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■ Thursday, March 15, 1951 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Threa REQUESTS FOR BIDS The Laurens County Board of Commissioners requests bids upon the following: One 1,000 gallon Distributor with l' Diaper Service CLEAN t WHITE STERILE DIAPERS Delivered in Clinton antf Joanna on Mondays and Thursdays of Each Week Baby Dy-Dee Service Phone 605 5 Harts Court LAURENS, S. C. rear mounted engine and 2-inch in sulation, 24-foot turn up folding spray bar, electric starter on rear mounted engine with individual gen erator and battery with low pressure atomizing burners. One 3 to 5 ton tandem roller with ballast type rolls, hydraulic steer ing, electric starter, sprinkler system, gasoline engine, with towing attach ment. One 2-way axle driven sweeper on pneumatic tires with two speed transmission, broom to sweep right or left. Six tail and spreader gates. Bids shall be sealed and deposited with the Laurens County Supervisor on or before the 2nd day of April, 1951. Laurens County Board of Commissioners. By: Bennie B. Blakely, Supervisor. 2c-b 1 MorcH QllOtO For As Washington Sees It... THE NATIONAL SCENE U. S. Marine Corps Largest In Years The March Marine recruiting quota for the state is the largest since World War II, Catain Dean N. Mc Dowell, officer in charge Marine re- Special to The Chronicle. Washington, Mar. '12.—The &2nd Congress has used up three months of the people’s time and money and accomplished little, except to start cruitin * announced recently, several more probes and inquiries, “Our quota for this month is great- which likely will amount to little, or ly increased and let me emphasize about as little as most congressional that it is a minimum and not a max- inquiries Thus far, there have been many imum quota,” tha Captain stated He stressed, however, that the Ma- I MIDWAY Drive-In Theatre committee hearings, but no important rlI \ es wer ® n . ot ° wenng ^eir stand- legislation of any nature. Most time i ^rds to obtain this new high quota, has been spent in “the great debate” He further beHeves that there are over foreign policy in the senate, and the house has maneuvered itself into enough local young men and women interested in the Marine corps to qualify for enlistment. i Monday from 9:00 A. M. to 12:00 T-Sgt. E. E. Thompson, USMC,! A. M. to interview all interested will ibe at the local post o....ce every I young men and women. a position wherein it cannot move on thls . qu °* a ob f ai uabJe^ any legislation without the consent The T 1310 th ‘ n 2 that might handi- of about eight men on the powerful ^ ap u * I! 1 ma ^ lng our <l uota is the rules committee. ! false toehef held b y man y that Ma - . „ . _ _ „ , m 1 nne corps standards are so high that As Se nator Tom ConnaUy of Tex- ^ avera doesn . t stand a as remarked the Kefauver commi - hance of tti inc tain Mc _ tee is still “out hunting crapshoot-’ Dowell said <. whereaSi actually , he ers”; the Monroney committee has does not have t0 ^ NEWEST AND FINEST CLINTON — JOANNA I FRIDAY-SATURDAY MARCH 16-17 MISS TATLOCK’S MILUONS With Wanda Hendrix and John Lund Also:—“OREGON TRAIL” Chapter No. 4 MONDAY-TUESDAY MARCH 19-20 TEA FOR TWO With Doris Day and Gordon McCrae WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY MARCH 21*22 GOING TO TOWN With Lunt and Abner Coming— GRAND CANYON TRAIL • ADMISSION 40c Children under 12 admitted FREE First Show Starts at Dusk—Second Show at 10 P.M. tops t <) r quality tops for quality tops for quality >> » * PrptA-CoLa Company, Long Idand City, N. 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C. a juicy scandal in the making over the Butler election In Maryland,; which brought about the defeat of the veteran Millard Tydings; another committee promises more glamour in a renewal of the Hollywood investi gation; the house un-American ac tivities committee ostentatiously has brought a truck load of records of the old Pacific Institute, which have been stored for years on a New England farm and which have been gone over more than once by the FBI, has them under lock and key and promises more “revelations" a la Senator Mc Carthy. The senate sub-committee, headed by Senator Lyndon Johnson of Tex as, is poking into everything from' air force recruitment to training at I military bases. Unhand synthetic rub ber shortages, powerdered eggs, the army transportation system and Alaska and its fortifications Then Senator John Bricker of Ohio has called for an investigation of the ' walk-out of the labor members of the wage stabilization board; Sen- 1 a tor Fulbright of Arkansas had things pretty much his own way in a probe of the Reconstruction Fi nance corporation in charging that , some employees of executive depart- < ment had used undue political in- ; flue nee m getting loans for folks back home That is, until the executive de partment came up with the fact that RFC flies show between 700 and 000 letters from congressmen and sen ators themselves, including Senator Fulbright and Douglas, members of the investigating committee, doing the same thing—using their influence whether undue or political or what, in obtaining loans from their con- ititutents back home. Now, there are tome who want the Fulbright committee to drop the RFC probe like a hot-potato Anyway, the President has asked (or a reorganiza tion of the corporation, continuing it as a separate agency and setting up a loan policy board of five mem bers, much like a bank directorate, all with a single administrator. In the meantime over in the house, in one day’s session, the members adopted resolutions providing for $100,000 (for a committee to study problems of ana 11 business; $210,000 for use of the committee on expendi- The senate finally passed the house bill to establish a five-man board to renegotiate certain classes of defense contracts to squeeze out any exces sive profits. It now goes to a confer ence committee, for the senate elim inated some exemptions from the bill which the house had passed, added some other permsisive exemptions and liberalized the mandatory list of agricultural commodities, mineral products, etc., to include contracts tures in the executive department, $75,000 for the select committee probing the use of chemicals in food; $60,000 for the select commit tee probing alleged abuses of the GI education and training program and $50,000 for investigations by the committee on interior and insular af fairs ... a total of, almost a half mil lion dollars for more probes. During the week, the President signed the first public law of the 82nd congress. It provided an exten sion of two years after June 30 of the privilege of servicemen overseas to send gifts valued at not more than $50 to the U. S. without import tax. with transportation and public utility service contracts. a superman to MORE PEOPLE ARE READING THE CHRONICLE THAN EVER BEFORE! 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MdMillian, will meet four opponents in dual meets and enter relays competition before closing the season with the climactic state track meet. They are scheduled to play host to the South Carolina Intercollegiate Track and Field meet for the 24th consecutive year, May 11-12. Outdoor action will open on March 31 when select members of the PC track team participate in the annual Florida Relays at Gainesville. Then the Blue Stockings meet four colleges in dual meets: April 7—Fur man at Greenville; April 14—Clem- son at Clemson; April 21—Miami at Miami; and May 5—Wofford at Spar tanburg. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE "The Paper Everybody Read*” FREE! Hearing Aid Given Away A special drawing wilt be held of the next Hearing Clinic March 19-20 Register Now! A wonderful new CLEARTONE Hearing Akf win be given away FRfefcl to a Hard-of-Hearing person on the first Clinic day, March 19. A hearing specialist from American Sound Products. 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