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THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1949 il THE CLINTON CHRONICLE / Page Three HEAVY AND FANCY GROCERIES We Deliver H. J. PITTS STORE |As Washington Sees It.. THE NATIONAL SCENE man W Roberts of Charlotte, pres ident of the Carloina Motor club. LaureHs has gone 1,225 days with out a traffic fatility and 733 days' without a homicide. The Laurens, Exchange club sponsored the ban quet. . - ; On the program were Mayor W. I T. Bolt, of Laurens; C. R. McMillan, Special to The Chronicle. • : Washington, June 29 There is chie f highway commissioner, T. E. intense interest here in just w ^at ; Q uar j e ^ t he motor vehicle » huge mil- of of E. Bishop, of MMaiaasxmasxMtttxxxsaaaBsamm Gray Funeral Home Clinton. S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ...and... » t EMBALMERS AMBULANCE SERVICE Phones 41 and SM-J L. RUSSELL GRAY and V. PARKS ADAIR. Gen. Mgra. .he senate will do with the huge mil- divishorf of the highway department, itary appropriations bill which is Senat £ Ralph T Wilson . o{ Lau . now in process of hearing before the rens ; Dr. Frank Owens, mayor senate armed services committee. - Columbia; Mayor Kenneth Cass, After much pruning and paring,; Greenville; and Dr from an original request for 23 bil- Clinton. lion dollars from the three service ; m groups, the bill went to the house — lp L asking for a military appropriation rOUriCGn HighWOy of 153 billion dlolars. Such a la r«e! A cc jJg-i- I- Monfl, peace-time military appropriation ^LCiaenrs m^mqnrn shocked some members of con-' . , . . , gress and there was an immediate outcry from such men as Clarence Cannon, chairman of the house ap propriations committee, who said, Columbia, June 29—A total of 14 highway accidents, of which eleven took place on state highways, were Goodyear Tires and Tubes BATTERIES AND ACCESSORIES McMillan Service Station Sinclair Products Phone No. 2 i fOR QUICK I PICK-UP ■ TRY OUR • TUNE I V-.UP—^ COOPER MOTOR CO. Phone 515 West Main Street BIRDSEY’S FLOUR QUALITY & SAVINGS AT Your Local Birdsey Store BIRDSEY'S BEST $0 Ajfl 25 lbs 2.04 4-BROTHERS $* nn 25 lbs - 1.04 MONEY SAVER m .) Hi*. 1.4 ™a COFFEE BIRDSEY’S BEST Lb. SO 0 Vacuum Can vV 4-BROTHERS 40 c 32 c FAIRPLAY BIRDSEY'S FEED GROWING $ 1 MASH, 25 lbs 100 lbs. ’ * W In Print Bags LAYING MASH, $1 OA 25 lbs 1.A.V 100 lbs. S4 CA In Print Bags f.UV SCRATCH $1 1 A GRAIN, 25 lbs lilv 100 \hs J. W GROWING $ J AA SCRATCH, 100 lbs. TteVV DAIRY FEED 90 7A 100 lbs. 20% J.lv PIG & HOG tO AC FEED, 100 lbs HORSE FEED $0 CC 100 lbs. BIRDSEY FLOUR & FEED STORE V. Parks Adair, Mgr. Musgrove Street FOR QUICK PLUMBING REPAIRS CALL TELEPHONE • • & 117 T-V Benjamin & Sons E « pert Workmanship CRANE Quality Materials All the Little Items Needed for the Office CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO ■ ;■ We can make sizeable and jusiifi-1 repo S ed fro [" L , a ^ ens count J du ^ | able reductions.” When the bill came, ing the ! nonth ? f ^ ay > ac ?° rdmg w to 'out of his committee, however, Con- * report issued this week by the gressman Cannon supported th e S - C - State Hlghwa y 'measure which his committee had! J e " P« r T sons were in ^ u y ed m ac ‘ ■upped several million instead of i cidents in Laurens coun y last month, cutting 1 w bich eight were involved m ac- ! Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio has! cidents on state highways. No per- ! said, “You can cut a billion dollars: sons , w f re . k ‘‘ led ln t rnotor vehlcle right out of the army budget. There ac !lJ dents m 1 e coun ty- 'isn’t any more wasteful organization' . Property damage resulted from in the world than the army and na-. sl , x , th K e ^ aurens county accidents, j ! of which five were on state high- ! So the bill joes to the senate com-' way,., according to the report. mittee with a total of 15.9 billion' dollars instead of .15.8 billion and it ■remains to be seen just what fhej upper house can do in slashing the| measure. This bill is the largest of' all the appropriation bills and is 1 more than a third of the total ap-' propriations for all purpses. Sena- ; tors Wherry of Nebraska, Edwin Johnson of Colorado, Alexander ; Wiley of Wisconsin and, of course, Harry Byrd of Virginia, all have, forecast large cuts in the military I budget. It must be approved and signed by the President by July 1. According to observers here, sev-' eral factors stand in the way of anyi sizeable cuts. First, the unification j of the armed services has disap-1 I pointingly failed to bring about any, sizeable reductions in 4 expenses, j Second, both houses voted last year! almost unanimously for a 70-group air force. Truman has asked for a I 48-group air force. The house upped | this figure to 59 groups. On top of this, the house has just I voted through without too much ap position a service pay bill which will boost by $300,000,000 a year the pay for all members of the armed serv ices. And on top of this, congress is' expected to receive within a short time the President’s request for mil- j Itary assistance to the eight coun-l tries of the Atlantic Pact, in addi- 1 tion to Greece and Turkey. It is ex pected that he will ask for an ap propriation of $1,450,000,000 for this purpose. It is pointed out in administration circles that the proposed military aid program is a complement to the Atlantic Pact and is based on the same principles to carry out the policy to strengthen fredom-loving nations against dangers of agre»- sion. These countries have made formal requests to the United States for this aid and the executive branch of the government believes such aid will (1) balance their de fense efforts with equipment they cannot produce themselves; (2) help integrate their planning and make their production more economical and effective and (3) increase, through use of marginal facilities now inactive in their area, the rate of their military production by an estimated equivalent of several hundred million dollars without en dangering economic recovery. Washington observers here have noted with interest a letter signed 'by Donald D. Conn, executive vice- president of the Transportation As sociation of America and sent to farm trade and civic organizations, in which he makes the direct charge that the anti-trust division of the department of justice to recover two and a half billion dollars in alleged overcharges on wartime traffic hand led by the railroads is a move to force iptionalization of all trans portation. “There is far more involved in these suits than the mere legal ad judication as to whether a rate agreed upon at the time was or was not reasonable,’’ Mr. Conn said.” “Why, now, would the anti-trust division propose 'to repudiate such (wartime) agreements? Who planned such attacks? 'What is the motive? What is the ultimate objective of these suits? “If a bill to nationalize all trans portation were introduced in con gress, it would be dealt with in sum mary fashion, by unanimous oppo sition of all enterprise. 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