Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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7 + IDE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper, Complete Newsy and Reliable ®hr (Eltntmt If Ypa Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't G^t the Volume LI Clinton, S. C, Thursday, April 20, 1950 Number 16 As Washington Sees ir .. THE NATIONAL SCENE • # Special to The Chronicle. Washington, April 19—President Truman is scheduled to deliver a major political address in Chicago May 15 at a meeting of the Demo cratic national committee and Dem ocratic leaders in the windy city. The speech will be the first in a series of grassroots and “whistled stop” speeches the President will make prior to the congressional elec tions in November. Just hojv the President is going to handle this campaign is a question being asked here in Washington, for there is lit tle question that the 81st congress congress has made just as poor a record as a “do-nothing congress” as the 80thrwhich the President casti gated from coast io coast for not car rying out his Fa^j Deal program. The opinion has been expressed that one reason for his early speech of the President may be to stir up this congress, nominally Dem ocratic, but controlled by a coalition of southern Democrats and Republi cans. Even so, these observers point out, it will he pretty iate for any ve ry outstanding action before adjourn ment which is expected along about July 1. Even though this congress under the Truman whip has failed to pass the Fair Deal program, the concen sus is that it will do nothing to hurt business, that it is a “safe” congress. On the horizon and likely of —action are two measures. . One would set a plan whereby small business could get insured loans, up to $15,000, un der much the same plan as FHA housing loans; the other would reg ulate the sick and ailing coal indus try and end the monopolistic control over the industry by John L. Lewis, boss of the united mine workers. Sen. Clinton Anderson, former se cretary of agriculture, in a statement this past week, defending the agri cultural act of 1949, said the law cures two things about which the farmers complained in the last cam paign; (1) it provides plenty of sto rage space for grain^and (2X it holds up the price support, which under the 4iken law of 1949 was permit ted to drop as low as 60 per cent Despite these two there is still much grumbling among farm folk over the present provis ions of the act. Farm Income is on the downward grade although farm prices are still supported at the high est parity prices in history. Overpro duction and surpluses are the cause and these cannot be cured without rigid acreage and production con trols. First reports from the work of the house appropriations committee on the single appropriation bill in- Hicks F. Owings Is Veteran County Peace Officer Laurens, April 15—In 33 years as a peace officer, Hicks F. Owings has never shot at a person and has never been shot at. There’s no way of knowing how many people he has arrested in that tune, but only one person he arrest ed went to the electric chair, and that was a North Carolina case. He has seen a lot of things, good and bad, and he is positive of one thing: alcoholic drink is a bad thing. “I would vote the p-ohibition tic ket every time,” he said. “Oh sure, we had liquor during prohibition, but nothing like the crime and awful things we have now as a result of liquor. You’ll find liquor back of a majority of all kinds of crime—bro ken homes, killings, automobile wrecks.” It hurts him to see so many chil dren getting into trouble, but he blames it on the parents. “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is grown he will not depart therefrom,” he quotes from the Good Book. “If parents know more about where their chil- jdren are all the time, night and day, ! and if they gave their children bet- ; ter training at home, the children wouldn’t be getting into so much trou ble. Then, too, there are so many par ties and women playing golf and all that—they just' don’t have time to ! t ike care of their children.” Learns Blows Unjustified He has taken a lot of “cussing" in |his time, but he learned early that words don’t justify blows and that •a man will do things under the in fluence of liquor he wouldn’t other- *wise do. Here’s something he particularly wanted to get across: “We have the best sheriff here in Laurens, C. W. Wier, that you will find anywhere, I believe that from , the bottom of my heart and I’ve been with him a good many years and should know him.” He also had praise for Sheriff R. | Homer Bearden of Greenville as an t outstanding man and officer Radio has changed things consid erably, particularly law enforcement. When he smarted out as a policeman In Laurens, April 1, 1917, he nev er dreamed that some day he would be riding around all over Laurens county and in direct communication with the sheriff’s office. He has served continuously as a police officer or deputy since he first went on the force in Laurens. He was in the Army nine months in 1918-’19 but his commission as a de puty under Sheriff Reid remained In force the whole time he was away. Are'people better now than they were 33 years ago? He laughed. “I’d like to say they’re better now but I just don’t think so,” he said. Department. ' All but one of the drivers penai- | ized in Laurens county were male, j and all nineteen were charged with | driving under the influence of liquor, j Six of the drivers were in the 17 to 30 age -bracket, three were in the 30 to 40 age grouping, and ten were in the forty or older grouping. Driving privileges withdrawn in South Carolina during the month of March came to 629. of which 625 were suspensions, three were revo- cations, and one was a cancellation f Drunken Drivers Lose Licenses Special to The Chronicle. Columbia, April 19.—A total of nineteen driving privileges were withdrawn in Laurens county last month, all of which were in the na ture of suspensions, according to a report of H. E. Quarles, Jr., direc tor of the motor vehicle division of the South Carolina State Highway It’s Fur Storage Time Certified and Insured Cold Fur Storage Cleaning and Glazing CALI, Sunshine Cleaners Phone 436 Qene Jbiderson £ For The Week-End dicate a step in the right direction, a slash of $1,385,377,504 in the Presi dent’s budget for the same .items, or about 5 per cent below the amount requested for the 1951 budget. The committee approved a cash outlay of $27,266,403,664 for the fiscal year, plus contract authorities of $1,778,626,500. These outlays do not include appropriations for debt in terest and other perennial items which by law receive automatic ap proval of the congress. Neither do they include funds for foreign aid which are to be proposed in a later bill. Incidentally, the senate committee on expenditures has issued a report showing that more than 301,000 gov ernment workers have been dropped from the federal payroll since Jan uary 1, 1947. The number of per sons on the federal payroll dropped from a postwar peak of 2,262*625 on that date ta 1,961,029 on January 1, 1950, thei report said. Independent agencies showed a decrease of 119,- 000 in personnel. The report said 56JD00 were drop ped from war assets, 31,000 from veteran’s administration, 19,000 from office of temporary controls, 7,000 from the maritime commission, 7,- 000 from housing and home finance, 248,000 from the department of de fense. Decreases totaling 27,574 were noted from treasury, agriculture and labor. But the post office department showed an increase of M,y$, add deparl 8,606 were added to thfe of commerce. rtment RELIEF FROM PAINFUL ATHLETES FOOT IN ONE HOUR Or year 40c back. 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