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_f ' i ‘ , * \ \ X / ' , ^ \ ’ // < ‘ r M, r rr t, .1- •• I ./ 1 •/' f ft 3 THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper, Complete f Newsy and Reliable If You Don't Read- THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the^ News Volume XLVII Clinton, S. C., Thursday, December 11, 1947 Number 5D Dec* 7, Six Years Ago ^ By PAUL PETT, Asaoclated Press Feature Writer The calendar combination known ence story beginning, “the Univer- as Sunday, December 7, recurred sity of California’s tf,400-ton cyclo- Sunday for the first time in six vears. tron or atom-smasher, is gradually It came back on a flood tide of taking shape and will be ! complete peace - • • by the autumn of 1943” . . . Shortly belore 8 a. m. on that Sun day in 1941, little groups of natives waded out on the Hawaiian beach trying to spear some fish. Most of In the Pacific, an admiral named William F. Halsey was returning with a small task force toward Ha- 4 the white population Was still asleep, the pineapple exporter in Honolulu, the soldier at.Aohu, the sailor at Pearl, it was a lazy Sunday morning and the only plane in the sky was a small private craft flown by a local lawyer. v - , On the West co^st of the mainland, Americans were-^gettfrtg ready for Sunday dinner, and on the East coast they were ^getting over it. In Chicago, the 'Bears took the field against the cardinals in a pro foot ball game and flowers bloomed in New York after some unseasonably high temperature which was only a \ then dropping. In Pittsburgh, Sen- " ator P. Nye prepared to mount the platform at a meeting of 2,500 Amer ica Firsters, and in Dallas, 2,500 peo ple sat watching the movie, “Ser geant York.” From coast to coast people talked about when we’d get into the war, and nobody could be sure we would and nobody could be sure we * wouldn’t, but the growing citizen j ^ army talked about Christmas fur loughs. Juke boxes ground “Chattanooga Choo-Choo,” and Don’t Want to Set the World wail when his ship’s radio began butter and bacon, whole wheat toast: the construction of the station and two coffee.” j putting it on the air. It was now 2:30 and the telephone , Mr. Barksdale announced that the rang again. , station will be placed on one of the The White House switchboard op-, Fieming lots ea stof the presen tiock- erator was on the line. Press Secre- « P 1 ™ 1 ; “ ** a 250 watt sta - tary Steve Early had an “impor-i tlon Wlth 260 foot tower - tant” statement. Soon all the press Other officers besides himself were services were hooked up on the con- listed by Mr. Barksdale, as follows: P 00 " 1 ^ ference phone. Finally the White W. C. Barksdale, secretary; L. G. a * year a d House operator said, “all on, Mr. Badle, H. D. Gray, E. D. Easterby, Early.” Early began to speak. |R. H. Roper and C. P. Roper, di- “I have a statement from the rectors President. The Japanese The chronometer of Trellises may be used at the end of disinfectant outside the dews of porches to screen out hot suns or!the brooder and laying houses. I in front of posts to add interest. Acquire that everyone who enters trellis or support may be built for [houses step in the pan. climbing roaes or other vines. They frtake a good farmstead look better. Many agricultural leaders believe that if we raise less animals and poultry this year, that we may have a surplus of grains. A. Richard Crabb has done a re markable job in his new book, “The PENCIL SHARPENERS —. Giant, fits any size penciL icle Publishing Co. SUBSCRIBE TO THE “The Paper Eves j body corded the time at 2:22 p. m., EST., time. December 7, 1941. The station, at first, Mr. Barksdale! Makes Prophets of history re- said, wiir operate only in the day- men have the crackling with sudden, excited mes- sages . . . But 6,000 miles away, in Wash- ■ ? D-JL* ington, the capitol dozed in the early | LOUrCTS KOOK) 31011011 afternoon quiet. The Sunday dol-^ Gets Final Approval drums also had settled over the AP rr office, where a skeleton staff was on hand. The only “breaking” story in sight was Litvinoff’s activities. knowledge are able to present the subject in such an entertaining and Says The Laurens Advertiser: Station WLBG, the proposed Lau- The telephone rang. Th4 state de partment said the Japanese ambas sadors, Nomurd and Kurusu, had made an appointment to call on Secretary Hull at 1:45 pm. Another call. This time the Rus sian embassy. Litvinoff would talk with reporters after having lunch wtih Joseph E. Davies. An AP copy boy was sent out for “two peanut rens radio station, won its final ap proval from the Federal Communica tion commission November 25 and construction will soon get under way, it was stated yesterday by L. C. Barksdale, president of the company. He announced the arrival in the city i of John F. Arrington, Jr., form- instructive manner. It is a book that all breeders of grains and plants will enjoy and profit from reading. Rut- j gers University Press, New Bruns- ■wick, N. $3.00. Red squill and ANTU are affec- ! tive poisons for rats which cost farmers an average of $50 in wasted : feed annually. I Do not permit poultry buyers and Oats contain less carbohydrates their orates in or near brooder per 100 nonds than coin. This means i houses, laying houses, or on range By W. J. DRYDEN that when fed they produce less heat and energy. Scours can cause trouble with fall erly with Augusta, Newberry and | nigs as well as with spring pigs, other radio stations as operating Prevent chilling and keep them clean manager, whose first duty will be to prevent scours. The chance* are they or their trucks are carriers of poultry diseases. - Do not permit visitors in the brooder add laying houses, even vis itors that do not own poultry may carry disease to them. Place a pah RADIOS The Perfect Christ Gift —CROSLEY —EMERSON i —STROMBERG - CARLSON —ZENITH We Offer You A Fine Selec tion of the Best In Radio HOME SUPPLY CO. 42} out, “I on! , HAMILTON’S (l&XHMMuSt ihot youqivz BULOVA tkii GUidmcvi Fire.” Eggs were selling at 39 cenls j a dozen and pork chops at 34 cents pound. The Sunday New York Times carried 11 full columns of ads on houses for sale many of them five and six-room jobs for $6,000. • .• Washington was full of service men on week-end leave. Franklin Roosevelt relaxed momentarily in the White House and, on Broadway “Life With Father” was only 13 omnths old. The 44th division was returning from war games in North A , Carolina to its home post at Fort Dix, N. J., and the latest public ' opinion polls revealed women were becoming more and more vitamin conscious. In London, it was night, and at his country place near Lon don, Prime Minister Wi-nston Churchill was sitting dowh to dinner With U. S. Ambassador John G. Win-! v ant. i r At home, for the relaxation oij after-dinner nappers, the four radio* netwarks were offering sleepy music by Sammy Kaye; a Russian play called “Inspector General;” also “The Spirit of ’41,” a dramatization j of the stories of various military, units, and the latest reports of a I Hollywood columnist. Americans i devoted to best-sellers were reading' “Out of the Night,” “Berlin Diary,” 1 “The Keys of the Kingdom,” “H.! M. Pulham, Esquire.” Americans reading the Sunday newspapers read that: . i President Roosevelt had made a | personal peace appeal lg Emperor i Hirohito in the face of new reports ‘ of Jap troop movements in. Indo- ] China. . . The Russians were chas-: ing routed German forces west of; Rostov and taking the initiative be- j fore Moscow. . . The supply, prior ities and allocations board inter vened in a dispute between the Ot- fice of Production Management and the Rural Electrification Adminis tration. . . Britain formally declared | war on Finland, Hungary, Roman ia. . . *. Russian Ambassador Maxim Lit- xinuff arrived in the United States expressed his “pleasure at finding myself in your wonderful country," thanked Americans for helping the Soviets ... A three-man board ar bitrated the union shop dispute in the captive coal mines . . . General i Douglas MacArthur planned to con fer with President Quezoq in Ma nila . . . Grace Moore and her pro tege, Dorothy'Kirsten, appeared in Chicago in “La Boheme” . . . The Japanese press complained ‘of en- and accused Roosevelt of “insin- circlement by the* ABCD powers cerity” . . .. Senator Harry S. Truman, chair man of the defense investigating ^ committee, urged the president to ‘appoint af “defense works czar” to eliminate waste . . . The RAF at tacked three factories fn Northern Trance . . . Many people in Hawaii and the Philippines, said a late dis patch, would have to go without Christmas / trees because of the •hortage of ships . . . Some 75,000 weldej*s said they would strike Tues day .. . The Texas football team crushed Oregon 71 to 7. Ex-Ser- * geant Hank Greenberg, released two days before from the army under a ruling that men over 28 could be dis charged, looked forward to another bif season with the Detroit Tig- srs • • • Tucked away in The New York Timas, in a corner of the page in the fourth section, was a brief scl- % fritndly credit plan- no txfra chargo. Just pay in tasy small installmonts. • AM frint luc/vdo M. Tea 17 Jowob $ 4 2*» 17 *37* me 9 \ V I I 1.1^ “A Credit f AH Seath Carattae M ffoww niyima •v $49.50 $36.75