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I * , L_ !■ /\ * 5 . > Page Eight r* • THE CLINTON CHRONICLE THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1949 SENATE ADDS ZVz MILLION TO APPROPRIATIONS BILL ! Columbia^ April 12. — The state senate added more than $2,500,0Q0 to J l its finance committee’s report on a 1949-50 appropriatiop bill at a spe cial session Tuesday. Major increases approved, all in the form of amendments to the $110,- 190.940 measure were: School teachers’ salaries $1,928.- 750. school pupils' transportation $682,599. speech therapy (a new sec tion to be administered by the state department of education! $12,500. The new amendments called for a $263,849 increase. The teachers' salary amendment was authored by Senators Pruitt of Anderson. Moore of Spartanburg,' and Grant of Chester. It began as a $3,857,500 appropriation but was. whittled down. Senator Brown fo Barnwell, fi nance committee chairman, remark ed after adoption of the amend ments. 'the dam is broken." Brown unsuccessfully moved to table ail amendments that would in crease the total of the committee bill. The first night meeting of the 1949 legislative session was agreed upon after sidetracking of scheduled con sideration of the appropriations measure at the noon meeting. The start of the general assembly's 14th week brought the introduction of several far-reaching and politi cally significant bills. * The house judiciary committee of fered its single general election bal lot bill, details of which were an nounced early last week. This meas ure would rewrite much of the state's election law and would end the present system by which political parties or groups supply their own general election ballots. Senator Wallace, of Marlboro, au thored a bill to double the halt-mill tax on each killowatt of hydro-elec tric power generated in the state. The estimated $1,500,000 additional revenue would be earmarked for school purposes. Senator Abrams, of Newberry, put in a bill to authorize the governor to fill vacancies in state offices by interim or recess appointments. These would be effective until the senate met and confirmed them. After more than one hour’s argu ment. the house passed on second reading a bill to codify state retire ment law provisions. One amendment added to the bill would extend any state employe the option of retiring after 35 years' ser vice This option now is good only lor school teachers. Retirement still would be optional f >r all employes at age of 60 ,, re gardless of length of service. It would become mandatory at 65 with one-year work extensions up to age 72. Another amendment would permit retirement Mter 20 years' service with benefits collective at age 60. This would increase the present $2.750.000-a-year cost to the state by an estimated $325,000. Reore-entative Plowden, of Clar endon. ways and means committee chairman, unsuccessfully opposed tne 20-year amendment. He moved to table but his ipotion last 27-63. Representative Easterlin, of Spar tanburg. said he was opposed to any one retiring on a full pension before age 60. • A man should work as long as he feels like it and is in good health.'* he said. Tax Collections At High Level f- Of $405,443 on the county tax books for 1948, only $29,618 re mained to be collected at the close of business April 1, it was reported by County Treasurer Sam Leaman. He figured the percentage at around 93 per cent, which Miss Viv ian Blakely, assistant to the treas urer, said was the best percentage within her recollection. Treasurer Leaman ascribed the prompt payments principally to the mailed- notices that are now being sotji put. Most people will pay their taxes if they have the amount con veniently at hand and are reminded of it,’’ he. said. Methodist W. S. C. S. District Meeting The Greenwood District meeting of the Methodist Woman’s Society of Christian Service will be held at the Bethlehem church, Saluda charge, on the Saluda-Johnston highway, April : 20 at 10 a.m. All members of the organization are invited to attend the meeting. A kodachrome lecture will be given. New conference officers will be present and the new district officers will be presented. Members attneding from the Lau rens zone are asked to bring sand wiches for the dutch luncheon. Through the Rye,” the third grade the Mother Goose rhymes and sang' ty demonstration agent, discussed a song, “Mother Goose’s Party.” The | ways of keeping a bedroom, and fourth, fifth and sixth grade pupils | helped the girls fill out record cards, j sang, “Join That 4-TI Club," a song. Mr. Williams, assistant county The second and third grade boys i which they had composed. , agent, showed pictures of the care and girls pantomimed a number ofi Mrs. Adeline Long, assistant coun-| and upkeep of modern Machinery. gave the ten commandments follow ed by a prayer-song, “Our Father in Heaven. Presbyterian College Baseball Team \ iMillll viS • »- ,\\v ‘ * ff KNOW YOUR WEATHER It isn't the weight of ice or snow that’s dangerous to airplanes—it’s the Interference with the flow of air over the plane’s wing. The minimum flying speed and stall speed of a wing may be more than doubled by even a. thin, semi-transparent layer of fine snow or hoar frost on the top of a wing. n: FOOD Is An Important Item With Housewives You will find helpful Grocery and Market News in THE CHRONICLE every week from leading fodcT stores in the city. Read the advertisements — they tell you about changing prices each week and where you can buy to advantage. Pre-School Clinic A pre-school clinic will be held at the health center on Woodrow ^treet April 22 and 29, at 2:30 p.m. The clinic is sponsored by the Parent- Teacher association and will be con ducted by the Laurens county health nurses, local doctors, and the health committee of the P.-T A. Parents who have children who will enter Florida Street or Academy Street school for the first time this year are asked to bring them to the health center on these dates for ex amination and vaccination for small- I pcyc. Long Bronch Club Has Regular Meeting The Long Branch boys and girls 4-H cMubs held their regular meet ing* of the month at the school Thursday morning,f ; with Joseph Cunningham, president of the boys club, presiding. After the singing of "Coming y — OFFICE BOOKS—Ledgers, all kinds, Ledger Sheets, Loose Leaf Bind ers, Cash Books, Journals, Day Books, Sales Books, Columnar Pads Call 74. Chronicle Publishing Co. 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