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Page Four THE' CLINTON CHRONICLE - / Thursday, March 15, 1951 i QJlj? (Clintfln QUirontrlr Established IMf WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE P ery Tn ublis: KING COMPANY Subscnption Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.28 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. The Chronicle seeks tie cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a .defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. Tins paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. i MEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia sweat to foot the bills—are denied. This could be added also^—Presi dent Truman is not also the coun try’s best paid man (over-paid) but he is the nation's champion “va cationist at taxpayers’ expense while the world faces a crisis at home and abroad. CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 15. 1951 The Dollar Going Down Everything is going up except the value of a dollar. It’s lost two-thirds of its worth since 1990, and is still slipping. After our legislature pass es the proposed sales tax the dollar Sn this state will be worth three per cent less than its present value. This means that your dollars will buy less ano less in goods and service. A lOO-cent dollar of 1900 is today only a 31-cent dollar and the value is still slipping. Because of the declining value of the dollar, there is talk now of pro ducing a IVzc piece to replace or supplement the nickel which, based on its individual value, has almost passed from the picture. What Are the Facts The taxpayers of Clinton have been given no information , on the ( a ^ >out y° u ’ proposed natural gas line to serve! the city. They .should be fully, intel ligently informed by city council. or money order for her return from a visit to her native land. But nobody could change it for her. Even after the Travelers’ Aid Society had come to her rescue and put her up at a hotel for the night, Machinery Liie Cut To Half by Exposure Storage Building Will Reduce Farm Overhead Since farmers reduce by half the life of machinery left exposed to the weather through the winter months, according to a recent uni versity survey, they will find it in their interest financially to replace , old, inadequate and inefficient sheds with modern, well-planned struc- | tures. The survey showed the life of j equipment, housed and unhoused, as a great New York bank, not known ^Hows: Walking plows, 20 years or j for being short of change, one would cu ^ a tors 20 or eight; gang think, took a look at the bill and P^ ows > 20 or 10; mowers, 12 or begged off. And another passed the P^ anter * eight or four; bill up to the Federal Reserve'. ^ n , d "’ 12 . or «ve; wagon, 24 or 19; ^ ^ and disc harrow, 15 or eight. The lady is now back home with “No matter what the cost of bulld- her husband and family. Had she remained to talk it out with Fed-: eral Reserve officials she would; have learned more about the dis- j advantage of $1,000 bills in ladies, coin purses. When they show up, suspicion is aroused, for they are used largely by gamblers and black marketers. For our part we are not on speak ing terms with $1,000 bills. What County Home Board To Ask Funds For New Building The Laurens County Home board a new building from the cojinty has been asked to request funds for delegation, it was announced this week. Two committees appointed by the County Council of Social Agencies, the committee which investigated possibilities for establishing a home for the aged convalescent, and the committee which worked for the erection of a new building for the County Home, met last week and decided to make the request jointly: The Rev. J. E. Rouse, chairman of the convalescent home commit tee, said that hte joint request was decided upon because it was not likely that funds for the convales cent home could be secured in the near future. The Rev. Grange Cotheran, chair man of the County Home commit tee, said that the county supervisor, Bennie Blakely, had asked the del egation for funds for a new home before but that the sum asked was rejected as too high. County members of Mr. Rouse’s committee are R. L. Plaxico, Law rence Barksdale, Douglas Gray, Mrs. Marion Brown, Mrs. R. L, Gray, and Miss Betty Richards... Mrs. Ralph Wilson, the Rev. C. L. Letson, Mrs. John C. Bolt and Miss Susan Hall are on Mr. Coth ran’s group. Automobile Dealers Set Price Regulations —— Automobile dealers will be al lowed to pass along only the exact dollars and cents amounts of the recent price increase granted man ufacturers of new passenger auto biles, it was pointed out by OPS Director James D. Griffin, of the Columbia office. Increased wholesale prices can be added only in the case of cars pur chased by dealers after March 1, since the recent increase at the manufacturer’s level did not become effective until March 2. Therefore, dealers cannot add to the cost of cars purchased before March 2. The order states that dealers are permitted to pass along the exact amount of the increases allowed manufacturers. OPS extended ceiling price regu lation 1 of December 18, rolling back new passenger car prices to December 1 levels but with a provi sion permiting 3V4 per cent increase in manufacturers’ prices to partial ly offset higher production costs. Retail sales have been frozen at the manufacturers’ suggested price list in e_ect prior to January 26. CREDITORS’ NOTICE All persons having claims against the estate of Fannie Y. Blalock, de ceased, are hereby notified to file the same, duly verified, with the under signed, and those indebted to said estate will please make payment likewise. DR. GEO. R. BLALOCK, Administrator. March 9, 1961. 29-3c CALL 74 FOR YOUR PRINTING AND OFFICE SUPPLY NEEDS We do not know the cost of such j An Outrageous Raid President Truman is often referr ed to as one of the nation’s best a proposal but guess it would be i^ a t0 , as one of several hundred thousand dollars. I c ‘ ressec * men. Where is the money’ to come from 1 This can be added also—he Is one if final approval is given for thej°f t^ e best, if not the best paid man project? Is there a real need for such in the world. A statistician has : p line built into the city? figured it out that for a private | citizen to match the standard of i The picture above shows how one farmer houses his ma chinery in a modern structure. The life of machinery left ex posed to weather is reduced by half, experts report. ing, it is always cheaper than ma chinery,’’ an agricultural engineer reports. “No building on the farm will pay better dividends than the machinery shed.” Typical of the modern type ma- ^ chinery building being used on many farms is the one pictured above. It is located on the Vincent Now is no time to be piling more,,. . ^ . taxes upon the people, city, school, " !ri ^ no " enjoyed by the Presi- or county. Taxpayers are already , he i ** i, .w^aicu uu me vincem loaded down The Chronicle opposes! ^ ^P^rident h^s tatei Lilly fann near Rochest er, Minn, a bond issue for more city taxes for a y ear - ine ^resident nas taxe | i— ao a—. —j any project or undertakin*. And we his 3a , ^ ------ - a— a„. „ 000 is tax tree How many other "' h 'i ore confident we express the senti ment of our peaple. And we oppose seeking Washington hand-outs that have not the remotest connection with our defense program. A war is on in Korea. Men are fighting and dying. taxpayers have a take-home enve lope of $110,000 a year. Then look at these listed presidential services: Forty-two “facilities” for travel, vacationing and entertaining—^in cluding planes, 35 White House au tomobiles, the yacht Williamsburg, private Pullman car, and vacation rettreats in Key West, Fla., and Maryland. An estimated staff of 665 persons to run them at an annual cost of $1,491,540. A White House travel allowance of between $33,000 and $40,000, ex clusive of air travel which is charged to the air force. The yacht Williamsburg, “for which the crew costs alone are $190,000 annually” The President’s personal plane, the Independence, costing $1,133,- 000 to build and about $120,000 a year to man. The President’s private railroad car, costing between $250,000 and $350,000. A destroyer escort for the yacht Williamdburg. It 'is said it costs the navy $876,000 a year to operate a vide ample room for the farmer’s machinery. Jobs For Lome Ducks The Administration takes care of its "lame ducks.*’ When one of the New Deal-Fair Deal supporters is defeated by the voters, another good job is usually provided for the gen tleman. Dr. Frank Graham of North Carolina, rabid “Fair Deal” support er, who was defeated last year by ihe voters of his state, is the latest example His appointment has been announced by the Secretary of La bor to head his department's defense manpower program in a move aimed at seizing the initiative in setting up machinery to staff defense plants •with voluntary manpower. While the ex-senator is recognized as an able administrator, and hes held verious important posts — what measure of success he will have in his new as signment remains to be seen, or whether it is needed. The point is that those who belong j destroyer. to the "Fair Deal” when repudiated; Secret service guards and White vorable returns from citrus fruits at the polls by their own constitu- j House police costing $459,200 a and pasture lands. ervey, don’t have much to worry year. White House salary costs 1 about. Mr. Truman takes care of the | of $998,254 a year for a staff of 225. lame ducks. If there is not a lucra- j “|By comparison,” a Michigan live position open, new ones can oe congressman says, “President Roose- treated, and usually are. ! velt in 1946 had a staff Of 53 cost ing $256,431, and President Hoover’s City People With Money Inflate Farm-Land Market. The agriculture department re ports that city folks with money— and worries about possible further shrinkage in Its buying power—are helping to inflate the farm-land market. Many buyers are businessmen and investors who are seeking good farms as an investment hedge against inflation. As a result farm prices increased on a national aver age basis 3 per cent between July and November of last year. They now are 5 per cent above the rec ord set in March, 1920. The department said land values advanced in all states. The east north central states showed the largest average gain for any region —6 per cent—but the west north central, west south central and pacific regions were up 5 per cent. Average prices are higher than a year ago in all but three states. Florida showed the largest gain— 19 per cent—largely because of fa- Dressmaken Why the Suggestion? A recent statement was made that an agitation was on in Laurens to move the county home there from its present location. Throujgi the grape vine line, we arc informed that fol lowing the proposal from a “few” in Laurens that a suggestion sprang up also from a “few”, that an effort be made to locate it here instead of in Laurens. Both suggestions should be thrown in the waste basket. If-the county is to maintain a “county home” it ebould remain at its present ideal location with 350 acres of land ■where plenty of food tor the inmates and stock can be, and is being raised. The aged who reside there should be made conrfortable and given •wholesome food and good care, and it is our information that the super intendent is doing a good* job- with the funds provided. Let the county home stay where it is. There’s no plausible reason on earth why it should be moved be cause a little handful of people in either or both towns make such u proposal. staff totaled 37 at a salary bill of $127,200. Then there are vacation retreats at Key West and Shangri-La—the latter a hide-out 70 miles from Washington in nearby Maryland. And in addition to the regular White House fleet of ajb<Ait,25 cars, it is getting a “luxury fleet” of 10 new cars. These, the congressman said, are specially-built limousines with gold plated door-handles, vanities and perfume cases. What’s more, he added, even the White House secretaries, who “once walked to work . . . now arrive in White House cars." Such figures show that the pres ent White House occupant is a top- pay executive and enjoys services undreamed of by his predecessors. This ,is the same gentleman who has informed Congress there are glaring' inequalities in our present income tax laws. Mr. Truman highly qualifies as one of the “in equality” boys as the above fig ures show, and yet he has recom mended income tax increases which affect even married men with two children, making $60 a week. The maker of this staement gets An Interesting Story An interesting story came out of, $40,000 tax-free expenses for ^n- New York recently concerning a I tertainment and travel and anoth- 21,000 bill. A lady from Yugoslavia, er $50,000 a year for other tax- now of Michigan, disembarked in free “expenses.” While senators New York with her small daughter, and congressmen are pikers by com- •pariionT they also are drawing down tax-exempt consideration on part of their salaries. Why should they, or the President, have privileges the rest of us back home who toil and out of “small change,” the variety most of us are familiar with. All she bad left was the $1,000 bill her hus band had thought would be more widely acceptable than a bank draft These 12 girls captured top prizes in the national 4-H clothing achieve ment contest at the International Livestock Exposition. Each won a $300 scholarship for her skill. They are, left to right, Arlene Olson, 18, of Hartland, Minn.; Bonnie Needier, 18, Hartford City, Ind.; Joan Engle, 18, Abilene, Kan.; Evelyn Waugh, 17, White Plains, N.Y.; Mary Dick, 17, Yukon, Okie.; Betty# Been, 16, Jena, La.; Patricia Lynch, 17, Gaithersburg, Md.; Dolores Mom- bac, 16, Las Cruces, N.M.; Nancy Boyd, 16, Seedy, Tenn.; Dorthy ,1 Straus, 18, Johnson, Vt.; Wilma 1| Beale, 17, Pomeroy, Wash.; and Dorothy Heiderman, 17, Sheboygan Falls, Wis. COMMERCIAL PRINTING This completely equipped combi nation Newspaper-Commercial Print ing plant can serve yon better. Out goal Is to give our customers the Mud of service they want—to give Clinton a BETTER NEWSPAPER. 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