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X. oMSsSU 1 W'lllW/ltilliililJillitliilitl/tJitJirtil'JlIliWitlitl IM I lliMiWil‘1 ’I'lmmimw Paire X wo THE CLINTON CHRONICLE BRIEFS.. 4B0UI RfOPlE YOU KNOW out of a possible 23 four shqjs. jlVIrs. John-H. Bell, and Mr. and'Mrs. Sam Owens led'the boys in their Harry C. Layton, losing battle with nine points in thej' Heyward Nettles, son of Mr. and ; Clinton collection. I Mrs. Harry Nettles, will 'celebrate Leroy Vaughan-took top honors of : a birthday January 30. Miss Elizabeth Lynch is -ill .and a patient at Hays hospital. Mrs. H. L. Todd is improving at her ft mte near here after an illness. Mrs. Ayliflfe Jacobs s'pent the week end with her mother, Mrs. J. B. Rob inson, in Easley ! the night with 25 dividends for‘New- j berry. m Bryson Likely To Hove Three Opponents In Fourth District Grady C. Moore, -of' Madison Heights, Va., formerly of this city, will celebrate a birthday ,Saturday, and his son, Maurice, has a birthday February 7. Cathy Brown Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Epps Davis, will cele brate her 2nd birthday January 28. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Ferguson ob served tKeir wedding anniversary yesterday. Ed Pitts, son of Mrs. P. M. Pitts, Columbia. Jan. 24.—The possibil ity of a four-man race for the Fourth "Mrs. Wylie Sholar has feturned' Congressional district seat of Joseph from a stay with friends and rela-; R Bryson, of Greenville, appears to . ce i e b ra ti n g his birthday today. th-es in Charleston and Orangeburg. be brewing. ‘ | Also James Dominick. „ r a fcu rvntnrnoH from Mr. Bryson, who has served the, Herbert Adair, son of Mr. and a visit witlf her V sister Mrs. M. l. f _ since 1939, has not yet an-, Mrs. I. M. Adair, will celebrate a tually found their way over state Thursday, January 26, 1950 v and ti^ansactions for re-sale, and 3. At feast 75 per cent of au estab lishment’s ^tmual dollar volume of goods and serves are recognized at retail within the particular industry. J ies, and telegraph Companies. In addition, retnlx establishments 1 and loan associatians, credit com- thousands to upward of a million panics, newspapers of more than fewer workers. 4,000 circulation, telephone compan-j Xhe new law gives the wag%-hour if'!’ f!l“"L e .lff! ri L“!il“Y. COmPan ' administrator the right to sue for wages or overtime pay which work- l J hc . w ? g *' hou f administration has ers may have been entitled to. Em- making their own goods are exempt 1 estimated that the boost to the 75- j pfeyes” stiU can sue on their own. if 85 per cent of the goods they make; cent minimum wage will mean a: Th€ie is a two-year limit to making or process are made within where the establishment is Under the old law a retail or Ser vice establishment was exempt if t! greater p^t of the selling or servic ing was in “intra-state commerce.” Changes in the wording of the ex emption from “intra-state c o m - merce” to saes “made within a state” Wdadens the exemptions. Under the old wording many re tailers who sold goods which even- state | pay increase ranging between five ted. to 15 cents for about 1,500,000 work ers, more than half of them In the South, This cost will be about $300,- 000,000 a year. x About 22,000,000 workers will be' covered by the law. * j The new law is somewhat of a compromise. .Labor—unions wanted; the 75-cent minimum. Many of them already have suggested boosting’ it; again to $1 an hour. Congress rb-1 these legal claims. Robinson in Durham, C. Miss Lcola Burnett, of Columbia, nounced, but he is a certainty to birthday February 1. do so. , - . , . .... ... : Rep. Matthew Poliakoff, of Spar- the week-end m_k.n»rd, »'th. (anbu P rg county has announced tha t Sir. And Mr.-. George Brockenblouch. j he run a g a j ns t Mr. Bryson in The Rev. Allen McSween and sons, D emocra ti c primary this sum-1 len and John, of Lincolnton, N. C., : mer Birth Announcements .Allen wrre here during the week for a visit %\;th Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Dillard. sisted, however, attempts to broaden • lines were considered under the law. la w to include more workers un- Now, it doesn’t matter if .the goods ! der its provisions. Actually, fewer are shipped over state lines after be- j workers will be covered by the Jaw ing sold at retail. It won’t disturb the anywhere from several hundred retailer’s exemption. The inclusion in the new law of sales as retail sales if they are reo KELLEY _ _ And in Greenville Solicitor Rob-' ^ Ir ' 3nd Mrs. James. Thomas Kell_ j ognized as such in the particular in- er* t Ashmore of the 13th Judicial cy a " nouncc the l ^ rth of a daugh ‘i dustry is another step in broadening Mr. and Mrs. VV. C. Shoaly spent has bpc „ ,. urgcd by triTOte-. ** m“ P Kelley th i. eXempl ? 0n ' Saturday in NeaUitj. "tth Mi. and .eek the office. Mr. Ashmore has , s , hc > fl ', rmer Miss Addie McGee. SUBSCRIBE iO THE CHRONICLJ “The Patter Fverrhodv Readr“ NOTICE Electricity will be off Sunday afternoon, January 29, front 4 o’clock to 5 o’clock in the City of Clin ton, to work on Duke Pow er Company lines. CITY WATER & LIGHT* DEPARTMENT B. R. Austin, Dept. Mrs. Oswald Copeland, Jr., and Mrs. 3^,^^ on i v t0 be considering the Oswald Copeland, Sr. Raymond Campbell is 1 suggestion. improving Spartanburg’s Senator Charlie :*°r ’undergoing an operation -3^^^ R0 °s^ These rules laid down in the law must be matched against each retail or service establishment. Generally speaking, most retail and service es tablishments will be exempt. Those Hays Hospital Sunday Mrs. William V. McKinnon. ; candidate. .Senator J.am tte PitTs. B. C. ITeslar, » ntl : feated‘ by Mr. Bryson in the 1 Friends say he is an almost certain b j rtb 0 f Moore was de- George Thomas were in Columbia on Wednesday evening to*attend a ban- . net given foi the entire staff of Hamilton’s, Inc. . Mrs. M. J. MeFadden, of Joanna; left yesterday to spend several weeks ?r» Inverness, Fla. Mrs. Ansel B. Godfrey was the week-end guest of Mrs. Pliney* Whit lock ip Augusta, Ga. Friends of Capt. and Mrs. Joe Clements and children, who • have been residing in Montgomery, Ala., ■where the former was 5 the a;r force, will be interested to know they are spending some time ■w.th her parents, Dr. and Mrs. F. K. Shealy. Capt. Clements, is on leate COLLAWN S-Sgt. and Mrs. J. F. Collawn of :—MLexico. annonce the exempted under the old law will | a son, JamesFloyd Collawn,; t on tinue to be exempted, and some Jr., on Wednesday, January 18. Mrs.| 0 f those previously covered will hot I Collawn is the former Miss Margaret be exempt. ‘ r Sullivan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.; The new law gives specific exemp- prtmary. L . The district embraces Greenville, c. a. Sullivan of this city. Spartanburg, Union and L a u r e ri s * —— ^counties. SIMPSON ; companies and newsboys. ■ *** ~ M r . and Mrs. George S. Simpson Wider exemptions are >1 tions to employes of small newspa- j pers, small saw.mils and to taxicab BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES NOTED T^e Chronicle Extends Greeting? To Those Whose Birthdays and Occur This W'eek. given to — announce the birth of a daughter, laundries and cleaners, bakeries and Shirley Rae. at the Blalock clinic on ice cream stores. Wednesday, January 18. Mrs. Simp-! The new law does not exempt atf son is the former Miss. Margaret retail or service establishments in- Moseley^ NEW WAGE, ' HOUR LAW COVERS FEWER surance companfes, banks, building LOANS LOANS ON AUTOMOBILES, SIGNATURE, FURNITURE, APPLIANCES Friendly, Confidential Service A. B. C. Finance Co. Mrs. Edna G. Spencer. Mgr.- 104 PITTS STREET CLINTON, S. C. Scotty Rice, son of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Rice, of Memphis, Tenn., will Washington, Jan. 22. Wage-houi -'tatus from the air force but expects celebrate his second birthday ^Satur-i law changes going into effect next to receive h.- official release in the day January 28. His mother is the;" ednesday will exempt a number of Dear“future. ' former Miss Mary Barksdale, daugh- retail and-*service firms previously ter of Mrs. R. A. Steer of this city. J. C. Robertson observed a birth- < linton GirLs Tie Newberry The Clinton high school, girls tied day January 10. the Newberry lassies, 19-19, in a Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Blaekwelder thriller last Tuesday night. The of Sanford, Fla., formerly pf this Clinton boy.' went down before the city, -observed their wedding anni- Newberry boys for a 30 to 53 count, vp-rsarv January 23. Free throws were the local lasses' January 23rd was the birthday of main source of tallies as they ripped W. H Simpson. / the nets with 13 charity throws, but Jimmy Dutton celebrated a birth- made only three field goals. Tot day January 22. Anderson led the v?ay by tossing ji January 3IsT wedding annivefsa- nine free throws out of a possible ries will include Mr. and Mrs. J. D. 16 The Clinton sextet made 13'McKee, who live near here, Mr. and * • • « ♦ ♦ * • • # A WOAmEl Qlteotnc Box Office Opens 2:45 — Saturday 12:45 10 A. M. Shows Monday and Thursday Thursday and Friday, Jan. 26-27 ffl-Q-to’s BIG MUSICAL in color by TECHNICOLOR! GENE KELLY it Frank Sinatra ^ Betty Garrett , ANN MILLER* JULES MUNSHIN ^ VERA-ELLEN Saturday, Jan. 28 - One Day Only covered by the law. The principal change of the new few is to boost-the 40-cent minimum wage for workers of employers in fnterstate enterprises to 75 cents an hour. The law still will require payment of time and a half rates for hours worked beyond 40 a week 'to workers covered by the law. .j. Under the changes, retail or ser-« vice establishments generally will be exempt from the wage-hour law if: 1. Over 50 per cent of the annual dollar volume of sales is made with in the state in which-the establish-, ment is located, and 2. Not more than 25 per cent of the annual dollar volume of sales 1 ON the TOWN :: WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, , January 25 and 26 DEVIL'S HENCHMEN {Murder Mystery) With WARNER BAXTER and MARY BETH HUGHES. Feature: 2:24, 4:52, 7:20, 9:48. ’ 1..plus... LAW AND ORDER A JOHNNY MACK BROWN WESTERN. » Feature: 3:33, 6:01, 8:29. Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, Chap. 5 ' ‘. 9c and 35c ■\ FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, " January 27 and 28 HCTION AND RHYTHM AT THE fiALLOP! CMRLES SMILD STARRETT BURNETTE Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 30-31 n S LIFE IS SHORT BUT SWEET IN MALAYA! 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