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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, August 3,1930
Clinton Little Leaguers Make
Great Showing In Tournament
The Clinton Little Leaguers have unflefeated. Charleston was slated to
made a great showing since entering ^ T lay , R ° c u k Rll j and T Conway ^ n ] e f l
h North Charleston. Losers of the lat-
the state tournament opening Mon- ter tw0 w jii 5 e eliminated.
day in Florence. The winner of the Clinton-Spar-
Clinton’s first opponent was Rock tanburg game will meet the winner
hi’ wh - h they defeated 12-0. In in the other elimination games.
• uii ;c ond game they defeated Con-j The winner in the final state
tV 2 tu 0 ° games will go to the tournament at
Yesterday (Wednesday) the un- Williamsport, Penn, to participate in
dc tea ted Little Leaguers were sche- a tournament series to name the
duled to meet Spartanburg, also stiil national champion.
BRIEFS.. ABOUT
PEOPLE YOU KKOW
Here in America great concerns
spend fabulous sums. I think a lot
of money is wasted, but the prevail
ing idea seems to be based on the
Scripture. You will recall: “There is,
that scattereth yet increaseth; andi
there is that withholdeth more than!
is meet, which tendeth to poverty."!
I quote from a magazine of bus-i Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Hollis, Sr., are
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“Last week the Bureau of Adver
tising finished its research on how
COMMENTS ON
MEN AND THINGS
By Spectator
bring sharply to view the great ben
efits that have been achieved at an
increasingly rapid rate. And this
gives reason to the great and confi
dent expectation that, under our
1 present system, the Nation will reap
V ier our own initiative observe j continually growing benefits in the
ou: .nodical progress: form of advances in medical care
ir great progress in the health and treatment; and that the still
of -.no Naton is the result of many; unsolved problems of cancer and
- -better education and com- heart diseases, for example, that,
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visiting their daughter, Mrs. A. G.
Sublett and Mr. Sublett in Louis-
___ ville, Ky. Friends of Mrs. Sublett
much companies spent on advertising j ^ interested to know she is
in 1949. It is not surprising Generali t . onva ^ es ^ n 8f a t the Kentucky Bap-
Motors headed the Big Five spend- hospital in Louisville, wnere she
er s with a total of $38,620,000. Most has been 111 f °r several weeks,
of it went to the newspapers ($24,- ^ r - and Claude F. Rodgers
869,000) while national and farm and family of Spartanburg were
magazines received $12,671,000 and § ues f s Sunday of their aunt, Mrs. R.
radio (TV not included) got $1,080,- Blakely.
000. t | Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Arrington, Jr.,
Prolific GM out-raced Proctor & and daughter, Nancy, of Greenville,
Gamble which six years ago was have been visiting their grandmo-
No. 1. Nonetheless P & G spent $17,-, ther, Mrs. R. F. Blakely. Mrs. Blake-
315,000 on radio advertising alone |ly also had as her guests last week,
(soap operas like Ma Perkins’ and i Mrs. W. B. Blakely, Mrs. J. Calvin
Beulah’). Newspaper and magazine Smith and daughters, Mrs. Roger
ads for the company's Ivory soap,; Blakely and son of Ora.
Crisco, etc. amounted' to $13,283,000) Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Knox have re-
to push the grand total to $30,598,-; turned from Jacksonville, Fla.,
ghter, Christy, returned last week
from Biloxi, Miss., where they ( were
guests of their daughter and sister,!
Mrs. W. L. Beck.
Mrs. H. M. Geer is visiting her;
daughter, Mrs. G. A. Hines in Ruth- I
erfordton, N. C. Miss Maude Geer is 1
vacationing at Curie Beach, N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Singley and
daughters, Maurice and Shirley,
spent Sunday in Greenwood witn
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Mills.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Knox have re-,
turned from Jacksonville, Fla., where
they visited the former’s sister and i
brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. R. H.j
Pierce. -
Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Dow and daugh-
....FLASH....
The Clinton Little Leaguers
lost to Spartanburg 2 to 1 yester
day. Other games are scheduled 1%*
for* Thursday.
SIX-INCH SERMON
By Rev. Robert H. Harper
ELIJAH, A COURAGEOUS
PROPHET
Lesson for August 6: I Kings 18:
30-39.
i Memory Selection: I Kings 18:21.
•i, higher standards o( san- unfortunately, take a heavier toll 000. No. 3 last year was soap-maker i where they visited the former’s sis
:latnm and public health. But to a than was exacted a half century ago, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet with $19,-1 ter and brother-in-law, Mr. and
large extent this victory over dis- wll soon yield to the continuing re- 896,000 advertising expenditures for j Mrs. R. H. Pierce,
ease and death is due to the work search and experimentation that is Palmolive soap. Halo shampoo, etc.; Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Dow and
of ■ the Nation's medical profession being carried on in those fields.’’ ! Next was General Foods with $19,-1 daughter, Dana have returned to
including the drug, chemical and \Ve have seen tne enort of enthu-
pharmaceuticu’. industry, that - has blasts, theorists, playboys and So-
continued to push forward the fron- ! c i a ij s t s to Socialize the electric pow-
tiers of medir.il science. er business, but we let them have
Great strides forward in medical their will. , We have given them a
care and health have become so com- free hand, but we are becoming
monplace in recent years as often aroused because of the plan to soc-
to pass by almost -unnoticed. Vir- ialize medicine. Our physicians must
Tually daily there is announced a take part in every fight against so-
ncA medical discovery—some great- ciaism if they would save the Pro-
]y mpro\ cd method of treatment— fession of Medicine. Until we get
-ome new drug—that cures or al-; rid of all the boot-licks of the Wash-
leviates a d.sease
Nation has come
these advances that, unfortunately, erica from the planners.
the people tend to lose sight of the If we can’t save the electric util-
rapid ga.n, that are being accom- ities from Socialism why try to save
plished by doctors and medical sci- the physicians? In both cases we are
entists working* under our system of saving ourselves, by defeating Soc-
freedom and initiative. ialism.
But a moment's reflection will I Advertising is the word of the day.
862,000 while much-troubled Lever their home in Knoxville, Tenn, af-
Brothers took fifth place with $18,- : ter visiting Mrs. Dow’s father, H.
849,000 (newspaper ads took $8,048,-
000, national magazines were allot
ted $3,660,000 and radio $7,141,000)
ter Dana^ have returned to their, Eujah the Tisllbil , , h
, . « K ?, . 1 f',? enn, C n er n V1!i ' hm s o' Gil ood. o' race and parentage
.ting MrSjDow-s father. H. D. Ran- not known _ t0 con[ronl A ^ab. the
'o Y Furr and'll anehter A 1 Ann * t * n “ °' ' srae '. i' 1 his wickedness.
ha?a r„. F ,™H . d d fn 1 ; , A u’ Ahab had marri «l the notorious Jez-
haie returned from Atlantic City, N. ebe , daughler , sidon.'s king. She
J Z k, lb ' y , at, , ended a convention I was a tron Baal knd through
of the Pilot Life Insurance company. | hel , influence , he worship ol Jeh ‘_
CA D*ir | di vah abll0S t ceased in Israel.
Billion In rlane After three years of drought, sent
! by Jehovah, a crisis came. Elijah
led Ahab, the priests of Baal, and
Orders Placed By AF
Washington, July 29—The
Air |
a host of people to the top of Carmel
Force flashed 200 manufacturer^ a, for a test between Baal and Jehov .
J 0day . t0 a ^ ead a h- It was agreed that he who an
swered by fire would be declared
God. The priests of Baal called upon
him from morning untill noon, when
Elijah macked them and then into
the afternoon but no answer came.
Then Elijah repaired the broken al-
production o( more than $4,000,000,-
000 worth of airplanes and paits.
The industry was directed to get
busy with the job and negotiate con
tracts later.
Letters of intent, authorizing the
companies to proceed while Congress 1 tar of Godi laid the wood and the bul
D. Rantin and Mrs. Rantin.
O. F. Furr and daughter, Ada Ann,
have returned from Atlantic City, N.
Right now it looks as if 1950 totals [J., where they attended a convention | is completing* action on appropria-j X!!
will be even higher. For the firsl! of the Pilot Life Insurance Com-1 tions aM contracts are being work- ‘ 0 , C L th n e f T h a "t h the (:u C „ a1 ^ S?
h ove a r d T«f: g w^,v a ^,azi„ P :( ^ P \T a „ „ a manufacturers. ^reVthelXk and the ite a°o“a
cent over 1949 (weekly magazines Lt. Thomas A. Howell and son,I An air force spokesman said the 1 ^ k d th . • th t h
were down 5 per cent but TV was up;Tommy of Sumter spent Sunday with orders cover the entire Air Force * d ,, th .^ onl „ fel . on ‘ thpir far{1 „
224 per cent. If the trend continues,' Mrs. Howell’s mother, Mrs. H. D. procurements program for the fiscal * d der ) arpd rih nva h in bp Cod
advertising this year will easily go; Rantin and .Mr. Rantin. They were year that began July 1. i xhe test on ‘ Car .mel and aU the
or ailment The ington bureaucracy we shall be con-; over the 1949 record high of $6.2 accompanied by George Alec Hen-j This includes orders contemplated minist Elijah may well serve
so accustomed to stantly at war at home to save Am- billion.” ry who had been spending several | in the regular defense appropriation i a( . a t pmnpranrJ ipccnn Th* nmnT.Pt
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days Ul Sumter with Tommy. Gene for the current fiscal year^and ad-, c . ame , he when th / n ,Yon '
Howell, who had been visiting his. dmonal billions that will be provided; was s “ dden J, mi it d e„ ou „ ct . d
grandparents returned home with;*10.000.000 defense appropriation , hc , e ( hclr sinI u ed
them Sunday. , as !l ed rece " tl >’. b) ' Pres,d '" t J', 1 ™ 3 ?-j them to return to Jehovah. lice
New York, July 30—Bernard Ba-I Mr- and Mrs. Frank Mims of The companies were asked to ad- Elijah we must realize and acknow .
ruch said today the businessman who ^ reenv *^ e were week-end guests of v ’i se the Air Force how many addi- j ed g e A be man v evils of our time
raises prices and the hoarder both Mr. and Mrs. Harry McSween. ! tional employes will be needed,
are profiteers and equal enemies of' Browning Dicus left Saturday by! Asked what the i purpose of this
Baruch Calls Hoarder,
Price Raiser Profiteer
the nation. plane for San Diego, California and step is, an air force spokesman said
Speaking at the 175th anniversary *‘11 be accompanied home by Mrs. jit is to give the factories "something
observance of formation of the ar- Billy Dicus and daughter, Martha they can start getting employees
my chaplains corps, Baruch said: ! Browning, making the return trip by with.
"It is the height of immorality to car - Friends of Lt. Billy Dicus of ~
call young men to the colors—young /he .Marine Corps will be interested Poliomyelitis
men who may never come back or, 10 know he has been alerted for ov " /*#»*/»* p AO/ .L 17C
if they do, return mained and shat-j erseas duty. jV*QS9S R9QCII I
B tered—to take them from their! Don and Ricky Rhame are spend-
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BofiOffice Opens 2:45
Saturday 12:45
Shows Run
Continuous
U. S. CIVIL SERVICE
JOB OPENINGS IN FIVE STATES
The U. S. civil service anticipates
a need for stenographers and typists.
The regional director of the fifth
civil service region, Atlanta, an
nounces an examination for stenog
raphers and typists.
To qualify, applicants must pass a
H homes and careers, and leave others in « t h « week at Garden City Beach! The number of poliomyelitis cases written test, which consists of a gen-
1 with their uncle and aunt, Mr. and reported in South Carolina this year eral clerical test, a test in typing and,
Mrs. James Murrah of Batesburg. reached 175 yesterday. Five new for stenographers only, a test in tak-
Miss Emily Dillard of Rogersville, ones were diagnosed during the ing and transcribing dictation,
y friends and Tenn., Mrs. John W. Forsyth and week-end. 1 Veterans who qualify in this ex-
ers cards, gifts children. Margaret and Emily Ann " ^ amination will be given preference
showh of Fort Worth, Texas will arrive this KINDERGARTEN TO OPEN j as provided for in the veterans pref-
5 to profit and profiteer.
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177/r Jtoar<ng Story of t/u (fun t/iat ’Won t/ir ‘U'ettf
CARD OF THANKS
I wish to thank
neighbors for the flo
and other acts df kindness
me during my illness and stay in the week for a visit with their parents,
hospital. Also the nurses and doctors Mr- 3"d Mrs. J.. B. Dillard,
for their kind attention. May God
bless each of you.
—FRED
SHELTON
Kindergarten of First Presbyterian erence act of 1944.
church will open Tuesday, Sept. 5. For information or forms to file,
Mrs. Agnes Brodie has returned There are still a few vacanc.es and see Carlton F. Winn, at the local post
to her home in Florence after a visiCthose interested art. asked to call!office, or apply at any first or sec-
with.her daughter, Mrs. W. G. King, ’ Mrs. H. G. Prince or Mrs. Jasper j and class post office located in the
Jr. Mrs Brodie, Mrs. King and dau- Rowland. states listed.
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