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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, May 10, 1951
Comment on Men, Things
TO PUBLISH P. C. 1952 ANNUAL
(Continued from page one)
ket. Not, of course, that there would
be any politics in this! Nay, nay;
all is as white and pure as the
“driven snow.”
So. what do you expect of the
school building if we don’t enforce
the constitution? Well, sooft, perhaps
after Governor Byrnes retires to the
peace and quiet of his Spartanburg
peaches, the up-and-doing legisla
tors of acquisitive zeal will sell all
the old school houses to the State;
and have the State assume all the
old bond issues. Then the schools
will be built in communities where
the boys vote right, or may be per
suaded to get right.
Do you think I find any pleasure
in this diatribe? Assuredly I do not;
1 mention all this with profound sad
ness: but we are running willy-nilly
as we please, impatient of restraints,
hampered by a constitution. We want
confident that we should do as we
think may be right, without being
to be a group of men sufficient unto
ourselves.
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Barbara Whitmire, Martha Wilson,
Patsy Windsor.
8: June Adair, Linda Adair, Jack
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Bobby Pearson, Thomas Davis,
Joan Ray.
BOB HUNT
JOHNNY THURMAN
Bob Hunt and Johnny Thurman were named as editor and busineas
manager of the 1952 PaC-SaC, Presbyterian college yearbook, in Tues
day’s voting. They succeed Harry Dent and Laddie Brearley, respectively.
Hunt defeated Delmare Stuart and Thurman won over Tommy Fesper-
man.
Big Issues
Loom for 1952
S. C. Assembly
Columbia, May 8.—Something of
an agenda for the 1952 session of:
the General Assembly is already ini
sight.
Among the issues will be: <
1. Adjustments which certainly
will have to be made in the sales
tax law. Even if these start out
a s necessary technical amend
ments. in the light of what will
have been by then six months of
experience with the law, they will
be important. They will be im
portant because they will pone up,
the sales tax question again.
Governor James F. Byrnes did not
Governor ames F. Byrnes did not |
press his proposal of this year
that a convention be authorized.
Mr. Byrnes seemed to have decid
ed that it would be best this year
to concentrate on the education-
sales tax plan. But it is expected
I he will work for it next year.
3. Drastic adjustments which
would have to be made in the event
the courts end segregation in the
state's public school system. That
would bear on the constitution,
since constitutional changes would
have to be made. And, depending
upon any steps the state could take,
statutes would also have to be
manded and new ones enacted.
4. Industrial commission. In ap
pointing a new member of the In
dustrial Commission. Gov. Byrnes
looked ahead and said there should)
be a three-man commission, instead
of the present body of five mem
bers, and that the commissioners
should sit as something of a court,
with examiners to hold the hearings
which commissioners themselves
now hold. This commission admin-!
isters the workman's compensation,
law and for years controversies
have resolved about the board. The
new member appointed is Senator
Henry Walker of Jasper who vtill
resign from the Senate and succeed
Commissioner John H. Dukes You
may see a movement in the next
Their Interest Is 'Power'
The South Carolina state senate
has not hesitated to place a 3 per
cent sales tax on the bread that a
man eats, on the coal that he burns
to keep warm, on the clothes that
he puts on his back.
But it has not only hesitated, it
has refused to place the 3 per cent
sales tax on the electricity that a
man uses to light his house and
to run his refrigerator and elec
tric fans.
The News and Courier opposes
the sales tax in its entirety. For
that reason, we do not advocate
that the tax be applied to elec
tricity—we’d like to see electricity,
bread, coal, clothes and everything
else exmepted from the levy.
But teh question as to why the
senate would tax bread, coal and
overalls, but not electricity, is an
interesting one. The Associated
•Press answer the question this
way:
“The Senate wants to exempt
electricity because two of its mem-
brs, Jefferies of Colleton and Brown
of Barnwell, are interested keenly
in public power.”
Senator Jefferies is the general
manager and counsel of Santee-
Cooper. Senator Brown is the gen
eral counsel of Clark’s Hill. Both
thus are on the payroll of public
power concerns.
If the Associated Press answer
is the correct one—and we believe
it is—the implication is that Sena
tors Brown and Jefferies control
the senate. The implication also is
that Senators Brown and Jefferies
put their “keen interest” in pub
lic power ahead of their interest in
the state’s tax program. '
• We conclude that if Senators
Brown and Jefferies had happened
to be bakers, instead of public
power men, the senate would have
exempted bread from the sales tax.
—The News and Courier.
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session to change the set-up of the
commission and rebuild it along the
lines the governor has suggested.
5. The liquor tax question. This
issue is certain to come up again
next year. Efforts to reduce the
taxation on liquor failed at thisj
year’s session. Some members of
the assembly believe that out of
this whole controversy will even
tually come a state stores plan for
South Carolina. But this is still
very much in the speculative.stage.
However well the sales tax plan
works, it can be expected that
there are bound to develop fights
over it in future sessions of the
legislature. There will for some
years be a group which will pro
pose outright repeal of it. There
ously for changes. They will want,
for one thing, to exempt food and
medicines. >1
And so, there will be no lack of
issues when the assembly meets
next year.
Thre is a possibility of a spec-1
ial session even before then. Such
a session might well be called
should the courts, before next Janu
ary, end segregation in the schools.
Honor Roll For
High School
Fifth 6-Week Period
12-A: Nelly Bigham, Jo Ann
Cole. Sue Cooper, Velma Cox, Ruby J
Jo Dai^ John Davis, Mae Edens.
Catherine Eichelberger, Sara Hol-j
lingsworth, Joan Lehman, Sybil
McCoy, Texi Mears, Helen Phillips,
Sally Pitts. Peggy Sease, Linda
Smith, Richard Willingham, Fran
ces Winn.
11. Tot Anderson, Joan Barron,
Thomas Boyce, Constance Burts,
Dorothy Cobb, Hoyt Hanvey, Myr-
tice Rhodes, Joan Vaughan, Doris
Wehunt, Frank Young.
10: Kenneth Baker. William
Coats, Dorothy Cobb, Mary Cope
land, Mary Sue Darr, Paul Foshee
Ellen Fraser, Carroll Hart, Joan
Johnson, Barbara Livingston. Cor
rinne Maye. Jerry O’Shields, Claud
ette Parrish. Doris Phillips, Mauda
lene Young.
9: Helen Anderson. Mike Cassa
nova. Kathleen Dees, Frank Dietz
Robert Finley, Ada Ann Furr, Em
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