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/’ - V Thursday, August 25, 1949 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Three Lydia Mill % — 1 ^ (Continued from page two) Harvey wore a brown suit with brown and white accessories. Her corsage was white asters with brown ribbons. Out of town guests included Mrs. George Babb of Greenville, Mrs. T. S. Bagwell, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bagwell, Mrs. Edward Holcombe and Bobby Bagwell of Simpsonville, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Wix of Chester, Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Walker and Bruce ; \ j of Piedmont, Maurice Bagwell of Laurens, Mfs. John Crowe, Mr. and I Mrs. Willie Cannon of Cross Hill. • - County Mileage In State System Totals 493 Miles Special to The Chronicle. Columbia, Aug. 23—The total mil eage of the state highway system ' roads in Laurens county comes to 493.02 miles, according to a report covering the month of July, made i&id e> e> Ptpn-Cola Company, Long Idand City, N. Y. NOT 6 BUT 12 Full Glasses In Pepsi’s Six Bottles! Why take less . . . when you get so much more from Pepsi-Coka. 6 big. Big Pepsi's give you 12 delicious glassfuls of America's finest cola. Tops for quality all over America. WHY TAKE LESS... WHEN PEPSI'S BEST! PEPSI COLA BOTTLING CO. GREENVILLE, S. C. More and Better Telephone Service (or South Carolina !> r * FAMILIAR SIGHTS in the citiea, towns and rural sections of South Carolina are telephone folks building new facilities to make your tele phone service bigger and better. New buildings being erected . • . new central office facilities being installed . . . more poles, more cable going into use ... more and more of what it takes to improve and enlarge the tele phone network so vitally important to a pro gressive South Carolina. Our postwar program of construction of new facilities to serve South Carolina is the largest in the history of the state. And it is producing abun dant result^—providing telephones for more and more South Carolinians, improving sendee for all telephone users. Since we established our new administrative offices in Columbia early in 1949, the number of Southern Bell employees working in the state has steadily increased until today there are 3,200 of us spread over 62 communities^where we are spending an annual pay roll of, approximately $8,000,000. * The demand for telephone service in South Carolina has been several times greater than before the war. So has our construction program to meet that demand! And all this expanding activity is focused on a single goal—to give South Carolina the finest telephone service it is pos sible to provide. 1 /. M. McAlister, : l South Carolina Manaaer tOUTHIRN BILL TILIPMONI AND TIUORAPH COMPANY by the state highway department In the state as a whole, the state high way system contains 20,033.62 miles of roadway. Of the highway system mileage in Laurens county, 231.96 miles are in the primary system of roads, which connects principal towns, and the other 261.06 miles are in the secon dary system of roads. Of the state total, 8,411.47 miles make up the primary system of the state high way system, while there are 11,622.15 miles in the secondary system. The state primary system, in.Lau rens county consists of 74.14 miles, of high type pavement, 150.14 miles' of bituminous surfacing, 0.86 miles of improved roads and 6.82 miles of unimproved earth roads. The coun ty's secondary system is made up of 100.32 miles v of bituminous sur facing, and 160.74 miles of unimpro ved earth roads. v Th^re are no high type roads or, improved earth roads in the state secondary system in Laurens coun ty. Babson Discusses Everyday Taxes Gloucester, Mass., August 28.—A- young friend of mine arrived home the other night to find his wife on the warpath. She had kept account, for the first time, of every cent she had spent that day on taxes. First she went shopping for some of the articles used in most homes as reg ular necessities. She bought a small container of deodorant (Fed. tax $.08), and the larger container (Fed. tax $.12). She also bought one can of baby powder (Fed. tax $.10), a bottle of baby oil (Fed. tax $.20), 1 and one medium sized jar of hand lotion (Fed. tax $09). Any woman who does all of her own housework will tell you that the last mentioned item is no luxury. Everyone Pay* The Same Federal Sales Taxes Next, my friend's wife paid two bills, one for her husband’s safe de posit box (Fed. tax $1.00) where a I very few government bonds repose.’I At the telephone company where she paid her second bill, there was a j Federal tax of $.56 for “local serv ice and equipment", another $.38 on “message units’", and another $.13 on a nearby toll call. The bill was $7 82. $1.07 of the amount went to 1 the Government. That same morn ing she had the family car filled with gas This amounted to $ 45 on 10 gallons, as the Mass state tax is $ 03 on each gallon and the Fed. tax is $.01 1-2. All these taxes are in addition m the taxes the corpora tions (which are already taxed to the hilt) pay. At noon, this young housewife, sick and tired of Federal and State taxes, went to a restaurant for her lunch—one where she could get a “Me special". A choice of beverage was included. She decided to have tea “iced”. When the bill came she found that $.05 had been added for the ice. The bill was $1.10. She fig ured that having her tea iced had cost her 11c extra, 6c of that amount going straight to the State Govern ment for the “old age” tax. Multiplication The above little story explains why this housewife came home angry and resentful. She had turned over in that one morning $2.81 in taxes to the Federal Government and $.36 to the State—a total of $3.17. She had not bought w , hat seemed to her, or to any thinking person, a single luxury. Small potatoes multiply that| amount by all other housewives in the United States out on a normal morning’s activities and you will see where the money for social experi ments is coming from,—out of your own pockets. C. E. Glander (Ohio Tax Com missioner and Pres, of the Nat’l As soc. of Tax Administrators) says that in the past thirty years annual taxes in the U.S.A. have risen 1,5001 per cent. Someone has estimated that when a baby is born in the United States he can count on spending sev-! eral thousand dollars in gasoline tax es alone before he dies. “There are 200 separate taxes in the price of | gasoline levied at different stages of processing from the oil well to the gas pump", according to the Amer ican Petroleum Institute. Where Is It Going You can figure that you are work ing for at least three months of ev ery year entirely for the Govern ment, not keeping a cent from your labors during that period for living expenses. These taxes are enough to support one government employe for about every seven families in the U. S. In the last twenty years the population of the United States has increased 21 per cent. The Federal employee increase has been 250 per cent. It is your money which is be ing spent on all “security experi ments". If you save a dollar for the future you "have that dollar, plus the interest it earns ready and waiting for you when you need it. But when you hand over a dollar to the Gov ernment in taxes, you have very lit tle to show for it. A national health program, for in stance, would call for almost as many more Government employees to op erate it, and keep the records as it would require doctors. Your doc tor's bills might be less; but your taxes would be more. All these “so cial programs” mean higher taxes for you, both on income directly and al so on what you buy. It is well said that "Government has nothing except what the working taxpayer gives it.” i You are the working taxpayer. What ! is your desire, to spend yur own money as you see fit or to turn near ly one third of it over, each year, to the government to, spend? Upon your choice depends the freedom of the individual in this country. THE CHRONICLE Completely Cover* Clinton’s Trade Area for Advertisers There Is No Substitute for News paper Advertising COMMERCIAL HOUSEHOLD WIRING Electrical Appliance Repairing and Electrical Construction Work Floor Plugs A Specialty ARNOLD M. CANNON 406 W. Maple St. Tel 3I2-XJ V FOOD STORES Ann Page Foods Ann Pm* Salad Dressing .. ? L J*r 45c Ann Page Ketchup .. 14-0*. Bot 18c Ann Page Peich Preserves 1-Lb. Jar 27c Ann Page with Pork and Tomato Sauce Beans 10c Ann Page Mayonnaise Pt. Jar 29c Ann Page Crape |am _ l-Lh. Jar 45c Malaga GRAPES, 2 pounds Indiana Grown—Ideal for Canning PEACHES, Q bushel ^ California PLUMS, lb 19c Home Grown Green BEANS, 2 pounds 25c FOR REFRESHING DRINKS DURING THESE HOT DAYS Large Juicy LIMES, dozen Rich and Favoi. il NECTAR TEA "pa’a 27C 49c Hearty and Vigoroua C'J?. OWN TEA BAGS 49c 1-Lb. Bug Mild and Mellow Coffee 8 O'CLOCK 41c 3 & $1.19 Sandwich or Home Stylo MARVEL BREAD 14-Lb. Loaf 18c California White Seedless GRAPES, lb. 10c New Crop Yellow ONIONS, 2 lbs 11c Green, Firm CABBAGE, pound. 5c California Long POTATOES, O *1 r 5 pounds California Cantaloupes, O C each Grape Juice A&P All Green Asparagus • Iona Sliced or Halves Peaches - - Iona Cream Style Corn - 5_ Libby’s Tomato Juice Green Giant Peas - - • - Libby’s Fruit Cocktail - - - Self Rising Flour Red Bana - Sunnyfleld Seif Rising Flour - - - • A&P’s Own Vegetablt Shortening dexo - - - - AdtP’s Whole or Halves Unpeeled Apricots - - White House Evap Milk A8cP Grapefruit Sections - - Doles Pineapple Juice - - - - Phillip* — With Franks Beans - - • ions Cut Beets - - - - Iona Peas - - - - (ona Succotash - - pt But No 2 Cun No. 24 Can 19c 25c 2 2 ' No, 2 Cans No. Cans No. 303 Can No. 303 Can 10-Lb, Baa 10-Lb. Bag S-Lb. Can No. 24 Can - 3 Tall Cans no. Can $6-Oz. Can 12-Oz. Can No. 2 Can i No. 2 Can No. 2 Cans 2fic * 29c 21c 22c H.00 69c 79c 29c 33c ‘ 19c 39c 19c 13c 10c 25c Ear CC fAGON SOAP 6c C .MAY SO A? 2 - 21c PERSONAL IVORY SOAP 2 12 C IVORY SOAP 2 Bo" 16 c IVORY SOAP Lge Bar. 26c CAMAY SOAP 22c Rtg. Bdrs LAVA SOAP Bar Rag. Bars 16c SWAN SOAP Lge. Bars 26c WRISLEYS SOAP 10 Bars IT m Pkg. 5 VC Pkg. SPICK. & SPAN 23c BRIGHT SAIL SOAP CRAINS Pkg. 24c \, /-