The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, September 21, 1950, Image 12
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, September 21, 1950 4
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THAT WORD SACRIFICE SHOULD
BE EXPLAINED
Mr. Truman, your speech re
sounds with noble sentunents and
patnotical references. Sacrifice is a
noble word upon which to dwell but
cne that is extremely unpleasant to
experience. Somehow we feel there
should be a clarion call to the peo
ple, when our military reputation
hns been suffering so greatly in the
eyes of the rest of the world and in
our own eyes. But if your speech
is such a charter of encouragement
and inspiration, the poor unknowing
citizens, including about all of us,
just don’t understand. We know that
there are ^reat military a*d diplo
matic secrets that must be kept sec
rets for our own good, that is if the
cfficials entrusted with these secrets
are competent enough to be trusted.
pension bill. Not one of the boon
doggles are you willing to sacrifice.
You haven’t volunteered to pay
those high taxes on. the huge expense
fund you draw yourself.
systems and two on secondary roads.
A total of 3,707 vehicles were check
ed.
The study showed that the aver
age speed of commercial buses was
55.6 m.p.h. with 27.6 going over 60
’m.p.h. and 55.2 per cent over 55 m.p.
h. Foreign passenger cars averaged
52.2 m.p.h., compared to 46.7 m.p.
h. for local passenger cars. The av
erage speed for all vehicles, includ
You say wages must not be raised
but you talk out of the corner of 1 i n g passenger cars, trucks and buses,
your mouth. You qualify by saying W as 47.2 m.p.h.
they must not be raised except to| School buses had the lowest speed
meet the cost of living. Tell us, Bro- . of gg 2 m w ith none going over
ther Truman, did you ever hear of
w’ages being raised for any other rea
son. Is there any element of sacri-
55 m.p.h.
The study showed, that the aver-
fice if prices go on up to make higher I age s f >ee ^ for ah vehicles on inter-
v&ages and wages go on up to make: state road s w-as 49.1 m.p.h., on pn-
higher prices. Hasn’t your constant mar y roads 46 - 8 and on secondary
prattle about keeping prices down,
made them go up day after day?
Mr. Truman, we do not do«bt we
face a serious situation. But you don’t
Truman, most of us believe in tell us what the program is and what
we should do. We know our country
can’t stand the huge-spending with
no end in view. The Russians have
already bragged that they would
scheme to spend us to chaos. It’s
preparedness for war, with a suffi
cient defense power to meet emer
gencies. Your Congress will not be
.-tingy when that is the issue. What
is hard for us to understand is that (
vou talk so much about the billions : thought that's in many citizens’
‘you are going to have to spend, so minds that if you would forget your
many billions, you just have say : pretty politics for just a while, clean
some b:g f.gure and then lots more out all the incompetent political
that ran be thought of later. You 1 cronies you have put in vitally im-1
don’t say what we are spending this j portant jobs and try to build up
for. Seems like the bill of goods 1 a national leadership of strength to
ought to come first so we can see i! help you, they might help you to tell
we can raise the money. Money bor- us the plan and purpose of the ter-
rowed too soon and spent too fast rific sacrifice you are calling for.—
makes waste. So we really wonder if The Easley Progress,
its a military program or another ^
‘Pending program you have in mind. Mcifiy HiahwOV Speed
And Mr. Truman, you say we must I 7 a 3 I 1 J
ah racrifice to raise these extra bil- FoCtS Are LGQ17160
lions ‘or you to spend, but you say
nothing, absolutely nothing, about; Columbia, Sept. 20—Commercial
catting down on all the socialist ex- i3 Uses are the fastest traveling ve-
penments you have underway and Nicies on South Carolina highways
v.nicn have no connection with de- and out-of-state passenger cars trav-
\ on say nothing about stop- e j f as t er than local cars.
roads 39.2.
A comparison of this study with
checks made before the speed lim
its were replaced by the prima facie
speed limit law indicated that the
average speed had declined slightly.
Instructions On How
To Invite A Depression
Charles Samuel Bayer, Jr., Penn
sylvania state manager for Brown-
Forman Distillers Corp., passes along
this one which he clipped from a
recent service publication:
How to Invite a Depression
A man lived by the side of the road
and sold hot dogs.
He was hard of hearing, so he had
no radio.
He had trouble with his eyes, so he
read no newspapers. I
But he sold good hot dogs.
He put us signs on the highway tell
ing how good they were.
He stood by the side of the road and
cried: “Buy a hot dog. Mister.”
And people bought.
He increased his meat and bun or
ders.
He bought a bigger stove to take care
of his trade.
He got his son home from college to
help him.
But then something happened . . .
His son said, “Father, haven’t you
been listening to the radio?
There’s a depression on.
The European situation Is terrible.
The Domestic situation is worse.”
Whereupon the father thought, “Well
my son’s been to college, •
He reads the papers and he listens
to the radio, and he ought to
know.”
So the father cut down on his meat
and bun orders.
Took down his advertising signs,
And no longer bother to stand out
on the highway to sell hot dogs.
And his hot dog sales fell almost ov
ernight.
“You’y right, son,” the father said
to the boy,
“We certainly are in the middle of
a great depression.”
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AN ORDINANCE
An Ordinance to levy annual taxes
upen the taxable property within
the Town of Clinton. SoUth Carolina,
for the year 1950. for the purpose of
meeting < urrent fiscal expenses atul
to provide lor the payment of bond'
and interest on outstandinc bonds of
the Town of C linton and to pro\ide
sinking funds lor the retirement'
thereof.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN
COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF
CLINTON. SOUTH CAROLINA. IN
COUNCIL ASSEMBLED:
Section 1 That a tax levy of fif
teen (15) mills on every dollars!
worth of property, real and per-4
sonal, not exempt by law from taxa
tion, within the corporate limits of
the Town of Clinton, be and the same
hereby levied for* current expenses
and to defray public expenses of the
Town of Clinton for the current fis
cal year beginning on January 1st,
1950. and ending on December 31st,
1950, and to meet current indebted
ness contracted by the said Town for
general corporate purposes.
Sect.on 2 That over and above
and ,n addition to the levy of fifteen
(15) mills as hereinabove provided!
in Section I of this ordinance, a levy
of fh.rty-eight (3H) mills be and is,
hereby marie on every dollars worth
oi property, real and personal, not'
exempt by law tiom taxation, sit-!
note and within the corporate limits!
ci the Town of Clinton, and the same 1
is hereby levied for the purpose of
raising taxes to pay the interest ac
cruing on outstanding bonds of the
Town of Clinton and to create a
sinking funds to be used in the re- j
tnernent and payment of said bonds;
a? they mature; the excess, if any,]
to be used by the Town Council for]
general corporate purposes.
Section 3. That the Clerk and!
Treasurer of the said Town of Clin-j
ton snail enter said levies and assess
ment' up the books of said Town
of Chnton and receive said taxes.
That the said taxes herein levied
shall oe paid to the said Clerk and
Treasurer in lawful money of the
United States of America at the of
fice of the said Clerk and Treasurer
on or betore the thirty-first day of
December, 1950.
Section 4. That on all taxes and
assessments, or any portion thereof,
charged against any property or par
ty on the books of the said Town)
of Clinton for the current fiscal year
and due to the said Town of Clinton
that shall not have been paid on or
before the thirty-first day of De
cember, 1950, the Clerk and Treas-'
urer of the said Town shall proceed
to add a penalty of ten (10%) per
centum on the Town Duplicate £nd
the said Clerk and Treasurer shall
proceed to collect the same; and if
the taxes, penalties and assessments
are not paid on or before the first
day of March, 1951, next thereafter,
the Clerk of the said Town shall
issue his tax executions directed to
the Chief of Police of the said Town
of Clinton against the property of tha
defaulting taxpayers according to
law and it shall be the duty of the
Chief of Police of said Town to en
force the payment of the same in the
manner prescribed by law.
Section 5. That all Ordinances
and parts of Ordinances inconsistent
w r ith the provisions of this Ordinance
be and the same are hereby repealed.
DONE AND RATIFIED by the
Town Council of the Town of Clin
ton, South Carolina, in regular Coun
cil assembled and the Corporate Seal
of the Town affixed this the 4th day
of September, A.D. 1950.
JOE P. TERRY, Mayor.
Attested by W. B. OWENS,
Clerk and Treasurer..
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study conducted during March by the
traffic and safety division of the state,
highway department. Twenty sta-,
tions were chosen on level, rural 1
areas and the speeds were obtained!
through use of an eleftromatic radar'
speed meter. Speeds were recorded
only for vehicles moving fneely and j
without being affected by other traf-j
lie.
Five of the stations were on inter
state highways, 13 on state primary
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