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'* -V f / ' , V 1 v<.yy .*, ' I* - . \v ^ ' % Poge Eight Local Employment Office Claims Larger In November Columbia, Dec.y 22.—(Special to, *n»e Chronicle).^-Although the amount of unemployment compen sation in the state as a whole dropped thirty per cent last month, initial claims at the Clinton office of^the South Carolina Employment Secur ity Commission increased from 37 in October to 61 in November, while the total continued claims handled! by the office went down from 155 to: 139. However, the exec'utive director of! the commission, James J. Bush, who: made the announcement this week,! said that in all compensation actually' pakWin South Carolina, the unem-j ployment allowances of the commis-j sion last month went below SlJDOO,- 00 for the first time in almost two! vears, totalling $931,116 for Novem-J ber. Unemployment compensation dur ing the month declined thirty per! cent as/compared to October; vet-, erans iWmployment allowances de-! dined SS^per cent, and veterans un employed allowances decreased 27 per cent. The exceptive director stated that a recent review 7 of the claims of allj veterans who have been receiving | allowances for ten weeks or more without actively seeking w’ork re sulted in a discontinuance of some payments, contributing to the de cline in unemployment allowance^ this month, i 1 A large volume of exhaustion in the maximum payments allowable under the law, and shorter working month in November also contributed to the decrease in allowances paid. For the fourth consecutive month,! continued claims again decreased,! due mainly to the large number of, exhaustions* in November. New] claims, however, increased as a re-! suit of several temporary layoffs in! several large industrial plants. Ini tial claims filed in November num bered 2,721, as compared to 2,495 in October, whereas continued claims dYopped sharply from 12,097 to last month’s 9,310. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE , t “The Paper Everybody Reads’* THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursdoy, Decembw 25,1947 By MARY NELSON “LJAPPY new year!” A 1 The cry echoed and re-echoed down the street as Penny made her way toward the bus stop. Every where about her people w'ere light hearted and gay and busily wishing their friends good fortune for the coming year. She buttoned her coat at the neck an<J turned up the collar. It was a bitterly cold day and she told herself she would be happy to reach home and stay in for'the night. Let those with pio neer blopd go out and stand in .the raw wind dowm at Dayton Circle just t6 blow a silly horn at midnight os tensibly to usher in the nevif T yeaf > . Penny had always been known at home as a sensible girl with good common sense. She was proud of that reputation and now that she lived in the city alone she was more determined than ever to live up to it. She didn’t want to become • sophisticated, worldly wise city girL Thus, she summed up mentally, it was just as well she didn’t go out. “Going out tonight, Penny?” The w-ords interrupted her thoughts and she turned to greet Ruby, a fellow worker who was al ways going out with someone she called “Beanie.” You could always tell the status of Ruby’s romance by her mood: if she was exuberant to the point of being giddy, she was going to see Beanie that night; if she was quiet and petulant, she hadn’t heard from him, and if she was downright rude with a sarcastic twist to every remark she made, then they had quarreled. Penny smiled. "No, I’m not. Ruby,” she replied. Odd that she should feel such emptiness within her as she said the words. She not ed Ruby’s quick glance of sympathy and it irritated her. 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Ruby hadn’t meant any offense—she was simply so wrapped up in her own little world that she felt sorry for anyone who had no Beanie to which to cling. She was essentially a generous person and now Penny had deliberately hurt her. AS SHE stood in the middle of the sidewalk, angry and discour aged, she saw her bus speeding reck lessly down the street and without another thought to anything else she hurried toward the comer M “Wait, oh, wait!” she called, running breath lessly. No one else was waiting, however, and he careened sharply off the curb, hurrying on his way. ”Oh, dear!” S^iei burst into tears at this new disappointment and reached blindly for the curb. But her foot missed and came down on a sheet of ice sending her into an astonished heap in the street. For a moment she was too stunned to move. She heard footsteps hur rying past her and managed to sit up dazedly. A man knelt down be side her but his face was a blur of features. "Take it easy," he admon ished, placing an arm across her back. She tried to focus her eyes upon him and hadn’t quite succeed ed when he cried, "Penny! Why, Penny Lindsay 1 What in the world are you doing out here?” And then everything cleared and she saw the handsome, bltad fea tures of a former school friend. “Oh, Alan!" Tears tumbled over each other in hasty exit. He helped her to her 9 feet. "Gee, it’s good to see someone from the old home town. I’ve been so doggone lonely,” he told her, manipulating the hand kerchief skillfully around her nose and eyes. "I’m lonely, too," she gasped. *Tve only been here a month.” "Say! What are you doing to night? Anything?” . “N-ootbing,” Her heart skipped a beat in anticipation. ’Than why don’t wa go samewhere and talk over old times? Gee, I*m dvtnx to hear tome about the Turners and the m*A «q the rest Win yon, tr um aojtcncu* uu aui you, Peenv?" ffntlsd hanbUy laftr»i?3E«faaaS , r P* f , V ir-n mmms -r 'MET/nGS 0, Come let us adore Him Clear, sweet and strong the tnany voices of the choir rise as one to • if ' * ' ■ . , praise Him. For it is His birth date . . . anniversary of the beginning of a neW concept of love and brotherhood for all mankind. We see how He brought light into the darkness; how He fed the hungry, slaked the parched and healed* the suffering. We sing again, psalms of Joy in His coming . . . hymns of faith in His undying spirit . . . songs of love which - • are veritable paeans of glory reverberating around the world to guide all His children toward an everlasting realization of Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men. ■ v - V " 0 f Christmas is electrifying! 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