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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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