The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, January 29, 1948, Image 10
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, Jonuory 29, 1948
STOC KHOLDERS NOTICE j —
A meeting of the stockholders of| * y^# i • . r i-
The Clinton Hotel Corporation will) ** WaSningtOn iCCS If . .
be held on Monday, February 2, at : ryr MATIAklAI CrCkIC
3 p.m. in the high school auditorium L | (|L IvA I IUIiAL jLLmL
f«'r the pur post of approving By-j
lvi>vs for said corporation and trans-
acting any other business that may Special to The Chronicle!
come before the meeting.
ROBERT WYSOR, III,
29-2c •- Secretary.
^ Washington, Jan. 27.—For the
third time within approximately two
months President Truman has urgeji
UN \L SETTLEMENT upon the broad powers under his
Take "notice that on the 29th day ten-point program to fight inflation
Janua v, 1948, I will render a final anc ^ the high cost of living-. , |
.account of mv acts and doings 3 s Ad- i And for the third time it appears
ministratnx "of the estate ol/j.m «i uall y certa ‘n that the congress,
Caldavt. 11 White m the office of the does no1 propose to give him that
Jiidge of Probate of Laurens County, authority . . . the right to impose ra-
af 10 o'clock a m., and on the same tioning and wage abd price ceilings
dav will a;^ly for a final discharge on certai u commodities^and. the en-!
from my trust as Administratrix. ; tire program coQ^ained in bis mes-
Anv person indebted to said estate sa Se to the special session of tbe j
is notified and required to make payv con S ress in November -and in his'
A all ^St
I ported three (forest fires during the,,
: month of December, with a total of
five acres of timber destroyed, ac-;«
[cording to the monthly fire report j
issued this week by the S. C. State
; Commission of Forestry. Six other Clinton City
forest fires have. occurred in the
county since the beginping df the
fiscal yeanv with a total of 20.2 acres
ITINERARY FOR 1948
OFFICE OF
LAURENS COUNTY AUDITOR
Friday, Jan. 30, 9:30 AM to 5 PM
This is not f “T,nnrf Year,” so real estate should not be returned this
. year except in the cases of newly acquired property or where new build*
of the county’s 217 17* wooded in ? s have been erected. All who have acquired real estate and built new
fhnrnpd UntyS ' Z17 ’ 1 ^ wooded acres , houses are especially urgd to make returns as this will greatly assist in
' ‘ u i too ^ J keeping the records straight.
in the state as a whole, 123 forest household goods and furniture used in the home of the owner of
! fires were reported during Decern-' such goods and (furniture are exempted from taxation and need not be
i ber, making a total of.340 fires since returned. v
i.ruly 1, 1947. The fires have burned Please do not wait until the last day as it requires more time to fill
| a total of 2,057 acres, with 857 acres out blanks than usual. I , ‘ '
destroyed durint? last month This is ^ not convenient to come to the county auditor’s office, please make
I W ^ relum at^ at the above places. A 10 per cent penaUy goes on ,1.
area at 11.542.170 acres, according t-> pr « !CrlJ ' n0, r ^ rr,e ' d - afler March >“• .
ment on or before that date; and all s t a ! e ot union message early in
pc’^nns having claims against said
< stott will present them on or be-
Jan
uary.
The President’s latest warning and
tore
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i.de, duly proven, or be his tliiM plea for authority under
OPENS CONGRESS . . . Speaker
of the House Joseph W. Martin,
Jr. (R., Mass.), is shown on the
house rostrum as the 80th congress
—ed
H ATT IK LOU WHITE
A Iministratrix.
7 29-4cw
reconvened
session.
in , its last regular
the report. ,
I No persons have been prosecuted
in Laurens county in connection with
causing forest fires since the 'begin
ning of the fiscal year, but in the
state as ‘ a whole, 23 persons have
been prosecuted on this charge, with
122 convictions obtained.
MISS JENNIE V. CULBERTSON
COUNTY AUDITOR
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Repairing and
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Work
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Goodyear Tires
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BATTERIES _AND
ACCESSORIES
McMillan
Service Station
Sinclair Products
Phone No. 2
STOP FUEL WASTE!
The ordinary window wilfi only
clearance between laih and frame
admits the same quantity of cold
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every hour of the dayl Monarch
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.1. M. “BILL” WATSON.
Bo\ 45 Laurens, S. C.
Phone 21796
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law, was contained in his semi-an-
TTtrn economte,report * ,,h U callM C<mgrotu | ote Choirman
>rt was contained On Bond Sales
In Lourens County
for under the fyll employment act.
The President’s r^
in a 136-page printed booklet and
while it pointed out the prosperous
condition of the country as of today, . ♦
and predicted,.continuous prosperity 1 John B. Sloan, chairman of the
through -194$. he spoke of “Ominous. state advisory committee of the U. S.
signs” and^aeclared the present in- Savings Bonds division, has issued
'fTatian • was “the dominant problem | congratulations to D. F, Patterson, of
in our economic aiffairs.” | Laurens, chairman of Laurens county
Among the things he pointed out for the sale of U. S. savings bonds in
as the trends of the times and with the county during the year 1947,
which most people, will agree are— which totalled $88^,427.25.
„ . ^ COLD DISCO MFC
Consumer purchasing power is drop
ping. 8 per cent since 1946; that the
The substantial amount of $37,-
890.267.75 invested in savings bonds
people are dipping into their savings by the- people of South Carolina in
or are buying on credit 4o keep up. 1947 is of t>wo-fold importance, states
the present purchasing value; that Mr. Sloan. First, it is a strong force
throwing off of credit .controls has in the, nationwide fight against high
added—millions of dollars to debt^T^pnces, ^ r - Sloan emphasizing that
the home mortgage debt has in- every dollar invested in savings
creased from .approximately twenty bonds removes that much money
to more than 24 billions of dollars fi>bm the spending channels, thus
in the past (four years: profits are up, lessening the pressure for a continued
higher than ever before, but the real rise in prices. Second, and equally
income and take-home pay of the important, the-millions of dollars in
masses of the people, particularly the hands of the people of this state
white collar workers, school teach- in the form' of savings bonds will
ers, clerks and others, are actually prove in future years a tremendous
down over last year; that construe- safeguard to their personal security
lion activity, high in 1947, cannot be and happiness. v
maintained in 1948 at present prices; .
that business inventories have been pQreSt FirGS
bu-ilt. up’in expectation of further _ A \ f*
price rises and that price decrease K6pOrfGd 111 CvOUflty
„w:ll catch-these business men, many \
of them small businessmen and mer-! Columbia,,
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chants, which "raises a greaTer po- The Chronicle).—Laurens county re-
tential threat to the maintenance of ' 7
-production and employment than has
been the case at any time since the.
.war began.”'
He again called for his social xe.-;
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SHARPTWS
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Esso Products
Bicycle Tires and Tubes
—Washing '
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BILL DEES, Owner
On Clinton-GoldviDe
Highway at Goldville
: bill, increased benefits and broader
coverage under social security, and
answered the GOP charge that his
reforms would add ten billion dollars
to the annual federal budget by pre
senting a schedule of timing and de
claring that a large part of the social
security program would be deflation
ary at ,the outset and so there was
no yason to delay them. He made it
clear that such programs as resour
ces development, reclamation, trans-1
portation improvement, urban reha-
bilitation and expansion of the health
and education programs should not
be undertaken until the “inLlationary
pressures subside.”
He declared that some of his pro
grams even though inflationary , to
a degree, such as increasing the min
imum wage ■ and granting his $40
tax exemption, shouli^be immediate
ly enacted to lesson the hardship on
those hardest hit by the present high
cost of living.
In the meantime hearings contin
ued on the European Recovery or
Marshall Plan before . both the
House and' Senate Foreign Relations
Committees with Secretary Marshall,
urging the full plan or nothing, with,
heads of War and Navy declaring the
plan is peace insurance, that unless
it is passed there will be another i
universal draft and that costs for
military preparedness will outstrip:
cost of the proposed Marshall ^lan.:
Also in the meantime the political
; pot continues to boil in Washington 1
with the roads pointing toward the
two national conventions in Phila-j
delphia this summer. Every state-'
ment made by every member of the
cohgress, Democrat or Republican, is
hedged with the thought of either
conventions or the November elec-!
tion in mind. This year seems to be
a year of decision insofar as the bat
tle of the progressive liberals- and
‘the conservative reactionaries are
concerned.
j Despite the public ridicule by tfie
Republican leadership of President
Truman’s state af the Union speech,
the practical Republican politicians
here privately adnlit that, his speech
is effective and will swing votes. It
was a rehash of the Roosevelt tech
nique, a play to the low incomes
where the votes are and a slap at
the upper incomes wh^re the votes
are scarce.
3 Unions BjockLabor Peace—Refuse Wage Boost
Already Accepted by 19 Other Railroad Unions!
CREDITORS’ NOTICE
j All persons having claims against
the estate of Mrs. John D DominirK,
deceased, arc hereby notified .o ii e
‘the same, du’y verified, \ : th tre un-
d- .signed, and those indented'to i
estate will plc-ase maire payment like-|
wise.
MRS. BESSIE D. SUBER,
Administratrix,
Clinton, S. C.
January 16, UM2.—5-3cw.
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The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi
neers, Brotherhood of ’Locomotive- Fire
men and Enginemen and the Switchmen’s
L'nion of North America, representing
125,000 railroad employes, have refused
to accept the offer of the Railroads of a
wage increase of 15# cents an hour.
This is the same increase awarded
1,000,000 non-operating employes by an
arbitration board in September, 1947.
This is the same increase accepted by J
175,000 conductors, trainmen and switch
men by agreement on November 14,1947.
Agreements have been made with
1,175,000 employes, represented by nine
teen unions. But thesi three unions, rep
resenting only 125,000 men, are trying to
get more. They are demanding also many
new working rules not embraced in the
settlement with the conductors and train
men.
Incidentally, the Switchmen’s Union of
North America represents only about 7%
of'all railroad switchmen, the other 93%
being represented by the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen and covered by the
settlement with that union.
Sir ike Threat
The leaders of these three unions spread a,
slrike ballot while negotiations were still
in progress. This is not a secret vote but is
taken by union leaders and votes are
signed by the employes in the presence
of union representatives.,
When direct negotiations failed, the
leaders of these throe unions refused to
join the railroads in asking the National'
Mediation Board to attempt to settle the
dispute, but the Board took jurisdiction
at the request of the campers and has been
earnestly attempting since November 24,
1947, to brin<T about a settlement. The
Board on January 15, 1948, announced
its inability to reach a mediation eetile-
merit. The Leaders of the onions Rejected
the request of the Mediation Board to
arbitrate. 'The railtoads accepted.
What Now?
The Unions having refused to. arbitrate,
the Railway Labor Act provides for the
appointment of a fact-finding board by
the President.
The railroads feel it is due shippers,
passengers, employes, stockholders, and
the general public to know that through
out these negotiations and in mediation,
they have not only exerted every effort to
reach a fair and reasonable settlement,
but they have also met every requirement
of the Railway Labor Act respecting the
negotiation, mediation, and arbitration of
labor disputes.
It seems unthinkable that these three unions,
representing less than^lO tier cent of railroad
employes, and those among the highest paid,
can successfully maintain the threat of a par-
alyzing strike against the interest of the en
tire country—and against 90 per cent of their
fellow employes.
The threat of a strike cannot justify grant-
ing more favorable conditions to 125,000 em- j
ployes than have already been put in effect
for 1,175,000, nor will it alter the opposition
of the railroads to unwarranted wage in
creases or to changes in working rules which
are not justified.
A glance at the box shows what employes
represented by the Engineers and Firemen
make. They are among the highest paid In
the ranks of labor in the Upited Stales, if not
the highest.
Compare these wages with what you make 1 .
•' W7 kmnm k
Her* iaa comparison of TmHEaton k*a«l Uritep kmmiUiSm uSnetm'mi
average annual earn- CNOINIKRS „
* 3 ’ 966 wi2e t6 - m ■
is
been if the 15H cents *»rd 2,749 , 4,081 4,539
per hour increase, of- PIRIMBN
lered by the rmlroads Road Freight.. ( . 2,738 4,683 5 26ft
and rejected by the (Local ahd Way) 6 ’*' b8
union leedera. had been Road Paaenger 2,732 4,544 5 165
in effect throughout tbs Road* Freight (Through). 2,069 8,460 a’ftgi
antn* year 1947. Yard 1,962 * 3,136 ajiSS
Railroad wagee computed from Interstate Commerce Commission Statement M -300
KOI bMi. ^ ^l£,a~ fo,
SOUTHEASTERN RAILROADS
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