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» > Page Fow THE CLINTON CHRONICLE (Ut?? (Elinton (E^rontrU Established 19M 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 $US Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C, under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. The Chronicle seeks Lie 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 vleas or opinions of its correspondents. , MEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia Heavy Registration By County Voters According to figures released by the Laurens County Registration , board, a total of 16,494 voters are I registered to cast their ballots in the ! Democratic primary to be held Tues- ' day, July 8. The polls open at 8 a.m. ! and close at 6 p.m., the notice of election and precinct managers ap pearing in today’s paper. The registration two years ago was 13,444 when a total of 6,945 votes were cast in the first primary. Thej largest numerical increase is report-! ed in Laurens and Clinton, du6 to heavy registration recently for mu-1 nicipal primaries. ZT )NI( Thurway, July 3, 1952 CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY. JULY 3, 1952 Welcome, Carriers The community is interested in The announcement that the annual meeting of the South Carolina Rural Letter Carriers’ Association ,s to be held in our city the first Chamber To Hear Speaker On Zoning Charles Trost, manager of the, Greenville planning and zoning board, will be the principal speaker at the quarterly dinner-meeting of! the Clinton Chamber of Commerce, tax exemption no more than the'”* 1 July 15, P^sident Hugh Jacobs rest of us back home who work; as announce d- to foot the £ill. Salary and Water Did you read that front The meeting, originally scheduled for next Tuesday night, was post- j poned a week to avoid a conflict with; j the banquet of the South Carolina page Rural Letter Carriers’ association. three days of next wedTC“ Inciden-, headline yesterday in the daily; Mr. Trost, it is announced will ta.ly it is headed by a Laurens-p reS s. "Senator Jefferies Accepts; S p e ak on the general subject of city ^unt> man. Niles C. Uaik, 0 : Salary Raise To 520,000?’ Ever y : zoning, citing the reasons for zonin« Waterloo, as president. taxpayer in the state should have; ordinances and the benefits derived A program of interest to these read it and reflected upon what, f rom them. ta.thful postal employees, who re ! this enormous kilowat-monster is cardless of weather, deliver our 1 doing. Colleton county senator is' illv UOd . r “ OI a^eciors or the rurai residents their mail year in' increased, from 515.000 annually to ^ ambcr ot Comr neree held its regu- . ~d year out. has been provided, i $20,000. and James H. Hamond of ar mon . y meetln g last Thursday The Chronicle extends to the Columbia, chairman of the Santee: college Tf!:eyatcr-.antf -vtsitor?-who’-wiH-at-• • Cooper board, said ”fT would have lbrar . v building, lord the convention, a genuine, been done earlier except for low; Most of the meeting was given to 1 earty welcome. W’e are happy water.” On such reasoning the discussing plans for entertaining to have a town tde size of ours as' salary should have been reduced, delegates to the South Carolina Ru- hr.-t to this large gathering, and j when watei was low', and if there ral Letter Carriers’ association’s an- V-pe your stay will be both pleas-, is an abundance this summer why nual convention which will be held . nt and profitable. not take it on up to $25,000 or $50,- in the city next week. The group also The Chambeh^if Commerce, and considered moves for the improve- ; rc perly so, w f iHT ext’end every The Governor of South Carolina ment of local telephone service and lourtesy to the visitors and give receives a salary of $12,000 annual- 1 decided to launch a membership them an insight of our city and! ly. By contrast here is a power! drive 'sometime in July, officers < mmumty. The latch string will official and high chief of the po-1 stated. o on the outside, and we hope all litical Santee-Cooper project who| —— , ..a come will have a good time.: receives a much larger salary than ^ STATEMENT The* morning sessions, it is the chief executive of the state-! wn by the program, will be held And the legislature stands off and FROM SHERIFF WIER the handsome, air-conditioned looks on, apparently, afraid to call To thc cili2ens 0( CountJ . * without any cost: a check on what has been going; . . . , * j This is a cour- j on in recent years to develop this th ^, e * ru ™ rs , c,rculated u -. on the part of Manager Leland ■ socialized Authority into one oi the t . ® . r ns J Young. It is not the first time he! most powerful enterprises in the; ” V ga A! 0r \ ^ thc Ehcr1 ^^ I - put their facilities at the dis- state, attempting all the time tc»j° Keo ‘ ’' h ^ death o: young Leonard p sal of visitors for special meet- put private power companies out cause d by an unknown "hit and J oadway theatre to the convention He can always be counted, of business. run" driver, on State Highway No. ‘ on t > do the nice" thing when’ have company.” we ■T—ciTT r<~~ HI .u . 25* on November 11, 1950, I feel that As Santee-Cooper grows, to that r _ shoillH TY\V i'rxtx C-t l f 11 C\Y\ i » A Rare Precedent .e.\t'cnt. Miv Jefferies—prospers: us 1 well as many others who are on IiJiiLOUl.d give my-constituents a true account of what has been done in its payroll. The spigot is wide op- ejection with this investigation. I . en for the spending of taxpayers’I r J im ^ ^ el * upon receiving a re-j With the veteran Charles L. Mil-! mone y at Santee-Cooper for this port of the a c<hdent I went to the am, well known farmer-citizen of ( f avor g d group. scene with Highway Patrolman The Lisbon section offering for the, 9 House of Representatives in the . c ,, u approaching primary, after declin- It jpClIS nypOCTISy ing to stand for re-election two years ago—recalls an unusual in- i dent at that time that is typical ol the qualities of -the man. - Having served in the general assembly for 14 years when he an nounced at the close of the session Tankersley and Deputy Sheriff, Langston and made a thorough in spection of the premises. My entire force immediately began an inten sive investigation of the matter. The tw’o highway patrolmen in this dis- With the big presidential elec tion just around the comer, the Truman Fair Deal crowd is mak ing every human effort to remain tricL Mr. Tankersley and my oppon-j in power. They are busy thinking ! ent, Mr. Lowery, joined us and I un-i up every spending scheme they ( derstand that in the performance of; can to help make votes, with one I their duty they too devoted a great he would not seek re-election, a proposal after another amounting deal of time to this investigation. I evolution was passed by that body ,n appreciation of the high charac ter of service he had rendered to millions of dollars. j did everything that I could to co- The latest proposal is federal j operate with them and I thought that scholarships in colleges for needy and presented to him his desk and! students, and to falsely^ labe] it as chair, a custom, though wrong in principle, that is commonly foliow- e*d with the retirement of a mem ber or officer connected with that body for a number of years. Mr. Milam thanked his col leagues for the expression of good a defense measure. The federal administrator in advocating the plan, says, “w-e must have the fed eral scholarships if we are to work our way out of an armed interna tional stalemate and reduce the large military outlets that plague will and confidence, but declined the world.” 1 to accept the desk and chair which { This is another effort to foil the was the property of the State of, people. It is pure hypocrisy. South Carolina. In so doing he set Scholarships are already available » UlU > , P aF “es. I was getting their cooperation. Immediately after the accident the delegation authorized me to offer a reward of $200.00 for the apprehen sion of the guilty party. This fact was published in the Laurens paper and the reward publicly offered as auth orized. In spite of the offer of the reward and the very great effort put forth by all concerned we were un able to obtain any evidence as to the a rare precedent. A principle was at stake and Mr Milam put principle above accept ing the property which his col leagues had no legal right to give away. The practice of giving away the state’s money has become a common abuse. It is refreshing to find a man of convictions who will have, p,o part in making a raid on the state treasury at the expense of taxpayers. Senate Acts Wisely Members of Congress always have their hands out to accept ev- •=ery concession they can at the ex pense of taxpayers. In just an other example of the ‘‘grab bag” game, the House recently passed a bill to give members of Congress a special tax exemption to cover their personal living expenses while ih Washington. The Senate is to be commended for refusal to give its approval by a vote of 67 to 2. It did so just before ap proving and sending to conference with the House 78 million dollar appropriation measure to provide funds for Congress in the fiscal year which started July 1. The House tacked on a rider to the bill which would have allowed members of Congress the right when making out their income tax returns to deduct their expenses -while making their residence in tire center of all spending. Senators arid Congressmen know when they offer for office that much of their time must be spent in Washington. If they are un willing or unable to pay for their maintenance there they should not offer their services! Certainly tax payers should hot 'be called upon to support them when they are paid big salaries, live in luxury, and get multiplied perquisites the public does not know about* Con gressmen are entitled to special at practically all colleges and uni- At the February, 1951, term of versities where students need ex- Court of General Sessions the fore- tra help and are willing to work, j man of the Grand Jury requested me Boys and girls who want a col-, to have all officers who worked on lege education, and who are not! the investigation of the case to ap- able t: financially meet the costs pear before the Grand Jury to give —can find a way through work '* . . - and diligence if they are worth their salt. We know* young men who are working this summer un der the hot sun to gain remune ration that will help them continue their college work. We take our hats off to such boys, and it’s a them such information as was avail able. All investigating officers were made available for the Grand Jury. I appeared in person and gave all of the information which I had. Sev eral of my deputies likewise ap peared and I know of my own , ,. .. knowledge that my opponent went safe prediction that in the long run before the Grand Jury. After all of they will win the race and make . - ^ 1 ^ good. All work is honorable, and for a student to roll up his sleeves and work his own way through if needs be, is an honorable Ameri can tradition. Scholarships for defense is so cialism, and the proposal is de signed to win votes by the Admin istration now in power. It encour ages laziness and a willingness for easy handouts. , Wildlife Meeting Set for July 14 At f Mary Lou Ranch' us, including my opponent, had given the Grand Jury the benefit of what we knew about the matter the fore man informed me that there was no evidence pointing to the guilt of any individual and requested me to con tinue the investigation which I have consistently done and propose to continue to do until the guilty party is found if possible. Immediately after the Grand Jury’s request I requested the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division to give me assistance in the matter and they assigned a man to this ter ritory for that purpose. He too work ed on the case intensively for several Announcement is made that the w < f ks ^ nd has ^ working on it July meeting of the Clinton chapter ! off and on ever since but wlthout of the county unit of the South Caro-! su ^ ess * Una Wildlife Federation will be held 1 . If my or any other man on the evening of July 14 instead of ha ? a ^ y worthwhile information that 1 will help bring the guilty to justice in this matter I hope he will make it known to me immediately and if he does not wish to report to me he can give it to the Law Enforcement Di vision of the State of South Caro lina. I think if anybody has such in formation he owes it to the parents the 7th, the regular meeting date, as previously announced. The meeting will be held at the “Mary Lou ranch” owned by J. J. Cornwall, four miles from the city on the Whitmire highway. A fine barbe cue spread cooked by Walter Lynch, will be served. Signs directing the members off the Whitmire highway to the meeting place will be provid ed, the committee in charge of the k n °w n meeting states. Dr. D. O. Rhame, of this city, is president of the Clinton chapter. of this young man as well as to the State of South Carolina to make it CALDWELL W. WIER, Sheriff, Laurens County. (Political Advertisement) FIREWORKS GALORE A L Vote For f ...for the... HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES Faithful - Competent - Reliable Experienced ■! Laurens County Needs the Services vr- MILAM He Can’t be Bought, Bossed, Bluffed L. (This Advertisement Paid (or by Friends of C. t. Milam)