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\ ,r / Page Four THE CUNTON CHRONICLE ■ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1949 Jhp (Clintnn CChrnnirlr Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant Published Every Thursday By THE CHEONTCLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2 00 Six Months $1.25 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton., S. C^ under Act o! Congress March 3, 18 7 9. The Chronicle seeks t ie cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. ‘ MEMBER: * SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York * Chicago Detroit Philadelphia 1 at be abolished, it follows that other ic , 4U food chains could also be attacked, ^ i 15 an ^ __ “rL__ r_ L_ ' mother; his maternal grandarents, : Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Gilliland, of this CLINTON. S. C.. Till RSDAY. SEPTEMBER 29. 1949 Soaking the Consumer Some here of pensive that h u the:r ba ite year in which President Truman de manded a four-billion-dollar increase in taxes, helped himself to a salary increase of S75.000. just double his previous salary, and got congress to take the income tax off S50.000 of the amount. And this same President as well as organizations in other fields. It is not a question just of A!cP survival. And the thing that should disturb the public is the only “sin" A&P has committeed, accord ing to the suit—is the fact that it has grown and prospered and is now a big corporation. It is just another instance of government meddling in business without just cause. The is sue is a tremendous, far-reaching one. it affects all big business as well as A&P. Great corporations keep the wheels of business moving and give employment to millions of people Don’t listen to government poppy cock that they should be wiped out of existence. to d 'hey aav :>e:ng tow 'in t ’ A- Amt r «2!3.< I* tat wastf a hig er« c< result wo'-: tory. of jx reccr men: every millit) ton mi show! work publu Non ness « men* time ago mention was made the federal government’s ex- ; v.a: » spree, which means sew .es are pay.ng more for c . • tne grocery store A big -vas discovered Gov-i from Missouri can’t make a speech r -'hed ;n ana bought unlim-i without harping on “selfish interests.” -.em what And the same law that provided the $50,000 false guise also provided $1,- 375.140 tor various legitimate ex- ijenses of the President's household j u iy and office, including "travel and of ficial entertainment.’’ "to be account ed for solely on his certificate.’’ Thi-s raises this timely question — why snould part of the President's income be tax-exempt when yours is not' 1 And why should congressmen and senators have tax exemption on part of their salary? Tne President's budget for the cur- 527 Miles of Roads In Laurens County In State System are being given 1 his county and every tne country for school d milli.ms of bushels nd being dumped in a hogs if tney can be at them Others are industrial use* for a tat government paid resu. >: this experiment, car. taxpayers lost more than W.OOO supporting the price of e< iast year “This was sheer n an eff »rt to keep potatoes a! price in »rder that the grow- u!d make fantastic profits. As a -etail prices for the h.ghest in peacetime his- md the per capita consumption latoes went to the lowest on And the agriculture depart- says it is still buying potatoes day and "we are going to lose os more as taxpayers and as rent year carries an outlay of $998.- .54 in salaries for the White H ]use sisls of the highways connecting large staff of more than 200 persons. The towru . and 295 miles are in the state late Roosevelt, who was no piker at secon dary system msumers .pending odther people's money list- , n the primary system of roadj in cd on,y 53 persons on the staff in Laurens county are 74 miles of high- the year 1945 drawing $256,431. The type pavement. 150 miles of bitumi- tomparab’.e budget of Mr. Hoover noug surfacing. 0.86 mile of improved was $127,000 for 37 employees It carth road and ^ ven miles of unim . shows that the President and the prove dearth roads army of White House attaches are; of the highways in mere .n the grocery *tore* " It • that the price-support program \ dire ctly against the consumer \ AC exl going in the egg busi- tensive scale Govern- no a m storage, in dried ffvtr lan 216.000.000 dozen taker. >ff the market under the that the President and of White House attaches are Of the highways in the secondary living in luxury, with more than <01 system in the county, 100 miles were on tne lisjrmaking over $4,000 a year, bitumminous surfacing and 195 miles were unimproved earth There are no high-type pavement or improved House payroll keeps rising and rts- earth roads in the secondary system ing while you work and sweat to pay in Laurens county, taxes to help pay this unprecedented bjl^j£te^can be justified by no sane y \horA FAMILY and a number $9,000 a year It making better than shows that the White rt law pasted by eon- tne price of eggs today jeeryman It means that ;>erson in hist dent Our final reported to Mr. Truman should go down >ry as a get-rich-quick presi- REl'NTON Among those attending the family reunion of Mr. and Mrs. Grover C. comment is an incident N#bor \ 00 Sunday. September 18. have happened in the I1 r..\ > grew Cneck * ih your groceryman It means that reported to have happened in the Mr * n j[ L H Adair, of taxpayer* have again been robbed to h,stone Fir»t Presbyter .an church in «»*«ington. D - Mr Mrs. M. remove millions of eggs people need Augusta a number of years ago when 7, Summerville and daughters, of for f d at reasonable prices from the pews were enclosed with gates Charlotte. N. C; Mr and Mrs. T D. farm? into storage place> Like the a stranger attended the church on ^ avis and family, of McCormick; jntat' >pree it doe>n’t make sense Sunday for the morning worship ser- ai * r anc * Mrs. Luther Nabors ana The Commodity Credit corporation vice and entered one of the pews. 1 an< * Mr. and Mrs. John report'd yesterday in its summary Presently a gentleman who "claim- Henry Nabors and family, of Lau- tfod! it operated at a loss of $5®9,505,- ^d’* 'the pew entered the church and Mr* and Mrs. V\ illiam P. Na- 000 in supporting prices of farm com- Aas indignant upon finding a stranger i^ or * a " d daughter. Mr. and Mrs. R. mod.t.e* during the year ended June seated there He wrote this on a slip Nabors, Mr. and Mrs. Louie Na- 30. while the agency's volume of bus- 1 0 f pa per and handed it to the gentle- bors and w - Adair - Joanna; Mr. ine*~ during the 12-month period was man: "This is my pew*. I pay one yjze^^or any year since it was thousand dollars a year rent for it." The stranger turned the note over and wrote on the other side: "You pay too dam much,” but didn’t move of the set up Here's another example government efficiency in business. And we read today that a carload of plums has arrived in an adjoin ing county to be given away for school lunches or to others that may qualify to boost the price. We sup- jiose they w.ll be coming into this and all other counties also. In the past few A Dangerous Trend A suit has been filed by the United States Attorney General Howard Mc- wceks sixty carloads of Cali'for- : Grath. a recent appointee of Presi- pears have been shipped into dent Truman—against the Great At na this state to be given away in the 1 & Pacific Tea Company. Such respect.ve counties Multiply that by drastic action on flimsy ground the count.es and states and one won- should disturb every American citi- ders :f any pears are left. And we f° r clearly shows that our bu- ure told be- au.m wh. 11 r opplc ;>ear - mill: : distr. - \ -ok a' they are being given away of a strike of dock workers las stopped shipments of pine- into California. And while re being given'away by the through the surplus food tion agencies of government, reaucratic, dictatorial Washington i government thinks that “big busi- 1 ness" has horns and should be de stroyed. • The anti-trust lawyers bringing the | action would put A&-P out of busi ness. The suit is brought under the tne price they are selling for anti-trust laws which wer£ set up about fifty years ago to prevent any company or group from getting a j monopoly in a field arid then soaking , the public with higher prices. The j 1 suit charges that this large food or- j ganization serving the nation sells I goods too cheap. They charge that has a monopoly in the food Relieve Stuffy Nose FAST! Quick. Put » few * Vicks Va-tro-nol Nose Drops In each nostril. Va-tro-nol works rtffht where trouble is. Relieves head cold stuffiness almost instantly/ 'AhJjU**- OQU*'- VICK VA-TRO-NOL at the grocery store. l\ all adds up to stupidity, nonsense and extravagance for which the American taxpayers must pay. An Expensive President Some illuminating information has ( A&P come out of Washington during the [ business which is absolutely untrue, past few days in regard to the total salary and perquisites of President Truman, the most expensive chief •executive ever to occupy the White House There is no other merchandise unit in which competition is as keen as it is in the food field. It happens that the A&P organization operates a store in our city. If people desire to Shortly after his recent re-election | patronize the store that is their bus- there was arranged for the President j iness, if they prefer not to buy there —that is also'their business and priv ilege. Who would say that this store has a food monopoly locally when there are large numbers of city food stores, rural stores and filling sta- j tions that serve the food needs of the people of this area. We know nothing of the amount of business done by a special tax dodge on a pay raisfe of $50,000 in the false guise of an ex pense allowance. His dodge was rush ed through before the inauguration day because if the trick had been delayed until the beginning of his cuirrent term, the exempt raise could nrtt have been collected during this term which we hope will be his last., the A&P store but w r e are confident The $50,000 is supposed to be an ex- that when all the food needs of the pense allowance. It is no such thing, j fifteen thousand people in this area It is a handsome increase in pay in are supplied that no one firm has the form of a subterfuge. In the same j anything like a monopoly. A monop- z*c5 he also received a taxable raise oly is defined as “any such control of $25,000 from $75,000 to $100,000. of a commodity, service, or traffic in There are Other elaborate provisions a given market as to enable the one made for his expenses. He may even having such control to raise the price knock down, it is reported, on the of a commodity of service materially regular allowance of $40,000 because above the price fixed by free compe- he doesn’t have to prove that he tition." This tremendous chain under spent it for legitimate expenses of J attack has no “monopoly.” Look at his office. Other citixens are accorded Clinton, or any city or town in the no such treatment. Government looks United States. A&P does not have upon most people with suspicion at control of the grocery business, by tax-paying time. All of us are pay- comparison they do only a small part ing heavy estimated and withholding of it. taxes and this is being done in the! The main cause for the suit is IF YOU CAN AFFORD A CAR You can afford to bare de pendable Automobile Liability Insurance. Few people can af ford to be without it. Don’t wait until you have a costly 1 accident* Insure now. S. W. SUMEREL, Agent CLINTON. S. C. Jacobs Building—Tele. 80 city, and his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Pulley, of Lau rens. Funeral srevices were conducted yesterday morning at 11 o’clock from 1 "bigness." There is too much govern-[and Mrs P B. Adair, Mrs. Taylor!the graveside in Cannon Memorial Mrs. Pulley is the former Miss Eva men: antagonism against big busi- Adair, Mrs. J. A. Coleman. Mrs. emeterv at Fountain Inn by the Rev. Gilliland of Joanna. r e**, against free enterprise, aga.nst Henry Nabors. Mr. and Mrs, Earl ‘ a growth and expansion. If government »Horton and family. Miss Joan An- f • Spli e ” s can destroy any business because of derson. Mrs. Irby Holland. Miss Sara_: —‘7—7 its "bigness." then we might as well Etta Holland, and Holmes Holland submit to a dictatorship. I aj»d son. of this city. If Attorney General McGrath, who ' " headed the national committee for INFANT SON PASSES the re-election of Truman has his David Wayne Pullev, two-day old way—most of the stores under attack infant son of Mr. and'Mrs. David A and their manufacturing facilities Pulley, died Tuesday afternoon would be destroyed. And if A&P can the Blalock clinic. GULF PRODUCTS Tires* Tubes, Batteries and Accessories AUTO HEATERS INSTALLED Clinton Service Station E. Carolina Ave. Phone 96 HEAVY AND FANCY GROCERIES We Deliver H. J. PITTS STORE CaU 74 OFFICE SUPPLIES Special lo The Chronicle. Columbia. Sept. 28 —The roads un der maintenance of the state highway department at the end of August to talled 20.369.45 miles, as compared with 20.033 62 miles at the end of according to a report of the highway department The state high way system, as of the first of Sep tember. was made up of 8.412 miles in the primary system of highways, end 11.957 miles of roadway in the secondary system. In Laurens county a total of 527 miles of highways were included un der the state system as of the first of this month, of which 232 miles are in the primary* system, which con- 1, Joanna Stores Headlines SIS and MOM SHOP We suuggest that you visit our toy department located in the back of this shop. All toys, with the ex ception of wheel goods, will be on display here. Bikes, wagons, etc., will be shown ot the Lad and Dad Shop. Just received a brand new stock of Ploytex Merchandise — Sheets, Boby Oil, Creom, Baby Powder, etc. All at nationally advertised prices. Ideal gifts for baby showers. 100°o Wool Cap Sweaters at sensational price of $1.75 Two-piece Snow Suit, assorted sizes and colors $2.98 $1.00 $1.49 $1.65 Ladies Cotton Dresses, $1.89, $2.89 Alba Nylon Hose 51-15 54-15 LAD and DAD SHOP w Headquarters for Blue Bell Work Clothes Men's Blue Bell Red Label 8 oz. sanforized Overalls $2.39 Boys' Blue Bell Red Label 8 oz. sanforized Overalls, sizes 6 to 8 $1.49 Sizes 10 to 12 $1.59 Sizes 14 to 16 $1.79 Hickok Belts, Tie Clasps, etc. Complete line of Red Goose Shoes for Children. Work Shoes for Men at $7.50. These shoes carry a guar- anee as to their leather content. Hanes Shorts 69c Undershirts 59c Curlee two-pont Suits $55.00 These ore al new fall patterns. Etchison and Knox Fall Hats. CLOTH SHOP See our Joanna Chintz window. All chintz on display at yd 89c New fall patterns of Joanna Drapery Fabric at yd $1.75 One table of Drapery Material, 2-3-4 yard lengths, now ... $1.29 yd. 100% Wool Gabardine in an ex citing range of patterns at yard $3.39 Good stock of Sheets and Pillow Cases. New shipment of Dress Prints ex pected to arrive this week. Meats - SPECIALS! - Groceries Ground Beef, lb 49c Balentine's Pure Pork Sausage, lb 47c Home-Made Pure Pork Sausage, lb 49c Home-Made Mixed Sausage, lb 40c Center Cuts Cured Ham, lb 79c Rath's 1-lb. Cello Frankfurters, 47c Rath's Black Hawk Bacon, lb... 70c Armour's Star Bacon, lb 70c Pork Chops, lb 70c Picnic Hams, 4 to 6 lbs 47c Standard Oysters, pint 75c Select Oysters, pint 85c Dressed Fryers — Hens — Fish White Lily Flour, S.R., 25 lb. $1.95 Hi Tide Flour, S.R., 10 lb 73c Gamecock Scratch Feed, 25 lb $1.10 Jewel Shortening, 4 lb. ctn. ... 82c Sugar, 5 lb. bag ,45c Wesson Oil, quart 69c Gill's Hotel Special Coffee, lb. 55c Miss Carolina Coffee, lb 45c Vesper Tea, Vi lb. box 49c Monarch Dote Nud Bread 24c Morning Joy Tea, 4 oz 35 c With Tea Glass Armour Pork b Beans, 3 for.... 25c Sexton Corn Relish, 12 oz. jar 23c Virginia Tomatoes, No. 2 can 10c Double-A Pink Salmon, tall can 45c Del Monte Bartlett Pears, , 2 Vi size 37 c Bowling Alleys open until 11 P. M. each night, Monday thru Saturday. If there are any stores, clubs, etc., who would like to form some bowling teams we would be pleased to reserve some alleys for team play. Joanna Stores Joanna, S.C.