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/ ■ 1 —L A 4 1 Page Four / THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, November 13, 1952 e-2 (Ulintnn (Clirnnirlp Established 1900 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 $2.50 Six Months $1.50 Entered is Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C., • under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. _ The Chronicle seeks the 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. n : , _ MEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia Six Carolina Teams Meet Oul-ifaters CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 13, 1952 A Wise Decision The county board of education and v uiintv legislative delegation has Six of the state’s seven college football teams meet out-of-state foes this week as the seventh is idle. The University of South Carolina remained atop the pack, and may be favored Saturday in Columbia against North Carolina. It walloped luckless Citadel 35-0 Saturday. Furman, the only other team among state college elevens with an average of better than .500, travels to Florida State after trouncing Presbyterian 27-6. Wofford, batting .500 on the nose after beating CataWba 14-0 Friday night, will entertain Marshall Col lege. The Citadel will be out of state at V. M, I. Clemson, after being tied 12-12 by Fordharr}, also keeps on the road to visit Kentucky. Presbyterian will be at Western i Carolina Teachres to round out the schedule. Its game is Saturday night, won as we predicted we would.’ 1 but all the others are in the after- Just look how we killed the bear. noon. Newberry has an open date. Bringing the election closer Records of South Carolina’s seven home we find Senators Johns u:'.:inimmisiy approved me. urvuuug o: School District No. 55 into two, one *o sen e the western part of the county and the other the eastern | sons> Only one member section. The change will become ef-1 state’s delegation. Rep. lective at the close of the present Rivers, .openly announced^ he -school year, it is announced. would vote for the Democratic son. Dorn. Richards; -Rttey-and 'M? - Millian openly supported the Ste vensbn ticket for purely party rea of the season’s ninth week: W L T Petr S. Carolina 5 2 0 .714 Furman . 5 2 1 .687 ,i Wofford .. 4 4 0 .500 | The Citadel .. 2 4 1 .357 Clemson .. 2 4 1 .357 i Newberry 2 6 0 .250 1 Presbyterian 1 — . 1 6 0 .143 tember ordered the consolidation of hower. m iciuamg avwvw ii • D * <i 11 school districts of the county into colleagues Rivers said he first sup- Hearings Begin o.,e we expressed our doubt for the ported Stevenson in the hope that State Budaet need o: such a drastic move. We said he would “lead the party of our then that two districts with the up-1 fathers back to the road of States i rril , im ui a ctot*. per part of the county as the divid- 1 rights and local government as was and 1 Control Boa ^ began hearings ;ng iine would be more practicable,: intended when our glorious consti-^ and the schools would remain closer i tution was written.” But he said, their respective communities as 1 upon his return from a trip abroad. to today on a 1953-54 South Carolina government budget. should be. The plan we,have looked'"! find that the Democratic cam- ^^^^pecteQ f ramfnear the too much centralization of paign has sunk to a low typical of i. O00 mi ’jj ion do i ]ar mar k The state funds budget is expected - | - — — — — — r - | ■- unnecessary. We think the board has Democrats in the state who agreed Governor; t i a k i P u igri i as Z 11014 to a I™, f. y P^ al !-200 million dollar mark, power m Laurens not approved by 1 the Pendergast school. There'-r the ix-op-.f. and ^ impracticable and were more than 155.000 •'rMr t j| 0 run t0 abou , $l5 o minion. ^ _ j The hearings are expected to be uith the Congressman, ^‘ l ' ,e!n j r completed this week, rather than Byrnes and a few other independ- severa i weeks as in the past, ent citizens, none of whom were Th a | j s due to a limit on hearings to •ed wiseh in their decision. 1^6 Election Aftermoth dffirp holders The neonlo of , u u | omce nomers. ilve P e ° P 1 e 01 mostly the larger departments, ag- Thousands of columns have been America were afraid to risk Ste- encies and institutions . others will .viutten about the Eisenhower tidal \enspn *he was too closely tied ^.submit budgets in writing before the wave that swept across the nation the Truman apron-strings; board drafts a report to the General and cut into the solid South to In this district Cong. Bryson was! Assembly w r hich meets in January, i capture five states—Texas. Okla- bposed to the Eisenhower "Electors ^ The Assembly usually basse its ap- homa. Virginia, Tennessee and by Petition.” With Senator Johns-j propriations bill on the report. Florida It w’as a towering, nation-j ton and Edgar Brown he made] Board members are Gov. James F. al, personal triumph/ which dra- speeches for Stevenson and, wrote Byrnesj State Sen. Edgar A. Brown I - -u+o—2b——frattirr ^rtrcle Tn'ttre S'cratlr Caro^afBarhwelT'anS'Kep. Charles Vernerf Roosevelt-Truman Democratic rule lina magazine last month arguing of Greenville and restored the two-party system that "South Carolina should not go for Eisenhower.” With the election over, Cong. Bryson, after working for his candidate, Steven-j pOVOrS CflOngCS son, now’ says he will support Eis to vigor and strength. Gen. Eis enhower won by a landslide with the largest popular vote in Ameri can political history, by the larg est popular majority the Republi can party has ever won, by the Grand Jury enhower, by far he said, the, (Continued from page one) greatest man the RepjibHcan partyj S he riff Wier had "requested and T> "‘ we recommend the books of his of fice be audited and accounted for as of the expiration of his term of largest vote since President Roose-i could have nominated.” But that veil defeated Wendell Wilkie 12 wasn’t what the Congressman said years ago, b/ breaking the now’; at the big political rally in a in-solid South for the first time j Greenville park recently, presided since Alfred E. Smith lost to Her- j over by Sen. Edgar Brown of Barnw’ell fame. He. hert Hoover in 1928. It is not nec -essary to discuss the result of the who follow’ed him, w’as General s towering triumph. Suf- by label. like those blinded office.” The committee on the county fice to say he carried every large state in everjL section of the coun try, fom Massachusetts to Cali fornia and including Gov. Steven son’s home state of Illinois. He decisively won the farm vote of the Mid-West and a substantial portion of the populous industrial home recommended that the roof and porch floor of the Colored 1 ■building be repaired and that a ! A look at Senator Olin Johnston | washing machine be purchased for| is not amiss. Four years ago he' use at the home. It also stated.: pleaded with Gen. Eisenhower to|“We wish to congratulate the' offer for the presidency on the county for the beautiful, comfort- Democratic ticket. Tliis year, be cause the General would not sw’al- low the Democratic platform, Tru- able premises that have been pro vided at the county home, which add greatly to the pleasure of those residing there.” manism and corruption. Johnston ________ areas of the country which Tru- was c rucify him and those' bridges found “roads of our coun man on deception and false prom-; w ho followed him, insome of hisi The committee on roads and ise f s captured four years ago. Ike characteristic speeches. He can. ty in good repairs. We wish to had 442 electoral votes against 89 blow hot and cold at the same commend our supervisor and all of for Stevenson, the latter carrying j tj me j n the last election it will I his crew\ including the commis- only nine Southern states and by ■ be recalled the Senator did not get small margins— Arkanasas, North t0 t h e polls because of a rainstorm, and South Carolina, Louisiana, B ut w hen Truman’s train reached Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, W.i Washington this same Johnston Virginia and Kentuckyr w’as one of the first gentlemen to sioners, for the splendid work they have been able to do.” The committee on the courthouse found “the walls and floors have been repaired and painted in all offices except the county treas urer’s office and sheriffs office. needed in the jude of probate’s of fice.” It is not necessary to go into a climb on the train and welcome discussion of the contributing caus-1 the trimumphant hero. es for the staggering Stevenson' Not a word has been heard from 1 The main corridor needs painting defeat. Suffice to say—“the peo-! j 0 hnston since the Eisenhower 1 and general appearance improved, pie wanted and demanded a landslide. To the contrary it is -Also additional storage space is change.” As Governor Byrnes, 1 reported that he and Mrs. Johns- Sen. Harry Byrd and other fear-. t on immediately sailed from New less public officials not blinded by | York for Europe where they will party labels said—"This is our last visit American military and civil- chance to replace Trumanism and j an organizations and 'administra- what it stands for by a candidate j tors of civil service employees. A like Gen. Eisenhower, a man of, wonderful opportunity to see Eu- personal prestige, ability and char-j ro p e a t taxpayers expense, retum- acter. What has happened in i ng on December 18. Washington means the adoption Chief concern of Johnston, May- POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR ALDERMEN ^ I hereby announce myself a candi- of policies arising from socialism, bank " Richards was” theTr ”commit-i date for Alderman from Ward 4, toward freer enterprise-* turn- tee ^airmanships. The other Con-! Town Of Clinton, subject to the re- around after 20 years of New Deal gressrnen were a f ra id they would sult of the Cit y general election, and^ Fair Deal rule. _ (lose their boasted seniority rating, i JAMES P. SLOAN. Under the leadership and fight- Their constituents back home will! f r i end<! 0 f h L FICHFTjrfr ing spirit, of Gov Byrnes, South hardly know the difference. We G ^^ 8 a Carohna only missed going in the are not disturbed over the demo-1 didate for Alderman from Ward 4, Eisenhower column by a few, t j on Q f Senators Johnston and Town of Clinton subiect to the re- vote. The big Stevenson vote Maybank. Their prestige and add- sXof the cTien«iTllection rolled up m Anderson and Spar- ed perquisites were nice and high- tanburg counties was due largely ! i y prized, of course, but the chief to the leadership and organization! g ain was t0 them and not their •of Senator Olin Johnston, his ; constituents. The stars will not brother. Mayor Johnson of Ander- f a [] i neither will we have five son, and the rabid Johnston-Ste-j cents cotton or dollar a day wages, venson papers enabling E d g a r | propoganda put out in a desperate Brown’s crowd to carry this state.; effort to hold the line for Truman And since the election our Negro | an d his “cronies.” voters are claiming the credit for’ Two years hence there will be races for Senator and Congress men. We should all keep scrap books yin order to be intelligently informed on the record. twinning the state’s eight electoral 'aartes for Stevenson. He won by TipOO votes and the Negro elec torate held the balance of power in the state. As an example, in Columbia’s largest Negro voting ward Stevenson polled 1,250 votes to 100 for Eisenhower—a r^tio of 12 to 1, It is estimated that some 50,000 Negroes cast ballots and now they 'claim credit for the Ste venson victory. The party boss, .'Edgar Brown, commented, “we HOUSEHOLD HINTS To protect the sleeves of good dresses and sweaters while working about the house, especially in the kitchen before ^ou get a chance to change clothes, place two old shirt sleeves in a drawer. These can be taken out in a minute and put on. Now TRY THIS For coughs and acute bronchitis due to colds you can now get Creomulsioa specially prepared for Children in a new pmk and blue package and be sure: (1) Your child will like it, (2) It contains only safe, proven ingredients. (3) It contains no narcotics to dis turb nature’s processes. (4) R will aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed throat and bronchial membranes, thus relieving the cough and promoting rest and sleep. 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