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A 1 THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper, Complete Newsy and Reliable 3hp * (Clmmtrle If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XLIX Clinton, S. C, Thursday, February 17, 1949 Number 7 Kinard To Address Men HOUSE GROUP PROPOSES BILL OF 11 MILLION Appropriation Measure Above Estimate of Budget Commission. Columbia, Feb? 15. — The state house of representatives received a j $111,272,018 general appropriaitons ,bill from its ways and means com- jmittee today and quickly set consid eration for tomorrow. The proposed appropriations are approximately $1,500,000 more than current expenditures. To keep the budget balanced, the committee ac companied the appropriations bill ' with another to bring insurance com panies under the state income tax laws. J The latter bill would yield an esti- Dr. James C. Kinard, president of: ^O^O a year new revenue. Newberry college, will be guest speaker for the Men-of-the-Church dinner this evening (Thursday) at the Presbyterian church at 7:30, Lt. DR. JAMES C. KINARD The appropriaitons bill, for which the general assembly has been wait ing several weeks, is $1,195,279 greater than the total recommended Col. Powell A. Fraser, program chair-; ^ s ^ a ^ e budget commission. That man, has announced. Dr. Kinard is the commission said, was just a favorite speaker in this state and all members of the men’s club are invited to hear him. Dr. John W. Harris is president oi the group. $66,000 less than anticipated revenue in the 1949-50 fiscal year. Differences in the committee bill and the budget commission recom mendations lay to a great degree in the appropriations proposed for the State hospital, the University of South Carolina and The Citadel. The committee was more liberal with those institutions than the commis sion. ! Also, the committee would leave The South Carolina Synod of the unchanged the 7‘i per cent share of United Lutheran Church in America,! state income receipts allocated to of which St. John’s Lutheran church. counties. The commission recom- of this city, is a member, is conven-, mended a reduction of five per cent, ing in Columbia at Ebenezer church i The insurance tax bill proposed Local Lutherans Attending Synod Meet In Columbia today for the last session of its 124th convention which began on Tuesday. The Rev. James C. Dickert, pastor, and J. L. Boyle, lay delegate, are the only to>eliminate the words “and n- surance companies’’ from a law list ing agencies and businesses exempt ed from the payment orf state income representatives of the local church.; f ax «- The exemption was intended origi nally, committee members said, for Others who have attended some of the sessions are W. M. Shealy, Jr., R. W. Boland, and W. M. Shealy, as premium profits. Since then, the com- Tuesday, February 22, Is George Washington’s Birthday GENERAL, FOUNDER OF A NATION, AND ITS FIRST PRESIDENT 1732 — 1799 i “The noblest leader ever entrusted with bis country’s life” alternates or visitors. Reports of boards and committees evidence progress in all areas, es pecially in the establishment of new ta * e xein Pt- mitteemen added, insurance compan ies have gone into other businesses and their profits from these still are A move last year to bring insur ance companies under the tax laws failed. Strong opposition from * \he companies again is expected, com mitteemen said. congregations throughout the state. Reports of the president of the synod, the Rev. K. W. Kinard, DJD., and of the finance committee show that the church has grown steadily numeri cally and that last year was a record year financially, the amount of $200,- Weathers Named 000 having been contributed for the j. , , benevolent causes of the church. The nCOd Oi v^OUnty membership of the synod is 36,543, in Teachers Group Jurors Drawn For Sessions Court Convening Monday Thirty-six petit jurors for the Feb- Dow Bedenbaugh, Jr., Rites Held Sunday, Interment Here COUNTY APPROPRIATION BILL ON HOUSE CALENDAR; MILLAGE SAME AS LAST YEAR . Total Appropriations of $356,918.11, With State Income Reducing Amount To Be Raised by Taxation To $115,256. Bill Calls for 12 Mills Levy. Columbia, Feb. 15. — (Special to [ tern for county employees, $2.26(1 The Chronicle).—The Laurens coun- S. C. Workmen's Compensation, $794; ty supply bill for 1949-50, practically uniforms for sheriff’s office, $1,000, like last year’s, was introduced in and supplement hot lunch program, the house of representatives last $f>00. week by the county delegation. The T he following appropriations m tho bill provides for expenditures total- 1949.50 bill as introduced las* week ling $356,618, which, less estimated the same as the apprdpriations revenues amounting to $241,662. will made in the 1946-49 bill’ clerk o leave $115,356 to be raised by tax- CO urt, $3,600; assistant to clerk of ation. The estimated revenue fol- court, • $1,920; clerk-for extra ser=- ,ows: vices,' $1,620;’auditor. $1,368.75; trav- Fines and licenses $24,493.90; gas- el for auditor, $100; clerical help : >r oline tax $85,874.54; liquor tax $56,- auditor, $1,920; county treasurer, $1.- 887.73; beer and wine tax, $6,^78.58; 368.75; clerical help, $1,920; superin fees $18,421.00; insurance license fees tendent of education, $300; assiStan $10,971.11; county’s part of income to superintendent of education, $1.- tax $32,301.02; vehicle license tax 920; clerk to board of county com- $717.75; bank tax $3,884.66; national, missioners, $1,920; jailor, $2,400 forest fund $1,531.60. maintenance for radio system, $300 The supply bill passed last year,, coroner -county physician, $750. for the 1948-49 fiscal year, provided assistant county physician. $375; for expenditures amounting to $359,- rourt house janitor, $1,620; judge of 993, which left $92,510 to be raised P robat e. $3,600; clerk for judge of by taxation, after deducting estimat- probate, $1,920; judge of probate f >r ed revenues of $267,483. indexing pensions, $25; sheriff, $3.- * In the supply bill introduced last * rav ^l expenses for sheriff, $900, week, the following items have a nx deputy sheriffs, $14,400; salary larger appropriation than that made C0U TTty supervisor, $3,600; tax collec- in the 1948-49 supply bill; 125,000 is tor - 52,880; two county commission- appropriated for maintenance of fcrs > 51,100; travel expenses for coun chain gang, roads, bridges, etc., for ^ commissioners. $500; three mem- 1949-50, while the 1948-49 bill alio- bers *? oartl of registration. $300; cated $110,000 for this purpose, plus county attorney, $250; ladies rest $10,000 to purchase trucks; additoinal expenses in spraying help for auditor for preparing" and j 5200; medical supplies, $300; filing records of tax returns, $1,620 S1X mi11 deputies, $720: head deputy for 1949-50 as compared to $600 in a * Joanna for transporting prisoner* the 1948-49 bill; cost and expenses i an( ^ witnesses, $300. ^ of sending out tax notices, $750 as ( Also, magistrates: city of Laurens, compared to $720; travel expenses $1,200; clerk, $1,800; Clinton. $1,000. for superintendent of education, $600 constable at Clinton, $900; Cross Hill, as compared to $420; extra help to $200; Waterloo, $200; Gray Court, handle teacher recertification and $200; Youngs, $200; Sullivans, $200. withholding taxes, $1,620 as com- Scuffletown, $150; Jacks, $150; pared to $600; extra clerical help for Mountville, $200; for jurors. $300 judge of probate, $300 as compared Also, insurance for county build- to $200; travel expenses for six dep- mgs, $625; vital statistics, $310; court uty sheriffs, $5,400 as compared to house. $4,000; Laurens National ,$4,320; travel of county supervisor, Guard unit, $600; for beautifying $720 as compared to $560; Laurens court house lawn, $100; salary (for county library, $10,000 as compared matron at county home, $300; addi- to $7,500; county health department,' tional help at county farm, $1,200; $4,800 as compared to $4,500; heating ' and janitor service for health center, $2,000 as compared to $1,600; board agricultural building, $700; boys 4-<rt club work, $75; girls 4-H club work, $75; Future Farmers of America, $7A; 122 congregations. »Sound Picture At Lutheran Church On next Sunday evening, at 7:30. a sound motion picture titled “An swer for Anne,” will be shown at St. John’s Lutheran church, according to an announcement by the pastor, the Rev. James C. Dickert. “Answer for Anne” is a fast-moving drama ir which Anne, a high school girl, seeks first hand facts for an essay on the subject, “Should our town take in displaced persons?” H is profession ally produced for the National Lu theran Council’s World Relief Pro gram, by Caravel Films, much of the action being filmed on the spot in one ol the European DP camps. Running time is about 45 minutes. The public is cordially invited to attend the showing. ACCEPTS GREER POSITION Miss Marthareen Pitts has resigned! her position as stenographer at the! .State Training school to take' effect March 1. Miss Pit's has a;, opted a' position with an insu ance firm in | Greer and will make her home there with her aunt, Mrs. O. T. Lawiuj. j NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS All advertising copy must be in the office not later than 10 A.M. on Tuesday. We cannot accept copy on Wednesday, em press day. We ask your full cooperation 4 in order that we may serve you better. Furman V. Weathers, of Gray Court-Owings, was elected president of the Laurens County Teachers as sociation at its February meeting held in the Laurens high school au ditorium. Mrs. T. B. Sumerel was named vice-president and J. Leroy Burns, secretary-treasurer. Mrs. Ruth Thomas, of Walterboro, president of the state association, was guest speaker. She stressed the value of membership in the national, state and county associations, with special emphasis on local activities. Mis^ Harlowe Mahaffey, member ship chairman, reported 216 members in the state association this year, or 89 per cent of the total. Due to the fact that membership fell below 90 per cent of the. total, the county asso ciation failed to receive the 5 per cent refund from the state association for the filst time in many years, she said. Dues in the state association this year were $7.00 a member as com pared with $3.50 last year. _ D. S. Templeton, of this city, retir ing president, presided. The Rev. P. L. Bauknigiht, of this city, conducted the devotions. Wiley To Lead Services At College —♦— The Rev. Sam S. Wiley, pastor of the First Presbyterian church in An derson, will be the guest speaker Re ligious Emphasis week at Presbyter ian college March 1-4. Mr. Wiley is a former navy chap lain, having served in the East, and he has studied at New College in Scotland on fellowship. He is also' former pastor of churches in Thom- 1 asville, N. C., Greensboro, N. C., Pen- 1 sacola, Fla., and Charleston. Leaders of all student organiza tions on the campus 1 are in charge of arrangements for the special ser vices. , of assessors and equalization, $1,200 ’ Future Home Makers, $T5; stenogra- , . . Funeral services for Tec. 5 Loren- as com p a red to $1,000; office rent for pher and materials for home demoti- ruary general sessions court and 12 za Dow Bedenbaugh, Jr., 21, son of magistrate at Clinton, $144 as com-! stration agent, $330; assistant county grand jurors for 1949 have been Mr. and Mrs. Dow Bedenbaugh, Sr., pa rec j t 0 $120; printing, postage and agent, $660; emergency relief, $1,200; drawn by the jury commissioners for of Kinards, were heid Sunday after- stationery, $6,100 as compared to! miscellaneous contingent, $6,000; the term of court to convene next noon at 3 0 clock from the residence $4 000; Clinton National Guard unit, i county board of education, $850- for Monday, the 21st. Judge M. M. Mann ot his parents, conducted by Rev. H. $2,600 as compared to $600; county cleaning court house grounds $100; of St. Matthews, will preside. 1 ®’^ m 3 b t of Joanna, assisted by j a ji ( $y t ooo as compared to $7,500; forest fire control. $600; rent for ACA The 12 grand jurors will be added Rev. Melvin Medlock of Spartanburg. 1 county home $6 500 as compared to building, $600. to the six hold-overs drawn in No- 1 Interment followed in Rosemont cem- $4 goo-' salary of superintendent m v ember to complete the panel. j etery in Clinton with full military $ i; 6 oo’as compared to $1,300; public’!-. - - The twelve new grand jurors were honors conducted by the Newberry we if arei $2,700 as compared to $2,-'FlVe State Colleges drawn as follows: Clifton Cain, Tnn- unit of-the South-Carolina National 100;; for boarding children $600 as : C«,^ l ity Ridge; J. H. Coleman, Jr„ Cross Guard. ^ romnar^H to s.-mn fnr aiiHitintf r»nnntv OriTl 1 GrCflCC -• i— .compared to $300; for auditing county Hill; Roy B. Owings, Laurens; M. A. Tec. 5 Bedenbaugh entered the ser- bookSj $2 500 as CO mp ar ed to $1 500 Wilson, Shiloh; W. C. Willis, Green-[vice of his country January 18, 1943, Items in the SU Mpi y bill pond; Ratchford Boland, Clinton; 1 and received his training in ampphibi- which are less than the appropna- Lewis E. Prater, Joanna; W. T.! ous tractor battalion at Fort Lewis, tions made in the 1948-49 bill are: Blakely, Ora; J. H. Sparks, Clinton | Tacoma, Washington. He transferred materials used last year in construc- At Meeting Here A new South Carolina collegiate conference was formed last week on Mill; C. W. Gray, Woodville; I. M.jto the paratroopers in October, 1943, uo"n''ofTou"nt7 roads'! $37,867^ a7co^- wLn^fft-L^s'^mm' wufford V^n ' Smith, Hopewell; and Carl A. Gwinn, I receiving his training at Fort Ben-: r>ared t0 $^5 qoo- court expenses ofTlcia ' s WoffGC d' El ^ kint - Wattsville. The six hold-overs are'ning, Ga., and was then transferred *0 ’—; Nebwerry, the College of Charleston. G. C. Vaughn, Hickory Tavern; D. C. Smith, Waterloo; B. F. Parsons, Lan- 1 compared to $28,860. ford; W. E. Bragg, Joanna, D. T. back to his old battalion at Fort * 8 ’ 000 as c<,m P ar ed to $10,000; for; and Presbyterian college met in x Lewis Wash From Fort Ord Calif expe “ d,tU , res ‘ n ® xc * ss of t J 1 e Q a PP r0 ‘ joint session to draw up a eonstitu- i^ewis wasn. rrum ron uru, ^aiu., pnatl0 n for the last year, $19,417 as t mn he embarked for oversea, duty Au g - compared to S2M60. “ The new or g an. 2 .t,o„ is to be call- ! ippines. He was drowned orr January 1 the 1949^50''bm which'were not in ? d the South Carolina Collegiate con- Petit iurors from this section of 23, 1945. i j! k 1 ? V * not m , ference, but events point to the fact the county are as follows: | Surviving besides his parents are sheriff’s office new^equipment 1 $4 - that 11 ^ T, 00 " bt> ' Lvba nged where- 1 Clinton City: Alvin Trammell, C. b is widow, who is now Mrs. Charles 250 . t j f ’ coroner ^avel ^ Sm f o° 1Ie Ses in North Carolina N. Franks, P. L. Roddy, C. L. Sipes, | Brown Chicago 111, one little son, 2 0 ? count? ^ ^ X " W. H. Franks and Harold Espieg, Jr. Dow, III, one sister, Mrs. Carroll De- ass i s t a nt county physician $75 to ^ ^ ^ or l° n . uean of men it Joanna: T. S. Crawford, L. B.. Vore: two brothers. Joe Bedenbaugh hea ^ mill deputy at Ly dia for ex- '> Vofr ° rd college, was named prtxn- Hamm, John W. Craig, Jodie A. and Ha.mon Bedenbaugh. all of Ki- penses ol transporting prisoners and dtnt; Walter Job nson, athletic dire< - Chandler, B. D. Summey, J. S. Pra- nards. witnesses, $150; repairs to screens tor . °- f Presbyterian, vice-president; Pitts, Clinton, and M. B. Adams, Nar-, ust 15, 1944, and landed in the Phil- nie. ter, F. M Vaughn. Templeton and *J. W.i The' honorary escort consisted of and guttering of agricultural build- ancl ^ Lesesne, Erskine, secre- Dow, Jr.’s cousins, Berley Haw'kins, ing, $325; Negro 4-H club work, $50; * ai j;'' :easurer l>! t!lt ’ 8 rt,u P- Clinton Mills: W. C. Crawford, Earl Jr - Richard Cook, Rudolph Osw-ald, American Legion—Laurens" bir’ me- ’ Tht ‘ membership of the five schools Gregory. Robert Harmon, Tommy Harmon, modal hut, $4,000 and Clinton for m tht ‘ conference would not be af- • David Bedenbaugh. Hubert Beden- rnemurial hut> $ 4 (00() ; auditing books ;ected * the -roup announced, by their baugh, Harold Bedenbaugh. nuity, $2,785; S. C. retirement sys- Lydia Mills Included In New Mid-State Central League Plans for Opening $558,326 Recommended Directors of the Central Textile Training School league at a meeting Monday night In the state appropriation bjll in- made final plans for the baseball sea- troduced in the house Tuesday, the i \A/’fk ft PI k son which W’ill open April 19 and State Training school is listed for an LCOgUe Wim O v-lUDS close August 20. ; appropriation of $553,326 by the ^ The loop will be composed of eight ways and means committee, the same ^ new Mid-^State Textile baseball oiution authorizing . the committee, teams this season instead of six as! amount as recommended by the bud- league -was organized during the composed of the new conference of- last year. The clubs are: Ware Shoals, i get commission. The institution has week at a meeting held in Union. [ iicials, to meet wtth the North Stat£ Joanna, Clinton, Watts, Riverdale, 1 requested an appropriaiion of $674,- The clulbs in the league are Lydia conference, a league of small North for 1948, $1,518; police insurance an- m the s ” uth ern Intercollegiate Athletic association, but rather, would be a more close knit orgahi- i zatiun within the state~~f ! Officials atyi coaches of eight North Carolina colleges have ex pressed* approval of the idea of con solidation. In the meeting here Wed- 1 nesday, the delegates adopted a reb- N.nety Six, Mathews and Greenwood. 960. FOOD Is An Important Item With Housewives You will find helpful Grocery and Market News in THE CHRONICLE eveiy week from leading food stores in the city. Read the advertisements — they tell you about changing prices each week and where* you can buy to advantage. County Grazing Tour Postponed Until Friday i Due to rain, the annual grazing tour for last Wednesday was post poned until Friday, the 18th. The tour will begin in the morning in the upper part of the county, with lunch in Laurens at mid-day.' In the after noon at 1:30 the farmers and other interested citizens will meet at T. J. Leake’s store near the city and will visit the cattle farms of C. W. An-' derson, S. G. Dillard, J. T. Addison, the State Training school and I. M.| Smith’s dairy. THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING Your messages regularly in THE CHRONICLE will be seen and read by thousands of people at leisure. The life of the weekly home paper is longer than that of any other advertising medium. Advertisers who have tested all available mediums of advertising in the county declare that THE CHRON ICLE does the whole job very /satisfactorily alone. There is no hit-or-miss when merchants and busi ness firms use THE CHRONICLE to reach their poten tial customers. Mills, Mollohon and Newberry Mills, Carolina schools, to discuss a merger Lockhart, Jonesville, Monarch, Lau- These new additions to the group rens Mills and Whitmire. Aould include Guilford, High Point, The new organization, which as- Catawba, Lenoir Rhyne, Appalachian sumed the name of Mid-State league, State, Western Carolina Teachers, although the Mid-State league ot lasf E-stern Carolina Teachlers, and Elon year hasn’t been officially abandon- Representatives from each of these ed, will phay a schedule of 35 games, schools have already expressed ap- for each team on Tuesdays and Sat- P'ovul of the plan. urdays. The season will open April 1 ^ — 30 and close August 24. The Shaugh- —— nessy playoffs will be staged at the MF\A/ Q| I RCC'D I D CDC end of the regular season Officers elected were Mullinax of HONOR ROLL Newberry Mills, president; Athletic Director Rogers of Monarch Mills, vice-president; and Athletic Director DuBose of Whitmire, secretary-treas urer. The league voted to limit the play ers to employes oJ the mills and the dependents of employes. The Wilsoa baseball was adopted lor official use. Alignment of the new Mid-State disrupted the former Union County league. BENJAMIN L. THOMPSON, Clinton MRS. ULUE BOLT. Council Bluffs, Iowa. MISS DORIS WEHUNT. J K. WAITS, Joanna. PVT. LAWRENCE BARBERY. New York, N. Y. LEE HAMBY. NEIiL JONES. ' 'diaMjlls. •H