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t 4 fit / / THE CHRONICLE P * Strives To Be A Clean ^Newspaper, Complete Newsy and Reliable 0hp (Eltnfom If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume LI H- Clinton, S. C, Thursday, July 27, 1950 Number 30 COUNTY TO GET " HEAVY STATE FUNDS NEW FISCAL YEAR Appropriations Bill Sets Forth Allocations Pro vided By Recent Legislature. Columbia, July 18. (Special to The Chronicle)—With the beginning of the 1&50-51 fiscal year this montn, Laurens county is scheduled to re ceive many allocations from allot ments provided by the preceding leg- £ islature in the state general appro priations bill. • For contribution to the salaries of county auditors and treasurers $117,- 400 each is provided during the pres ent fiscal year, and $149,300 will be allotted to the counties for state par ticipation in the salaries of county superintendents of education. The H state will pay $2,500 each on the sal aries of the Laurens county treasurer the county auditor, and $3,300 on v vife salary of the Laurens county su perintendent of education, b * Laurens and the otner counties of the state will receive an allocation of 7^ per cent of the state income ' tax receipts, to be distributed on a population basis. Among the allocations to the coun ties to be distributed through the state department of education, in cluding $27,645,000 for teacher sal aries, are $2,400,000 for school bus transportation, $150,000 for school lunch operation aid, and $91,080 for attendance teachers. The salary pro vided for attendance teachers in Lau rens and other counties is $1,980 per ^ year. School bus allotments will be equivalent to the total coat of school transportation in each county for the 1945-46 fiscal year, plus depreciation *' •allowances. Aid to counties in the school lunch program will be divided among the county boards of educa tion on the basis of the number of schools participating in the program „urlng the 1949-50 fiscal year. In addition 991,080 is to be con- tributed for the salary of the county school lunch supervisor or $1,960 for school lunch supervisors in Laurens and other counties of the state. The South Carolina Library Board - is appropriated $71,400 for the pi* f ent fiscal year, which includes $30.- 500 for aid to county libraries, of which up to $1,000 in state aid will be made available to qualified county a libraries, such as that in Laurens county on a matching basis. Twenty thousand dollars is also provided for elate aid books. f For rural sanitation and county hehhh work $381,000 in state aid will be expended during this fiscal year ——— 6y the South Carolina Department of Health. This fund will be dis tributed by a flat grant of $4,000 to each county, plus 10 cents per capita. These direct allocations scheduled * for Laurens and other counties from < # state revenues total $8,870,000, and, in addition to $1,850,000 for counties from the 7Vfc per cent state income tax allocation, are as follows: $1,- 860,000 from the alcoholic liquors tax, which is 20 per cent of the state revenue from this source; $330,000 from the beer and wine tax, seven per cent of the revenue from the tax; .4 4 1 $645,000 from the insurance tax; $165,000 from the bank tax; $3,800,- 000 from the gasoline tax, which i? g ( one per cent of the total tax; and $220,000 from the game protection fund. The present fiscal year extends from July 1, 1950, to June 30, 1951. CLINTON'S LITTLE LEAGUERS TO ENTER TOURNAMENT BUKELY WINS IN SUPERVISOR RACE, O'DELL RE-ELECTED, JONES NAMED Drummond Bailey Wins Prize As Best Political Guesser W. Drummond Bailey of Green wood. a former resident of this city, was the winner in The Greenville News political prediction contest. | Mr. Bailey prophesied almost right j on the nose the percentage of votes jeach of the six candidates for U. S. | senate and governor would get ;n New Supervisor To Suc ceed Stoddard, Who Did Not Offer for Re-elec tion. Light Vote Cast. In the second primary held Tues day, Bennie B Blakely defeated R L Teague for supervisor in . hotly contested race by a margin of only 68 votes, unofficial returns fr >m all of the county’s 40 precincts showed j the first primary- He was presented ■ n<: sa'hcrod b% The Chronic with the offered $25 U. S. Savings Bond in salute to his achievement. Pictured above is Clinton's Little Leaguers 1950 team which will go to Florence next week to enter the state tournament. Front row. left to right: Dusty Rhodes. Bill Smith, Joe Chafin, Dennis Bennett, Bill Dob bins, Bruce Austin. Grady Fuller, Jerald Jenkins. Dwight Tucker, Billy Cranford. Benji Timmons. Second row: George Copeland. Wayne Hornsby. T. W. Hardin, D. 8. Templeton. Coach, Hack Prater, John Wood. Tru man Owens, Ray Former, Glenn Brock Reaves. Here are the actual percentages of votes as figured by the chairman of the board of judges, based on of ficial and complete returns: For governor, Byrnes 71.6, Bates. 18.2, Pope 8 6. and Stone 1.6; and : mi * SIoner and 1S wel1 *nown .n the i for senator, Johnston 53.9. Thurmond coun{ y He is a son of the la:e B. B. j (Blakely, and Mrs. Blakely, a widely vote was: Blakely 2,501, Teague 2,523. In the first primary J hn H Wharton and S. Everette Martin were eliminated The incumbent. Lander B Stoddard, did not offer again. Mr. Blakely is now a county eom- Mr. Bailey was born in this city, a son of the late Dr. T L W. Bailey, Formers Advised By County Agent To Fight Weevil Boll weevils . averaged 21.3 per . cent last week in check spots over the county, according to County Agent C. B. Cannon. He said infestation ranged as high as 75 per cent on some farms where no poison was used. He pointed out that the showers and warm cloudy weather lately have encouraged the boll weevil threat and could easily be a serious damage to cotton production. Mr. Cannon explained that at this stage of the cotton growth, dusting or spraying schedules should not be more than five or six days apart. He advised farmers using spray equip ment to use three nozzles to each row in order to cover the plant thor oughly. “That is. one nozzle spray ing down and one on each side of the row." He said a few fanners are report ing considerable damage from boll worms eating the squares. In this case, he advised increasing the dust to 15 pounds per acre for a “quick knock-out** Mr. Cannon cited rumors that trucks from outside of Laurens coun ty were reported coming into the county looking for poison. ‘This in dicates that the poison is becoming scarcer. Play safe and do not be caught without enough dust to fin ish the dusting schedules,** he said. He went on further to advise the farmers to continue their dusting because “you have spent considerable money already. You cannot afford to quit at this stage as the loss is to great.” Football Schedule P. C. Blue Hose For Season 1950 The fqllowing varsity football schedule for Presbyterian college has been announced: September 15—Furman at Green- jville (night). | September 23—Clemson at Clem- son (night). September 30—W. Carolina at Cul- lowhee, N. C. (night). October 7—Davidson at Clinton i (night). October 14—Erskine (H) at Clin- iton (night). I October 21—Wofford at Spartan- burg (night) October 27—The Citadel at Or angeburg (day). November 4—Catawba at Salisbu ry, N. C. (night). November 9 — Appalachian at Boone. N. C. (day). November 28—Newberry at Clin ton (day). Two National Guard Units In County Have 177 Members One hundred and seventy-seven national guardsmen are available for duty in Laurens county, accord ing to the office to Adjutant Genera! James C. Dozier. Two national guard units are sit uated in the county. Company D, Cl 8th Infantry in Laurens and Bat tery B 107th AAA Bn in Clyiton. Co. D has four officers and 69 enlisted men, Battery B has six officers, one warrant officer, and 97 enKsted men. '4 * •9. ♦ READ THE CHRONICLE ADVERTISEMENTS REGULARLY EACH WEEK II will pay yon. It’* thrifty to shop first in this newspaper, then In the stores as prices change and new merchandise is received and displayed. BE WISE- READ THE ADS Modern Motel Now Under Construction On Joanna Highway The new Midway Motel midway between Clinton and Joanna is now in an advanced stage of construction, together with the new residence of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Nance which they will occupy as soon as completed. The motel is to be of fire proof construction and will feature such modern conveniences as private baths in each room, cross ventilation, steam heat, etc., Mrs. Nance states. All of the buildings will be of the Spanish type finished in white Stuc co, and are located directly across the highway from the Midway Drive- In theatre on a spacious lot. The owners contemplate being able to announce an opening date not later than Sept. 15 they said yesterday. Penney Official Claimed By Death Ear) Corder Sams, 66. head of the J, C. Penney company, died at his home near New York Sunday after noon after a sudden illness. He was the firsrt associate of J. C. Penney, founder of the company, a half cen tury ago, and succeeded Mr. Penney as president and board chairman The Clinton J. C. Penney store clos ed Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock out of respect to him. Clinton Production Credit Associotion Hos Good Report A report of the financial progress of the Clinton Production Credit as sociation was distributed this weex to farmer-members from the office of Rex Lanford, secretary-treasurer. The mid-year report shows mem berships in Laurens and Newberry counties of 1013. The association has $47,030,000 in membership-own ed capital; and made 330 loans m the first six months of this year amounting to $367,250 00. Such loans are made for financing expenses con nected with farm production and general agricultural purposes. The detailed report shows that the as sociation is enjoying another good year. Officers of the association are: J. T. McCrackin, Newberry, president; J. F. Hawkins, Newberry, vice-pres ident; Rex Lanford, Waterloo, sec retary-treasurer; di roc tors: Mr Cc- Crackin, Mr. Hawkins, Wallace L. Martin. Fountain Inn; Lawrence F. Davis and Hugh Bonds Workman, Clinton George W. Copeland is book keeper. and Mrs. John A. Davis, sten ographer. connected family of this sec* on ^f the county. and Mrs. Bailev. He married Miss' Clyde G. Jones defeated iV. Lyles Rena Abrams, also of this city, a Stonc for county commissioner. 2.725 daughter of Mrs. Estelle Abrams. 2,360. William J. Henry, of Clin- They have two children, Johnny, 12, * on ’ was e ' ec ted on the first ballot in and Mary Lou, 9. Mr. Bailey has drs * primary as one of the corn- been with the Liberty Life Insur-1 missioners.^ ance company for 12 years and re cent’.y was transferred to Abbeville as office manager. Baptist Training Union Meets Sunday With Laurens Church Game Warden Garvin B. O’Dell was returned to office, winning avei his opponent, W R. Moore The vote was: O'Dell 2.894. Moore 2,195 In the race for attorney genera., the county went for T C. Callison over Charles N Plowden The vote was: Callison 2,715, Plowden, 2.344 The county vote was light, 1.88C vites short of the 6,970 cast in the first primary two weeks ago. The complete tabulation appears ir. The fifth Sunday RaLy of the Laurens associational Baptist Train ing Union will meet Sunday July,* oda y a paper 30th 2:15 pan., with the Second Bap list church in Laurens. The director ('•Ui»on. Riley. D*rn Tuesday Rev. J. W Spillers. of this city, urges Wlnuer* all churches in the asaociation to be! Tw ° former U S, representatives represented. Nine banners will be,— w J Bryan Dorn of G.eenwood. awarded to the church having the 34-year-old army veteran, and John highert effeciency rating. 3. Riley. Sumter busines man. re- Last fifth Sunday, banners we.e J‘ ved £ e ^ r,tlc oomtna: on to the awarded to the following churches: Tuesday. Laurens Second, for the largest at- *** \ nto th * 1 nomination. tendance; Clinton First, Story Hour W ? # , 5*L U • q ^ V 1 # M I,nt 10 ^ efficiency; Warrior Creek, was wlt ^ Callison, who o.fered for awarded the Junior, Intermediate, 8 * ener * 1 „ Dorn defeated Rep James B. Hare of Saluda, and Riley won over Rep. Hugo S. Sims, Jr., who at ^9 is the Young People, Adult, General Offi cers and B.T.U., efficency banners. The executive committee has ar ranged the following program: Song Service. !* res s Devotion by Joe Lister. Browns Attending Educational Meet youngest member of the 81st Con- Unofficial returns from 246 of 254 Recognition of Churches, Pastors, District precincts * a ^« Rdey Directors, Deacons and visitors. -6.942 and Sims 17.003 while re- AnnouncemenU l turns ,rorn J1 * of the 322 D ‘»- Election of Officers. ,trict * av * Do™ 23.331 and Dr. Marshall W. Brown is attend ing a conference on higher education 'in Nashville, Tenn. He was accom-- I panied on the trip by Mrs. Brown and | they will be away about ten days, i visiting relatives in Ohio and Ken- 1 Song and offering. Special music by Christ Davenport Message by Rev. G. S. Cothran Hare 18.672 Callison rolled up 116,871 votes in returns from 1,441 of the state’s 1561 retary and Treasurer. tucky before returning to the city. Mrs. Eulo Austin Passes At Cross Hill City General Election Mayor and Aldermen Set for August 15 Notice is given that a general elec tion for the town of Clinton will be held on August 15 for the purpose of electing a mayor and six aider- men, one from each of the six city wards by a direct vote of the qual ified electors. C. C. Giles has been appointed by city council as supervisor of regis tration for the election and will have his office open at his place of bus iness for the purpose of registering voters from 9 a. m. to 5:30 p.m* on each day except Sunday until 5:30 p.m. August 4, 1950. Managers of election have also been named by council. Notice of the election and registra tion appears in today’s paper. JOE CUNNINGHAM WINS Joe Cunningham, of Clinton Route 1, was poultry winner in the recent county 4-H programs and will attend the district achievement round-up a: Clemson college July 31-August 1. County Vote Tuesday For Supervisor, Commissioner, Gome Warden 8 * ✓ PRECINCTS 1 Supervisor J5- 01 ■% a % tc CQ ; S a, H C i •- 1 u ; CQ K O Clyde S. Jones 2 3 ... ... I*' ! W. Lyles Stone 3 Game Ward | l ~ V Q £ ' b 1 1 « 1 c cd b * | O Bailey’s 60 4 18 46 48 16 Barksdale-Narnie « 85 38 51 64 27 Brewerton 60 38 , 38 60 14 84 Clinton City 468 136 330 270 159 442 Clinton Mill 96 68 108 47 58 97 Cross Hill 50 62 25 88 50 67 Cook’s Store 37 33 41 29 21 47 Daniel’s Store 31 30 7 54 20 41 Dials 5 34 15 34 32 8 Ekom 46 53 18 81 42 57 Grays 3 12 > 12 4 15 0 Gray Court 116 88 137 65 108 92 Hickory Tavern 1 59 82 57 84 73 68 Hopewell , 17 15 5 27 19 13 Joanna 75 148 195 28 29 193 Jones Store 42 34 42 33 28 47 Laurens City 598 470 539 516 472 583 Laurens Mill 101 151 220 33 173 79 Long Branch 25 18 13 30 32 11 Lanford 19 36 28 27 33 22 Lydia Mills 46 46 77 16 24 59 Merna 23 15 10 28 23 15 Mt. Olive 25 57 27 56 25 58 Mt. Pleasant 4 41 26 17 35 9 Mountville 35 35 32 37 30 40 Ora 33 12 19 26 24 21 Owings 122 30 93 54 91 66 Pleasant Mound 4 24 9 V8 19 8 Poplar Springs 8Q 97 40 136 5 172 Princeton 21 31 22 29 14 37 Renno ... 5 18 10 13 2 21 Shady Grove «3 33 11 14 7 19 Stewart’s Store 34 7 21 20 7 34 Shiloh 9 54 38 22 48 14 Tip Top 32 36 10 57 34 34 Trinity Ridge 38 48 48 39 27 60 Watts Mills .... 64 179 195 47 187 58 Waterloo .... 16 60 31 41 47 30 Wood ville 52 84 70 66 35 101 Youngs . 31 29 50 9 1 21 39 TOTALS 2591 2523 2725 2360 (2195 2894 Miss Maudine Yarborough is Sec- P recinc l*- Charles N. Plowden nad 86.538. Callison now is assistant at- : torney general. While a member of Congress in 1947-48, Dorn voted against the Eur opean Recovery Program because, he said, the Soviets cannot be stopped with money. It is military force that Mrs. Eula Hipp Austin, widow ol, they respect, he added He called Samuel D. Austin and well-known consistently for strong national de resident of Cross Hill died at her fenses and a 70-group air force, nome last Thursday night, following Callison, now in his 60\s. lives at several years of declining health. Lexington. This was his first state- She was a daughter of the late wide political contest He w’as four D. A. (Gus) H.pp and Belle Young times solicitor of the Uth judicial Hipp, both of Laurens county fami- circuit. He is a 1909 graduate ot lies and was 76 years old March 16. the University of South Carolina Mrs. Austin was a member of Cross Law School. A native of Greenwood Hill Baptist church and a faithful County, he attended county schools attendant as long as her health per- there and the Bailey School at Edge- rn *Hed. field He taught school for three Her husband died Oct. 20, 1947. y ears Surviving are three step-sons: Har- j old* and Ernest Roy Austin of Cross Hill and R. B. Austin, Sr.. Suffolk, JudgCS Selected Va.; three step-grandchildren: R B^pOf County Foif Jr. and Sammy Austin, of Suffolk, . ^ ^ .. Va.. and Elaine Austin of Cross Hill; I Count y Fa,r others re- two sisters Mrs. Lee Hunter of Clin- qu f sted U c0u , nt ? a * ent , ^ ton and Miss Lyde Hipp of Green- J ud * e:> tor the f ‘“ r tali - Every ville; four brothers: Ernest Hjpp of P*™” 1 ' vntt ® n t0 - guesting their Clinton, Clarence Hipp of Abbeville, se ™' lces J ud * e - accepted The men Roy Hipp of Woodruff and Douglas Judges all extension men are as fol- Hipp of Cocoa, Fla. ' lows: f,eld cro f\ H , R Woodle. Funeral services were held from f' j oriom ‘ s t. and Joe Jones district the graveside in Liberty Springs 1" , tU ‘'gent, dairy cattte,C. G. church cemetery Saturday afternoon, da *ry speciabst. b^f cat- conducted by her pastor, the Rev. T e aru r s ^ lr ) e ’ ^ DuRant, and Ware Madden. Le * 18 F Cat °* extension specialists, ^ and for poultry and rabbits, P. H. Gooding, extension poultry specialist. NEW SUBSCRIBERS HONOR ROLL The CHRONICLE has the largest cirQilation-in its history. This means that more people than ever'' before are reading their “favorite news paper.” We invite you as a subscriber if you are not already a member of our appreciated family of readers. Welcome and thanks to those cn our Honor Roll this week: , GUY PRATER, MRS D S. SESSIONS, C. H BROWN, Clinton. MARVIN PATTERSON, MRS ROSA COLE, R. G. JOHNSON, IKE JONES, Lydia Mill*. Mrs. William Weir has accepted a position with the local employment office. Dollar Days Here For Three Days, August 10-11-12 At a meeting of the board of dirt tors of the Merchants assoc iati |held Tuesday, it was voted to sta Dollar Days in Clinton for three da —Thursday. Friday and Saturd. August 10-11-12. ( Announcement was made that 1 advertising committee has provid posters to popularize this spec event and they are now available members of the association,^only a without cost, from James E. Wol secretary, at his ofTive 103 N. Brc street. Big crowds are expected to vi the city to take advantage of 1 1 hundreds of bargains to be offe: jby participating merchants.