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•... -'7 THURSDAY. APRIL 7, 1919 i.; THE CLINtON CHRONICLE, -1 Page yeven Blonde and pretty Betty Jean Rliah, 4. of Custer, South Dakota, the national Easter Seal pester rirl for 1949, exercises with a special walker. Betty Jean, cerebral pahied at birth, must learn muscular control of her legs, throat and tongue, since she has walking and speech difficulties. You help Betty Jean and thousands of other handicapped hoys and girls when you buy Easter Seals from Beta Sigma Phi chapter, of Laurens, county sponsors. G. B. Sheppard Laurens, S. C. Phone 508 f The All ’Round Tractor » ALL 'ROUND THt FARM » ALL YtAR 'ROUND Why buy a tractor that fives you only part-time service? Working time is what counts, and the Ford Tractor does such a variety of jobs that it M works more hours, saves more hours.” Ford Hydraulic Touch Control, Implement Position Control, Triple-Quick Attaching of implements... and the big Dearborn line of implements makes this THE < all 'round tractor. By all means, come in and get the facts. Yeu _ will like our parts and service | departments, tee. " PUTS - DILLARD Implement Company West Main Street and Airport Road US SPENDS SIX BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR FOR THINGS TO CARRY ON ITS OPERATIONS Washington—Your Uncle Sam isi spending about $6,000,000,000 a year' of your tax money just for the things; he needs to get his work done, like note-books for stenographers and autos for the forest service. The mil itary gffls the lion’s share. Uncle Sam spends almost a billion a year just shuttling the stuff ^ around the country. He has goods stuck around on shelves all over the country worth about $27,000,000,000. Just the autos he uses are worth at least $2,000,000,000. He owns so much that it keeps 150, 000 people at work just to buy it, £tore it and distribute it. Their sal aries cost us taxpayers $440,000,000 a year. The Hoover commission (which 1 has worked a year to get us more for our money) gives you the idea that this, “general store” division of the government is an Alice-in-Won- derland operation to some degree. It says some government depart ments actually don’t know what sup plies they have on hand because they haven’t counted their stores in years. The commission found it impossi ble to list exactly the many places the government uses to store ma terials. It found many agencies have on hand more than they need. It found buying agents make little at tempt to buy when market prices are low. The Hoover commission feels we taxpayers could save at least $27,- 200,000 just in salaries of the peo ple who buy and handle the goods Uncle Sam owns. It feels further that the stocks could be cut back by $2,520,000,000 by preventing du plication and buying just w’hat's ne cessary for a planned period. Here’s how the commission thinks that much could be cut: 1. A Bureau of Federal Supply could do most of the buying for the government, instead of permitting so many of tl)e government depart ments to do their own buying, as they do now. Some supplies- are so technical, the commission admits, | that they should be bought by the I agency that is going to use it. But the commission thinks fed eral buying can be so consolidated that the central bureau would even buy a good many things the mili tary need. It cites medical supplies as an example, dftd’ perhaps ofdi- j^nary office supplies. 2. This central bureau could then cut down the storage space the gov ernment is now using. The commis sion found that just six |pf the big civilian government departments are storing supplies in 748 places around the country. | This doesn’t include the post of fice’s 115 store houses, the military’s 160 depots or 73 more storage spots right in the Washington area. 3. Government purchasing could be placed on a monthly basis. The commission found that 1,500,000 pur chases a year are for items worth less than $10. But the cost of the “paper work’’ just to put such-pur chases through actually costs ' more than $10 an'item—more than the cost of the article. The commission thinks it possible to cut the cost of such purchases by $10 each, which would mean ap annual saving of $15,000,000. 4. Important savings would come in cutting both the amount of sup plies on hand and the number of people handling them. The commis sion thinks the savings, conserva tively, would add up something like this: Military inventories could be cut by $2,500,000,000 and civilian by S20, 000,000. It thinks salaries of people handling the stuff could be cut by $26,000,000 a year in the military and $1,200,000 in the civilian agencies of the government. That adds up to $2, 547,000.000. $15,000 OFFERED IN NEW SOIL CONSERVATION DRIVE Spartanburg, March 30—Approxi mately $15,000 in prizes has already been offered in the 6-e<>unty Pied mont Communities' Conservation Contest, a district supervisors’ report shows. More than 50 communities have qualilied for the 2year contest by organizing 10 or more farmers. Deadline for entry is July 1 when the contest will officially get un derway. At a meeting at Hotel Cleveland, district supervisors and others con- neetde with the conest (reported that cooperation of businessmen 'in general is “very gratifying." A com plete list of donors a ltd* their offers to date will be published as soon as it is compiled. J. A. Bridwell of Poplar Springs, temporary chairman for the Polk, Rutherford, Cherokee/' Union, Lau rens and Spartanbu/g counties’ con test area, was elected permanent chairman! at the meeting. ’’With the large amount of money already contrbiuted to the consest, we are going to have to go to work' and show some results after 2 years have passed,” he declared. Soil Conservationist A. H. Skar- don, explained the scorecard, point-] ing out various soil practices for which the point value has been in-1 creased. Twenty-seven practices are listed for whic hpoints will be given. Ditch drainage and summer and winter cover crops are new practices added to the scorecard. Practices for which points are giv en come under the general heading of cropland, drainagle, and mante- nance. District Extension Agent Larry B. Massey of the contest committee told the group more emphasis would be placed on pasture improvement dur ing the contest. NOTICE OF ELECTION County of Laurens, Town of Clinton. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That pursuant to written petitions, each signed by a majority of the freehold ers of the Town of Clinton. South Carolina, as shown b.y the taxbooks of said Town, and heretofore pre sented to and filed wi*h the Town Council of said Town, and pursuant to an Ordinance duly adopted by the Town Council of sa d Town upon the fi’ing of said Petitions, a SPECIAL ELECTION will be held in the Town of Clinton. South Carol.na, on Tues day, April 12, 1949. for the purpose of submitting to the qualified regis tered electors of said Town the fol lowing questions: (1) "Shall the Town of Clinton be empowered to ixsiie. either as a single issue or from time to time as several separate issues, not ex ceeding S3'0 OOfl 00. of Keneral ob ligation bonds of said Town, the proceeds thereof to he used, in the discretion of Town Council, to ex tend and improve the existing waterworks system, sewerage sys tem and electric light system, all or any qf said purposes?” (2) “Shall the Town of Clinton he empowered to issue, either as a single Issue cr from time to time as several separate issues, not ex- reeding $100,900.00, of general ob ligation bends of said Town, the proceeds thereof <o be used to pay the Town's share of installing per manent improvements on streets and sidewalks in said Town?” Persons may vote for or against both of said proposals, or may vote for one and against the other. The failure to cast a ballot for one of the two proposals will not invalidate the ballot cast on the other proposal. The places ?or voting in said elec tion will be as follows: at the City Hall on North Broad Street in the Town of Clinton, for Clinton Precinct; and at R. T. Trammell’s Store, known as "Greasy Comer,” on West Pitts Street, in the Towm of Clinton, for Clinton Cotton Mills Precinct. The Managers of Election are as follows: F E. Miller, R. J. Copeland and C N. Mauney for ClinLlP Precinct a; the City Hall, and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, R. L. Yarborough and W. L. Evans for Clinton Cotton Mills Precinct at R .T. Trammell’s Store, known as "Greasy Corner.” The polls will be opened fof said election at 8 o’clock in the forenoon and will be closed at 4 o’clock in the afternoon on the day and at the place aforesaid. Separate boxes will be provided for the cast ing of ballots on each of said pro posals All persons desiring to vote must (1) possess and present County Reg istration Certificates issued within the per.od January 1st, 1948, and March 12th, 1949, both inclusive; (2) possess a Municipal Registration Cer tificate issued by the Supervisor of Registration of the Town of Clinton within the period March 23rd, 1949, and April 1st, 1949, both inclusive, or during the ninety (90) day period prior to the occasion on which was held the last general municipal elec tion (at wftft’M the Mayor was elect ed): (3) present proof showing the payment of all taxes. State, County and Municipal,, for the previous year; and (4) present proof showing pay ment of the poll tax for the year 1948. if liable therefor, not later than March 12th, 1949. The presentation of a receipt of an officer authorized to collect the taxes referred to shall be conclusive proof of their payment. L. E. BISHOP, Mavor, Town'of Clinton, S. C. W. B. OWENS, Clerk and Treasurer, Town of Clinton, S. C. March 1, 1949. . 7-«c MclNTOSH'S SHOE SHOP Send Your Shoes To U« for Best Materials and Workmanship. / I I, I i i i i i. I i i A 7; /ias always been our goal to put a bigger } better automobile within reach of more people. To that end, we have bought the huge factory at Willow Run, and have a great engine plant in Detroit. In Cleveland, we have acquired the worlds largest blast furnace for the making of steel. Our engineering-production team and our vast dealer organization have worked overtime to reduce manufacturing and distribution costs. In Una with the settled policy of our Corporation, we are giving substantial savings to the public in the form of greatly reduced prices... even sooner than we expected. Now, almost any A merican family can own a really big, fine carl" Koiur-Frazer Corf oration HENRY J. KAISER Chairman JOSEPH W. FRAZER flm-Cdnkmm Happy liyS arc here again! Today you can get a big, big 1949 Kaiser Special for only $ 1,995*... a saving to you of over $333,001 Prices of all Kaiser and Frazer models have been materially low ered. These are hy far the most sweeping price revisions tho automobile industry has seen. So, now you can buy tlie ftg car you*ve always wanted... at virtually ‘little car’ prices and at ‘little car’ economy of operation! Think of what this means to you and your family in terms of riding comfort, driving ease and frestige. Go choose your Kaiser or Frazer today. Your nearest * Kaiser-Frazer Dealer can probably give you immediate delivery. Fair-and-square trade-in allowances... but you do not have to have a car to trade to get the benefits of Kaiser-Frazer price revisions! 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