortage. In Clinton and surrounding community a large number of houses are under construction with numbers was royally entertained by Col. Springs and his kick-off man, Harold Booker, secretary of the press asso ciation, who always knows how to make visitors feel like home-folks. Watch Lancaster the next five years. It is our prediction that it will step up high on the ladder and take its plac^ as one of the first eight or ten cities' in size in the state. MISS CRISP GRADUATES Miss Annie Azelle Crisp, of Mount- ville, graduated July 31 from the Uni versity of South Carolina summer of other citizens contemplating build- school with the degree of master of ing. More and more renters are going education. VACATION DAYS ARE ACCIDENT DAYS Accidents are costly. Why not have the protection ' of an iEtna Accident In surance Policy that will pay hospital and doctor bills and other benefits in case you are injured? Costs very little. WE LEND MONEY ON ^ AUTOMOBILES S. W. SUMEREL, Agent CLINTON. 8. C. Jacobs Building—Tele. 80 Announcing A New Department Offering Appropriate and Inexpensive Gifts for Weddings, Anniversaries, Birthdays, Christ- . mas, Special Occasions, Back-to-School, or Going-Away Remembrances ’ u§ t A complete new line of attractive merchandise now on display — not the novelty type, but gifts of enduring quality which will be cherished like jewelry. * •" ■ ♦ Ws Invite Oar Customers To Call and See This Lovely and Varied Assortment of Gift Items Being Added To Onr Shelves Daily. J. C. THOMAS, Jeweler ‘It’s Time That Counts”