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Clinton, S. C. # Thursday, January 22, 1953
Number 4
IKE BECOMES
PRESIDENT WITH
PRAYER ON LIPS
Pledges U. S. Leader
ship for the World and
Will- Seek Peace With
out Appeasement.
Washington, Jan. 20. — President
Eisenhower pledged his administra
tion Tuesday to tJQild and unify the
strength of the free world for peace,
and he called on Americans to make
“whatever sacrifices may be re
quired” in this “century of trial.”
In an inaugural address delivered
to massed thousands at the Capit&l
in the weak but welcome light of a
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Baseball League
Fate Undecided,
To Wait and See
The Central Carolina Baseball
league held a Called meeting Mon
day night and at its conclusion there
was still no indication of just what
to expect.
Ninety Six, Clinton, Joanna, Ware
Shoals and Whitmire were repre
sented. These teams said they want
to enter the league. Watts Mills, who
earlier indicated an interest to join,
has withdrawn.
No definite action was taken at
the meeting since it was voted to
leave the league open for at least two
more weeks in hopes that another
team would decide to enter the loop.
It is not expected that Greenwood
mid-winter’s sun, the soldier-states-j will field a team. Whitmire, repre
man ranked normal domestic prob-' sented by Irby Raines, wants to play
TAKES REINS AS 34TH PRESIDENT
lems as subordinate ot the task of
meeting the global challenge of
communism. And he declared, “We 1
shall never try to placate an ag
gressor by the false and wicked bar
gain of trading honor for security.”
Appeasement Rejected
Applause greeted this rejection of
appeasement as the new chief execu
tive went on to add emphatically
that “in the final choice a soldier’s
.pack is not so heavy a burden as a
prisoner’s chains.”
Eisenhower’s first official utter
ance in a position that makes him
the ranking leader not only of Amer
ica but of the whole free world was
dominated by foreign policy consid
erations from start to finish.
He warned against the Russian
strategy of divide-and-conquer. He
promised continued help in building
the defenses and living standards of
other less fortunate lands. He called
upon them to do their full share in
the defense of freedom.
He also spoke out for the equal
ity of all men regardless of race. He
economic isolationism, and
promised to work for profitable trade by the high prices usually asso
ball, he said. ,
Johnny Moore of Joanna, and Cal
vin Cooper of Clinton Mills, made it
clear that their teams do not wish
to operate in a four-team league and
will drop out before doing so. On
tjie other hand, Willie Wilbanks of
Ware, Shoals, and Gene Belue of
Ninety Six, said that they just want
to “play ball” regardless of the num
ber of yearns.
Johnny Moore of Joanna, stated
that the “fundamental idea of the
Carolina league is to afford recre
ation for the people of the town.
They get tired of looking at the same
four teams all the time, so we have
decided to play only if six teams are
organized.”
Several reasons were given for the
precarious position of the league and
the main topics seem to center
around: 1—^Attendance drop; 2—not
enough clubs; 3—people don’t have
as much money as they used to, and
4—decline in interest in baseball.
Raines of Whitmire, related that
several towns around this area are
interested in baseball but are fright-
REVISION OF PRESENT COUNTY PROPERTY
ASSESSMENT SYSTEM RECOMMENDED
Board of Equalization
Proposes Move To Put
All Taxpayers On the
Same Basis.
PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Freeman Replaces
Sanders At Mills
D. O. Freeman of Spartanburg,
is the new night superintendent of
Roberts Succeeds
Templeton At Lydia
Announcement was made the
past week of the appointment of
Clinton Cotton Mills. He replaces David H. Roberts of Spartanburg. . » rnn - r t v
Manual Sanders, resigned after 20las the new superintendent of Lydia r.tnrn/fi
years connection with the com-1 Cotton Mills. He replaces J. B
should be filled only by a man train
ed for the job.
(b) The appropriation for this of
fice should be large enough to per
mit the employment of deputy as
sessors or appraisers as needed.
(c) The assessor should be charged
^ | with the responsibility for assessing
Laurens, Jan. 19.—Real estate and all taxable property in the county at
property assessments in Laurens | its actual value and given the au-
county vary from two per cent to thority to change assessments where
more than 62 per cent of value, ac- s necessary to achieve this end.
cording to a report made to the 1 5. Require each owner of real es-
county delegation by a committee tate to make a new return listing
from the board of equalization. ah property owned up to time of
The committee recommended a ™ ki "S lh ' « tu ™ r«t>rr>in« all
'■thorough revision" of the property; '‘ S ^ a
• , t .loco ! (a) A return should be made un-
assessing system of the county,; oeniltv for oeriurv
which is practically the same system; de y ° at “ wl “ l ®* nalty P ei l ur y-
j .u o+oeo (b> AH deeds should be routed
use rou e ou c . ^ through this office and a true oon-
The report was a 23-page docu- s id era tion should be required in dli
ment, which Senator R. T. Wilson consideration as shown
said he would try to have p: inted m ^ deed would constitute the ba
the Senate Journal. {qj. rtJEiss&jjs.ncnt.
The committee was composed o f j^at if the owner of the prop-
B. L. Clardy, chairman, Robert B. ert y thinks that his value has chang-
Roper, Arch Owings of Gray Court, ec ^ should be permitted to re-
and Heath Copeland of Clinton. Sen-, q ueS { a rev iew of his assessment,
ator Wilson commended the com- ^ ^ Qj ve county board of as-
mittee s work as a highly praise- sossors authority to use a set
worthy public , service which H 10 . percentage of actual value as the as-
members performed without remu- j sesse d valuation. This is necessary
neration. He also mentioned Miss
Jennie V. Culbertson, county a ud ' - i South Carolina at the present time
tor, who, he said, contributed val
uable assistance.
Senator Wilson said that in view
of the fact that a state property tax
could be levied, although none is so
levied at this time, it might not be
wise for Laurens county to follow
the recommendations of the local
committee until a constitutional
amendment is adopted prohibiting
the legislature from enacting a state
wide property levy.
In essence, the report recommends
pany. An appreciation dinner in
of t&e . retiring official -was
among nations.
If the Kremlin—whose ambassa
dor, Georgi Zarubin, impassively sat
with the diplomatic corps a few feet
from where Eisenhower spoke—ex
pected word! of' eiffief' cbmprdmlBe
or belligerance, its expectations were
not fulfilled. He rejected both lines
of action in favor of a foreign policy
of peace, marked by consistency and
firmness.
Envoys Reassured
If, as reactions abroad have indi
cated, such friendly envoys as Brit
ish Ambassador Sir Roger Makin
and French Ambassador Henri Bon
net, feared Eisenhower would turn
his talk inward upon home-front is
sues, or speak with the voice of im
perialism, they were reassured.
Destiny, Eisenhower said, has laid
•upon the United States the respon
sibility of free world leadership “to
meet the challenge of our time”
when “freedom is pitted against
slavery; light against dark.”
“So it is proper,” he said in vig
orous confident tones, “that we as
sure our friends once again that, in
the discharge of this responsibility,
we Americans know and observe the
difference between world leadership
and imperialism between firmness
and truculence between a thought
fully calculated goal and spasmodic
reaction to the stimulus of emergen
cies.”
The main arguments of his speech
were in accord with the major for
eign policy principles of the Tru
man administration. Truman, an
“ex” for a matter of minutes, hard
ly yet accustomed to having another
man stand ahead of him before a
cheering Capitol crowd,, himself
joined in the periodic applause.
To deal with a worlc( situation
characterized by such forces and po
tentials, the President outlined nine
“fixed principles” by which he said
he will be guided. » ■
elated with Central Carolina league
baseball.
Judge J. Hewlette Wasson, presi
dent of the league, suggested that
the members wait for at least two
-mere-weeks-before arriving at a def
inite decision. It is generally ex
pected that unless six teams “sign
on the dotted line” the league will
fold up.
given recently at Hotel Mary Mus-
grove, attended by some fifty mill
officials and employees. P, S. Bail
ey, president of the mills, presented
Mr. Sanders a gold watch as a tok
en of his “outstanding service."
George Huguley, superintendent,
acted as master of ceremonies.
Mr. Freeman was overseer of i in the state
spinning at Startex Mills before | county, having
Templeton who recently was made
vice-president in charge-of manu*
facturing for both Clinton and Ly
dia Mills. He comes here from
Spartan Mills where for the past
ten years he was overseer of weav
ing at Spartan and Startex Mills.
Mr. Roberts has had broad expe-
rjenw- in all phases of textile man
ufacturing with a number of mills
He is a native of this
reared at
including corporations, be returned
on a 100 per cent basis and assessed
accordingly. In that case, the com-
haS no ad valorem tax on property
but it can legally impose such tax
at any number of mills at any time.
7. Personal property should be re
turned at its actual value the same
as real property and the same per
centage used to arrive at the as
sessed valuation. The only personal
property listed for taxation in Lau
rens county consists of motor vehi
cles, farm machinery, livestock and
merchants’ inventory.
(a) Due to the confusion caused
in the auditor’s and treasurer's of
fice by motor vehicles, we recom
mend that legislation be passed re
quiring. the., state highwaydepartmen- - .
mittee points out, the present high t0 i ssue a license for any automobile
tax levy would be reduced by many or truck operated on the highways of
mills. the State only upon the presentation
Taking a concrete illustration, 0 f a certificate from the county au-
Senator Wilson pointed out that a
piece of property in - the county of
ditor of the county in which said
! automobile is located to the effect
Laurens worth ten times its present automobile has be-jq
assessed valuation and taxed at the returned for taxation in that county,
present 53 mills would returned at
coming here to his new position.
Rev. Alexander To
Address AA Group
The local Alcoholics Anonymous
group will hold its regular meeting
Saturday evening at 8:30 in the
health center building.
The group will have as its guest
speaker, Rev. R. L. Alexander, pas
tor of the First Presbyterian church,
Greenwood. Members of the chapter
and other interested friends Who are
not members are cordially invited.
FOOD...
Is An Important
Item With Housewives
' You will find helpful Gro
cery and Market News In THE
CHRONICLE every week from
leading food stores in tfie city.
Read the advertiaements reg
ularly— they tell you about
changing prices each week and
where you can supply your
needs and buy to advantage.
Draft Board To
Induct Thirty Men
Laurens county draft board No.
30 has ordered 30 men to report on
January 26 to be forwarded to Co
lumbia for induction. This is the
largest call for induction since
January, 1952,,when 35 were called,
the board said.
The list includes:
J. C. Alverson, Ware Shoals;
Eugene Hyman, * Ft. Inn; Chas.
Wilfred Harris, Clinton; Marvin
Talford Adams, Donalds; Derril
Owens, Joanna; Elma Ernest Ma-
gafoa, Ware Shoals; Arthur Davis,,
Clinton; Frank Pinson, Laurens;
Bennie Lee Latimer, Laurens; Cal
vin Johnson, Laurens; Verseal
Caldwell, Greenville; B. F. West-
field, Laurens; Howard Lagroou,
Laurens; Sammy Elvin Cook, Lau
rens; Ed Cunningham, Greenville.
Also Larry Long, Waterloo;
HoHie Sherman, Charlotte, N. C.;
William Matthew Rice, Clinton;
Jessie Mack Austin, Laurens; El
lis Dfcndy, Jr, Cross Hill; John
Thomas Hill, Laurens: Postell Kin-
ard, Clinton; Isaac Gary, Joanna;
Shealy Johnson, Clinton; Wilie
Ray Workman, Fountain Inn; Ken
neth William Lewis, Honea Path;
James Thomas Watts, Greer; James
Alfred Garlington, Clinton; Addi
son Willie Young, Jr., Laurens;
William Miller, Newark, N. J.
The following registrants are re
ported as delinquents by the board:
Henry Robinson, Travelers Rest;
Robert Junior Sampson, Clinton;
L. B. Neely, Laurens. _
! Watts Mill, Laurejis. He atended
i Clemson college and later was em
ployed by the Springs Mills at
Auditor Reports
Tax Returns Slow
Propery owners have been pretty
low in making thedr annual returns
for tax purposes, it was stated yes
terday by Miss Jennie V. Culbert
son, county auditor, who urges
them to come and sign up as early
as possible to avoid getting caught
in the late rush. j r .
The auditor’s books for receiv
ing returns were opened January
1, although some who called ear-
j lier were accommodated.
M ; ss Culbertson called attention
to t..e fact that this is not a real es
tate year but that real estate has to
be returned in case of change of
ownership. Personal propery of all
kinds have to be returned this year,
she said, and should be returned
i before March 15.
Citizens Federol
Holds Annual Meet,
Officers Re-elected
The annual meeting of members of j. an< ^ Mrs. Roberts and their
■(b) Farm machinery and livestoc.:
to be handled the same as at th<*
present but to require a statement
under oath as to the actual value.
(c) Merchants’ inventories to be
returned to the counties for assess-
the Citizens Federal Savings and
Loan association of this city was
held yesterday aftenw>on in the of-j^ty-
fiee of the association. The annual) *
financial report of the year was * ub -i D|/\ftrllTlAhila T/\
mitted by the officers, showing a) l#lvl/UIIIUUIfv IU
successful year just closed with a
substantial increase in resources.
The financial statement as of De
cember 31 showed total assets of
$2,846,251.44; real estate loans, $2,-
044,276.37; savings accounts, $2,668,-
132.42; general reserves and undi-
its true value and assessed at 5.3
mills.
The object to be attained, how
ever, is not to reduce the actual
amount of taxes to be paid, Senator
Lancaster From there he went tO| Wilson saidf but t0 equalize the tax- me nt purposes. We recommend tha:
Monroe Mills, Monroe, Ga„ as as- es between the various taxpayers, j the assessment be based upon the
^ St ?£L 0Ver ^ e n °* weavmg ’ then In submitting its recommenda- merchants’ average inventory for the
to Spartan Mills. tj onSt the committee made a report! y ear . T 0ta i purchases divided by t^e
on actual sales of property in the rate of stock turnover could be used
county, both urban and rural, dur-^ to approximate this figure. Tnis
ing a period between Sept. 1, 1951, would prevent merchants taking ad-
two daughters are living at 325
Poplar street in the Lydia commun-
Return To College
More blood for the Korean, bat-
tlefront will be given by Preabyte-
j rian college students next month,
vided profits, $165,854.47, and no in-j it was announced yesterday,
debtedness. Blue Key, ^leadership fraerruty, is
J. B. Hart, R. H. McGee and J i sponsoring another visit <tf the
Sloan Todd, whose terms had ex- American Red Cross bloodmobile
pired as directors, were re-elected ? to the campus on February 13.
for three-year terms. Hold-over di-j Faculty members and tfCudertts
rectors are B. Hubert Boyd, W. W.Jwill partrcrpdte in this program.
Harris, T. D. Copeland, J. P. Prather,] The goal has been set to exceed
John W. Finney, &r., T. H. Copeland.: last year’s mark, when Presbyte-
The association paid to investor* J rian students made one of he high-
the past year $7L®3.75 in dividends est percentages of blood iwntrihu
at the rate of 3 per cent per annum, j tions in the South.
It is entering its 44th year of ser- | »
vice to the commanity and county,jiiiii si la
with its accounts insured up to $lQr-!■•011000 Manager
000 by the Federal Savings and Loan John L Holland Store
Insurance corporation. ! m
Immediately following the annual’ The R Holland Self-Ser-;
meeting a directors meeting was held.’ vice Food Store, established here]
for the election of officers. The fol-j 12 ye ars ago by the late fiahn R
and Aug. 28, 1952, compared them
as to assessment, and showed that
vantage of low year-end inventory.
8. Because of the nature of thL
the ratio of assessed value varied, property, the valuation of manufac-
from approximately two per cent tojturing enterprises and public utili
more than 62 per cent, and that rural
.property was over-assessed in rela
tion to urban property.
The committee also reported on
an investigation of a new assessment
system in Greenville county and rec
ommended a “block” map be made
by aerial survey to gei all property
on the books.
ties can be handled more efficiently
by the State Tax Commission than
by the county assessor. We recom
mend that the property tax division
of the Tax Commission be given a
large enough appropriation in order
to obtain trained personnel in order
that they could place true valuation
on these properties. The true va!u-
With the report and tables of ac-j ation figures should be forwarded to
tual sales and assessments is also; the county assessors. The assessment
another table of values and assess- | should be made on the same basis as
ments taken from one page at ran- for all other property
dom showing that generally speak
ing the higher the valuation af prop
erty the lower is the percentage of
assessment.
The oDYnmittee offered no criticism
9. That in the year these changes
are made the property taxes assessed
by Laurens county or any of its po
litical subdivisions be frozen to the
same dollars and cents as the amount
J of any officials for the inequalities that was collected for the precedin
lowing were re-elected: B. Hubert
Boyd, president; J. P. Prather, vice-
president; J. Sloan Todd, secretary-
treasurer; Mrs. Henry Hunter, as
sistant secretary Ttreasurer; O. L.
etary
Umg of Laurens, ana Owens & Ow- iuchanaiT'^IT ‘ihe” firi if
ens of this city, attorneys.
Holland, is nw under the manage
ment of his son, Joe S. Holland, re
cently released from the service.
The popular food store was un
der the management of Tbrnmann^ 5 * 6 ™
Former Clinton
Resident Passes
I year-. He-is-al
• Home and Auto Supply.
Mr. Holland will be assoemted
with his mother in operation of
| the businesss' offering their «is-
tomers and the general public a
but only dealt with the system. It
pointed ♦out that under the law the
auditor could make recommenda*’
tions to the board of assessors for
raising jst lowering assessment but
that the recommendation were not
binding in law.
The Recemaeada tions
year. This will prevent any increa-e
or decrease in the total property
taxes assessed in Laurens county -
*'
Scout 1 Training Course
Will Be Given
AC ' 4
Following are the recommenda-1 course ^or^^ master^ 5 A ’
tions: I '■i — ‘owiera, a. c. I
M.,'<
pack
Laurens-
ill
Robert C. Tidwell of Greenville.modern self-service food store.
died last Thursday at his home ^
following a brief illness. The fun- —, . — _
eral services were held there Fn- I nC InmonS NJO 10
day in Woodlawn cemetery. jNew Field of Work
Mr. Tidwell was a resident of this
city for a number of years where
he operated a garage, and is re-
Rev. Vernon E. Inman, who re-J
•cently resigned as pastor of the
membered here by a number of Pre^bytenjin church at Joanna, left
residents He is survived-by hree| with his family last week for In _
sisters and two brothers. ; man w b e re he has accepted the
pastorate of the Presbyterian
JOHNSON TO SPEAK church.
Walter A. Johnson, athletic di
rector at Presbyterian college, wili
be the guest speaker on he evening
of January 29 at the annual dinner
given by the Junior Chamber of
Commerce in Bennettsville in hon
or of the high school football team.
Recently at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Hart the Women of the
Church remembered Mrs. Inman
with a gift of four pieces of silver
as an expression of love and appre
ciation and regret was expressed
at their leaving the community.
1. The committee made a trip to > ^ m ^th* 3 ^
Greenville to study the block map^Ciinton and Newberr^d.^u
system naw in operation for most of| be given on \fnnrio * j
GreenviUe county. We were very January 26 and ?? y ^. Dd Tx }? sd *> •
touch, impressed with- this, system! the 30th. at 7 rr^'
and have .requested an engineering Puhii^ r ik at the Clinton
arm to appear before jou to sha^|p us bllC Ubrary on college cam-
Homer Eggers, Field Scout Ex-
training sessions and will be assxs*-
ecutive will be in charge of the
by Elmer Shealy of Newberrv.
JOU IU SJiow I pus
you in detail how this works. We
ware informed by officials of this
county that by mopping the county
they had discovered numerous pieces
of property that were not even on
the Lax books. They estimated that in
two .years the additional taxes col
lected will pay for the cost of map
ping.
2. Have only one tax district in
the county for assessment purposes. ^
3. Have only one board of assessors
for Laurens county to be appointed
by the delegation. This board should'
be charged with the responsibility of t
hearing appeals and equalizing as-j
sessraents as between individuals)
and classes of property. Appeals, if;
any, from the decision of this board!
should be directed to a lower court.
4. This board to employ a tax as
sessor.
(a) This position should be full-
t time, non-political and well paid. It
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