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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, May 25, 1950
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pie who prefer to move out of large rial poppy throughout the day.’
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In Laurens county an itinerary has
metropolitan areas and find them-1 Merhorial poppies will be distrib-' been made by additional deputy reg-
slves comfortably and happily lo- [ uted on the streets on Saturday by istrars to issue registration certifi
cated in small communities. Neither | volunteer workers of the American cates to all voters desiring same,
is the small business man to be lost Legion Auxiliary, who will receive Certificates can also be secured
in the march of progtess if he keeps 1 contributions for the Legion and from the office of the county board
his feet on the ground and uses his Auxiliary activities in behalf of the of registration in the court house
head. He has the means at hand, if disabled war veterans and needy every day between 9 a. m. and 5 p.m.
he uses them—to give personalized children of veterans. I through June 10.
service, sell good merchandise at fair I Mrs. B. F. Wingard is chairman of D - Milam, Sr., of this city, is a
prices, and be a friend to his cus- the committee directing observance member of the board,
tomers. But there’s a vast difference of the day in Clinton. | Note: Enrollment, as previously
between a merchant and a storekeep- ■ ♦ practiced is a thing of the past. One
must have a registration certificate,
and this only to vote in both the
June primary and the November
general election. You can’t vote with
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CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1950
ment for hand-outs and subsidies— INFORMATION
are the ones who will forge ahead in
this highly competitive period we If one wishes to vote in the Dem-| ♦
are now in following the wafr and ocrafic primary this year for gover- T wo Uj a k SfuHpnfrc
post-war years. nor, United States senator and coun-' ' u
If we are lo continue to grow we ty offices, one will be required to Awarded Watches
must be responsible for that growth, have a county registration certlfi- 1
i It’s easy for Chamber of Commerce C ate. A certificate dated in 1948 or_ Betty Jean Sumerel, senior at
officials and enthusiasts to talk loud later is good. If one does not have Clinjton high, and Wade Lucas,
about going out and bringing in new such a certificate and fails to get one Thornwell high senior, were each
enterprises and payrolls. But to land on or before June 10, this year, one given a beautiful Gfuen watch this
them is another question and be- cannot vote in the primary. week by Hamilton’s, well known lo-
cause of the general attitude of gov-j <p^ e re q U i remen t s f or registering jewelers.
i ernment during the New Deal and are; The big giant watch in their win-
Fair Deal years, exoroitant taxes. 1 , Residence in the state for two (2)^ t>ovvs stopped on these two names to
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to cover the cost of planning the pro- general meddling and competition to yearSt in the county one (u yea ,. -.ose the contest and the two lucky
iects And this added statement, P riV£ * te business, and the dangerous : and j n the prec i nct f our (4) months, seniors we-e the happy*recipients of
Senator Olin D Johnston, seeking .. Qnl fami j ies un able to pay the rent trend t0 socialism—-business men are You must be 21 years of age or will rh - watches-as previously announc-
xe-election. .-.aid *n Washington a day 1 jn higher-cost housing will be eli- not . to ° anxlous to invest their mon- reac h t hat age by November 7 next, ec *-
cr two ago that he "is confident of 1 gibi e to jj ve in the p U hii c housing.” ey in , ncw enter P r ^ ses - ^ vant iand able to read and write any ser-
v.ctory," , | , We are informed that a prelimi- to . see j ess sp ® n | and s ° und business t ion of the Constitution or show that ' v
He will do wei, to wait until the nary move has been inade to secure prm ? lI " es t P u . ° worX in 4 0v ern- 1 you have paid taxes on property as-
votes arc counted before he begins such a housing project for Clinton. ™ ent, 4 ” t , w , a town has to offer, sessed at $ 3 00 or more in 1949
‘•crowing.'’ " lit should be dropped and forgotten. the attltu<ie of . lts people and its| i n case 0 f ministers of the gospel -
The city has no business in the real g eneral re P uta , JOn ? ho “ ld be ^ de and school teachers they need have
estate business or operating a rental know £ to outsiders in the hope they been resident in the state only six
.**encv . 0 _ ma y become attracted to P« r mids H (6) months and in the voting precinct
3 , And w'hile we talk about the desir- f our (4) months.
t<'Ur to the West Coast It is reported The Washington spenders are de- ability of new industries, we should
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The Big Travel Bill
President Harry is Mok from a big
that the railroads gpt $40,000 for the termined to take over private Indus- ful i y ' appreciate and support the 1 Havin S obtained a certificafe, you:
tr:p. bu: that t-^t them $240,090.' try.-The-inevitable result will be the m any varied assets we already have. . nai ^ e W ’ U1 . be . e “ tered on , the re ^'
Who made up the difference? You driving out or crippling of corpor- f have many handicaps als0t which tration book of the precinct in which
taxpayers know. 1 ations with thousands of stockhold- if we are honest we must recognize you r j^ de l ^ ai ^ y registeied voter ha*
Life with the President is just one ers, or industry and nothing will be and endeavor to overcome. (moved out of the precinct in which
g< ughtful \ucation after another. He loft but government-controlled in-, The futurc is bri g ht un less a de- be wa f..r eg t ist f red ’ be s ^ ouId u take
t;.kes then: egardless of strikes oi,dustiies which lose millions of doi- pre ssion comes. We have faith in b ' s c ^ rtltlcat e to the board and have
veother condrtions. lars to be charged up to taxpayers. our community and people. What th * chan g e of residence noted on the
The political Santee-Cooper monster w in the next ten years show we certlflcate and on the books of reg '
is a glaring example. ; ask again when anot+ier census count j 1S T r T at \ on '
Taxpayers here should oppose the is made? The answer is almost en-1 Und ^ r electloia law J‘f c ‘ en u tIy
mere i* .. *ioi> going aiouiiu, a ^ entering the real estate business tirely in the hands of local business enacted> tbe 8 eneral assembly has
Roosevelt and John L. Lewis. and
Harry Truman were all out in a little
skiff on the big lake and a terrible Qur CenSUS Showing
storm came up and they were all ^
drowned, what would .be saved?
Ut-md States " ^ _ - jpecieo. yve naa wriuen our guess and expectations.
A Conundrum
There is u story going around, a
The Debt Mountain Grows
if such has, or is being contemplated, jmen and local capital. If we sit
• complacently and look for somebody I
1 from somewhere to come in and |
build the town larger and better we 1
The Clinton census announced a w jjj ^ disappointed. We are un-
* rip rmv'r a/-v U _ {ew days ag0 vvas about wb at we ex- der a delusion if such are our hopes
ue cracy ine , pec ted. We had wTitten our guess and exoectations.
1 on the side of a calendar and it
read 7,015.
made ample provisions for persons
VOTE FOR
CLYDE G. JONES
— for
eOl/NTY COMMISSIONER
• Horn on Farm in Youngs township
• Wo.iicd 20 Years in Laurens Cotton Mills
Now Manager 0/ Laurens Mills Boarding House
My ondy promi-sje is to do all in my power to make you a
good commissioner
Former Employee of both Clinton and Lydia Cotton Mills
Your Vote and Support Will Be Appreciated
I The 1950 count gives the city pro- MAYOR PROCLAIMS
a nation-wide Per a population of 7,158 against 5,-
"POPPY DAY
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Senator Taft made . . _
radio speech a few days ago replying 704 in 1940. This is a gain of 1,454 1
to President Truman’s speeches on persons, expressed another way a 25
h:s Western tour. , cent increase for the decade or, Saturday, May 27, was set aside as
The President says he did not take an average of a fraction more than Poppy Day in the city of Clinton in!
the trouble to read or listen to the 2 per cent on an annual basis. This a proclamation issued today by May-1
accress. is a fairly good showing, a consid-. or L. ,E. Bishop. The proclamation
In his speech Senator Taft told the erably larger gain than revealed : urged all citizens to observe the day.
American people that their govern-: thus tar* for several towns in this | by wearing memorial poppies in hon-’
xr.ent is going into debt at the rate area. As we expected, Laurens city or of those who gave their lives in'
of . C I5 million dollars a day. This showed a bigger population than ! the two world wars. It stated:
means that the government is creat-1 Clinton, though their percentage “Whereas, the city of Clinton, in
ing 15 million new dollars every d?y gain was not quite as large as ours. 1®17 and 1918, and again in 1941 to
out of nothing, and that as dollars '. ‘In spite of a market migration 1945, sent many of its finest young
flu id the market they decline in from farm population to urban cit- ] men and women to serve in the de-1
value. lies, the county has 2,772 more peo-| fense of our country; and
Fifteen million more debt each day pie than it did at the last census. 1 "Whereas, many of these made the {
may sound like "chicken feed” to the It is significant that the combined supreme sacrifice in that service; and,
champion spender, but it is leading gain of Clinton and Laurens was “Whereas, the memory of their|
the no;i n to bankruptcy and some approximately 1,500 more than the service and sacrifice should be for-1
morning unexpectedly the balloon whole county. ever kept bright fon the inspiration!
will bu. si. That’s as certain as two A comparison of figures shows our an d future generations,:
ami two make four. that Clinton from a small cross-i and , , , . J
“Whereas, the wearing of memorial
roads community of- 200 people has 1
Sales Tax Loom's Aaain • j-shown an increase with every ten;poppies on Saturday brings to our
aaies I ax Looms Again year count from 1870 to 1950 Xhe minds and hearts the memory of
A nice per cent general sales tax
was offered in the
yesterday to which The Chronicle is
opposed The tax would go on top
of present taxes and is estimated to
general sales tax, increase in 1940 was very small> | these gallant dead; l
geneiH: assemo.y sbow j ne a train of nnlv 37 nver the Now, therefore, I,
showing a gain of only 37 over the 1 -now, mereiore, 1, L. E. Bishop,
1930 figure. (mayor of the City of Clinton, do
There has been much speculation
(hereby proclaim Saturday, May 27,
yield $30,000,000 annually. This will ^ _ and ; f i ^ eS 35 - t0 , J What . t -, e I ~
1 to be Poppy Day in the city of Clin-
give politicians $30,000,000 more qf!
government figures would reveal
The same has been true here, guess
es submitted in The Chronicle’s con-
the people's money to spend annual
ly A -ales tax is just another tax . ^ — * ~ ,
like the Roosevelt-Truman excise * es * ran g in g Horn a low of 6,d00 tOj
tax We are even told that the tax ' ap P roxim f tel y 12 - 500 - Fi S ures are rc " |
would oe ‘.01 one year duration only, i veabn ® 301116 t° wn s and cities
None are so stupid, surely, as to be- must swallow unfounded dreams of.
lie e thi< enormous increases. In one city m
A third of me amount contemplat- : Nor ? Carolina figures are reported
ed to be raised would go back to the 35 disappointing and talk of a re-
counties. 1: the state would retain! ^ ount “ heard -- There . Will-«o-dottbt'
all of its income instead of dishing be . 0t *i* er f' This is a poor losers .
out millions to the counties it would a * b * ud ® because from all reports a
have about all mat is needed to pay y er y thorough and careful job has ,
its debts. The counties are not suf- 06611 done b> the enumerators. It is
ienng, they are practically all in lU ' ed '° r6main aware of the danger*
good financial condition and many (°^ bein ^ 100 0 Pt imis I 16 - < •
have fat surpluses WhAi we distrib-I Undei ' a ncw Procedure this year ;
ute a third of the sales tax money
college students are counted in the
back to the counties, as is proposed, towms where the> are enrolled, this
we are setting up a "slush fund.” It ruling applying to all towns in which
can’t be anything else, regardless of coll6 2 e 5 ar <? located. This was a good
what house members or 'senators tell bre a k for us since it ga\e u* cred-
us .it for the 490 students at Presbyter-
What has the legislature done? * an cobe ^ e ^ dad tb is change in,
Why is it in the red? Because it countmg not been made our official,
has gone right ahead recklessly 1 '> ure wuuld je about 500 less than,
spending like drunken sailors and! re b^ rled -
has frittered away a $20 million sur- 1 ^ be new census figures show a
plus. For the present condition, only'f enera ^ * ren d, people are moving,
the general assembly is responsible. 1 * rom colintr y to town or are contin-
And it leadens now would saddle um * t0 live J n the c^fy and work
an expensive sales tax upon -
shoulders of the people. There should 1 dreds of new homes- have sprung up
be an uprising this summer. ( n year t whlch that
^ j towns have lost many citizens who
, 1 formerly resided in their incorporat-
tbe lin town. On rural highways hun-
A Socialistic Proposal
We note that the oity of Laurens
is contemplating going into the real
estate, business. Senator Maybank
and Congressman Bryson announced
during the week that seventy-five
units of low-rent public housing
which would cost at least $300,000
wrere alloted that city, by the Public
Housing administration, which is in
direct competition with private in
dustry and ample loan agencies set
up primarily to help interested peo
ple' with initiative to become home-
owners. As soon as a project is ap
ed limits. Another factor in the
noted drift is the fact that we have
changed much faster than was ex
pected from an agricultural to an
industrial area. This is quite ap
plicable to our county where there
has been substantial industrial de
velopment during the past ten years.
Families are also smaller than they
were twenty years ago. .
This interesting question arises
now that our record for the past ten
years has been made-^What of the
next ten years? Will we hold this
gain and add to it, or like some other
proved in Washington, congressmen towns will we slip back. This is not
and senators rush to the press to
make the announcement as though
they were putting up the money
themselves. The announcement fur
ther says that our neighbor city is
applying for a federal loan of $30,000
an uncommon occurance. Will we
lag behind or march forward? The
answer lies largely in the minds of
the business men of the city and
community.
The small town by no means is
A MESSAGE FROM
L. B. DILLARD
In my years of service as
a merchant, and two years
as an Alderman in the city
of Clinton, I feel that I
have had the opportunity
to obtain an understanding
of our people, experience in
and knowledge of public
affairs that should be in
valuable in the office of
Mayor at a time when so
much money is being spent
by our town.
LB. DILLARD
Candidate for
Mayor of Clinton
(fitT CLASSY
1950
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J. C. THOMAS, jew-ele*
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