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* * tt u v Page Six THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday December 20, 1951 Young Predicts 'Ike' Boom To Sag, Taft To Win Magazine Reports Gen eral Turned Down Dem ocratic Offer. •Washington, Dec. 17.—Sen. Mil- ton R. Young predicted today that the presidential boom for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will ask and Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio will win the 1952 Republican nomina tion. " The North Dakota. Republican said he expects the Eisenhower boom to lose ground because of the "possible failure” of the European defense program. Meanwhile, the magazine U. S. News and World Report said Eisen hower has turned down Democratic offers to be their presidential can didate and will gamble on his chances of winning the Republican nomination. The weekly news magazine said it based its statement; on a “can vass of various persons who have a first-hand knowledge of the sub ject.” Young emphasized that he holds the State Department, not Eisen hower, “responsible” for the pos sible breakdown of the European rearmament program. Recently returned from a Euro pean tour, Young was sharply criti cal of some of this country’s allies —especially France, Italy and Brit ain. He said the “whole program lagging,” and the Eisenhower- is J I £ 1 WW Is ^ TK 'i, THtMitm ? harvest time all the grain produced in this territory. The new storage elevator, however, will permit us to buy and store bulk grain and in gredients and will saVe on the cost of sacks and sacking,” he declared ,The local plant was founded in 1947, and the new facilities are in line with a. record of steady growth since that time, Ben H. Martin Construction Co., of Easley, was contractor for the new addition. \ SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE Textile Plant Comes South After Labor Trouble In East North * Dighton, Mass.—J. K. Milliken, president of the Mt. Hope Finishing Co., which was closed last September after a strike, con firmed today a report the plant was moving to Butner, N! C. In a statement to the Providence Journal from Butner, Edward M- O’Connell, secretary and assistant treasurer, said officers of Mt. Hope have become associated wijh Creed- more, Inc., and that the name of that company had been changed to Mt Hope Finishing Co., Inc. * O’Connell said production' would probably get underway in Butner the first of the year. (| Machinery has been moving south since October, observers in Butner said. The plant Cere em ployed 800. ‘t+LtJ- ± j rj- 1,000,000 TRAFFIC MATHS Some Sales Tax Seen Going To State's Counties hower any good in politics. If the European defense program should break down, Young said, Eisenhower “wouldn’t be the first to fail” because others have been trying and failing for 2,000 years tq. solve Europe’s problems. The U. S. World and News report concluded that Supreme Coyrt Jus tice William O. Douglai whs the "source” fo a recent story by Ar thur Krock of the New York Times reporting that President Truman offered Eisenhower the Democratic nomination. The magazine said its informa tion on Eisenhower came from “two separate and unrelated sources, en tirely different” from the one it attributed to Krock. It said Eisenhower, in rejecting offers of the Democratic nomina tion, in effect had “turned down an almost certain chance of being president of the United States.” It noted that the Democratic Party | has “the majority* enrollment”! among eligible vote rtf. The magazine said Eisenhower will ^ make no active fight for the Republican nomination, but has 4 aspired his supporters that he wfll gprept the nomination if tt is of-> fered. Columbia—A possible move to divert some of the sales tax reve nue into county treasuries appear ed to be taking shape today. That some legislators have such an idea in mind became evident as the House Ways and Means com mittee worked on the General ap propriations bill it will present to the General Assembly convening January 8. There were open suggestions at 1 for-president drive will suffer as a result. “I don’t hold him responsible—as I do the State Department,” he said. See GOP "Certainty” 4 “With all the issues.” Young said, ' “I don’t see how the Republicans can lose” next year’s election. He obviously referred to recent dis closures of widespread _ corruption in high government circles. state’s educational program He expressed the belief that higlL. » ^ taxes levied to pay for European' ° ””” r *”‘ rpr aid and the possible failure of the program are not going to do Eisen- New 700,000 Bushel Grain Bins At Laurens the committee’s meeting that sor ^® of the sales tax revenue might channeled to the counties, instead of going entirely to finance the When the three per cent sales tax was adopted by the 1951 legis lature, its revenues were earmark ed for the school program. This included financing state operation of school busses and a continuing VT5 million bond issue to equalize facilities for Negroes and whites. The sales tax revenue came ( in for brief discussion while tjie com mittee was considering a State De partment proposal for allocation to county and district health units. This proposal would require the counties to put up varying per centages to finance the operation of the units, with the State put ting up the lion’s share. During the discussions, sugges tions were made that if a portion of the sales tax revenue could be diverted to the counties, they would not have to contribute any thing toward their health depart ments. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLI “The Paper Everybody Reads” Laurens, Dec. 14.-—Completion of new bulk feed and grain storage bins with capacity of around 700,000 bushels, was announced this week by C. D. Waldrep, president and manager of Carolina Milling Com pany, which built the structure. The $33,000 improvement which towers 70 feet high, more than doubles the capacity of the former plant, Mr. Waldrep said, and means vastly improved service for the agricultural interests throughout this section. * The local" firm manu factures a wide variety of livestock and poultry feeds widely distribut ed in South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina. % Construction of the addition at the milling concern has been in progress since May. The structure consists of 12 grain storage bins and nine bins for bulk feed in gredients. A set of automatic two- ton weighing scales have been in stalled on a track to service all the bulk ingredient 'bins. According to plant officials, the new facilities will greatly expe dite' the handling and production of feed products and permit the com pany to serve a broader market than ever before. “We believe it is a distince economic asset to the city of Laurens and to fanners of Lau rens county and is another step in the growth of Laurens as a market center for farm products,” Mr. Wal drep said. "Carolina Milling Co., was es tablished in Laurens because it is the center/rf an area which is pro ducing ua|$a&mgly larger quanti ties of grain each year. Heretofore inadequate storage facilities ren dered it impossible lor us to buy at Give a gift of high fashion that every persoa on your list will welcome . . . Montag’s Fashionable % Writing Papers. In white or pastel, these fine rag content * papers are dramatically packaged to make gifts that look lavish, yet cost as little as $1. Chronicle Publishing Company Stationery Department v ; * F. Mrs. Wilkes Observes 8«fh BktMoy Mrs. E. H. 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