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/ /' if FHE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete Newsy and Reliable Volume XLVIII Clinton, S. Ct, Thursday, January 29, If You Don't Read — THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Number 5 Local Option Be Sought By Drys At This Session Columbia, Jan. 29.—Despite intro duction this 'week of a ‘•bone-dry” bill by two Anderson county repre sentatives, dry forces appear to be Clinton Served By Seven Bus Lines For Fiscal Year Colurrtbia, Jan. 27. — (Special to The Chronicle). — Seven bus routes through the city of Clinton w£re be ing operated under the authorization marshalling strength toward bringing i of the South Carolina Public Service out of the house ways and means! commission‘at the close of the past | committee a county-wide local option j fiscal year, according to the cornmis j bill. I The local option measure was in ! troduced last yetir by Representatives .Gaines of Spartanburg, Galloway of sion’s annual report which was is-1 sued this month. Since the close of the fiscal year, addditional applica- j tions to render bus service have been , Abbeville, and Gresham and Hudson approved and denied by the commis- j of Greenville j The “bone-dry” measure, which. 1 would prohibit the manufacture and sion. Bus lines possessing class A cer- , tificates, . which authorize the trans- L House Group Approves Bill To Cut Taxes Six Billions Washington, Jan. 27.—Republicans snowed under President Truman's j tax proposal today and rammed their | own $£,300,000,000 tax-slashing meas-' ure through the-, House Ways and Means committee on a 15 to 9 party line vote. sale df both hard liquor and beer and portation of passengers over regulai wine in the state, was introduced this upon regular .schedules, in e.- ^ week by Representatives Welborn in Clinton at the close of the and Wright of Anderson. The two] fiscal year were as follows: did not propose-in their measure any Atlantic Greyhound Corporation, ! means of replacing the 12 to 15 mil-; operating between Charleston and i lions in liquor revenue accruing to the South Carolina-North Carolina ALL OR NONE . . . Secretary »f State George C. Marshall, when he bluntly told the ^nate fo^Hfn re lations committee promptly enact an adequate four year'SUiro* : day with >ne at alb Fean recovery plan or none CHANGE PROPOSED BY HOUSE IN INCOME TAX LAW Would Increase Amount Revenue for Counties By 2,200,000. t Democrats themselves split on the j ’ -*■— . j President's proposal, which was re-^ Columbia, Jan. 27. (Special 0 • ' jected 19 to 5. But they threw up a The Chronicle).-The house of rep- ] solid wall of opposition to the GOP resentatives has adopted an amend-}. ; measure. 'ment to the general appropriations i One prominent GOP member told bi'l which, if anvepted by the senate I reporters privately, however, the sen when the bill is submitted to that j ate must reduce the size of the tax body Jor approval, will incre .so th** | cut in order to pick up enough demo- amount of state inrome tax revenue cratic votes in both houses to over- : allocated to the counties from 74 ! come a veto. to 10 per cent. With state income lax House debate wilF begin Thurs- revenue estimated at $22,000,000 for vote set for the 1948-1{M9 period, .this would re- the state annually. Nor did the local optionists pro pose any additional taxes or any re- ! distribution of revenue to offset the j state line, via Clinton; Carolina Seen- Emergency Fuel ic Coach Lines, between Spartanburg, SYMBOL Or THRIFT ••. Show* hen an face and back of the new Benjamin Franklin half dollar*. They aymbollae thrift with head of Benjamin Franklin on the face of the coin and the Liberty Bell and American Eagle on the reverse. •*t-nefxt Monday. The bill then will go ■! to the senate for whatever revis- I ion that body wants to make, j. Many Democrats show willing- [ ness to vote for some tax cut but [consider the GOP bill too much. Secretary of the Treasury Snyder National Guard To Provide Transportation For Members To Armory and.the South Carolina-Georgia state, „ fi ne via Clinton; Carolina Scenic pQf This Section i we^thy counter' ^ ^XTs- C.^Ga. ^ate^d^Tnafion I .Moving toTe^e‘extreme cases, lt JJ urd . ^ government The tecal option bill was referred; Augusta, Ga.; Carolina Stages, be- Mayor L. E. Bishop has appointed a ,2 ^ ’°^ ®° ‘J Ways to the ways and means committee for'tween Anderson and Rock Hill, via I three-man emergency fuel oil com- e L ChiiiLn Hutson <R study after it was introduced last'Clinton; Eagle Bus Lines, Inc., be- m ittee to work in conjuncUon with * a Mean chairman Knutson (K- i year Among the authors, Represen- tween Greenville and Columbia, via. the state coordinator in Columbia. ! ^‘mJoTper int^rt TheTw'esTte*! ^ fu**™'* ^ al i° tment - tatives Gaines and Hudson are mem-'Clinton; Smoky Mountain Stages,; The mavor aoDointed the oresi- m 10, P f r ” the , ow f st ^ n ‘ During the past fiscal year, Laureas s^°r^fiiS:isi«*»«».«.»<«,*»es. porcc ,n flnence a movement within the croun line, and Smoky Mountain jrxchan**' Kiwanis and Lions on thei strike over 7 000 000 low ** X WaS ’ 1 ■ • / ’ ’• 1 "j The amendment rarsing'The income suit in a total of about $2200,000 be ing distributed during the tisnl year among the counties of South Caro lina, ra’ber than the approximate $1,500,000 that was distributed dur ing the 1946-1947 fiscal year under the present system of 74 per cent for the counties. If the amendment becomes law, Laurens county will receive 25 per cent more than the sum received un- fluence a movement within the groyp ji to repprt the measure out. Of course, t-Sta Exchange, Kiwanis and Lions on tjve] ges, between the N. C.-S. C. sta l e ^ymmittee. They are Rev. J. C. Dick-i any member of the house could Thrti-j" anc ^ Greenwood, via Clinton. ; er ^ q q Smith and Tom Addison. income persons from the tax rolls ate action to recall the bill from com-1 . f ' “ mittee Masonic Service Sunday The movement to bring the bill out; . D t. r'L L for debate may have been given At DrOOd street L-hUrCh >\uaisuii j, .. , . . . . .. , . tax percentage for ihc counties was u altogether and grant substantial cuts! . y v •. . office at , . adopted by the hoitse by a 62 to 37 ' to the rest of the 52,000,000 taxpayers. . ,, , ,, , .. . 1 i 011 ca!1 vote. Representatives Mi lain < In IV fiv/O t n nino I Ar* ft* * Officers of'local Batterv B, 107th uou ‘ uc ^ nave ®een given, AAA, are now making a special ef- strength by declarations of policy of, fort to raise their quota to the r e- 1 the Carolina Federated Forces; There will be a special serv —, . , nr Temnerancp and Law’ Enforce- next Sunday night at 7:30 at Broad quired 68 enlisted men. They s.aled ment released this week by Assosi-' Street Methodist church Jpr the Ma- ydsterday that beginning next Mon- Secretary Maxie C Collins Isons of District 11, Sponsored by;"’"”” * U *ts day a weekly truck schedule wiU. at * Secretary Maxie C. Collins. i c . L . No 44 The cervice ’ the month from the state emergency be maintained to convey interested ' The . Federated _ Forces statement iCamp^^Lodge^No.^ 44. The serv ice. mpn In thp armnrv for rpaular tram , ^id the Organization_was _ ing work. The truck will leave Lydia mg for passage at this session • • • “ Mills store at 7 p.m., and will make 5 1 llto authorize county-wide local stops at Louie’s, Trammell's Lunch, i<W> n u P° n v u ote u of the r ! s ^ ents ^ f and McGee’s Drug Store, and thence : the county, which is now before the TO the armory, -interested recruits and means committee, end a >tng with the regular cps- are invited to join. Officers df the^ battery further state the proposed Universal Mili tary Training bill, which is sure to bill to set up a program of treatfhent and cure for the reclamation of al coholics.” Federated Forces also asked for immediate clarification** of the law The committee will have an jthe police department and will be-! 0nly five ^ the nine" Democrats' 7 IT" gin passing on emergency requests! presenr in committee> voting behind a nd Mart ; rr i . T^aurens county, voted the latter part of the week as soon closed doorSi supp0rted Mr Xru . j n t fav<)r the «>nHmdment. Reprc- as arrangements' are complete # d with: man . s tax proposal ; offered by Rep ' * W a*° n was not recorded state headquarters. Dingell (D-Mich) as a substitute for ^ ' The county has been allocated the Knutson bill. The count.es 'if the state, however, 8,000 gallons for the remainder of ! The President asked a $40 a per- m ’ e:ve d a tfrdurtton fr -m their share son “cost of living” tax reduction, of the state-alcoholic Taxes and the j with a new $3,200,000,000 excess c,t ** rece,ved an increase through make an anien fi me nt to the general appro- pria turns—bill which reduced the of having at least one annual! It is stated that all applicants must [Profits levy on corporations to have emergency conditions in order U P the revenue loss. sermon on Maionnr. ^ i;'o"'dr;7'i'r7mh.hed:k7l7d''suppTy.i proposal woOId rt-j f’’ 5 '” 00 ® Members of Campbell lodge and Th(i commiHK be charged „,th|mo»e 10300J)00 low-income persons the tax 10 »nd increased any other lodges are invited to at-! tend. , the responsibility of deciding where be passed early in 1948, calls for. ,, , . , , registration of all non-veterans be - regarding-the sale of beer and wine tween the ages of eighten and twenty-. to ")] no /‘ s - _. . . . . one, for six months basic training' u “We have had repeated complaints or Masons, officers state, but and an additional six months in the that ' beer anB wine are being sold to their families|and friends also. K. F. Aw..,.. Masons are asked to meet at, f , . . . ... . • * i at ■ . fuel is actually needed, with prefer- the Masonic temple at 7 and march! _ ._ ., , ,,, . .. , u • w j • j en ee given to The care of- chi Id ren,- to the church in a body and occupy i „ ,. f , . . . .. . , ' aged people and cass of sickness, reserved seats at the church. Rev., » ^ H Henry Collins, past grand master. Local oil dealers were in Columbia will deliver the sermon. ; yesterday securing information. The The public is invited to attend thisi ^uel is to be borrowed by the deal- special service. It is not exclusively ors f rom the Navy and paid back f or ! Tater in the summer it is understood after the crisis has passed. from the tax rolls. 4- the amount scheduled for divisi n among the cities of the state from—a army,Three years in the Guard or children of high school, and even of Mills, master of the local lodge, in- fodr and on3 half years in the Re . ^ oo1 a Se, and that chil-, vites all members to attend. dren are employed in places that sell 1 serve. A proviso exempts from the , , „ basic training those m.n.w.thin the beer and win ^ a spoksman for the Q rQSS H j|| Church age limits who are members of the dry g r0U P sai ! D w C;,-, national guard on the effective date 1 Federated Forces is asking for re- Destroyed By Fire of the bill, provided they complete i V1S1 °? the law to apply the same — ——- sa t penalties to the sale of beer and wine Greenwood, Jan. 26. Brown Says Bill To Be Balanced The Republican bill, - approved by ., the committee today, would $1 *00,000 to $2,100,000. This meant individual exemptions' from $500 W6» rMUCM Ifufil ” $600. This means an estimated 6,- a ^ <er A allocation of Ihe totai 000,000 law income persons wouldn't! alcoholic tax ” «»Hected by the state have to pay .any more income taxes.!* 0 ' p f T vent -' inHl lhal the free per Cost to the treasury: about $2,000- ,cen ^ *way from the counties 000,000 . i was given to the municipaliies, r"io- It also would permit husbands ' n ” ifi e ' r allocation from 10 to 15 per ' and, wives to divide th? family in- c ” nt ,] * f tbc total akxxholic revenue. In | come equally for tax reporting pur- Edition, the basis of the d teibu- poses, thus putting the couple in a ti<m ot tbt>se laxps 1o tll ies and coun- ' lower tax bracket. A dozen states wa * ohan 'ged from populat.on to three years in the guard with a isfactory rating. This means eigri- to minors as now applies to the sale destroyed the Cross Hill Baptist week, Senator Edgar A. Brown of . now permit such income splitting’ amouM of a,cwh<>,,c "venue collect- 'I Columbia, Jan. 27.—"Balancing” ol] ^ local law Nat,„„w,de applica. the Sina >21000 apner d 1 Uon ' VouId . cost the - treasur y W . - Ul ,, J |UOr stores woa, d Fire almost ton M TuTd be =•»« WOO.OOO.OOO. »° >««« «*■ r re a m j n addR i 0nt ^ be bl ji gj ves over; connection with the debate on teenTo twenty-one year old men can, oi ^ rd ^ hq ^-} 0 min0TS -" join the guard and remain at home instead of going to training camp.. church Sunday morning the struc- Barnwell, Senate Finance committee 52 600,000,000 in percentage cuts, as thp allocation of ateote,he taxes, a enuren aunaay morning, wie siruc- follows: i report was published in the house (a) Those with incomes (after d<?-!i ourna l l as ^ week from the state bev- duetions and exemptions) which do era E e Lix commission, indicating the Rocky Springs Rites The legislation proposed would de-|ture being a complete loss except for; c fi airrnan . predicted tonight as ^the clare any beverage containing one-; several walls left standing. | committee adjourned after analyzing half of one per cent or more of al- The cause of the fire has not been t* 16 money measure. determined, but the blaze probably, The bill, passed last week by the originated in the boiler room. The House, should provide for “more cohol to be alcoholic. The state law now declares ‘All not exceed $1,000 grt a 30 per cent' ,ncreJMIe in la * allotments for towns tax reduction. About 29,000,000 tax- and counties in the stale since the i payers fall into tihis class; those with K e neral assembly added heavy add:- incomes between $1,000 and $1,396 Bonal levies on liquor dealers in the - ... . ... . |AU iu U - n . > aa a U * J ♦ AW C ^ get reductions ranging from 30 to ,W7 session, and at the same time Funeral services for Mrs. Marietta and a11 wines containing not exceed- the building for Sunday morning ser-, added, when reported to the Senate. 20 cent . This a£fects 14i3000()0 raised the amount «t alcoholic reve . vices and had left at some time dur-1 Asked how long the committee , nue apportioned to liiunicipahties ing the early part of the night .The, would work on the bill. Brown re-j (c) . Those with incQmes betweea Horn six to ten per cent. | fire was discovered around 1 o clock, plied, ‘Not longer than this week. $1 396 dnd $4 00() get a ^ ceut . During the »x month period after For Mr$ Jnrnh W Watts 'j? 661-5 • • • containing not in excess janitor hadjbeen in the building late , revenue or less spending,” Brown * * of five per cent of alcohol toy weight, Saturday to“fire the boiler and heat declared. “It will be bal^pced,” he Shockley Watts, 80, w“h7'cffed"'ias"t!i n « 21 ^ f.^ohol toy volume” Wednesday at the home of her daugh-! to be non-alcoholic and non-mtoxi- ter Mrs W F Patrick in Green-1 catm S beverages.’ ville*after a Ion® illness were held* " The same spokesman also said that Sunday morning and the Greenwood i Provision for the three-man State » " J * * ’■' J * * ’ ' budget commission must be return ed to the appropriations bill. Brown said. * Brown asserted that the budget commission must be- retained "be- Friday morning at a Greenville tii- 7 edera ^ d Fo^cs were interested in | flre department was summoned and neral. home. Her pastor, Rev. Frank a ^ber of other bills which do ^ k,,,„ B. Edwards, .officiated, with inter-’" ot bear dlr ^ W on the alcoholic ment following in the Rooky Springs Presbyterian church cemeteiy near here. beverage problem. Among these are government reorganization, a gen eral election jaw providing for a Mrs. Watts was born December 12, secret , m .^eral elections, 1867, in this section of Laurens roun- complete elimination . otf secrecy ^e- ty. She was a daughter of the late g a -dib? government affairs, jnd lr"’ fought the blaze for about two - hours. Tuesday Concert Cancelled At Laurens Due to the illness of Miss Virginia to The MacWalters, coloratura soprano, the! e rn.mpnt “j which was, to have been pres^wW-f^j^^^ Meeting At ^ in Laurens Tuesday evening, was ClemSOn Friday Night postponed. The date of The concert^ ; ^ William I and Sarah RowUnd assurance of honest electidft$ th ^ail;fi rst concert number on ihe Laurens William L. a^d Sarah RowlH ” d v „ r ; maries » % ?• ^ County Community Concert series:; Shockley. For the past 33 years she ; P r - marit; s. ^ - . - ' had lived in Greenville. Since tite death of her husband, Jacob W Mississippi YOUngS Watts, in 1936, she had lived with gyy QnllowaV PrODGrtv the family of her daughter She was DU / ^UllOWaj^TTOpcrIy a member of the Associate; Reforme Presbyteria man’s Missionary than 20 years the Sunday school. cently moved to Anderson. reduction. This group numbers about lhe new law was passed, from July 9,100,000. j to, December, 1»47, the extra liquor (d) Those;, with incomes (®fter de- ^ ax and increased allocation from it ductions and exemptions) above $4,-i to U’c towns brought Clinton $6,237/ 1000 get a 20 per cent reduction on! as cxwnpared to $2,009 from the reve- , . [the tax applicable to the first $1- nLM? in ^be same six month period in ;c a usa too many sections ol the state, ^ |u> , 0 cenl „„ ^ ,946, bef „ r , th , i, e , jkllu „ author . . cotie reter to iFy » v ,1 is necessary, nMoah | f the rt . malnder „ ( ^ i2 ed U» increase liquor las an 1 -Pfration .,! Ihe state gov. , e Th , s a „ ec ^ about , 00u i—An town allotment. Similarly. Cross Hill ‘xemption re( eiveil $574 from the alcohol ie—rev - of $600 is given to persons 65 or old- enLM? drt>,n Julir to December, 1947, In addition to her daughter, sheds The resid#n ^_ arran g e d; for two'ClintOn Friday survived by one grandson WHliam ments> win be by Mr .l F. Patrick Jn Decatur Ga.; two and Mrs Robert p ruitt> and Mr and ' great-granddaughters, Mary Eliza- Mrs / Alexander Cruickshanks. beth and Robin Wilson Patrick; one; half-sister, Mrs. D3ssie Ramage, of »/•••• n a j. Laurens; and a half-brother, Franz VISITing rrOteSSOr At er, bringing their total personal ex- afte r the passage «l Hh'e new law, ai j emption to $1,200. This affects about txmipared to no shrfre at all in the 13,700,000 and removes about 1,100, sime month period in 1946; Gray has been changed *1(1-Miss MacWat-i The annual mdetin- and banquet T 1 " w elderly per,sans from Court was altoe.l«l »43« m the IM7 A er c , s su-hfAduled to annpar ThnrcHav e ui r> . n ’ c . . . Ific tax rolls. It would reduce reve- S!X nrKinth period, as contrasted to no te.s.is scheduled to appear Thursday of the BIue Rldge B oy Scout council,! mi ^ hv „ Hn finn nnn ^are >n the 1946 mterval; Lauren, obtained $7,536 in the 1947 half-yea; , after obtaining 2,618 m the preceding who 1S period, and Waterloo received $163-. connected with the Veterans' Admin- ]” ^ six month period in 1947, af- istration, will be interested to learn ^receiving no alb*-at.on in the pro be has been transferred from Green- of Laurens ville to Newberry, where he and 01 $33,487 for the 194, family will make their home.- Mrs. ™ ^ W™ f rom Jeily to December id 1946 For the beer ami wine allocate scout executive. Dr. Herman L. Turner, pastor of , “-rr 7. . 'Covenant Predbyterian church, At- | Miss Jennie V. Culbertson, county , anta and a member of the Scout , auditor wiff be in The city Friday. executive committee o{ R um 6 the 30th, for the purpose of taking wiU be the principal aker Scout tax returns for the coming year, this 1 execu ^ ves Wlll be present , an at on, Shockley, of Abbeville, formerly of Presbyterian College this city and communis —^ 1 7 -- Dr. Jabir Shibli, professor of math- i ematics at Pennsylvania State col lege, will be a visiting “professor of 'mathematics at the college durir.g the second semester beginning this week, 'President - M. W.' Brown has an nounced. J! Annual Red Cross Meet In Laurens Tonight Itoe annual meeting of the'Lau rens county chapter of the Ameri can Red Cross will be held this eve ning (Thursday) at 7:30 o’clock in the Red Cross offices over Scott’s Five and Ten Cent stores in Laurens, it has been announced by the execu tive secretary, Mrs., Helen G. Mel-j Registration Ifor the second semes- 1 letted j yf ter ,at Pte^>yterian college was com- Thomas A. Babb, head of the chap- pleted Tuesday, following Tbe exami- ler, has requested all tn embers of j nation period, with a slight ^increase the Red Cross to be present as the I expected’in the student body. Sev- annual election of officers will beleral new courses toward B, A. and held and committee chairmen nanjed B.'S. degree#'will be offered, the ad- for the coming year. ministration stated. - \ - * > . •* , > ,S X* \ . ^ \ - Jpjj ■ •. A \ - v McLees, and children are spending” i „.»» UAC9CIIV an a a. sdhie time: with his mother,, Mrs. Zee ... ibAmg the last stop on her itinerary. tendan .. e 40n bL . in g expected fro^!'Vnght, .Meitees.. Mr./McLees spent ,”32 ("!?'. ' I She will hnye headquarters at tha^-eijht counties. Sev eral S.'o£f •.he tv eeli^nd .;here.' •' , I>«™*er perurf I!MA and city clerks office from 9:30 am. 1 ‘——^ 5 p.m. leaders from her^ and Goldville will v1 c '. A/ c • i bc/~ n i o r nc attend the meeting, at which time NEW jUBjCRIBEKS (Cont rued on page seven) FOOD neW officers for the year will also be! HONOR ROLL X - T • f 'H* k .If you want to keep up with the | elected. * I^An Important Second Semester Begins At College Itetn With Housewives j You will find helpful Grocery" and Market News in THE CHRONICLE every wetk from leading food stores in the city. Read the advertisements — they tell you about changing prices and where you can buy to advantage. t'Simpson's Condition I Reported Improving j’ news Federol Tax Agent In City Feb. of * this community, T !I E J > \ ; yit'ral imomr tax returns for the your calchda W. v CHRONICLE should come into your calendar year 1947 must be (Tied by home. The cost is small, less than 4c evej^ citizen or rccuboit, inv! :'T : » j a week, the local news- coverage com- minors. orf the UnilcB states who h id’ H. Simpson, well known^busi-' plete. We invite now subscriptions $500 ur more grwv income during TT&ss; man of the city, was reported I anywhere. I ; yesterday as satisfactorily improving at the General hospital in Greenville where he has been a patient thq. past two weeks and underwent an oper ation last Wednesday. This announce ment wijl be one of interest to his many teiends here and elsewhere, Who hope that he may have a speedy recovery. . : :■> v ' Welcome and thanks to those our Honor Roll this week: ' LEWIS OAKLEY, - , Chester. , • MRS. HARRY ESTES, Enore.e CARL KENEY, * MRS. LUKE SMITH, West Clinton. •7 | tee year, on All refurns must be in the office of tee collector of internal revenue in Columbia, before mutingt>t, March 15, in order to avoid liability for penalties. Deputy collectors will be in Clinton February 19 and 29 at the post.office building to assist taxpayers with the preparation of their returns. -r- * /<• ft • < 7: v