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Pape Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, May 1, 1952 Oil)? (Clinton (Chrontdr Established 1901 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.25 \ Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C^ under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. The Chronicle seeks Ue 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. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. MEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia concerned over the oceans of acci dents, with thousands being maim ed or killed than we are lor sales | tax revenue, the building of more J school houses, and uhprecedented : money spending. We need to be- ! come alarmed. Russell Would Restore Faith In Government If your range ha^ alumninum burners, wipe with a damp cloth after each use. For burned foods, use a metal cleaner. Chronium burners should be cleaned with a damp cloth also. Enameled burners on gas ranges need cleaning as soon as any food spills on them. If allowed to re main, it becomes difficult to re move. A soft brush is best for cleaning CLINTON. S. C.. THl'RSDAY, MAY 1, 1952 The Mounting Slaughter On Our Highways We agree with the general public "ara'>f:c""steps"musT"^^ ta&en put an end to senseless, reckless speeding, and d; jvers on must be provided by law by the legislature and the highway pprtment. vkL i St. Petersburg, Fla., April 28.— Sen. Richard B. Russell today the coils on an electric range. In promised as President to ' restore the closed units a damp cloth or a | confidence in government” if he 1 brush are indicated, never some has to fire a department.” 'sharp instrument, i Russell is seeking Flcrrida’s 24 If food spills in an oven, try to i delegates to the National Demo- j get it out immediately with a pan- cratic convention and is running! cake turner- or a similar instru- against Sen. Estes Kefauver *of Ten- ment. When the oven has cooled ' nessee in this state’s May 6 presi- scrub with brush and use scouring dent,ial primary. powder. Leave the oven door open The Georgia senator referred until dry, so that no burned food 1 without naming the newspaper to odor or cleaner odor will remain, an editorial by the St. Petersburg Freezing unit pans and trays Times, which endorsed Kefauver. from the refrigerator should be re- Russell said “this newspaper here moved and washed in hot soapy de- asked ‘why throw away your vote water then rinsed well. The same j at the convention’ ” by voting for applies to racks and shelves. The inside of the refrigerator is RECIPE OF THE WEEK Potato Pancakes O'Brien (Makes 8) 1 egg, slightly beaten. 3 tablespoons flour. 1-4 cup milk. 2 tablespoons each, inmeed on ion, green pepper and pimento. Salt and pepper tp taste. 2 cups (firmly packed) grated raw potatoes. Mix e^gs and flour until smooth; stir in milk; add remaining ingre dients. (Peel and grate potatoes just before adding to batter to pre vent their darkening). Drop mix ture in circles (1-4 cup each) on well greased griddle. Bake over medium heat about 5 minutes on each side, or until potatoes are, tender. These are delicious with pot roast or with ham or bacon and eggs for breakfast. Elizabeth Sets , Coronation Date London, April 28.—Queen Eliza beth II, today set June 2, 1953, as her coronation date and thus set up for her subjects a week of social activity and royal pageantry that left them popeyed with anticipa tion. A brief announcement from Buckingham paladb said: ‘The queen has been pleased to appoint Tuesday, June 2, 1953, to be the day of her majesty’s coronation. Russell. - that speeding is the . Russell said if he should happen best washed with cool water in e of the largest percentage of 5 ™* to be nominated, 'you can trust which one tablespoon of borax or , me as well as Sen. Kefauver in: baking soda has been dissolved, d k 1 ! bi ^ bwa - v acc idents. These power- releasing Florida votes to some Rinse with a clean damp cloth and run en anc i p 0 t en tiai death dealing! other nominee.- | wipe dry. This all helps to cut the public highways. —rer-mr:— —-jH—Sharpest words today came' from -dowrrodqrsr ^ ^wo:rpOTTs1?rTfur hands of speed a mar , Russell. 1 — Returned Missionary Addresses ARP Group Mrs. W. T. Mulcay, who with the Rev. Mr. Mulcay served as a mis sionary to the Belgian Congo, was the guest speaker last evening at the Associate Reformed Presbyte rian church. They are making their home here while Mr. Mulcay is completing studies at Presbyterian college. Following the service * 5 social Hoifr was held for Mrs. Mulcay. WE DO ALL KINDfc OF PRINTING —EXCEPT BAD DR. L. B. MARION NATUROPATH Res. Phone 939 500 South Broad St. I which means the daily loss of life jn automobile wrecks on the high ways of the town, county, state ard nation.' What do you read and ste as you pick up your daily pa- — . .. o -1 i . Nearly two.million casualties..the ■verst automobile accident toll in hutory* for Inytyveur Abr record, according to the Travel - ciInsurance companies. Traffic deaths last year totaled ^7 100. an increase of 1000 over the r )0 mark. The injury count soar- CHRONTCLE PUBLISHING CO. Gray Funeral Home Ciinton. S. C. funeral directors ...and... EMBALMERS Phones 41 and 399-J AMBULANCE SERVICE L. RUSSELL GRAY and V. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. Mjjrs. a man who introduced maniacs too-often mean accidents Sen. George Smathers (D-Fla.) or deaths, and usually to innocent! Smathers said Kefauver had yot-! . ! ed against several measures aim- persons who are obeying traffic ^ e( j investigating communism in laws and regulations. i the U. S. Kefauver was in the, i House then, Smathers said. , | Another prime factor in the! Among the measures, Smathers i alarming number of automobile added, were those appropriating . i. .v, j , money to the Un-American Activi- " recks 15 the dangerous and com- ties comm.Uee and making the mon^ practice of mixing alcohol and ' group a continuing committee. gasoline. For this pidYal^nce the. Ku^selT saicUa majority of Dem-1 ocratic senators have said they will sta.c is .arge.y to,blame to a large support my candidacy" and 'thati extent with a legalized liquor store two—Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D- operated on ahnos, ever, corn er I city and village primarily to pro- for” Kefauver. Douglas spoke for Kefauver in are saying in cuce revenue. We to 1.962,600, more than 160„000 , . t . , . reality, the more hquor the state t r 1950. the report shows. ; , , , , . . sells and the more people drir.ic— More than 13,000 persons were Orlando today. Miami, April 28.—Florida news-' revenue we Will have,' bcbcv y Florida's May 6‘ preferential primary will give 'VH -.nH 570 non ini-irpr) Let picicicnudi _prunaiy wijt. give —cd und 0.0,000 injured last year• wtTtTbur pubhc schools cited under - Georgia’s Sen. Richard B. Russell 1 •' c * nvers who were exceeding the the law as the p rincipa i benefac- his first primary victory over Sen. ipeed limit. Excessive speed was tor from thi.; enurf^ nf rovpnno ww' I 7 stes Kefauver °* Tennessee in ‘ 0l * ‘ 11 t s,Jurce p i re\enu^. Wc ( their quest of the Democratic presi-, and away the most dangerous are hypocrites, to say the least. ^ dential nomination, hazard in driving last veaf. „ 4 , . , . , The editors picked Russell to, , . , But what are we going to do with s tep out in front in almost every | More t.ian 11,000 dnvers under t he drunken drivers who get out part of the state outside Dade coun- 25 years of age were involved in on the highways at a hi h rate of Jy (Miami), in his first popularity | h‘.al accidents and 416,000 more i n SD eed and hurt nr kill enmonno nr ! CSt s;nce entered the 0emocl£t -j speed ana hurt or kill someone or ic race. The concensus was that | personal injury accidents, the Gg- ( often several persons? There is 1 Kusse11 would get 55.2 per cent,! vies reveal i, ! Kefauver 41.7 per cent with two I ■ onl > one P 1-0 ^ 1 - answer. Revoke pc)litlcal unkn o wn s from Miami' Pedestrian deaths showed a slight their licenses, convict the guilty getting the few remaining votes. Jt rease as well as injuries. parties and give them stiff jail or . ”Z .* The report shows that Saturday penitentiary sentences. Finds for *" QUrenS J°Giety •vis the most dangerous day of the such offenses should be imposible. Adopts By-LoWS,* ■ .eek to dnve. More person^ lost Another factor entering into the Elects Officers thur lives during the hour from 6 present deplorable and unsafe situ . | t to 7 P . m., than in any other hour.; ation is the growing t e nd ency of The seconTmeefing of the Lau-I injuries hit their peak two hours t he judges in our courts to give ren s soc > e ty was held Monday night | cvrHc, from 4 5 p m . APd what is calted ., uspended sontvn- ugh. per cent of last >ears ces * cn con victions in the court for 60 persons of Laurens county con-1 iital accidents occurred on the op- a jj types 0 f violations Read a ‘ nections P resent - J °hn W. Crpws, j cn hichwav i r , !• (Columbia attorney, presided, cn nignuay. : column of court proceedings in al ; Mrs. Charles B. Elliott, chairman vVe cite these authentic figures mos t any county and what do you the planning committee, read the to show that something must be j see ? Conv ic tio ns, ordering the pay- ^TJ^ee’s proposed constitution acne to protect human life on tne:j ng 0 f « a light fine with a term to highways. Several people have by-laws and they were adopted unanimously. She also read the committee’s nominations for offi- | cers and those persons were elect- serve. and then the sentence sus- L.d to us in recent weeks, “we are pended and the gui|(y put “unanim'ouS’y. s.mot: afraid to get out on the [0n probation. Many of them, it Officers elected were: John W. highways.” and there is just cause appears are never sentenced at ,u.: Crews, president: Miss Will Lou f.. thie alarm t, , I Gray, vice-pr«sident; Dr. Isadore _ w How can we hope for law enforce-1 Schaver, second vice - president; 7Ve stand aghast when we read of ment and pun ishment for the crim- ; Mrs - Charlie Foster, recording sec , , . . retary; Mrs. C. B. Elliott, corre- inal when so many judges are sp0 nding secretary; Dr. Dick Fuller handing out sentences that amount to no punishment at all. What is terrible airplane crashes taking hundreds of lives. We feel the same way when we read and hear j out men being killed in Korea. Yet traffic accidents fake more lives in this country in one year than have been lost in Korea to and Mrs. J. B. Frazier, archivists; Eugene B. Sloan, editor; Thomas I. j Swygert, treasurer; Job Little, a fine of a hundred or two hun- j membership chairman, and Mrs. dred dollars for a bootlegger, if in! Bara Bolt Owens, social chairman. Miss Will Lou Gray, head of the South Carolina Opportunity school, spoke briefly on the advantages to the payment of that fine he es capes jail punishment. It’s mere m airplane accidents since ^ ch icken feed. Suspended senten-!!* de H v ed from this new Qrganiza- ' " r ' e 1 use com * | ces and generous paroling and pro- ( important role it could play in pre- re:ally. We are witnessing a bation grants are dangerous. Judges i servin g im P ortant record s of family hway slaughter tha, should eon- j should be fair , o( coursc . but tirm talks of hi5torfcal na it.n and alarm every law-abid-1 and not too easy and soft .. g Crt.zen of the nation. fbe carnage on the highways is «Vh;.t are w r e going to do about du e tp speeding, recklessness* dis- rne present condition? We have j regarding traffic regulations, and i.iricd about it far too long, and drunkenness. To stop this kill- „cne nothing drastic. ■ j ng of innocent people we must! ward this end. A ho is responsible for what we have stringent enforcement of all safety laws and more patrolmen on ture were made by Mrs. Sara Bolt Owens and J. Harvey Witherspoon. Under the newly adopted consti tution, the aims of the society are to promote fellowship, collect and preserve historical documents and cooperate with other agencies to-' There are sev ere witnessing? eial, bJy of the respective states. In! i s hment. And the including the general assem-^ the highways and then sure pun- persons who be placed upon lawmakers due to the laxity of traffic restrictions. In then get behind a steering wheel as a dangerous menace to human the first place the specu limit must ijf e must be made to understand be reduced, then highway inspec- j that when caught driving under lions of cars and trucks should bz the influence of intoxicants a jail provided -by law again (it was stu- 1 sentence is the only alternative. pjd for the legislature to abolish For the present alarming condi- that law when in effect), and in <he tion, and >one that grows from bad third place more patrolmen are' to w’ors e ^aily—indifference of the needed on the highways. The public is responsible, in a large number should be doubled or treb- measure. Public sentiment must ♦ led to increase safety on the high- become aroused and demand dras- ways. * These added safeguards tic action. We had better be more eysI /W] O U A 1 (I Y > DON’T MISS IT! mm A VALUE WORTH REPEATING! Usually more expensive. It’s Super-Spcial at this Golden Jubilee low. Cool, too. 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