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/ a t A * a * ’ e Pajjfc Two THE CUNTON CHRONICLE Thursday, March 9, 1950 $100,000 Bond Issue • Proposed By Trustees For School Purposes Trustees of Hunter School District •ssued the following statement yes terday: - Last August Hunter School District suffered a heavy loss when Bell Street School Building with all the rum tore and equipment was com pletely destroyed by fire. This loss was partiajly covered by insurance. $31,000 insurance was carried on the building and $3,000 on the furniture and equipment making a total of $3-1.000 which has been paid. Of this , Mount it has been necessary for the Trustees to spend approx imately $4,738 in providing tempo rary quarters in which to hold class es during the current year, and for new furniture and equipment, as it 'vas too near school opening time vhen the lire occured to attempt to rebuild for use during the present r’ession. Plans and specifications for the re building of this schdOt" have been • ■ompleted by Lafaye, Lafaye & Fair, Architects of Columbia and the plans .ire now in the hands of contractors veho will submit bids in the near luture. In this rebuilding program we are using alt £)f the old founda-' lion walls up to the floor line there byconserving and making use pT all of the old building possible. Some of the old walls arc still standing but after examination the Engineers ad vised that they are not safe for use. The new furniture which we have purchased for use in the temporary quarters will of course be transfer red to and used in the new building. I: is estimated that to rebuild this i uild.ng and equip it is going to take ■ i little more than $100,000. To fin ance this construction we are heldmg^ aiv election on March 21st, 1950 at which the voters will vote on whelh- tr or not they favor issuihg bonds to liie amount of $100,000. If this vote ic favorable this with the balance • f $29,000 which we have available irom the fire insurance funds will give a total of approximately $129,- 000. We hope that the actual cost is not going to rtm as high asthe Arch itects estimate, this we will not be . hie to Jell definitely until the con tractors bids are in. Whatever bal ance is left the Trustees propose to i.-e on erecting additional rooms at Academy Street school and at Flor ida Street school. Both of these schools are badly crowded and at least two additional rooms are need led-at each of these buildings. We estimate that it will take a 3 mill levy on the taxable property of this District to retire this issue 04^100,000 in bonds. Your Board of Trustees regret very much that it is necessary to ask for another Bond issue at this time but we kno\v of no other way to fin ance the rebuilding of Bell Street School and we are sure that all will agree that it is neressary to replace this building. Elsewhere in The Chronicle today appears the legal notice of this election. To the end that funds may be provided with which to do this necessary building we ask yo’ur support and cooperation. R. L. Plaxico G. A. Burton J. Roy Gasque J. B. Arnold T. Heath Copeland Board of Trustees, Hunter School District No. 5 Says U. S. Couldn't-- Launch First* Surprise Blow In War !?iHDAYS AND,. ' NNIVER5ARIES NOTED Ttie ( hronirlr hxtends Greeting r«> Those Whose Birthdays and \ turn ersarips Occur This Week Patricia Brown will be six years old March 12. Miss Frances Winn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Winn, will cele brate her birthday March 13. William Herman Nabors^ will ob serve his birthday March 14. Lucille Dixon McSween, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Y. McSween, will be one year old March IF — ~ Mary Cook Nabors, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. G. C. Nabors, of York- town, Va.. will celebrate her first birthday March 10. Mr. Nabors is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Nabors oi Joanna. Carroll Poole, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Poole, will be 11-years old March 11. —Michael .Tnno^ little son of Mr. and | Mrs. Homer Jones, Jr., was two I years old March 6. H. R. Jones, Sr., j observed a birthday yesterday. Jimmy Tinman, son of Mr. and; Mrs. J. L Tinman, was 14 years old March 7. A Qlcto moAmm Ohjeatae Box Office Opens 2:45 — Saturday 12:45 Shows Hun Continuous Thursday and Friday, March 9-10 \ 1 cK aefc&ti v 2o Feature: 2:00, 4:12, 6:37, 9:02 Box Office Opens 1 :15 on This Picture Saturday, March 11 stoning EDWARD &i ROBINSON By James Marlow * Washington.—Here’s a nice one to think about. This country and Russia are spend ing billions on arms and bomb-mak ing. So'-Jar as can be seen, they’ll continue doing that. In time both countries may have bombs big enough to wipe out whole cities, one bomb to a city. Scientists say a hydrogen bomb can do just that. If there’s-a war, the one which attacks first' will have a big advantage. F r instance, suppose Russia in a sneak attack was able in one night to wipe out Washington, New York, Chicago and Detroit. After that our chances of w'inning the war, or even waging war very long, might not be good. True, our bombers if scattered around, might try to attack in turn. But, having started the war, Russia would be ready for that. Could Russia tee off on us sudden ly without a formal declaration of war, which would be enough warn ing to use? Sure. The Russians could get going on an oFder from above, from Joseph Stalin and his group. _ ; But could the Russians actually get their whole war machine going without our knowing? Maybe so, maybe not. No one can answer that now. We weren't prepared for the Japa nese attack on Peajd Harbor. And this time, because of the hydrogen bomb, we'd be in a sad fix if our spy system failed. . But there’s the prbblem of how the United States would go to war. ' Under the constitution, only con gress can declare war. But, if we reached a point where congress gath ered to declare war, the Russians would have plenty of warning and 4ime to attack first. In the past this arrangement—no war unless declared by the people’s representatives in congress,-— has worked all right. .It was the demo cratic way, the backbone" of this country’s way of life. ft saved the people from the dan ger of possibly sudden action by one man. the president, who, otherwise might have been able to put the peo ple into a war they didn’t want. But times have changed, as this story has tried to point out, because of the advantage that would go to the one who attacked first with hy drogen bombs. ‘ Just because times have changed, this same democratic process, the , ifrvide open declaration of war by fcongress, might in the next war mean the end of the republic by giv ing the enemy a chance to attack first. Idleness Soars To Highest Since 1941 What could be done to be sure we weren’t attacked first? As command er-in-chief of the armed forces the president, if he thought the danger great enough, might try to save the country by ordering our bombers to start the war and attack Russia with out waiting for congressional action. Yet, if he did so. he might be im peached by congress. Whether that happened, of course, would depend upon what congress and the people! thought after war started. On the other hand: Suppose he knew an attack was coming but, through fear of impeachment, let it | come, preferring to let congress go through the comparatively slow and public 1 process of declaring war. In a case like that, it’s possible he might be impeached for failing to take the necessary . steps—attacking first—to save the nation, if any con gressmen were left alive after the enemy attacked here. If you think these questions are far-fetched, Senator McMahon r Con necticut Democrat, made a- senate speech in which, speaking of future bombs, he said: “I need not tell you that these weapons impair in a most serious way the constitutional power of con gress to declare war. As a democracy we arc incapable of launching the first surprise blow. It seems possible} that this very democratic process, slow and wide open to the world, could mean an end to the republic, since it would give an enemy time to attack first.” McMahon is head of congress’ Atomic committee. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned incorporators \vn. meet at the Joanna Chub': u c e. J arna, S. C., on Monday. Mb: n ifi. at 3 p.m., for the purpooC o‘ the 'organization of the Joanna Re!lo• Chest Incorpor ated. x proposed corporation, and as soon thereafter as possible the un dersigned wiil file with me becre- tary of State a.Declaration for’Ch.rr- ter; This proposed corporation he to be organized to maintain and oper ate a non-profit hospital service plan. John Ross, Otis Murphy. Milton Bolick, Henry M. Hunter, Lester . Hair, H. H. Kelly, J Mi Row land, P. L. Darnell, Preston White, Boyce Oxner, William -Dunlap, Mrs. Helen Bozard, Miss Mildred Bozard, W. D. n e;kort.. F. W. Frady, Marvin Adair. 1c of other workers made idle as |i re sult. ' * Sawyer observed that non-farm employment appears to be holding steady this year in contrast to the _ . winter of 1949. Between January and Washington, March 6.—For every February last year, unemployment dozen Americans With jobs last jumped 500,000 and the census bu- month, one was looking for work, reiu said that non-seesonal cut- The unemployment total of 4,684,003 backs in employment were an im- was the largest since August, 1941. portant factor in that rise. • But in reporting this tod^, the Non-farm employment last month Commerce department noted that wa? down 19,000 from January, to a 56,953,000 had regular jobs In Feb- of 50,730,000, and agricultural ruary, including those not actually employment &as up 25,000 to 6,223,- laboriag '{MCMIM of strikes. 000. Secretary o' Corom—e Saw/' t- Eight and d half y ears a 2°. in tributed list sin-e January prinJ-al- ^ u ^ st ’ 19 * 1 ' /° ur monUis before ly to a seasonal increase in the total Pearl Harbor * th€r ? were 5,620,000 labor force, rather than any cutbacks J Qi)leas - — — in employment. The report said that * 210,000 persons, including mid-year CommiHlitv MeetflUl high school graduates, entered the * V;! nU . mi T peering labor force, while only 6.000 rew At Shady GrOVC Monday jobs were available immediately. —♦- The census bureau, which assem- A community meeting to discuss bles unemployment statistics, does agricultural and home problems-will not tyunt persons idle by strikes be hekl at the Shady Grove school at as unemployed. It holds that they 7:30 Monday evening, March 13. In- have regular jobs but simply aren’t eluded in the program will be an working at them while on strike, e'ducat.’ .al motion picture which The soft coal strike was in fuh will be of interest to both adults and swing in February, with 372,000 min- child.t i. The public is cordially in- ers out and hundreds of thousands vite i. Lo admission will be charged. LOW PRICES ON BUILDING MATERIALS WEIL HELP YOU PLAN , Our Years of Building ‘KNOW HOW’ saves money for you on building materials. 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