The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, March 15, 1951, Image 11
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Thursday, March 15, 1951
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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REQUESTS FOR BIDS
The Laurens County Board of
Commissioners requests bids upon
the following:
One 1,000 gallon Distributor with
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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-
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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 ^
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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.
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Blue Hose Track
Schedule Given
For Coming Season
Presbyterian college trackmen will
keep the cinders flying this spring,
according to the schedule announced
by Athletic Director Walter A. John
son.
The Blue Stockings, coached by
Lonnie S. 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.
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