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4 I Paw Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, February 5, 1953 Iljr QUintnu CDhrnntrlr Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and PubUsher HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Vbar $2.50 Six Months $1.50 Entered .>.< Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C., under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This pa-per is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. MEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION t ■ National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia I in the November presidential elec- I tion. _ i President Eisenhower i$ render- i.ing a great service to the country as he moves immediately to aban don the controls that have done fai.* more harm than good. Such con trols attempted of themselves serve no purpose whatsoever. The way to assure maximum production of all kinds of articles and services, at fair prices, is to support, not un dermine, the competitive free en terprise system in which the man who does the best job gets the pub lic’s' business. Controls attempt to abolish the fundamental law of supply and demand—and it can’t be done. Semester Honor Roll At Clinton High CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1953 A Wise Decision City council,- meeting Monday well recognized, its great dietetic value lying in high whole-protein content. In this respect few other .:^ht, rejected the two sealed bids ■ foods compare* with it. Mibmitted for the purchase of the J Another factor is the drought in tot on North Broad street owned by i many areas which damaged pas- the city and How used for a good | tures last fall and speeded up a purpose—a free parking lot. Their parade of partly finished animals decision was a wise one, and we to the market.' Cautious buying by .•ope will end agitation to dispose packers has also b&en a factor be- -f this valuable property. cause of demoralized market eon- For some time there has been a ditions. What is happening will local interest in the purchase of | bring gloom to the enormous cattle the property. The matter has been farm area, while lower beef prices , onsidered unofficially in the past j will be good neWs to the consumer by counc.l and came to a head at public. *s December meeting when a reso- - — ution wis ad »,)ted calling for the v* advertisir. : of bids. As stated, on- * ® V*l6Qn rlOUSC y two bn .’, submitted locally, were j T ie Chronicle has faith in the oefore th* body for consideration, new Eisenhower administration The proposal to sell the property, that has assumed office, realizing we are informed, was for the pur- full well that it is confronted with i.*ose of increasing the depleted many grave problems, and that > inking fund as revealed in a re-, they cannot be solved over-night, tent audit. General expressions, But a good start has been made for - e have heard by numerous busi- J which the American people should ess men and citizens, is that it rejoice. We could not go on longer ould be a mistake to dispose of under the Truman policies without : ie property. To this we agree f >r | wrecking our whole economic sys- everal reasons. itern. The property in question is situ- j One of the primary tasks of the . ted on the town’s main street, administration of President Eisen- The financial report shows the city js in no position to erect an admin hower is to end “the mess in Wash ington.” It will be recalled that .stration building on the lot, and President Truman said he knew of will not be for an indefenite pe- no ‘“mess” when the charge was nou. Yet some day the way will nc clear to meet the need and here the ideal location for (he build” ng,... .: There, is. . none. ..available in :he business area comparable with the property which the City has owned for a long number of years, .and which was bought with this made in the campaign, while his chosen candidate, Governor Ste- venson. admitted anri said nnhliclu. Bridges Introduces Second Bill To Raise Teacher Pay i Rep. Justin A. Bridges of. the county delegation, stated some time ago that he would again introduce a teacher pay bill this year in the legislature. The bill was introduced by Mr. Bridges last week and referred to the education committee. Besides providing an increase of state pay; for teachers, which is in the formj of an amendment to the 1951 school' law, it would make it unlawful for! a county school district to supple-! ment the state salaries of teachers A similar bill, which Mr. Bridges inroduced last year.e died in th committee. The text of the bill introduced ! was as follows: “Whereas, he salaries for public school teachers as paid by the state are wholly inadequate and are not j commensurate with the standards of education and training demand ed of persons employed to teach in’ the public schools of South Caro lina, and “Whereas, it has been necessary to Increase local property tax ,in order to supplement the salaries of the public school teachers, and "Whereas, the retail sales tax was pased for the benefit of the public schools and in the belief that it would decrease taxes, and “Whereas, the revenue fron> the retail sales tax is entirely suf ficient to defray all costs of teach ers’ salaries wihout resorting to an extra tax burden placed on local property. Now, therefore, "Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State ot South Carolina 12th Grade: Patsy Braswell, Wil- liam Coats, Mary; Sue Darr, Paul Foshee, Richard Lukstat, Kirk : Lawton, Jerry O’Shields, Claud- i ette Parrish, Tommy Sease, Earl Todd and Maudie Young. 11th Grade: Patsy Adams, Ray : Boyce, Deb Dixon, Robert Finley Gene Floyd, Ada Ann Furr. Emma j Gray, Rivanna Hill, Nancy Sim mons, Marion Turner, Mildred Vaughn, Barbara Whitmire, R. C. Wilkie, Martha Wilson, LawrencS Young. 10th Grade: June Adair, Linda Adair, Eleanor Blackwell, Patricia Cunningham, Pat Davenport, Clara Heaton, Ann Johnson, Eloise “Marshall, Phil McGee, Rose Moore Nettles, Joan Ray, Jimmy Riser, Nancy Simpson. 9th Grade: Velma Braswell, Je- nell Corley, Judith Chaney, Tom my Cooper, Frances Cunningham, Thomas Davenport, Barry Ellison, Jesse Johnson, Rebecca Finley, Lil lian Hart, Mary Ann Jones, Mary Joyce Med lock, Robert Neely, Mary Ann Neighbors, Jean Nelson, Wes ley Noffz, Patricia Norman, Glenn Reaves, Donald Rhame, Nell Tim merman. Jane Todd, Marie Watts, Alvin Whitmire, Leanna Young. 8th Grade: Herbert Adair, Mary Keith Adair, Elaine Addison, Emily Bailey, George Blalock, Margaret Bolick, Shirley Diyiaway, Edna Martin, Martha McMillian, Sara Pitts, Billy Sease, Alan Trammell, Florence Winn. State's Traffic , Deaths Running Ahead of Schedule Columbia, - Feb. 2.—South Caro lina’s 1953 traffic death toll is run ning far ahead of 1952 when an all- time record was set. The latest report showed 59 high- Chicken Stew By Shady Grove ^Church The Shady Grove Home Demon stration club is sponsoring a chick en stew Saturday, Feb. 7, at 5:30 in the school house at Bonds Cross Roads. Homemade .pies will be sold and alos a cake walk will be held. The public is cordially in vited. way deaths in the first 24 days of the year as compared with 47 in '1952’s comparable time. In the week ending Jan. 24 20 persons died and 1T2 were injured on the highways. Orangeburg county had three deaths, Clarendon county had two in the school bus v^reck, and two fatalities were recorded in H each of Anderson, Charleston and - Spartanburg. Fatalities also were reported in Chester, Chqsterfield, Georgetown, Greenville, Kershaw, Lancaster. Laurens, Marlboro, and York. In Newberry county eight accidents produced no injuries “in the week. ' HAVE YOU HEARD? Wait and Watch t ...for... OPENING OF CLINTON’S NEW CLOTH SHOP WHERE MOORE’S DRESS SHOP WAS ’ 103 E. Pitts St. that such a- condition did- exist. President Eisenhower in his cam- paign promised to clean house in Washington. It must be done, and we belive it will. Correction is specific purpose in view. It is needed for an ineffective foreign true that the property could -be sold at a substantial price, and a cheap er location purchased elsewhere when needed, but this would be a crave mistake we think. When policy, a war in Korea that the preceding administration proved it did not want to win, corruption in high and low places, disastrous inflation, and an entrenched bu-< council talks of buying a site for | reaucracy. There is recognized :such a building at a consideration *>f a third or half of the value of ihis choice property, it would mean an undesirable and unattrac tive location on a side street. The city owns the choice location for a city building to house its combined needs. To dispose of' it in order to earmark the difference in the sale price and what would be necessary! to buy a new location, is a short- j - , , ^ , -r c* sighted view. It would be an un-j ■"CoCl’Ol Controls TO O0 wise and stupid move we say. j _ President Eisenhower in his first * ^ State of the Union message to Con- Rppf Prirp« Drnnninn ’ gress recommended that price and oeer rneeb cropping wage controls end April 30. With this we agree, as we have said be fore. ■waste and incompetence the Amer ican people want to see put to an end. Indications are good that Presi dent Eisenhower and Congress will get along and work together, and this should enable the regaining of its position of importance in the American system of government. The nation's meat industry has been caught in a deflationary .squeeze that worries producers for the first time in a decade, v/hile at Following the recommendation the same time it comes as good ■ wage-price controls began news to millions of housewives. •The biggest break as reported from tne principal cattle sections, has ‘.occurred in the beef market where prices have been on the toboggan for several months, and are still dropping because of the huge over- supplied Midwest primary markets. It is doubtful that prices can climb back to the heights reached late in World War II and after the out break of war in Korea. Commer- ial feeders have complained they nave lost close to $500,000 on their i ceding operations in recent months. The cpld statistics reveal that av erage beef prices have dropped more than 20 per cent below the post-Korean war. Declines are seen m meat prices being listed in ad vertisements in this and other com munities. What has caused the drop? No simple answer is available, but here are some of the majo* factors: Over-suppJy. Cattle people, al ways willing to gairible, over-load ed on a guess that the gravy train would not stop for some time, ig noring the fact of supply and de mand. The National Stock Pro ducer, an industry magazine, esti mates the beef cattle population at present at 92,000,000 head—a rec- flmd More than 5,000,000 head are on teed in Midwest feedlots, the remaindermen the range. Another reason is consumer re sistance to high prices. With meat prices as high as they have been, millions of families have refused to pay the price and have dropped meats to a large extent from their shopping lists. This is unfortunate since the necessity, heatthfulness tumbling among thousands of un necessary job-holders. That is just one of the many agencies that can be abolished and help reduce the heavy tax load and national debt taxpayers are carrying. * The President now has the au thority to immediately terminate the controls, or to continue them in whole or in part until the law ex pires. We look for immediate ac tion. His position during the cam paign seemed to be that political contror*“of the economy is always destructive, and that it should not be imposed unless there is a grave emergency which makes no other course possible- No such emer gency now exists, or has for a long while. There is no scarcity of anj r - thing, production in all fields is at very high levels, there are no im portant shortages, and the arms program, heavy as it is, acounts for but a small part of our industrial and agricultural output. Controls drain on the whole system of production and distribu tion. Every factory and every store is burdened with a mass of exceedingly expensive red tape— and in the long pull, anything that adds to the cost of doing business must be paid for by the public at large. Food** and most everything people buy now can be purchased at prices listed in advertisements as below the ceiling prices estab lished by the federal control agency. The whole philosophy on which controls are predicated is inimical to free enterprise and all our other traditional freedoms. It is the philosophy of the all-power ful superstate we have been domi nated by the past twenty years. That is the philosophy which the 1 ./‘Section 1. .Section 21-258, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1952, is amended by increasing the month ly salary schedule indicated in the table contained in Section 21-258 by thirty per cent. “Secion 2. It shall be unlawful for any county or school district to supplement state salarit#? for teach ers. Section 3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are here by repealed. “Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 1953.” Mrs. T. Plus Brown Gives Flower Program Mr. and Mrs. T. Plus Brown have returned from a visit with Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Boldridge in Raleigh, N- C. While there Mrs. Brown gave the program of the Entre Nous Book club on the subject, “The Four Methods of Drying Flowers.” She displayed several arrange ments of flowers she had dried, us ing a variety of containers. Mrs. Brown is a member of the Yellow Jasmine Garden club and is well known for her Japanese Iris gar den at her home near here. J and nutritional value of meat is voters overwhelmingly disavowed LEGION TO MEET The American Legion will hold its regular meeting tonight in the new Legion building at 8 o’clock. ■' ■ ■ ■ SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE “The Paper Everybody Reads” FINAL aiMIUICE All Ladies’ Winter Coats PRICE All Ladies’ Winter Suits PRICE All Ladies’ Winter PRICE All Ladies’ Winter Blouses PRICE All Ladies’ Winter Skirts PRICE All Winter Hats Murray Garber’s Clinton, S. C. Mary Copeland, Mgr.