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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.
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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.
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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-
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